I told you I'd be back soon!

Guess who got their promotion?????? ME

I know I already said this on my profile but ITS FINALLY GONE THROUGH the stupid amount of courses I have been on and the hours of e-learning and shadowing has paid off so thank CHRIST for that one. I'm sorry I haven't updated anything any sooner than now but I really had no time after all the things going on irl but I'm here and I have chapters ready to go so let's dive straight into it with one of my favourite episodes of series 1 purely for how much I have to work with for this episode, it's absolutely fantastic ;) and the episode along with the second part is great too!

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The Protector groaned as the TARDIS made a small thud as it landed, her hands gripping onto the console to stop herself from losing her balance. Rose looked at the Doctor curiously as he nodded. "Here we go." He grinned. "Back in London, England."

The Time Lady shook her head as she spoke up: "If only the TARDIS and you would let me fly us, there'd be no thudding and bumping and the TARDIS brakes wouldn't be as worn as they are."

The Doctor narrowed his eyes at her and her comments while Rose frowned at the two and their conversations that were so confusing she wasn't even going to attempt to understand them. She looked to the doors of the TARDIS and headed towards them, the Time Lords following her. "How long have I been gone?" she asked as she stepped out of the TARDIS, she glanced around the familiar powel estate the TARDIS was parked in, graffiti scribbled in large writing on the walls and a slightly chilly breeze in the air.

The Doctor shook his head, looking at the Protector. "Even if I wanted to," he then pointed at her, "which I don't. You know the TARDIS would never agree to let you pilot her, not unless you actually aren't an ass to me or you became a pilot of her which is never happening."

The Protector almost gagged at the thought and shook her head as the Doctor looked at Rose to answer her question:

"About twelve hours."

The Protector frowned at his reply as she looked around the buildings and a small nagging feeling in the back of her head told her the Doctor was wrong. Why did it feel like anything but twelve hours? She licked her finger and held it in the air slightly before shaking her head. It definitely hadn't been twelve hours that was for sure, potentially twelve days? She wasn't exactly sure, not that she'd even try to correct or convince the Doctor otherwise, she knew far too well that the grumpy Time Lord wouldn't listen, even if there were all the signs pointing towards it, unless he had the facts right in front of him he would never hear it.

"Oh. Right," Rose replied. "I won't be long. I just want to see my mum."

"What're you going to tell her?" The Doctor curiously asked as Rose started to head off.

"I don't know." She shrugged, turning around to them, walking backwards towards the stairs of the estate now. "I've been to the year five billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours?" She shook her head. "No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shareen's. See you later. Oh, don't you two disappear." She pointed at them before running up the stairs to her flat.

The Time Lady raised a brow as she walked over to an old, half-torn poster stapled to a wall, she pulled the poster off and her eyes scanned the page. Big red bold letters ran across the top of the poster. 'CAN YOU HELP ME?' and an image of Rose smiling on the right of a paragraph of text describing what she was wearing the day she went missing. "Are you really sure it was twelve hours big ears?" She held the paper up to him, happy to have her evidence now. She watched as his eyes filled with dread while he stormed over to her and snatched the paper from her hands. He suddenly dropped it and ran off in the direction Rose had left in.

The Protector sighed and shook her head before running after him. Only he could mess up like this, if she was piloting the TARDIS the likelihood of this happening would have been minimal.

Sadly it was too late to get Rose back and into the TARDIS to fix the mistake, the Doctor ran in as Rose's mum hugged her tightly.

"It's not twelve hours," he panted as he burst in, "it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry." He winced.

The Protector sighed again and slapped the Doctor's arm with the back of her hand, glaring at him, the Doctor winced again and furrowed his eyebrows at her as he rubbed his arm.

×××

The Protector being slightly nervous shifted on her feet as the policeman walked through the flat door and sat down in one of the chairs in the sitting room after being greeted by Jackie Tyler. Rose sat in the other on the other side of the small room and the Doctor stood next to her chair, the Time Lord not seeming bothered by the policeman's entrance.

"The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own." Jackie Tyler, Rose's mum began again after she had enough of grilling her daughter and the Doctor for answers earlier and getting nothing logical out of them. The Protector thought it best to keep quiet during this, sensing the rather large hole the Doctor had dug himself. Jackie shook her head at her daughter. "I thought you were dead," Rose resisted the urge to roll her eyes while looking like she wanted to be anywhere but in that room, "and where were you?" Jackie rhetorically asked. "Travelling." She scoffed. "What the hell does that mean, travelling? That's no sort of answer." She looked at the policeman. "You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says. Travelling."

"That's what I was doing," Rose replied.

"When your passport's still in the drawer?" Jackie scoffed again, her anger brewing. "It's just one lie after another."

"I meant to phone. I really did. I just forgot."

"What, for a year?" Jackie questioned. "You forgot for a year? And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?"

"Actually, it's my fault." The Doctor spoke up. The Protector violently shook her head at him to try to get him to shut up. He wasn't helping the situation at all. "I sort of er, employed Rose as my companion."

"When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" The policeman asked.

The Protector couldn't help but snort loudly at the question while the Doctor and Rose instantly replied: "No."

"Then what is it?" Jackie asked, looking to the Time Lord. "Because you," she pointed at him, eyes narrowed in disgust, "you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth! How old are you then? Forty? Forty-five?" She questioned, a new disgusted look taking over her face as she looked him up and down. "What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?"

"I am a Doctor." He protested.

"Prove it. Stitch this, mate!" She slapped the Doctor across the face.

The Protector shook her head but couldn't help but smile as the Doctor cried out in pain. "Should have kept quiet." She hummed smugly.

"Shut up." The Doctor glared at her, practically sensing the 'I told you so.' the Time Lady had brewing as he rubbed his cheek. Jackie turned to the Protector next. "Is this what he did to you?" She asked, her face going slightly soft as she spoke more calmly to the Time Lady. "Did he employ you as well?"

"No." She shook her head, a small smile on her face as the Doctor continued to glare at her. "And ignore that idiot." She nodded to the Doctor only making him glare harder at her. "I've been with Rose all the time, she's been safe I promise you. I wouldn't let anything or anyone hurt her."

Jackie looked at the Time Lady with a slightly unsure look before glancing back at the Doctor, who was now practically beaming at her before glaring back at the Time Lady when Jackie turned away. The Protector scrunched up her nose and stuck her tongue out at him like a child in return.

×××

The Protector sat on the wall of the roof beside Rose, the Doctor on the other side of the blonde. "I can't tell her." Rose shook her head, eyes staring out at London below them. "I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year. Was it good?"

"Middling." The Doctor shrugged.

The Protector tilted her head slightly in thought and shrugged. "2005... there's Charles and Camilla... boring." She hummed. "Oh and then YouTube, also boring... there was a spaceship sent out to Mars to look for the water there in August, they didn't find the ice warriors which personally is a bit disappointing

Rose shook her head. "You say the most random things at times."

The Protector winked. "If only you understood it all."

Rose shook her head. 'At least you're not useless like him." She nodded at the Doctor who rolled his eyes.

"I remind him of that every day." The Protector hummed.

"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now?" The Doctor asked Rose, sending a glare to the Time Lady after a moment.

"I don't know." She shrugged. "I can't do that to her again, though."

"Well, she's not coming with us." He held his hands up.

"No chance," Rose replied.

"I don't do families." He huffed.

The Protector laughed. "I don't think she'd want to come anyway after she slapped you like that."

"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother."

"Not even my mother threatened you with that." The Protector remarked.

"Your face." Rose laughed at the Time Lord.

"It hurt!"

"You're so gay," Rose replied.

"Well, we are Time Lords." The Protector shrugged casually and very seriously. Rose frowned in confusion. "The whole sexuality and gender thing," she explained further with another shrug and rolled her eyes at the mere thought of it, "it's so boring, you humans just created that because you like to put yourselves into little boxes. Why restrict yourself to one thing?" She frowned at the thought. "Man... woman... just be whatever, it's all just parts in the end, plus they can change for us anyways, it makes more sense."

Rose frowned nodding slowly not one hundred percent sure she really understood what the Protector meant but shrugged it off with how much the Time Lady said things she didn't understand. "When he says nine hundred years?"

"That's my age." The Doctor nodded.

"You're nine hundred years old."

"Yeah."

"And still a baby." The Protector hummed with a smirk making the Doctor narrow his eyes at her.

"You're not that much older!" He huffed. "We were in the same classes at the Academy."

"I am still older than you by fifty years Doctor."

The Time Lord grumbled in response and Rose looked between them, unable to stop herself smiling at the arguing which looked a lot more like teasing at the current moment. Rose then shook her head her expression changing to a more serious one. "My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap." The Time Lady snorted at the thought. "Every conversation with you two just goes mental." She sighed. "There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist."

"You say the only person." The Protector frowned thinking back to the friends she had made on Earth during her time exploring and 'guarding' the universe alone. "There's a few who you could talk-"

A loud and very deep horn suddenly blew, cutting her off as a large spaceship with a small trail of black smoke coming from one of its two wings passed overhead, it only just missed the tower bridge. The Protector stood up from where she sat on the wall on the roof of the building of flats as the spaceship wing collided with Big Ben, taking a chunk of it with it as it continued its descent before crashing into the River Thames.

"Oh, that's just not fair." Rose breathed, looking over to the Protector who had now stepped towards the edge of the building and looked behind her shoulder.

"Well at least everyone else won't think you're crazy now." She remarked with a shrug before she calmly walked to the stairway, a skip almost in her step as she went.

"Where are you going?" Rose asked as the Doctor also got up from where he was sitting, following the Time Lady. The Doctor moving a little less casually than the Protector.

"Well I don't know about big ears here but I want to see what it was." The Protector jerked her thumb in the Doctor's direction as she continued to walk. The Doctor and Rose were now both following her.

×××

The Doctor, the Protector or Rose didn't have much luck after calling a taxi and finding themselves jam-packed in traffic. "It's blocked off." Rose sighed as she stepped out of the taxi. The Protector stepped out after her. "We're miles from the centre. The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down."

"I know." The Doctor grinned. "I can't believe I'm here to see this." He laughed aloud. "This is fantastic!"

"Of course, you'd say that." The Time Lady sighed with a roll of her eyes.

"Wait did you know this was going to happen?" Rose questioned.

"Nope." He shook his head.

"Do you recognise the ship?"

"Nope."

"Do you know why it crashed?"

"Nope."

"Oh, I'm so glad I've got you." Rose rolled her eyes before she looked to the Protector. "You?"

"Sorry." She apologised, actually looking at the human, unlike the Doctor whose eyes were glued to the traffic. "I may have seen a lot in my time but I sadly have never seen that." She frowned in wonder. "I'm slightly concerned about what it may be though... from my experience crash landings are usually never good."

"Concerned?" The Doctor practically laughed at the Time Lady, moving his eyes away to actually look at her, almost offended. "Why are you worried, this is history happening right in front of us!"

"You know exactly what humans are like." She warned, shooting the Doctor a dark look.

"What do you mean?" Rose frowned, eyes moving between the two Time Lords.

"When something like this happens there's mass panic and people get scared and do things that they wouldn't usually do when they panic." The Time Lady explained, slowly shaking her head. "Scared people are never good, things get dangerous."

"But they'd have experts looking into it, right?" Rose looked to the Time Lady.

The Protector nodded. "Oh definitely, they probably already started to look into it now, hence why we can't get anywhere." She gestured to the traffic around her.

"Well, we can go and see it." Rose grinned. "Never mind the traffic, we've got the TARDIS." She nodded at the Doctor, who shook his head in return.

"Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't want to shove another one on top."

"Smartest thing you've said all day." The Time Lady hummed.

The blonde frowned as the Doctor practically shot daggers at the Time Lady. "But yours looks like a big blue box. No one's going to notice."

"Like the Protector said, emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me. The TARDIS stays where it is."

"So history's happening and we're stuck here." Rose frowned.

The Doctor nodded. "Yes, we are."

Rose frowned. "We could always do what everybody else does. We could watch it on TV."

The Protector thought about it for a moment before she nodded in agreement, it was better than her other idea, the Doctor looked less than thrilled at the suggestion.

×××

The Protector sat in Rose's flat with the Doctor and Rose. The three of them flicked through different news channels throughout the day.

Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central London. The Time Lady raised a brow as a man's voiceover came through on the TV. A video clip of the ship crashing replayed for the hundredth time that day before changing to show the ship in the river, smoke coming out of it. Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency has been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene. The image changed again and a man, the Protector guessed to be Hitchinson stood on the street with the ship behind him in the River Thames. "The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a helpline number on screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."

The Doctor shook his head and changed the channel, a woman with an American accent sat at a desk. "The military are on the lookout for more spaceships. Until then, all flights in North American air space have been grounded."

The Doctor turned the TV back. "The army are sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find." "The President will address the nation live from the White House, but the Secretary-General has asked that people watch the skies." The woman continued.

"Stop changing the channel." The Protector ordered through a glare as the Doctor picked up the remote to change it again.

The Doctor glared back at her and Jackie brought two mugs in, one for Rose and another for her friend who had now come over after hearing the news that Rose was back. "I've got no choice." Jackie told her friend. "You've broken your mother's heart." "I'm not going to make him welcome." Jackie looked at Rose, before turning to the Protector. "Tea darling?"

"No thanks." The Time Lady shook her head and smirked at the Doctor after Jackie had nodded and turned away.

The Doctor huffed and Jackie's friend, Ru turned to the Time Lord. "I cradled her like a child."

"Oi, I'm trying to listen." He replied.

"More like trying to break the remote." The Protector rolled her eyes.

The Doctor just glared at her again.

The TV cut to ten Downing Street. "...His current whereabouts." A man said. "News is just coming in. We can go to Tom at the Embankment."

Hitchison held a hand to his ear. "They've found a body. 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."

The Protector raised both her brows and looked at the Doctor. "Now we're talking."

"Shut up." He glared. "I'm trying to listen."

"Oh, now you want to stop flicking through the channels?" She raised as the Doctor glared at her.

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I have two more chapters of just this episode (I really outdid myself with this one!) and then the second episode will probably have 3 chapters too. I never really addressed this but I'm sorry these come out in smaller chapter I just have always found it difficult to read the whole of a Doctor Who fic that follows the show with each episode as a chapter because some of them are just so LOOOOONG, if I put all of Aliens of London as one chapter it would be 9,649 and that's before editing the other two parts which is where I usually beef up paragraphs and make my description SO much better so yeah... I'm sorry if you don't like the smaller parts but that's why I do what I do.

I'll try to get the next chapter out sometime next week but I make no promises! 

Also... let me know how you feel about the Protector,.I try to make all of my ocs 'original' which I know some writers sometimes find difficult so let me know how you feel about her :)