A/N: Dear lord, another really short chapter. The problem with Two-parters is the first episode a lot of time is really just set up for the second. So the second episode promises lots of action, but the first one really doesn't. Meaning rather short chapters.

But the next chapter will be a bit longer hooray!

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who.

Chapter 12: Albion Hospital

"Just do what I do: hold tight and pretend it's a plan." - The Doctor

"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control wide-spread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A State of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."

The three of them were inside Jackie's flat, staring at the TV intently. The Doctor studied the images, but looked like he rather be among the civil disturbances then watching them.

Rose looked more worried about the whole situation.

Amy stood behind the Doctor watching the TV. The media could be really useful sometimes. Willing to report on any rumors, true or not, if it will get them higher numbers.

"The police urge the public not to panic. There's a help line number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."

"It crashed in the Thames," Amy argued, even if the man on the screen couldn't hear her, "Not in the streets. They've already said nobody was even hurt."

The Doctor switched the channel to an American one.

"The Military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American sir space have been grounded."

Amy reached down and stole the remote, turning it back to News 24.

"The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. no one knows what they're going to find."

The Doctor leaned forward and flipped back to the American channel.

"Okay...what are you doing?" Amy glared at him, but he was to focused on the TV. The other channel had actual footage.

"The President will address the nation live from the White House. But the security General has asked that people watch the skies."

Amy switched the channel, ignoring the eyebrow raise from the Doctor. She wanted to know what was actually going on, not American speculation.

"I've got no choice!" Amy turned to see Jackie handing Rose a cup of tea, "Either I make them welcome, or I run the risk of never seeing you again!" There was another woman sitting at the table, someone she'd never met before. When had Jackie invited guests over?

Whoever it was she was yelling at Rose now, who looked a little aggravated and annoyed.

Amy tried ignored them, going back to the TV but found it harder to watch with all the angry yelling.

"Oi!" The Doctor turned his head to yell at them, "I'm trying to listen!

"...his current whereabouts. News is just coming in, we can go to tom at the embankments."

"Oh yeah, The Prime Minister went missing," Amy remembered, trying to recalled as much as she could about the situation "Never saw him again. Sad, seeing as how the next two Prime Ministers were kind of bonkers."

The Doctor shushed her, waving his hands as he looked at the telly. Amy made a small offended noise and leaned back, crossing her arms.

"It's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore."

The Doctor was watching with increased interest. Amy tried o read his face to see if this was an invasion or a crash, but she couldn't get anything from him.

So that meant he was trying to hide it.

Which probably meant it wasn't a normal crash.

Which meant vacation was over.

Even more people had entered the flat and the noise level had increased. Jackie was going on about some guy who had asked her out and the Doctor shook his head in disbelief. Rose looked extremely uncomfortable in the middle of the group.

"Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extra-terrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary. The whereabouts is yet unknown."

The channel switched a couple more times until it landed on Blue Peter. Amy turned to The Doctor questioningly only to find him wrestling the remote from a toddler who'd managed to find his way into his lap. The toddler giggled madly.

He grabbed the remote, quickly switching the channel back to News 24.

"We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital, but the roads closed off-it's the closest to the river."

"Go on!" The Doctor pointed as the Toddler who had been previously sitting on his lap stood in front of the TV. The Child grinned at him then ran off.

Amy smiled. Child seemed to gravitate to the Doctor like a moth to a flame.

"I'm being told that... General Asquith is now entering the hospital. The building's evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body. Contained inside those walls..."

Amy sighed. The noise had gotten so loud she could no longer hear the TV. The Doctor still stared at it probably still able to hear it with his Time Lord senses.

"Amy!" She turned to see Rose waving her over. Amy bit her lips nervously as Jackie glared at her. Against her better judgment Amy stood up and made her way through the crowd of people to stand beside the blond. "Okay mum, this is Amy Williams. She's a friend of mine."

Jackie glared at her, "A friend? Where from?! I've never met her before!"

"We met while she was...traveling." Amy said, before realizing that might not have been the best thing to say to the women who had slapped her.

"You friends with that man?" jackie nudged her head bitterly towards the Doctor who was still watching the Telly.

Amy kept the memory of the slap fresh in her mind as she answered, "Er...yes?"

"Are you...with him?" Jackie asked her hopefully. Amy's face furrowed up in confusion and distaste.

"What? No!" She cried, "I'm married. No." She forced a chuckle to confirm that the idea was ludicrous.

Jackie seemed a bit put out that Amy wasn't with the Doctor - probably because she assumed that Rose was...not that she was entirely wrong.

But the older women softened when Amy mentioned she was married.

"You got a man?" Jackie asked her gently. "What's his name?"

Amy bit the inside of her lip. She didn't like talking about it, but one look at Rose broke her. She was looking at the two of them with big hopeful eyes. Amy sighed and turned back to Jackie, "Rory, Rory Williams."

"Nice bloke?"

"The best." Amy whispered. "I'm gonna go outside for some fresh air if you don't mind." She didn't wait for them to answer, walking around to the back door.

It wasn't to cold out but Amy was glad she had grabbed a jacket. All around she could hear parties and drunken yelling.

She didn't like to talk about Rory. Partly because it hurt, and partly because she was worried someone would notice that he was still alive, living in Leadworth with another Amelia.

What a headache that would create.

She missed him. A lot. In all reality it had only been a few days since she'd seen him, but it felt like forever. It seemed like every time they finally settled something was thrown at them. Rory dying, Amy getting kidnapped...Rory dying again.

And now they were separated by time. But at least she was looking for him. She could only imagine what Rory was feeling. Stuck in some time, unable to do anything but sit and wait.

Oh how the tables had turned.

The soft opening off the door brought her attention to the door where the Doctor had emerged.

"Bit to domestic in there?" Amy remarked. He shot her an unhappy look. The door opened again, this time Rose came out.

"And where do you think you're going?" She demanded of him standing in the doorway with a Rose Tyler missing poster hanging above her head.

"Nowhere!" The Doctor denied, "It's just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top up cards for half price! I'm off on a wander, that's all."

Amy raised her eyebrow. That was a lie if she'd ever heard one. His whole demeanor reminded her of the year he stayed with them, and the invasion of the cubes. Unable to sit still for more than three seconds. To bad the Wii hadn't been invented yet. He loved that.

"Right - there's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just 'wandering'." Rose had picked up on his lie as well.

"Nothing to do with me!" He shrugged, "It's not an invasion! That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of decent, colour of smoke, everything! It's perfect!"

"So..."

"So maybe this is it! First contact! The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering because you've got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay. Now you can expand." He laughed. Rose just smiled at his enthusiasm. "You don't need me - go an celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum."

He started to walk away. Amy pushed off the building. No way he was getting away that easy.

"Promise you won't disappear?" Rose called after him, sounding genuinely concerned. The Doctor stopped and turned around, feeling in his jacket pockets.

"Tell you what - TARDIS key." He handed her a silver key on a chain, "About time you had one. See you later."

Amy couldn't help but notice he hadn't given her one. She wasn't surprised. He still didn't trust her so much - even if he did know where she was from. This doctor didn't come across as very trusting in general.

But Amy didn't argue - there was a spare key behind the 'P' anyways.

"You coming back in?" Rose asked her. Amy frowned, watching the Doctor walk away. Something wasn't adding up with him.

"No," Amy muttered, "I'm going to...wander."

And with that she ran after the Doctor.

She caught up with him quickly, and he turned to look at her in surprise.

"What are you doing?" He narrowed his eyes at her.

"Perfect crash, right?" She grinned, giving him a look.

"Right," he confirmed. Amy kept her disbelieving gaze on him. He sighed, clicking his tongue, "Little too perfect if you ask me."

"But you're not interfering," Amy teased, "We're on our own!"

"Exactly." He nodded. Then he tilted his head, "But..."

Amy interrupted him, "Too perfect, Right?"

He stopped walking, and turned to look at her, "What did you say earlier, about the Prime Ministers?"

Amy thought back, trying to remember what she had said, "You mean about him going missing?"

"No, no, the other thing."

Amy lip her lip nervously, "The next two went a bit bonkers."

"Right, so what ever happened to the current one?" He asked her. Amy paused for a moment. What had happened? She racked her brain. She remember he went missing and then...and then...

"Um...he died, I think." She couldn't remember. The drama with the two following seemed to drown out whatever had happened to this one. "I mean...he must have."

"I'm assuming now?" He inquired. Amy nodded in confirmation, "So aliens crash, government calls it a Hoax, yet there's a body, a spaceship in the Thames, and a dead Prime Minister."

Amy and him exchanged looks.

"So we go...check it out?" Amy guessed.

"Yes, that was the plan."

She laughed, linking her arm with his, "I knew it."

"Hey! Don't do that!" Amy reached to garb the rubber mallet from the Doctor's hand after he whacked the TARDIS severely with it. He had a look of childish excitement on his face.

"There we go," he announced as the TARDIS started to materialize. Amy wondered where exactly they were going as he hadn't said.

Once they had landed Amy went to exit but stopped. Their was way blocked by carts filled with boxes. Well a storage closet of some sort then. They inched their way out and the Doctor barely had enough room to close the TARDIS door

The Doctor immediately reached into his Jacket and pulled out his Screwdriver. He activated it only for it to buzz loudly.

"Shhh!" The Doctor hissed at the intimate object, which made Amy roll her eyes.

"Where are we?" She whispered under her breath.

"Albion Hospital." He whispered, "Shh."

She recognized the name. They mentioned it on the news as the place where they were bringing the aliens Body. Good place to start as any.

Walking over to the storage door and turned the Sonic on again, working to unlock it.

Finally he got it unlocked and he swung the Door open

Only for Him and Amy to find themselves face to face with a dozen armed soldiers.

There was an awkward couple of moments where they stared at the soldiers, and the soldiers stared back. Then with speed only intense training could accomplish each men grabbed his gun and aimed it at the pair.

Amy put her hands up immediately, but the doctor just stared at them unimpressed and a bit amused.

"Bit of bad luck," He muttered out of the side of his mouth.

Amy smiled bitterly, "Oh, really? I didn't notice."

But before anyone could react a scream burst through the air. Amy lowered her hands and looked over to wear it came from.

The Doctor took charge, running out the door yelling, "Defense part delta! Come on, move, move!"

He sounded so much like a solider then it gave Amy pause. But then again, he had just emerged from the Time War where he was very much a solider.

So she took and deep breath and ran after the group with guns. The soldiers had followed the Doctor's orders without question. They ran along the halls through several doors until they found themselves in a lab.

Behind a shelf a young Japanese Doctor was huddled up breathing heavily.

She caught up to them surrounding around the Doctor who was comforting a young Japanese Doctor cowering in the halls.

"It's alive!" The women gasped out.

"Spread out!." The Doctor ordered the men, "Tell the perimeter it's a lock down." He spotted Amy and motioned for her to come forward.

"My God," The Japanese women whispered. The Doctor ran over to her and grabbed her hands, trying to calm her down, "It's still alive."

"Do it!" The Doctor yelled to the men who finally got their wits about them and ran off.

"I swear it was dead." The women informed him. Upon closer inspection Amy could see blood at her hairline.

"Any idea what species?" Amy asked. The women looked startled, like Amy was asking her.

"Coma - shock - hibernation. And no," He looked at Amy, "We don't." He turned back to the Women, "What does it look like?"

A soft sound echoed behind them. Amy whipped around. It sounded like something behind knocked to the floor.

"It's still here." The Doctor whispered. He stood and walked over to the open door, beckoning a solider into the room.

The solider crouched near them, holding his gun steady. The Doctor crept towards the other side of the room where a desk hid interrupted their field of sight.

Another clang, and the women gripped her hand tighter.

The Doctor dropped to his knees, peering behind the desk.

"Hello!" The Doctor said cheerfully, probably trying not to scare whatever it was that he had found. Amy just hoped it wasn't dangerous.

Whatever it was squealed and ran. The Doctor stood up quickly as the alien ran from the other side of the desk. The Solider raised his gun and aimed at...a pig?

"Don't shoot!" The Doctor yelled. The Pig, wearing what looked to be a spacesuit, ran along into the corridor.

Amy frowned - if the pig alien was intelligent enough for space flight, then why was it still acting like a scared animal?

The Doctor ran after the alien - which was unarmed luckily. The Solider followed.

Amy wanted to run out after the pair, but the young women still had a death grip on her wrist. She patted the girls should comfortingly.

"You okay?" Amy asked her.

"Yeah. It's just...I'm new to all this." She gulped, "new recruit. Somehow got roped into this whole mess. That's the first alien I've seen, I'm Dr. Sato. Call me Tosh"

"Hello Tosh, I'm Amy." She didn't give her last name. She didn't trust them not to look her up after all this was over and that was a conversation that was best avoided. "You with U.N.I.T?"

"No," Tosh shook her head, "Torchwood."

"Ah," Amy nodded. She had no idea what the hell Torchwood was, but she felt it was best that she pretended she did. Last thing she needed was for Dr. Sato to find out she didn't have the proper clearance.

"Well, It's nice to meet you, Amy."

"It's not alien?" Amy asked the Doctor, confused. The 'alien' had been killed in the halls by one of the guards, and after they had brought it to the mortuary the Doctor had examined it.

I just assumed that's what alien's look like." Dr. Sato frowned, "But you're saying it's an ordinary pig? From Earth?"

"More like a mermaid. Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat and glueing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid. Now, someone's taken a pig, opened up its brain, stuck bits on...than they strapped it in that ship and made it dive bomb. It must've been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke."

"So its a fake." Tosh concluded, "A pretend. Like the Mermaid, but the technology augmenting it's brain..."

The Doctor tugged on Amy's coat and they both exited. Dr. Sato seemed oblivious to their exit and she continued her ramble.

They walked quickly down the halls and back into the room where the TARDIS was.

"The pig was fake," Amy spoke as the Doctor unlocked the door, "But that ship isn't from Earth."

"No, it isn't. Neither was the brain augmentation Like Dr. Sato said."

Amy nodded and they climbed into the TARDIS, "So the crash was a fake then."

Oh yes," he grinned cheerfully, moving to the consoles.

Amy frowned, another unpleasant thought coming to her head, "If they got the pig from Earth, doesn't that mean they were already here?"

"Exactly!" The Doctor cheered. "Time to pick up Rose!"

A/N: Hurrah! Another Chapter! And adding hints in a bit early over whats to come. I am planning on doing series 2 and 3 (maybe 4) as well in this, so I thought a bit of foreshadowing was in order for both.

Bit of happy news for me, The Comic Expo is next weekend. I am beyond excited (even though Tom Felton is no longer going boo!).

Now my first exam is next Tuesday, and then I have 5 exams before the end of the month, plus the comic expo, plus I have to pack up and move out of my dorm. All in all, it's gonna be a busy two weeks. I'll try to update - but don't expect anything special.

On a completely separate note, I noticed something recently and I'd like your opinions on it. So I'm re watching all the New Who in preparation of the 50th Anniversary, and I recently re watched the third series episode 42. Now, does anybody think that the 'Living Sun' in 42 might be related to the 'Parasite God' in Rings of Akhaten? Like, maybe they're the same species or something?

Also - they released the name of the series 7 finale. 'The Name of the Doctor". Don't know what to think about that, but I'm still excited!

Enough rambling from me. Any comments, concerns, opinions or Rambles please review!

Until Next time

-Ash