Torchwood (Entry Two of The Diaries of a Teenage Time Lady)

The Christmas Invasion

And here we go! Good news, guys: Dad said I can use the family iPad this summer! Still may not be a lot, given what all we're doing this summer, but hey - freedom! :P

By the way, it just occurred to me I never really clarified how to say Anna's name. It's like Anna from Frozen: like you're saying "on," not "an.

Anyway, here's "The Christmas Invasion!"

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The Doctor stuck his head out of the TARDIS when they landed, and he grinned when he saw a stunned Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler standing and staring at him. "Here we are, then!" he declared. "London, Earth, the Solar System! We did it!"

"Did we?" Anna poked her head out, then saw a bunch of rubbish bins turned over. "Oh. Oops."

"Jackie, Mickey!" the Doctor beamed and ran over as Anna went back into the TARDIS. "Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there. I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush." He brightened. "Oh, I know!" He grinned. "Merry Christmas!"

Anna ran back outside when he heard a thump. "Oh," she giggled, running over as Jackie and Mickey tried to help her unconscious father.

"What happened?" Rose Tyler asked as she came out of the TARDIS as well, still eyeing the Doctor in slight disbelief. "Is he all right?"

"I don't know," Mickey shook his head. "He just keeled over. But who is he? Where's the Doctor?"

"This is him," Anna answered. "Right in front of you. That's my daddy."

"What do you mean, that's the Doctor?" Jackie's eyes widened. "Doctor who?"

***

Anna was sitting on the bed right next to her father, keeping one of his hands in hers. Rose sat on the other end, holding the Doctor's other hand. While the Doctor had been trying to fly them towards Christmas Eve, Anna had tried to explain what regeneration was. Rose was slowly getting her head around it, but it was still so surprising. She was just glad Anna was still on her first regeneration. "Here we go," Jackie said as she walked in, carrying a stethoscope. "Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to a hospital."

"We can't," Rose shook her he. "They'd lock him up. They'd dissect him."

"He always said one bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race," Anna nodded. When Jackie tried to make a comment, she held up her finger. "Shush."

Jackie tried to say something else, but she found she couldn't. Rose couldn't help but smirk as she put the stethoscope in her ears and listened for the Doctor's hearts. She smiled reassuringly at Anna when she was done. "Both working," she said.

"What do you mean, both?" Jackie asked.

"We've got two hearts," Anna said promptly.

Jackie blinked. "Oh, don't be stupid."

"Mum!" Rose spat, swatting her in the arm as Anna blinked. "I think she knows her own body, thank you!"

"Anything else they've got two of?" Jackie asked.

"Hands," Anna held them up. "Legs, arms, feet, eyes, ears - "

"Come on," Rose gestured to Anna. "Let's see what we've got."

"How can he go changing his face?" Jackie asked as they returned to the kitchen. "Is that a different face, or is he a different person?"

"Just a different face," Anna answered. "Still the same person."