Parallel: From Another World [1] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Idiot's Lantern - Two

"What's he doing," Tommy asked.

"Something clever" She replied. "Tommy go to the store and get another valve"

"Why?" He asked.

"Tommy do you trust the Doctor?" She asked, there was no reply. "Tommy do you?!" She raised her voice a little.

"Yes," He replied running out heading to the store for another valve. Rita paced around the room she knew he could do this but what if something happened? What if something changed from the 'episode' and now what if he fell? She ran a hand through her brown hair. Tommy soon arrived back and there was a spark where the valve was. Tommy handed Rita the replacement and she changed the valve as fast as she could. She breathed out a sigh and sunk into a chair next to her knowing that the Doctor had saved the Earth once more. 

 "What have I missed?" The Doctor asked casually leaning against the door. 

"Doctor!" Tommy and Rita turned, she ran up to him giving him a tight hug which he returned. 

"You okay?" She asked him pulling away from the tight squeeze.

"I'm always okay" He smiled.

"What happened?" Tommy asked.

"Sorted. Electrical creature, TV technology, clever alien life form." He winked at Rita who rolled her eyes at him giving a slight nudge with her elbow. "That's me by the way." He told Tommy. "I turned the receiver back into a transmitter and I trapped the Wire in here." He pressed a button and a tape popped out. 

"I just invented the home video thirty years early. Betamax. Oh, look. God save the Queen, eh?" He raised a brow at Rita. They exited the control room and walked along the road. 

"They all have their faces back," Rita told Tommy. 

"Gran will be back?" He asked.

"Yeah" She nodded. "And Rose" She looked up at the Doctor smiling, he returned it and they headed towards where all the people who didn't have their faces were kept.

Tommy's gran then turned around and noticed him standing there once they arrived. She held a hand to her mouth and pointed at him  "Oh, it's my grandson, Oh, son!" He ran up to her giving her a hug. 

Rita noticed Rose grinning at them both, she lightly tapped the Doctors arm and nodded her head in Rose's direction when he was looking at her slightly frowning a little not understanding what she wanted, but then he did and saw Rose clearly standing out of the crowd with her bright pink skirt. The two let out a chuckle running up to the blonde and crashing into her with a hug almost causing her to fall over. 

"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked Rose letting her go. She nodded in response giving out a small laugh. "Yeah, I'm fine, you two?" 

"We're good, the Doctor had a shocking time against the Wire" Rita laughed at her own pun, the Doctor rolled his eyes. "That hurt!" He said in protest. He linked his arms with both girls and they headed out of the Yard heading back towards where the street party was being held. 

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The three walked along the street smiling with the girls an arm still linked with the Doctor's "We could go down the Mall, join in with the crowds." Rose suggested Rita shook her head shrivelling up her nose at the thought of being in a huge crowd of people.

"Nah, that's just pomp and circumstance." The Doctor shook his head. "This is history right here." He let go of them and waved his arms about. 

"The domestic approach." Rose raised a brow.

"Exactly."

"And you said you hated domestics" Rita smirked a little.

"Will it, that thing, is it trapped for good on video?" Rose asked looking at the tape.

"Hope so. Just to be on the safe side though, I'll use my unrivalled knowledge of transtemporal extirpation methods to neutralise the residual electronic pattern."

"You what?" Rose looked very confused.

"What he means is that he's going to tape it over." She laughed. "Why can't you just say that?" The brunette shook her head at him.

"Doesn't make me sound clever otherwise" He winked.

The Doctor turned to Tommy. "Tell you what, Tommy, you can have the scooters. Little present. Best, er, keep them in the garage for a few years, though, eh?" He suggested, Tommy nodded then saw his dad leaving the house with his case.

"Good riddance," Tommy muttered then turned his head to see his mother and his gran hugging as Mister Connolly walked off down the street.

"Is that it, then, Tommy? New monarch, new age, new world. No room for a man like Eddie Connelly."

"That's right. He deserves it." Rita drew her brows together then looked over at Rose, they both looked at Tommy thinking exactly the same thing.

"Tommy, go after him." Rose told the boy.

"What for?" He asked frowning looking up at her.

"He's your dad." she said.

"And you only get one of those, well unless you happen to see another in a parallel universe but that most likely wouldn't happen." The boy looked at the brunette confused, the Doctor and Rose shook theirs heads giggling a little at her comment.

"He's an idiot." Tommy protested about following his father.

"Of course he is. Like Rose said, he's your dad." She smiled then convinced him to go. "But you're clever. Clever enough to save the world, so don't stop there. Go on." She gave him a nudge and he ran over to his father taking the suitcase out of his hand and carrying it for him, father and son side by side. The Doctor turned to the girls with two glasses of orange in his hand giving one of each of them before picking up his own. They had a toast and then drank the orange. "So what do we do now?" Rita asked placing the glass beside her and crossing her arms leaning against part of the table behind her.

"Same old life back to the TARDIS, right?" He looked between then.

Rose hummed a yes drinking her orange.

"Wouldn't have it any other way, although I would like to get out of this leather when we get back, bit sticky" She scrunched up her nose sticking out her tongue a little.

"Of course" The Doctor and Rose both laughed linking their arms again, The Doctor then held out his other for the brunette to take which she did, then they slowly walked back to the TARDIS.