"Up! Up! Up! Alex! Wake up!" The Doctor shouted, running into Alex's room. Alex sat up slowly, blinking her tired eyes.

"What the hell are you doing?!" She shouted back at him, still squinting in the sudden light of him turning her light switch on. Her ceiling now showed a rising sun and Alex scowled at it.

"Come on! You've been sleeping long enough!" He continued to shout excitedly. "We've seen the future, I'm taking Rose to the past, now-" He was cut off when Alex had climbed out of bed and actually shoved him against the wall. He looked down at her with a surprised and even slightly scared expression.

"What have I told you about waking me up?" She growled.

"Don't do it"

"And what happened just now?"

"I did it"

"So now that you've woken me up, what do you do now?"

"I'm gonna go back to the console room and wait patiently"

He moved backwards slowly before just about running from the room, heading back to the console room. Alex growled as she rubbed at her eyes. The TARDIS gave a calming hum and turned the light down, showing instead light from a bright full moon and stars. Alex smiled as she ran a gentle hand over the wall before heading over to her attached bathroom to get ready for the idiot by the console. Just as she was finishing she heard her bedroom door open.

"Alex? You in here?" Rose's voice called out.

"Bathroom" She called. "Won't be long" She heard the door close but the footsteps that followed were inside her room. She finished,making sure her hair was okay in the mirror before leaving the room.. Rose was lying on the bed looking up at her stars.

"Where is this?" Rose asked, pointing up, not taking her eyes off it. Alex lay down beside her looking up for a moment before finding a familiar star over to the right. The brightest star in sight that looked like a pinprick filled with light.

"Back at my house in Australia. Where I lived from when I was growing up, about eleven years. See that star there?" She pointed out the pinprick. Rose nodded. "Well I was never one for knowing names of stars or constellations but that was one I always recognised because it was always the brightest from where I stood. I used to imagine all the stars watched over the people on Earth and that one was mine" She explained. Rose smiled softly and the two watched in silence for a while. Alex noticed the TARDIS throw in a shooting star or two as they watched.

"How'd you get The Doctor out of your room this morning?" Rose asked, watching her out of the corner of her eye. "He wouldn't get out of mine until he pulled me out of bed, picked me some clothes and shoved me in the bathroom. I'm surprised he hasn't run back in here yet" Alex laughed.

"Yeah well I don't like being woken up. He should know that by now"

"He ran from here like he was being chased by a dragon"

The two both laughed at that.

"The dragon would've had more mercy" Alex responded. "He's now waiting patiently in the console room" Rose laughed.

"God, I want to know how you do that"

"I'm scary"

The pair were still laughing as they pulled each other up from the bed and headed down to the console at a leisurely pace. The Doctor was sitting in the flight seat with his feet up on the console, his head back and his eyes closed as he waited. His head snapped up the second they walked in and he jumped up excitedly.

"You're here! Fantastic! Let's go!" He shouted, running circles around the console. He stopped in front of Alex then. "Sorry for waking you up" He said softly, his serious face on. Alex smiled at him.

"'s fine" She told him. He nodded, grinning again.

"Alright, come on you two, might need some help with this one"

"Hold that lever down!" The Doctor shouted above the sparking of the console. The whole of the TARDIS was shaking and Alex looked up for a moment as she heard the bells going off.

"I'm holding this one down!" Rose shouted back.

"Well hold them both down!"

Alex reached over from her place trying to stabilise the flight and held the lever down herself. Of course that meant she had stopped working on the stabilisers and the ship gave another lurch.

"What did you do?!" Rose shouted out, noticing the shaking was worse than before.

"I didn't do anything!" He insisted.

"It was me!" Alex told them, shouting over the bells as the console sparked again. "I was working on the stabilisers but now that I'm not…"

"Well get back to the stabilisers!" Rose said like it was obvious.

"I can't I'm holding this lever down" Alex spoke quickly, exasperatedly.

"It's not going to work!" Rose called to the Doctor.

"Oi!" He shouted back, popping up from around the console. "I promised you a time machine and that's what you're getting. Now you've seen the future, let's have a look at the past. 1860. How does 1860 sound?"

"What happened in 1860?" Rose asked.

"I don't know" The Doctor shrugged.

"Let's find out" Alex added.

"Hold on, here we go!"

There was another lurch and Alex stumbled slightly. She held tightly to the railing as the TARDIS pillar moved along with its trademark sound. Despite saving herself from falling every other second Alex found herself grinning and she laughed happily as she poked at a switch here or there, attempting to calm the ship without hindering its flight.

Alex deemed she could let go of the lever and moved around the console, holding on and Passing Rose to stand beside The Doctor and look at the screen.

"Ooh, incoming!" Alex shouted in warning. She had barely spoken the words when the TARDIS gave one last sharp lurch and the three of them fell to the ground with the impact. The TARDIS was all but silent suddenly. Alex heard laughter from her right and turned to see The Doctor laughing to himself, also on the ground. Alex found herself laughing along with him, turning to see Rose do the same.

"Blimey!" Rose laughed out, sitting up.

"You're telling me!" The Doctor grinned, sitting up too. "Are you alright?" He asked, looking between the two as he stood. Alex nodded, giggling slightly still as she lay where she was.

"Yeah I think so, nothing broken…" Rose said, checking herself over for a moment. "Did we make it? Where are we?" She asked then, glancing down at Alex with a grin. The Doctor moved over to her first and grabbed hold of her hands, pulling her up.

"You right?" He asked again, still grinning in response to her own grin.

"Yeah, I'm good" She nodded, moving to the screen. "You've got to fix this Doctor, this is simply ridiculous" She complained, turning the screen of Gallifreyan writing towards him. He took the screen from her, reading over it.

"I did it! Give the man a medal" He grinned. Alex gave him a nudge. "Right, we did it. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860"

"That's so weird, it's Christmas" Rose awed. The Doctor stood up straighter and gestured to the door.

"All yours" He told her, smiling.

"But it's like, think about it though" She continued, walking slowly around the console as she spoke. "Christmas. 1860. Happens once. Just once and it's gone. Finished. It'll never happen again. Except for you" She looked intently at him a moment and then looked over at Alex the same way. "You can go back and see days that are dead and gone and a hundred thousand sunsets ago… no wonder you never stay still…"

"Not a bad life" The Doctor grinned.

"Better with three" She grinned back. She dashed past the two towards the door.

"Oi, oi, oi, where do you think you're going?" The Doctor called.

"Hey, not yet" Alex called at the same time.

"1860!" Was all she said, looking between the two.

"Go out there dressed like that, you'll start a riot! Both of you" He told them. Alex looked down and laughed, knowing he was right about her jeans. "There's a wardrobe through there" He pointed to one of the halls. "First left, second right, third on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, it's the fifth door on your left. Hurry up!" He instructed them. Alex grinned and grabbed Rose's hand as she passed, rushing off to get changed.

She missed the soft smile from The Doctor as he stared after her, enjoying her excitement.

"This place is huge! How're we gonna find what we're looking for?" Rose asked, looking around the room, astonished as she spotted a second floor that was rimmed with a bar to keep anyone falling off.

"We ask the TARDIS" Alex said simply. She moved closer to one of the walls and ran her hand along it.

"Hello Sweetheart" She grinned, whispering so Rose didn't hear. "Mind helping us out? 1869" The TARDIS gave a small hum and all the lights switched off. Rose screamed in surprise and flailed to find Alex, clutching her sleeve when she found her. It was only a moment before lights turned back on one by one in a trail leading deeper into the wardrobe. Rose glanced at Alex, still looking slightly unnerved by the lighting but followed her as she set off. It didn't take long until the trail of lights stopped and a whole group turned on at once above a rail of old fashioned dresses. The girls grinned and looked at each other for only a moment before dashing in to pick out their clothes.

"Here, try this one" Rose told Alex, handing her a deep blue colored dress. It was darker than the TARDIS color but Alex still loved it immediately. She smiled as she took it from her friend.

"How well you know me" She mused, holding the dress in front of her. The TARDIS gave an appreciative hum and Alex grinned again. The dress itself went down to her ankles, proving it was a winter dress along with the thick cozy layers. It had thin straps but came with a dark grey cloak that covered her shoulders and provided an extra layer of warmth.

"This one then" Alex agreed.

"You're sure my hair is okay?"

"What are you fussing about? You don't usually care"

Alex sent Rose a small warning look as she touched her neat bun a moment. The two were walking down the hall back to the console room after changing.

"Well quit poking at it, it looks good, I did great" Rose told her, taking her hand away.

"I'm not so sure about this dress anymore" Alex frowned, looking down at herself worriedly.

"What's your problem? You don't care how you look, you don't even like dresses" Rose frowned, glancing at her friend. She realised then, mouth falling open. "Oh I know! It's him isn't it?" She asked knowingly.

"No!" Alex said too quickly, her cheeks quickly turning red.

"It is isn't it?" Rose teased, smirking. "You're in love with the Doctor!"

"No!" At Rose's look Alex rethought her answer. "No, maybe, possibly I mean it's- I little" She rambled on, finally telling the truth.

"Oh this is brilliant!" Rose exclaimed, moving to stand in front of Alex, stopping her. "You two are adorable together" She smiled.

"He doesn't like me that way" Alex sighed.

"Oh shut up, yes he does" Rose waved a hand. Alex blinked.

"What"

"But this is amazing! You have to do something!"

"No!" Alex hissed, looking over Rose's shoulder in case he came looking for them.

"Alright then, I'll have to do something" She declared.

"No!" Alex repeated. "You'll do nothing, understand? Nothing" She looked at Rose seriously and she sighed, looking sad now.

"Oh alright" She relented. The two stood in silence a moment.

"So you mean, you don't…" Alex began, not sure how exactly to ask.

"No! No, not at all" Rose shook her head. "No, he's all yours" She grinned again. She moved then, taking Alex's arm and leading her to continue into the console room. They stepped apart as they entered.

The Doctor was doing more unnecessary repairs, as he did often when he was bored. He turned off his sonic screwdriver and looked up expectantly as they entered. He stopped suddenly, looking up at the two of them.

"Blimey!" He exclaimed, staring at them in surprise.

"Well don't laugh" Alex scoffed, laughing herself.

"You look beautiful!"

Alex stopped laughing then, smiling softly as she looked down at the ground shyly. The Doctor had looked at her when he said that. When she'd seen it on TV Rose had been the only one there but being there now The Doctor looked at her. It was certainly trippy in an absolutely marvellous way. Awesome Alex thought to herself, smiling at the ground.

"Considering…" The Doctor trailed off then, looking down at his work. Rose frowned at him but Alex simply smiled again, stepping forward and crouching down to get closer to his level. He looked up at her as she did.

"That I'm human" She finished, simply smiling at him. He smiled back and gave a little shrug.

"Well, yeah…"

"Aren't you going to change?" Rose asked from behind Alex.

"I've changed my jumper"

"He's changed his jumper"

The Doctor gave Alex a playful kind of scowl as she spoke with him and she grinned back at him in the cheeky way of hers. God, I do love him Alex thought.

"Come on!" The Doctor called then, jumping out of the grating and on to the platform, turning towards the door.

"You stay there!" Rose ordered, pointing a finger at him, then to Alex. "You too. You've done this before, both of you, I know you have" She added, glancing at Alex with a little smirk. "This one's mine!" Rose ran to the doors and threw them open and Alex saw snow past her. Alex smiled, stepping forward before the Doctor caught her arm. Alex looked up at him frowning.

"Let's give her a minute" He suggested. Alex nodded, looking back to Rose in the doorway as she touched her foot to the ground before pulling back. Alex smiled to herself as she watched Rose step out fully then, looking around.

"Come on then" The Doctor said, walking forward. Alex followed him, stepping out into 1860 after Rose. Alex grinned as she looked down at the snow crunching below her feet and then up at the snow as it fell. She held her hands into the air, watching the snowflakes fall into her cupped hands. She smiled as she watched the snow fall, watching it land all around them and blinking when some flakes landed on her eyelashes. Alex actually laughed, loving the magical feeling of snow every time she saw it. She looked over at the other two then, still smiling gleefully. Rose was staring almost surprised but smiling with her. The Doctor was grinning with her, watching her movements carefully. Alex suddenly felt incredibly self-conscious and looked down a moment.

"Snow" She said simply, looking up at them again. The Doctor laughed and Alex grinned again, her and Rose laughing along with him. "Real snow too" She said quieter, looking up again.

"Ready for this?" The Doctor asked. Alex looked up to see him holding an arm out to her and Rose smirking knowingly at her from behind him. Alex took his arm with a smile.

"Here we go, history!" The Doctor chimed as held out his other arm for Rose. She copied Alex and soon the three were walking out into the snowy street in 1860.

They walked for a bit, talking and pointing at things until The Doctor caught sight of a man selling newspapers. He detached himself from the girls to buy one and unfolded it, scanning over it as they walked.

"I got the flight a bit wrong" The Doctor frowned.

At the same time:

"I don't care" Rose, grinning.

"I know" Alex, laughing.

The Doctor gave Alex a strange look and she simply laughed again.

"It's not 1860, it's 1869" He continued.

"I don't care!" Rose repeated, grin never faltering.

"I know"

"And it's not Naples"

"I don't care"

"I know"

"It's Cardiff"

Rose's grin faded then.

"Right" She muttered softly. Alex laughed.

"God, you are a terrible driver" She giggled. The Doctor actually looked offended.

"I'm a great driver" He retaliated.

"You know you're not, you never passed your test" Alex grinned at him. He frowned and opened his mouth to say something but instead shook his head, closing it again. Alex continued to laugh at him.

All of a sudden there was screaming coming from one of the buildings nearby. The Doctor and Alex looked over before looking to each other. They both grinned.

"That's more like it!" The Doctor spoke, throwing his newspaper over his shoulder and ran towards the screaming, as Alex was already doing. Rose simply followed the two. Alex looked around as she entered the theatre from which the screaming people were running. Through the last few panicking people she saw the two from the funeral home is that what they called them back then? Wait, no, focus! Whatever their names were, were rushing towards the old woman in the middle of the room. As they shouted to each other over the screaming, the man on stage I really need to get better with names was still attempting to get the last few people to calm down. Amidst it all, a blue gas floated upwards into the air from the old woman and flew around the room before getting sucked into one of the lamps.

"Fantastic" The Doctor grinned, watching the scene. Alex had to admit, it kind of was fantastic. He took off again, rushing up to the edge of the stage.

"Did you see where it came from?" He asked the man on stage.

"Ah, the wag reveals himself does he? I trust your satisfied sir" The man accused. The Doctor paused, looking incredibly taken aback.

"Oi! Leave her alone!" Rose shouted then. Alex turned to see the two from the funeral home picking up the old woman and carrying her out as hurriedly as they could.

"I'll get them!" Alex called to her friends before Rose could.

"Be careful!" The Doctor shouted out to her. Alex gave a quick two-fingered salute as she hurried after the two who had just left. She managed to catch up with them as they had just loaded the woman into the hearse.

"What're you doing?!" She shouted out, trying to act clueless. The girl stood in front of her, trying to block her view as well as keep her from approaching as she talked.

"Oh, it's such a tragedy miss. Don't worry yourself, me and the master will deal with it. The fact is this poor lady's been taken with the brain fever and we have to get her to the infirmary" She tried.

Alex pushed passed her, though feeling sorry for the poor girl. She reached out to the woman in the back of the hearse, feeling her forehead. It was cold to the touch.

"She's dead" Was all Alex said, pulling a face. She wasn't surprised, she's remembered that much, but she was still somehow disappointed, and she had never really seen a dead body up close. It was unnerving to say the least.

A hand suddenly clamped around her mouth and nose and Alex started, having forgotten in the moment all about this little fact. She tried to struggle against the man, pulling at his hand at her mouth. She remembered something she'd used on her brother a lot when she needed to steal something from his hands. It worked on everyone she had found out in her lifetime. She grabbed a hold of a single one of his fingers that time and pulled backwards, making him hiss in pain and pull his hand back instinctively to relive some of the pain.

The cloth was removed from Alex's mouth and she breathed in deeply, having been holding her breath best she could. It was obvious though that she already had too much in her system. Black spots clouded her vision and she felt dizzy and weak. Despite having just pulled away from him she found herself falling back into the man behind her again. He was talking to the blurry girl in front of her but she couldn't hear words as the cloth was over her mouth again and the world faded away.

"Alex!"

The voice was hazy and far away, but she heard it and it reassured her in some way. The Doctor was looking for her, and he wasn't far behind.