CHAPTER 25

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Mickey Smith was waiting outside of his and Martha's house for the Doctor's TARDIS to arrive. Therefore, he was completely surprised when Rose came driving up in his driveway in a pink sports car!

Rose was wearing her 50's outfit again. She loved it too much to not wear it for long. She had decided that she would make it her semi-regular look from now on.

Mickey just stared at her blue denim jacket, pink skirt, and the pink ribbon in her hair in amusement! Her outfit combined with the pink sports car made for such an outrageous image that he could barely keep from bursting out in laughter.

"How do you like my new wheels, daddy-o?" Rose said in an American accent.

She burst out into laughter, and Mickey finally did too.

"Where's the TARDIS?" Mickey asked as soon as he could stop himself from laughing too hard.

"You're looking at her," Rose said with a mischievous smile on her face.

"What?" Mickey asked totally confused.

"This is my new TARDIS, Mickey! I gave her the form of a sports car. It's a car that you can actually drive, and you don't have to buy gas because it runs on the Vortex! It's a car and a time machine! The best of both worlds!" Rose said with a smug grin on her face.

"This is a TARDIS? Where's the door to get in?" Mickey asked with disbelief on his face.

"In the trunk," Rose said in a matter of fact tone.

"How do you get in there?" Mickey asked skeptically.

"You just get in head first. It's bigger on the inside you know so it gets wider from the entrance," Rose said with a smile.

Mickey frowned at her.

"I like the Doctor's TARDIS better," Mickey said.

Rose's face fell as she whispered in his ear, "Don't say that! You'll hurt her feelings!"

Mickey just shook his head. Rose was getting weirder and weirder! he thought.

"I am not!" Rose said with a fake pout.

He groaned. He hated it when she did that reading your body language thing that she did!

Rose just laughed at him as she snapped her fingers. The trunk of the sports car opened, and Shareen came running out of it.

"Shareen?!" Mickey asked in surprise.

He was about to say how glad he was to see her when she gave him a massive slap in the face!

"That's for not telling me about Rose and the Doctor! You knew all along about her traveling thorough time and space with him and never said a word! That whole year that she was gone you had me worried sick, and you knew everything!" Shareen yelled at him.

"Would you have believed me?" Mickey asked as he rubbed his cheek.

"I might have. I don't know. You still should have told me. I'm your friend," Shareen said uncertainly.

"Yeah. I should have. I'm sorry!" Mickey said with a sincere look on his face.

"You should be. Do you know what you put me through? I worried about her every day!" Shareen said, still angry.

"I really am sorry. I just didn't think that you would believe me. I thought that you would just say that I was crazy and throw me out. Everyone else would have if I had told them the truth I'm sure," Mickey said.

"Maybe I would have at first but toward the end of that year I think that I might just have believed anything. I just needed to know if she was safe," Shareen said with misty eyes.

Rose put an arm around her to comfort her.

"I'm really sorry! I was just so scared and upset myself after everyone started accusing me of killing Rose that I was afraid to talk to anyone about it at all!" Mickey admitted.

Rose put her other arm around Mickey.

"It's okay Mickey. I understand. I forgive you! If I was in your place, I'd probably have been out of my mind and not wanting to talk about it either! I'm sorry for yelling at you and for the slap! I've had a hard couple of years!" Shareen said with a sorrowful look on her face.

"That's okay! I forgive you too! I'm sorry about you being down on your luck the last few years!" Mickey said apologetically.

He then put his arms around her and hugged her. Shareen smiled and hugged him back.

Rose was happy that they had already made up so fast. The three of them had always been the best of friends though. She smiled to herself as she thought of them all being together again for the first time in so long. The old team was back together! Somewhere their old teachers were feeling a shiver in their souls at this moment she thought to herself with a giggle.

The three friends walked into Rose's TARDIS, and she snapped her fingers to close the door behind them.

Mickey stared in amazement at the TARDIS interior. A hot pink console dominated the center of the console room, but the rest of the room was filled with various distractions. There were video games systems set up all over the place. In the left corner of the console room, there was a door that led to a huge theater room with a massive screen off in the distance. Mickey was salivating at the idea of going in that room! Then there was a door in the right corner of the console room that led to an extensive wardrobe room filled with thousands of clothes. Mickey smiled at that. Only Rose!

In the back of the console room like in the Doctor's TARDIS there was a door that led to a maze of other rooms and corridors. Just to the side of that door was a huge machine that dispensed fresh warm chips! Mickey had to chuckle when he saw that.

On the wall, between the door that led to the inner levels of the TARDIS and the door that led to the theater, was the monitor. It took up almost the entire space between the doors and was very long and wide. Mickey was automatically jealous. Rose had a bigger television screen than he did! And a theater!

Rose laughed at him as she knew what that pout on his face meant! She loved making Mickey jealous!

Mickey soon stopped looking at the TARDIS and started talking to Rose's friends. He met and was soon swapping small talk with Gwyneth, Oswin, Emma, and Penny.

Gwyneth was a little strange and off-putting. He was nice to her, but he always had the feeling that she knew more about him than he knew about her. It was a little creepy.

He liked Oswin a lot. She was very nice and friendly. She also was very funny and a bit of a flirt. He immediately decided early on that he liked her more than all of Rose's new friends. When he found out later that she was a Dalek wearing a perception filter, he was totally thrown for a loop. He never would have known! He decided not to hold that against her though because he did like her a lot. She was certainly the nicest and prettiest Dalek he had ever met!

Emma was nice too but sad. He knew that something was bothering her, but she wouldn't say what it was. She was friendly enough though, and he liked her too.

Penny was even sadder than Emma. He certainly knew that something was bothering her just by looking at her a few minutes, but she tried not to show it. She was extremely friendly to him, and he could tell that she was trying to force herself to talk to him. That was a good sign at least Mickey thought.

He couldn't get over how much Penny looked like Emma. He decided that they had to be sisters and told them both so.

"Are you two sisters? You look a lot alike," Mickey asked.

"No. We may be related though. We don't know for sure yet. Emma comes from 1869 so she may be a distant cousin to me. We've never had a chance to research it yet," Penny said.

"You're certainly related somehow. You look too similar not to be. I remember that I had a cousin who looked just look like my grandmother did when she was a teenager. You could look at old pictures of my grandmother and think that they were pictures of my cousin. It was weird!" Mickey said with a laugh.

Emma and Penny looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.

"What?" Mickey said confused.

"My father never did tell me anything about his family. He was always very mysterious about it. Do you think that . . .?" Penny started to ask Emma but stopped herself as she didn't dare hope that it could be true.

"I had a son who disappeared. I never knew where he went to. I had hoped to find some traces of what had happened to him somewhere in this time. If you are somehow his descendent, I'd be proud," Emma said with a smile.

Penny smiled back at her gratefully.

"I don't see how it could be possible since you come from so long ago but thank you! I'd be proud too!" she said.

Rose had been listening to this conversation and said, "I have a medical lab where we can settle this once and for all. I'll take you both there, and we can do a DNA test."

Both girls nodded, and they were about to follow Rose to the lab when there was a terrible noise outside.

"What is that?" Mickey cried out.

Rose turned on the monitor and saw an alien ship tearing huge chunks out of the city!

"Ice Warriors!" Rose said as she saw the design of the ship.

She immediately dematerialized her TARDIS and took it headlong into its first adventure as she headed toward the Martian warship.

Next: The Ice Warriors attack! Emma and Penny finally find out the truth about their relationship! (It's about time I know!) Plus Jack!