"Doctor, are you sure you got the TARDIS working this time?" Rose walked around the console as the Doctor pushed a bunch of buttons. "Last time we ended up crashing into a duck pond in Leadworth and gave that poor old lady a heart attack."

"One, how in the name of the twin suns was it a duck pond when there were no ducks in it, and two, this time I'm one hundred percent sure it's working." He turned to Rose, crossing both sides of his chest. "Cross my hearts."

I laughed at his gesture and turned back to the console. "For once, I agree with the Doctor, it's gonna work this time for sure."

"And what makes you say that?"

I tiled my chin and shrugged, looking at the red button. "Well, your t=shirt, for one. Hey!" I smacked the Doctor's head as he slapped my hand away. "I wasn't even gonna touch it!"

"Ah, my dear Liza Cole. So innocent and naive." He grinned at me and turned back to the console and pulled a few screens toward him. "So, five minute jump into the future?"

I snorted, earning suspicious looks from both of them. I shrugged. "What? I was just marvelling at the fact that he still thinks he'll make a five minute jump."

"One, I can totally do that and two, you're acting suspicious. You've been jumping around all day ever since you saw Rose in that ridiculous shirt-"

"Oi, what's wrong with my shirt?"

I shrugged. "There's nothing wrong with it-"

"It's got the bloody Union Jack on it!"

"One, it's only called the Union Jack when it's at sea, and two, it looks cool. It's just that this one reminded me of something." I shrugged and blinked at the Doctor, whose eyes were narrowed. "What?"

"We're heading into an episode now, aren't we?"

I turned away from him and pretended to be studying an orange lever. "I never said that."

"You were one hundred percent sure that we would end up somewhere, and don't even try to lie, you're terrible at it."

I scowled and looked at the console, flicking a switch randomly as Sexy hummed. "Quite right!" The Doctor grinned at her and Rose raised an eyebrow at him. "What?"

"He's gossiping with Sexy." I muttered, and he snorted. "That really was funny, old girl!"

Rose looked at me, weirded out, and I shrugged. "Told you. Gossip."

The Doctor scowled at me and Sexy hummed disapprovingly. The Doctor turned to us. "Alright then, let's all unsuspectingly pretend that we're testing out the TARDIS while actually heading toward a potential warzone with Dalek Cybermen Cerebruses, as Liza always loves to say. Or maybe carnivorous pears."

I snorted, turning to the console. "You got one correct. Not bad." I looked up at him, holding up a finger. "Not gonna tell you which one, though."

The Doctor shook his head and turned back to the console, pulling a screen toward him. "Rose, go to that side and pull that lever when I tell you to. Liza, go to the other side of the console and flick the blue switches over there."

I walked toward the switches and stood there, inspecting the console unit for places to hold on to since Jack's stupid ambulance was gonna have all of us go on a roller coaster ride anyway.

"Alright then, do you wanna make me do a countdown or something?"

"Did you start up the eng- woah!" Rose screamed as we were jerked forward by the Doctor pushing a lever with force. "Doctor, what the hell?!"

"I'm guessing you picked up the signal?" I held on to the console unit, stretching down so that I could at least lodge in my feet in a proper place to avoid being thrown about.

"I knew it!" He grinned at me maniacally as he pressed a bunch of buttons frantically, staring at the screen. "Now do what I told you both to do!"

I flicked all the switches, grabbing onto the edges of the console as we were jerked forward. I found myself smiling a bit as the familiar feeling of my stomach swooping swept over me as we sped up again. "What the hell is this thing?!" The Doctor wondered, looking up at me.

"Is this really the time?!" Rose yelled, almost falling backward.

"I have absolutely no idea!" I looked into the screen at the Chula ambulance. "Technicalities!"

"What?" The Doctor stared at me, his eyes wide.

"It's a hint for what's coming since you asked! Technicalities!"

"Couldn't you have had a better time to come up with that?!" Rose yelled as she ran around to see what the Doctor was looking at.

"Couldn't you have told me a better clue?!" The Doctor yelled at the same time. "I don't know what the hell that is, and I'm suspecting that my cerberus theory could possibly be true!"

"What's the emergency anyway?" Rose yelled,

"It's mauve!" The Doctor and I yelled at the same time.

"Mauve?" Rose wondered, jumping back as we jerked forward again.

"It's the universally recognised colour for danger."

Rose ran past the Doctor, trying to do something as the Doctor typed away on a keyboard in front of the screen. I held down a lever he had pointed to as we jerked forward.

"What happened to red?"

"Well that's just humans. By everyone else's standards, that's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All the red alerts, all that dancing,"

I leaned toward the screen to see what was on it while flicking a few more switches to speed up the time rotors or something. I'd been spending a huge chunk of our 'Powell Estate Quarantine', as the Doctor liked to put it in the TARDIS, looking at the Doctor fixing it, and picked up a few things from him about what a lot of the switches did.

"You've hacked into the system haven't you?" He looked up at me and grinned. "Exactly! Where it goes, we go."

I turned away from the screens and went on to tighten my grip on the lever the Doctor had asked me to hold down as my hand was slipping away from it.

"And that's safe, is it?"

"Totally!" The Doctor grinned and pulled a lever, which ended up in a [art of the console blasting and catching fire. I snorted and looked at a shocked Rose. "Dude, you're travelling with a Time Lord who can't pilot his ship. The meaning of safe has now extended to 'lack of any lethal monsters which may or may not be on the Doctor's bad side or vice versa'."

The Doctor scowled at me as we increased speed again and the Doctor groaned. "No, no, no! It's jumping time tracks, getting away from us!"

"What exactly is this thing?" Rose asked.

"No idea!" The Doctor yelled, and at the same time, I yelled, "Spoilers!"

"Then why are we chasing it?"

"It's mauve and dangerous, and about thirty seconds away from the centre of London." He turned to me, "Liza, increase speed!"

I nodded and ran toward the orange switches, flicking them all as Rose yelled. We shot forward, behind the Chula ambulance, shooting towards Earth.

We landed a few moments later, me pushing the hair off my face. I walked out from behind Rose and the Doctor. "Do you know how long you can knock around space without bumping into Earth?"

"Five days? Or is that when we're out of milk?" Rose asked as we walked into the eerie dark street we were parked in. I pulled the sleeves of my sweater down to my palms as a cold breeze blew past us.

"Of all the species in the universe and it has to come out of a cow." The Doctor muttered. "Must've come down somewhere close."

I looked back above me as we walked forward. Even though I didn't see anything on the dark rooftops, I knew that Jamie the Empty Child was up there, looking down at us. I shuddered, as I walked a bit faster to catch up with the Doctor.

"A month? We were right behind it."

"Eh, it was jumping time tracks and the most experienced TARDIS driver in our midst failed his driver's test." I shrugged as the Doctor shot me a dirty look. " We were bound to be a little off anyway."

"How much is a little?" We walked past a corner. I glanced up, feeling a shiver down my spine.

"A bit." The Doctor shrugged, and Rose pressed further. "Is that exactly a bit?"

The Doctor shrugged. "Ish."

"So, what's the plan, then? Are you gonna scan for alien tech or something?"

"Boring," I muttered, and the Doctor nodded. "Exactly. Rose, it hit the middle of London with a bang." He pulled out the psychic paper and handed it to her. "I'm gonna ask."

"Doctor John Smith, Ministry of Asteroids." She read out skeptically.

"Couldn't you have done space research or something? Or maybe pretended to be some relative of the King of Belgium? Or maybe the actual King of Belgium? Actually not Belgium, maybe somewhere else, but why specifically the Ministry of Asteroids?" I rambled, walking beside the Doctor, who was grinning at me.

"But why not scan for alien tech? Not very Spock, is it?" We reached a blue door which said 'Deliveries Only'.

The Doctor used the sonic on the door and pressed his ear on it. "Door, music, people. What do you think?"

"I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock for once, will it kill you?"

"He's the Doctor, not Spock- isn't that itself a big giveaway as to why he won't 'give you some Spock'?"

The Doctor grinned at me as he bent down to try and open the door. "Thank you! Also, are you sure about that t-shirt?" He looked at Rose, who looked down at her t-shirt.

"Too early to say. I'm taking it out for a spin."

"Quite literally, if you ask me." I muttered, bending down to look at what the Doctor was doing.

At that moment, I could hear the empty child faintly calling for his mum. I knew I had two choices- going on a barrage balloon ride with Rose and meeting Jack, or going inside and watching the Doctor make an absolute fool of himself. I smiled to myself, knowing exactly what I wanted to do.

Rose started to wander away as the Doctor got the door open. I stood up with him as he pushed the door open. "Come on if you're coming, then. Won't take a minute."

I walked behind him, muttering, "Good luck." We were at the back of a restaurant, walking through the dimly lit corridors.

The Doctor turned toward me. "Who was that directed to?"

I shrugged. "Both of you, if that makes any sense?"

He grinned at me and took my hand. "You know, you're awfully relaxed for an episode. Might as well take that as a good sign."

"Well, I may be acting to make sure you put your guard down,"

"You can't even act like you don't steal the cookies in the TARDIS kitchen on a regular basis," He scoffed.

"Fair enough. But still, never take everything I say or do at face value. Unless we're in danger. Then always do that." I looked up at him as we followed a waiter through a beaded curtain. His eyebrows were furrowed, and he tilted his chin. "So, are we in danger, then?"

I shrugged and walked toward the beaded curtain the waiter had just passed through, the music from the bar getting louder. I poked my head out of the curtain. A blonde lady was singing on the stage of the bar while people were sitting at the tables and drinking or eating, smiling at the singer.

"Oi, move over, I want to see," The Doctor gently pushed me to the side as he stood next to me, hands folded, leaning against the wall. The lady who was singing looked at the Doctor, singing the last line of the song ("It had to be you"). I turned around to see his expression, and he was grinning at her.

The bar burst into applause as the lady went off the stage and the Doctor looked down at me. "I'm going over there to ask if anyone saw the thing falling out of the sky."

I bit my lip and clenched my fists, holding back my laughter. This was gonna be good. He frowned at my expression. "What?"

I shrugged, leaning against the wall. "Nothing- why don't you go and ask them? I mean, it is more interesting than being Spock, and you need to prove a point to Rose."

He nodded, his eyebrows furrowed. "Yeah, you do have a good point," He walked toward the stage, "But I'm still convinced something stupid is gonna happen, judging by your expression." I shrugged, tilting my head toward the stage. "It's not gonna be empty for long."

He turned around and ran toward the stage after giving me a last look. "Excuse me, excuse me," The applause died down as everyone looked at the Doctor. "Could I have everyone's attention? Just for a mo? I'll be very quick," He waved his hands about and grinned, "Hello!"

I shook my head and smiled as he grinned at everyone. Any moment now. "Might seem like a stupid question," I mouthed the words along with him, "But has anything fallen from the sky recently?"

He paused, looking for answers, and I had to purse my lips together tightly to prevent myself from bursting out into hysterics and giving everyone a heart attack. Everyone looked at each other for a couple of seconds before they all started laughing. I joined in, controlling myself, however- mainly because the Doctor's expression was hilarious.

He frowned at everyone and turned toward me. I put on a straight face with great difficulty and shrugged. He frowned and turned back to everyone. "Sorry, have I said something funny?"

Everyone continued to laugh at him and I shook my head, looking at the floor, still mouthing everything he said. "It's just, there's a thing I need to find. Would've fallen from the sky a couple of days ago-"

He looked around, still confused, when the siren for an air raid sounded. He looked at me, his eyebrows raised and I tilted my head toward the wall that was opposite to him as everyone got up and started leaving, putting their wine glasses down.

"-With a very loud-" I continued to gesture to the wall, and he finally saw the poster on it. He looked at me, scowling and muttered, "Bang."

I started laughing as he hopped off the stage and came beside me. "Come on, we've gotta find Rose."

I nodded and walked through the same corridor we came in through. "World War Two. The one thing you didn't bother mentioning."

"I gave you a clue, didn't I?"

"You said we'd either run into a warzone or Dalek Cyberman Cerebruses!"

"You do know that Dalek Cyberman Cerebrus was a random thing I made up, right?"

"Yeah, but you say all sorts of random things and a lot of them turn out to be true!"

"Exactly why I said, 'never take anything I say at face value unless we're in danger'.."

"But we are in danger, we're in World war Two with a hostile craft in the middle of London! Code Mauve, remember?" We had gotten out of the bar and he grabbed my hand. "Now, we need to get to Rose as fast as possible."

He started running and I ran with him (mainly because he was gripping onto my hand tightly and wouldn't let go). We ran to the alley where we parked the TARDIS, and the Doctor began to slow down. "Rose?"

And to his surprise and definitely not to mine, she wasn't there. He walked toward the TARDIS and I stopped in front of a dumpster which had a cat on it. "Hey sweetie," I carefully picked up the cat and started petting it as the Doctor walked back toward me. He took the cat from me. I scowled at him, still petting the cat as it started mewing.

"You know, one day. Just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet someone other than this one here who gets the whole 'don't wander off' thing." He gestured to me, and the cat looked up at me and meowed, turning back to the Doctor, who looked at me. "She's my friend, don't worry, she's friendly."

I looked up at the Doctor, raising both my eyebrows. He shrugged, as the phone in the TARDIS rang.

The Doctor turned toward the TARDIS and turned toward me. I shrugged again and he rolled his eyes, walking toward the ship. "You know, that shrug is getting really irritating."

"I can't tell you much," I walked toward the TARDIS as well, as he opened up the front compartment thing, where the phone was supposed to be. "How can you be ringing?" He turned to me, "Liza, how can it be ringing?" He put up a hand. "Wait, don't answer that, you're just gonna shrug again."

HE pulled his sonic out of his pocket and looked back at the TARDIS, "What am I supposed to be doing with a ringing phone?"

I turned to the side as a young woman was looking at the Doctor. Nancy. "Don't answer it." The Doctor turned toward her. "It's not for you."

He frowned and walked toward Nancy, who backed off nervously. And how do you know that?"

"Cos I do, don't answer it."

The Doctor looked down at me and back at her again. "Are you related to her by any chance?"

I scowled. "No."

He rolled his eyes and turned to Nancy again. "Well, if you know so much, then tell me this. How can it be ringing? It's not even a real phone." He turned toward the phone box. I turned around as well, knowing very well that Nancy wanted to get away unseen. "It's not even-"

He turned toward where Nancy was and looked down at me. "What's going on?"

I gestured to the not-phone. "Why don't you find out?"

He raised an eyebrow at me and put the sonic inside, still looking uncertain. He then picked up the not-phone and placed it in his ear. "Hello? This is the Doctor speaking. How may I help you?"

A pause. And then he frowned. "Who is this? Who's speaking?" He turned to me. I gestured to the phone and mouthed, 'Keep talking'.

He frowned at me. "Who is this?"

Another pause. "How did you ring here? This isn't a real phone. It's not wired up to anything."

He put the phone down and put it back in. He looked at me. "Is Rose in there?"

I shook my head. "Far from that- who you were talking to, that was an actual child."

"But how did he ring that, it's not even-"

My first thought was to not say anything, but being annoying never helped matters in the middle of an episode, so I took a deep breath. "Enhanced abilities. The child has enhanced abilities. How did he get them?"

He continued staring at me, furrowing his eyebrows. "What do you mean-" He was cut short by a crash in the distance. He looked at me. I grabbed his hand and pulled him outside the alley.

A/N: Hey guys! I know I didn't update for a while (Thank you, exams)- I've been having exams on and off every 15 days as prep for my boards which are this year :(, but I finally managed to make some time to write- and I really enjoyed writing this one! Liza can finally be chill for once because, well, Everybody Lives- which is ironic, judging by the fact that this was written by Steven Moffat of all people lol (I'm still mad at him for all the times he made me cry)

Replies to reviews:

NeoMulder: Honestly, I agree about Mickey. Sure, he didn't deserve to be treated the way he was, but I definitely don't think he's the world's sweetest angel or whatever- and unpopular opinion (here come the pitchforks :p): I feel like Rory was also guilty of being a prick sometimes idk why.

And to answer your other question, Rose was basically embarrassed because of Mickey and was like "I want to dig a hole in the ground and disappear" because of how he was behaving lol-

And regarding the major character death, it's gonna happen at some point in the later seasons- not this one.

CrystalAris: (this is a reply for all three reviews)- Honestly, the whole Order of the Phoenix was just me making up stuff randomly- kinda like Liza at that moment, but that would be something hilarious lol

And yes, Nine did pull an Eleven! I love making random future references for some reason, so that we can see how each Doctor became the next

Also, I totally agree with your opinion on slow burn! I'm not a huge fan of relationships being developed quickly and I really want the Doctor and Liza's relationship to be natural, especially judging by the fact that they don't really have feelings for each other just yet.

Thank you so much for reviewing! It means so much to me!