Yay! You still care...Thanks - Lizzle09, BananaDaiquiri and Evilish Cookie for reviewing...I will eventually finish this story, one would hope. There's a good 12,000 words between the end of this chapter and the last word I've currently written (I've managed to get them to the TARDIS...but they haven't left yet)...so I shouldn't be abandoning this story anytime soon - that would be mean, and I wouldn't like to think of myself as a quitter.
I don't own Doctor Who or a hockey stick.
Hands up everyone excited for the christmas special......Yes! Me too! Yay Rose is back (albiet a Before-she-met-the-Doctor Rose, but still - I'll Take it!). I think it'll probably make me cry - I don't WANT number 11 :( He looks funny and young and all gothy or hungover and his 'companion' *shakes head* I think I'm going to have to give it up and bury my head in my DW box sets - let S1 and S2 cheer me up.
For goodness sake BBC give Rose her own show with 10.5, Jackie and Pete - I'd watch it.
This chapter begins with the Doctor ranting, from Cal's point of view - obviously trying to point out why Jack's a rubbish traveling companion.
"…Then there was the time we got caught in that wind tunnel."
"Not my fault!" a familiar voice protested.
"Doctor, we weren't even in that tree for an hour." Said a tired, familiar female voice.
"Oh, thank god we're back. If I had to listen to another minute of this I was gonna try out that move Matt taught me. You remember Rose, Whaaaa Ya!" said a new voice.
There was yell followed by the sound of a body hitting the concrete.
"Jack!" Said the same familiar female voice, sounding reproachful.
"Oh, come on. He made it too easy." Jack drawled as he walked around the corner into Cal's line of sight, followed by Rose, and two men he'd never seen before. One of them appeared to be ranting and counting off on his fingers, the other was limping slightly. "Cal!" Jack greeted, reaching out to shake his hand. "Long time no see…what's it been a couple of hours?"
"Something like that." Cal agreed. Rose caught up to Jack and Cal reached forward, picked up her hand and pressed a kiss to the back of it, "The alluring and mysterious Rose Tyler." He murmured as she giggled, pulling her hand back before the Doctor could see. "New outfit I see."
"Good to see you too, Cal." She put a hand on Mickey's shoulder, "This is Mickey Smith, he's Jack go-to communication expert." She hid a smirk looking down, "Please take no notice of the fact he's scraped his knee. That's Jack's fault."
"Expert?" The Doctor muttered.
"It's nice to meet you." Mickey nodded.
Jack mirrored Rose's move and placed a hand on the Doctor's shoulder, "This is the Doctor, please take no notice of the fact he's in a stroppy mood. That's normal. Let's go get the critters, I'm assuming you parked on the roof?"
They started inside, "I believe someone said something about a wind tunnel?" Cal asked.
Rose groaned and Mickey took off like a shot mumbling something about needing to check something. The Doctor opened his mouth and Jack clamped a hand over it. "Don't ask." He warned, sighing, "Just don't ask."
Rose linked her arm with the Doctor's, "Come on then, our little beasties haven't been fed in a while and they'll be starving- the sooner they're home the better." She tugged him ahead of the other two men, following after Mickey.
Rose stood next to the Doctor who was leaning against the wall, his arm resting casually around her; they were watching the pterodactyls get loaded up. She glanced up suddenly, frowning "You've never mentioned if we're living alone."
The Doctor glanced down at her amused, "Alone? What? You think that your mum might have stowed away or something? Tell you what, I walk into the wardrobe room and she jumps out from a rack of clothes-"
"No." She turned under his arm, placing a hand on his chest right above his right heart. "Don't pretend you don't know what I mean. Is there anything living in the Tardis besides us?"
He pursed his lips, his brow wrinkled in thought "Well it depends on what you classify as living…are we talking plants? Mould, I've got some mould cultures in-" He stopped as Rose gave him a dirty look. "Can't we talk about this later?" he asked slowly.
Rose gave him a dubious look, "Later?"
"Yeah, Jack, you and I will sit down after tea and I'll give you a list, alright?" he replied gazing down into her warm brown eyes.
"Jack?" A smile quirked up one side of her mouth, "Are you saying? Really?" He looked enquiringly down at her, pretending to be puzzled and she laughed, "Oh, you're impossible!"
The Doctor ran his fingers through her ponytail, "That's not very original. I've heard that at least a dozen times this week."
"And it's only Monday." Rose added.
"Now, all you have to do is convince his team to let him go and we can get out of here." He muttered.
"It's not that bad."
"Says a former Torchwood employee." He gave her a dark look, "I saw you eyeing that flamethrower."
Rose scoffed, "Like you weren't playing action hero an hour ago. At least you got to have a go." She added sullenly turning back to the action. "You guys need any help?" She called out, ignoring the Doctor trying to shush her.
Jack was pushed backwards by a clawed foot; he stumbled and turned to look at the couple, "It's alright Rosie, I don't want you getting scratched…but if the Doctor wants to help…"
"What? Never mind my safety?" The Doctor yelled offended.
Cal worked at restricting the movement of the flailing dinosaur, "Little help Jack?" he asked sarcastically, getting Jack's attention back to the task at hand. Two more of Cal's men worked at caging the rest of the cargo, while Cal and Jack struggled with the last one. With a little twisting around and nimble fingers Jack and Cal managed to stow the last one away.
"Finally." The Doctor called out, "I was starting to think we'd be here all week." Jack shot him a dirty look and Rose elbowed him and walked towards the boys.
"Will you be leaving straight away or have you got time for a cuppa?" She asked, looking from Cal to the men securing the dinosaurs and preparing for take off. The Doctor moved behind her, like a shadow and rested his hands on her shoulders.
Jack tilted his head at Cal, "We've got chocolate biscuits…" he tempted.
Cal smirked, "How can I resist that, then? 'Course we can spare a few minutes." He looked behind him. "Miles you stay and prepare the craft…since you're the one who lost that mammoth last Wednesday." He turned to Rose and the Doctor, "A bloody mammoth wandering the hillside for three hours! It was a bugger to catch, very wily."
Rose bit back a smile, "I can only imagine." She gasped suddenly and pointed excitedly at Jack, "Hey! You said you'd show me a weevil. What happened to that?"
The Doctor raised his eyebrows at Jack, "At this rate we're never going to get out of here." He made a move along gesture, "Come on then. Tea first, then you can show us your menagerie Jackie boy." Jack, Cal and Trent (the other man working for Cal) had begun to walk towards the stairwell; Jack stopped and made a gesture of his own before following the other men. Rose giggled and dragged the Doctor after them.
Figured I better post some Who while I was in a posting mood :)
I love the dynamic between The Doctor, Rose, Jack and Mickey - It's very fun to write...especially when they're around other people.