AN: Sorry! I've been a bit busy with the start of school and everything, but here you go! Enjoy!

Chapter 9

I giggled at that last line. It was always one of my favorites. Rose seemed stunned, but still trailed behind us.

"What have I done wrong?" She questioned. "How come those plastic things keep coming after me?"

The Doctor replied, "Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you!" I snorted. "You were just an accident," I added. "You got in the way, that's all." She glared at me, "It tried to kill me!

"It was after Alice and me, not you." The Doctor intervened. "Last night, in the shop, we were there, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing! This morning, we were tracking it down, it was tracking us down. The only reason it fixed on you is 'cos you've met us."

"So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you two." Rose eyed us skeptically.

"Mostly him, I just joined the party," I said with a smirk. The Doctor smiled and added, "Sort of, yeah."

Rose scoffed, "You're full of it!"

"Sort of, yeah."

Rose sighed as we continued down the sidewalk. "But, all this plastic stuff. Who else knows about it?"

Thousands of people back home. I thought with a sad smile. The Doctor noticed this, but continued on. "No one."

"What, you're on your own?" Rose said.

"Well, other than Alice, who else is there?" The Doctor replied. "I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly!"

I interrupted him, saying, "While all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on!"

Rose's eyes narrowed. "Wait, you're from America!"

I rolled my eyes. "Did you not understand any of what I was just saying! This is not the time for personal questions!"

"Fine." Rose sighed. "Okay. Start from the beginning. I mean, if we're going to go with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do, how did you kill it?"

"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm." The Doctor explained. "I cut off the signal, dead."

"So that's radio control."

I let the Doctor explain the schematics of the situation as I wandered ahead, looking at my surroundings. I never thought I'd ever do this. I've dreamed about it for so long! It's unreal. Noticing that The Doctor was almost done, I sauntered back to him and Rose.

"Really, though," Rose said. "Doctor, Alice. Tell me, who are you?"

The Doctor thought for a bit, then answered. "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." He paused. "I can feel it. 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, you, me, Alice. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go." He stopped, voice catching. "That's who I am."

Slightly stunned, Rose turned to me. "And you?"

I shook my head, knowing my explanation wasn't nearly as dramatic as the Doctor's. "Me? I'm just along for the ride."

The Doctor smiled slightly. "Now forget about us Rose Tyler. Go home."

We turned back street, heading to the TARDIS. Rose was still gaping at us, so I turned around and took a picture of her on my Polaroid camera. I smiled at her expression and pasted it inside my journal beneath the lines we had just spoken.

(Rose P.O.V)

Rose turned to walk away, a million thoughts racing through her head when she heard a peculiar noise. She raced back to the street corner, only to find the strange blue box that was previously there to be missing. Glancing around, Rose walked briskly back towards normality.