Applying her mascara carefully, Martha sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror. She listened to the radio carefully. Every news station and radio station was going crazy over the news about the Hospital, the word was spreading up and down the country. "Eyewitness reports from the Royal Hope Hospital continue to pour in, and it all seems to be remarkably consistent. This is from medical student Oliver Morgenstern."
"I was there…" Morgenstern's timid voice played through the radio. "I saw it happen. And I feel uniquely privileged. I looked out at the surface of the moon. I saw the Earth, suspended in space, and it all just proves Mr Saxon right. We're not alone in the universe. There's life out there: wild and extraordinary life."
Martha went down to the pub that night for Leo's party, and well… it was a mess. A complete mess. Annalise stormed outside, causing a fuss, and Martha felt extremely embarrassed. "I am not prepared to be insulted!"
"She didn't mean it, sweetheart!" Clive sighed exasperatingly. "She just said you look healthy!"
"No, I did not!" Francine stormed out, scowling. "I said orange."
"Clive, that woman is disrespecting me!" Annalise clung onto Clive, whimpering and looking quite pathetic. "She's never liked me."
"Oh, I can't think why, after you stole my husband!" Francine snarled.
"I was seduced!" Annalise argued quite pathetically. "I'm entirely innocent! Tell her, Clive!"
"And then she has a go at Martha, practically accusing her of making the whole thing up!"
"Oh. 'I've been to the moon'! As if," She snorted. "They were drugged. It said so on the news."
"Since when did you watch the news?" Francine was giving Annalise the most hateful look, her eyes full of rage. "You can't handle Quiz Mania."
"Annalise started it," Tish added. "She did. I heard her."
"Tish, don't make it worse!" Leo muttered, hiding his face in his hands. His party was a nightmare.
"You're talking, Leo! What did she buy you, soap? A seventy-five pence soap?" Tish frowned.
"Oh, I'm never talking to your family again!" Annalise whimpered, turning on her heel and storming off down the road. Everyone was shouting over each other.
"Oh, stay! Have a night out!" Francine growled.
"Don't you dare!" Clive shouted. "I'm putting my foot down. This is me, putting my foot down!" He chased after Annalise.
"Make a fool of yourself!" Francine shouted after him. "God knows, you've been doing it for the last twenty-five years! Why stop now?" She stormed off, Tish and Leo following quickly, trying to convince her to go back inside the pub. Martha looked around, now alone and feeling very distressed. Suddenly, she spotted the Doctor. He was standing at the street corner, watching her with a meaningful smile, turning to walk down the alleyway. Martha followed quickly, turning the corner to see the Doctor and Rose leaning against the magnificent TARDIS, looking very out of place against the dark, dreary alleyway. The only slightly interesting thing in the alleyway other than the Doctor was a "VOTE SAXON" poster, but Martha ignored it completely as she grinned at the pair.
"I went to the moon today."
"A bit more peaceful than down here," Rose glanced back at the pub, smiling. "Your family are as bad as mine."
"You never even told me who you both are!" She approached them both.
"The Doctor," He replied. "And my brilliant best friend, Rose Tyler."
"What sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that."
"I'm human," Rose replied. "But the Doctor is a…"
"Time Lord," The Doctor finished off for her.
"Right!" Martha laughed softly. "Not pompous at all, then."
"I just thought, since you saved my life and I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing…" He smiled, twirling the sonic screwdriver in his hand. "You might fancy a trip with us."
"What, into space?" Martha's eyes widened in excitement. The Doctor nodded, but she considered everything else she's got going on. "I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent; I've got my family going mad…" She wanted to go. Desperately. But she couldn't.
"If it helps… we can travel in time, as well…" Rose giggled. "But I wouldn't have too much hope in him, he dropped me home a whole year after I left, once. My mum went mad."
"Get out of here!" Martha gasped, grinning. "Come on now, that's going too far."
"I'll prove it!" The Doctor took Rose inside the TARDIS. She watched in wonder as the TARDIS dematerialised, and she waved her hand in the air where it once stood. The TARDIS came back swiftly, Rose and the Doctor stepping back out, the Doctor holding his tie up. "Told you!"
"I know, but…" Martha stared at the tie, eyes wide. She recalled this morning, when they both approached her randomly in the street, and he took his tie off. "But, that was this morning! But, did you… Oh, my God! You can travel in time!" She beamed. "But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go into work?"
"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden," The Doctor put his tie back on, smiling. "Except for cheap tricks."
"And that's your spaceship?" She looked up at the TARDIS slowly, reaching out to touch it.
"It's called the TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimension In Space."
"Your spaceship's made of wood…" Martha smirked a bit. "There's not much room. We'd all be a bit intimate."
"Take a look," The Doctor pushed the doors open, Martha stepping inside slowly. She looked around in shock at the large, beautiful interior, running back out again.
"Oh, no. No!" She looked around at the box madly, gasping. "But it's just a box! But it's huge! How does it do that? It's wood!" She peeked into the TARDIS again, Rose and the Doctor watching with a smirk. "It's like a box with that room just rammed in! It's bigger on the inside!"
The Doctor mouthed that last sentence, smirking. "Is it? I hadn't noticed," He closed the door, throwing his coat aside and approaching the console. "All right, then, let's get going."
"But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Or is it just you two?"
"Just us," Rose nodded. "I haven't got a clue how to fly that thing. Only managed it once, and I don't even remember."
"Yeah?" Martha looked puzzled. "How come you don't remember?"
"Not sure," She shrugged. "I needed to get back to the Doctor. I opened the heart of the TARDIS…" She pointed to a panel on the console. "And… I don't remember the rest."
The Doctor turned to Martha. "I only pick the best to travel with me. This is just one trip to say thanks, then back home," Martha nodded, and he smiled. "Well, then. Close down the gravitic anomalizer! Fire up the helmic regulator. And finally – the handbrake. Ready?"
"Yes!" Rose held onto the console tightly.
"No," Martha replied simply, grinning.
"Off we go!" He pulled the handbrake. The TARDIS jolted, all three of them losing their balance and clinging to the console.
"Blimey, it's a bit bumpy!" Martha laughed.
"Welcome aboard, Miss Jones!" The Doctor shook her hand with a grin.
"It's my pleasure, Mr Smith!" The TARDIS hurtled through the swirling blue vortex, taking them to another wonderful adventure.