Hello My Duckies! I have a special little treat for you today, my dears! I was away for the weekend watching a Doctor Who marathon with my sister and one of her mates when I got extremely inspired, so today, you are getting not one new chapter, but two! Yay for inspiration! ~ Tygger

Chapter 3

"It all started when the aliens arrived," Jackie told him, "Or more, when we realized they must be there. See the thing is, I can't tell you what they look like, I can even tell you whether or not I ever even saw one. The only chance you had of knowing you'd seen one was if you happened to write yourself a note saying you did."

"That's helpful," The Doctor muttered, earning a glare from the woman.

"Shut it," She snapped before continuing, "Anyways, I don't know what they were called... didn't seem the talkin' sort. They just started taking over, killin' people for no reason. We tried to fight back, but there were too many of them and the second you stopped looking at them, you forgot they were ever even there. In the end, we barricaded ourselves in Canary Warf to keep safe. That Dimension cannon of Rose's was our last option."

"What did River mean when she said he told her I would be here?" The Doctor frowned, "I though her father died when she was a newborn?"

"River dreams," Jackie explained, "About you and your Tardis... she talks to you... well the old you."

"She thought I was really there. That's why she was worried the aliens got me. And for the record, I'm still the same person I was when you all left!" He argued, "Just got a new face."

"A pretty face," Jack commented with cheek.

The Doctor shot him a death glare, "I'm taken."

Jack shrugged, smirking, "That doesn't mean I can't look. You're younger than last time."

"Stop it, he's mine." Rose commanded, coming up behind him with River on her hip, "Where are the others?"

"In the conference room with your father," Jack sobered up, "This has been a bit of a shock for everyone."

"I'll bet," She nodded, "This whole dimension traveling thing takes some getting used to. They'll be alright."

"Rose!" Pete exclaimed as she walked in, enveloping her in a tight hug, "Thank heavens you're okay!"

"I'm fine Dad," she smiled, "River, too."

"What happened?" He questioned, kneeling down to examine his granddaughter anyways.

"We're not sure, yet," The Doctor offered, "Probably just a random anomaly."

Pete frowned, "Who's this bloke, then?"

"Oh, Dad," Rose nodded, "You remember the Doctor."

"Doctor?" Pete raised an eyebrow in surprise, "Blimey! Sweetheart, I know you said he could change but… wow!"

Rose just smiled, "How's everyone else doing?"

"Not so bad," He shrugged, "Shelly's in conniptions over the loss of her sister, but Bobbie's looking after her. Julia's tending to the kids while Ryssen and Tiffany are helping Jack's friend Gwen find food and blankets for all of 'em."

Rose bit her lip, "How many of us made it through, then?"

"Seventeen." Her father told her grimly.

"Seventeen," she echoed, swaying a little so the Doctor put out a hand to keep her up right, "Seventeen out of the thirty-four people we assembled? How many of the children made it?"

"Eight," Pete confirmed, "Including River, Tony, Shawna and Christopher."

"Right," Jackie nodded, "So that's us, Rose, River, our three and who else? I'll make a list up so we can keep track."

15"Shelly and her daughter, Page O'Connor," Pete listed, "Bobbie and his daughter, Bailey Johnson, Tiffany and her son, Nathan Jackson, Julia Adams, Ryssen Avalbane, Simon Bates and Cassie Donaldson."

"Cassie and Simon are alone?" Rose's face saddened, "Then their parents, Rebecca and Daniel Bates and Steve and Erika Donaldson, they didn't make it?"

The Doctor pulled her into a hug, "I'm sorry."

"Rebecca and Erika were my friends," She murmured into his shoulder, shocked by their loss, "We all ate lunch together at work. What are the kids going to do?"

"Well for now," Jack jumped in, "Everyone will be put up in temporary barracks here. We have some rooms made up in the lower levels and we'll work on integrating you all into our world… of course, we'll have to make sure you don't bump into your other selves so we'll track them down."

Under any other circumstances, Rose would have laughed and joked to Bobbie that if he met his other self, he would have finally found his one true love. However nothing seemed funny at the moment, especially not the sight of Bobbie, Page, Bailey and Shelly, huddled in the corner, trying not to cry. Instead she looked at the list of people and the rooms available. She wanted everyone comfortable and with their family, so she immediately decided that previously mentioned four would take the first room. Tiffany, Nathan and Ryssen were placed in the second room, leaving the third for Julia and the two orphans and the fourth room for her family. The Doctor peeked over her shoulder as she wrote all this down and frowned as she started to scrawl her and River's names in the last box that represented a room.

"You know," he whispered, "Your room on the Tardis is right where you left it… more or less… you know, if you still want it."

She smiled softly, "Alright, it will feel good to be at home again."

A tingling sensation rushed through his body when she called his ship home and he beamed, "Yeah, it'll be great having you home again."

"Promise me, though," she leaned her head against his shoulder, "That we won't run off until everyone here is settled properly."

"Of course not," He smirked, "We'll fix things here first."