Well, I'm back, I'm sorry I never updated last night, I was drawing a self portrait and then I was playing sing star and by the time I got back to my laptop it was after midnight so I didn't bother updating as it was too late and nothing would have made sense. Okay, so, I'm hoping that I won't have to deliver newspapers tonight, but I probably will cause my sister just refuses...Anyway, I'll be watching the results show for strictly tonight, so there won't be an update until that's finished, I really want John Sergent to go as he's the worst dancer and if he stays in and one of the others gets voted off, I won't be very impressed, anyway on with the story.
The Doctor was lying in the bed, he was shaking. Rose was kneeling on the bed beside him with a cold cloth which she was using to try to keep his temperature down. The front door opened and she looked up to see Mickey Smith looking into the room, he said nothing and walked away. She kept wiping the Doctor's forehead with the cloth, hoping that he would be all right.
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Mickey set his laptop up on the table in Jackie's living room and said "Jackie, I'm gonna use the phone line. Is that alright?"
"Yeah, keep account of it." Jackie told him.
The clock chimmed quietly "It's midnight." Jackie said as Rose entered the room "Christmas Day." She handed Rose a cup of tea "Any change?" she asked
"He's worse." Rose answered "Just one heart beating."
Jackie sat down beside her daughter and watched the latest news report on the Guinevere One space probe.
"Here we go." Mickey said "Pilot fish." Rose got up and walked over to him "Scavengers like the Doctor said, they're harmless, they're tiny. But the point is the little fish swim alongside the big fish."
"Do you mean like sharks?" Rose asked
"Great, big sharks." Mickey answered "So, what the Doctor means is, we had them, now we get that."
"Something is coming." Rose said "How close?"
"There's no way of telling, but the pilot fish don't swim far from their daddy"
"So it's close."
"Funny sort of rocks." Jackie said as she watched the TV. Rose looked at the TV, the picture was grainy, but Rose could tell that whatever the picture was of, it definitely wasn't rocks.
"That's not rocks." Rose told her mum. She, her mum and Mickey all went closer to the screen to try to make out the picture. When they got near the TV the thing on the screen growled, causing all three of them to jump backwards.
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"Rose." said Mickey. Rose got up of the sofa and crossed the room to Mickey. "Take a look." he told her "I've got access to the military." Rose sat on the chair beside him "They're tracking a spaceship, it's big, it's fast and it's coming this way."
"Coming for what though?" Rose asked, now fearing for her husband's safety "The Doctor?"
"I don't know." Mickey answered "Maybe it's coming for all of us."
Three of the aliens' faces appeared on the screen and the middle on began to speak
"Have you seen them before?" Mickey asked
"No." Rose said as she continued to listen "I can't understand what they're saying." she said "The Tardis translates alien languages in my head all the time, wherever I am."
"So, why isn't it doing it now?" Mickey asked.
"I don't know." Rose answered "It must be the Doctor. Like he's part of the circuit and...he's broken."
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While Rose and Mickey were on the computer, Jackie went to check on the Doctor. She entered the room and sat down beside her bed "Oh, come on, sweetheart." she said to the sleeping Doctor "What do you need? What is it you need? Tell me."
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Rose stood at her mother's bedroom door, just looking in at the Doctor, she smiled slightly when she saw that her mother was asleep, her head resting on the bed. Mickey came up beside her "The Doctor wouldn't do this." she said "The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he'd wake up. He'd save us."
"You really love him, don't you?" Mickey asked.
Rose didn't say anything, she just leaned her head back on Mickey's shoulder and turned around for a hug, which Mickey gave her.
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Rose opened the front door, she'd heard her neighbour shouting at her husband "Sandra!" she said
"For no reason..." she said "he's just walking. He won't stop walking. There's a sort of light thing. Jason?"
Rose and Mickey followed her and looked down, it wasn't just Jason, it was atleast half the estate, they then followed them up onto the roof "What do we do?" Mickey asked her
"Nothing." Rose answered "There's no one to save us. Not anymore."
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Jackie turned on the TV at 3 o'clock for the queen's speech, but she was surprised to see Harriet Jones there instead "Ladies and gentlemen, if I may take a moment during this terrible time." she said "It's hardly the Queen's speech, I'm afraid that's been cancelled." She turned to someone behind the camera "Did we ask about the royal family?" she paused while waiting for the answer "Oh." she said "They're on the roof. (AN: just imagine that! That's got to be the funniest image.) "But, ladies and gentlemen, this crisis is unique, and I'm afraid to say it might get much worse. I would ask you all to remain calm. But I have one request. Doctor...if you're out there, we need you. I don't know what to do. If you can hear me, Doctor, if anyone knows the Doctor, if anyone can find him, the situation has never been more desperate. Help us. Please, Doctor, help us."
Rose had left the living room when Harriet had mentioned the Doctor and walked to her mum's room and stood at the door, looking at the Doctor. She finally cried.
Jackie heard her daughter crying and went into the hall to where she was standing, Rose turned around to look at her mother "He's gone." she said "The Doctor's gone. He left me, Mum." Jackie kissed her daughter's forehead and pulled her into a hug.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Jackie said as she hugged her.
Suddenly the building began to shake and Jackie and Rose pulled apart abruptly and ducked as glass shattered. The three of them went outside.
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Rose watched, along with her mother and her friend as a giant spaceship that looked like a rock flew over head. It stopped over the Powell Estate and no doubt covered more than half of London. Rose headed back into the flat followed by Mickey and Jackie.
They entered and headed into Jackie's bedroom "Mickey, we're gonna carry him." she said as she took the bed cover off of her husband "Mum, get your stuff and get some food. We're going."
"Where to?" asked Mickey as Rose picked up the dressing gown.
"The Tardis." she answered. "It's the only safe place on Earth."
"What are we gonna do in there?" Jackie asked
"Hide." Rose replied
"Is that it?"
"Mum, look in the sky." Rose said "There's a great big alien invasion and I don't know what to do, alright? I've travelled with him and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home I'm useless. Now all we can do is run and hide and I'm sorry. Now move."
Jackie left the room to get the stuff and Rose and Mickey lifted the Doctor, Rose put the dressing gown on him and then they carried him out.
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Rose backed out of the flat, holding the Doctor's top half, while Mickey had his feet. They walked slowly, so as not to drop him. Jackie walked out of the flat next with loads of bags.
"Mum, will you just leave that stuff and give us a hand?"
"It's food." Jackie replied "You said we need..."
"Just leave it."
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Rose unlocked the Tardis door, it was rather awkward as she was carrying the Doctor, but she managed it. They carried him up the ramp to the console "No chance you could fly this thing?" Mickey asked
"Not anymore. No." answered Rose
"Well, you did it before."
"I know." Rose answered "But, it's sort of been wiped out of my head, like it's forbidden. If I try it again, I think the universe rips in half." They laid the Doctor on the floor
"Ah." said Mickey "Better not then."
"Maybe not." Rose said
"So what do we do?" Mickey asked "Just sit here?"
"That's as good as it gets."
"Right here we go." said Jackie "Nice cup of tea."
"The solution to everything." Rose said sarcastically
"Now, stop your moaning." Jackie said "I'll get the rest of the food." She ran out of the Tardis.
Rose leaned against the console, just staring down at the Doctor, she realised then how little she actually knew about him and was determined to find out about him before she left with him again. "Tea." Mickey said "Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. It#s very British" he walked around the console and stopped in front of the monitor "How does this thing work?" he asked. "Cause if it picks up TV, maybe we can see what's going on out there. Maybe we've surrendered. What do you do to it?"
"I don't' knowl" Rose answered "It just sort of tunes itself."
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"Maybe it's a distress signal." Mickey suggested
"Fat lot of good that's gonna do." Rose said
"Are you gonna be a misery all the time?" Mickey asked
"Yes."
"You should look at it from my point of view." Mickey told her "Stuck in here with your mum's cooking."
"Where is she?"
Mickey shrugged his shoulders. Rose got off the captain's chair "I'd better give her a hand." she said "It might start raining missiles out there." She walked to the door.
"Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine." Mickey said
"Why don't you tell her yourself?"
"I'm not that brave."
"Oh, I don't know" Rose said
She opened the door and stepped outside, she was grabbed from behind and she screamed. Mickey heard the scream and ran outside. He dropped the flask that he'd been holding and tea spilled out over the grating and into the Tardis' circuits. Once outside, he looked around confused, and that's when he realised that they were now on the spaceship.
Rose looked around and saw him "The door!" she shouted "Close the door!" Mickey ran back to the Tardis and grabbed the door, pulling it shut, just as he did this a Sycorax grabbed him
"Leave her alone." he shouted.
Rose and Mickey were dragged to where Harriet Jones and her assisstant, Alex were. "Rose." Harriet said as she hugged the young blonde "Rose, I've got you. My Lord. Oh, my precious thing. The Doctor, is he with you?"
"No." Rose answered "We're on our own." Rose continued to hug Harriet as the older woman didn't seem to want to let her go anytime soon.
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The tea had started to evaporate and the steam was rising up and surrounding the Doctor, who took a deep breath, breathing in the tea vapours, more of the golden energy escaped from his mouth as he breathed out
Well, that's this part completed, the next chapter will be up soon
TTFN
Julie.