Hey everyone! I'm back! Sorry I was gone a little while, I've been busy preparing to move across the world to England for uni. This is just a little filler of the children in need special. Enjoy!

The new Doctor dashed to the console and flicked a few switches, checking the monitor.

"6 PM... Tuesday..." he said, pressing buttons. Rose watched, half concealed by a pillar with a frightened look on her face. The Doctor turned a knob. "October... 5006... On the way to Barcelona!" The Doctor straightened up and faced Rose, grinning as if extremely pleased with himself. "Now then... what do I look like?" He gives her no chance to reply before holding up a hand to stop her from talking.

"No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me," he rambled. Lynda and Ella were stifling laughs while Rose looked completely confused. "Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands..." He put a finger on his wrist and moved it round in circles. "Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle." His hands moved to his head. "Hair! I'm not bald!"

Rose looked on shocked as the Doctor moved his hands through his hair happily, grinning like a fool. "Oh, Oh! Big hair!" He felt his sideburns, looking and sounding delighted. "Sideburns, I've got sideburns! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner..." He slapped his stomach. "That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it. I... have got... a mole. I can feel it."

Rose was breathing heavily, but the Doctor seemed not to notice.

"Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole." He rolled his shoulders. "That's all right. Love the mole." He grinned at Rose. "Go on then, tell me. What do you think?"

"Who are you?" Rose asked, quietly and a little bit timid.

"I'm the Doctor," the Doctor said, a little surprised.

Rose shook her head, not believing him. "No... Where is he? Where's the Doctor? What have you done to him?" Rose raised her voice.

"You saw me, I, I changed..." the Doctor indicated over his shoulder to the spot where he regenerated,"...right in front of you."

"I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something."

The Doctor did not interject, instead he seemed lost for words. Rose takes a few steps towards him. At arm's length, she pushes him in the chest.

"You're not fooling me. I've seen all sorts of things. Nanogenes... Gelth... Slitheen..." the Doctor raised his eyebrows. "Oh, my God, are you a Slitheen?"

"I'm not a Slitheen," the Doctor said calmly.

"Send him back. I'm warning you; send the Doctor back right now!"

"Oh shut up, Rose! Dad said before he regenerated that he was going to change his appearance. Or were you not paying attention?" Ella snapped, getting upset with how Rose was treating her father.

"Rose, it's me. Honestly, it's me," the Doctor said. Rose stared at him, her chest rising and falling very fast. "I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me."

"You can't be."

"We're aliens remember. We can do more things than humans," Ella said impatiently. She knew that her anger and sadness from Jack's loss was being redirected, but she didn't care.

"Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies... oh... such a long time ago. I took your hand... I said one word... just one word, I said... 'Run'," the Doctor said, not going anywhere near her because of her hesitance.

"Doctor," Rose whispered.

"Hello," Dad grinned.

Rose sighed in an almost exasperated fashion and stumbled backwards as the impact of what has just happened hit her. The Doctor took off around the other side of the console.

"And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running..." He flicked a few switches on the console. "One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives." He hopped madly on the spot. Rose had her back against the pillar watching him, dumbstruck. "Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the..." The wild enthusiasm ebbs from his voice at Rose's lack of reaction. His hopping subsides. "No?" he said like a little child.

"Can you change back?"

"Do you want me to?"

"Yeah."

"Oh."

"Can you?"

"No." The Doctor seemed a bit disappointed and looked at the ground. "Do you want to leave?"

"Do you want me to leave?" Rose asked, shocked.

"No!" Rose still looked upset. He went to the console again. "Cancel Barcelona. Change to... London... the Powell Estate... ah... let's say the 24th of December. Consider it a Christmas present."

Rose was edging slowly closer to the console.

"There." He stepped back, his arms tucked under his armpits in an almost defensive manner. Rose looked at him, then back at the console. The TARDIS shuddered as it changed direction.

"I'm going home?"

"Up to you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast... no, Christmas! Turkey! Although... having met your mother... nut loaf would be more appropriate," Dad said. Rose looked down quickly to hide a smile.

"Was that a smile?"

"No."

"That was a smile..."

"No it wasn't."

"You smiled..."

"No I didn't."

"Oh, come on, all I did was change, I didn't..." He said, but he suddenly gagged as the TARDIS shuddered, Rose looked confused and Ella realised the regeneration had gone wrong.

"What?" Rose asked.

"I said I didn't..." The same thing happened again, just a bit more violently. He then starts to makes nasty retching noises.

"Uh oh." Rose edged cautiously around the console as Ella rushed forward to help the Doctor.

"Er... are you alright?" Rose asked nervously. A little bit of the golden time vortex floated from the Doctor's mouth.

"What's that?" Rose asked. Lynda was watching from the side, not wanting to interrupt or get in the way.

"Oh... the change is going a bit wrong and all." He gagged again. He fell to his knees, his face contorted.

"Look... maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do," Rose said.

"He's dead, Rose. He was killed by a Dalek," Ella snapped. Rose's eyes widened before she gave Ella an apologetic look. A lever on the console suddenly caught the Doctor's eye.

"I haven't used this one in years." He flicked it. The TARDIS shuddered violently and we're all nearly knocked to the floor.

"What're you doing?!" Rose asked.

"Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!" The Doctor said crazily.

"Dad, stop it!" Ella yelled. He turned more knobs while Rose tried to maintain a more secure grip on the console. Ella followed him and tried to reverse everything he had done.

"My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl!" Rose looks alarmed. The Doctor looked and sounded violently crazed.

"Faster! Wanna to break the time limit?!"

"Stop it!" Lynda, Rose and Ella yelled.

"Ah, don't be so dull... let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!" The Doctor said, looking absolutely mad. He caught Ella's eye and his voice calms for a moment. "The regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself." He grimaced in pain. "Ah, my head..." He violently sprung up into standing position again, and his voice has gone back to being crazed. "Faster! Let's open those engines!" The toll and alarm bell rung.

"What's that?" Lynda asked.

The Doctor's face appeared next to her, frightening her a bit. "We're gonna crash land!" He laughed manically.

"Well then, do something!" Rose yelled.

"Too late! Out of control!" He ran around the console, giggling. "Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!" He hopped in the air excitedly.

"You're gonna kill us!" Ella screamed at him.

"Hold on tight, here we go!" The Doctor yelled. Our eyes meet across the console, the Doctor grinning madly, Rose looking scared, and Lynda looking completely baffled.

"Christmas Eve...!"