Set after SR, starts off chirpy but swiftly get gritty. The Doctor is playing tricks on Mickey but Rose has had enough. Please R & R. Rated for Evil Mickey-ness.


Rose Tyler, wearing a purple sparkly top and jeans, walked out of her room somewhere aboard the Tardis, trying to locate where the screams were coming from. Thinking to herself that she couldn't leave Mickey alone for one minute, she started running in the hope that it would get her there faster. Turning a corner, she was shocked at the sight that awaited her: Mickey screaming at a rat that looked suspiciously like one of the ones from Deffrey Vale school. It didn't take a genius to work out who had hung the rat from Mickey's bedroom door-frame (which was good, as since Rose had stopped eating the chips, she was no longer brainy enough to be considered a genius – even when the Doctor wasn't in the room). The culprit could only have been the Doctor, something that Mickey realised as well. Once he'd stopped screaming like a nice year old girl with blonde pigtails.

"Rose, where is he?" Mickey asked Rose, who shook her head.

"What do you want, Mickey the idiot?" asked the Doctor, who had just rounded the corner.

"What I want, Doctor, is for you to stop treating me like an idiot, stop pulling pranks on me, and generally stop being mean. Why are you never mean to Rose?"

Rose looked shocked, not at Mickey's words, but the venomous tone with which he delivered them. Did he hate her? Or did he just hate the Doctor poking fun at him. Either way, she knew the Doctor wouldn't like what Mickey had just said.

"Mickey, if you don't want to be pushed out of the time vortex, explain what you meant by that" the Doctor said in a low, dangerous voice.

"I just don't get while you're always treating me like the tin dog, and why you're always kind to Rose?" Mickey was shouting now, shouting at Rose but directing all his comments towards the Doctor. Rose had had enough.

"Just STOP it, both of you. I've had enough of the two of you constantly fighting, it does my head in. Now Doctor, go and tinker with the Tardis, or whatever you do when things get awkward. Mickey, you and me need to have a chat." With that, Rose grabbed Mickey's hand and dragged him into her room, while the Doctor, looking surprised, wandered off to the control room, glad to be out of Rose's room while she was in this mood.


In her room, Rose sat on her bed and looked at Mickey.

"Mickey, what's going on? Why are you being so confrontational?"

Mickey looked at the floor, not wanting to meet Rose's eyes. He knew she wouldn't like what he was going to say, as it would paint her precious Doctor in a bad light. Still, he'd bought it upon himself, what with all that flirting with Sarah Jane Smith. Rose was an idiot to believe that he wouldn't leave her in some dead-end town when he was bored of her. Mickey was just surprised that it hadn't happened before now.

"I can't hack the Doctor constantly playing games with you, and making you fall in love with him, when he doesn't care about you. By getting you to fall in love with him he's splitting us up, which I think is not on."

Rose interrupted Mickey "Hey Mickey we split up because I left, and then you started going out with Trisha, not because of anything the Doctor's ever done."

Mickey got annoyed with this, and moved towards where Rose was sat on the bed, with an angry look on his face which scared Rose, who found herself wishing that she hadn't sent the Doctor off to the control room – with Mickey looking as angry as he was she could have done with some help from the Doctor.

Suddenly Rose felt her wrists being gripped by Mickey, and she was dragged up from her sitting position.


Ok, I know its short, and feels rushed/confusing, but I needed to get this chapter out the way so I could move on to the next. Please Read and Review.