All of a sudden, the creature dropped the man out of the Slitheen's grasp as electricity spiralled across her body. Willow glanced back at the man who was now laying silently on the ground, dead.

"I'm sorry." She whispered before the three women ran out of the room to escape the creature.

They were almost halfway until Harriet stopped. "No, wait. They're still in there. The emergency protocols. We need them."

As she ran back to the Cabinet Room, Rose and Willow followed her back until the alien ran at them from within, causing them to withdraw. They ran as fast as their feet could take them, closing door after door but nothing could stop it.

Once they ran past a lift, the doors opened right by the Slitheen; it was the Doctor. The creature stopped and roared at the Doctor for a second, giving the women more time to escape. "Hello!" He said, sharing a quick smile with the ladies before heading to another floor.

They entered another room with a settee and a large drinks cabinet. "Hide!" Rose shouted as they all ran to different corners of the room. Willow ran to the curtains, hiding herself there, while Rose hid behind the cabinet and Harriet hid behind a screen.

The door creaks open, the creature wandering inside. "Oh, such fun." Her voice sounded creaky like someone with a cold. "Little human children, where are you? Sweet little humey-kins, come to me. Let me kiss you better. Kiss you with my big, green lips."

When the Slitheen's back was turned, Willow watched Rose sneak over to the curtain where she was hiding. The young girls huddled together, knowing that they would be found eventually.

Suddenly the door creaked open once more. "My brothers."

Willow's eyes widened, realising there was now more than one in the same room. "Happy hunting?" She heard one say.

"It's wonderful. The more you prolong it, the more they stink."

"Sweat and fear." Another one said.

"I can smell an old girl. Stale bird and brittle bones." One of the male Slitheen said, edging closer to Harriet's position.

"And two ripe youngsters, all hormones and adrenalin. Fresh enough to bend before they snap." She heard her footsteps grow louder as she came closer to their hiding spot, Willow's breathing became heavy.

Then she pulled back the curtain, revealing them. Rose screamed as Willow closed her eyes, knowing that they were about to die.

"No!" Harriet shouted, exposing her position to the creatures. They turned around to glare at her. "Take me first! Take me!"

The door slammed open again, the Doctor ran in with a fire extinguisher. He blasted the creatures, leading them to escape from their hiding places to safety. Rose pulled the curtain over one of the creatures as the girls ran out.

"Who the hell are you?" The Doctor asked Harriet as they joined him.

"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." She answered.

"Nice to meet you."

"Likewise."

The CO2 from the extinguisher ran out which made them quickly sprint out of the room, back towards the Cabinet Room. There was still some passing conversation, but Willow could not hear it over the sound her heavy adrenaline.

They headed into the room, glimpsing back at the creatures. The Doctor grabbed a flask of alcohol and held an object up to the glass. "One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol. Whoof, we all go up. So back off." They did, surprisingly. "Right then. Question time. Who exactly are the Slitheen?" He questioned.

"They're aliens." Harriet obviously stated.

"Yes. I got that, thanks."

"Who are you, if not human?" One of the Slitheen asked.

"Who's not human?" Harriet spoke once more.

Rose glanced at her. "He's not human."

"He's not human?"

"Can I have a bit of hush?" The Doctor snapped.

"Sorry."

"So, what's the plan-"

"But he's got a Northern accent." Harriet asked, still wanting to know more about him.

"Lots of planets have a north." replied Rose.

She sighed as they weren't gaining any information from the Slitheen at this rate.

"I said hush." The Doctor looked back at the blubbery, yellow creatures. "Come on. You've got a spaceship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal. You've murdered your way to the top of government. What for, invasion?"

Another one spoke, insulting the Earth in the process. "Why would we invade this God-forsaken rock?"

"Oi!" Willow yelled.

"Then something's brought the Slitheen race here. What is it?" He queried.

The Slitheen stared in confusion. "The Slitheen race?"

"Slitheen is not our species. Slitheen is our surname." Another Slitheen mentioned. "Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day-Slitheen at your service."

"So, you're family."

"A family business." The Slitheen, Jocrassa, says again.

"Then you're out to make a profit. How can you do that on a God-forsaken rock?" The Doctor asked.

Willow rolled her eyes. "Can we stop calling it that?"

"Ah, excuse me?" One of the Slitheen questions. "Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability?"

"Is that what I said?" The Doctor says sarcastically.

"You're making it up."

The Doctor gave up the façade, putting the sonic screwdriver down. "Ah, well! Nice try. Harriet, have a drink. I think you're gonna need it." He passed Harriet the flask around his right shoulder.

"You pass it to the left first" She replied, noticeably holding the Emergency Protocols.

"Sorry." He passed it round to Willow.

"Thanks." She says sarcastically.

"Now we can end this hunt with a slaughter." The Slitheen chuckled, clenching their claws together.

Willow backed away slightly. "Err... Doctor?" They edged closer to the doorway.

"Don't you think we should run?" Rose stated.

The Doctor didn't move an inch, crossing his arms. "Fascinating history, Downing Street."

"Doctor, we're about to be murdered and you're giving us a history lesson?"

"Yes." He rolled his eyes and continued. "Two thousand years ago, this was marsh land. 1730, it was occupied by a Mister Chicken. He was a nice man. 1796, this was the Cabinet Room. If the Cabinet's in session and in danger, these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain."

He flicked open a panel beside the door, revealing a red button. "End of lesson." He pressed it and soon every window and door was closed by metal shutters, keeping the Slitheen out. "Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in"

"Ok. Good plan. One fault though." He glanced at Willow. "How do we get out?"

The Doctor clicked his tongue. "Ah."

***

The Doctor dragged the bodies of the Prime Minister and the secretary into a cupboard. "What was his name?"

"Who?" Harriet wondered.

"This one. The secretary or whatever he was called."

Harriet's face turned solemn. "I don't know. I talked to him. I brought him a cup of coffee. I never asked his name."

Willow saw him lean over the body, folding the man's hand. "Sorry." He ran out of the cupboard. "Right, what have we got? Any terminals, anything?"

"No. This place is antique." Rose said as she searched the cabinet drawers.

"What I don't get is, when they killed the Prime Minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?" asked Willow.

"He's too slim. They're big old beasts. They need to fit inside big humans." He said, moving around the table.

Rose wandered around the side. "But the Slitheen are about eight feet. How do they fit inside?"

"That's the device around their necks. Compression field. Literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas. It's a big exchange."

"Wish I had a compression field. I could fit a size smaller."

Harriet glanced up at Rose. "Excuse me, people are dead! This is not the time for making jokes."

"Sorry. You get used to this stuff when you're friends with him." She mentioned.

"Well, that's a strange friendship."

"Harriet Jones. I've heard that name before. Harriet Jones. You're not famous for anything, are you?" The Doctor asked.

"Oh, hardly."

"Rings a bell. Harriet Jones?"

"Lifelong backbencher I'm afraid, and a fat lot of use I'm being now." She said with glee. "The Protocols are redundant. They list the people who could help and they're all dead downstairs."

"Hasn't it got, like, defence codes and things? Couldn't we just launch a nuclear bomb at them?" Rose questioned.

"You're a very violent young woman." She stated, a little taken aback.

"I'm serious. We could."

"Well, there's nothing like that in here. Nuclear strikes do need a release code, yes, but it's kept secret by the United Nations." Her statement was correct.

"Say that again." The Doctor commanded.

"What, about the codes?" asked Harriet.

"Anything. All of it."

"Well, the British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a Special Resolution from the UN."

"Like that's ever stopped them." Rose joked.

"Exactly, given our past record. And I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the government's hands and given to the UN. Is it important?" She wondered, eyeing the Doctor.

"Everything's important."

"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted." She paused for a second. "Listen to me. I'm saying Slitheen as if it's normal."

"What do they want, though?" questioned Rose.

"Well, they're just one family, so it's not an invasion. They don't want Slitheen World They're out to make money. That means they want to use something. Something here on Earth. Some kind of asset."

Willow thought for a moment "Like what, gold? Oil? Water? Don't tell me they just came here for diamonds because there are planets made of that, I'm sure."

The Doctor grinned at her. "You're very good at this." He nods, complimenting Willow.

"Thank you." She smiled.

Rose's phone suddenly beeped. "Oh, that's me." She checked her phone.

"But we're sealed off. How did you get a signal?" Harriet asked.

"He zapped it. Super phone." She said, flashing it.

"Wow." She said, surprised. "He's an alien and he can update your phone!"

"And he's got a name!" The Doctor snapped.

"And he looks hot-" Willow quickly covered her mouth, awkwardly. She didn't mean to say that out loud.

She turned around to see Harriet and Rose glaring at her in shock. Willow sped towards the cupboard. "I'm just going to check in here for... something..."

"Anyway, we can phone for help. You must have contacts." She heard Harriet say as she bent down to check the bodies for anything useful that could help us. However, she stopped, realising she was searching dead bodies like it was normal.

"Dead downstairs, yeah."

"It's Mickey."

The moment she heard his name, Willow wandered out of the cupboard. "Oh, tell your stupid boyfriend we're busy."

"Yeah, he's not so stupid after all." She alleged, showing them a picture on her phone.

It was a Slitheen with the same electric bolts flying over it they had seen earlier. It must have affected their whole family. But if there was a Slitheen there; then Jackie and Mickey weren't exactly safe at home.

***

"No, no, no, no, no. Not just alien, but like, proper alien. All stinking, and wet, and disgusting. And more to the point, it wanted to kill us!" Mickey explained on the phone.

"I could've died!" Jackie shouted in the background.

"Is she all right, though?" Rose queried. "Don't put her on, just tell me."

Nevertheless, the Doctor snatched her phone away to talk to him. "Is that Ricky? Don't talk, just shut up and go to your computer." commanded the Doctor.

"It's Mickey, and why should I?" He inquired.

When he was inches away from Willow, he whispered. "Mickey the Idiot, I might just choke." She giggled for a moment, staring into his crystal blue eyes. They looked so old yet so young, it was peculiar. He breathed in deep and talked to Mickey once again "Before I finish this sentence, but, er... I need you."

Later, the Doctor put the phone down on the long table so everyone could hear what he had to say. On the other side, Mickey told. "It says password."

"Say again?" He asked.

"It's asking for the password."

"Password for what?" wondered Willow.

"UNIT." He said. "Buffalo. Two Fs, one L."

The conversation between Mickey and Jackie were slightly muffled, Willow only being able to hear the ending. "They just kept us in the dark."

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Mickey, you were born in the dark."

"Oh, leave him alone." Rose ordered, annoyed.

Rose has always loved him since they were children. Mickey always had a crush on her. She would protect him from bullies. Fourteen years later and he's still a coward. "Thank you. Password again."

"Just repeat it every time." The Doctor replied. "Big Ben - why did the Slitheen go and hit Big Ben?"

"You said to gather the experts, to kill them." said Harriet.

The Doctor thought for a second. "That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon. You don't need to crash land in the middle of London."

"The Slitheen are hiding, but then they put the entire planet on red alert." Rose mentioned. "What would they do that for?"

"Oh, listen to her!" Jackie shouted on the phone.

"At least we're trying." argued Rose.

"Well, I've got a question, if you don't mind." Here she goes, Jackie did this often. She is very protective of her girls. When Rose was with Jimmy; Jackie scared him half to death. But Jackie was always right about him though. "Since that man walked into our lives, I have been attacked in the streets. I have had creatures from the pits of hell in my own living room, and my daughter disappear off the face of the Earth." She yelled through the phone.

"I told you what happened." Rose spoke.

"I'm talking to him." She shouted back. "Cos I've seen this life of yours, Doctor. And maybe you get off on it, and maybe you think it's all clever and smart, but you tell me. Just answer me this. Are my daughter and niece safe?"

"I'm fine." responded Rose, wanting her to stop.

"Are they safe?" She repeated the question. The Doctor grew concerned knowing that we somewhat aren't. He couldn't answer. All he did was stare at us but mostly at Willow and Rose. "Will she always be safe? Can you promise me that?" Jackie interrogated, expecting his word. "Well, what's the answer?"

He said nothing, right before Mickey regained control of the phone. "We're in."

The Doctor blinks out of his daze and storms around the table, towards the phone. "Now then, on the left at the top, there's a tab, an icon. Little concentric circles. Click on that."

"What is it?" Mickey asked.

"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal. Now hush, let me work out what it's saying. It's some sort of message."

"What's it say?" Willow queried.

"Don't know. It's on a loop, keeps repeating." He paused after a buzzing was heard on the other end. "Hush!"

"That's not me. Go and see who that is." They heard Mickey say to Jackie.

Unexpectedly, a thought came to mind. Willow remembered the Slitheen's hunt from earlier, they could smell them. If that Slitheen was still around, it had Jackie's scent. Besides no one rings the doorbell in three in the morning. "Don't answer!"

They all glared at her, Mickey on the phone asking. "Why?"

"I think it's the Slitheen. They were able to track our hiding positions earlier using smell, I think yours might be doing the same." She theorised. "Just look through the peephole, Jackie, and we might have some time. "

"Why me?"

"Because it has to be someone and Mickey's busy." Willow justified.

"Fine!" She heard Jackie on the other end. Nearly a minute later, they heard her running back in terror and shouting at Mickey.

"They've found us!" Mickey yelled. "I don't think it knows we're here."

"I'm pretty sure it does now since you're shouting the place down." She mentioned.

"Mickey, I need that signal."

On the other side, a female scream was heard. "Never mind the signal, get out! Mum," She screams. "Get out!"

"We can't. It's by the front door." He says, fast-paced. There was a pause. "Oh, my God, it's unmasking. It's going to kill us."

"There's got to be some way of stopping them! You're supposed to be the expert, think of something!" Harriet shouted.

"I'm trying!" He argued.

On the other side, she heard Mickey tell Jackie. "I'll take it on, Jackie. You just run. Don't look back. Just run." In the background, there were splintering sounds. It was breaking down the door. They haven't got time to discover what the signal means.

"That's my mother." Rose glared at the Doctor.

He returned a glooming face, but all of a sudden his facial expressions changed in an instant. "Right, If we're going to find their weakness, we need to find out where they're from. Which planet. So, judging by their basic shape, that narrows it down to five thousand planets within travelling distance. What else do we know about them? Information!"

The group began to think for ideas, remembering the creatures' physiology. "They're green." Rose pointed out.

"Yep, narrows it down."

"Good sense of smell." Willow suggested.

"Narrows it down."

"They can smell adrenalin." She continued.

"The pig technology?" Harriet questioned.

"Narrows it down."

"The spaceship in the Thames, you said slipstream engine?" Rose recalled.

"Narrows it down."

"It's getting in!" screamed Mickey.

"They hunt like it's a ritual." said Rose.

"Narrows it down."

"Wait a minute. Did you notice? When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll pardon the word, it's something else." Harriet mentioned. "What is it? It's more like, er-"

Willow straightened up, understanding what she meant. "Bad breath!"

"That's it!" Harriet shouted in delight.

The Doctor glanced at them with glee. "Calcium decay! Now, that narrows it down!"

Rose smiled. "We're getting there, Mum!"

"Too late!" Mickey shouted.

Willow began to breathe faster, putting her hands across her mouth. She couldn't lose anyone else in her life, she didn't want to.

The Doctor marched around the table. "Calcium phosphate. Organic calcium. Living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium. What else? What else? Hyphenated surname. Yes! That narrows it down to one planet. Raxacoricofallapatorius!"

"Oh, yeah, great. We could write 'em a letter." says Mickey in a sarcastic manner.

"Get into the kitchen!" The Doctor ordered into the phone. "Calcium, weakened by the compression field. Acetic acid. Vinegar!"

"Just like Hannibal!" Harriet says.

"Just like Hannibal. Mickey, have you got any vinegar?" The Doctor asked.

"How should I know?"

"It's your kitchen." The Doctor said.

"Cupboard by the sink, middle shelf." Rose told them.

"Oh, give it here. What do you need?" They heard Jackie snatch the phone off of Mickey, leaving him to guard the kitchen door.

"Anything with vinegar!" shouted Willow.

"Gherkins. Yeah, pickled onions. Pickled eggs." She says, picking out anything with vinegar in them.

"And you kiss this man?" The Doctor queries Rose, knowing now that he had all this in his cupboard.

The group couldn't hear what happened next as the door was broken down, the Slitheen screeched on the other side. All of a sudden, they heard a splash. For a moment, there was silence, until a small pop could be heard on the other side. Jackie and Mickey survived, the Slitheen was dead.

"Hannibal?" Rose inquired.

"Hannibal crossed the Alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar." explained Harriet.

Willow breathed in and took a glass of wine off the table, toasting their victory. "Oh. Well, there you go then."

They all drink at the same time. In the corner of her eye, Willow could see the Doctor spit the wine back into his glass. She laughed as he grinned back at her.

***

They were still on the phone to Mickey trying to understand the signal. She heard Jackie wander back in with another coffee. "Mickey?" She said. "The TV."

There was a pause for a moment. "Listen to this."

"Our inspectors have searched the sky above our heads..." It was Jocrassa, in the skin of MP Green, on the television. "And they have found massive weapons of destruction. Capable of being deployed within forty five seconds." He continued.

"What?" The Doctor looked on in confusion.

"Our technicians can baffle the alien probes, but not for long." The Slitheen spun more lies like a spider's web. "We are facing extinction, unless we strike first. The United Kingdom stands directly beneath the belly of the mother ship. I beg of the United Nations, pass an emergency resolution. Give us the access codes. A nuclear strike at the heart of the beast is our only chance of survival. Because from this moment on it is my solemn duty to inform you planet Earth is at war."

Word War Three. That's their plan.

"He's making it up. There's no weapons up there, there's no threat. He just invented it." The Doctor rambled.

"Do you think they'll believe him?" Harriet asked.

"They did last time." said Rose.

"That's why the Slitheen went for spectacle. They want the whole world panicking, because you lot, you get scared, you lash out." He continued.

Willow shrugged, guessing their next move instantly. "They release the defence code and the Slitheen go nuclear."

Harriet wandered up to the Doctor. "But why?"

The Doctor went over to the panel and pressed the red button once more, opening the metal shutters and revealing three Slitheen, but not the same ones as before.

He faced them with bravery. "You get the codes, release the missiles, but not into space because there's nothing there. You attack every other country on Earth." The female Slitheen appeared back in her skin slipping through the others, striding towards him. "They retaliate, fight back. World War Three. Whole planet gets nuked."

"And we can sit through it safe in our spaceship waiting in the Thames. Not crashed, just parked. Only two minutes away." She smiled an evil grin.

"But you'll destroy the planet, this beautiful place. What for?" demanded Harriet.

"Profit." The Doctor answered. "That's what the signal is beaming into space. An advert."

"The sale of the century. We reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it piece by piece." She said in a sort of advertising way. "Radioactive chucks, capable of powering every cut-price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there, Doctor. People are buying cheap. This rock becomes raw fuel."

"At the cost of five billion lives." Willow continued.

"Bargain."

"I give you a choice. Leave this planet or I'll stop you." The Doctor said aggressively.

His tone made Willow like him more, he was much braver than other boys she has been with during her life. But she was with James, at least he's human. She would never try to cheat on him.

The Slitheen started roaring with laughter. The female Slitheen approached them. "What, you? Trapped in your box?"

"Yes. Me." He reached for the button and closed the shutters once more, the Slitheen snarling at the man and chuckling.

***

"All right, Doctor." Jackie spoke on the phone. "I'm not saying I trust you, but there must be something you can do."

"If we could ferment the port, we could make acetic acid." suggested Harriet.

Rose went back to the phone. "Mickey, any luck?"

"There's loads of emergency numbers. They're all on voicemail." He replied.

"Voicemail dooms us all!" Harriet sarcastically said.

Willow sighed. "If we could just get out of here-"

"There's a way out." The Doctor interrupted.

"What?"

"There's always been a way out." He mentioned.

"Then why don't we use it?" asked Rose.

He turned back to the phone, directing his sentence towards Jackie. "Because I can't guarantee your daughter, or your niece will be safe."

"Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare!" She demanded through the phone.

"That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies."

Rose's face saddened, realising what must be done to save the world. "Do it."

The Doctor glanced up at her. "You don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?"

"Yeah." She says.

"Doctor. Please. She's my daughter. She's just a kid." Jackie cried.

"Do you think I don't know that? Because this is my life, Jackie. It's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will." His eyes turned into a mix of worry and anger.

"Then what're you waiting for?" Willow says.

"I could save the world but lose you." He stated with a solemn expression.

"Except it's not your decision, Doctor. It's mine." Harriet stormed up, no longer wanting to be a backbencher.

"And who the hell are you?" Jackie yelled.

"Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." I don't know how many times she's said those six words. "The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people for the people. And on behalf of the people, I command you. Do it."

"How do we get out?" asked Willow.

"We don't. We stay here." He reached for the Emergency Protocols and commanded Mickey to hack into the Royal Navy. "Use the buffalo password. It overrides everything."

"We're in. Here it is. HMS Taurean, Trafalgar Class submarine, ten miles off the coast of Plymouth." He says.

"Right, we need to select a missile." He suggests.

"We can't go nuclear. We don't have the defence codes."

"We don't need it." He took the phone off the table. "All we need's an ordinary missile. What's the first category?"

"Sub Harpoon, UGM-A4A."

"That's the one. Select." He commanded. "You ready for this?"

"Yeah."

"Mickey the idiot, the world is in your hands." He paused, looking at the others solemnly. "Fire."

Willow stood there in shock, she didn't know that she was about to die today. "How solid are these?" Harriet queried.

"Not solid enough." The Doctor implied.

That's when it clicked.

"All right, now I'm making the decision. I'm not going to die. We're going to ride this one out." Willow headed over to the cupboard, Rose tagging along. "It's like what they say about earthquakes. You can survive them by standing under a doorframe. I took Geography GCSE and now, this cupboard's small so it's strong. Come and help me. Come on."

Harriet and Rose helped her remove items from the cupboard including the dead bodies. The Doctor continued to talk with Mickey over the phone as the women prepared themselves. As soon as they finished; they all huddled into the small space. Willow held hands with Rose and the Doctor, all sharing a hopeful grin.

"Here we go. Nice knowing you three." Harriet expressed her feelings one last time. "Hannibal!"

The room exploded as the missile hit and the room flung out of proportion, landing on the ground. After it was all over, Willow checked her surroundings ,seeing Rose, The Doctor and Harriet still alive and ok.

When they got back on their feet, they managed to open the door and step out into the bright, burning sun. "Made in Britain." Harriet joked.

A soldier ran up to greet them. "Oh, my God. Are you all right?"

Harriet pulled out her ID once again. "Harriet Jones. MP, Flydale North. I want you to contact UN immediately. Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over. They can step down. Go on, tell the news."

"Yes, ma'am." He left as soon as he could.

"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out." She gasped. "Oh, Lord. We haven't even got a Prime Minister."

"Maybe you should have a go." suggested the Doctor.

"Me? Huh. I'm only a back-bencher." She claimed.

"I'd vote for you." Rose said.

Willow smiled. "Me too."

"Now, don't be silly. Look, I'd better go and see if I can help. Hang on!" She wandered down the rubble towards the street.

They followed in her wake as she approached the paparazzi. "I thought I knew the name. Harriet Jones, future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms. The architect of Britain's Golden Age." He said.

All in one day: Willow visited Downing Street, discovered an alien plot, blew up 10 Downing Street and met the future prime minister.

***

They arrived at the flat shortly after. As soon as the girls opened the door, Jackie came running out and embraced them both in a hug. Willow could feel her heavy tears dampen her hair.

Afterwards, she decided to call James, wanting to speak with him. She could hear the dial tone for a few seconds until his voice was heard on the other end. "Hey."

"Hey, babe. You alright?" She wondered.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He paused. "Did something happen?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Try me!" He bet.

Willow laughed and simply said. "Aliens in Downing Street?"

He guffawed on the other end. "You're right! You win!"

She smiled but something felt different. It was strange because every time Willow would talk to James, she blushed and end up jumbling her words, but it was like that beautiful spark had faded.

"Anyway. I have to go. Love you." She heard a little smooch on the other end before he hung up.

She shook it off, sitting down by the television with Rose as she heard Harriet's voice on the screen, loud and clear. "Mankind stands tall, proud-"

"Harriet Jones. Who does she think she is?" She says with a hint of anger in her voice. "Look at her, taking all the credit. Should be you on there. My daughter and my niece saved the world!"

Willow laughed. "I think the Doctor helped a bit."

"All right, then. Him too." Jackie agreed. "You should be given knighthoods."

Rose looked at her. "That's not the way he does things. No fuss. He just moves on. He's not that bad if you gave him a chance."

"He's good in a crisis, I'll give him that." She says, sitting down on a seat.

"Oh, now the world has changed!" She joked."You're saying nice things about him."

"Well, I reckon I've got no choice. There's no getting rid of him since you're both infatuated." Jackie said, glaring at them.

"Oi, I'm not infatuated. She is!" Willow claimed.

But she turned back and laughed. "What does he eat?" She asked.

"How do you mean?" Rose said.

"I was going to do shepherd's pie. All of us. A proper sit-down, 'cos I'm ready to listen. I wanna learn about you and him and that life you lead." She had a point, Willow wanted to learn also. "Only, I don't know, he's an alien. For all I know, he eats grass and safety pins and things."

"He'll have shepherd pie," Rose answered. "You're going to cook for him?"

"What's wrong with that?" She queried.

Rose giggled. "He's finally met his match."

"You're not too old for a slap, you know." Jackie stood up from her seat and walked back into the kitchen "You can go and visit your Gran tomorrow. You'd better learn some French. I told her you were in France. I said you were au-pairing."

All of a sudden, Rose's phone started ringing. Willow glanced over her shoulder to see the word TARDIS and a picture of the blue box. It was the Doctor.

She answered it, straightening up in her chair. "Hello?" Willow couldn't hear what the Doctor was saying on the other side, only hearing mumbles. "You've got a phone?" She paused for a moment, listening in. " Er, my mother's cooking." The Doctor was asking Rose to go away with her again; she thought so. "She's cooking tea. For us." She argued. "She wants to get to know you. It's just tea." Her tone of voice grew more infuriated. "She's my mother"

Willow breathed in deep and sip on my glass of water. "That's not fair." She paused for a while and listened. Rose handed her cousin her phone. "He wants to talk to you." She said, leaving the room with a frown.

She blinked unsurely, wondering why he would want to talk to her. Willow put the phone up to her ear. "Hello?"

"Hey, I just wanted to thank you, Willow." The Doctor said.

"For what?"

"You really helped us out back there."

She smirked. "Thanks."

"And for that, I wanted to reward you." He stated.

"With what?"

He paused. "I wondered- Do you want to come with us?"

"What? Travel with you and Rose?" Surprisingly, she grinned so hard, the muscles in her mouth started to ache. "I'd love that. But where can we go in a blue box?"

"One, it's called the TARDIS. Two, it travels in time and space." Willow managed to stop herself from gasping, delighted by the prospect of travelling to different times and planets. "You can go anywhere. The whole universe at your fingertips or could stay home and eat your lovely fish 'n' chips."

Although, she glanced back at Jackie in the kitchen, thinking about how lonely she would be. "You don't have to. I know how much you've lost."

"I've always wanted to see the stars." She smiled, not wanting to waste her life in grief. Willow needed a new start, and this was it. "Yes."

She could almost hear him smile from the other side. "That's fantastic! See you later then."

As soon as he hung up, Willow ran into Rose's bedroom and grabbed her stuff as she grabbed a hold of hers.

"You're coming too?" She said, surprised.

"Yeah!" She enthusiastically nodded.

Rose ran over to hug her tightly. Happiness filled the both of them until they saw the door open to reveal Jackie, holding two mugs.

"I was wondering whether he drinks or not." She noticed the bags on the bed and looked back at the girls with sorrow. "Don't go, sweethearts. Please don't go."

They both embraced her in another hug as Rose whispered an apology. Life was never going to be the same again.

***

Rose and Willow headed out of the block of flats to see the Doctor talking with Mickey. She had a bag on her shoulder and a gym bag in her hand, ready for anything.

Jackie started rambling to them, trying to keep her and Willow at home. "I'll get a proper job. I'll work weekends. I'll pass my test, and if Jim comes round again, I'll say no. I really will."

"I'm not leaving because of you. I'm travelling, that's all, and then I'll come back." protested Rose.

"But it's not safe." Jackie objected.

Willow turned to her. "Jackie, if you saw it out there, you'd never stay home."

"Got enough stuff?" The Doctor asked the girls. Willow nodded and went into the TARDIS, putting her stuff by the console.

Outside, she heard Rose give the Doctor her bags. "Last time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment. Now I'm signing up. You're stuck with me!" She laughed. She exited the TARDIS, just to say their final goodbyes. "Come with us." Rose asked Mickey. "There's plenty of room."

"No chance. He's a liability, I'm not having him on board." The Doctor said without giving Mickey the chance to speak his mind.

"We'd be dead without him."

"My decision is final." He said, sternly.

Rose sighed, apologising for his actions. "Sorry." She gave him a little on peck on his lips.

"Good luck, yeah." He said, addressing both of them.

Willow smiled back. "Thanks Mickey. You know, you're not so bad."

"You still can't promise me. What if they get lost? What if something happens to you, Doctor, and they're both left all alone standing on some moon a million light years away. How long do I wait then?" She demanded.

Rose embraced her mother, persuading her that it was all going to be alright. "Mum, you're forgetting. It's a time machine. I could go travelling around suns and planets and all the way out to the edge of the universe, and by the time I get back, yeah, ten seconds would have passed. Just ten seconds. So, stop worrying. See you in ten seconds' time, yeah?"

After they all said farewell, the girls entered the TARDIS. Willow grinned, ready for everything. This was it, the moment her life would change forever. It was going to be fantastic.

***

I feel like this chapter was quite bad. It's not my best but hopefully it'll be better next time. There is going to be two interludes next which will see the Doctor and Willow getting to know each other and the Doctor discovering her dreams :)

What will happen when he finds out she's been dreaming of Gallifrey before it turned into a beautiful disaster (sorry! I'm way too descriptive with my writing).

Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter and enjoy the next... hopefully!

EDIT: After recently editing this chapter, it really was quite bad and I cringed at most of it. I didn't realise how stupid my writing was then. 

- Alice ❤