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Author's Note: Sorry for the wait! I was busy doing some school work! Updates will be less frequent due to the amount of projects and essays I've been assigned! Anyway, just another quick filler chapter. What's going to happen next in the Doctor's love life? C-; What do you think his decision was?
"What? You're lying." Jackie eyed him. "Rose said the Doctor could never come through to this world again. Now quit pullin' my leg, and let me through so I can see my daughter!" She all but shoved him aside.
"Same old Jackie, I see." The Doctor murmerd.
"Rose, there you are! Who's this man? He's goin' on about how he's the Doctor. Weird bloke, where'd you pick him up? Does John know about this?"
"Nice to see you too mum." Rose said sarcastically.
"Ello Jackie!" John popped his head into the main room.
"Ah there you are! I was worried that maybe Rose might've gone and done somethin' behind your back." Jackie payed no attention to Rose's comment and continued to make small talk with John.
"Mum! I swear, always making things negative." Rose scoffed and rolled her eyes. She moved to where Amy and Rory were and shook them to wake them up. "Oy you two, might want to get up. My mum's here, so figured I'd wake you before her loud voice does."
"Is that what I was hearing in my dream?" Rory asked puzzled. He shook his head to wake himself up properly.
"I was thinking the same thing." Amy sighed as she too sat up.
"New friends of your's?" Jackie motioned to the couple on the couch.
"Yeah, sure. I guess you could say that." Rose looked at Amy and Rory and smiled.
"Right, so is anyone gonna tell me who this bloke is?" Jackie pointed with her thumb behind her to the Doctor.
"I've already told you, I'm the Doctor!" He huffed as he fixed his jacket.
"Yeah, sure. And I'm Madonna." She rolled her eyes.
"Mum, it's true. It's the Doctor." Rose nodded.
"You're jokin'. I know he can't come back to this world. You two explained it to me hundreds of times already." Her mom sighed as she put her hands on her hips. John was behind her and decided it was best to leave before he was pulled into another long conversation.
"I'm not joking. It's really him." Rose insisted and nodded back towards the Doctor.
Jackie looked back and forth between the two for a few moments. She studied the Doctor's face, and then her daughter's to see if they were lying at all. Her eyes got wide when she realized they weren't kidding, and her jaw went slack. "It's really you? You changed your face again!" She stared at him baffled.
The Doctor stood up straighter and a smug smirk tugged at the corners of his lips. He did enjoy making an entrance. His moment of glory was short lived when finally the sound of Jackie's voice broke his train of thought.
"Meh. I liked you better before. You got too much of a baby face now." She examined him some more.
"Oi, it's not like I can choose what I want." He retorted, annoyance starting to boil in the pit of his stomach.
"Well you could choose your clothing differently, that's for sure." She mumbled.
Amy snorted from her seat on the couch, "See what'd I tell you?"
"Amelia." He pointed a finger at her and glared.
"Don't Amelia me." She mocked. "I at least have a fashion sense." She turned her nose upward and huffed.
"Fashion sense? You barely wear any clothes as it is! Rory tell your wife to put on more clothes for a change. We don't want another accident happening like the time you helped me fix the TARDIS." The Doctor whined.
Rory opened his mouth and was quickly silenced by his wife, "Rory don't say anything." The feisty Scottish woman glared at him.
"Right." He nodded.
"Married? Since when do you take married couples with you?" Jackie asked the Doctor.
"What I've always taken more than one person with me." He said defensively and straightened his tweed jacket.
"Last I remember you had a hard enough time taking Mickey along for the ride." She arched an eyebrow. "For all I know you just abduct random women."
"Oh come on Jackie, still going on about that?" John piped in from the background. He leaned sideways against the corner of the wall to face everyone. Rose had taken in one of the chairs next to Amy and Rory.
"Well what was I supposed to think? You took Rose away for over a year without telling me where you were!"
"Mum I've told you hundreds of times that it was an accident. I thought you'd gotten over that by now." Rose rolled her eyes.
"Seriously? A year?" Amy turned around and stared gawking at Rose. She made herself comfortable on the couch and tucked in one leg under her.
"Well sort of, he just got the times wrong."
"Whatever the case, you took my Rose from me without telling me." Jackie wasn't sure if she should address the Doctor or John so stood in such a way so she could look between the two.
"What happened to 'dependable sexy' you kept going on about with the ganger you?" Amy teased.
"Hey watch it! She's always dependable. She just gets the timings mixed up sometimes. Still very dependable, and still very sexy." The Doctor glared at the red headed woman. He took a seat in the last chair towards the front window and ran a hand through his hair.
"Sweetie it's not her fault you always end up in the wrong time. I keep telling you to take the brakes off." River came walking in from down the hall John was standing in front of.
"It's not the brakes. She's already said it's because she takes me where I need to go." He fired back at her quickly.
"Oh Doctor, Doctor. It's not just only that. How would you feel if someone left your brakes on all the time?" She smirked as she watched his face begin to flush red in anger. She enjoyed teasing him.
"That doesn't even make sense? How can I have brakes? Your argument is irrelevant due to it not making sense." He waved off her comment.
"Hold up, who're you?" Jackie cut into their banter to address the new woman that just walked in. She looked her up and down.
"River Song, Jackie. Jackie. River Song." The Doctor blurted out quickly. He wished so badly for everyone to just stop creating all of the drama that was swirling about in the room. He could feel the tension begin to rise and the atmosphere began to change again.
"Right. So who's this sexy person you keep going on about?" Jackie crossed her arms and pursed her lips. Rose sat quietly and smirked. Her mother could be so forward. Though she did like it at that particular moment seeing as she wanted to get more answers out of the Doctor as well.
"Sexy is my TARDIS. I call her that." The Doctor answered quickly.
"Her?" She looked at him confused.
"Yeah I just assumed that the TARDIS was a woman..." He trailed off.
"And then we went to a little bubble universe on the side of this universe where the spirit of the TARDIS was put into a woman's body." Amy finished. "I still think you wished on that bit." She eyed the Doctor playfully.
"Shut up!" His face flushed in embarrassment. "And I already told you, it was not a bubble universe."
"You left the universe?" John entered the conversation again briefly. "How'd you manage that?"
"With a lot of difficulty." Rory answered.
"Wait so the TARDIS was a woman?" Rose also asked.
"Well, uh, yes." The Doctor looked to her.
"Ha! Oh that's brilliant! You always did talk to it all the time!" She laughed.
"She is most definitely not an it!" He corrected her.
"You never told me that one Sweetie. How'd you manage that?" River arched an eyebrow and proceeded to bat her eyelashes innocently as the Doctor glared at her. He felt his head start to pound again.
"Why do you call him sweetie?" Jackie asked the curly haired woman, giving her a nasty look.
"I guess you could say it's somewhat of a pet name." River told her and scratched the top of her head.
"Pet name? You let her give you a pet name?" Jackie and Rose asked the Doctor in unison.
"Well, kind of. She just does it on her own I guess. No stopping River." He whispered the last bit.
"So you two together or something?" Jackie prodded some more.
"Well, no..uh. It's all very complicated." He scratched his cheek nervously.
"Everything's always complicated with you." She rolled her eyes.
"You sure you two aren't married or somethin'?" Rose glared once more.
John had since left the room the Doctor was beginning to wish he could do the same. It got louder and louder as everyone talked at the same time. The Doctor wasn't sure who to answer. He looked at Jackie and saw her parental unit kick in as she pointed a finger at him and was waving it about. She had a stern look on her face, and as she spoke he could hear the anger rise in her voice. Such a feisty woman. Rose had her arms crossed and was also giving him a look that gave him another sinking feeling. Amy wasn't helping the situation by chiming in with her random jokes. He could tell she was enjoying watching him squirm. Rory was smirking, and the Doctor could tell he was trying to hold in a laugh. He could feel his body temperature rise as he got more and more frustrated. He'd long since stopped listening to what everyone was saying, and instead only looked to River. He silently pleaded for her to help him, but she just looked at him with a blank stare. Was she mad too? He couldn't tell.
He felt something snap inside and he stood up sharply, "That's enough! All of you just be quiet!" He yelled. The whole room became dead silent and he glared at all of them. "Amy and Rory go find something else to do, and don't get yourselves into any more trouble. River, go talk to John and figure out what exactly is going on with everything. And Jackie, I know you came here for a reason so either spit it out or leave." He addressed everyone, venom dripping off of every word.
"Don't talk to my mum like that!" Rose stood up.
"The only thing I'm focussed on right now is getting us off of this planet and back to where we belong. I can talk to her however I bloody please."
"Don't you talk to my daughter like that!" Jackie warned him, her voice shaking a little. She wasn't used to seeing the angry side of the Doctor.
"Just SHUT UP would you!" The Doctor threw his arms in the arm as he yelled some more. He was fed up with everything. He didn't need any more of the drama, and he just wanted to get back to the proper universe.
"Doctor!" River stepped forward from where she was and approached the fuming man. "That's enough."
He glared at her momentarily and then stared at her. No one spoke or moved. The only sound came from the Doctor as he breathed heavily from his nostrils in an attempt to calm down.
"That's enough." River echoed once more, except more softly.
The Doctor looked away quickly and ran a hand through his mop of hair yet again. "Right. Sorry."
He saw Rory pat Amy's leg and motion for her to follow him. She quickly jumped up and they scurried out of the room.
"I don't care if it's 'cos of your new face, but you don't talk to me or my daughter like that. You understand?" Jackie tried to sound threatening as she too exited the room.
The Time Lord looked up at River and he felt his heart melt at the smile she was giving him. She knew how to calm him down from any temper tantrum he threw, and it gave him butterflies in his stomach. He thanked her silently as she turned to find John.
With almost everyone out of the room, he could feel the only two eyes staring holes in his head. He wasn't sure how to look at her after blowing up, but he slowly lifted his eyes to meet those of Rose.
He was taken aback by the tears he saw in her eyes. She was still glaring at him, definitely still mad, but at the same time she was on the verge of crying. He assumed out of frustration.
"Rose, I—"
"Just shut up." She whispered. She walked to the front door and placed her hand on the handle. She stood there for a few moments before finally looking up at the Doctor. "I want the old you back." She gave him a sad look before leaving the house. She slammed the door shut, and as she did and he flinched.
The Doctor stood alone in the room to ponder on everything. He paced back and forth and scratched his head once more. He slumped down on the chair and hit himself on he forehead. "Why am I so stupid!" He mumbled to himself.
He jumped out of his seat, finally understanding what it was he had to do. He had to make things right, and he knew he had to finally start listening to what his heart had been trying to tell him for years.
He had to tell her, the woman he loved, and he had to do it quick before he messed up anything else.
"Rose wait!"