A/N: I do not own anything relating to Doctor Who. I only own the ideas of my OC. The outfit for this is on polyvore (aliens_london/set?id=152579720). I hope you enjoy. Thank you to everyone who reviews. Thank you Lady Artimes Blaine for the review. I'm glad you're enjoying. As always, I hope you enjoy.

I woke up to the gentle humming in my head. I thanked the Tardis and went to find some clothes. I threw on a pair of light wash ripped up jeans, a pink tank top with black flowers and a black band under the bust, and a black blazer. I threw my black converse back on and cleaned up. I left my hair down once again. I stretched once more and made my way to the console room. I met up with Rose outside our rooms.

"You're up without me jumping on your bed." She teased as we walked.

"Scary isn't it." I laughed. She looked at me suspiciously. I huffed. "Ok, I had the Tardis wake me up."

"I knew you wouldn't get up on your own." She giggled.

"Oh hush. You're no fun." I pouted as we came into the room. She continued to laugh at me, with me making faces at her.

"You two look better." The Doctor teased as we walked up. I gave a turned one of my faces on him. He chuckled and shook his head.

"So, can we go home for a little bit? You know, to get some things like clothes." Rose asked cautiously.

"Of course. Hold on." He ran around the console putting it in flight. I quickly grabbed onto the nearest support beam and held on for dear life. Finally the Tardis settled as she materialized. When I was sure that we weren't moving anymore, I let go of the support beam. Both Rose and the Doctor had stayed upright this time.

"How long have we been gone?" Rose questioned before heading toward the doors.

"About twelve hours." The Doctor replied smugly.

"About twelve hours? Are you sure?" I asked nervously. He was off by 9 years last time, I hoped he hadn't been off by that much this time.

"Don't worry." He reassured me. I watched him carefully.

"Oh. Right, we shouldn't be long. I just want to see mum." Rose explained.

"Yeah. Might be good to tell her we're going traveling for a bit. Just in case." I offered.

"What're you going to tell her?" The Doctor asked us.

"I don't know. We've been to the year 5 billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours? No, we'll just tell her we spent the night at Shareen's." Rose said. I gave her a frown.

"And then I get a lecture because someone told her I was sleeping off a hangover." I huffed. She rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry. You were talking and I didn't know what to say about you not coming to the phone." She tried to apologize.

"It's fine. I just hate her lectures." I pouted, following her to the door. We stopped once it opened and faced the Doctor.

"Oh, don't you disappear." Rose pointed at him.

"We're coming back." I added. He held up his hands in surrender. "You better be here." We continued to walk out of the Tardis and toward the stairs to the flat. "So, story is we went out, had a bit to drink after worrying about the job situation, then crashed at Shareen's for the night?" I questioned as we walked.

"Yeah. You've stayed over there before so it'll be believable." She agreed. I nodded and we went up the stairs and walked into the flat. It looked a bit different but I didn't pay attention. "We're back!" She called out. "We were with Shareen. She was all upset again and we needed a distraction. Are you in?" Jackie came around the corner looking shocked. Her face paled a bit.

"Mum, are you alright?" I asked nervously. She looked like she had seen a ghost.

"What? What's that face for? It's not the first time we've stayed out all night. Especially Nix." Rose added, noticing Jackie's face. She dropped her mug of tea and stared at us.

"Mum?" My worry was increasing.

"It's you." Jackie breathed out.

"Oh, my God. It's you. My girls. Oh my God." She ran up to us and pulled us into a bone crushing hug. I looked at the coffee table and noticed missing posters for both Rose and I. I looked at Rose who had spotted them as well. Suddenly the Doctor ran into the flat.

"It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry." He said out of breath. I glared at him as Jackie let us go to call the police.

"I asked you about the landing, specifically asked you about the time, but you ignored me and said not to worry. Well, you're taking the shit storm that's coming from this." I growled at him. He shrank back a bit, looking a bit shocked by my anger. He stayed quiet as Jackie berated us with questions until the police showed up. We stuck with a story of traveling.

"The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own. I thought you two were dead, and where were you? Traveling. What the hell does that mean, traveling. That's no sort of answer." I stared at my hands, avoiding Jackie's glare. This was much worse than the lecture expected. I would have given anything for just another drinking lecture. Jackie had suffered. She was still suffering. It killed me to see the pain in her eyes. She finally turned to the police officer that was watching us carefully. "You ask them. They won't tell me. That's all they say. Traveling."

"That's what we were doing." Rose tried to explain.

"When your passport's still in the drawer? Last I knew, Nix didn't even have one. It's just one lie after another." Jackie fumed. I wanted to offer some kind of comfort but I knew that anything I had to say would just anger her, or worse, hurt her, so I decided to stay quiet.

"I meant to phone. I really did. I just forgot." Rose continued. I wanted to kick her and tell her to shut up. She wasn't making things easier.

"What, for a year? You forgot for a whole year? And what about you Nix? You just forget as well?" I bit my lip and continued to look at my hands. "And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you just tell me where you've been?" She sounded close to tears.

"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Rose and Nix as my companions." The Doctor tried to offer some kind of explanation. I frowned. That wasn't really a good idea.

"When you say companions, do you mean some kind of sexual relationship?" The policeman asked. All three of us turned to him.

"No." We said at the same time.

"Then what is it?" Jackie started in on the doctor. "Because you, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, they vanish off the face of the Earth! How old are you then? Forty? Forty five? What, did you find them on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" She demanded. ~Please don't say something stupid.~ I begged in my mind.

"I am a Doctor." I groaned quietly as he said this. Jackie looked furious.

"Prove it. Stitch this, mate!" She hauled off and smacked him. There was a bright welt on his face. After a bit, the police officer left. Jackie had stalked off to the kitchen. Rose had quickly followed. I eventually joined them.

" Did you think about me at all?" She asked sadly.

"Of course we did mum. I promise." I tried to offer.

"We did. All the time, but-" Rose didn't know how to finish.

"One phone call. Just to know that you were alive." The guilt filled me.

"We're so sorry mum." I felt close to tears.

"We really are." Rose agreed. Jackie looked at us sadly. To keep myself from crying, I ran off to get some air. I made my way up to the roof of the building. Rose and the Doctor soon joined me.

"You alright?" Rose asked me. I shrugged.

"Fine." I continued staring off at the view of the city. She sat to the right of me, the Doctor on my left. Instead of continuing her questioning, she decided to strike up a conversation with the Doctor.

"I can't bring myself to tell her. I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me." She pouted, talking about Jackie.

"And we missed a year." I sent a glare at the Doctor. He frowned.

"I said I was sorry." He tried.

"Not me you should apologize to. Jackie is the one really hurt by it. Personally, I don't mind. I just feel bad that she is so hurt and was worried for so long." I explained. Rose piped up, trying to stop the argument before it started.

"Was it a good year?" She asked him.

"Middling." He shrugged.

"You are useless." I huffed. The anger was fading. I knew he didn't intend to bring us back a year later instead of a couple hours. It wasn't necessarily his fault.

"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you two going to stay here now?" He asked, quieter than normal. I looked at Rose. If it wasn't such a sobering idea, I would have laughed at the look she gave me. She already knew my decision, but her own wasn't made yet.

"I told you you're not getting rid of me that easily." I replied. He looked a little surprised.

"Even though you're angry with me?" He asked cautiously.

"I'm not really angry with you. Frustrated? A bit. Angry? Not so much." I shrugged. He nodded and looked over at Rose.

"What about you?" He asked.

"I don't know. I can't do that to her again, though." She said slowly, still thinking.

"Well, she's not coming with us." He said flatly.

"No chance." Rose agreed.

"I don't do families." He offered.

"What about Rose and I?" I asked, knowing full well the difference.

"You're not really sisters. Even if you were, you don't argue like sisters really." He explained.

"Just teasing. Besides, Jackie and you would clash violently." I laughed. He chuckled as well.

"Yeah. She slapped you!" Rose cried.

"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother." He pouted, rubbing his cheek. Rose started giggling, but I was suddenly distracted. ~900 years?~ I thought with confusion.

"Your face." Rose laughed.

"It hurt!" He whined. I looked at him strangely. "What?"

"When you say nine hundred years?" I had to ask.

"That's my age." He said confidently, no sign of joking or lying.

"Really? Are you kidding?" It shouldn't be so hard to believe. I guess I just wasn't really expecting him to be that old since he looked so young.

"You're nine hundred years old?" Rose asked, seeing as he wasn't answering my questions.

"Yeah." He replied. I shrugged and looked back at the city.

"Mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap." Rose chuckled. "Every conversation with you just goes mental."

"That is an understatement." I muttered. Rose got up and began to walk around a little bit.

"And there's no one else I can talk to except Nix. We've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and we can't say a word to anyone. Aliens and spaceships and things, and Nix and I are the only people on the planet Earth who knows they exist."

"Come on now. No need to go all dark side about it. We've been able to see things that people only dream about. Besides, you've got me to talk to if you ever need to." I tried to comfort her. She nodded and turned to face the city. I sighed and laid back on the part of the roof that I had been sitting on. I looked up at the clouds and patches of blue sky. There was a deep horn behind me. I rolled my head back a little and saw a space ship of some kind fly over. I froze, too afraid to sit up as it flew over, black smoke trailing behind it. After it passed, I jumped up and walked over to the edge of the roof where Rose was. I glanced at the Doctor who just shrugged. We watched as it dodged the bridge and some buildings before diving down and crashing through the Clock Tower and landing in the Thames. Black smoke began to rise up from where it crashed.

"Oh, that's just not fair." Rose commented.

"Are we going to look at it or just stand here?" I asked, glancing at the Doctor. He smiled and we made our way down and toward town. We didn't get very far before we ran into a blockade. There were military personnel guarding the blockade. There were people trying to get through, to get home or get somewhere else.

"Get back. Get back." One of the soldiers called out at the people.

"It's blocked off." The Doctor said excitedly.
"Thank you Captain Obvious." I chuckled. He looked at me with a smirk.

"You're welcome Lieutenant Sarcasm." He teased back, making me laugh. Rose giggled and shook her head at us.

"We're miles from the center. The city must be grid locked. The whole of London must be closing down." She added, trying to look past the blockade.

"I know. I can't believe I'm here to see this. This is fantastic!" The Doctor beamed beside us. It was entertaining watching him get so excited over things like this. Most are afraid, whereas he just got excited. His mood was more than contagious.

"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose questioned as we walked around a little bit, trying to get a better view.

"Nope." He smiled.

"Do you recognize the ship at all?" I added, trying not to giggle at his excitement.

"Nope." His smile grew.

"Do you know why it crashed?" Rose continued.

"Nope." I thought his face would break.

"Do you know anything about this at all?" I teased.

"Nope." I snorted out a laugh. They both looked at me.

"What? Come on. It's funny hearing you say you have no idea what's going on." I teased. He scrunched his nose at me in teasing.

"Oh, I'm so glad we've got you." Rose giggled.

"I bet you are. This is what I travel for, girls. To see history happening right in front of us." He beamed.

"Well, let's go and see it. Never mind the traffic. We've got the Tardis." She smiled.

"Is that a good idea?" I asked.

"We better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't want to shove another one on top." He agreed with me.

"Yeah, but yours looks like a big blue box. No one's going to notice." She suggested.

"I notice it. Even before we knew what it was." I shrugged when Rose gave me a questioning glance. "I'm hyper observant." I tried to explain.

"Exactly. You'd be surprised at who notices things. Emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me. The Tardis should stay where she is." He agreed. Thankfully he listened to reason for once.

"So history's happening and we're stuck here." Rose frowned slightly.

"Yes, we are." He nodded.

"We could always do what everyone else is doing right now. We could watch it on TV." I suggested, not sure of what else to do.

"Might as well." Rose agreed. We made our way back to the flat. People had filled the flat. It took a tremendous amount of effort to keep from running outside and hiding somewhere. Luckily most people ignored me. The Doctor sat in a chair closest to the TV. He flicked through channels while Rose sat in another chair. I had helped Jackie set up some chairs for the others. She came into the room with two mugs of tea for Rose and her friend Ru. I tried to stay off to the side in the back of the room.

"You've broken your mother's heart." Ru lectured Rose. She turned an eye on me, to which I shrank back a little bit. I didn't want to get any more lectures. Jackie handed Ru and Rose their mugs.

"I'm not going to make him welcome." She pointed to the Doctor who was ignoring everyone, still flipping through channels. I sighed and walked out of the room to make him a mug of tea. Jackie came in and joined me for a minute. "Are you alright dear?" She asked me, sounding much less angry than before.

"I just don't like being around so many people. I'm going to get some air." She nodded. I gave the Doctor a mug before walking outside the flat. I could still hear people talking and the TV going. I leaned on the railing and calmed my breathing. I had a hard time dealing with large groups of family and friends. Something about the large gathering makes me a bit anxious. I've always had trouble with them. Most of the time I would stay for a bit before running off to sit on the roof by myself. I was about to make my way to the roof once again when the door opened. The Doctor came outside. He smiled when he saw me.

"So this is where you took off to." He chuckled.

"Yeah. Crowds aren't my thing." I shrugged. Rose quickly came outside.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked him. He spun around to face her.

"Nowhere. It's just a bit human in there for me. Even Phoenix is a bit overwhelmed by all this. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all." He tried to explain. Rose wasn't buying it and neither was I. We hadn't known him that long, but we knew well enough when he wasn't being completely honest.

"Right." I scoffed. He gave me a questioning glance before Rose began to speak again.

"There's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just wandering." She laughed as well.

"Nothing to do with me. It's not an invasion. That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, color of smoke, everything. It's perfect." He smiled.

"How, in your mind, is a genuine crash landing perfect?" I asked.

"Well, maybe this is it. First contact. The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race. I'm not interfering because you've got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay. Now you can expand." He looked at us carefully. "You don't need me. Go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum."

"Promise you won't go and take off on us?" I asked, slightly worried at the thought of him running off on us. I had grown quite fond of his presence, even though we fought like cats and dogs. He reached into his pocket and pulled out two keys on chains.

"Tell you what. Tardis keys. It's about time you two had one. See you later." He smiled and walked off. I frowned as he left, but put the chain around my neck with my other necklace.

"Don't worry Nix. He's not going to leave us. Come back inside. They're a bit worried about you taking off like you did." She put her arm around my shoulder.

"They know I don't do well with large groups." I sighed as we walked back inside.

"I know, but they're still a bit tense about the whole 12 month thing." I nodded and walked back to my spot near the door to the kitchen. I kept myself a bit away from the others.

"Here's to the Martians!" Jackie called out raising her mug.

"The Martians!" The others agreed. Well, everyone except Rose and I. She looked almost as uncomfortable as I was. The door opened and Mickey came in. Rose noticed him and instantly looked guilty.