Well, the one person that voted is going to get their way. I'm going to try and write a lot more from now on. And update it every weekend, which gives me three days to write it the chapter. Anyway, I don't own Doctor Who or any of the spin-offs. Enjoy!
Maria was trying to waste her Saturday in front of the TV when her phone rang for the second time that day. She got up slowly to answer it, expecting it to be her dad again. When she picked it up, however, Luke's voice sounded through the speaker. He sounded excited, "Hey, Maria! Guess what! That Doctor Sarah Jane talked about called! He came over here and now they've gone out. Clyde thought-" as Luke said that, there was a cough from his end, "We thought that you'd like to come along. So, are you in?"
Ten minutes later, the three of them were all sitting in Sarah Jane's sitting room in silence. Maria was the first to break it, "So, you called me over here so we could just sit here in silence? I thought we were going to find out where Sarah Jane went with the Doctor!"
Luke looked hurt, "Well, we didn't know if you wanted to…"
"I'm here, aren't I? Of course I want to find out! Come on; let's ask Mr. Smith where the Doctor lives. I'm sure he knows," with that, she got up and ran up the stairs. Luke and Clyde followed, glad that she was there to take control.
"Maria, hello. I heard you talking downstairs and need to inform you that the Doctor does not have a house. His ship is a TARDIS which is currently disguised as a police box." The crystals on Mr. Smith's screen gave way to a satellite image of London, "It was last reported to be about twenty miles from here. I can give you directions if you want me to. Do you need them?"
Clyde elbowed past Maria and right in front of Mr. Smith, "Nah, I recognise that place. It's in town near that chippy. We can go there with the number 10 bus."
"Uh… Okay. Come on Luke, let's go! Thanks Mr. Smith!" Maria picked up her bag and dashed down the stairs.
The Doctor looked back at Sarah Jane, shocked; "You mean you'd sacrifice your son just so I could get Rose back?" she looked a little apprehensive then nodded. "Well, I forbid it. There are ways of getting across without having to hurt anyone."
"Well why do you need my help then, or is it just K-9 you want?" She crossed over to the door, before remembering they were at the edge of the solar system.
"No, I need your help because I missed you and wanted to say hi. Oh, and I need someone else. Someone to stop me..." After saying this, his eyes filled with tears. "I need you to help me… Have you ever seen me get angry? In this regeneration? Well, long story short, I need you to stop me before I go too far."
Seeing the seriousness in his eyes, Sarah Jane nodded, "Is there anything I can do to help you now? Any buttons need pressing?"
Snapping back to reality, the Doctor nodded. "Right, the first thing we need to do is to recreate the exact time Mickey accidentally broke open the void. Press down this lever. You'll need to hold it down for a bit, I'll go over here and open up communications. With any luck I'll be able to open a channel to talk to them. You're holding that to stop the breach opening again."
The two of them stood in silence, with the Doctor waving the sonic screwdriver around the TARDIS controls. After he had done this for twenty minutes, Sarah Jane just had to ask, "Doctor, is this going to work?"
"Of course!" He exclaimed, but he didn't look her in the eye as he said it.
"Doctor, please. I don't want to waste my time with this wild goose chase. It could take years for you to manage to break down the wall. I don't doubt you, but it's going to take too much time. I'm sorry, you have to get over her. Take me home."
He shook his head, "No. I can take you home but I'm not giving up. Can I stay at your house? Just for a bit, you know to prepare my, uh, plans for Rose."
She smiled. "Of course Doctor! I only have two bedrooms so you'll have to stay with Luke. Is that okay by you?"
"Yeah, I don't really need to sleep. Tried it once, how do you cope with the nightmares, anyway?" He smiled and pushed a button on the TARDIS console, "You can stop holding the lever now. It's not going to work, I sealed the breach too well."
Sarah Jane let go of the lever and picked up her coat that she'd hung over one of the tree-things in the TARDIS, "Handy these, aren't they. Better than in my day when we had to leave them on the floor."
He smiled weakly and pressed a few more buttons. The engines grated and they were back. "I parked where we left, we can drive to your house. Just let me grab my stuff."
Luke looked out of the bus window. It was starting to rain and they were still twenty minutes away from the spot the TARDIS had materialised at, by Clyde's reckoning. The rain was now making it hard to see out of the window. He was sitting between the window and Maria, with Clyde behind them. None of them felt the need to speak, even though they were probably going to get Sarah Jane very angry. She had never showed any signs of having an interesting social life before, but now this Doctor showed up and asked for her help. Anyone else would simply feel that she deserved her privacy, but Luke, Clyde and Maria all felt it was their right to know because Sarah Jane trusted them so much.
After a while, Clyde couldn't stand the silence. He leant forward and muttered in Luke's ear, "What do we do if the box has gone? What if they've vanished on to some other planet for some privacy?"
Luke sighed, "If the Doctor needed Sarah Jane's help and he has a time machine, he wouldn't come now unless he had to. I think there's something special about right now that he needs with her. If it was because he wanted to be alone with her he'd come a lot earlier to when she was younger. If it was because he needed her wisdom, he could come later and anyway, he must be older than her. Maybe she has something he needs that she's only going to have for a little while."
Clyde nodded, confused by Luke's conclusion. Before he had to think of a reply, the bus skidded to a halt at the bus stop opposite the chip shop. "So," Muttered Maria, almost to herself, "Where about was the box on Mr. Smith's satellite thing?"
Clyde led the way over the grassy hill. "It was over here, near the car park." Sure enough, they came to the TARDIS with little walking. Sarah Jane's car was parked near to it as well. "C'mon you two! They're still in there!" He ran up to the box and put his hand to the door. Just as he did, there came the sound of engines from behind the door. They echoed, as if from a long way away. The box slowly disappeared, leaving nothing but leaves blowing in the wind.
So, how was my first longish chapter? Long enough? If I get enough reviews, I might start the next chapter tomorrow after my homework and get it up on Sunday. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it!