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Rose woke up the next morning, or whatever counted as 'morning' in the Tardis, and sat up with a yawn. At first, she didn't remember what had happened yesterday but then it hit her like a truck. The forgetting details of the tv-show and her life, her panic attack and the Doctor coming to her aid, letting her listen to his hearts beat to help her calm down.
"Calm, my wolf, calm." The musical voice whispered in her head again.
Rose decided to listen and took a deep breath and decide not to panic and to take things as they came at her, she always had been good at adapting. She wondered if she should write down everything she remembered from her last life in a journal or something?
She stretched and got out of bed, she walked over to one of the doors in her room and opened it. In side there was outfit consisting of a plaid coat, tight faux leather pants, a white short hoddie that ended around her belly button and white sneakers hanging out for her.
"Oh, I really like this outfit." Rose muttered to herself.
"You're welcome." The voice giggled in her mind.
Rose decided that she needed a shower first, still smelling like the gas from the Gelth thing. Not knowing where the bathroom was, she looked around the room until she saw another door, that she was convinced wasn't there earlier, and walked over to it.
The bathroom she stepped into was absolutely stunning; the floor were made up of black and white tiles that matched well with the white walls, on her left there were a double sink made out of wood with a granite countertop, on the right stood the toilet and beside that there was a tub, while there was a glass shower on the left side in the corner.
"It's beautiful." Rose gasped and she felt like someone hugged her in gratitude.
Rose quickly took a shower and put on the outfit, but deciding against the coat, then she made her way to the console room to find the Doctor.
"Good whatever time of day it is." Rose smiled at the Doctor.
"Rose." The Doctor beamed back at her.
"Doctor, there is something I've been wondering about." Rose looked at him seriously.
"And what's that?" The Doctor looked back at her.
"Who is that musical voice in my head that has been helping me?" Rose blurted out quickly.
"Musical voice?" The Doctor asked wide eyed.
"Yeah, it started when I got a little lost on the way to the wardrobe when we were in 1869 and then earlier this morning when I almost had another panic attack." Rose explained.
"You can hear the Tardis in your head?" The shock on the Doctors face was almost comical.
"It would seem so, my Doctor." The musical voice whispered in Rose's and the Doctor's head.
"No wonder you could tell me the exact way to the wardrobe." Rose laughed as she looked at the center console.
"You can actually hear her." The Doctor murmured.
"Of course, my wolf can hear me." The Tardis scoffed with something close to a chuckle.
"Why do you call me your wolf?" Rose asked softly.
"Everything will be known… in time." The Tardis hummed.
"You can hear her!" The Doctor grabbed Rose around the waist and spun her around in happiness. None of his companions had ever heard the Tardis clearly before, sure some of the had heard a soft hum in the back of their head but that was is.
Rose laughed and hugged the Doctor back, not knowing why he was happy but felt glad that he was. After a while the Doctor let her go and started to flit around the console.
"Where do you wanna go next?" The Doctor beamed at her. "Future? Past? Another planet?"
"I think we need to go and see my mom." Rose said with a far-off look. "I don't know why…"
The Doctor walked up to her, "Is it one of your 'just knowing' feelings?"
"Yeah, it's like there is this pull inside me that says we need to go and see my mom." Rose hummed softly.
"To the Powel estate we go, the day after we left." The Doctor smiled even as he felt worried that Rose would like to stay with her mother.
The Doctor landed the Tardis outside where Rose's mother lived, "And we have landed."
Rose walked towards the door but stopped and turned towards the Doctor. "You coming, or what?"
"Oh, right." The Doctor followed her with a confused look.
"Mum, you home?" Rose called out as she walked into the flat.
"Rose!" Jackie attacked her with a tight hug. "You're home."
"Yeah, I did say that I would come back." Rose hugged back.
"You've been gone for a year!" Now Jackie sounded slightly pissed. "No phone call, no text, not even a bloody letter!"
"I'm sorry mum." Rose said even as she looked at the Doctor with annoyance. "But for me it didn't feel like a year, I have constantly learnt and met new people that I've been able to help."
"Is this your boyfriend?" Jackie turned to look at the Doctor. "Isn't he a little old for you?"
"Mum, this is Doctor Christopher Smith." Rose introduced while begging the Doctor to play along with her eyes. "He was one of the lead Doctors on the mission."
"Nice to meet you, Miss. Tyler." The Doctor smiled at her.
"You look familiar." Jackie murmured but seemed to shake it off to turn back to Rose. "It's so good to have you back."
"I've missed you mum." Rose smiled, and she had missed Jackie even if Jackie wasn't, technically, her mother, but whatever.
Around an hour later Rose walked up to the roof to find the Doctor gazing out over London.
"You brought me home a year late." Rose pointed a finger at the Doctor.
"That was an accident." The Doctor defended himself. "It wasn't even an interesting year, so you didn't miss anything important."
"We're just lucky that I told her that I was going traveling when I called her from Platform One." Rose chuckled.
"Your gift…" The Doctor hesitated a little. "How does it work?"
"I don't really know." Rose shrugged and leaned against a wall. "I get these… I guess you could call them compulsions sometime to do or say a certain thing."
"And you don't know why at that precise moment you say or do it?" The Doctor looked at her.
"Nope, and it's not always these knowing things or compulsions happen either." Rose scratched her head. "Sometimes I get several 'compulsions' in a single day and other times it can go several days between each."
"Nine hundred years of time and space and I have never met someone quite like you, Rose Tyler." The Doctor murmured softly.
"And don't you forget it." Rose beamed at him, then she frowned. "When you say nine hundred years?"
"That's my age." The Doctor shrugged with a smirk.
"Well, you look good for your age, I guess." Rose chuckled.
"Thank you." The Doctor smiled brightly.
Suddenly there was a deep horn and a spaceship trailing black smoak passed them overhead and headed towards the city. It missed Tower Bridge, severed around St Paul's, then with a nasty back-fire and a splutter, takes out Big Ben and crashed into the Thames.
"Adventure time?" Rose asked excitedly.
The Doctor just smiled and grabbed her hand to pulled her with him when he ran. As they came to a road block the Doctor actually pouted, "It's blocked off."
"The whole of London must be closing down." Rose hummed.
"I can't believe I'm here to see this." And the Doctor was back to beaming. "This is fantastic!"
"Did you recognize the ship?" Rose asked.
"Nope." The Doctor bounced on his toes.
"Do you know why it crashed?" Rose turned to him. "Did you know it was going to crash?"
"Nope and nope." The Doctor laughed.
"This must be very exciting for you then." Rose chuckled. "So, history is happening and we are stuck behind a road block."
"Yes, we are." The Doctor looked a little down at that.
"We could always do what everybody else does." Rose offered and at the confused look the Doctor sent her she continued. "We could watch it on TV."
Together they made their way back to the Tyler's flat to watch the news. The doctor sits in front of the TV and sapped between different news reports.
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."
"The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a help line number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."
"The military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded."
"The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find."
"The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies."
Jackie brought in a mug for Rose and her friend Ru Chan, but not the Doctor who was to absorbed in the news to say anything.
"He's a doctor." Jackie explained to Ru. "He and Rose works together."
"Are you sure that's all between them?" Ru asked as he looked between Rose and the Doctor.
"Oi, I'm trying to listen." The Doctor tried to hush them.
"His current whereabouts. News is just coming in. We can go to Tom at the Embankment".
"They've found a body. It's unconfirmed, but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore."
Rose felt a little bit claustrophobic so she stood up and walked out of the flat without her mother noticing.
"You okay?" the Doctor came and leaned against the railing beside her.
"Yeah, just got a bit to gossipy in there." Rose shrugged.
"Wanna go and check out the alien they've found?" The Doctor asked.
"Can we really?" Rose wondered eagerly.
"Sure, come on." The Doctor grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the Tardis as she laughed.
As the Doctor flew the Tardis towards the Albion Hospital where the alien body had been brought, he took a hammer and hit the center console when the flight started to get bumpy.
"You know, one day she's going to hit back." Rose told him with a laugh.
"We have a special type of relationship." The Doctor muttered as he pushed some buttons.
"That have a name for that sort of relationships." Rose smirked.
The Doctor laughed loudly at her cheek as he landed the Tardis in the Albion Hospital. Then the two time travelers walked out of the Tardis to see that the Doctor had parked them in storage closet.
"Shush!" The Doctor hissed at his sonic as he unlocked the door.
"You are so weird." Rose laughed quietly.
The Doctor just smiled at her as they walked into a room full of Red Berets – the Parachute Regiment. Rose and the Doctor stared at them as they stared at Rose and the Doctor for a moment until the soldiers grab their weapons and pointed them at Rose and the Doctor.
"Really?" Rose asked exasperated.
Suddenly they all heard a terrified scream and the Doctor took charge. "Defense plan delta! Come on. Move! Move!"
Rose ran along with the Doctor as he led her and the Marines towards the scream. As they arrived, they found a terrified female Dr cowering behind a desk with a cut on her head.
"It's alive!" The woman gasped out.
Rose slowly walked out of the room into the corridor. A few minutes later a pig in a spacesuit came running out of the mortuary straight at Rose.
"Hey, it's okay." Rose knelt down, not seeing the doctor come out of the room after the pig. "You'll be okay."
Rose pulled the terrified pig close to her while she stroked its head softly and whispered quietly, trying to calm it down. She vaguely heard the Doctor order the soldiers not to shoot as she continued to soot the pig. Suddenly there was a loud bang and the pig sagged into her arms with a small whimper.
"No, no, no," Rose gently placed the pig on the floor, tears running down her face as she stroked its face gently and whispered. "Go peacefully into the night and leave all the fear and suffering behind."
"What did you do that for?!" The Doctor shouted at the soldiers. "It was just scared!"
"Typical humans." Rose stood up and tried to dry her eyes. "They tend to kill what they don't understand."
Around fifteen minutes later the Doctor and Rose stood by the mortuary table were the pig had been placed as the woman, Dr. Sato, looked over the pig in shook. Rose almost wanted to tell Tosh to say 'Hi' to Jack for her but decided against it.
"I just assumed that's what aliens look like." Tosh said as she looked at the pig. "But you're saying that it's an ordinary pig from Earth."
"More like a mermaid. Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat, gluing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid." The Doctor explained. "Now someone's taken a pig, opened up its brain, stuck bits on, then they've strapped it in that ship and made it dive bomb. It must've been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke."
"That poor pig." Rose sniffled sadly. "He was so scared and they just killed him."
"But at least he had you with him in his final moments." The Doctor smiled kindly at her.
As Tosh started to ramble the doctor and Rose quietly snuck out of the mortuary and back to the Tardis and made their way back to the Powel Estate.
"I had a feeling that the whole crash landing was fake, it was just too perfect." The Doctor said as he looked at something on the screen, not noticing when Mickey and Jackie entered the Tardis. "I mean, hitting Big Ben? Come on!"
"Doctor." Rose called out loudly to get his attention.
"What?" He looked up at her.
"My mum's here." Rose looked a little awkward.
"Oh, that's just what I need." The Doctor looked at Jackie and then back at Rose. "Don't you dare make this place domestic."
"You ruined my life, Doctor." Mickey accused. "Some people didn't believe that Rose had gone travelling but that I had killed her!"
"You see what I mean?" The Doctor raised an eyebrow at Rose. "Domestic."
"I bet you don't even remember my name." Micky sneered at the Doctor.
"Ricky." The Doctor answered quickly forcing Rose to hold back a snort.
"It's Mickey." Mickey corrected.
"No, it's Ricky." The Doctor denied.
"I think I know my own name." Micky huffed, annoyed.
"You think you know your own name?" The Doctor scoffed but secretly smiled as he saw Rose's twinkling eyes. "How stupid are you?"
Jackie started to back away from the middle console, everything becoming too much and then she ran out with Rose calling after her that she would be up in a minute.
"That was a real spaceship but a fake alien." Rose hummed as she looked at the Doctor.
"Yep." The Doctor popped the p as he answered.
"Are they invading?" Rose murmured thoughtfully. "Or are they checking Earth's defenses?"
"Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert." Micky said.
"You both have good points, not surprising from Rose though." The Doctor winked at her. "So, what're they up to?"
A while later the Doctor were working under the Tardis as Rose and micky watched.
"So, what are you doing down there?" Mickey asked.
"Ricky…" the Doctor began.
"Mickey." Mickey interrupted.
"Ricky." The Doctor started again. "If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship, would you even begin to understand?"
Rose felt the Tardis preen and giggle in her mind as the Doctor called her magnificent, which in turn made Rose chuckled quietly.
"I suppose not." Mickey muttered.
"Well, shut it, then." The Doctor snapped.
"Some friends you've got." Micky huffed at Rose who just raised an unimpressed eyebrow at him. "I looked for a blue box on every street corner for a whole year, Rose."
"It's only been around a week for me." Rose shrugged as she leaned back against the railing around the Tardis console.
"Not enough to miss me, then?" Mickey asked.
Rose didn't answer, had Mickey always been this whiney and self-centered? He sounded like the only thing he cared about was if Rose had missed him, what had happened to him when Rose was gone etc. Honestly, Rose cared more about how Jackie had been and what she had been up to.
"So, now that you're back, are you going to stay?" Mickey asked but Rose could here the silent 'with me' at the end.
"Got it! Ha, ha! Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so we can follow the flight of that spaceship." The Doctor explained proudly before Rose could answer Mickey's question. "Here we go. Hold on. Come on."
Rose and the Doctor looked at the monitor to see the trajectory of the spaceship. It looked like it came from Earth, flew out into space, just to return again.
"That's the spaceship on its way to Earth, see? Except. Hold on. See?" The Doctor pointed at the monitor. "The spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"What does that mean?" Mickey asked.
"It means it came from Earth in the first place. It went up and came back down." The Doctor muttered. "Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived, they've been here for a while. The question is, what have they been doing?"
"It's all about money." Rose said distantly. "It's always about money."
"Rose?" The Doctor touched her arm gently.
"Huh?" Rose looked up at him, then she frowned. "I did it again, didn't I?"
"Yeah but I'll keep what you said in mind." The Doctor smiled at her. "Seems like you tend to give me clues about stuff that I will need later to figure things out."
"Thanks for not calling me a freak or look at me like I'm insane." Rose looked down with a small smile.
"I would never do that." The Doctor reassured, then he looked up at where Mickey were channel-hopping. "Hold on, I know that lot."
"It's looking likely that the Government's bringing in alien specialists – those people who have devoted their lives to studying outer space." The woman on the screen said.
"UNIT. United Nations Intelligence Taskforce." The Doctor explained. "Good people."
"How do you know them?" Rose asked with a smile.
"'Cos he's worked for them." Mickey piped up with an ugly look on his face. "Oh yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor, I read up on you." He turned towards Rose. "You look deep enough on the Internet or in the history books, and there's his name, followed by a list of the dead."
"Do they list all those he saved to?" Rose asked with a serious look. she turned to the doctor with a smile. "If you know them, why don't we go and help? And by we, I mean mostly you, I'll just stand there and look pretty."
"They wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days." The Doctor laughed at Rose's little speech. "Besides, the world is on a knife-edge. There're aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover. And er, I'd better keep the Tardis out of sight. Ricky, you've got a car. You can do some driving."
"Where are we going?" Mickey asked as he followed the Doctor and Rose towards the door.
"The roads are clearing." The Doctor smiled brightly. "Let's go and have a look at the spaceship."
They walked out of the Tardis and straight into a helicopter spotlight as a police officer called out, "Do not move! Step away from the box and raise your hands above your heads."
Mickey managed to run as police cars and Saxon armored personnel carries surrounded them. The name Saxon rang a bell in Rose's head and she started to tap her foot in a four-tap beat.
"Rose!" Jackie ran towards her daughter only to be caught by a soldier.
"Raise your hands above your head." The Police officer repeated. "You are under arrest."
"Take me to your leader." The Doctor beamed and Rose snorted.
As they sat in the police car Rose turned towards the Doctor with a raised eyebrow, "We are not being arrested, are we?"
"Nope, we are being escorted." The Doctor chuckled. He really liked how clever and bright Rose was.
"Escorted?" Rose frowned then she turned wide eyed to the Doctor, "No way! You're kidding."
"I'm not." The Doctor smiled at her.
"10 Downing Street!" Rose gasped. "I think I might be a bit underdressed, though."
"You look beautiful." The Doctor muttered then he cleared his throat and raised his voice a little. "I hate to say it, but Mickey was right. Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times, and I've been, er, noticed."
"That could be both good and bad." Rose murmured. "And now they need you?"
"Like it said on the news. They're gathering experts in alien knowledge." The Doctor looked proud of himself. "And who's the biggest expert of the lot?"
"Patrick Moore?" Rose teased with a laugh.
"Apart from him." The Doctor agreed with a laugh.
"Oh, don't you just love it?" Rose chuckled as she looked out of the window.
"I'm telling you. Lloyd George, he used to drink me under the table." The Doctor reminiscence. "Who's the Prime Minister now?"
"How should I know?" Rose shrugged. "I missed a year."
"And nothing is tingling in your head?" The Doctor coaxed.
"No… except… I have the name Harriet Jones popping up but I do know for a fact that the prime minister is male." Rose looked thoughtful.
As they stepped out of the car in front of 10 downing Street, the Doctor mugged in front of the cameras making Rose laugh as they were led inside. Together they walked into the waiting room, seeing an older woman mingle with the UNIT officers and other people.
"Ladies and gentlemen, can we convene?" A young man called out from the front of the room. "Quick as we can, please. It's this way on the right, and can I remind you ID cards are to be worn at all times."
"Don't trust the ID card." Rose whispered quickly to the Doctor.
"Here's your ID card." The young man gave the Doctor his card but stopped Rose from going in with the Doctor. "I'm sorry, your companion doesn't have clearance."
"I don't go anywhere without her." The Doctor told him firmly.
"You're the code nine, not her. I'm sorry, Doctor. It is the Doctor, isn't it?" The young man asked but continued without confirmation. "She'll have to stay outside."
"She's staying with me." The Doctor glared making the young man squirm.
"Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there. I can't let her in and that's a fact." The young man sounded apologetic.
"It's all right." Rose reassured. "You go."
"Excuse me." The older woman who had mingled earlier walked up to them. "Are you the Doctor?"
"Sure." The Doctor shrugged.
"Not now. We're busy. Can't you go home?" The young man sounded annoyed.
"I just need a word in private." The woman ignored the young man as she kept looking at the Doctor.
"I suppose so." The Doctor said to the woman and turned to Rose. "Don't get in any trouble."
"You haven't got clearance. Now leave it." The young man glared at the woman as the Doctor left before he turned to Rose. "I'm going to have to leave you with security."
"It's all right. I'll look after her. Let me be of some use." The woman grabbed Rose and started to lead her away as she whispered. "Walk with me. Just keep walking."
Rose let herself be led into the entrance hall by the, from the looks of it, terrified woman.
"That's right. Don't look round. Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." Harriet muttered quickly. "This friend of yours, he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens?"
"Why do you want to know?" Rose demanded as she stopped and Harriet started to cry.
Harriet led Rose to a cabinet room and showed her an empty body suit of some sort.
"They turned the body into a suit." Harriet explained desperately, as if she was scared that Rose wouldn't believe her. "A disguise for the thing inside!"
"It's all right. I believe you. It's, it's alien. They must have some serious technology behind this. If we could find it, we could use it." Rose started to look around the room until she opened a cupboard and the body of Tony Blair fell out. "Oh, my God! Is that the…"
"Harriet, for God's sake. This has gone beyond a joke. You cannot just wander." The young man from earlier came into the room and looked first at Harriet and then he turned towards Rose. "Oh, my God. That's the Prime Minister!"
"Oh! Has someone been naughty?" A female voice spoke up from the door.
"That's impossible. He left this afternoon." The young man protested. "The Prime Minister left Downing Street. He was driven away!"
"And who told you that, hmm? Me." The blond woman by the door gave a sick little giggle as she reached up to her hair line and started to pull almost like a sipper. When the 'woman' shook herself free from 'her' body suit 'she' was a big green alien with three sharp looking talons on each hand.
Rose saw the alien raise her hand towards the young man and quickly tackled him out of the way, feeling the talons catching her left shoulder. She pulled the man to his feet and urged him and Harriet when she saw the alien lit up in blue.
A/N: Ohh, cliff hanger. Is it still called a cliff hanger if most of us basically knows what's going to happen?
Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter :D