Oh

My

God.

It's happened. It's official. He's... he's... he's...

DAVID TENNANT HAS QUIT!!!!!!!

AAAAAHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAVID COME BACK!!! DON'T LEAVE US!!!! WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAA!!

What a silly boy. He gets what he's wanted all his life and he does something as stupid as quitting. Ugh. Well let's hope the next doctor is as good, even if there's no hope of him being as sexy. If you don't already know about it, there's loads of stuff on wikipedia on his page about it.

On a slightly lighter side, happy new year! (Not that it's been very happy so far, DAVID)

A big big thank you to all the people who review, it makes this traumatic time stlightly easier.

I know the story isn't looking very interesting so far (at least, I don't think it is), but I promise it does get much better, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, enough of the longest A/N ever, on with the story!

Disclaimer: If I owned Doctor Who, David Tennant would not be leaving. Ever.

xxx

The next day the Doctor, Rose and Jack were waiting in the TARDIS for Deb to say one last good bye to Jackie. The Doctor was flipping switches and twisting dials and buttons, watching the read out on the screen. There was a beeping sound, and he pushed one more button, and the central column began to move. A grin spread across his face, as he stepped back and folded his arms, admiring his ship.

"Right," he said, "ready to go!" he sat in the seat, and waited.

"You sure this is going to work?" asked Jack, "we're not going to end up trapped in between dimensions or something are we? 'Cause there are very few girls there…" the Doctor sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Yes Jack, I'm sure this is going to work!" just at that point there was a sudden beeping, and the Doctor leaped out of his chair and pressed some buttons, as the beeping died away. "Absolutely fine," he repeated, still fiddling with the buttons. Jack sighed. "Look, we're gonna get there and come straight back, it'll be fine. Admittedly it is probably the most dangerous thing I've ever made the TARDIS do, but it'll be fine…" he trailed off, distractedly fiddling with the buttons on the consol, his mind clearly elsewhere.

"Doctor?" Rose asked after a few seconds. He looked up at her.

"We're going back to before the war. The Time Lords won't have died. I won't be the only one…" he trailed off again, lost in his own world. "That's going to be weird…" the door opened suddenly, and they all looked up. "Deb, hi!" said the Doctor excitedly, "ready to go?"

"Yep!" she ran up to the consol, eagerly waiting.

"Then hold onto something, this could be a bumpy ride…" he pressed some more buttons as the central column began to move faster and louder, and the three passengers all grabbed the nearest rail to them. The Doctor pulled one last lever up, and they were all suddenly thrown to the ground.

He leaped back up again and started attacking the consol with an energy that Rose didn't know he had. They watched in fear from their positions on the ground, as the room shook and creaked around them. Jack managed to pull himself to his feet, despite the fact that the artificial gravity seemed to be working in overdrive.

"It's not going to work!" he shouted over the screeching of the engines.

"Yes it will! Just watch!" the Doctor shouted back happily, surprisingly managing to jump around the consol. "Come on my beautiful ship! Come on!" The TARDIS groaned some more as he pushed it further. Finally there was an all too loud bang, and the TARDIS stopped. The engines died down, and the central column came to a halt. The Doctor looked around himself. "We've landed," he said, "but the question is where!" he ran from behind the consol over to the doors, and went outside.

xxx

By the time Rose and Jack helped a disorientated Deb outside, the Doctor was staring in front of him, standing completely still. Jack left the two women and started to walk over to him. Deb leant against the TARDIS, holding her stomach.

"That can't have been good for the baby…" she complained, taking deep breaths.

"He'll be fine," Rose reassured her, helping her to walk towards the Doctor and Jack.

Jack walked up to the Doctor, looking around, and stopped next to him.

"We're in London," he said cockily, looking at the Doctor. "And unless Gallifrey looks exactly like London, I believe we didn't make it. Told ya," but the Doctor didn't answer, he just kept staring ahead. "Hello? Earth to Doctor?" Jack said, waving his hand in front of the Doctor's face.

"We weren't aiming for Gallifrey," the Doctor said distractedly, "we were aiming for London, 'cause that's where Deb lives…" he trailed off again, then looked at Jack. "We made it," he said quietly, "We're before the war. I can feel them," Jack's eyebrows raised, as he realised what this meant. They'd made it.

"So! Said Rose, walking up to them with Deb slung round her shoulders, "tell me we made it." The Doctor looked at her, and grinned.

"Yeah!" he said happily, as Deb slid off Rose's shoulder, "We made it!" Rose grinned back at hi, and they threw their arms around each other. A second later they parted, and the Doctor turned to Deb, who was smiling at him.

"Thank you!" she said gratefully, "thank you so much!" she too threw her arms around him. This time the Doctor reacted quick enough to hug her back. Rose and Jack looked at each other, shrugged and gave each other a hug too.

Deb pulled away from the Doctor and got her mobile phone out of her pocket. "I should probably give Eta a call, tell him where I am…" just as she lifted it to her ear, a man came running round the corner.

"Deb!" he called. She turned to face him.

"Eta!" she called back happily, running towards him. They met and hugged each other. Jack and Rose watched them smiling, but the doctor could just stare.

"Oh my…" Rose and Jack looked up at him, and suddenly realised.

"Doctor, is that…?" Rose whispered, and he slowly nodded.

"Yeah…" he stared as the two of them parted, and started walking over to them. "Here we go," he muttered. Rose took his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze, and dropped it a gain just before Deb and Eta reached them.

"Hello!" said Eta with a big arm gesture, "You must be the Doctor!" he took his hand and shook it, then looked at the others. "And you must be Jack and Rose! Nice to meet you," he shook each of their hands too, and Jack had to resist the urge to flirt with him, as he found him surprisingly attractive. "So, are you going to be staying for a bit?" he asked. They both looked to the Doctor, who seemed to be trying to remember how to speak.

"Um… actually, um… I think we'd better be going, otherwise the TARDIS won't be able to get back through…" Eta looked behind them to the TARDIS, frowning.

"Why does it look like that?" he asked.

"Hm?" the Doctor looked back at the TARDIS, then back at Eta, "like what?"

"Like a big blue police public call box. I think you're chameleon circuit's broken."

"Ah yes! Yes, it is, it broke years ago, it's stuck like that."

"Why don't you fix it?"

"I rather like it like that." Eta looked at him as if he was crazy, then shrugged.

"Each to his own, I guess," he muttered. He then looked between Rose and Jack.

"I don't want to sound rude, but why are there two humans with you?" he asked.

"Oh, um, I travel with them. Bit outside of the Time Lord rules, I know, then again so is having a baby with another species." Eta laughed slightly nervously.

"Yes, well, I'm sort of hoping they'll be ok with it. I'm quite high up in the government, so they're not exactly going to arrest me for it," the Doctor laughed, and nodded.

"They'll be fine," he said, but only Rose could notice the nervousness in his voice.

"Can I ask you something?" said Eta suddenly. The Doctor shrugged.

"Go ahead."

"I couldn't get through to get Deb myself, there was something stopping me, but my TARDIS didn't know what. Do you know what it was?" Again, the Doctor seemed to be stuck for an answer. Eventually he shook his head.

"Dunno. No idea. Sorry," he said quickly, then looked back to the TARDIS. "Come to think of it, I'd better go see that we can actually get back, if you had trouble getting through, I don't know if I can get back…"

"Ah, yes, I should probably go back and check my TARDIS, I was inside trying to get through when you came through and it said that Deb was on your ship so I went running out to find you, if there were any people around they would have seen me running out of a tree, could look a bit weird. And I'm not entirely sure I shut the door I've probably got loads of humans snooping around the TARDIS right now."

"Better go and check then," said the Doctor, starting to back away to his TARDIS.

"Listen, don't go, ok? I wanna thank yo properly for bringing Deb back-"

"It was nothing, don't worry! We probably have to go anyway, I don't know how long the TARDIS can stay here. Bye!" the Doctor waved, as he started to walk back to the TARDIS.

"Bye!" said Deb and Eta, as they started to walk away, slightly surprised at the Doctor's sudden want to leave. The Doctor almost ran into the TARDIS, and shut the door behind him once Rose and Jack were in.

"That was so weird," he said, then walked up to the consol.

"Why?" asked Rose.

"When I was a kid he was always stressed, it's just weird seeing him so… happy."

"What was his job?"

"He had to investigate and stop any time breaches on other planets and fix them, or something like that. That's why he got sent to Earth, something went wrong. Then he took me back to Gallifrey when I was born so I could be raised there rather then on Earth, but after that all he ever did was work. He never acted quite like that," Rose watched him as he worked on the consol, with a hint of pity. She knew what it was like to have parents that didn't pay much attention to you.

"Still, you had Deb," she offered, but for a second he didn't answer. Finally he looked up at her, with a small smile.

"Yeah," he said weakly, then looked down at the consol again. A few seconds passed before a series of beeps filled the room. "Ah, there we go," said the Doctor, "Ready to go back, I believe our work here is done."

"Wait… you're just going to go back? Right now?" Rose asked sceptically.

"Yep," he said quickly.

"Do we have to go back right now?"

"Well, no… not exactly have to…"

"Well aren't you going to talk to your parents then?"

"Nope," the Doctor didn't look up at her, he just kept looking at the consol, clearly not wanting to talk about it. By now Rose knew better than to push matters that he didn't want to talk about, but when the central column started moving, she couldn't help but go up and stop him.

"You can't just leave!" she shouted, pulling his hands away from the consol. He looked at her, eyes wide. "I mean, you can never get back here again. And even if you don't wanna see your parents… don't you want to see Gallifrey? You're always saying that you wish you could go back, just once… well now you can," he looked at her, his face a mixture of emotions.

"Oh go on," said Jack, his voice cutting through the silence, "I for one have always wanted to see Gallifrey, what's stopping ya?" the Doctor looked at him for a second, then a smile broke out on his face.

"Ok then," he said, running around the consol, "Next stop… Gallifrey!"