AN: Because I love you all so much (and cause there was no school today) I've posted another chapter sooner then I would've posted. I started it last night and finally finsihed the episode. This one has some more to do with Rose and the locket, but not much. It'll increase the more I write. Well, enjoy!
OH! And since some of you people are so kind to review I'd like to respond to those if you don't mind.
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Rose (part 2)
Knocking on Mickey's door, Rose waited not even a minute later and a happy looking Smith opened the door.
"Here's my women!" he greeted playfully, giving her bum a tap, "kit off!"
"Shut it," she laughed. Leaning forward she gave him a quick kiss on the lips and broke off with a mwah.
"Coffee?" he asks.
"Yeah." Rose answers while walking behind him. "only if you wash the mug. And I don't mean rinse, I mean wash. Can I use your computer?"
"Yeah, any excuse to get into the bedroom." He snickered.
Rose went to go sit in the chair in front of the computer when Mickey spoke again, "Don't read my e-mails!"
She laughed at that and settled in the large chair. Opening up the browser, she typed in the search engine 'Doctor.' She glanced at how many results were there Rose decided to try and narrow it down. Next she typed in 'Doctor Living Plastic' and nothing good came up. Finally she settled on 'Doctor Blue Box' and a result caught her eye. It was labeled Doctor Who? Clicking on it revealed a picture of the Doctor. The leather clad man she had seen not to long ago. Under the photograph wrote, "Have you seen this man? Contact Clive." Deciding, she finally clicked on Contact Clive.
Mickey decided to drive Rose in his little yellow car and were soon parked across the street in an argument.
"You're not coming in! He's safe, he's got a wife and kids!" Rose exclaimed to her relentless boyfriend.
"Yeah, but who told you that? He did. That's exactly what an Internet lunatic murderer would say."
Rose exited the car anyways with a grin on her face. Mickey sulked in the car behind the wheel, not taking his eyes off of his Rose. She was soon knocking on the door when a boy of about 11 answered the door.
"Uh, hello, I've come to see Clive? We've been e-mailing." She told the little boy in the red shirt.
"Dad, it's one of your nutters!" The boy yelled, almost looking at Rose in disgust before walking away.
Rose looked back at Mickey before turning her head back and seeing a large man walking in her direction.
"Sorry, hello, you must be Rose. I'm Clive, obviously." He gave a short little nervous chuckle.
"I better tell you now – my boyfriend's waiting in the car just in case you're going to kill me." They both start laughing a bit.
"No, good point. No murders." Clive leans out the door and waves to a still distrustful Mickey.
"Who is it?" Called a woman, coming down the stairs.
"Oh, it's something to do with the doctor! She's been reading the website. Please, come on through, I'm in the shed."
What Rose guessed to be the man's wife, was now visible and was carrying a laundry basket, "She? She read a website about the Doctor? She's a she?"
Rose smiles ironically and looked back at a suspicious Mickey before closing the door.
Clive was showing the blonde around the shed, which she deducted, was almost like a shrine to the Doctor.
"A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive, I couldn't just send it to you. People might intercept it, if you know what I mean. If you dig deep enough - keep a lively mind - this Doctor keeps cropping up all over the place. Political diaries, conspiracy theories. Even ghost stories. No first name, no last name. Just 'The Doctor'. Always The Doctor. And the title seems to have been passed down from father to son; it appears to be an inheritance. That's your Doctor there, isn't it?" He asked her pointing to a computer screen that showed a picture of the man she saw earlier that day.
"Yeah." She answers.
"I tracked it down to the Washington public archive last year. The online photo's enhanced, but if we look at the original…"
Opening up a bag, he pulls out a photo of the doctor standing in a crowd.
"November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy."
"Must be his father." Deducted Rose.
"Going further back," he shuffles out more photos, "April 1912, this is a photo of the Daniel's family in Southampton, and friend." He points to a man identical to the Doctor standing next to a family in a black and white photo. "This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World. On the Titanic. And for some unknown reason they canceled the trip and survived. And," pulling out a sketch of the doctor, "1883. Another Doctor. And look, the same lineage. He's identical. This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra on the very day the Krakatoa exploded. The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He has a storm in his wake and he has one constant companion."
Looking up at him in confusion, "Who's that?"
A dark look covered the man's face, "Death."
Mickey, who is was still in the car, was just looking about up and down the noise when a noise drew his attention over the garbage bin. He looks at as it scuttles forward.
"If the Doctor's back, if you've seen him, Rose then one thing's for certain. We're all in danger."
Mickey looks at the bin again, but it stays stationary. A few seconds later it starts moving again. Curiosity gets the better of him and he gets out of the car and checks. Looking around a bit, he dramatically opens the bin. "Come on then!" The bin was empty. Confusion etched on his face.
"If he's signaled you out, if the Doctor's making house calls, then god help you."
Mickey shut the bin and tries to walk away, but finds that his hands are stuck. Trying to yank back, the plastic stretches with him. Freaking out a bit, Mickey tries pulling again only for the bin to pull back and the boy ends up going into the bin head first. The large bin that makes a sound like a satisfied burp.
"Who is he? Who do you think he is?" Rose asked Clive.
Clive answered in a dead serious tone, "I think he's the same man. I think he's immortal. I think he's an alien from another world."
At the mention of that last one, she felt something on her chest heat up a little bit. Her hand flew to her locket and grasped the now hot feeling gold. An alien from another world?
"Alright! He's a nutter! Off his head! Complete online conspiracy freak! You win!" Sitting in the car with an oof, she failed to notice how wrong Mickey looked.
"What're we going to do tonight. I fancy a pizza." Exclaimed Rose.
"Pizzaaaa! P-p-p-piazza!"
"…Or chinese…"
"Pizza!" he yelled, finally starting the car and driving down the road in a wobbly line.
Sitting at the table were Rose and plastic Mickey, "Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had a few jobs going in the canteen. That's it then, dishing out ships, I could do A levels…"
Mickey stares at Rose with wide eyes, grinning.
"I dunno. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. I only left school 'cause of him, and look where he ended up. What do you think?"
Totally ignoring what she all said he fired off his own question, "So, where did you meet this Doctor?"
Looking at him with an expression that read are-you-for-real, "I'm sorry wasn't I talking about me for a second?" Her locket continued to heat up and she leant on her elbow so her hand could easily hold the locket away from burning her chest.
"Because I reckon it all started back at the shop, am I right? Is he something to do with that?" He kept on asking.
Why was Mickey acting this way? He didn't really care about the Doctor why start now."No…" she answered. Knowing she was lying to him, but he was acting strange.
"Come on."
"Sort of."
"What was he doing there?"
Getting annoyed, "I'm not going on about him, Mickey, I'm not, because, I know it sounds daft but, I don't think he's safe. I think he's dangerous."
"But you can tell me sweet heart, babe, sugar, darling, sugar." He said quickly.
Sort of creeping Rose out, she was more confused then anything.
"You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really wanna do, sweetheart, babe, sugar, sweetheart."
"What are you doing that for?"
"You're champagne," said a waiter that had come up to them.
Not even looking up, the plastic man looked intently at Rose, "we didn't order any champagne." Grabbing her hand, "Where's the Doctor."
"Ma'am your champagne?" again asked the waiter.
"It's not ours," she exclaimed brushing that off, "Mickey what is it? What's wrong?"
"I need to find out how much you know, so where is he?" Mickey demanded.
"Doesn't anybody want any champagne?" Desperately exclaimed the waiter.
Plastic Mickey exasperated, raises his eyes to the waiter.
"Look we didn't order any i-," he stops and grins. In front of him holding the champagne bottle, was the Doctor. "Ah. Gotcha."
The Doctor starts shaking the bottle, "Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the happy couple. On the house!"
Aiming the bottle, he pops the cork off and it flies towards Mickey and hits him square in the forehead. It did the strangest thing, his forehead absorbed the cork and soon he was seen moving something in his mouth. Spitting the cork out on the table, "Anyway." He stood up, forming a paddle with his hand, and smashed the table in. Causing Rose to leap out of her chair, and scream.
The Doctor gets the now discovered Auton into a headlock, trying to rip the head right off of him. After struggling a bit, the head finally pops off and into the Doctor's hands.
Standing in front of the table seating a couple, the head opened his eyes, "Don't think that's gonna stop me." Causing the man of the couple to scream. The Doctor just smiles.
Rose, off where she stood, found the fire bell and rung it. "Get out! Get out! Get out!" As the Auton blindly clubbed tables, people were running around screaming and in a panic.
The Doctor and Rose ran through the back, into the kitchen, and out the back door.
With the Auton hot on their pursuit, the Doctor sonics the metal lock, while Rose tries to find an exit. Banging desperately on some locked gates she lets out a cry of frustration.
"Open the gate! Use that tube, thing. Come on!"
"What, this?" he asked, holding it up. "This is a sonic screwdriver."
"Use it!"
"Nah. Tell ya what, let's go in here." The Doctor said, while walking up to a blue box. Once he reaches the door, he unlocks it and heads inside.
The Auton began making dents in the metal door, and Rose frantically looking around for an exit. What is that man doing in a police box? Running up to it, "We can't hide inside a wooden box!" She runs to the gate and rattles the chains, "It's gonna get us! Doctor!" Then she runs into the police box.
Taking a few step inside, her eyes widen in disbelief. This wasn't right. The room was huge. With a big console in the middle, illuminating a green light and the walls with circle bulbs all around. There were multiple levers and buttons and it all looked confusing.
A warmth spread throughout her chest as she looked at her locket. The golden sun was glowing a bit, and it sent a wave of calmness. She was suddenly content being here. Even almost like she accepted this was all real.
"It's gonna follow us." She says, walking up the ramp slightly she stays there watching him.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they tried. Now shut up a minute." He told her while click various things and grabbing various cords. "You see, the arm is too simple, but the head's perfect." He set the auton head down and connected it to various wires, "I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right." Turning giving the blonde women his full attention, "Where do you wanna start?"
"U-uh, the insides bigger than the outside?"
"Yes."
"It's alien?"
"Yes."
A word whispered to her and so she decided to ask, "It's Gallifreyan?"
"Yes." He said quickly, "Wait, what?!" He exclaimed flabbergasted. Rushing up to her and grabbing her shoulders, he stared at her intently. "How do you know that?" The Doctor demanded.
"I-It just popped in my head. Never heard the word in my life." Rose exclaimed. Suddenly her locket became really hot and she grasped it to keep the burning off her chest. Why does it keep on doing that when it refers to alien? Or in this case Gallifreyan.
"What's that?" He demanded, nodded towards her hand that was holding the gold sun.
"Nothing really, just a locket." She finished by opening up her hand. Her hand had now turned red, almost blistering from the heat of it.
"Where did you get it?" he inquired.
"I've had it since I was a tot." Looking behind him, "His head is melting." She stated.
Turning around he saw the head bubbling and fizzling, "Oh no no no no no!" He starts franticlly running around the console. "Don't think I'm done with that locket just yet Rose Tyler."
She nods and another question came to mind, "Are you alien?"
He looked up at her, "Yes. Is that alright?"
"Yah." She answered quickly. Why does she feel so safe around him? "What are you doing?"
"Reviving the signal, it's fading! No no no no no!" The room starts shaking and she hurriedly grabs onto the railing. "Almost there! Almost there! Here we go!" The engines stop and he goes back to stand in front of her. "The loc-"
"What is this thing?" Rose asks, cutting him off.
Sighing, "It's called the TARDIS, this thing. That's T-A-R-D-I-U-S as in-"
"Time And Relative Dimension In Space." She said as the words were whispered in her ear.
"How are you doing that?" He asks, bending down and using the sonic screwdriver on her face.
Another question popped to mind, "Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?"
He stepped back with a confused expression, "Oh, didn't think of that."He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head – they copied him and you didn't even think?!
"Let's go." He chirped, and went outside.
"You can't go there! It's not safe!"
Stepping out of the TARDIS, Rose was met with the sight of the Doctor walking away. "I lost the signal, I got so close."
"We've moved! Does it fly?"
Disappears there, reappears here, you wouldn't understand." He paused for a brief moment. "Maybe you do." He muttered thinking about what just happened in the TARDIS.
"But if where somewhere else, what about the headless thing? It's still on the loose."
"It melted with the head. Are you gonna witter all night?"
"I'll have to tell his mother…"
The Doctor looked at her questionably.
"Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him! Again!"
The Doctor rolled his eyes, unconcerned with this Mickey bloke.
"You were right, you ARE alien." Rose turns and starts to walk away, feeling angry.
"Look if I did forget some kid named Mickey-"
"Yeah, he's not a kid."
"It's 'cause I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?"
"Alright!"
"Yes, it is!"
Rose shakes her head disbelievingly. "If you're an alien then how come you sound like you're from the north?"
"Lot's of planets have a north." He responded, folding his arms indigently and looking away.
Looking back at the TARDIS, "What's a police call box?"
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s." He grinned fondly at the TARDIS as he pat the exterior, "It's a disguise."
Rose smiles and shakes her head. He's like a guy with a car. Changing the subject, "Okay. And this living plastic, what's it got against us?"
Turning his head towards her, "Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all it's protein plants rotted so Earth, dinner!"
"Anyway of stopping it?" asked Rose.
Grinning, the Doctor takes out a vile of blue liquid from his jacket, "Anti-plastic!"
"Anti-plastic…"
"Anti-plastic! But first, I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?"
"Hold on, Hide what?"
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"What's it look like?" inquired a confused Rose.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London." He finishes by pacing, growing agitated he can't figure it out. "A huge circular metal structure… Like a dish…" The Doctor stands facing Rose, his back to the railings of the bridge. Behind him, the London Eye looms 450 foot above them. "Like a wheel close to where were standing. Must be COMPLETELY invisible."
Rose looks at the London Eye behind him, and he follows her gaze.
"What?"
She nods towards the eye and the Doctor looks at it, then back at her, completely nonplussed.
"What?" he asks again.
Rose shakes her head and continues to look at the London Eye, while the Doctor still fails to make the connection.
"What is it? What?"
Rose simply continues staring at it. The Doctor turns around and finally something clicked. Turning back to the blonde, he grins.
"Oh…" turning again just to make sure, he faces her again, "Fantastic!" Grinning insanely he takes off down the road, with the girl running by his side.
Grabbing her hand, they continue running down the London Bridge on their way to the London Eye.
Coming to a halt in front of the London Eye he turns his head back and forth, searching. "Think of it, Plastic, all over the world. Every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables…"
"The breast implants…"
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
Rose runs off and leans over a wall discovering a manhole, something whispers to her that this is it, so she yells for the Doctor. "What about down there?"
The Doctor runs to join her, "Looks good to me." He shrugs.
They both run down the nearby stairs to the manhole. The Doctor took off the lid and slid it over to the side. Red light and smoke pour out of the hole and they both climb down the ladder underground.
The Doctor reaches the floor first and starts ahead. As Rose is climbing down, he discovers a door to another chamber. Waiting for the blonde to be by his side, he opens the door and head down some steps. The Doctor points to a huge orange wobbling mass in the middle of the chamber.
"The Nestene Consciousness, that's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature."
"Well the, tip in your anti-plastic and let's go."
"I'm not here to kill it, I'm got to give it a chance." He states as he goes down more steps. The Doctor leans over the railings and addresses the Consciousness. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract. According to Convection 15 of the Shadow Proclamtion."
The Consciousness flobbles around a bit.
"Thank you. That I might have permission to approach."
Meanwhile, Rose was pacing and something caught her eye. Well, someone. Rushing up to said figure, the Doctor just rolls his eyes.
"Oh my god, Mickey! It's okay! It's alright!" She squats down next to him.
"That thing down there, the liquid, Rose – it can talk!"
"You're stinking! Doctor, they've kept him alive!"
"Yah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain to copy." The Doctor replied.
Rose, flabbergasted at his response, "You knew that and you never said?"
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?"
Rose helps Mickey to his feet as the Doctor makes his way to stand in front of the Nestene Consciousness.
"Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warped, shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?"
The plastic globbers in a negative manner.
"Oh don't give me that, it's an invasion! Plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!"
The plastic rears it's "head" angrily.
"I – Am – talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of much more. I'm asking you on their behalf – please, just go."
Then two Autons started approaching the Doctor from behind.
"Doctor!" Rose warns.
One of the Auton's grab him from behind, securing his arms while the other slips out the anti-plastic from his jacket.
"That was just insurance! I wasn't going to USE it!" the Doctor exclaims.
The living plastic shakes in an angry matter.
"I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy." The Doctor pleads. "I swear I'm not…what do you mean?"
More grumbling, and the set of doors behind him swing open and reveal the TARDIS.
"Oh, oh no – honestly no! Yes that's my ship."
The Consciousness roars.
"That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war – it wasn't my fault! I could't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!" he cried.
"What's it doing?" asks Rose from her spot near Mickey.
"It's the TARDIS! The Nestene has identified its superior technology – it's terrified! It's going to the final base. It's starting the invasion!" Looking at Rose more desperately, "Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Now!" Still struggling against the Autons, he keeps looking at her. Hoping she'll go and get somewhere safe.
Rose suddenly thought of someone, she whipped out her phone and dialed. "Mum?!" She yelled franticlly.
Jackie was just exiting the police station with some documents in her hand when she heard her cell ring. Looking down, she saw the name Rose blink across the screen.
"Oh, there you are, I was just going to phone. You can get compensation. I said so. I've got this document thing off the police – don't thank me!"
"Where are you mum?"
"I'm in town!"
"Go home! Just go home, right now!"
"Darling you're breaking up, look, I'm just going to do a bit of late night shopping. I'll see ya later. Tara!"
Jackie hangs up and leaves Rose standing there yelling into the phone, "Mum?! Mum!"
Something blue sparked through the room suddenly, and the Consciousness roared while being surround in said sparks.
"It's the activation signal! It's transmitting!"
The electric blue signal shoot up and through the London Eye. Causing blue sonic waves to travel.
"The end of the world." Rose muttered, while Mickey hugged her from fright.
The Doctor, still being held hostage, "Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run!"
Just then, from the electricity running through the room, part of the ceiling caves in.
"The stairs have gone!" Rose exclaims. Rushing to TARDIS, she tries opening it, but to no avail. "I haven't got a key!"
"We're gonna die!" Mickey cries, gripping tighter to the small blonde.
Taking a minute, Rose looks at the frightful Doctor being held hostage and comes to a decision.
"Just leave him!" Mickey exclaims, trying to keep Rose near himself. "There's nothing you can do!"
Rose finally takes action. Grabbing a nearby axe, she holds it up to chain near her, "I've got no A levels. No job. No future." She pauses and gets ready to swing, "But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastics team." Finally swinging, she grabs onto the chain, "I got the bronze!" Rose declares.
Rose swings herself over to the Autons, kicking them in the process and knocking the one holding the anti-plastic into the Nestene, as the Doctor throws the one holding him over his shoulder and into the same fate as the other Auton. The Consciousness starts withering and screaming as Rose swings back and the leather clad man catches her.
The Doctor lets himself grin as he holds Rose for a second longer then needed too. "Now we're in trouble." Taking a glance at the screaming living plastic, the London Eye shuts down. Cutting off the transmission.
The Autons that were in the street causing chaos and harming civilians started twitching. Almost like they were dancing. Then the dummies all fall to the ground, twitching once or twice, but otherwise being the inanimate objects they once were.
Rose, the Doctor and Mickey all manage to reach the TARDIS. Rose grins at the Nestene Consciousness before she goes in and closes the door. Leaving the living plastic to die. Just as the whole place all goes in flames, the TARDIS started disappearing. Finally leaving the underground chamber.
The TARDIS rematerializes in the alley way, and right as it stops Mickey runs out in a state of panic and practically falls over. Terrified written all over his face, unlike Rose who just walks out and starts dialing her mum.
"Rose! Rose! Don't get out of the house! It's not safe!" Cries Jackie on the other side. The small blonde just laughs a bit in relief that her mum is safe. "There were all these things! And they were shooting! And they -", satisfied that her mum was alive, Rose hangs up on her smiling.
Seeing Mickey still looking terrified Rose runs over to him, "A fat lot of good you were!" she teases.
The terrified man simply whimpers and looks over at the Doctor leaning on the doorway to the TARDIS.
"Nestene Consciousness?" the Doctor snaps his fingers, "Easy." He ends in a grin.
Teasingly, "You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it weren't for me." Rose smiles at him, and he gives her a nod.
"Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then! I'll be off! Unless, uh… I don't know… you could come with me." He asks, almost nervously. Why was he so nervous incase she said no? He had to admit, he smiles were something that would be nice to see, and he loved her company. It's been a while since he another companion.
Rose looks at him and sticks her hands in her pockets. Does she really want to go with a man she just met?
"This box isn't just a London hopper, you know, it goes anywhere in the universe, free of charge." He adds, hoping to persuade her.
"Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!" Mickey yells in fright, pointing a finger at the Doctor.
"He's NOT invited." He points at Mickey and resumes folding his arms, "What do you think? You can stay here and fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh, anywhere…"
"Is it always this dangerous?" Rose challenges.
Nodding, "Yeah."
Mickey puts his arms around Rose's legs in a childish way of saying mine.
"Yeah, I can't… I've um… gotta go find my mum and um… someone's gotta look after this stupid lump…" with a small laugh, she pats Mickey's back, "So.."
The Doctor's face falls, "Okay. See ya around."
Rose looks at him intently. Not sure if she really wanted to stay. The Doctor doesn't take his eyes off her, then he closes the door. She continues to stare at the door, deciding to wait until it disappears. Then the revving of the engine sound the TARDIS started disappearing.
Still staring at the place where the TARDIS was, she thinks over and over in her head if this was the right thing. "Come on, let's go."
Helping Mickey to his feat, they begin to walk away, only to stop to the sound of the TARDIS. Spinning around, the TARDIS reappears and the Doctor pokes his head out the door.
In a final attempt, "By the way – did I mention, it also travels in time?" Grinning and going back in, he leaves the door ajar.
"Thanks." Rose says, looking at her boyfriend.
"Thanks for what?" he asks confused.
"Exactly," she simply states. Leaning forward she kisses him on the cheek and turns around, running inside the TARDIS with smile on her face and a comfortable warmth on her chest.
AN: Thanks for reading! I'll get started on the next chapter next taking place in the next episode "The end of the World."
Please review! I love it when people do! It's helps motivate me to keep writing! Well, happy Monday! (Oh yah, ill make sure to put some more thought into what they're saying. When I wrote most of this I was half awake. So, and don't mind the mistakes and sentence fragments please.)
