Right, here's the filler, it won't be very long at all, cause I'm working on Fear Her as well. So, here we go.
Rose and the Doctor entered the Tardis hand in hand after leaving Elton with Ursula on the slab. The Doctor's expression worried his wife, she knew that he was blaming himself for what had happened to Linda. "Doctor, it wasn't your fault." she said as he flung his tan trench coat over the support and began setting the coordinates for the Powell Estate so that they could check on her mother.
"I know." he said as the engine started and the Tardis disappeared from the alley they had been in and reappeared in the park on the estate. "I still feel guilty. If we'd arrived earlier we might have been able to save Ursula. And I also feel guilty because I have the woman I love standing in front of me, completely alive and whole..."
"It. Is. Not. Your. Fault." Rose told him firmly, before she grabbed his hand and dragged him from the Tardis to her mother's flat.
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Just as Rose was about to take her key out to open the front door to her mother's flat, Jackie herself appeared in the doorway. "You should've called." she said as she stepped aside to let the couple enter the flat. Their wedding rings had been taken off as usual, so that Jackie wouldn't find out. "I'd've had tea on. D'you want a cup?" she asked
"Yeah." they said enthusiastically, they could do with one. After Jackie had called Rose, they had started searching for Elton as soon as she had told the Doctor what was going on, so Rose in particular was knackered. Jackie returned a few minutes later with their tea.
"So, what happened?" Rose asked her mother.
"Well, I met Elton at the laundrette when the washing machine broke." Jackie answered "I asked him if he could look at it for me and it went on from there, I'd get him to do things that I used to ask Mickey to do, so he was round quiet a lot. I was being silly the other night, flirting with him, then I was on the phone to you and I realised what I was doing, so I stopped. He decided that he would be a friend and spend some time with me and he went to get a pizza. While he was gone I went in his coat to slip him a tenner, cause he's a nice bloke, I thought that I'd pay for once, then I found a picture of you and realised what he was up to. I told him that I'd protect you both to the end of my life and told him to leave, then I called you." She finished.
"It's sorted, mum." Rose said "He wanted to meet the Doctor to find out why he'd been in his house when his mother died and find out what had happened to her."
"After you called, we looked for him." the Doctor told his mother in law "He was being chased by something that called itself an absorbaloff, it looked a little like a slitheen and it was from a planet that I had never heard of, anyway. After the absorbaloff had been defeated by Elton's friends I explained what happened and he sort of lost his girlfriend."
"What'd you mean sort of?" Jackie asked, looking confused
"All that I could save was her face, she is literally a face on a slab."
"Poor Elton." was all that Jackie had left to say on the subject.
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Later that day, after the Doctor and Rose returned to the Tardis, Jackie called to apologise to Elton and the two of them, plus Ursula would meet in Jackie's flat sometimes, when Jackie would get lonely and needed someone to talk to.
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When the Doctor and Rose entered the Tardis, the Doctor put the Tardis in the Time Vortex before they both went back to bed. The Doctor's last thought before falling asleep was that he would take his wife to the 2012 Olymics the next day.
And there you go, I think that's alright. Now, that's all you're getting for tonight, cause I'm going to go get something to eat and then I'm going to work on Fear Her and then I'm going to bed.
TTFN
Julie