Rose and Alec Hardy's first meeting

Rose Tyler arrives in Broadchurch in search of a new life with very little money after she loses her job in a department store.  She'd met a mysterious man who had somehow managed to blow up the store and he'd asked her to go with him in his time machine.  She said no and thought he was trying to pick her up.  She fell out with her boyfriend over it so she packed up and left.

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This is what could have happened when Rose Tyler turns down the offer to travel with The Doctor and goes to work for Alec Hardy in Broadchurch.

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Based loosely on 'Rose' and 'Father's Day' because if Rose had never met the 9th Doctor she wouldn't have gone back to meet her dad and held his hand when he died and because Alec Hardy didn't deserve to be on his for his pacemaker operation.

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Rose just had enough money for the bus fare to the Dorset coast and a week in a bed and breakfast establishment then she'd have to find some employment, any employment or she'd be walking back to the Powell Estate admitting her failure. She'd cleared out her savings and had managed to get the week's pay she was owed after her place of employment went up in smoke but only after her mother went to the Police asking how she got it and contacted the store's head office. She'd had to wait two weeks to get it.

All the way down on the coach, she'd been thinking back to the night the store was destroyed by fire, how she'd been attacked by shop window dummies, then attacked in her own home by a plastic arm and the fact that a strange man wearing a leather jacket and sporting a northern accent had somehow got her in the middle of a battle as more dummies came to life.  He'd taken her inside an old fashioned 1950's Police box and they'd somehow moved location and then he'd had the nerve to ask her if she wanted to go with him.  Had he been serious?

To make matters even worse, her boyfriend, well her on/off sometimes boyfriend had fallen out with her over it, accusing her of leaving him to be captured by these 'Living' dummies and left to die and she'd gone swanning off with this bloke, which she hadn't.  So she'd had enough of the accusations and her mother and gone off to seek a quiet life. Her coach fare would get her as far as a place called 'Broadchurch' because she'd researched that holiday accommodation was cheaper there than neighbouring seaside towns.

She did have one fallback though, a friend of her mother's, Ellie Miller, who was a Police Detective no less, had heard what had happened and said if she got really stuck, she would help her out. Rose used to call her 'Auntie Ellie' when she was younger, she used to come up to London to visit every Christmas before she'd had her son Tom but she and Rose's mother had kept in touch and being in the Police, she'd naturally known all about the invasion of the shop window dummies.

The coach dropped her off by the harbour and Rose checked her phone for the address of the B&B and set off with her two cases and a shoulder bag.  She saw the Police station and thought about seeing if Ellie was there but thought instead she'd call her later to let her know she'd arrived and she'd been invited to dinner, Ellie told her to get a taxi and she'd pay for it.  She sat by the sea wall wondering whether to ask for directions, it was already after four and she was tired from the boring journey.

She'd just got out her phone to ring the B&B to ask directions when a man with a beard stopped in front of her.  He saw her two cases and bag and she thought he must have assumed she was either lost or homeless.  She was one and would be the other if things didn't work out.  She looked up from her phone as he held out a Police ID card out to her but didn't notice his name.  She'd only thought that uniformed officers stopped and questioned people if they looked like they didn't belong there and she certainly thought at the moment she didn't.