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Last time on The Doctor's Girl:
He pulled me off the wall to the ground. I heard a horn go off right above me. We jumped up and watch as the ship hit Big Ben then land in the Thames.
"Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived. They've been here for a while."
"Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North" She slowly started wiggling herself out of the human suit she wore.
The alien, all of the sudden, was covered in electricity and dropped the mans body from the wall.
I grabbed Rose and Harriet's hands and we ran from the room with Harriet whimpering slightly behind me. We continued running down many corridors until Harriet stopped us.
"No, wait! They're still in there! The emergency protocols! We need them!" She ran back in the direction of the cabinet room and the alien. Rose and I gave each other a look then ran after her but quickly changed direction due to the large green alien running our way. We ran through multiple hallways until we came across a room and we ran inside it with Rose closing the door behind us. It did no good though because the alien ran right through the door and we ran to another room shutting the door behind us again. We kept running until we came to a locked door. Rose and I kicked the door in when the lift pinged behind us. The alien stood between us the the lift and it opened to revealing the Doctor. Instantly my chest lightened, I was so happy he was okay. The alien roared at him and he just smiled and nodded at us.
"Hello!" The doors began to close and he gave me a pointed look. Run. I grabbed Rose and Harriet's hand and we slipped away unnoticed while the alien looked at the lift. We ran into a state room and tried all the doors. Locked.
"Now what do we do?" Harriet asked us and I thought about it for a moment. Alien at our backs, no Doctor and no way out.
"Hide!" I told them and we all hid ourselves seperatly. I heard the alien enter the room not to long later.
"Oh, such fun! Little human children... where are you? Sweet little humeykins... come to me... let me kiss you better..." I watched Rose move from behind a cabinet to behind a curtain. "...kiss you with my big, green lips." She then hissed at us and continued walking around the room. I heard two other aliens enter the room before she'd found us. This was getting harder.
"My brothers." She said to them, so they are a family. That was good to know.
"Happy hunting?" One of them asked her.
"It's wonderful. The more you prolong it, the more they stink." She told them. Not good.
"Sweat... and fear." That must the the second brother, I wonder if they looked different from each other. If not how would they tell themselves apart.
"I can smell an old girl... stale bird... brittle bones." The first brother said. Harriet.
"And a ripe youngster. All hormones and adrenaline. Fresh enough to bend before she snaps." The female alien said. Rose and I weren't that far apart in age, just 2 years. So were they talking about her or me.
"There's another smell. An older one masked by human hormones." What? I heard a scream and Harriet jumping up. I quickly jumped from my hiding place.
"No! Take me first! Take me!" Harriet called out as Rose ran to me. The Doctor chose that moment to crash in blasting a fire extinguisher in the alien's faces.
"Out! With me!" He called to us. Rose and I pulled the curtains down over the females head and then we ran to stand behind the Doctor. The Doctor looked to Harriet. "Who the hell are you?" He asked her.
"Harriet Jones - MP for Flydale North."
"Nice to meet you."
"Likewise." With the introduction over the Doctor blasted the fire extinguisher again and we ran for it. "We need to get to the cabinet rooms!" He told us as we ran.
"The Emergency Protocols are in there! They give instructions on aliens!" Harriet told him.
"Harriet Jones - I like you." My chest tightened at that sentence. Why?
"And I like you too." she told him as we ran. The Doctor bypassed a locked door with the sonic scredriver and the aliens pursued us all the say back to the cabinet room. We didn't have time to close the door so the Doctor, thinking on his feet, picked up a bottle of brandy and held the sonic screwdriver to it.
"One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol. Whoof! We all go up. So back off." He told them and they hesitated, just what we needed them to do. "Right then. Question time. Who exactly are the Slitheen?" He asked them.
"They're aliens." Harriet said.
"Yes. We got that, thanks." I told her.
"Who are you, if not human?" One of the aliens asked him.
"Who's not human?" Harriet asked us.
"He's not human." Rose told her.
"He's not human?" Harriet asked us again.
"Yep." I answered.
"Can I have a bit of hush?" The Doctor asked turning to us.
"Sorry." We apologized to him.
"So - what's the plan?" The Doctor asked the aliens once more.
"But he's got a Northern accent." Harriet told Rose and I.
"Lots of planets have a North." I told her.
"I said hush." He told us before turning back to the aliens. "Come on!" He said holding the brandy threateningly out in front of us. "You've got a spaceship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal. You've murdered your way to the top of government - what for? Invasion?" He asked them.
"Why would we invade this God forsaken rock?" one of the male aliens Slitheen asked him.
"Then something's brought the Slitheen race here - what is it?" The Doctor asked them.
"The Slitheen race'?" The first male asked him.
"Slitheen is not our species. Slitheen is our surname. Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer Day Slitheen at your service." Our service? If they were at our service they would leave us alone.
"So, you're family." The Doctor stated looking at the three of them.
"It's a family business." The second male told us.
"Then you're out to make a profit. How can you do that on a 'God forsaken rock'?" The Doctor asked them.
"Ahhh... excuse me? Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability...?" Damn they figured us out.
"Is that what I said?" The Doctor asked looking back at me and I nodded to him.
"You're making it up!" The first male slitheen accused him.
"Ah, well! Nice try. Harriet, have a drink. I think you're gonna need it." he said offering her the brandy.
"Pass it to the left first." Harriet told him.
"Sorry." he said and passed it to me.
"Thanks." I told him taking it.
"Now we can end this hunt... with a slaughter." The Slitheen said as he flexed his claws menacingly. The Doctor just stood there and folded his arms over his chest.
"Don't you think we should run?" Rose asked him.
"Don't worry, Rose. The Doctor knows what to do." I told her.
"You trust him that much?" she asked me.
"Of course." I told her smiling at the man in front of me. The Slitheen chose that moment to shuffle forward.
"Fascinating history, Downing Street. Two thousand years ago, this was marsh land. 1730, it was occupied by a Mr. Chicken. He was a nice man. 1796, this was the cabinet room - if the cabinet's in session and in danger, these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain." He opened a secret area near the door and pressed a switch. "End of lesson." We looked around the room as every entrance to the room was immediately blocked by metal shutters and the Doctor turned to us. "Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in." He told us proud of the room.
"And how do we get out?" I asked him. There was a slight pause as he just stared at me.
"Ah."
"And you trust him?" Rose asked me again.
"Yep." I told her putting the brandy down. "Help me move the bodies, Rose." I told her. She and I dragged the bodies to the cupboard and closed the door.
"What was his name?" The Doctor asked us.
"Which one?" Harriet asked him.
"This one - the secretary or whatever he was called." The Doctor asked her looking at the man on the floor. Harriet came over to us and looked at him.
"I don't know. I talked to him. I brought him a cup of coffee. I never asked his name." She told him. The Doctor crossed the man's hands over his body.
"Sorry." I smiled at him and he walked over to another part of the room and I closed the door. "Right, what have we got? Any terminals? Anything?" He asked us and we looked around a bit.
"No. The place is antique. What I don't get, is when they killed the Prime Minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?" I asked him.
"He's too slim - they're big old beasts, they need to fit inside big humans." He told me.
"But the Slitheen are about 8 feet, how do they squeeze inside?" I asked again looking around the room. I caught Rose's eyes and she just watched the two of us interact.
"That's the device around their necks - compression field - literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas, it's a big exchange."
"Wish I had a compression field, I could fit a size smaller." Rose said sitting down across from Harriet, who'd started looking through the protocols.
"Yea but then you'd be farting all the time and it'd be disgusting." I reminded her. "Give me a larger size any day over that."
"Excuse me, people are dead, this is not the time for making jokes." I looked to my lap sheepishly, I guess I've officially gotten used to this life.
"Sorry... you get used to this stuff when you're friends with him." I told her pointing to the Doctor who was scanning the walls with his sonic screwdriver.
"Well, that's a strange friendship." She told me.
"Harriet Jones - I've heard that name before - Harriet Jones. You're not famous for anything, are you?" The Doctor asked her giving her a strange look.
"Huh! Hardly." She told him.
"Rings a bell, Harriet Jones..." He look like he was struggling to remember something important but it just wouldn't come to him.
"Lifelong back bencher I'm afraid, and a fat lot of use I'm being now - the protocols are redundant, they list the people who can help and they're all dead downstairs." Harriet told us. Rose moved to look over the older woman's should at the protocols.
"Hasn't it got like, defence codes and things? Can we just launch a nuclear bomb at 'em?" Rose asked trying to read the papers in front of her.
"You're a very violent young woman..." Harriet told her staring at her.
"-I'm serious! We could!" Rose told her.
"Well, there's nothing like that in here. Nuclear strikes do need a release code, yes, but it's kept secret by the United Nations." Harriet told us. The Doctor stopped scanning the mantelpiece and looked at her.
"Say that again." The Doctor ordered her.
"What, about the codes?" Harriet asked him.
"Anything. All of it." he told her.
"Um, well... the British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a special resolution from the UN." She explained to us.
"Like that's every stopped them." I said thinking about our past history.
"Exactly, given our past record - and I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the governments hands and given to the UN." The Doctor looked at nothing in particular. "Is it important?" Harriet asked him.
"Everything's important." He told her.
"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted. Listen to me, I'm saying 'Slitheen' as if it's normal." Harriet said laughing slightly.
"Welcome to my world." I told her. "What do they want, though?" I asked the Doctor.
"Well, it's just one family so it's not an invasion. They don't want Slitheen world... they're out to make money, which means they want to use something, something here on Earth... some kind of asset." The Doctor explained to us.
"Like what? Gold? Oil? Water?" Harriet asked him.
"What about fuel?" I asked and they all gave me a look. "Come on it can't just be Earth that needs more fuel out in the universe." I told them
"You two are very good at this." The Doctor told both Harriet and myself.
"Thank you." Both Harriet and I told him.
"Harriet Jones - why do I know that name?" The Doctor asked again as my phone went off.
"Oh! That's me." I told them pulling it out of my pocket.
"-But we're sealed off - how did you get a signal?" Harriet asked me.
"He zapped it! Super-phone." I told her looking at the message from Mickey.
"Then we can phone for help! You must have contacts." Harriet asked the Doctor.
"Dead downstairs, yeah." He told her.
"It's Mickey." I told him while walking up to him looking at my phone.
"Oh, tell your sister's stupid boyfriend we're busy." he told me.
"Yeah, he's not so stupid after all." I told him handing him my phone. On the phone was a picture of a Slitheen in my kitchen.
"Call him." he told me as he gave me my phone back. I immediately dialed his number.
"Hello?" I heard on the other end.
"So I heard you saw another alien." I told him.
"No, no, no, no, no - not just alien, but like, proper alien. All stinking, and wet, and disgusting. And more to the point, it wanted to kill us!" He told me.
"I could've died!" I heard mum say.
"Is she alright, though? Don't put her on, just tell me." I told him, but I never got an answer because the Doctor snatched the phone from me.
"Is that Ricky? Don't talk, just shut up and go to your computer." He told him. It was silent as Mickey replied to the Doctor. "Mickey the Idiot - I might just choke before I finish this sentence, but eh - I need you." I smiled at him saying what he had. "I there a way to have us all hear this?" he asked me. I looked at the large table in front of us and pointed out the black speaker. He walked over to it and plugged my phone into it. "Say again." He ordered Mickey.
"It's asking for the password." Mickey told him.
"Buffalo - two Fs, one L." The Doctor told him.
"So, what's that website?" I heard Mum ask.
"All the secret information known to mankind. See, they've known about aliens for years, they just kept us in the dark." I heard Mickey say.
"Mickey, you were born in the dark." The Doctor told him.
"At least you got his name right." I told the Doctor smiling.
"Oh, leave him alone. Both of you." Rose told us.
"Thank you. Password again." Mickey told us.
"Just repeat it, every time." The Doctor told him then turned to us. "Big Ben - why did the Slitheen hit Big Ben?" He asked to no one in particular.
"You said to gather the experts - to kill them." Harriet reminded him.
"That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon, you don't need to crash land in the middle of London." The Doctor told us.
"The Slitheen were hiding, murdering their way up to the top of the government - and then they put the entire planet on red alert, what would they do that for?" I asked walking up to him.
"Oh, listen to her." I heard Mum comment.
"At least I'm trying!" I snapped at her.
"Go easy on her, Ash." Rose told me.
"Well, I've got a question if you don't mind. Because since that man walked into our lives, I have been attacked in the streets. I have had creatures from the pits of hell in my own living room, and my daughter's disappeared off the face of the Earth." Mum told us. Harriet gave Rose and I a look on her face of disappointment, what did she know?
"I told you what happened." I told her trying to stop her from talking.
"I'm talking to him. 'Cause I've seen this life of yours, Doctor. And maybe you get off on it. And maybe you think it's all clever and smart, but you tell me. Just answer me this - is my daughter safe?" She asked him and he stared at the phone.
"I'm fine." I told her, despiratly trying to get her to stop making him look like that.
"Is she safe? Will she always be safe? Can you promise me that?" Mum asked ignoring me. He glanced to me and I stared back at him. "Well, what's the answer?" She waited in silence for her answer as the Doctor and I stared at each other.
"We're in." Mickey told us breaking my gaze away from the Doctor.
"-Right then - on the left, there's a tab - an icon - little concentric circles - click on that." The Doctor instructed him.
"What is it?" Mickey asked him.
"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal, now hush, let me work out what it's saying." He told him listening to the signal.
"He'll have to answer me one day." I heard mum say to no one.
"Hush!" Mickey told her. We sat in silence listening to the signal waiting for the Doctor to find out what it was saying.
"It's some sort of message." He told us.
"What's it say?" Rose asked him.
"Don't know - it's on a loop, keeps repeating." he told us.
"Like an annoying advertisement." I commented to them. We heard a noise from the other end of the phone blocking out a bit of the signal we were listening to.
"Hush!" The Doctor told Mickey and Mum.
"That's not me." Mickey told us. "Go and see who that is." he said talking to Mum.
"It's three o'clock in the morning." We heard Mum tell him and I rolled my eyes at her.
"Well go and tell them that." Mickey told her.
"It's beaming out into space, who's it for?" The Doctor said listening to the signal. We sat in silence for a moment just listening and waiting.
"It's him! It's the thing, it's the Slickeen!" We heard Mum shout out.
"They've found us." Mickey told us. I glanced at Rose and saw the worry and fear in her eyes that most likely mirrored my own.
"Mickey, I need that signal." the Doctor told him and I pushed him away from the phone making sure they could hear me.
"Never mind the signal, mum just get out! Get out! Get out!" I yelled into the phone.
"We can't, it's by the front door." Mickey told me. "Oh, my God. It's unmasking. It's gonna kill us." He told us.
INT. 10 DOWNING STREET, CABINET ROOM
"There's got to be some way of stopping them!" I looked up at Harriet as she spoke to us. "You're supposed to be the expert, think of something!" She demanded.
"I'm trying!" the Doctor yelled at her.
"I'll take it on, Jackie. You just run. Don't look back. Just run." We heard Mickey say before we heard the door smashing in.
"Doctor." He looked at me. "That's my mother. Some of the only family I have left." I told him quietly.
"Right! If we're going to find their weakness, we need to find out where they're from - which planet. So, judging by their face and shape, that narrows it down to five thousand planets within travelling distance. What else do we know about them? Information!" He told us.
"They're green." Rose told him.
"Yep, narrows it down."
"Uh, good sense of smell." I offered.
"Narrows it down."
"They can smell adrenaline." I told him.
"Narrows it down."
"The compression technology." Harriet offered.
"Narrows it down."
"The spaceship in the Thames - you said..." Rose said looking to me for help.
"Slipstream engine." I finished for her.
"Narrows it down." He said we heard wood breaking over the phone.
"It's getting in!" Mickey told us.
"Oh! They hunt like it's a ritual." Rose told him.
"Narrows it down."
"Hunt as a family." I told him.
"Narrows it down."
"Wait a minute! Did you notice, when they fart - if you'll pardon the word - it doesn't just smell like a fart - if you'll pardon the word - it's something else, what is it, it's more like uh... um..." Harriet lost her words.
"Bad breath!" I told her smiling.
"That's it!"
"Calcium decay! Now that narrows it down!" He told us grinning.
"We're getting there, mum!" Rose called to her.
"Too late!" Mickey told us.
"Calcium phosphate, organic calcium, living calcium, creatures made out of living calcium, what else, what else - hyphenated sodium - yes! That narrows it down to one planet! Raxacoricofallapatorius!"
"Oh, yeah, great. We could write 'em a letter." Mickey told us sarcastically.
"Get into the kitchen!" The Doctor told them. We heard the door slam and items moving.
"My God, it's going to rip us apart!" Mum yelled over the phone.
"Calcium, recombined with compression field - ascetic acid. Vinegar!" He told us like we really knew what he was saying.
"Just like Hannibal!" Harriet said smiling back at him.
"Just like Hannibal. Mickey, have you got any vinegar?" The Doctor asked him.
"How should I know?" Mickey asked back and I rolled my eyes. If it weren't for Rose then I could swear that Mickey would possibly starve.
"It's your kitchen." The Doctor reminded him.
"Cupboard by the sink, middle shelf." Rose told him through the phone.
"Give it here, what do you need?" Mum said sounding clearer with the phone.
"Anything with vinegar!" I told her.
"Gherkins! Yeah! Pickled onions! Picked eggs!"
"You kiss this man?" The Doctor asked Rose and she gave him a look.
"Hopefully after he washes his mouth out." I said and he smiled at me. We heard the door give in and a splash. Everything was silent for a second before a small bang filled the phone; we all sighed in relief.
"Hannibal?" I asked looking at the man beside me, but Harriet answered me instead.
"Hannibal crossed the Alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar."
"Oh. Well, there you go then." Rose said and we raised our glasses in a toast.
"Cheers." I said and we all took a drink. "Phew!"
"Listen to this." Mickey said and we listened again.
"Our inspectors have searched the sky above our heads and they have found massive weapons of destruction, capable of being deployed within 45 seconds." one of the Slitheen said over the tv.
"What?" The Doctor asked the phone in confusion.
"Our technicians can - baffle - the alien probes. But not for long. We are facing extinction. Unless we strike first. The United Kingdom stands directly beneath the belly of the mother ship. I beg the United Nations - pass an emergency resolution. Give us the access codes! A nuclear strike at the heart of the ship is our only chance of survival. Because... from this moment on... it is my solemn duty to inform you... planet Earth is at war." He continued.
"He's making it up. There's no weapons up there, there's no threat. He just invented it." The Doctor told the phone.
"They can't hear you, love." I reminded him.
"Do you think they'll believe him?" Harriet asked the Doctor.
"They did last time." Rose reminded her.
"That's why the Slitheen went for spectacle. They want the whole world panicking, because you lot - you get scared, you lash out." The Doctor told us thinking aloud.
"They release the defense codes..." I said breaking off looking at him.
"And the Slitheen go nuclear." He said looking back at me.
"But why?" Harriet asked us. The Doctor walked to the door and opened the metal casing around us. Outside the door 3 Slitheen were standing outside the door.
The Doctor opens the metal shutters. The Slitheen are still standing outside the door.
"You get the codes, release the missiles. But not into space because there's nothing there. You attack every other country on Earth, they retaliate, fight back. World War Three - whole planet gets nuked." The Doctor told them.
"And we can sit through it in our spaceship waiting in the Thames. Not crashed. Just parked. They'll be two minutes away." The woman told us still in her human skin.
"But you'll destroy the planet, this beautiful place. What for?" Harriet asked her.
"Profit. That's what the signal is beaming into space - an advert." The Doctor told us.
"Sale of the century. We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it. Piece by piece. Radioactive chucks capable of powering every cut-price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there, Doctor. People are buying cheap. This rock becomes raw fuel." she told us still smirking at us.
"At the cost of 5 billion lives." I said thinking of everyone I knew who were alive and walking around out side this building.
"Bargain." She said glancing at me.
"Then I give you the choice - leave this planet or I'll stop you." The Slitheen started laughing at him.
"What? You? Trapped in your box?" The woman in the skin suit asked him. The Doctor just stared at her not looking shaken at all.
"Yes. Me. Trapped in my box." He told her closing us back in our metal box. The woman laughed nervously and the smirk slowly faded as the metal door closed.
"Yesterday saw the start of a brave new world. Today might see it end. The streets are deserted. Everyone's home - just waiting. As the future is decided in New York." We heard over the phone from Mickey.
"It's midnight here in New York. The United Nations has gathered. England has provided them with absolute proof that the massive weapons of mass destruction do exist. The security counsel will be making a resolution in a matter of minutes." The american reporter said. "And once the codes are released, humanity's first interplanetary war begins." I sighed at the woman's words. There was not going to be an interplanetary war, just 5 billion dead humans.
"Alright, Doctor. I'm not saying I trust you, but there must be something you can do." Mum said over the phone.
"If we ferment the porch, we could make ascetic acid." Harriet offered. I walked to the Doctor and held his hand tightly. He gripped my hand and smiled gently at me.
"Mickey, any luck?" Rose asked her boyfriend.
"There's loads of emergency numbers - they're all on voicemail." He told us. The Doctor put his arm around my shoulders and I leaned on his chest. Rose looked to us and gave me a small smile and I smiled back at her.
"Voicemail dooms us all." Harriet told us and I laughed a little.
"If we could just get out of here..." Rose said looking around the room again.
"There's a way out." The Doctor told us. I moved from the safety of his side and looked at him in confusion.
"What?" I asked him.
"There's always been a way out." He said looking down at me.
"Then why don't we use it?" I asked him and he walked over to the phone still holding my hand.
"Because I can't guarantee your daughters will be safe." He told Mum.
"Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare." Mum told him.
"That's the thing, if I don't dare, everyone dies." He told her and I looked to Harriet to Rose.
"Do it." I told him looking back at him. The Doctor quickly looked at me and stared into my eyes.
"You don't even know what it is, you'd just let me?" He asked me.
"Yeah." I told him nodding with a slight smile. He just stared at me as though he couldn't believe my words.
"Please, Doctor. Please! They're my daughters, they're just a children!" Mum begged him.
"Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie, it's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will." He told her staring at me.
"I've seen you do incredible things in just a short time, you never hesitated to save everyone. What're you waiting for this time?" I asked him putting my hand on his cheek moving my thumb in small circles.
"I could save the world but lose you." He told me. I felt tears well up in my eyes and I smiled at him.
"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet said and my head snapped to her.
"And who the hell are you?" Mum asked angrily.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people, for the people, and on behalf of the people I command you. Do it." She told him. He looked back to me for a brief moment and we grinned at each other. He pulled me to the defense protocols and started looking through them.
"How do we get out?" Rose asked him sitting on the table.
"We don't. We stay here." He told us.
"The counsel is voting. The results should be known any second now." We heard over the phone as the Doctor shuffled through the protocols for a few more seconds then turned back to the phone.
"Use the buffalo password, it overrides everything." The Doctor told him.
"What're you doing?" I heard Mum ask.
"Hacking into the Royal Navy. We're in. Here it is, uh... H.M.S. Taurean, Trafalgar Class Submarine, 10 miles off the coast of Plymouth." Mickey told us.
"Right, we need to select a missile." The Doctor told him.
"We can't go nuclear, we don't have the defense codes." Mickey reminded him.
"We don't need it, all we need is an ordinary missile. What's the first category?" The Doctor asked him.
"Sub Haffoon, UGMA4A."
"That's the one. Select." The Doctor told him.
"I could stop you." I heard Mum said and we just listened to what was going on in silence. I looked to Rose and she just nodded to me.
"Do it, then." Mickey told mum.
"Ready for this?" The Doctor asked after a few seconds of silence.
"Yeah."
"Mickey the Idiot. The world is in your hands. Fire." The Doctor told him.
"Oh, my God." I heard Mum say and the signaled us that he'd fired the missile. Harriet tapped the shutters on the window then turned to us.
"How solid are these?" She asked him.
"Not solid enough, built for short range attack, nothing this big." The doctor told her and pulled me close to him.
"Alright. Now I'm making the decision. I'm not gonna die, we're gonna ride this one out." Rose said opening the cupboard and looked inside it. "It's like what they say about earthquakes, you can survive 'em by standing under a door frame. Now this cupboard's small so it's strong. Come and help me! Come on!" Harriet hurried to help her. I moved to pull away from the Doctor but he pulled me back to him.
"This could be it." he told me.
"At least it's not a dungeon in Cardiff." I joked with him and he smiled slightly. "Don't worry, Tyler women are stubborn women. You let me stay with you after this and you'll learn that real good. There's more for us to do out there, I promise. " I told him kissing him on the cheek before going to help Rose and Harriet with the cupboard.
"The vote is in. The counsel says... yes. They are releasing the codes." we heard over the phone.
"It's on radar. Counter defense 556." Mickey told us.
"Stop them intercepting it." The Doctor ordered as we moved the dead body, skin suit, shelves and anything else we could move from the closet.
"I'm doing it now." Mickey told him.
"Good boy."
"556 neutralized." The Doctor ripped my mobile off the speaker and tossed it to me.
"Mickey tell Mum we'll see her in a bit." I told him hanging up. We all bundled into the cupboard corner with Harriet and I on either side of the Doctor.
"Nice knowing you both." Harriet said as we all held hands. "Hannibal!" The Doctor and I laughed and we braced ourselves. for impact. Suddenly, we were shaking and being thrown around in out little corner. After a while all the shaking and tumbling stopped and we all emerged from the wreckage looking around.
"Made in Britain." Harriet said commenting on the craftsmanship of the office. One of the military boys hurried over to us.
"Are you alright?" He asked us. Harriet flashed her ID card at him.
"Harriet Jones. MP, Flydale North. I want you to contact UN immediately, tell the ambassadors the crisis is over and they can step down. Go on, tell the news!" She said waving him off.
"Yes, ma'am." He said hurrying away.
"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out. Oh, Lord! We haven't even got a Prime Minister!" Harriet said turning to us.
"Well, maybe you should have a go." The Doctor told her holding my hand tightly.
"Me?" She asked him laughing slightly. "I'm only a back-bencher."
"I'd vote for ya!" I told her smiling.
"Now, don't be silly." She told us. "Look, I'd better go and see if I can help." She said and started climbing over the rubble towards the crowd of people. "Hang on! The Earth is safe! Sergeant!" She called to them. The three of us started walking together off the rubble.
"I thought I knew the name." He told us as we watched her. "Harriet Jones - future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms - the architect of Britain's Golden Age." We watched her for a moment and then walked away.
Rose and I walked into the flat and was greeted by a huge hug form mum. I hugged her and Rose tightly and closed my eyes, happiness flooding every part of my body. A short time later Rose and I were sitting on the chair in front of the TV, watching what we'd walked away from earlier.
"Mankind stands tall - proud -" she said as Mum came in.
"Harriet Jones. Who does she think she is? Look at her! Taking all the credit. Should be you on there. My daughters saved the world!" Mum told the TV.
"I think the Doctor helped a bit..." I told her looking at the tea she just brought us.
"Oh, alright then. Him too. You should be given knighthoods." She told us sitting down and I laughed a little.
"That's not the way he does things. No fuss, he just... moves on. He's not that bad if you gave him a chance." I told her.
"He's good in a crisis, I'll give him that." I burst out laughing at her statement.
"Oh! Now the world has changed, you're saying nice things about him." Rose said with her own laugh.
"Well, I reckon I've got no choice! There's no getting rid of him since Ashlee's infatuated." She said going back to the kitchen. I just smiled into my tea cup and avoided both of their gazes. "What does he eat?" Mum asked randomly.
"How do you mean?" I asked her.
"I was gonna do shepherds pie." I laughed quietly from my seat and stared out the window at the TARDIS. "All of us. A proper sit down. 'Cause... I'm ready to listen. I wanna learn about you and him and that life you lead. Only, I dunno, he's an alien. For all I know, he eats grass and safety pins and things."
"He'll have shepherd pie. You're gonna cook for him?" I asked looking back at her.
"What's wrong with that?" She asked me.
"Nothing, just hope he has a strong stomach." I said leaning back again.
"He's finally met his match." Rose told me.
"You're not too old for a slap, you know. both of you." she told us and my smile grew as Rose giggled at her. "You can go and visit your gran tomorrow." I shook my head at her. I'd be gone by then. My mobile started ringing and I pulled it out quickly. "You'd better learn some French. I told her you were in France. I said you were au-pairing." I looked at the caller ID and saw TARDIS complete with a small police box icon. I looked at my phone in confusion before answering it; Rose moving closer to me.
"Hello?"
"Right, I'll be a couple of hours, then we can go. Tell Rose she can come along if she wants, I know she's listening." He told me.
"You've got a phone?" I asked him.
"Uou think I can travel through space and time and I haven't got a phone?" I heard him laugh and smiled. "Like I said, couple of hours... I've just got to send out this dispersal... There you go. That's cancelling out the Slitheen's advert in case any bargain hunters turn up."
"My mother's cooking." I told him.
"Good! Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer." The Doctor joked and I laughed slightly.
"She's cooking tea. For us." I told him.
"I don't do that." He told me firmly.
"She wants to get to know you." I said leaning my head onto Rose's so she could hear better.
"Tough! I've got better things to do!" He told me.
"It's just tea." I told him. It felt like more than that to me but I was trying to get him to come over not run away from me.
"Not to me it isn't." He told me.
"She's my mother." I reminded him.
"Well, she's not mine!" He fired back at me.
"That's not fair!" I told him.
"Well, you can stay there if you want! But right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the horse head nebula." He told me and I couldn't help but smile at the thought. "Fires are burning 10 million miles wide. I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it then ride the shock wave all the way out - hurtle right across the sky and end up anywhere. Your choice." He waited for a moment for my answer.
"I hate you." I told him smiling. He just laughed and hung up the phone knowing he had me.
"What do you say, Rose? Want to go traveling?" I asked her and she smiled at me. We jumped up and went to our room to pack what we'd need. I packed my books and other valuable items. With the size of the TARDIS wardrobe I would never need to pack clothes when I was with him. I got the pocket watch that Rose gave back to me and put it in my pocket.
"I was wondering whether he drinks or not." I turned around and saw Mum and Rose. Rose was fully packed and waiting on me.
"Yeah, he does." I told her zipping up my pack.
"Don't go." I heard her say. I stopped for a moment and looked back at her. "Please don't go." I looked back to my pack and picked it up going to the door, avoiding her gaze. The three of us walked outside towards the TARDIS.
"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." Mum told us as we walked.
"We're not leaving 'cos of you. We're travelling, that's all. And then we'll come back!" Rose told her.
"But it's not safe." Mum reminded us. I knew that when I ran to the Doctor the first time, that wasn't going to stop me now.
"Mum... if you saw it out there... you'd never stay home." I told her. I turned to the Doctor taking my backpack off my shoulders.
"Got enough stuff?" He asked me sarcastically. I tossed him the bag and held on to it for a moment.
"Last time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment. Now I'm signing up. You're stuck with me. Haha." I told him giving him a bit of a flirty smile. I turned and saw Rose go to Mickey while Mum looked the Doctor and I up and down.
"Come with us. There's plenty of room." Rose told him. Mickey looked over her shoulder to us and I looked at the Doctor. It was his home, his decision.
"No chance, he's ah, a liability, I'm not having him on board." I smiled at him. It sounded like an excuse.
"We'd be dead without him." Rose reminded him.
"My decision is final." The Doctor told her. Rose turned back to Mickey and I felt something hit my leg lightly. I looked down and picked it up. It was a picture someone took of the TARDIS with BAD WOLF written in block paint on it.
"Looks like someone really liked their art." I told the Doctor handing him the picture. He looked at the picture for a while then back to me.
"It's nothing. Just some kid." He told me smiling.
"Good luck, then." Mickey told us. "Hey, Ash." looked at him questioningly. "I'm sorry." I smiled and nodded at him.
"You still can't promise me. What if they gets lost? What if something happens to you, Doctor, and they're left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away - how long do I wait then?" Mum asked the Doctor. The Doctor stood there hugging my bag and me when I pulled away to rescue him.
"Mum. You're forgetting - it's a time machine. I could go travelling around suns and planets and all the way out to the edge of the universe and by the time I get back, yeah - ten seconds would have passed. Just ten seconds." I ran my hair through her hair and smiled at her. "So stop worrying. See you in ten seconds time. Hmm?" I asked her giving her a hug. The Doctor stepped into the TARDIS with my pack and I followed him with Rose behind me.
Next time on The Doctor's Girl:
"A great big museum!" Rose said as we looked around.
"Alien museum. Someone's got a hobby." The Doctor said.
"The cage contains my one living specimen." Van Statten told us.
"It's killing him! Do something!" I told the guard.
"You've got to keep it in that cell." I turned to a screen and saw the Doctor on it and I rushed to it.
"It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations." the guard told him. They all shot.
"Civilians! Let them through!" De Maggio said.
"We're nearly there, give us two seconds." I told him.
"Exterminate!"