-Author's Note-
I just want to thank you all so much for reading! Also I'm glad I'm not the only one who ships Ten and Rose!
I think the Doctor is descried well by the song It's A Hard Life By Queen!
I want to tell you yes this is based off the episode Midnight but I am not going to do every bit of dialogue and I will skip bits and put in my own ideas. That's what makes this story unique! (VERY LONG STORY! ENJOY!)
Rose's POV:
"Midnight, why's it so bright?" Rose's question rang through the room.
"It's revolving around an extonic star. Stand in the light of an extonic star and you get vaporized immediately! Although that's not the only thing making it bright, this planet is made of diamonds. The diamonds reflect the light and are poisoned by the sun." The Doctor went on his normal tangent.
"If you die in extonic light then why aren't we dead?"
"The glass is 15 feet thick." The Doctor grinned.
"Well then..." Rose trailed off, thinking not of the dangers as some might, but of the wonders.
"So what do you want to do?" The Doctor asked.
She was about to reply when an attendant walked up. "A good idea for a day, is a trip to the Sapphire Falls! The next train boards in five minutes!" She handed them each a brochure and walked off the next group of tourists.
"How about we go to the Sapphire Falls?" Rose answered the Doctor's question with a giggle.
"Works for me." He piped.
-Later-
They boarded the train and took their seats before the train attendant began to explain the detour they would be taking and all the things they received, complementary.
By the time she was done they had slippers, peanuts, and ear plugs, and that was only a sample of what they received. "Hope you have a nice trip." She said.
"Allons-y!" The Doctor replied happily.
"Excuse me?" The attendant asked.
"It's French, for let's go." He explained.
After that she put on three different noisy things for their 'entertainment.' They looked across the aisle to another passenger and she made a face that relayed "Someone shut this off!" The Doctor took his cue and secretly pulled out his sonic screwdriver and pointed it at the entertainment center. Everything shut off in the blink of an eye and all the passengers relaxed. Most of which Rose noticed had in their complementary ear plugs.
"Sorry about that." The attendant said, fidgeting with the system, trying to get it to work again.
"Well now what are we to do?" One of the other passengers behind us asked.
The Doctor turned around in his seat, "We'll just have to talk to each other."
Over time Rose and the Doctor talked to everyone on the train. They found the name that belonged to the girl they had spoken to earlier was Sky Silvestry.
Soon the train came to a halt. A large man named Mr. Hubson and his assistant Dee Dee commented they'd taken the trip 14 times and shouldn't be there yet. The attendant said it was just a malfunction and would soon be fixed.
The Doctor and Rose hopped up and went towards where the driver and mechanic were. The attendant tried to stop them but he flashed his psychic paper and she let them through, though she didn't seem happy about it.
The driver and mechanic tried to chase them out but the duo refused to leave, then they tried to tell them what was wrong was the stabilizers. The Doctor read the charts and they looked fine.
"I know but we can't figure out what's wrong." The mechanic said. "We called for a rescue vehicle; they'll be here in an hour."
"While we wait you should let up the shields and look around." The Doctor whispered so not to be heard out of the cabin.
"We can't, that extonic light out there, and if we let up the shields we will be vaporized." The driver exclaimed quietly.
"That's finito glass; we can let the shields up for a few minutes, come on, live a little!" The Doctor persuaded.
The driver was convinced and let up the shields. They stood there and looked at the beauty of the planet that they could never touch. Eventually an alarm started going off and the driver started to descend the sun shield so they wouldn't get vaporized.
Just as the shields were almost closed the mechanic freaked out. "Did you see that?!"
"See what?" The Doctor asked.
"It was like a shadow." He piped, his voice higher than it should have been.
"Don't be daft, nothing can survive out there." The driver said. "Now you two go back to your seats, and don't tell anyone about this."
The Doctor an Rose walked out of the cabin and the other passengers descended on them immediately. Comments and questions were flying too fast to respond or refuse. Finally someone asked if they have enough air, and that freaked everyone out.
"Are we running out of air?!" One obnoxious lady who was there with her husband and son Jethro.
"If you will all be quiet and listen to my good friend Dee Dee!" The Doctor said. Rose almost sighed with relief that he hadn't made them put their fingers on their lips.
The Doctor looked at Dee Dee and she stood and started to explain. "The air is on a circular filter, so we should be able to breathe in here for ten years."
"Thank you." The Doctor said calmly and Dee Dee sat back down.
That's when there was a knock knock on the side of the train. Almost everyone jumped and Jethro said, "Who's there?"
There was another knock knock.
"Doctor, what is that?" Rose whispered.
"I haven't the foggiest."
"This door's made of cast iron, nothing is getting through it." Jethro's father walked up to the wall and knocked on it three times.
After a moment the thing outside replied with knock knock knock.
"It answered him!" Jethro's mum screamed.
"Nothing can live out there! That's extonic light out there!" Mr. Hubson said angrily.
"Well something's out there!" Jethro's dad yelled.
"It's probably just the metal cooling down." The attendant said. "Now if you could all just return to your seats!"
Doctor's POV:
The Doctor walked up to the wall; taking out his stethoscope and held it to the wall. He knocked on the wall four times, and it replied; knock knock knock knock. The knocking began to move towards the front of the train. Everyone moved to the back except for Sky.
She began to scream, "It's coming for me!"
The knocking got right above her and the train lurched to the side. The Doctor fell over an armrest into one of the chairs while Rose grabbed the back of one of the chairs and managed to stay on her feet. The power went out and they were plunged into darkness.
The Doctor sat up as the attendant told them to take out the torches (Flashlight if you are American like me) that resided in the back of the seats. Grabbing the nearest torch he checked to see that Rose was okay and saw the front row of seats had been torn up. In front of the seats was Sky; her head between her knees and hands on her face.
"Is she okay?" Rose asked.
The Doctor walked up to Sky and sat on the floor next to her. "It's okay, it's over now."
She looked at him, her blue gaze far away from there and copied the Doctor's exact words. "It's okay, it's over now."
"Are you copying me?" He asked.
Again she repeated, "Are you copying me?"
"Okay, can you stop that please?"
"Okay, can you stop that please?"
"Stop it!"
"Stop it!"
The Doctor stood and walked over to the others. There were immediately shouts about what was wrong with her, was she okay, she's scaring me, make her stop. She copied every single one of them.
"QUIET!" The Doctor shouted to get everyone to calm down. The power came back on.
"Doctor." Jethro said worriedly.
"I know," He replied. Sky was no longer copying them, but had started talking at the same time. "I think it's trying to learn, so why don't we all just step back." He walked up to Sky and began to test her ability to keep up with him. The Doctor started by saying pi, "3.141592654 wha-" She kept up perfectly. "Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Tardis!" He said quickly, again no differentiation. "Dingle dangle dooble doble." He tried a few more tests in which she kept up perfectly.
"Doctor?" Rose asked.
The Doctor turned and looked at her. Her eyes were glazed with worry, and he knew she was not scared for herself, but for him. Sky had stopped copying everyone but the Doctor by that point. He decided to ease Rose's nerves a bit and walked to the back of the train with the others, and away from Sky.
"We should throw her out!" The attendant said suddenly.
"No." The Doctor said sternly, "We're not throwing anyone out."
Everyone began to argue if they should throw her out or not.
"Jethro what do you think?" He asked the boy.
"I'm not killing anyone." He said, shying from the looks of his parents.
"Okay, good." The Doctor replied walking back over to Sky.
Rose's POV:
Rose watched the Doctor walk back over to Sky. "I can help you." He said, Sky spoke in sync with him. "What do you need? If it is form or voice, you don't have to steal it. We can get you back to the Leisure Palace and get you what you need." He said.
"Let me help you." Sky said and the Doctor copied.
"No!" Rose screeched, and went to the Doctor's side, but he was as unresponsive as Sky had been. "Doctor!"
She looked over at Sky who was standing and apologizing for the scare that she must have given all of them. Jethro's mother hugged her as if in pity for Sky.
"It's her can't you see?!" Dee Dee burst out.
"Hush, will you!" Mr. Hubson snapped, "Just shut up!"
Dee Dee stepped back and Jethro's father suggested throwing the Doctor off the train.
"No!" Rose screeched again, standing between everyone else and the Doctor, but they shoved past her.
"Yes, throw him out!" Sky said, and the Doctor copied her. "Malto bene!" She used his words. "Allons-y!"
That infuriated Rose to the point that she was about to throw herself at Sky, but the attendant reached her first and pulled her to the exit door. The attendant hit the button and opened the door, pulling Sky and herself out onto the deadly planet, with Rose still struggling to keep the others from throwing the Doctor to the same fate. The door shut and she saw the Doctor gasp as an arm knocked her across the train. Rose hit her head and blacked out.
Doctor's POV:
The Doctor jumped up and ran to Rose's side, trying to keep his anger under control. "Who hit her?!" He saw Jethro's father look at the floor. He thought about going up to him but didn't dare leave Rose's side.
A voice came over the PA system, "The rescue vehicle will be pulling up in about three minutes."
Rose blinked a few times and looked up at the Doctor, "What happened?"
He pulled her into a hug, "Do you remember what happened before you blacked out?"
"Yes, weird thing, copying, you in danger of being thrown off the train." She said.
"Good, I was hoping you wouldn't have amnesia." The Doctor helped her stand as the rescue vehicle was letting people get off the train.
-Later-
"Well that was...terrifying." Rose said.
"Just a bit." The Doctor replied. They walked back to the Tardis with little conversation.
Once they were back inside they decided to go to Mars as their next stop.
