This story starts two hours after the events of Day of the Doctor. This story is not as fast paced as the last one and deals more with the Doctor and his feeling of being stranded on Earth. The Doctor's and Alex's relationship grows as the Doctor slowly feels more and more comfortable around the family.

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Stranded

The Doctor stood outside Buck's near the street looking at the sky. Rain clouds rolled in and in started to downpour across the city. The Doctor kept standing like he didn't even feel the rain hitting him. His mind wandered to the battle last night. The fight between the UNIT forces and the Ood against the Hoixes. The Doctor thought about Alex and how much power flowed through her body when she saved his life. He had never seen that much power in someone that wasn't possessed by the Bad Wolf. He couldn't think of how that power didn't have a lasting effect on her, but there were things he didn't even know. He liked that. He didn't want to know everything. He even told people that when he knows everything, he just may stop and do nothing for the rest of his life.

Just as soon as the downpour started, it stopped. The clouds rolled away and the moon shone down on the city once again, but the lights of the city drowned most of the moonlight out. He was ready to get back to the TARDIS and make sure she was alright. He had checked before they left and she was still filtering out smoke from earlier that day.

Alex walked onto the soaked sidewalk and stood next to the Doctor, "I never said, well I usually never say it at all, but anyway thank you."

"For what?" asked the Doctor.

"For showing up out of nowhere and saving the day," said Alex.

"You're the one who helped stop the attack," replied the Doctor.

"I know, but if you hadn't been in the sub station when that creature appeared, I would have lost my best friend, and you let me stay with you on the TARDIS when you went to the crater. If you had have taken me back, the city would have been eaten alive," Alex told the Doctor.

"If either one of us weren't there, that would have been a disaster," said the Doctor.

"Yeah well, that was it," said Alex heading back to the restaurant, leaving the Doctor to stare into space.

"I meant it you know," said the Doctor turning to Alex.

"What?" asked Alex.

"That I'm proud of you," answered the Doctor.

"Thank you," Alex replied sincerely, "Doctor, how old are you?"

"To old for you that's for sure," said the Doctor with a smile.

"Not like that," snapped Alex.

"2,277," said the Doctor.

"What?" asked Alex.

"I'm 2,277 years old," told the Doctor, "Why'd you ask?"

"You look young, but you know so much and your eyes," said Alex, "They are ancient."

"Yeah they are," said the Doctor quietly, "But I am young. I'm in my 14th incarnation and I'm only 2000 years old. I should be about 8000 years old by now, but I have a habit of getting into trouble."

"Pfft, I know what you mean," said Alex.

The rest of the Russo family left the restaurant with Harper. They saw Alex leaning against the wall and the Doctor standing there with hands in his pockets.

"Are we interrupting anything?" asked Jerry.

"No," the Doctor, "I'm just ready to get back and maybe get some sleep."

"That sounds good," said Jerry, "When did it rain?"

"A few minutes ago," said the Doctor, "Oh and I wouldn't trust the meteorologists for the next few days. They'll be wrong most of the time. The Rift caused an atmospheric disturbance that will take a while to fix, but don't worry it's nothing."

"You four go ahead," said Theresa, "We're going to go and get Max, we'll see you in a bit."
"Wait, before you go," said the Doctor taking two rings out of his pockets, "These are biodampers. They will make you invisible to anything that comes through the Rift, but humans will still see you. Be quick though, they have a short lifespan. The rings not the people."

"Thank you," said Theresa. They hailed a cab and got in.
The Doctor, Alex, Justin, and Harper started walking back to the Waverly Sub Station.

After a few minutes, Alex asked, "How is being 2,277 years old young and what do you mean your 14th incarnation? You've also said you had a fifth, tenth, and eleventh self and you told me that that was story for another time. I think that time is now."

"Yeah you're right," said the Doctor.

"You're over 2000 years old?" asked Harper.

"You don't look like your even out of your twenties," said Justin.

"My people don't age after the first incarnation. We just regenerate," explained the Doctor, "Regeneration is a way my people cheat death. It's a complete change of physical appearance and a change in personality. I've regenerated 13 times. Only my first regeneration was due to natural causes. All the others were because I was forced or mortally wounded."

"How many times can you 'regenerate'?" asked Justin.

"An infinite number of times," said the Doctor, "But the Time Lords set a law stating that a single Time Lord is allowed 12 regenerations or 13 lives."

"But you said that you've regenerated 13 time and you're in your 14th life. Why?" asked Justin.

"It's because I'm a rule breaker," said the Doctor.

"Gee so is someone else I know," said Justin looking over at Alex, but Alex knew why the Doctor had made it to his 14th life and it wasn't because he broke that rule.

"I was actually forced to regenerate when I was in my second life. My people said that was part of the punishment and the other part was to be exiled to Earth during my third life. That's how I know so much about UNIT. I worked with them in the 1970s. Maybe it was the 80s. Well anyway I still didn't learn my lesson I guess and I was put on trial several other times. I'm what you would call an ultimate rule breaker. I enjoyed it so much to, but then the War came."

"Well no wonder Alex seems to like you," replied Justin, "She's always breaking the rules."

"What do you mean 'the War'?" asked Harper.

The Doctor just ignored her and kept walking. Harper was about to ask again, when Alex grabbed her arm and shook her head no.

"Why are we walking?" asked the Doctor. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the transporter watch, "Everyone hold onto the my hand holding the watch."

Everyone did what the Doctor asked and the Doctor pressed the button. All four of them vanished in a blue light, silently.

At the Waverly Sub Station, Jerry, Theresa and Max walked into the sub station and sat their things down. Max noticed the big blue Police Call Box near the staircase and ran over to.

"Mom, Dad, what's this?" asked Max, "And can I keep it?"

"No you can't keep it. That belongs to person that's going to be staying with us for a while," said Theresa.

"Who is going to stay with us?"
"The Doctor. Weren't you listening?" asked Jerry.

"Maybe," replied Max. It was obvious he didn't listen to them on the way home.

A flash of blue light appeared in the sub station and the Doctor, Alex, Harper and Justin all appeared in the room.

"That was cool," said Max.

"No that was painful," said Justin.

"No joking," said Harper.

"I'm fine," mocked Alex.

"Oh shut up," snapped Justin.

"What was that? Alex did you do something to them?" asked Theresa.

"No that was me," said the Doctor, "Teleport watch. It's technology not magic."

The Doctor walked to the TARDIS and unlocked the doors. When he walked in he sighed as he saw a damaged control room. Debris was scattered around. Chairs were thrown all over the place. There were cracks in the walls, but there was good thing, the smoke cleared. The Doctor walked over to the control console and looked at how extensive the damage was. The TARDIS was healing the parts that it could heal, but Ood Sigma was right, the Doctor would be here months trying to repair the TARDIS.

Alex walked in a few moments later and saddened at the sight of the wounded TARDIS. With all the smoke in the room earlier in the day, she didn't see the extent of the damage, but she could. It was terrible. She thought that a bomb went off in the control room. It was a complete mess.

The Doctor stepped off the stage and sat in one of the chairs in the front row just staring at the TARDIS's controls. He was going to have to get this place fixed before he developed cabin fever on a global scale. Being trapped in one time and on one planet didn't make him feel happy, by he had the Rift and a crazy family to entertain him. He just leaned back and closed his eyes.

Alex sat down next to the Doctor and put her head on his shoulder. The Doctor opened his eyes and put his arm around her shoulders and she leaned in on him.

"I'm sorry about the TARDIS," said Alex.

"Don't be worried she's been through worse," said the Doctor.

After that the two just sat there in silence, watching the control console slowly move in front of them, a slight humming in the background.

Outside the TARDIS, the others wanted to go, but they didn't think they should. They hadn't been in that battle. They didn't see or go through what Alex or the Doctor had to go through. They took comfort, though, in the fact that those two would look out for each others' backs.

"Mom was that the Doctor you were talking about?" asked Max.

"Yes it was," said Theresa.

"Oh okay just asking, but hey why is his spaceship so small and how can Alex and him fit in there?"

"Because it's bigger on the inside," replied Justin.

"Really I'm going to check it out!" exclaimed Max.

"No! No you're not," said Jerry.

"Why?" asked Max.

"We'll tell you when you go upstairs. We had a very crazy weekend. More crazy than a normal weekend," said Jerry.

"Okay," moped Max.

A blast of thunder roared throughout the room and another downpour pummeled New York.

"Another one?" asked Theresa.

"Well the Doctor did say it would do this for a while," replied Jerry.

"It doesn't mean we have to like it," said Theresa, "What about Alex?"

"The Doctor will take care of her," said Jerry, "There's something about him that I trust."

"It could be the fact he saved your daughter," said Justin.

"Yeah well, we've had a long weekend," said Harper, "We should all go to bed."

The others all agreed and went their separate ways.

In the TARDIS, Alex had fallen asleep with the Doctor by her side. He slowly got up and laid Alex down on the chairs. The Doctor went to the control console and pushed a button which caused the chairs to extend out three times the original length, and the chair's cushions got softer The Doctor left the room for a few minutes. He came back with a blanket and a pillow. He gently lifted Alex's head and put the pillow underneath it and he put the blanket on her pulling it up to her neck. Alex rolled over and continued to sleep, while the Doctor just walked up onto the stage and sat down in front of the drum set looking engine.

The Doctor looked off into space and told the TARDIS quietly, "I'm sorry you have to go through this, but we'll get through it together." After a few more moments, the Doctor stood up and walked into another room of the TARDIS. He walked down a small corridor and walked into his own bedroom. He didn't do anything accept for lie down on the bed and got some sleep.

The storm outside passed and the moon and stars again shone down on the street.