Dreaming of a Blue Box ✧ Doctor Who ¹ ✓

22 - Aliens of London (Part IV)

Continuing from 'Aliens of London - Part III'

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LILY WAS THE FIRST TO ENTER THE BOX AND LEFT THE DOOR JARED. She started up the ramp to where the Doctor waited beside the console. "All right, so I lied." He admitted to her. "I went and had a look. But the whole crash landing's a fake. I thought so. Just too perfect. I mean, hitting Big Ben?"

"Too on the nose- like they wanted all the attention." She agreed.

"Right! So, I thought let's go and have a look." He started on the controls, probably putting in the coordinates.

"Lils?" Rose called from behind Lily. She turned and saw that her sister had stepped inside and lingered near the doors.

"Ah!" The Doctor beamed and paused his work." Welcome back, Rose Tyler! Full tour later- too much going on right now."

"Umm .." Lily ran a finger over the console and tried to think of the best way to bring this up to him. She quickly decided to treat it like ripping off a bandaid. "My mum's here."

"Oh, that's just what I need!" The Doctor responded the exact way Lily imagined him to with a groan and a roll of his eyes. "Don't you dare make this place domestic." When Rose made her way to Lily's side, he added. "Rose is the exception."

She watched a dismayed Jackie step inside the TARDIS, moving slightly to the side to let Mickey barrel past her right at the Doctor. "You ruined my life, Doctor. People thought she was dead. I was a murder suspect because of you."

"You see what I mean?" The Doctor pointed out. "Domestic."

"I bet you don't even remember my name." Mickey challenged him.

"Ricky." The Doctor replied with a smirk.

"It's Mickey." He corrected him.

"No, it's Ricky."

"I think I know my own name." Mickey retorted.

"You think you know your own name?" The Doctor scoffed and crossed his arms. "How stupid are you?"

Their argument went over Lily's head entirely. She was focused on how her mum's face went from bewildered to disturbed to completely horrified. When she started out the box in nearly a full sprint Lily was hurrying after her. "Mum, wait!" Lily exited, not bothering to close the doors, and tried to catch up with her mum. "Please don't do this, Mum!" She stopped running when Jackie disappeared around the building, probably going for the stairs.

She counted the second that passed with each breath she took- in her nose and out her mouth, trying to not let the emotions bubble over. Deciding that she should just leave her mum to take it all in, Lily turned around and walked back to the TARDIS.

When she stepped inside, closing the door this time, Rose was already in mid-conversation with the Doctor. "That was a real spaceship. So it's all a pack of lies? What is it, then? Are they invading?"

"Funny way to invade," Mickey chuckled once Lily got back to the console. "Putting the world on red alert."

"Good point!" The Doctor said. "So, what're they up to?"

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The Doctor was now under the console, working on connecting some wires with his sonic. Mickey was observing him with a scrunched-up face- like the result of smelling something foul. "So, what're you doing down there?"

The Doctor started speaking with his sonic resting between his teeth, using his free hands to twist the wires. "Ricky-"

"Mickey." He swiftly corrected him.