A/N: Apologies for any mistakes that you might just happen to stop. I'm working on hunting them down with my tired little eyes!

"All right, Doctor. I'm not saying I trust you and that girlfriend of yours, but there must be something you can do." Jackie called down the phone to them. Kari was getting sick of just being referred to as 'the girlfriend' all the time. She had a name, and she was actually his fiancée.

The Doctor was there with Kari, while Harriet and Rose were still trying to think of something. "If we could ferment the port, we could make acetic acid." Harriet suggested.

"Mickey, any luck?" Rose called, hoping that he had been able to at least find something that could help them.

"There's loads of emergency numbers. They're all on voicemail." The man replied, sounding slightly hopeless. It was like he was starting to give up, to pack it all in and just let it happen, but Kari knew him better.

"Voicemail dooms us all." Harriet moaned, pouring herself yet another glass of port. Kari had lost count of how many the woman had thrown down her throat now, but it was quite a few.

The young blonde sighed as she got up from the chair she had been in, pacing slightly while the Doctor and Kari stayed to one side of the room, watching them both. "If we could just get out of here." It was clear Rose was getting frustrated now as well.

That was when the Doctor and Kari both fell back into the conversation. "There is a way out." The pair said at the same time, but not in a very good way. Kari's voice was quiet, while the Doctor's displayed caution, and that could never mean anything good.

Rose quickly turned around and looked at them both, a confused look on her face. "What?" She wasn't entirely sure that she had heard them both correctly, so she needed to just make sure.

"There's always been a way out." The Doctor admitted to her, not even attempting to move, and with Kari stuck at his side, she didn't move either.

"Then why don't we use it?" Rose asked, now showing that she was annoyed that neither of them had bothered to mention it before. It didn't occur to her that there might have been a reason for them not mentioning the way out, but she was about to find that out.

That was when the Doctor stepped forward towards the table, his arm around Kari, taking her with him. "Because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe." He admitted to Jackie on the other end of the phone line.

"Don't you dare!" The woman hissed at him. "Whatever it is, don't you dare!"

"That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies." The Doctor told Rose's mother, his arm tightening around Kari just a little. They both knew the way out, they both knew what could happen. Kari still hadn't been giving him any hints or help, he didn't really need her help anymore, he knew what was going to happen if he didn't do what they both knew had to happen.

But Rose had no idea, and yet she didn't seem to care at all. "Do it." The blonde ordered.

"You don't even know what it is, Rose. Would you really just let us?" Kari asked her, knowing that the Doctor would have said something similar.

"Yeah." She answered, not a hint of hesitation in voice. Not a flicker of doubt on her face.

And her mother had heard her, and she was not at all happy with what Rose had just said. "Doctor, please. She's my daughter. She's just a kid." She pleaded with him.

Both the Doctor and Kari had been thinking hard about what needed to be done, about the way out. Of course, Kari knew more about it than the Doctor did, and she wasn't letting him in on anything, but that only made him more cautious. "Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie. This is the life that Kari and me lead. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making decisions because nobody else will."

"Then what're you waiting for?" Rose asked, looking at him and Kari.

Both the Doctor and Kari met Rose's gaze. "We could save the world but lose you." The Doctor told her, knowing that Rose meant more to Kari than he could really understand. He had seen the pair together, plotting against him, looking out for each other, just being there for each other. He knew just how much Kari needed Rose, her best friend.

"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet spoke, finally taking a stand in the matter.

"And who the hell are you?" Jackie shouted through the phone at the woman.

"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people for the people. And behalf of the people, I command you. Do it." The woman had so much confidence, so much fire, something that seemed rather admirable. But Kari saw more than that, she saw someone who would go that one step further, and that wasn't always a good thing.

All the Doctor could do was smile, because he knew he couldn't refuse, and he knew Jackie couldn't very well interfere with her decision either. Now was his time to jump into action, and he was ready for it, but he wasn't going to be able to do it alone, and he knew that.

"How do we get out?" Rose asked, sitting on the table as the Doctor reached for the red briefcase that contained the emergency protocols.

"We don't. We stay right here. Exactly where we are." Kari explained, while the Doctor began to look through all the papers. "Mickey, now it's your time to shine. Do exactly what the Doctor tells you, no matter what, got it?"

"All right, what do you want me to do?" He asked, ready to get to work with whatever they had coming.

The Doctor sent him to the required website, and checked a few things in the emergency protocols. "Use the buffalo password. It overrides everything."

"Hmm, yeah, because the Doctor's password has power over everything." Kari said, giving him a slight nudge as she stood beside him. She would be glad when it was all over, and they could go back to the TARDIS and just relax for a bit, if she was allowed to stay that was.

"What are you doing?" They faintly heard Jackie ask the man that Rose left behind.

"Hacking into the Royal Navy." He told her, before typing away at his keyboard. "We're in. Here it is. HMS Taurean, Trafalgar Class submarine, ten miles off the coast of Plymouth."

"Right, we need to select a missile." The Doctor told him, glad that he had Kari there with him. He didn't really know if they were all going to make it out of there unscathed, so he was glad that she was beside him.

"We can't go nuclear. We don't have the defence codes." Mickey protested.

Kari couldn't help but smile, at least he had been paying attention and was still asking all the right questions. "We don't need it, Mickey. All we need is an ordinary missile." She told him, trying her damned hardest not to smile too much. She just wanted it all to be over. "You need to select Sub Harpoon, UGM-A4A." she added, getting a little ahead of everything. "You know where to target it, right?"

"I could stop you." Jackie said in the background, but not in an angry or commanding kind of way.

"Do it then." Mickey dared her, but she didn't.

Everyone in the room seemed nervous, but there was one person who wasn't because there was one person who was confident that they were all going to survive. "I hope that you're ready for this, Mickey." Kari asked, knowing that he as nervous as hell as well.

"Yeah."

The Doctor quickly wrapped his arm around Kari a little more, just that little bit tighter. "Mickey the idiot, the world is in your hands." He said, earning a poke in the ribs from Kari. She gave him a rather fierce glare, a sure warning that he was going to get more than just a jab in the side if he wasn't careful. The tension was thick in the air now, and everyone was watching the Doctor. "Fire."

The Doctor and Kari just stood there, knowing that the missile had been deployed, and that they were right in the line of fire. "How solid are these?" Harriet suddenly asked, heading over to one of the metal shutters and running her hands all over it.

"Not solid enough." The Doctor told her, still holding Kari and not even thinking of moving. "Built for short range attach, nothing this big."

But Kari was looking up at Rose, a smile on her face. She managed to catch her friends eyes, and her smile grew even bigger. "All right, now I'm making the decision." Rose announced, knowing that Kari knew her plan and approved of it. "I'm not going to die. We're going to ride this one out." She told them, before wandering over to the cupboard where the lifeless bodies were laying. "It's like what they say about earthquakes. You can survive them by standing under a doorframe. Now, this cupboard's small, so it's strong. Come and help me. Come on!" She ordered.

Harriet was quick to rush over and help her, but the Doctor stopped Kari from going. Instead, she just smiled at her friend some more. "I knew there was a reason why I liked you, Rose Tyler. From working in a shop to saving the world." She said, feeling rather proud of her young blonde friend. "Now, let me go so I can help." Kari demanded, whacking the Doctor's arm, trying to get him to let her go.

Reluctantly he did, letting out a rather dramatic sigh as he slowly pulled his arm away from her. "I'm sure they can manage, I don't see why you have to help as well." He grumbled, not liking the fact that she wanted to move away from him. He wanted to keep her right by his side, but she had decided against that.

"Because if all four of us are going to fit in there, then we need to make as much space as possible." Kari replied, before reaching up and planting a kiss on his cheek. He seemed to smile at that, before she bounced over to help Rose and Harriet.

A few minutes passed, and the three women were pulling things out of the cupboard, putting them somewhere out of their way, clearing as much space as they could. "It's on radar." Mickey called, causing Kari to pause. "Counter defence five five six."

"Stop them intercepting it." The Doctor told him, glancing up at Kari who was watching him. He nodded at her, before she got back to work.

"I'm doing it now."

"Good boy." The Doctor, for some reason, just could not stop smiling. He was starting to see why Kari hated it when he called Mickey an idiot, because the lad was pretty smart, in his own little way.

"I told you he wasn't an idiot!" Kari shouted, as the Doctor unplugged the phone from the dock and put it to his ear. But that didn't stop Kari from trying to speak to Mickey. "Keep up the good work, Mickey! And remember, you are not an idiot!"

The Doctor could only roll his eyes at her, before pushing her into the tiny cupboard with Rose and Harriet to get the remaining rubbish out of there. "Anything else, intercept it." He called to the young man, before slipping the phone into his pocket.

The next few minutes were a complete rush for them all. They knew that they didn't have much time left until the missile hit Downing Street, so they needed to make sure that they were al safely in the cupboard.

Finally, the Doctor pushed Kari inside, slamming the door closed behind him once he was in as well. Rose and Harriet both sat down on the floor, their heads tucked under the shelving in there. The Doctor sat between them, pulling Kari down and forcing her to sit in his lap. He was ready to use himself as a shield, ready to protect her if he needed to.

Here we go. Nice knowing you all." Harriet said, as the Doctor took a hold of their hands, while Kari gripped onto him for dear life. "Hannibal!" She called, as Kari ended up burying her face into the Doctor's chest, clutching at his leather jacket.

She could hear both of the Doctor's hearts beating rapidly, before the whole room started to shake. The few pieces of paper that they had left in there began to fly around them, and Kari gripped on even tighter. She didn't want to admit it, but she was actually a little scared. She knew that they would make it out alive, but that didn't stop the whole experience being terrifying.

The light was still on, and swinging around above them, and Kari had to scrunch her eyes shut as tightly as she could. "Hey, it's all right. I'm here, you're all right." The Doctor whispered in her head, trying his best to reassure her.

"I don't like this." She managed to whisper back to him. "I really, really don't like this." Her own hearts were pounding in her chest, and she was sure that she was about to have a panic attack.

Before the Doctor had a chance to reply to her, to try and calm her down some more, the room was rolling, and they were being tossed around inside of the small cupboard. Knowing that he had to protect his Kari, he let go of the hands of Rose and Harriet, and grabbing onto Kari tightly, holding her as close to him as he could, shielding her with his body, making sure that she didn't get hurt.

In the rolling around he ended up bumping into the shelving a few times, hitting not only his back, but his head as well. But he didn't care, he'd rather take the pain than let Kari get hurt. He had completely forgotten about the other two who were with him, the two women who were getting tossed around as well, and most likely hurt as well.

While rose let out a few yelps, the Doctor could have sworn he heard someone let out a few sobs. The sound was muffled, and he wasn't entirely sure, but he could have sworn that the sound had come from Kari.

Eventually, after what seemed like forever but was most likely only seconds, everything stopped. The rolling, the shaking, the crumbling sound coming from outside, all of it. Everything went still, as did the people inside of the small boxed room.

The first thing the Doctor done was check Kari over, needing to make sure that she was okay. When he looked at her face, he saw that she had indeed cried a little, a few tears streaked down her face. "It's all right, it's over now." He told her quietly, kissing the top of her head, before dragging her over to the door.

It took all his might, but he managed to kick it off, allowing them to be freed into the destruction around them. The room had landed in the rubble of what used to be Downing Street, one of London's most iconic places. It now looked like a battle field, the debris strewn all over the place, wood, and brick lining the whole street.

"Made in Britain!" Harriet exclaimed, beaming away at the fact that they had made it out of there alive.

As she stepped out of the metal box first, one of the men who had been on guard inside came rushing over. Oh, my God. Are you all right?" He asked, h ready to help them across the rubble.

"Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." She told him, flashing him her ID card. "I want you to contact the UN immediately. Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over. They can step down." The man just stood there looking at her and the three people behind her. "Go on, tell the news." She pressed.

"Yes, ma'am." He quickly said, before dashing off across the pile of bricks, a cloud of dust still hanging the air.

"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out." Harriet went on to say to the trio that was with her. "Oh, Lord. We haven't even got a Prime Minister." She suddenly remembered.

The Doctor smiled at her as he wrapped his arm around Kari's waist, pulling her closer towards him. She seemed to be relatively okay, and that was all that matter. "Maybe you should have a go." He said, taking the woman by surprise.

"Me?" She scoffed. "I'm only a back bencher."

"I'd vote for you." Rose told the woman, a smile on her face.

"Now, don't be silly. Look, I'd better go and see if I can help." Harriet told them both, before looking at the crowd that was there, all wanting to know what had happened and what to do next. "Hang on!" She called, before carefully making her way across the debris, avoiding the flames that were flickering around. "We're safe! The Earth is safe!"

The Doctor, Kari, and Rose, all followed behind her, watching her as she took control. "I thought I knew the name. Harriet Jones, future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms. The architect of Britain's Golden Age." He said, smiling away as the woman went to address the police.

"The crisis has passed! Ladies and gentleman, I have something to say to you all here today." Harriet called, while the trio quietly made their exit.

Once they were a safe distance away from the scene, the Doctor stopped, sitting down on an empty bench. Kari had been eerily quiet since they had gotten out, and he really didn't like that. "So, you both all right?" He asked them as casually as he could, trying not to let his worry seep through his voice.

Rose sat down and let out a sigh. "Yeah, oh be glad to get home." All Rose wanted was a nice cup of tea and to see her mum and Mickey.

"What about you, you all right?" The Doctor asked, giving Kari a nudge.

She nodded her head at him. "I'm okay. I may have gotten a little scared when we were in there. Don't know why, it was a stupid thing to be scared off. We've been in worse situations and I've never been scared like that." Kari admitted. Even when she had been trapped with the Angels, she had been scared but not cried. She had actually cried, and she was ashamed of herself for that.

The Doctor could see that she was upset about being scared. "Nah, nothing wrong with being scared. I was scared."

Kari looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "You? Scared? Nah, I don't believe that." She said, before her phone began to ring. She let out a groan as she pulled it out from her pocket, knowing exactly who it was going to be. "Yes, I am still alive. No, I have not broken anything. Yes, I will call you when we get back to the TARDIS." She said, before quickly ending the call.

"Well, that was rude." The Doctor said, knowing that it had been her brother.

She shrugged at him. "Well, he was just going to asked if we were all okay, if I was hurt at all. I just saved time." Kari knew what Jack was like, and she knew that now he could at least stop worrying over her. "Anyway, come on, Rose needs to go see her mum and Mickey, and I want a nice cup of tea. It's been a rather eventful day."

The Doctor couldn't help but laugh at her. "Well, that's one way of putting it." Rose joined in with the laughing, before Kari finally gave up and let a few giggles of her own out. It had been a while since she had broke down in giggle, because so much had happened. It felt good, to laugh like that again.

Before long, Rose was in the flat with her mother, and Kari was in the TARDIS with the Doctor. She was sitting in the chair by the console, while the Doctor dashed around it, making sure that everything was cleared up. "Uh, Doctor?" She called quietly, making him stop and turn to look at her. "I'm… I'm sorry for not telling you anything, and for, you know, crying like an idiot."

"Ah, forget about it. As long as you're all right, it doesn't matter." He told her, wandering over and plonking himself down beside her.

Kari looked up at him, seeing him smiling away. but that was when something caught her eye, something wrong. "Doctor, your head's bleeding." She told him, eye wide as she quickly reached up and looking at the sticky red liquid.

"Oh, is it?" He replied, acting like it was no big deal.

"Yes, it is. Come on, let's go and get you cleaned up. You should have told me you hit your head, you could have a concussion." For once, it was her who was going to take care of him.

But the Doctor quickly stopped her. "It's all right, I'll clean it up in a bit. We've got work to do." He told her, before picking up the old phone that was part of the console. Kari knew that he was calling Rose, letting her know what they were doing and how long they would be. "Right, we'll be a couple of hours, then we can go." He said, standing there and looking at the monitor. "You think we can travel through space and time and I haven't got a phone? Like I said, couple of hours. I've just got to send out this dispersal." He told her, before Kari flicked one of the switches on the console, stopping the signal. "There you go. That's cancelling out the Slitheen's advert, in case any bargain hunters turn up."

Kari knew what Rose was saying at the other end of the line, so she knew what was going next. In her head, she heard Rose telling him that her mother was cooking.

"Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer." The Doctor said, earning himself a poke in the rubs from Kari. "Hang on a minute." He told Rose, before putting it on speakerphone.

"She's cooking tea. For all of us." At least now Kari could hear the conversation as well.

"We don't do that." The Doctor said quickly, pulling Kari closer towards him. Dinner with someone other than Kari was not something he wanted to do, she was his family, and that was it. He wasn't going to sit down and eat with Rose and her mother, even if Kari was with him.

"She wants to get to know you both." The young blonde protested.

Kari knew how the conversation was going to end, and there was no way that Rose was going to be able to convince him to join them for dinner. "Tough. We've got better things to do."

"Yeah, such as clean up that cut and check you haven't done any more damage to yourself." Kari told him sternly. She wasn't impressed that he hadn't bothered to tell her. He had been so worried about making sure that she was all right, that he wasn't bothered about himself, and she really didn't like that.

"It's just tea." Rose wasn't ready to give up just yet, she was going to pester him as much as she could.

But still, the Doctor was being stubborn. "No." He told her, sounding rather annoyed now. Kari actually frowned at his response, it was different to what he was meant to say, to what she knew he was going to say.

"She's my mother."

"Well, she's not ours." Although the Doctor had a point, Kari really didn't like the way that he was speaking to her friend. She was ready to give him another poke in the ribs if he wasn't more careful with what he said and the way he spoke.

She heard Rose let out a sigh at the other end of the line. "That's not fair."

But the Doctor was ready to move on. "Well, you can stay there if you want, but right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires burning ten million miles wide." He explained, starting to drift off into that little world in his head. "I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it then ride the shock wave all the way out. Hurtling right across the sky and end up anywhere. Your choice." He said, before ending the call. He had given Rose a reason to stay with them, to keep travelling with them, now it was up to her.

"Right, now that you've done that, time to make sure that you are all right." Kari told him, taking him by the hand and dragging him through the impossible ship.

The Doctor let out a groan, not liking the way that Kari was bossing him around. "It's just a minor cut, that's all." He told her, knowing that it was nothing serious.

She didn't respond to him, she just kept on dragging him to the medical bay. Once there, she forced him to sit down while she gathered everything to clean up the blood. "Doctor, you are always looking out for me, always making sure that I don't get hurt. If I get the slightly little bump or scratch, you're all over me, making sure that there is no serious damage. Sometimes, you treat me like I'm a china doll." Kari explained to him, as she mopped up the dried blood. "But I'm not. And now, for once, I'm going to make sure that you are all right. You only got hurt because of me."

"Kari, I just… I worry about you." He admitted, doing his best not to flinch or hiss as the antiseptic stung his wound. "I'm always going to be here to protect you, you know that."

Yes, she did know that, but sometimes it got just a bit too much. "I know, Doctor. But the thing is, I don't want to see you get hurt either. You have this stupid tendency to jump in head first, usually without a plan." She said, checking out the rest of his head, making sure there were no other injuries. "You don't want to see me get hurt, and I don't want to see you get hurt. It's a two way streak."

The Doctor knew that she was right, he wasn't the only person that worried. "All right, I'm sorry. I should have told you and then you wouldn't of have to worry so much." He told her, taking the used supplied from her hands and tossing them in the bin, where they were promptly turned into cinders.

"Just promise me, Doctor, that if you are hurt, you tell me. No trying to be a big man and hide it, because that is just stupid. Just tell me, okay?" He nodded at her, before reaching down and pressing his lips against hers. When he pulled away, Kari was blushing furiously. "Right, well then. Now that we have that sorted, I need to call my brother." She said, pulling her phone back out from her pocket.

A few hours later, after the Doctor had cleared up as much of the mess the Slitheen had caused and Kari had dealt with a very worried and slightly angry Jack, they were all good to go. They were only waiting for Rose, waiting for her to make her choice.

Kari bounced out of the big blue box and over to where Mickey was sitting on a rubbish bin, reading a newspaper. The Doctor poked his head out, looking at the child who was scrubbing the side of the TARDIS, cleaning it. "Good lad. Graffiti that again and I'll have you. Now beat it." He watched the boy run off before going over to Kari and Mickey.

"I just went down the shop, and I was thinking, you know, like the whole world's changed. Aliens and spaceships all in public." He said, before unfolding the newspaper and showing the headline to the Doctor and Kari. "And here it is. How could they do that? They saw it."

Kari couldn't help but chuckle at it, the headline of 'Alien Hoax?', especially since she knew who had a helping hand in making sure that it all stayed quiet. "Yeah, he could have come up with something better than just a hoax." She said, knowing that Jack had done his best really.

"They're just not ready." The Doctor told him, wrapping an arm around Kari and tugging her towards him. "You're happy to believe in something that's invisible, but if it's staring you in the face, nope, can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that. You're thick."

Mickey scoffed a little, while the Doctor prepared for an attack that never came. "We're just idiot."

"Well…" Kari said, a smirk on her face as she leaned into the Doctor's side.

It was the Doctor who finished off her thought. "Not all of you." Kari actually looked at him in surprise, because she certainly hadn't expected him to finish her sentence and compliment Mickey.

Even Mickey seemed to be surprise. "Yeah?"

"That is a massive compliment coming from him." Kari said, while the Doctor reached for something inside of his jacket pocket. "So I'd just smile and accept it."

Now, the Doctor was holding a disc in his hand. "Present for you, Mickey." He said, before handing it to the man. "That's a virus. Put it online. It'll destroy every mention of Kari and me. We'll cease to exist."

"Hey, I shouldn't exist anyway." Kari pointed out, knowing that in this world she didn't exist. "Plus, big brother likes to keep my publicity to a minimum." She added, knowing the Jack was always covering her tracks for her, keeping her out of trouble and safe, even when she didn't know it.

Mickey took the computer disc from him, with a confused look on his face. "What do you want to do that for?"

The Doctor's face was serious now. "Because you're right, I am dangerous. Kari is the only one in the entire cosmos that can control me, and I need to keep her safe. I don't want anybody following us."

"How can you say that and then take her with you?" It was abundantly clear that Mickey didn't want Rose to go, he would rather she stayed, just like her mother would, but Rose had a mind of her own, and a life of her own to live.

Kari caught a glimpse of Rose and her mother leaving the block of flats and heading over to them. "You now, you could look after her yourself." She said, know that the Doctor was thinking exactly the same thing that she was.

"Come with us." She said, at exactly the same time as the Doctor, causing them both to smile even more.

But Mickey just shook his head at them, a solemn look on his face. "I can't. This like if yours, it's just too much. I couldn't do it." He said, as the two Tyler women got ever closer to them. "Don't tell her I said that."

"I'll get a proper job. I'll work weekends. I'll pass my test, and if Jim comes round again, I'll say no. I really will." Jackie rambled, trying to say something that would convince her daughter to stay, to not leave her alone once more.

"I'm not leaving because of you." Rose assured her mother, a large travelling rucksack on her back. "I'm travelling, that's all, and then I'll come back."

Jackie wasn't ready to give up just yet. "But it's not safe."

"Mum, if you saw it out there you'd never stay home."

The Doctor and Kari were ready to break it up before a fight started between the two blondes. "Got enough stuff?" The Doctor asked, getting Rose's attention.

Straight away she took off the rucksack and bunged it into the Doctor's arms, taking him by surprise. "Last time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment. Now I'm singing up. You're both stuck with me." She said, adding a little laugh.

"Uh, Rose, you have met the wardrobe in here, haven't you? "Kari asked her, wondering why she would want to bring so much stuff where there was a wardrobe filled with clothes inside of the blue box.

Rose simply smiled at her, before heading over to Mickey. "Come with us. There's plenty of room." She told him, actually really wanting him to tag along with them. Rose thought it would be more fun if there were four of them, she wouldn't feel like the third wheel at times if she had someone else there with her.

Mickey just looked at the Doctor and Kari, not really knowing what to say. But the Doctor was ready to cover for him. "No chance. He's a liability, I'm not having him on board." He said, earning a very light whack on the arm. Kari was even joining in and pretending to be annoyed at him.

"We'd be dead without him." Rose reminded them, trying to get the Doctor to change his mind.

Only it wasn't the Doctor's mind that needed changing. "My decision is final." He had just done Mickey a really big favour, and Kari was kind of proud of him for that. It took the Doctor a lot to admit that Mickey wasn't just a 'stupid ape' that was blundering around, he was smarter than he looked.

Rose looked at Mickey sadly and apologised for him not being allowed to go with her, before leaving him with a quick kiss on the lips. "Good luck, yeah." Mickey said, not knowing how long she was going to be gone for this time.

But now it was Jackie's time to get involved instead. "You still can't promise me. What if she gets lost? What if something happens to you, Doctor, and she's left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away. How long do I wait then?" She didn't want her daughter to go, and she had so many fears that she wouldn't return.

Kari knew it was her time to step up. "Jackie, maybe the Doctor can't, but I can. I can promise you that Rose will always be able to get back to you. Always." Even after everything that was going to happen, Rose was going to end up with her mother, safe, and happy.

"How can you promise me that? What do you know?" Jackie wasn't going to just accept her word like that, she barely even know Kari.

"Because I can, Jackie. I know a hell of a lot more than you think. I know stuff that has happened and will happen, I know things that you couldn't even dream off." Kari told the woman, trying to reassure her that Rose was going to be safe, most of the time. "No, it isn't safe out there. No, there is absolutely no guarantee that she won't get hurt at some point. I mean, the Doctor and I are getting hurt all the time by something, but we survive. But she will always come back, she will always come home, to you."

Rose was actually thankful for what Kari was saying, for reassuring her mother that she was going to be fine. The young blonde grabbed hold of the older one and gave her a hug. "Stop worrying, mum. I'll be home soon." She told her, before following the Doctor and Kari into the TARDIS, giving her mother and Mickey one last look before closing the wooden door.

Kari and the Doctor were both sitting down by the console, waiting for Rose. The moment she was there, Kari pushed herself up and pulled down the lever, sending them hurtling through time and space. Once they were in flight, Kari threw herself backwards and back into the seat, leaning against the Doctor. It had been a long day, and she just wanted to sit down and relax. So far, she seemed to be getting her wish, her wish to stay longer and to not be dragged of somewhere else straight away. She wanted to spend time with the Doctor, with that Doctor.

A/N: Well I hope you all enjoyed that, because I kinda enjoyed writing it. I'm going to keep my chatter to a minimum this week, hopefully.

I would like to say welcome to all the new readers who have favourited/followed the story, glad to know people are still enjoying it after all this time! And for those of you who take the time to leave a review, thank you all so much, you are absolutely fantastic! I love reading them and still smile when I get that little email notification.

Working on the next chapter already, so until next time!

Pippa.