In an ordinary alleyway on the council estates a whooshing sound can be heard. A blue police box slowly appears and two people step out and have a look around. The female turns to look back at the male leaning on the blue police box. "How long have I been gone?"
"About twelve hours," the Doctor answers with a smug grin.
Rose starts laughing, she knows it's been longer than that. "Right, I won't be long," she points at the Doctor as she walks backward towards her flat. "Just want to see my mum."
"What're you gonna tell her?" The Doctor inquires.
"I don't know," Rose shrugs, "I've been to the year 5 billion and seen zombies in Cardiff and been gone what, 12 hours. No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at my mate Shareen's. See ya later." Rose throws over her shoulder as she walks off. "Don't wander off." She warns him.
The TARDIS alerts the Doctor to the correct date when he realises it's not 12 hours but 12 months. He takes of to try and stop Rose.
Rose runs up to her flat and opens the door, "I'm back. You in? So what's been going on, how ya been." Her mother looks at her strangely. "What, what's that face for?"
Her mother drops the mug she was holding, "it's you, it's really you." And her mother grabs her in a bone crushing hug.
The Doctor comes bursting through the door then. "It's not 12 hours, it's 12 months. You've been gone a whole year, sorry." The Doctor grins.
Rose rolls her eyes at him as her mother stares shocked.
Rose leads her mother to the coach as she starts waking up from her shocked look. At least the police won't be called this time as she noticed there were no flyers littering the table.
"The hours I sat here, days and weeks and months all on my own. I thought something had happened to you and where were you, travelling." Her mum starts to rant, "what the hell does that mean, travelling. That's no sort of answer."
"That's what I was doing," Rose insists.
"With your passport still in the draw. It's just one lie after another." Her mother continues to yell.
"I did contact you." Rose insists remembering all the texts she sent her mother. "We were travelling the country, even went to Cardiff." The Doctor smiled at that.
"What a few texts, what happened to calling just to let me know you were alright." Her mother throws her arms up. "I just don't believe you."
"Actually it's my fault," the Doctor pipes up. Rose cringes when she remembers what's coming. "I've sort of employed Rose as my companion."
"What for," she looks him up and down, "cause you, you waltz in here all charms and smiles and the next thing I know she runs of travelling. How old are you then," Jackie gets in the Doctors face. "40, 45 what did you find her on the Internet, did you go online and pretend your a Doctor."
"I am a doctor," he insists as he thinks of the degrees he holds.
"Prove it, stitch this mate." Jackie slaps him across his face as Rose cringes.
The Doctor takes of to the roof while Rose tries to calm down her mum.
Her mums pulls her into another hug. "Did you think about me at all?"
"I did," Rose insists. "That's why I sent the texts. I didn't want you to worry."
"Your not having a sexual relationship with him are you." Jackie asks.
"No, of course not." Rose insists. Not yet any way she whispers in her mind as Bad Wolf sniggers.
Jackie seems to have calmed down so Rose decides to check on the Doctor. Reaching the roof she sees him leaning against a small wall. She moves to sit on the wall next to him.
"I can't tell her," Rose says. " I can't even begin, she's never gonna forgive me." She turns to him. "I missed a year, was it good?"
"Middling," the Doctor shrugs.
"Your so useless," Rose half jokes.
"Well if it's this much trouble are you gonna stay here now." The Doctor holds his breathe as he waits for her answer.
"I don't know," she teases. "Can't do that too her again, though."
The Doctor let out the breathe he was holding as he saw she was teasing him. "Well, she's not coming with us." The Doctor warns her.
They both start laughing at that thought.
"No chance," Rose knows her mothers not cut out for this life.
"I don't do families." The Doctor insists though the thought of having a family with Rose sounded a bit too appealing.
"She slapped you," Rose said in awe.
"900 years of time and space and I've never been slapped by someone's mother." The Doctor complained.
"Your face," Rose laughed.
"It hurts," the Doctor pouted.
"Your so gay," Rose keeps laughing. Rose stopped laughing when she realised what he said. " What happened to 1200?"
The Doctor shrugged. "I'm not exactly sure what age I am."
"So you choose some random number that might sound right, or do you like taking a few years off like most guys?" Rose asks as Bad Wolf whispers someone likes lying about their age. Rose has to hide her smile.
"Yep," the Doctor agrees.
"My mum was right," Rose realises. "That is one hell of an age gap."
Rose suddenly hops down as she's feeling restless. "Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to, I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it and I can't say a word. Aliens and space ships and things and I'm the only person on planet earth who knows they exist."
Suddenly they hear a noise like a fog horn and turning around they see a space ship fly over there heads. Ducking they continue to watch as the ship makes a left turn and hits Big Ben before crashing into the Themes river.
Getting up they both stare in amazement.
"Oh that just not fair." Rose insists. She had to travel away to see something like that.
The Doctor starts laughing as he grabs her hand and they run to see if they can get closer to it.
The army has closed of central London. "It's blocked off." The Doctor stats.
"Where miles from the centre," Rose realises. "The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down."
"I know, I can't believe I'm here to see this." The Doctor grins. "This is fantastic."
Rose looks over to see a huge grin on his face. She can't help her own smile, "didn't you know this was going to happen?"
"Nope," the Doctor replies.
"Do you recognise the ship?" Rose continues.
"Nope," the Doctor looks at her.
"Do you know why it crashed?" Rose tries again.
"Nope," the Doctor grins again.
"Thought you were an expert." Rose jokes.
The Doctor turns to her. "I am an expert," he pretends to be offended.
Rose gives him the smile she reserves for him. The one where her tongue pokes out slightly between her teeth. "Well let's go and see it. Never mind the traffic we've got the TARDIS."
"Better not," the Doctor tells her. "They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London, I don't want to shove another one on top."
"Yeah but doesn't the TARDIS have a silent mode. So no one will notice?" Rose asks.
"You'll be surprised, an emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching." The Doctor explains as he wonders how she knows the TARDIS has a silent mode. "Trust me, the TARDIS stays where it is."
Rose starts getting restless again. "So history's happening and where stuck here?"
"Yes we are," the Doctor says.
"We could always do what everyone else does." Rose suggests.
The Doctor looked at her confused.
"We could watch it on TV." Rose raises her eyebrow at him.
The Doctor never thought of that.
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The Doctor and Rose made it back to the flat to find Jackie was hosting a party.
The Doctor turns on the telly and gets comfortable in the armchair closest to the telly as Rose sits on a sofa on the side as she discreetly watches the Doctor.
Big Ben destroyed, as a UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are driving in from across the country as wide spread panic and looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. A news anchor explained.
The Doctors thoroughly engrossed in the story but glances at Rose every now and then like he was making sure she was still there.
The Doctor continues to switch news channels trying to find anything off interest out about the space craft.
"I've got no choice," Jackie insists. "Either I make him welcome or I run the risk of losing you."
Rose rolls her eyes as her aunt Bev has a go at her.
The Doctor was getting annoyed while he's trying to listen to the news. "Oi, I'm trying to listen."
They found a body, it's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore. The news anchor continued.
The Doctors getting more annoyed as he's trying to listen.
"Oh, guess who asked me out." Jackie says as the Doctor wonders who would want to go out with her. "Billy Crewe."
The Doctor looks more surprised by that than the alien on the telly. One of the kids takes the remote of him while he's distracted and changes the channel. The Doctor manages to wrestle the remote back from the child and changes back as he hears that the body has now been moved to Albion hospital.
The Doctor glances quickly at Rose as he realises that she looks just as uncomfortable in this domestic setting as he does.
The Doctor decides he's had enough of the domestic scene and slips out. He intends to take the TARDIS to the hospital so he can have a look at the body they found.
Rose watched him slip out and followed him as she realised he had lasted longer than she thought he would. She caught him as he was walking away from the door. "Where do you think your going?"
"No where," the Doctor lies as he tries to cover up the fact that she surprised him. "It's, aaah, just a bit human in there for me. History's just happened and their talking about where you can buy dodgy topple carts for half price."
Rose looks sceptical and a bit disappointed, she thought this time he might actually tell her the truth. "If you want to have a look at the alien you can just say so. Just make sure you come back, ya."
The Doctor feels bad for lying to her then he sees the uncertainty in her eyes. She's afraid he might leave her behind. "Tell ya what," he pulls out a key from his pocket and hands it to her. " TARDIS key, about time you had one, see ya later."
Rose watches him walk off as she turns and heads back inside.
The Doctor walks to the TARDIS and unlocks her to walk in. Unknown to him, Mickey sees him and runs to try and stop the TARDIS from disappearing but he's running to fast and ends up running into the wall as the TARDIS has already gone.
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The Doctor opens the TARDIS doors and realises she's landed them inside a supply cupboard. He walks up to the cupboard door and sonics it open to walk into a room full of soldiers.
He raises his hands in the air as all the soldiers point there guns at him. A scream is then heard echoing in the corridors. The Doctor jumps into action, "defence plan delta." He orders them, "come on. Move, move." The soldiers follow him as he runs to the source of all the screaming.
They run through the corridors and into the morgue to find a frightened coroner.
"It's alive!" She exclaimed.
The Doctor turns to the soldiers behind him. "Spread out, tell the perimeter it's a lock down." The soldiers look on confused as the Doctor moves to comfort the coroner. While she's mumbling. "Do it." That gets the soldiers moving.
"I swear it was dead," the coroner insisted.
"Coma, shock, hibernation anything. What does it look like?" The Doctor hears a noise and turns around. "It's still here."
He indicates for a soldier to stay with the coroner while he looks for the alien. Hearing another noise he gets down on his hands and knees to look behind a bench, he slowly pokes his head around the corner as the alien does the same. "Hello," the Doctor grins.
The pig alien gives a scared squeal and runs towards the door. "Don't shoot," he yells at the soldier as the pig alien runs out the door.
He chases after it as it runs towards a bunch of soldiers. They open fire on the pig alien as the Doctor rounds the corner.
"What did ya do that for!" He yells as he watches the pig alien die. "It was scared, it was scared."
They managed to carry the pig alien back to the morgue where the coroner had calmed down enough to manage the autopsy.
"I just assumed that, that's what aliens look like." She tried to reason out. "But your saying it's an ordinary pig from Earth?"
"More like a mermaid," the Doctor agreed. "Victorian showman use to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat, glueing it to a fish and calling it a mermaid. Now someone's taken a pig, opened up its brain, stuck bits on. Then they strapped it in that ship and made it dive bomb. It must of been terrified." The Doctor finished angrily. "They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke."
While the coroner carries on reasoning it all out, the Doctor quietly slips away and back to the TARDIS.
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Rose is sitting in the chair the Doctor use to occupy while thinking about who she can save. She can't save the experts cause she's not allowed in the room and telling the Doctor anything could make him suspicious. Bad Wolf sends her an image of someone she can save.
"Here's to the Martians," Jackie yells out in a toast as Mickey walks through the door.
Everyone quiets down as they see him. "I was gonna come see ya." Rose insists.
"Someone owes Mickey an apology." Bev yells out.
Rose looks at him guiltily, "I'm sorry."
"Not you." She tells Rose as Bev turns to Jackie.
Jackie looks unrepentant, "it's not my fault, be fair what was I suppose to think."
Jackie walks off to the kitchen where it's quieter as Mickey and Rose follow her.
Rose stands at the counter as Mickey yells at her. "You run of to travel and who does your mother turn on, me that's who. The police thought you were traveling but then I get her, your mother." He points at Jackie. "She thought I had hidden your body then was using your phone to text her pretending to be you so she wouldn't be suspicion. And all because of you."
"I didn't think I would be gone so long," Rose tried to explain.
"I waited for you, Rose," Mickey sounded heartbroken. "Twelve months, waited for you and the Doctor to come back."
"Hang on," Jackie interrupts. "You knew about the Doctor? Why didn't you tell me?"
Mickey notices people eavesdropping and closes the windows and door. "Yeah, why not Rose. How could I tell her where you were."
"Tell me now," Jackie demands.
"Might as well," Mickey gloats, "cause your stuck here. The Doctors gone, just now that box thing just faded away. He's left you, some boyfriend he turned out to be."
Rose walks down to where the TARDIS will appear again as Mickey and Jackie follow her.
"He's coming back Mickey," she assures him.
"Oh, he's dumped you Rose." Mickey continues to gloat. "Sailed of into space, how does it feel huh. Now you're left behind with the rest of us earthlings. Get use to it."
"I know he's gone," Rose tries to tell Mickey. "He went to look at that alien."
"What are you two going on about?" Jackie asked confused. "What's going on? What's the Doctor done now?"
"He's vamoosed," Mickey laughs.
"He's not," Rose insists as she holds up her TARDIS key. "He gave me this. He's better than that he's much more important than anyone." She stood as she sees her TARDIS key start to glow.
"I said so," she tells Mickey as the TARDIS reappears.
Her mother looks on in shock as a blue police box appears in front of her. "How'd ya do that then."
Rose rolls her eyes as she enters the TARDIS. Mickey behind her with her mum following.
"The whole crash landings a fake, I thought so. Just to perfect I mean hitting Big Ben so I thought. Come let's have a look at it." The Doctor explained as he hears Rose walk through the doors.
"My mums here," Rose interrupts.
The Doctor turns to look. "Oh, that's just what I need." He points his finger at Rose. "Don't you dare make this place domestic."
Mickey gets angry. "I bet you don't even remember my name?"
"Rickey," the Doctor says just to annoy him.
"It's Mickey," Mickey informs him.
"No, it's Rickey." The Doctor insists. He watches Mickey get more and more annoyed.
"I think I know my own name?" Mickey tells him.
"You think you know your own name," the Doctor scoffs. "How stupid are you?"
While they were arguing Jackie finally breaks out of her shock and runs all the way back to her flat.
Rose watches her go and knows she can't stop her. "That was a real spaceship?" Rose asks.
"Yep," the Doctor responds.
"So it's all a pack of lies? What is it then, are they invading?" Rose questions.
Mickey watches over there shoulders. "Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert."
The Doctor looks at Mickey surprised. "Good point. So what are they up to?"
The Doctors under the TARDIS console fiddling around when Mickey walks up. "What are ya doing down there?"
"Rickey." The Doctor states in exasperation.
"Mickey," Mickey corrects.
"Rickey," the Doctor insists. "If I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of my frankly magnificent time ship would you even begin to understand."
"I suppose not," Mickey concedes.
"Well shut it then." The Doctor grins at him.
Mickey walks over to Rose who's standing by the console. "Some friend you got," Mickey pouts.
"He's winding you up." She assures Mickey. "I am sorry, I thought texts at least would satisfy mum."
"Ok," Mickey forgives. "Everyday I looked, on every street corner where ever I went looking for a blue box. For a whole year."
"It's only been a month for me." Rose explains. "I don't know it's hard to tell inside the TARDIS. But I swear it's just a month since I left you."
"Not enough time for you to miss me then." Mickey still looks heart broken.
"Mickey, you will always be an older brother to me, who else can I tease." Rose insists. "But I did miss you."
"I missed you too." Mickey finally starts to see things Roses way.
"So," Rose starts. "In twelve months you been seeing anyone else?"
"No," Mickey says straight away. "Mainly because your mother spread around the estates that I made you disappear."
"Right," Rose still feels bad about that.
"Got it, haha." The Doctor jumps out from under the console. "Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so it followed the flight of that space ship. There you go, hold on," the Doctor shows Rose on the monitor. "That's the space ship on its way to earth, see except, hold on. See the space ship did a slingshot round the earth before it landed."
"Does that mean it came from earth to begin with?" Rose asked.
The Doctor gave her that look that says he was proud of her. "It went up and came back down. Whoever those aliens are they haven't just arrived, they've been here for awhile. The question is what are they doing?"
They watch the news on the monitor as the UNIT experts arrive at Downing Street.
"How many channels do you get?" Mickey inquires.
"All the basic packages," the Doctor frowns as he watches the news.
"You get sports channel," Mickey asks.
"Yes, I get the football," the Doctor sighs. "Hold on I know that lot." The Doctor points his finger. "UNIT United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, good people."
"How do you know?" Rose inquires.
"Cause he's worked for them," Mickey tells Rose. "Oh yeah, don't think I didn't sit on my backside for twelve months Doctor. I read up on you, you look deep enough on the Internet or in the history books and there's his name followed by the list of the dead."
"That's nice," the Doctor says sarcastically. "Good boy, Rickey."
Rose sees the sarcasm as a cover for all the lives he hasn't been able to save so Rose does the one thing she does best. She takes his hand and reminds him that it's not his fault.
"If you know 'em why don't you see 'em." Rose inquires.
The Doctor shrugs his shoulders. "They wouldn't recognise me, I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides the worlds on a knife edge, there's aliens out there and fake aliens and I want to keep this alien out of the mix. We're going under cover and we better keep the TARDIS out of sight." The Doctor walks over to Mickey. "Rickey, you've got a car, you can do some driving."
"Where to?" Mickey asks as they walk out the TARDIS doors.
"Let's have a look at the spaceship." They walk out to have a helicopter search light shining on them.
A dozen armed men move in as there told not to move. Mickey runs of and hides behind some bins as the Doctor and Rose are escorted away.
The Doctor smiles up at the helicopter as he cries, "take me to your leader."
Rose and the Doctor are placed in a car as it moves off.
"This is a bit posh," Rose comments. "If I knew it was going to be like this I would've done it years ago."
The Doctor shakes his head at her, "we're not being arrested, were being escorted."
"Where to?" Rose asks excitedly.
"Where do you think?" The Doctor counters. "Downing Street." The Doctor laughs.
Rose laughs with him. "Blimey, I'm going to 10 Downing Street. How come?"
"I hate to say it but Mickey was right. Over the years I've visited this planet a lot of times and I've been noticed." The Doctor admits.
"Now they need you?" Rose questions.
"It's like what they said on the news. There gathering experts in alien knowledge and who's the biggest expert of the lot." The Doctor grins widely.
"Patrick Moore," Rose says seriously.
The Doctors face falls, "apart from him."
Rose gives the Doctor a cheeky smile she reserves just for him. "Oh, don't you just love it."
"Oh, I'm telling yah," the Doctors grin returns. "Boy George use to drink me under the table. Who's the prime minister now?"
Rose shrugs, "how should I know, I missed a year."
They pull up to 10 Downing Street as Rose and the Doctor get out. The Doctor starts waving to the media as Rose shakes her head at him.
They enter the front door and are lead into the parlour where all the other experts are gathered. Rose watches as Harriet walks in the room.
"Ladies and gentleman can we convene." Indra Ganesh asks them as he walks up to the Doctor to hand him his ID card. "Quick as you can please, it's this way on the right and may I remind you, ID cards are to be worn at all times. Here's your ID card, I'm sorry your companion doesn't have clearance."
"I don't go anywhere without her." The Doctor insists.
Rose watches Harriet move closer. "It's alright Doctor, I'll wait out here for you."
The Doctor looks at her closely before nodding his head and moving through the door into the meeting room.
Rose walks up to Harriet. "Are you alright?"
"Harriet Jones, MP for Fly Dale North." Harriet holds up her ID card.
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The Doctor walks into the meeting room and takes a seat in the back. He picks up a folder with all the information, he reads it in one minute.
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Harriet Jones stops Rose by the stairs. "This friend of yours, he's an expert is that right? He, he knows about aliens?" Harriet starts crying.
Rose puts an arm around her, "it's alright we can help you."
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"Ok, ladies and gentleman can I have your attention please, as you can see from this summary in front of you. This ship had one porcine pilot." The general started.
"What's really interesting," the Doctor interrupted as he stood up and moved to the front of the room. "Happened ten days ago, see. Filed away under any other business. The North Sea satellite detected a signal, a little blip of radiation at 100 fathoms. Like there's something down there." He turns to face the experts. "You were just about to investigate, next thing you know this happens. Spaceships, pigs a massive diversion from what?"
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Harriet leads Rose to the cabinet room and shows her the suit the aliens are wearing. "They turned the body into a suit. A disguise for the thing inside."
"It's alright," Rose tries to comfort. "I believe you. It's alien, they must have some serious technology."
Rose starts searching the room until she comes to the cabinet and opens it to find the prime ministers body falling out.
"Harriet," Indra walks in frustrated. "For god sake this has gone beyond a joke. You can not just waltz in here." He stops when he sees the prime ministers body. "Oh my god! That's the prime minister."
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The Doctors still waffling on downstairs. "If aliens fake an alien crash, an alien pilot what do they get? Us, they get us." The Doctor realises, "it's not a diversion, it's a trap."
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"Oh, has someone been naughty." Margaret walks in on Rose, Indra and Harriet.
Rose pulls Indra back to where they're standing.
"It's not possible," Indra continues on. "He left this afternoon. When the prime minister left Downing Street he was driven away."
"And who told you that," Margaret gloated. "Me!"
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"This is all about us," the Doctor realised. "The alien experts, the only people with the knowledge on how to fight, gathered together under one roof."
The Doctor is interrupted while some one farts.
"Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world."
"Would you rather silent but deadly." One of the disguised aliens said.
The general takes his hat of and starts to unzip his forehead as the one sitting holds up a button with a switch. The one sitting starts to laugh manically.
The alien in front of Rose starts to unmask in front of them.
The Doctor looks on as the one unmasking says, "we are the Slitheen."
"Thank you all for wearing your ID cards." The one still masked says. "They'll help to identify the bodies." He pushes the switch and all the experts are electrocuted.
Ok so there won't be a domestic scene after this one it will just lead straight into world war three. I also realised that the only reason Indra was killed was because he was close to the slitheen so if Rose moved him away he could be saved.
