Inside a flat in London is in the bedroom of Aurora Barton, to the people of the Powell estate she's the granddaughter of Aurora Barton who lived in the same flat not knowing the two were the same person.
Aurora's alarm clock beeps at 7 AM, the alarm meaning she had to get up to go to work, Aurora closed her eyes thinking of her husband the Doctor and her daughter the Duchess little knowing both her husband and daughter were alive.
"Hello Rose" Aurora said to her neighbour and best friend Rose Tyler, they worked together at Henricks.
Rose and Aurora take a bus to Central London and gets off outside the department store. There is a banner across the main entrance - Henrick's sale sale Henrick's.
The day passes. Rose and Aurora move piles of display clothes around the ladies wear section, Rose meets her boyfriend for a snack lunch in Trafalgar Square then goes back to work.
Aurora spends her lunch doing work, she doesn't eat much food, nobody's noticed yet.
"This is a customer announcement. The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you" said the announcer on the tannoy.
Rose, Aurora and the other girls we're heading out the door when a guard stops Rose and Aurora, waving a bag in there faces "oi" he said, Rose grabbed the bag off him and runs back to the lift heading to the basement, Aurora followed.
"Wilson!" Rose shouts, heading towards his office.
"Wilson, we've got the lottery money. Wilson, are you there?" Aurora asked.
Rose kept talking as she walked A door with a large danger of electric shock sign also claims to be the office of H P Wilson, CEO.
"We can't hang about 'cos they're closing the shop. Wilson! Oh, come on." Aurora called.
There's clattering further down the corridor, Rose speaks again
"Hello? Hello, Wilson, it's Rose and Aurora. Hello? Wilson?" Rose opens the door to a store room and turns on the lights. There are boxes of clothes, and dressed dummies.
"Wilson? Wilson!" As Rose and Aurora explore, the door slams behind them.
Aurora runs back but it won't open. "You're kidding me." Aurora huffs annoyed when there's more noise behind her and Rose "is that someone mucking about? Who is it?"
There's no answers a male shop dummy heads towards her instead "you've got me very funny" Rose remarks sarcastically.
Aurora frowns, moving plastic, she's seen them before. With a past version of her husband.
A second dummy starts moving along with a third.
"Right, I got the joke Who's idea was this? Is it Derek's? Is it? Derek, is this you?" Rose said getting freaked out as more shop dummies start moving as Rose keeps backing away down the storage area, Aurora grabs her hand. Finally they have them up against the wall, and the lead dummy raises its arm. Then a hand grabs Aurora's hand.
Aurora looks at the man shocked, neither make note that they know each other he just says "run" Aurora doesn't stop and think she just listens, pulling Rose along with her, the three make it to a lift when a dummy arm tries to keep the door open by putting it's arm through the door, the Doctor rips the arm off, Rose's eyes widen, Aurora smiles.
"you...you ripped it's arm off" she said in shock.
The Doctor turns to Rose and says "yep, plastic"
The Doctor throws the arm to Rose who catches it.
Aurora stays silent as Rose speaks.
"very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?" The Doctor's confused and asks "Why would they be students?"
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The Shattered Destroyer (book 1)
FanfictionAurora Barton was very beloved on the Powell Estate, but no one loved her more than Rose Tyler. They grew close as Rose grew up. she was devastated to hear that the old woman had passed away. Just a week after, Aurora's granddaughter, who was named...
