Doctor's POV:

The Doctor was comfortably sat in the Library reading The Hunger Games after seeing just how big the franchise was in the 21st century. Katniss what about to go into the arena when he both felt and heard the TARDIS take off.

Jumping to his feet, he ran for the console room, "ROSE! What are you doing?!" He called though he was still some ways down the corridor.

"I didn't do anything! I thought it was you!" Her voice echoed from somewhere behind him, in the opposite direction of the main console room.

The Doctor burst into the control room, the console was smoking a switches and levers moved on their own, "Where are you taking us?!" He yelped at the TARDIS as he darted around, trying to apply some kind of order to the situation. He vaguely noticed Rose run into the room, only to fall into the aviator's chair when the time machine lurched again. With one final jerk, the engines wheezed to a halt leaving the room in an eerie silence as Rose and the Doctor caught their breath.

Finally Rose's voice filled the quiet room, "Where are we?"

He glanced at the monitor, but the TARDIS didn't reveal a thing, "Not a-"

"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing landing the TARDIS in my living room?!" Despite the door between them and the outside, they could hear Jackie's shriek clear as a bell.

The Doctor's head swiveled from the door to look at Rose, "I take that back, we're at your house."

She looked over at him with exaggerated sarcasm, "You don't say!" With that she jumped out of the chair and started for the door, "Come on, let's go see how bad the damage is…and hope she doesn't slap you again."

Rubbing the side of his face he started for the door with Rose on his heels, "Yeah, I only just recovered from the last time."

Rose's POV:

As the doors swung open, Rose could see the shattered remains of what was once her mother's glass coffee table. "If I recall correctly, this isn't the first time you two have broken my table!" Jackie's trite reply came from the kitchen on the right.

She couldn't help but laugh as she thought about the second time she had met the Doctor; a living plastic arm had tried to kill them. They were trying to get it off of Rose when they had fallen on a very similar coffee table, which had shattered like the one under their feet now. She guessed the Doctor was recalling the same memory as he too was riddled with laughter.

The tall brunet managed to speak between the bouts of chuckling, "I still don't know how you didn't hear it the first time, we were yelling when we fell."

Her mother's eyes were alight with an angry fire, "I was blow drying my hair!"

The Doctor merely tilted his head, smiling, "Honestly, you humans can be so daft."

"Oi! I am not daft!" Jackie clipped off her every word in indignation at the Doctor's harmless comment. Rose had learned to expect and respect his light-hearted mocking of other species, and silently thanked him for referring to her as human, keeping his promise to hide her secret.

"Wellll…" The Doctor dragged out the word well in a way that had become so endearing over the years.

Rose pushed down her laughter before she spoke, trying to seem serious for her mother's sake, "Doctor, remember what I said about getting slapped."

"Yes sorry," He stepped away from the irreparable table, turning to face Jackie, who still looked ready to murder the alien, "We didn't land the TARDIS in your living room, she landed herself."

"She?" Jackie looked at the blue box in confusion, "It's alive?"

"Yes!" The Doctor sounded offended, "She's a living, breathing thing like you or me…only better!"

"Well okay then, sor-"'

"Mummy! Where are you mummy?!" The Doctor and Rose both jumped, looking in every direction for the masked Chula Zombie, before Sadie ran in crying and the front door clicked shut behind her. The Doctor visibly relaxed, but her guard stayed up, she wanted to know why her sister was so upset.

"What's wrong sweetheart?" Jackie said, picking up the small girl to keep her away from the broken glass.

"Cassandra-kicked-me!" Sadie wailed, and that's all it took for Rose to turn on her heel and stomp out the door fuming. She knew full well who Cassandra was, and that didn't make the situation any better.

Doctor's POV:

The Doctor followed as Rose stormed out the door in pursuit of the girl who was bullying her little sister. When he stepped outside he saw Rose looking down at a small blonde, no more than five years old. "Ros-"

"Who do you think you are, licking my little sister?!" Rose snapped, cutting the Doctor off as the little girl looked up at her fearfully.

"Rose." His voice was calm as he tried to make her see reason, the little girl had been wrong to kick Sadie, but she had had her punishment.

She whipped around, and he waited for her to spit every foul name she knew at him, but her gaze softened, "Coming." She cast a final glare at Cassandra, but the girl was already running back up the street towards her own home.

Once out of ear shot of the little girl, the Doctor couldn't help but voice the question that had been nagging at him since Sadie came in crying. "This is going to sound ridiculous, but was that Cassandra, as in Cassandra O'Brian.Δ 17?"

Rose glanced back in the directing that the girl had run before she responded, her voice uncharacteristically flat, "Yes, and she's a snot, even as a little kid. Now I know why she hates me so much in the future." Turning back to look at the Doctor, she spoke again, "And before you ask, no, I don't know how she ends up millions of years in the future as a bitchy trampoline."

The Doctor stared glanced blankly from Rose, to where the little girl had been standing, and back again, "How old is she? Now I mean."

"Five." Rose said simply as they walked back in the door to see Sadie sitting in Jackie's lap, no longer crying. "Are you okay?" Rose's voice was gentle, and the Doctor couldn't help but do a double take at her quick change in demeanor.

Sadie nodded, sniffling, "I-I'm okay."

Rose hugged her sister tightly, "Good, you're a strong girl." She piped before returning to the Doctor's side.

"Rose." Jackie looked at her oldest daughter as Sadie ran off to her room, "You're friend called while you were outside."

"Which one?" Rose asked, watching her sister until the door closed behind her.

The Doctor couldn't help but look at Jackie in horror as she replied, "Martha Jones."

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