A/N: I wrote this chapter like a month ago so I didn't copy you gnoramus, promise! Cross my heart and hope to die! ...Not literally. Or I'd miss the xmas special. I've always wanted to write a car chase scene XD

Chapter 17 – Washboard Abs

"I'll drive," Rose grab a black helmet from the pile at the back of the motorbike and pulled it onto her head, before Howard put his heavy hand on her shoulder, pausing in his actions to shove a helmet onto the Doctor.

"Lass, you're pregnant," he said firmly. Rose just stared at him, missing the point.

"Of course I'm pregnant!" she said obviously, tightening the helmet strap around her chin. "C'mon! We ain't got much time!"

"Rose, you're PREG, NANT," Howard repeated slowly, and Rose almost felt sorry for him.

"I know!" she declared, taking one last look at the Doctor's face before she snapped the visor down on his helmet.

"You can't drive a mo'orbike!"

"Why the 'ell not?"

"You just can't!"

"I can drive as well as you!"

"I'm sure ya can lass, but…"

"I'LLdrive!!!" shouted another voice, and Rose and Howard nearly jumped out of their skins in shock, spinning around to see the Doctor already in the front seat, firing the motorbike up.

"Are you kidding me?!" Rose stepped forward, opening his visor so she could see his bandaged forehead and bruised face. Thankfully the coat was hiding her pregnancy bump extremely well. "You're meant to be…"

"I KNOW!"he yelled hyperly, slamming the visor back down shut again. "Now get on the bike and let's driiiiiiiive!!!"

Glancing behind her she could see a squadron of policemen attempting to open the gate to the road. There was no time to argue - the Doctor was driving.

She threw herself onto the bike behind the Doctor, wrapping her arms around his abdomen. She could feel the muscles in his stomach easily through just a coat.

"Oh Doctor, nice abs," she commented with a growl as he gave a few impatient revs, letting Howard get on at the very back. "By the way, 'ave you ever actually driven a motorbike before?" Rose asked patiently, fearing the worst as she slammed down her own visor.

"Once!" he yelled back, revving a little more.

"And?"

"I was pretty good!"

"Doctor, I only have one life – can you remember that?"

She heard him laugh. "This is Grace all over again!"

Rose didn't even bother questioning him as she risked a glance backwards at the group of policemen. They were started up engines and zooming towards them now, lights flashing and sirens louder than her mum screaming. She nearly fell backwards as the Doctor suddenly and rudely sped off without warning at what must have been at least 1000mph – in her opinion anyway. As she swung her head back around, the first thing she saw was an oncoming lorry speeding towards them…it was too late to scream.

All of a sudden the bike swerved to the right missing the lorry at the last second and changing to the lane they were supposed to be in. Rose just about caught the terrified look of the driver as he zoomed past, screaming in total panic as several police cars did the same thing.

Rose was about to hit the Doctor when all of a sudden they swerved to the left in a sharp turn, ascending up a hill onto the motorway. Without so much as hesitating the Doctor careered straight over both the sections, several cars braking in alarm and smashing into each other, skidding across their respective lanes.

"AAAGGGGHHH!!!" Rose screamed as the Doctor took one hand off the steering column and started hunting through his coat pockets, the bike screaming towards a very solid looking concrete wall. "WE'RE GONNA CRAAASH!!!!"

The Doctor whipped his hand back out his pockets, the Sonic Screwdriver now clutched tightly. Rose nearly had a heart attack as the second hand came off the steering column, twizzling with the settings on the Screwdriver.

"GET BOTH YOUR HANDS ON THE GODDAMN HANDLES!!!" she screamed at him, but only succeeded in making her throat hurt. They were barely five metres from the wall now, and Rose nearly considered jumping off the bike…but she could only watch in dread as the Doctor raised the Sonic Screwdriver at the wall, and pressed the button.

The wall suddenly exploded outwardly in an almighty bang; rubble, dust and concrete flying anywhere and everywhere. Then as they hurtled through the mess, all Rose could see was a flood of grey as the dust clouded her vision, before promptly disappearing again as everything began to colour. She heard several more smashes from behind her, and instantly knew the gap wasn't wide enough for cars.

Turning her attention back towards their progressing path, she could see the road ahead of them sloping downwards, where at the bottom sat a busy junction, alive with machine life. The bike suddenly started to slow down as the Doctor stopped, contemplating his next move. He revved the engine a few times, and Rose immediately knew his intentions.

"Doctor…" she began as he pulled away slowly across the concrete to a position at the top of the slope. "If you dare…"

"He who dares wins Rose!" the Doctor yelled back in delight, and Rose was cut short of saying anything else as he accelerated with undivided determination down the slope.

"OH MY GOD!" Rose screamed as they hurtled straight through the busy junction, narrowly missing a truck on the right as more smashes rang out behind them, indicating a truly lucky escape.

Rose didn't quite know what happened next, but suddenly the world had turned sideways. A shadow was suddenly cast over her as something flew over the bike…something big. Something…heavy. Something…

She then realised it was a lorry.

A lorry was flying over them.

No, wait, scratch that, they were riding sideways under a lorry.

They were power sliding under a goddamn lorry.

She suddenly felt very sick as the bike righted itself, and also mildly amazed. She bet if she hadn't been so terrified she could have looked quite sexy in a pose, her arms wrapped around the hunky life-saving driver. She was in such a daze she wasn't actually watching the road, so the sudden feeling of flying felt nothing short of a dream.

She looked back as the ground disappeared from beneath the bike's wheels, seeing the ramp they had just launched off collapse down to the ground. She giggled insanely, turning back around in time to see the glass smash infront of them.

Suddenly they were in someone's house.

They had crashed right into a sitting room in a flat six storeys high, cruising past a man with a mop of blond hair talking to a slab of concrete. Rose did a double take, recognising the man's face.

"Elton!" she called, waving a hand. He suddenly looked up, his lips pouted in surprise, but his next action was lost as they past out of the sitting room, through the kitchen and out the front door.

They bumped over a few bits of scaffolding, soaring down another ramp with a few more screams of mortification from the bike's passengers onto the concrete ground of Howard's home street. The bike started to slow down as the Doctor let off the acceleration, and it slipped quietly into the already open garage door that buzzed closed behind them and automatically switched on the garage light.

As the Doctor heaved the motorbike onto it's rests, Howard and Rose took off their helmets, staring in shock at the wall ahead of them - the post-traumatic stress really kicking in now. For a few moments the three just sat there staring at the wall, wondering if it maybe had all been a dream.

The Doctor was staring at the wall too, not bothering to remove his helmet. Rose still had her arms around him, but not even that was enough to hold The Doctor as he slid quietly off the left side of the motorbike, hitting the ground in a dead faint.

It was just as well he didn't take off his helmet really, or it could have been a nasty fall.