Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 3. I am glad that you guys liked the fact that Gwendalyn gave Rose what for. Here is the ending of The Christmas Invasion. It took me a little bit to write this one because of the fight scene in it. Also, I know that some of you are curious about what is going to happen between the Doctor and Gwendalyn and whether the Doctor is going to properly propose to her in this chapter or not. I am not going to give spoilers for it. Also, there are parts missing in this for a reason. I didn't want to make huge long chapters for this story. I know it doesn't seem fair to some of the characters, but it is the only way to keep track of what I have already done so far. I will just do the parts that I think are important. There will be some scenes in here that are strictly my own. Like little conversations with Jackie, Mickey, the Doctor and perhaps yelling at Rose some more. Drama is a bit here and there and Gwendalyn is still in the gown that she should have been out of after the second chapter of this story. But I think it was best that I prolonged it a little bit more. This is also the first and longest chapter in this story. I didn't want to break this up into two chapters. It wouldn't have been right to do that. So here it is in its entirety finished and ready to go. Hopefully, you will enjoy it and all of the little surprises that I have written in. Without further ado Chapter 3 of Through It All. Allons-y!
Chapter 3
"Despite claims of alien hoax, it's been reported that NATO forces are on red alert."
Jackie sat down next to the Doctor and looked at Gwendalyn who was sitting slightly awake. She looked close to dozing off to Jackie. She patted the Doctor's hand. "Oh, come on, sweetheart. What do you need? What is it you need? Tell me." Jackie hated being not able to help where she could.
"Speaking strictly off the record, government sources are calling this our longest night."
Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor. "He needs rest." She said brokenly.
"Is that all?"
"I don't know." She said softly looking down.
Jackie smiled at the strawberry blonde-haired woman. "You look like you need rest too."
"Yeah, but I can't." She said softly to Jackie. She wouldn't rest until the Doctor woke up. She was going to make sure that Rose didn't wake him again from the sleep that he needed.
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Jackie had fallen asleep by the Doctor's bedside.
Gwendalyn tried not to fall asleep. She looked at the Doctor sadly.
"The Doctor wouldn't do this. The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he'd wake up. He'd save us." Rose said softly.
"You really love him, don't you?" Mickey asked sadly.
Rose turned to her boyfriend and hugged him.
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Gwendalyn stood up. "What's that?"
Rose heard someone talking. She looked at Mickey.
Mickey nodded his head and followed her.
"What's wrong with you? Jason? Jason?" Sandra asked her husband.
Rose and Mickey came out.
"Sandra?" Rose asked looking at her neighbor.
"He won't listen. He's just walking. He won't stop walking! There's this sort of light thing." Jason? Stop it right now. Please, Jason, just stop." Sandra pleaded with her husband.
Gwendalyn came out. "What's going on?"
"Sandra's husband won't stop. There's this weird light thing." Mickey told Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn blinked in confusion.
"Have you heard of something like that before."
"I'm thinking."
"Oh brilliant." Rose said rolling her eyes. "You don't even know what they are. You certainly wouldn't know what this is."
Gwendalyn glared at Rose. "You think you're smarter than me don't you? I got almost 880 years on you. Don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about or treating me like I am stupid. Now let me think. It has been a while since I have heard something like that happening." She said turning on her feet and walking away from Rose.
Mickey looked at his girlfriend. "Rose she's just trying to help."
Rose rolled her eyes. "She ruined everything, Mickey. She's the reason why the Doctor is like this."
"Rose don't blame her for this." He told her. "She almost died as the Doctor did and you've been harping on her ever since you guys got back here. All because what of she did to the Doctor. She saved him. You helped her. She went with you and made sure you were safe."
Rose huffed and went inside with him.
Gwendalyn had her arms crossed watching the news.
"Ladies and gentlemen, if I may take a moment during this terrible time. It's hardly the Queen's speech. I'm afraid that's been canceled. Did we ask about the royal family? Oh. They're on the roof. But, ladies and gentlemen, this crisis is unique, and I'm afraid to say, it might get much worse. I would ask you all to remain calm. But I have one request. Doctor, if you're out there, we need you. I don't know what to do. If you can hear me, Doctor. If anyone knows the Doctor, if anyone can find him, the situation has never been more desperate. Help us. Please, Doctor. Help us. God help us."
Rose burst into tears.
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes and left the room. She couldn't take domestics.
"He's gone. The Doctor's gone. He's left me, mum. He's left me, mum."
"It's alright. I'm sorry." Jackie said hugging her daughter.
Gwendalyn ducked when glass flew into the flat from shattering. Gwendalyn dusted her hair off that had tiny glass shards in it. "What the bloody hell was that?"
Jackie came running in. "Are you alright there sweetheart?"
Gwendalyn got the rest of the glass out of her strawberry blonde locks. "Fine." She said with a small smile not even realizing she had a small cut on her cheek.
Rose came into the room. "Mickey, we're going to carry him. Mum, get your stuff and get some food. We're going."
"I'm helping." Gwendalyn said looking at Rose.
"I don't need help."
"I am going to help." Gwendalyn bit out. "I don't care what you say, but this is a life or death thing now. I am going to help."
"You can't even help with your powers."
"I haven't slept damn it." Gwendalyn said whirling around narrowing her silver eyes at her. "Would you rather me dead?"
Rose didn't say a word. "Mickey help me out."
Gwendalyn huffed.
"I could use your help." Jackie said with a smile.
Gwendalyn nodded her head and knew that Jackie did need her help.
"Where to?" Mickey asked looking at Rose.
"The Tardis. It's the only safe place on Earth."
"What're we going to do in there?" Jackie asked looking at her daughter.
"Hide." Rose said as if it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Is that it?"
"Mum, look in the sky. There's a great, big, alien invasion and I don't know what to do, alright? I've traveled with him and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home. I'm useless. Now, all we can do is run and hide, and I'm sorry. Now, move. Oh, lift him up." Rose said moving the Doctor with Mickey's help.
Gwendalyn went to go and help Jackie. "I'm so sorry about this."
"You know what kind of aliens they are?" Jackie asked handing her three bags.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "I wish I knew, but I've have never seen those aliens before. I have been around for a long time. 897 years you think I would have seen them all. Sadly no I haven't."
"Wow." Jackie said looking at her with wide eyes.
"What?" Gwendalyn asked in confusion.
"You're 897 years old?"
"Yeah. I normally don't lie about my age. I'm an alien remember? We age a lot slower than people." She said offering Jackie a small smile.
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"They're transmitting. Onscreen." Llewellyn said to Harriet.
"Will the leader of this world stand forward?" Alex told Harriet telling her what the Sycorax was saying.
"I'm proud to represent this planet." Harriet said proudly. She wanted to know what they wanted.
"Come aboard."
"Well, how do I do that?"
Harriet, Blake, Alex, and Llewellyn are surrounded by light.
"What's happening? "Llewellyn asked in confusion.
"I would imagine it's called a teleport," Harriet said softly.
The four of them are transported onto the spaceship.
"It's a helmet. They might be light us." Llewellyn said.
The leader removed his helmet. His face was flatter and bony.
"Or not…"
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"Mum, will you just leave that stuff and give us a hand?" Rose shouted at her mother.
"It's food! You said we need food."
"Just leave it."
"Rose how about you shut up and focus on what you are doing." Gwendalyn snapped as she carried the bags that Jackie had given to her.
"How about you stay out of the Tardis."
Gwendalyn narrowed her eyes. "I have more right on that Tardis than you do Rose Tyler. I have known the Doctor almost all of my 897 years old life. So shut up."
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"You will surrender, or I will release the final curse and your people will jump." Alex translated.
"If I can speak." Llewellyn said looking at the leader of the Sycorax.
"Mister Llewellyn, you're a civilian."
"No, I sent out the probe. I started it. I made contact with these people. This whole thing's my responsibility. With respect sir. The human race is taking it's first steps towards the stars, but we are like children compared to you. Children who need help. Children who need compassion. I beg of you now, show that compassion." Llewellyn pleaded with them.
The Sycorax raised a glittering whip and cracks it around Llewellyn's neck disintegrating his flesh and he was now heap of bones.
Harriet gasped. Where were they. Where was the Doctor and Gwendalyn. She needed them. They had helped with the last crisis. Were they out in space somewhere not knowing what was going on here on Earth? Or were they on their way now? She didn't know. All she could do was hope and pray that they would come.
"That man was your prisoner! Even your species must have articles of war, forbidding…" Blake said before he met the same fate that Llewellyn had met.
Harriet closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister."
"Yea, we know who you are. Surrender or they will die." Alex translated.
"If I do surrender, how would that be better?"
"Half is sold into slavery or one third dies. Your choice."
Harriet closed her eyes. This was bad. She didn't want to surrender if she didn't have to.
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"No chance you could fly this thing?" Mickey asked look at Rose.
"No." Rose shook her head.
Mickey looked at Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn shook her head. "I can't fly it either. Always had his help" She said looking at the Doctor sadly.
"Well, you did it before."
"Rip the universe," Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "And I am not going to do that."
"So, what do we do? Just sit here?" Mickey asked rubbing his face.
"That's as good as it gets," Rose said sending another glare toward Gwendalyn.
"Right, here we go. A nice cup of tea." Jackie said bringing a flask out of tea.
"Mm, the solution for everything," Rose said narrowing her eyes at her mother.
"Now, stop your moaning. I'll get the rest of the food." Jackie said leaving.
"That was quite rude," Gwendalyn said not even looking at Rose.
"Oh shut up. You're the reason why we are in this mess."
"How about you just shut up and quit your whining." Gwendalyn snapped focusing her attention on the Doctor. She really really hated humans.
"Tea…" Mickey said breaking the tension that was in the Tardis. "Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. Very British. How does this thing work? If it picks up TV, maybe we could see what's going on out there. Maybe we've surrendered. What do you do to it?"
"I don't know. It sort of tunes itself." Rose told Mickey.
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"The noise." Alex said translating. "The beeping. They say it's machinery. Foreign machinery. They're accusing us of hiding it. Conspiring. Bring it on board."
Harriet's eyes widened. There was no way that they had something hidden. Unless. Yes their only hope. The Doctor.
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"Maybe it's a distress signal."
"Fat lot of good that's going to do."
"Are you going to be a misery all the time."
"Yes." Rose told Mickey.
Gwendalyn rolled her eyes. More like a bitch.
"You should look at it from my point of view, stuck in here with your mum's cooking."
"Where is she?" Rose asked wondering where her mother was. "I'd better give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there."
"Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine." Mickey called out to her.
"Why don't you tell her yourself?"
"I'm not that brave."
"Oh, I don't know." Rose said with a smile before stepping and being grabbed by someone causing her to scream.
"Rose?" Mickey dropped the flask of tea.
Gwendalyn quickly followed Mickey. "Mickey!"
"Get off. Get off of me." Rose yelled.
The two of them had ran out of the Tardis.
"The door. Close the door." Rose yelled at them.
Mickey grabbed the door.
Gwendalyn was grabbed. "Ow!"
"Rose. Rose!" Harriet called to the blonde catching her before she fell. "I've got you. My Lord. Oh, my precious thing. The Doctor is he with you?"
"No."
"And what about Gwendalyn?"
"She's here, but we're on our own." Rose said glaring at Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn looked down. She knew that she wasn't going to be much help. She hadn't slept her regeneration off yet. She couldn't use her magic or she would have died if she had tried to use her magic before it was too soon.
"The yellow girl. She has a clever blue box. Therefore, she speaks for your planet." Alex translated.
"But she can't," Harriet said in shock. Scared for Rose. She didn't want Rose to do something.
"Yeah, I can," Rose said looking at Harriet.
"Rose no," Gwendalyn said.
"Don't you dare," Mickey said concerned about his girlfriend.
"Someone's got to be the Doctor," Rose said looking at Mickey.
"They'll kill you." Harriet told the girl."
"Never stopped him. I, er, I address the Sycorax according to Article Fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this word with all of the authority of the Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorius, and er, the Gelth Confederacy as er, sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess and, oh, the Daleks! Now, leave this planet in peace! In peace."
Gwendalyn tried not to slap her forehead. God there went the neighborhood.
The Sycorax laughed at what Rose had said.
"You are very very funny. And now you're going to die."
"Leave her alone!" Harriet yelled.
"Don't touch her!" Mickey yelled.
"Leave her alone."
"Did you think you were clever with your stolen words? We are the Sycorax, we stride the darkness. Next to us you are but a wailing child. If you are the best your planet can offer as a champion" Alex translated.
"Then your world will be gutted." The Sycorax said.
"Then your world will be gutted."
"And your people enslaved."
"Hold on, that's English."
"He's talking English." Harriet said.
Gwendalyn looked back towards the Tardis. Her Theta. If they were hearing English that meant he was up and walking around. He was awake. He was fine.
"You're talking English." Rose said.
"I would never dirty my tongue with your primitive bile."
"That's English. Can you hear English?" Rose asked looking at Mickey.
"Yeah, that's English." Mickey said.
"Definitely English." Alex said.
"I speak only Sycoraxic!"
Gwendalyn shook her head. If only it knew. If only the Sycorax knew what the Tardis did.
"If I can hear English, then it's being translated. Which means it's working. Which means…"
Mickey, Rose, Harriet, and Alex looked towards the Tardis.
The Doctor opened the doors. "Did you miss me?"
The Sycorax cracked a whip and the Doctor caught the end of it and pulled it out of his hand. "You could have someone's eye with that."
"How dare!"
The Doctor moved forward taking a thick club off another and broke it across his knee. "You just can't get the staff. Now, you, just wait. I'm busy. Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North. Blimey, it's like This Is Your Life. Tea! That's all I needed, a good cup of tea!" He said with a smile. Superheated infusion of free radicals and tanning. Just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first things first. Be honest how do I look?"
"Er, different," Rose said.
"Good different or bad different?"
"Just different."
"Am I ginger?"
"No, you're just sort of brown," Rose said making movement with her hand over her own head.
"Aw that's no fair. Dalyn here gets to be a ginger. I wanted to be a ginger. I've never been a ginger." The Doctor said pouting.
Gwendalyn shook her head. Of course, he would say something about that. She was ginger. It was something that she herself couldn't control. It wasn't her fault.
"And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Oh, that's rude." He said realizing what he had said to Rose. "That's the sort of man I am now, Am I? Rude. Rude and not ginger."
"I'm sorry. Who is this?" Harriet asked looking at the new Doctor.
"I'm the Doctor. And she's Gwendalyn." The Doctor said with a smile.
"He's the Doctor." Rose said ignoring what he had said about Gwendalyn. It didn't matter what he had said about Gwendalyn. She wasn't much of a help before and certainly wouldn't be now.
"But what happened to my Doctor and Gwendalyn? Or is it a title that's just passed on with the Doctor?" Harriet asked.
"I'm him. I'm literally him. Same man, new face. Well, new everything."
"But you can't be."
"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."
"Oh, my God." Harriet said with wide eyes.
"Did you win the election?" He asked curiously.
"Landslide majority." Harriet said with a smile.
"If I might interrupt." The Sycorax leader said.
"Yes, sorry. Hello, big fellow."
"Who exactly are you?"
"Well, that's the question."
Gwendalyn pinched her nose knowing what he was up to now. He was going to be stubborn.
"I demand to know who you are!" He shouted.
"I don't know! See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally don't know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?" He winked at Gwendalyn.
Gwendalyn's cheeks flushed. She was going to have to have a long talk with him later that was for sure.
"Right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left handed? A gamber? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob."
Gwendalyn shook her head. Of course he was quite a talker. In most of his lives he was. It was just who he was. He loved to talk and talk and talk.
He noticed something. "And how am I going to react when I see this, a great big threatening button." He said walking up towards it. "A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right? Let me guess. It's some sort of control matrix, hm? Hold on, what's feeding it?" He questioned himself. He opened the base of the pillar under the button. "And what've we got here? Blood?" He touched it and brought it up to his lips and tested it. "Yeah, definitely blood. Human blood. A Positive, with just a dash of iron. Ah, but that means blood control." He smiled. "Blood control! Oh, I haven't seen blood control for years. You're controlling all of the A Positives. Which leaves us with a great big stinking problem. Because I really don't know who I am. I don't even know when to stop. So if I see a great big threatening button which should never, ever, ever be pressed, then I just want to do this." He hits the button.
"No!" Rose and Harriet yelled.
Gwendalyn shook her head.
"You killed them!" Alex yelled.
"What do you think, big fellow? Are they dead?" The Doctor asked looking at them.
"We allow them to live."
"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 instinct's too strong."
"Blood control was just one form of conquest. I can summon the armada and take this world by force."
Gwendalyn shook her head.
"Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that, of course, you could. But why? Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive…"
"Doctor," Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "Lion King."
"Oh right. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!"
"Or what?" The Sycorax asked glaring at them.
"Or…" The Doctor took a sword and runs back towards the Tardis.
"Doctor no," Gwendalyn said with wide eyes. Now that wasn't good if he did something so stupid within his latest regeneration.
"I got it Gwendalyn." He told her. He looked dead in the leader's eyes. "I challenge you."
They laughed at him.
"Oh struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?" The Doctor asked pointing to the sword.
"You stand as this world's champion."
"Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you just summed me up." He said taking his dressing gown off and throwing it to Rose. "So, you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?"
Gwendalyn gasped.
The leader makes his mind up with the insult. "For the planet?"
"For the planet."
The two of them clashed.
"Look out!" Rose yelled.
"Oh, yeah, that helps. Wouldn't have thought of that otherwise, thanks." He muttered.
"Rose how about you shut up and let him handle it on his own."
The Doctor retreated up a tunnel leading them outside. "A bit of fresh air."
"Careful Doctor!" Gwendalyn called out to him.
"I got it Dalyn." He said with a smile before he got to the edge of the spaceship. "Oh…" He was hit on the nose.
Rose went to go and help him.
"No! Stay back! Invalidate the challenge and he wins the planet." He told Rose.
The Sycorax knocked him down and sliced his hand that held the sword.
Gwendalyn shook her head. Of course, he had to go and get himself hurt within the first day of his regeneration. She held her hands to her chest in hopes that things would work.
"You cut my hand off."
"Ya! Sycorax!"
"And now I know what sort of man I am. 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 grew a new hand.
"Show off." Gwendalyn said laughing lightly.
"Witchcraft."
"Time Lord!"
"Doctor!" Rose called out to him.
The Doctor turned and caught the sword that Rose threw at him. "Oh, so I'm still the Doctor, then?"
"No arguments from me." Rose said smiling at her Doctor.
"Want to know the best bit? This new hand? It's a fighting hand!"
The two of them went back to their fighting.
Gwendalyn held her breath during the fight in hopes that he would be able to beat the Sycorax.
The Doctor disarmed him. "I win."
"Then kill me."
"I'll spare your life it you'll take this Champion's command. 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 fellow."
"Bravo!" Harriet said with a smile.
"That says it all. Bravo." Rose said with a grin.
"Ah, not bad for a man in his jim-jams."
Rose helped him with the dressing gown.
The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn and winked at her.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms and smiled at him.
"Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man. Hold on, what have I got in here?" He pulls something out of his pocket. "A satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers. He does like his snacks doesn't he? But doesn't that just sum up Christmas? You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always one stupid old satsuma. Who wants a satsuma?"
The leader gets up.
"Doctor!" Gwendalyn shouted.
The Doctor throws the satsuma off of a control and the leader falls to his death.
Gwendalyn let out a soft sigh.
"No second chances. I'm that sort of man." He put his arm around Gwendalyn and brought her inside of the spaceship. "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 it's riches, it's people, it's potential. when you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this. It is defended."
They are beamed back down onto the Earth.
Gwendalyn wobbled. "Oh god. I don't think I can get use to that."
"You alright there?" He asked looking at her.
"Fine."
"You certain about that?" He questioned her. He looked her over with a concerning gaze. He could tell that she hadn't slept since she had regenerated. She looked over all tied to him. He couldn't help, but wonder why she hadn't slept yet? Was it because she was worrying about him since his had gone so bad? He wasn't sure. But he was going to make sure that she had gotten some sleep once the day was out.
"Where are we?" Rose asked looking around.
"We're just off Bloxom Road. We're just round the corner, we did it!" Mickey said hugging Rose.
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute." The Doctor said looking up at the sky.
The spaceship begins to fly away.
"Go on, my son! Oh, yeah!"
"Yeah! Don't come back!"
"It is defended!"
Mickey and Rose hugged and then Rose turned around and hugged Alex.
Gwendalyn crossed her arms with a small smile on her face.
"My Doctor." Harriet said looking at the Doctor.
"Prime Minister." The Doctor said with a smile he said hugging her.
"Absolutely the same man. Are there many more out there?"
"Oh, not just Sycorax. Hundred of species. Thousands of them. And the human race is drawing attention to itself. Every day you're sending out probes and messages and signals. This planet's so noisy. You're getting noticed more and more. You'd better get used to it."
"Rose!" Jackie yelled.
"Mum!" Rose said moving towards her mother.
"Oh, talking of trouble." The Doctor said looking towards Jackie.
Gwendalyn let out a soft sigh.
"Oh, my God! You did it, Rose! Oh!"
"There she goes again thinking that Rose did this all." Gwendalyn muttered to herself.
"You did it too. It was the tea. Fixed his head." Rose told her mother.
"That was all I needed, cup of tea." The Doctor said with a smile.
"I said so." Jackie said with a smile.
"Look at him." Rose said with a smile
"Is it him, though? I s it really the Doctor? Oh, my God, it's the bleeding Prime Minister."
"Come here you." The Doctor told Jackie.
A group hug between the five of them.
"Are you better?" Jackie asked the Doctor.
"I am, yeah." The Doctor said with a smile.
"You left me." Jackie told her daughter.
"I'm sorry." Rose said looking at her mom with a sorry look.
"I had all the food."
Gwendalyn turned sharply.
Boom!
"What was that?" Rose asked in confusion. "What's happening?"
"That was murder!" Gwendalyn and the Doctor shouted.
"That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago."
"But they were leaving." The Doctor shouted in anger.
"You don't kill when they were leaving." Gwendalyn said swallowing her tears that were threatening to spill. An alien race gone because humans were just too scared.
"You said yourself, Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all of the time and the same goes for Gwendalyn. 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 had to defend ourselves.
"Britain's Golden Age." The Doctor murmured.
"So much for that." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.
"It comes with a price." Harriet told them.
"I gave them the wrong warning. 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." The Doctor said narrowing his eyes at Harriet.
"What does that make you two? Another alien threat?"
"Don't challenge us, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man and she is a new woman." The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn.
"I will handle this." Gwendalyn said putting her hand on his arm.
The Doctor nodded his head.
"I can bring down your government in a single world." She said looking at Harriet with narrow silver eyes.
"You're the most remarkable people that I've ever met, but I don't think you're quite capable of that."
Gwendalyn shook her head. "No, your right. Not single word. Just six of them."
"I don't think so."
"Six words."
"Stop it!"
"Just six." She said walking over to Alex. She leans over a little bit. "Don't you think she looks tired?" She whispered into his ear. She looked over at the Doctor.
"Finished?"
"Quite finished here."
The Doctor held out his arm to her.
Gwendalyn took it and the five of them left Harriet Jones with Alex.
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The Doctor and Gwendalyn were in the Tardis wardrobe looking through everything.
The Doctor let out a soft sigh as he looked through the clothes that he had collected over the years.
Gwendalyn ran her hands over the women clothes that he had. "I thought I would never see the day that we both would have to pick out new clothes." She said softly.
The Doctor gave her a soft smile.
"Oh before I forget." She said slipping off his old leather jacket and handing it back to him.
The Doctor took it from her. He reached into the pocket and felt that the ring box was still inside of it. He looked down clearing his throat. "I take it you still have something that you want to talk to me about?"
Gwendalyn looked over her shoulder at him and quirking an eyebrow. "Yes. I do, but right now let us find some clothes. I believe they are waiting for us."
The Doctor nodded his head. He picked out his new suit which was a brown pinstripe suit and a long brown over coat.
Gwendalyn looked through the clothes that are there. A small smile came to her lips as she picked out her outfit. Fade washed blue jeans, black camisole top, purple coat, black fingerless gloves and a pair of purple high tops.
The both of them change out of what they were wearing and into what they had chose to wear. They both looked in the mirror next to one another.
Gwendalyn looked at him. "You look good." She said with a smile.
"You look beautiful as always."
"Doctor."
He smiled. "It's true."
Gwendalyn smiled and ducked her head sticking her hands in her pockets.
The Doctor had slipped the ring that was in his old coat and into his new one.
Gwendalyn looked at him. "Shall we go?"
The Doctor smiled. "Yes, we should." He said offering his arm to her.
Gwendalyn looped her arm with his.
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Dinner had gone by smoothly. The two aliens had to admit that this was a nice way to unwind from a day.
The Doctor and Rose pulled on a cracker.
"Oh, that's yours." The Doctor told Rose with a smile.
"It's pink. Mum, it should be yours. Look, it's Harriet Jones." Rose said pointing out Harriet on the television.
Gwendalyn took a sip of her water.
"Prime Minister, is it true you are no longer fit to be in position?" A man asked.
"No. Now, can we talk about other things?"
"Is it true you are unfit for office."
The Doctor put on a pair of glasses.
Gwendalyn looked at him and shook her head. Of course he wouldn't give up the brainy specs.
Look there is nothing wrong with my health. I don't know where these stories are coming from. And a vote of no confidence is completely unjustified."
"Are you going to resign?"
The telephone rings.
"Did I do the right thing?" Gwendalyn asked looking at the Doctor.
The Doctor breathed in through his nose. He looked at her. "Yes. You did."
"It's Beth." Jackie said coming into the room. "She says go and look outside."
"Why?"
"I don't know, just go outside and look. Come on, shift."
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The ground is covered in white. Streaks of lights crisscrossing in the sky.
"Oh, it's beautiful. What are they, meteors?" Rose asked looking up at the sky.
Gwendalyn and the Doctor both shook their heads.
"It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn't snow, it's ash."
"Okay, not so beautiful." Rose said shaking her head.
"This is a brand new planet Earth. No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything's new."
"And what about you? What are you going to do next?"
"Well, back to the Tardis with Gwendalyn. Same old life?"
"Just the two of you?"
The Doctor looked at Rose. "Why, don't you want to come?"
"Well, yeah."
"Do you, though?"
"Yeah!"
"I thought, because we had changed." The Doctor said pointing out the fact that he was no longer the same Doctor and Gwendalyn wasn't the same Gwendalyn any more.
"Yeah, I thought, because you changed you might not want me anymore."
"Oh, I'd love you to come." The Doctor said with a smile.
"Okay." Rose said with a smile.
"You're never going to stay are you?" Mickey asked Rose heartbroken.
Gwendalyn looked sadly at Mickey. She was hoping that Rose would have stayed with her family where she belonged.
"There's just so much out there. So much to see. I've got to." Rose told her boyfriend.
"Yeah."
"Well, I reckon you're mad, the three of you. It's like you go looking for trouble." Jackie said looking at the three of them.
"What's life without a bit of trouble." Gwendalyn said with a giggle.
"Trouble's just the bits in-between. It's all waiting out there. Jackie, and it's brand new to me. All those planets, and creatures and horizons. I haven't seen them yet! Not with these eyes. And it is going to be fantastic."
"That hand of yours still gives me the creeps." Rose said with a smile before taking the Doctor's hand in hers. "So where're we going to go first?"
"Er, that way. No, hold on. That way." He said pointing up.
"That way?" Rose asked pointing.
"Hm?"
"Yeah that way." Rose said with a smile.
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The Doctor and Gwendalyn allowed Rose to sleep in her bed for this one time. They thought that it was wise to do so. Rose needed to spend time with her mother without them there with her breathing down her neck.
"Now we can talk." Gwendalyn said looking at the Doctor with tired silver eyes.
"Wouldn't you want to get some rest?"
"No. We are going to talk about that little message you left me. Saying that there was something in your pocket which happened to be for me in the form of a ring."
The Doctor's cheeks flushed. "Well, uh, I thought I wouldn't see you again. I was going to…"
"You were going to have to what?" She asked looking at him.
He pulled the box out of his pocket. He twirled it around in his fingers. How was he going to do this? He never thought that he would actually get to do this.
Gwendalyn felt her mouth go dry. He was serious with the ring when he had sent her and Rose back and they had to go back to save him from death.
The Doctor swallowed the lump in his throat. "Gwendalyn…" He said softly.
"You know we're alone you can use my name Theta." She said with a small smile.
"Artemis…" He rubbed the back of his neck. "I know that you would probably not accept this... not after what I did..."
"Yes." Gwendalyn said looking at him.
He looked up at her. "What?"
"Yes." She said with a smile.
"But you didn't…"
"I know what the question was."
"You did?"
"Yes." She said nodding her head. "You're asking me to marry you."
The Doctor's cheeks flushed. "I know it is a bit not usual."
"Have you seen us Theta?" She asked laughing lightly.
The Doctor laughed lightly.
"We are hardly normal and usual."
"You will though?"
Gwendalyn put her left hand in his. "I will. I have been waiting a long time."
The Doctor took the ring out of the box and slipped it onto her finger.
Gwendalyn looked into his brown eyes. "I love you."
"I love you too."
Gwendalyn got onto the balls of her feet and kissed him lightly on the lips. She had been waiting for years for this. She rested her head on his shoulder.
The Doctor ran his finger through her strawberry blonde hair. "You should get some rest." He told her softly.
Gwendalyn nodded her head tiredly.
The Doctor helped her into her room so she could get some much needed sleep. He wanted her to be able to use her magic so rest was the only choice that she had in order to use it later. He helped her into her bed. "You get some rest."
She looked up at him tiredly. "Okay."
He pressed a soft kiss on her forehead.
"Stay with me?"
The Doctor looked at her. "Yes."
Gwendalyn moved to make room for him.
The Doctor removed his coat and suit coat putting them down while Gwendalyn removed her purple coat and black gloves.
The two of them curled up in bed and got the much needed sleep that they both needed. Both of them happy with the turnout of the day. They were engaged and nothing couldn't go wrong this time. They could only hope.
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This is the end of chapter 3. I hope that you liked what I added into the episode of The Christmas Invasion. It took me a bit longer because of all of the added scenes that I put into it. I didn't want to break it up because well it didn't seem right. I do like long chapters. I just hope that this one isn't too long of a chapter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Do you guys think I should do a few chapters that just revolve around Gwendalyn and the Doctor? I am just curious. After all they need time to themselves don't you think? Please let me know in a review and hopefully I will be updating with Chapter 4 soon. Until next time.