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Author's Note: Here's the the last part of the Christmas Inavation episode! I don't have all that much to say except to enjoy the chapter and to please leave reviews and tell me what you think! :D
Edited!
Sophie's POV...
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS with me right behind them. Seeing that Rose and Mickey were okay, I sighed in relief and went over to hug them both.
"Rose, Mickey, thank god."
I hugged the two of them and they hugged me back. The hug only lasted for a few minutes and Rose broke the hug, opening her mouth to say something but she was interrupted by a loud roar.
The leader of the aliens brought out a whip and swung it at the Doctor, but he managed to catch the end of it. He pulled it out of the alien's hand before tossing it off to the side.
"You could have someone's eye out with that," The Doctor scolded the alien.
The leader growled, "How dare!" Pulling out a thick club, he went to yet again attack the Doctor but just like last time, he managed to grab the club and he broke it across his knees. The leader looked pissed off.
"You can't just get the staff," The Doctor said. He changed the subject. "Now, you, just wait. I'm busy." He pointed at the alien to get his point across and the alien growled at him. But he ignored it as he turned around, facing Mickey, beaming at him. "Mickey, hello!" Then he turned around again, this time facing Harriet, still beaming. "And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This Is Your Life." Then to Rose, he grinned at her. "Tea! That's all I needed, a good cup of tea! Superheated infusion of free radicals and tannin. Just the thing for healing the synapses." The grin fell and he looked at Rose seriously. "Now first things first. Be honest, how do I look?"
I raised my eyebrows at that. Why would he need to ask that? Then I realized why. Oh right… he just regenerated so he had no idea what he looked like. I snapped out of my thoughts at the sound of Rose's voice.
"Er, different," she said awkwardly.
"Good different or bad different?" he asked, completely serious.
"Just different," Rose replied lamely.
"Am I … ginger?"
"No, you're just sort of brown."
"I wanted to be ginger," The Doctor whined. "I've never been ginger." I held back a giggle. Then he pointed at Rose and said in a loud voice, "And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me." Rose looked taken a back and the Doctor noticed, frowning in thought. "Oh that's rude. Is that the sort of man I am now?" He asked this question to me.
I just shrugged. "I don't know," I answered. "I only did just meet you."
"Yes, that's true." The Doctor mused before he changed the subject. "So I'm rude and not ginger."
Harriett took the time to speak. "Sorry. Who is this?" She asked.
"I'm the Doctor," The Doctor answered, walking over to her.
Wide eyed, she looked at Rose and she nodded.
"He's the Doctor." She confirmed.
"But what happened to my Doctor?" Harriet asked. "Or is that just a title that's past on?"
"I'm him, I'm literally him." The Doctor told her with a grin. "Same man, new face, well, new everything."
Harriet shook her head in disbelief. "But you can't be."
The Doctor regarded her seriously then. "Harriet Jones, we were trapped in Downing street and the one thing that scared you wasn't the aliens, it wasn't the war, it was the thought of your mother being on her own."
She gasped. "Oh my god."
The Doctor grinned at her as he leaned towards her. "Did you win the election?"
Harriet nodded, smiling, "Landslide majority."
"If I might interrupt," The leader of the Sycorax interrupted in a growling voice.
The Doctor turned to face him. "Yes sorry. Hello big fella."
"Who exactly are you?" the leader asked.
"Well, that's the question, isn't it?"
"I demand to know who you are!" The leader roared.
"I don't know!" The Doctor exclaimed, mimicking the alien as he spread out his arms to emphasis his words. "See, here's the thing, I'm the Doctor but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's untested? Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?" He winked at Rose and me. Rose smiled shyly while I blushed, then he continued on with his rambling. "Right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A liar? A nervous wreak? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a cob." He suddenly grinned. "And how am I going to react when I see this." He pointed in the direction of something. "A great big threatening button." He chuckled to himself as he headed in the direction he had been pointing in and we all followed. He went to stand in front of this big giant button that was on some sort of big rock and he turned to face everyone. "A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstance, am I right?" He asked the leader. "Let me guess. It's some sort of control matrix, mmm? Hold on." He bent down and opened the base of the pillar under the button. "And what do we got here? Blood?" He stuck his finger into something and licked it off as he stood back up. "Yeah, definitely blood."
I put on a disgusting look. 'That's disgusting.' I thought to myself.
"Human blood." The Doctor continued. "A Positive with a dash of iron. Ah, but that means blood control… blood control!" A giddy look crossed his face. "Oh, I haven't seen blood control in years. You're controlling all the A Positives." The leader's face fell at that. He figured it out. "Which leaves us with a big stinking problem. Because I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a great big threatening button which should, never, ever be pressed, then I just want to do this."
He slammed his hand on the button, causing Rose and Harriet Jones to cry out.
"NO!"
Everyone in the room was in disbelief at what the Doctor just did. But I wasn't because I knew that he wouldn't have pressed the button unless he had a reason to. I learned that from the stories that my aunt told me.
"You killed them!" The black haired guy shouted at the Doctor, outraged.
Hearing what he said, the Doctor turned towards the leader with a smirk. "What do you think big fella? Are they dead?"
"We allow them to live." The leader growled lowly.
The Doctor scoffed at that. "Allow? You've no choice. I mean, that's all blood control is. A cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants off of you, but that's as far as it goes. It's like hypnosis. You can hypnotize someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis. You can't hypnotize them to death. Survival instincts too strong." He rested his hands on the big rock he was standing behind now as the leader spoke up.
"Blood control was only one form of conquest," he said. "I can summon the armada and take this world by force."
"Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that, of course you could," The Doctor agreed. "But why?" He gestured to us. "Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do… no hold on." He frowned in thought. "Sorry, that's from the Lion King. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!"
"Or what?" The leader asked with narrowed eyes.
"Or…" He quickly took a sword from the alien he was standing behind and he ran back in the direction of the TARDIS before sticking the sword in the air, announcing. "I challenge you!"
But the response he got was loud, booming laughter from all the aliens. I looked at him in disbelief. He couldn't be serious.
"Oh that struck a chord," The Doctor said as he started to take off the robe. "Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"
"You stand as the world's champion," The leader stated, walking down from the steps that had led up to the button with all of us following right behind him.
"Thank you," The Doctor thanked him with a slight grin. "I've no idea who I am, but you just summed me up." He threw the dressing gown in Rose's direction but I was the one who caught it and I tucked it under my arms. He gave me a smile and a wink, causing me to blush again, before turning back towards the leader, sword at the ready. "So you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?"
It was clearly an insult and it definitely made up the leader's mind. He bent down, the end of the sword pressed to the ground and the Doctor followed his example.
"For the Planet?" The leader offered.
"For the planet," The Doctor agreed.
With that, the fighting started.
"Look out!" Rose cried when the leader went to hit the Doctor with the sword.
He managed to move out of the way of the hit. "Oh, yeah, that helps," he said to Rose sarcastically. "Wouldn't thought of that otherwise, thanks."
I grew concerned. It was obvious that the leader was the more experienced swordsman. How was the Doctor going to pull this off? I chewed on my bottom lip nervously.
The Doctor retreated up a tunnel. "Bit of fresh air."
He ran outside into the daylight with all of us following. Once out there, the fighting started once more. The leader had ended up driving the Doctor to the edge and he hit him hard in the nose with his strong elbow, causing me to gasp.
"Doctor!" Rose cried out, about to run out there, but I quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her back before she could.
"No Rose, stay back!" I told her loudly, worry in my tone. "If you try to interfere the aliens will win."
"Listen to your friend, Rose, and stay back!" The Doctor called to Rose, wiping the blood off his nose with his free hand.
The leader started swinging the sword and he charged towards the Doctor, their swords clashing together seconds later. The alien managed to knock the Doctor down by slamming his elbow into the Doctor's face again, harder than the last time. The Doctor tumbled to the ground near the edge of the mountain. My hand went to my mouth in shock but then I sighed in relief when he didn't fall off.
The leader lifted the sword and slashed… My hand went to my mouth again as my blue eyes widened in complete shock. Oh…my…god, he cut the Doctor's hand off!
"You cut my hand off," the Doctor said in disbelief.
"Ya! Sycorax!" The leader cheered, arms spread out in victory. The other aliens out there cheered along with him.
Eyes still wide, I watched as the Doctor managed to get to his feet.
"And now I know what sort of man I am," he said as the leader turned towards him, still grinning. "I'm lucky. Because quite by chance I'm still within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle, which means I've got just enough residual cellular energy to do this…" He showed off his stub and my eyes widened even more when his hand grew back.
"No…way." I said to myself in amazement. "He's amazing." Finally! This was the Doctor my aunt gushed about… I grinned to myself, feeling giddy.
"Witchcraft," The leader said in a light growl.
The Doctor smirked. "Time Lord!"
"Doctor!" Rose shouted, pulling a sword from a nearby alien. She threw it to the Doctor.
"Oh, so I'm still the Doctor, then," The Doctor said to Rose with a grin as he caught the sword and spun it around, like a pro.
Rose beamed at him. "No arguments from me!"
"You want to know the best bit? The new hand?" He grinned and said in a Texan accent, "It's a fighting hand!"
The fighting restarted. It wasn't that long until the Doctor disarmed the Sycorax and thumped both hilts into its abdomen, twice. The leader fell backwards and he was now in the position the Doctor was in just a few minutes ago, on the edge of the cliff.
The Doctor pointed the sword at the leader's chest. "I win."
"Then kill me," the leader growled at him.
"I'll spare your life if you'll take this Champion's request," The Doctor told the leader seriously, still pointing the sword at his chest. "Leave this planet, and never return. What do you say?"
"Yes."
"Swear on the blood of your species!"
"I swear."
"There we are then, thanks for that, cheers big fella," the Doctor said cheerfully as he turned and walked away towards us.
"Bravo!" Harriet Jones cheered, clapping her hands.
I repeated the gesture, grinning widely.
"That says it all," Rose said grinning as she started to skip over to him. "Bravo!"
"Not too bad for a man in his jim-jams," The Doctor agreed, grinning back at her as she helped him put on the dressing gown while they started walking back towards us. "Very Arthur Dent. Now there was a nice man." He began searching through the inside of the robe. "Hold on, what do I have here?" He pulled out a fruit and showed it to Rose, chucking. "A Satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers. He does like his snacks, doesn't he?" Rose giggled, nodding in agreement as he started to toss the Satsuma up in the air while still talking. "But doesn't that just sum up Christmas? You go through all those presents and right at the bottom, there's always one stupid Satsuma. Who wants a Satsuma?"
I was the first one to notice the leader getting up and he was about to charge towards the Doctor, sword ready. I was about to call to warn the Doctor but the leader let out a roar, announcing his approach. The Doctor threw the Satsuma at a control on the spaceship hull, a piece of the wing where the leader was standing opened up and the leader fell, falling to his death.
"No second changes, I'm that sort of a man," the Doctor said darkly. We walked back into the spaceship and he faced all the aliens that were in there. "By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, it's potential. When you talk of the Earth, and then make sure you tell them this. It is defended."
Suddenly, there was this blue light and it surrounded us. Suddenly, we were gone from the spaceship and back outside where we started.
"Where are we?" Rose asked, looking around.
"We're just off Bloxom Road. We're just round the corner." Mickey grinned as he started to jump up and down. "We did it!"
The Doctor interrupted Mickey's excitement because the spaceship was still here. "Wait a minute, wait a minute."
The spaceship flew off, into the clear blue sky.
"Go on, my son! Oh yeah!" Mickey cried as Rose jumped on his back.
"Yeah! Don't come back!" Rose shouted excitedly at the disappearing spaceship. She hopped off her boyfriend's back and they hugged happily. I was excited too about the spaceship leaving, so excited in fact that I laughed in excitement and threw my arms around the Doctor without thinking about it.
"You did it!" I cheered. Then I realized what I was doing and I looked up at the Doctor who was looking at me with an amusing expression on his face. I blushed, quickly pulling back from the hug. "Sorry." I mumbled as I took a step back, arms behind my back.
"It's quite alright." The amusing expression fell from the Doctor's face and he looked at me intently, intimidating me. "Why do you look so familiar?"
I was saved from answering by Harriet Jones coming up to him.
"My Doctor," Harriet said, smiling.
Since he was paying attention to her now, I quickly made my exit, going over to Rose and Mickey who was talking to that black haired man. I learned that his name was Alex and he worked for Harriet Jones.
"Rose!" The familiar voice of Jackie Tyler called.
"Mum!" Rose ran towards her mother and Mickey followed with me right behind him, but I didn't miss it when the Doctor said to himself,
"Oh, talking of trouble."
I hide a smile at that. Jackie hugged Rose as soon as we were there in front of her. "Oh my god! You did it, Rose! Oh!"
Rose was the one who broke the hug and she smiled. "You did too! It was the tea. Fixed his head."
The Doctor nodded as we turned towards him and he smiled at Jackie. "That was all I needed, a cup of tea."
"Is it him though? Is it really the Doctor?" Jackie asked and Rose nodded, smiling widely.
"Yeah, he's definitely the Doctor," I mumbled to myself, eyes sparkling. But I didn't know that he had heard me and was looking at me now in curiosity.
Jackie took notice to Harriet Jones, gasping. "Oh, my, god, it's the bleeding Prime Minister!"
Rose laughed, hugging her mother.
The Doctor headed towards us, arms spread out and a grin on his face. "Come here, you."
With that, we all shared a group hug because of this we didn't notice the fact that Alex had gotten a call from someone.
"Are you better?" Jackie asked the Doctor once the group hug was broken.
"I am, yeah."
"You left me," Jackie said to Rose.
She looked at her mum apologetically. "I'm sorry."
"I had all the food." Jackie reminded her.
Suddenly, there was this noise and my eyes widened at the sight of five green beams streaked up into the sky from different direction. Then there was a KaBOOM!
"What is that? What's happening?"
The Doctor seemed to know what happened if the look on his face was any hint. "That was murder," he accused and I somehow realized that those beams must have blown up that spaceship, filled with all those aliens. My hands clenched together angrily.
"That was defense," Harriet corrected him. "It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago."
"But they were leaving!"
Harriet still thought she had done the right thing. "You said so yourself Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth." She tried to explain to him and make him see her side. "I'm sorry Doctor, but you're not here all the time. You come and go. It happened today. Mister Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case we have to defend ourselves."
I was so angry, my face was turning red, and I couldn't help but spat out taking everyone by surprise especially Harriet Jones as she was not used to someone using that tone at her. "Are you out of your mind?! How can you be so stupid?!"
"I beg your pardon?"
I ignored her and I continued on with my rant. "My aunt has met so many aliens; some bad, some good. You just killed another species! You judged them and killed them without a second thought! They were leaving this planet, for god sakes!"
"I wasn't protecting this planet," Harriet said.
I went to snap at her again but the Doctor cut in before I could. There was a dark look in his eyes as he shook his head at Harriet in disbelief.
"Britain's Golden Age."
"It comes with a price."
"I gave them the wrong warning," The Doctor said darkly, eyes narrowing at Harriet. "I should've told them to run as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming. The human race!"
"Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf."
"Then I should have stopped you."
Harriet looked at him seriously. "And what does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?"
Oh no she didn't… "How dare you?!" I shouted at her. "He just saved the world and you're calling him an alien threat! If he was such thing, then he probably would have already destroyed this planet! And here I thought, that you were actually a good choice for the Prime Minster and England. But you've officially lost my respect and if people ever found out what you did, then they would to."
"You are nothing but a child," Harriet told me and I set my jaw angrily. I was not a child, even if I was sort of acting like one at the moment. "What can you do?"
"Oh that's it!" I started to run at Harriet, but the Doctor grabbed my arm before I could even reach her. I glanced at him and he looked back at me. I seemed to get what he was saying. He was silently telling me to calm down. I nodded slowly, let out a breath, and my hands unclenched.
"See what you made this child become Doctor!"
The Doctor glared at her and stepped towards her, letting go of my arm. "Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely different man. I could bring down your government with a single word."
"You're the most remarkable man, I've ever met, but I don't think you're quite capable of that," Harriet said, not believing him for a second.
"No you're right. Not a single word, just six."
"I don't think so."
"Six words," The Doctor repeated.
"Stop it!"
"Six," he repeated again giving Harriet an intense look as he headed over to Alex and he whispered something in his ear before he pulled back and walked off with us following right behind him, ignoring the shouts of Harriet Jones, calling out for the Doctor to come back.
-0-
While the Christmas dinner was going on, I excused myself, remembering that I had promised if I had ever found the Doctor to call my aunt. She probably already knew about what happened today with the aliens as it was everywhere on the news so she would be calling anytime now.
As soon I got Rose's room where I was staying for the night with Rose, I heard my phone ringing from inside my purse that was on the bed.
Quickly I went over to my purse and searched through it, finding my phone. It said 'Sarah Jane' on the caller ID along with a picture of my aunt. I answered it.
"Hello?" I said into the phone.
"Oh, thank god." My aunt breathed a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone. "What happened with the aliens? Did you see the Doctor? Are you alright? You didn't get hurt, yeah?" She would have went on if I didn't interrupt her.
"The aliens are gone," I told her, earning another sigh of relief. I decided not to tell her about Harriet Jones killing them. "And yeah I saw the Doctor." I sighed. "He's exactly like you said he was. I couldn't believe it when I saw him the first time. I definitely thought I was hallucinating."
"What was he doing there anyway?" My aunt asked curiously.
"Well apparently, Rose, you know my friend? She's traveling with the Doctor." She didn't say anything for a while on the end making me feel a little worried. "Auntie? Are you alright?"
"Yes, yes, I'm fine," she reassured me, but I could tell that she wasn't. "Does he know?" She was referring to if he knew about me being her niece.
I shook my head. "No, he doesn't," I told her. No one said anything for a while. I bit my bottom lip, thinking this was a good time to tell her the truth, about me not being in college anymore. "Auntie?"
"Mmm."
I bit harder on my lower lip, but not hard enough to draw blood. "I have to tell you something… I'm not in school anymore."
"What do you mean?" she asked confused.
I took a deep breath. "I'm not in school anymore," I repeated softly. "I quit." My aunt didn't say anything. "I'm so sorry for lying to you. I just didn't know how to tell you about it. I knew that you would be disappointed in me. But…I didn't want to do it anymore. Repeating the day was getting bore some and tiring. I would rather see the world then just live in it. Please don't be too mad at me."
"I'm not mad at you, I am disappointed though," she told me and I winced slightly. "Not because you dropped out but because that you didn't feel like you could tell me about how you were feeling."
"I'm really sorry."
"I know you are…what are you going to do now once Christmas is over?"
I thought about it for a moment. "I don't know," I admitted. "I'm still going to stay here for a week and then just go home…"
"You should go with the Doctor."
I blinked. What? "You want to me what?"
"Go with the Doctor," my aunt repeated. "If he invites you to come along, go with him. You want to see the world, yeah?""
"Yeah, of course I do."
"Well, he can show you that. Just like he did for me, and just like he's doing for your friend Rose."
He probably wouldn't invite me to come anyway so I nodded even though my aunt couldn't see it. "Okay, I'll go if he asks me to come."
"I'll talk to you later, love. If you ever need to talk to me, about anything, you can always call me, okay?"
"Okay, I will," I promised her.
"Good, I love you, Soph."
"I love you too." I hung up the phone but I slipped it in the pocket that didn't have my glasses and with that, I stepped out of Rose's room and headed to where they were having dinner.
"There you are," Rose said, smiling at me when I entered the room.
"Sorry for taking so long," I apologized as I sat down next to Rose. "I had to call my aunt."
Rose nodded. "It's alright."
"Where's the Doctor?" I asked, noticing that he wasn't in here.
Before she had time to reply, the sound of a door opening sounded and I looked to see who it was. It turned out to be the Doctor, something I couldn't help but giggle internally about. Talk about impeccable timing. I took notice to the fact that he had changed out of those pajamas he borrowed from Jackie.
He looked good in what he picked out. It fit him perfectly. I knew that I was checking him out but I couldn't help it. I blamed the tight fitting suit and his adorably messed up brown hair. As soon as he met my eyes, I quickly turned away, blushing slightly.
A couple minutes later, the dinner progressed to the crackers.
"Oh that's yours," The Doctor said with a paper crown on top of his head as he handed one to Rose. I had one on my head too.
"It's pink!" Rose announced with a grin once she opened it up and the Doctor grinned. "Mum, it should be yours." She joked as she put it on her head and she took notice to something on the TV that had apparently been still playing when we left. "Oh, look its Harriet Jones."
At the same time, the Doctor and I pulled out our glasses and put them on. Amused, I glanced over at him. He noticed, winking at me. I stifled back a laugh as the Doctor stood up, moving closer to the TV.
"Prime Minister, is it true you are no longer fit to be in position?"
"No. Now, can we talk about other things?" Harriet pressed.
But someone else asked her another question about the same thing. "Is it true that you're unfit for office?"
"Look, there is nothing with my heath. I don't know where these stories are coming from. And no vote of confidence is completely unjustified."
"You had something to do with that, didn't you?" I asked, going to stand beside him, looking up at him. I didn't have to look up too much as he was only just a few inches taller than I was. He just grinned and I laughed, taking that as answer enough. "That's just brilliant. A perfect way to get back at someone without bodily harm." I smiled to myself when he chuckled. It sounded nice.
"That was the plan." He joked, then he changed the subject, staring at me seriously. I want to thank you, Sophie."
I looked at him, confused. "For what?"
"For taking care of me while I was asleep."
I blushed, remembering waking up this morning in Jackie's bed with my arms wrapped around the Doctor. Apparently I had fallen asleep in the bed with him, to say I was embarrassed when I found myself there would be an understatement. But I had gotten over it rather quickly but it came back as soon as he mentioned it.
"It was no problem, really," I said softly, hoping the embarrassment didn't slip into my voice. "Anyone would have done it."
The Doctor stared at me for a moment before he nodded. "Well, I suppose your right but still, thank you."
"You're welcome." We smiled at each other, not noticing that Rose had been watching us with jealous eyes.
"It's Beth," Jackie announced as she returned from where she was in the kitchen with the phone to her ear causing all of us to look at her. "She says to go and look outside."
"Why?" Rose asked, with furrowed eyebrows.
"I don't know, just go outside and look. Come on, shift!"
-0-
"Whoa," I said to myself in amazement as soon as we stepped outside. It was snowing. "It's so beautiful. Is it snow?" I asked the Doctor as I followed next to Rose.
He shook his head. "It's just the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere."
"So, it's ash then?" I guessed.
He nodded, impressed.
"Guess it's not so beautiful then," Rose said to me, looking up at the sky.
"I think it's still beautiful," I corrected her. "Sure, it's not snow, but it's beautiful no matter what it actually is."
The Doctor nodded, agreeing with me, before he changed the subject. "This is a brand new earth," he said. "No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything's new."
"And what about you?" Rose asked. "What are you going to do next?"
He looked at her. "Well, back to the TARDIS. Same old life."
"On your own?"
"Why, don't you want to come?"
"Well, yeah." Rose replied lamely.
The Doctor didn't look like he believed her for whatever reason. "Do you though?"
"Yeah!"
"I just thought, because I changed…"
"Yeah, I thought, because you changed you might not want me anymore," Rose admitted.
"Oh, I'd love you come."
Rose beamed at him, smiling happily. "Okay." They both grinned at each other, both beaming like school kids.
I giggled at that, earning a look from Rose.
"What's so funny?" she asked.
"Absolutely nothing," I answered, still giggling, earning a soft smile from the Doctor.
"Why don't you come with us, Sophie?" he asked and I looked at him surprised while Rose looked at him in disbelief, not expecting him to ask me to come along.
I bit my lip, to hide the giant smile from appearing on my face. "I'd love to." Unable to help it now, I grinned at him widely, earning a grin back. We didn't notice the scowl on Rose's face.
"Would you mind if I come, Rose?" I asked, turning my gaze to my friend and I was surprised to find a scowl on her face.
"Yeah, I don't mind," Rose said with a forced smile on her face so I knew that she, in fact, did mind.
"You're never going to stay are you?" Mickey asked Rose sadly.
She looked at him with soft eyes. "There's just so much to do out there. So much to see, I got to."
"Yeah…"
I patted him on the shoulder in comfort and he smiled at me weakly. Jackie shook her head as she spoke up.
"Well, I reckon you're mad, the pair of you." She turned her gaze to me. "Are you sure you want to go with them, Sophie? It's like those two go looking for trouble."
"Yeah, I'm very sure, like Rose said, there's so much to see out there. I can't just miss out on a chance like this." 'And my aunt would kill me if I did.' I thought to myself, shaking my head internally.
The Doctor grinned at my response. "All those planets…and creatures… and horizons. I haven't seen them yet! Not with these eyes. And it's going to be fantastic."
I smiled to myself as his eyes met mine. This definitely was going to be a fantastic adventure and I couldn't wait for it to finally begin.
TBC...
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