Hey everyone! Sorry it took so long to update, life got busy. Also, I kept feeling like I wasn't getting their characterizations right. Please let me know what you think.


Rose looked around the room as she observed where she and John had been transported. It was a square room with three couches and a TV. She moved to get up from the ground where she had landed upon entering the room. She looked up to see John offering his hand to help her stand up which she took. "Where are we?" she asked curiously. "I don't know. Someone or something must have transported us here," John responded, looking around the room as if to spot whoever had brought them there.

Before Rose could suggest her theory, two people appeared in the room, both of whom Rose thought she would never see again. It was impossible. "Mickey? Martha?" The two turn towards her, both wearing identical expressions of surprise and disbelief on their faces. Mickey was the first to speak "Rose, what are doing here? How can you be here?" Martha cut in, "I thought the Doctor had taken you back to that parallel universe."

Rose assumed the Doctor had at some point told them what he had done. "I have no idea how John-," she pointed to her husband in case they were confused, "and I ended up wherever we are. We were in the lab and a note appeared. John had to grab it of course," she rolled her eyes fondly, "so I grabbed it too in case he ended up somewhere dangerous."

Then Martha filled her and John in on what had happened to herself and Mickey. "The same thing happened to us. We were sitting in our living room and a note appeared. We touched it and ended up hear."

Rose had the noticed the 'our' and felt compelled to ask "You guys are living together?" She was looking at Mickey. Martha held up her hand which was sporting a ring. So did Mickey. "Married actually," he said proudly, "for about four years now."

Before Rose had time to properly process this news another person appeared in the room. She recognized the long military coat immediately. "Jack," she shouted. She ran the short distance to him, Martha, Mickey and John right behind her. When he saw them he smiled and said "Well if it isn't Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, and Mickey Mouse."

"Very funny," Mickey muttered, however he too appeared happy to see Jack. "Where are we?" Jack asked, "How did we get here? And how did you and the Doctor's clone leave your universe?" He looked worried at the thought of what could be powerful enough to break through the walls of the universe. "First of all, his name's John now," Rose replied angrily. Jack looked apologetic, something rare for him, which caused Rose to soften slightly.

John filled Jack in on what had happened to them, than Martha shared her and Mickey's story. "The same thing happened to me," Jack said. "I was in a bar and a note appeared in front of me. I took it and ended up in this room."

Martha took the lead, "So the same thing happened to all of us. The question is 'Does this have to with the Doctor?'" The others just looked at her. "Right, I thought so too. I wonder if there are any other people coming," she said as she looked around the room.

As if the room could somehow hear them, too people appeared in it. One was a red-head who looked in her late-thirties. The other was a man with light brown hair who looked around the same age as the women. Rose didn't recognize either of them, and from their reactions, she would guess that John, Mickey and Martha didn't recognize the couple either.

The red-head spoke first, "Who are you people? And how did we get here?" she asked warily. Jack decided to be the one to answer her. "I'm gonna take a guess you know the Doctor?" Both reacted with surprise. The man asked "You know the Doctor?" The women quickly added "Are we talking about the same person? Floppy hair, bowtie, young looking?"

Rose took over. "Yeah, we all know the Doctor, though he looked completely different when we knew him. He must have regenerated since then." Sadness appeared on her face as she spoke, however it was gone a moment later.

Rose filled them in on what had happened to her, John, Martha, Mickey and Jack. The woman introduced herself as Amy and the man as Rory. She confirmed Rose's suspicion that a note had appeared in front of them too and both had grabbed it.

Before anyone could ask more questions another note appeared. Amy grabbed it and read it out-loud.

Dear Amy, Rory, Jack, John, and Rose,

I have gathered all of you here because something huge has recently happened to the Doctor. I thought his friends deserved to know. So all of you are going to sit down and watch the Doctor's adventures. His new companion is called Clara. If you have a question no one can answer just ask it out-loud and I will tell you.

Sincerely,

The TARDIS

Amazed and shocked everyone looked around the room. John was the first one to speak.

"Well I suppose we'll have to watch." Since they were all curious to see what had happened to the Doctor since they had each seen him, they sat down. Amy and Rory sat on the couch to the right. Martha, Mickey and Jack sat on the couch in front of the TV. Rose and John sat on the couch to the left. The screen turned on.

[Outside Coal Hill Secondary School]

(A policeman is on his beat past the sign to I M Foreman's scrap yard at 76 Totter's Lane. Note - Chairman of the School Governors is I Chesterton.)

"No, It can't be," said John, disbelief in his voice. Rose turned and asked "What John?"

He spoke to all of them. "One of the Doctor's first companions was a teacher named Ian Chesterton who worked at Coal Hill school. He'd be in his 80s now. I can't believe he still works there." Rose wasn't sure how to act. She didn't like to think about all the people who had traveled with the Doctor before her, other than Sarah Jane, who she liked.

CLARA [OC]: Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius.

[Classroom]

The end of class bell rings. A young man rushes in as the other students leave. CLARA: Have you been running?

TOM: Are you okay? There was a call for you at the office, from your doctor.

CLARA: Did he leave an address?

"So that must be Clara," said Amy. Since they had traveled on and off with the Doctor the Ponds weren't surprised that Clara would have a job and the Doctor would just pick her up. The others were since their Doctor had never done that with them.

(He hands her a piece of paper. She grabs her motorcycle gear and leaves. The Tardis is parked on the side of a lonely country road. Clara sounds her horn and drives straight at it. The doors open to let her in.)

[Tardis]

(The Doctor is reading a book on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.)

DOCTOR: Draught.

(Clara clicks her fingers and the doors close.)

"Since when can you close the TARDIS doors like that?" Martha asked, surprised. Amy responded, "You mean the Doctor didn't do that when he traveled with you? He's done that since the first time I traveled with him."

The others pondered this. John sat silently, not wanting to bring up his encounter with River Song, and the guilt he still felt about her death.

DOCTOR: Fancy a week in ancient Mesopotamia followed by future Mars?

CLARA: Will there be cocktails?

DOCTOR: On the Moon.

CLARA: The Moon'll do.

(They laugh and embrace.)

DOCTOR: How's the new job? Teach anything good?

"I can't believe that someone would choose to go to work every day when they could just stay with the Doctor." Rose commented. She couldn't believe that a companion wouldn't want to stay with the Doctor for as long as they were able to. She had wanted to stay forever.

"I had an everyday job, I was a nurse," Rory responded. "So did I, I was a model, then a writer," said Amy, in full agreement with her husband. "We would live our everyday lives for months, than the Doctor would just show up on our doorstep. We'd travel with him for a few weeks, and then he'd take us back to right after he had picked us up."

Rose, Martha, Mickey, and Jack gaped at her. "You mean the Doctor finally learned to fly the TARDIS properly? Mickey asked in astonishment. He remembered only too well when the Doctor accidently returned Rose a year after she left. The police had been convinced that Mickey had murdered her.

"Hey," John shouted, hurt, "the Doctor can fly the TARDIS just fine, right Amy?"

"Well, I wouldn't say that," said Amy, remembering all the times she had to grab on to the console railing to avoid crashing into something. "But he's always been able to return me to right after I left. I've seen him do it loads of times, with many different people."

The others still couldn't believe it. John sat looking far too smug. Rose would have said something to him if she wasn't in a state of disbelief.