Two chapters in one day! Consider it an early Christmas present! I am super excited to start writing the 10th Doctor. I had decided to start switching POVs between Harper and the Doctor. I am going to start it next chapter since the Doctor doesn't have a big part in this. So please enjoy…


Rose just stared as the Doctor stumbled out of the TARDIS in confusion and I leaned against the console trying not to get sick after the crazy driving the Doctor had done. As we walked out of the TARDIS we saw the Doctor on the ground unconscious and Mickey and Jackie next to him.

Rose asked, "What happened? Is he all right?"

I bent down to check on him.

"I don't know, he just killed over, but who is he? Where's the Doctor?" Mickey asked.

"Right here," I said running a hand through his hair.

"That's him, right in front of you. That's the Doctor," Rose said sounded sad.

"What do you mean that's the Doctor? Doctor who?" Jackie asked.


Rose and I were both sitting on the bed watching the Doctor when Jackie came into the room. "Here we go." She handed Rose a stethoscope. "Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, medical student. She was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to the hospital."

Rose immediately turned to her, "we can't. They'd lock 'em up. They'd dissect him."

"She's right Jackie, just one bottle of his blood and the future of the human race would be changed."

Jackie was about to say something else, but Rose shushed before checked his hearts. "Both working." I gave a sigh of relief when hearing this.

"What do you mean both?" Jackie asked.

"Well he's got two hearts."

"Oh, don't be stupid."

"He has," Rose said as she got up to leave.

"Anything else he's got two of?" I gave a small laugh at Jackie for asking this.

Rose turned a said quickly, "Leave him alone."

Rose and Jackie left, but I wanted to stay with the Doctor. "Oh Doctor, please get better soon. I don't like seeing you like this."

I ran my fingers through his hair again. 'He has such soft hair in this regeneration,' I thought as I sat there listening to Rose and her mother talk in the living room.

All this Christmas cheer was getting to me. I could hear Christmas music being played around the estate and decorations were everywhere. As sad as it was, Christmas was making me miserable this year.

"This is the first Christmas since I can here. And the first one without my family."

I don't know why I was staying all this, he couldn't hear me anyways, but maybe that's way I was say it. I would never tell him all this otherwise.

"Most of the time I can forget about them, and all the adventures keeps me so busy that I don't have time to even start thinking about it. But here… at Christmas… with Rose, Jackie, and Mickey." I gave a sigh, "they're a family and I am just some girl you picked up along the way. I don't belong here; they know it and I know if. I just wish you were here to keep my mind busy with your nonsense talk."

I was crying by now, "I just… miss my family so much. And when I came here, you and the TARDIS became my family. Now you are sick and can't talk and be your normal goofy self, and I can't hear the TARDIS anymore. It is scaring me Doctor. I can't loose my family again, I just can't."

Tries were streaming down my face and it was all I could do to stay quiet. I laid my head on the bed cried, but soon fell asleep.


I woke up quickly when Rose came running in to the flat yelling, "get off the phone."

I came into the living as Jackie said, "It's only Bev! She says hello."

Rose took the phone from Jackie, "Bev yeah, look it'll have to wait." She hung up the phone and said, "Right, it's not safe. We've got to get out. Where can we go?"

"My mate Stan, he'll put us up." Mickey offered.

"That's only two streets away," Rose said. "What about Mo? Where's she living now?"

Jackie looked very confused, "I dunno. Peak District."

"Ok, we'll go to cousin Mo's then."

"It's Christmas Eve. We're not going anywhere." Jackie started to get on a rant, but I cut her off.

"Jackie, maybe we should listen to why we have to leave."

Rose was looking at the tree in the corner and asked, "Mum… where'd you get that tree? That's a new tree. Where did you get it?"

"I thought it was you," She said to Rose.

"How can it be me?"

"We'll, you went shopping, there was a ring at the door, and there it was." Jackie explained.

"No, that wasn't me."

"Was it you?" Jackie asked me.

"No, I have been here the whole time."

"Then who was it?"

We all look on as the Christmas tree light up by its self. "You're kidding me!" Rose said. The tree then started to play jingle bells and spinning. It was spinning faster and faster coming towards us at an alarming rate.

When it started to destroy the coffee table Mickey pushed us to the door saying, "go, get out! Go!"

"Here Mickey, uses this chair to fight off the tree," I said as I gave him the chair. 'Now there is a sentence I thought I would never say.'

"We gotta save the Doctor," I hear Rose say. I turned to help her as Jackie asked, "What are you doing?"

"I can't just leave him," Rose said.

Jackie was at the door of the bedroom yelling to Mickey, "Mickey. Leave it. Get out! Get out!"

Both Rose and I yelled "Mickey," at the same time making him run to the room.

Jackie, Mickey, and I were moving an armoire in front of the door as Rose was trying to get the Doctor to wake up.

"Doctor wake up," she begged. She got the sonic screwdriver out of his coat and put it in his left hands. The tree busted through the door and armoire making Mickey, Jackie, and I fly out of its way.

"I'm going to get killed by a Christmas tree," Jackie cried.

Rose leaned over to whisper, "help me" in the Doctor's ear, but unlike the show the Doctor just stayed asleep. I looked over to her and saw a hopeless look on her face. The tree was getting Dangerously close to me and I was scared; so I grabbed the Doctor's free hand for comfort, whispering, "please help."

Immediately the Doctor shot up and used his sonic on the tree destroying it. "Remote control, but who's controlling it?" He asked getting up, but never letting go of my hand. I could tell by the look on Rose's face she was confused and not happy.

We all walked outside following the Doctor until he stopped. We saw three Santas standing down below use.

"That's them, what are they?" Mickey asked, but Rose shushed him.

The Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at them and off they transported away.

"They're just gone. What kind of rubbish were they? I mean, no offence, but they're not much cop if a sonic screwdriver's gonna scare them off." Mickey said happily.

"Pilot Fish." The Doctor said taking my hand and giving it a squeeze as if he was worried about me.

"What?" Rose asked.

"They were just Pilot Fish." The Doctor made a gagging noise and fell against the wall. Since he still had a hold of my hand I went with him.

"What's wrong?" Rose asked worriedly.

"You woke me up too soon. I'm still regenerating. I'm bursting with energy." A gold light came out of his mouth. "You see? Pilot Fish could smell it. A million miles away. So they eliminate the defense, that's you lot, and they carry me off. They could run their batteries on me for a couple of years."

He sounded like he was in pain as he sat up only to come back down on the other side wall.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Jackie fretted over him.

"My head. I'm having a neutron implosion, I need…"

Jackie interrupted him saying, "What do you need?"

"I need…"

"Just say it, tell me, tell me, tell me."

'This could go on for a bit,' I thought watching Jackie and the Doctor.

"I need…"

"Painkillers?"

"I need…"

"Do you need aspirin?"

"I…"

"Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh I dunno, Pepto-Bismol?"

"I need…"

"Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C? Vitamin D? Vitamin E?"

"I need…"

"Is it food? Something simple? Uh… a bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Soup and a little ham sandwich?"

"I need you to shut up!" The Doctor finally shouted out.

"Oh he hasn't changed that much, has he?"

Once again he looked in pain as he went to the other wall. Rose was on his right side and I was on his left, both of us had a hold of his arms steadying him.

"We haven't got much time if there's Pilot Fish then…" He stopped and held up an apple, "why's there an apple in my dressing gown?"

"Oh, that's Howard's, sorry." Jackie said.

"He keeps apples in his dressing gown?" The Doctor asked, genuinely confused by this.

Jackie just nodded her head saying, "He gets hungry."

"What, he gets hungry in his sleep?" The Doctor was still confused.

"Way not, I get hungry in my sleep sometimes." I said with a shrug.

The Doctor fell back and yelling out in pain. "Brain… collapsing…" He turned to me grabbing both my arms, "p… the Pilot Fish. The Pilot Fish mean… that something… something… something's coming." Then he collapsed onto my lap.


I was sitting by Mickey as we were both looking at his computer. Rose came into the living room and Jackie asked, "Any change?"

"He's worse. Just one heart beating."

My heart was breaking, my Doctor was not well.

"Scientists in charge of Britain's mission to Mars have re-established contact with the Guinevere one space probe." I started listening to the news to try and get my mind off of the Doctor. "They're expecting the first transmission from the planet's surface in the next few minutes."

Llewellyn, the project manager for Guinevere, got on and started to talk, "Yes, we are, we're… we're back on schedule. We're received the signal from Guinevere One. The Mars landing would seem to be an unqualified success." He sounded almost nervous to me.

"But is it true that you completely lost contact earlier tonight?" Someone asked Llewellyn.

"Yes, we had a bit of a scare. Guinevere seemed to fall of the scope, but it… was just a blip. Only disappeared for a few seconds. She's fine now, absolutely fine. We… we're getting the first pictures transmitted live any minute now. I'd better get back to it, thanks."

I turned to Rose and said sarcastically, "Wow, that guy sure knows how to sound convincing."

She just glared at me, but thankfully Mickey spoke up, "Here we go, Pilot Fish." Rose got up and walked over to Mickey and I. "Scavenges, like the Doctor said, harmless… they're tiny, but the point is the little fish swim along the big fish."

"Do you mean like sharks?" Rose asked.

"Great big sharks. So, what the Doctor means is, we had them, and now we get that." Mickey told us.

"Something is coming." I said, remembering what the Doctor said.

"How close?" Rose asked Mickey.

"There's no way of telling, but the Pilot Fish don't swim far from their daddy."

"So it's close?"

"Funny sort of rocks." Jackie said, making us all look up to the TV.

Rose said slowly, "That's not rocks."

We all walked up to the TV and when the picture finally cleared an alien roared making us jump back in surprise.


Mickey and I were still working on the computer when we found something, "Rose, take a look. I got access to the military." Mickey told her, "They're tracking a space ship. It's big, it's fast, and it's coming this way."

"Coming for what though? The Doctor?" She asked.

"Don't know. Maybe it's coming for all of us," I said.

"Have you seen them, before?" Mickey asked us.

I shook my head no and Rose said, "No. I don't understand what they're saying."

"I don't either," I said, getting sad thinking about the TARDIS.

Rose ignored me; "The TARDIS translates alien languages inside my head all the time, wherever I am."

"So why isn't it doing it now?" Mickey asked.

"I don't know. Must be the Doctor. Like he's part of it and he's broken…" I could not handle it anymore. Rose was mad at me for some reason, fine, but she should never give up on the Doctor.

I got up and went to check on the Doctor. He was shivering just like before as I sat in the side of the bed. I got the stethoscope and checked his hearts. Only one was beating still. 'At least one is still going,' I thought.

"Oh Doctor, I so wish I could tell Rose everything will workout just fine. Not that it would matter right now anyways with her attitude." I mumbled the last part to myself, "But the thing is… it's going to get much worst before it starts to get better. And… well, I'm scared. I don't know how to do this without you. Yes, I've seen every episode, and can tell you what everyone is going to say and do, but its just so different. Living it is terrifying."

I laid down next to him on top of the covers, "I need you to get better soon, I miss you." I whispered this in his ear as I laid there listening to his one heartbeat.

I had stayed in the room with the Doctor. I just could not bear to leave him. Jackie had come once to check on him and ask what he needed. We ended up falling asleep as the night drug on.


Soon we were watching the news again. This time it was the Prime Minister Harriet Jones talking and asking for the Doctor. No begging for the Doctor. I jut could not take it anymore and need some air. I walked out onto the landing and looked up to the sky.

'I miss it up there, in space,' I thought. But before I could do anything else everything started to shack and glass everywhere shattered. I ducked out of the way but got cut a couple of times from the glass flying.

Mickey ran out to me and asked, "Harper, you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine just a couple of cuts. What about you guys? Everyone ok?"

"Yeah. Come on." Mickey grabbed my hand and we ran down to the ground looking up at a space ship flying over London. Rose and Jackie soon joined us.

We all quickly went up to the flat and Rose went straight to the Doctor.

"Mickey, we're going to carry him. Mum, get your stuff and some food. We're going."

"Where to?" Mickey asked.

"The TARDIS. It's the only safe place on Earth," Rose was trying to put the Doctor's dressing gown on.

Jackie asked, "What are we gonna do in there?"

"Hide" Rose said as if it was so obvious.

"It that it?"

"Mum, look in the sky. There's a great big alien invasion and I don't know what to do, all right. I've traveled with him and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home I'm useless. Now all we can do is run and hide, and I'm sorry. Now move."

Jackie ran from the room and I said, "here let me help you."

"NO." Rose yelled, making me take a step back. "You have already done enough, now why don't you just get out of our way."

Mickey looked shocked at Rose and I just said, "Okay, I will go and see if Jackie can use my help."


Jackie and I were following behind Rose and Mickey, who were carrying the Doctor.

"Mum, will you just leave that stuff and give us a hand?" Rose called to Jackie.

"It's food. You said we needed food."

"Just leave it." Rose said.


We finally made it to the TARDIS.

"No chance you can fly this thing?" Mickey asked.

"Not anymore. No." Rose said.

"Well you did it before."

"I know. It's sort of been wiped out of my head," She said as they laid the Doctor down on the TARDIS floor. "Like it's forbidden. If I try it again, I think the universe rips in half."

"Ah, better not, then." Mickey said.

"Maybe not." Rose said sarcastically.

"What about you Harper? Can you fly the TARDIS?" Mickey turned to me and asked.

"No, I never passed the test." I gave him a cheesy smile at which he laughed at.

"So what do we do? Just sit here?" He asked.

"That's as good as it gets." Rose said. I rolled my eyes at her and Mickey started to walk around the console.

"Right. Here we go, nice cup of tea." Jackie said handing Mickey the thermos.

"The solution to everything." Rose mumbled under her breath.

"Now stop your moaning. I'll get the rest of the food," Jackie said.

"Need any help," I asked hoping she would say yes. 'I really don't want to say here with miss happy other there.'

"No, it's alright. There's not much left." And with that she left.

"Tea, like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. Very British." Mickey said.

"What is it with you brits and tea? I mean can't a girl get a good cup of coffee around here?"

"Not very likely." Mickey said with a laugh and looked to the screen on the console. "How does this thing work? If it picks up TV, maybe we could see what's going on out there. Maybe we've surrendered. What do you do to it?" Mickey asked Rose.

A beeping noise had started to sound when Mickey was messing with it.

"I don't know. It sort of tunes itself." Rose said pushing buttons on the screen.


Rose was sitting on the Jump sit, Mickey was still trying to figure out the screen, and I was sitting by the Doctor running my figures through his hair.

"Maybe it's a distress signal," He offered.

"Fat lot of good that's gonna do." Rose mumbled.

"Are you gonna be a misery all the time?" Mickey asked Rose.

"Yes." Rose said.

"Well, this is going to be fun then." I said sarcastically from my spot on the floor.

"Should look at it from mine and Harper's point of view, stuck in here with your mum's cooking."

This made Rose sit up a little straighter, "Where is she? I better give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there."

"Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine," Mickey called making me laugh.

"Why don't you tell her yourself," Rose shot back.

"I'm not that brave."

"Oh I don't know." Rose said as she opened the door.

I got up to talk to Mickey about Rose and him when we heard her scream.

"Rose?" Mickey and I called as we ran to the door. Neither of us noticed that Mickey had dropped the thermos and tea was leaking out onto one of the TARDIS parts.

We were no longer on Earth and were surrounded by the Sycorax. Rose called to us saying, "The door. Close the door!"

Mickey had just enough time to close it before one of the Sycorax grabbed him and me.

Rose was thrown against Harriet who said, "Rose. Rose. I've got you. My Lord. My precious thing." Then she whispered, "The Doctor… is he with you?"

My heart sunk at what Rose said, "No, we're on our own."

How could she give up on the Doctor? He didn't abandon us, he was just sick.

The Sycorax leader started talking and the man with Harriet translated.

"The yellow girl. She has the clever blue box. Therefore, she speaks for your planet."

Harriet immediately protested, "But she can't."

"Yeah, I can."

"Don't you dare," Mickey tried.

"Someone's gotta be the Doctor."

"Rosie please no," I begged and Harriet said, "They'll kill you."

"Never stopped him." She stepped up to the leader, "I um… I address the Sycorax… according to article fifteen of… the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this world with all the authority of the… Slitheen Parliament of Raxaoricofallapatorius and um… the Gelth Confederacy. As um… sanctioned by the mighty Jagrafess and … oh the Daleks. Now leave this planet in peace."

All of the Sycoraxs started to laugh and I just face palmed. 'What was she thinking? Gelth Confederacy? That's not even a real thing.'

Once again the translator guy read what the leader was saying, "You are very very funny. And now you're going to die."

Harriet and Mickey both jumped to get to Rose saying, "Leave her alone" and "Don't touch her!"

The leader keep on talking walking around Rose, "Did you think you were clever with your stolen words? We are the Sycorax. We astride the darkness." He hissed in her face making her jump, "Next to us you are but a wailing child. If you are the best your planet can offer as a champion…"

The next thing he said I understand, "Then your world will be gutted."

"Then your world will be gutted," the translator repeated.

"And your people enslaved," The leader said.

"And your people enslaved…" The translator said before looking up and saying, "Hold on, that's English."

"He's talking English." Harriet agreed.

"You're talking English." Rose said pointing to the Leader.

"Is he talking English," I ask Mickey sarcastically.

"I would never dirty my tongue with your primitive bile!" The leader exclaimed.

"That's English. Can you hear English?" Rose turned and asked us.

"Yeah that's English," Mickey said.

"Definitely English," The Translator agreed.

"I speak only Sycorax!" The Leader yelled.

"I can hear English. Then its' being translated. Which means it's working," Rose began.

"Which means…" I said bouncing on the balls of my feet and turning to look at the TARDIS.

The doors opened and there was the Doctor, "Did you miss me?"

The leader got mad and tried to use his whip on the Doctor, but he just grabbed the end pulling if from the Sycorax's hand. "You can have someone's eye out with that."

"How dare…" the Leader started and raised his staff up.

The Doctor just simple took the staff and broke it over his knee. "You can't get the staff." Then pointing at the Sycorax he said, "Now, you just wait. I'm busy."

He turned to us and said, "Mickey! Hello! And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North! Blimey, it's like 'This is Your Life'! Tea, that's all I need. A good cup of tea. Super-heated infusion of free radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first thing's first." He turned and looked at Rose and I, "Be honest, how do I look?"

"Um… different," Rose said.

"Good different or bad different?" He asked.

"Good different," I said smiling at him.

"Am I… ginger?" I let out a laugh at this question.

"No, your just sorta brown," Rose said making a hand motion on her head.

The Doctor suddenly started to pout, "Aww, I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger." But he emotion changed quickly, "And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me." Once again he changed his tune, "Oh, that's rude, is that the sort of man I am now? I'm rude? Rude and not ginger."

"I'm sorry. Who is this?" Harriet asked, stopping the Doctor's babbling before he could start up again.

"I'm the Doctor."

"He's the Doctor," Rose and I said at the same time.

"What happened to my Doctor? Or is it a title that's just passed on?"

The Doctor walked up to Harriet, "I'm him, I'm literally him. Same man, new face. Well, new everything."

"But you can't be."

"Harriet Jones. We were trapped in Downing Street and the one thing that scared you wasn't the aliens, wasn't the war. It was the thought of your mother being on her own," the Doctor said very seriously.

"Oh my."

"Did you win the election?" He asked happily. 'Wow, I am going to get whiplash from these emotions changing so fast.'

"Landslide majority."

Before they could celeabrate the Sycorax Leader said, "If I might interrupt."

"Yes. Sorry. Hello, big fella."

"Who exactly are you?"

"Well, that's the question."

"I demand to know who you are!" The leader yelled.

"I DON'T KNOW!" The Doctor imitated the Sycorax. "See, that's the thing I'm the Doctor but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy?" He winked at Rose and I when he said this and then started to walk around the ship, " A right old misery? Life and soul? Right handed? Left handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob."

He looked up some stairs and started to laugh, "And how am I going to react when I see this? A great big threatening button. A great big threatening button, which must not be pressed under any circumstances. Am I right? Let me guess, it's some sort of control matrix? Hmm, hold on, what's feeding it?"

He bent down and opened a small door under the button, "And what have we got here? Blood?" He stuck his figure in it and the tasted it.

'Yuck! Why must this regeneration taste everything?'

"Yeah, definitely blood. Human blood. A positive with just a dash of iron. Ahh," He stuck his tongue out in disgust. "But that means… blood control; Blood Control! Oh. I haven't seen blood control in years. You're controlling all the A positives! Which leaves us with a great sticking problem. 'Cos… I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a Great Big Threatening Button, which should never ever ever be pressed… then I just wanna do this…"

He slammed his hand down on the great big threatening button making Harriet, Rose, Mickey, and the translator yell, "No!"

"You killed them," the translator accused.

"What do you think, big fella? Are they dead?" The Doctor asked.

"We allow them to live," was all he said.

"Allow?" I asked sarcastically.

"You've no choice! I mean, that's all blood control is. Cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants of you, but that's as far as it goes. It's like hypnosis, you can hypnotize someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis; you can't hypnotize them to death. Survival instincts too strong."

"Blood control was just one form of conquest." I could tell the Sycorax Leader was getting made at the Doctor. "I could summon the armada and take this world by force."

"Well yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that. Corse you could. But why? Look at these people. These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun." I was trying really hard to hold in a laugh about right now. "There is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do then… no, hold on… sorry, that's 'The Lion King'." And that is where I lost it. "But the point still stands. Leave them alone!"

"Or what?" The Sycorax challenged.

"Or…" the Doctor grabbed a sword for one of the Sycorax and ran back into the middle of the ship, "I challenge you." All of the Sycoraxs started laugh at the Doctor, "Oh, that struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"

The leader walked up in front of the Doctor drawing his sword, "You stand as this world's champion?"

"Thank you. I have no idea who I am, but you just summed me up." He through his dressing down to me but Rose was the one to catch it. She gave me a look of triumph to which I rolled my eyes at.

"So… you accept my challenge or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?" The Doctor must have called him something bad because the Leader hissed in anger.

As both the Sycorax leader and the Doctor held up the swords and got down on one knee I whispered quietly to myself, "Please be careful Doctor." He could not have heard me because I said it so quietly, but his eyes meet mine for a brief second before turning back the look at the leader.

"For the planet?" The Sycorax asked.

"For the planet!"

And then the fight started. I was so nervous, if I was honest with myself a little nauseous, watching the fight. Poor Mickey, who was right next to me, got his hand almost squeezed off because every time there was a close call I would squeeze his hand even tighter. Once the Doctor was on the ground and the Sycorax's sword was about to come down on him so Rose yells, "Look out!"

"Oh, yeah, that helps. Wouldn't have thought of that otherwise, thanks." He said sarcastically. The Doctor was struggling to keep the upper hand so he pushed a button that opened a door to the outside. "Bit of fresh air?"

We all follow the Doctor and Sycorax leader outside still watching to see who wins. The Sycorax got a good shoot at the Doctor's nose with the handle end of his sword causing Rose to start into the fight. "Stay back! Invalidate the challenge and he wins the planet!' The Doctor yelled.

I watched the fight getting more and more worried about the Doctor when the Sycorax knock him down and cut off his hand. Causing both his hand and his sword to fall off the ship.

"You cut my hand off!"

"YAH! Sycorax!" The leader cheered.

The Doctor stood up, "And now I know what sort of man I am. I'm lucky. 'Cos quite by chance… I'm still within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle. I've got just enough residual cellular energy… to do this…" he raised his handless arm and we all watched in amazement as his hand grew back.

"Witchcraft," the Sycorax hissed.

"Time Lord," the Doctor corrected him.

Rose grabbed a sword and called, "Doctor" tossing him the sword.

"Oh, so I'm still the Doctor then?"

"No arguments from me." Rose cheered. I was a little angry with her for acting this way. One minute she thinks he left her and the next she is happy and has her Doctor. 'Rose is always going to get her way,' I thought bitterly.

"Wanna know the best bit? This new hand…" and then with a southern accent he said, "It's a fighting hand!"

Once again they were fighting, but this time the Doctor was doing better and was able to hold his own. Soon he had the Sycorax down and had his sword pressed against his neck.

"I win"

"Then kill me," the leader said.

"I'll space your life if you'll take this champion's command; leave this planet and never return. What do you say?"

"Yes."

He pressed a little harder saying, "Swear on the blood of your species."

"I swear."

Suddenly he was back to the fun easy-going Doctor and said, "There we are then! Thanks for that. Cheers, big fella!"

"Bravo!" Harriet cheered.

"That says it all. Bravo!" Rose said going to the Doctor handing him is dressing grown.

I turned to Mickey and gave him a big hug, "He did it, Mickey. He did it!" He laughed as we celebrated.

"Yeah! Not bad for a man in his jim-jams!" The Doctor said.

"Very Arthur Dent," I said coming up to the Doctor and Rose.

"Yeah! Now, there was a nice man. Hold on, what have I got in here?" He pulled a piece of fruit out of his pocket. "A Satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers, he does like his snacks, doesn't he? But doesn't that just sum up Christmas? You go through all the presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always one stupid old Satsuma. Who wants a Satsuma?"

I heard a noise behind us and turned to look, the Sycorax leader was up and was charging us, but the Doctor just through the Satsuma hitting a button sending the leader fall down to Earth. "No second changes. I'm that sort of man."

Once we had got back into the ship the Doctor addressed the whole of the Sycorax army. "By the accident rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet- when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential. When you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this… It – Is – Defended."

We were teleported off the ship and once we were back on Earth Rose asked, "Where are we?"

"We're just off Bloxom Road. We're just round the corner. We did it!" Mickey started to cheer when the Doctor stopped him.

"Wait a minute… wait a minute…"

Then the ship left, flying up into space to do as the Doctor commanded.

"Go on my son! Oh yeah!" Mickey cheered again.

Rose jumped on Mickey's back cheering also. "Yeah! Don't come back!"

"It is defended!" Mickey yelled.

I was about to go to the Doctor but Harriet beat me to it. "My Doctor."

"Prime Minister."

"Absolutely the same man. Are there many more out there?"

"Oh, not just Sycorax. Hundreds of species."

"Thousands of them," I corrected the Doctor.

"Yeah, and the Human race is drawling attention to its self. Everyday your sending out probes, messages, and signals. This planet is so noisy. You're getting noticed more and more. You better get used to it."

Once again I was just about to talk to the Doctor when I heard, "Rose!"

"Mum!"

Jackie came running over to just, the Doctor just simple said, "Oh! Talking of trouble…"

"Oi, be nice," I elbowed him in the side.

Rose and Jackie embraced one another both talking at once.

I was watching the translator take a call instead of listening to what Rose and her mum were saying. I knew what the call was and it sadden me to think what was about the happen to the poor Sycorax.

"Come on Harper join the fun," the Doctor pulled into the group hug, but then green laser like lights shoot into the sky. All pen pointed the Sycorax ship blowing it up.

"What is that? What's happening?" Rose asked.

"That was murder!" I yelled at Harriet.

"That was defense. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago," Harriet explained.

The Doctor pulled me behind him, "but they were leaving."

"You said yourself, Doctor. They'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, but you're not here all the time. You come and go. It happened today, Mr. Llewellyn and the Major. They were murdered; they died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case, we had to defend ourselves."

"Britian's Golden Age," the Doctor growled out.

"It comes with a price."

"I gave them the wrong warning. I should've told them to run, as fast as they can, run and hide because the monsters are coming the human race!"

"Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf."

"Then I should have stopped you."

"What does that make you Doctor? Another alien threat?"

"How dare you?" I said almost taking a step forward, but the Doctor grabbed my arm once again pulling me behind him.

He stepped forward saying, "Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones. 'Cos I'm a completely new man. I could bring down your government with one single word."

"You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that."

"No you're right. Not a single word." He stopped and looked at her for a second or two and said, "Just six."

"I don't think so."

"Six words."

"Stop it!"

"Six!"

Then he silently walked over to the translator and took off his earpiece and said something that only the translator could hear. He kept his eyes on Harriet the whole time as he walked back to us. He took my hand and we all walked away.

I could hear Harriet yelled at the Doctor as we left, "Doctor! Doctor, what did you… what was… what did he say?! What did you say, Doctor? Doctor?"


Rose, Jackie, and Mickey all went back to the flat while the Doctor and I went to the TARDIS. We were in the wardrobe and the Doctor was trying to find his new look.

I laughed as he pulled at an odd military looking jacket. He just rolled his eyes at my and mumbled "Obviously not this."

He had found a scarf and had it around his neck as he kept looking. I was getting tried of looking for something for him to wear, 'it's been like thirty minutes.' So I went and pulled out the brown pinstriped suit.

"What about this?" I asked him holding it up for him to see.

"Oh, I quite like that. And I can wear this with it!" He grabbed his famous long swishy coat. He looked at me for approval and I smiled giving him a thumbs up. "Brilliant! Now leave so I can change out of these pajamas."

"Why, you afraid to change in front of me, Doc? I mean, who do you think got you into those pjs in the first places?"

He started to stutter but finally got out, "What?"

I could not help but burst out laughing at his face. "I'm… only… joking." I said between laughs. Once I had contained my laugher a bit more I said, "We let Mickey change you, so no I never saw you without clothes on. And what a shame that is."

"You think your funny don't you?"

"Well… yeah I do think I am funny. Okay, I am leaving now."

As I waited for the Doctor to change, I decide to change into something comfy. When I went to the bathroom to try and fix my hair I accidently burnt my self with my curling iron.

"Aww, hot." I cried, but soon the spot that I burnt started to glow gold.

With in seconds the burn was gone as if it had never been there in the first place. I looked into the mirror and notice how I did not have one cut from when the glass was broken by the space ship. "I know I had cuts from that, what is going on?"

I was getting a little freaked out when I heard the TARDIS, 'Don't worry my little human. We will talk about what is happening soon.'

I decided to stay in the TARDIS instead of going to dinner, 'Not that I wanted to eat Christmas dinner without my family anyway,' so I went to the console room to wait on the Doctor.

"Okay, I am ready for some Christmas dinner," He said walking in rubbing his belly. "Is that what your wearing to dinner?" He asked without thinking about how it sounded.

I had changed into sweat pants and an oversized t-shirt, "Wow, thanks Doctor. You sure no how to give a girl confidence, but no; I am just going to stay here tonight."

"What? Why? Are you okay? Are you felling fine?" He asked as he rushed over to me checking to see if I had any visible injuries.

"Doctor, stop! I'm fine. I'm tired. I think the adrenaline rush from everything has left me. I really just want to sleep it off." I smiled up at him to let him know I was okay.

"Well… if you're sure."

"I sure. Go, have fun. Eat some pie for me."

He laughed and gave me a quick hug before leave to go to Rose's flat.

"Okay, talk! What's going on with me?" I asked the TARDIS.

'When Rose opened the console she absorbed Time Vortex, but a small part went into you.'

"WHAT! Am I going to be okay? That kills humans. And incase you haven't notice… I'm a HUMAN!"

'I have been scanning your vital signs and running scans; as far as the facts go you are fine. But this has never happened before. You need to tell the Doctor.'

"NO! I can't tell him, because then he will fell the need to get it out of me and that may cause him to regenerate again, but his not supposed to regenerate for a while. No, unless it gets to where my life is in danger we keep it a secret. Got it?"

I heard the TARDIS sigh, 'fine, but I don't like it.'

"Just keep an eye on it for me and let me know if anything changes."

'Very well, my little human.'

"Thanks Sexy!" With that I went to my room to try and get some sleep. I know its going to be interesting with this new Doctor so I need to be well prepared for what is to come.


Well there you go! I hope you liked it. Thanks again for reading and stay fantastic my fellow Whovians.