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Alice was scowling the entire time whilst Judoon had scanned her over with the blue light. She tried her best not to smack their hooves away. It made her wonder how on Earth they held that scanner. But it was now she was finally let go, forcefully taking her hand and putting a cross on the back of it.

"Confirmed: human," the Judoon announced to their fellow Judoon.

"You'd know that if I told you," Alice muttered bitterly.

"Traces of facial contact with a non-human."

"Didn't need to be reminded about it, thanks," she cringed, still feeling the Doctor's lips on hers, "I'd rather not like think about it, thanks."

"Continue the search," they handed her a slip of paper, which Alice frowned at, "You will need this."

"What's this for?" she questioned, glancing up at them.

"Compensation."

"Since when do aliens have compensation?" Alice scoffed with disbelief, thinking it was ridiculous as the Judoon stormed off. She now noticed a black cross marked Martha's hand with a shrug. Finally, without more to lose, she grabbed Martha's hand, "Come on! Let's see what trouble the Doc has gotten into."

They followed Judoon towards the MRI room, trying to shove their way towards the front but failing. They now could faintly hear Miss Finnigan.

"Now, see what you've done. This poor man just died of fright."

A chill suddenly went through both the young women, knowing who she meant. At that moment, she felt the locket underneath her top warm unpleasantly against her skin and a panicked voice whispering inside her head, 'Don't just stand there save him!'

"No, no, he can't be dead! Let me through!" And without thinking, Alice shoved through the crowd of Judoon surrounding the Doctors still body lying on the ground, "Let me see him!"

But she and Martha, we're held back by the Judoon, "Stop. Case closed."

"But it was her," Martha insisted, gesturing towards Miss Finnigan, "But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him."

"The Judoon have no authority over human crime."

"But she's not human," Alice pleaded angrily with the Chief Judoon, feeling things that weren't entirely her own as the lockets heat began to get warmer against her skin.

"Oh, but I am," the woman calmly insisted, showing the mark upon her hand, "I was catalogued, see."

"But she's not!" Martha tried to protest.

"Yes, exactly!" Alice agreed with her friend, "She's assimil..." At that moment, a thought hit her, "Hang on a minute. You drank his blood! You drank the Doctor's blood!" she laughed sarcastically before her expression became cold and frightening as she stared daggers at the woman who only but narrowed her eyes without care, "Now I have to say that's a foolish thing to have done."

"And why would that be?" she questioned Alice.

"Well, I hate to break this to you..." Alice paused, dragging out the silence as much as she could for a dramatic effect, "But he isn't exactly human."

The narrowed gaze fell from Miss Finnigan's face to that of widened eyes, finally understanding what Alice meant. As the young woman knowingly smirked.

"Which means..." Alice went on to snatch the Judoon scanner and use it on the woman. Just a moment later, it beeps.

"Non-human," the Judoon Chief declared.

"Yes! Just the point I was trying to make," Alice grinned triumphantly.

"Confirm analysis."

Even though she had been caught red-handed, to Alice's surprise, Miss Finnigan wasn't giving up the charade so quickly.

"Oh, but it's a mistake, surely. I'm human. I'm as human as anything."

Alice rolled her eyes as another Judoon gave the woman another scan, "Save it, you old bag. You've been caught red-handed. Because this man," she pointed to him, starting to get upset for no apparent reason as the locket warmed against her unpleasantly once again, "This idiot, sacrificed his life so he could get you arrested. So don't let his death be in vain."

"Confirmed: Plasmavore," the Chief announced, "I charge you with the crime of murdering the princess of Patrival Regency Nine."

"She deserved it!" the alien woman sneered, finally giving up her charade, "Those pink cheeks and those blond curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore."

"Do you confess?"

"Confess?" she snickered evilly, "I'm proud of it! Slab - stop them!" the woman dodged behind the glass portion of the MRI room.

Alice and Martha screeched in fear as the Slab fired at the Judoon, and they shot back, making the Slab disintegrate before their eyes.

"Verdict: guilty. Sentence: execution," the Judoon quickly turned to aim at the alien woman.

Suddenly, a red warning light came on, and both young women glanced up at the warning sign that read: MAGNETIC OVERLOAD.

"Enjoy your victory, Judoon," Finnigan hollered at them, "because you're going to burn with me. Burn in hell!" Judoon now aimed and fired the woman, screaming as she disintegrated into nothingness.

That voice entered Alice's head for the second time, 'Just save him, please!'

Alice dropped to her knees beside the Doctor, and Martha joined her.

"Case closed, " the Chief said.

"What did she mean, 'burn with me?'" Martha asked just as the alarms for the MRI machine started blaring.

"But the scanner shouldn't be doing that," Alice pointed at it; even though she was smart, Alice didn't know much about how the MRI machine worked, "She's done something."

The Judoon went to scan the machine and reported, "Scans detect lethal acceleration of mono magnetic pulse."

Both women shared a look of panic, and Alice screamed at them, "Well, do something! Stop it!"

"Our jurisdiction has ended," they announced, "Judoon will evacuate."

"You can't just leave it," Martha offered in disbelief, "What's it going to do?"

But they only ignored her as Chief Judoon spoke into his transceiver, "All units withdraw," they left, and Alice watched Martha chase them out the doors.

'Please! Please save him!' the voice speaks to her again.

Alice goes to shake him by the shoulders, trying to get a response from him, but it is no use. So then she does the next best thing she knows how and starts to perform CPR on him.

After a few seconds of trying, she glanced at his motionless face and whispered, "Come on, Doctor, just please wake up."

She went back to start CPR on him again, not having noticed Martha had entered the room dashing about hurriedly, probably over to the machine to try and sort it out. But Alice focused on the Doctor, and she wouldn't let him die, not if she could help it.

"Oh, God..." Alice glanced up briefly at Martha, giving the Doctor air, recalling his two hearts. So she goes back to do compressions on his chest. But breathing was becoming unbearable, and her lungs burned from the lack of oxygen.

"Ally..." Alice heard Martha call her weakly, "We're running out of air."

"I know!" the redhead coughed. She could feel her attempts to revive him starting to weaken her, "One...two...three...four...five."

She heard Martha gasp from behind her and drop to the floor unconscious. Her vision starts to blur momentarily, but she shakes it off. The Doctor began to cough from beside her as he returned to life.

Her eyes became a blur of colour as she coughed, "Doctor...the scanner. They...she did something," The last thing Alice remembers before passing out was the Doctor's blurry face hovering over hers as she uttered to him, "Donna's going to bloody kill you..."

And with that, her eyes rolled into the back of her head, darkness greeting her.

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Miraculously, the Doctor had somehow saved them all, and everyone in the hospital was safely back on solid ground. Alice was sitting in the back of an ambulance, waiting for her mother and gramps to come and fuss over her after being called, probably to insist she stay home for a few days. Her eyes now searched for the Doctor, but he was nowhere in sight. Which she probably expected of him anyway. To disappear after having saved the day. She glances over at her best friend in the ambulance nearby. Then, getting up, she went to approach her.

"Have you seen him anywhere?" Alice asked, sitting beside Martha, giving her a somewhat surprised look before shaking her head.

"No...how about you?"

"No," she answered with a shrug, "Wouldn't bother worrying about him anyway. He'll be alright. It's what he does, leaving and not wanting to explain anything. But maybe you'll see him again one..." Alice now trailed off, catching sight of the TARDIS and wondering when it had gotten there.

"What makes you say that?" Martha asked her with a frown, not noticing the blue police box Alice had been watching.

"Maybe there was a reason we ran into him this morning going to work," Alice shrugged again, "I never thought I'd see him ever again, yet looked what happened? We met again. It's like the universe is trying to tell us something. What do you think?"

But Martha doesn't get to answer, only to be interrupted by Martha's sister, whom Alice knew. Tish calls out as she comes running towards her, "Martha!" Getting up, Martha went to hug her before her sister started speaking at a hundred miles an hour, "Oh, God! I thought you were dead! What happened? It was weird because the police wouldn't say they didn't have a clue. And I tried phoning, but I couldn't get through. Mum's on her way, but she couldn't get through. They've closed off all the roads."

"Martha, if it's alright, I might skip coming to Leo's birthday party tonight, " Alice broke gently to her flatmate once Tish had stopped speaking, "I'd rather spend some time with my family after today."

"Yeah, of course, that's fine, Ally, do whatever you need to do," Martha nodded in understanding, "See you later, yeah," with that, they hugged before Martha left with her sister. The latter gave Alice a wave, which she returned.

Looking back toward the TARDIS, Alice sees the Doctor from the corner of her eye as he walks back, briefly waving at her with a smile. Alice nodded in return and waved back. Then, suddenly, she gets attacked with a load of blonde hair that belongs to her mother, wrapping her tightly in a hug.

"Alice, I drove down here as quickly as I could. Thank heavens, you're alright!" Sylvia cried.

As the young Noble hugged her mother back, she noticed that the TARDIS had disappeared along with the Doctor.

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Before Alice knew it, the evening had come as she was presently pacing about with her old bedroom mobile phone to her ear, talking to Donna. The latter had heard what happened and had to insist that she come home immediately to check on her little sister. But she had to convince her big sister to stay in Egypt.

"Donna, honestly, there's no need to come home," Alice insisted, continuing to walk about her room, "I'm okay. Just don't let this opportunity you've go to waste because of me. You need to do it for you."

"But Al..."

"No 'ifs' no 'buts'," the young Noble cuts her off, earning her an aggravated huff like she knew Donna would, "You're staying put. Also, whatever mum tries to tell you, don't let her convince you to come home. I know she hates travelling and keeps nagging at you to find a job, get married and have a couple of kids. But between you and me, Don, there's more to life. We've seen it for ourselves. And you deserve this trip, Don, you do. So if you don't do it for yourself, do it for me, please," there's a drawn-out silence on the other end of the line just when Donna breaks it with a sigh of defeat.

"Alright...I'll stay. Besides, you're probably right anyway."

Alice grinned smugly into the phone, "You know I'm always right about everything" Even though she couldn't see Donna's face, she was probably rolling her eyes about now.

"Oh, shut up, bookworm," she teased Alice affectionately.

"Oh, never, Don."

With that, Donna changed the subject, "So how did you return to Earth anyway?

Alice hesitated on this for a moment whether or not to tell her sister about the Doctor's reappearance in her life. So, to save her sister from the pain, she decided against telling her. Because she knew it wouldn't matter.

"I honestly haven't got a clue," Alice lied, "Can't remember much; it was just all bizarre."

"I bet it was. Alright, Ally, I'll talk to you soon, yeah. I've got an early start in the morning."

"Okay, well, have fun. I love you."

"I love you too, sis."

Just as she hung up the phone, an odd sound pierced through her ears. She was very familiar with the grinding and whooshing of the TARDIS. Alice quickly dashed towards her bedroom window at the front of the house. Standing there in all its blue glory was the TARDIS with the Doctor casually leaning against it, peering up at the young woman with a smile. Alice couldn't help but stare at him momentarily, confused about why he was there. But she'd only find that out if she asked him herself. Then, going to grab her long, thick pink cardigan, she slung it on quickly, pulled on her pink Converse and tied them up to go charging out of her room.

She was gently shutting the front door behind her. Alice wandered towards the Doctor, pretending he wasn't staring at her. She came to a stop before him. Arms came to fold across her chest.

"What are you doing here, Spaceman?" the young redhead asked with a raised eyebrow, "Not going to try and attack me with your lips again, are we?" she shivered slightly.

"No, of course not!" he blushed before awkwardly clearing his throat and tipping back and forth on his heels, "As I told you, it was just a genetic transfer. Nothing more."

"Well, I certainly hope not because that won't be happening again," she shivered, recalling the memory. Which the Time Lord took notice of, making him feel a little insulted by it.

"I wasn't that bad?"

"Oh, it was awful," Alice returned bluntly, "There was no need for you to use tongue either."

The Time Lord sputters and gets all flustered, "I-I never used any tongue!"

"I'm pretty certain that you did. It was disgusting," Alice could barely hold back her laughter about how red the Doctor was getting in the face. However, she found it amusing, "Right so," she started to speak, "What are you doing in my neck of the woods?"

His face went back to normal as he replied with an answer she thought she'd never heard, "Well, I was just wondering...maybe since you saved my life, you'd like to come travelling with me."

"Whatever happened to being on your own?" Alice asked curiously with a frown.

"I've just been thinking about what you said..."

She knowingly smirked, understanding what he was getting at, "That I was right," she finished.

"Well... you could say that," he nodded before sticking his hands in his trouser pockets with an anticipatory look, "So what'd say, Ally?"

What was she supposed to say? Of course, she wanted to go, but what about her sister? Was she willing to abandon her family, let alone her career, for the chance to travel the stars? Alice should discover what is out there before properly dedicating the rest of her life to medicine. Perhaps this chance to travel with the Doctor was the only chance she might get, so she might as well live while she can.

Because Donna would be gunning for her to go, as Alice gazed back at the Doctor, she knew that saying no wouldn't be an option.

So with a grin, she uttered, "I'd love to!" he returned her grin, "But there will be some conditions," the grin fell instantly off his face as she held up a finger, "Right, no trying to kiss me again or there will be another slap heading your way mister. Genetic transfer or not," she added, seeing he was about to protest, "Next thing, I'd like a permanent room if I'm going to be travelling with you. Not a one trip kind of deal and another thing, we'll pick up my flatmate Martha and ask her to come with us, 'cause I know she's nice, and I think she'll be good for you," Alice paused to look up at him.

After a few minutes of silence, the Time Lord spoke, "What's your final condition?"

"Lastly, I will not be a replacement for Rose," Alice bluntly put, noticing him tenses up at the mention of her name, "I'm not gonna compete with the ghost of somebody you lost," she took a deep breath and asked, "So have we got a deal?

He looked at her briefly and stiffly nodded, "Deal."

With everything sorted out, Alice grinned excitedly as she quickly grabbed his hand, "Come on, Spaceman, let's go!" she yanked him inside the TARDIS with some enthusiasm, both she and him laughing as the doors closed behind them.

Alice was ready to see the universe but wouldn't do it without her best friend. So, it was time to go and pick up Martha.

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Alice leant against the TARDIS doors, waiting for the Doctor to return her friend Martha. She was just excited at the thought of starting this adventure with the Doctor. It was going to be incredible. That's what she knew for sure. Judging from the first time she met him, it would be a proper epic one.

Even though she felt excited, some felt somewhat guilty for not telling her family where she was going. Still, they wouldn't understand it; only Donna would, but she hated being unable to tell her she wouldn't even be in the UK  soon. But when she eventually saw her family, she just prayed and hoped they'd forgive her for disappearing off the Earth's face.

After waiting for a few more moments, the Doctor comes around the corner without Martha in toe, and it concerned Alice, her best friend, might have said no, which she hoped not. Alice wanted to share this journey with her. She didn't like the idea of travelling alone with the Doctor. She didn't know why.

He comes to lean beside the redhead. Then, as she was about to ask him where Martha was, she walked around the corner of the alleyway where they stood.

"Martha!" A wide grin split across Alice's face.

"Ally!" the other woman voiced happily but simultaneously surprised to see her best friend here going to hug her briefly. Then, letting go, she glanced over at the Doctor with interest. It only made Alice frown with confusion but shake it off as nothing.

"I went to the moon today," Martha now points out as if she wanted to remind the Doctor about it. But of course, he didn't need to be told when it had only happened today.

"Hey, I was on the moon as well, remember," Alice pretended to take offence at not being included.

"Well, it's a bit more peaceful than down here," the Time Lord remarked. Alice couldn't help but nod in agreement with what they went through up there.

Martha also nodded and stayed silent momentarily before mentioning, "So..." she paused for a second. I know you're called the Doctor, but what sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that."

"Tell me something I already don't know," Alice responded with a small laugh as Martha looked over at her friend, "But that is quite a good question..." she now glanced in the Doctor's direction, "What type of alien are you exactly?"

"I'm a Time Lord."

At that moment, both women let out a collection of snorts, but Martha decided to comment with a roll of her eyes and fold her arms across her chest, "Right! Not pompous at all, then."

Alice added, "Wow, I knew that you were full of yourself already, but that's just going way too far!" she cheekily grinned at the Doctor to make sure he knew she was joking. He shakes his head at her.

"So I was just wondering," the Doctor cleared, "Since I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing, you might fancy a trip."

Alice internally shook her head. She was recalling her condition that this wouldn't be a one-off trip. Alice never implied anything about her best friend travelling with them permanently. A loophole she never saw coming! She loathed him right now.

"What, into space?" Martha asked as she furrowed her eyebrows together with confusion and uncertainty.

But Alice was the one who answered with a grin in the Time Lords' direction, "Well, kind of, yeah."

"I can't...I mean, we can't..." Martha looked at Alice with a frown as if she was still pondering why she was there. Was she still serious about being a doctor? "Ally, we've got exams to do. We've both got things to do. I've got to be in town first to pay our rent. I've got my family going mad..."

"If it helps, it can travel in time, too," the Time Lord cut in with a tiny grin.

Martha's mouth instantly dropped open, "Get out of here!" she glanced in Alice's direction, wondering if he was serious.

"Oh, he's deadly serious, by the way," Alice replied, knowing what her flatmate must have been thinking, "I've seen the creation of Earth, and it was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. It does travel in time, Martha, because I've seen it."

"Come on, Ally, now you're just pulling my leg, " Martha shook her head at her best friend.

"I'll prove it, " the Doctor insisted before stepping inside the TARDIS.

Once the doors closed, it started making those familiar TARDIS noises when it was about to dematerialise out of sight. Alice stepped back to stand beside Martha, gauging her best friend's reaction as it vanished.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Martha exclaimed.

"Not kidding!" the redhead smirked.

In total awe of it, Martha waved her hand about in the spot where the TARDIS had been. Now hearing it coming back, Alice tugged her flatmate away from its path as it finally re-materialised. The Doctor steps back out a few seconds later without his tie.

"You haven't got my tie by any chance, Ally?" he asked, looking to the young Noble.

"Yeah, I do, actually," Alice confirmed with a nod before fishing it out the pocket of her cardigan, having taken it out of the bag she had put it in earlier when the Doctor had given it to her this morning. Something told her that he'd need it back.

"Thanks," he takes it from her with a gracious smile before glancing in Martha's direction smugly, "See, told you!"

"But how...that was this morning on our way to work!" she frowned at him and then at Alice as the Doctor put his tie back on, "But - Did you... Oh, my God! You can travel in time! But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go to work?"

"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden," the Doctor explained, coming over all serious for a moment, which was soon replaced by a warming smile, "Except for cheap tricks."

"Which includes being an absolute show off at times," Alice muttered under her breath, knowing that he probably had heard her but had decided to try and ignore it.

"And that's your spaceship?" Martha asked, going to lay her hand upon the box, her fingertips grazing its surface.

The Doctor watched her, tilting his head slightly as the young woman touched the TARDIS, "It's called the TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimension in Space."

"Your spaceship's made of wood. There's little room. So we'd be a bit intimate."

Alice shared equally amused looks with the Doctor and chuckled lightly with a subtle smirk, "It's more that it looks than what it does on the outside, believe me."

The Doctor tried to stifle his laughter at the young woman's comment as he went to push the door open, "Take a look."

Martha took a tentative step inside as the Doctor and Alice shared another look and a smile before following Martha inside. Yet the young woman didn't stay inside for long, somewhat taken aback by the size of the TARDIS's insides.

"Oh, no, no," she shook her head and raced back into the alleyway as Alice couldn't help but find her best friend's reaction amusing. Then, knowing she may have done the same thing, "But it's just a box. But it's huge."

"See, there's plenty of room for all of us," Alice now allowed the amusement to show on her face as a smile as she leant in the doorway.

But Martha didn't respond, too distracted by the thought of how something so small could be so massive on the inside, "How does it do that? It's wood," she gave it a knock on the outside, "It's like a box with that room just rammed in," she comes walking back inside the TARDIS, eyes taking in the fantastic sight before her, "It's bigger on the inside."

Alice shook her head in disbelief as she saw the Doctor mouthing along to her best friend's words.

"Is it?" he asked, pretending to be astonished himself, "I hadn't noticed."

"I take it that's not the first time you've heard that?" Alice asked out of curiosity.

"You'd be amazed. Well, except perhaps for you. You told me it looked smaller on the outside," the Time Lord informed the young woman with a slight grin. But, of course, leave it to her to be different from everyone else, "Nobody has ever said that to me once," he shook his head, closing the doors behind them and throwing his coat over one of the coral beams before going towards the console. Clapping his hands together and smiling, "Right, shall we get going then?"

Alice couldn't help but grin with happiness as she bounded towards him, "So where are you taking us?" She enquired enthusiastically, "To the past? The future? A far off-planet? Where or when exactly?"

The Doctor couldn't help but notice how excited Alice was. He laughed and was about to answer her question when Martha interrupted.

"But is there a crew?" she asked, "Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?"

His expression becomes solemn, making the young redhead wonder if he is thinking about Rose again.

The Time Lord averted Martha's gaze at all costs as he wandered around the console, pressing various buttons, "Just me."

"All on your own?"

He still avoided her gaze as he answered,  "Well, sometimes, I have guests. I mean some friends travelling alongside. I had - there was recently a friend of mine. Rose, her name was Rose. And we were together. Anyway."

Even though he wasn't looking at both women, Alice could sense his eyes were probably becoming hazy at the thought of the woman he had been or was still in love with.

"Where is she now?" Martha asked.

He now meets Martha's eyes, "With her family. Happy. She's okay," to then quickly add, "Not that you're replacing her," he briefly glanced at Alice, clearly remembering the condition he had agreed to with her when she had decided to come travelling with him. She returned a knowing smirk at him and nodded. Even though it was meant for her benefit and she was her best friend, she didn't want Martha to think she was a replacement either.

"Never said I was," Martha simply points out.

"Just one trip to say 'thanks'; you get one trip, then back home," the Doctor returned, his tone more serious, "I'd rather be on my own."

The young black woman was somewhat disappointed for a moment, only to shake it off, "So I take it that applies to Ally as well? One trip for the pair of us is that it."

Alice gazed at him in disbelief. Was he repeating her words on this being more than one trip? Then it occurred to her that maybe the Doctor was saying those things to her friend since it wouldn't be fair if she continued to stay and Martha didn't. So that may be what it was.

But in doing so, the Doctor promptly changed the subject, grinning madly at both of them, "Close down the gravitic anomalies," he yanked down a lever, "Fire up the helmet regulator," he dashed to the other side of the console to pull on another lever, still grinning at both women as they see a twinkling in his eyes, "And finally - the hand brake. Ready?"

"No," Martha replied, but Alice noticed her eyes said something else entirely. She was just as raring to go as she was.

"Oh, I'm 100% ready!" Alice grinned back at him.

The Time Lord grinned all the more, "Off we go!" he pulled the handbrake, and the TARDIS violently shook around them, bumping into one another and the Doctor falling over.

Alice tightly grasped onto the console for her life, her knuckles almost white. At this rate, it was bumpy to wherever the Doctor was taking them.

"Blimey!" Martha hollered as she gripped the console, and the Doctor hobbled back onto his feet, working on the controls, "It's a bit bumpy!"

"I didn't notice!" Alice returned a little sarcastically, still holding on for dear life.

The Time Lord laughed at them both, going to open his hand to Martha, "Welcome aboard, Miss Jones."

She shakes hands with him, smiling widely, "It's my pleasure, Mr Smith!"

"Welcome aboard once again, Miss Noble," he now held out his hand to Alice with a grin.

She beamed back at him, taking his hand and firmly shaking it. Because the adventure had only begun, she couldn't wait to see where they ended!