Hi everyone, it's now 29/11/2008 and that means that tomorrow is St Andrew's day and then Monday's the 1st of December, and that means that it's 26 days until Christmas... Anyway, enough of my rambling about christmas as that has absolutely nothing to do with this story, the ony thing that does is for the very first time ever I'm dreading an episode of Doctor Who... Anyway, let's get on with this.

The bell rings as the Doctor walks to his classroom, he enters it and stands at the front of the room "Good morning, class." he said "Are we sitting comfortably?" he grinned at the class, not one of them even cracked a smile. He went to the board and wrote physics. "So...physics." he tossed the pen onto the table "Physics, eh? Physics. Physics." he drew out that one and the girls giggled "Physics! Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics. Physics." he paused "I hope one of you is getting all this down." he said "Okay, let's see what you know. Two identical strips of nylon are charged with static electricity and hung from a string so they can swing freely. What would happen if they were brought near each other?"

A small boy with glasses raised his hand "Yes, what's your name?"

"Milo."

"Milo." said the Doctor "Off you go."

"They'd repel each other because they have the same charge."

"Correct-amundo." said the Doctor "A word I have never used before and hopefully never will again. Question two." he continued "I coil up a thin piece of nichrome wire and place it in a glass of water. Then I turn on the electricity and measure to see if the water temperature is affected. My question is this. How do I measure the electrcal power going into the coil?" Milo raised his hand again "Someone else." No one raised their hands "No? Okay." said the Doctor "Milo, go for it."

"Measure the current and PD using an ammeter and a voltmeter."

"Two to Milo!" said the Doctor "Right, Milo, tell me this. True or false, the greater the damping on a system, the quicker it loses energy to its surroundings."

"False."

"What is non-coding DNA?"

"DNA that doesn't code for a protien."

"65,983 times 5."

"329,915."

"How do you travel faster than light?"

"By harnessing a quantum tunnel with and FTL factor of 36.7 recurring."

The Doctor had a shocked expression on his face 'No child should know that.' he thought 'Well at least not a human one.' He didn't bother with any more questions, he just set the class work and helped where help was needed.

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It was now lunch time and luckily, the Doctor had had a rather unventfull day after that first class. He went to the canteen and stood in the que, waiting to be served. When he was nearly through the que, he reached Rose, (she was working as a dinner lady) he grinned at her and she just looked at him. He went and sat down.

Rose walked over to him a short time later "Two days." she said "Two days we've been here."

"Blame Mickey, he's the one who put us on to this." the Doctor replied. "And he was right. Boy in class this morning, got knowledge way beyond planet Earth."

"You eating those chips?"

"Yeah, they're a bit..." he said "different."

Rose stole a chip "I think they're gorgeous." she told him "Wish I had school dinners like this." She sat down

"It's very well behaved this place." the Doctor said "I thought they'd all be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ring tones. Eh? Don't tell me I don't fit in." Rose smiled at him indulgently, she was used to him now, all his differences with the previous Doctor. Her smile however fell from her face when an older woman came over to them

"You are not permitted to leave your station during a sitting."

"I was just talking to this teacher." Rose said

"Hello."

"He doesn't like the chips."

"The menu has been specifically designed by the headmaster to improve concentration an performance." she said "Now get back to work."

Rose walked around the table "See? This is me." she said "Dinner lady."

"I'll have the crumble." the Doctor said to her retreating form

"I'm so gonna kill you." she replied.

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When the Doctor finished his lunch, he went to speak to Rose, she was clearing tables nearby "Rose?" he said, putting his hand on her shoulder.

She jumped when he spoke "You scared me." she said

"Sorry." he replied "I think this... whatever it is, is being caused by the food, keep an eye on them." he told her, pointing back to the kitchen

"Yeah." she said "Go, you're gonna be late for your next class if you've got one." she kissed his cheek and walked off to the kitchen.

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She was doing as he asked, watching the kitchen staff, that is, while she was drying the dishes "Careful, keep it steady." said one of them "Don't spill a drop." They were moving a large oil drum "I said keep it steady." she repeated "Careful. That's it. Easy now. Steady."

Rose's phone rang, so she could no longer watch them, she answered her phone. "What have you got?" she asked Mickey, who was on the other end of the phone

"Confirmation." he replied "I just got into army records. Three months ago, massive UFO activity. They logged over 49 sightings. Lights in the sky, all of that. Can't get any photos 'cause then it gets all classified, secret. Keeps locking me out."

"Tell you what, though." said Rose "Three months ago, turs out all the kitchen staff were replaced. And this lot are weird."

"See? There's definitely something going on." Mickey said "I was right to call you home."

"Thanks, Mickey" She turned around as the oil drum tipped over "I've got to go." She watched the other dinner ladies taking the one who got covered with the oil into another room. Rose got out her phone again

"What you doing?"

"Calling an ambulance."

"No need, she's quite all right."

Rose hung up the phone, the two of them heard screaming "It's fine." she said "She does that."

Rose looked at the oil drum, wondering what was in it, she decided to tell the Doctor about this the next time she saw him.

Well that's it for this chapter, I'm going for my lunch now. It's funny, I always seem to post at lunch time, goodness knows what I'm eating though, cause I've got to see where's open. I'll update soon. As those of you who read series 3 with Rose will have noticed, I'm not updating anything else, just this. I promise to update everything before Christmas.

TTFN

Julie.