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Author's Note: Sorry, this chapter's a little longer than the others were. I just didn't know where to end it. Let's see how Hex deals with the Doctor for the first time.
"You two pulled his arm off" Rose exclaimed in surprise. Hex sighed and shook her head. Of all the things to comment about and she gets upset about a plastic arm. "Yep. Plastic" The Doctor replied, throwing the arm towards Rose who instantly caught it. "Very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?" Rose asked, upset that someone would be playing with her like that. Hex shook her head again. "I told you already, I don't think this is a trick. Why would students want to trick us anyway?" Hey said, getting strange looks from both Rose and Doctor for different reasons. "Wait! Did you know that this was going to happen?" Rose asked, turning on Hex, remembering that she was meant to be psychic. Hex glanced at the Doctor, who had raised eyebrow in question before answering "Maybe" shyly. This caused the Doctor's other eyebrow too shoot up.
"Wait what?" The Doctor questioned, looking between Rose and Hex. Hex slowly turned to the Doctor with a guilty grin. "Hi. I'm the resident somewhat psychic strange kid" Hex said with a little wave. The Doctor didn't look entirely convinced but let it go for now anyway. He then turned to Rose to say "They're not students." "Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's going to call the police.
Now Hex had not forgotten about Wilson, and tuned out the rest of the conversation where the Doctor explained that Wilson was dead with a mournful look on her face as they left the elevator and came out behind the shop. She then tuned back in when the Doctor disabled the mechanism of the elevator with his sonic, thinking that her sonic was probably better than his now. It was more like Rivers with all the extra bits but sleeker and more aesthetically pleasing than either of their sonic screwdrivers.
"Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?" Rose rushed out. Hex reached out and smacked Rose's arm causing her to yelp in surprise. "Rude" Hex said, shooting an apologetic glance towards the Doctor who now looked even more confused by her. Oh well, he likes a good puzzle, and I might prove one of the hardest ones for him.
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this. (The Doctor waves a small bomb at the girls) So, I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me. No, you go home. Go on. Go and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed." The Doctor said. Typical Doctor monologue. He shut the door before opening it again. "I'm the Doctor, by the way, What're your names?"
"I'm Rose and this is Hex" Rose said, gesturing towards me at the mention of my name. The Doctor grinned before saying "Nice to meet you Rose and Hex. Run for your lives!" and then closing the door again. "You're the tech genius. Was that actually a real bomb he just waved at us?" Rose asked, not sounding afraid at all. Hex grinned. "Yep" she replied, popping the 'p'. Rose did look a little more afraid at the news and proceeded to grab Hex by the arm and to drag her away from the building.
"You know Rose, I am perfectly capable of walking by myself" Hex said once they were a good distance from the shop. Rose only just seemed to realise that she still had a tight grip on Hex's arm and reluctantly let go, keeping an eye on the shop window dummies around the street. Rose was so distracted that Hey had to pull her out of the way of an oncoming Taxi. That wasn't supposed to happen. She was supposed to notice that herself. I've already started changing things and now I can't leave because I have to make sure that things go the way that they're supposed to.
There was a huge explosion and both of the girls turned to see the upper floor of Hendriks disappear in a storm of fire. Rose spun around again, grabbing Hex's arm and running all the way back home. Rose didn't notice it but Hex did sport the blue telephone box parked in an alley between two other stores and grinned at it before being pulled away by Rose.
The television reported the incident that the two girls had gotten away from before. "I know. It's on the telly. It's everywhere. They're lucky to be alive. Honestly, it's aged them. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was Hex's daughter. Oh, and here's himself." Hex and Rose, who were both slumped on the couch, rolled their eyes at Jackie's hysterics as Micky walked in. Hex was secretly glad that the shop was gone because she had found the job far too boring and not mentally challenging enough.
Hex had gotten along well with Micky but a part of him reminded her too much of her old life with the many unfaithful boyfriends, not that Micky was unfaithful in any way. Hex just wasn't quite ready to start another relationship yet but Micky kept on trying to hook her up with some of his friends.
"I've been phoning your mobile. You could've been dead. It's on the news and everything. I can't believe that your shop went up!" Micky exclaimed once he reached the couch with the two girls. Rose is still holding onto the plastic arm that the Doctor had tossed her in the elevator and it made Hex very nervous because she knew that it was technically still 'alive'. She kept tapping her sonic in her pocket every once in a while and shooting quick glances at the arm like it was about wake up and try to kill her. It very well could do just that. Better be prepared in case the Doctor isn't quick enough with his sonic. Hex had, after all, scanned the thing as soon as they got home and found that it was indeed still receiving a weak signal.
The whole time Micky and Rose had had their little argument until Micky finally left with the arm. Jackie still hadn't left the phone and walked out of the room with it, still talking about the shop and something about compensation. After Micky left, Rose and Hex both left for their bedroom and went to bed. Rose forgot to switch her alarm off but Hex purposely left it on, knowing that the Doctor would be back in the morning. It wasn't much use anyway since Hex couldn't get any sleep at all.
She kept her sonic with her the whole night and kept reaching up and fiddling with her pocket watch when she got nervous. She spent the time tinkering. She was working on making her own vortex manipulator. She understood the concept of it but putting it together proved a lot more difficult than it seemed. She finished it halfway through the night and added the strongest perception filter she could make so that the Doctor wouldn't notice that she had it. It's after all about 30 centuries too early. I'll have to compare mine with Jack's though when I come across him to see if I can make any improvements on mine. I don't even know if it works yet but now's not the time to test it. After making sure that the vortex manipulator was tightly strapped on and closing the interface so that it looked like nothing more than a leather bracelet in case the Doctor noticed in anyway, Hex started working on her anti-grav drone.
When the alarm went off in the morning, Hex got up from bed, leaving her unfinished project on the sheets and went to get herself ready, ignoring Jackie as she told them that there was no point in getting up early because they had no wok to go to. It didn't take long for everyone to have gathered at the table where Jackie started rattling off about jobs and compensation. Hex was only half listening but still contributed to the conversation. Then, something at the door rattled and Hex just grinned at the screw on the floor. Hex waited patiently at the table for Rose to open the door and drag the Doctor in who quickly glanced at her.
"Who is it?" Jackie called from her bedroom. Hex smirked. "It's about last night. He's part of the inquiry. Give us ten minutes" Hex informed from her place at the table without looking up from her book and taking a sip of her tea. Hex watched from the corner of her eye as the Doctor walked up to Jackie's bedroom, grinning evilly behind her book and waiting for the hilarious scene to unfold.
"They deserve compensation" "Oh, we're talking millions" "I'm in my dressing gown" Hex snorted, causing Rose to look at her funnily. Hey just winked at Rose in response. "Yes, you are" "There's a strange man in my bedroom." "Yes, there is" "Well, anything could happen." There was a pause where the Doctor seemed to understand what Jackie was getting at. "No."
Hex couldn't help herself and burst out laughing while Rose soon joined as well, having understood why Hex had winked at her earlier. The Doctor turned to the two girls as Hex got up and made her way to the kitchen to rinse out her cup. "Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asked the Doctor who was starting to make his way over to the bedroom that hex and Rose shared. "Might as well, thanks. Just milk" the Doctor replied poking his head into the bedroom. He immediately spots the unfinished drone on the bed and furrows his brows in thought. He walks to the bed and picks up the machine, walking back out of the room with it in his hand. "So did you make this? Quite clever I must say" the Doctor asked Rose as she came out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee and set it on the table. Rose looked over at what the Doctor was holding and shook her head. "No that's all Hex's. She's the genius here. She tried explaining this stuff to me a couple times but it's not really my thing" Rose replied. The Doctor looked over at Hex who had stuck her head out the kitchen door at the mention of her name. She waved over at the Doctor with a bit of a smile, which was hard seeing as she had a spoon of something still in her mouth.
Hex then ducked back into the kitchen and finished washing up her things as the Doctor walked in, still holding the drone. "You're building an anti-grav drone out of scrap" the Doctor commented, eyeing the thing more carefully. "and it's very well done" he added. Hex turned around to face the Doctor with a grin "Thanks" was what she said as she picket it out of his hands and went to put it back on her bed.
The Doctor followed her the whole way. "But you're a genius, basically. Well, almost genius. Still, far too clever to be working in a shop" the Doctor pointed out. Hex just shrugged "I never really finished school and you can't get a better job without the qualifications" Hex explained as she walked back out of the room and to the couch, the Doctor still following close behind and sitting in front of the cup of coffee once they reached it. The Doctor only sat for about a minute before he got up and started walking around again, play with whatever he could find while Rose kept on going on about the so called 'prank', oblivious to the fact that no one was really listening to her anymore.
As soon as the cat flap rattled though, Hex hightailed it back to the kitchen and peeked around the corner to watch what happened and to step in, with her screwdriver at the ready, if she was needed. As soon as the arm went for the Doctors throat though, Hex couldn't stop herself from rushing out from her cover and to him to try and help pull it off. So much for only helping when I was needed. Rose came in to the scene, obviously still not realising that the situation was a lot more urgent than it seemed. Thank God Time Lords have a respiratory bypass system, otherwise he would be dead by now.
Hex and the Doctor manage to throw the arm off but it stops in mid-air and and goes straight for Rose. Without thinking twice about it, Hex pulls out her sonic and uses it on the arm as the Doctor tries to pull it off. A soft golden glow comes from the sonic and the arm drops into the Doctor's hands. The Doctor turns to look at Hex with both eyebrows raised. "You've got a sonic?" It was more of a statement than a question but Hex answered it any way "Yeah I do. Why? What's wrong with having a sonic?" The Doctor just stared blankly at her for a second before turning to Rose. He throws Rose the arm who squeaks in surprise but still catches it. "It's all right, Hex's stopped it. There you go, you see? Armless" the Doctor joked.
Rose hits the Doctor with the arm making him yelp before he turns and walks out the door, closely followed by both Rose and Hex. "Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off" Rose complained. "Yes I can. Here I am. This is me, swanning off, See you" The Doctor replied, continuing to walk down the stairs of the apartment complex. "But that arm was moving. It tried to kill me" Rose argued. "Ten out of the for observation" he commented, causing Hex to reach out over Rose to smack him on his arm. "Rude" she scolded. The Doctor just rolled his eyes at her.
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You've got to tell me what's going on" Rose said. "He kind of already has" Hex argued, causing both the Doctor and Rose to stop and look at her. She stopped as well and just looked between the two. "What?" she asked. "How did he explain anything?" Rose asked. Hex smiled. "Well he said at the shop that it was living plastic, didn't he. I scanned that arm yesterday when you brought it home and found a weak signal being sent to it. The signal has to come from somewhere. The signal was some kind of thought control so whatever was sending the signal is definitely alive and probably not human. For something to send a signal though, it would need some kind of transmitter, right? So the basically what's going on is that somewhere in London there is some kind of creature that is probably not human and that is using a transmitter to use thought control to bring plastic to life. Not so hard see" Hex finished, smiling at the shocked faces of the Doctor and Rose. The Doctor turned on the spot and kept on walking. Rose rushed after him and Hex rolled her eyes before jogging to catch up.
Rose and the Doctor kept on discussing on the way, Rose not having believed anything that Hex had said and the Doctor not wanting to confirm her conclusion. Finally Rose stopped and grabbed the Doctor's arm, also forcing him to stop walking. Hex just stood to the side, listening to the conversation. "Ok. Start from the beginning. I mean, if we're going to go with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do, how did Hex kill it?" Rose asked. The Doctor sighed before answering "Hex was right. The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. She cut off the signal, dead. Are you alright?" "Yeah. So, who's controlling it then? But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" "No" "No" "It's not a price war. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?" "No" "But your still listening" Hex chimed in before the Doctor could speak. He looked at her funny before turning back to Rose as she spoke.
"Really, though, Doctor. Tell me, who are you?" Rose asked the Doctor. Great. Here comes his monologue. Hex, knowing the little speech by heart because of how many times she had watched the episode, tuned it out until the end. "…. That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler and Hex. Go home" the Doctor finished. Finally. The first time it's great but after around twenty times it gets a bit much. The Doctor walked into the Tardis with the arm and it dematerialised as soon as the girls had turned their backs to it. Rose turned around at the sound but Hex already knew that it wouldn't be there so she didn't bother.