Title: It starts with Barcelona

Pairing: Ten/Rose

Fandom: Doctor Who

Rate: T

Story: AU version of "Doomsday": Rose stayed with the Doctor and they set up their new beginning. There's something different in Rose, something that she still doesn't understand. The Doctor does though and he'll try to help her. This time, he'll allow himself to be selfish. Only this time, because she's the reason. She's the main reason that keeps him going.

A/N: Hello, guys. I've decided it's time to try something new and that's the reason I've started watching "Doctor Who". Then, I found myself falling in love with Ten... and then in Ten/Rose relationship. Because they are unique and special. So, I've decided to write my own post-version of "Doomsday". Enjoy and I hope you like it. :)


Chapter Fifty-Tree: Welcome to the 30's

It was indeed a bumpy ride. They had to hold on really tight inside the TARDIS. Otherwise, they'd just fly around the console room like puppets. It felt like something as an electrical net stopped the ship every time they've tried to land it. The Doctor kept pushing buttons and pull levers, but every time the result was the same. They just couldn't land anywhere in the 30's. That didn't mean he gave up though. It only made him work harder and when they finally landed, it felt like a crash and all of a sudden all of them were on the floor of the TARDIS.

"Okay, I think we landed," the Doctor said when he got off the floor and looked at the monitor. "It's 1931 and we're in London. Hmm, what happened in that year, I don't have a foggiest. Now, let's go and find out. Oh, and put on your coats. It's almost Christmas outside." He grinned and put on his brown coat.

"What's up with you and Christmas? Seriously!" Rose rolled her eyes and went to take her coat and a coat for Mel as well. She walked into Pete's room on her way back to the console room. "Honey, we're going out. Are you gonna be okay here?" She crouched next to him on the floor. He was trying to put together pieces of a map.

"Yup, mum." He nodded. "I have to put together this map, father gave to me. It was all over the room just few seconds ago."

"Just remember, don't leave the TARDIS without us, okay?" Rose leaned to kiss his head.

"I know, mum," Pete nodded and focused over the map again.

Rose sighed and walked out of the room. When she went back to the console room, the Doctor and Mel were waiting for her impatiently. Rose gave a coat to Mel and looked at the Doctor. He sighed and looked at the control table.

"Activate Protocol 3!" He said out loud.

"Protocol 3 is activated!" A computer voice answered him.

"I've never heard that protocol," Mel looked at them. "What does it mean?"

"You don't want to know," Rose patted her shoulder and walked to the door. "Well, shall we?"

"C'mon!" Mel looked at the Doctor. "What is it?"

"Something you don't have to know!" He grinned and opened the door. "C'mon, ladies! Let's go!"

It was snowing when they stepped outside. The TARDIS had landed in something as a back street. Rose remembered the time when they had landed in Cardiff, her first trip back in time. She had met Charles Dickens there and the girl that had saved the world. Well, they had landed TARDIS in a night like this one and the street looked the same. Rose could hear people laughing and looked up at the falling snow.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" The Doctor said close to her ear. "Now you ask me why I love Christmas?" He took her hand. "We've never had Christmas back on Gallifrey. The pure joy you can see on people's faces is priceless."

"So… that's why, huh?" Mel walked few steps behind them.

"That's why what?" The Doctor asked without even turning back.

"You love Christmas?"

"Yes," the Doctor nodded. "But now, back to business!" He pulled out a strange looking machine from the inside pocket of his coat.

"What is this?" Mel blinked.

"That's my timey-wimey detector!" The Doctor grinned. "It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow. I haven't used it in awhile."

"You didn't have a reason to use it, Doctor." Rose wiggles her brows.

"And… the weeping angels? This thing can detect them?" Mel frowned.

"Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had, all your stolen moments. They're creatures of the abstract. They live off potential energy," the Doctor turned around and looked at her. "Lonely assassins, they were called. No-one knows where they came from. They're as old as the universe, or very nearly. They've survived this long as they have the most perfect defense system ever evolved. They are quantum-locked. They don't exist when being observed. The moment they're seen by any other living creature they freeze into rock. No choice. It's a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. And you can't kill a stone. Course, a stone can't kill you either. But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh, yes it can! That's why they cover their eyes. They're not weeping, they can't risk looking at each other. Their greatest asset is their greatest curse. They can never be seen. The loneliest creatures in the universe. You're lucky you haven't met them yet."

"Well, to be perfectly honest, we've avoided them since now." Mel shrugged.

"Oh, that's clever too," the Doctor nodded, but then the sound of a ringing phone took his attention. "Ah, my detector just caught something! This way!" He turned in a dark, empty street. Rose and Mel followed him.

They kept running like this few minutes, until the Doctor stopped all of a sudden. He was standing in front of a wooden door. The house was empty. They could say that, because there was no light coming from the windows. He looked up once again and then back to his timey-wimey detector. The ringing had stopped. However, it felt like something stopping him from entering the house. He blinked and looked around.

"What?" Rose walked to him. "Why are we standing here?"

"I don't want to go in there unprotected, Rose!" He muttered under his nose and looked for something. "Ah!" He ran to a small metal box, not so far away from the house and pulled out his sonic screwdriver. The lights in the house went on. "That's better," he grinned.

"What?" Mel looked up at the house and then at the Doctor.

"You know that I know few tricks," the Doctor winked at her. "Besides, the house is empty."

"How do you know?" Mel asked him.

The Doctor lifted up his timey-wimey detector, "There's no ding!" He pointed out as if that would explain everything.

"Well, of course!" Mel rolled her eyes. "No ding – no thing!"

The Doctor just gave her a look and pushed the door open. The house was empty, just like he had told them. However, they felt strange energy in there. Rose looked around. It looked like an ordinary house from the 30's. She sighed and walked up the stairs, following the Doctor. Mel was right behind her.

"Okay, that's weird!" The Doctor muttered. "No ding, but there's something here. I can tell."

"I can feel it too," Rose looked around when they reached the second floor.

"Stop!" The Doctor whispered.

"Huh?" Rose almost bumped into him.

"Look!" He pointed at her right. There was a small marble statue of a weeping angel. The hands covered the eyes as usual.

"How that thing get in here?" Mel whispered.

"I don't know, maybe the people who live here bought it?" The Doctor suggested. "Hold this!" He handed the timey-wimey detector to Rose and pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "Now, let's see why that thing wanted us here," he muttered and pointed his sonic device to the statue. "That statue had been here for a while. The thing I don't get it, is why they wanted us here? Hmm, I can't sense another Time Lord around and that means, the Healer is not here. Wait!" The Doctor took a step closer to the weeping angel. "He's been here!"

"Doctor!" Rose shouted when the lights blinked.

"Don't stop looking at it!" The Doctor said. "It can't turn off the lights! I made sure of that before we could enter the house!" Then the lights blinked once more.

"Well, it's trying!" Mel stood close to Rose. "Did it just moved?"

"Doctor!" Rose shouted once again.

"Hmm," the Doctor muttered under his nose. "You needed us here, but what for?" He kept looking at the statue. Just then the timey-wimey detector in Rose's hands started ringing. "Ah, the TARDIS!" The Doctor stared at the creature. "You wanted the TARDIS!"

"Doctor!" Rose scoffed. "I think we should get out of here! Now!"

"I agree!" Mel muttered. "See? It moved again!"

"Run!" The Doctor shouted this time.

They didn't need second invitation. Rose, Mel and the Doctor ended up in the street just few minutes later. They all breathed heavily and looked up the second floor. The lights were still on and not blinking.

"What that thing wanted from us?" Mel looked at the Doctor.

"TARDIS!" The Doctor just shook his head and took his timey-wimey detector from Rose. "It wanted us to find it here."

"But… what's the connection with my brother?" Mel frowned.

"He was here before us," the Doctor muttered. "Not so long ago. Maybe few days or few hours? Who knows for sure?"

"You!" Rose scoffed. "Usually that person is you!"

"Oi!" The Doctor gave her a look as they walked down the street. "I don't have all the answers in the Universe."

"Usually, you do." Mel muttered.

"That's really flattering," the Doctor smirked.

"Back to the point, where is the Healer now?" Mel sighed.

"Somewhere… here," the Doctor frowned. "The year is correct. The place is correct. I think it's why they brought him here."

"Who?" Rose frowned.

"The weeping angels!" The Doctor led them back to TARDIS.

"There're more than one?" Rose shook her head and put her hands up. "Well, of course. It has to be difficult. Why easy?"

"That place and time is just… messed up!" The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS and let them in. "There are weeping angels everywhere. Some of them are not supposed to be here though. They want to get out."

"This is why they need a TARDIS?" Rose sat on the seat, close to the console.

"Yes," the Doctor nodded.

"That's why they needed my brother?" Mel blinked. "But how? We didn't see them back in the 70's."

"I have to figure that out now," the Doctor muttered. "Maybe they used something as a hologram? Or they could project themselves somehow. But how? Where's the Healer's TARDIS?" He looked back at Mel.

"He's there, in the 70's." She answered him. "It's locked and it's safe. Just as mine."

"So that means, they didn't get it!" The Doctor looked at the monitor. "That's a good news!"

"They used something to get him into that cave!" Mel walked to the Doctor. "He didn't send a signal for help. There was no signal at all. It took him by surprise."

"That's because he hadn't met them before," the Doctor explained to her. "But, I've met them and I beat them the last time."

"They could try to steal your TARDIS then?" Mel gasped.

"No," the Doctor shook his head.

"Why?" Mel insisted.

"Because they know me," the Doctor gave her a serious look. "They know who I am!"