We had dropped mum and Mickey back home after the holiday at Midnight.

"I feel like another concert."

I looked at the Doctor, "What did you have in mind?"

He nodded toward the corridor, "Dress up for the late 1950s. We are going to see the King at the Milton Berle Show."

After picking out a floral puffy skirt frock with a mini pink jacket and red clutch. I came out of the wardrobe to see the Doctor drive up on a TARDIS blue scooter. The Doctor's hair poofed up in a rock and roll style.

He deepened his voice with a wink, "Going my way, doll?"

I let out a laugh, any remaining tension from our last adventure and the ominous warning from my other self melting off me.

"Is there any other way to go, daddy-o?"

I blushed as his grin got wider.

The Doctor tossed me a pink helmet and I placed it on before getting on behind him and wrapping my hands around his middle. I hid my own grin into his shoulder.

He drove down and out of the TARDIS.

I snapped my fingers and the TARDIS doors closed, "Thanks sis."

As we drove down the streets so far they looked too British.

"The TV studios, where are they?"

"New York, of course."

"Right." I let out a chortle at all the union jacks.

A red double decker went past on the intersecting road.

"A very Londony New York, hm?" I hummed in his ear.

"What? It could still be New York."

I laughed. The Doctor pulled up to the side of the road next to a TV salesperson giving out quite a far amount of tellys.

"Just in time for the celebration!" The man smiled after his customers.

The Doctor walked up, "What celebration would that be?"

"Where have you been living? The colonies? The Coronation of course!" The man had rounded shoulders and a shorter frame, a small scruffy beard upon his cheeks and slicked back hair.

"What coronation would that be?"

I nudged the Doctor with my elbow, "Must be 1953, Queen Elizabeth's."

The TV salesman nodded before going back to his van.

The Doctor's features lit up, hands in pockets he grinned at our surroundings. "Oh this is a brilliant year! Technicolor! Everest climbed. Everything is off ration."

I looked to the salesperson who hadn't left yet, "This neighbourhood seems well off to afford so many tellys."

"Oh, only 5 quid each from my shop." He pointed to the side of his van that read, 'Magpie's Marvellous Tellys' in blue grey paint.

The Doctor grinned, still going on about the time, "A classic year, throwing off the shackles of war looking forward to a happier and brighter future!"

As if to contradict him, a woman's screams broke the mood.

"Someone help me please! Ted!"

Men in black suits took a man away with a blanket over his head.

The Doctor marched over, "What are you doing?"

A man in a black fedora shoved the Doctor away from their car,

"Out of the way, police business."

"What's going on here?" The Doctor watched as they drove away.

A boy who came out of a house next door looked over, "It's happening everywhere. Something is turning people into monsters."

We nodded towards the boy before putting our helmets back on. We jumped back on the scooter.

We followed the black car until we reached a dead end.

"Lost them, how did they get away from us?"

I turned my head toward his ear, "Purposeful diversion, don't those look like gates?" I pointed to the 'walls' behind the market stalls.

"Clever." His TARDIS blue helmet bobbed up and down.

"Wait till nightfall? Or shall we cause a distraction?"

The Doctor shook his head, "Let's just wait around here for a bit and see if we can get in another way."

We didn't have to wait long by the dead end before the black car went out again. The marketplace was taken down as soon as the car was down the road.

The Doctor looked around before looking for a side entrance. He found one by a chain link fence; it wasn't hard to slip past the lone guard and enter the warehouse.

In the back of the warehouse behind a locked fence-like structure were a bunch of people in the shadows. The Doctor's brow furrowed as he unlocked it with his sonic before stepping in, the deeper we walked the more ominous it seemed.

The people were all huddled together behind another gate, side by side. Their features gone from their heads, hands grasping at nothing at their sides.

The Doctor opened the fence and the people turned at the noise, the light of the sonic drawing them in around us.

"What's going on Rose?"

A spotlight fell upon us from behind and the voice of the policeman from earlier that day, "Stay where you are!"

Suited men came in and grabbed us each by the arm before pulling us out of the gated area and then up some stairs to the warehouses offices. The Doctor was pushed into one of the cramped offices while the suited man guided me politely into it and into one of the available seats.

The man that had worn the fedora, took off his jacket and hat, before turning towards us. "Start from the beginning and tell me everything."

"Well for starters, I know you can't wrap your fingers around your elbow and have your fingers meet." The Doctor's face looked serious, but I could see the light glimmering in his brown eyes.

I pursed my lips to keep from giggling as I saw one of the men try it from behind the interrogator.

The interrogator pointed his finger at the Doctor, "Don't get clever with me! You were there at Florizel Street and now we caught you breaking into here. You're connected somehow I know it."

The Doctor cleared his throat, "Well the thing is Detective Inspector Bishop…"

The detective's eyes widened, "How did you know that?"

I covered my mouth as the Doctor pointed to the detective's collar, "It's written on the inside of your collar." The Doctor tilted his head, "I can't help thinking Detective Inspector that you're not exactly doing much detective inspecting now are you?"

"I'm doing everything in my power."

I spoke up, "Have you investigated Magpie's then?"

"Yes have you…" The Doctor metered out and looked over at me, "Magpie's?"

I nodded, "It's only those who've bought a telly from Magpie's recently. That's the pattern you've been searching for Detective Inspector." I pointed to the map on his wall with the pins in all the spots where someone had appeared faceless.

"And how does a young miss like you know this?"

I tilted my head in a very Doctor-like fashion, "I'm very good at noticing patterns. I can guarantee the answer is at Magpie's."

We arrived at Magpie's early the next morning.

It was quiet but the Doctor was on the move looking behind the front desk.

"Oh look at you." The Doctor pulled out a compact radio looking device but that had a screen on it.

"Well look at that! Its like a telly but portable," The inspector looked at the tech.

"Put together here, but what a simple design."

The jingle of beads and I looked behind the Doctor to see the owner come through.

Magpie looked worried, "What are you doing here?'

The Doctor turned, "The electrician's work on this is excellent but its too early in your timeline for such a design. Who's in charge here?"

"Yoohoo, I think that's me." A female voice was heard. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a black and white image of a woman in a fancy frock on the TVs.

I turned toward the police detective and his men, "No matter what you do, don't look at the screens."

"Ooh this one's smart as paint. Come closer, young one."

"I won't fall for that." I shook my head.

Magpie backed up out of the room, "I'm so sorry but you've brought this on yourselves. Let me introduce you to my new friend."

The inspector looked shocked, "My God its the woman off the telly!"

"No, it's just using her image." The Doctor glanced at the screen, "What are you?"

"I'm the WIRE and I'll gobble you up. Every last morsel and when I have feasted I shall regain my corporeal body which my fellose denied me."

"They are a consciousness feeding off others to get back their body." I explained for the others that weren't the Doctor.

"Oh I'll enjoy eating you."

"Right now you are trapped in the tv." The Doctor looked at me and I mouthed 'coronation'. "Of course the coronation, for the first time in history millions gathered around their tvs. But you're not strong enough yet. Ah that's why you need this." The Doctor held up the tiny TV, "You need something with more power, this will turn a big transmitter into a big receiver."

I stepped forward, the Doctor was looking too much at the screen.

"Be careful, Doctor."

Light streamed through the air blinding me, it felt as if something were suctioning my face.

"Delicious!"

I heard the Doctor's sonic, the last thing I heard was:

"Hungry, so hungry. Clever and armed."

"Rose, Rose. Please wake up."

I woke to the Doctor's face above mine. His shoulders sagged in relief.

"Oh thank goodness."

"Is Magpie gone?"

The Doctor nodded.

I rubbed my head. I had a bit of a headache. It was hard to access my Mind Palace right now but I was able to get a jumble of words out to the Doctor.

"VCR, record. I don't quite understand how but…?"

The Doctor kissed my forehead, "That might just work."

I sat up and watched as the Doctor grabbed supplies.

Before looking to my right to see the inspector waking up too. He looked in shock at his men that were now faceless.

The Doctor handed me the supplies before we ran toward the TARDIS, the inspector following after us. The Doctor grabbed what he needed and then out we went again.

The inspector along our side ran toward Alexandra Palace.

When we reached the largest tv transmitter in London the Doctor flashed his psychic paper.

The Doctor ran around the station plugging in his equipment before moving the inspector to stand by the machine he'd made.

The Doctor looked to the two of us, "Rose, help the inspector keep this switched on."

"I'm sure the inspector can manage on his own."

The Doctor stopped me in the doorway, "I can't have you get hurt Rose."

I watched as he ran toward the tower.

I had a bad feeling.

I ran back into the room and showed the inspector how to replace the bulbs like the Doctor had shown me.

"Where are you going, Miss?"

"I have a bad feeling my Doctor might be in danger."

I ran to the tower just as purple lightning appeared from the top of the tower only fluctuating for a moment before going strong. Magpie was disintegrated at the top of the tower and as I climbed I saw my Doctor slip, I caught his arm before he fell past me and we both hung onto the metal in front of us.

"That was close." I laughed.

The Doctor gazed at me with wide eyes, "Rose what…"

I felt a shock come from the device in the Doctor's hands that ran through the metal bars.

The Doctor held on but my shoe slipped.

I looked up with wide eyes as another shock went through and I lost my grip falling from the tower.

"Rose! No!" The Doctor's yells followed.

As I fell I saw a glowing light surround me.

[Doctor]

The Doctor stared unseeingly at the console of his TARDIS. His limbs were dragging as he came through.

"She's gone."

He felt the TARDIS as she tried to reach out psychically before a ding was heard throughout the room.

A voice he didn't think he'd hear again echoed through the console room.

"This is Emergency Hologram #1, if you are hearing this Doctor then I have performed my first time jump."

The Doctor looked up to see Vortex Rose shining brightly in the centre of the room, her beautiful golden hair flowing behind her and her eyes glowing.

"I will see you again Doctor, in fact you will see me far sooner than I'll get to see you."

He walked up to her and marvelled how the hologram was so life-like her features following his movements.

"My Doctor, do not fret you won't be alone in the meantime. Sexy has it all taken care of."

The hologram smiled, the bittersweet smile the Doctor knew well.

His fingers hovered over her lips.

"Never forget I'll never let you be alone and yes that's a threat and a promise." Her head was thrown back in laughter, long hair flowing behind her until she tilted her head towards him. "Until our next hello."