A/N: Thanks to loulouflowerpower, The Yoshinator, and KatieTheBaka for reviewing last chapter. I hope you like this one as well even if it´s more kind of a filler chapter.

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Chapter 2: Meetings

Rose heard the TARDIS land, and peeked through the window to see him come out and look to her at the window, she bit her tongue trying to remember she was mad at him for leaving just like that, but the sight of a small brunette girl made her frown.

She seemed a bit hesitant of following him, but the Doctor grabbed her hand and pulled her with him as he made his way to her home.

"Who is that?" Jackie asked joining her daughter at the window.

"I don´t know..." Rose said, the Doctor never had mentioned any other friends, until that morning and well... he really never talked much about people he might have known unless they were talking about some famous writer, painter or politician and he would recall having running into them at some point.

"Well she seems pretty," Jackie mused trying to get a better look at the girl, "I mean, not that pretty really if you look closely...too skinny, " she added quickly noting her daughter´s discomfort.

The door bell rang and Rose went to answer it.

"Ready to go?" the Doctor asked giving her his best grin, hoping that she wouldn´t be mad at him after all, or at least save her anger to when they were alone.

Rose tried to take a better look of the girl he had brought with him.

"Oh, sorry, were are my manners?" he said with a soft chuckle. "Rose, I want you to meet Annie Watson, she just agreed to come with us, isn´t that fantastic?" he said happily, hoping she would find the news as amusing as him.

The strange girl remained behind him, looking quite uncomfortable, perhaps only remaining in her spot because of the grip the Doctor kept on her.

"Nice to meet you," Annie said offering her a hand to shake which Rose took with resent, as she found herself wanting the girl to be gone instantly. She nodded a bit forcefully as an answer.

" So did you two just met or...?" Rose asked looking between the two.

The Doctor straighten himself not liking how Rose was acting, she wasn´t like this, and it made him wonder what was making her act that way.

"We met some years ago," the Doctor said, wanting Rose to go back to how she usually acted.

"Oh?" Rose said " Never heard you mention any Anne before," Rose said looking if that evoked any kind of reaction on the girl.

Annie didn't looked that surprised that the young girl didn´t know about her, the Doctor had mentioned her a pair of times when he had gone to visit her . Yet her tone of voice was making her uncomfortable.

"It just never came up," the Doctor argued shrugging a bit his shoulders and letting go of Annie to clap his hands and draw the attention of the two young women "Now let's not get upset by this tiny detail, monumental places to visit remember? shall we go now?" but even if he was trying to act chirpy and happy, the atmosphere still felt dense around the three of them, Rose seemed displeased and mad at him, while Annie was getting upset, and that was the last thing he wanted to do at the moment.

"Perhaps it would be best if I...just..." Annie said making motions of her going away.

Rose rolled her eyes at her words.

"That is not necessary Annie, just, could you just wait for me in the TARDIS?" he asked her apologizing to her with his gaze. She had had a terrible day the way it was, Rose´s attitude was just wrong.

Annie nodded and left, seeming actually grateful to be allowed to do so.

The Doctor watched her go and made sure that she was out of a hearing distance to turn to look at Rose.

"I was expecting better from you," he told her, his tone cold " what does it matter when I met her or if I mentioned or not before? if you are mad at me just tell me so, but don´t treat a friend of mine in that way."

"I just don´t understand why you have to leave that way, I thought that..." Rose said trailing off, it was always like this, when she finally thought he knew him, he went and did something like that, when he left in that way she had thought that perhaps he was dumping her into her old, boring life.

"Thought what?" he looked at her, his tone demanding.

"Thought you...you would just leave!" Rose said, he was turning things around, she was in her right to be mad at him.

His eyes soften at her words."Do you really think I´m the kind of man to just leave you here in that way?" he said frowning, did he really came out like that type of guy, more so did he thought of him in that way?

The Doctor placed his hand on her shoulder "Rose Tyler, I would never leave you like that, when I leave you behind, will be the day you wish to come back home"

Rose grew silent, captured by his intense gaze, the Doctor simply had the ability to leave no room for doubts when he talked in that way, she felt silly for having think of him in that way. This was the Doctor, a man she could trust.

"Well, I don´t see me wanting to come back here," she said with a big smile

The Doctor grinned widely.

"Just let me go say goodbye to mum," Rose said running back in and saying goodbye to Jackie quickly.

The Doctor lingered in the corridor, as Rose came out once again, happy as she usually was, her eyes with that fresh excitement, he placed his hands in his pockets and followed her back to the TARDIS.

Annie was there already waiting for them. And to his surprise Jack Harkness was back from his trip to the bar.

"So Annie, where would you like to go?" he said unlocking the blue box. Ignoring Jack completely.

"Ahhh, so it´s Annie," Jack said with a grin in his mouth, as he had spent the past two minutes trying to get her name ."It´s a pretty name, if I say so myself, kind of old fashioned, I like it," he said with his one hundred pounds smile, he remembered meeting a pair of Annies back during the London Blitz, amazing girls...and well a splendid pair of nights. Yet this Annie didn´t seem to be having the same reaction of those Annies or the general reaction he was used to get from people.

"Please, don´t start," the Doctor said exasperated as they all entered the TARDIS.

"I was just saying she has a pretty name, " Jack defended himself, making Rose giggle at his antics. "Wait a minute. You weren´t going to leave without me, right?" Jack asked.

"Why would you say think that?" the Doctor said sarcastically. "So Annie, were to?" he asked once again.

The brunette looked a bit surprised by his question "Can I actually, choose?" she said, unconsciously looking at Rose. For what she had seen the girl had some sort of licking to the Doctor, she wasn´t sure exactly what kind of licking Rose had for him, but she didn´t want to intrude there.

Annie found that Rose didn´t seemed irated by that, and was waiting to listen were she would like to go. That made her feel relieved, it seemed the Doctor had cleared whatever misunderstanding that had gone between the two of them.

She turned silent, as the thought of going back in time to see her brother once again crossed her mind.

"You know that wouldn´t be a good idea," the Doctor said as if reading her mind, making Annie look a bit startled.

"Did you?-"

"No, it´s only you humans are sometimes too predictable," The Doctor said as he piloted the TARDIS .

Rose looked silently between the two feeling a bit lost because of their conversation "We could go do that swimming thing I suggested in the morning," she suggested.

"Oh the swimming, yeah that was a fantastic idea!" the Doctor remarked.

"I was actually thinking...there was this thing that always made me and Lewis wonder and.." Annie started to say remembering one of the history rumors that had always bugged them and had led them to numerous discussions.

" Well go on," The Doctor said encouraging to finish her sentence.

"Could we go to see Nicholas Flamel?" Annie asked shyly, half expecting the Doctor to laugh at her, and actually he just did that.

"Old Nick! Ohhhh that is a...that is just a really fantastic idea!" the Doctor said moving to the panels to insert their new coordinates "

"Have you met him then?" Rose asked seeing as he was calling the man Old Nick.

"What? no, no I haven´t actually, I mean sort of, but not really. I met his wife, Pernelle, before she met him, I attended one of her previous marriages, the second one or was it the first?" he said as he rambled. "It´s been a while since I have been in France during the 15th century, grab into something!" he said as a bit of turbulence went through the TARDIS.

Annie slipped and Jack was the one that got a hold of her, grabbing her by her waist stopping her from hitting the console board. To his amusement and complacence, she blushed. Oh so that was it...she was shy...he smiled to her, but she refused to meet his eyes.

Before he could do anything else, the TARDIS landed and the Doctor took the young girl from his grasp, he raised his eyebrow and followed them outside.

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Annie couldn´t stop looking around as early 15th century Paris unfolded before her eyes, the clothes, the buildings, the city...it was just magical, though the smell could really be better...

"By Jove! we are really here aren´t we?" she asked amazed, a little chuckle of excitement escaping from her lips as she looked up at the Doctor to see him smiling in her direction, pleased that their little trip was having the effect on her that he desired.

Night had already fallen and few people were still on the streets, mainly people that were coming or going to the canteens.

Annie smiled, she missed her brother dearly and his loss felt heavy in her heart, but the Doctor had been right, traveling helped in this kind of cases.

As she looked around she could only be glad that she had listened to her Doctor.

"So where exactly did you get this girl?" Jack asked speaking softly so only the Doctor would hear him "I haven´t heard someone say by Jove in quite a while..."

"Just stay away from her Harkness, the last thing that girl needs tonight is you," the Doctor said rather defensively increasing his pace to catch up with Rose and Annie.

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A/N: I think I might slip between episodes some original occurrences not that sure still though so please comment about your thoughts in that aspect.