Christmas Invasion Part 2

After Jason's mother gave a very long… sleepy speech about what was to happen and what was not, Eliza stared down at the ground as she fiddled with the chain on her coat. "So, this isn't down to anyone else?" Eliza asked the woman. "Only I can do this?"

"Yeah," Jason's mother replied. "Being as your dad doesn't have anymore children after you, you and your children are the only ones who fit the job description. The Cycle has to continue, Rivianna."

Eliza nodded and sighed, seeing no alternative. "When do I apply?"

The woman smiled and held out her hands. "Come here, Cub."

Eliza didn't know what was happening, really. She felt like she was floating. She opened her eyes to see nothing but black space for as far as she could see, a few planets visible, but nothing else. The stars glittered in front of her, Eliza reaching out to them.

"You know who I am?" asked a voice. Eliza jumped back at the voice in surprise, nether the less, she recognised it.

"Yeah, I think so," Eliza replied confidently.

"Then let's end this, quickly." the voice said. "Do you, Rivianna, take the responsibility, for you, your children, and every descendant of your line, to become Guardians of this Universe, to smite down any signs of trouble when they arise?"

"Yes," Eliza replied immediately. She didn't know where she was, but it was making her light headed.

"Then you, Rivianna, shall be the successor of the Time Lords!" the voice replied triumphantly, almost happily. Gravity, now deciding it wanted a part in this, began to pull her down. She fell back, but did not hit the ground. Instead, she opened her eyes and found she was in the Time Vortex, falling and spinning, falling and spinning…

She saw the TARDIS not to far away, doing the same. She tried to call for the Doctor, but no words came. Instead, there was a long, beautiful note that rung through the Vortex, making the TARDIS spin out of control and out of the never ending cylinder.

She awoke in a street, stood straight up on her feet, with a few others. The Doctor, in a dressing gown and pyjama's, which she'd ask about later, Rose, Mickey, Harriet Jones and a stranger, the TARDIS not too far away.

The Doctor gave her a surprised look, then turned his attention back to the sky, a huge, great, big massive ship floating right above their heads. "I take I've missed quite a bit, then?" Eliza asked, attracting the attention the others.

"Where the hell have you been?" Rose demanded. "You said a couple o' hours max. It's been over twenty four!"

"Twenty four?" Eliza pondered. "That's a whole day," she began laughing, kicking a stone on the floor. "Weeeell, see, while you guys were… doing stuff, I was… well, I was sleeping, I guess."

Before anyone could ask questions, the ship above them began to move. It rose above their heads, turning direction, shooting off towards the sky.

Rose, in happiness of their victory, jumped on Mickey's back. "Yeah, and don't come back!" she screamed after them.

"Yeah!" Mickey cheered. "It. Is. Defended!"

Eliza watched as the ship sped out of sight, then turned to see everyone. Rose and Mickey were still cheering, The Doctor had walked up to Harriet Jones, Prime Minister. Eliza quickly began to feel out of place, like she didn't belong. And the sad truth was, she didn't. Not anymore.

Rose dragged her out of her thoughts, grabbed her and pulling her in for a hug. "We thought you were dead! After you didn't come back- well, we didn't know what to think."

"That's not really fair," Eliza mocked. "All those time you nearly die, I keep faith in you, but the one time I swan off, nooooo."

Rose smiled, pulling her in for another hug, this time Eliza savouring it.

"Oh, my God, Rose!" Jackie's voice called.

"Oh, talking of trouble," the Doctor muttered as Rose ran to her mother.

"You know, I think this new you is very… cheeky," Eliza commented.

The Doctor smiled at her. "Good cheeky, or bad cheeky?"

Eliza paled, watching as Rose, Mickey and Jackie embraced each other. "Seriously, you have no idea how wrong that sentence is."

He gave her another smile, then turning to Jackie. "That's all I needed! Cup of tea!"

"I said so!" Jackie exclaimed. "Is it really him though? Is it really the Doctor?" Something caught her eye, Jackie turning her attention to it. "Oh, my God! It's the bleeding Prime Minister!"

Eliza laughed again, watching as Jackie caused a fuss over the new presence, Rose telling her to pipe down.

"I'm going to miss this…" Eliza thought mournfully. Unknown to her, the Doctor heard her comment.

"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked, frowning at her.

Before Eliza could explain her meaning, there was a violent rumbling under their feet. All of them looked up to the ship that was still sailing away, three great green beams shooting from the Earth, colliding with the ship, blasting it into millions of tiny pieces.

The Doctor's frown turned into a vengeful expression as he turned to Harriet Jones. One thing that this new him had that the other him had as well was the 'Oncoming Storm Stare', as Eliza called it. "That was murder!" he hissed.

"That was defence," Harriet battles. "It's adapted from alien technology, a ship that fell to Earth ten years ago."

"But they were leaving!"

"You said it yourself, Doctor," Harriet battled. "They'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time; you come and go. It happened today, Mr Llewellyn and the Major. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case, we have to defend ourselves."

The Doctor shook his head. "Britain's Golden Age…" he said bitterly.

"It comes with a price," Harriet countered.

"I gave them the wrong warning," the Doctor claimed. "I should have told them to run, run away and hide because the monsters are coming; the Human Race."

"Those are the people I represent, I did on their behalf." Harriet snapped.

"And I should have stopped you."

"What does that make you Doctor?" Harriet snared. "Another alien threat, the pair of you?" She gestured to Eliza and him.

"Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man!" The Doctor bellowed as he approached her, herself looking completely terrified as she looked up at him, but she still stood her ground. "I could bring down your government with just a single word."

This time, Harriet tried a different approach. "You're the most remarkable man I've ever met," she admitted. "But I don't think you're quite capable of that."

"No, not one word," the Doctor agreed. "Just six."

"I don't think so," Harriet replied, panic evident in her voice.

"Six words," he repeated.

"Stop it!" she snapped.

"Six," the Doctor said in finality. He walked over to the man who accompanied her, taking the earpiece out and handing it to him. He leaned closer to the mans ear, whispering so only he could hear, "Don't you think she looks tired?"

Eliza chuckled at this. If it had been the previous Doctor who had threatened Harriet that way, he would have said something completely different.

The Doctor walked away from the man, who was seriously thinking about what he'd said, looking at Harriet every few seconds. The Doctor walked past his TARDIS, the rest of the group following him, Eliza taking her place beside him. "Would you really have done it?" she asked him.

"Nah," the Doctor replied. "Wouldn't have wasted my breath." Eliza nodded, before stopping, grabbing the Doctor by the wrist. "We'll meet you back at the Estate!" Eliza called to Rose, Jackie and Mickey, who continued walking as she dragged the Doctor back to the TARDIS.

"What-" the Doctor stammered as she pulled him towards the TARDIS Closet.

"Do you really think I'm gonna let you walk around in your jim-jams?" Eliza asked him. "Really, Doctor, I thought you knew me better than that," the Doctor smiled at her knowingly, and then she turned back and out of the Closet, walking towards her room.

She took a deep breath before entering. Everything was exactly as she'd left it, even the covers, which were unmade. She looked around the room, taking everything in as she walked around. She soon realised that her room on board the TARDIS was an exact replica of the one she had at her home.

Home… she thought, collapsing on the bed, taking in her own scent as she pushed the pillow to her face. What was she thinking, taking that job? Not like she had a choice, mind. She knew what would happen if she didn't. No. She was happy with the way things were, she thought. She was just going to miss everything. The Doctor, Rose, travelling with them. Sure, she'd be doing some travelling on her own, but it wouldn't be the same. Heaving herself off her bed, she grabbed a bag, packing the clothes in her room it and dumping it on the bed. Looking in the mirror, she finally understood what the Face of Boe meant, all that time ago. She smiled as she remembered his true identity, and wondered where he was right now.

Sighing, she grabbed the bag on her bed and wondered towards the door, taking a final look, then turning off the light, closing the door, gently, but firmly behind her.

She looked back at the door, the letters 'RMT' etched into the door. Eliza smiled, thumping the TARDIS walls for the last time, feeling herself choking up already. "Don't try and tell me you aint sad about this either, Red." she told the TARDIS.

"Truly, I am saddened by your inevitable departure," the TARDIS replied, a gentle hum filling Eliza's mind. "But we all knew this would happen eventually, My Cub. We shall meet each other again."

Eliza nodded, and then walked back towards the Closet. From her childhood, she'd grown up being told stories of the Doctor's never ending adventures and tales, but never did she think she'd actually meet him. The Doctor in his brown suit, big hair and cocky attitude.

He was looking himself over in the mirror when she found him, checking to see if he had any other moles he was unaware of. He checked his teeth, then the rest of his face. Nodding, she heard, "Yeah… this will do for a while."

"Even if you are a pretty boy?" Eliza teased, causing the Doctor to turn around slowly, still looking in the mirror. When he did eventually meet her eyes, he said, "Weeellll, can't be all that bad, can it?" he asked, and then noticed all her gear. "What did you mean earlier? You said you'd miss this?"

Eliza gave him a sad smile. "My time's up," she said mournfully. "You always said you were only my babysitter, well, now the baby's all grown up, the curse has been lifted," she joked. Eliza then sighed as he met her eyes again, watching his face fall slowly. "I've got all my memories back now, Gramps. Time to go home. See my mum and dad," Eliza nodded at her plans, then ended, "Then, I have a job to do. A pretty long one, at that."

"What job?" the Doctor asked. Eliza chuckled. He still had his questions, that's for sure. "I can't really tell you, but you'll be seeing me around."

The Doctor nodded, then walked towards her, wrapping his arms around her smaller frame. "I'd better be," he replied as she returned the embrace. It was strange. This time last year, he thought of her as the biggest curse he'd ever been put under, something to drag him down. But once he got used to her, he became dependant on her. She was the first companion he had since the Time War, he needed her company. And now she was leaving.

"Don't gimme all that!" Eliza grumbled. "You've still got Rose. And this is 'see you later', not 'good-bye', do you understand me, Gramps?" she separated from him, giving him a smile. "Now cheer up. Jackie's making Christmas Dinner!"

Giving her a meek smile, the Doctor replied, "I still think I'd be safer with the nut loaf."
"Oh, please," Eliza said, nudging him in the ribs. "You haven't even tried her cooking."

"And for good reason!" the Doctor replied in his defence. "Rose gave me fair warning."

They debated what Jackie's cooking would be like all the way to the Estate, using the TARDIS because it was a little bit quicker. She walked in through the door, Eliza dropping the bag by the coat hanger, the closing of the door grabbing Rose's attention. The Doctor raised his eye brows, waiting for her opinion of his new dress attire. She gave him a strong smile, nodding. He smiled back at her, him and Eliza both taking their coats off as they say down at the table.

Soon, they were all sat in a circle around the big, fat, family meal, wearing paper crowns upon their heads, laughing as they ate. Eliza looked around the table happily. This was defiantly one of the moments she was going to remember. So insistent of the fact, she demanded a photo. Grabbing an old camera from the draw, Jackie set it on timer, all five of them in the shot, smiling at the camera with their glasses raised. Eliza took photo and set it in her pocket safely.

She looked at her former guardian, smiling widely at him. Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, he would have said I don't do that'. But here he was, sitting down with the Tyler's and Smith, eating a meal with them. It all seemed so… domestic for him. She chuckled at the thought as Harriet Jones appeared on television, insisting to the press surrounding her that there was nothing wrong with her health. The Doctor and Eliza smiled at his action, Eliza muttering, "You naughty boy, you…"

"Like she didn't deserve it," the Doctor replied harshly.

Soon after, they were all outside, after being told by Jackie's friend that it had started to snow. Eliza grabbed her bag after everyone had gone out, taking one more slice of turkey. Taking the photo out of her pocket, she closed it in her hands and concentrated. Opening her hands, there were two photo's now placed securely within her mitts. She placed one of them on the table, writing on the back of it 'See you soon. Lots of love, Eliza x' She signed it with her signature, her little way of telling Jackie she's found the person who dumped her off at the TARDIS. She walked out of the flat, looking down at the Doctor and Rose, who were watching the sky and planning their next route. The Doctor caught a glimpse of her in the corner of his eye and smiled, nudging Rose.

She nodded in farewell at the two, then walked silently down the ramp. No, She thought. I'll give them a show.

Concentrating again, she felt herself speed across the sky, flying above their heads, a colour as blue as the TARDIS illuminating the sky as she began to disappear. Next thing she knew, she was spinning in the Time Vortex, letting The Cub guide her home. She felt herself rip through something slightly, but soon forgot about it.

Riva opened her eyes when she felt herself hit the ground. She smiled at the familiar scent of salt water found its way to her nose. She looked up to see her old happy place; the cave she'd found as a young child. She walked foreword, smiling at the vacant beach. She trudged her way up to the end of the beach, onto the road. Riva turned around and look at the sign, laughing in irony. "Dårlig Ulv Stranden," she muttered. Riva turned from the beach, taking off at a run for home.

A.N: Hope you enjoyed Hope I didn't give too much away. I will not be doing some of the episodes; ones include Love and Monsters and School Reunion. Sorry for anyone that likes these particular episodes, I really don't. BTW, thank you all so much for the feedback I got. You guys have no idea how surprised I was when I looked at my inbox this morning and saw like 20 emails *smiley face*