A/N: Part One of The Stolen Earth. Sorry, would have been updated earlier but I got distracted. First I wrote 'Impossible? No, just a bit unlikely.' then I made a video for my golden retriever puppy's 1st birthday... like you do. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Rose does a lot more thinking in this. Maybe it's a side effect of actually being there. Hmm... Anyway. Oh for anybody who's interested, Gryffin's video is on Youtube along with is earlier videos. The Username is the same as my pen name. I'd make Doctor Who videos but I don't know where to get the clips from. Anyway. Toodles!

Chapter Ten – Thoughts of Pinstripes

The small family sat and watched the television in shock as it showed signposts and shops, hospitals and schools. They all looked normal apart from one thing: Bad Wolf. Every place name, road sign, every piece of graffiti had changed and now they read, Bad Wolf.

Jackie looked back at the equipment by Rose's side and jumped back when she saw what was written on the side of the monitor. She looked at Pete and Mickey, catching their attention and pointing out the box by Rose's bed but when she turned round, Rose had vanished completely.

"Rose!"

Meanwhile Rose appeared fully in the streets of London, for the first time in what felt like years.

The Words 'Bad Wolf' rang in her ears before she saw them explode out in front of her eyes. In a wave washing away from her she saw the words on the signposts change for a moment before reverting back. It worked like a Mexican wave from its epicentre, which was Rose. The further it got, the longer the 'Bad Wolf' change lasted.

Unknown to Rose, that wave would go much further than you'd expect. So far in fact that in just a couple of minutes or hours, it would reach Shan Shen, where a very confused Doctor will see them and panic. Also unknown to Rose, that very same Doctor had landed only feet from where she stood moments before she had arrived. It was for the very reason that she would never fully understand how time works. Had she heard the Doctor describe it as 'a ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff' she would have agreed and used it to describe the very situation she was in now.

In her hands, Rose held a massive gun that she had got off either UNIT when she had briefly worked alongside them or Torchwood from her parallel universe. She wasn't quite sure. Again it was a case of 'timey-wimey' confusion. This also explained how she managed to find herself once again in her own clothes and not a hospital gown.

She looked up towards the sky. To think that this had all started when she tried to look into Donna's dreams. 'Well… it had probably started earlier than that but I hadn't noticed…' she thought then stopped herself. She was even beginning to think like the Doctor. 'Oh help.' She thought, 'what next? Pinstripes?' She brought herself back to the situation at hand.

"Right, now we're in trouble." She cocked the gun. "It's only just beginning." She stared up at the planets that now hung in the sky, where stars once shone and aeroplanes once flew.

Rose turned out of a side alley into what appeared to be a drunken brawl. People running and yelling and fighting everywhere. It was only about eight o'clock in the morning. There was a shop's burglar alarm going off somewhere and nobody was doing anything about it. She began to head in that direction. The earth may be in danger but burglary was still wrong.

"The end o' the world darling." A drunk called to her oblivious of the gun. "The end o' the stinking world."

"Have one on me mate." She replied, knowing full well that she would be gone by the time he came to pay for it. That was if the barman was still charging. She was about to continue down the road when she heard glass smash and another alarm went off. She slipped inside the shop doorway and found two young men, late-teens or early-twenties, raiding the computer equipment.

"Right, you two." She was enjoying this. Maybe she should confront people more often. Not without the safety of a gun to hide behind though. 'Well… a gun or the Doctor. I'm not picky.' She thought to herself knowing which she would prefer. "Put that stuff down. Or run for your lives." She gave them a choice and cocked the gun so the sound clicked loudly round the small shop. "Do you like my gun?" she asked them patronisingly and grinned to herself as they ran from the shop. She sat down in front of one of the screens that had already been set up and hacked into the UNIT computer system, her face falling when she saw what she was up against. A voice pattern came up on the screen and her bottom lip quivered when the soundtrack came through with that familiar battle cry.

"EXTERMINATE!" she hit a button on the keyboard, shutting it down before slinging the gun back over her shoulder and leaving the shop. She saw the Dalek craft circle overhead and turned to walk the other way. There was an explosion behind her but she acted like she didn't even know it had happened. She had to stay strong. It was the only way to reach the Doctor.

Rose stopped walking when she found herself down an almost empty street. She could hear the people being rounded up in the nearby streets but this one was clear apart from one Dalek, a blonde woman and an old man, wearing a bobble hat and wielding a paint gun. She recognised them as Donna's family, from her recent escapades with Donna and that thing on her back.

Rose watched as Wilf raised the gun and hit the Dalek right on the eyestalk. 'Good one Gramps!' she praised his aim in her head but she wasn't surprised when the Dalek vaporised the paint, leaving its vision intact.

"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERM—" Rose blew the Dalek's swivelling 'head' off before he could kill Wilf and stood behind the Dalek as it's remains flamed.

"Do you wanna swap?" Wilf asked, holding up his paintball gun which was dwarfed by Rose's Dalek gun.

She ignored him but asked instead, "You're Donna Noble's family, right?" It did no harm to check after all. Wilf nodded. "I'm Rose Tyler and I need you."

Inside Donna's house, she waited while Wilf tried to phone Donna and listened when he told her all he knew about where she was. Sylvia interrupted and Rose stepped back, sensing a domestic coming. She was right.

"You can't start denying things now!" Wilf shouted and Rose cut in.

"You're my last hope. If I can't find Donna, I can't find the Doctor." She took a deep breath and felt the tears, hot behind her eyes. She held them back. "Where is he?"