Chapter 4:

Losing Something Part 2/World War Three

By: Izzy

The Doctor was worried, because he couldn't remember if she had put on the ID card or not. After a bit he managed to remove his ID card. He held the ID card in his hand. "Deadly to humans, maybe." he grinned as he stood up and threw the ID card at the Slitheen. It hit the collar around the Slitheen's neck. The Doctor turned around to see that Rhiannon was fine. She smiled at him as he ran to her pulling her to her feet, they dashed out of the room. They ran into the hall, where a large group of guard awaited orders. "Oi! If you want aliens, you've got them. They're inside Downing Street. Come on!" The Doctor pulled Rhiannon back into the briefing room, he waved for the guards to follow. They followed closely.

The Doctor and Rhiannon along with the guards entered the room right as Green finished helping the General put on the skin suit. Green acted like he was upset. "Where have you been?" he scoffed. "I called for help. I sounded the alarm. There was this lightening, this kind of, er, electricity, and they all collapsed."
"I think they're all dead." the Sargent said as he checked the bodies.
"That's what I'm saying." Green declared. "They did it! That man and woman there." Green pointed to the Doctor and Rhiannon.
"I think you will find the Prime Minister is an alien in disguise." the Doctor said as he pointed to Green. Then the guards turned their guns on him and Rhiannon. "That's never going to work, is it?"
"No." said one of the officers that was standing beside the Doctor.
"Fair enough," he said as he dashed out of the room still holding Rhiannon's hand. She was having a hard time keeping up with him but they encountered another group of guards.

"Talk 'bout a rock in a hard place," Rhiannon whispered. The Doctor smiled at her.
"Under the jurisdiction of the Emergency Protocols, I authorize you to execute this man." the General said as he pushed through the guard.
"Well, now, yes, you see, er, the thing is, if I was you, if I was going to execute someone by backing them against the wall, between you and me, little word of advice." the Doctor said as he backs up to the elevator. Which dinged and opened. He stepped into the elevator and pulled Rhiannon with him. "Don't stand them against the lift!" The doors closed , the Doctor and Rhiannon stood quietly, with him still holding her hand, in the elevator. "What did you want to tell me?"

"That it's," she started and shallowed hard. "My birthday." The last part of that statement was sad sounding which made him give her a questioning look. She didn't miss the look. "My birthday has a track record of being bad, I always lose something around my birthday. But I have to say that this rates in one of my better birthdays." That made him frown. Just before he could say anything to her about that being bad, the lift dinged again. The doors opened revealing a Slitheen, he saw Rose and Harriet trying to open a door.
"Hello!" he said waving at the confused Slitheen. He hits the button on the elevator to take them to the next floor. "You know that I will have to fix that." The statement was so quiet that she almost didn't hear it. The elevator dinged again. He poked his head out the door when it opened making sure the coast was clear. Once he was sure that there would be no one to spot them, he ran with her down the stairs, still holding her hand. She felt safe as he held her held.

Just as they reached the elevator on this floor they heard it ding. He ran behind the door to hid from the two Slitheen that passed them. "It does us good to hunt. Purifies the blood." the Slitheen that was disguised as Green said.
"We'll keep this floor quarantined as our last hunting ground before the final phase." the Slitheen that was once disguised as the General said. The Doctor moves from their hiding spot, pulling lightly on Rhiannon's hand. He was happy that she was not asking questions as most humans did. She had this kind of knowing that he could convey himself to her without talking. He spotted a CO2 tank just before the room that the Slitheen went in to. He let go of her and took the tank. She followed him closely but not so close that she would get in his way.

"No! Take me first! Take me!" Harriet shouted as they got into the room. He sprayed Green and the General with the CO2.
"Out, with me!" the Doctor shouted. Rose pulled the curtain she was hiding behind on to the Slitheen that remembered her name was Blon. "Who the hell are you?" He looked at Harriet.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." she said flashing her ID to him.
"Nice to meet you." he said with a light smile.
"Likewise." She said. Rhiannon pulled Rose and Harriet out of the room the Slitheen were in. Rhiannon headed to the Cabinet Room, not waiting to see if either woman would follow.
"We need to head to the Cabinet Room." he called to them, after he ran out of CO2 and dropping the can.

"Already on it," Rhiannon called back.
"The Emergency Protocols are in there." Harriet said as everyone ran after Rhiannon. "They give instructions for aliens."
"Harriet Jones, I like you." he said with a light smile. He didn't feel he needed to say anything to Rhiannon. He was already thinking of a way to make up today to her. Running from aliens was no way for a lady to spend her birthday.
"And I like you too." Harriet said, smiling. The Slitheen chased them all the way back to the Cabinet room. Once everyone was in the room the Doctor grabbed the decanter from a side table and stood in the doorway looking really threatening.
"One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol." he said. "Whoof, we all go up. So back off!" Rhiannon sat down near by she was not used to running this much so her feet were killing her and she felt this was a good time to sit. She looked back up to watch this. The Doctor's bluff had worked because the Slitheen were farther away from the Doctor than they had been. "Right then. Question time. Who exactly are the Slitheen?"
"They're aliens." Harriet offered. Rhiannon sighed, which got Harriet and Rose to give Rhiannon a dirty look.
"Yes. I got that, thanks." he said annoyed.
"Who are you, if not human?" Green asked.
"Who's not human?" Harriet asked.
"He's not human." Rose said pointing to the Doctor.
"Shush," Rhiannon said harshly. He thought there she went again, knowing just what he wanted.
"Sorry." Harriet said quietly
"So, what's the plan?" he continued to ask the Slitheen questions.
"But he's got a Northern accent." Harriet said.
"Lots of planets have a north." Rhiannon said annoyed. "Now shut it." That came out a bit ruder than she had intended, she blamed it on spending too much time with the Doctor and stupid people. Stupid people always annoyed her.
"Come on." he said ignoring the conversation behind him since she was handling it. "You've got a spaceship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal. You've murdered your way to the top of government. What for, invasion?"
"Why would we invade this God-forsaken rock?" the General said with a bit of a laugh.
"Then something 's brought the Slitheen race here." the Doctor asked. "What is it?"
"The Slitheen race?" the General said almost fully laughing.
"Slitheen is not our species." Green said. "Slitheen is our surname. Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day-Slitheen at your service." Rhiannon had always thought that name was tougher than hers, so she would always think of him as Green.
"So, you're family." the Doctor said.
"A family business." Green said smugly.
"Then you're out to make a profit." the Doctor said. Rhiannon felt anger boiling under the calm exterior. "How can you do that on a God-forsaken rock?"
"Ah, excuse me?" the General said. She took this as her queue to get up so she could take the alcohol from the Doctor so that way Rose who was under aged didn't have any. "Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability?" Harriet had at some point grabbed the Protocols and was now hugging them like a body shield. Rhiannon moved so that she could reach the alcohol, plus she felt she was going to need it to deal with Mickey-sama no baka.
"Is that what I said?" the Doctor asked, sounding a little less threatening than he had earlier.
"You're making it up." the General said.
"Ah, well! Nice try." the Doctor said handing it to the right. "Harriet, have a drink. I think you're gonna need it."
"I'll take that," Rhiannon said as she took it from him.
"Now we can end this hunt with a slaughter." the General said with a bit of a growl.
"Don't you think we should run?" Rose asked quietly as she looked to Rhiannon. Rhiannon only grinned.
"Fascinating history, Downing Street." the Doctor said. "Two thousand years ago, this was marsh land. 1730, it was occupied by a Mister Chicken. He was a nice man. 1796, this was the Cabinet Room. If the Cabinet's in session and in danger, these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain. End of lesson. He pressed a button that was not too far from him and steel shutters closed off all the doors and windows. "Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in."
"And how do we get out?" Rose asked. Rhiannon grabbed three glasses from the table by the door.
"Ah." he said. Rhiannon sat back in the spot she had sat down earlier. She pored a drink for Harriet, the Doctor and herself.

He noticed that there was two dead bodies. He approached the first body. "What was his name?" he asked solemnly.
"Who?" Harriet asked as she took one of the glasses that Rhiannon had pored.
"This one." he said as he gestured to Indra. "The secretary or whatever he was called."
"I don't know." Harriet responded sadly. "I talked to him. I brought him a cup of coffee. I never asked his name."

"Indra," Rhiannon said as she chugged the alcohol, which she as now thinking was a really bad idea but telle est la vie. (that is French for 'such is life,') "I heard one them call him that." The only reason it was bad is because she got lippy with alcohol in her system, she never gets drunk.
"Sorry, Indra." the Doctor said as he paid his respects. "Right, what have we got? Any terminals, anything?"
"No." Rose said as she continued to search the place. "This place is antique. What I don't get is, when they killed the Prime Minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?"
"He's too slim." the Doctor said. "They're big old beasts. They need to fit inside big humans."
"But the Slitheen are about eight feet." she asked. "How do they fit inside?"
"That's the device around their necks." he said simply as he continued to move the bodies to the closet. "Compression field. Literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas. It's a big exchange."
"Wish I had a compression field." Rose said. "I could fit a size smaller."

"Jus' 'tay wi'h ta Doc fo' a bit an' ya gonna lose lots a weight," Rhiannon said as she was drinking straight out of the decanter. She decided to pretend to be tipsy so that way she wouldn't have to answer any personal questions from Harriet. Rhiannon didn't want to talk to Harriet about her family and not because she didn't like Harriet on the show. It was opposite in fact she rather like Harriet, even after she shot down the Sycorax. And the way Harriet died in order to get the Doctor to Earth, was one of the bravest deaths in Doctor Who in her option.

"Excuse me, people are dead!" Harriet exclaimed. "This is not the time for making jokes."
"Sorry." Rose said. "You get used to this stuff when you're friends with him."
"Well, that's a strange friendship." Harriet said.

"I wa'n't jokin'." Rhiannon said waving her hand in front of her face as she took another swig.

"I think we're cutting you off," the Doctor said as he took the decanter from her, she pouted but didn't fight him. He moved the decanter away from her and turned his focus to Harriet. "Harriet Jones. I've heard that name before. Harriet Jones. You're not famous for anything, are you?" He was trying not to think about how cute the now very 'tipsy' Rhiannon looked as she pouted. Normally he would have been angry with a companion that got tipsy while they were in danger but Rhiannon was different, he couldn't get angry with her. Mostly because he felt it was his fault that her birthday was turning out this way.
"Oh, hardly." Harriet said.
"Rings a bell. Harriet Jones?" He pondered, mostly to himself.
"Lifelong backbencher I'm afraid, and a fat lot of use I'm being now." she said. "The Protocols are redundant. They list the people who could help and they're all dead downstairs." She sighed.
"Hasn't it got, like, defense codes and things?" Rose asked. "Couldn't we just launch a nuclear bomb at them?"
"You're a very violent young woman." Harriet said.
"I'm serious. We could." Rose said. Rhiannon started to laugh at Rose.

"Yea, but does 're with da UN everybody knows dat silly." Rhiannon laughed. He was impressed even very 'tipsy' as she was, she was still helping.
"She's right." Harriet said. "Nuclear strikes need release codes, that are kept secret by the United Nations."
"Say that again." he said.
"What, about the codes?" she asked.
"Anything. All of it." he said.
"Well, the British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a Special Resolution from the UN." she said.
"Like that's ever stopped them." Rose said.
"Exactly, given our past record." Harriet said. "And I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the government's hands and given to the UN. Is it important?"
"Everything 's important." he said. Wishing he would have caught Rhiannon earlier than he did so she could offer more help than she was.
"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted." Harriet said. "Listen to me. I'm saying Slitheen as if it's normal." The Doctor smiled at that.
"What do they want, though?" Rose asked.
"Well, they're just one family, so it's not an invasion." he said. "They don't want Slitheen World. They're out to make money. That means they want to use something. Something here on Earth. Some kind of asset."
"Like what, gold? Oil? Water?" Harriet said.
"You're very good at this." he said.
"Thank you." she said.

"Harriet Jones. Why do I know that name?" he asked. Rhiannon wanted to stop this playing tipsy and just tell them what these green aliens wanted but that would mean having to tell him how she new.

Rose's phone made her text tone. "Oh, that's me." she said as she grabbed her phone.
"But we're sealed off. How did you get a signal?" Harriet asked.
"He zapped it. Super phone." Rose said with a smile shaking the phone lightly.
"Then we can phone for help. You must have contacts." Harriet said looking at the Doctor.
"Dead downstairs, yeah." he said.

"What about you?" she asked Rhiannon. Rhiannon just pointed to the Doctor. Harriet probably took it as in it was the same for her as the Doctor, but what she meant is he was her only contact.
"It's Mickey." Rose said.
"Oh, tell that idiot we're busy." Rhiannon spat.
"Yeah, he's not so stupid after all." Rose said. Which Rhiannon knows that he is not stupid just a wimp. Rose showed the Doctor her phone. After that she called Mickey.

"Is she all right, though?" Rose asked with great concern. "Don't put her on, just tell me." The Doctor took the phone from her.
"Is that Ricky?" he said. "Don't talk, just shut up and go to your computer." He sighed heavily. "Mickey the Idiot, I might just choke before I finish this sentence, but, er, I need you." He plugged in the phone to the intercom. "Say again."
"It's asking for the password." Mickey said over the intercom.
"Buffalo. Two F's, one L." the Doctor said.

"So, what's that website?" Jackie asked over the phone
"All the secret information known to mankind. See, they've known about aliens for years." Mickey said. "They just kept us in the dark."
"He 's born 'n the dark," Rhiannon said.

"Oh, leave him alone." Rose said lightly smacking Rhiannon's arm hoping that it would help her.
"Thank you." Mickey said.

"Some man! Needin' a woman's 'tection," Rhiannon said quietly. Rose heard and rolled her eyes. The Doctor heard too and smiled at Rhiannon.

"Password again," Mickey said.

"Just repeat it every time." the Doctor said. "Big Ben - why did the Slitheen go and hit Big Ben?"

"You said to gather the experts, to kill them." Harriet said.
"That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon." the Doctor scoffed. "You don't need to crash land in the middle of London."
"The Slitheen are hiding, but then they put the entire planet on Red alert." Rose said. "What would they do that for?"
"Oh, listen to her." Jackie said rudely. Making Rhiannon want to blow up at Jackie.

"At least I'm trying." Rose said.

"Well, I've got a question, if you don't mind." Jackie started. Rhiannon knew what this speech was about. She hoped that telling Jackie that Rhiannon would protect Rose would make Jackie less likely to do to this, but looks like she was wrong. "Since that man walked into our lives, I have been attacked in the streets. I have had creatures from the pits of hell in my own living room, and my daughter disappear off the face of the Earth." Jackie sighed.

"I told you what happened." Rose said.

"I'm talking to him. 'Cos I've seen this life of yours, Doctor," Jackie continued. "And maybe you get off on it, and maybe you think it's all clever and smart, but you tell me. "Just answer me this. Is my daughter safe?"

"Yes," Rhiannon answered sounding very sober, which got everyone in the room to look at her.

"Rhiannon, you told me you'd protect her but your drunk," Jackie said bitterly.

"Jackie," Rhiannon said. "I promise you that Rose will always be safe."

"How?" Jackie asked. "How can you promise me that she will always be safe?" The Doctor was wondering that too.

"I can promise you that I will do everything in my power to keep her safe," Rhiannon said seriously. Then she frowned. "Because, if I can help it. I never want any mother to feel how I feel." With that comment he understood why she had pretended to be tipsy. She feared that Harriet would ask questions, about her pain so she pretended to have none. He had, in the past, done something similar.
"We're in." Mickey said.

"Now then, on the left at the top, there's a tab, an icon." the Doctor said springing into action. "Little concentric circles. Click on that." He had noticed that she had moved herself to a corner of the room, with a heartbroken look on her face. He wanted to hold her, to make her pain go away, because every time she smiled at him he felt his pain lessen. But he knew that he needed to deal with the task at hand, then he could help her.

"What is it?" Mickey asked as a signal was being played over the intercom.

"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal." the Doctor said. "Now hush, let me work out what it's saying. It's some sort of message."
"What's it say?" Rose asked.
"Don't know. It's on a loop, keeps repeating." he said. They vaguely heard Mickey's apartment door bell ring.
"Hush!" the Doctor said. Of course the Doctor with his Time Lord hearing heard the door bell much louder than everyone else.

"That's not me." Mickey said. "Go and see who that is."
"It's three o'clock in the morning." Jackie complained in the background.
"Well, go and tell them that." Mickey barked.
"It's beaming out into space, who's it for?" the Doctor said more to himself than to anyone else.

"All right!" Jackie barked in the background as they heard the door bell rang again.
"They've found us." Mickey said sounding very scared.

"Mickey, I need that signal." the Doctor demanded.
"Never mind the signal, get out! Mum," Rose exclaimed. "Just get out! Get out!"
"We can't. It's by the front door." Mickey cried. "Oh, my God, it's unmasking. It's going to kill us."

"There's got to be some way of stopping them!" Harriet yelled at the Doctor and Rhiannon. "You two are supposed to be the experts, think of something!" Rhiannon moved back to the Doctor's side.
"I'm trying!" he yelled back. Then they heard the door give way. Rhiannon's eyes go wide. That was too soon, they'd die if she didn't do something soon. She had to make a chose, expose that fact that she knows the Doctor's future and possibly lose his trust, or let everything go status quo but risk losing Jackie and Mickey.

"I'll take it on, Jackie. You just run. Don't look back." Mickey said trying to be brave. "Just run."
"That's my mother!" Rose cried.
"Right, If we're going to find their weakness, we need to find out where they're from." the Doctor said. "Which planet. So, judging by their basic shape, that narrows it down to five thousand planets within traveling distance. What else do we know about them? Information!"
"They're green." Rose piped up.
"Yep, narrows it down." he said.
"Good sense of smell." she said. Rhiannon bit her lip trying not to just blurt out the name of the planet.
'Narrows it down." he said.
"They can smell adrenalin." Rose said.
"Narrows it down." he said.
"The pig technology." Harriet piped in.
"Narrows it down." he said.

"It's getting in!" Mickey yelled.
"The spaceship in the Thames, you said slipstream engine?" Rose said.
"Narrows it down." the Doctor said.

"The gas exchange smells like calcium decay." Rhiannon said. Giving him

just the information he needed to know the planet.

"Now, that narrows it down!' he said.
"We're getting there, Mum!" Rose shouted at the intercom.

"Calcium phosphate." he said. "Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else?"

"Hyphenated surname." Rhiannon muttered.

"Yes! That narrows it down to one planet. Raxacoricofallapatorius!" he exclaimed.

"Oh, yeah, great. We could write 'em a letter." Mickey said with great attitude.

"Get into the kitchen!" the Doctor yelled.
"My God, it's going to rip us apart!" Jackie screamed in the background.

"Calcium, weakened by the compression field. Acetic acid. Vinegar!" he yelled at the intercom.
"Just like Hannibal!" Harriet exclaimed.
"Just like Hannibal. Mickey, have you got any vinegar?" the Doctor said.

"How should I know?" Mickey said harshly.

"It's your kitchen." Rhiannon said just as harshly.
"Cupboard by the sink, middle shelf." Rose said.

"Oh, give it here. What do you need?" Jackie asked.
"Anything with vinegar!" the Doctor said.
"Gherkins. Yeah, pickled onions. Pickled eggs." Jackie said mostly to herself.

"Dear goddess, you kiss him?" Rhiannon asked, before the Doctor could say anything. He smiled at her with great amusement. They listen as the Slitheen that was attacking Mickey and Jackie blow up.
"Hannibal?" Rose asked.
"Hannibal crossed the Alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar." Harriet explained.
"Oh. Well, there you go then." Rose said as they toasted. Rhiannon didn't have any this time. Mickey played Green's speech. Rhiannon didn't want to listen to that hog wash. She sighed, relieved the Doctor didn't ask her about how she knew about the gas exchange smell. Then she remembered that she was in the room with Green for a time. Then randomly the song 'Does she walk on water' by her mother's friend's friend, named Jennie Devoe. Great artist really.

"He's making it up." the Doctor said pulling her from her thoughts. "There's no weapons up there, there's no threat. He just invented it."
"Do you think they'll believe him?" Harriet asked.
"Of course they will," Rhiannon said bitterly. "We always play 'follow the leader', even if our leader is an eight foot tall green alien that wants to kill us all."
"That's why the Slitheen went for spectacle." the Doctor said bitterly. "They want the whole world panicking, because you lot, you get scared, you lash out."
"They release the defense code," Rose started.
"And the Slitheen go nuclear." the Doctor said.
"But why?" Harriet asked. The Doctor moved back to the door and opened the metal shutters, in order to talk to the Slitheen.
"You get the codes, release the missiles, but not into space because there's nothing there." he said. "You attack every other country on Earth. They retaliate, fight back. World War Three. Whole planet gets nuked."
"And we can sit through it safe in our spaceship waiting in the Thames." Blon said. "Not crashed, just parked. Only two minutes away."
"But you'll destroy the planet, this beautiful place. What for?" Harriet asked.
"Profit." Rhiannon said bitterly before the Doctor could answer.

"That's what the signal is beaming into space. An advert." he continued.
"The sale of the century." Blon replied. "We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it piece by piece. Radioactive chucks, capable of powering every cut-price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there, Doctor. People are buying cheap. This rock becomes raw fuel."
"At the cost of five billion lives." Rhiannon barked anger once again erupting uncontrolled. Rhiannon had unconsciously slipped her hand into the Doctor's for moral support.
"Bargain." Blon said grinning.
"I give you a choice." the Doctor said calmly. "Leave this planet or I'll stop you."
"What, you?" Blon laughed. "Trapped in your box?"
"Yes. Me." he hissed.

"Never understatement a box," Rhiannon said anger still thick in her voice. Then he closed the shutters again.
"If we could ferment the port, we could make acetic acid." Harriet said. The Doctor held Rhiannon's hand tightly. She knew why, he needed just as much moral support as she did. Just for different reasons, her so she didn't go and rage on the Slitheen most likely getting herself killed, him so that he could make the hard decision he had to make to make sure the Earth survived. He let go and moved to stare at the metal shutters that covered the windows. He crossed his arms. She moved close to him but she stayed far enough back that he had breathing room.
"Mickey, any luck?" Rose asked.
"There's loads of emergency numbers." Mickey said sadly. "They're all on voice-mail."
"Voice-mail dooms us all." Harriet said as she drank almost as Rhiannon was earlier.

Rhiannon put her hand on his back. He turned to look at her sadly like he had wronged her. "Oh, Doctor." she said quietly so the others in the room wouldn't hear. "You don't have to feel like this was your fault." She rubbed slow circles applying a small amount of pressure so that it would be soothing.

"How is it that you can read me so well?" he asked as he looked at her with a mix of happiness and concern.

"Because, even though you're a Time Lord, you're still a man. A hurt man." she said. "When I first met Matt, he was hurt too." He opened his mouth to say something but she shook her head. "He was abused. And losing family left and right. I know your hurt is different than his, or mine but I also know this, hurt is hurt." He nodded.
"If we could just get out of here." Rose sighed.
"There's a way out." he said as Rhiannon removed her hand and he turned to look at Rose.
"What?" Rose asked confused at him not mentioning it earlier.
"There's always been a way out." he said.
"Then why don't we use it?" Rose asked.
"Because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe." he said as he leaned over the intercom.

"Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare." Jackie said sternly.

"That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies." he said desperately.
Rose and Rhiannon both looked each other in the eyes then nodded. "Do it." they said it at the same time.
"Both of you don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?" he asked with a bit of hope in his eyes.
"Yeah." Rose said.
"Please Doctor." Jackie begged before Rhiannon could even say anything and that was a feet because Rhiannon was a fast talker. "Please. She's my daughter. She's just a kid."

"Do you think I don't know that?" he cried. "Because this is my life, Jackie. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will."
"Then what're you waiting for?" Rhiannon said. Rose knew this was more about Rhiannon dieing than Rose. She knew the Doctor cared for her but not as much as he cared for Rhiannon. And she was OK with that, she had Mickey, who she vowed that if she made it out of this she would call everyday she was on the TARDIS if he wouldn't come along or if the Doctor wouldn't let Mickey.
"I could save the world but lose you." the Doctor said as he turned to look at Rhiannon. Rhiannon saw something in his eyes in that moment that she had never seen in his eyes before. The feeling the look gave her was hard to decibel. If she had to put the feeling to words she would dare to say it was the seeds of love. That is a look she would never forget even if it was the only time she would ever see it.
"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet said. Harriet could feel he needed the blame taken from him and she was just the woman to do it. The Doctor looked at Harriet.

"And who the hell are you?" Jackie said.

"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." Harriet said. "The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you. Do it." Rhiannon mouthed a 'thank you' to Harriet, making sure that the Doctor couldn't see.

"How do we get out?" Rose asked.
"We don't. We stay here." he said as he sprang in to action. He opened up the box that had the Emergency Protocols in them he found what he was looking for. "Use the buffalo password. It overrides everything."

"What're you doing?" Jackie asked much to Rhiannon's annoyance.
"Hacking into the Royal Navy." Mickey said. "We're in. Here it is. HMS Taurean, Trafalgar Class submarine, ten miles off the coast of Plymouth."
"Right, we need to select a missile." the Doctor said.
"We can't go nuclear." Mickey said. "We don't have the defense codes."

"We don't need it. All we need 's an ordinary missile." the Doctor said. He paused, Rhiannon felt his hesitation, so she put her hand on his back again he looked at her and she nodded. He smiled. "What's the first category?"
"Sub Harpoon, UGM-A4A." Mickey replied.

"That's the one. Select." the Doctor said. Rhiannon removed her hand from the Doctor and moved to the closet, opened it and started to clean it out.

"I could stop you." Jackie said. Rhiannon heard it and shook her head.
"Do it, then." Mickey said.
"You ready for this?" the Doctor asked.
"Yeah." Mickey responded.

"Mickey the idiot, the world is in your hands." the Doctor said. "Fire."
"Oh, my God." Jackie said.

"Doctor, Rose, Harriet, we can live through this," Rhiannon said. "In Indiana we have tornado and we are taught at a young age that the safest place is in small rooms. So I have cleaned out the closet for us to hide in."

"Fantastic," he said as he look at Rhiannon. Both Rose and Harriet smiled at Rhiannon.

"Maybe being from Indiana isn't so bad." Rhiannon said jokingly.

"It's on radar." Mickey said. "Counter defense five five six."
"Stop them intercepting it." the Doctor said.

"I'm doing it now." Mickey said.
"Good boy." the Doctor said.

"Five five six neutralized." Mickey said before the Doctor unpluged the phone and joined the girls in the closet.

"Here we go." Harriet said. "Nice knowing you all. Hannibal!" The missile hits and the closet is shook, making everyone inside flop around like rag dolls. Rhiannon knew she was going to be so sore when she tried to get up. Once the closet stopped moving for a bit, the Doctor kicked the metal door away. He helped Harriet out first, then Rose. Rhiannon started laughing.

"What's so funny?" he asked her with a smile.

"I'm stuck." she laughed.

"Hold on," he laughed too as he moved to her and pulled her free of the debris. Then he helped her out of the destroyed closet.
"Harriet Jones. MP, Flydale North." Harriet said showing her ID to the guard. "I want you to contact UN immediately. Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over. They can step down. Go on, tell the news." She shooed the guard.
"Yes, ma'am." he said.
"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out." she said. "Oh, Lord. We haven't even got a Prime Minister."
"Maybe you should have a go." the Doctor said.
"Me?" she said. "Huh. I'm only a back-bencher."
"I'd vote for you." Rose said,

"I'd vote for you too, if I were from England," Rhiannon said. "Or if I even voted." He laughed at that.
"Now, don't be silly." Harriet said. "Look, I'd better go and see if I can help." She left and made her way to the guards that had made it out of the building before the missile hit. "Hang on! We're safe! The Earth is safe! Sergeant!"
"I thought I knew the name. Harriet Jones, future Prime Minister." the Doctor said proudly. "Elected for three successive terms. The architect of Britain's Golden Age."
The walk back to the Powell Estates was fairly quiet, Rose held the Doctor's left hand and Rhiannon his right. She had felt bad not telling him the full truth about knowing him as well as she does. She didn't lie to him but she didn't tell him that she watched the show Doctor Who, which was his life. While yes she had not seen passed the episode 'The Time of the Doctor', the only reason she hadn't watched more is because it was hard for her to watch Doctor Who without her little girl since she had always watch with Jenny. But none the less Rhiannon knew the rest of his life fairly well. What all his incarnations looked like, what each of their quirks were, and what each TARDIS looked like too. She liked all the Doctors but her favorite three were the tenth Doctor, the eleventh Doctor, and the second Doctor. And in that order too. But in real life this Doctor was growing on her.

"I'm gonna make sure Mum is alright," Rose said, both Rhiannon and the Doctor nodded. He entered the TARDIS and Rhiannon followed but as she walked in she noticed that someone had spray pained in emerald green spray paint the word 'dragon' across the side of the TARDIS. He got to work on canceling the Slitheen advert, and Rhiannon sat on the jump seat.

"Um, Doctor," Rhiannon started. He looked at her. "Someone tagged your TARDIS."

"Tagged?" he asked.

"Sprayed it was paint," she said.

"What!" he roared. She felt sorry for the poor kid that did it. She moved to go shower and change she wasn't tired but she felt sweaty from all the running they did that day. She smiled as she realized she hadn't truly lost anything on her birthday.

After her shower she found the Doctor outside with Mickey sitting on a trash bin reading the newspaper. She looked to see a small boy cleaning the paint off the side of the TARDIS. "Good lad." the Doctor said as the boy finished. "Graffiti that again and I'll have you. Now, beat it." The boy rushed off.

"If I were him I would be more afraid of what the TARDIS would do." she giggled.

"True," the Doctor said with a small chuckle.
"I just went down the shop, and I was thinking, you know, like the whole world's changed." Mickey said. "Aliens and spaceships all in public. And here it is." He held up the paper and it said Alien Hoax. "How could they do that? They saw it."
"They're just not ready." the Doctor said. "You're happy to believe in something that's invisible, but if it's staring you in the face, nope, can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that. You're thick."
"We're just idiots." Mickey said bitterly.
"Well, not all of you." the Doctor said as he smiled at Mickey then to Rhiannon.
"Yeah?" Mickey asked. The Doctor looked back to Mickey. The Doctor started to rummage through his pockets.
"Present for you, Mickey." he said as he found a CD in his pocket and handed it to Mickey. "That's a virus. Put it online. It'll destroy every mention of me. I'll cease to exist."
"What do you want to do that for?" Mickey asked. And Rhiannon couldn't help but think about how the eleventh Doctor, with the help of Oswin, deleted himself from the universe.
"Because you're right, I am dangerous. I don't want anybody following me." the Doctor said. Rhiannon noticed that Jackie and Rose were headed their way.
"How can you say that and then take them with you?" Mickey said as he nodded his head to Rose then to Rhiannon.
"You could look after her." the Doctor said nodded toward Rose." "Come with us."
"I can't. This life of yours, it's just too much. I couldn't do it. Don't tell her I said that." Mickey said. The Doctor nodded and so did Rhiannon.
"I'll get a proper job. I'll work weekends." Jackie begged as they came up. "I'll pass my test, and if Jim comes round again, I'll say no. I really will."
"I'm not leaving because of you." Rose said. "I'm traveling, that's all, and then I'll come back."
"But it's not safe." Jackie begged.
"Mum, if you saw it out there you'd never stay home." Rose said as she shook her head.
"Got enough stuff?" the Doctor asked.
"Last time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment." Rose grinned as she pushes the backpack up against him. "Now I'm signing up. You're both stuck with me." She turned to Mickey. "Come with us. There's plenty of room."
"No chance." the Doctor chimed in to save Mickey from embarrassment. "He's a liability, I'm not having him on board."
"We'd be dead without him." Rose argued.
"My decision is final." the Doctor said trying to sound miffed.
"Sorry." She said as she put her hand on the side of Mickey's face and kissed him on the lips with great passion.
"Umm.. Y-yeah, g-good luck," Mickey stammered after Rose stopped kissing him.
Jackie walked up to Rhiannon and asked; "What if she gets lost? What if something happens to you and the Doctor, and she's left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away. How long do I wait then?"
"Mum, you're forgetting." Rose said as she walked to her mum. "It's a time machine. I could go traveling around suns and planets and all the way out to the edge of the universe, and by the time I get back, yeah, ten seconds would have passed. Just ten seconds. So stop worrying. See you in ten seconds' time, yeah?"

"Well ten seconds is a bit far fetched don't you think?" Rhiannon teased. Jackie and Rose hugged, then Rose followed the Doctor and Rhiannon as they entered the TARDIS. Once inside the TARDIS Rose took her backpack back from the Doctor and ran to her room. The Doctor ran around the console, flipping switches and levers. The TARDIS wheezed and groaned signaling that it was dematerializing. As she watched the Doctor, happily jump around the console, she realized that she really did lose something today, but she gained something too. She lost a bit of the wall that encircled her hear, and she gained a small piece of her former self back. She smiled from the bottom of her heart at the Doctor.

The Doctor stopped, he looked at her and saw her smiling at him. He was shocked that she was smiling at him from the bottom of her heart, with no pain. That thought made him smile at her, because that smile that she gave him made his pain dull. In that moment, the world melted away and he wanted nothing more than to hold her and tell her how her smile made him feel. But it was not to be because Rose came back and said; "Where to next?"

Notes: Yay! Another chapter done! Glad your enjoying it!