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Watching Doctor Who 1: introducing the Companions

Summary:

The Doctors and there companions Nine till Thirteen all find themselves in a big room were they watch Doctor Who. So they can all get to know each other better, they watch the episodes where they meet the Doctor.

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Chapter 1: Everyone Meets

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There was a bright light in a dark room. From the light, many people had appeared out of it, all passed out. One by one, they started to wake up. 

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When the Ninth Doctor woke up, he had believed that Rose had died. He believed that she had just disintegrated at the Game station. When he woke up and looked around he saw lots of people also waking up. He did not recognize anyone but then he saw Rose. Rose was alive. “Rose!” he called. She turned to him and looked confused. 

 

“There are 2 of you?” Rose asked. 

 

“What do you mean Rose?” the Doctor asked, looking around for another him but saw none that he recognized. 

 

“I've been traveling with another regeneration of you, the one over there.” she pointed to Ten. “But now both of you are here at the same time. Is that possible?” she asked looking at him. 

 

“It can be. Though he is apparently my future I won't be able to remember this meeting I’m afraid. The time lines will not allow it.” he told her, though she seemed a little bit put out by it. She then smiled at him. 

 

“I never thought I would see this face again. I really like the new one but that doesn’t mean I can’t miss this one a bit.” she told him. He smiled at that, glad that she is not turned off by him regenerating but also glad that he is somewhat missed. 

 

“We should probably look around to see where we are and who everyone else is. Do you know anyone here?” the Doctor asked Rose. 

 

“Only the two yous, Mickey and Jack. but the other you seems to know two of the girls with him” Rose answered. 

 

“Ok then, let's talk to people” 

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When the Tenth Doctor woke up, he was in a small crowd of people who were also getting up. They were mainly in groups. He recognized the people closest to him. There was Donna, Martha, Captain Jack Harkness. 

 

There was also…  Mickey and Rose? How is Rose here? How is Mickey here with her? They are in a parallel universe, there is now way they were here, unless this is them before that? 

 

He also saw his past self who was staring at Rose and coming to her. He decided his past self can take care of Rose for now and he checked on the others. 

 

“Donna, Martha, Jack, Mickey, are you all ok?” he asked. 

 

“Bad headache” Donna replied

 

“Yeah but nothing else” Martha replied

 

“Bit of a headache but otherwise fine” Jack replied

 

“I’m ok” Mickey replied

 

“Good. Good” the Doctor replied. They were all standing up now and all looking around at the other people. He then thought that he saw someone that looks like River. Maybe she or someone else has some answers. “Look, there are a bunch of people over there so why don't we go over and say hello? See if they know anything”

 

They all agreed so they all got up and wandered over to the moving people. 

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When the eleventh Doctor woke up, he saw he was in a crowded room with the Ponds next to him. He immediately went to check on them. “Ponds! Ponds! Are you two ok?” 

 

“Fine,” Rory replied. As he was sitting up. 

 

“All good,” Amy replied. 

 

“Good. good.”   He hugged them both with one person in each arm. 

 

“Doctor. Where are we?” Amy asked, looking around.  

 

“I don’t know yet. Still looking around” the Doctor said, getting up.

 

“Doctor. Who is everyone else?” Rory asked, looking at the groups of people and not recognizing anyone. 

 

That is when Eleven saw Tens group and stopped and looked. He loves his Ponds more than anything but he still misses the other people he had on his travels like Donna, Martha, Jack, Mickey and Rose. They were a fun group. He was a bit confused why they were here though and how his past selves were here. He then went back to the Ponds to explain. “Now don’t panic, but two of my past selves are here” 

 

“What?” both Amy and Rory asked. 

 

“Two of those men are me from different regenerations and other people in that group are people I was friends with” 

 

“Two of those men were you?” Amy asked, pointing to the group. 

 

“And some of the others were my friends. I doubt they would recognize me now.” 

 

“Which ones are you?” Rory asked

 

“The one with the good hair and sandshoes is my Tenth body and the one with the leather jacket is my Ninth form” the Doctor explained pointing to each in turn 

 

“Your Tenth form's clothes look like the ones I first saw you in but you were more raggedy” Amy observed. 

 

“That's because I just regenerated before the TARDIS crashed into your garden shed.” the Doctor explained 

 

“Hold on, I see River in that group over there” Rory said pointing at a group the Doctor didn’t recognize. Both the Doctor and Amy snapped their heads around to see River in another group. 

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When Twelve woke up, he groaned and saw many people around. He saw that Bill, Nardole and Missy were next to him, with… Clara too. How is Clara here? How can he even remember her? The last he remembered before being brought here was one of his tutoring sessions with Bill, after the monks and the pyramids. Clara was long gone. Also why is Missy out of the vault?

 

Nardole got up to him already feeling fine and doing his job to always look after him. “Sir, are you feeling ok?” 

 

“Yes, yes I’m fine. Where are we? And what about Missy, Bill and Clara?” 

 

“They seem to be coming around” Nardole, said pointing to them, but then went right over to Missy so as to not let her out of his sight.

 

“I’m ok, apart from what seems like a light hangover headache, but it is starting to leave” Bill replied, holding her head in one hand as she was standing up. 

 

“Never better,” Clara said breathlessly. She too was just up on her feet. 

 

“Not a problem with me” Missy answered, already swinging her umbrella. She was looking around and apparently spotted something that made her freeze. “Doctor,” she said. 

 

The Doctor looked around to see that she had spotted his Tenth self and the Doctor saw his old companions. But he also saw his Ninth self and his Eleventh self. He and Missy shared a look. This would not be good. 

 

“Hey look over there. It's your Misses, Sir” Nardole said, pointing to the other side to where he and Missy were looking and there in fact was River Song. His clever, mischievous, flirtations, beautiful, late wife. He thought he would never see her again, and here she is. Popping up out of nowhere like usual, and how he liked it.

 

But there were also the only 4 people he did not know in this room with a lot of people he knew. Of all the places, why was that the place River was as all the people looked to be divided by his faces. He would have suspected her to either be here with him because of the 24 years and Nardole being her good friend or with chin and her parents the Ponds. Why with that group? If that was his future why was River there when their time was done? Guess there was one way to find out. 

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When Thirteen woke up, she felt like she got a blast from the past. She immediately went to River before she did anything. “River, are you ok?” she asked when she got to River. 

 

River sat up and looked at the Doctor. “Yea, I’m fine” 

 

“Good, with you being here, the TARDIS must not be far away, depending on how big this planet or even ship is. We can worry about that later. For now let's check on the others” the Doctor said as River got up. They went over to the Gang who were groaning slightly. “Are you guys ok?” 

 

“Bit of a headache Doc” Graham  said, holding his head.

“Yea, same thing here but other than that, I’m ok” Ryan said, also holding his head. 

 

“What Ryan said,” Yaz said, looking around. 

 

“Do you know where we are?” Graham asked.

 

“I don’t know where we are but I know everyone here. They just won't recognize me as they all knew me when I was a man” the Doctor said, looking around. 

 

“What?” the Gang asked. 

 

“Also there are other 'hers' here from when she was a man. There are pretty much 5 different Doctors here including this one” River explained. 

 

“Ok, that is both weird and exciting if we get to talk to them.” Ryan said. 

 

“I believe we will, as well as friends she had back then as I am assuming you know everyone here Sweetie?” River asked, looking at the Doctor. 

 

“You would be assuming right because from what I can see, I can name everyone in this room.  I would however be worried about 1 person” the Doctor said. She had seen Missy. 

 

“I can only recognize a handful of people who are not you, Sweetie, like Donna from the Library, my parents, Clara from Trenzalore and Nardole. I also recognize Jack from some of our weddings” River said, looking for people she knew. 

 

“Thanks for Nardole, by the way” the Doctor said, not knowing if she was being sarcastic or not. Nardole may have annoyed her but he was not that bad. 

 

“You're welcome Sweetie. Also I think that your past selves recognize me as they are staring and look like they are coming here.” River pointed out. She was right of course because they saw the Eleventh and Twelfth’s Doctors with their companions coming towards them. Nine, Ten and his companions were coming as well but probably just because there were people here to meet. 

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(All together) 

 

All the groups then came together to form one big group where Thirteenths group was. 

 

“Hello Sweeties,” River said to all the Doctors, scaring Ten as he had been to the Library before coming here, and confusing Nine who had never met this woman. 

 

Recognizing her, Bill, Donna and Clara spoke at the same time: 

“You're the woman that is in the photo on the Doctors desk!” Bill chimed. 

“You're that woman in the Library that knew the Doctor! We were just there!” Donna exclaimed. 

“Hi River. Good to see you again” Clara said calmly. 

 

“Good to see you again too Clara, Glad you recognize me Donna and which one kept a photo of me on what desk?” River said, trying to include each girl in her reply. 

 

“The scottish one with the eyebrows. He was a University Professor which is why he had a desk” Thirteen said answering Rivers' question. 

 

“Oh ok” River answered, as if her question and answer was perfectly normal and not confusing all the companions. 

 

“I’m guessing no one here knows where we are?” Thirteen said, deciding to take initiative as she knows everyone. 

 

Everyone shook their heads no. 

 

“Well then, I believe we should all go around and introduce ourselves as we all travel in the TARDIS and there are at least 5 different regenerations of the Doctor. I am one of them, the oldest here actually, and we might be here for a while. Are we all in agreement to this?” 

 

The companies nodded happily and the Doctors and Missy nodded gravely not liking their future version being in charge but not able to argue about it. Missy was about to try when Thirteen beat her to words. 

 

“Ok. lets start with the youngest me and who travels with him then work our way up. So leather Jacket, you are up.” 

 

“Ok, I am the ninth regeneration of the Doctor. I am traveling with Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness.”  When Nine was saying this, Martha and Donna were sharing a look. They had both heard the Doctor talking about Rose and now they were wondering if they were going to meet her. 

 

Jack came forward smiling. “Hello, I’m Captain Jack Harkness I have traveled with number 9 but I just saw this one at the end of the universe” pointing to Ten. He winked at Martha and she smiled back at him showing she understood. 

 

Rose came forward too. “And I’m Rose Tyler” though she was more shy then Jack had been. 

 

Martha and Donna were gaping at Rose. “O my god” Martha muttered. 

 

“That's Rose Tyler” Donna muttered back. Donna and Martha were sharing a knowing look that said they were going to take the opportunity to talk to her later, preferably alone. They both nodded confirming this.

 

“I traveled with… the Ninth regeneration of the Doctor and now I travel with… I’m assuming I call you the Tenth Regeneration” 

 

“Yes” 

 

“To make it easier for everyone else, that's Nine, that's Ten, that's Eleven that's Twelve and this is Thirteen for future reference. Back to Rose” River explained. Everyone stared at her for a moment. 

 

“... ok, well at the moment I’m traveling with the tenth Doctor. We just saw the 2012 Olympic Games.” she smiled at Ten and he smiled back. He remembered that day with fondness even though it was so close to the day he lost her. 

 

“I believe we are next. I’m the Tenth Doctor.” he said to start with his companions. He gestured to them to introduce themselves. 

 

“I’m Mickey Smith. I knew Nine but didn’t start traveling until Ten…” 

 

“You started traveling.” He didn’t mind it as much as Rose thought he did, he did ask after all, but Mickey refused. Maybe Mickey changed his mind. 

 

“Yes I did Boss” Mickey answered. “You let me.” Nine seemed to have accepted this as he didn’t reply. It was then brought to the next person. 

 

“I am Doctor Martha Jones” 

 

“An actual Doctor?” Amy asked, looking very happy about this. Martha smiled and nodded. 

 

“Unlike him, I actually passed my exams” Martha said. 

 

“Well good thing if any of us get hurt we have two medics” Amy said happily putting an arm around her husband. 

 

“I’m a nurse,” Rory explained, also smiling. Martha gave him a proud smile. 

 

“I used to travel with Ten, but I stopped to take care of my family. I work as a Doctor for Unit now” Martha explained. 

 

Nine was impressed that one of his future companions started working for Unit. He has many fond memories of Unit and thinks it’s fitting. “Good for you,” he tells her. Martha smiled. 

 

“I’m Donna Noble. Best temp in Chiswick. I am currently traveling with Ten too.” Donna said. “The last place we had been to was the biggest Library in the universe” she then looked meaningfully at River. River smiled sadly at her and nodded once. 

 

Eleven felt the mood dropping so he introduced himself. “Well I am the Eleventh Doctor. So far in this timeline I have the Ponds.” 

 

“Williams” Rory corrected him but it went unnoticed by Eleven. 

 

“Well anyway, I’m Amy Pond or Amy Williams depending on who you ask” 

 

“It’s Pond” Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen all said at the same time. Amy and Rory rolled their eyes. 

 

“I’m her husband, Rory Williams”

 

“Pond!” Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen said at the same time again. The companions all rolled their eyes at the Doctors antics. 

 

“Well, I’m Clara Oswald. If we are talking about careers I am a school teacher right now and I traveled with Eleven on and off before he regenerated and now I travel with Twelve on and off” 

 

“I’m the Twelve Doctor” 

 

“You’ve gone scottish. I approve” Amy said with a smile. Twelve smiles back at Amy. 

 

“And I’m Missy. Mr eyebrows prisoner” Missy said, swinging her umbrella around again. 

 

“Why have you kept her as a prisoner?” Yaz asked, a bit confused on this whole thing. 

 

“The Doctor has sworn an oath to Guard me for 1000 years. You see, I've been a very bad girl” Missy said in a sing-song voice. 

 

“But why him?” Clara asked. 

 

“Well, we are both Time Lords poppet, and I could not get guarded by another species, and Time Lords are hard to come by.” Missy explained, as if she was explaining something simple to preschool kids. Nine looked both surprised and hopeful that he wasn’t the last Time Lord. 

 

“But, you said your name was Missy” Martha was starting to feel sick remembering Harold Saxon. 

 

“Yes I did. Missy. It's short for Mistress. You see, Martha dear, I couldn’t keep calling myself the Master, now could I?” Missy revealed, smirking at everyone that had heard of her, even the  group that had yet to be introduced. 

 

Both Martha and Jack looked slightly furious at this. “It’s you!” Neither one of them were very happy about this. They both remember the year that never happened and were not happy at being in her company. 

 

“I remember you both very well. Hey Martha, how's the family?” Missy asked Martha, still smiling. Martha looked ready to punch her at this stage. 

 

“Missy, instead of taunting Martha and Jack, you are at least supposed to say sorry to them” Twelve scolded, surprising both Jack and Martha. They were confused by why the Doctor was doing this. 

 

“Oh, really?” Twelve nodded very obviously. Missy put her hands in between her hearts and said “I’m sorry” not really sounding like she was. 

 

“That's better,” Twelve said. 

 

Martha was very surprised that Missy had actually apologized even if she didn’t mean it and felt like an apology would not be near enough. Before she could ask, Nardole answered the question in her head. 

 

“The Doctor is taking this opportunity to try and turn her good. Anyway, I’m Nardole. The Twelve’s babysitter” 

 

“Who made you the Doctors babysitter?” Rose asked, she knew the Doctor was reckless but felt it was a bit rude to give him a babysitter and felt offended on the Doctors behalf. Donna and Amy were both just amused by this instead so much that they couldn't stop giggling into their hands. 

 

“I did, but I don’t remember saying ‘babysitter’” River told them. She looked quite amused at the situation and how Nardole acted upon her orders. 

 

“Hi ma'am, good to see you again” Nardole said waving at her smiling. River smiled back. Twelve rolled his eyes. 

 

“Good to see you again too Nardole. Now, I believe there is one more member in this team” she said, looking at Bill. 

 

“I’m Bill Potts. I just sell chips, but the Doctor became my private tutor.” Bill said. 

 

“You get tutored by the Doctor?” Martha asked, slightly impassioned. To be honest, they all were. 

 

“Why yes, it’s great” Bill answered with a smile to her face. 

 

“I believe that means we are onto your group now?” the Twelve asked. These are the only people he did not know and wanted to get to. 

 

“Yes, I am the Thirteenth regeneration of the doctor” 

 

“And you are looking good Doctor” Jack said flirtatiously, looking Thirteen up and down. 

 

“Thanks for the compliment Jack, but if you keep flirting with me you should know that I’m married and my wife is in the room.” Thirteen warned, giving him a meaningful look. This shocked all of ten's companions, Nine and Ten. 

 

“You're married!” Jack exclaimed. He looked quite happy for his friend as well as shocked that the Doctor had had a romantic relationship with anyone, ‘unless,,,’ he thought he was quite attached to Rose but he didn’t think their relationship was serious enough to get married. 

 

“Why yes, she is. And I remember you at a few of the weddings” River said. She then proceeded to give Jack a mock death glare for a moment, then proceeded to say, “though I do know what you mean, but I’m attracted to each regeneration I have seen.” she then winked at all the Doctors in the room. “I’m Professor River Song, Archaeologist.” Nine rolled his eyes. 

 

“And part time criminal,” Thirteen put in cheekily and, though she was still smiling and looking at River as if she was the most sparkling star that no one wanted to question why the Doctor married a criminal. Donna now understood why River acted the way she did at the Library. She too would be upset if her spouse didn’t recognize her.  

 

“When did the Doctor marry you” Rose asked, feeling a bit jealous but not trying to show it despite asking the question. 

 

“Now, we have had quite a handful of marriages, but our first wedding was with Eleven it that is your question.” River answered. Twelve and Thirteen were also pointing to Eleven as if to affirm it was. 

 

Rose felt a bit better that it was not Ten as she doesn’t know about the future Doctors. She still felt a bit heartbroken but she didn’t want to be a home wrecker. But she did wonder why the Doctor got married when he didn’t do domestic but decided not to voice this now. 

 

“Well anyway, these three travel with us.” Thirteen said, pointing at her Gang. 

 

“Well, I am Yasmin Karn, Yaz to my friends. I am a Police Officer” 

 

All the companions who didn’t know Yaz gasped. 

 

“What?” TEAM TARDIS asked. Wondering what Yaz said that could be offensive or so surprising. 

 

“You actually went to the police?” Donna said in mock shock. 

 

“I didn’t think you knew that was a thing” Mickey exclaimed, teasing the Doctors. 

 

“I am impressed,” Clara said with a teasing smile. 

 

Thirteen rolled her eyes. “Ok ok yeah, you had your fun now.” River and Yaz merely looked amused. 

 

“Well, anyway, I’m Ryan Synclar. In training to become a mechanic” Ryan said, he would have felt better if this happened after he finished his training. 

 

“I was in training when I met the Doctor too. I have faith you will pass” Martha said encouragingly. Ryan smiled at her. 

 

“Hey, I was a mechanic too.” Mickey told Ryan. Both boys smiled. 

 

“And I’m Graham O’Bryan. A retired bus driver and Ryan is my grandson” Graham told them. Ryan no longer cared about him telling people about this. 

 

“I thought you didn’t do family,” Rose asked, remembering what Nine said about her mum. 

 

“Well, that changed apparently. Regeneration + Time can do that to you” Thirteen said. “Well, now that everyone is introduced to each other, lets see why we are all here and how we can go back to our timelines.” 

 

Everyone looked around to see what was in this large room they were in. On one side was a large screen with some couches, blankets, pillows/cushions, and beanbags. There were also some small tables, one of them had a piece of paper on it. River wandered over to the paper and picked it up to read. 

 

“Dear Doctors and companions 

 

I see you have all been getting to know each other. I suggest you should all make yourself at home. You will be staying here for quite a long time so you should probably get comfy.

 

You do not need to worry too much as I do not mean to hurt you. I brought you here so you can watch a show of the Doctor and all of you. It’s called Doctor Who. 

 

So you can all know each other a little better, I will be first showing you episodes of how you all met the Doctor. Except for River as she would be too complicated choosing one because of how their timelines work, sorry, I will do something special for River later. Also the Episodes may or may not all be in the right order. 

 

The Bathroom will be in the side room if anyone needs it. Bedrooms will be up the back. Some people will have to share rooms  but I think that will be fine with the couple. (the only problem I can think of is which Doctor sleeps with River if they don’t want to share ;) ) or you could just sleep in the viewing room. There is food in the cupboards on the side opposite the bathrooms as well as appliances to cook with if you like when you get hungry. 

 

Now everyone. Get comfy and enjoy the show. 

 

Have fun :)

 

Magical_Moonlight_Princess” 



The Doctors all blushed at the line of them fighting for River’s bed. River just smirked at them. 

 

“Do you really think I would turn down having more than 1 of you?”  River asked. Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen had small smiles, while Nine and Ten looked slightly horrified. The companions all had blushes on their faces while Missy rolled her eyes and pretended to gag. River saw the looks on Nine and Ten and told them “hey, if you are not comfortable, no one is forcing you” that just made Nine and Ten blush even more, but they did look relieved. They smiled at River who smiled back. 

 

“So, we are just watching a show that we are all in about the Doctor?” Jack asked. 

 

“Seems so” River replied. 

 

“Well then, lets see what is in store. We might as well get comfy.” Jack said, already getting on one of the bean bags. Everyone just shrugged and followed him. 



Couches: 

| Amy, Rory, Eleven | 

| Donna, Martha, Rose, Mickey |

 

Comfy Chairs: 

|Graham| 

|Twelve|

|Missy|

|Nine|

 

Bean Bags: 

Clara, Yaz, Ryan, Ten, Jack

 

Blankets and pillows: 

Bill, Nardole, River, Thirteen, (Thirteen was cuddling next to River)

 

The screen lit up and everyone could hear a drumming noise. “Sounds like it is starting.” they could see a flying blue box and the words ‘DOCTOR WHO’ on the screen as the episode started. Then the title of the episode came up. 

 

ROSE

 

Notes:

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this work.

in this series, I will be doing different works to different Doctor Who story lines. this one will be of all the companions meetings with the Doctor, the next work will be River Song episodes and Ill see how far I'll go with this.

(Also, sorry if the characters introducing themselves to each other was too long, I just had too much fun writing it.)