Martha Jones was walking along a crowded London street on her way to the Royal Hope Hospital where she was training to become a doctor. It was like any other day for Martha, she got up, got dressed and headed to the hospital, today was different however, today was her brother's 21st birthday and she was hoping that the party wouldn't turn into a circus like the last time the family got together.
He phone began to ring and she looked at the display and saw that it was her sister, smiling to herself she answered the phone. "You're up early!" she said as a greeting "What's happening?" she asked although she was dreading the answer
"It's a nightmare." Her sister answered "Cause Dad won't listen and I'm telling you Mum's going mental. Swear to God Martha this is epic, you've got to get in there and stop him."
"How do I do that?" Martha asked sounding confused
"Tell him he can't bring her."
Martha's phone started beeping, she took it from her ear and looked at the display, she saw that it was her brother this time and put the phone back to her ear and said "Hold on that's Leo I'll call you back." She hung up on her sister and answered the phone to her brother.
"Martha." he said "If mum and dad start to kick off, tell 'em I don't even want a party, I didn't even ask for one. They can always give me the money instead."
"Why do I have to tell them?" Martha asked "Why can't you?" her phone beeped again and she said "Hold on that's mum I'll call you back." she hung up and answered her mother
"I don't mind your father making a fool of himself in private, but this is Leo's 21st everyone is going to be there and the entire family is going to look ridiculous."
"Mum, it's a party I can't stop Dad bringing his girlfriend." her mobile beeped again and Martha said "Hold on that's Dad I'll call you back." she hung up on her mother and answered her dad
"Martha, now you tell your mother. Leo is my son and I'm paying for half that party." he paused as he closed his car door and said "I'm entitled to bring who I like."
"I know, but think what is it going to look like for mum, if you're standing there with Annalise."
"What's wrong with Annalise?" Martha heard a female voice in the background saying "Is that Martha? Say hi. Hi Martha hi."
"Hi Annalise."
"Big kiss, lots of love see you at the party babes... Now take me shopping big boy."
Martha wasn't sure whether to puke or laugh, instead she called her sister back and made arrangements to meet up for lunch and plot how to save the party. As she hung up a blonde woman walked up to her and handed her a gold hoop earring.
"Put that in your red leather jacket, I do want it back" she said before running off.
Martha stared at the earring before slipping it in her pocket, she didn't know how the blonde knew about her red leather jacket and quite honestly she doesn't want to know. She sighed and headed into the hospital.
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Rose sighed as she turned the page to another text book that the TARDIS handed to her (so to speak). The TARDIS was eager to get Rose filled with all the knowledge the Doctor had, Rose couldn't help but get the feeling that the TARDIS was replacing the Doctor with Rose…not that the TARDIS didn't deny it. She was just about to continue reading when the medical students pounced on her.
Ah, now then, a very good morning to you Miss Tyler and how are you today?"
"Oh. Not so bad." she said as she closed her book and placed it on her lap. "Still a bit you know...blah."
"Rose Tyler, admitted last night with severe abdominal pains. Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me."
Martha walked around the foot of the bed and the medical students gathered there and walked up to Rose and said "It wasn't very clever running about outside, was it?"
"Sorry?"
"On Chancellor Street this morning, you walked up to me and gave me your earring, told me to put it in my red leather jacket pocket."
"Really?" Rose asked feeling confused. "What did I do that for?"
"I don't know." said Martha as she put her stethoscope to her ears and continued "You just did."
"Not me." Rose said shaking her head. "I was here in bed ask the nurses,"
"Well it looked like you, have you got a sister?"
"No, not any more, just me." Rose said sadly thinking of the baby sibling her Mum probably already had.
"As time passes I grow ever more infirm and weary Miss Jones."
"Sorry." said Martha smiling sheepishly and putting the stethoscope on Rose's chest and listened, her eyes widened as she heard Rose's two hearts, she moved the stethoscope to the right of her body and used it again, and again she heard the double heartbeat of the twenty something year old (very hard to keep track of your age when you live in a time machine) who was no longer human, the woman in question smiled and sent her a small conspiratorial wink
"I weep for future generations." said Mr Stoker "Are you having trouble locating the heart?"
"I don't know, stomach cramps?"
"That is a symptom not a diagnosis." he said as he walked towards the foot of the bed and said "And you rather failed basic techniques by not first consulting with the patients chart." He picked up the chart and it sparked and he dropped it.
"That happened to me this morning." said Martha
"I had the same thing on the door handle." continued another student
"And me in the lift." added a female student.
"Well, it's only to be expected there's a thunderstorm moving in and lightening is a form of static electricity as was first proven by... anyone?"
Mr Stoker looked around at his students and none of them answered the question, Rose did however "Benjamin Franklin." She said.
"Correct." said Mr Stoker and the students moved on.
Rose sighed deeply "it's times like this I wish I was still human, makes it so much more easier to play patient" she muttered under her breath before picking up her book.
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Rose almost fell out of the bed when the earthquake came. She clung tightly to the bed while her book slid off her lap and onto the floor. Everyone around her was screaming and panicking, once the earthquake quietened though, everyone stared at the window in awe. Rose shivered and pulled the curtain round her bed so she could get out of the bloody nightgown she was wearing.
After jamming the red converses on her feet and zipping up the matching hoodie, Rose pulled back the curtain and watched Martha Jones calm everyone down.
"But how do we have air?" Martha asked someone.
"Good point! Let's find out, tell me…Jones wasn't it? Dr Jones, do you have a balcony here?"
"Erm, yeah it's in the staff room and it's Martha, Martha Jones. I'm not a doctor just yet"
"Well come along Martha Jones" Rose said grinning.
They now stood on the balcony where Rose figured out that whoever did this had put up a force field round, meaning the only air left was what they had. Rose knew that she had to get the hospital back as soon as she could.
"You're all right?" she asked Martha who was still staring out at Earth in shock.
"Yeah." Martha replied.
"Sure?" she asked again.
"Yeah." Martha repeated.
"Do you wanna go back in?" she offered.
"No way... cause, I mean we could die out here, any minute, but all the same... it's beautiful." Martha smiled.
"Do you think?" Rose didn't think that most people would be able to admire the beauty when they're just been moved onto the moon like this.
"How many people want to go to the moon, and here we are."
"Standing in the earthlight." Rose commented.
"What do you think happened?" Martha asked Rose.
"What do you think?" Rose asked staring at Martha with interest.
"Extra-terrestrial. It's gotta be." Martha decided. "I don't know, a few years ago, that would have sounded mad, but these days... a space ship flying into Big Ben. Christmas. And those Cybermen things, that battle in the sky... I had a cousin, Adoela. She worked at Canary Wharf. Never came home." Martha sighed.
"I'm sorry." Rose apologised.
"Yeah..." Martha said. "Don't worry Miss Tyler, I'm sure we'll get out of this soon. It'll be over before we know it"
"Rose, you can call me Rose. And don't worry I'll get us out of it. I've traced a strange signal homing on this building a while go. Been trying to work out what was happening"
"What are you? Part of the government or something?"
"Nah more of a freelancer. Now whoever did this should be sneaking around here" Rose turned away from the view. "But who? Who would have enough power to do this?"
"I'm guessing those guys" Martha said pointing behind Rose.
Rose turned abruptly and caught the sight of leather armed men marching across the moon to the hospital. "Judoon" she hissed.
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Martha and Rose crouched behind a large pot plant on the balcony overlooking the lobby and watched the leather armed men take the black helmets off the reveal a rhino head.
"So what exactly is a Judoon?" Martha asked.
"Galactic police," Rose answered screwing her nose up in thought as she tried to remember everything. "Well, police for hire. More like interplanetary thugs."
"And they brought us to the moon?" asked Martha.
"Neutral territory," Rose answered. "According to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the earth, and they isolated us. That rain? Lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop, I think that's what it's called, but I can't remember completely I only skimmed that book."
"What's that about 'galactic law'?" asked Martha, smiling. "Where'd you get that from?" Then, "If they're police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?"
"No," said Rose. "But I like that, "Good thinking. No, it's simpler. They're making a catalogue. It means they're after something non-human, which is very bad news for me."
"What? Why?" Rose raised an eyebrow and Martha's eyes widened "oh you are kidding me!"
"Nope, I'm not human. Now Martha, I need a computer. I need to go through the files and see if I could sniff out this alien so to speak. Could you find me one?"
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Despite of all of Mickey's wonderful training in how to hack into a computer, Rose couldn't get a single file out. Sighing in frustration, she yanked out the sonic screwdriver and began to use that. Martha slowly closed the door behind her, her breathing a bit too fast due to running.
"They're on the third floor right now" Martha informed Rose, she then spotted the sonic screwdriver "what's that?"
"A sonic screwdriver" Rose said absently.
"Well if you aren't going to answer me properly" Martha huffed.
"No seriously, it's a screwdriver that's sonic"
"Oh and what else have you got in there, a laser spanner?"
"You're kidding, right? Do you know how long it took to make this blooming thing? And the injuries I gained from it, one burn too many. There's not a chance that I'll attempt a laser spanner, might cut my hand off completely." Rose then groaned and hit the monitor "Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon," she muttered. "'Cause I was just walking past, I swear. Stopped for chips; I wasn't looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn't; but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital--and that lightning, that's plasma coils, been building up for two days now. So I checked in. I thought something was going on inside, it turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above."
"But what were they looking for?" asked Martha.
"Something that looks human, but isn't," Rose answered.
"Like you. Apparently," Martha replied.
"You still don't believe me do you?" Rose said looking at Martha from the corner of her eye "it's all right, I didn't believe it at first either" Martha looked confused and Rose sighed "don't ask, just don't. It's a very long story that we don't have time for"
"Haven't they got a photo?" Martha asked changing the subject when it came apparent that Rose wasn't going to elaborate. "I mean so they should know it's not you they're after"
"Might be a shape-changer," Rose said shrugging.
"Whatever it is," Martha asked, "can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?"
Rose shook her head. "If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution."
"All of us?" asked Martha.
"Oh yes. If I can find this thing first--" the computer screen flickered strangely, and Rose let out a furious snarl. "Oh! Just--they're thick! Judoon are thick! They are completely thick! They wiped the records. How safe do I feel knowing that we have such geniuses looking after the universe?"
"What are we looking for?" Martha asked Rose, taking a step back from her in case Rose would accidentally hit her in frustration.
"I don't know," Rose said. "Any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms." she focused back on the computer. "Maybe there's a back-up."
"Just keep working," Martha told Rose. "I'll go ask Mr. Stoker; he might know." She left quickly, letting the door slam shut behind her.
Rose went back to work, using everything she could remember from Mickey's lessons to get the back-up back. "YES!" she punched a fist in the air when she finally got the back-up up. She began to go through files and then she grinned when she found the right one "oh Mrs Finnegan who's been a bad old lady, hmm?"
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
As Rose ran towards Stoker's office, she spotted Martha enter the corridor ahead of her and start in her direction. "I've restored the back-up-" Rose began, once Martha was within earshot.
"I found her," Martha said, catching her breath as she got up to Rose.
"You what?" Rose asked blinking. Then, she noticed a leather creature (what was it with all the leather today?) Pursuing Martha. "Run!" Rose said, reaching out to take Martha's hand, and leading her down the nearest staircase.
Unfortunately, the Judoon were coming up the staircase.
Rose dodged out of a doorway on the fourth floor, pulling Martha with her. she followed the signs, straight into Radiology, slamming and sonicing the door closed, just as the leather creature caught up to them.
"Get behind the screen," she told Martha. "When I say 'now', press the button," she said, moving to the X-ray equipment.
"I don't know which one!" Martha told Rose looking terrified.
"Find out!" Rose replied, setting to work on the machinery with the sonic screwdriver.
The leather creature was throwing itself against the door, and the hinges were beginning to give way. Rose jammed the sonic between the necessary components just as the door came crashing in. "Now!" she shouted, and the room was flooded with radiation.
The leather creature fell, motionless.
"What did you do?" Martha asked from behind the screen.
"Increased the radiation by five thousand per cent. Killed him dead," Rose answered "thank god it worked, I wasn't sure that I got the settings right."
"Isn't that likely to kill you?" asked Martha.
"You would think so wouldn't you? But I just had an experience like this where I came out alive, so I don't think radiation effects me like it used to" Rose said " It's safe for you to come out, I've absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it."
She focused, bouncing and hopping, forcing the radiation from her system. "If I concentrate," she explained as Martha joined her, "I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It's in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go, easy does it . . . ." she shook her foot vigorously. "Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out, ah, ah, ah, ah. It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot. Ah - hold on--" she slipped her shoe and sock off together, and tossed them into the bin. "Done."
"You're completely mad," Martha said, in shock.
"Right. Terrible fashion statement if I walk about with only one shoe" Rose slipped the right shoe off and chucked it in with the first. She wiggled her toes on the cool floor. "Barefoot on the moon!" she said, smiling.
Martha had moved over to the leather creature. "So what is that thing?" she asked. "And where's it from? The planet Zovirax?"
"It's just a Slab," Rose said. "They're called 'Slabs'. Basic slave drones, see?" she knocked on the Slab's chest. "Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish."
"It came with that woman, Mrs Finnegan," Martha said. "It was working for her. Just like a servant"
Rose wasn't listening, she was too busy staring at the controls in horror "my sonic screwdriver!" she moaned "it took ages for me to make that, now I'm going to have to start all over again!"
"Rose!" Martha shouted getting Rose's attention. "I'm trying to tell you that Mrs Finnegan is the alien, she was sucking Mr Stoker's blood through a straw!"
"Well that takes vampire horrors to a new level" Rose mumbled "unless…oh yes, she's a shape-changer, an internal shape-changer! She wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it! If she can assimilate Mr. Stoker's blood, mimic the morphology, she can register as human. We've got to find her and show the Judoon. Come on!"
DWDWDWDWDWDWDW
The Judoon had just revealed that Rose was non-human and the pair ran to Mr Stoker's office to find him drained dry. As they exited the room, the Judoon marched down the corridor shouting out to execute Rose. They could see flashing lights in the MRI room, Rose was beginning to panic a bit, how was she going to get everyone out of here alive without dying herself? She needed to distract the Judoon, to get them to take the categorising to a new level so Mrs Finnegan couldn't hide.
Rose turned to Martha "can I spit on your face?"
"What!?"
"I need to confuse the Judoon can I spit on your face or do I have to kiss you?"
"Well I'm not having spit on my face, thank you very much" Martha said tartly, crossing her arms, reminding Rose a lot of Donna.
"Fine a kiss it is" Rose mutter, grabbing hold of Martha's head and kissing her thoroughly on the lips. "Thank you so much Martha Jones" Rose said when she pulled away. She then ran as fast as she could to the MRI room.
DWDWDWDWDWDW
Rose closed the door behind her quietly as she entered and then she looked around at what Mrs Finnegan was doing and said "have you seen" Mrs Finnegan turned around and she continued "There are these things!" she pointed behind her and said "These big space Rhino things. I mean rhinos from space and we're on the moon! Great big space rhinos with guns on the moon! I only came in for my bunions, look" she stood on her left foot and held her right in her hands as ifs he was showing Mrs Finnegan it. She quickly put it down so as to regain her balance and said "All fixed now, perfectly god treatment, the nurses were lovely, I said I'd recommend this place to anyone and then we end up on the moon! And did I mention the rhinos?"
Rose never thought that she would end up sounding like the Doctor when she was trying to be…well human, herself. It was rather ironic in a way.
Mrs Finnegan walked away from the controls for the MRI and walked towards Rose and said to the Slab that was standing behind Rose. "Hold her" The Slab did as she asked and held Rose tightly by her upper arms.
Rose watched as Mrs Finnegan did something to the MRI "That big machine thing, is it supposed to be making that noise?" asked Rose feigning ignorance…well all right not completely feigning it, she wasn't as brilliant as the Doctor was with technology.
Mrs Finnegan waved her hand and said "You wouldn't understand, you're still a young child"
"But isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing?" asked Rose "Like a gigantic magnet?" as she asked the last bit Mrs Finnegan turned around and she continued "I did magnets in school, probably would have gotten a GCSE in it, if I never left. Fell in love, ended up with my heart broken"
"A magnet with its setting increased to 50000 tesla"
"Oh that's bit strong isn't it?"
"It'll send out a magnetic pulse that will fry the brain stems of every living thing, within 250,000 miles" Mrs Finnegan said sounding pleased with herself. "Except for me safe in this room"
"But hold on, hold on" Rose said "I did geography was rather good at it, might have passed it if I stayed in school, doesn't that distance include the Earth?" she asked
"Just the side facing the moon, the other half will survive, call it my little gift"
"Sorry, you'll have to excuse me, I'm a little out of my depth, and I've spent the last five years working as a shop girl, always on my feet hence the bunions. Why would you do that?" she asked and this time she really wanted to know the answer
"With everyone dead the Judoon ships would be mine to make my escape"
"No that's weird" Rose said "You're talking like you're some sort of an alien"
Mrs Finnegan looked round at her and smiled and said "Quite so"
"No!" Rose said, really glad that she did that drama club years ago and had experience of lying.
"Oh yes"
"You're kidding me"
"I am not"
"I'm talking to an alien. In a hospital?" Rose asked "What does this place have an ET department"
Mrs Finnegan left what she was doing and turned to Rose and said "It's the perfect hiding place. Blood banks downstairs for a midnight feast. And all this equipment ready to arm myself with should the police come looking"
Rose looked at her and pretended to just come to the conclusion that the rhinos were looking for her and said "So those rhinos they're looking for you!"
"Yes." Mrs Finnegan said as she brought her hand up to the Rose's eye level and continued "But I'm hidden" and sure enough, Mrs Finnegan had a black cross on her hand showing that she had been catalogued.
"Oh! Right" Rose said "Maybe that's why they're increasing their scans"
"They're doing what?" Mrs Finnegan asked who was now sounding worried.
"Big chief rhino boy, he said 'No sign of non-human, must increase up to setting two"
"Then I must assimilate again"
"What does that mean?"
"I must appear to be human"
"Well you're welcome to come home, met my mother, she'd be honoured, we can have cake…well actually you might not like her cooking" Rose said with a grin on her face
Mrs Finnegan reached into her hand bag and pulled out a straw and said "Why should I have cake when I've got my little straw"
She advanced on Rose who said "That's nice. Milk shake? I like chocolate, had a friend who was obsessed with banana flavour"
"You're quite the funny child" said Mrs Finnegan "And yet I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness. I think it's time you found some peace" the next part was directed at the Slab holding Rose " Steady the child" The slab put Rose on her side and held her still as Mrs Finnegan advanced on Rose with the straw, she wiped her hand over the pulse point on Rose's neck as she said "What are you doing?"
"I'm afraid this is going to hurt" Mrs Finnegan said "If it's any consolation the dead tend not to remember" she placed the straw on Rose's neck and began to drink her blood. Rose welcomed the darkness; her last thoughts were on the Doctor and whether or not if he would have been proud of her.
DWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Rose woke up with a gasp, Martha slumped onto the floor muttering "help us" before she lost consciousness. Rose got up quickly and disabled the magnetic pulse Mrs Finnegan made. She then pulled Martha's arm up over her shoulder and half-carried, half-dragged the woman to a window.
"Come on Judoon, reverse it" she muttered. Soon it began to rain "YES! Look Martha, it's raining, raining on the moon"
Martha was still unconscious, didn't make a reply.
DWDWDWDWDWDWDW
If the Doctor saw Rose now, he would laugh. He would then probably make some mad scientist jokes, probably the same that Rose made about him because Rose was now sitting on the workbench that the Doctor had used so many times before her, wearing a white lab coat and a magnifying glass over one eyes as she worked on the wiring for her new sonic screwdriver.
You should have stayed and asked her to come.
Rose's lips formed a small smile "you decided to tell me this while I'm making a new sonic screwdriver"
I never allowed my Doctor be alone, why should I let my Rose be alone? Ask the Jones child to come with us. Take her travelling like the Doctor took you.
"Well I hope you don't mean, make her fall in love with me. Because I don't swing that way"
The TARDIS laughed I meant show her the universe Rose. Donna was right, you need someone and Martha could be that someone. She's smart, brave and she cares. You need someone to care for you.
"I got you" Rose said "I got Sarah Jane and K-9 to visit"
But we can't hold your hand, Martha Jones can.
Rose sighed "oh all right, but after I finish this off"
DWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDWDW
Martha Jones was trying to keep the peace between her parents and Annalise. Her siblings joined in the arguing, making it worse. Suddenly Leo and Tish stormed off in a huff, Annalise marched off with Clive following her like a lovesick puppy with Francine shouting after them. Martha sighed; she almost craved the silence of the moon.
And then she spotted her.
Rose, was leaning against the wall wearing black trousers and a red hoodie. Martha walked up to Rose who led her down the alley towards a blue box.
"I was on the moon today" Martha stated quietly.
"Yes you were lot more quiet than that lot. Reminds me a bit of my mother and the neighbours" Rose said grinning slightly.
"You never told me who you were"
"Yes I did, I'm Rose Tyler. What else do you want, my middle name?"
"I meant species"
"Oh…like I said long story. Used to be human but I'm not…not now"
"So what you evolved or mutated"
"Something like that yeah"
"Wow"
"Now since I have a new sonic screwdriver aaaaaaaaand you saved my life. I was wondering if you fancied a trip"
"What out in space? I can't I have exams and rent and so on"
"Did I mention it travels in time as well?" Rose's heart throbbed painfully when she said that. It was just exactly how the Doctor talked her into travelling with him.
"No way!"
"It does! Hang on and I'll prove it you" Rose ran into the blue box which disappeared for about five seconds before reappearing. She came out with her hand out stretched to Martha "I would like my earring back please"
Martha's eyes widened as she pulled out the gold hoop from her pocket and passed it to Rose who slipped it back into her ear. "But how…?"
Rose shrugged "can't tell you the exact details"
"Why didn't you warn me? You know to not go to work"
"And mess up the timeline causing the reapers to come and eat us all? No thanks. So do you want to come or not"
"It's a bit cramped don't you think?" Martha asked screwing her nose up.
Rose smiled slyly and pushed the door back "see for yourself"
Martha walked in slowly and gasped "it's bigger in the inside"
"Really? I hadn't noticed" Rose said dryly "now do you want to come or not?"
"Oh yes please!" Martha exclaimed. Rose ran inside and shut the doors and began to press buttons and flick switches on the console. "So is it just us then?" Martha asked looking round.
"Yep, ever since I lost…"
"Ever since you lost?"
"It's nothing now, off we go"
The TARDIS started and threw the pair back a bit.
"Welcome abroad Miss Jones" Rose said.
"Thank you Miss Tyler"