Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 2. Welcome to the first half of The Christmas Invasion. It is going to take me a bit to get into the groove of writing this version of Gwendalyn. I can't wait to write this new Gwendalyn. I want to see what I can come up with Gwendalyn. I can tell you one thing Gwendalyn will be still the same in one aspect she won't take anyone's crap. I am glad that you guys are liking this so far. As for a proposal at the end of The Christmas Invasion well… I have to say that there is a good chance that there might be a proposal or there might not. But I think a proposal is a good Christmas gift don't you guys think? I hope that you enjoy this chapter. Without further ado Chapter 2 of Through It All. Allons-y!
Chapter 2
Jackie looked sadly at the Christmas present that she had gotten Rose. She missed her daughter a lot since she had run off with Gwendalyn in order to save the Doctor. The thought that ran through her mind was if her daughter was still alive. She didn't even get Gwendalyn's word that Rose would be returning home safe and sound to her.
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Mickey was busy working on a car when heard a faint sound. He pulled himself from under the hood. "Hey, turn that down. Turn it off, Stevo. Turn that off! John, shut up!" He yelled shutting the radio off. His eyes widened when he heard the whooshing sound of the Tardis. He threw down the rag that he had in his hand and ran out of the garage.
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Jackie put the present down. "Rose!" She said in shock running out of the apartment. She ran out and saw Mickey. "Mickey!"
"Jackie, it's the Tardis!" Mickey said with a smile.
"I know, I know, I heard it. She's alive, Mickey. I said so, didn't I? She's alive!"
"Just shut up a minute," Mickey said trying to shush her.
"Well, where is it then?" Jackie asked looking around.
The Tardis comes flying out of the vortex at an alarming speed. It bounces off of one block of flats, a second, and a third one before avoiding a post van and crashing into a set of waste bins.
The Doctor opened the door stumbling out of it revealing that he was still in the clothes that he was in before when he had left with Jack, Rose, and Gwendalyn. He looked around with a smile.
Gwendalyn came out and held onto her head. "Damn." She muttered.
"Here we are then, London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it. Jackie, Mickey. Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there. I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it?" He said leaning on them. "No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush. Oh, I know! Merry Christmas!" He said and then promptly collapsed onto the ground.
Gwendalyn gasped. "Doctor!" Gwendalyn said moving towards him. She moved his head a little bit and placed his head onto her lap.
Rose came out of the Tardis. "What happened?" Rose asked. "Is he alright?"
"I don't know, he just keeled over. But who are they? Where's the Doctor and Gwendalyn?" Mickey asked Rose.
"That's them. Right in front of you. That's the Doctor and Gwendalyn."
"What do you mean, that's the Doctor? Doctor Who? And that can't be Gwendalyn." Jackie said looking at the strawberry blonde-haired woman who had the Doctor's head on her lap.
Gwendalyn caressed his cheek. She missed the Doctor. She wanted him to wake up. She looked up. "I am Gwendalyn." She told Jackie. She looked at Mickey. "Mickey."
"Huh yeah?" Mickey asked looking at her.
"Think you could help me?" She asked softly. "We need to get him inside."
Mickey nodded his head. "Yeah sure." He told her with a smile. He was willing to help Gwendalyn out since she had needed him the last time and she had kept Rose safe.
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Mickey had changed the Doctor into pajamas so he would be more comfortable.
Gwendalyn came into the room pressing her hand softly onto his head. She stroked his head with her hand softly. She ran her fingers through his long hair.
Rose came into the room. "Get out."
"What?" Gwendalyn said looking at her.
"You did this." Rose snapped.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "You looked into the Heart of the Tardis Rose. You were the one to cause this to snowball."
"You made him change."
"Don't you see I changed too? He had to change or he would've died. He wouldn't want to go out that way." Gwendalyn shook her head.
"Get away from him."
Gwendalyn shook her head. She really hated stupid humans. She turned and pressed a soft kiss on his forehead. She pulled away from him. "I hope karma bites you on the arse." She muttered as she walked out of the room. She passed Jackie in a foul mood.
"Here we go. Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to the hospital." Jackie told her daughter.
Rose took the item from her mother. "We can't They'd lock him up. They'd dissect him. One bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race. No! Shush." She listened to both sides of his chest. "Both working." She said let out a sigh of relief.
"What do you mean both?" Jackie asked her daughter.
"Well, he's got two hearts."
"Oh, don't be stupid." Jackie said crossing her arms.
"He has." Rose said looking at her mom.
"Anything else he's got two of?"
"Leave him alone." Rose told her mother.
The two of them leave the Doctor alone to go into the kitchen.
Rose opens the fridge.
"How can he go changing his face? And same with her? Is that a different face or are they different people?" Jackie asked looking at her daughter.
Rose ran a hand through her hair. "How should I know? Sorry. The thing is I thought I knew him, mum. I thought me and him were. And the he goes and does this. I keep forgetting he's not human. The big question is where'd you get a pair of men's pajamas from?"
"Howard's been staying over," Jackie said moving her bangs from her eyes.
"What, Howard from the market? How long's that been going on?"
Jackie thought for a minute. "A month or so. First of all, he starts delivering to the door and I thought, that's odd. Next thing you know, it's a bag of oranges…"
Rose's eyes went wide when she saw what Gwendalyn was watching. "Is that Harriet Jones?" Rose asked in surprise.
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes. Her arms were crossed as she watched the television.
Rose moved into the living room.
"Oh, never mind me," Jackie said shaking her head.
"Why's she on the telly?" Rose asked looking at her mother.
"She's Prime Minister now. I'm eighteen quid a week better off. They're calling it Britain's Golden Age. I keep on saying my Rose has met her."
"Did more than that. Stopped World War Three with her. Harriet Jones."
"Prime Minister, what about those calling the Guinevere One Space Probe a waste of money?" The man asked Harriet.
"Now, that's where you're wrong. I completely disagree if you don't mind. The Guinevere One Space Probe represents this country's limitless ambition. British workmanship sailing up there among the stars.
"This is the spirit of Christmas, birth and rejoice, and the dawn of a new age, and that is what we're achieving fifteen million miles away. Our own miracle." Llewellyn said.
"The unmanned probe Guinevere One is about to make its final descent. Photographs of the Martian Landscape should be received by midnight tonight."
Gwendalyn crossed her arms. She tilted her head to the side. They wanted to go and look on Mars. They had no idea what they were going to be getting into.
"Hey, mum." Rose said looking at her mom.
"Yes, sweetheart?"
"I'm going to go Christmas shopping for you."
Jackie nodded her head.
"I'm taking Mickey with me."
"Okay sweetheart."
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Gwendalyn ran her hand through her hair and looked at the Doctor.
Jackie looked at the strawberry-blonde woman that was with the brown haired Doctor. She crossed her arms. She saw the look that was on Gwendalyn's face. She could tell that Gwendalyn loved the Doctor. "Rose shouldn't have treated you the way that she did."
Gwendalyn turned her head and saw Jackie. "I guess you heard that didn't you."
"Yes, Rose is protective of people she cares about."
"I can tell." She said softly.
"She means well."
"I know I could tell. She doesn't like me doing what I did." She said rubbing her black-clad arms.
"You care for the Doctor. You died for him didn't you?"
"Yes. I came close to dying." Gwendalyn said softly. She closed her eyes. "That is why I look the way that I look now." She ran her hand through her hair. "I didn't want the Doctor to do what he did, but he did it."
"He cares for you too."
Gwendalyn smiled a small smile. "I know he does." She said reaching into the pocket and holding onto the box that was in there that held onto the ring that he had left in there for her.
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Mickey and Rose were busy shopping.
A brass band dressed in Santa robes was playing God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.
"So what do you need? Twenty quid?" Mickey asked her.
"Do you mind? I'll pay you back." Rose said looking at him.
"Call it a Christmas present," Mickey said waving his hand.
"God, I'm all out of sync. You just forget about Christmas and things in the Tardis. They don't exist. You get sort of timeless." Rose said running her hand through her hair.
"Oh, yeah, that's fascinating, because I love hearing stories about the Tardis," Mickey said rolling his eyes. "Oh go on Rose, tell us another one because I swear I could listen to it all day. Tardis this, Tardis that."
"Shut up," Rose said glaring at him.
"Oh, and one time the Tardis landed in a big yellow garden full of balloons."
"I'm not like that!"
"Oh, you so are."
"Mm, must drive you mad. I'm surprised you don't give up on me."
"Oh, that's the thing, isn't it? You can rely on me. I don't go changing my face." Mickey said shaking his head.
"Yeah. What if he's dying?"
"Okay."
"Sorry!"
"Just let it be Christmas. Can you do that? Just for a bit. You and me and Christmas. No Doctor, no bog monsters, no Gwendalyn, no life or death."
"Okay," Rose said with a smile.
"Promise?"
"Yes!"
Mickey smiled. "Right! What're you going to get for your mum?"
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Gwendalyn sat on the edge of the bed next to the Doctor. She reached into the pocket of the coat that she was still wearing over the dress that she had been in since the Dalek problem and pulled out the box. She opened it and looked at the ring inside of it. She ran her finger over it lightly. She closed it and closed her eyes. She looked over at the Doctor. "Theta." She said softly. "Please wake up soon."
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"I'm round there all the time now, you know. She does my dinner on a Sunday, talks about you all afternoon, yap yap yap." Mickey told Rose as she looked around for Christmas gifts.
The band is following them.
Rose looked over and saw that they were following them.
Flames fire from the trombone.
Rose and Mickey hid behind a pillar.
"It's us. They're after us." Rose said looking at Mickey.
A tuba fires and knocks a tree right onto him.
"Come on," Rose said grabbing Mickey's hand and the two of them ran off.
"What's going on? What've we done? Why are they after us?" Mickey asked Rose.
"Taxi!" Rose yelled hailing a cab.
The two of them got into the cab.
"They're after the Doctor," Rose told him.
"I can't even go shopping with you. We get attacked by a brass band. Who're you phoning?"
Rose was calling her mother. "My mum."
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"She turns up, with no warning. I've got nothing in. I said, Rose, if you want a Christmas dinner of meat paste then so be it." Jackie was telling her friend. She looked at Gwendalyn who was in the bedroom with the Doctor.
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"Get off the phone." Rose grumbled. Why was it always that when she needed to reach her mother, her mother was always on the phone yapping to someone?
"Who were those Santa things?" Mickey asked looking at Rose. Perhaps she had the answer. If not Gwendalyn would and he would ask her when they got there.
"I don't know. But think about it. They were after us. What's important about us? Well, nothing, except the one thing we've got tucked up in bed. The Doctor." Rose told Mickey.
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"Oh, no. Don't come round, darling." Jackie looked closer at Gwendalyn and the Doctor. She thought that the two of them together looked cute. She couldn't understand why Rose was being such a well she didn't want to think about that. "No, the flat's all topsy turvy. Yeah, she just barges in and litters the place. Yeah. No, I'll come round and see you on Boxing day." She put a mug of tea by the Doctor's bed and leaves the room to leave the two of them together.
Gwendalyn closed her eyes trying not to drift off to sleep. Sleep that she needed. Her regeneration took a bit to get her magic to level out. She needed the sleep to have it all leveled out.
Rose and Mickey ran into the flat.
"So, save us a chipolata," Jackie said with a smile.
"Get off the phone," Rose told her mother.
"It's only Bev. She says hello."
Rose took the phone from her mother. "Bev? Yeah. look, it'll have to wait." She hung up the phone. "Right, it's not safe. We've got to get out. Where can we go?" Rose asked looking at Mickey.
"My mate Stan, he'll put us up," Mickey told Rose.
"That's only two streets away. What about Mo? Where's she living now?"
"I don't know. Peak District." Jackie said.
Gwendalyn came into the room. She saw Rose and Mickey looking in a panic.
"Well, we'll go to cousin Mo's then."
"No, it's Christmas Eve. We're not going anywhere! What're you babbling about?" Jackie demanded.
"Mum…" Rose said looking at the tree that was in the room. "Where'd you get that tree?"
The tree is different than what her mum had up before.
"That's a new tree. Where'd you get it?"
"I thought it was you."
"How can it be me?" Rose asked looking at her mother.
"Well, you went shopping. There was a ring at the door, and there it was."
Gwendalyn looked in confusion. That didn't sound right. Something was wrong. Something was very very wrong.
"No, that wasn't me."
"Then who was it?" Jackie asked looking in confusion.
The tree lights up by itself.
"Um… I think we should be moving now." Gwendalyn said moving back towards the bedroom.
"Oh, you're kidding me."
The tree begins to rotate in different directions in sections creating a strong wind. It was moving. It chopped through the coffee table.
"Get out! Go, go! Get out!" Mickey yells to the two of them. Mickey picked up a chair to defend them as Rose and Jackie ran for the door.
"We've got to save the Doctor." Rose said looking at her mom.
"What're you doing?" Jackie asked her daughter.
"We can't just leave him." Rose told her mother.
"Mickey!" Jackie yelled for the young man. "Leave it! Get out! Get out!"
"Mickey!" Rose yelled.
"Get out of there!" Jackie yelled.
Mickey threw the chair and ran into the bedroom.
Rose glared at Gwendalyn. "Can't you use your magic."
Gwendalyn looked at Rose. "I can't!" She yelled at her. "I can't use it. I haven't rested enough. My magic will be fritzy!"
"No, leave him." Jackie told Mickey. "Just leave him!"
"Get in here!" Mickey yelled at Jackie.
Jackie gets into the room and she helps Mickey pull the wardrobe across the door.
"Damn it use it anyway."
Gwendalyn shot Rose a look. "I can't!"
"You're worthless." Rose snapped. She went to Doctor. "Doctor, wake up." She said softly. She pushed past Gwendalyn and rummaged through the Doctor's pants pockets and pulled out his screw driver. She moved back to the Doctor and put it in his hand.
The tree smashes through the door.
"I'm going to get killed by a christmas tree!" Jackie shouted in fear.
Rose leaned down. "Help me." She whispered into his ear.
The Doctor sat up and aims his screwdriver at the tree causing it to explode.
Gwendalyn went over and helped Jackie up.
"Remote control. But who's controlling it?" The Doctor said in confusion. His brows furrowed.
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The Doctor led them out of the apartment. He looked out and saw Santa's gazing up at him. He saw that one of them was holding a radio controller.
"That's them. What are they?" Mickey asked looking at the Doctor.
"Shush!" Rose snapped at him.
Gwendalyn moved to the Doctor's side.
The Doctor wrapped his arm around her. He points his sonic screwdriver at them.
They back away and they beam away.
"They've just gone. What kind of rubbish were they?"
Gwendalyn looked at Mickey. She raised her eyebrow.
"I mean no offense, but they're not much cop if a sonic screwdriver's going to scare them off," Mickey said shaking his head.
"You don't think," Gwendalyn said looking at the Doctor.
The Doctor looked at her. "Yes. Pilot fish."
"What?" Rose asked looking at the Doctor. She felt a pang of anger go through her. Gwendalyn wasn't supposed to be that close to her Doctor.
"They were just pilot fish." The Doctor winced and fell.
Gwendalyn grabbed him and slowly lowered him to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Rose demanded. She didn't like the fact that Gwendalyn was the one that was holding the Doctor.
"You woke up too soon." The Doctor told Rose. "I'm still regenerating. I'm bursting with energy." He exhaled and a gold stream comes from his mouth. "You see? The pilot fish could smell it a million miles away. So they eliminate the defense, that's you lot, and they carry me off. They could run their batteries on me for a couple of ow!" He said holding his head.
Gwendalyn pulled him close to her.
"Oh. Oh. oh." Jackie said in concern.
"My head! I'm having a neuron implosion. I need…"
"What do you need?"
"I need."
"Say it. Tell me, tell me, tell me."
"I need."
"Painkillers?"
"I need."
"Do you need aspirin?"
Gwendalyn shook her head.
"I need."
"Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I don't know, Pepto-Bismol?"
"I need."
"Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C? Vitamin D? Vitamin E?"
"I need."
"Is it food? Something simple. Bowl of soup. A nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Soup and a little ham sandwich?"
"I need you to shut up." The Doctor snapped.
Gwendalyn groaned.
"Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?"
"We haven't got much time. If there's pilot fish, then." The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out an apple. "Why's there an apple in my dressing gown?"
Jackie took it from him. "Oh, that's Howard. Sorry."
The Doctor looked at Jackie in confusion. "He keeps apples in his dressing gown?"
"He gets hungry."
"What, he gets hungry in his sleep?"
Jackie shrugged. "Sometimes."
The Doctor groaned and rested against Gwendalyn's shoulder. "Argh. Brain collapsing. The pilot fish. The pilot fish mean that something, something, something is coming." He passed out.
Gwendalyn ran her fingers through his brown locks. "Trouble trouble always trouble. Can't we just have one day where we don't have to save the world." She muttered.
Rose pulled the Doctor from Gwendalyn. "You aren't helping any. You couldn't even help us. You're the reason why the Doctor is like this!" She staggered pulling the Doctor up with her. "Just stay away from him."
Gwendalyn looked away.
Mickey looked at Gwendalyn and held out his hand.
She looked at Mickey in confusion.
"Let me help you up."
Gwendalyn took Mickey's hand and he pulled her up. "Thank you." She said softly.
"Ignore what Rose says. She's just upset."
Gwendalyn shook her head. "Upset mad at me." She said softly rubbing her arms.
"Do you want to go with me? To get my laptop?"
Gwendalyn blinked. "I am part of the reason why this is happening. Are you certain that you want me to go with you."
"It will keep Rose from saying more hurtful things towards you."
Gwendalyn nodded her head. "Alright." She said softly following him.
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Gwendalyn and Mickey come in and Mickey is carrying his computer.
"Jackie, I'm using the phone line. Is that alright?" Mickey asked looking at her.
"Yeah. Keep a count of it. It's midnight. Christmas day. Any change?" Jackie asked Rose.
"He's worse. Just one heart beating." Rose said sadly.
Gwendalyn looked at the television.
"Scientists in charge of Britain's mission to Mars have re-established contact with the Guinevere One space probe. They're expecting the first transmission from the planet's surface in the next few minutes."
"Yes, we are. We're, we're back on schedule. We've received the signal from Guinevere One. The Mars landing would seem to be an unqualified success." Llewellyn said.
"But is it true that you completely lost contact earlier tonight?"
"Yes, we had a bit of a scare. Guinevere seemed to fall off the scope, but it, it was just a blip. Only disappeared for a few seconds. She is fine now, absolutely fine. We're getting the first pictures transmitted live any minute now. I'd better get back to it, thanks."
Mickey was busy looking up what the Doctor had said earlier.
Gwendalyn shook her head. Humans want to reach for the stars.
"Here we go, pilot fish. Scavengers, like the Doctor, said. Harmless. They're tiny. But the point is, little fish swim alongside the big fish." Mickey told Rose.
"Do you mean like sharks?" Rose asked looking at Mickey.
"Great big sharks. So, what the Doctor means is, we had them, now we get that."
"Something is coming. How close?" Rose asked before sending a glare to Gwendalyn.
"There's no way of telling, but the pilot fish don't swim far from their daddy."
"So, it's close."
"Funny sort of rocks," Jackie said looking at the television.
Gwendalyn looked at the picture that the television had on it. Those were not rocks.
"The first photographs."
"That's not rocks." Rose said in realization.
"This image is being transmitted via mission control, coming live from the depths of space on Christmas morning."
Gwendalyn's eyes widened. The spacecraft didn't land on Mars, but on a spaceship. Gwendalyn went to move, but Rose grabbed her arm. "I suggest you let me go." Gwendalyn said in a low tone.
"I told you to stay away from him. It's your fault that he is like this."
Gwendalyn closed her eyes. "How about you shut up and quit blaming me for this. We have something else we got to deal with. Something that is far more dangerous than placing blame on someone!" She shouted.
Rose backed away from Gwendalyn. Her eyes were wide.
"Rose. Take a look. I've got access to the military. They're tracking a spaceship. It's big, it's fast, and it's coming this way." Mickey said looking back at the blonde.
Rose moved close to her boyfriend."Coming for what, though? The Doctor?"
"I don't know. Maybe it's coming for all of us." Mickey said pointing out a good possibility.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms. She had to admit Mickey was fairly smart.
Mickey gets a clearer image of four aliens. He looked at Rose and Gwendalyn. "Have you see them before?"
"No."
Mickey looked at Gwendalyn. "What about you?"
"No, I'm sorry. I haven't seen those before."
The alien begins to talk.
"I don't understand what they're saying. The Tardis translates alien languages inside my head, all the time, wherever I am."
"So why isn't it doing it now?" Mickey asked looking at Rose.
"I don't know. Must be the Doctor. Like he's part of the circuit, and he's, he's broken." She glared at Gwendalyn.
"Don't you dare start that again." Gwendalyn snapped. She narrowed her silver eyes at the girl. "I've known the Doctor for years. He needs rest. Let him rest. You certainly aren't letting me rest. You rather yell at me placing the blame on me for what had happened to him. I am tired of your mouth Rose. He is alive. He just needs rest. That's what I need too, but you aren't allowing me." Gwendalyn threw her hands up. "I've had enough of you Rose Tyler." She stormed out of the room and went to the Doctor's room and sat down next to him. She put her hand over the top of his. She closed her eyes and a few tears slip from her eyes. Please please Theta wake up. I need you. She ran her fingers lightly through his hair. She missed her Theta and wanted him back.
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This is the end of chapter 2. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I am trying to get a plot line out for Episodes: New Earth, Tooth And Claw, and School Reunion. I should hopefully have those planned out quickly and get a gist of what I want to do. Remember if you had guessed ring at the last chapter of the last story please let me know what you would like written. It can be for our favorite Doctor and our favorite witch and be part of the Last of the Witches the Lost Chronicles. Until next time.