ALIENS OF LONDON - Part One

The Doctor rushed around the central control of the TARDIS, pressing buttons. He glanced to where Jazmine was sat, deep in thought. With a small sigh, he landed the TARDIS.

"Are we there?" Jazmine asked, getting up from the seat. The Doctor nodded, leading her out of the TARDIS.

"Yep, we are." Jazmine smiled, walking around before turning back to the Doctor.

"So, how long have I been gone?" The Doctor let out a puff of breath.

"About twelve hours." He paused, looking around before back at Jazmine with a small smirk. "Give of take." Jazmine giggled.

"OK. I won't be long, I promise." She looked up towards the flats. "Just want to see Rose and Jackie." The Doctor nodded.

"What're you going to tell them?" Jazmine shrugged, smirking.

"I don't know. I've been to the year 5 billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours?" They both laughed, "No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Rachel's. See you later." Jazmine went to walk off, but paused before looking back at the Doctor. "Oi, don't go wandering. And, please, try not to break anything." The Doctor gave her a feigned look of shock before watching her leave.

Jazmine rushed up the stairs, stopping off in her flat to quickly make sure she looked decent. When she entered her flat, she noticed it seemed odd. There was a tape on the wall, that had been washed out so it was just white, and had been ripped off. The flat itself looked as if someone had been looking through it for something. Confused, she left her flat and walked towards the Tyler's.

"I'm back! I was with Rachel, her boyfriend was being a dick again and she wanted some company. Jackie? Are you in? Rose?" Jazmine couldn't hear anything, but soon enough Jackie appeared in the doorway, looking really shocked. "So, what's been going on? How've you been? Do you know if anyone's been in my flat? Jackie?" She noticed Jackie looking at her as if she weren't real. "What? What's that face for?"

Jackie dropped her mug onto the floor, the mug smashing instantaneously.

"It's you. It's really you." Jazmine looked at her, concerned.

"Of course it's me. Why wouldn't it be me?" Jackie gasped, tears flooding in her eyes. "Jackie?"

"Oh, my God. It's you. Oh my God." Jackie rushed to Jazmine, grasping her into a hug. Jazmine, miffed, hugged Jackie back tightly. While doing this, she noticed pile upon pile of posters and papers on the table. They were advertising a missing person. As she noticed, the Doctor ran in.

"It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry."

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Half an hour later, Jackie, Jazmine, the Doctor and a police man were sitting in the Tyler's living room. The Doctor was astonished that Jackie had actually phoned the police, while Jackie was fuming over why Jazmine seemed reluctant to tell her what had happened, where she had been.

"The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, me and Rose. We thought you were dead, and where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean, travelling? That's no sort of answer. You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says. Travelling." Jazmine sighed, wrapping her arms around herself.

"That's what I was doing. Honestly." Jackie scoffed.

"When your passport's still in the drawer? It's just one lie after another." Jazmine sat up.

"How'd you know I didn't have my passport?" She asked. Jackie sighed while the policeman butted in.

"We had a warrant to search you flat for evidence when you first went missing. We found your passport." Jazmine sighed. At least that sorts out one problem.

"I meant to phone. I really, really did. I just, I didn't have time." Jackie scoffed again, shaking her head at Jazmine.

"What, for a year? You 'didn't have time' for a year? And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?" Jackie was now sitting on the arm of the chair Jazmine was sat in, tears in her eyes while she held onto Jazmine's hand. The Doctor, feeling a bit guilty.

"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Jazmine as my companion." The Policeman turned to him, a serious expression on his face.

"When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" The Doctor looked shocked at the question.

"No!" Jazmine and the Doctor spoke simultaneously, and answered far to quickly for Jackie's liking.

"Then what is it? Because you, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth! How old are you then? Forty? Forty five? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" Jazmine sighed, shaking her head. There is no stopping Jackie when she's angry.

"I am a Doctor." The Doctor defended himself, while Jackie scoffed.

"Prove it. Stitch this, mate!" Jackie moved, hitting the Doctor across the face, hard. Jazmine was shocked, jumping up. She didn't shout at Jackie or anything, she just sent the Doctor to the bathroom to make sure he wasn't seriously hurt.

Later, in the kitchen, Jackie had grabbed Jazmine into a hug and seemed to not want to let go.

"Did you think about me at all? Did you think of Rose?" Jazmine hugged her tighter.

"I did. Of course I did. All the time, but-" Jackie pulled away, tears running down her face.

"One phone call. Just to know that you were alive. Jaz, darling, you're like my daughter and you went missing!" Jazmine sighed, looking at Jackie sadly.

"I'm sorry. I really am." Jackie looked at her sadly. She looked almost heartbroken.

"Do you know, what terrifies me is that you still can't say. What happened to you, Jaz? What can be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?" Jazmine sighed.

"Where is Rose?" She questioned, changing the subject. She knew she wouldn't be able to convince Jackie that she was, in fact, travelling. Just not your everyday travelling. Jackie sighed.

"At work, love. She got a new job, by the way. In a little shop just on the high street. Her boss, a lovely man, he really does like her." Jazmine smiled, happy that Rose got a job and possibly a real live like she always wanted.

After chatting to Jackie for a while longer, Jazmine and the Doctor went up onto the roof of the Powell Estate to talk. Where Jackie couldn't overhear.

"I can't tell her. I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me." Jazmine scoffed, "Hell, she'd never believe me in the first place. And I missed a year. Was it good?" The Doctor made a face, shrugging.

"Middling." Jazmine smiled fondly, shaking her head.

"You're so useless." The Doctor spared her another smile before looking out over the Powell Estate.

"If it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now?" Jazmine looked at him sadly, shrugging.

"I don't know. I can't do that to her again, though." She sighed lightly, "I know Jackie isn't my mother or nothing, but she's the closest I've had. I know Jackie really cares, you know?" The Doctor stared at her before he scowled,

"Well, she's not coming with us." Jazmine laughed lightly, shaking her head.

"No chance." She grinned lightly at the thought. "I doubt she'd want to, either."

"I don't do families." He visibly shuddered at the thought. Jazmine giggled, playing with her trousers.

"She slapped you!" She laughed, shaking her head. "I can't believe- Well, yeah I can." The Doctor rubbed his race.

"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's sort-of foster mother." The Doctor winced.

"Your face!" Jazmine giggled, earning a glare from the Doctor.

"It hurt!" Jazmine giggled.

"You're so gay." She paused, looking at him. "When you say nine hundred years..?" The Doctor nodded.

"That's my age." Jazmine looked at him doubtfully.

"You're nine hundred years old." The Doctor nodded.

"Yeah." Jazmine whistled lowly.

"Jackie was right. That is one hell of an age gap." Jazmine muttered, before looking at him. "Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist."

Suddenly, a deep horn and a spaceship, trailing black smoke passed overhead, heading towards the city. It barely missed the Tower Bridge, before weaving around St Paul's. With a nasty back-fire and a splutter, it dove for the Thames, taking out the Clock Tower. Big Ben chimed once as the spaceship crashed into the river. The duo on the roof watched as a plume of lack smoke rose into the air on the horizon, slightly above the Thames.

"Oh, that's just unfair." Jazmine moaned, shaking her head.

I know, this is really short and it's been a while but I've been doing work for school and stuff. I'm sorry, and hope you enjoy this. I'm hoping, depending on whether I get homework tomorrow or not, to get part two and possibly part three up this weekend. Bleh, thank God it's Friday tomorrow.

- Seren12