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Author's Note: Here's the second and last part of Aliens of London! I can't wait until the Dalek episode for a reason you'll see when we get there hehe. Anyway, please leave reviews and tell me what you think of the last part! :D
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Charlene's outfit for this episode and the next is on my polyvore:)
Edit: Had to add something in since I forgot it. Sorry about that!
Charlene's POV…
"I need another Advil," I muttered to Rose as I rubbed my temples.
The welcome home party was still going on and I got another headache. You would too if you had a bunch of people who wouldn't stop talking around you. I wondered if the Charlene Tyler, Jackie and Rose, knew was the same way. About not liking loud noise.
Rose patted me on the shoulder. "Don't worry, they'll be gone soon." She laughed. "You never did like loud noise."
"Can you blame me?" I asked, nodding to Jackie who held up her glass of wine.
"Here's to the Martians!" she cheered and everyone followed well except me and Rose.
"The Martians!"
I smacked myself on the forehead in exasperation. "Kill me now." My sister chuckled from beside me and patted my shoulder again.
Suddenly the noise stopped causing me to breath out a sigh of relief. Looking to see who had made the noise decrease, I looked and winced when I saw that it was Mickey. He looked angry so I guessed that he still had been the one the police accused him of murdering me. I kind of figured that it would be. Rose was family so she couldn't have murdered me.
"Mickey … hey buddy…what's up?" I asked, putting on a nervous smile.
His gaze went to Rose.
"I'm sorry," she apologized. "I was going to call you to tell you she was here."
"Someone owes Mickey an apologize," Ru said, giving a look to Jackie who rolled her eyes lightly but Rose thought she was talking about her because she said,
"I'm sorry Mickey. I didn't mean…"
Ru cut her off. "Not you." She nodded to Jackie again.
"What did you do mum?" I asked.
"Well, it's not my fault. Be fair. What was I supposed to think?"
"Mum, what did you do?" I asked again, this time more seriously.
But Jackie didn't respond as she walked into the kitchen. I followed her with Mickey and Rose right behind me. As soon as we got there, Jackie sat down on the chair that was there and Mickey turned to me, still looking angry.
"You disappear and who do they turn to? Your sister's boyfriend, they wouldn't turn to because she's family and I didn't want her to take the blame. Five times I was taken in from questioning. No evidence. Course there couldn't be, could there? And then I get her…" He looked at Jackie angrily for a moment before looking back at me. "Whispering around the estate, pointing the finger, and she tried to get Rose to break up with me. Stuff through my letterbox, and all 'cos of you."
"I said I was sorry," I said softly. "Really I am. I didn't know I would be gone for a year, really I didn't."
Rose spoke up, looking at her boyfriend. "I believe her. Just calm down Mickey."
"I can't calm down Rose, we waited for her and the Doctor for twelve months and you almost lost hope that she was still alive."
My sister opened her mouth to say something but Jackie cut in.
"Hold on," she said. She looked at Rose and Mickey. "You both knew about the Doctor. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Rose, what did you tell her while I was going?" I asked honestly wondering.
"I said that you were out with a friend. I thought you would have been back in a week or two, not a full year."
Seeing that someone was looking through the thing that looked in the kitchen, Mickey quickly closed it and he went to close to the door before turning back to us.
"Yeah, why not Char? Huh? How could I tell her where you went?" Mickey demanded.
I stayed quiet.
"Tell me," Jackie pressed.
"I might as well, cos you're stuck here," Mickey said as he looked at me. "The Doctor's gone. Just now. The box thing just faded away."
"W-what?" I breathed out.
"He's left you," he said. "Some boyfriend he turned out to be."
I ignored the 'boyfriend' part as I shook my head in disbelief. "Don't say that, he didn't leave me."
"Yes he did! I saw him disappear in that box of his. He left you and he's never coming back for you."
"Oh just shut up," I growled, glaring at Mickey. "He didn't leave me and I'll prove it!"
I rushed out of the kitchen and outside of the flat where the TARDIS once was.
"See I told you," Mickey said, a little too smugly for my taste. "He dumped you, Charlene. Sailed off into space. Now you are left behind with the rest of us Earthlings. Get used to it.
I turned to him quickly as Rose and Jackie came rushing over and I gave him a glare. "If he was really gone, he would have told me," I said stubbornly. "And besides he gave me this." I pulled out the TARDIS key and showed it to him. "This is the TARDIS key. Why would he give me this if he was going to leave me here on Earth?" Mickey didn't have an answer for that so I continued speaking. "And besides he's not my boyfriend, he's better than that. He's much more important than…" I trailed off when I saw that the TARDIS key was glowing a bright red.
Hearing the sound of the TARDIS, we all looked and watched as the TARDIS was starting to materialize. I would have tried to make Jackie go back inside like Rose did but I knew it was going to be no use so I just let her see the TARDIS appear in front of us. And it was important for her to see it to move the plot of the episode along and I didn't want to mess that up. The TARDIS finally finished appearing.
Looking at Jackie, I saw the shocked look on her face and she looked at me.
"How did you do that, then?"
I didn't respond as I quickly went into the TARDIS, shutting the doors behind me. The Doctor seemed to know I was there.
"Alright, so I lied," he said. "I went and had a look."
"I knew that you would," I told him, going to stand beside him.
He looked at me curiously. "You did?"
"Yeah, it seemed like something you would do," I said unable to help smiling. "So did you learn anything?"
"Yeah, the whole crash landing was a fake. I thought it would be. Just too perfect. I mean, hitting Big Ben. Come on, so I thought let's go and have a look."
"Um, Doctor, my mum and Rose are here," I said sheepishly and he turned around to see Rose and Jackie entering the TARDIS along with Mickey. Jackie was in disbelief at the TARDIS as she looked around with her hands clasped over her mouth.
The Doctor looked annoyed at the fact that they were there. "Oh, just want I need." Then to me in a low voice, "Don't you dare make this place domestic."
"Wasn't planning on it, Doctor," I muttered loud enough where only the Doctor could hear me as Mickey spoke up, a bite to his voice.
"You ruined my life Doctor," he said, jerking his index finger at him. "They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you."
Rolling his eyes, he said to me as he didn't hear Mickey, "See what I mean. "Domestic."
"Look Mick, you got to get over that," I told my sister's boyfriend. "I know you're pissed off about it, but you didn't get arrested, did you?"
"No but—"
I cut him off. "No buts. You didn't arrested and I'm not dead, I'm here. It's done and over with so please just stop mentioning it."
"She has a point Ricky," the Doctor said, agreeing with me, a smirk on his lips.
Eyes narrowing at him, Mickey corrected him. "It's Mickey."
"No, it's Ricky."
An annoyed crossed his face, not that there wasn't one already. "I think I know my own name."
I shook my head amused.
"You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?"
Mickey opened his mouth to retort but I stopped him by placing a hand on his shoulder
"Okay that's enough," I scolded. "Both of you." I added when I saw the hint of a smile on the Doctor's face when I scolded Mickey.
"Mum!" I heard Rose call making me finally notice Jackie, who was running out of the TARDIS.
"Mum, wait!" It was my turn to call as I chased after Jackie.
But it was too late, mum was already half-way to the flats and my shoulders slumped.
"Aren't you going to stop her?" I heard Rose ask from behind me.
I turned to her and shook my head. "No, I'm going to let her be alone for a while. Let all of this sink in."
I could tell Rose didn't agree with me because she frowned, but I ignored as I went back into the TARDIS with my sister right behind me.
"So that was a real spaceship?" I asked once I was back next to the Doctor, who was looking at this TV on the TARDIS console.
The Doctor nodded still looking at the screen as he set it up. "Yep."
"So it was all a pack of lies then? What are they doing here? Are they invading?" I asked.
"If they are, it's a funny way of invading," Rose stated with Mickey nodding in agreement.
"Yeah, putting the world on red alert," he said.
"Good point!" The Doctor told Rose and Mickey, giving them both a smile before turning back to the screen which was now showing the news. "So, what're they up to?"
It was little while later, and I was talking to Rose while Mickey was watching the Doctor who was under the console, trying to fix something that I didn't know about and they were arguing again. I was half-way listening to it but I was most talking to Rose.
"Shouldn't we go check on Mum?" Rose asked, looking at the TARDIS doors.
"Like I said, we should leave her be when she's ready to talk about it she knows where to find me," I replied before catching the last bit of Mickey and the Doctor's conversation.
"Ricky." I rolled my eyes to myself at the Doctor, not getting Mickey's name. Now it was just to annoy my sister's boyfriend. "If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?"
"I suppose not."
"Well, shut it, then."
I watched as Mickey made his way over to me and Rose and once he was there, he said,
"Some friend you got."
"Just ignored him, he's just trying to annoy you now," I said amused. "The Doctor's really not that bad if you give him a chance."
Mickey didn't look like he believed me but he didn't say anything about that.
"I really am sorry about everything," I told my sister's boyfriend seriously.
"Okay."
"I mean it. I really do. But I didn't know I would be gone for year. It has only been a few days for me."
"So I guess it wasn't enough to miss us then?" Rose asked me softly.
"I did miss you," I told my sister just as softly. "You and Mum. I thought about you two every day."
"I guess you didn't miss me then?"
"Yes I missed you too Mickey," I said, shaking my head at my sister's boyfriend with a smile on my face. Then my smile turned into a smirk. "But only because I couldn't mess with you."
"Oi!" he exclaimed. I giggled and Rose laughed in response. He faked glared at us but then he laughed too. After the laughter was done, Mickey asked me a question I couldn't answer. "So, now that you're back, are you going to stay?"
Good thing I didn't have time to answer because…
"Got it!" The Doctor exclaimed. He laughed as I headed over to him with Rose and Mickey right behind me. "Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so we can follow the flight of the space ship." He turned on the radar. "Here we go." When it didn't work, he said, "Hold on." He hit the top of the radar thing to make it work. "Come on." Finally the radar started working. "That's the spaceship on its way to Earth, see?" The Doctor told us, pointing to the thing that modeled the spaceship as it went to Earth. "Except… hold on. See?" The spaceship left the Earth, shooting back into space. "The spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"And that means?" I asked.
"It means, it came from Earth in the first place. It went up and came back down. Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived, and they've been here for a while. The question is, what have they been doing?"
Back over at the scanner, the Doctor was channel hopping, landing on the news. Mickey looked at the Doctor excitingly.
"How many channels do you get?" he asked.
"All the basic packages," The Doctor replied, eyes still on the scanner.
"You get sports channels?"
"Yes, I get the football."
I shook my head as I nudged my sister's boyfriend in the side. "You and your football Mickey."
"You're telling me," Rose said with a slight grin on her face.
Mickey opened his mouth to say something but the Doctor spoke, interrupting him.
"Hold on, I know that lot," he said.
Turning my gaze to the scanner, I watched as a group of people enter a room. In the background, a news woman's voice was talking as the group did this.
"It is looking likely that the Government's bring in alien specialists – those people who have devoted their lives to studying outer space."
"Who are they?" I questioned, turning my gaze from the scanner back to the Doctor.
"UNIT."
"English please?"
"United Nations Intelligence Taskforce," The Doctor explained. "Good people."
"And you know them how?"
"Cos' he worked for them," Mickey said proudly. Seeing the look on the Doctor's face, he continued. "Oh yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor. I read up on you and so did Rose."
I turned to my sister. "You did?"
"Yeah, I wanted to learn about him, especially since he had my sister with him and I wanted to know if you would be safe with him," Rose admitted.
"How were you able to find this out?" I asked. "I thought there was no information on him. I mean, I searched about him too after the whole plastic thing but I couldn't find that much."
"That's because you didn't search deep enough," Mickey answered. "If you deep enough on the internet or in the history books, and there's his name, followed by the list of the dead."
"That's nice, good boy Ricky," The Doctor said sarcastically.
"If you know them, why don't you go and help them?" Rose asked as I stayed quiet.
"They wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days. There are aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien." The Doctor pointed to himself. "Out of the mix. I'm going undercover." He went over to the other side of the TARDIS and pressed something before looking at us again. "And er, I better keep the TARDIS out of sight." As he started to walk off with me behind him, he said to Mickey, "Ricky, you got a car. You can do some driver."
"Where are we going?" Rose asked curiously.
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship."
And just like the episode, we were surrounded by police. I tried to cover my eyes from the bright light. I looked to the right to see Rose and Mickey weren't with us because they ended up running (well Rose was forced to as her boyfriend had grabbed her hand and tugged her away).
"No, that's my daughter! Charlene!" I heard Jackie cry out.
I looked to see that Jackie was being held by a police man as she tried to get to me. I rolled my eyes and shook my head when I remembered she was the one who called them and told them about the Doctor. Thanks for getting us in more trouble Jackie! The Doctor wasn't scared or worried; he was smiling with his hands up as he said the one thing that almost made me laugh.
"Take me to your leader!"
Getting into the police car and closing the door behind me, I said, "Why are they arresting us? We haven't done anything."
"We're not being arrested, we're being escorted."
"And where are we going exactly?" I asked as the police officer started up the car and we were off.
"Where'd you think? Downing Street."
I didn't get excited about it like Rose did. "Okay…why are they taking us there?"
"I hate it to say but Mickey was right." I let out a fake shocked gasp at that and he rolled his eyes at me amused before he continued. "Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been, er, noticed."
"Of course you have," I teased before I said, "So now they need your help? What for?"
The Doctor nodded. "Like it said on the news. They're gathering experts in alien knowledge." He looked smug as he said, "And who's the biggest expert of them all?"
I pretended to think about it. "Um, Patrick Moore."
"Apart from him?"
"Oh!" I snapped my fingers. "You're talking about you, aren't you?" He nodded with a 'duh' expression his face and I shrugged my shoulders. "Mm, I wouldn't have guessed."
"You think you're very funny, don't you?" The Doctor asked dryly.
"A little bit yeah." I laughed.
The Doctor nudged me in the side only making me laugh more and I could tell that he couldn't help but smile.
"Who's the Prime Minister now?"
"How should I know? I missed a year."
Finally making it, I climbed out of the police and was met with the sight of cameras flashing. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of the Doctor who was waving to the cameras with a big grin on his face. You could tell he was enjoying himself. After a couple minutes, the Doctor went into the building with me behind him.
We were escorted to the waiting room and we stood there quietly as the people that were in the room mingled and talked with each other.
"Ladies and gentleman, can we convene? Quick as we can, please. It's this way to the right, and can I remind you ID cards are to be worn at all times." The guy who was saying this came up to me and the Doctor as we started to head into the room and he handed a card to the Doctor. "Here's your ID card?"
The Doctor took it and I was about to follow the Doctor but the guy stopped us.
"I'm sorry; your companion doesn't have clearance."
"I don't go anywhere without her."
"Exactly," I agreed with a nod and a smile. "Can't you just make me a ID and be done with it?"
But the guy ignored me as he said to the Doctor, "You're the code nine, not her. I'm sorry Doctor. It is the Doctor, isn't it? She'll have to stay outside."
"She's staying with me," The Doctor said in a 'that's final' sort of tone.
"Look, even I don't have the clearance to go in there. I can't let her in and that's a fact."
The Doctor was about to say the same thing again, but I stopped him by placing a hand on his arm causing him to look.
"It's alright, you go," I told him. "I'll be fine here."
Before he had a chance to respond, the one and only Harriet Jones came up to us. I tried not to scowl at her when I remembered what she did to those aliens in the Christmas Invasion episode and luckily, I succeeded in not scowling.
"Excuse me, are you the Doctor?" Harriet Jones questioned.
"Sure." The Doctor looked at me as Harriet and that guy had a side conversation. "Are you sure you'll be okay out here?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine."
"Alright, don't get in any trouble."
I saluted him. Shaking his head at me, he patted me on the shoulder and just as he was about to leave the room, I remembered something so I grabbed his arm and he looked at me.
"Be careful Doctor and be aware of those ID cards," I whispered.
He gave me a confused look before he nodded and went into the room. Hoping that he got my hint, I stood there by myself for a moment until I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. It turned out to be the guy.
"I'm going to have to leave you with security," he told me as he started to lead me away but we were stopped by Harriet Jones.
"It's alright, I'll look after her," she told the guy with a smile. "Let me be of some use." He nodded and walked off and Harriet turned to look at me. "Walk with me."
I nodded and followed her as she told me to keep walking. As we started to head out into the entrance hall, she said,
"That's right. Don't look around." Harriet showed me her ID card as we walked together, "Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North."
"Charlene Tyler," I introduced myself.
A few minutes later, we were standing next to these stairs and Harriet looked at me.
"This friend of yours, he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens?"
I nodded in response then I asked, "Why do you want to know?"
Out of nowhere she started crying and I comforted her as best as I could. Normally I would give a crying person a hug but I didn't know Harriet Jones that well so it would be weird.
"Hey, it's alright," I said reassuringly. "Just calm down and tell me what's wrong."
Once she was calm enough, she told me what happened as we went into the cabinet room.
"They turned the body into a suit." Harriet was now telling me, close to tears again as she showed me the body that she showed Rose in the episode on the table in the cabinet room. "A disguise for the thing inside!"
"I believe you, really I do," I told her quickly not wanting her to start crying. "They're defiantly aliens so they must have some serious techlogy behind it. If we could find it, we could use it."
I started to search through the room, going over to this cupboard where I knew the Prime Minister's body was but that didn't stop me from jumping when I opened it up and his body fell out of it.
"Oh my God!" I said loudly, pretending to be shocked, as Harriet Jones quickly came over. "Is that…?"
"Harriet, for God's sake. This has gone beyond a joke. You cannot just wander…"
I looked up to see that the guy from outside was standing there and he gaped at the sight of the Prime Minister on the ground.
"Oh my god," he said in shock. "That's the Prime Minister!"
"Really? I didn't notice," I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes. "Thanks for stating the obvious, really it's great."
Before he had a chance to respond, we heard someone say behind us.
"Oh! Has somebody been naughty?"
We turned around and we were face to face with Margret who was smirking as she closed the door behind her. Harriet took a hold of my arm but I barely noticed it as my eyes narrowed at Margret.
"That's impossible," the guy said glancing at the Prime Minister before looking back at Margret. "He left this afternoon. The prime minster left Dowden Street. He was driven away!"
"And who told you that, hmm?" Margret asked, smirking. The guy's eyes widened when he realized it was her and her smirk widened. "Me." With that, she reached up and started to zip open her forehead creating a bright blue light.
Even though I've seen this happen on TV, it was shocking and disgusting to watch it happen in real life. The alien looked exactly like it did on the TV show. Harriet and I had to watch as Margret now in her alien form pushed the guy up against the wall very high up.
Crap…
TBC in War World Three...
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