A/N

Hi! Thanks for all your fallows/favorites and reviews. It really means a lot! I'm glad you all like the story, I know at times I skip a lot of good rose/doctor dialogue, but its hard to write it form memory so please for give me. Also there will be times skips at some point, so when that happens just assume thing happened on like it did in the show, like I'm not doing platform one, not that I don't like that episode, I just want to get the main plot going.

So if you have any questions of opinions please share them, I live to serve my readers.

~Lillyan

"Here we are!" The Doctor go out of the tardis. The Doctor on the way over had explained the tardis to her. Ari thought that it was amazing, this time machine was alive, she was alive. Ari even thought that she could feel her in her mind.

Ari followed The Doctor out of the tardis. They walked into a big store. Somehow The Doctor got them into the basement.

"Where to know?" Ari asked, wondering where he was going to put the bom.

"The roof." He smiled at his new companion. A scream cut through the air, causing them to jump.

"I guess we need to go help that poor person." The Doctor grabbed her hand, and together they ran in the direction of the scream.

The Doctor opened the door and saw a girl surrounded by evil shop mannequins. He grabbed the girl's hand telling her to run. The three of them ran into a elevator. One of the evil mannequin's tried to strangle the Doctor, but he ripped off it's arm. He threw it at the girl making some joke about it. The girl was going on about how it was all a prank. Ari mostly ignored them. Wondering how long it would take the Doctor to notice the fact that she was not wearing shoes. The elevator door opened and they rushed out. Running to another door The doctor pushed the girl threw it. Again she didn't really pay attention to what they were saying. The doctor closed the door. A few seconds later he opened it again.

"My name is the Doctor, and this is Ari, what's your name?" He asked smiling.

"Rose," the girl asked confused and shocked.

"Well, Rose, run for your life!" and with that he grabbed my hand and we ran to the roof.

-back in tardis-

Back in the tardis Ari was panting, and her feet were sore, running away from a building about to blow up was fun, but tiring. The Doctor smiled at her, he moved around the Tardis pressing buttons and pushing switches. Ari sat down on the captain's chair watching him. She tried to figure out why she didn't fear him like she did others. She had only just meet him, but here she was, running away with him in his blue box. This confused her. Why? Why didn't she fear him? Why did she trust him? It was frustrating. The Doctor seemed to notice her sitting there. He saw that something was on her mind.

"What you thinking about?" He asked as he continued to push buttons and stuff. Jumped a little, having been lost in her thoughts.

"oh, well, its just," Ari faltered. The doctor moved to sit next to her. Seeing that she wanted to tell him something.

"You can tell me anything." He said trying to comfort her. Ari looked at him. She felt like she could tell him anything.

"Alright, well, I don't really know where to start, its hard to explain. um, well, first I have a phobia of men, but for some reason, I don't fear you," The Doctor listened to her, he looked at her. She was a small girl,about 16 or 17 altho at a glance she could pass as a 13 year old. The closer he looked at her the more he noticed how sad she seemed. He gently took her hand.

"After we defeat the the nestene consciousness, do you want to stay with me? Travel the universe?" Ari looked up at him, and she smiled, a huge smile.

"Really?" She asked not quite believing it. The Doctor smiled.

"Yup, so you wanna come"

"Yes!"

"Fantastic!"

-hr later-

The Doctor grabbed Ari's hand and ran with her out of the tardis. The Doctor pulled out a weird metal tube thingy.

"Doctor, what is that?" Ari looked at the Doctor, she pointed at the the tube.

"Oh, this?" he raise the object in question. "Its a sonic screwdriver! It can open any lock! Well not wood, but I'm working on that"

"Cool!" Ari smiled at him. They finally reached their destination. The Doctor used the sonic on the cat flap of the door. Ari zoned out looking out at the street below. She jumped when she heard the door open. Standing at the door was the girl from the store they blew up. Rose. Rose was shocked, then angry to see them. She grabbed the Doctor, she pulled into the house. A few seconds later Rose popped back out.

"You too!" she called pulling Ari in the her house. She asked them if they wanted tea, the Doctor accepted, but Ari declined. Ari didn't like to eat food made by anyone but her.

She watched the Doctor look around the room. Ari giggled, watching him explore. when the card pack exploded all over the room she burst into laughter. The Doctor smiled widely, happy to see her laugh.

"What's that?" he asked Ari, Ari shrugged, she had heard it too.

"Do you have a cat?" he asked Rose. Ari never heard the reply, because a mannequin arm shot out of nowhere and latched itself on to the Doctor's neck.

Ari rushed over and tried to help the Doctor. Finally the hand came off, but it latched itself to Rose who just entered the room. The Doctor tried to get it off, and Ari tried to help, but all three soon fell on to the coffee table. The glass from said table, made a cut on Ari's leg, it was a long deep cut. It started at her knee, and went all the way up the inside of her thigh. Ari winced, but she did not show her pain, she has had worse injuries before. By the time she got off the ground, the Doctor had managed to save Rose from the killer arm. The Doctor walked back to Ari.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Im fine." She muttered.

"Then what's on your leg?" He asked, looking at the cut.

"Nothing.." Ari said, trying to hide her cut.

"That is nothing?" he bent down, looking at her cut, he winced.

"Come on then." he picked Ari up, carrying her bridal style..

"Hay!" Ari yelped, not expecting to be picked up.

"You can't just go swanning off!" Rose cried.

"Yes we can, here we are swanning off." The Doctor said. Ari rested her head on the Doctor's shoulder. The Doctor was warm. When he spoke his chest rumbled. Ari toned out the bickering around her, slowly falling asleep.

Back in the Tardis the Doctor carried Ari to med-bay. He set her down on one of the beds. He did his best to clean the wound. It was difficult considering its location. He did what he could, he would wait till she woke up to fish dressing the wound. He noticed that she was not wearing any shoes, how did he not notice that.

Ari woke up about an hour later. She sat up slowly, looking around she found the Doctor sitting next to the bed. He looked up smiling at her.

"How are you feeling?" he asked. Aris smiled weakly at him.

"Fine." The Doctor looked at her, knowing that her leg hurt her.

"Can i finish looking at your leg?" He asked, nodding to her leg. Ari blushed, but she still gave her consent. The Doctor was gentle and quick. Ari's blush still deepened.

After an awkward couple of minutes the Doctor finished.

"There we go, all better!" he smiled and helped Ari back to the control room.

"So where to next?" Ari asked. The Doctor looked at her, slowly he said,.

"I think you should stay here for this, I found another one of the mainiquens, and with your leg it would be safer for you to stay here. But when I get back you better be ready to run." he finished smiling at her. Ari noded. She understood.

"Ok, be safe!" She said as he left the tardis. She sat down and the captains chair. Ari sighed. This was gonna be a long night.

Ari looked at the door, when something had caught her eye. It was a pair of shoes

?ow did those get there, she limped over to them. Ari smiled, they were just like her old ones.

*later*

Ari looked up from her book as the Doctor ran into the room. Ari smiled. The doctor. smiled at Ari, he held up a head. Ari laughed. The Doctor ran to the center of the tardis he connected the head to the tardis.

A few seconds later, the tardis doors opened and Rose, the girl from earlier. She ran into the room. Ari smiled when she ran back out a few seconds later. After a few minutes she ran back in. She looked at the Doctor in shock, Ari giggled. Ari watched the two bicker, it was like they where an old married couple. She continued to giggle to herself but she stopped when Rose started to cry. The Doctor floundered. If Rose wasn't crying she would of laughed again. The Doctor was not very good with girls, especially crying ones. Ari, looked at Rose.

"Dont worry Rose, your friend, might still be alive." Ari tried to comfort her. Rose seemed to calm down a little. But then the head started to melt, and Rose started to freak out. The Doctor jumped and turned around to face the central console.

"NONONONONO!" The doctor rushed around the console trying to pinpoint the the hiding place of the the nestene consciousness

After a few moments he rushed out the Tardis door, Ari followed, and after a few moments so did Rose. Ari watched as the Doctor, tried to quickly explain the tardis, while looking where to go next.

He stated to rant aloud, and Ari and Rose, just watched. Ari laughed when Rose found the transmitter before the Doctor.

She laughed even harder when he didn't see it. When he did they took off running.