House Call

Chapter 2

"What do you mean you don't know?" asked Amy. She looked at the unknown man up and down and questioned, "Is he an alien? Why he's got a box like you? Is he somebody you know?"

"Shush, Amy. I'm thinking."

Nervously, the Doctor walked up to other man and wondered what the make of him. Bewildered, he rambled, "You seem to be having a retro fashion sense. I thought we were over the bad-boy look. What is this, the return of the U-boat Captain? I figured you'd stick with suits and trainers."

The other man rolled his eyes and said, "No, I'm not the pretty-boy, well I'm not him exactly. I'm based off of him. I'm actually a copy of my ninth personality that's been downloaded into a genetic copy of my human meta-crisis. I'm like his twin."

The bow-tied Doctor scratched his head and then pointed to him and them himself and said, "So, just to be clear. You are not my human meta-crisis, but are in fact a copy of that half-human Time Lord. You just happen to have my ninth regeneration's personality. Oh, that is so weird. What do I call you? 9.5? 10.2?"

Irked, the leather-clad man replied, "Then, I suppose that makes you Eleven. Well, you can call me Nine or Dr. Joseph Noble. That's my human alias."

Curious, the Doctor said, "What? Not John Smith? It's a classic or is that name already taken?"

"No, Johnny-boy goes by Noble too. I'm just pretending to be his twin brother, so I was stuck with the same username."

Intrigued, the Doctor stepped around his not-double and tired to peered inside his TARDIS, but swiftly Nine blocked his path. He narrowed his brow into a glare and with very familiar steel blue eyes and said, "Mind your own business. This is my ship."

Puzzled, the Doctor tried to look past his shoulder and said, "Oh, now I am curious…wasn't there someone else inside with you…a lady?"

Suddenly, Nine was shoved away from behind from within the dark tool shed and out strode Rose Tyler, defender of earth. She was wearing a purple leather jacket, jeans, trainers and a black graphic T-shirt with the image of a yellow smiley face on it. Giggling, she wrapped her arms around Nine's neck and ruffled his wild hair.

"What are you doing standing at the door like that?"

"Rose, this is not the time."

"Why? Where are we? Oh—"

Bewildered, Rose scanned the room and saw that she was inside the TARDIS and even though she didn't understand why, she just knew that this was the original Doctor's TARDIS. This was the TARDIS she looked into and looked into her. However, the TARDIS was a lot bigger in the inside than it used to be and way more amazing. Though, eventually her eyes closed in on the man in the bow tie. He nervously began to fidget and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Um, Hello."

Rose smiled and walked up to him and said, "Hello, Doctor."

"Uh, you look brilliant."

She bashfully lowered her lashes and teasingly slid her tongue across her teeth and said, "Yeah, but you've changed."

The Doctor smiled back at her and straightened his tie and asked, "Yeah, but is it good or bad?"

He then wriggled his eyebrows and ran his hand through his hair for her appeal. His actions earned him another giggle and he heard her say the familiar words, "No, Doctor it's just different. But you still ain't ginger and is it me or are you keep getting younger?"

"Oh, I have no control over these thing, Rose. Though you're right. I'm still not ginger, but I think I'm less rude. And I must say I love the bow tie. Bow-ties are cool."

"Oh my god, are you flirting with her?" asked Amy.

Startled, the Doctor turned around and stated, "What? No, of course not, Amy. Why on earth would you think that? Now, let's have some introductions. Rose, Amy and Rory. Amy and Rory, Rose. And that's her companion over there, he's sort of like—like a half brother to me."

"Oi! She's my companion, not the other way around, mate. And just so that we're clear, hands off the blonde."

Rory then leaned forward and said, "Hang on, so this man is like your half brother? How does that work, exactly? And am I the only one concerned here that we have no power."

The Eleventh Doctor beamed and answered, "Yes, you are absolutely right, Rory! We do seem to have a sight power problem, now Nine, right? Can you fill me in on that."

Nine crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the railing and then absently began to stroke a support beam and said, "I haven't got a clue, me. We were just setting off on our maiden voyage." He gestured back to the tool shed and added; "She's still an infant, my new TARDIS. She's a remnant from the original from over here. And sure she'd had a few kinks, but it wasn't anything she couldn't handle."

Rose said, "Yeah, but John said she wasn't ready."

Nine scuffed and replied, "Oh Rose, that was just Johnny-boy's opinion. He just wanted to delay us so he could take out Martha Jones. He wanted to wait for her to finish her medical conference overseas."

Stunned, Eleven exclaimed, "Martha Jones!"

Nine shook his head and explained, "No, not your Martha Jones. She's from Pete's world. She never traveled with you, but Johnny-boy fancies her."

"Well," interrupted Eleven. "That's all over fascinating, but why did your TARDIS lose power? And why did mine?"

Rose sighed and answered, "She's sick."

The whole gang turned to face her and straightening up she said, "The new TARDIS is a baby. She's from the original universe, but her power isn't really compatible with Pete's world. She's been sick for a while. The Doctor—Nine and John have been trying to make a power adapter, but it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing."

The bow-tied man said, "Yes, but how can a simply power adapter create a breach in reality?"

"It shouldn't," answered Nine. "However, since your TARDIS lost power it should have landed somewhere and exited the Time Vortex."

The leather-clan man then strode to the door and opened it to reveal that they had indeed landed. Amy, Rory and Rose ran to look and saw that they were on a beach just outside an unknown city with three moons hanging in the night sky.

"Well, it looks like we're not in Kansas anymore."

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TBC

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Author's Note: The other Doctor is based from my last story "The Dating Game." He looks like 10, but has 9's personality. He was made by an alien that liked Rose so she could get the best of both her Doctors. Who wouldn't want it all? Though, I hope you like how things are going so far. I think I have something that's shaped like a plot. This story is a stand alone, though if you want you can read "The Dating Game." Also I work without a beta, errors happen.

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