Ok, here comes the part that I've been waiting for, here's The Christmas Invasion, I absolutely adore this episode, it's sooo funny, I mean 'Did we ask about the royal family.......Oh, they're on the roof.' Can you imagine the Queen and her family standing on the roof of buckingham palace...Sorry, that just put a really funny image in my head of the Queen standing on the roof in her dressing gown and slippers with her hair in curlers....Lol, I know you found that a little funny, it was my sister's friend that started that one. Anyway, here we go....

Jackie Tyler was decorating her Christmas tree, she put the final bauble on the white tree and then walked over to the table where the presents were sitting and picked them up. When she looked at the tag on one, she saw her daughter's name on it. She sat down with the present still in her hands and stared at the lable, wondering if her daughter was ever coming home.

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Mickey was at work, he worked in the garage that was on the Powell Estate, the guys were listening to Christmas music and they had it turne up loud. Mickey thought that he heard something that sounded like the Tardis "Turn that down." he said. "Turn it off, Steve, man. Turn it off! John, shut up!" when they had done as he asked, Mickey heard the Tardis, he grinned and ran out of the garage to go and find it.

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Jackie was putting up a Christmas card when she heard it. "Rose!" she said and dropped everything she was doing and ran out of the flat to find her daughter.

Jackie ran across the Estate and spotted Mickey coming from the other direction "Mickey!" she said

"Jackie, it's the Tardis." Mickey said

"I know, I know." Jackie said "I heard it. She's alive Mickey. I said so, didn't I? She's alive!"

"Just shut up a minute." Mickey told her

"Where is it, then?"

The Tardis appeared in the air before them and began knocking itself off walls, it hit two walls, one on each side of the Estate, nearly crushed Jackie and Mickey and skidded to a stop around the corner after almost crashing into a postal van. The Doctor stepped out of the Tardis first "Here we are, then." he said to Rose, who was behind him "London, Earth, the Solar System, isn't it?" he exited and the door shut behind him. He turned around and found himself face to face with Jackie Tyler "Jackie, Mickey, blimey!" he said "No, no, no, no. Hold on." he started walking around "Wait there. What was I going to say? There was something I had to tell you. Something important. What was it?" he gripped their shoulders "No, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. shshshsh." he paused and thought for a moment "Oh! I know. Merry Christmas." he released their shoulders and collapsed. Mickey caught him before he hit the ground and laid him down.

Rose came out of the Tardis. "What happened?" she asked "Is he alright?"

"I don't know." Mickey answered "He just keeled over. But who is he? Where's the Doctor?"

"That's him." Rose answered. "Right in front of you. That's the Doctor."

"What do mean, that's the Doctor?" Jackie asked "Doctor Who?"

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Rose ignored her mother's question and locked the Tardis, when she had done so she turned to Mickey "Help me carry him up to the flat." she told him as she put the Tardis key in her pocket.

Mickey nodded and the two of them carried the Doctor up the stairs, Rose carried him gently, Mickey on the other hand wasn't as gentle, but then again, he only had the Doctor's feet. They eventually got him up to the flat.

"Put him in my room." Jackie said as she unlocked the door "Yours is a mess..."

Rose and Mickey carried the Doctor into Jackie's room and laid him on the bed. Jackie came in with pjs for him, Rose didn't ask her where she'd gotten them, that was a question for later. Mickey and Jackie left the room and Rose changed the Doctor into the pjs and got him into bed, she hung up his leather jacket and folded his jumper and trousers and put them to the side, before sitting down on the edge of the bed.

Jackie came into the room after Rose had been sitting there for a while "Here we go." Jackie said "Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, medical student." she handed Rose a stethoscope "And she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to a hospital."

"We can't." Rose said, "They'd lock him up. They'd dissect him. One bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race." Jackie opened her mouth to argue, but Rose held up her hands to stop her "No... Shh." she said and then she placed the stethoscope on the Doctor's chest. First on one side and then on the other, each time, she could hear heart beats "Both working." she said

"What do you mean, both?" Jackie asked

"Well, he's got two hearts." Rose answered.

"Oh, don't be stupid." Jackie said.

"He has."

"Anything else he's got two of?" Jackie asked as Rose got off the bed and walked out of the room

"Leave him alone." Rose told her mother. Jackie got up as well and followed her daughter out of the room.

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Rose opened the fridge and got something to eat "How can he go changing his face?" Jackie asked "Is that a different face or is he a different person?"

"How should I know?" Rose asked "...Sorry."

Jackie nodded, she knew that her daughter was upset and that, even if she didn't admit it to her, she knew that her daughter loved the Doctor and that she was scared of what was happening

"The thing is, I thought I knew him, Mum." Rose said "I thought that me and him were...And then he goes and does this." Jackie came over to stand in front of her daughter "I keep forgetting he's not human." She took her mum's hand "The big question is...where did you get a pair of men's pyjamas from?"

"Howard's been staying over."

"What, Howard from the market?" Rose asked "How long has that been going on?"

"A month or so." Jackie answered. "First of all, he starts delivering to the door and I thought, 'That's odd' Next thing you know it's a bag of oranges..." Rose wasn't listening, she had just heard a familiar voice on the TV.

"Is that Harriet Jones?"

"Never mind me." Jackie said as Rose went into the living room

"Why is she on the telly?"

"She's Prime Minister now." Jackie answered "I'm 18 quid a week better off. They're calling it Britain's golden age. I keep on saying my Rose has met her."

"Did more than that." Rose said "Stopped World War Three with her. Harriet Jones."

They watched the rest of the news broadcast.

"What about those who are calling the Guinevere One space probe a waste of money?"

"Now, that's where you're wronge." Harriet said I completely disagree if you don't mind" Rose laughed and Jackie was glad to hear it. "The Guinevere One space probe represents this country's limitless ambition. British workmanship sailing up there aming the stars."

"This is the spirit of Christmas, birth and rejoicing and the dawn of a new age and that is what we are achieving 50 million miles away, our very own miracle."

"The unmanned probe Guinevere One is about to make its final decent. Photographs of the Martain landscape should be received by midnight tonight."

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When the news report finished, Rose went into her mother's room and sat on the bed beside her husband and took a good look at him, she had to admit that he was better looking this time around, but what she didn't know, but wanted to know, was it only his body and small things that had changed or was it that he had changed entirely and no longer loved her. She didn't even know if she loved him still or not, when he showed her that he was the same man, she knew that her trust and her love would still be his, but until that time, she was glad that he was asleep as she wouldn't know how to act around him.

Eventually, Jackie came back into the room and told her daughter to go out for a bit and that she would look after the ill man. Rose only agreed because she had made him give her his wedding ring before he faced her mother and it had joined her own wedding ring on the chain around her neck that also held her engagement ring.

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She walked along with Mickey looking at shop windows "So what do you need?" he asked her "20 quid?"

"Do you mind?" she asked him "I'll pay you back." Mickey handed her the money and the walked on.

"Call it a Christmas present!" Mickey.

"God, I'm all out of sync." Rose said "You just forget about Christmas and things in the Tardis. They don't exist, You get sort of...timeless."

"Oh, yah, that's fascinating because I love hearing stories about the Tardis." Mickey said "Go on Rose, tell us another one, 'cause I swear I could listen to it all day, 'Tardis this, Tardis that.'"

"Shut up."

"'Oh, and one time the Tardis landed in a big, yellow garden full of balloons'"

"I'm not like that." Rose said

"Oh, you so are." Mickey said.

"Hmm, must drive you mad." Rose said "I'm surprised you don't give up on me."

"Well, that's the thing, isn't it?" Mickey said "You can rely on me. I don't go changing my face."

"Yeah." Rose said "What if he's dying?"

"Okay..." Mickey said

"Sorry!"

"Just let it be Christmas." Mickey said "Can you do that? Just for a bit, you and me and Christmas. No...No Doctor. No bog monsters. No life or death."

"Ok." Rose said, mostly just to shut him up.

"Promise?"

"Yes."

"Right what are you gonna get for your mum?" Mickey asked "I'm round ther all the time now, you know. She even does me dinner on a Sunday...." Rose leaves Mickey rambling on about her mother and looks around. She watches the brass band, suddenly suspicious of it. They lowered their instruments and pointed them at her like weapons. Fire came out of one of their trombones and Rose puched Mickey out of the way as everyone scattered "It's 're after us." Rose said as they hid. The two of them ran to get a taxi back to the flat.

Well, that's part one. See you soon for part two, which I'm going to start right now. Sorry about the ending there, but I wanted to keep this under 2000 words which I've only just manged to do with out the authors notes.

TTFN

Julie