The Boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne by Np_complete (G)

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Hullo I'm Kt and I'm your driver for the Whoniverse this month! How exciting. :) Lets get this show on the road with one of my new favourite Alt! Earth stories.


Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing:  None, Alt!Pete
Length: 973
Author on LJ: np_complete 


Why this must be read:

I personally love Alt!Pete. The way he welcomed Jackie and Rose into his life without a murmur. He's pretty awesome you've got to agree.

In this story we see what made this version of Pete different from the first one we met. What turned the Pete in Father's Day into the Pete we meet in Army of Ghosts?
In this first person fic we learn just where Pete went wrong (or right in this case) and how he became the people he was.

Excerpt:
In 1984 I was working for a consumer electronics shop. I liked it. I wore a suit every day -- I thought I was so flash! But the punters seemed to like it. I was good at it, sales.

But that was a bad year for the markets, economy was down, whatever Thatcher was saying, and we had a bad Christmas season. That’s death for a retailer, a bad Christmas season. Plus, my manager had a nephew who was just leaving school.

In those days if you were unemployed for more than six months, and you were a bloke under twenty-nine without other claims on you, you were conscripted into the Terry Army. It was Year Five of the Third General Emergency, we were still until curfew, and they still needed blokes with guns on every street corner.

So my boss’s nephew got my job, I got the boot, and six months later I joined the Terry Army.

The Boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne by Np_complete