A/N: I do not own anything relating to Doctor Who. I only own the ideas of my OC. This is my second chapter. Please let me know what you think. Like I said before, the beginning is going to be a bit rough. Sorry. Hope you enjoy. As of right now I don't know how long each chapter will be or how many chapters it will take to get through one episode. Please bear with me. I welcome any and all comments and suggestions. It's a bit slow going right now. I have no idea how often I will update. Life is hectic right now. Hope you all enjoy. If not, leave me a review and tell me what you don't like and I'll try to change it.
The next morning, the alarm went off as usual. I groaned as Rose turned it off.
"There's no point in getting up, sweethearts. You've got no job to go to." Jackie called out. I huffed when I realized that I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. I gave in and decided to take a shower. The hot water helped relax my already tense nerves. When I was done, I threw on a pair of jeans, a cream top with a black floral design on it, a denim jacket and a pair of converse. When I looked in the mirror, I took notice of my necklace. It was a long silver chain with a silver locket. On the front there was a star design with a moonstone embedded in it. On the back there was a strange intricate design etched into it. I had never been able to open it. It was one of the few things I had with me when Jackie took me in. Sighing, I tucked the locket under my shirt and made my way into the kitchen where Rose and Jackie were talking.
"There's Finch's. You could try them. They've always got jobs." Jackie stated.
"Oh, great. The butchers." Rose whined. I shuddered.
"Well maybe not for Nix, she might pass out." I had been known to get ill when thinking about butchers. I could eat meat, I just couldn't cook it. The raw meat just made me sick for some reason. I sat at the table as Jackie continued. "Well, it might do you good. That shop was giving you two airs and graces. And I'm not joking about compensation. You've had genuine shock and trauma. Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek!"
"Isn't Arianna Greek?" I asked, feeling slightly confused.
"I know she is Greek, but that's not the point. It was a valid claim." She tried. There was a rattling at the door. I got up to check it out.
"Mum, you're such a liar. I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays." Rose whined.
"I did it weeks back!" Jackie defended herself.
"No, you thought about it." Roes countered.
"Actually, she did. I helped her." I commented as I picked up a screw from the ground and showed it to her. The flap opened and closed but nothing came through. Slowly, I pushed the flap open only to see the Doctor looking through. I quickly stood up and opened the door. Rose stood next to me.
"What're you doing here?" He asked.
"We live here." Rose stated simply.
"Well, what do you do that for?" He asked.
"Because we do. We're only at home because someone blew up our job." I huffed at him. Annoyed that he would ask such stupid questions.
"I must have got the wrong signal. You're not plastic are you?" He asked before tapping each of our heads. I blinked in surprise. "Nope, boneheads. Bye then." He turned to leave.
"Oh no you don't." I grabbed his arm.
"You. Inside. Right now." Rose added. I pulled him into the flat.
"Who is it?" Jackie called out as we walked down the hall.
"It's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us ten minutes." Rose answered and kept walking. The Doctor had stopped for a minute.
"They deserve compensation." Jackie stated.
"Oh, we're talking millions." The Doctor lied.
"I'm in my dressing gown."
"Yes, you are." He stated, oblivious to her hints. I grabbed his arm.
"Sorry mum." I said before pulling him away. When we were out of earshot I spoke to him. "Oblivious idiot." He gave me a questioning glance. I just shook my head. We stopped when we were in the living room.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asked.
"Might as well, thanks. Just milk." He started looking around the room.
"Me too." I tried.
"Get your own Nix." She teased back. I stuck my tongue out at the back of her head before coming into the kitchen with her. "We should go to the police. Seriously, all of us." She tried as she poured coffee. I quickly poured my own and turned to walk back into the living room. He was looking at a magazine.
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien." He muttered. I quirked an eyebrow.
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong." Rose continued, oblivious to him.
"I don't think it was." I added. She ignored me. The Doctor moved onto a book and flipped through it.
"Sad ending." He commented. He was truly confusing me now.
"They said on the news they'd found a body." She added.
"Rose Tyler." He said looking at a trophy. Then he looked into the mirror strangely. "Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears." It was almost like he was seeing himself for the first time. I ignored him and returned to get myself another cup of coffee.
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke. Anyway, if we are going to the police, we should know what we're saying." I heard cards falling. "I want you to explain everything." I heard the cat flap again.
"What's that, then? You got a cat?" He asked.
"Nope. We did have, but now they're just strays. They come in off the estate." I explained as we walked into the living room. The Doctor looked like he was pretending to be strangled by the plastic arm from the night before. "I told Mickey to get rid of that damned thing." It made me uneasy. It quickly seemed like he wasn't pretending.
"You're all the same. Give a man a plastic hand. Anyway, we don't even know your name. Doctor, what was it?" Rose asked. The arm suddenly flew off of the Doctor but it stopped mid air and flew towards Rose's face. The Doctor and I tried pulling it off, causing us all to crash onto the coffee table which shattered underneath us. After a few more moments of struggling with it, he got it off her face. He jabbed the device he had used on the lift into the palm of the arm and the fingers stopped flexing.
"It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see? Armless?" He joked.
"You think?" I asked before hitting him in the arm with it.
"Ow!" He whined. I rolled my eyes.
"That couldn't have hurt that bad. You big baby." I teased. The Doctor grabbed the arm and started leaving the flat. Rose and I followed. "Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off."
"Yes I can. Here I am. This is me, swanning off. See you." He continued down the stairs with us on his heels.
"But that arm was moving. It tried to kill me." Rose cried out.
"Ten out of ten for observation." He said while continuing.
"Watch it." I snapped.
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You've got to tell us what's going on." Rose tried.
"No, I don't." He said as we walked outside. I was getting just as annoyed as Rose was. He hadn't told us anything and we had been in danger. We had a right to know at least a little bit. His poor attitude of telling us a little but refusing to explain was getting to be more than a little annoying. I had finally reached my snapping point.
"All right then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said that if we did that, we would get people killed. So, your choice. Tell us, or I'll start talking." If he was being truthful, I didn't want to put that on Rose and part of me was believing that he wasn't lying. I could just feel it.
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" He asked with a smirk.
"Sort of." Rose chimed in.
"Doesn't work." He continued walking.
"Who are you?" She asked him.
"Told you. The Doctor."
"Yeah, but Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor."
"The Doctor?" I asked.
"Hello!" He waived the arm.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" I threw back at him.
"Sort of." He chuckled.
"Strange man." I groaned quietly.
"What?" He asked, looking thoroughly confused.
"Nothing you idiot." I snapped, feeling more than 100% done with him.
"Come on then. You can tell us. We've seen enough. Are you the police?" Rose asked, trying to diffuse the tension between me and the Doctor. She had only seen me truly angry a handful of times but she knew the warning signs when I was getting really fed up. The Doctor turned to her.
"No, I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home." He replied, sounding earnest.
"But what have I done wrong? How come those plastic things keep coming after me?" She asked. I snapped my head to look at her.
"You? I do believe I was there both times something went wrong. Besides, two incidents could be a coincidence." I tried to explain, feeling like Rose was being a bit self centered. Both her and the Doctor seemed to ignore me though.
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you. You were just an accident. You got in the way, that's all." The Doctor explained.
"It tried to kill me." Rose countered.
"It was after me, not you. Last night, in the shop, I was there. Then you two blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down. The only reason it fixed on you is 'cos you've met me." He tried to explain.
"So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you?" She asked.
"Sort of, yeah." He had an ego on him.
"You're full of it." I said while rolling my eyes.
"Sort of, yeah." He smiled. I wanted to hit him.
"But, all this plastic stuff. Who else knows about it?" Rose asked, making a valid point.
"No one." He said simply.
"What, you're on your own?" She asked.
"Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly, while all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on." He kept walking.
"Okay. Start from the beginning. I mean if we're going with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that," She started.
"I do." They both gave me a questioning glance. "What? I'm sorry but I was almost killed by a mannequin whose arm then attacked both of you. I'm pretty prone to believing anything right now." I offered.
"Anyway. If we do go with that, how do you kill it?" Rose continued.
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead." He spoke as if this were an everyday thing.
"So that's radio control?" Rose asked.
"Thought control. Are you two alright?" He asked us. Rose nodded.
"Yeah. So, who's controlling it then?" I asked.
"Long story." He shrugged it off.
"We've got time." I offered.
"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" Rose asked. I snorted.
"No. It's not a price war. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?" He asked. Rose said 'no' while I simply nodded my head, knowing if she heard me say yes, she would start thinking I was a loon. "You're still listening though."
"Really though Doctor. Tell me, who are you?" Rose asked. I was starting to feel ignored unless I said something strange. The Doctor stopped walking and faced us.
"Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it." He grabbed each of our hands. "The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, the three of us, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go." He dropped our hands. "That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose and Phoenix Tyler-"
"Just Phoenix." I piped up.
"Right, Rose Tyler, just Phoenix. Forget me. Go home." He walked away, leaving us staring in awe. Rose started walking back toward the flat. I started following her, until there was a strange metallic sound in the air. We both ran back to where we had last seen the Doctor. He was nowhere to be found.
A/N: Outfit on polyvore. ( rose_hello_again/set?id=149712979&lid=4311694)