This is my tribute to Elisabeth Sladen. May she rest in peace.

Time to Remember- Doctor's POV

I did love her. That much I knew, as I've said before it's the curse of Time Lords that has kept us apart. . I was an alien anyways; she probably would never think the same. It was impossible for her to stay because it would just be too painful to watch the one I loved grow old and die in front of my eyes. It was inevitable that it would happen anyway.

I had just landed on the planet Karastia, a beautiful, gorgeous landscape decorated with thick forests of Alantra trees and hundreds of species of plants and bushes and flowers. The day had been a cold one and the plants were covered in a sticky frost as I had tramped my way though the Sweeney forest towards the village hidden in the Northwestern territory of the planet, a village lost in ages called Corinsa. The town was beautiful. The people there, the Karastians, looked human too, like I did, and there was an old friend I was in desperate need of visiting. Ace Kingston was an actual human that had blended in and taken root here on this planet, last time I saw him was three years ago.

I knocked on the door to his hut and Ace opened up. "Long time, no see Doctor!" As I stepped in, the smells of odd Karastian vegetables and the musty odor of fat ancient books spread open of the living room floor, flipped open to what appeared to be fairy tales. The smell it made was putrid.

"Mr. Smith is here!" shrieked a young voice, and a wave a pain washed over me as I remembered what I was here to do. The thought was soon to be forgotten as I looked down into the eyes of the two Karastian orphans that had leeched themselves to my leg. Poor children had their parents lost in the Time War, and as revenge from a losing enemy planet the children, the only two people on Karastia at the time, had been taken and frozen in the Cells of Eternity, the smallest planet ever. Three years ago, Ace and I had freed them and he had taken them under his wing to raise as his own. I distinctly remember she was with us.

"Mr. Smith, tell us a story!" Adeline begged.

"Don't the vegetables smell yucky?" Tobias giggled and pinched his nose.

"Now Addy, Toby" I whispered to them, "How about you see if there's access to WKKLN today, I have to talk to Papa Ace." The children appeared disappointed for a moment, but soon were flipping to WKKLN, the channel broadcasting from the core of Comet Halley, only available 97 days of the 132 day year, when the orbits coincided hundreds of millions of miles away.

In the next room over, Ace had eased into a recliner. "You wanted to see me, Doctor? It's not oft you make the trek through the Sweeney's to visit little old me in Corinsa." He smiled smugly into his herbal tea. I sat in an armchair next to him, internally groaning. The mood in this home seemed too happy, the news I was about to deliver seemed it shouldn't be spoken.

"I need you to come back to the Cells with me. It's important."

"Back to the Cells of Eternity? I haven't been up in space since we got the kids. And the kids! Toby's only 10 and Addy's 7. I don't think they could manage on their own.

Suddenly a cry echoed from the other room. "Addy if you want subtitles, hit the subtitle button! And if you get any of our nessenberries on the newly washed floor I am going to rip your head off!" Tobias seemed to be playing the adult just as well as Ace. I mean Ace was only 14 himself, but appeared in his late 20's.

Ace's face slightly sunk, revealing he had given in, "Fine, but it had better be really important!"

"That's the thing… It's Sarah"

"What!" Ace tried to get the noise level down, "Sarah as in Sarah Jane Smith!"

"Yeah, she's… dying."