Chapter 4: When one door closes, another one looks completely different

A/N- Chapter 4 is here! I hope to put up a chapter every Saturday or every other Saturday. This will make sure I can stay ahead and it gives me time to write without feeling pressured. If I feel like I'm catching up with myself then I might readjust this schedule but until then, enjoy not waiting too long for these chapters! Also, giving a shot out to my friends Marly and Hannah. This is for you guys!

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, it belongs to BBC

Hold Back the River- James Bay

Tried to keep you close to me,

But life got in between

Tried to square not being in there

But think that I should've been

Kit had been walking for hours. She had no idea where she was or where she was walking to but her legs wouldn't stop moving. She felt lost and unsure. She knew she should of followed the Doctor instead of just standing there watching him but she didn't know what to say to him. This was a very different Doctor from hers. The way he talked about who he was made her suspect that this Doctor was in a lot of pain but she didn't know why.

Her stomach growled. She suddenly realized she was hungry. She wasn't surprised, she hadn't eaten in at least 24 hours. She dug around her pockets for some money and found a couple of bucks. She looked around the area she was in. She looked to be in the downtown area but couldn't be sure. With a shrug she started walking again looking for somewhere to eat. Soon she spotted a hotdog stand.

She purchased a hotdog and sat on a bench. As she ate she noticed a restaurant across the street. She didn't think much of it until she noticed Rose and a man, which she assumed was her boyfriend, walk into the restaurant. She wondered if she should talk to Rose, maybe she had seen the Doctor since she left. She debated going in for a couple minute until she noticed a man with big ears and a leather jacket.

Kit jumped up. It was the Doctor. She smiled and then crossed the street. She entered the restaurant and looked around. The place was simple enough, nothing too fancy. She finally spotted Rose and her boyfriend but she still couldn't see the Doctor.

"Fancy seeing you here," came a voice from behind her.

Kit turned around and came face to face with the Doctor. He wore a smile and held a bottle of champagne.

"Likewise," Kit smirked. "What're you doing here anyways?"

"Just toasting the happy couple," he answered nodding to Rose.

"Okay…why?" She questioned.

He beamed. "Do you notice anything wrong with Rose boyfriend?" He asked her.

Kit raised an eyebrow and looked back over at the couple. They were talking and for a second everything seemed perfectly normal but when she looked closer at the man across from Rose, she realized something strange about him. He seemed stiff and looked very weird. To her his skin almost looked…

"Plastic," she whispered, eyes wide. She turned back to the Doctor. "He's made of plastic, isn't he?"

"Yep, very good," he smiled. "They must have switched out Rose boyfriend for a plastic one," he told her.

"And, what, they want information from Rose?" Kit guessed.

The Doctor nodded. "About me but if I can get the head of the plastic creature then I can find where they're hiding," he explained.

Kit turned back to the couple and watched them. "Then what are you doing talking to me? Get that dummies head!" She joked.

The Doctor smiled widely. "Wanna help?" He asked her.

Kit wasn't sure why it surprised her that he asked her but she was still taken aback slightly.

Kit grinned. "Love to."

The walked over to Rose and her boyfriend just in time as Kit noticed her boyfriend starting to get more aggressive.

"Your champagne," the Doctor said politely.

"We didn't order any champagne," he waved the Doctor off, his eyes never leaving Rose. "Where's the Doctor?" He demanded to Rose.

"Are you sure you don't want the champagne?" Kit tried.

"It's not ours," Rose replied not looking up. "Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?" She asked her boyfriend.

The Doctor and Kit both exchanged glances and then turned back to the couple.

Plastic Mickey stared at Rose intensely. "I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?" He demanded.

The Doctor frowned. "Doesn't anybody want this champagne?"

The plastic dummy sighed in frustration. "Look, we didn't order it!"

Rose fake boyfriend finally looked up and noticed the two of them but more importantly the Doctor. It gave them a creepy smile which Kit didn't like. Knowing plastic Mickey was going to attack, Kit took the Champaign bottle from the Doctor and started shaking it.

"Ah, Gotcha," fake Mickey smiled.

"You think so, don't you?" Kit challenged, still shaking the bottle. "This is on the house!"

Kit release the cage around the cork, aiming for his head. Kit hoped to distract it but instead the cork went into the plastic Mickey's forehead. After a few moments in his head it went into his mouth and he spit it out.

Kit eyes widened. "Well, that's new," she mumbled.

Fake Mickey grinned at her. "Anyway."

He suddenly stood up and his hand changed into a paddle. Rose fled as it smashed the table. The Doctor and Kit looked at each other in shock.

"Get the head," she ordered the Doctor. "I'll distract it."

Before the Doctor could say anything, Kit rushed towards the murderous dummy.

"Hey, dummy!" She called, it turned to face her. "Barbie called, she said she wants her face back!" Kit insulted.

The dummy roared in anger and rushed her but before he could do anything, the Doctor grabbed its head. He pulled on it until it came off. Its body fell backwards and the Doctor stumbled forwards. The Doctor stood with the head in his hand in front of an older couple.

The head opened its eyes. "Don't think that's going to stop me," it taunted but the Doctor simply smiled.

Suddenly everything went into chaos. The body got up and started flailing its arm hitting anything it could. She saw Rose hit the fire alarm and tell everyone to leave. Kit winced. She didn't even think about the people in the restaurant. She didn't have much time to think about it because the body was now coming towards them.

Rose, Kit and the Doctor stated running. They ran into the kitchen, the body right behind them. They ran into the back of the restaurant and out the back door.

Kit held the door closed as the Doctor locked it with his sonic. When the door was locked, Kit pushed off the door and turned around. She stopped short as she saw the Tardis standing right in front of her.

Rose ran down to a locked gate. "Open the gate! Use that tube thing. Come on!" She demanded, tugging on the lock.

"Sonic screwdriver," the Doctor responded, walking casually to the Tardis.

"Use it!" Rose screamed.

"Nah," the Doctor shrugged. "Tell you what, let's go in here."

The Doctor took out his key and started unlocking the Tardis. Kit just shook her head and tried to hide her smile.

Rose ran to Kit. "We can't hide inside a wooden box!" She stressed. Rose turned and noticed the plastic body almost braking through. She ran back to the locked gate. "Come on, help me!" Rose shouted at her. "It's going to kill us if we don't get out of here!"

Kit shrugged. "I think we should go inside the wooden box."

"What?" Rose shrieked.

Kit started walking to the Tardis. "I mean, what do we have to lose?" she asked.

"Our lives!" Rose snapped.

"Maybe not if we go inside the wooden box," Kit stressed. "Plus, this is a police box so, you know, we call the police in here," she shrugged.

Kit knew she needed to get Rose in the Tardis or the plastic body really would kill her. Rose looked back to the door and then at Kit.

"This is crazy!" She shouted but still ran towards the Tardis.

Kit smiled at Rose and they both walked in. Kit smile soon fated when she went inside. Her jaw dropped. It was so different from her Tardis. The best word she could use to describe this Tardis was grungy. It wasn't as slick as hers or as dark. There were weird coral columns and a grated floor. There was no second floor with a book shelf and her favourite big chair. It looked kind of plain to her. She bit her inside cheek. She didn't like it.

She felt Rose run back outside but Kit didn't move still staring at this different Tardis. She barely noticed the Doctor working on the plastic head or Rose rushing back inside.

"It's going to follow us!" Rose voice brought her out of her thoughts.

"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute," he muttered focusing on the head.

Kit bit her lip. Her first Doctor used to tell people to shut up a lot.

"You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect," he explained as he plugged the head into the controls. "I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source," he continued then turned around to face them. "Right. Where do you want to start?"

Rose looked around. "Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?" She said, her voice unsure.

"Yes," the Doctor stated.

He then looked at Kit. "It's-it's… different," she muttered. The Doctor gave her a confused look but Kit said no more.

"It's alien," Rose stated.

The Doctor looked back at Rose. "Yeah."

"Are you alien?" She asked.

"Yes," there was a pause. "Is that alright?"

"Yeah."

Kit just watch this exchange feeling a bit of déjà vu.

Kittredge looked around her. Her eyes widened as much as they could.

"It's bigger in here," she stated her voice sounding so much smaller all of a sudden.

"It's my ship. It's called the Tardis," the Doctor told her.

"Does that mean you're an alien?" Kittredge gaped.

"Yes."

"But… you're not green," she commented. "Aliens are green."

The Doctor smiled at her. "Not all aliens. Is that okay with you?"

Kittredge sighed dramatically. "I guess," she paused and then smiled up at him. "Can we go into space?"

"We'll go anywhere you want."

Kit was pulled back to the present when she heard Rose crying. Kit stared at Rose, unsure what to do or say. She had never been very good with other people's feeling, she sucked at her own to begin with. She awkwardly patted Rose on the shoulder.

She looked up at the Doctor. "What did you say?" She questioned.

He shrugged. "Culture shock," he stated. "It happens to the best of us."

"Did they kill him?" Rose asked suddenly. "Mickey?"

"Who?" Kit inquired.

"My boyfriend!" Rose snapped at her. "Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"

"Oh. I didn't think of that," he said more to himself.

Kit winced. She hadn't thought of Rose boyfriend either. It didn't seem as important as getting the head and finding where all the living plastics were but then again, to her finding the living plastic was more important.

"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think?" Rose ranted. "And now you're just going to let him melt?" Rose asked in frustration pointing behind the Doctor.

"Melt?" The Doctor and Kit questioned at the same time.

Kit looked behind the Doctor and saw the plastic head slowly melting.

The Doctor turned around and rushed to it. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no!"

The Doctor started running around, pulling switches and pressing buttons. The Tardis started to set in motion.

Rose looked around franticly. "What're you doing?" She asked.

"Following the signal. It's fading," he explained. "Wait a minute," he muttered staring at the screen attached to the console. "I've got it." But then he yelled, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there. Almost there."

The Tardis was rocking which made everyone hold on. Kit was used to this frantic driving the Doctor did but Rose looked like she could throw up.

The Tardis finally stopped and the Doctor turned around. "Here we are." The Doctor ran past them and out the door.

Kit was about to follow when Rose gabbed her arm. "We can't go out there!" She frantically told Kit. "It's not safe! Remember the plastic body is still trying to kill us!"

Kit wanted to tell Rose that the Tardis had moved and that they were no longer at the restaurant but she knew that she had to pretend to be as clueless about everything as Rose.

Kit shrugged. "Well, maybe the Doctor has a plan to kill that thing," she lied. "Come on, there's no point just standing here anyways."

She moved towards the door and waited until Rose followed her. They got to the door and Rose looked around in shock. Kit went out but Rose stayed in the doorway for a couple of seconds.

"I lost the signal, I got so close," the Doctor muttered in frustration moving to the railing looking out to the water.

"How close, do you think?" Kit asked moving towards the Doctor.

"I don't know. It's hard to tell, we could be right on top of it or we could still be miles away," he told her.

Kit looked at Rose who was still staring at the Tardis in shock. "We've moved. Does it fly?" Rose question.

Kit snored quietly. Fly? She thought. The Tardis definitely does not fly.

"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand," he fumed

"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing?" Rose asked, looking scared. "Is it still on the loose?"

The Doctor pushed off the railing. "It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night?" He hissed brushing passes them.

"Rude," Kit muttered.

Rose didn't seem to have noticed the insult though. "I'll have to tell his mother," she muttered to herself.

Kit and the Doctor both looked at her in question.

Rose looked between the both of them. "Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you two just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you are alien," she snapped then looked to Kit. "And I don't even know what you are!"

Kit balled her hands into a tight fist. This girl thought she knew everything; thought she knew her! She didn't understand, she would never be able to understand.

Kit knew that she was starting to lose control over her emotions. She had to just relax and not say a thing but at this point she didn't care what she said. She was angry. She was tired and she was lost. She just wanted someone to yell at, just to get the anger boiling in her stomach since she got here to settle down.

"Okay, yeah, you're right, I did forget about your boyfriend but you want to know why? Because there are other people who live on this planet other than you and your stupid boyfriend! If we don't stop these stupid living plastic dummies, then not only will your boyfriend be dead but maybe your mom or your best friend or everyone you ever cared about! Maybe you should try setting aside all your personal feeling and look at the bigger picture!" Kit yelled at Rose.

There was silence. Rose looked at her in complete shock and even the Doctor's eyes had widened.

"Alright," Rose said weakly.

Kit flexed her fingers, trying to get herself to relax. She looked down at her feet feeling guilty for yelling at Rose. The blond was just confused and scared, much like herself, and probably didn't need to be yelled at.

"If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?" Rose asked the Doctor, changing the subject.

The Doctor crossed his arms. "Lots of planets have a north," he replied defensively.

"What's a police public call box?" Rose questioned.

The Doctor smiled. "It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise."

The tension that was in the air previously seemed to slowly disappear and Kit began to breath.

Rose laughed slightly. "Okay," she mumbled walking towards the Doctor. "And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us?"

"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!" He explained making an eating motion.

"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asked him, eyes full of hope.

Kit knew how to stop it but she wasn't going to say anything. She remembered her Doctor telling her about anti-plastic so she assumed that this Doctor would do the same.

The Doctor suddenly held up a tube of blue liquid. "Anti-plastic."

"Anti-plastic."

"Anti-plastic," he exclaimed, pointing at the tube. "But first I've got to find it." He moved passed them. "How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"

"Hold on. Hide what?" Rose asked.

The Doctor turned to face them. "The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."

"Well, what does it look like?" Kit finally spoke up.

The Doctor started walking passed them. "Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible," he described.

Kit raised her eyebrow in amusement. Right behind the Doctor was the exact thing he was describing.

The Doctor looked at both of them in confusion. "What?" The Doctor looked behind him but it still didn't register. Rose nodded behind him trying to get him to understand. The Doctor looked back at them. "What is it? What?"

Kit sighed in frustration. "Oh for the love of- the London Eye, Doctor!"

He looked behind him again then looked at them. "Oh." He looked at the London eye then smiled. "Fantastic!"

The Doctor suddenly took off running and Kit and Rose followed after him.

A/N- Man, Kit really better watch her anger, it might get the better of her one day. If anyone is wondering how much I actually have written and where I am, I just finished writing World War Three and I'm starting episode 6 Dalek. Anyways, like always, I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to comment!