Chapter 1

The buzz of people filled the air. People, well, aliens from thousands of different planets hustled through the street clutching bags of shopping. A creature with three arm orange splattered skin and one large bolus eye knocked into Rose's arm.

"watch it" she said to it half heartily, she was more interested in her surroundings. The Doctor had brought her to some sort of alien mall; Rose was intent on looking at everything.

"This place is just amazing!" She told the Doctor grinning "All whole planet for shopping. I should rent a place here!" She glanced at him feeling her smile falter, she could tell by the way his eyebrows were furrowed, just slightly, that something was annoying him, Rose sighed to herself

"Problem?" she asked him, he quickly switched his attention to her

"No. Just something strange in the air, some sort of radiation…." He trailed off

"You want to find it?" Rose asked

"No. Later. You're meant to be enjoying yourself!"

"If I'm with you I'm happy" she grinned linking her arm through his "Anyway I can tell that its gunna annoy you until we find it"

The Doctor smiled at her apologetically

"If you're sure" he asked, she nodded. He pulled the Sonic from his pocket, flicking through different settings until it gave out a rhythmic bleep.

"Thisa way" he said grinning running after the Sonic, Rose at his heels.

"Brilliant!" he exclaimed coming to halt "It's naturally occurring in the air, it shouldn't be, but it is! I'll absorb it all and we can go back into the market" he said grinning at Rose

"Absorb it?" Rose looked confused

"I'm a Timelord its part of my biology to be able to absorb radiation." He paused "Do you feel itchy?"

"No" Rose frowned at him "Should I?"

"Good. If you did it would mean your life expectancy would have been considerably shortened. Give me two seconds there's not much here"

"Ok" Rose said crossing her arms, the Doctor suddenly cried out in pain

"DOCTOR!" Rose yelled running forward

"Stay back!" he snapped "It's fine" The radiation content in the air just increased, I'm just trying to stabilise. It's strange like someone…" the Doctor's voice was lost in the sound of the impossibly fast wind, a bright light glowed in front of the Doctor, the last thing Rose saw was the Doctor's silhouette against the light. Then she blacked out.