-Chapter 11-

Rose shifted and blinked a few times before really opening her eyes. It was the first day she hadn't forgotten where she was. The TARDIS. Well more specifically the Doctor's room. She sat up and pulled the duvet up over herself.

"Morning." the Doctor said, she didn't need to see him to know the grin he had on. She smiled and turned back to him. The Doctor couldn't help the massive grin that didn't seem to want to get off his face quite yet. Rose sat right in front of him . Really that was a bit too far.

"Mornin'." Suddenly he pulled her back down without warning. She yelped a bit out of shock but grinned. "What was that for?"

He just stared at her with that same look that still sent a shiver down her spine. "You're beautiful, did you know that?"

She laughed. "So are you." she said and snuggled closer to him. He wrapped an arm around her and shrugged.

"Well yes, I suppose so. Little foxy?" he said wiggling his eyebrows.

Rose laughed again. "Oh a lot foxy." she said and kissed his jaw. "You still remember that?"

"Course I do! But I must say, kissing you when you're actually, well you, is so much better."

"Oh really?" she teased poking her tongue out. He chuckled and brought his lips down onto hers just to prove it her, not that she needed the reminder really.

"You do know that you are mine now? Completely."

"Was I ever not?" Rose asked raising an eyebrow.

"Weell, I had to share a bit before, but I don't think I'll be doing that anymore."

"You didn't have to, silly. And this also means you are mine too. Mine." she repeated and looked at him very seriously. He grinned.

"Oh that goes without saying Rose. I believe I was yours from the very moment you stepped foot in the TARDIS."

She brushed a piece of hair off his forehead and smiled. "Oh."

"Oh?" he asked, now not sure what she meant by that.

"Nah, it's nothing." she said.

He shifted and held her chin. "Nothing you have to say is nothing. Rose, tell me."

"It's just...I love you. And waking up like this...well this is just a really great way to wake up." what she didn't say was that she always wanted to wake up this way. And always go to bed the way they had. Even if they didn't actually get much actual sleep.

He smiled. "It is isn't it? Well, you could always, I mean if you wanted to of course, you don't have to I won't force you to or beg and-"

"Doctor." she said stopping his babble. "Just say it."

He was trying to, really he was and he should have a while ago but there were things in the way. Weeell now there weren't but there was still the possibility of Rose saying…no. But he couldn't not ask. Not when she was lying there right in front of him the way she was. "You could always just...always sleep here. Move in so to speak. Permanently. If you wanted." he said a bit nervously. She beamed at him and pulled him closer so she could kiss him. When he broke it they were both at a loss for air again, even with his respiratory bypass system. "Is...that a yes then?" he asked.

Rose laughed. "Yes, course it is."

He grinned and kissed her again. "Then I could get used to waking up like this. Every morning." he said a bit huskily.

"Don't forget every night." she said cheekily.

He laughed. "Oh I don't think that's possible. Possibly ever afternoon." he said winking and kissed the dip in her neck.

"Oh I don't think Donna would appreciate that. And something tells me she would be quite opinionated on that subject." he shrugged but kept kissing her. "You do know it's quite hard to carry a conversation when you do that."

"So?" he mumbled. She laughed slightly and caught his lips up with her own. He grinned into her knowing he had definitely won that one.

"By the way, why does Donna get a say in the matter? She absolutely won't be involved." the Doctor said and Rose laughed.

"Of course not! But I don't think it would be very nice for her to have us run off in the middle of...well running off probably."

"Not for her but for you?" he asked wiggling his eyebrows.

"Oh very, very, very nice, but that's not the point."

"I believe I could change your mind on that." he said in a lower voice.

"Ohh, no doubts about that."

He grinned. "And she doesn't have to know, not like I'll be singing it all over town. Weell can't make too many promises on that one actually." he said smirking.

"Donna will know whether or not we actually tell her."

"How?" he asked honestly a bit confused.

Rose rolled her eyes but she was still smiling so it didn't have the same effect. "Of course she's going to know, women always know. Well women and Jack I guess."

"She can't possibly know without one of us telling her."

"Oh really? Care to wager that?"

"Five?"

"Ten. And I'm going to win." she said poking her tongue out. He grinned and laughed.

"Oh I wouldn't wager that one Rose." he said before rolling her over and kissing her again, thoroughly.


The Doctor walked out of his bedroom, no now it was their bedroom. He grinned to himself; this was going to be a fantastic change. Rose had gone to take a shower, well really her second one because he took one with her first and then she made him leave the second time so she could actually get clean. He would certainly get used to showers instead of just sonic'ing if those showers involved Rose.

"Why are you so smug this early?" Donna asked walking out of her room as he passed it.

"Oh, no reason." he said stuffing his hands in his pockets. He was definitely going to win this bet, there was no way that Donna could just know.

Donna raised her eyebrow at him. "Liar. It's something; you never grin like that when Rose isn't around..."

"Sure I do." he said shrugging. But she caught the way his voice got just slightly higher. She gasped and covered her grin.

"Oh you did didn't you! Oh, I knew it was going to happen eventually. I thought Rose would make you wait a bit longer but honestly I'm surprised you even lasted this long." she said shaking her head and grinning.

"Wha...wha-what does that mean?"

"Oh don't bother Spaceman, I'm not blind!" she laughed. "As long as we still actually leave the TARDIS, don't forget I'm still here too!" she said walking away still laughing to herself a bit. What Rose saw in him she'd never know.

The Doctor stood frozen with his mouth hanging open. How did she...she knew. She knew just by looking! That meant Rose was right...

"What's that face for?" Rose asked as she came out and saw him just standing there with his mouth open.

"N-no reason." He said and stuffed his hands back in his pockets.

"What did you...did you talk to Donna?" she asked smirking.

"No! …Well yes."

"So, was I right?" he didn't say anything and she laughed. "That's twenty now."

"Twenty?"

"I won last time too." she said poking her tongue out and walked down the hall too.


They all sat at the table in the kitchen and Rose and Donna were whispering while the Doctor read the label on Rose's cereal.

"Oh come off it, you weren't going to say a thing!" Donna said grinning.

"I…I would have! I would! Just…I dunno…"

"Ohh, so was it bad? Was it like…scary bad? Oh! Did he not have a-"

"Doctor, I think Donna should learn to pilot the TARDIS." Rose said suddenly, cutting Donna off.

"What, you mean you can actually do that?" Donna asked. She knew what Rose did that for, but she let it slide for the moment. Later she would definitely make Rose spill.

"Well technically yes, it's possible." the Doctor said.

"I think she's earned it." Rose said.

"Hmm..." the Doctor said teasing, he had intended on teaching her a few things soon anyway.

"Oh can I?" Donna asked smiling hopefully.

The Doctor grinned. "Why not? Let's go teach you to fly the TARDIS!"


"I can't believe I'm doing this!" Donna said grinning as she pulled a lever down gently.

"No, neither can I." the Doctor said, looking a bit worried.

"What he means is you're doing great." Rose said nudging him and he rolled his eyes but nodded.

"Course you are. Oh careful!" he said and nudged her aside to whack the console with a mallet.

"Is that really necessary?" Rose asked trying to hold back a laugh.

"Yes!" the Doctor said slightly offended. He moved back to look at the monitor and let Donna back at the controls. "Left hand down, left hand down!"

Donna listened but when she tried the whole TARDIS lurched to the side knocking Rose into the Doctor. "Sorry." she said doing her best not to laugh so she wouldn't offend Donna. The Doctor looked now very worried and moved back over to Donna.

"Getting a bit too close to the 1980's!" he said behind her. He had to stuff his hands in his pockets to keep from jumping at the controls to pilot it properly.

"What am I going to do, put a dent in them?"

"Someone did." he muttered.

"Oi, my mum loved the eighties!" Rose said grinning.

"Case in point." he said and she hit his arm but he only grinned.

Suddenly a ring echoed through the room. Donna looked around for some button or whatever could have made the noise, but them she realized. "Hold on, that's a phone!"

The Doctor ran around the console and picked up a mobile phone. He looked at it, slightly concerned. That was only how he looked. Inside he was very concerned. That phone in particular should not be ringing. Not if something good had happened.

"Since when do you have a phone?" Donna asked confused again.

"Not mine."

"Wait is it the same phone I'm thinking of?" Rose asked, not sure if she should be happy or worried but she was a mix of both anyway.

"Yep it is. Hello?" he said answering it. He sat down on the captain's chair.

"Doctor? It's Martha, I'm bringing you back to Earth!" Martha said happily.

The Doctor couldn't help but smile a bit; still he knew something had to have gone wrong for her to call.

"Oh. Alright. Which year by the way?"

"Just a few months after. Is Rose there?"

"Um yes but we can be there sooner than you can say hello, for you. Won't be a moment!" he said and hung up.

"What did she want?" Rose asked.

"Oh we're taking a bit of a detour. Twenty first century."

"My time?" Donna asked.

"Exactly."

"Alright, I can forgive you for hanging up before I got to speak to her then." Rose said raising an eyebrow at him.

He grinned. "Good." he said and took control of the TARDIS.


The TARDIS landed right in from if Martha. The Doctor stepped out forts and grinned at her. She beamed. "Martha Jones." he said happily.

"Doctor." she said before they both walked up and hugged each other.

"You haven't changed a bit!" he said still with that silly grin on his face.

"Neither have you! Well different suit but not much else. Where's Rose?" she asked.

"I'm here!" Rose said smiling and ran up to hug Martha, followed by Donna but she stood back a bit. Both the girls laughed. "Oh I missed you!"

"I missed you too, Rose! It's been so long."

"It has! I like the new black." Rose said grinning slyly.

Martha laughed. "Yeah bit of a change. Goes well with my work though."

"How's the family?" the Doctor asked.

"You know, not so bad. Recovering still."

"What about you?" Rose asked.

Martha noticed Donna then. "Right. Should have known. Didn't take too long for you to replace me then."

"Now don't start fighting. Martha, Donna. Donna, Martha. Please don't fight, can't bear fighting." the Doctor said.

Rose rolled her eyes and Donna scoffed. "You wish." she said and walked up to shake Martha's hand. "I've heard all about you. They talk about you all the time."

"I dread to think."

"No no no, he says nice things. Good things. Nice things. Really...good things." Donna said not sure how well that all came out.

"Oh my god he's told you everything."

"Didn't take you long to get over it though." Donna noticed.

"Who's the lucky man?" Rose asked eager to find out.

"What man? Lucky what?" the Doctor said taken back. When had Donna seen a man?

"She's engaged you prawn." Donna said rolling her eyes. Martha laughed and waved her left hand.

"Really to who?" the Doctor said a little shocked, it hadn't been that long, and she hadn't mentioned a man before

"Tom. That Tom Milligan. He's in pediatrics. Working out in Africa now. And yes I know, I've got a doctor who disappears off to distant places. Tell me about it."

Rose beamed and hugged her. "Oh I knew you'd find him again! He was so perfect for you. Really nice bloke. I'm so happy for you!"

Martha smiled. "Thanks, I wish you coulda met him, well meet again really, but he wouldn't know of course."

"Is he skinny?" Donna asked.

"No he's sort of...strong."

"HE is too skinny for words. You give him a hug you get a paper cut." Donna said gesturing to the Doctor. Martha laughed and Rose smiled.

"Oh I'd rather if you were fighting." he said. Rose laughed.

"He's always like this, when I met Sarah Jane he was the exact same."

"Speaking of which..." Martha started but she was interrupted by a call on her walkie talkie. "This is Dr. Jones. Operation Blue Sky is go go go. I repeat, this is a go!"

"Where are we going?" Rose asked.

"My job. Follow me."


"Leave your safeties on Lads, it's non hostiles." a soldier shouted from somewhere. They were on some kind of military base, or at least that's what it looked like. Cars and trucks were coming in and out of the base. It reminded her of Torchwood. When they had

"All workers lay down your tools and surrender." came a voice on the loudspeaker. So not a base, Rose thought.

"Greyhound Six to Trap One. B section. Go go go! Search the ground floor grid pattern delta." Martha said.

"What are you searching for?" the Doctor asked calmly. This wasn't Martha. Not the one he knew.

"Illegal aliens." she replied not really focused on his expression.

"This is UNIT operation, all workers lay down your tools and surrender." the loudspeaker said again.

"B section mobilized! E section, F section, on my command!" Martha shouted and ran off to command the men while they took workers.

"Is that what you did to her? Turned her into a soldier?" Donna asked.

The Doctor didn't answer her. He didn't like this. Not at all.

Martha came running back and smiled at them. Rose smiled back but she could tell te Doctor didn't like this operation. Neither did she all that much, but if Martha was working here that couldn't be all that bad.

"And you're qualified now? You're a proper doctor."

"UNIT rushed it given my experience in the field. Here we go." she said leading them to a building.

"What are you doing here?" Rose asked.

"Were establishing a field base on site. They're dying to meet you."

"Wish I could say the same." the Doctor mumbled.

They walked into a long building serving as a mobile base. Rose had seen things like this at Torchwood way back before things went wrong. With this many people here there had to be a reason. Not as nice of one as just setting up a base.

"Operation Blue Sky complete sir, thanks for letting me take the lead. And this is the Doctor. Doctor, Colonel Mace."

"Sir!" the colonel saluted.

"Oh don't salute." the Doctor said, earning him an elbow from Rose.

"Well is an honor sir. I've read all the files on you. And well technically speaking you're still on staff. You never resigned."

"You worked for them?" Donna asked.

"Yeah long time ago back in the seventies, or was it the eighties? But it was all a bit more homespun back then."

"Times have changed sir."

"Yeah that's enough of the sir." the Doctor said.

"Come on now Doctor, you've seen it. You've been on board the valiant. We've got massive funding from the UN. All in the name of home world security." Martha said.

"A modern UNIT for the modern world." Mace said.

"What and that means arresting factory workers? In the streets, in broad daylight? It's more like Guantanamo Bay out there. Donna by the way, Donna Noble. Since you didn't ask. I'll have a salute."

"Ma'am." Mace said and saluted her. She nodded.

"Thank you."

"I'm Rose Tyler by the way."

"Yes, Torchwood. Dr. Jones has informed me. Ma'am." he said and saluted her too.

"Ex-Torchwood actually but yeah."

"Tell me what's going on in the Factory?" the Doctor asked.

"Yesterday 52 people died in identical circumstances right across the world in different time zones. 5am in the UK. 6am in France, 8am in Moscow, 1pm in China."

"You mean they died simultaneously?" the Doctor asked.

"Exactly. 52 deaths. Exact same moment worldwide."

"How did they die?" Rose asked.

"They were all inside their cars."

"So what, crashes?" Donna asked.

"No they were poisoned. I checked the biopsies. No toxins. Whatever it is it left their systems immediately."

"Terrorist attack?" Rose asked.

"That's what we thought but there isn't anything that could leave their systems that quickly with no trace."

"What have the cars got in common?" the Doctor asked.

"All different makes. They're all fitted with ATMOS. And that is the ATMOS factory." Martha said.

"What's ATMOS?" Rose asked.

"Oh come on even I know that! Everyone's got ATMOS." Donna said as they walked down a corridor leading to the main factory area.

"Atmospheric Omission System. Fit ATMOS into your car it reduces the CO2 emissions to zero."

"Zero? No carbon at all?" the Doctor asked shocked they were able to do that now.

"Oh yes. Sat-Nav and 20 quid in shopping vouchers if you introduce a friend. Bargain!" Donna said.

"And you think ATMOS is alien?" Rose asked.

"It's our job to investigate. Doctor?" Mace led them through the does and into an office. "Here it is laid bare; ATMOS can be threaded into any and every make of car."

"You must have checked before it went on sale." the Doctor said examining it.

"We did, we found nothing. That's why I thought we needed an expert." Martha said.

"Really? Who'd you get?" the Doctor asked. All of them just looked at him and Rise raised an eyebrow. "Oh right! Me! Yes! Good."

"Ok so why would aliens be so keen on cleaning up our atmosphere?" Rose asked.

"Very good question."

"Maybe they want to help. Get rid of pollution." Donna suggested.

"That would be nice but then again think about how many cars now have it. Almost everyone has it right?" Rose said.

"Exactly. Do you know how many cars are out there now? 800 million. Imagine that. Of you could control them you'd have 800 million hidden weapons."

"And no one would know. And if they're not getting anything from it then it's just for conquest. And that makes it more difficult." Rose said sighing.

"Why?" Donna asked.

"Because that means it's less likely we can even attempt to reason with them if they just want to take the Earth over." Martha said.

"It'll be a war." Mace said.

"Who said anything about war? We don't even know who it is doing this. For all we know it could be a mistake. Of course it's never that easy, is it. Still. No wars." the Doctor said firmly and he went back to examining it.


Martha looked over to Rose. Rose didn't have a ring, and she hadn't expected her to have one really but she thought they'd act a bit differently. Now it seemed like a business-as-usual attitude with him. Course the way they acted before, sticking close and almost gravitating towards each other told her differently.

Rose noticed Martha looking over at her and she smiled. She wanted to hear absolutely everything about what had gone in with Tom and how she had found him. But now there was an alien invasion and it really wasn't the time.

"Ionising nano membrane carbon dioxide converter. Which means that ATMOS works. Filters CO2 at a molecular level."

"Sometimes it seems like you just take random words and string them together." Rose teased. He gave her a disapproving look but his eyes have away that he wasn't actually annoyed.

"We know that, but what's its origin? Is it alien?" Mace asked.

"No. Decades ahead of its time." the Doctor said and Mace looked closer at the machine. "Look d'you mind standing back a bit?"

"Sorry have I done something wrong?" Mace asked confused.

"You're carrying a gun. I don't like people with guns hanging around me alright?"

"If you insist." Mace said walking away offended.

"Doctor." Rose chastised crossing her arms over her chest.

"What?"

"Tetchy." Martha said.

"Well it's true!"

"He's a good man!" Martha defended.

"People with guns are usually the enemy in my book. You seem quite at home."

"I carried a gun much longer than he has! Does that make me an enemy?" Rose asked.

"No! You had it for...good reasons. And you don't anymore!"

"Yeah but he has good reasons too I'm sure. Protecting and defending Earth. That's what I did. So you're saying I'm an enemy."

"Of course you're not an enemy!" the Doctor said getting annoyed.

"So I get a pass then?" Rose said refusing to back down on this.

"Yes!"

"Well I don't deserve one of he doesn't get one. And why the comment about Martha? She doesn't even have a gun!"

"If anyone got me used to fight it's you Doctor." Martha added.

"Oh right so it's my fault."

"Well you got me the job. It's alright for you, you just come and go. But some of us have to stay behind. So I've got to work from the inside and by staying inside maybe I stand a chance at making them better."

"Yeah?" he smiled. "That's more like the Martha Jones I know."

"I learned from the best."

"Well..." the Doctor said looking slightly smug.

"I didn't mean you, I meant Rose." Martha said grinning. The Doctors face fell slightly and Rose smirked.

"Oi you lot! All your troopers and your sonics. You've been rubbish! Should've come with me." Donna said walking back in.

"Where have you been?" the Doctor asked. Donna noticed Rose and Martha looking a bit more smug than him and she grinned.

"Been put in your place have you? Good. Anyway I've been at personnel. That's where the weird stuffs at, in the paperwork. Cos I spent years working as a temp, I can find my way around an office blindfold. First thing I noticed was an empty file."

"Why what's inside it? Or not inside it?" the Doctor asked.

"Sick days. There aren't any. Hundreds of people working and no one's sick. Not one hangover, man flu, sleazy little shopping trip, nothing. Not ever! They don't get ill."

"That can't be right." Mace said walking back in too.

"You've been checking out the building, shoulda been checking out the workforce."

"I can see why they like you." Martha said grinning. Donna smirked. "You are good."

"Super Temp!" Donna said and Rose laughed.