Title: The Naivety of Youth

Summary: He'd claimed the Daleks would not return to Earth; how wrong could he have been?

Rating: G

A/N: 1st and 10th Doctor.Technically it's not canon as it refers to the 1966 movie Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 A.D, which was a remake. TenxRose, set at the end of Doomsday.

"The Daleks will never dare to land here again." He'd claimed that the Daleks would not return to planet earth, that they knew they could be killed using its magnetism. His first incarnation had been so naïve. Suzie and the rebels had believed him, trusted him, but he'd been wrong; and Rose had paid the price.

Even after all he had experienced in his nine hundred years he had not thought that the Daleks had survived the time-war yet alone would return to Earth. His ninth regeneration had destroyed the Dalek Emperor and yet they still came back, crawling out of the cracks in the universe like vermin.

They came with their Genesis Arc and waged war on humanity once more. The older, wiser Doctor knew they would be relentless. He shouldn't have known what to do. Should have known that the Daleks would one day return to Earth and prepared against it. After all wasn't he it's defender? The oncoming storm; Rose's Doctor.

Staring at his reflection in a remaining window of Torchwood tower he scowled. He'd been wrong and because of it he was alone. Without Suzie or Sarah-Jane or K-9; Without his Rose.