Last time on the Doctor's Girl:
Rose, Mickey and I sat next to a fountain, having a laugh, eating, teasing each other. Then we got up to leave, saying goodbye to each other.
"Mum?!" I asked when she answered.
"I'm in town! Oh, look there's Rose! Rose!" She called to my sister.
"Go home! Just get her and go home, right now!" I told her worried for them.
"Darling, you're breaking up,"
"Mum!"
"Right then! I'll be off! Unless, uh... I don't know... you could come with me."
"Is it always this dangerous?" I asked.
"Yeah." He nodded his head at me. I ran into the TARDIS with a broad smile on my face.
When I stepped out of the TARDIS I looked around and saw the Powell Estate.
"How long have I been gone?" I asked looking back at him.
"About 12 hours." we laughed at the time frame.
"Oooh! Right, I won't be long, I'm just gonna see my mum and Rose." I told him and started walking away.
"What're you going to tell her?" he asked me, I turned to him again.
"I don't know! I've been to the year 5 billion... and only been gone, what, 12 hours?" I asked smiling at him. He laughed at my question. "No, I'll just tell her I've spent the night at Care's. See you later!" I walked off again before turning back to him. "Oh - don't you disappear." He gave me a look then I ran off towards the flat.
I opened the door to my flat and put my keys on the small table next to it.
"I'm back! I was Care's. She was all upset again. Are you guys in?" I called walking into the living room. Mum walked out of the kitchen holding a cup of tea."So, what's been going on? How've you been? Is Rose with Mickey?" I asked her, but she just stared at me. "What? What's that face for? It's not the first time I've stayed out all night." I told her laughing a little. She dropped her tea and it smashed on the floor.
"It's you."
"Of course it's me!" I told her. "Who else would it be?" I gave her a strange look as she started tearing up.
"Oh, my God. It's you. Oh my God." She threw herself at me and almost knocked me over with her hug. I looked over her shoulder and saw a lot of posters saying "Where is Ashlee?" with my picture on it. The Doctor then ran into the flat. Both mum and I stared at him.
"It's not 12 hours, it's er... 12 months. You've been gone a whole year." he looked at me apologetically while I was stunned.
"What? What happens to 12 hours, I like 12 hours better than 12 months!" I told him.
"Sorry." he apologized again.
"I want a re-due."
"The hours we've sat here. Days and weeks and months worried sick about you. We thought you were dead. And where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean? Travelling? That's no sort of answer." Mum yelled at me. Rose had gotten a job somewhere and couldn't be hear yet, but when she got here I would hear another earful. Mum had called the police when she couldn't get a "real" answer out of me. I sat in the armchair letting her yell her frustrations out, I deserved it. Mum turned to the officer and almost begged for help. "You ask her. She won't tell me! That's all she says. Travelling." She sat on another chair while the Doctor leaned on the back of the chair I sat on.
"That's what I was doing." I told her again.
"When your passport's still in the drawer?" she yelled gesturing to my bedroom. "It's just one lie after another!"
"I meant to phone, I really did, I just... I forgot." I told her.
"What, for a year? You forgot for a year?" she asked me.
"I did phone once, it was a Wednesday, remember?" I asked her remembering our conversation on Platform One.
"What about after that? Rose and I were left sitting here? I just can't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?" She asked me.
"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Ashlee as my companion." The Doctor told them.
"When you say 'companion', is this a sexual relationship?" My face was instantly burning.
"No!" the Doctor and I said together.
"Then what is it? Because you, you waltz in here all charms and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the earth! How old are you then? 40? 45? What, you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" Mum asked him, getting in his face.
"I AM a Doctor!" He told her.
"Prove it! Stitch this, mate." and with she slapped him hard on the face. The Doctor groaned and I jumpled up to look at it. Thankfully it was just red.
"Did you really have to go and do that?" I asked her.
"He took you away from me? What do you expect I do?" the guilt that had started to grow in my chest during the interrogation now found a nice home in my chest. Should I have never left?
In the kitchen, mum and I were hugging each other tightly.
"Did you think about me at all?" she asked as I moved away from her slightly, crying at her words.
"I did! All the time! But..." I started but couldn't finish.
"One phone call. Just to know that you were alive!" she reminded me.
"I'm sorry. I really am." I apologized to her over and over.
"Do you know what terrifies me, is that you still can't say. What happened to you, Ashlee? What could be so bad that you can't tell me, sweetheart? Where were you?" I couldn't answer, she'd never believe me.
Later that day the Doctor and I were sitting on the roof, just sitting down, thinking about today's events.
"I can't tell her. I can't even begin... she's never gonna forgive me. And I missed a year? Was it good?" I asked the Doctor.
"Middling." He told me shrugging.
"You're so useless." I told him laughing.
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you gonna stay here now?" He asked me and I was silent for a moment.
"I dunno. I can't do that to her again, though. And Rose probably feels the same." I said looking up at the sky.
"Well, your mum's not coming with us." The Doctor said making me bust out laughing the Doctor soon joined.
"No chance." I agreed with him. "That'd be like mum moving in with me if I ever got married.
"I don't do families." He told me and I continued laughing.
"She slapped you!" I laughed at him.
"900 years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother." He told me making me laugh harder.
"Your face." I said remembering his expression.
"It hurt!" He told me rubbing his cheek.
"You're so gay!" I said as my laughter died down. "When you say 900 years..." I said trailing off.
"That's my age." he said looking at me.
"You're nine hundred years old?" I asked him doing the math in my head.
"Yeah." he confirmed.
"My mum was right - 879 years is one hell of an age gap. Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet earth who knows they exist." I said looking at him next to me. His eyes widened and he pulled me off the wall to the ground, straddling him. I then heard a horn go off right above me as I stared into his eyes. When the shadow passed us we jumped up and watch as the ship hit Big Ben then land in the Thames. "Oh, that's just not fair." I told him smiling. The Doctor laughed, grabbing my hand, and pulled me behind him in the direction of the crash.
On the street, it was complete mayhem with the police blocking everyone's way to the ship. Close to us I noticed a familiar blond head.
"Rose?" she turned around and her eyes widened. She then ran to me and gave me a large hug.
"It's blocked off." The Doctor said as I pulled away from my sister.
"We're miles from the center. The scene must be grid locked. The whole of London must be closing down." I said looking around at all the people around us and the cops blocking us.
"I know, I can't BELIEVE I'm here to see this! This is fantastic!" He said with a large grin on his face.
"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose finally asked him in a harsh tone.
"Nope!" He told us.
"Do you recognize the ship?" I asked trying to get a better look.
"Nope!" He told us, grin never faltering.
"Do you know why it crashed?" I asked as I stopped looking around and just stared at him.
"Nope!" He said watching all the hustle and bustle never looking down at me.
"Oh, I'm so glad I've got you." I said looking at the crowd in front of us. Rose was giving me a look, she wasn't happy about everything here.
"Where were you?" she asked me lowly.
"I bet you are! This is what I travel for, Ash! To see history happening right in front of us." The told me ignoring Rose.
"Rose, I'll tell you later. Let's go and see history happen! Never mind the traffic, we've got the TARDIS!" I told the Doctor.
"Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London, don't want to shove another one on top." he said looking down at me.
"Yeah, but yours looks like a big blue box. No one's going to notice." Rose said bringing our attention.
"You'll be surprised, an emergency like this - there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me, the TARDIS stays where it is." He said looking back to the crash. I looked at it and felt my face fall knowing we couldn't get any closer.
"So, history's happening and we're stuck here." I pointed out.
"Yes, we are." He said and from the sounds of it he didn't realize what that meant. We were just watching it, not getting in the middle of it and learning anything about it.
"We could always do what everybody else does." Rose told us. I sighed and the Doctor looked at us confused.
"We could watch it on TV." I told him and he turned back to the wreckage, confusion still on his face.
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control wide-spread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene." the news reporter said as the Doctor and I watched the TV intently. "The police urge the public not to panic. There's a help line number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family." He changed the channel over to an American news channel and Rose pulled my attention away from the telly.
"The military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded."
"Where have you been for a year?" He changed it back to News 24.
"We time traveled, Rose. His ship, the TARDIS, can travel in time. He took me to the year 5 billion and then to 1869. I got to see the Earth burn and nearly burned with it. I also got to meet Charles Dickens and then was nearly killed by ghosts." I told her summing everything up.
"The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find." I heard the reporter say before it turned back to the American channel.
"And the other 363 days? You were gone for a year, Ash. And since when has called you Ash?" She drilled questions my way.
"The President will address the nation live from the White House. But the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies." I was never able to answer as Mum came in with a cup of tea for each of us.
"I've got no choice! Either I make him welcome, or I run the risk of never seeing you again!" Mum told me as her and Marianna babbled to each other angrily.
"Oi! I'm trying to listen!" The Doctor told them.
"... his current whereabouts. News is just coming in, we can go to Tom at the embankments." a reporter said as he turned back to news 24. "They've found a body." I sat on the arm of the chair the Doctor was on so I could hear better. "It's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore."
"Oh, guess who asked me out - Billy Crewe." I heard her say and saw the Doctor shake his head making me smile.
"Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extra-terrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary. The whereabouts is yet unknown." a kid walked by me and I guess he took the remote because the channel changed a few times before stopping on Blue Peter, a cooking show.
"And when you've stuck your things on, you can cover the whole lot..." I watch the Doctor pick the kid up putting him on his lap and wrestle the remote from him. "Ooo, look at that. Then, ice it, any colour you want - here's one I made a little bit earlier - look at that. Your very own spaceship ready to eat. And there's something a little extra special-" When he finally got the remote he changed the channel back to news 24.
"... in hospital. We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here, Albian Hospital, the roads closed off - it's the closest to the river." the little boy hopped off his lapped and stood in front of the screen and the Doctor pointed for him to go the other way."
"Go on!" The young boy walked off.
"Go easy on him, he's just a kid." I reminded him.
"I used to have kids, Ash. Trust me he'll be fine." I looked at him in shock.
"Really?" I asked.
"I'm being told that... General Asquith is now entering the hospital. The building's evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls. Mystery still surrounds there whereabouts of the prime minister. He's not been seen since the emergency began. The opposition are criticizing his lack of leadership. Hold on-" we watched as a man got out of a car and entered 10 Downing Street. "Oh - that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale. He's chairman of the parliamentary commission on the monitoring of sugar standards in exported confectionary. With respect, hardly the most important person right now." the reporter said.
Later that night I watched the Doctor walk out of the flat and followed him.
"And where do you think you're going?" I asked him as I closed the door.
"Nowhere! It's just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all." he told me. After already spending some time with him I knew he was lying.
"Right - there's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just 'wandering'." I said, making sure he knew I didn't believe him.
"Nothing to do with me! It's not an invasion! That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, color of smoke, everything! It's perfect!" He told me grinning again.
"So..." I waited for him to continue.
"So maybe this is it! First contact! The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering because you've GOT to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay! Now you can expand!" He laughed slightly, grin never leaving and I smiled. "You don't need me - go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum and sister." he said turning to walk away. I remembered the question I'd asked myself earlier, should I've never left?
"Promise you won't disappear?" I asked him. If I hadn't gone, I wouldn't feel like I did, like I finally belonged somewhere. He stopped and turned around to me again. He felt around in his pockets and walked to me.
"Tell you what - TARDIS key." he said pulling out a key and giving it to me. "About time you had one." he said grinning. "See you later!" I waited until I couldn't see him anymore then walked back inside putting the string with the key on it around my neck.
When I got back inside Rose pulled me inside her room and put something in my hand. When I looked down I saw the pocket watch I'd always had.
"You forgot it, last time. Thought you'd like it back." I smiled at Rose and flipped it over tracing the intricate designs.
"Thank you." I smiled at her.
"So tell me more about what you've been doing." I told her everything we'd done with a smile on my face. As she listened she smiled at me and asked questions as I went.
"Do you love him?" she asked me as I finished telling her what he did for Gweneth.
"How would I know? I've only been with him a short while. I'm still getting used to some things. But he's amazing, if only you would come with us and see what he does for the worlds out there." I said grabbing her hand.
"The way you describe everything, if he offers it I just might take him up on it." she said smiling at me. "Besides, miss a chance to see you fall in love with a bloke? I'd never miss that." we laughed at her words, but were they true? Was I falling in love with the Doctor?
"You know what's weird though?" I asked her suddenly.
"Other than trampoline humans and blue ghosts?" she asked jokingly.
"I feel as though I'd been waiting for him. Like I belonged in the TARDIS, traveling like he does." she just listened as I spoke. "It's as if I'd taken this slow path just to wait for him to find me in the shop." I told her with tears filling my eyes. "Why do I feel like that?" she sat down and hugged me close to her and we sat there for a moment before joining the rest of the party in the sitting room.
"Here's to the Martians!" Mum said raising her glass.
"The Martians!" Everyone toasts then continue their talking and laughing. It suddenly went quiet and I turned to the door to see why everyone was so quiet.
"Mickey, hey. I was gonna phone to tell you she was home but I guess I forgot." Rose said sitting up but he just stared at us.
"Someone owes Mickey an apology." One of our neighbors said.
"I'm sorry." Rose apologized.
"Not you." I looked at the woman and watch her look at mum.
"It's not my fault. Be fair. What was I supposed to think?" She asked giving Mickey a look before walking to the kitchen with me, Rose and Mickey following her.
"You disappear - who do they turn to? Your sister's boyfriend. Five times, I was taken in for questioning. Five times. No evidence, of course there couldn't be, could there. And then I get her - your mother." he told me, pointing to mum. "Whispering around the estate - pointing the finger - stuff through my letterbox - and all 'cos of you." he told me.
"I didn't think I'd be gone so long." I told him.
"And we were waiting for you, me and Rose! Twelve months. Waiting for you and the Doctor to come back." I looked to the floor with some guilt.
"Hold on, you knew about the Doctor? Why didn't you tell me?" Mum asked him. I looked up as Mickey slammed the shutters on the window shut and closed the door.
"Yeah, yeah. Why not, Ash? Huh? How could I tell them where you went?" Mickey asked me.
"Tell me now." Mum ordered.
"I might as well, 'cos you're stuck here. The Doctor's gone." My head snapped to him, eyes wide. "Just now, that box thing just faded away." I jumped off the counter and walked up to him.
"What do you mean?" I asked him, my fists clenched.
"He's left you. Just like all the others. Some boyfriend He turned out to be." I ran from the kitchen, grabbing my own leather jacket on my way.
I stood staring at where the TARDIS had been hoping my eyes had gone extremely bad. Rose and Mickey stood a little ways off watching me.
"He wouldn't just leave me here, he promised me." I said to myself.
"Oh, he's dumped you, Ash. Sailed off into space. How does it feel, huh? Now you are left behind with the rest of us Earthlings. Get used to it. He's never coming back, and who would want to? With the way you treat your friends and family." Mickey said and I felt the tears run down my face. Was he right? Had the Doctor grown tired of me already?
"But he would have said." I choked out as Mum walked to us.
"What're you three chimps going on about? What's going on? What's this Doctor done now?" She asked us and Mickey laughed.
"He's vamoosed!" Mickey told her.
"He's not! 'Cos he gave me this!" I showed them the TARDIS key still around my neck and Mickey just shrugged at me. How could Rose let him talk to me like that? "He's not my boyfriend, Mickey, he's better than that. He's so much more important than any other man that's ever been in my life." I told him, but then the key started glowing and I heard the TARDIS engine making the normal landing sounds. "I said so." I said smiling and moving back slightly.
"Mum! Mum, go inside." I heard Rose say and tried to help her.
"Mum, don't stand there, just go inside. Just- mum, go-" I broke off as what we were saying wasn't doing anything and she was looking past us. I turned and watched the TARDIS appear in front of us.
"Uh?" Mickey looked anywhere but at me. Mum just stared at the TARDIS in amazement.
"How'd you do that, then?" I just bit my lip at her question and walked toward the TARDIS, unlocking it and walking in to see the Doctor looking at the computer screen.
"Alright, so I lied! I went and had a look, but the whole crash landing's a fake - I thought so, it's just too perfect. I mean, 'hitting Big Ben' come on, so I thought let's go and have a look-" he said never looking behind him to us.
"My mum's here." I told him as the door creaked alerting us to Mum, Rose and Mickey entering. The Doctor looked at them then turned to me.
"Oh, that's JUST what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic!" He said examining my face. I quickly wiped away any tears I'd had and tried my best to ignore his questioning gaze.
"You ruined my life, Doctor." Mickey told him and I looked to the console, not looking at my long time friend. I felt the Doctor's gaze on me for a moment longer before he turned to the others. "They thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you."
"See what I mean? Domestic." he told me before turning back to face the computer screen. I heard someone walk towards us and turned to see Mickey.
"I bet you don't even remember my name!" He told the Time Lord.
"Ricky." The Doctor told him.
"It's Mickey." Mickey corrected him.
"No, it's Ricky." The Doctor told him turning from the screen to Mickey.
"I think I know my own name." Mickey told him.
"You THINK you know your own name? How stupid are you?" The Doctor asked him and I laughed slightly. Mum then ran outside.
"Mum, don't!" I called after her. "Don't go anywhere!" I told the Doctor. "Don't cause any more trouble!" I told Mickey before running to the door to see Rose calling after mum. She ran back to us and we ran to the console. The Doctor was once again looking at the monitor. "That was a REAL spaceship?" I asked him.
"Yep!" He confirmed for me.
"So, it's all a pack of lies? What is it then, are they invading?" I asked looking at the monitor. I heard Rose and Mickey arguing silently but I didn't bother asking why, their were far more important things to worry about now.
"Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert." Mickey said breaking away from Rose to us.
"Good point! So, what're they up to?" The Doctor asked before jumping down under the console to mess with the wires.
"So, what're you doing down there?" Mickey asked after a while as Rose and I sat on the seats.
"Ricky." The Doctor said muffled.
"Mickey." Mickey corrected again.
"Ricky." The Doctor repeated. "If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?" He asked him.
"I suppose not..." Mickey answered him.
"Shut it, then." The Doctor went back to his work and Mickey joined us.
"Some friend you've got." Mickey told me.
"He's winding you up." I told him looking at the monitor. "I am sorry for not calling you guys." I told him."
"It's okay." He said holding Rose close to him.
"Even if you don't believe me I am!" I almost yelled at him.
"Every day, we looked. On every street corner, wherever we went, looking for a blue box for a whole year." Mickey told me, making me feel guilty.
"It's only been a few days for me. I don't know, it's... it's hard to tell inside this thing but I swear it's just a few days since I left you guys." I told him.
"Not enough time to miss us, then?" He asked, giving Rose a quick look.
"I did miss you guys." I said looking to Rose.
"We missed you." Rose told me smiling.
"So... now that you've come back... are you gonna stay?" Mickey asked me. I just shrugged when I heard sparks from beneath the console I rushed to the Doctor.
"Got it! Haha!" He said, grinning. "Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so we can follow the flight of the spaceship, here we go... hold on..." He whacked the computer scream a few times. "Come on!" When a picture finally came up he showed me what he had been wanting then explained it to me. "That's the spaceship on it's way to Earth... see? Except... hold on... see, the spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"What does that mean?" I asked him.
"It means it came from Earth in the first place - it went up and came back down. Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived. They've been here for a while. The question is, what have they been doing?" He asked as we studied the screen. He started flipping through the television channels.
"How many channels do you get?" Rose asked him.
"All the basic packages." The Doctor told her.
"You get sports channels?" Mickey asked him.
"Yes, I get the football. Hold on, I know that bloke." He turned up the volume.
"It is looking likely that the government is bringing in alien specialists - those people who have devoted their lives to studying outer space." the reporter was saying before the Doctor muted him again.
"UNIT! United Nations Intelligence Task force - good people." The Doctor told us.
"How do you know them?" I asked him.
"'Cos he's worked for them. Yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor. Mickey and I read up on you. You look deep enough on the Internet... and in the history books, and there's his name. Followed by a list of the dead." Rose told me.
"That's nice. Good boy, Ricky." The Doctor praised him like a dog.
"If you know them, why don't you go and help?" I asked him.
"They wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover... and eh, better keep the TARDIS out of site. Rickey! You've got a car - you can do some driving." The Doctor walked towards the door and we followed him.
"Where to?!" Mickey asked him.
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship." The Doctor said as he walked out the door. When I stepped out all I could hear was helicopters and we all stood under a searchlight.
"Do not move!" Someone said over the loud speaker. Police cars and soldiers surrounded us, pointing guns at us and preventing us from leaving. Mickey chose that moment to run away as mum ran towards us, but the soldiers prevented us from going to her.
"No!" I heard her call out but after that I just stared at the searchlight and all the guns. I'll have to do something to defend myself and the Doctor one day.
"Raise your hands above your head! You are under arrest!" We all obeyed the man in the helicopter.
"Take me to your leader!" The Doctor called out and I hit him in the shoulder with my hand before returning it to its place.
"Really? That's the first thing you say?" I asked him as the cops escorted us to a police car. I sat in the middle as Rose and the Doctor were put each side of me.
"This is a bit posh. If I knew it was gonna be like this - being arrested - I'd have done it years ago." Rose said looking out the window.
"We're not being arrested, we're being escorted!" I told her.
"Where to?" she asked and we turned to the Doctor.
"Where'd you think? Downing Street!" He told us laughing and we joined in.
"You're kidding." I told him through my laughter.
"I'm not!" He told me, smiling wider.
"10 Downing Street?" I asked him again.
"That's the one!" He confirmed for us.
"Oh, my God! I'm going to 10 Downing Street?" I asked again laughing. He just nodded at me, grinning.
"How come?" Rose asked him.
"I hate to say it, but you were right. Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been, uh - noticed." He told us.
"Now they need you?" I asked.
"Like it said on the news - they're gathering experts in alien knowledge. And who's the biggest expert of the lot?" he asked, grinning expectantly at us.
"Patrick Moore?" Rose asked him.
"Apart from him!" He said waving her off.
"Ah, don't you just love it..." I said grabbing his hand.
"I'm telling you, Lloyd George - he used to drink me under the table." He told me.
When we got the Downing Street the paparazzi and hundreds of police men were there waiting. The Doctor got out and waited for me before continuing on with my hand in his. He grinned to the crowd and waved at them and I laughed at him. Rose quickly followed us inside.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, could we convene? Quick as we can, please. It's this way on the right and can I remind you, ID cards are to be worn at all times." a man said, walking to the Doctor giving him an ID card. "Here's your ID card. I'm sorry, your companions don't have clearance." He said motioning to me and Rose.
"I don't go anywhere without her. Them." He said motioning to us and putting on his ID card.
"You're the code nine, not them." He told the Doctor. "I'm sorry, Doctor... it is the Doctor, isn't it? They'll have to stay outside." The man told us.
"The girls stay with me." the Doctor insisted, but we wouldn't be any closer to finding out what was going on.
"Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there. I can't let them in and that's a fact." The man wouldn't give in.
"It's alright, you go." I told him, making him look to me.
"Are you sure?" He asked me, gripping my hand tightly.
"Yeah, they're the experts, you should hear what they've got to say." I said motioning to the room all those people had entered.
"I s'pose so. Don't get into any trouble." He told me before walking away.
"I just need a word in private." I heard a woman say and I turned to her.
"You haven't got clearance, now leave it!" He told her grabbing both my arm and Rose's. "I'm going to have to leave you with security." He began to lead us away when the woman began talking to the man again.
"It's alright. I'll look after them. Let me be of some use." she grabbed Rose's hand and began walking with me behind them. "Walk with me. Just keep walking..." She said as we walked past the guards at the door "That's right... don't look round! Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." She showed us her ID card. "This friend of yours... he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens?" she asked us as we hid in a corridor.
"Why do you wanna know?" I asked her. Harriet broke down in tears and Rose tried to comfort her.
Harriet led us to the cabinet room and showed us the body of a man, but there wasn't much to see. He was mostly just skin and clothes now.
"They turned the body into a suit! A disguise for the thing inside!" Harriet said bursting into tears again.
"It's alright! We believe you. It's... it's alien. They must have some SERIOUS technology behind this... if we could find it..." I said as I started rummaging around the room. "... we could use it." I opened a cupboard and a man's body fell out and I bent down to examine him as Rose and Harriet joined me. Unlike the last one he had all his insides.
"Oh, my God! Is that-?" Rose stopped as we heard the door open.
"Harriet, for God's sake! This has gone beyond a joke - you cannot just wander-" he stopped talking, looking down at the body. "Oh, my God. That's the Prime Minister!"
"Ohhh!" I jumped up and saw a woman walk in with a smile on her face. "Has someone been naughty?" She asked in a high pitched voice. She shut the door behind her and I just watched her.
"That's impossible. He left this afternoon. The Prime Minister left Downing Street, he was driven away!" the man told the blond woman in front of us.
"And who told you that? Hmm?" She asked the man while walking up to him. "Me." She moved her hair from her fore head and started pulling a zipper along it and a blue light came out. She pulled herself out of her skin suit and revealed herself to be big and green with big black eyes. She slowly started wiggling herself out of the human suit she wore. She roared and grabbed the man in her claws, strangling him as we could do nothing but watch.
TO BE CONTINUED
Next time on The Doctor's Girl:
"Yesterday saw the start of a brave new world. Today might see it end." Changed direction due to the large green alien running our way.
"Planet Earth is at war."
"Who exactly are the Slitheen?" He asked them.
"They're aliens." Harriet said.
"I could save the world but lose you." He told me. I felt tears well up in my eyes and I smiled at him.