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

Army of Ghosts

She held up her hand and leant over the TARDIS. "Hang on a minute, I know. Push that one. She pointed."

He gritted his teeth a little. "Close."

She pointed to another. "That one?"

"Now you've just killed us."

"How lovely" Rita chuckled and Rose laughed as well pointing to another button. "Er, that one?"

The Doctor beamed at her. "Yeah! Now, what've we got. Two minutes to go?" He ran out. "Rita I need you to help with this!"

"Coming!" She shouted running out.

"When I say so press this button" he pointed to a button on a small box.

"Got it that button there" she nodded.

"Anything you can tell me?" He asked.

She hummed in thought for a moment. "Oh they won't try and shoot you"

"Shoot me?" He asked. "Who?"

"Secrets you have to wait and see" she grinned as the Doctor used the hose like objects on the cones.

"What's the line doing?" The Doctor shouted over his shoulder to Rose in the TARDIS

"It's all right. It's holding!" She replied moving to the left a little to shout in the direction of the doors.

"You even look like him?" Jackie blurted out sounding a little upset.

"How do you mean?" Rose asked not looking up from the monitor and watching the Doctor and Rita watching the 'ghost' "I suppose I do, yeah." She nodded agreeing with her mother.

"You've changed so much." Jackie softly spoke.

Rose looked up a little annoyed at what her mother was talking about. "For the better."

"I suppose," Jackie muttered.

"Mum, I used to work in a shop." She said harsher than she intended it to sound.

"I've worked in shops. What's wrong with that?"

"No, I didn't mean that."

"I know what you meant. What happens when I'm gone?" Jackie asked her daughter.

Rose then looked at her mother over her shoulder. "Don't talk like that."

"No, but really." She continued asking again. "When I'm dead and buried, you won't have any reason to come back home. What happens then?"

"I don't know." Rose shrugged finding the topic a little unsettling she turned back to the monitor trying to ignore the last few moments.

"Do you think you'll ever settle down?"

"The Doctor never will, so I can't. I'll just keep on travelling." Rose replied.

"And what about Rita? Who even is she Rose you said a friend when I last saw you, but that was it. Who is she?" Jackie asked.

"She's a friend, a really good one as well, it's confusing and you wouldn't understand"

"At least try to explain." Jackie continued.

Rose blew out a sigh then explained to her mother. "Rita comes from a parallel world in the future, in her world this" she looked around the TARDIS. "This wasn't real and was a made up TV show that she used to watch, the Doctor and I found her on a Dalek ship." Jackie looked at her daughter horrified thinking Rita was some kind of Dalek after what Rose had told her about them the last time. "She's not a Dalek mum!" Rose loudly exclaimed. "And the Doctor promised to find out how she got on the ship."