Martha followed the Doctor as he walked out of the library, looking to the sky
lost in his own thoughts.
" I suppose you would like to know why we are going to find Harry Potter"
the Doctor said with a sigh.
"Why Doctor I never thought that you would volunteer information without being prodded for hours" she said with a smirk."
"Then I suppose I do not have to share the information with you then." the Doctor said with a bit of venom creeping into his words.
"I'm sorry Doctor, please just tell me why we are going."
"Well if I remember correctly it started when I met met Rose Evans." "go on" "I rescued her you know, like the great hero I am." "Naturally." "As I was saying, I saved her and well we hit it off" "So she traveled with you?"
"No." the Doctor said with a shake of his head "I ended up staying with her."
"Staying?" Martha said in shock "as in not traveling all around the universe and causing trouble?"
"Yes, I was trying the domestic thing for awhile, I was still relatively new to that body and it worked for me."
"So what happened Doctor?" Martha asked softly
"I knew it wouldn't last forever, but I was enjoying my new life, but then I had to leave."
"I was swept away into the Time War, I never came back to her, I had changed too much.
"I was a different man who she would not have known, or recognized me because I never told her what I really was."
Martha in her short time with the Doctor had always wanted to know more about the strange alien, but she was starting to understand why he never shared, why he seemed so closed off at times, because she could never truly understand his pain. Maybe that was why he struggled so hard to save the Master.
"I watched over her from a distance when I had came back in the sixties, but after that I never saw her again."
Martha was listening so intently to his story that she was surprised that they had already reached the TARDIS. The Doctor flipped several switches, pulled what appeared to be a hand brake and started banging on the console below with his foot and up top with a rubber mallet, he then flipped another switch and the TARDIS was now in the backyard of a house that was for sale in Little Whinging.
As the two travelers stepped out of the TARDIS Martha suddenly stopped in front of the Doctor as a sudden realization hit her." Doctor, when we arrived you told me that you were here to visit relatives, are you saying that..that?"
"Yes Martha, I am going to meet my grandson, I never thought I would have another family and so I hoped to see my daughter." "Maybe tell her why I left her mother alone and never returned, but I'm too late, I will however make sure that my grandson knows who I am and where he came from, he is after all a Time Lord." "Time Lord? Wouldn't he be more human?" "Nahhhh, Gallifreyan DNA is more potent than the stuff you have, I mean look at me"
"So you are you going to tell him everything about who you are to him and what you are?"
"Yes I am going to tell him everything that I was never able to tell his mother or grandmother."
"I might even see if he wants to come with me."
As they strolled down the sidewalk the Doctor started looking around more. "This place is disturbingly normal" the Doctor said with a shudder.
" A burgeoning young Time Lord would be stifled in a place so dreadfully normal."
"I need to find a way to get him to look into the vortex, hmm I wonder if..."
He was broken out of his thoughts as they now stood on the doorstep of number four Privet Drive.
The Doctor just stood at the door, staring at the doorbell. "Do you suppose I should ring it"
he asked quietly.
"I suppose so he said back to himself quietly."
And reluctantly he placed his finger against the button, not yet pressing it.
"Doctor you have faced the destruction on the Universe many times, this can't be harder than that."
"Although... explaining that you are an alien time traveler that looks young but is actually almost a millennium old and his grandfather to boot might be a bit hard to swallow, you could show him the tie trick too though." Martha said with a large grin adorning her face.
"Yes" he said looking more nervous than times when the fabric of reality was being torn apart.
The Doctor pressed the doorbell and then several more times and then they heard loud stomping inside the house, and then the door opened up. The boy who opened the door looked like a pig wearing a blonde wig to Martha and the Doctor was wondering if the Slitheen had engineered more than one Pig person and forgot it here.
"Wut do you want" the piggy child said as crumbs fell from his mouth.
The Doctor quirked his eyebrows, wondering who had raised a child to be so rude.
"I'm looking for Harry Potter"
"Potter" the slitheen engineered boy sneered.
"He ain't here, he's at school"
"Mummy, someone's here about the freak!" the boy yelled, then he waddled off back to the television.
The Doctor and Martha walked in the front door and shut it behind them. The Doctor started walking around looking at the pictures that "graced" the wall, but found none that contained a boy with black hair, green eyes.
"Quite strange that there are no pictures of my grandson on this wall." The Doctor whispered to Martha. One thing both noticed was a cupboard under the stairs that had an inordinate amount of locks on it.
"Must really treasure their cleaning supplies" Martha said as they turned to walk to the bottom of the stairs as they heard someone walking down them.
As the woman reached the of the stairs they saw that she was a severe long necked woman.
"Ah, you must be Petunia Dursley?" The Doctor said with a large grin, hoping to make an impression on his daughter's step-sister.
"I'm The Doctor" he said holding out his hand to the woman in front of him.
"Doctor Who?" she questioned with a pinched look upon her face, not accepting the hand that he had just put out.
"Exactly!" he said joyfully
"You may call me John Smith and this is a traveling companion of mine, Martha Jones."
"Yes well what do you want the boy for?"
"I'm a relative of his and I would like to meet him."
"Relative?" she questioned
"I think I would know anyone related to the boy, unless, of course you must be one of those freak relatives of Potter, that for some reason couldn't take the freak themselves." she grated out.
"Freak?" The Doctor asked quizzically.
"Yes! One of those... Wizards." she said whispering out the last word.
The Doctor now had an extremely shocked look on his face and Martha looked confused at the conversation and the avenue it was going down.
"Wizard?" Martha said but The Doctor ignored her.
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts"
"I imagine that is where he is at right now, which means that the term will be over soon."
"Yes he's at school now please leave." she said as she walked past them an opened the door.
"Very well, good day Mrs. Dursley."