Right, here's part 7, I'll get part 8 up in around an hour and it'll hopefully be the last part of love and monsters and then I'll be moving on to a fiiller before I even conside putting up the first part of Fear her. Now, I will be re writing the first chapter of series 3 with Rose so that it fits in perfectly with both the last chapter of this, which will end on a cliff hanger and the second chapter of series 3 with Rose, when I've finished this I will be working on finishing that, now that I have the transcripts, I can work faster as before I was getting the actual dialogue from the subtitles on the DVDs anyway, on with this.

Jackie brought in a plate of biscuits and a mug of tea while Elton fixed another plug. "Infiltration went well, cause Jackie kept phoning up needing this and needing that." Elton said to the camera "It was strange, the amount of things that needed doing. It's like that flat was jinxed." This time, Jackie had asked him to fix a lamp.

"It's weird these fuses keep blowing." he said after fixing yet another problem for Jackie "Must be near a sub station. Then you get the power surges still... there we go! Fixed!"
Jackie entered behind him, in a very short black skirt. As Elton turnedound, he came face to face with her stomach, and quickly stood up.
"Here we are!" Jackie said "A little reward for my favourite handyman." She'd really gone to town - makeup, her hair loose and a tight fitting top that shows off her chest. She handed Elton a glass of red wine.
"I shouldn't really, I've got the car outside."
"Well, you could always splash out on a taxi, or..." she paused "Whatever. See what happens."
Elton nodded. a little nervously. "Right... cheers?"
"Cheers." she said They clinked their glasses together and then drank.
"Very nice." he said "What's that, French?"
"I s'pose so. They know how to do things, the French... "
"Is it from Rose?" he asked "I mean, is she in France?"
"My daughter won't be coming back tonight." Jackie said "Just in case you're wondering. We've got the place to ourselves."
"Right..." Jackie turned on the cd player and music filtered through the room "Nice music." Elton said, after listening for a few seconds
"Il Divo." she told him
"Yeah."
"You were saying, power surges." She advanced on Elton, who backed away into the wall.
"From the sub station, yeah."
"Is that why it gets so hot in here?" she asked
"Is it hot?" he asked
"Oh I think so. Should take your jacket off. " she said
"No, I'm fine, I'll just-- "
"No, look, you must be boiling!" She 'accidentally' spilt her wine down his shirt. "Oh, look at your shirt! Sorry..."

"I'm... I'm... I'm fine, it's all right." he said
"I've ruined it." Jackie told him
"No, no. Honestly, it's.. it's fine."
"Take it off, I'll put it in the wash." she told him
"Oh come on, it's only a little drop." He said Jackie sloshed the rest of her glass over the shirt - deliberately, not even pretending it was an accident.
"Oh... there now." she said "Ruined."

Elton went to the bathroom and took off his jacket.
"And there I was." he said "The ultimate step five." He took his shirt off, and started preening himself - doing his hair, spraying deodorant, etc. "The perfect infiltration." He gargled with mouthwash, then made some boxing moves to psych himself up. "Target- Jackie Tyler." He pointed at himself in the mirror and then clicked his fingers before leaving the bathroom.

Elton appeared in Jackie's bedroom door. "You're right, it is a bit hot." he said "But it's about to get hotter!"
Jackie was sitting on the bed, talking to someone on the phone. "I'll see you soon. All right, be careful." she said. Elton looked concerned. "Bye." She replaced the phone with a sigh.
"Everything alright?" he asked
"That was my daughter." she told him. She finally turned to the half naked Elton - Elton in turn looked sheepish. "Oh, look at you." she said "I'm sorry. I was just being stupid."
"Is she okay?" he asked
"She's so far away." Jackie said "I get left here sometimes and, um... I don't know where she is, anything could be happening to her, anything. And I just go a bit mad." she paused "Put your shirt back on."
"Where is she?" he asked quietly
"Doesn't matter. I'm sorry. You'd better go."
Elton turned to leave, but had a thought. "Actually..." "That's when it struck me. Funny the things you think of with your shirt off. But that's when I realised what was really important." "Never mind about Rose." he said "I'm not even gonna ask. And I will put my shirt back on, because I'm going to go out and get us both a pizza. Cause I reckon you need cheering up. She goes swanning off and who's left to care about you, eh? So I say a nice bit of pizza, we'll put the telly on nice and loud and annoy that woman next door, just you and me as proper mates. Yeah? Mates. Go on. Say yes."
"Yes! "

Elton walked back through the subway with a box of pizza "All of a sudden, a lot of things made sense. I'd got so lost in conspiracies and aliens and targets, I'd been missing the obvious. Cos I DID like Jackie, but I liked someone else even more!" Back in his flat, ELTON was dancing along to 'Mr Blue Sky' by ELO. Thinking of various memories of him and Ursula together, all the good times they've had.

Back on the estate, Jackie was standing waiting outside, holding Elton's jacket. "Right." Elton said "Let's get inside then, the pizza's getting cold."
"I went in your coat." she said in a cold tone of voice "For once in my life I thought 'I'll pay'. I thought 'He's such a nice man, he won't accept anything, so I'll just slip a tenner in his pocket'. And look what I found." She pulled out his photograph of Rose. "A photograph of my daughter."
"No no no no no, it's not like that. I can explain!"
"I bet you can." she said
"I wasn't being pervy or anything, I wasn't after her! I was looking for the Doctor."
"Oh I know that." Jackie said, angrily "I worked that out. 'Cos it's never me, is it?"
"No, but that's how it started, but I changed my mind!"
"Let me tell you something. About those who get left behind. Because it's hard. And that's what you become, hard" she said "But if there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I will never let her down. And I'll protect them both until the end of my life. So whatever you want, I'm warning you: back off."
"But Jackie, I only wanted to meet him."
"I thought you liked me." she said
"I do!"
"Just get out of here!" she shouted on the verge of tears and threw his jacket at him "I said get OUT! And leave me alone!" She ran back into the flat in tears, leaving Elton standing with the pizza and his jacket.
Once inside the flat, she dialled her daughter's familiar number.

On the Tardis, Rose was sleeping in the arms of her husband when the familiar shrill tone of her mobile sounded in the room, both she and the Doctor awoke and she went to get it from her jacket pocket. She groaned when she saw it was her mum again "Hello." she said as she answered it and walked back over to the bed.
"Did I wake you?" her mother asked
"Yeah, but it's alright." she said "What's wrong?"
"Someone's looking for you and the Doctor." her mother said. Rose's eyes widened and the Doctor noticed, but didn't say anything.
"Who?"
"His name's Elton Pope." Jackie said
"We'll deal with it, mum." Rose said
"Thanks, sweetheart." Jackie said "Go back to sleep. Bye"
"Bye, Mum." Rose said as she hung up the phone and then she turned to her husband and told him what her mother had said.

Right, I'm doing a repeat pattern now, so as soon as I've finished that, you'll get the next chapter.

TTFN

Julie