Rose danced happily to her favourite song around the innards of the Tardis yet again. The Doctor just smiled and watched her, his arms folded across his chest and he laughed along with her. He'd always been amused by humans ability to find amusement in the most simplest of things. It was a song by some boy band or another from her era. She always liked to play it when they were heading back home. Well her home any way. The Doctor had no real place to call home any more. He found himself thinking about his old planet. The Golden sky and the silver leaves on the trees in autumn the closest thing he ever had to that planet now was Earth where at least the inhabitants looked like his own race. He also thought of how no one would ever run under those silver leaves again. Or how he'd never to be able to just lie in the red grass and stare up at the golden night sky again. How now he was alone and he was the last of his kind. He sighed.
"Come on Doctor you must know the words by now." Rose said as she sung the next verse of the song.
The Doctor looked up from his miserable state and smiled at his friend. He couldn't bring himself from thinking about that to start singing no one understood his pain. No one could possible understand what had happened to him.
Or could they? Some one else must have survived he couldn't have been the only one to survive; he wasn't the only one in the attack. There were others he could remember it clearly. Some of his friends had been either side of him. He could only recall how he escaped the wreckage that was the Daleks mother ship.
"Doctor come on." He looked up again from his past haunting memories.
He was about to say something he didn't know what just something to fill the space when suddenly the whole Tardis shuck as though it had just hit something.
Rose scattered to the floor but the Doctor luckily managed to spin awkwardly and grabbed the main panel of the Tardis to stop himself from falling over.
"What's happening Doctor" Rose screamed over the sudden shaking of the Tardis.
"I don't know" He replied as he frantically worked the buttons for the main panel.
She managed to claw her way up to a standing position and then rushed over to his side as he pulled another lever down to try and redeem control of the crazy craft.
"What shall I do?" Rose asked always keen to help as ever.
"It's okay I got this one" The Doctor said took a few steps back from the panel then ran up and kicked it.
Suddenly the Tardis stopped shaking and began to return to some sort of normality.
He laughed although he was partly in pain from his foot, which he was now hoping around holding it.
"Like my old friend used to say, if it ain't workin' then you ain't hit it enough." He said laughing, but wincing and the pain of yet dragging up more old memories.
"Where are we now then?" Rose asked laughing as the Doctor hopped around on his good foot.
He hobbled over to the control panel and looked at the screen. "London 2130".
"Oh the near future eh?" She asked.
"Yeah looks that way?" The Doctor replied.
"Mind if I take a butchers?"
The Doctor didn't say anything just grinned and made a gesture towards the door. She never needed much more encouragement.
She rushed over to the door and opened it and instead of seeing what she expected the warm sunlight. She was greeted with the darkness that was now London.