"How can I help you Miss?" a pompous looking butler said as Rose stepped through the door and it closed behind her, cutting out the noise of the traffic outside. Downing Street hadn't changed much since she'd last been here, so she could focus more on what she was supposed to be doing this time, and less on how amazing it was to be inside Number 10.
Rose held up the psychic paper and said "I'm Amelia Taylor, the Prime Minister's new PA.I got a fax this morning telling me that I was needed immediately, so I came straight here."
The butler looked at the paper for a moment, and Rose thought that it might not work, just like it almost hadn't fooled the police officer. But then he nodded, apparently accepting who she was. "This way then, Miss Taylor," he said, leading her up the stairs to a room that Rose knew was the Prime Minister's office. He knocked on the door, waited for a moment, then proceeded inside. Rose followed hesitantly, aware that no-one had actually said they could enter. But Margaret was in her human form, so she wasn't bothered. She looked up when she saw Rose, and there was a look of curiosity on her face.
"Thankyou Jeeves," she said, waving the butler away with her hand. Jeeves? Rose thought. Such a clichè. Why are all butlers called Jeeves?
But her thoughts were interupted when she realised that she was alone in a room with a Slitheen. Straightening herself up, she produced the psychic paper again, wondering if it would work on Slitheen's.
"I'm Amelia Taylor, Ma'am. I'm your new personal assistant," she said, mustering as much confidence as she could. Margaret stood up and walked round the desk to get a better look at Rose.
"Have we met before, Amelia?" she asked curiously, and Rose began to panick. Had Margaret recognized her?
"No ma'am. I've been at University these last few years. And before that I went to a boarding school, so I rarely got to meet anyone other than those who lived with me," she lied quickly. To her own ears, the excuse was lame and obviously fake, but to Margaret it must have seemed convincing, because she nodded, satisfied, and went to fetch something from the drawer of her desk.
"My mistake. So you'remy new PA? Well I have to say so far you've impressed me greatly. You already seem like you know more about the job than my last assistant. Poor devil never stood a chance. Iwarned him that cars wouldn't be able to see him in that black suit he always wore. I guess he found out the hard way. Still, not to worry. I have you now.Would you like me to show you to your office personally?"
"Oh yes please ma'am. That would be an honour," Rose said, trying to hide her emotions. She felt excited, but at the same time alarmed. Margaret hadn't a clue who she was! Perhaps if all went well, the Doctor would let her do this undercover stuff more often? But then Margaret also didn't seem to care about the so called 'accident' either. To Rose, se had sounded like a heartless monster.
But that's what she is! A monster who hunts and kills for fun. What the hell am I doing here again!
Rose was shown to a newly builtoffice next door to Margaret's. But before Margaret opened the door, she turned to Rose.
"If you would care to leave your briefcase in there, I could do with a coffee. The instant granules, not that ground bean stuff.Would you be able to go and get me one? Ask Jeeves to show you to the kitchen if you get lost. And then when you come back up, I have some business that I need to attend to in private, so if you could just knock on the door, and then leave it on that table there - " she pointed to the little table outside her door, "that would be fine."
"Of course, ma'am," Rose nodded politely, taking the key from her and unlocking the door as Margaret went back into her own office, shutting the door behind her. Rose dumped the briefcase on her new desk, admired the room for a moment, and then decided it was time to let the Doctor in. She took the psychic paper with her incase anyone should ask about them, and then headed back downstairs. After all, there was work to be done, and no time to hang around.
However, as she passed the Prime Minister's office, she saw a blue light flickering form underneath and caught a strong whiff of bad breath. She knew what that meant. Margaret was emerging from her human form, which is why she didn't want to be bothered. Rose wondered if it was just so that the Slitheen could stretch a little, or if she actually planned on killing anyone. This thought made her hurry down to the kitchen a little faster. Perhaps the Doctor would be able to stop her before she did actually kill anyone.
She bumped into Jeeves on the way, and asked him where the kitchen was, just to make it seem like she was new to the place and didn't know her way around, even though she did...sort of. Well she had been running away from a pack of Slitheen at the time and didn't exactly have a chance to memorise the route.
He showed her to the kitchen, which was surprisingly empty, and then left her to it. She hastily put the kettle on to boil, spooned a few spoonfulls of instant coffee into a cup, realised she had no idea if Margaret had sugar or milk in her coffee, then went to let the Doctor and Jack in.
The sight she was greeted with made her laugh out loud and forget about the Slitheen upstairs for a moment. There was the Doctor, trying to free Jack, who was hanging from the barbed wire round the three meter wall, his trousers caught on the little barbed hooks. She just stood there, leaning against the door frame with her arms folded as the Doctor eventually gave Jack a huge tug and his trousers ripped, freeing him from the wire and causing him to drop onto the Doctor.
Jack stood up again quickly, helped the Doctor up, then inspected the long rip in the seat of his trousers. Then he looked back up and caught Rose watching him. At least he thought it was Rose. She looked so different with glasses and her hair tied back. She'd even found some make-up in her bag which she had used to make herself seem older.
"What took you so long," the Doctor grinned as he went over to her.
"Oh you know, had to make myself look more presentable, convince two people that I'm someone I'm not, meet the new Prime Minister, convince her she hasn't met me before, make her coffee so that I'm out of the way for a while, so that she can unzip...usual stuff really," Rose replied as she stepped back out of the way to let them in.
Jack tossed her a little wink as he passed and she hit him on the shoulder, before hurrying back over to poor the coffee. She had no idea why she was still making Margaret coffee, seeing as the Doctor was here now, but she decided that if anything went wrong, at least she wouldn't seem so suspicious if she had the Prime Minister's coffee with her.
"Did you say she was unzipping?" The Doctor asked as Rose stirred the liquid then tossed the spoon in the sink.
"Yeah, as I walked past I saw the light under her door, and smelt that disgusting smell. That's probably why she wanted me to come and make her a coffee, rather than ask Jeeves to do it."
"Jeeves? Oh how original," the Doctor laughed as he followed Rose out of the door, Jack following behind, trying to pull his jacket down so that it covered the rip and muttering something about it being the year 3020, so why the hell did they still have barbed wire?
To Rose's relief, they didn't meet anyone on their way up to her office, so she didn't need the psychic paper. When she showed her two companions the door, the Doctor peered through the keyhole.
"Yep, she's unzipped," he confirmed as Rose dragged him and Jack into her new office. Jack was impressed at the size of the room, considering it was just an office. It had a large desk by the window, with several pen pots, paper trays, a laptop and a desk lamp. Then around the room were various decorations, a large comfy couch, a coffee table with several newspapers scattered across it, and a few official looking documents.
"Jack, you get to work on that computer. It's probably had its memory wiped since its last owner left, but see if you can find anything of interest," the Doctor decided, and Jack nodded, sitting at the desk and starting to work on the laptop.
"Rose, you come with me. You're going to play the PA role again."
"What am I going to do this time?" she whispered as they stepped out of her office.
The Doctor leaned over and whispered something in her ear.