
A/N: Rose and the Tenth Doctor search desperately for their daughter, Donna and Josz return to the TARDIS and take Dare to join the search, and the Ninth Doctor having just left Rose with Mickey and having not yet gone back to tell her "It also travels in time," arrives on the planet Danzibar.
Chapter Two: Unexpected Encounter
He had really thought she’d come with him. The girl had been so promising, such a fighter, had had so much spirit. He wasn’t used to people turning him down, could count on one hand how many people had turned down travelling with him across time and space. She’d saved his life, too and that was dead useful in a companion. But no, she’d turned him down. Turned him down for that cowering lump of useless humanity, decided to waste the rest of her life working in a shop and looking after that waste of space.
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