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Author's Note: So here's the first part of the Boom Town episode! Decided to make this a two part episode just because I feel like it, hope that's alright. Oh and just to let you know, the beginning part of this is in third person but it will go back to first person just to let you know. So we are almost at the season one finale! Who's excited?! I know I am! Hehe. Anyway, please leave reviews and tell me what you think! :D
A huge thanks to DreamonAlina, grapejuice101, Ann4ever17, ShadowTeir, Angel of Randomosity, and Hellosweetie4737 for the great reviews! :D
Charlene's outfit for this episode is on my polyvore:)
Third person POV...
"Are you sure this is where we're supposed to go?" Mickey Smith asked his girlfriend, who sat beside him on the train.
"Yeah." Rose glanced at the text message her sister sent her. "It said to meet her at the Millennium Centre Square in Cardiff."
He sighed, leaning back against his seat. "Do you think Charlene will ever stay?" he asked after a moment of silence.
"I don't know," Rose answered quietly, looking out the train window. "She loves traveling with the Doctor…she may never come back."
"You could ask her to come home, babe," he told his girlfriend, leaning forward to grab her hand but she pulled it back without even looking away from the window.
He held back a frown. Rose had been really distant with him lately, mostly just because she was so worried about her sister. He couldn't blame her for being worried. He was worried about her too. Charlene was like his little sister and he didn't want anything to happen to her. But it could, considering the life the Doctor led. But though he knew Rose could ask her sister to come back and stay, Charlene wouldn't. That girl could be so stubborn when she wanted to be and she couldn't leave the doctor. He had no one and Charlene wanted to be that one person to stay with him through thick and thin. And it didn't help that she had feelings for the Doctor but she wouldn't admit at least that's what Rose told him. Mickey broke out of his thoughts at the sound of Rose's voice.
"Your right, I could, but I couldn't do that to her," she said. "It wouldn't be fair."
He nodded and he opened her mouth to say more but was interrupted by the loudspeaker sounding in the train. Rose was the first one out of her seat, grabbing his hand as she did. She led him out of the train and they stepped off together. Rose looked over at the sign to make sure they were at the right place.
"Yeah, this is it," she said after reading the words, 'Caerdydd Canolog – Cardiff Central. "We shouldn't keep them waiting; you know impatient my sister can get."
Mickey laughed, nodding his head in agreement as they began to walk across Millennium Centre Square. The TARDIS wasn't that hard to find. It was a 1960s police box, who wouldn't notice it? As soon as they got to the TARDIS doors, Rose let go of Mickey's hand to knock on the door. In seconds, the door swung open revealing a very handsome man. Rose couldn't help but blush at the sight of him. Something Mickey noticed and he frowned. The man spoke without hesitation.
"Who the hell are you?" he asked.
"What'd you mean, who the hell am I? Who the hell are you?" Mickey asked rudely.
"Mickey," Rose warned, putting a hand on his shoulder. He gave the man a glare but didn't say any more and she looked at the man. "Um, hello. I'm Rose Tyler; I'm looking for my sister."
"Oh!" The man's face brightened. "So your Rose." A flirty smile came on his lips as he leaned towards her. "Charlene didn't mention how pretty you were."
"Oi! Jack Harkness, that's my sister, you're flirting with!" Charlene's voice came and Rose grinned. "Haven't you heard never to flirt with your friend's sisters?"
"No I don't think I have," the man or now known as Jack Harkness called back with a grin.
"Then you need to get ahead in the times 51st Century boy!"
"Char!" Rose cried as she pushed Jack out of the way to run into the TARDIS where she saw her sister leaning against the console with Megan beside her.
Charlene grinned as her sister appeared. "Rosie!" she cried back and they met each other half way throwing their arms around each other in a hug.
Mickey stepped into the TARDIS, giving one last glare to Jack as he closed the TARDIS doors.
"Don't tell me, this is Mickey," Jack commented, crossing his arms as he leaned against the closed TARDIS doors.
"Here comes trouble!" The Doctor exclaimed cheerfully to Mickey as Charlene and Rose broke the hug. He was way up in the gantries, standing on a ladder. It was obvious that he was carrying out maintenance work on the TARDIS. He had a red flashing light strapped to his head and he looked extremely dorky.
Charlene smirked to herself as she remembered how Megan teased him for wearing that thing on his head. She and her were both laughing it up. It reminded her of the scene with Rose and Sarah Jane in the School Reunion. This of course getting a annoyed eye roll from the Doctor and a amused look from Jack.
"How are you doing, Ricky boy?" The Doctor asked still cheerfully, snapping Charlene out of her thoughts.
"It's Mickey!" he called back annoyed.
"Don't listen to him," Charlene told him. "He's just trying to annoy you." She grinned. "And you have to admit you are fun to annoy."
Mickey laughed sarcastically. "Haha you think you're funny, don't you?"
"Yep!" She chirped.
Then he gave her a soft smile. "You look fantastic Char." And she really did. She looked really happy, her eyes gleaming and she seemed right at home standing in the TARDIS. Like she was meant to be there and she probably was.
"Aw, thanks! You look great too!" Charlene spread her arms out, grinning. "Now give me a hug!"
Mickey laughed and hugged her tightly.
"Awww, sweet, look at those two," Jack said as they broke the hug. He pouted, looking up at the Doctor. "How come I never get any of that?"
"Buy me a drink first," he said in response.
Jack rolled his eyes at him, shaking his head. "You're such hard work."
"But worth it." The Doctor grinned in an extremely self-satisfied sort of way.
"Look what you did Jack, you gave him a even bigger head," Charlene scolded, but she had a grin on her face as she went over to him and smacked him on the shoulder, earning a 'ow' from him. "You can't do that. If it gets any bigger, his head might explode."
"She's right Jack," Megan spoke up, nodding her head in agreement. "But then again, if his head gets big than his ears would fit his head perfectly."
"Oi!" The Doctor rolled his eyes and Charlene giggled.
Rose and Mickey watched this going on amused.
"Did you manage to find it?" Charlene asked, looking over at her sister.
She nodded and pulled out the passport that her sister had called them to get. "There you go."
Charlene took her passport out of Rose's and she looked at the Doctor, grinning as she brandished the passport towards him. "I can go anywhere now!"
"I told you – you don't need a passport!"
"Uh yes I do. Sure it's all very well going to Platform one and the Glass Pyramid of San Kloon…"
"Oooh that was a fun trip!" Megan said with a grin.
Charlene grinned back and nodded in agreement before going back to what she was saying. "But what if we end up in Brazil or better yet Italy? I might need it." She smiled smugly. "So you see I'm very prepared for anything that gets thrown my way!" She crossed her arms in a 'so there', sticking her tongue at the Doctor playfully.
Though she knew that her sister wouldn't be staying here, Rose couldn't help but feel disappointed. "Sounds like your staying, then," she said and Charlene looked at her as a awkward silence filled the air.
Mickey smiled, attempting to lighten the atmosphere again. "So what are you doing in Cardiff?" He nodded towards Jack. "And who the hell's Jumping Jack Flash? I mean, I don't mind Charlene, who I think of like my little sister, hanging out with big-ears-up-there—"
"Aw you do care!" Charlene beamed at him as the Doctor cried out, clearly insulted,
"Oi!"
"Look in the mirror," he told the Doctor. He shook his head and turned back to his work and Mickey continued, "But this guy, I dunno, he's kind…"
"Handsome?" Jack supplied with a smirk.
Mickey rolled his eyes. "More like cheesy."
"Early 21st Century slang – is cheesy good or bad?"
"It's bad," Both Mickey and Megan said at the same time.
Jack raised a eyebrow. "But bad means good, isn't that right?"
The Doctor totted down the ladder. "Are you saying I'm not handsome?"
Everyone ignored him but Megan didn't.
"No, you are handsome," she said. "But Jack is a different kind of handsome. He's the obvious sort of handsome while you are a more not obvious sort of handsome."
The Doctor grinned at her. "Thank—"But then he frowned. "Is that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?"
"Eh, a little bit of both," she answered with a shrug.
"We just stopped off," Charlene replied to Mickey's question, shrugging her shoulders. "That's all and we needed to refuel too. Thing is, Cardiff's got this rift running through the middle of city. It's invisible, but it's like a earthquake fault between dimensions—"The excitement in her voice was clear as she was talking about it and the Doctor continued with what she was saying.
"The rift was healed back in 1869—"
Then Charlene interrupted, still in that excited voice, "Thanks to a girl named Gwen, well her real name Gwyneth but I called her Gwen. Such a sweet girl!" She smiled sadly for a moment before continuing on, the excitement back in her voice. "Cos these creatures called the Gelth, they were using the rift as a gateway but she saved the world and closed it!"
If you looked at their faces, you could tell that Mickey, Rose and Megan were finding this hard to follow.
"But closing a rift always leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the Human Race—"
"But perfect for the TARDIS, so just park it here for a couple of days right on the top of the scar and—"
"Open the engines, soak up the radiation—"
"Like filling her up with petrol and off we go!" Charlene grinned at Jack.
"Into time!" he cried as he gave her a high five.
Then together, Charlene, the Doctor, and Jack high fived each other and exclaimed at the same time, "And space!"
"Whoo!" Charlene cheered.
Rose and Mickey stared at them in disbelief but Megan looked at her nails, already used to how Charlene, the Doctor, and Jack acted around each other. All three of them together were an odd but amazing pairing.
"My God, have you seen yourselves?" Mickey asked, still staring at them in disbelief. "You all think you're so clever, don't you?"
"Yeah!"
"Duh!" Charlene rolled her eyes, grinning.
"Yep!" Jack gave Mickey a friendly slap on the cheek which earned a glare from said boy.
Charlene, Rose, and Megan looked at each other and giggled.
Charlene's POV…
We finally got out of the TARDIS and the Doctor spoke up after closing the door behind them.
"Should take another twenty-four hours, which means we've got time to kill," he said.
"Awesome!" I grinned, looping my arm through the Doctor's. "We didn't have time to look around Cardiff last time so should be fun!" I winked at the Doctor and he laughed.
"That old lady's staring," Mickey said, pointing at the old woman who was walking past, giving us odd looks.
"Probably wondering what six people could do inside a small wooden box." Jack patted the Doctor on the shoulder suggestively.
Megan sniggered. "Oh Jack." She rolled her eyes at him with a fond smile on her face and he winked at her. Rose and I shared looks with each other only to burst out laughing.
Mickey was the one who didn't find what Jack said funny. "What are you Captain of? The Innuendo Squad?"
In response, he gave him the 'whatever' sign and headed off.
"Wait!" Mickey exclaimed and Jack returned, going to stand next to Megan. "Er, the TARDIS – we can't just leave it. Doesn't it get noticed?"
"Yeah, what's with the police box?" Jack questioned as if he had realized that he never asked. "Why does it look like that?"
"It's a cloaking device, an awesome one at that," I said, patting the TARDIS affectionately.
The Doctor smiled and nodded in agreement before saying, "It's called a chameleon circuit. The TARDIS is meant to disguise itself wherever it lands, like if this was Ancient Rome, it'd be a statue on a plinth or something. But it landed in the 1960s, it disguised itself as a police box and the circuit got stuck."
"So it copied a real thing? There was actually polices boxes?" Mickey questioned surprised.
The Doctor nodded. "Yeah, on street corners," he said. "Phone for help before they had radios and mobiles. If they arrested someone, they could shove them inside until help came. Like a little prison cell."
Jack leaned towards him. "Why don't you just fix the circuit?"
"I like it! Don't you!"
I patted the TARDIS again with a grin. "I LOVE IT." I wouldn't have Sexy any other way than as a police box even though she would still be awesome if she was something else, but I loved her the way she was.
Mickey grinned, thinking he had proven a point. "But that's what I meant! There's no police boxes anymore, so doesn't it get noticed?"
"Rickey, let me tell you something about the human race," The Doctor started. "You put a mysterious blue box slap bang in the middle of town and what do they do?" He put his hands on Mickey's shoulders.
Mickey opened his mouth to say something but he didn't have a chance as the Doctor interrupted him.
"Walk past it," he said. "Now stop your nagging, let's go explore!" He linked hands with me and walked off with Mickey, Jack, Megan, and Rose following.
"What's the plan?" I asked the Doctor excitedly.
"I don't know! Cardiff. Early 21st Century." I grinned broadly as I squeezed his hand excitedly. "And the wind's coming from the … East. Trust me – safest place in the universe."
"Well, I'm hungry!" Megan bounced over to my side. "Let's go get something to eat."
I looped my arm through Megan's, beaming. "Sounds like a plan!" Then to everyone else, I asked, "What do you think guys?" They made noises of agreement and I grinned happily.
-0-
We ended up finding this really nice restaurant to eat at in Cardiff Bay and everyone was having a really good time. I smiled to myself, happy to be in this moment. It was one in a million. Though I loved the exciting life I led with the Doctor, it was nice to settle down to talk to have fun. I was snapped out of my thoughts as Jack started telling us this really great story.
"I swear, six feet tall and with TUSKS—"
"You're lying through your teeth!"
Rose laughed hard. "I've gone bonkers! That's the word – bonkers!"
"More than you already were," I teased, earning a playful glare from my sister.
"Oh be quiet."
"I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks, and I mean TUSKS! And it's woken, and it's not happy—"
"How could you know not know it was there?"
"Because he wasn't paying attention, probably too many dirty thoughts in his head," Megan told the Doctor, grinning. He grinned back at her but Jack ignored them, continuing with his story.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, NAKED—"
"Naked?!" Rose exclaimed in disbelief.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me! And then it roars, and we are running! Oh my God, we are RUNNING! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say –"
"I know we shouldn't turn left!"
And with we all roared with laughter at Mickey's punch line.
I playfully hit him in the shoulder and managed to say through my laughter, "Good one Mick!"
"That's my line!" Jack said but he was still laughing so I knew that he didn't mind all that much.
Megan patted him on the shoulder. "Sure it was," she teased with a wink.
"It was!"
"Yeah, okay." Megan said, grinning.
"Did you ever get your clothes back?" Rose asked Jack, leaning towards him.
"No, I just picked him up went right for the ship, full throttle, didn't stop until I was hit the space lanes, I was shaking! It was so unbelievable, I'm freaking out and by the time I got there I was fifteen light-years away I was like this!"
As we listened intently to Jack as he prattled on, we didn't notice that the Doctor was away from the table and had pulled the paper out of an old man's hands and looked at the front of page.
"And I was having such a nice day."
At sound of the Doctor's voice, Jack stopped talking and we looked at him. His face was troubled as he held up the paper, showing us the headline – New Major, New Cardiff – compete with a picture of Margret as she objected to the photographer taking her picture.
I smacked my forehead, 'Great! Not her again! Well so much for having a relaxing day here in Cardiff.'
So we found ourselves striding purposefully up the steps towards the town hall, headquarters of the Mayor.
We entered the town hall and went up the steps into the entrance hall as though we owned the place. I could hear the dramatic music in the background as we stopped and glanced around at our surroundings.
"According to the intelligence, the target is the last surviving member of the Slitheen family, a criminal sect from the planet Raxacoricofallatorious," Jack said and I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah we know that already, let's just get to the plan of attack, any idea?" I questioned and Jack didn't have to be asked twice.
"Okay, plan of attack we assume a basic fifty seven/fifty six strategy, covering all available exits on the ground floor. Doctor and Charlene, you go face-to-face, that'll designate Exit One, Megan and I will cover Exit Two, Rose, you're Exit Three, Mickey Smith, you take Exit Four." He looked at us. "Have you got that?"
The Doctor eyed him with mild surprise at his impertinence and Megan and I laughed at the look he was giving Jack. As for Rose, she had a look on her face with the effort of understanding what on he was going on about. And Mickey just looked plain confused.
"Excuse me?" The Doctor said to Jack sternly. "Who's in charge?"
"Sorry," Jack apologized, facing forward and straightening his body up. "Awaiting orders, sir."
The Doctor's voice deepened with authority and I held back a giggle. "Right. Here's the plan." There was a pause and he beamed. "Like he said. Nice plan. Anything else?"
"Present arms," Jack ordered.
Immediately we each pulled out our mobiles and we said at the same time, "Ready."
"Speed dial?"
We pressed a button on our mobiles.
"Yep."
"Ready," Megan and I said in unison.
Rose and Mickey nodded. "Check."
Jack gave us a lazy grin. "See ya in hell." He slipped a hand into Megan, who told me 'good luck' and they headed to the right.
"Ready to become the Dynamic Duo, again?" I grinned at the Doctor who grinned back at me.
"Sounds fantastic!" He grabbed my hand and we marched forward while Rose and Mickey went in different direction, her in the right and him in the left.
-0-
Getting to the Lord Mayor's outer office, still hand in hand, the Doctor and strided to the Secretary who was sitting behind a desk outside of the Mayor's office. His name was Idris Hopper apparently from the name tag on his shirt.
"Hello!" The Doctor greeted him cheerfully. "We've come to see the Lord Major."
"Have you got an appointment?" Idris asked.
I grinned cheekily as I shook my head. "Nope," I answered, popping the 'p'.
"We're just old friends passing by, bit of a surprise," The Doctor went on with a grin.
"And we can't wait to see to see her face!" I finished now just as cheerfully as the Doctor.
Idris hesitated. "Well, she's just having a cup of tea."
"Why is it always tea? Why can't it be coffee? Is there something wrong with it?" I said pretending to be upset. I pouted.
"Of course, tea is always better than coffee," The Doctor told me.
"Says you." I stuck my tongue out at him as Idris looked on with an odd look on his face, trying to figure out if we were really in front of him.
The Doctor turned back to Idris. "Just go in there, and tell her, the Doctor would like to see her."
I would have added me in there, but then I remembered that Margret probably didn't even know my name so it wouldn't put fear in her like the Doctor's name would.
A confused expression appeared on Idris as he asked the Doctor my favorite question on this show, "Doctor who?"
"Just the Doctor," I said holding back a laugh.
"Tell her exactly that," The Doctor told him. "The Doctor."
Idris continued to sit there and I leaned forward, my hands pressed to the desk as I continued to lean until I was close to his face.
"Please," I said in the most seductive tone I could muster.
His mouth dropped slightly in surprise. He probably didn't have a girl this close to him before. At least that's what I got from looking at him.
"Alright," Idris said quickly, standing up and clearing his throat awkwardly. "Be back in a tick." He entered the office quickly and I leaned back, crossing my arms over my chest, smiling smugly.
"Knew that would work," I said and I glanced at the Doctor who was frowning at me. I looked at him confused as I titled my head to the side. "What?"
But before he could answer, we heard the sound of a teacup smashing and Idris reappeared, slightly … okay a lot flustered, probably because of me. He opened the door as little as possible before squeezing himself through it and shutting it behind him.
"The Lord Mayor says thank you for – for popping by…she'd loved to have a chat, but, um…she's up to her eye in paperwork. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week…?"
The Doctor interrupted him, "She's climbing out the window, isn't she?"
"Yes, she is."
He nodded smugly and pushed past him into the office. I slowly walked in, knowing that Idris was going to be holding the Doctor back. I could at least knock him out so he would let go sooner.
I got into the office to see the Doctor dash across the room to the open window and climbed out of it with Idris right behind him. I stayed in the office until I heard Idris cry out,
"Leave the Mayor alone!"
With that, I ran to the window and climbed out of it as the Doctor and Idris continued to struggle with each other while Margret hopped off the scaffolding at the bottom and took off her broach. I stood behind Idris without him noticing and I apologized to him in my hand as I hit him hard in the back of the head, knocking him.
The Doctor pushed him off of him and grinned at me. I grinned back and with that, we started our way down the scaffolding.
"Margret!" he called after her mockingly.
"We're gonna get you and your little dog too!" I gave my best Wicked Witch of the West crackle as I exclaimed this.
We managed to converge with Jack, Rose, and Megan but there was no Mickey in sight as Margret was running down to the Fourth exit as fast as her fat legs could carry her.
"Who was on Exit Four?!" Jack exclaimed.
"That was Mickey!"
As soon as Rose cried this out, Mickey finally caught up and he was panting.
"Here I am!"
"Mickey the Idiot."
Rose patted her boyfriend on the shoulder in comfort as she stared after Margret who was still running. "Oh, be fair – she's not exactly going to outrun, is she?"
"Think again," I said, pointing in her direction as Margret vanished in a blue light with a small ting.
"She's got a teleport! That's cheating! Now we're NEVER gonna get her!"
"Don't worry Jack," I said with a grin as I nudged the Doctor in the side. "The Doctor's very good at teleports."
By the time I said, the Doctor had produced the sonic screwdriver from his jacket pocket and held it in the air with a dopey grin on his face and clicked it once. In seconds, Margret reappeared, still with a self-satisfied smile on her face but it faded as soon as she realized where she was.
I waved at her, this time I had a dopey grin on my face. "'Ello Blondie." I know that was name but I was talking about her hair color! Can't give away my knowledge, now can I?
But she ignored me as she quickly changed directions while pushing her device and she vanished again but the Doctor clicked the sonic again and she reappeared. This ended up happening until Margret was right in front of us, absolutely exhausted and gasping for breath. She didn't move an inch so I knew she gave up.
"I could do this all day," the Doctor said cheerily.
"I can't." Megan rubbed her temples. "That gave me a headache."
Margret put her hands up, still out of breath. "This is persecution. Why can't you leave me alone? What did I ever do to you?"
"Weeelll, let's see," I said, drawling out the 'well.' "First you tried to kill me and the Doctor, second your brothers almost killed my mum, my sister, and my sister's boyfriend, and last but not least, you tried to destroy this entire planet. I think that about sums it up, don't you think?"
Margret dismissed it though. "Apart from that…"
TBC...
Though this will be a two part episode, the Bad Wolf one will be one part, I can tell you that much since I'll be focusing on Charlene in the game that she's in so yeah. Anyway, please leave reviews and tell me what you think of the first part of Boom Town!