A/N: I have taken waaaay to long on this one, after all the vacationing and broken internets and laptops and whatnot, I think it's about time you finally get a chapter. I am writing the next chapter at least, so you won't have to long a wait next time. So sorry about the wait you guys, thanks for being so patient. ^-^ Enjoy!

Chapter 21

I'm running in a metro station, I think. I can't stop to look or I'll get caught. I don't know what's chasing me, I don't want to know. My legs won't run fast enough, it feels like I'm just running in water but the monster chasing me is catching up. My feet go numb and I fall over them, falling into the train tracks.

I roll over onto my back and try to stand up but just fall onto my knees, just barely glancing over the left wall of the tracks I'm trapped in. I see a girl running away from something. It looks like just a man, but he's too shadowy to see.

I hear shouting from my right and look over that wall. It's the man calling out to the girl that was running before, but she fell into the train tracks, I see a train hurdling down the tracks.

I hear shouting closer to me and turn to look at the shadowy man running towards me. I struggle to crawl away from him on my useless legs and I'm suddenly blinded by bright headlights. I scream at the train rushing in my direction and hold my hand up in a feeble attempt to stop it. The train uncaringly blares its horn and it suddenly flashes dark.

Luna first woke with a start silently in what would be called the night in the TARDIS. Thankfully, Alli would have no recollection of the dream as she immediately hid it from her, not risking erasing it completely. She doesn't need to have these dreams anymore, I won't allow it. Luna promised to herself, sending herself back into sleep so Alli can wake up without a single hint of her ever having a nightmare.

Alli Rose awoke peacefully in her bed with the mouth-watering scent of bacon and banana pancakes wafting through the air. She sat up rubbing her eyes and not bothering to risk looking at her bed head.

"I do believe I smell breakfast." She said to Scooby. She jumped out of bed giggling and set him down caringly under the covers as she sprinted towards the door, stopping to realize she was still wearing her wrinkled white dress. She didn't want to bother getting ready for the day, so she decided to cheat a little for now and change into a set of bright blue, starry pajamas.

She dashed down the hallway as she smelled the scent of pancakes intensifying. She finally skidded to a stop and slid into the room and saw the Doctor flipping a pancake skillfully in a pan with a three plates stacked high with pancakes and bacon. He turned over to her and smiled at her ruffled appearance as she stared longingly at the food.

"Good morning! I thought having the TARDIS send some of the smell to your rooms would be a nicer way to help wake you up, it half-worked anyway. Rose is never really a morning person." He chirped as he flipped the pancake perfectly onto the stack next to him.

"It was a very good alarm, can I eat that?" She quickly said distractedly, pointing to the towering pancakes.

He chuckled as he carefully handed the plate to her. She walked slowly to the table so as not to drop it. "What's Rose going to do if she misses breakfast?" She asked before she ravenously devoured the mound of pancakes.

"Well I won't let her miss breakfast, that's not good for her. I'll just have to find another way to wake her up." He said mischievously.

Crack

"Need help waking her up?" Luna gladly offered, eating her food at a more moderate pace compared to the feeding frenzy that Alli was having. The Doctor eyed her warily as she spoke, he knew she meant well, but he still couldn't find himself to trust her, not yet.

He reached into his suit pocket and pulled out his sonic screwdriver. "No need, I have my ways." He pressed the button making the blue tip light up and only its whirring could be heard. "There we go." He said as he pocketed the screwdriver.

"What'd you do?" She asked intrigued, taking note of his suspicious glance before taking a bite of bacon.

"We're about to find out in a couple minutes." He said with a wicked grin.

Crack

"We're gonna get in trouble aren't we?" Alli giggled as she stuffed more pieces of bacon in her mouth.

"If we're lucky!" He laughed back, he grabbed some syrup on the counter and placed it next to her. As she drowned her pancakes with it he noticed more than half of the plate was already missing and it had only been thirty-two point five seconds.

"How's the food then?"

"Really good!" She managed to say through a mouthful of food.

"Did you want anything else to eat?"

"Can we have scrambled eggs?" She asked with lit-up eyes at the idea of more.

He chuckled, "Of course! Anything else? You can have whatever you like."

"Hash Browns, and some toast! Oh and orange juice! And pie! Can we have pie?!" She shouted excitingly.

"If you finish your plate you can have some, come on, you can come help me make it." He turned back to the extensive fridge and pulled out everything he needed while Alli cleaned off her plate.

They were both fixing the rest of the large feast when they heard Rose call out from the corridor.

"DOCTOR!"

"Uh-oh." Alli murmured, preparing herself for the angry blonde.

A disheveled Rose in pink pajamas, crazy hair and a heated look stomped into the kitchen. The Doctor still remained his cheery self however.

"Good morning! Did you sleep well?"

"M' so gonna kill ya." She threatened lividly, her accent still thick from sleeping.

"After I made you breakfast? That's just cruel." He said mockingly offended, amused by the situation.

"So's blarin' a bloody foghorn in my ear when 'm sleepin'!" She yelled, Alli couldn't help laughing at the manner of her wake-up call.

"I can't believe that's how you woke her up. Haha!" She playfully fell on the floor laughing as she clutched her sides.

The Doctor merely grinned, "It was a surprise for me to, I just set any alarm I had and it just happened to be on that one. Alli didn't want you to miss breakfast so I had to wake you up somehow."

Rose just glared at him as she shuffled towards her plate and carried it over towards the table.

After the large breakfast and everyone was dressed and ready, they all headed to the console room. As the Doctor thrashed everyone about the room, courtesy to his terrible driving, they eventually landed in London outside Rose's old flat.

"What year is it?" Alli asked eagerly, she tightly held her cross-eyed Scooby close to her. She still sported the fashionable flat-cap she wore before, along with black running shoes, and a bright, sky-blue, patterned romper.

"It's the year 2007, we're in London, Powell Estate." Rose replied, wearing her usual outfit of jeans, tennis shoes, a pink T-shirt and a jacket over the ensemble. She didn't exactly find the date all that impressive to her, but for Alli, she was ecstatic.

"Wow! It's twenty years ago, I'm not even born! Screw you linear timelines."

"Are you lot coming or what?" The Doctor brought them back to reality as he grabbed his coat out of the nook in the column and headed through the doors.

He was greeted with Jackie Tyler sprinting towards the TARDIS. "Oh great." He muttered loud enough for her to hear him.

"Oi watch it! Where's Rose?" She shouted at him, loud enough for Rose to hear her from inside the TARDIS.

"Don't worry mum, I'm right here." She groaned jokingly as she stepped out the doors herself, Alli followed close behind her, taking in the sights around her like an avid tourist.

Jackie brought Rose in for a hug when she noticed the little girl grinning like a loon. "Who's she? Did you kidnap her?!" Jackie asked looking accusingly at the Doctor.

The Doctor quickly spoke up out of fear of being slapped, "No no no! Of course not. We-ell, not intentionally anyway, see, this is Alli Rose. Alli Rose, this is Rose's mum, Jackie Tyler. Careful though, as you can see, she can be vicious." He playfully whispered to her, getting a threatening stare from her.

Alli held up her stuffed animal for her to see and shouted excitingly, "And this is Scooby! I'm from the future! Who's famous right now? Do you have any weird catchphrases? What's on TV right now? Or do you call it telly?"

The Doctor gently pulled her back from bombarding Jackie with anymore questions, "Alright, no more pie for breakfast."

"I'm gonna call Mickey, tell him we're here." Rose interrupted as she pulled out her phone.

"No need, he's waiting inside for ya. Would you like some tea sweetheart?" She asked sweetly to the little girl still smiling up at her.

"That sounds lovely!" She said, she skipped up ahead of the group towards the large building.

"Why don't you ever offer me any tea?" He asked.

"Well last time I did you told me to shut up!"

"I don't ever recall you offering me tea, just little ham sandwiches and vitamins, Besides, I was having a neuron implosion, give me a break." He grumbled back.

Alli eventually found the correct door that was still open and jumped into the quaint flat, she was greeted by a rather handsome, yet slightly confused young man with milk-chocolate skin furrowing his brow at the site of her. This must be Rickey, she thought to herself.

"Who are you?" He asked the stranger that just walked in.

"Hello! I'm Alli Rose, you must be Rickey the Idiot, nice to meet you." She said sweetly, having fun with teasing him.

"It's Mickey! You must have met the Doctor then haven't you?" He accused hotly at the tiny child giggling at his frustration.

"Oh I'm sorry, he said it was Rickey the Idiot. Are you not an idiot then?"

Just as Mickey shouted out his protest of him not being an idiot, the Doctor, Rose and Jackie walked in through the door. "I'm not an idiot and I'm not Rickey!"

Rose shot the Doctor an exasperated glare as he giggled at the frustration he started in the room.

"Glad to know you're not an idiot. You seem a bit upset, do you want some tea? Jackie's making some." Alli offered unphased.

Mickey just stared in confusion at the smiling child that didn't seem to care one bit about how angry he was just a moment ago and now was offering him tea.

"Um, sure." He said bewildered. Alli skipped away towards the kitchen with Jackie to help her with the tea while Mickey looked toward the Doctor, confused at what just happened.

"What was that?" Mickey asked the Doctor with an incredulous look still plastered on his face.

"That, was Alli Rose, she's… a bit, different, but very entertaining." He answered back after finding the right words.

"Anyways, Mickey, tell us about what you found." Rose intervened, reminding them what they were here for.

"Right then," Mickey led them over to the couch where he already had his laptop opened and pulled it over to them to see. "Three months ago, Deffry Vale High School had received a new headmaster, a Mr. Finch. Ever since then, the school had gotten record results, like off the charts high. I wouldn't 'ave thought anything of it, just that he was a really good principle. But just before he showed up, there were incidents of strange lights in the sky around the school. I can start hacking into the army records, but it could take about two days, that is, if you're interested So? What'd ya think? Is it enough to look into?"

The two both looked at each other in a silent conversation, agreeing with one another that it was worth a go.

Rose turned towards Mickey with a grin on her face, "We'll take it."

"Great. Now we just plan out how we're gonna infiltrate." Mickey clapped his hands together as he started thinking up ways to get in, the Doctor however, already came up with a plan.

"Right, me and Rose are gonna work at the school, I'll find a couple of jobs for us to take while you Mickey, you find us more confirmation through those army records."

"Sounds good to me." Rose smiled as she watched his excitement for the adventure grew.

"What about me?" Alli Rose chirped up as she came in with two steamy mugs of tea, handing one of them to Mickey.

"Well, um, you could always... help out Mickey! You know, with research."

Whether it was Luna or Alli that didn't like that answer, it didn't matter, but Luna especially wasn't having any of it.

Crack

"Or I pose as a student and study the curriculum to find anything out of the ordinary instead of working tech support. No offense Mickey, but I'm not missing out on any fun to sit in a chair and stare at a screen all day. Now, If you and Rose are going to get jobs at the high school I would suggest getting false identities and replacing any of the other teachers that are already there. A couple lottery tickets should do. Alright then, plan's settled." Luna said smoothly, finishing off with a sip of her tea.

Mickey might have thought her strange before, but now she was just plain bizarre. She had a vibe of cheerfulness when he met her, but all of the sudden it just switched to a cold, cynical stranger after her neck nearly snapped. What was wrong with her?

The Doctor nodded his head in defeat as he made his way towards Mickey and patted the shocked man on his shoulder. "See? Different."

Jackie made her way into the room with a mug for Rose and herself, unaware of Mickey's bewilderment. Rose took her mug and walked over to the computer to get away from the strange atmosphere that was settling.

"Right then, what brought you here to visit?"

Crack

"We're going to school!" Alli shouted in elation at the thought of going back to school.

"A kid that actually likes school, that's new." She joked at the animated child jittering with joy. "Where'd he pick you up from then? I can't really tell from your accent, sounds American though."

"Nebraska, they don't really have accents there. Don't know why." Alli muttered to herself, trying to sort through some information she had on the subject in her mind, but was interrupted by Rose.

"Looks like you're gonna have to wear a uniform, Alli." She snickered, nearly bursting out laughing at the sight of a pouting girl thinking about wearing a uniform.

"Is it at least pretty?" She hoped, setting down her tea to look at the uniform she would be required to wear.

"You get a tie at least. The rest is a bit gray."

Alli glanced at the apparel and groaned loudly, crumbling her head in her hands as she slumped on her shoulder..

"Bet you wish you could do tech support now, don't ya?" Mickey laughed.

Alli glared jokingly at Mickey.

Crack

"Never!" Luna laughed.

A/N: Just to let you all in my personal life for the heck of it, I'm going to be getting my wisdom teeth pulled out this morning, just a heads up if I somehow manage to post up something while I'm on my loopy gas. XD I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! Until next time my little companions!