A-Levels and Aliens

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"Eww," Rose moaned, holding her stomach and grimacing, "I think I ate too much chocolate,"

"Well, that's your own fault," said the Doctor, shoving her affectionately with his shoulder.

Rose groaned and looked at the Doctor with pleading eyes. "I feel sick,"

"Better go to bed then," he grinned,

"Don't think I can make it on my own."

The Doctor groaned this time. "I'm starting to suspect that you have me wrapped around your little finger,"

"She's had that since well before I met you," Jack commented from the console, "Glad you've finally caught up."

Rose giggled as the Doctor stuck his tongue out at their friend before sweeping her up in his arms, ensuring her arms and legs were safely wrapped around his neck and waist retrospectively, before carrying her off to their bedroom. She called goodnight to Jack as they left.

"Night guys!" he said back, "Don't make too much noise tonight. I need my beauty sleep,"

"He sure does," the Doctor muttered, setting Rose off giggling again, which lasted until he had dumped her on their bed and sat down next to her. She shuffled closer to him and ducked under his arm.

"You tired?" he asked, playing with the end of her long hair,

"Bit," she confessed, trying to cover a yawn unsuccessfully, "Been a long day,"

"It has," confirmed the Doctor. He shifted slightly to face her, staring straight into her eyes and taking her hands. "I'm so proud of you, you know that?"

Rose blushed prettily, unsure of what to say so she settled for squeezing his hands and smiling. The moment was ruined, however, five seconds later by Rose yawning widely.

"Bed for you then, miss," the Doctor said,

"Are you coming?"

"Sure," he replied immediately, "Need help changing?"

"Any excuse to get your hands on me!" Rose teased,

"Very true," the Doctor smirked, standing up and helping her to do the same, "I can't resist you,"

"Oh really?" Rose asked, raising an eyebrow playfully,

"Really," replied the Doctor before he pounced, kissing her lovingly but not going much further. He didn't think Rose was ready for that quite yet.


About an hour later, the two lovers lay in bed together, cuddled up. Rose let out a sigh and turned over slightly so her face was pressed into the Doctor's chest.

"Can't you sleep?" he asked, wrapping an arm around her back,

"No," she said quietly,

"You worried about something?"

"Yeah," she confirmed, "I can't stop thinking about them,"

"The Ziola?"

He felt her nod.

"What's gonna happen to them?" she asked, "I forgot they were still in that house,"

"Don't worry about it," the Doctor said, shuffling down so they were lying face to face. "And it's completely up to you what happens to them. You can decide their fate if you want to,"

"How'd you mean?"

"Well…" mused the Doctor, "They're effectively our prisoners now so it's up to us what happens to them. And I think that as they hurt you, its only right that you get to choose what happens,"

"Oh," said Rose, "What… what are my options?"

The Doctor rested his hand on her cheek. "There's the death penalty and believe me the Ziola have had it coming for centuries. Or we can exile them and banish them from Earth and other civilisations. Or we could always keep them locked up in that house. It's your choice."

Rose nodded, the unease clearly showing in her eyes.

"Think it over," the Doctor advised, "You come to a decision whenever you're ready. There's no deadline,"

"OK," she nodded, before yawning again, "I'm tired now,"

"Sweet dreams, my angel," he murmured, kissing her lightly on the lips before turning onto his back so she could comfortably lay her head above his hearts.

"G'night Doctor."


"Hi Mum,"

"Rose!" Jackie cried, opening her flat door to discover her daughter standing outside, "How are you?"

"I'm fine now, thanks," she smiled, taking a deep breath and stepping forward to engulf her mother in a hug. She hugged back tightly.

"Sorry I've been a bit weird lately and haven't seen you for a couple of days," Rose whispered into Jackie's neck,

"It's OK," she replied, softly, "Jack came up and explained what was going on. He's a nice young man,"

"Yeah, Jack's amazing," Rose sighed, "He's been ever so patient while I've been recovering,"

"Do you want to come in for a cup of tea?" Jackie asked,

"Yeah please," her daughter replied, "Hang on a mo, though." She went to the balcony and waved down at the TARDIS a few hundred feet below. The Doctor, who was standing in its doorway, waved back, blew a kiss and smiled when he saw her thumbs up. She'd not only managed to walk up to Jackie's flat completely unaided but she'd also successfully touched her mother again. His Rose was well on her way to a full recovery; an amazing feat as it had only been exactly one week since the entire horrible incident.


"Are you sure you want to go back to college today?"

Rose sighed and framed the Doctor's face with her hands. "I'll be fine," she said, softly,

"Do you want me or Jack to walk you there?"

"Doctor!" Rose moaned, her smile giving away the fact that she wasn't bothered about his protectiveness, "I'll be fine. The Ziola can't get me, can they? It's only a fifteen minute walk and college is secure,"

"I'm sorry," the Doctor sighed, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her closer to him, "I just don't want anything to happen to you,"

"It won't. I'll phone you if I need to though, I promise,"

"OK, I love you," the Doctor said,

"Love you too," Rose replied, with a sweet kiss, "See you later."


Rose's friends were overjoyed to see her again that Monday morning. They chatted with her, avoiding questions about where she'd been. She felt grateful to Matt, Kirsty and Lauren who had given them all the official cover-up story and specifically asked them not to mention it.

Currently, Rose was walking down a road filled with shops with her three best college friends at lunchtime.

"Yeah, so right, President Bush was talking to the Queen," Matt said, "He said 'I think I might turn America into a kingdom so I can be a king… or maybe I should turn it into an Empire so I could be an Emperor…'"

Kirsty took over, having heard the joke the week before. "So the Queen turns to him and shakes her head. 'Oh no,' she replies, 'I think you should keep it as country!'"

The quartet burst out laughing; Rose quickly regretting it as she held her still tender ribs.

"Oh, I just need to pop in here," Lauren said, motioning to a body care products shop on their right,

"OK," the other three agreed.

Matt and Rose waited outside, leaning against the shop window whilst Kirsty went in with Lauren.

"Just gonna check my messages," Matt muttered, pulling out his phone.

Rose nodded and watched the passing people without much interest. Without warning, she suddenly let out a choked gasp.

"What's up?" Matt asked, in concern,

"I… I think I just saw Zoë!" Rose gasped out, paling dramatically,

"You can't have," replied Matt, "You said she was locked up,"

"It looked like her!"

Her friend took one look at her before springing into action. She was beginning to breathe heavily and had gone very white. Matt shrugged off his coat and laid it on the grimy pavement before helping her to sit down, her head resting on her bent knees.

"Do you want me to call the Doctor?" he asked, kneeling beside her.

Rose nodded and silently passed him her mobile. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the breathing tricks that the Doctor had taught her in case she began to panic. She distantly heard Matt tell her that he was on his way.

Sure enough, five minutes later, the Doctor arrived on the scene to discover Rose in the same position with Kirsty and Lauren each holding a hand. Matt was nervously standing nearby, waving off concerned questions from passers by.

"Oh Rose," the Doctor muttered, squatting down in front of her and taking her clammy hands from her friends. She opened her eyes to stare into his.

"I thought I saw Zoë," she whispered,

"It wasn't her," he reassured her, "Jack checked and all the Ziola are still in the house and haven't left for over a week."

Rose exhaled heavily before he pulled her into a hug.

"You must think I'm completely paranoid," she mumbled sadly,

"No Rose," he replied, "It's gonna take you time to get over it. But you will, I promise."

She snuggled further into his arms and they remained locked in an embrace, Rose taking comfort from her Doctor, until Matt hesitantly told them there was only five minutes remaining of lunch.

"Do you want to come home or go back to college?" asked the Doctor, stroking her hair,

"Go back to college," Rose said, lifting her head to look at him, "Can't…won't let them win,"

"That's my girl!" he smiled, "What do you have?"

"Just History," replied Rose, "With Matt,"

"OK, I'll walk you there." He helped her stand up and securely took her hand before looking around at her friends. "Thanks guys,"

"No problem," Lauren replied, with a genuine smile that told the Doctor she'd accepted him, "It's you Rose needs, not us."

The other two nodded in agreement and they set off quickly. Kirsty and Lauren left them once they'd reached college for their own lessons and Matt led the Doctor and Rose- who was wrapped around her love- to their History classroom.

"Hello Doctor!" came a surprised voice.

The Doctor turned to discover Rose's history teacher standing outside the classroom door.

"Hi," he said, "Hope you don't mind me being here but Rose thought she saw one of her… muggers at lunchtime and I wanted to make sure she got here OK,"

"I see," replied the teacher, her face creasing with sympathy. She paused for a moment in thought. "This is probably breaking some rules but as its special circumstances… well, I was wondering if you wanted to stay for the lesson so Rose knows she's safe. I'm afraid we don't have any spare seats but…"

"The floor will be fine," the Doctor interrupted with a smile, "Is that alright with you, Rose?"

Rose smiled and nodded, colour already flooding back into her cheeks from just being near to him.

Matt led the way into the classroom, heading for his and Rose's seats in the corner. The noise level dropped instantly and about twenty pairs of eyes settled on him. The Doctor grinned and acknowledged his head before helping Rose sit down in her chair and then settled himself on the threadbare carpet, his back gently toasting against the radiator. He took Rose's hand, kissed the back of it gently and turned his attention to the teacher, who he could easily see over the table tops. There were some advantages to being tall.

"Afternoon guys," the teacher began, "Before we start, I'd just like to point out that we have a visitor this lesson and it is, of course, the famous Doctor."

Mutterings rang out, many sounding excited and Rose's classmates craned to look at him.

"Hi, I'm Holly," said a girl, who was sitting to Rose's right. The tables were positioned in a semi-circle with corners- one of which Rose sat at with Matt to her left.

"I'm Charlotte," gushed another girl, on Holly's left,

"And I'm Ally!" said a third girl, on Charlotte's other side,

"Nice to meet you," the Doctor said, with one of his heart-stopping grins,

"Rose, he's better than I ever imagined!" Ally said,

"Lucky cow!" Charlotte joked,

"I am lucky," Rose said, smiling affectionately at the Doctor. He looked adoringly back, making all of her watching friends coo.

"Let's get going then," called out the teacher, "Right, last lesson we talked about some of the reasons for why the Restoration happened…."

It was a most entertaining lesson, with the Doctor piping up several times, contradicting the teacher by saying that that was complete rot and this is what really happened. The class was in hysterics but Rose could see the teacher was beginning to get annoyed so she shut the Doctor up the only way she knew from past experience actually worked. She swivelled around, dropped onto her knees in front of him and said,

"Doctor, shut up!"

before grabbing his face and kissing him thoroughly, making him moan and the rest of the class whistle and hoot.

The teacher gave up in despair after that and let them go an entire fifteen minutes early- something completely unheard of her as she was famous for using every single minute wisely in her lessons. As a result, the Doctor received a range of thank you's from Rose's peers as they filed out until only he, Rose and the teacher were left.

"Sorry about that," apologised the Doctor, "Just trying to cheer Rose up, you know?"

"Seems to have worked," she replied, looking at Rose, who was beaming next to him, tucked securely under his arm, "It's quite alright, Doctor. I must admit I found some of your comments highly amusing."

The Doctor grinned and they bid their goodbyes, before the couple walked slowly down the corridor in comfortable silence.

"Doctor," Rose suddenly said, pulling him to a stop. He turned to face her, his eyes warm and encouraging.

"Doctor, I've made my decision. I think I know what to do with the Ziola."


OK, first of all, I want to make completely clear that I don't have anything against President Bush. That joke was simply the first joke that came into my head that wasn't completely perverted!

Secondly, I'm curious as to what YOU think Rose's decision should be. I've made my decision but it could be changed. Reviewers have made changes to the plot before. For example, Scout Girl aka Genius came up with the Lauren and Kirsty idea and their reaction to the Doctor and xXxRoses-are-reDxXx had a brilliant conversation with me, where we came up with Rose's reactions after the incident. So credit to both of them and go read their stories!

So the choices are:

A) Death Penalty

B) Exile and banish them

C) Keep them locked in the house

D) Another idea- and tell me what!

Until next time

Review please. Constructive criticism is gladly received