The TARDIS landed and Rose stepped out. How was she going to explain what happened to the Doctor to her mum? She didn't even understand it! Well, at least she won't have to deal with her until she actually went with the Doctor to her mum's flat. That should at least give her a few hours to-
"ROSE! ROSE!"
Rose groaned. Looks like that plan was shot. She saw her mother and Mickey come running around the corner. Her mum hugged her, and then stepped back with an exstatic look in her eyes. "We heard the TARDIS from all the way down the street! We came running over as soon as we heard it! Oh God, I'm so glad you're ok!" Jackie said pulling her into a bone crushing hug.
Mickey was happy to see Rose too, but he was looking around curiously. "Where's the Doctor?" he asked looking at Rose. She bit her lip thinking about how to explain what happened when the Doctor Tumbled out with a squawk and landed with an "Oof". Jackie let go of Rose and she and Mickey took a few steps back with wide eyes. Rose glared at the Doctor and he gave her a sheepish grin. Before he had stumbled out, he was trying to learn how to walk using the knuckles on his wings rather than just his back legs. In hiensight it probably wasn't such a good idea to try to learn on a grated floor.
Rose turned back to her mum and Mickey, who still had shocked looks on their faces. "Now... Mum, Mickey...j-just calm down, I can explain. You see-" she started but was cut off by her mother's scream.
Both her mum and Mickey grabbed some trash can lids from the closest two cans, but used them for different reasons. Mickey used his as a shield in case the dinosaur tried to attack, while Jackie moved Rose out of the way and proceeded to hit the dinosaur Doctor with the lid repeatedly as he tried to get up onto his four limbs.
He yelped and tried to cover his head as he did so, but his tiny hands and thin the membrane of his wings didn't do a very good job of protecting him. "Stay away from Rose! Bad dino! I told that man to look after you and what does he do? He get's a bleeding dinosaur for a pet!" Jackie said, still hitting the dinosaur Doctor.
The Doctor whimpered a bit as she continued, causing Rose to take a stand against this. "Mum stop it! He's not gonna hurt me I swear!" she said trying to pull her mother away from the Doctor.
"Jackie! It's me! It's the Doctor!" he said lifting his beak like mouth and putting his hands in front of his face. Jackie's eyes grew wide and the Doctor smiled sheepishly. Then she proceeded to start hitting the Doctor again.
"I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU WERE SOME KIND OF MONSTER TRYING TO HURT ROSE! DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT EATING HER YOU...you...alien...dino...THING!" Jackie yelled at the Doctor as she hit him with the trash can lid.
"OW! WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT HER?! OW! I'm a pterodactyl! Pterodactyls were piscivorus! OW! They didn't eat land animals and certainly-OW!-not ones as large as-OW!-humans! OW!" the Doctor said trying to calm down the enraged mother.
"Piscivorus?! What the hell does that even mean?! and what do you mean not eating humans? Do you think I'm some kind of idiot?! I've seen Jurassic Park! I know what your kind is like!" Jackie said hitting him again.
"MUM! Stop that! That was just a movie! That doesn't mean any of it's actually true!" Rose said as she pried the trash can lid out of her mum's hands. Her mother had calmed down only slightly. "Mickey! Help me out here!" she pleaded to her exboyfriend.
"Wait...does this mean you dumped me for a flippin' dinosaur?" he said giving Rose a questioning look.
The Doctor face palmed. Rose snapped at him, "MICKEY!" giving him a look that said this really wasn't the time for that.
"Everyone just calm down." the doctor said rising to his full height, "Look, I can explain what happened. Normally I don't look like this, or more correctly, I didn't. Time Lords have this way of cheating death called regeneration. When my old body is dying, it burns up and I get a new personality and a new body."
"But why are you a dinosaur?" Jackie said, " You can change your face. Ok, I can accept that, but how did you go from...well whatever you were to flying prehistoric reptile?"
"Well..." he said a bit sheepishly, "When I was regenerating, I wasn't focusing on what I wanted to look like. I was thinking about the adventures I'd take Rose on in my new body. I then started thinking about taking her to prehistoric times, and then to what kind of dinosaurs we'd see...and so I ended up being a-"
"Wait a minute!" Jackie interrupted, "You were going to take her to prehistoric times?! You promised to take care of here!" She glared at him
The Doctor let out an "eep!" before hopping a few steps back. "I never said I would!" he defended, "I only said I was thinking about it!"
"Well I guess now that's the only place you CAN take her." Mickey said.
Everyone turned towards Mickey with confused looks. "What do you mean?" Rose asked.
"Well he can't exactly wander around London like that, or anytime where humans live. I mean he's a giant flying reptile! I can understand the box not getting noticed, but even a blind person would notice a giant lizard with wings waltzing around. He'd get captured and dissected!" he explained.
"Actually, there's a simple solution for that Mickey." the Doctor said, "A biomorphic regulator should do the trick. Well more like a biomorphic regulator version three. The first version required a living DNA sample and would change you biology completely. Also you'd get stuck in whatever form you were in if it broke or shorted out, and even though I'm comfortable in humanoid form, I think I'm a bit fond of these wings already. Anyways, the third version allows me to physically change into one form, but my DNA would stay the same, and I would just change back if it broke. It's sort of like a perception filter in that sense. It's very interesting tecnology, did you know it originated on the..."
The Doctor rambled on for a few minutes until Rose interrupted him. "Um, Doctor is this going anywhere?" she asked him.
"Oh yes, sorry!" he said snapping out of his train of thought. " Anyways," he said, "it will allow me to appear humanoid and be able to walk around in public with out getting to many stares."
"Ok, we've got that figured out. What now?" Rose asked.
"Well first," the Doctor started, but then, a random person from one of the near by appartment buildings came whistling around the corner with a trash bag in hand to be thrown away in one of the dumpsters in the alley. The man stopped and he dropped his trash bag and stared at them with wide eyes. A few minutes of silence passed before the Doctor waved his hand sheepishly. The man then ran away screaming. The three humans cringed. "First I better get out of plain sight." the Doctor said. The three humans nodded. Rose and the Doctor headed back into the TARDIS to go get a biomorphic regulator before anything else happened.
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yes I wrote another chapter even though I said I wasn't going to. I felt like writing more. Sorry that the Doctor is kinda abused in this chapter. I promise no timelords were harmed in the making of this chapter. I'm also sorry if any characters are OOC. They probably aren't but I'm paranoid about making characters OOC. Also, a big thank you to RadiantGradient from deviant art who helped me with some of the dialog for this chapter. Also, there's a reference to one of my other stories hidden in here. Find it and you get a cookie. Anyways, please tell me what you think!