The Aliens of London Part 2

Roughly an hour later, Eliza and Rose were still talking when Jackie rose a glass and toasted, "HERE'S TO THE MARTIANS!"

The others did the same, but fell quiet quickly, seeing who was at the door, looking directly at Rose. The two women, who found the room was quiet, except for them chatting, turned to see why. Rose got out of her slouched position in her chair and greeted, "I was gunna come see you."

"Someone owes Mickey an apology." Said Jackie's friend.

Mickey, who was standing in the doorway, was looking at Rose as if she were a ghost.

"I… I'm sorry." Rose stuttered.

"Not here." Jackie's friend muttered.

Jackie, who was starting to look a little ashamed of herself, piped up, "Well be fair, what was I supposed to think?" She walking into the kitchen and sat down. He then noticed Eliza sitting in the seat opposite Rose and pointed at them both. "Kitchen." He said in a hoarse voice.

They both got up, Wolf being a plus one. Eliza plopped herself on the on the work top as Rose leaned against it, resting her elbow on Eliza thigh.

Mickey came in, paced for a few moments and then started. "You disappear, who do they turn to? Your boyfriend." He held up a hand and continued, "Five times I was taking in for questioning, five times."

"Um, but that was four." Eliza pointed to his hand, which held up four fingers.

Mickey ignored her and continued, "No other cause. Well, there couldn't be, could there? And then," He pointed to Jackie. "I get her. Your mother, running around the estate, pointing the finger, stuffing things through my letterbox, and all cause of you."

"I didn't think I'd be gone so long." Rose pleaded.

"And I waited for you, Rose." Mickey added. "Twelve months. Waiting for you and the Doctor and her to come back." He pointed as Eliza, who growled, "Put that finger down or I'll bite it off, mate."

"Hang on, "Jackie said as she stood up. "You knew about these two? Why didn't you tell me?"

Mickey, who looked at the three women, gave the smallest smirk at the situation. He closed the door and said, "Yeah, why not, Rose? How could I tell her where you went?"

"Tell me now." Jackie demanded.

"Might as well, 'cause your stuck here, the pair of ya." Mickey said in delight. "The Doctor's gone. Right now, that box thing just faded away."

"He hasn't gone anywhere, Ricky." Eliza said.

"It's Mickey." He corrected. "And yes, he has."

"What do you mean?" Rose asked; panic slowly becoming evident on her face. "He wouldn't leave us, he wouldn't leave her." She pointed at Eliza.

"He's left you. I just saw it. Some boyfriend he turned out to be."

"Oh, my God." Eliza smirked as Rose ran for the door. "He's not gone… Sod it." She ran after Rose and Mickey, Wolf running by her side and Jackie running behind her.

"But he wouldn't just go," Rose said as she looked around. "He promised me."

"Oh, he's dumped you, Rose." Mickey said as he laughed, Eliza just catching up to them. "Sailed off into space! How does it feel? Now you are left behind like the rest of us Earthlings. Get used to it."

"Actually, Ricky, he's gone to Albion hospital." Eliza spat. She pulled out her key from around her neck as it started to warm up.

"He's not my boyfriend, Mickey, he's better than that." Rose said as her voice began to crack slightly. "He's much more important than-" She stopped as she noticed the key in Eliza's hand, which was glowing gold. She took out her own key, which was glowing the same colour.

Soon after, the awkward silence was taken away by the sound of the TARDIS coming into land. "Told you." Rose muttered. She then remembered who exactly was with her. "Mum! Get back inside!" The sound of the TARDIS engine was becoming louder and louder, until the TARDIS started to materialise on the street corner.

"How'd he do that, then?" Jackie asked as she stared at the box.

Eliza went in first to see the Doctor looking at the control panel. Rose came in next and the Doctor said, "Okay, I lied, I went and had a look."

"And?" Eliza prodded as she sat down in the jump seat.

"It was a fake crash landing, thought so." The Doctor replied. "It was just too perfect. I mean, hitting Big Ben? Come on." He scoffed. "So, I thought 'lets go and have a look and'-"

"My mum's here." Rose butted in.

The Doctor stopped and looked at her in a way that said 'please say you're joking?'. The door opened behind them and Mickey and Jackie walked in. "That is just what I need…" The Doctor muttered. He turned to Rose and said, "Don't you dare make this place domestic."

"You ruined my life, Doctor." Mickey said firmly. "We thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect 'cause of you."

The Doctor looked at Mickey for a moment and then turned back to Rose. "See what I mean? Domestic."

Mickey walked up the ramp towards the consol, leaving Jackie to look around the TARDIS in dis-belief. "I bet you don't even remember my name!"

"Ricky." Eliza said when the Doctor let a moment pass. "Call him Ricky."

"Ricky." The Doctor said in triumph.

"It's Mickey." The boy spat.

Seeing why Eliza had said Rickey, he felt her mentally giggle and went along with it. "No, it's Ricky."

"I think I would know my own name."

"You think you know your own name." The Doctor challenged. "How stupid are you?"

Jackie, who was having a hard time coming to terms with everything, backed away from them and rushed out the door. "Mum!" Rose called. After a moment of Jackie being silent, Rose began to follow her. "Don't go anywhere." She ordered the Doctor. "Don't start a fight." She pointed at Mickey. "And don't encourage 'em." She called to Eliza as she followed her mother out the door.

A few moments later, she was back in the TARDIS and at the Doctors side, looking at the screen. "That was a real space ship."

"Yup." The Doctor replied.

"So it's all a pack of lies." Rose concluded. "What is it then, are they invading?"

"Funny way to invade." Mickey butted in. "Putting the world on red-alert."

"That's a good point." The Doctor said.

"Well, no not really." Eliza piped up. The three looked at her in confusion and she continued, "Well, it depends on what you want, really. If the alien race has more technology and knowledge than humans then they might find it fun to watch everybody running about for their life. A bit like lost sheep."

"Yeah, but then what?" Mickey asked. "The army said that there was nothing on board except that body."

"First of all, they didn't say that." Eliza said as she patted Wolf behind the ears. "Second, while everyone is running around, fretting for their lives, it gives the invaders the perfect opportunity to sneak in and hide."

After the small rant, the Doctor looked at her quizzically and then added, "Another good point." He turned back to the screen and ended, "So, what're they up to?"

A little while after that, Eliza announced she was hungry and took off the kitchen, intent on finding something for her and Wolf to eat. The Doctor retreated to under the TARDIS consol to do come upgrades and repairs while Rose and Mickey quietly talked.

Eventually, when his mechanical curiosity over came him, he asked the Doctor, "What're you doing down there?"

The Doctor sighed and took his sonic out of his mouth. "Ricky-"

"Mickey." He corrected.

"Ricky." The Doctor spat. "If I told you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?"

"Well…" Mickey stumbled in embarrassment. "I suppose not-"

"Well shut it, then." The Doctor said sweetly with a smile as he returned to the task.

Mickey turned back to Rose and muttered, "Some friend you got."

"He's winding you up." Rose said, trying to hold back a grin. She found it easier when Mickey refused to meet her eye, intent on looking at the floor. Rose took his hand and rubbed the knuckle between her finger and thumb. "I really am sorry."

"Okay." Mickey murmured, letting Rose take his hand loosely.

"I am though." Rose insisted.

Mickey rose his eyes to meet hers and continued in a hoarse voice. "Everyday, I looked. Every corner, every street, looking for a blue box."

"But it's only been a few days for me." Rose muttered. "I don't know… it's hard to tell inside this thing, but I swear, only a couple of days!"

Mickey thought about her statement for a moments before replying, "Not enough time to miss me, then?"

Rose managed to crake a tiny smile. "I did miss you."

Mickey nodded slightly and agreed. "I missed you, too."

Rose nodded with him and her smile grew wider. "So… twelve months… you're not seeing anyone else?"

"No." Mickey said firmly.

Rose was now giving her tongue between the teeth smile. "Okay."

"Mainly because everyone thinks I murdered you." Mickey commented.

Rose's smile disappeared. "Right."

Mickey took a step closer to her and asked, "So… now that you've come back… are you gunna stay?" When she gave no reply, he leaned in towards her. Before his lips could reach her cheek, they heard something from underneath the consol. Mickey stepped away from her as if she had burnt him and cleared his throat.

The TARDIS hummed in glee and the Doctor leapt up. "Ah ha!" He said as he went back to looking at the screen. "Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so it followed the flight of that space ship." Rose moved away from Mickey, mainly hoping to break the tension between them as he ended, "Here we go."

There was a large round circle, with a whiter one near the outline. "See? That's the spaceship coming to Earth." The Doctor pointed. "But if you see…" He waited a few seconds and the small white dot reversed around the larger circle. "The ship did a sling-shot. Means it came from Earth in the first place. It came here, shot back up and came back down. But whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived, they've been here for a while." The Doctor said as he turned off the screen. "Question is; what've they been doing?"

The Doctor began flicking through the channels, hoping to find the right one. After five minutes of going through different channels, Mickey asked, "How many channels do you get?"

"All the basic packages." The Doctor shrugged. He got into the news when Mickey asked desperately, "Do you get the sports channels?"

"Yes, I get the football." The Doctor replied. "Hang on… I know that lot." The Doctor said as he drew his attention back to the screen. It showed three men and a woman, all dressed in uniform that Eliza recognised instantly when she came back in.

"Is that UNIT?" Eliza asked as she pulled a sausage out of her pocket. Not only had she gotten something to eat, she had changed into her long, black coat.

"Yup." The Doctor said, a hint of happiness in his voice. "United National Intelligence Task Force. Good people."

"And how do you know 'em?" Rose asked.

"'Cause he used to work for them." Mickey said confidently. The Doctor gave him a suspicious look. "Hey, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor, I read up on you." He turned to Rose and continued, "You look deep enough on the internet, or in the history books, and there's his name, sometimes hers." He pointed at Eliza. "Always followed by a list of the dead."

"Oh, that's nice." The Doctor said sarcastically. "Good boy, Ricky."

"But if you know 'em, why don't you go and help?" Rose asked.

The Doctor shook his head. "Nah, they wouldn't recognise me. I've changed a lot since the old days."

"An' you?" She asked Eliza.

Eliza looked from her to Mickey and asked, with her mouth full, "Me what?"

"You recognised 'em. You've only been with him for a month, surely you aint changed that much in a month." She stopped and then turned to the Doctor. "Same for you, actually."

"You know what? That's a good question." The Doctor said as he walked towards Eliza. "How do you know about UNIT?"

Eliza looked over to their pictures on the screen and shrugged. "Just recognise them. Well, the hats."

The Doctor frowned, making a mental note to ask her about it later. "Okay, then." He said as he quickly patched together an idea. "Okay. I'll go in under cover, but keep the TARDIS away safe… Ricky! You've got a car! Gonna do some driving." He walked towards the door and walked out, Eliza following after him, Wolf at her side with Rose and Mickey coming out last. "Where to?" Mickey asked as he went out through the door last. Before anyone could reply, a helicopter above them shot a spot light at all five of them. "Do not move! Step away from the box and but your hands above your heads!" Demanded the man in the helicopter. Within seconds, four police cars surrounded them, as well as army vans, all aiming their guns at the Doctor.

Mickey ran straight away, fearing for his life, as Rose watched him run in the tint bit of amusement she could find.

"Raise your hands above your heads!" The man demanded again. "You are under arrest!"

The Doctor complied and shouted back, "Take me to your leader!"

The policemen all grabbed a person each and began to escort them to the police cars.

"Wolf, go back to Jackie's place and wait for me there, okay?" Eliza called to her dog, who was barking wildly. He quietened down and slumped off towards the stair way that led to the Tyler Estate.

She felt empty once she felt the last string of his mind slip away, and what made it worse was that the army took her tools off of her and placed them at the back of the car in the boot, threatening to charge her with illegal use of weapons.

"I wasn't even using them." Eliza complained as the car started and took off. She was sat on the right side of the car, Rose in the middle and the Doctor on the left.

"This is a bit posh." Rose said as she looked around the car. "If I knew it was like this, being arrested, I would have done it years ago."

"We're not being arrested, we're being escorted." The Doctor corrected.

"Escorted?" Rose asked. "Where?"

"Where?" Eliza asked. "Where do you think, Rosie?"

"Downing Street." The Doctor finished with a laugh. "Like they said on the news; they're gathering experts from all over the world, and who's the biggest expert of the lot?"

Rose looked at him for a moment and replied, "Patrick Moore?"

"Apart from him." The Doctor said, obviously offended, as his smile dropped.

Clicking on, Rose gave him a smile. "Oh, don't you just love it!"

"I'm telling you, Lloyd George… he used to drink me under the table…" The Doctor replied. "Who's the Prime Minister now?"

"How should I know?" Rose asked in reply. "I missed a year."

After a few minutes of driving, they arrived outside number Ten Downing Street. The Doctor got out and instantly started waving and smiling at the press, making sure he got on the front cover.

"He does this every time…" Eliza muttered as she walked into the building. The Doctor was then hurried inside, Rose following, not believing her luck that she was just about go inside Ten Downing Street.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, can we convene? Quick as we can, please." Called a man in a brown suit. "It's this way on the right, and can I remind you that I'D cards are to be worn at all times." He walked over to the Doctor and gave him an I.D card saying 'The Doctor, Code nine'. He then noticed Rose and Eliza and said, "I'm sorry, but your friends don't have clearance."

"I don't go anywhere without them." The Doctor said as he started to follow the other people, but was stopped by the man. "You're the Code Nine, not them. I'm sorry, Doctor… It is the Doctor, isn't it?" The Doctor nodded and continued, "I'm sorry, but they'll have to stay outside."

"They are staying with me." The Doctor said firmly.

"Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there." The man said. "I can't let them in there, and that's a fact."

"It's alright." Rose said. "You go, we'll wait." Eliza nodded, not saying a word.

"Excuse me?" Said a woman in a pink jacket and black skirt. "Are you the Doctor?"

"Not now, we're busy." The man said to her with irritation. "Can't you go home?"

"I just need a private word." The woman said, although no one seemed to be listening to her.

"Fine." The Doctor said. "But don't wonder off, and you," He pointed at Eliza. "Don't cause any trouble."

"I'm going to have to leave you with security." The man said as he took Rose's arm. The three started to walk towards a policeman, but the woman stopped them. "It's alright. I'll look after them." She said, smiling brightly. "Let me be of some use."

Before the man could object, the woman turned the Rose and Eliza and said, "Walk with me." They walked in a line out of the room, the woman having to tell Rose not to look back every two seconds. She then flashed an I.D card at them and said, "Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale north."

"Eliza." Said the youngest woman there. "Rose." Said the middle.

Passing an empty room, Eliza noticed her things on the table, a glass case right beside it. Eliza rushed in once no one was looking and grabbed her sword and shield, feeling a lot better once she had them in her hands. Harriet gave her a worried look, but continued walking none the less.

Harriet kept walking until she was sure no one was around to listen. "Okay, this friend of yours… he's an expert, is that right?" Harriet asked. "He knows about aliens?"

"What's it to you?" Eliza asked rudely.

Harriet looked between the pair of them for a good few seconds before bringing her hands to her mouth and letting out a sob. Rose threw Eliza a glare before putting her hands on the woman's shoulders.

"Sorry." Eliza muttered, feeling guilty.

"No, it's not you." Harriet said once she calmed down. "I… I saw…" She looked between the pair of them, trying to find the right words, words that wouldn't make her sound insane. "…come with me." She led them upstairs and into a square room with a table in the middle, chairs neatly tucked in.

Harriet went straight to the cupboard and took out some sort of coat. Or at first, it looked like a coat, at least. She set it down on the table, now showing an empty husk of skin, a zipper running around the forehead. "They turned the body into a suit, a disguise for the thing inside!" She clamped her hands over her mouth again and Eliza rubbed her back while Rose searched the room.

"It's alien." Rose said as she felt underneath one side of the table. "They must have some serious technology for this. If we could find it, we could use it."

"Use it?" Eliza asked in shock. "Why would we want to use- who the hell is that?" Rose opened a cupboard door, a man falling head first into the ground.

"Harriet?" Asked the man from before. "This has gone beyond a joke. You cannot just wonder in here and… is that the Prime Minister?"

Harriet nodded her head slightly as she looked down at the dead man. The man stuttered for a few seconds and then they heard, "Ohhhh…"

They all turned towards the door to see a big woman coming in. "Has someone been naughty?" She closed the door behind her firmly and walked towards them slowly.

Eliza felt the familiar tingling on her back, but ignored it for the time being.

"But that's not possible." The man said to the woman. "The Prime Minister left this afternoon. He left Downing Street, he was driven away!"

"And who told you that?" The woman asked. They were not able to see her better now. She had blond hair, part of it covering her forehead; she had a round face, hardly any neck and was wearing a blue jacket with matching skirt. She took the handbag she was carrying off of her shoulder and onto the table. "Oh! That's right!" The woman exclaimed. "Me!" She brought her hand up to her hair and lifted it so her forehead was shown, as well as a zipper.

The woman grabbed it and slowly tugged it to the right, revealing a bright blue glow as the human suit slipped down the body.
Eliza, now completely agreeing with the feeling, drew her weapon, wishing with everything she had that Wolf was there.

Halfway down the body, an alien head popped out, green and damp. When its arms came out, claws sprouted from the ends.

When the human suit had completely been taken off, the creature swept as the nearest person to it, which was the man. She grabbed him round the throat and held him up against the wall, snapping his neck and choking what was left of him.