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Chapter 10- Smith Jones & Tyler
Smith and Jones pt1
Third Person POV
They'd been in the hospital for hours, after walking around and making sure no other buildings had any plasma coils around them the Doctor and Rose went into the hospital and got him admitted. They'd been here for what felt like forever and it was nearing midnight, luckily they'd decided to keep him for observation since he'd been complaining of stomach pains. He was laying in the hospital bed in a pair of striped jim jams and Rose was sitting in a lightly cushioned chair next to the bed picking at her cuticles.
"I still don't know why you're the one pretendin' to be sick, what if they realize you're an alien cause you have two hearts and they decide to give you to the government to dissect you," Rose whispered to him, his plan still making her nervous.
"Well you're technically dead, since you decided it would be better not to get your name taken off the list, you're missing and presumed dead. If they put your name into one of their computers it's going to cause a problem and a lot of questions about you, where you've been and where your mum is. If they hear the other heart, they'll either think it's their stethoscope malfunctioning or I have a weird arrhythmia," he whispered back and squeezed her hand.
In all honesty the whispering wasn't totally necessary, the nurse's station was all the way on the other end of the hall and the man in the curtained section beside them was snoring so loud no one else would have been able to hear them. When they'd finished checking no other buildings had any plasma coils they'd made a plan to get one of them admitted, Rose had thought it would have been her, but the Doctor insisted he do it and refused to tell her why. She just rolled her eyes and followed him into the waiting room as he filled out the papers and wrote that she was his 'wife'. If anyone asked, Rose would deny that it made her a bit giddy like some 14 year old with a crush, but it had made her stomach do flips and her cheeks heat up. Even though he had just put her down as that so they would let her stay with him.
"So, are those things outside still charging?" Rose asked picking at her cuticles again. The Doctor pulled out his sonic and pushed the button, letting it whir for a few seconds before squinting at it.
"Yep, but they're almost fully charged," he replied putting the sonic back where he'd tucked it into the breast pocket of his jimjams.
"So whatever is going to happen, it'll be soon," she hoped out loud.
"Probably in the morning, why don't you try and rest a little," he suggested, grabbing the hand that she had been picking at her nails with. She looked up at him with a frown he'd seen many times, most of them when they'd taken those jobs working undercover at a school and she'd gotten stuck working as a dinner lady. She scooted her chair closer to the bed after a moment and leaned her head against his shoulder, realizing just how tired she was, and closed her eyes.
The privacy curtain was pulled opened making Rose jump up from where she'd been sleeping on the Doctors shoulder. It hadn't been a sound sleep and she had a horrible crick in her neck now, but she'd gotten a good amount of rest. She opened her eyes to see an older gentleman and a large group of people in lab coats, she was guessing they were medical students, all staring at them.
"Now then Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith a very good morning to you. How are you today?" The older gentleman in the suit greeted. While the young black woman next to him stared with a look of surprise.
"Oh not so bad still a bit, ya know, blah," the Doctor so articulately explained with a sudden far off look and Rose tried not to laugh.
"John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains. Jones why don't you see what you can find," he explained to the group then requested the girl standing next to him who was still staring at the Doctor. "Amaze me," he added under his breath. She smiled and began her walk to the other side of the bed to examine him.
"That wasn't very clever running around outside was it," the woman commented, making Rose and the Doctor perk up.
"Sorry?" The Doctor asked, confused but intrigued.
"On Chancellor Street this morning," she continued as she fiddled with some of her instruments, "You came up to me and took your tie off."
"Really?" He asked, then looked at Rose, "what'd I do that for?"
"I dunno you just did," she told him, looking uncomfortable as she removed her stethoscope from around her neck.
"Not me, I was here in bed," he nodded, "ask Rose, or the nurses," he added and Rose gave a nod of agreement.
"Well that's weird cause it looked like you, have you got a brother?" the young woman asked leaning on the guard rail of the bed, confused now.
"No, not anymore just me," the Doctor replied sounding quiet and innocent but Rose could hear the sadness being hidden beneath.
"As time passes I grow ever more weary Miss Jones," the older gentleman singsonged to the young doctor and Rose sat as patiently as she could while the medical student prepared her stethoscope.
"Sorry," the woman apologized and placed the stems in her ears, "right," she added as she placed the stethoscope against his chest and she looked confused while the Doctor smirked and Rose chewed on her lip anxiously. The young woman's eyes widened and she moved the stethoscope to the other side of his chest as the Doctor winked at her.
"I weep for future generations, are you having trouble locating the heart Miss Jones?" The older man asked and the Doctor and Rose looked at her with a playful challenge in their eyes.
"Um, I don't know," the young woman said looking a bit dazed, "stomach cramps," she suggested almost half-heartedly.
"That is a symptom not a diagnosis," the man replied with a pained looking smile, "and you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patients chart," he continued strolling to the end of the bed and picking up the clip board, it shocked him and he dropped it onto the foot of the bed by the Doctors feet. Rose glanced at the Doctor nervously but he just stared uninterested at the clip board.
"That happened to me this morning," Miss Jones said.
"I had the same thing happen to me on the door handle," a young man added.
"And me in the lift," a woman chimed in.
"That's only to be expected," the doctor brushed it off, grabbing the clip board again, "there's a thunderstorm moving in and lightening is a form of static electricity, as it was proven by," he paused looking at the group of students to answer, "anyone?" he asked when they all just stared at him.
"Benjamin Franklin," the Doctor answered staring at him with wide eyes.
"Correct," the man nodded impressed.
"My mate Ben, that was a day and a half, I got rope burns off that kite and then I got soaked, and then I got electrocuted," the Doctor babbled before smiling and looking around at the group of students, who were looking at him in concern.
"He's just messing with ya," Rose chimed in squeezing his hand and smiling up at the doctor.
"Right, moving on," the medical man said, hanging the clipboard back up and walking off with his students trailing behind him. The Doctor grinned, watching as they walked away before turning to Rose, missing the medical doctor suggesting to the nurse a visit from psychiatric.
"What are you doing, you're gonna get sectioned," Rose whispered at him with as much force as she could.
"What?" the Doctor asked innocently. The young woman who had performed his exam glanced back at them with a grin and they both smiled back. They rounded the corner and Rose looked at the Doctor wondering what they would do now. "Fancy a walk around the ward?" He asked her with a grin, throwing the thin blanket off his legs.
"Of course," she answered with a smile, kicking him the slippers one of the nurses had left for him. He slipped them on his feet and grabbed Roses hand and began to walk toward the main hallway. "We're just gonna go for a walk, stretch our legs a bit," she informed the nurse as they passed him.
They walked down the hall until the Doctor pulled her toward a door that read 'restricted access hospital personnel only'. They walked down the thin hallway looking into all the doorways and continuing on past computer labs, file rooms and empty offices. They stopped near a door where they heard a familiar voice before continuing, pausing in front of the door for only a second when they realized Miss Jones was looking right at them before hurrying away. They saw a window at the end of the hallway and noticed it was a total downpour and they couldn't see anything other than the blurry shape of the other buildings.
"Hang on, that doesn't look right," Rose said, pulling the Doctor toward the window, "Doctor it's going up."
"Well I guess it's time to meet whoever put those plasma coils there," the Doctor replied in his usual calm demeanor, shoving his hand into the pocket of his dressing gown before looking down at himself, "not dressed like this though," he grabbed her hand and took off down the hall back toward his makeshift room. As they ran, the building began to shake violently throwing Rose off her feet and making the Doctor trip. They got back to their feet after the shaking had stopped and walked through the hall as others began to scream and panic, Rose looked into one of the rooms and saw through the window the Earth suspended in the air and landscape that looked like photographs she'd seen of the moon. They entered the area the Doctor had been put in and made their way toward his bed.
"We're on the moon," Rose told him flatly, looking up at him in a way that reminded him of when she first started traveling with him.
"Yeah," he replied with a smile.
"Okay," she returned and grinned back, walking toward the large window as he grabbed the privacy curtain. That's when Miss Jones walked in with another student trailing behind her.
"Alright everyone, back to bed we've got an emergency but we'll sort it out," she ordered in a calm and commanding voice that left no room for debate, the Doctor noticed as he pulled his curtain shut to get dressed. She rushed over to the large window where Rose was leaning against the frame and staring out at the landscape in front of her smiling.
"It's real," the young woman said in wonder, "it's really real, hold on," she continued and got a curious look as she reached for the window Rose watched with interest noting how calm and collected she was while her friend was a puddle of tears.
"Don't," the other woman jumped forwards at Miss Jones grabbing her hand and pulling it away from the window, "we'll lose all the air," she sobbed in panic.
"But they're not exactly air tight, if it was gonna get sucked out it would have happened straight away but it didn't," the woman explained to her friend and Rose pushed herself off from her position leaning against the window frame impressed by the girls logic. "So how come."
"Very good point," the Doctor said as he threw the curtain opened dramatically and Rose tried not to laugh, "Brilliant in fact, what was your name?"
"Martha," she responded with a shy smile at the praise.
"And it was Jones wasn't it?" Rose asked stepping up beside the Doctor as the woman smiled and nodded at her.
"Well Martha Jones, the question is how are we still breathing," the Doctor grinned rushing up to the window and fiddling with it, sticking his tongue out in concentration.
"We can't be," Martha's friend sobbed as Rose followed behind him.
"Well obviously we are so don't waste my time," the Doctor snapped at the frightened young woman.
"Doctor," Rose scolded him before she smiled sympathetically at the young woman.
"So Martha, what have we got is there a balcony on this floor or a veranda," he asked the medical student while Rose peeked over his shoulder out the window.
"By the patients lounge yeah," Martha responded nonchalantly.
He turned around towards Rose and stared down at her with one eyebrow raised, "fancy going out?" he asked.
"Of course," Rose answered with a small smile before turning toward Martha, "you fancy a trip to the moon?" she asked with her signature grin.
"Okay," she answered simply.
"We might die," the Doctor tested.
"We might not," she answered coolly making the Doctor and Rose grin.
"Good, come on then," Rose called taking the Doctors hand as they began to walk.
"Not her though she'll hold us up," the Doctor pointed at Martha's friend as they headed toward the door. They heard Martha whisper something to her friend before the sound of her heels followed them out into the main hallway. The trio made their way to the patients lounge then Martha led them to a set of glass double doors. The Doctor and Rose each grabbed one of the handles and looked at each other before pushing the doors open, the three of them stepped through the doorway out onto the balcony that now looked over the landscape of the moon and the view of the Earth in the sky instead of the busy London sidewalk it normally looked out on.
"We've got air," Martha said shakily, "how does that work," she wondered as she looked at the unfamiliar landscape surrounding them.
"Just be glad it does," the Doctor responded as they leaned against the edge of the balcony and Rose rested her head on his shoulder.
"I've got a party tonight," Martha murmured not taking her eyes off the Earth floating in the sky, "it's my brother's twenty-first. My mother's gonna be really, really," she started sounding like she was choking back tears.
"You okay?" Rose asked gently.
"Yeah," Martha responded quickly.
"You sure?" The Doctor asked.
"Yeah," she responded again.
"Do you wanna go back in?" He added.
"No way," she answered quickly, "I mean we could die any minute, but all the same," she continued then paused.
"It's beautiful," Rose finished for her still staring up at the earth where it hung suspended in space.
"Yeah," Martha agreed in a whisper.
"Do you think," the Doctor grinned, looking out at the landscape and wrapped his arm around Rose's shoulder.
"How many people want to go to the moon," Martha nearly shouted as she grinned, "and here we are."
"Standing in the Earth light," the Doctor added before kissing the top of Roses head.
"What do you think happened?" Martha asked after a moment of silence.
"What do you think?" He shot right back.
"Extraterrestrial, got to be," she answered with a nod, "I don't know a few years ago that would have sounded mad, but these days," she shook her head, "that space ship flying into big ben, Christmas, those Cybermen things," she went on then paused to let out a shaky breath.
"I had a cousin, Adeola," she began again and Rose really looked at the girls face for the first time, "she worked at Canary Wharf, never came home."
"I'm sorry," the Doctor and Rose murmured sadly in unison.
"Yeah," she nodded.
"We were there," Rose whispered, "in the battle, I lost my mum," she told the medical student.
"I promise you Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we will find a way out," Martha reassured them, "if we can travel to the moon then we can travel back, there's got to be a way."
"It's not Smith, that's not my real name," the Doctor told her pacing around the balcony, looking down at the cement. Rose watched him and caught on to what he was doing and began looking around.
"Who are you then?" She asked.
"I'm the Doctor," he answered looking up at her.
"Yeah, me too if I can pass my exams," Martha laughed, "what is it then Doctor Smith."
"No just the Doctor," Rose answered still searching the ground.
"How do you mean just the Doctor?" Martha asked.
"Just, the Doctor," he answered like it was obvious.
"What you seriously call him the Doctor?" Martha asked leaning over to look at Rose.
"Well yeah," she answered only taking a moment to glance up at her.
"Well I'm not," Martha snapped, "as far as I'm concerned you've got to earn that title," she informed him.
"You'd better start then," Rose told him, holding her hand out so she could give him something. He opened his flat and she dropped a small stone into his palm. He looked up at her face after seeing the stone and gave her a large grin.
"Let's have a look then, there must be some sort of," he began then pause as he chucked the pebble. It hit something and cause a ripple of blue waves, "force field," he said seriously, "keeping the air in."
"If that's like a bubble sealing us in that means this is the only air we've got," Martha said staring at the spot where the stone had hit the force field, "what happens when it runs out?" she asked looking up at him.
"How many people in this hospital?" he asked her.
"I dunno a thousand," she guessed with a shrug.
"One thousand people suffocating," he said through clenched teeth.
"Why would anyone do that?" Martha asked in disbelief.
"Is that even what their plan is?" Rose asked when they heard the sound of engines approaching.
"Heads up, ask then yourself," he told them as three giant column like spaceships glided over the hospital before coming down and landing on the surface of the moon.
"Aliens, that's aliens, real proper aliens," Martha said in disbelief.
"Judoon," the Doctor spat.
"So nothing good," Rose rolled her eyes.
"No, nothing good," the Doctor agreed with her.
"But Doctor how long do you think the air will last?" Rose asked him then as they watched Rows of Judoon unload from their ships.
"I dunno, maybe an hour," he guessed shrugging.
"Okay, an hour to figure out what the Judoon want and save the day," Rose nodded looking out at the 'troops' of Judoon marching toward the hospital, "we've done it in less," she shrugged and smiled up at the Doctor who grinned right back.
"Martha, is there somewhere we can watch what they're doing without actually coming in contact with them yet?" The Doctor asked Martha who was still staring at the approaching figures of the Judoon.
"Uh, yeah the mezzanine level, it overlooks the lobby," she murmured not even looking at them.
"Care to show us the way?" the Doctor asked. Martha looked over at them before nodding and re-entering the hospital, making her way down the hall and to the stairs. They exited the stairway and crept down the oddly quiet hallway to the balcony overlooking the main lobby of the hospital where they crouched behind a cluster of potted plants and looked down at the chaos that was already taking place.
"Oh look down there Rose they've got a little shop," he commented to Rose before looking at Martha, "I like a little shop," he informed her.
"Never mind that, what are Judoon?" Martha asked sounding annoyed at his distraction from the problem at hand.
"They're like police, well police for hire, they're more like interplanetary thugs," the Doctor informed both Martha and Rose.
"And they brought us to the moon?" she asked to be sure.
"Neutral territory, according to intergalactic law they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth so they isolated it," the Doctor explained.
"So that rain and lightning, that was them?" Rose asked pointing down at the aliens in black armor.
"Yeah that was them," the Doctor answered, "they used an H2O scoop."
"What are you on about galactic law, where'd you get that from," Martha laughed. Then looked over where they had been to notice Rose and the Doctor had moved around the corner and she followed crouching down next to the Doctor again. "If they're police are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something," she said making a weird face at her own suggestion as she peaked over the ledge.
"No, but I like that, good thinking," the Doctor praised and Rose smiled at her, she liked this girl, "I wish it were that simple, they're making a catalog which means they're after something non-human, which is very bad news for me," he babbled as he watched the Judoon catalog patients and employees.
"Why?" Martha whispered, confused. The Doctor and Rose just turned and stared at her, they were honestly shocked she hadn't figured it out yet, she turned her head toward them and stared for a moment before she got an almost exasperated look, "oh you're kidding me," she said flatly and the Doctor quirked a brow at her, "don't be ridiculous," she added and they both kept staring at her silently, "stop looking at me like that."
"Come on then," the Doctor whispered as he stood up and Rose followed as they walked away and Martha ran after them a few seconds later. They ran through the halls Rose and the Doctor hand in hand and Martha following behind them as they walked around people sitting in the hallway. They found an empty ward and rushed over to the nurses station, the Doctor immediately sitting down in front of the computer.
"Can you tell us what the Judoon are doing Martha?" the Doctor asked and she nodded before rushing back out into the main hall.
"Doctor, what will their scanners identify me as?" Rose asked when they were alone as the Doctor pulled out the sonic and began trying to gain access to the computer.
"Honestly Rose, I have no idea," he told her truthfully. She was technically no longer human but her DNA didn't match that of any identifiable species and was still closer to human than anything else, "you are truly one of a kind," he told her with a gentle smile as he placed a light kiss on her cheek.
"So, what do you think about Miss Jones?" Rose asked, but before he was able to reply the topic of the discussion entered the room.
"They've reached the third floor," she informed them leaning against the desk, "what's that thing?" she asked nodding toward the sonic.
"Sonic screwdriver," the Doctor answered absently, his brow crinkling in frustration at his inability to gain access to the computer files.
"Well if you're not going to answer me properly," she rolled her eyes.
"No really it is," Rose informed her, "it's a screwdriver, and it's sonic," she grinned at her lame explanation of the device.
"What else have you got, a laser spanner," Martha joked waving her hands in front of her and Rose just smiled.
"I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman," he answered completely serious before lowering the sonic and whacking the side of the computer monitor, "what's wrong with this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon. Cause we were just traveling past I swear we weren't looking for trouble, well maybe a bit but not this much, and she noticed these plasma coils around the hospital. That lightning those are plasma coils been building up around the hospital for two days, so I checked in I thought something was going on inside, turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above." He babbled and ran his fingers through his hair repeatedly as he spoke making it stick up in the most hilarious way Rose had ever seen.
"So what are they looking for?" Martha asked.
"Something that looks human but isn't," the Doctor answered as he began typing at the keyboard trying to gain access to the unreachable files.
"Like you, apparently," she smirked.
"Like me," he answered then looked at her, "but not me."
"Haven't they got a photo," she stated.
"Eh, it might be a shape changer," the Doctor grumbled as he continued to type and Rose watched from her spot leaning on the other side of the nurses station chewing on her lip as she tried not to laugh at his hair.
"Well if it is can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?" Martha asked and Rose just pursed her lips knowing things were never that simple.
"If they declare the hospital guilty of harboring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution," he explained quickly and Rose began picking at her cuticles anxiously.
"All of us?" Martha asked in disbelief.
"Yeah," Rose answered flatly, peaking down at the screen of the computer where the Doctor was still typing furiously, "that's why we have to find it first,"
"OH!" the Doctor shouted and whacked the monitor, making Martha jump, but Rose didn't even flinch since she was used too his behavior, "you see they're thick Judoon are thick, they are completely thick, they wiped the records," he shouted, then continued at a normal volume, "oh that's clever."
"What are we looking for?" Rose asked him.
"I don't know," he began, running his hands through his hair again, "say any patient admitted in the last week with unusual symptoms," he answered then lunged forward at the computer, "maybe there's a backup."
"Just keep working, I'll go ask Mr. Stoker, he might know," Martha told them as she walked out of the ward. As soon as she was gone Rose began laughing hysterically making him look up at her in confusion.
"What?" he asked when she didn't stop.
"It's just your hair, it's looked so ridiculous this whole time and you keep messing with it and making it even worse," she explained through her giggles as the Doctor pouted while he continued to sonic the computer.
"Oh, I did it!" he exclaimed excitedly after a minute and Rose grinned.
"I'll go tell Martha," Rose told him and turned to the door as the Doctor scrolled through hospital records.
