Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who and never will. If I did, Rose would have stayed in as the Doctor's companion for more seasons than just two, oh and I definitely would be richer. But I do own Sophie McQueen and any other characters I make up.

Author's Note: Here's the first part of the Christmas Invasion episode, edited and everything!

Sophie's POV…

Grinning, I stepped off of the bus in front of my old apartment building, with my suitcase in one hand. I brought a week's worth of clothes with me since I was only staying here for a week. I had taken a plane a couple days ago and I just arrived today in England, South of London and I took a bus to get here. Thankfully I remembered after all these years which bus that would take me to my old apartment building. Looking at it, it looked pretty much the same as it always did and for that I was glad, I felt right at home. I waved a quick goodbye to the bus driver as he drove off to take the other passengers to their destination. With that, I started off towards the apartment building, lugging my baggage behind me.

I went through the entrance and up the long stairs before finally making it to Rose's mother's apartment. Staring at the door I hadn't stood in front of in a very long time, I couldn't help but smile. I couldn't be more excited but I did wonder if Jackie would remember =me. I knocked on the door and seconds later, the door opened, revealing a blonde woman who I recognized as Jackie. I smiled to myself. She hadn't changed a bit and she looked like she was decorating for Christmas, if the Christmas lights around her neck were any indication.

"Sophie? Sophie McQueen?" she questioned.

I smiled at her brightly. So much for her not remembering me. "Yeah, that's me."

She grinned widely. "Well don't be a stranger, give me a hug!"

I laughed and nodded, letting go of the handle of my luggage to give the older woman a hug. "It's nice to see you again too, Jackie." I told her softly, pulling back from the hug.

"You look so grown up," she gushed as she touched my cheek. "Rose is going to be so happy to see you!" She gestured inside the flat. "Well come on in, love."

I grabbed my luggage and walked inside, taking in everything. The inside was still the same and still just as homey. I always loved coming over here for a sleepover with Rose. Jackie always made me feel right at home.

"Would you like some tea?"

I looked at Rose's mother as she stood right next to me. "Yeah…that would be great."

"Make yourself at home," Jackie told me.

I nodded with a smile. "Always."

Jackie smiled back before she went off into the kitchen to make me some tea. I hadn't had English tea in such a long time. Hopefully I still liked the taste.

I went into the living room and settled on the couch, looking around. I took in the picture hanging up on the wall. It was of Rose. I wondered if that was what she looked like now. She was very pretty and didn't seem to have changed all that much. She still had the same short blonde hair and soft brown eyes. My eyes caught sight of the white Christmas, noticing it didn't have the lights on it yet. Jackie had probably been about to put them on when I knocked on the door.

"Here's your tea, love."

I looked up at Jackie and smiled as I took the cup of tea from her. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." She sat down next to me, taking a sip of her own tea. "Did you have a good trip?"

"Yeah it was good," I answered. "Tiring, but good."

"And how's your aunt?"

"She's good too. I talked to her before I left."

Jackie nodded. I took a sip of tea, smiling as it went down my throat. It still tasted the same and I did, in fact, still like it. We stayed in comfortable silence for a while before I spoke up.

"So where's Rose?" I asked.

A nervous look crossed Jackie's face but it was gone seconds later. "She should be 'round soon," she said. For some reason, I felt like she was lying but I pushed the feeling away. "I think she said she was going to see Mickey before coming back home."

This surprised me because I would have thought he and Rose would have broken it off a long time ago. Mostly because of the way Rose talked about him in our letters. She had said that she wasn't interested in him anymore, not as much as Mickey was into her.

"They're still dating?" I said, making it more into a question than a statement. She nodded in reply. I finished off my tea and sat it down on the side table that was next to the couch. "Would you like some help decorating?"

"That would be great, Soph." She smiled at me brightly.

I nodded as I stood up from the couch. "Let me just go and put my stuff away, I'll be right back." I grabbed my luggage and went to leave but I stopped at the sound of Jackie's voice.

"You can put your stuff in Rose's room. You don't mind staying in there, yeah?"

"Yeah." I nodded. "I don't mind." Smiling at her one last time, I left the room and headed down the hall towards Rose's room. Since this was only a two bedroom apartment, I found Rose's room easily.

After resting my luggage against the wall, I went back into the small living area to help finish the tree and anything else she needed help with. Thankfully, it didn't take long. I was busy putting up the stockings when I noticed Jackie pick up one of the presents, looking at it for a moment, before she sat down on a small chair that was next to the couch and she gazed wistfully in the distance.

I frowned, concerned. "Are you okay?" I asked her. She didn't seem to hear me as she continued to gaze wistfully. "Jackie?" I raised my voice a little. She jumped, startled as she looked at me. "Are you alright?"

She nodded quickly. "Yeah I'm fine, love."

I didn't believe her but I didn't question it. I know how some people hated that, when you continued to press about something, so I kept silent.

Jackie was finishing off the tree when suddenly there was a strange sound. It sounded like an engine turning. It was really loud and I was so startled from it that I dropped the stocking that had been busy putting up.

"What the hell is that?"

But Jackie seemed to know the sound and she gasped. "Rose!"

Before I could ask, she had run out of the room. I ran after her.

"What's going on?" I called after her as I continued to follow her, but she didn't reply to me.

Whatever was going on, Jackie seemed to know what it was. I managed to catch up to her just as she called out a name,

"Mickey!"

I recognized him immediately. It was Mickey, Rose's boyfriend. I was so confused right now. They didn't seem to notice I was there.

Mickey came up to us, well ran up to us.

"Jackie, it's the TARDIS!" he cried.

My eyes widened at the familiar name. No, he couldn't be talking about the same TARDIS. There was just no way.

"I know, I know, I heard it. She's alive, Mickey. I said so, Mickey, didn't I? She's alive!"

"Wait a minute!" I interrupted loudly causing them to look at me. "I thought you said Rose went to see Mickey." Jackie looked sheepish as I pointed to Mickey and he looked at me confused.

"Who are you?" he asked. Before I could reply, he interrupted. "Never mind that right now."

The sound that I heard was still going on.

"Well, where is it then?" Jackie questioned both her and Mickey looking around while I stood there confused. I was so confused, my head was pounding and I had a whole lot of questions that I managed to keep from flowing out of me.

Hearing a sound behind us, we turned around quickly. My eyes were wide as saucers, a vortex opened up right in the sky and out came the little blue box that Aunt Sarah Jane had told me so much about. But it seemed to be out of control. Mickey, Jackie, and I had to keep ducking as the TARDIS bounced off one blocks of flats and then a second and then a third and it avoided a post office van and it finally crashed into a set of waste bins. I was in total and utter disbelief. This couldn't be real. There was just no way, my aunt's stories were real but on the other hand, I couldn't help but squeal on the inside. This was just too good to be true. But if this was real, where was the Doctor?

Thankfully I didn't have to wait that long before the TARDIS opened up, revealing a skinny man wearing a black t-shirt, a leather jacket, and a pair of black pants. If this was the TARDIS, then this must be him… The Doctor!

I held back another squeal of excitement, forgetting for a moment about how impossible all of this was. He looked around for a moment before grinning widely.

"Here we are then. London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it." He rambled excitedly as he stepped out of the TARDIS, standing in front of Jackie who looked confused at who he was. He took notice to her. "Jackie, Mickey!" He looked at me. "And who are you then? We haven't met before, have we?"

I didn't have time to reply because he changed the subject in a blink of an eye.

"Blimey!" He seemed out of sorts. "No, no, no, no, hold on." He went around us and Jackie and Mickey followed his movements, still with confused looks on their faces. "Wait there." He pointed at them as he continued his out of sort rambling. "There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on." He grasped Jackie and Mickey's shoulders as I looked at him with a strange expression on my face. "Hold on, shush, shush, shush..."

I honestly didn't know what he was trying to say, so I just guessed. "Uh, Merry Christmas?"

"Yes, yes, that's it!" He gave me a grin before going on, now sounding out of breath. "Merry Christmas!" And he suddenly collapsed, causing me to gasp. I quickly went to check on him, not noticing that a familiar someone had opened the TARDIS door.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I found a pulse. He just fainted.

"What happened? Is he alright?"

"Yeah, he still has a pulse," I answered, not recognizing the voice for a moment.

"Sophie?"

"Rose!" I stood up quickly as we both asked at the same time, "What are you doing here?"

Before we could even answer each other's questions, Mickey spoke up. "Who is he?" he asked, pointing at the unconscious Doctor. "Where's the Doctor?"

"That's him, right in front of you," Rose said quietly. I could tell she was upset. It showed in her eyes. "That's the Doctor."

"What do you mean, that's the Doctor?" Jackie questioned, confused. "Doctor who?"

I looked down at the unconscious Doctor. I couldn't believe it was actually him, but here he was, right in front of me. And when something was right in front of you, it's hard to convince yourself that it's not real. This definitely wasn't something I expected when visiting Rose, but it was sure to change my life forever. I just didn't know the extent of it.

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Once we all got back to Jackie's flat and the Doctor was dressed in pajamas and in bed in Jackie's room, everything got explained. So I officially got reintroduced to Mickey, who seemed to remember who I was once Rose introduced me to him.

Rose explained to me about the Doctor. I had to nod along with what she was saying since I already knew all about the Doctor from the stories my aunt told me. I didn't mention that fact because I didn't think it was really important. Forwarding to now, Rose and I were sitting in Jackie's room on the bed, looking over to the Doctor as we waited for Jackie to come back with a stethoscope. Rose spoke up, breaking the silence.

"I'm sorry about this," she told me as I looked at her. "Mum should have explained to you what was going on before you came here."

"It's alright, Rose," I reassured her. "I don't blame you for it."

"You're taking this really well," she said with a slight grin. "Most people would have run out the door by now."

I couldn't help but laugh at that. It was true and if I didn't know what I knew, I would have probably done that. "Yeah, but I know you wouldn't lie about something like this," I said. "It's too big of a thing to lie about."

Rose nodded and she gazed down at the Doctor sadly. "The old Doctor would have woken up by now," she whispered to herself.

I went to touch her shoulder in comfort as Jackie came back into the room with the stethoscope.

"Here we go," she said handing it to Rose. "Tina, the cleaner's got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it." She sat down on the bed next to Rose. I was sitting on the bed with my legs crossed so I wasn't in the way and she continued speaking. "Though I still say we should take him to the hospital."

"No, that's the worst thing we can do," I said before Rose could say anything. "Just one drop of his blood could change the world forever. He will be tested on just like any alien would even if he does look human."

But what I said didn't work because Jackie opened her mouth to protest.

Rose interrupted her before she could. "No! Shush!" Jackie shut up after that. My best friend put on the stethoscope and checked his heart before she went to the other side of his chest. I didn't question this because if I remembered correctly, Aunt Sarah, told me that he had two hearts.

Rose looked relived as she took off the stethoscope and sat it down on the bed. "Both working."

"What do you mean both?"

"Well he's got two hearts," Rose said, like it was most common thing in the world.

Jackie scoffed lightly. "Oh, don't be stupid."

"He has," Rose said again as she started to leave the room.

Jackie looked at back at the Doctor with interest in her eyes. "Anything else he's got two of?"

Rose paused at the open doorway and turned around to face her mum with a stern look on her face. "Leave him alone." She walked out of the room and Jackie looked at the Doctor one last time before following Rose out of the room quietly, leaving me in there.

I looked at the Doctor and stared at him. Though I now believed he was real, it was still hard to believe that the character in all of the stories my aunt told me were real and weren't some fantasy of hers. It was like meeting your hero or favorite author of a book. I was kind of afraid to leave this room, thinking that if I left, he wouldn't be here any-more so I couldn't help but touch him to make sure he was real. I touched his cheek. Yep, definitely real.

Then I suddenly jerked my hand back as the Doctor exhaled this weird golden energy. With interest, I watched as it flew out the open window and I looked back at him but he was still out of it. He definitely wasn't what I was expecting; he didn't act like the man my aunt told me about. It was kind of disappointing.

Sighing, I got off of the bed and went into the living room where Jackie and Rose were at. They were watching the news on the telly.

"Why's she on the telly?" Rose asked her mum.

"Who?" I came up to them.

"Harriet Jones," she answered.

I nodded, remembering who she was. Though I have been living in America, I still kept track of what was going on in the United Kingdom. I wasn't that big on politics but I definitely knew who she was.

"She's the Prime Minister now," I replied to Rose's question.

She looked surprised and she looked at her mum.

Jackie nodded in confirmation. "I'm eighteen quid a week better off," she told her daughter. "They're calling it Britain's Golden Age." She smiled to herself as she continued to look at the telly. "I keep on saying my Rose has met her."

"Did more than that, stopped World War Three with her." Rose said with a proud grin, crossing her arms over her chest.

Being the interested person that I was, I wanted to know this story. But I had a feeling it was a story for another time. Looking at the telly, I decided to listen to what they were talking about.

"Prime Minister, what about those calling the Guinevere One Space Probe a waste of money?" An interviewer on the telly asked Harriet Jones as she stood behind her podium.

"Now that's where you're wrong. I completely disagree if you don't mind." Harriet Jones told him and Rose's grin widened at the screen. "The Guinevere One Space Probe represents this country's limitless ambition. British workman ship, sailing up there amongst the stars."

They were actually talking about this stuff on British television. We didn't get any of this kind of alien activity in America. Deciding I didn't want to listen to this any-more, I decided to go check on the Doctor again.

He was still the same. Would he ever get up? Seeing he was like this was rather frustrating, I wanted to see the person that my aunt spent hours upon hours gushing about. I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to see it. I settled myself back on the bed, this time sitting on the side where Rose did. The stethoscope was still there in the exact same spot. I decided to check on his two hearts again just to make sure they were still beating, they were.

"Well, your hearts are still beating Doctor so you can't be dead, why won't you wake up? Mmm?" I cupped my hands and leaned my chin against them as my elbows rested on the bed, near the Doctor's side. "You know, you can't stay like this all day. You're going to have to wake up sometime. Or is this what you do? Stay out of it and then at last minute, you'll wake up and fight the big bad aliens like in the movies or something?"

He didn't reply.

I rolled my eyes skyward, hearing how crazy I sounded. "Now, I'm just talking to myself. I knew that all this alien stuff would get too much if I actually started believing it." I shook my head and looked at the Doctor. "You just had to come, didn't you? So you could show me you do exist so I wouldn't think my aunt was crazy. Well it definitely worked." I smiled to myself. "I guess I can't blame you for that, I didn't know my best friend would be a new companion of yours and I definitely didn't know you would show up either. I wonder if you can hear any of this. Probably not, or you would have said something by now and now I'm just rambling. But I have to get this out, all of this stuff was in my head and it was bound to explode if I didn't say anything soon. So yeah, I think I'm done…" I finally took a breath as all of that came out in a rush. I never talked this much, so it was too bad that it had been to an unconscious person. Shaking my head once more, I looked back at the Doctor again.

"You're probably thinking that I'm crazy talking to you like this. Good thing you're actually out of it so I don't have to hear you say it."

"Well, I wouldn't be that rude."

I jumped and almost screamed at the sound of his voice. My heart was beating fast against my chest because of him startling me. I looked to him staring at me, eyes trailing over my face. Something flashed through his eyes like he remembered something.

"Have we met before?" Before I could even say anything, he fell back into unconsciousness as if he had never woken up in the first place.

I blinked at him. That was strange.

"Sophie?"

I jumped again and turned around quickly, seeing Rose standing there. "You scared me." I breathed out as I placed my hand on my chest where my heart lay.

She laughed a little. "I'm sorry, I was just wondering if you wanted to come with me and Mickey to the Market."

"It's alright, you go and spend time with your boyfriend," I told her. "I'll stay here with your mum and the Doctor."

"Are you sure?" Rose asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, I'm sure."

"I'll see you later, yeah?"

"I'm not going anywhere, Rose," I reminded her.

"Right of course." She nodded. "Be back soon. Oh, and if the Doctor wakes up call me."

I nodded and as she left the room, I thought as I looked at the unconscious Time Lord,

'Too late for that Rose.'

TBC...

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The Christmas Invasion, Part 2...