Jackie's Mission
Summary-
The Doctor swears on his TARDIS that it was Jackie Tyler's life mission to drive him insane! And now that she had found her way onto his TARDIS, she won't leave him alone, always on him about something or another. And there was a lot more yelling and we can't forget all the slapping! And his Rose was not helping one bit.
Chapter 25- School Reunion Pt. 1
The bell rang and as students ran towards their classes hoping to not be late. The Doctor happily walked into his classroom and noted that everyone was in their sets and waiting respectfully to start the class. "Good morning, class." The Doctor said setting his bag on the desk. "Are we sitting comfortably?"
"Yes, professor." The class said as a unit. The Doctor smiled and turned to the white board, he grabbed a marker and wrote 'Physics' on it.
"So...physics." He said turning back to look at the class capping the marker. "Physics, eh? Physics." The Doctor said wracking him brain to think of something to teach them that would be with in their age level. Before they had parted, him to his class and her to her class, Rose had warned him to not go all out as he normally would. She reminded him that they were just kids and not all of them were as smart as him. "Physics. Physics! Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics." What was in their age level? Why wasn't his Rose here to help him figure out what was appropriate to teach them? "I hope one of you is getting this down." The Doctor said getting an idea, if he didn't know where their age level was, then he would let them tell him. "Okay, let's see what you know. Two identical strips of nylon are charged with static electricity and hung from a string so they can swing freely." The Doctor said starting with the easiest thing he could think of, "What would happen if they were brought near each other?" The Doctor asked and a boy raised his hand. "Yes, what's your name?"
"Milo." The boy said.
"Milo. Off you go." The Doctor said.
"They'd repel each other because they have the same charge." Milo said.
"Correcto-amundo." The Doctor said. "A word I have never used before and hopefully never will again. Question two. I coil up a thin piece of nichrome wire and place it in a glass of water. Then I turn on the electricity and measure to see if the water temperature is affected. My question is this. How do I measure the electrical power going into the coil?" Milo's hand flew up before the Doctor could even finish the question. "Someone else." The Doctor said knowing that he need to test all of them, not just Milo. The Doctor looked around the class room hoping to see another hand but was disappointed to see that no one else had their hand up. "No? Okay. Milo, go for it."
"Measure the current and PD using an ammeter and voltmeter." Milo said and the Doctor got a nagging feeling that Milo was smarter than he was letting on and decided to test this theory.
"Two to Milo! Right, Milo, tell me this. True or false, the greater the damping on a system, the quicker it loses energy to it's surroundings." The Doctor asked.
"False." Milo instantly said.
"What is non-coding DNA?" The Doctor asked starting to get into questions that a kid his age should not know.
"DNA that doesn't code for a protein." Milo said without a pause.
"65,983 times 5." The Doctor said.
"329,915." Milo answered.
"How do you travel faster than light?" The Doctor asked knowing that no human should even know this.
"By harnessing a quantum tunnel with a FTL factor of 36.7 recurring." Milo answered correctly stumping the Doctor. Whatever was going on here was not normal. When Mickey had first called them and told them about this place, the Doctor had thought that the boy was over reacting and was just trying to find a way to spend time with his Rose. The Doctor had at first thought to deny looking into this school but the second he looked into his Rose's excited and worried eyes he had found himself agreeing to looking into it. And now he was noticing that Mickey was right, this school wasn't normal.
~Twenty Five~
"Two days." Jackie said as she wiped down the table that Rose and the Doctor were eating their lunch at.
"Sorry, could you just... There's a bit of gravy." The Doctor said motioning with his fork at the dob of gravy in between him and Rose. Jackie glared at him as she wiped it up while Rose lightly kicked him under the table. The Doctor turned and winked at Rose with a smile causing her to giggle at his antics. "No, no, just there."
"Two days we've been here." Jackie hissed out.
"Blame your boyfriend. He's the one who put us on to this." The Doctor told her and ducked when Jackie tried to swipe at him.
"You know damn well Mickey isn't my boyfriend, he is way to young for me." Jackie said.
"He was right. Boy in class this morning, got knowledge way beyond planet Earth." The Doctor said as Rose took a chip from the Doctor's plate and ate it.
"You eating those chips?" Jackie asked noticing that Rose had finished all of her, the Doctor gave Rose a mock glare as she took another chip from his plate and ate it.
"Yeah, they're a bit...different." Rose said as Jackie reached down and took a chip from the Doctor's plate and took a bite of it as the Doctor pretended to be shocked.
"What, is this 'Eat all of the Doctor's chips before he can' day?" The Doctor asked and playfully motioned to stab Rose as she stole yet another chip.
"I think they're gorgeous." Jackie said as she sat next to the Doctor. "Wish I has school dinners like this."
"It's very well behaved this place." The Doctor said leaning back in his chair looking around the lunch room as Rose nodded in agreement while Jackie stole another chip. "I thought they'd all be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones. Eh? Don't tell me I fit in." The Doctor said causing Rose to laugh remembering that a few days ago that Mickey accused the Doctor of not being able to blend in because he wouldn't know the lingo.
"You are not permitted to leave your station during a sitting." The head lunch lady told Jackie as she came to stand before them.
"I was just talking to these teachers." Jackie said standing up.
"Hello." Rose and the Doctor said together as Rose reached across the table stealing another chip.
"He doesn't like the chips." Jackie told the head lunch lady.
"The menu has been specifically designed by the headmaster to improve concentration and performance." The lunch lady informed them and all three of them shared a look. "Now get back to work." The lunch lady ordered and Jackie rolled her eyes and bit her tongue to keep from snapping at the woman as she slowly walked around the table.
"See? This is me. Dinner lady." Jackie muttered in annoyance.
"I'll have the crumble." The Doctor called out with a smirk.
"She is so going to kill you Doctor." Rose said while laughing as a teacher that gave the Doctor a bad feeling walked past them and towards a student sitting at a table right in front of them.
"Melissa." The teacher said catching Rose's attention. She had that girl in her art class right before lunch and the girl had quickly become one of her favorite students. Rose went to turn around to look at the teacher and student but was stopped by the Doctor who mouthed at her to act natural, Rose nodded before snatching another chip from his plate. "You'll be joining my class for the next period. Milo's failed me so it's time we moved you up to the top class." The Doctor slowly ate a chip while keeping his attention on the teacher as he and Rose pretended to be joking around. "Kenny, not eating the chips?"
"I'm not allowed." A student said sadly.
"Luke, extra class. Now!" The teacher ordered before leading a couple students out of the room.
"What do you think he meant about Milo?" Rose whispered taking another chip.
"I don't know, but that's what we're here to find out." The Doctor said before standing up when he realized all his chips were gone. "Come on, we should head to our classes." The Doctor said before noticing that Rose's attention was caught somewhere else. He followed her gaze to see her looking at the headmaster who was watching the students from the balcony. Well that wasn't creepy or suspicious.
~Twenty Five~
Jackie was silently watching everyone in the kitchen as she cleaned the dishes, though she hated that she had to pose as a dinner lady while her daughter and the Doctor got to move around the school freely as an art teacher and a physics teacher, she understood why the Doctor wanted her here. The people in the kitchen seems to know everything going on in this school because people tend to over look the dinning ladies as they gossip about.
"Careful," A woman cried catching Jackie's attention, "Keep it steady." Curious as to what was happening Jackie moved so that she could see what was happening and stay hidden, yet look like she was just putting a pan away if she happened to be caught. Jackie's eyes widened as she saw four women with medical masks, goggles, and hazard gloves wheeling in what seemed to be a toxic hazard barrel. "Don't spill a drop." The barrel seemed to wobble a little, "I said keep it steady. Careful. That's it. Easy now. Steady." Jackie's new mobile rang and she answered it quickly before anyone realized it was her mobile that was ringing and catch her snooping. "Right, second barrel, quickly now."
"What've you got?" Jackie whispered instinctively ducking as the women walked past her.
"Confirmation." Mickey said.
"Can't you call and tell Rose this, I'm kind of busy at the moment." Jackie whispered.
"I've tried, but it seems that their mobiles are off." Mickey said apologetically.
"Right, tell me what you've found. Quickly." Jackie hissed at him annoyed that the Doctor and Rose made sure that she knew to always keep her mobile on when they have theirs off.
"I've just got into army records. Three months ago, massive UFO activity. They logged over 40 sightings. Lights in the sky, all of that. Can't get any photos 'cause then it gets all classified, secret. Keeps locking me out." Mickey told her.
"Tell you what, though. Three months ago, turns out all the kitchen staff were replaced." Jackie told Mickey as she watched the women wheeled in another barrel. "And this lot are weird."
"See, there's definitely something going on. I was right to call you and Rose home." Mickey said.
"Well, that's not how the Doctor see it. He sees it that you called us home so that you could try and steal 'his' Rose away." Jackie whispered smirking while watching the women and the barrel closely.
"Well..." Mickey said and if Jackie wasn't spying on people, she would have laughed at how predictable Mickey was.
"I'm not saying to not try, I'm just telling you that though it will be hilarious to see the Doctor get jealous, I'm just saying don't get your hopes up." Jackie told him.
"I know that Rose loves him and that he loves her, but you and I both know that the Doctor will never be able to give Rose what she needs." Mickey said.
"And that would be?" Jackie asked though she already knew what Mickey was going to say.
"A stable home with a stable man and a family of her own." Mickey said and Jackie sighed.
"I know that no matter what I say will ever make you change your mind, and yes before I witnessed everything between this Doctor and my daughter I was pushing you to try and get in between them. But Mickey, you haven't seen this Doctor with our Rosie. During out first trip after he changed he told me that this body was made just for Rose and at first I didn't believe him, wanting to see it as a joke. But the more I watch him with her, the more I see that he was telling the truth. The Doctor's new body was made just for Rose, with Rose in mind." Jackie told Mickey with a sad smile. She loved Mickey as if he was her own son, and after everything that happened with Rose and Jimmy Stone, Mickey had been the perfect choice for Rose. Mickey was familiar, reliable, and, most importantly, safe. But now, Jackie had come to see, Mickey was not right for Rose anymore.
"What are you saying, Jackie? Are you telling me to just give up on Rose? Because I can't, I love her and I have ever since we were kids." Mickey said.
"And I'm sure Rose loves you too, just not the way you love her. And I'm not telling you to give up on Rose, I'm just trying to warn you that if you plan to fight for her, then prepare for a war. Because the Doctor won't let her go with out a fight, and should someone try to take her from him he will be out for blood." Jackie warned.
"That's all the more reason for me to get her away from him." Mickey said and was about to say some more when one of the women pushing the barrel slipped and fell causing the barrel to tip over and spill bright yellow liquid on her causing the woman to scream in pain and fear as the liquid began to sizzle and burn as if it were acid.
"I've got to go." Jackie told him quickly as she hung up her mobile and ran from her hiding place over to the four woman stopping when she saw them enter a room and closed the blinds to a window that looked into the room. Jackie quickly dialed the number for an ambulance when the head lady stepped out of the room and pulled off her mask and goggled.
"Whatcha doing?" The woman demanded.
"Calling an ambulance." Jackie said.
"No need, she's quite alright." The woman said and Jackie looked at her as if she were crazy as she hung up the phone knowing that if she didn't she would cause a scene and that was the last thing they needed. Something falling to the floor followed by a scream and smoke came bellowing out of the room, alerting Jackie that no, the woman was not quite alright. "It's fine. She does that." The woman said before quickly returning to the room and shut the door behind her. Jackie carefully walked over to the spilled barrel and looked at the label so that she could tell the Doctor it as she told him what happened here.
~Twenty Five~
Rose and the Doctor were sitting in the teacher's lounge during one of their brakes that they shared together. Rose was sitting on a couch sipping some tea and munching on some chopped carrots that the TARDIS had packed for her while appearing to look over some of her classes work while listening to the Doctor, who was leaning against the back of the couch she was on, converse with a teacher. "Yesterday I had a 12-year-old girl give me the exact height of the walls of Troy in cubits." The teacher told the Doctor as the Doctor reached behind him to grab a handful of carrots. Rose lifted up the container high enough so the Doctor could reach them causing some of the older female teachers to smile at her.
"And it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?" The Doctor asked absentmindedly resting his hand lovingly on Rose's shoulder.
"You two are so cute, are you two married?" An elderly teacher asked Rose who smiled and held up her hand that held a beautiful diamond ring that the Doctor had slipped onto her finger muttering something about it helping them play a part with a blush.
"Newly weds. Be married a year now." Rose said playing her part that the TARDIS came up for them and felt the Doctor lightly squeeze her shoulder.
"Finch arrived three months ago, next say half the staff got flu. Finch replaced them with that lot" The male teacher informed the Doctor, nodding his head towards the teacher standing a few feet away from them. The Doctor glanced behind him to look at the teachers while Rose glanced up trying not to seem as if she were eavesdropping. "Except for the teachers you and your lovely wife replaced, and that was just plain weird, both of them winning the lottery like that."
"How's that weird?" The Doctor asked.
"Neither of them played. Both of them claimed that the tickets were posted through their doors at midnight." The teacher said walking away as the Doctor popped a carrot in his mouth.
"The world is very strange, right dear?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh I know, we were very lucky that this school took us on like they did, seeing as most schools don't allow husband and wives to work together. Afraid it would distract them from their job, or something." Rose said as the door opened and the headmaster walked in with a woman following him.
"Excuse me, colleagues. A moment of your time." Finch said and the Doctor slowly stood from leaning on the couch as he realized who the woman with Finch was, this caught Rose's attention. "May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith." Finch said and Rose glanced between the woman and her Doctor who was staring at the woman in shock, her Doctor knew this woman that was for sure. "Miss Smith is a journalist who's writing a profile about me for The Sunday Times." Rose slowly stood up and moved so that she was right next to the Doctor and took his hand in hers. The Doctor glanced at her before looking back at the woman. Rose didn't know if she liked the fact that this strange woman had all of her Doctor's attention or not. "I thought it might be useful for her to get a view from the trenches, so to speak." As if sensing her worry, the Doctor lightly tugged Rose closer to him so that he could wrap his arm around her waist. "Don't spare my blushes."
"That's Sarah Jane Smith, an old friend of mine. She traveled with me before I had to go fight in the Time War." The Doctor whispered in Rose's ear as he watched Sarah Jane look around the room for someone to interview.
"Just a friend?" Rose asked.
"Oh, love, there's no need to worry, my hearts belong to you." The Doctor whispered to Rose as Sarah Jane locked eyes with them. "Though, if I do remember correctly, she did develop feelings for me." The Doctor said as Sarah Jane got to them.
"Hello." She said holding out her hand to the Doctor who gladly shook it before letting Rose have a go.
"Oh, I should think so." The Doctor said with a huge smile that caused Rose to bite back the urge to roll her eyes and glare at the woman.
'Just a friend my arse.' She thought forcing on a smile.
"And you are?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Uh," The Doctor said as if he forgot who they were supposed to be, Rose crossed her arms and stepped away from him instantly kick starting his brain into working again, "Smith. John Smith, and this is my lovely and breath takingly beautiful wife, Rose Smith." The Doctor said motioning to Rose who just gave him an annoyed look as she moved to sit back down on the couch causing the older woman to lightly laugh and shake their heads at the Doctor.
"John Smith?" Sarah Jane asked. "I used to have a friend who sometimes went by that name."
"Well, it's a very common name." The Doctor said and tried to rest his hand on his Rose's shoulder only to have her shake him off shocking him enough to look at her in shock.
"He was a very uncommon man." Sarah Jane said watching the two interact, just before she had come over to them the two had seemed so happy, what was it about her that made this young woman so mad at this strangely familiar man? "Nice to meet you." Sarah Jane said holding her hand out to Rose once more, Rose gave her a strange look before she took it.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Rose said politely as she once again shook John's hand off her shoulder which caused John to, if she had heard correctly, whimper as if he were in pain.
"So, have you two worked here long?" Sarah Jane asked trying not to appear too suspicious of these two.
"No, it's only our second day." Rose answered shocking Sarah Jane.
"Oh, you're new, then? So what do you think of the school?" Sarah Jane asked before stepping closer to both Rose and John. "I mean, this new curriculum, so many children getting ill." She asked and noticed Rose getting a look that Sarah Jane remembered always seeing in the Doctor's eyes before Rose and John shared a look. "Doesn't that strike you as odd?"
"You don't sound like someone just doing a profile." Rose said with a smirk.
"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here." Sarah Jane said smirking back.
"I understand, seeing an opportunity and taking it. I would do the same if I were in your position." Rose said as Sarah Jane walked away.
"Rose?" The Doctor whispered as he once again tried to set his hand on her shoulder happy when Rose allowed him.
"I can see why you would be drawn to have a relationship with her." Rose whispered to him as she watched Sarah Jane interview one of the teachers that were hired three months ago.
"I was never in a relationship with her." The Doctor whispered as he quickly moved so that he was sitting next to her. He gently took Rose's face in his hands and rested his head on her forehead. "I was never in a relationship with any of my companions, that is until you came along." The Doctor said before giving Rose a light kiss, "I'm so sorry that I made you feel as if what we have was just some common thing that I have with all my beautiful companions. When I told you that Sarah Jane was an old friend, she was just that, a friend that I haven't seen in years. A friend I never thought I would ever see again."
"I understand, I'm sorry that I jumped to conclusions." Rose said as the bell ran. Rose and the Doctor stood up and walked towards the door.
"You had every right, what with the way I was acting." The Doctor said. "I acted like a high school boy talking to his long time crush, and I am sorry for that." The Doctor said as they came to the place they would have to split up to get to their classrooms. "Hey." The Doctor said grabbing Rose's hand as she continued walking and pulled her into his arms. "I love you."
"I love you too, now, let me go before the students see us and we get in trouble." Rose said and smiled as the Doctor pouted before letting her go. He watched her until he could no longer see her before he looked over his shoulder to find Sarah Jane watching him.
~Twenty Five~
The Doctor, Rose, Jackie, and Mickey waited until night to sneak back into the locked school. "Oh! It's weird seeing a school at night. It just feels wrong." Rose whispered as she allowed the Doctor to lead her by the hand up some stairs. "When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in school" Rose told the Doctor causing him to laugh and give her a loving look as they came to the top of the stairs.
"Alright, team...Oh, I hate people who say 'team'." The Doctor said and Rose could tell her mum was trying her hardest not to say whatever had just popped into her mind. "Um, gang. Erm...comrades." The Doctor said awkwardly trying to come up with a better term to call them. "Anyway, Jackie, go to the kitchen, get a sample of that oil. Mickey, the new staff are all maths teachers. Check out the maths department. Rose and I are gonna look in Finch's office. Meet back here in 10 minutes." The Doctor said as him and Rose took off towards the headmasters office.
"You gonna be alright?" The Doctor heard Jackie asked Mickey as he slowed down to hear the conversation.
"Me? Please." He heard Mickey scoff. "Infiltration and investigation? I'm an expert at this." Heard someone, which he assumed to be Mickey, walk off in the wrong direction of the maths department only to slowly walk back. "Where's the maths department?" He heard Mickey ask and chocked back a laugh as Jackie told him.
"What?" Rose asked.
"Just Mickey being himself." The Doctor said before a screeching sound caught their attention.
"What was that?" Rose asked.
"I don't know." The Doctor said as he looked at Rose with a smile. "Why don't we go find out?" Rose gave him her 'Rose smile' before the two took off down the hall only to stop when they spotted Sarah Jane backing away from the room they had hid the TARDIS in. As if sensing they were behind her, Sarah Jane slowly turned around to look at them in shock. "Hello, Sarah Jane." The Doctor said wrapping his arm around Rose's waist.
"It's you." Sarah Jane gasped out. "Doctor. Oh, my God. It's you, isn't it?" She whispered walking up to them, stopping only a few feet away from them. "You've regenerated."
"Yeah." The Doctor said. "Half a dozen times since we last met."
"You look... incredible." Sarah Jane said and Rose felt her jealousy of the woman rise up though she tried to fight it off, trusting the Doctor when he told her that him and Sarah Jane had never once been anything other than friends.
"So do you." The Doctor said and looked down at Rose when he felt her shift. Rose's shifting seemed to allow Sarah Jane to realize that she was there too.
"What are you doing here?" Sarah Jane asked and Rose wasn't sure if she was talking to her or the Doctor.
"Well, UFO sighting, school gets record results. I couldn't resist." The Doctor said shifting him and Rose so that he was basically blocking Sarah Jane's view of her. He had not liked the way Sarah Jane had looked and spoke to his Rose, just because she had once been a dear friend does not mean he would allow her to speak or look at his Rose the was she did. "What about you?"
"The same." Sarah Jane said more than confused about the Doctor's behavior. This young woman was just a companion that he would drop off at home when he got bored of her and fly away in his TARDIS never to be seen or heard from again. As Sarah Jane continued to watch the two she couldn't help remembering how the two of them had acted earlier that day. But that was just it, right? It was all just an acted so that their cover would not be blown. She remembered plenty of times when the two of them had roles to act out as they went undercover. But never once did she and the Doctor ever pretend to be a newly married couple, nor did he ever utter the words 'I love you' to her. Sarah Jane felt herself become filled with jealousy. "I thought you'd died! I waited for you, you didn't come back and I thought you must have died. Yet here I find you, new face and me replaced." Her eyes narrowed as she watched the Doctor's hand flew behind him to grab on to the young woman.
"I lived." The Doctor said, a dark tone in his voice that caused her to shiver in fear, "Everyone else died. And if it wasn't for Rose here, I also would be dead."
"What do you mean?" Sarah Jane asked confused how had this silly little human girl rescued the mighty Doctor from death.
"Just as I said." The Doctor said.
"I can't believe it's you." Sarah Jane said and a second later they heard what sounded like Mickey screaming in fear. "Okay, now I can." The three of them ran towards the sound only to literally run into Jackie.
"Did you hear that?" Jackie asked. "Who is she?"
"Mum, meet Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane, meet my mum, Jackie." Rose said and Sarah Jane looked at the Doctor in shock.
"Hi. Nice to meet you." Sarah Jane said to Jackie in obviously forced politeness before looking back at the Doctor and Rose. "Well, you can tell you're getting older, your assistants are getting younger." She said glaring at Rose. "And since when do you travel with family? You've never traveled with family before."
"I'm not his assistant." Rose said.
"No?" Sarah Jane asked in shock. "Get you, tiger." Rose rolled her eyes at Sarah Jane before crossing her arms and stomping into the room Mickey was in with the Doctor quickly following her. Jackie threw Sarah Jane a glare before following her daughter and the Doctor, she did not like this woman.
"Sorry. Sorry, it was only me." Mickey said when he saw them enter the room as he tried to hide what had made him scream. "You told me to investigate so I started looking through these cupboards and all these fell out on me." He explained when he realized it was useless to hid the packaged rats.
"Oh, my God, they're rats." Rose said as she and the Doctor bent down to examine them. "Dozens of rats. Vacuum-packed rats!"
"And you decided to scream?" The Doctor asked standing up holding a vacuum-packed rat, annoyance was clear in his voice. Jackie wasn't sure if the Doctor was annoyed with Mickey himself or was taking out his annoyance on Mickey for something that happened between him, Rose, and this Sarah Jane.
"It took me by surprise." Mickey said.
"Like a little girl." The Doctor said allowing his voice to rise a few octaves so that he sounded like a girl.
"It was dark! I was covered in rats!" Mickey said through clinched teeth at the fact the Doctor was once again embarrassing him in front of Rose and all Rose was doing was giggling at the Doctor who glanced at her with a smirk before looking back at Mickey.
"Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails, frilly skirt." The Doctor continued shocking Sarah Jane with how vindictive he had become.
"Hello, yes, we all know how much you love to tease Mickey, Doctor, but can we all just focus?" Jackie asked with a laugh and Sarah Jane looked at all of the in confusion, this was normal?
"Mum is right. Has anyone noticed anything strange about this?" Rose asked. "Rats in school?"
"Well, obviously, they use them in biology lessons, they dissect them. Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?" Sarah Jane asked and was shocked when the Doctor growled and pulled Rose to him with her back pressed against his chest.
"Excuse me. No one dissects rats in school anymore." Rose said as Jackie and Mickey watched from the sidelines as the two women glared at each other. "They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the Dark Ages?" Rose asked and Sarah Jane gasped in shock and opened her mouth to try and deliver a nasty blow to her in the form of words.
"Anyway!" The Doctor called glaring at Sarah Jane. "Moving on... Everything started when Mr. Finch arrived. We should go check his office." The Doctor said as Rose and Sarah Jane continued to glare at each other. The Doctor took Rose by her hand and tossed the vacuum-packed rat in his hand at Mickey, under any other circumstances he would have found Mickey flailing about hilarious but as of right now he was more concerned with stopping his old friend, Sarah Jane, and his love from fighting so that his Rose wouldn't be under constant fire.
"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who the hell are you?" Jackie asked as the rest of them followed the Doctor and Rose.
"Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor." Sarah Jane said.
"Oh! Well, he's never mentioned you." Jackie said knowing that the woman would be hurt by this. This woman had verbally attacked her daughter, so now Jackie was on a mission to make sure this woman understood that her and the Doctor's Rose was never to be hurt in any way.
"Never?" Sarah Jane asked in shock.
"Hold on," Jackie said before pretending to look as if she were thinking, "Sorry...never."
"Well of course he wouldn't tell you, you don't even travel with him. He doesn't do family, especially not mothers." Sarah Jane said glaring at Jackie.
"He does when it's either let the mother travel with them or have Rose forever pissed at him." Jackie said as they came up to the headmaster's office.
"So, Doctor, why do you think there are vacuum-packed rats here?" Mickey asked as the Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver.
"Maybe those rats were food." The Doctor said.
"Food for what?" Rose asked as the Doctor unlocked the door.
"That, my dear, is a very good question." The Doctor said and opened the door to the headmaster's office. The Doctor poked his head in and looked around, he looked at the ceiling when he heard what sounded like hissing to discover about 13 bat like creatures hanging from the ceiling. "Rose. You know how you used to think all the teachers slept in the school?" The Doctor asked slowly reaching back to take a hold of Rose's hand and slipped into the room, pulling her in before wrapping his arms around her to protect her. "Well, they do."
"No way!" Mickey whispered before he took off running down the hall with Jackie and Sarah Jane following him. The Doctor and Rose carefully slipped back out of the room and as quietly as he could, the Doctor shut the headmaster's door before him and Rose took off down the hall as they heard one of the creatures wake up screeching. Everyone followed Mickey out of the school building
"I'm not going back in there. Now way!" Mickey told the Doctor as he and Rose walked out of the building.
"Those were the teachers?" Jackie asked.
"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies and a nurse, 13. Thirteen big bat people. Come on." The Doctor said as him and Rose turned and walked back into the building.
"You've got to be kidding!" Mickey cried out.
"I need the TARDIS." The Doctor said. "I've got to analyze that oil from the kitchen."
"I might be able to help you there." Sarah Jane said stopping the Doctor and Rose once more. "I've got something to show you." She said and took the Doctor by the hand and began to pull him to her car while also trying to pull him out of Rose's grip. But Rose and the Doctor held on to each other as he let Sarah Jane lead him. When they got to her car, she opened the boot and showed the Doctor what appeared to be a bundle of blankets. The Doctor carefully moved the blanket to show a metal dog with wires hanging out of it.
"K9!" The Doctor cried, "Rose Tyler, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, allow me to introduce K9. Well, K9 Mark 3 to be precise." The Doctor said and Rose pet the metal dog.
"Hello K9, it's such a pleasure to meet you." Rose said.
"Why does he look so disco?" Jackie asked.
"Oi! Listen, in the year 5,000 this was cutting edge." The Doctor snapped at her. "What happened to him?" The Doctor asked Sarah Jane.
"One day, just... Nothing." Sarah Jane said as she watched Rose continue to pet it.
"Didn't you try and get him repaired?" The Doctor asked and Rose gave him a look that clearly read 'Really?'.
"It's not like getting parts for a Mini Metro." Sarah Jane said.
"And besides, Doctor, from just looking at him I can tell that the technology inside him could rewrite human science." Rose said and the Doctor rubbed the back of his head.
"Rose is right, I couldn't show him to anyone." Sarah Jane said as Mickey and Jackie shared a look, earlier the two were practically at each other's throats and now they were bonding over a metal dog?
"Ooh, what's the nasty lady done to you, eh?" The Doctor asked the dog as he began to pet him. As the Doctor continued to love on the metal dog he noticed when Rose suddenly stand up and began looking around the lot as if she sensed something.
"What wrong?" The Doctor asked her.
"I don't know, I just suddenly got the feeling that something is watching us. Maybe we should pack up and move somewhere less open." Rose said.
"Yes, of course." The Doctor said closed the lid to the boot and motioned for everyone to get into Sarah Jane's car.