Hi everyone, this is my first fan fiction… ever, so please bear with me here. Forgive me if it's terrible and please, please, please review! Thanks!

This story takes place after School Reunion, and before The Girl in the Fireplace. At the end of School Reunion, when the Doctor invites Sarah Jane to come back and travel in the TARDIS, instead of refusing, she accepts.

Everything belongs to the BBC, I own nothing of Doctor Who (unfortunately :] )

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"Doctor?" Rose said.

"We're about to head off... but... You could come with us." The Doctor said with a smile.

Sarah Jane looked like she was about to refuse, hesitated, and then said, "No... I can't do this anymore... Besides, I've got a much bigger adventure ahead! It's time I stopped waiting for you, and got a life of my own." (BBC, Doctor Who, School Reunion) Sarah Jane gave the Doctor a last hug, and walked out of the TARDIS.

Mickey gave Rose one last hug, and walks out after Sarah Jane.

The Doctor still looked a little bit shocked at Sarah Jane's refusal, but got over it, and turns to Rose. "Just you and me again, hey?" And then started up the TARDIS. All right, how about the end of the 1930's Austria, 'bout 1936, '38-ish? Hitler, Sound of Music setting, lovely. Always wanted to see this."

"You all right, Doctor?" said Rose.

"Of course, always am!" said the Doctor.

"Have I heard that one before?" Rose muttered to herself.

Rose looked at him gently, waiting for him to talk. The Doctor bit his lip. "I miss having Sarah Jane around sometimes, Rose. I won't lie. But now I've got you! I don't need anyone else."

"You could always go back. Go back and get her. I bet she wouldn't refuse again."

The Doctor looked hopeful for a minute. "You really don't mind?"

Rose looked at him witheringly. "Doctor. I've been trying to convince you to go back and get her. I don't think I mind."

The Doctor considered for a second looking very dramatically torn. "Oh, all right then, but only for a little while. She deserves it after all this world saving work she's been doing."

"Doctor, you miss her. You don't need any other excuse." said Rose, seeming to have a little bit of a hard time saying the words "miss" and "her" together.

"All right, all right." said the Doctor as he set the TARDIS coordinates for the last place and time that the TARDIS had taken off from.

"Shall I ask the question?" said the Doctor. Rose smiled and said "Oh, yes," knowing that no one else in the world, not even Sarah Jane Smith would have understood his odd question.

The Doctor and Rose ran to the TARDIS door together, opening the door and calling out to Sarah Jane who was walking back to her car with K-9 Mark IV rolling along by her side, and seemingly blotting her eyes with a white handkerchief.

"By the way, did I mention, it also travels in time!" They both shouted out to her laughing. Sarah Jane turned back, surprised to see them reappear. She had thought that Rose wouldn't particularly fancy having her aboard for any amount of time, and knew that the Doctor wouldn't have forced her on Rose if it were the end of the world. "What are you doing here Doctor? I thought you were going to Austria!"

"Well we're going to Austria in the 1930's... and I remembered that you love the Sound of Music." said the Doctor.

Sarah Jane looked at the Rose curiously. Rose just grinned.

"Well, anything with Julie Andrews in it is good. That I will argue." said Sarah Jane. Rose nodded her head in approval of the proclamation.

"Aw, come on, Sarah Jane, you always did want to see Austria!" said the Doctor. Rose rolled her eyes.

"Oh, all right then," said Sarah Jane, "but I just have to tell a friend that I'll be gone for a couple days."

"Who's this?" said the Doctor.

"Well, actually he's a super computer named Mr. Smith, but you know." said Sarah Jane.

"Ah. Typical." said the Doctor. "We'll wait here."

"Um, Doctor, wouldn't it be smarter to have Sarah Jane drive her car back to her house, inform her super computer of her vacation to Austria, and leave her car there? We could just, you know, materialize at her house." said Rose.

"Oh. That's a good idea." said the Doctor to Rose. Then he turned to Sarah Jane. "Yeah, what she said, then. By the way, love the car. What model-"

"Doctor!" said Rose forcefully. "If we're going to get to Austria by this afternoon!"

"Oh, fine then. I do want to know, though." said the Doctor as Rose pulled the Doctor back to the TARDIS by one finger, rolling her eyes at Sarah Jane as she pulled the Doctor back into the blue police box.

As soon as she was out of the sight of Rose and the Doctor, she picked up K-9, who responded with a "Mistress! Mistress! Misinterpretation of tin properties!-," and ran towards her blue car that was in the parking lot of the community park. She threw K-9 into the passenger seat gently and took off towards Bannerman Road at forty miles per hour and gaining.