Jack, River, and the Doctor waited as Lynz sped off on the motorcycle.
"You're married."The Doctor raised a eyebrow.
"You don't have to sound so surprised."
"You're married."
"Yes, he is. And so am I."They jumped to see Lynz behind them, leaning against the door.
"How did you do that without the-"Jack imitated the TARDIS sound.
"I turned off the breaks."River raised a eyebrow.
"Can you show me how to do that?"
"Sure."River followed Linz into the TARDIS while the Doctor and Jack followed behind. Linz was explaining how the basics of the TARDIS worked. Jack turned to the Doctor.
"You know how to do that?"
"Yes! Well, no."
Linz looked up and walked over, looking into the Doctor's eyes and scoffed.
"They erased it, didn't they."She started speaking in another language, and by the way the Doctor turned pink, it wasn't the most polite language.
Jack and River exchanged looks.
"Erased it?"
"They wanted to make sure I couldn't leave the planet without them knowing about it, so they erased the knowledge I had of piloting the TARDIS. It was a punishment."
Linz rubbed his shoulder and hit a couple of buttons and they were going. The ride was slightly bumpy, and the noise was quieter, so she only barely had the brakes on. The Doctor seemed to relax at that.
When they went outside, they were in New York City, at the Farmers Market in Union Square, and then they were in a field on a cliff, high above a sea. They set up a picnic and lounged.
"So. You're married."
"Yes."
"And you haven't seen each other for-"
"Over a thousand years."
"Wait. He is just over nine hundred."
"No. He is a lot older than that. What were you counting from?"
"Kid's death." River saw the hand squeeze, Jack saw the sharing of pain.
"Kay. Anyway, he is a lot older than that."
"How much?"
"Um...Lesse, I'm seventeen years older than him, and I am what, 7 years older than this planet, so..."
"This is Earth, right?"
"Yeah."
"You're over four point six billion years old?"
"Yeah."
"I should know. Not only am I better at keeping track, I babysat."
"Really?"
"Yeah, my family worked for his, though the Council seemed to realize that I was just as smart, if not smarter, than him, so we spent a lot of time together. And then we got married which really pissed his mother off. The kid on the other hand, sent her over the moon."
"You were sent off world?"
"I was a ambassador. The Council was trying to get idiot up as President, and he didn't want to do it, and I wasn't about to try and make him, so they tried separating us."
"And here you are."
"And here we are."
"So."All eyes turned to Linz."Whatcha wanna do?"
Grins started lightening up.
"Lets do it, then."
Sorry this took a while, I have been sorta busy.
R&R!