"I thought we'd be going for the Vegas era, you know- the white flares and the..." Rose growled. "Chest hair." We stood outside The TARDIS in matching dresses.
"You are kidding, aren't you?" The Doctor asked, popping his head out the door. "You wanna see Elvis, you go in the late 50's! The time before burgers." He dissapeared again. "When they called him 'the Pelvis' and he still had a waist. What's more, you see him in style!" He said before he rode out of The TARDIS in a blue moped with a side car attached.
"You goin' my way, doll?" He asked with a Elvis impression.
"Is there any other way to go, daddy-o? Straight from the fridge, man!" Rose laughed, putting another helmet on and getting on the back as I jumped into the side car.
"You alright down there?" She laughed sarcastically to which I just ignored.
"Hey, you speak the lingo!" The Doctor said to Rose.
"Yeah well... me, mum, Cliff Richard movies every Bank Holiday Monday."
"Ah, Cliff! I knew your mother'd be a Cliff fan." He said as we drove down the street.
"Where we off to?"
"Ed Sullivan TV Studios, Elvis did 'Hound Dog' on one of the shows, there were loads of complaints. Bit of luck, we'll just catch it."
"And that'll be TV studios in, what - New York?"
"That's the one!" He said as a red bus drove past and unions flags hung from the surrounding houses.
"Digging that New York vibe!" I laughed.
"Well... this COULD still be New York, I mean this looks very New York to me... sort of... Londony New York, mind.."
"What are all the flags for?" Rose asked as we pulled up and got off/out.
"The great occasion? What d'you mean?" The Doctor asked a man taking telly's out of a van.
"Where've you been living, out in the Colonies? Coronation, of course."
"What Coronation's that, then?"
"What d'you mean? THE Coronation." He turned to Rose.
"The Queen's. Queen Elizabeth!"
"Oh! Oh, is this 1953?"
"Last time I looked. Time for a lovely bit of pomp and circumstance, what we do best."
"Look at all the TV aerials... looks like everyone's got one. That's weird, my nan said tellies were so rare they all had to pile into one house." Rose said, looking at all the chimneys.
"Not round here, love. Magpie's Marvellous Tellies, only five quid a box."
"Oh but this is a BRILLIANT year! Classic! Technicolour, Everest climbed, everything off the ration-" He put on a very BBC british accent. "The Nation throwing off the shadows of war and looking forward to a happier, brighter future!" I laughed before a woman started shouting.
"Someone help me, please! Ted!" We looked over to a man being bundled into a car.
"Leave him alone, it's my husband!"
"What's going on?" The Doctor asked as we ran over.
"Oi, what are you doing?" A young boy asked as he ran out.
"Police business, now get out of the way, sir!" One of the men said.
"Who did they take, do you know him?" Rose asked the boy.
"Must be Mr Gallagher..."
"It's happening all over the place. They're turning into monsters..." A older man stormed out of the house.
"Tommy! Not one word! Get inside now!"
"Sorry, I'd better do as he says..." He turned and went back inside.
...
They'd taken Tommy's nan. The Doctor had gone, so I decided to make use of myself.
"Oh, I, I'm sorry miss, I'm afraid you're too late. I was just about to lock the door." Magpie said as I walked into his shop.
"Yeah? Well, I wanna buy a telly."
"Come back tomorrow. Please."
"You'll be closed, won't ya?"
"Huh?"
"The coronation..."
"Yes, yes, of course. The big day." He said as I walked over to the counter.
"I'm sure you'll find somewhere to watch it. Please go."
"Seems to me half of London's got a television, since you're practically giving them away."
"I have my reasons."
"And what are they?"
"Hungry! Hungry!" A woman on the television shouted.
"What's that?" I asked.
"It's just a television. One of these modern programmes. Now, I really do think you should leave! Right now!"
"Not until you've answered my questions. How comes your televisions are so cheap?"
"It's my patriotic duty. Seems only right that as many folk as possible get to watch the coronation. We may be losing the Empire but we can still be proud! Twenty million people they reckon'll be watching! Imagine that! And twenty million people can't be wrong, eh? So why don't you get yourself back home and get up, bright and early, for the big day?"
"I'm not leaving til I know what's going on here Magpie." I snarled at him.
"I need to close."
"Mr Magpie, something's happening out there. Ordinary people are being struck down and changed, and the only new thing in the house is a television. Your television. What's going on?"
"I knew this would happen. I knew I'd be found out."
"All right, then, it's just you and me... you gonna come clean, then? What's really in it for you?"
"For me? Perhaps some peace."
"From what?"
"From HER." He looked over at the woman on the telly.
"That's just a woman on the telly, that's just a programme."
"What a pretty little girl." The woman said.
"Bloody hell." I whispered.
"Yes - I'm talking to you, little one, before you ask. Unseasonably chilly for the time of year, don't you think?"
"What are you?"
"I'm the Wire. And I'm hungrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy...!"
...
I found myself walking along the street, not knowing what had really happened, all I could remember last was my face being eaten by that thing in Magpie's television. I looked over and saw Rose and The Doctor celebrating. I caught The Doctor's eye and watched him walk over to me, picking me up and hugging me. He put me down and smiled before frowning at my expression.
"I can't do this."
"Flo-"
"No especially after what happened after with the Cybermen." he blushed slightly at my mention of him kissing me. "I'm not leaving, I just need some space. I just want to go see Sarah Jane for a bit."
"Ok." He cleared his throat.
"Don't think I'm abandoning you time lord, I'm not letting you out of my sight." I chuckled, kissing him on the cheek.
A/N - Ok, up now is the Invasion of the Bane and Revenge of the Slitheen! I was so happy writing these two, so 3 chapters will be updated tonight as I've wrote them all tonight (this one, Invasion of the Bane and Revenge of the Slitheen part 1) Enjoy!
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