Rose was internally calculating and it was making Anna grin wildly, Rose had to come to the conclusion herself as far as she was concerned otherwise things would never get started. Rose just as much as herself suffered from wanderlust, just the feeling of an inadequate lifestyle when a better one was just out of reach by a fingertip.
That feeling almost drove Anna insane long before yesterday in Henricks, or today with the possibility of seeing anything and everything. After all, four years will do that to just about anyone. Let alone one like her who KNOWS what's out there. She could just taste it, the taste of adventure was addicting.
Anna broke out of her musings when Rose started to drag her off by the hand back towards the estates. "Whoa! Give ya girl a little warning Rosie!" She ignored her and just charged onwards, actually picking up the pace a little. "You're not gonna listen to him are you?" A mad grin lit her face paired with the spike in her heartbeat.
"Shut up." Rose clipped, yet still turned to Mickey's flat rather than her mum's. Anna giggled yet did as she was told.
Mickey was a predictable guy, he was only usually in a few places which made it rather easy to know he was home at this time of day. Of course this was not impartial to the fact that, like her mother, Rose wanted to know where her significant other was at any given time of the day. Mickey only goes to the pub at night to watch the match, to the mechanic he works at, his flat, or any place Rose goes that he feels might get him laid that night. Anna didn't know how the hell Rose always seemed to know when he was home and when he wasn't, but she wasn't about to question it right in this moment.
"Hey hey! Here's my woman, kit off!" He cheesed when he opened the front door. It was so weird and...corny that she just kind of sighed in disappointment.
"Shut up," She says it with enough affection for him to not notice how distracted she really was paired with a kiss made Anna gag with an eye roll. Rose and Mickey ignore her which makes her grumble under her breath in annoyance.
When he offers her a coffee Rose replies, "Yeah, only if you wash the mug. And I don't mean rinse, I mean wash. Can I use your computer?"
"Yeah. Any excuse to get in the bedroom. Don't read my emails!" Anna grimaced and yelled, "Ugh that's disgusting Mickey!" He just shrugged and went to wash out a mug. She pinched the bit of bone between her eyes at a sudden burst of pain and inhaled shakily, sighing long to ease it away.
"Headache again?" Rose asked, multitasking booting up the dinosaur and bringing on the Rose Inquisition. "I'm fine," Anna immediately lied to try to put the focus back on where it was supposed to be, the Doctor not some stupid persistant headache. Rose frowned with a slight glare, "Seriously! Go on shift." She pointed at the computer, but sat on the floor knowing that it would get Rose to cooperate more readily.
Rose smiled cheekily at getting her way and turned to face the monitor. Anna was endlessly frustrated with the primitive tech, never wanting to use the damn thing if only because it always managed to make her temper flare. She was used to internet speeds that weren't slower than the end of time itself, slow wifi was always enough to drive one to rage. "Did you try 'Doctor who' yet?" She asked, leaning her head back so it was resting against Rose's leg with her eyes closed. The pain was always a dull throb that never seemed to be a steady one, yet at the same time the different pains were repetitive where each one was easily identifiable.
"Got something," Rose muttered. "Yeah?" "Yeah, some bloke named Clive."
"Clive? How british," Anna snickered softly. "I'll contact 'im, wait here a tic."
She missed the warmth of leaning against her leg, but was grateful when Rose came back with some pain medication. "Did you nick these from his hangover stash?" Anna asked with a knowing smile. Rose winked conspiratorially before pulling her to her feet.
"Clive invited us round soon as we could show," She explained, "said his wife and kids won't mind."
Anna raised a brow, "Mickey's throwing a fit isn't he?"
"No," She leveled Rose with both brows nearly touching her hairline, "alright yeah he is. When isn't he?" Anna gave in with a nod, that man would be SO different in just over two years...wait no that's not right. Well technically it is, because it would be about two years for Rose in any case so whatever. This was stupid and complicated and I have no friggen clue as to what I'm even talking about because all I have are basic ideas and educated guesses.
Mickey was just going on and on and on the entire drive about how much of a bad idea this all was. Which at that point Anna had tuned him out after two minutes in. Surely he of all people would have realized that once Rose had decided to do something there was absolutely no force in the universe that could stop her. I 'figured' that out day one here, even if it was a little shocking nonetheless. Sixteen year old Rose was a bit of a terror.
"Mickey, you chattering monkey, if she hasn't given in yet she isn't going to just save your breath." Her face scrunched in distaste, "Ooh, sorry Mickey, that was on the too rude side." She had a bad habit yes, but at least she apologised when it was needed. The lack of a filter could either be funny, or extremely rude there was no inbetween. He nodded in response to her apology and went right back to his roll of explaining exactly why this guy was a serial killer.
Rose, just as Anna knew she would, ignored him and exited the car anyways. However before Anna did the same she tapped Mickey on the shoulder, "Mickey, if you see something weird don't be that guy in a horror movie." She didn't explain further when he tried to ask what she meant, instead jogging to catch up with Rose who was already across the street.
Inside Anna didn't follow Rose and Clive out to the shed, choosing instead to be in the kitchen with his wife who was in the middle of making her a cup of tea. "I'm quite surprised you two read the website," she commented, "not the usual folk we've got coming around."
"Hmm I'm sure," Anna internally was thinking back to the episode that shall not be named.
"Why didn't you go to the shed with your friend? Chaperoning?"
Anna shook her head while raising her mug up to inhale the scent. "Because I didn't need to. We've met him, the Doctor, and she needs this to eventually know what I know." Now Clive's wife seemed a lot more interested.
"What's that then?" She smiled a bit, probably thinking this was all theatrics.
"That something is coming." Anna said simply, "That you and your family are all going to go out shopping tonight and if you do you will be struck with tragedy."
His wife's face fell, "Now hold on just a minute-"
"I've got no time. Your husband, Clive, he's right. He's right about everything, and you are in danger if you go out tonight." She had almost forgotten that Clive was one of the people who would die once the plastic would start the takeover and figured she had to give this her best shot.
"This is ridiculous," His wife was shaking her head. "Caroline, Caroline look at me." She stressed the word and her face was as serious as it came. "I'm not lying to you, I am not making this up. What are you going to lose by taking me seriously and not going out shopping tonight versus tomorrow? Think about what you could lose if I'm right." Her face was interesting to watch, for she never looked away from Anna's eyes. She could see each and every little change in the woman's face with the flying thoughts of an internal debate. As such she saw the moment she came to her conclusion, shakily taking a breath before nodding her head.
With that done Anna looked out towards the shed, her timing immaculate with seeing Rose trying to make it seem she wasn't running away. "Goodbye Caroline, remember what I said." She placed her empty mug into the sink, giving the other woman a nod as she followed Rose out the front door. She had to give Rose credit, she didn't proclaim her feelings on Clive's mental state until she was safely in Mickey's car where there was no chance the family would be able to hear her.
Anna groaned quietly seeing Mickey having a...shiny complexion. She knew he wouldn't listen to her of all people about staying away from something strange, however she also couldn't figure out a way to help the Doctor feasibly find the molten plastic WITHOUT Mickey being taken by them in the first place. It's just so complicated, her main focus was to not make it known that she has foreknowledge. Those who show they know too much while at the same time not knowing quite enough are on the same fence as those who don't choose a side in a war.
Rose was so in her own head that she somehow wasn't noticing the sheer absurdity of the situation at hand. Like how the hell is she not noticing this? Her boyfriend may have that stupid fixed grin on his face most of the time when he isn't scowling but still! She wasn't going to speak up though, Rose needed to learn from this without her giving the girl all the answers. She is smart, far smarter than she gives herself credit for only seeing her lacking in school credentials over her own intelligence. Which, yes, it absolutely bothers Anna. She was internally grumbling biting her tongue to keep herself from blurting like a school kid.
Like for example, she doesn't even like pizza yet she was managing to keep her cool to not be distracting with her whining. If only because she was able to keep the stewing inside her own head. She did however notice Rose shifting in place, face scrunching uncomfortably every now and again before it left as if it was never there to begin with. What was that about?
She focused again on the situation at hand once Rose spoke up, "Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had jobs going in the canteen. Is that it then, dishing out chips. I could do A Levels. I don't know. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. I only left school because of him. Look where he ended up. What do you think?" Anna flinched when Jimmy Stone was brought into the conversation oh so casually, the flashbacks that caused were nightmarish. She however shook off the chill and shoved any thought of Stone from her mind, to stave off a panic attack for one and knowing plastic McGee was about to go on the rampage.
"So where did you meet this Doctor?" His voice was just creepy as hell, jilted and twitching like a bad connection.
"I'm sorry, wasn't I talking about me for a second?" Anna had to resist the overwhelming urge to both smack Rose for being so BLIND and her own face in frustration. She glanced up and managed to spot the Doctor as he pulled a champagne bottle from the shelves. Somehow, she didn't laugh seeing him pull a face at having been spotted but gave him a strained smile flitting her eyes to plastic Mickey hoping he got the message. Seeing him nod though was the biggest relief of the day and her shoulders released a smidge of the tension held there.
The tension just redirected to her legs when plastic Mickey said, "But you can trust me, sweetheart. Babe, (deep) sugar, babe, sugar. You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really want to do, sweetheart, babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart." His voice was cutting out, skipping worse than my bluetooth headphones when I have like three hundred tabs open on my laptop.
"What are you doing that for?" When Rose asked that Anna turned to face her, face just filled with incredulous confusion. Rose noticed this one, "What?"
"Your champagne," the Doctor chimed in almost cheerfully, he would enjoy this the prat.
"We didn't order any champagne, where's the Doctor." Mickey dismissed him and demanded his location all at the same time.
"Madam your champagne?" He turned to offer the bottle to Rose, Anna barely holding back the snickers with how Rose didn't even look up to deny it being theirs. "Doesn't anybody want this champagne? How bout you miss?" He said this in a theatrical voice and, oh wicked! He was offering Anna a second bottle along with the one he was holding. She grinned wildly reaching up to take it.
"Look we didn't order it." Plastic Mickey looked up annoyed but his face twisted into a sneer, "Ah, gotcha." Anna stood while starting to shake her own bottle at the same time as the Doctor.
"Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the happy couple. On the house!" He aimed his cork straight for the money maker of Mickey's face while Anna's was much more conservative with his upper chest. Plastic man Mickey sucked the corks to his mouth and spit them out as if they were nothing more than cherry pits.
"Shit," Anna said before yanking Rose up to her feet as Mickey man started to morph into various shapes to make mass destruction. Rose had initially screamed in fear, but whipped her head around. "There!" Anna yelled at her pointing over to the fire alarm on the wall. Rose triggered the alarm while Anna helped an elderly man up to his feet so that he could escape with his wife. The Doctor grabbed her by the hand nearly pulling her off her feet with how fast the three of them were running from the headless thing.
"Open the gate, use the tube thingie! Come on!" Rose was yanking at the padlock on the gate of the alleyway by the time Anna made it out the door for the Doctor to seal it shut.
"Sonic screwdriver," he corrected her like how a parent would a child when they mispronounce a word.
"Like a sonicare toothbrush?" Anna asked while Rose yelled for him to use it.
"Right thinking, think more advanced." He said to her before walking over to the Tardis, "Nah!" he called to Rose as he went, "Tell you what, let's go in here." Anna could see him pulling out one of the yale keys that belonged to the Tardis as he went, following right behind as he went.
She knew she was foolhardy and never fully thought things through, so her immediate entrance through the doors at least couldn't be said to be out of her character. Behind her she could hear Rose yelling about not being able to hide in a wooden box, as well as demands for her to come out right that moment. Anna didn't care to listen, instead staring wide eyed and open mouthed, tears prickling in her eyes due to not even wanting to blink. She did however turn to see Rose's expression the moment she burst through the doors, grinning at how the ever humorous gag was started. Rose ran straight back out the door of the Tardis, no doubt running round it in a circle by now, while Anna stared up at the ceiling mouth agape in an openmouthed grin.
"Not going to run out like your twin?" He asked absently while wiring up plastic Mickey's head. "I'm twenty one." She responded automatically not even wanting to argue to take away from the sheer sight before her. "Oh she's just gorgeous!" Anna breathed out eyes sparkling. That was the moment Rose ran back inside, "It's going to follow us!"
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute." Rose was still heavily in shock, the same could be said of Anna but for entirely different reasons. She breathlessly walked round the consol just taking in the entirety of the main room, pushing her hands through her hair to hold back the wild curls blocking her view.
"Oh aren't you beautiful lovely," She whispered, laying a hand out on a column grinning wildly feeling what could only be described as a brush up like how a cat would greet you. Anna couldn't quite figure out how to describe where she felt it, it was almost like the back of her skull yet inside at the same time. It was as if she didn't quite have the vocabulary to apply what it was like into terms of the English language. "Well hello!" She was not expecting anything like this in all her years, Rose and the Doctor may be yammering on in the background but what does that even matter? It doesn't when compared to what was happening right in that very moment.
Her not paying attention to the more vocal creatures with her left Anna with no warning whatsoever that the Tardis was about to take flight leaving her free to positively fly clear across the consol room. She was sure it looked like those PSA's that told you to drive with your seatbelt on otherwise you'd fly clear out the windshield and make a human water balloon on the pavement. How she managed to keep her head from slamming into anything was something short of a miracle in it of itself.
"Think you could warn a girl before you send the room all topsy turvy?" She yelled trying not to snarl at the leather clad man who was racing out the door of his ship without a by your leave. Honestly, men. There was a hum that if Anna had to pander a guess was a chuckle from the sentient ship to which she gave a cheeky grin right up to the ceiling as her co conspirator.
She raced after the Doctor out the door Rose attempting to stop them both with a, "You can't go out there it's not safe!" Anna just called behind her, "Live a little Rosie!" She just needed a little bit of prompting to break from the 'stay out stay safe' mindset that had been drilled into her throughout the years by living in the estate and by Jackie Tyler. With the way estate life was you didn't survive if you didn't have street smarts to avoid the gangs.
"I lost the signal, I was so close." The Doctor grumbled in annoyance while Anna giggled with glee seeing her new surroundings. "I knew it! I knew that it was weird that this thing followed you!" She crowed if only because she loved being proven right, thoroughly enjoying the shocked bewilderment coming from Rose in the door.
"We've moved, does it fly?"
"Disappears there, reappears here you wouldn't understand." Man he can really be snippy when frustrated, Anna thought to herself before frowning at how the Doctor semi glared at her with seemingly too perfect timing with her observation.
"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose." Rose pointed out, concerned at the possibility of the headless thing going after other people in the nearby area.
"It melted with the head, are you going to witter on all night?" Rude, she thought with an exasperated eye roll. "I'll have to tell his mother. Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you are alien." Okay! Okay things were quickly about to hit the reac valve.
"Look, if I did forget some kid named Rickey-" "Yeah he's not a kid." "It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, all right?" He finished with his voice raised in frustration which Rose, in typical Tyler rage fashion, rose up to meet it (no pun intended) with a shrill, "All right?"
"Both of you shut it!" Anna roared feeling a vein pulse in time with her shout. God what idiots, "You know what-" The Doctor started before Rose interrupted.
"If you're an alien how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Rose asked curiously and honestly one of Anna's favorite questions ever asked. She grinned trying not to laugh when he responded, "Lots of planets have a North!"
"What's a police public call box?" She asked further trying to defuse the tension but Anna perked up, she knew this!
"Oh oh I know! It's from the 1950's specifically so that you could call the police, like the red boxes there are today would be for everyone else." She loved history, the forties and fifties were what got her into her obsession in the first place.
"Right you are, it's a disguise!" He grinned enamoured with his ship, she was a beauty Anna could see why he loved to boast about her.
"And this living plastic what's it got against us?" Anna shrugged as logically she wouldn't know this one.
"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner!" Anna sighed with a slightly annoyed eye roll, "What?"
"Do you have to sound so cheery about it? Honestly we're rather new to this give us at least a minute."
"Well we haven't got a minute unfortunately." This instead of making her angry just made her throw her hands up with a laugh, "Well isn't that the story of my life, right then nevermind carry one! As you were and all that."
"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asked trying to acquire as much information as she can in as short a time as possible.
He smugly lifted up a tube of blue liquid with a smirk, "Anti-plastic."
"Anti-plastic?" Rose asked but Anna cheesed a grin, "I can't believe it's called Anti-plastic."
"Anti-plastic. But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" He started walking towards the...stone wall thingie... that overlooked the London Eye.
"Hold on hide what?" He waved his hands about, trying to put the words in the correct manner that a twenty first century girl would be able to understand no doubt.
"A transmitter! The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
Anna leaned against the stone and said, "So like a dish." He pointed at her, "Yes! Round and massive slap bang in the middle of London. Must be completely invisible."
Rose looked up at the words 'round and massive' face contorting into an expression that just said "no way". She looked at Anna only to see her holding back a giggle, the Doctor noticing her face and silence.
"What?" he turns and looks out not seeing the smaller picture in the sight of tourist London.
"Penny in the air," Anna muttered under her breath, watching as he faced the two of them again ever more confused by Rose's expression.
"What, what is it what?" When he turned again she saw the spark of 'oh!'
"And the penny drops!" She cheered when he grinned madly and said, "Fantastic!"
The three were off, running towards the wheel that always was weird to Anna. She supposes it has to do with her Americanness.
"Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables-"
"The breast implants." Rose cut him off causing Anna to almost keel over in hysterical laughter.
He gave them both a sarcastic expression but got absolutely nothing in regards of repentance but chose to just keep going, "Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
Anna now skipped over to the edge of the bridge, leaning over before drauling, "I dunno about you, but in regards with things that want to try to take over the world underneath a national landmark seems to be the kind of cliche I'd go with." Rose and the Doctor joined her in looking at the hatch.
"Looks good to me!"
The hatch lead to a red lit set of tunnels, very cinematic ten out of ten for set design.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature." His face was grim, yet still able to seem as if he were only stoic.
"Can it be reasoned with?" Anna asked, not knowing if it even had the capacity to do such a thing.
"Here's to hoping." Right, so really not at all. He left the two girls at the end of the catwalk going to the one spot that fully overlooked the vat of plastic Nestene, " I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The vat flexed with a funny sound and he looked chipper enough, "Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?"
Rose gasped and ran down seeing Mickey by a railing, "Oh, God! Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's all right." He began to babble about how the vat could talk which Anna had to give a double take at, how could he understand it? She knew that she and Rose certainly couldn't understand it so what the hell? "You're stinking. Doctor, they kept him alive!"
The Doctor seemed unbothered by this revelation. "Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy." Rose took quick offense to this, "You knew and you never said?"
Anna decided to cut in, "Rose is now really the time?"
"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?" Anna snorted, looking around for the best chance at helping get out of this sticky situation. However she quickly scoffed when he went straight back to rude. "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights. I am talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go."
"Oi!" She shouted while Rose called his name in alarm, oh shit...right there were Autons who were going to grab him from behind. Whoopsies? It's been a few years can't possibly expect her to remember everything.
They pulled out the tube of anti-plastic and the thing below screeched with fury, don't need a translator to understand that one. "That was just insurance. I wasn't going to use it. I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not." His face at first was desperate to be heard, before falling into confusion, "What do you mean?"
Uh oh, Anna internally was raging an inner war with herself mentally trying to figure out what the hell she could possibly do. She frankly was freaking out trying to go over the outcomes that could come about if she interfered. Knowledge was not always power, especially when it crippled you with severe indecision. If she acted too early there could be problems with the plastic dohickeys, or hell if she were the one to act at all would he even invite Rose to come along with him? But yet the longer she sat there like a useless lump the probability of more people dying increased by the second.
"It's the Tardis! The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Both of you just leg it now!"
Anna unstuck her joints and grabbed for Rose as she reached for her phone, "Rose there's no time!"
"I need to call my mum!" She yelled right back but thankfully didn't hit her. "We need to knock the blue stuff into the vat; she and EVERYONE, every person is in danger the longer we wait." Anna saw the moment clarity washed over her friend's eyes and her face set in a determined air, nodding in time with her. Good, good good good good! Less time just watching before making a decision is always better when under a time constraint.
"Don't! Just leave him!" Mickey attempted to grapple with Rose to keep her next to him, but she slipped just out of reach running for the ax thingie that could be seen against the wall. Anna was sneaking down to the level the Doctor was on, the timing of everything wasn't exactly the most critical in the world but better early than late.
Her personal favorite Tarzan went swinging by on her chain, kicking and flailing wildly managing to catch the Auton holding the anti-plastic with her foot sending it into the vat of yuck down below. The Doctor flipped the one holding him back over the edge of the platform, Anna running forward to pull him back from the precarious edge and reach out for Rose at the same time. They caught the blonde all sharing identical grins before the Doctor looked over their shoulders at the bubbling vat.
"Now we're in trouble," He took off up the stairs to the Tardis, and Mickey by proxy, leaving Rose to snatch Anna's hand up to drag her up behind him. She didn't really need the prompting, she just liked the hand holding thing. Eagerly the two girls pushed their way into the Tardis, one dragging Mickey along to make sure he didn't do something stupid like pull a runner right back out into the danger they narrowly escaped from. Though they didn't stop him once he did just that the moment the Tardis landed once more.
Rose followed her boyfriend, chastising him over his position on the ground. Anna didn't really want to leave the glorious ship, feeling the longing urging beneath her skin and in her blood bubble up knowing that the promise of extraordinary was just at her fingertips.
"Nestene consciousness? Easy." The Doctor bragged from the doorway of his ship arms crossed over his chest. The feeling fluttering behind her chest could only be described as soft, she knew body language and she could see everything he was conveying just by looking at him. It was a sort of feeling, one where she couldn't explain quite how she knows what she does only that she did. He was going to ask Rose to come with and he was very, very nervous about it.
"You were useless in there, you'd be dead if it weren't for the two of us." She teased him with her little grin.
"Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then, I'll be off, unless, er, I don't know, you could come with me." Anna internally was dancing around with glee. It's happening it's really happening it's like watching history being made! "This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge." Says the man who for some reason is almost ALWAYS in London, Anna mused to herself.
"Don't he's an alien he's a thing!" Mickey cried out from behind the pallet.
"He's not invited," the Doctor said pointedly. "God Mickey that's so rude." Anna couldn't help herself in chastising the man, sure he's had a shock but that doesn't excuse species...ism? Is that the right term? "What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere." She was trembling with how much she was having to fight the urge to not run on into the ship, screaming and hollering at the top of her lungs.
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose asked, getting a manic yes in return. She turned to look at Anna, somehow seeing the nervous energy building up within the redhead. "Life is always dangerous though isn't it?" Anna couldn't help herself, her filter was pretty exhausted after holding her tongue for so long, "Could get hit by a bus, choke on a bean, what's the point of it if you don't just live a little?"
"But what about mum? And this stupid lump?" She said it with love which was more than Anna was willing to give the immature man.
"If your mum had her way you'd never leave the estate. Come on Rosie," she implored, "think about it! It's everything we've ever dreamed of, Mickey has more growing up to do himself." Then Rose turned to the Doctor, who was standing watching them while all this went down. "And what about her? Said he's not invited but what about her?"
"Course she is!" Anna's jaw dropped in surprise, "Can't have one Tyler twin without the other now can we?"
Anna cut in once more, "You said 'time and relative dimension in space', is that what I think it means?" His eyes sparked and the Doctor gave her a grin, "That it does Anna Tyler, that it does." She decided to ignore the 'Tyler thing for now, not about to die on that mountain just yet. He straightened up off the side of the doorway, "Your choice," he reminded them, mostly aimed at Rose, before turning away leaving the door open.
Rose looked again over at Anna, who just held her hand out to her with a small smile. Rose turned down to Mickey and gave him a kiss on the forehead. "Thanks," she said to the still cowering man who instantly looked confused, "Thanks? Thanks for what?"
"Being there," Anna said as Rose took her hand, "you were what she needed and were there for her." She may not have much patience for him while he still acted immature, but she could give him credit when it was due.
"Exactly," This time Anna was sure Rose was saying that in response to her statement over Mickey's question. She wanted to say something to attempt avoiding the whole 'Jackie freak out' but...that was inevitable no matter what she did now that she thought about it. Rose took her hand once more, and they ran through the open doors. Onwards and upwards, onto the next adventure, next stop everywhere.
A/N
This one was long, but I didn't wish to break the episode into three parts. Mostly out of impatience, but I expect later episodes will be split into three parts the longer and more intricate they are. Anyways! Rose! Done! Reviews tell me what y'all think, especially if I'm doing something that should be changed (like accidentally not connecting the lines to the story arc things like that) or if something more should be added. Til the next time.