Disclaimer: Well I don't own Doctor
A/N: Ok Lots more words in this chapter
When Danny Finally reached Rose she was nearly at her house, ignoring him she just marched on in doors, with permission form Jackie she allowed him inside. Danny was going to say something to Rose but she seemed distant and shocked, anyway Danny had other things on his mind, like the blue box. He was sat there watching the TV, like Rose but deep in thought, that was until Jacky came in nattering away on the phone, he watched her briefly his eyes hovering over the dummy's arm.
"I know, it's on the telly! It's everywhere! She's lucky to be alive!" Jackie gave Rose a cup of tea before turning to Danny, she puts a hand over the phone and asked him if he wanted one, he shook his head not really all that interested right now, he was trying to blot Jacky out as it was.
"Honestly, it's aged her. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was HER daughter! Oh and here's himself..." Danny turned around noticing Roses just as annoying boyfriend Mickey standing there in the door way, tell you what though he was glad for the diversion from Jackie's voice.
"I've been phoning your mobile, you could've been dead! It's on the news and everything! I can't believe that your shop went up!" Mickey talked as soon as he got in the doorway and went to give Rose a hug before talking to Danny
"Thanks for coming home with her," Danny smiled a little but went back to ignoring everyone. Rose finally spoke up,
"I'm alright, honestly, I'm fine! Don't make a fuss."
"Well, what happened?" he looked between the two of them hoping for an answer, Danny rolled his eyes maybe he should of gone home save him all this earache.
"I don't know!"
"What was it though, what caused it?" Mickey persisted
"Mickey," said a very annoyed Danny, he quickly followed up by saying
"We were not in the shop, we were outside, so she didn't see anything..." anything else he was going to say was interrupted by Jackie as she came through from the kitchen and talked to Rose
"It's Debbie on the other end, she knows a man from the Mirror - five hundred quid for an interview!" Danny felt like screaming, Rose spoke
"Oh that's brilliant! Give it here!" Rose took the Phone and hung up causing Danny to laugh
"Good one Rose." Jackie however still persisted with what she was going on about
"Well, you've gotta find some way of making money. Your jobs kaput and I'm not bailing you out." the phone rang once more and Jackie proceeded to answer it.
"Beth! She's alive!" she left the room starting to sprout some nonsense about compensation for Rose. Danny finally had a small bit of quiet and came to a decision he was going to go look for the Blue Box, see if it was still there.
"Hey Rose see you later I got to go make sure my parents are not worried." she nodded and he went over to hug her before heading out the door and back to where he saw the blue box. Over back at Roses Mickey was talking again, he took one look at what Rose was drinking before saying
"What're you drinking? Tea? No, no no, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock, you need something stronger."
"Why?" Rose asked him
"You deserve a proper drink, you and me, we're going down the pub, my treat. How about it?" Rose caught on to why and smiled
"Is there a match on?" she asked having sussed out why he was talking about the pub
"I'm just thinking about you, babe!" replied Mickey
"There's a match on, ain't there." this was from Rose Mickey finally gave in and said
"Well, that's not the point. We could catch the last five minutes." Rose just replied with
"Go on then. I'm fine, really. Go. Get rid of that..." She nodded at dummy arm that was resting on the sofa, lifeless. Mickey pointed to his lips and Rose gave him a kiss before they started having a laugh and playing around. Once they finished Mickey picked up arm and waved to Rose with it.
"Buh Bye."
"Bye!" Mickey pretended to strangle himself with the arm, he then left leaving Rose to turn her attention back to the news, which was still reporting on what had happened at the Store.
Somewhere back near the store where both Rose and Danny used to work Danny arrived looking around for something, the something he was looking around for was the blue box he had seen earlier. He looked around noticing nothing, going over to where he had first seen it his face fell, it was not there at all. He was wondering if he had just been hallucinating, but he shook his head trying to ignore that thought, he spoke to himself.
"No it was there, maybe I should talk to dad, see what he knows." he sighed knowing that is dad was going to have a field day when he finds out that one of his sons actually believed him. Danny took out his phone and texted his mum saying he was on his way back before taking one last look at the store and heading home.
It was a new day Danny had been up all night trying to find out as much information as possible about the Doctor from his dad, his mum was not happy. Meanwhile at Roses house her alarm went off for the time that she would usually have gone to work, well that's if she had a job, now thanks to the shop being blown up she has no job at all. The Alarm clock bleeped at Rose to get up, like normal she whacked it to stop working.
"There's no point in getting up, sweetheart. You've got no job to go to." Jackie called from wherever she was, she flopped back onto the pillow later she was sat down eating breakfast once again Jackie was chatting away to her, telling her about new jobs she could get.
"There's Finches... you could try them. They've always got jobs."
"Oh, great. The butchers." Jackie continued talking not being deterred by Rose.
"Well it might do you good! That shop was giving you airs and graces. And I'm not joking about getting compensation - you've had genuine shock and trauma! Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek! I know she IS Greek, but that's not the point - it's a valid claim." Rose suddenly stood up as a rattling sound came from the area of the door, she quickly spoke to Jackie.
"Mum, you're such a liar, I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays!" Jackie replied back with
"I did it weeks back!" Rose still did not believe Jackie at all
"No, you thought about it!" Rose replied before heading over to the door and the cat flap, when she got there she found that all the screws had fallen out onto the floor and the cat flap was moving violently. Rose jumped back frightened, she soon went back to have a look again, gingerly she poked the cat flap open. She gasped shocked when she saw The Doctor the other side of it, she opened the door. The Doctor was the first to speak.
"What're you doing here?" He clearly did not understand that she actually lived here.
"I live here," replied Rose.
"Well, what do you do that for?" The Doctor sounded about silly saying that, Rose soon replied to his comment.
"Because I do! And I'm only at home because someone blew up my job." Before anything else was said The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver.
"Must've got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you? He knocked on roses forehead before continuing"
"No, bonehead. Bye, then! He was about to go but Rose pulled him inside obviously wanting a word with him.
"You, inside. Right now." once she got him inside she shut the door behind them Jackie had obviously heard
"Who is it?" asked Jackie who was in her bedroom. Rose stuck her head around Jackie's bedroom door
"It's about last night, he's part of the inquiry. Give us 10 minutes." Rose vanished leaving the Doctor standing in Jackie's bedroom.
"She deserves compensation." Jackie mentioned to The Doctor
"Huh, we're talking millions." The Doctor replied. The Doctor leant against the bedroom door frame still waiting for Rose to return. Studying him for a moment Jackie, she stood up in a flirtatious manner.
"I'm in my dressing gown." Jackie started trying to flirt with The Doctor
"Yes, you are." The Doctor replied
"There's a strange man in my bedroom." Jackie was still flirting The Doctor was either ignoring this or was oblivious.
"Yes, there is."
"Well, anything could happen." now getting obvious with what she wanted , the Doctor replied with one simple word
"No." he walked off. Jackie pulled a face behind his back. He finally reached the living room where Rose was.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?"
"Might as well, thanks! Just milk." Rose went into the kitchen to make the coffee that the Doctor wanted.
"We should go to the police. Seriously. Both of us." rose said from the kitchen seriously. Back in the living room The Doctor picked up a gossip magazine not really listening to Rose at all.
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien."
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong." The Doctor was still not listening he picked up a book and flicked through it
"Sad ending."
"They said on the news they'd found a body." Rose had not even noticed that the Doctor was not really listening to her. The Doctor picked up an envelope and read it
"Rose Tyler." The Doctor noticed a Mirror and went to check out what he looked like
"Ahh, could've been worse!" he gave his large ears a quick prod, it was as if he had not seen them before.
"Look at me' ears."
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke." Rose was still oblivious to The Doctor who was not listening. The Doctor meanwhile was shuffling a pack of cards.
"Luck be a lady!" The Doctor commented
"Well anyway if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying." While Rose was talking The Doctor shuffled the cards again and managed to make them all go flying. Rose Continued on from what she was saying a moment ago.
"I want you to explain everything." Rose finally finished what she was saying. The Doctor heard a scuffling noise from behind the sofa, he curiously asked Rose a question.
"What's that then? You got a cat?"
"No..." The Doctor went to investigate while Rose continued with what she was saying. Leaning over the sofa to check the Dummy's arm jumped out and grabbed him by neck in an attempt to strangle him. Rose walked on in with Coffee and continued speaking.
"We did have, but there's these strays, they come in off the estate..." behind her the doctor is trying to fight off the arm that is strangling him. Turning around she does not grasp the fact that The Doctor is being strangled by it.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out..." she put the coffee down on the table, still not realizing what was going on she continued
"Honestly, give a man a plastic hand... anyway, I don't even know your name, Doctor... what was it?" The Doctor Finally threw the hand off him, however it flew across the room and attached itself to Roses face. She started to scream, The Doctor leapt up and tries to pull it off her. The Doctor and Rose bot crash into the coffee table, breaking it, and roll onto the floor. The Doctor pushes her back onto the sofa and gets out his sonic screwdriver, disabling the hand.
"It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see?" he tosses the arm to her,
"Armless."
"Do you think?" came Roses reply before hitting him with it. The Doctor takes off with Rose following close behind.
"Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off."
"Yes I can. Here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!" The Doctor said
"That arm was moving, it tried to kill me!"
"Ten out of ten for observation." The Doctor seemed a little bit annoyed.
"You can't just walk away, that's not fair! You've got to tell me what's going on."
"No I don't." The Doctor replied sharply. They both reach the bottom of the stair's and walk out of the doors on to the Powell Estate.
"Alright then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking." Rose said trying to act tough
"Is that supposed to sound tough?" The Doctor asked her.
"Sort of." she replied
"Doesn't work." He told her as they continued walking.
"Who are you?" Rose asked
"I told you! The Doctor."
"Yeah. But Doctor what?"
"Just the Doctor." they continued walking
"The Doctor." Rose stated.
"Hello! The Doctor said this trying to sound impressive
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" She mimicked what he said earlier
"Sort of."
"Come on. You can tell me. I've seen enough. Are you the police?"
"No. I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home," replied The Doctor
"But what have I done wrong? How comes those plastic things keep coming after me?" asked Rose concerned.
"Oh! Suddenly the entire world revolves around you! You were just an accident, you got in the way, that's all."
"It tried to kill me!" Rose shouted back at the Doctor. The Doctor explained
"It was after me, not you! Last night, in the shop, I was there, you blundered it. Almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down... the only reason it fixed on you is that you met me."
"So, what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you." Replied Rose
"Sort of, yeah."
"You're full of it!" Rose found it amusing
"Sort of, yeah."
"But, all this plastic stuff - who else knows about it?" Rose asked The Doctor
"No one."
"What, you're on your own?"
"Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly! When all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on!"
Rose took the arm of him before telling him to start from the beginning. They continued walking further down the road.
"If you're gonna go with this living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do... how did you kill it?" Rose asked starting to ask him serious questions.
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead." The Doctor Replied to her question
"So that's radio control?"
"Thought control." he was silent for a moment then asked her if she ok.
"Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?" Once again asking another serious question.
"Long story."
"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies... what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" The both of them laughed but the doctors reply was not funny.
"No."
"I know."
"It's not a price war"
They both laughed again, The Doctor once he was finished turned serious.
"They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?" He asked this wondering if she did.
"No." Rose replied
"But you're still listening." The Doctor replied. Rose stopped while the doctor walked on.
"Really though, Doctor. Tell me - who are you?" she asked not really believing that his name was just The Doctor. He stopped and replied
"Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving?" He walked back to her.
"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. I can feel it," he took her hand.
"The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go..." he let go of her hand and continued
"That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler." Taking the arm he waved it at her.
"Go home.
As he walks away Rose watches him, she walks off herself as she does The Doctor steps into the same blue box that Danny had seen the day before. Rose was still walking away when she heard a strange sound, running back as fast as she can, she looks around but sees nothing the Police box is no longer there. Shielding her eyes from the sun, she looks around then walks away.
Back at Danny's house, Danny was reading some pages he had printed out from his computer trying to find out more about this Doctor and the blue box. He had actually found a lot more stuff out than he ever could from his dad, this was odder than his dad usually said. He was sitting in the hallway reading because his Dad was expecting a visitor sometime soon, and he had been told he had to answer the door. It did not take long before he heard the knock at the door. Placing down the paper he had been reading he opened to door to find an unexpected surprise for both people at either end of the door.
"Rose?"
A/N Hope you like it and what do you think of Clive being Danny's dad and yeah I replaced the kid that opens the door in the episode. Also yeah decided on the time shift at the end so we miss the bit where she goes to Mickeys hope you don't mind. Right I also believe I'm still getting the Tenses wrong if so can you point out where for me please and thank you.
