Chapter Two

"Who are Jamie and Zoe?" Amy asked as she helped the Doctor off the floor and he straightened his jacket.

"Zoe was something of a genius but she was also a little irritating," he said with a half smile and Amy laughed. "You see, she was an astrometricist, first class and an astrophysicist, a pure mathematics major with honors. I met her on Space Station W3, otherwise known as the Wheel, but she wasn't supposed to travel with me. She had the cheek to sneak aboard the TARDIS and hid in a trunk. I didn't know she was there until I was already in the vortex. I was going to send her back to the station but she wanted to stay, even after I showed her what I deal with on a daily basis. Now, Jamie, on the other hand, was the son of Donald McCrimmon and was a highlander piper from the year seventeen forty-six," he said and Amy's eyes went wide.

"Whoa!" she said and the Doctor laughed.

"I met Jamie while he was fighting the English during the Battle of Culloden and agreed to come with me after I helped his laird and his laird's daughter escape. What I found amazing was his natural acceptance to try and understand what was going on and his attempts at rationalizing things," he said and she saw sadness in his eyes.

"You two were close, hunh?"

"What?"

"Look, Doctor, I'm an opened minded person. If you and Jamie…"

"No, it wasn't like THAT!" he said then sighed. "Jamie was….He was like a son to me. I was never really close to any of my sons. Anyway, we sort of adopted each other and became very close."

"Ah, so what happened to them?"

"My people sent them home."

"Why?"

"It was because they were punishing me for saving people and mucking about with things."

"That doesn't seem fair."

"What made it worse was they removed their memories of traveling with me. I was reunited with Jamie for a bit then my people returned him to his time period afterwards."

"Did he remember you?"

"Yes, but they removed the memories with they sent him back," he softly as he looked at the portrait and blinked the tears from his eyes.

"Why is this back here then? Didn't you want to be reminded of them?"

"That's just it. I don't remember painting this," he said as he walked closer and examined the portrait.

"You painted this?"

"I painted all of them. And I did that statue over there," he said, pointing to the statue of Rose.

"Well, if you didn't paint it then who did?" Amy asked when the Doctor headed for the hallway and she followed him out of the gallery. He didn't speak when they walked inside the control room and he walked to the console, placing both hands on the top of it.

"Alright, old girl, mind telling me where that portrait of Jamie and Zoe came from?" he asked when the TARDIS started shaking and they grabbed onto the console.

"Doctor, what's going on?" Amy shouted and he looked at the screens.

"I don't know but I have the feeling we're about to find out," he said while the rotor moved behind the glass and the engines purred around them.

UNIT Headquarters – 2010

Captain Benton led the way while the Brigadier walked behind her and they headed for a large building. The building was black with tinted windows and two guards stood on either side of the door. The guards snapped to attention when they approached the door and Captain Benton nodded, walking by them. The doors closed while they walked to the edge of the walkway and Captain Benton pushed the button on the control panel near the railing. The lights clicked on as they looked at the rows of shelves, boxes and crates and the Brigadier sighed.

"The Black Archives," he said, placing his hands on the railing.

"Yes, and what I brought you here to see is…" Captain Benton said when the alarms sounds and they heard voices coming from the door behind them. Removing the gun from the holster on her hip, she walked to the window when she looked outside and a stunned look appeared on her face. "What is that?" The Brigadier looked out the window when he smiled and walked to the door. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go say hello to an old friend," he said then opened the door, going outside.

The Doctor was shocked to find armed guards when he stepped out of the TARDIS and he and Amy held their hands up in surrender

"Look, for the last time, I'm the Doctor. I don't mean you any harm," he said but the guards refused to lower their guns and he sighed.

"What should we do?" Amy asked when the door opened and the Brigadier and Captain Benton walked toward them.

"What is the meaning of this?" she asked. The Brigadier looked at the TARDIS then at the Doctor and Amy when he walked to them and the Doctor smiled at him.

"Hello, Brigadier," he said and the Brigadier looked him over then sighed, rolling his eyes.

"You regenerated again," the Brigadier said, folding his arms over his chest then gave the Doctor a grin.

Inverness, Scotland

11 September 1795

"Good morning, Your Lordship," the butler said, opening to the door and Jamie nodded at him. Walking to the high back chair, Jamie sat down when he looked at his children and grandchildren and Hannah got off of the chair and ran to him. Jamie smiled when he picked her up then sat her on his lap and Anne looked at him from the other end of the table.

"Go sit in your own chair," he whispered in Hannah's ear but she shook her head and he kissed the top of her head. "If you dinnae, you cannae ride Topsey."

Topsey was Hannah's pony and she loved to ride him after breakfast.

"Oooooooooo-key," she sighed then got off of Jamie's lap and walked back to her chair. Sitting, down, she slumped in the chair then sat up after he coughed and he smiled at her.

"Father, do you want tae come check the foals with me after breakfast?" Angus asked. Angus was the oldest of Jamie and Anne's twelve children. He helped Jamie run Heatherfield, a large horse and sheep ranch just outside of Inverness. It originally belonged to Anne's father until he passed away nearly six years ago and left the ranch to Anne.

"Aye, I would," Jamie said when the butler placed the plate in front of him and Jamie nodded. Though he never forgot his roots, Jamie did like having someone serving him and picked the lid off the plate, looking at the food on his plate.

"I hate getting old," he thought, looking at the bowl of stewed prunes. Shrugging, he used the spoon to scoop up a few of them then placed them in his mouth and chewed.

Space Station W3 – The Wheel

"Are you sure you can't come, Mum?" a voice asked on the video screen and Zoe sighed, brushing the hair out of her eyes. On the screen was her youngest daughter, Jaymee, and on her lap was her three year old son, Bryce.

"No, dear, I am sorry. Things are busy right now and I can't get away," Zoe said with a sigh.

"Yeah, I understand," Jaymee said when the screen went blank and Zoe sat back in the chair. She knew she was making excuses but being on Earth made her feel odd. Like she didn't really belong on Earth and felt better being on the station. This odd feeling was the reason her marriage failed and the reason her ex-husband received custody of their four children.

"Zoe, where are you?" a voice called out as she got up and walked to the door. The door slid open while she looked up and down the hallway but saw no one and sighed, shaking her head. Walking back inside the room, she walked to the window when she looked at the stars twinkling in the darkness and placed her hand on the glass.

"Blast," she whispered then placed her forehead against the glass and tears trickled down her cheeks.