A Greater Compliment

Author’s Note: This story is not now and never was intended as a slam on Rose.  I’d actually meant for Rose – and Jackie and Mickey – to have a larger role than the cameo I wound up with, but discovered that if I was going to take the Doctor and the TARDIS away from her, I couldn’t rub it in by keeping her on the periphery of the action. 🙁 What I wanted to explore was simply how Charley would’ve done things differently. I also wanted to see how the Doctor would have reacted differently to having along someone with whom he already shared a complicated and not always pleasant history, and what the consequences of those changes would be. That said, if there are Rose fans out there who don’t want to read it without her, I won’t hold it against them. I have a hard time reading stories that write Martha out of season three, too. :-\

Acknowledgments: Thanks to my fantastic beta readers, hanelissar  and biichan, my cheerleader always, debc, and my wonderfully enthusiastic artist, caersmane. I couldn’t have done it without you! 🙂

Disclaimer: All dialogue from Doctor Who as well as the characters of the Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane, Harriet Jones and others are property of the BBC. Charley belongs to Big Finish Productions. Transcripts of “Rose,” “The Unquiet Dead,” “Aliens of London” and “World War Three” were found here: http://who-transcripts.atspace.com/

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine