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Rose sat on a bench beside a busy street corner amidst the hustle and bustle of crowds going past and traffic whizzing along in the street and was struck by how the people around her were simply going about their normal lives, while everything in her life had just been turned on its head. As she sat there on this seemingly average day, Rose's mind replayed how she and the Doctor had ended up at this point.
It began as just another ordinary day. Well, ordinary as far as things go for her and the Doctor, anyway. Just another alien threatening the safety of Earth – London, specifically. Why is it always London, Rose thought to herself wryly. In other words, just the usual. It was nothing the Doctor couldn't handle with her aptly alongside him. The hostile alien (the name of which Rose still couldn't get her tongue around the pronunciation of, so she'd given up trying) had thankfully been acting alone and was skillfully outwitted by the Doctor, faced down with those three mighty words: It Is Defended.
As always, the Doctor had given a choice: leave this planet in peace or face the consequences. The creature, now cowering in fear, had wisely chosen the former; but apparently didn't trust that the Oncoming Storm would not hunt it down after it left, so it made sure to put a safe distance between them. Just before departing, it suddenly fired a concealed weapon at the Doctor and Rose, hitting them with a temporal displacement wave.
That was the moment everything changed. The blinding light struck them both and sent them hurtling to the ground.
Slowly recovering from the unexpected blast, Rose opened her bleary eyes as she raised her head from the ground and saw the Doctor coming to kneel beside her.
"Are you alright?" he asked as he offered Rose his hand and she sat up, rubbing her palm to her forehead trying to clear away the feeling of disorientation.
"Yeah, I think so," she rasped, as the Doctor gave her a quick scan with the sonic just to be certain.
She blinked several times and looked around at the same alleyway they had been standing in just moments ago, only now the creature was gone. With her hand still in his, she stood. Rose released the Doctor's hand and brushed the dirt from her jeans. "What was that?" she questioned, still feeling a bit dazed.
"Temporal blaster," the Doctor replied dismally. "I should have seen it coming," he shook his head and berated himself.
Rose was about to question further when she noticed the alley where they stood was now noticeably missing something rather important that had been there just moments before.
"The TARDIS is…is gone," she said, concern beginning to bubble to the surface. Rose turned her head left and right looking for the blue box that was no longer there. "What did it do to the TARDIS?"
The Doctor swallowed hard, his eyes troubled. "The TARDIS is still right where we left it, but we're no longer in the same place…or rather, the same time," he explained.
Rose shook her head slowly, hoping this didn't mean what she feared. "What'd you mean?"
The Doctor took a deep breath and released it with a heavy sigh. "The temporal displacement wave locked onto us and carried us backwards in time."
Rose's eyes darted around the alley, then she took a few quick steps to the end and peered out at the adjoining sidewalk with people milling by. She turned and walked back over to the Doctor. "But…everything still looks the same – except for the TARDIS not being here. So we couldn't have gone too far, yeah?"
The Doctor closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, his Time Lord senses making rapid calculations. He slowly opened them again and focused back on her. "About four months, I'd say."
