Dylan was laughing
"This is so weird! It looks like Earth but it's just a moon!"
"Indeed it is, so what do you think to this little restaurant?" The Doctor asked
"It's alright I guess." Dylan replied
"Only alright? That's a bit rude I own this place you know!" A man was walking out of the door
"Haha Doctor! No you don't!" The man had a accent like a typical farmer
"Ahh Galory, it's been a while hasn't it" The Doctor smiled, got out of his seat and hugged the man, he was in the standard white chefs outfit, and a little on the chubby side.
"It's good to see you Doctor" Galory said as he hugged The Doctor back. "You should come and visit more often! And who's this little young lady?"
"I'm not little." Dylan said slightly annoyed as she stood up. "And my names Dylan." Galory chuckled, as he stretched his hand out offering a handshake to Dylan, she accepted.
"Galory, how did you know it was me?" The Doctor asked
"Oh yeah the new face, I like it! What number face is this now?"
"24th"
"Oh..." And Galorys facial expression dropped from one of happiness, to one of sadness "So that means..."
"Yes... I came to say goodbye to you old friend. But you didn't say, how did you know it was me?"
"Ah yes well your the only one who ever says that you own the place, and you always say that!" He chuckled again before regaining his sad look. "Why does this have to be goodbye Doctor? Ever since you was face number 7 I've known you, all these years... And you only visit a couple times per face, can't you come and see me again?"
"We'll see, but don't get your hopes up you know what I'm like."
"It will be sad to see you go, that's for sure."
"Oh don't get all soppy with me, I hate that!"
"New face but you never change that much do you! Tell you what, if this is really is the last time I'll get to see you, then everything is in the house! Have what ever you like! Here's the menu, I'll be back out in a moment" Galory placed a round object on the table and pressed a button on it, a holographic menu appeared in front of Dylan's eyes, and Galory walked off back into the restaurant.
"What did he mean Doctor?" Dylan asked
"What do you mean, what did he mean?" The Doctor replied, seemingly uninterested in Dylan
"That your the 24th face? That it would be sad to see you go? And the way his face changed when you said that you were the 24th face? Doctor... Who are you?"
"Not here Dylan, not now, later I promise." Galory re-emerged from the restaurant
"So what can I get you?" He asked
"Nothing, just popped by, can't stop gotta dash." The Doctor stood up once more. "I'll miss you Galory, you've always been a good friend to me, I won't forget that. Goodbye my friend." He hugged him, tight. Dylan watched as a single tear rolled down the face of the chef. And then The Doctor let go, span around on the spot and walked off, grabbing Dylan's hand on his way past.
"Come on Dylan, got the whole universe to see."
Back in the Tardis Dylan was studying The Doctor. He noticed that she was.
"I'm a Time Lord. I come from Gallifrey, I am 3004 years old and I can change my face when I die. Except this time I have no regenerations left, I've used them all up. This is the 24th face that I have had, and it's going to be the last one I ever have." The Doctor stopped to take a couple of breaths.
"Well why don't you want to go and spend it with your family then? Why not go back to Gallifroodaaa and go spend this 'last face' with the other time lords?"
"It's Gallifrey and I can't."
"Why not?"
"I'm not just a Time Lord Dylan... I'm the last of the Time Lords... I thought I'd saved them once... When there were three of me at the same time but... But I hadn't... The only people I couldn't save... My own people... I practically killed them."
"How? I mean how could it possibly be your fault?" Dylan asked, her expression soft and caring for The Doctor.
"There was a war. A Time War. My people against the Daleks."
"So the Daleks won?"
"Dylan no one won. I was the only one to put a stop to it all. I thought I'd stopped all the Daleks but at the expense of stopping all the Time Lords... But the Daleks always come back, they always do I can never stop them."
"Doctor I'm... I'm so sorry..."
"Why? It's not your fault" The Doctor released a smirk from his saddened look. Dylan hugged The Doctor, and he hugged her back, they stood hugging for some time, The Doctors eyes dampened with the tears of sadness that he always had deep within rarely letting anyone see it.
"Okay... Okay, I need to go do some rounds of saying goodbye, and then we can get to the good bits of seeing the whole universe, you up for it?"
"Yeah."
The Tardis landed. The Doctor walked out. Standing there looking directly at The Doctor, was Martha Jones.
"Hello Martha"
"Doctor? Is that you?"
"Oh yes! Of course it's me." She ran to him and hugged him tight.
"But your face... You regenerated?"
"Lots and lots of times since I last saw you... In fact this... This is my last face."
"What do you mean?"
"I can no longer regenerate. I've used them all up."
"But what about saving the world? Who's going to do that when your gone?"
"Ah I'm sure you'll be fine, the world has Martha Jones on its side!"
"Have you... Have you got anyone?"
"Yeah you know me. Dylan! Come out and say hi to Martha" Dylan shyly came out of the Tardis
"Hi" She said sheepishly.
"What's the matter Dylan?"
"It's just weird is all... I'm actually going to meet people you've travelled with before."
"Well that's one thing about The Doctor, he always needs someone to look after him." Martha smiled.
"Well we best be off, got a lot to do." The Doctor said.
"Ok" Martha hugged him again "you take care" and with that, Dylan and The Doctor walked back into the Tardis and off they went to find the next person.
Once again the Tardis landed. The Doctor walked out.
"Dylan you need to stay in here this time."
"Why Doctor?"
"Please." The Doctors voice firm. Dylan nodded. The Doctor walked up to a house. A house familiar to him. He knocked on the door.
"Hang on, I'm coming." The old man said as he made his way to the door. He opened the door. "Hello can I hel-" he stopped "but you... Your not him? Why are you wearing that?"
"Hello Wilfred. It's me."
"Doctor? But your face? It's changed" Wilfred was shocked at this "how?"
"I've regenerated, several times since I last saw you actually, in fact, this is my last face, I'm here to say goodbye." And with that he turned and walked away back to the Tardis.
"Can't you come in and see her Doctor? Just once, for one last time?"
"You know what it will do to her Wilf"
"She won't recognise you though, just come in and say goodbye properly, please." Reluctantly, The Doctor walked back to the house.
"Don't worry, her mother isn't here right now, Doctor thank you for this." But he was silent. Wilfred lead him into the living room, where The Doctor remembered telling Wilfred and Donnas mum what had happened to her. "Donna! Come down here for a second love!"
"What do you want Gramps?" Donna stomped down the stairs and entered the living room. She noticed The Doctor. "Who are you?"
"I'm..." The Doctor stammered, fighting back tears. "I'm John Smith" he said, reaching out his hand for her to shake it. She took his hand and shook it.
"Well I'm Donna, what you here for?"
"Old friend, of Wilfred's."
"Really? You look young enough to be his great grandson!" Donna laughed, which flooded The Doctors mind with memories of the past, so many years ago for him, no where near as many for Donna and Wilfred. Both The Doctor and Wilfred laughed and smiled with her.
"Well I better be off then, only popped in to say hello." The Doctor said, standing up. "It was nice to meet you Donna. Donna Noble. You are such an important person in this world, don't let anyone tell you different. Ever." And he left the room, opened the front door, and left Donna wondering who on earth he was.
"Doctor..." Wilfred said at the front door. The Doctor turned around. Wilfred saluted The Doctor, who smiled and carried on back to the Tardis, and once again they were off.
"Who was she?" Dylan asked
"A friend, I ruined her life. Dylan this is what happens to people who travel with me, I either lose them or destroy their lives. Martha watched the whole world be killed with her family, Donna can't remember anything about me or where we went or what we did..."
"And Rose died?" The Doctor stared at her "Her name was the first one you said but we didn't go to her... Is she someone you lost?"
"Yes... Well no... Well she's dead in the world you know, but not dead. She's in a parallel world, same as this, pretty much same everything."
"Can't we see her?"
"No, I closed the doors the the parallel worlds long ago, that's when I lost her." And then a thought came to the mind of The Doctor. A thought about Donna, something he could do for her. He ran around the Tardis setting it up for take off. "I can do one more thing for Donna!" He shouted with glee
"What?"
"Hold on to your hats!" And away they went, into the future, or more specifically, Donnas future. The Tardis landed. "As bad as this sounds I can give Donna back all her memories, but only, and like I say it's bad, on her death bed."
"What the hell Doctor?" Dylan exclaimed.
"No listen to me, Donna couldn't remember anything about me because if she had of then her head would have gone kaput, but this way it won't and in her last moments she will remember me."
"Then let's do it." They entered a hospital and went to the reception.
"Hi" The Doctor pulled out his psychic paper and showed it to the woman. "Family member, here to see Donna Noble."
"Oh right ok, follow me." And they followed the nurse
"Could you tell me what's wrong with her?" The Doctor asked
"Don't you know? You family aren't you?"
"Well I've been away for a while, and they kept me out of the loop, been travelling." He explained
"Oh well, Donna has cancer." The nurse said, and The Doctor stopped in his tracks.
"Really? Oh Donna you poor girl" and then they carried on walking, The Doctor shocked.
"I'm sorry but there isn't anything more we can do for her, the cancer is too vigorous, it's just a matter of time now... In there" the nurse signalled into a room and The Doctor entered, with Dylan in tow.
"Donna?" He said sheepishly. He saw her laying on the hospital bed, old and grey. "At least your not young eh Earth girl."
"Who are yo... I know your face don't I? From years and years ago?"
"Yeah, old friend of your Gramps."
"Your face never left my mind... John Smith wasn't it."
"You know me better by a different name..."
"Do I? What's that?" She asked puzzled. He put his fingertips to either side of her temple
"The Doctor."
They were back in the Tardis.
"So who next?" Asked Dylan
"No one, that's it."
"But you said more names? Amy and Rory and then Clara? And a load of other people?"
"I can't see any of them... Amy and Rory are dead... And Clara hates me..."
"Well what about the others then?"
"Well you know I said about closing the doors to the parallel world? I thought I had, but I hadn't fully closed it... All of them... Every single one of them... They got pulled in... And I couldn't get them back."
"Oh Doctor I'm so sorry..."
"It's fine... Anyway I better drop you back off to where we started."
"What? Why? Can't I come with you?"
"You still want to?" The Doctor said surprised
"Of course I do!" Dylan replied
"Ok well... How about we go to London then? Just for a bit?"
"Your the boss!" And so The Doctor took the Tardis to London. When they landed Dylan ran out the door. They were in some sort of house. She walked around a corner, stopped dead in her tracks and gasped. "D-Doctor" she shouted. Dylan wasn't taking her eyes off this thing, it was scary, it scared her. The Doctor came around the corner and froze.
"Dylan..." He said in a worried voice.
"Yeah?" She said, scared
"Don't... Blink..."
