No i do not own doctor who, if i did i would have never gotten rid of 11 or 10 because right now I m torn on whose best...
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I woke up screaming in the middle of the night according to my phone it was 2:15, the dream was slipping away but all i saw was fire and screaming... I look back at my phone and see that i had a message from an unknown number,
'Hey Lexi, this is jack just a heads up, love you xxx' i sigh, i needed to talk to someone and knowing jack he probably was awake, i just wonder what timeline i would get... i debate for five minutes before i cave, ringing the number it picked up on the third ring
'Hello?' i let out a shaky breath
'Jack?'
'Lexi, what are you calling at this time for?' he asks
'Doesn't matter, how far are you in the timeline, no specifics just an event,' i just wanted to talk
'The year that never was... Now tell me why are you calling and how far are you in your timeline?' he asks, i wince
'I haven't met you in World war 2 yet, that was your first meeting with me, and I just came from 1869...'
'Nightmares?' i flinch, we know each other well then.
'yeah, i don t want to sleep anymore jack the nightmare's scare me and when i wake up i can t remember anything except fire and screaming.'
'I know honey, we'll just talk then, yeah?' i made a noise of agreement and we talked for about an hour about anything and everything before i slipped into a dreamless sleep with jack s voice talking to me...
XXX
I felt someone shaking me and slowly open my eye's to glare at Rose,
"We're stopping home for a while." she says before she gets up and leaves, sighing i get up and got to the wardrobe, i can t wear what i did before considering it's covered in blood and ripped to shreds, so i go with a TARDIS blue top with a V-cut down between my breasts and on the left side was a black design, the sleeves went to mid bicep and it had a loose collar, an pair of black ripped skinny jeans and blue converse, (A/N i can t describe the hair style so follow the link, second picture down . ) grabbed a denim jacket and left for the console room. Aliens of London was about to start...
I walk in and go over to the console not listening to the doctors instructions but looking at the buttons and levers the TARDIS lit up. The TARDIS materialized and Rose and the doctor went out first myself following slower, less enthusiasm, don t get me wrong i would love to see Aunt Jackie but i don t like this one much, i shake my head and concentrate on the conversation
"Oooh! Right, we won't be long, We're just gonna see my mum." Rose says,
"What're you going to tell her?" the doctor asks
"I don't know! I've been to the year 5 billion... and only been gone, what, 12 hours?" Rose says she looks at me, i shrug and walk off, The Doctor gives something between a laugh and a snort.
"No, I'll just tell her I've spent the night at Shareens. See you later!" Rose starts towards me but turns back "Oh - don't you disappear."
The Doctor gives her a look to say 'as if I would' and she catches up with me, i tell her to go on ahead. The doctor settles himself against the TARDIS looking at me curiously,
"Come on i got something to show you." he follows me and i point to a poster with a picture of me and Rose on it. He walks over to it and reads the writing 'Can You Help?' and sees a photograph of us. The Doctor gets the gist of the poster and runs to the flats, i just walk at a slow pace and reach into my pocket nope i don t have a passport, great now I m involved.
After about three minutes i get to our door to hear the doctor say,
"It's not 12 hours, it's er... 12 months. You two 'ave been gone a whole year."
He laughs apologetically while Rose and aunt Jackie both look at him, stunned. I walk up behind him and pop my head out
"Hi..."
"Sorry." the doctor says, aunt Jackie looks back at Rose, stroking her hair.
XXX
Since we got there i have been crushed to death and shouted at for leaving and not taking my passport with me, now I m sat on the couch between the doctor and Rose
"The hours I've sat here. Days and weeks and months all on my own. I thought you two were dead. And where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean? Travelling? That's no sort of answer, I know Lex goes off sometimes without a word for a while but this is ridiculous." I wince she was furious, and my ears were ringing and a headache was forming. A policeman was sitting in an armchair i was pointedly not talking to him because of my experience, also as Alexandra, i seem to have been arrested a few time's and i have an apparent dislike for the pigs, but they do their jobs i suppose (A/N I got nothing against cops)
"You ask them." She says to the cop. "they won't tell me! That's all they says. Travelling." Aunt Jackie says throwing her hands in the air
"That's what we was doing." Rose insists,
"Aunt Jackie, we were travelling, i would have called but i lost my phone and had to get a new one, i couldn't remember the number." I say in my defence, i of course was lying through my teeth and i seem to be good at it, but she ignored me and continued with her rant.
"When your passport's are still in the drawer? It's just one lie after another!" Yeah i was hopping she would only direct that at Rose, I don't particularly like to lie to family...
"I meant to phone, I really did, I just... I forgot." Rose says struggling
"What, for a year? You forgot for a year? And you couldn't ask Rose for my number? And I am left sitting here? I just don't believe you two. Why won't you tell me where you've been?" She said, okay yeah she's used to my lying, great...
"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Rose and Alexandra as my companions." It sounded weird to hear my full name from him I m so used to 'Lexa'.
"When you say 'companions', is this a sexual relationship?" the cop asks, i cover my mouth,
"No!" The doctor and Rose shout, i couldn't hold it, I bust out laughing, leaning on the doctor's shoulder
"Nah, not sexual, god the way you say it sounds like your lying," i say between fits of laughter and the looks they sent me were murderous, it was to funny but i quiet myself down.
"Then what is it? Because you, you waltz in here all charms and smiles, and the next thing I know, they vanish off the face of the earth! How old are you then? 40? 45? What, you find them on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?" ouch aunt jack's wait after this is-
"I AM a Doctor!" the doctor insists
"Prove it! Stitch this, mate." aunt Jackie then proceeds to slap the doctor in the face. The doctor groans loudly whilst Rose rolls her eyes, i on the other hand clamp my hand over my mouth again to stop the laughing, which is failing, very badly at that.
XXX
Rose is sitting on a wall and the Doctor is leaning against it. I on the other hand had a spray can and was continuing a drawing that the Alex here came up with, i have to admit it was pretty artistic and i love art.
"We can't tell her. We can't even begin... she's never gonna forgive us. And we missed a year? Was it good?
"I know Rose Aunt Jackie has been ranting about it." i say with a sigh as i turn to join them but something caught my eye, just above the picture i had been drawing were two words, 'Lone Wolf'...
"Middling." the doctor says shaking his hand slightly
"You're so useless." Rose says, i smack her arm
"Do you want to be left behind, granted the old girl wouldn't let him but still be careful what you say yeah?" she nods with a smile
"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you gonna stay here now?" he asks looking at me then Rose,
"I dunno. I can't do that to her again, though." Rose says, she turns to me.
"I'll just tell her I m gonna travel with the doctor and then pack whilst listening to her nag i suppose, granted i love aunt Jackie, really but i just don t think i can stay still anymore, i mean we've had a taste of that i don t think i want to let go..." i say trailing off, i know that if i do go with him then i last at least to the year that never was, i could be there a lot longer... my phone buzzes and the doctor and rose continue to talk the doctor throwing me a glance as i answer it
"Hey, what are you doing calling?" i ask
"Well gorgeous i though that i would have someone drop off a present for you it should be reaching the flat now, sitting on you bed, you'll love it Princess, i promise."
"I don't need gift's Captain, i woke you up in the middle of the night about nightmares a while ago." i say being vague as i feel the doctor and Rose looking at me,
"You re on the roof aren t you?"
"how'd you guess?" i ask actually curious
"Your being vague so this must be very early in the time line, am i right?"
"Yeah, where are you?" i ask
"just after game station incident, you gotta tell me What's happened i tried to, you know and i just woke up..."
"I don t know captain, I know as much as you do, only the gist of the plot not the events, it changes around me you know my mind." he makes a grunting noise, "I'll let you know as soon as i know okay?"
"Alright princess, remember to open the present."
"Cap-" the line went dead and i just look at the phone with a glare, he hung up on me... i will kill him when i meet him. I hadn t been paying attention to the doctor and Rosie's conversation but i catch the end of it,
"...and we're the only people on planet earth who knows they exist." she says with a sigh, and right on cue, a spacecraft narrowly misses our heads as it falls from the sky and heads for Central London. It smashes into Big Ben as planned, then lands with a splash in the Thames. The Doctor and Rose stand up with their mouths open. whilst i let out a low whistle.
"They know how to crash in style, I ll give 'em that" i say
"Oh, that's just not fair." Rosie says with a pout, The Doctor laughs gleefully, grabs our hands, and pulls us off in the direction of the action.
XXX
We had just spent the last 20 minutes running to the Thames
"It's blocked off." the doctor complains as Rose pants slightly, i don t show a sign of this,
"We're miles from the centre. The scene must be grid locked. The whole of London must be closing down." Rose says
"Yeah i suppose so, but that s UNIT for you, like to keep it all a secret don t they?" i say to no one in particular
"I know, I can't BELIEVE I'm here to see this! This is fantastic!" The doctor says excitedly
"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose asks 'yup'
"Nope!" the doctor answers with that stupid grin
"Do you recognize the ship?" 'Yup'
"Nope!" the doctor says again
"Do you know why it crashed?" 'Yup'
"Nope!" 'the doctor for the third and final time ladies and gentlemen'
"Oh, I'm so glad I've got you." Rosie says sarcastically
"I bet you are!" the doctor says missing the sarcasm, or just ignoring it, you can t tell with this one, "This is what I travel for, Rose, Lexa! To see history happening right in front of us." he continues on in his boyish excitement
"History happens all the time but nothing as big as this in a while..." i say making my voice creepy, Rosie grins at me
"Well, let's go and see it! Never mind the traffic, we've got the TARDIS!" she says looking between me and the doctor, i shake my head
"Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London, don't want to shove another one on top." the doctor says, i nod my head
"Besides, we always have the human way i suppose, 'ay Rosie"
"Yeah, but why do that when we have a blue box that isn't going to get noticed?" she asks
"You'll be surprised, an emergency like this - there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me, the TARDIS stays where it is. What human way?" he says looking between us, i smirk.
"So, history's happening and we're stuck here." Rose says looking disgruntled
"Yes, we are." he says
Alex is right, we could always do what everybody else does." The Doctor looks at us questioningly.
"We could watch it on TV." Rose and i say together, well Rose says it i talk very loudly like i had been on a sugar rush, Rose groans "Oh no." she says as i bounce on the spot, the doctor looks at her with a questioning gaze, and then back at me with a frown "This happens once in a while, she gets hyper and acts like a kid on Christmas and finds a lot of things amusing, not much can snap her out of it..." she sighs and we leave, the doctor looking dumbfounded at my behaviour.
"Come on slow pokes!" i say as i run ahead.
XXX
We got home and i had calmed down a bit from running all the way home, oh and after bugging the doctor to give me a piggy back when my legs got tired, he caved at the puppy dog face, i also let out a few manic laughs, safe to say the doctor was scared for life. The doctor is now sitting in front of the TV I m standing up because it would slow down the after effects of a sugar rush, apparently Alex had then a lot...
"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control wide-spread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."
The Doctor and Rose are watching the TV intently.
"The police urge the public not to panic. There's a help line number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family." We the channel over to an American news channel.
"The military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded." we turn it back to News 24. "The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find." Back to the American channel. "The President will address the nation live from the White House. But the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies."
Aunt Jackie comes in to give Rose a cup of tea. I don t get one because it makes me more hyper, i was pouting when she didn t offer me one, it's clear that i have become accustomed to this life.
"I've got no choice! Either I make him welcome, or I run the risk of never seeing you two again!" she says, both aunt Jackie and her friend Marianna babble on angrily.
"Oi! I'm trying to listen!" the doctor shouts over his shoulder,
"... his current whereabouts. News is just coming in, we can go to Tom at the embankments." the new reporter say, "They've found a body." The Doctor raises his eyebrows, i on the other hand frown. "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." Jackie enters the room giving a bottle of wine to a couple of people.
"Oh, guess who asked me out - Billy Crewe." She says to her friends, i just ignore her the Doctor shakes his head.
"Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extra-terrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary. The whereabouts is yet unknown." The TV changes channels a few times and comes to rest on Blue Peter. "And when you've stuck your things on, you can cover the whole lot..." The Doctor tries to wrestle the TV remote off a toddler on his lap. "Ooo, look at that. Then, ice it, any colour you want - here's one I made a little bit earlier - look at that. Your very own spaceship ready to eat. And there's something a little extra special-" I found it hysteric, he was fighting a toddler for a remote. The Doctor changes the channel back to News 24.
"... in hospital." the new reporter says "We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here, Albian Hospital, the roads closed off - it's the closest to the river."
The little boy hops off the Doctors lap and stands in front of the TV screen. The Doctor points violently sideways.
"Go on!" he says, i reach over and hit him on the back of the head, the toddler wanders over to me and raises his arms, i bend down and pick him up placing him on my hip, how long had it been since i held and infant last? i shake my head and bounce the boy, as he giggles, i completely miss the look the doctor is giving me but Rose doesn't and just smirks.
"I'm being told that... General Asquith is now entering the hospital. The buildings evacuated. The patients have been moved out onto the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body. Contained inside those walls..." I got bored and put the toddler down going to my room, and true to Jacks word there at the bottom of my bed was a slim square box.
Going over to it i sit down and lift it into my lap, untying the ribbon i read the note,
'A princess needs her crown jewels, and you deserve so much more, lots of love your big bro, CJH XXX' i smile, pulling off the lid my breath caught in my throat was a jewellery set the ring was silver with a sapphire gemstone in the middle diamonds on either side with the word 'Sister' engraved on the inside, the necklace was well to put it simply, you know titanic, well it was the heart of the ocean, and i mean it looked to be the genuine article, next was the bracelet, was silver with sapphires and a sliver cross in the middle of each gem, and finally the earrings were teardrop cut sapphires with a silver loop behind it with tiny diamonds on them (The links will be on my profile) so placing each piece on with care i head back out and out the door to wait for the doctor to come to the TARDIS.
XXX
I waited for about 15 minutes and he approached,
"Hey i was wondering where you got off to." he says as he sees me, "You know that I m gonna have a look don t you, i nod "And you re coming with me..." I nod again with a smirk, he smiles and reaches into his coat pocket, pulling out a BLUE TARDIS key blue, so far everything is blue, clothes, jewellery, and now a key, reaching out with my left hand i take it with a smile,
"Thanks" i say
"Where did you get the ring?" he asks, oh right it was on my left hand, "Actually where did you get all the Jewellery, you didn't have it on before.."
"It's new, a present from an old friend he just got back from a war..." he nods and opens the TARDIS.
XXX
He runs to the console, smacks down a few buttons and turns a handle and beams up at it when it starts to move, me hitting a few buttons when he's not looking and the buttons light up. The console starts to smoke. Looking slightly put-out, the Doctor hits it a couple of times with a hammer.
"Hey, don't hit her, she doesn't like it you know!" i shout over the noise, but Amazingly, the TADIS decides to actually listen to the doctor for once, and the Doctor kisses the hammer, thinking he did it with the hammer, and gazes up at the console with a childish beam on his face, i on the other hand shake my head and stroke the console in apology. about a minute of shaking later the TARDIS jerks and we land, The Doctor emerges from the TARDIS, me on his heels the TARDIS seems to have landed squashed up in a small storeroom. He looks around in slight confusion and then makes his way to the door. He turns on his sonic screwdriver, which makes a loud buzzing noise. He turns it off again hurriedly.
"Shh!" he says, i roll my eyes
"That is not gonna help doctor, it's a sonic screwdriver and can t listen to you." he looks indignant at that. The Doctor finishes unlocking the door, puts his sonic screwdriver away and opens it, we find ourselves in a room where about 20 soldiers are sitting around talking and laughing. They fall silent when he opens the door. There is a pause while they all stare at each other, then they all leap to their feet and point their guns at us. The Doctor grins. Again.
"Why does this always happen with you?" i bemoan, he looks at me with that grin,
"It doesn t happen to me all the time we're just special" I just stare at him and he sighs, "Okay it does happen all the time but i can t help it can i?"
"Well you could start by not breaking into a locked down hospital and go from there." i say with sarcasm, i look back at the guards, looking at us as if we're mad, but then again they do have guns pointed at us and here we are arguing like what was happening was an everyday thing, well it would be soon, i sigh, "three, two, one, and..." a scream was heard through the hospital.
Upon hearing the scream, the Doctor stops smiling and runs to the door.
"Defence part delta! Come on, move, move!" he says,
"Don't just stand there do it you imbeciles!" i snap following the doctor. All the soldiers follow us from the room in the direction of the scream, we run down the corridors. The Doctor spots Dr Sato cowering on the floor.
"It's alive!" Tosh says, The Doctor turns to the men behind him.
"Spread out. Tell the perimeter it's a lock down." he says,
"And if you come across the 'Alien' do NOT shoot it understood." i say my voice taking on that noble quality once again. I hated it so much but I had to make them listen and the voice that sounds like it has power gets their orders followed. The doctor runs to Dr Sato's side and holds her hands.
"My God - it's still alive." She says, i crouch down next to her and rub her arm making soothing noises, the men are still standing there watching us.
"Move!" i command, they run off and start searching the building. The Doctor turns back to Dr Sato. Blood is leaking out from under her hairline.
"I swear it was dead." she says, i go back to making soothing noises to calm her down some.
"Coma - shock - hibernation - anything. What does it look like?" I wanted to whack him for being insensitive, but that was just who he is and we were wasting time just sitting here. There is a slight sound from behind him. He turns around quickly. I look over as well just not as interested, "It's still here." he says
He stands up and beckons another soldier into the room. He walks forward quietly, looking for the source of the sound. When he hears another rattling, he drops to his knees and crawls to peer behind the desk. From the other side of the desk, the face of a pig peers back at him, snorting. I say in the softest voice i could
"It's okay, come on, we won t hurt you sweetie." it slowly starts to come out until
"Hello!" the doctor exclaims, no, you idiot. The pig squeals in terror and runs across the room. The soldier readies his gun.
"Don't shoot!" the doctor says as i shout "Hold fire!" The pig runs along the corridor. One of the soldiers points his gun at it and shoots before the Doctor can stop him.
"What did you do that for? It was scared!" the doctor says, i walk over to the soldier he took a step back at what i was guess was the look on my face, i felt cold fury rushing through my veins again, i pull my hand back a slap him, i would have punched him but a slap stings more,
"You idiot i told you all not to fire and you ignore the warning." my voice held nothing but coldness, The soldier looks from me to the pig in alarm. The Doctor crouches down to look at the pig.
"It was scared." the doctor says, i go over and crouch by him humming a lullaby, the doctor strokes the pig as it dies.
XXX
Dr Sato and the Doctor are standing over the pig's body, I found a piece of paper and a pen and write a note saying 'Give this to Jack Harkness when you meet him and tell him i said hi'.
"I just assumed that's what alien's look like. But you're saying it's an ordinary pig? From Earth?" Tosh says as i join then and slip the note in her pocket
"More like a mermaid. Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by taking the skull of a cat and gluing 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've been terrified. They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke." my face was a mask of emotionlessness she goes on to say something but, the doctor grabs my hand and pulls me off, the last thing i herd her say was
"Doctor? Miss Flame?" and then we entered the TARDIS flying her back home.
XX
We had discussed theories about the crash and while i couldn't give anything away i helped him get to the conclusion much faster than before, Rose enters the TARDIS where the Doctor and I are looking at the computer screen.
"Alright, so I lied! I went and had a look, Lexa caught me in the act, but the whole crash landing's a fake - I thought so, it's just too perfect. I mean, 'hitting Big Ben' come on, so I thought let's go and have a look-
"My mum's here." Rose says, the door creaks open and Jackie and Mickey enter. The Doctor looks around.
"Oh, that's JUST what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic!" he says pointing at the two of us i open my mouth to moment but micky beat me to saying anything,
"You ruined my life, Doctor." Micky says, i felt so sorry for him, i go over and give him a hug that he returns briefly, the Doctor spins smoothly around to face him. "They thought they was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you." he carries on, i whisper a soft 'I'm Sorry' and he squeezes my shoulder slightly,
"See what I mean? Domestic." he says looking between me and Rose,
"Hey, I was with you the whole time don't turn this on me and Rose, it's not her fault either of course they were going to follow her they care about her, and don t want her to disappear without notice again." i say looking at him, he nods and spins back to face the computer screen. Mickey takes a few steps towards him.
"I bet you don't even remember my name!" Micky says trying to provoke a fight,
"Micky hush up, i know your upset, but we have and Alien threat to deal with and as for you Doctor, Don t go provoking him anymore today." they both look at me and the doctor and micky open their mouths to speak, "I said don t." my voice became low as i said it this time and they both nod.
Aunt Jackie, who has been looking around the TARDIS with a bewildered expression, turns and runs outside again.
"Mum, don't!" Rose says, she turns to me and the doctor "Don't go anywhere!" then turns to micky "Don't start a fight!" and then she runs out of the TARDIS after aunt Jackie. She runs back inside the TARDIS a few minutes later and back to the Doctor's side, where he is looking at his monitor again.
"That was a REAL spaceship?" She asks looking at us
"Yep!" we say, me getting hyper again, i bounce over to micky and jump up onto his back, he smiles slightly while the doctor and Rose groan, i can t be that bad micky doesn't mind it, he hooked his arms under my legs
"So, it's all a pack of lies? What is it then, are they invading?" she asks
"Wrong!" i say in a sing-song voice, Mickey is on tip-toes peering at the screen over their shoulders me peering over his before hopping down and grabbing my jacket.
"Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert." Micky says, i went into an eleven moment,
"Micky is sooo right, it's just a rubbish way to invade i mean just imagine that potatoes were Aliens invading the earth they're doing a good job, just letting people cook and eat them until one day they just pop and suddenly earth is named, Potato planet, no forget that, that s a rubbish name, i can t think of good names in this mode, it is so strange..." they all look at me for a moment and i shrug "What it could happen... ohh that was very out of character wasn't it?" they nod before the doctor turns back to Micky, looking impressed,
"Good point! So, what're they up to?" he asks, i raise my hand and jump on the spot,
"Oh, OH, OH, I know ask me..." i say, they look at me before saying
"What are they up to?" i stop jumping
"I'm not allowed to say it could create a paradox and those are nasty, but i would tell you if i could, oh i know I ll give you a hint... hmm, uh it has something to do with a big BOOM!" i say jumping again, they sigh but the doctor comes over to me and grabs me by the shoulders, stopping me bouncing and looks me straight in the eye,
"Stop with the hyper this is a serious matter" i pout but decide to do something,
"You want me to stop bouncing?" he nods, i nod and he turns around, so with him unaware, i grin and both micky and Rose grin as well knowing what I m going to do, i had done it to micky loads of times or at least Alex had, i was becoming easier to think i was this Alexandra instead of Van Allen, i kept getting some of her memories from before i was in this world pop up in dreams, so i jump on the doctors back, "There now i won't bounce." something went through my head and it wasn't a very clean thought either. the doctor sighs but doesn't say anything.
XXX
I was nod on Mickey's back because the doctor was fixing something that didn't need to be fixed, or so the TARDIS was saying at least, Mickey peers curiously down at the Doctor.
"So, what're you doing down there?" He asks, and like the doctor is he replies with,
"Ricky."
"Mickey." he corrects
"Ricky." the doctor repeats "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 says
"Shut it, then." the doctor says
"Don't worry Mickey he just wants to look clever, but the thing is he isn't doing anything the TARDIS likes she doesn't need any adjustments, or so she tells me, because she's complaining that 'he's being annoying'" Micky sniggers and the doctor glares at me before he look surprised
"You can hear the TARDIS?" i nod
"Not the best time, Alien's to worry about you know" He puts the sonic screwdriver back between his teeth. Mickey gives him the evil eye, and moves back round the console to where Rose is standing.
"Some friend you've got." Mickey says
"He's winding you up." Rosie says, Mickey still looks slightly upset. He does not answer.
"I am sorry." Rose says
"Me to Mickey mouse" i say hugging him around the neck not to tight i didn't want to choke him.
"It's okay."
"I am, though!" Rose insists earnestly,
"Every day, I looked. On every street corner, wherever I went, looking for a blue box for a whole year." I lay my head on his shoulder, before sobering up and jumping off his back and going over to the doctor.
"You know you really shouldn t be so rude he's hurt and provoking him won t do you any good..." i say quietly, i loved Micky like a brother i didn't want to see him hurt. He ignores me anyway and i just sit on the floor looking at the console. After a while he exclaims
"Got it! Haha!" Rose moves to the other side of the console to join him. "Patched in the radar, looped it back twelve hours so we can follow the flight of the spaceship, here we go... hold on... " he says as he whacks the computer screen.
"OI! stop hitting her, and you wonder why you never get anywhere on time!" he looks at me and rolls his eyes,
"Come on!" he turns the screen slightly and shows it to us it had graphics of the earth "That's the spaceship on its way to Earth... see? Except... hold on... see, the spaceship did a sling shot round the Earth before it landed."
"What does that mean?" Rose asks
"It means it came from Earth in the first place - it went up and came back down." he says
"Whoever those aliens are, they haven't just arrived. They've been here for a while." i say after him
"The question is, what have they been doing?" the doctor finishes off,
"Have they been doing that a lot?" Micky asks Rose, she shrugs she didn't pay attention.
XXX
I walk over to the monitor and look over the doctor shoulder after jumping on his back to see
"It is looking likely that the government is bringing in alien specialists - those people who have devoted their lives to studying outer space."
"UNIT!" me and the doctor shout together
"United Nations Intelligence Task force - good people." the doctor continues, i scrunch my face up i only like Alistair, he was cool. To many guns in UNIT
"How do you know them?" Rose asks
"'Cos he's worked for them. Yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for twelve months, Doctor. I read up on you. You look deep enough on the Internet... and in the history books, and there's his name. Followed by a list of the dead." Mickey says
"That's nice. Good boy, Ricky." The doctor says this but i can hear the hurt he's trying to avoid, so i lean to his ear,
"It's not true, you make people better doctor." i say quietly
"If you know them, why don't you go and help?" Rose asks
"They wouldn't recognize me. I've changed a lot since the old days. Besides, the world's on a knife-edge. There's aliens out there and fake aliens. We want to keep this alien out of the mix. I'm going undercover... and eh, better keep the TARDIS out of site. Rickey! You've got a car - you can do some driving." the doctor says his voice cheery,
He walks towards the TARDIS door.
"Where to?!" Mickey asks,
"The roads are clearing. Let's go and have a look at that spaceship." the doctor says now bare in mind I m still on his back when we step out of the TARDIS, as I m sure you know what happens next...
We step out of the TARDIS to the sound of helicopters - we're are immediately caught out by a searchlight.
"Do not move!" Someone shouts through a loud speaker, i sigh well here we go, Police cars and soldiers surround us, pointing guns at us to prevent our escape. But Mickey makes a run for it. Jackie runs out of the flats and tries to get to Rose and me but two soldiers restrain her.
"No!" she shouts out, Mickey is hiding behind some dustbins. The Doctor and Rose are standing in the centre looking slightly confused in the searchlight i however am on the doctors back looking bored to hell I m sure.
"Raise your hands above your head! You are under arrest!" the guy shouts, the doctor lets me down and puts his hands up, Rose follows his example and i put them up with reluctance the bank coming to mind. I look at the doctor and he at me and we grin.
"Take us to your leader!" we yell, Rose groans
"Do you 'ave to provoke 'em..." she complains.
INT. CAR
Rose clambers into the front of a police car and i slide in next to the Doctor very stiff. The door shuts and we drive off.
"This is a bit posh. If I knew it was gonna be like this - being arrested - I'd have done it years ago." Rose comments
"We aren't being arrested Rose, for one we would be in hand cuffs and for another we would be treated roughly" my voice is cold and the cop looks back,
"Nice to see you Alex." I look at the driver and see James, this Alex's ex-boyfriend
"Cut the crap James and don t call me by my first name, you lost that right when you cheated on me and then arrested me because someone vandalised your car, no it wasn't me before you pull that bullshit." my voice was a snarl, i put my feet on the door and my head on the doctors lap, him stroking my hair.
"We're not being arrested, we're being escorted!" the doctor says trying to enlighten the atmosphere,
"Where to?" Rose asks thankful for the distraction.
"Where'd you think? Downing Street!" the doctor says excited again. He laughs. Rose joins in.
"You're kidding." she says in disbelief
"I'm not!" he says
"10 Downing Street?" Rose asks again
"Yes Rosie that is what he said." i say with sweetness in my voice,
"I remember when you used to talk to me in that tone." James says,
"Keep your mouth shut James i can have your badge taken from you with one call and you name." all i had to do was call jack, he seemed to be very protective and would jump at the chance to do it. He glares at me from the review mirror
"I think the fame's gone to you head sweetheart." his voice was cold, but it didn't faze me
"No I m just speaking the truth." i ignore him and from what i could tell lying down the doctor was glaring at him,
"Oh, my God! We're going to 10 Downing Street?" Rose says looking back at us ignoring James as well, The Doctor nods, grinning.
"How come?" Rose asks
"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, uh - noticed." he says,
"He used to work for them as well." i say off-handed.
"Now they need you?" she asked
"Like it said on the news - they're gathering experts in alien knowledge. And who's the biggest expert of the lot?" the doctor asks his ego inflating. He grins expectantly at her.
"Patrick Moore?" Ahh there was that sharp pin to the balloon that his ego was.
"Apart from him!" He says indignantly, i giggle at his face, causing him to look at me "Since when do you giggle and why are you giggling?" he asked
"I was just imagining your ego being popped by a pin and since now i suppose." i say
"Ah, don't you just love it..." Rose says eyeing me with a smile,
"I'm telling you, Lloyd George - he used to drink me under the table. Who's the Prime Minister now?" the doctor asks
"How should we know? We missed a year." she says, i on the other hand have a question to ask
"Do you owe Casanova a chicken yet?" i see him flinch and nod, "oh my god you have to tell me the story,
"How do you know about that?"
"Future thing." i say shrugging.
EXT. DOWNING STREET
The car pulls up outside 10 Downing Street. The paparazzi and hundreds of police men are there. The Doctor gets out of the car and waves at them all, grinning manically. Rose smiles nervously and then looks up at 10 Downing Street, I get out not fazed in the slightest.
"That s Alexandra Maryanne Flame, champion ballet and figure skater." i wave and walk over to the doctor.
"Oh my God!" Rose mumbles to me, the doctor had his arm around my waist and my arm was hooked through Roses as we walk inside.
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Once inside we mingle but the doctor pulled me aside
"What did they mean champion Ballet dancer and figure skater?"
"Exactly what it says doctor i like ballet and performed in Paris for a while before going to Russia for a year and then switching to Figure skating when i got back and hit the Ice rink, i won nationals six times four silver the last two are gold." i say going over to Rose again leaving him dumbfounded.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, could we convene? Quick as we can, please. It's this way on the right and can I remind you, ID cards are to be worn at all times." Indra says. i was determined to save him this time i didn't want another death for a while. he comes over to the doctor giving him and ID card "Here's your ID card. I'm sorry, your companions don't have clearance." he says,
"I don't go anywhere without them." he say going to put the ID card on i stop him and give him a look
"You're the code nine, not them." Indra insists, Harriet sidles up to us. "I'm sorry, Doctor... it is the Doctor, isn't it? She'll have to stay outside." he continues
"They're staying with me." the doctor says
"Look, even I don't have clearance to go in there. I can't let her in and that's a fact." Indra says, he grates on my nerves but I m still gonna save him.
"It's alright, you go." Rose says, he looks at me i nod and give him a hug whispering in his ear, "the name tags are a trap." i pull back and he nods, Harriet appears at Indra's shoulder.
"Excuse me? Are you the Doctor?" she asks, Indra looks exasperated.
"Not now, we're busy - can't you go home?"
"Are you sure?" he says looking at us a double meaning in it for me
"Yeah, they're the experts, you should hear what they've got to say." Rose say, i nod
"Yeah it's true go one teach them something." i say he nods
"I s'pose so. Don't get into any trouble." he says. The Doctor follows the other experts into the room.
"I just need a word in private." she says to Indra,
"You haven't got clearance, now leave it!" he says, he grabs Roses arm, I grab his arm
"Keep your hands off my cousin." i say my tone was dead again. he looks at me and nods letting got i squeeze his arm once and let go. "I'm going to have to leave you with security." he says motioning for us to follow,
"It's alright. I'll look after them. Let me be of some use." she says, he leaves and we walk her arm linked through Roses "Walk with me. Just keep walking..." she says. We walk past the guards at the door.
"That's right... don't look round! Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." she says as she shows her ID card, i roll my eyes but i was never fond of her, even before the whole Christmas thing... that just made me not like her more,
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We had stopped in the corridor and Harriet began talking,
"This friend of yours... he's an expert, is that right? He knows about aliens?" she asks upset and distressed, i keep my face emotionless
"Why do you wanna know?" Rose ask, Harriet breaks down into tears. Rose takes her arms awkwardly in an attempt to comfort her, looking at me for help but i shake my head and look away.
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Harriet lead us back to the cabinet room, showing Rose and I the body suit of Oliver.
"They turned the body into a suit! A disguise for the thing inside!" she says as she cries again,
"It's alright! I believe you. It's... it's alien. Alex any Ideas?"
"None that I m aloud to give away Rose after all you know I m not from here." she looks at me shocked and mouths later to me and nods.
"They must have some SERIOUS technology behind this... if we could find it..." she says as she starts rummaging around the room with my help, i wanted to do something i don t like being still for so long unless I m sleeping now-a-days... "... we could use it." she continues, we do act like the doctor quite a lot now don t we, mumbling to ourselves and keeping secrets... Rose opens a cupboard and the Prime Minister's body falls out. Rose and Harriet hurry to examine it, i just stare at it in disgust and move back, it gave me the creeps what happened to the inside.
"Oh, my God! Is that-?" she cuts off
"Yes." i say as Indra enters.
"Harriet, for God's sake! This has gone beyond a joke - you cannot just wander-" he stops abruptly seeing the body, "Oh, my God. That's the Prime Minister!"
"Ohhh!" Margaret says the others turn around quickly whilst i look he slowly turning around "Has someone been naughty?" she continues, i roll my eyes,
"Yes Margaret you and the others have..." i say in a patronizing tone, she looks at me shocked, the others behind me look at each other. Margaret shuts the door behind her.
"That's impossible. He left this afternoon. The Prime Minister left Downing Street, he was driven away!" Indra says sceptical
"And who told you that? Hmm?" she says walking towards him, i grab his arm and push him further away she turns to me, "Me." she says pushing the hair from her forehead, pulling the Zip across, after a second Margaret pulls her skin suit off, revealing herself to the disgust and shock of Indra, Harriet and Rose. Margaret is now entirely out of her skin suit. She stands before Rose, Indra and Harriet who all look astounded.
Margaret roars in delight and goes to grab Indra between her claws but i jump in the way, pinning me up against the wall. She tries to strangle me, but i bring my foot up by my hand, i don t like to carry weapons but I m not against self-protection so pulling out the dagger i have, i stab at her hand and she drops me, As she screams in pain Harriet and Rose wince. and I m standing in front of them with a dagger covered in green blood.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Okay a few twists there and a hyper side to Lexa, sorry about the long wait for a chapter but like i said once a month now, check my profile for the jewellery and a picture cover on photobucket, the links will open on a new tab so you don t lose what you re doing, let me know what you think
Shadow OUT!
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