AN: Hello lovelies! I'm back faster then ever? Wanna know why? I bet you don't actually care but I'll tell you anyway! I'm ill! Yay! Killer cold with a fever and bronchitis like symptoms make me want to stay all home and day and write for the most part… guess what? That's what this author spent her Monday doing!

Polyvore is updated. Rose got a new outfit this chapter too! Fancy!

So any who da ha, I want to thank all of you who reviewed last chapter because we are now past the 100 mark and it makes me ridiculously happy. Like I may have jumped up and down several times once I got number 100 from a guest reviewer. I had just gotten out of the SAT, having taken it with a fever and turned my phone back on to have reviews and I was so happy! AHHH!

So continuing onward big thanks as always to Vivere Memento for reading over and being amazing as usual

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing at all like seriously did you think I owned Doctor Who? You did? Oh well…. Sorry no bro I don't own this amazing show.

Chapter 21- Father's Day Part 1

Rebecca stayed up half the night reading "the History of the Time War" and had tried her best not to cry but was unsuccessful in her effort. Now knowing part of the Doctor's past, all the darkness and the guilt that plagued him, things made a lot more sense to her and now she could sympathize with all that he had done. She just wanted to hug him and tell him he did what he had to do. But when she reached the console room Rose was already there standing beside him, a picture in her hand.

"Peter Alan Tyler - my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born 15th of September 1954. He died in 1987, the seventh of November. Mum, always said he was always having adventures…So, I was thinking... could we? Could we go and see my dad when he was still alive?"

"Where's this come from, all of a sudden?" he asked.

"All right then, if we can't, if it goes against the laws of times or something, then never mind, we'll just leave it." Rose said sadly.

"No," the Doctor shook his head, he didn't like seeing her like that. "I can do anything. I'm just more worried about you."

"I wanna see him." Rose said confidently.

"Your wish is my command. But be careful what you wish for." He told her. He started up the TARDIS and was stumped about where in his timeline to bring her.

"How about we go see your mum and dad's wedding? Happy times right?" Rebecca suggested.

"Not bad Becks. Not bad at all." He flipped a switch and the TARDIS took them to the day of Pete and Jackie's wedding. They huddled in the back of the venue watching.

"Now repeat after me," the registrar said. "I, Peter Alan Tyler, take you, Jacqueline, Angela, Suzette Prentiss..."

"I, Peter Alan Tyler, take you, Jacqueline Suzanne... Suzette... Anita..." Pete stumbled over the names and visibly cowered as he saw Jackie's eyes narrow at him. Pete looked to the registrar for help but received none. Eventually Jackie just laughed.

"Oh, just carry on. It's good enough for Lady Di." She told them as the wedding proceeded. The Doctor smiled at Rose.

"I thought he'd be taller." The doctor ushered them back into the TARDIS.

"Mum always said he died so close to home. She wasn't there. Nobody was. It was a hit and run driver. Never found out who. He was dead when the ambulance got there. She always wished that someone was there. I wanna be that someone. So he doesn't die alone." Rose said shooting a glance at the Doctor.

"November the 7th?"he questioned.

"1987." He started up the engines, Rebecca helped him out, holding levers and buttons where needed. The engines then turned off. They were there. The three stepped out of the TARDIS and into the quiet street. November the seventh, 1987. Just another mild day, partly sunny, the leaves already mostly fallen to the ground.

"That's so weird. The day my father died... I thought it'd be all sort of grim and stormy, it's just an ordinary day." Rose said.

"The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight." He looked to Rose, squeezing her hands. "Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah." She nodded. She looked at the street signs. "This is it. Jordan Road. He was late. He'd been to get a wedding present - a vase. Mum always said, that stupid vase." She said, her voice tight as she tried to fight off the tears. Rebecca looked up to see a car rounding the corner.

"He got out of his car... and crossed the road." The car Rebecca had been watching pulled over and parked.

"Oh, God. This is it". Rose said as she watched her father pick up the stupid vase from the passenger's seat and get out of the car, unaware that a car had rounded the corner and was headed right toward him. He then noticed the car and was frozen in place, the car's driver threw their hands over their eyes, not wanting to see what was about to happen. Rose quickly turned and buried her face into the Doctor's chest, and he held her tightly. Rebecca rubbed soothing circles on the blonde's back as the Pete Tyler was hit. The vase hit the ground and Pete was lying on the ground twitching.

"Go to him. Quick." The Doctor told her, but Rose was frozen in place. She just held on tighter to the Doctor as the sound of the ambulance's sirens got louder and louder. Rebecca pulled them back towards a building where Rose leaned against the wall, trying to wipe away her tears.

"It's too late now. By the time the ambulance got there, he was dead." Her voice faltered, choked up by the tears. The Doctor looked away in silence but Rose turned to him.

"He can't die on his own." The doctor looked back at her, pained by the sadness in Rose's eyes. "Can I try again?" her eyes pleaded with him.

Rebecca's eyes widened. Crossing your own timeline was bad, very bad from what she had gathered from her reading. The Doctor's gaze met hers and they both knew this was a horrible idea, but Rebecca knew he wouldn't deny Rose, especially not when she was crying.

"Doc," Rebecca said warningly. "We both know how dangerous this is. Going back and seeing ourselves could cause a rip in time, a paradox, any number of things could go wrong."

"Rebecca, MY FATHER IS GOING TO DIE ALONE. DON'T YOU CARE?" Rose cried out.

"Rose you know I didn-"

"No YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR PARENTS SO YOU DON'T-"

"Rose stop it!" the Doctor told her standing between the two girls. "Rose, we'll go back." Rebecca rolled her eyes. Of course despite the dangers she was getting her way. "Rebecca, I know the dangers but—"

Rebecca brushed him off "Whatever. I get it." She said coldly. "Come on back to the TARDIS." The three walked back to the TARDIS, Rose holding onto the Doctor tightly as he plugged in the coordinates once more.

"Right. That's the first you and me. It's a very bad idea, two sets of us being here at the same time. Just be careful they don't see us. Wait 'til she runs off and he follows, then go to your dad."

"I can't do this." Rose told them as her father's car pulled up to the spot.

"You don't have to do anything you don't want to, but this is the last time we can be here." As Pete got out of the car, Rose ran towards him.

"ROSE DON'T!" Rebecca yelled as Rose ran past the first set of themselves and toward Pete. She knocked him out of the way of the oncoming car and they tumbled to the ground. The first set of themselves disappeared and the Doctor looked on in horror. Rebecca was immediately helping Rose and Pete up.

"I did it! I saved your life!" Rose said happily.

"Blimey, did you see the speed of it? Did you get his number?" Pete asked. Rose was still shocked staring at him.

"I really did it. Oh, my God, look at you! You're alive! That car was gonna kill ya!"

"Well, give me some credit, I did see it coming. I wasn't gonna walk under it, was I?"

"You never know..." Rebecca said. "Fight or flight response, you're body might've chosen to fight the car." Pete laughed at her shooting her a smile.

"I'm Pete."

"Rebecca."

"I'm Rose." Rose looked at him expectantly as if she'd instantly know who she was but no.

"That's a coincidence. That's my daughter's name." he said.

"That's a great name. Good choice, well done." Rose said with a smile. Rebecca shot a look back at the doctor as Rose stared at Pete smiling at him.

"Right, I'd better shift. I've got a wedding to go to."

"Is that Sarah Clarke's wedding?" Rose asked. Rebecca's eyes widened again. What was Rose doing?

"Yeah, are you going?"

"...Yeah we are."

"You and your boyfriend need a lift?" he said gesturing to the Doctor who was standing at the corner still.

"Yeah that'd be great!" Rose said.

"Um.. .I'm gonna go talk to him, about that for a second." Rebecca said. "Be right back you two chat." She ran over to the Doctor.

"This is bad isn't it?" she asked him.

"Not yet. But it could be astronomically bad."

"We're apparently going to a wedding. Think I have time to pop off to the TARDIS to grab some dresses from the wardrobe room so Rose and I don't show up in jeans?"

"Be very quick about it. I'll introduce myself." Rebecca quickly dashed around the corner and pulled out her TARDIS key opening the TARDIS and dashing into the wardrobe where the TARDIS kindly had already selected a dress for herself and Rose as well as the matching shoes.

"Thanks old girl! You're the best!" she said dashing out with the things. She met the others back at Jordan Road.

"Sorry bout that. I dropped everything when we saw that car running toward you." She said.

"Right, well the flat's this way then. I just need to grab a few things and it looks like you two need to change." Pete lead them through the Powell estates up to his flat where he let them in. He put the vase down next to the door and began pointing out things.

"There we go. Sorry about the mess. If you want a cup of tea, the kitchen's just down there, milk's in the fridge... well, it would be, wouldn't it? Where else would you put the milk? Mind you, there's always the window sill outside. I always thought if someone invented a window sill with special compartments, you know, one for milk, one for yogurt... make a lot of money out of that." Rose nodded, unable to tear her eyes away from him, hanging on to his every word with a big smile on her face.

"Sell it to students and things...I should write that down. Anyway, never mind that, excuse me... Oh Rebecca you wanted to change? The loo's right over there."

"Thank you Pete." She said quickly grabbing her things and changing into the tight purple dress in the loo. It fit well enough but could the TARDIS have been a little nicer with the shoes? Three inch heels with the amount of running they usually wound up doing and her clutzy habits in general was a bad idea. She came back out and Rose was looking at all the different knick nacks on display.

"All the stuff mum kept. His stuff. She kept it all packed away in boxes in the cupboard, she used to show me when she'd had a bit to drink." The Doctor leaned against the doorframe, silently watching, arms folded looking angry.

"Here it is. On display. Where it should be." She held up a trophy and showed them. "Third prize at the bowling... first two got to go to Didcot." She put it back down and then her eyes were drawn to the big bottles in the corner of the room.

"Health drinks. Tonics, mum used to call them. He made his money selling this Vitex stuff. He had all sorts of jobs. He's so clever." The Doctor was still silent as Rose made her way over to the dining room table spotting some plans.

"Solar power. Mum said he was gonna do this. Now he can." Rose smiled at the Doctor but he didn't smile back.

"Okay, look... I'll tell him you're not my boyfriend if that's what's bothering you." The Doctor finally broke his silence.

"When we met, I said 'travel with me in space'. You said no. Then I said 'time machine'." Rebecca sighed, she could tell already that this wouldn't be good.

"It wasn't some big plan. I just saw it happening and I thought... I can stop it."

"I did it again. I picked another stupidape. I should've known. It's not about showing you the universe - it never is. It's about the universe doing something for you."

"So it's okay when yougo to other times, and yousave people's lives - but not when it's me saving my dad."

"Iknow what I'm doing, you don't. Two sets of us being there made that a vulnerable point."

"But he's alive!" Rose argued.

"My entire planet died. My whole family. Do you think it never occurred to me to go back and save them?"

"But it's not like I've changed HISTORY. Not much, I mean... he's never gonna be a world leader, he's not gonna start World War Three or anything..." the Doctor took a few steps forward and his voice softened a bit.

"Rose - there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before. An ordinary man, that's the most important thing in creation. The whole world's different because he's alive."

"What, would you rather him dead?" Rose asked bitterly.

"I'm not SAYINGthat—"

"No, I get it! For once, YOU'REnot the most important man in my life." She spat out.

"Let's see how you get on without me, then, give me the key." He said holding his hand out.

"Doc," Rebecca said warningly.

"The TARDIS key. If I'm so insignificant, give it back to me." Rose fished the key out of her pocket.

"Rose, come on." Rebecca said.

"All right then, I will." She slapped the key into his hand.

"Well, you've got what you wanted so that's goodbye then." The Doctor turned away from her and walked down the hallway out the door, Rose following him. She made her way around him and stood between him and the door.

"You don't scare me. I know how sad you are. You'll be back in a minute. Or you'll hang around outside the TARDIS waiting for me." The Doctor stared at her for a few moments and then pushed past her, opening the door.

"And I'll make you wait a long time!"

"I've got Rebecca!" he called back after her. Rose let out an angry grunt.

"Rose, I'm gonna go after him, talk some sense into him, okay? You have my number call me if you need me." Rebecca waited for Rose to reply.

"It's always you two." She muttered.

"No, it's not and you know that. You don't get it." She shook her head and then dashed off after the grumpy time lord.

"Doc wait! You know I can't run in these shoes." Rebecca called out after him. He stopped and turned around to face her. She caught up to him. "Okay you can proceed storming off as we talk."

"It's not storming off." He protested.

"It is. You're mad; you're hurt I get it."

"Yes, I'm bloody hurt I feel used!" he said turning around to face Rebecca. "I can't even be mad at her because it's such a human thing to do. And it's part of her caring personality that I love so much!"

"You're also mad because you know pretty much everything she said to you is true."

"Yes, well." They reached the TARDIS and he unlocked the door. He walked in expecting to find the console but instead it was just an actual police box.

"Doc, this is where we parked the TARDIS right?" she asked praying that this was some mistake.

"Yes, it is." He said slightly in shock.

"We broke time didn't we?" Rebecca asked unsure of how to word her question.

"Something like that. We have to get back to Rose."

"They're probably at the church by now. Come on." Rebecca told him, taking off her shoes and hitching her skirt up to make it easier to run.

"Boyfriend trouble?" Pete asked Rose as he exited his bedroom. She had changed into the red dress Rebecca had grabbed for her but didn't answer Pete as she tidied up some peanuts on the coffee table back into their dish.

"Excuse me, do you mind? What're you tidying up for?" Pete asked her.

"Sorry... force of habit." She said sitting down on the couch.

"Listen, don't worry about him. Couples have rows all the time."

"We're not a couple." Not yet. She added mentally. "Why does EVERYONEthink we're a couple?" she sighed. "I think he left me."

"What, a pretty girl like you? If I was going out with you—" Rose cut him off.

"Stop! Right there!"

"I was just saying..."

"I know what you're saying, and we're not going there. At no point are we going anywhere nearthere. You aren't even aware that there exists." Pete looked at her confused. "I don't even want to think about THERE, and believe me, neither do you. THERE... for you... is like... pfft, it's like the Bermuda Triangle." She said.

"Blimey, you know how to flatter a bloke." Pete said shaking his head.

Rose jumped to her feet and grabbed her things. "Right are we off?" she offered him an arm.

"So, that wouldn't be a mixed signal at all." He asked gesturing to the arm she was offering him.

"Absolutely not." He let out a sigh and took her arm and together they walked to the door.

"I'll take you back to the loony bin where you belong. Still, I'm sure I've met you somewhere before..." he told her. Rose smiled at him and merely shrugged. They walked back to his car and she hopped in the passenger seat and Pete began to tell her more about his business ventures.

"I met this bloke at the Horse's, and he's cutting me in on copyright."

"But I thought you were a proper businessman and that..." Rose was confused her mother had told her all of these stories about him being a proper businessman.

"I wish! Ah, I do a bit of this, a bit of that - a straight bloke."

"Right... so I must've heard wrong. So really you're a bit of a... a Del Boy?"

"Oh, shoot me down in flames. You're not related to my wife by any chance, are you?" She put her hand over her mouth. Her mum. How could she have forgotten?

"Oh, my God... she's gonna be at the wedding."

"What, Jackie? Do you know her?" Pete asked.

"Sort of." Rose said after debating with herself for a moment about the best way to answer that.

"What's she told you about me, then?"

Rose smiled. "She said she'd picked the most fantastic man in the world." Pete shook his head.

"Must be a different Jackie, then. She'd never say that." A few moments later the radio sprung to life playing rap music.

"This stuff goes right over my head." Pete said irritated.

"That's not out yet." Rose said recognizing the song. It wouldn't be out for several years.

"It's a good job and all." Pete told her continuing with his story. Rose then reached for her mobile.

"I'm just gonna check my messages." She told him.

"How d'ya mean, messages?" he glanced at her phone. "Is that a phone?"

"Yeah..." she held her phone up to her ear and was surprised to hear a voice.

"Watson - come here - we need you. Watson - come here - we need you." Rose furrowed her brow confused by the message. Who was Watson? "Watson - come here - we need you." Pete looked just as confused as Rose was as he glanced at something in the rearview mirror. He shook his head and then rounded the corner. Suddenly the car that should have killed Pete before came out of thin air and headed straight towards them.

"Dad!" Rose yelled. Pete swerved to avoid the car and beeped his horn. The car sped off down the road and Pete turned around to look at it while Rose stared straight ahead shaken by what had just happened.

"It's that car! The same one as before!" Pete said as they got out of the car. "It was right in front of us, where's it gone?" he asked her looking around. Then he caught Rose's eye. "You called me 'dad', what did you say that for?" Rose was just silently stunned by the appearance of her mother and her infant self.

"Oh, wonderful. Here he is, the accident waiting to happen. You'd be late for your own funeral and it nearly was!"

"No damage done." Pete told her.

"And who's this?" Jackie asked as she gave Rose a distasteful look. Rose couldn't help but stare at her. "What're YOU looking at with your mouth open?"

"Your hair." Rose blurted out.

"What?!"

"I've never seen it like—" Jackie stared at her, confused and insulted. "I mean... it's lovely, your hair's lovely." Rose then spotted herself, and took a few steps toward herself, eyes wide.

"And that baby you're holding...That would be... your baby..."

"Another one of yours, is she?" Jackie asked Pete rolling her eyes.

"She saved my life!" Pete defended Rose.

"Oh, that's a new one! What was it LASTtime?"

"I didn't even know her. She was a cloakroom attendant. I was helping her look for my ticket. There were three duffel coats all the same, somehow the rack collapsed. We were under all this stuff."

"Were you playing around?!" Rose asked her father wanting to know if he had hurt her mum.

"What's it got to do with YOUwhat he gets up to? "

"What DOEShe get up to?" Rose retorted.

"YOU'D know." Jackie yelled right back.

"Oh, 'cos I'm that stupid. I play around and then bring her home to meet the missus. You silly cow..." Pete told Jackie.

"But you AREthat stupid." Jackie told him.

"Can we keep this stuff back home? Just for now?"

"What, with the rest of the rubbish? You bring home cut-priced detergents, tonic water, Betamax tape and NONEof it works - I'm DROWNINGin your rubbish." Jackie turned to Rose. "What did he tell you? Did he say he's this big businessman, 'cos he's not. He's a failure. Born failure, that one. Rose needs a proper father—"

"Jackie, I'm making a living, it keeps us fed, don't it?" Pete talked over her.

"Stop it!" Rose cried out. They both stopped talking and stared at the distressed Rose. "You're not like this.. you LOVE each other."

"Oh, Pete. You never used to like them mental. Or I dunno, maybe you did."

"Jackie, wait, just listen—"

"If you're not careful, there'll be a wedding and a divorce on the same day." Jackie walked away carrying a crying Baby Rose. Pete looked between Rose and Jackie and then back to Rose.

"Right, wait here. Give us a couple of minutes with the missus." He took the vase out of her hands and gave her the car keys. "Tell you what, straighten the car up. Stick her round the corner or something. Don't cause anymore trouble..." He walked off leaving Rose standing by the car with tears in her eyes. She did as she was told and then watched her parents still arguing off in the distance.

"I'm not listening. It's just the duffel coats all over again." Jackie said shaking her head.

"Jackie, sometimes a duffel coat is just a duffel coat. Things will get better soon, I promise." He put his hand on her shoulder but she threw it off.

"I've had enough of all your daft schemes. I never know where the next meal's coming from."

"I'll get it right, love. I promise, one day soon I'll get it right. Come on..." Rose smiled as she watched them but then saw a little boy run around the corner. No, it couldn't be… it was a little Mickey.

"Monsters! Coming to eat us!" he said.

"What sort of monsters, sweetheart? Is it aliens?" One of Jackie's friends asked him laughing as Mickey ran into the church.

"Rose!" the Doctor yelled running from around the corner, Rebecca trailing behind him only slightly. Rose smiled in a sort of satisfied way, knowing that he would always come back.

"Get in the church!" he yelled. Her smile faded. The Doctor looked to her left, a large bat-like creature appeared above rose and began bearing down on her. Rose screamed and the Doctor ran faster than ever towards her knocking both of them to the ground just in time.

"ALL OF YOU GET IN THE CHURCH!" Rebecca yelled at them. Whatever those things were they were not good.

"Oh, my God. What are they?" everyone stopped and stared.

"Inside! COME ON!" Rebecca yelled at them. Some people came out of the church and the Doctor pushed them back in.

"STAY IN THERE!" The creature took a man who had come out of the building and was going for the bride who was screaming at the top of her lungs. The creature then changed it's mind and went for the priest.

"IN!" Rebecca and the Doctor then pulled shut the church doors just in time as the creatures started banging on the doors.

"Phew that was close." Rebecca said, leaning against the door. She looked to the doctor who still looked worried. "We're not out of the woods yet are we?"

"Not even close."

"We'll isn't that just bloody fantastic. Told you it was a bad idea."

AN: Hello all I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Not a lot of rewrite but that's because A) it's mostly Rose/Pete stuff and B) This is one of the best episodes of this season I don't want to ruin it.

I guarantee more original stuff in the next two chapters. Not so so much next chapter but in two chapters it'll all be original because I'm cool. Original stuff is cool (much like bowties, fezzes and Stetsons)

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