This story is a continuation from 'beyond the door' by captinjackie1 which is only an introduction to the other stories .

Captinjack1 is my unofficial BETA and is already putting up one of my stories, 'the closest best friends are like sisters' and im doing this one as I am 5 chapters ahead of her and need her to catch up.

There will be other stories like this and after I finish DW im going to go onto another one. This story is in Ashley's POV and wont be changing anytime soon at least I don't think it will. (Ashley is kind of me and Rachel is captianjackie1.)

I also must put that I couldn't do it with out the transcripts on

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# I do not own DrWho/TorchWood or any characters that you recognise XD


Chapter 10 school reunion part 1

" so your saying because we work for UNIT we have clearance to go undercover a school inspectors that are doing a report on the school, and it wont matter how long it would take?" I ask the doctor ask me, Rachel, Daniel, Bethany and Louise were catching up on thing, when Mickey had contacted us saying that he found a suspicious school that needed looking at.
"yep now all you need are visitor badges and brief cases with paper, oh and do take notes it will help to find out what is happening." he told us…

Two days later… It is lunchtime, and the dinner ladies are spooning food onto people's plates. Me, The Doctor and the others are moving along the line with our trays. Rose, who is undercover as a dinner lady, spoons mashed potato onto the doctors plate and gives him a filthy look simultaneously. He just smirks at her and heads towards the tables.

We then join him at his table, a little later, the Doctor speared a chip on his fork, nibbles it, and stares at it distastefully. Rose comes over with a dishcloth to wipe his table down.
"Two days." rose told him
"Sorry, could you just- there's a bit of gravy." he says to her and I try not to giggle at her.
He points to it with his fork. Rose wipes the table.
"No, no - just there." he points at the gravy as I try the chip there surprisingly nice even tho I knew what they were doing. Rose wipes up the gravy.
"Two days, we've been here." she grumbles again
"Blame your boyfriend, he's the one who put us onto this. And he was right. Boy in class this morning - got a knowledge way beyond planet Earth." I told her
"You eating those chips?" rose asked us
"Yeah, they're a bit... Different." the doctor replied
"But surprisingly nice" Bethany told her
And Rose helped herself to one.
"I think they're gorgeous. Wish I had school dinners like this."
"totally agree with ya cuz, never had any like them." I nodded in agreement with her
She sits down.
"It's very well behaved, this place." The doctor comments squinting around the canteen
"Mm." rose said her mouth full of chips
"I thought there'd be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones." he explained and me and Bethany and the others laugh t his description of school.
"not even my school was like that" I laugh. He stares at Us impressively.
"Yeah? Yeah? Oh, yeah! Don't tell me I don't fit in."
Just then s dinner lady approaches their table.
"You are not permitted to leave your station during a sitting." She said sternly to Rose
"I was just talking to this teacher." rose explained standing
"Hello!" the doctor said happily
"He doesn't like the chips." rose told her
"The menu has been specifically designed by the headmaster to improve concentration and performance. Now, get back to work." The dinner lady said affronted
She leaves. Rose walks away from the table.
"See? This is me." she said to us and She gestures down at her uniform.
"The dinner lady."
"I'll have the crumble." the doctor teased
"I'm so gonna kill you." rose threatened and I start to chuckle under my breath
She returns to her station, the Doctor grinning manically. A teacher, Mr Wagner, approaches a girl sitting a few tables away.
"Melissa. You'll be joining my class for the next period. Milo's failed me... so it's time we moved you up to the top class." he said to the girl, Melissa
We watch the doctor, chewing absently.
"Kenny? Not eating the chips?" Mr Wagner asks the boy
"I'm not allowed." Kenny explained
"Luke - extra class. Now." Mr Wagner ordered
He leaves, and several of the children follow him. Mr Finch watches the proceedings from a balcony above the canteen. He seems to notice the Doctor watching him. Me and my friend look up at Mr Finch as well and he loos at me and I shiver slightly so do the others when he looks at them.
After lunch we all go to the staff room to have tea/ coffee with biscuits.
The Doctor is sitting on a desk, nibbling a biscuit. And me and the others are standing next to him and the desk. There is a teacher pacing up and down in front of him.
"But yesterday, I had a twelve-year-old girl give me the exact height of the Walls of Troy... in cubits." Mr Parsons said to the doctor amassed
"And, it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?" I asked him
"Finch arrived three months ago. Next day, half the staff got flu. Finch replaced them with that lot." He nods over to where a group of smart looking teachers are standing. Me, The Doctor and look over our shoulders at them.
"Except for the teacher you replaced, and that was just plain weird, her winning the lottery like that." he said
"How's that weird?" the doctor asked
"She never played! Said the ticket was posted through her door at midnight." he explained
"Hmm! The world is very strange." he told him popping another biscuit into his mouth, just then Mr Finch appeared with a familiar face.
"Excuse me, colleagues - a moment of your time." Mr finch says and I elbow the doctor in the side and point at the woman smiling. The Doctor turns and his eyes widen and he stands, just staring.
"May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith. Miss Smith is a journalist, who's writing a profile about me for the Sunday Times." Sarah Jane smiles around at them all. The Doctor's face is a picture - the corners of his mouth begin to turn upwards in a smile.
"I thought it might be useful for her to get 'a view from the trenches', so to speak. Don't spare my blushes." Mr Finch finishes and he leaves. Sarah Jane catches the Doctor's eye and approaches us.
"Hello!" she says
"Oh, I should think so!" the doctor says
"And, you are... ?" she asks him
"Hm? Uh, Smith. John Smith." he says but he can't take his eyes off her
"John Smith? I used to have a friend who sometimes went by that name." she said remembering
"Well, it's a very common name!" the doctor says logically
"He was a very uncommon man." she told him reminiscing
She holds out her hand.
"Nice to meet you!" she told him
"Nice to meet you! Yes! Very nice! More than nice - brilliant!" the doctor rambled to her grinning she then turned to us
" and you are?" she asks
"Oh, im Ashley Swanson, and this here is Rachel and Daniel Nicolson, Bethany Anderson and Louise manscott." I tell pointing at a of my friends and she shakes mine and there hands
"Um... so, um, have you worked here long?" she asked us
"No! Um, it's only my second day." the doctor says
"and were here to do a report on the school, so far its been ok, but its only day 2." I smile at her and Sarah Jane turns back to the doctor
"Oh, you're new, then? So, what do you think of the school? I mean, this new curriculum?" The Doctor can still not tear his eyes away from her, and he's smiling at her but she doesn't seem to notice.
"So many children getting ill - doesn't that strike you as odd?" she says
"I think something's eating them." I joke slightly Sarah laughs, but the doctor can see my seriousness in my eyes and know straight away its one of the episode from my TV show. He discreetly nods and turns to Sarah Jane
"You don't sound like someone just doing a profile." he said grinning
"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here." she told us
"No. Good for you." he told her and She walks away to meet some of the other teachers.
"Good for you. Oh, good for you, Sarah Jane Smith." He says proud of her
I take the doctor by the arm smiling and he looks at me also smiling,
" you know she has her own program on CBBC," I told him "and it's a spin-off from yours and she defeats alien, like sleetheen and the trickster and many others" at this he seems even more pleased and then the bell rings.
The day comes to an end and night falls over the school. And the doctor decides to check the school.
He opens a fire door with his sonic and comes through it into a dark corridor, followed by Me, Rose, Rachel the others and Mickey.
"Oh, it's weird seeing school at night. It just feels wrong." rose shivered
We make their way cautiously down the corridor.
"When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in school." I told them smiling
"All right, team. Oh, I hate people who say 'team'. Um... 'gang'. Um... 'comrades'. Uh... anyway, Rose, Rachel and Bethany, go to the kitchen and get a sample of that oil. Mickey Daniel and Louise, the new staff are all Maths teachers, go and check out the Maths department. I'm gonna look in Finch's office with Ashley. Be back here in ten minutes.
He takes off up the stairs with me.

Me and The Doctor head down a dark corridor, brow furrowed as he hears screeches and flaps in the distance. He pauses for a moment and then strides to find the source of the noise.
As we were looking we see someone go in the direction of the TARDIS and we follow the familiar figure. We see Sarah Jane stare at the closed door, and then she turns slowly around. Me and The Doctor are standing there in the darkness, watching her.
"Hello, Sarah Jane." the doctor greets her quietly
"It's you. Oh... Doctor…" she whispered and a smile starts to spread across her face as she edges towards him.
"Oh, my God, it's you, it's... it's... you've regenerated." she pointed out
"Half a dozen times since we last met." he told he her
"You look... Incredible." she complimented him
"So do you." he told her sincerely
"I got old."
"but ya look good for ya age" I told truthfully and she gave me a smile the she edges around him, staring at him.
"What're you two doing here?" she asks curiously
"I kind of know all of the doctors future cause im kind of from a different universe but im not, its complicated. I work for UNIT and travel with him." I smile at her
"Well... UFO sightings, school gets record results - I couldn't resist. What about you?" the doctor asked
"Same." she replies we laugh. But Sarah Jane's smile falters and she sounds close to tears when she speaks again.
"I thought you'd died. I waited for you and you didn't come back, and I thought you must've died." Sarah Jane told him truthfully
"I lived. Everyone else died." he explained sadly
"What do you mean?" she asked confused
"Everyone died, Sarah." the doctor replied quietly still in pain from the topic I take his hand in mine and he gives me a small sad smile.
Sarah Jane shakes her head.
"I can't believe it's you." Sarah Jane whispered in disbelief
The moment is broken by the sound of Mickey wailing.
"Okay! Now I can!" Sarah Jane joked and I laughed
We grin and run from the gym to find the source of the scream. They almost skid into Rose, Rachel and Bethany who are running from a converging corridor.
"Did you hear that?" rose asked worried
" oh that's just Mickey" I told them
Rose notices Sarah Jane.
"Who's she?" rose asked the doctor
"Rose, Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane, Rose." Rose looks at he unpleasantly surprised. They shake hands.
"Hi. Nice to meet you." Sarah Jane says with a very fake smile and turns to the doctor
"You can tell you're getting older - your assistants are getting younger." I turn to her and whisper in her ear "companions… he doesn't call them assistants any more." she nod absentmindedly
"I'm not his assistant." rose says to her outraged
The Doctor scratches his ear uncomfortably.
"No? I get you, tiger." Sarah Jane says back to her
The Doctor speeds off and we all follow him. They find Mickey in one of the class rooms, surrounded by a load of vacuum-packed rats and the others are laughing at him.
"Sorry! Sorry, it was only me. You told me to investigate, so I - I started looking through some of these cupboards and all of these fell out of them." Mickey tried to explain without further embarrassing himself
"told you" I whisper to Sarah Jane and she laughs a little as The Doctor bends down and picks a few up to examine them.
"Oh, my God, they're rats. Dozens of rats. Vacuum packed rats." rose said in shock looking at the rats
"And you decided to scream." the doctor asks Mickey
"It took me by surprise!" he defended himself
"Like a little girl?" I asked him
"It was dark! I was covered in rats!" Mickey trys indignantly
"Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails, frilly skirt." the doctor mocked Mickey
"Hello, can we focus? Does anyone notice anything strange about this? Rats in school?" rose said trying to get us off Mickey's back
"Well, obviously they use them in Biology lessons. They dissect them. Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?" Sarah Jane asks rose
Me, the others, The Doctor and Mickey look shiftily between them.
"Excuse me, no one dissects rats in school anymore. They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the dark ages?" rose asked her temper rising and I put my hand on her arm trying to calm her down.
"Anyway, moving on." The doctor said quickly trying to stop the arguing
Sarah Jane obviously badly wants to make a cutting retort. She and Rose give each other the dirtiest of looks. I put my arm on roses and Sarah Jane's arms and whisper pleadingly
"please can we sort this later" and they nod
"Everything started when Mr Finch arrived. We should go and check his office." the doctor continued and he chucks the rat he is holding back to Mickey, who drops it. We follow the Doctor out and down the corridor.
"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose said to Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor.
"Oh! Well, he's never mentioned you." rose said
"Oh, I must've done! Sarah Jane! Mention her all the time." the doctor defended himself
"Hold on... sorry... Never." rose said pretending to think about it
"What, not even once? He didn't mention me once?" Sarah Jane exclaimed annoyed " then how do you lot know me then?" she said turning to me and the others
"I told you I know everything about the doctor his past and future, oh and you're my favourite of the past companions, tho Susan and Romana were ok as well." I explained to Sarah Jane and she nods with a slight smile when she heard that she was my favourite
Rose walks off and Sarah Jane follows her, probably to probe her further. I follow them to make sure they don't fight with the others behind me.
"Ho ho! Mate! The missus and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nightmare." Mickey commented with a hand on the Doctor's shoulder, he grins and they follow the rest of us.
When we get there The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to unlock the door of Mr Finch's office.
"Maybe those rats were food." the doctor said thinking
"Food for what?" Bethany asked
The Doctor opens the door and peers inside. There are some incredibly strange noises coming from there. The Doctor's eyes are fixed on the ceiling.
"Ashley... you know you used to think all the teachers slept in the school... ? Well... they do." I look inside the office and then when I see bat-like creatures that are hanging upside down from the ceiling. The nine of us stare at them.
"No way!" Mickey said turning on his heel
The rest of us quickly follow him. The Doctor goes last, shutting the door behind him. At the sound of the door shutting, one of the bats wakes up and screeches.
We all run out of the front doors of the school.
"I am not going back in there. No way." Mickey exclaimed out of breath from running
"wuss" I said quietly but no one but the others had hears and we laughed quietly
"Those were teachers!" rose shouted
"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies and a nurse. Thirteen. Thirteen big bat people. Come on." and he begins to walk back inside.
"Come on- you've got to be kidding!" Mickey cries out
"I need the TARDIS. I've got to analyze that oil from the kitchen." the doctor explains
"I might be able to help you, there. I've got something to show you!" she told us and she grabs mine and the Doctor's arm and pulls us excitedly in the direction of the car park.
The others look at me and I just shrug and they follow behind.
In the car park Sarah Jane opened the boot of her car.
"ive got a feeling your going to like this" Sarah Jane told me and my team, Inside is something covered with a green blanket. The Doctor pulls the blanket off to reveal K9.
"K9!" me and the doctor say together "Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith - allow me to introduce K9- well, K9 Mark III to be precise." he explains delighted
"THE most perfect robotic dog in the history of robotic dogs I say stroking K9s nose"
Mickey and Rose glance at each other with an 'it's a tin dog' sort of expression.
"Why does he look so... Disco?" I scowl at rose
"Oi! Listen, in the year five thousand, this was cutting edge! What's happened to him?" the doctor asked concerned
"Oh, one day, he just... Nothing!" she explained to us
"Well, didn't you try and get him repaired?" the doctor said
Mickey shakes his head. Rose stares at him. They really don't get it do they. Its K9 what's there not cool about him?
"Well, it's not like getting parts for a mini-metro! Beside, the technology inside him could rewrite human science. I couldn't show him to anyone!" Sarah explained annoyed
"he is from the 51st century doctor." I say to him and he nods
"Ooh, what's the nasty lady done to you? Eh?" He said cooing at K9 I look at Sarah and whisper "if this is what's he like with K9 I would love to see how he's around Mr Smith." she looks at me confused, and I explain to her "just because I know all about the doctor don't mean I don't know about his companions, you see in my world he's a TV series and this is season 2, you also have a TV show and it's a spin off from his." her eyes widen in amassment.
Mickey stares at the doctor and Rose rolls her eyes. The Doctor strokes K9 making coo-ing noises. Sarah Jane throws Rose what could be described as a triumphant glance.
Just then I feel like we are being observed, but I didn't dare look
"Look, no offence but could you three just stop petting for a minute? Never mind the tin dog, we're busy!" rose told us.
The Doctor closes the boot, grinning and Dan goes to get his car. The bat-like creature flies past the moon, screeching.

Me, The Doctor, Sarah Jane, Rose and Mickey and the others are in a chip shop. The Me, the Doctor and Sarah Jane are sitting at a table by the window, chatting and laughing whilst the Doctor tries to fix K9, who has been placed on the table-top. Rachel, Mickey and Rose and the others are by the counter.

"I thought of you on Christmas Day. This Christmas just gone? Great big spaceship overhead - I thought, 'Oh, yeah. Bet he's up there'." Sarah told the doctor
"that day was a bit hectic" I admit
"Right on top of it, yeah." the doctor agreed with both of us
"And Rose?" She asked cautiously
"She was there too." I told her "you know she's my cousin? She isn't always like this I think she's a bit jealous of you" I told her with a smile and she returns it.
There is a pause whilst Sarah Jane looks at him and the Doctor fiddles with K9's wires.
"Did I do something wrong? Because you never came back for me. You just... dumped me." I took her hand in comfort
"I told you. I was called back home and in those days humans weren't allowed." he explained
"I waited for you. I missed you." she told him sincerely
"Oh, you didn't need me! You were getting on with your life." The doctor said to her brushing this off
"You were my life." The Doctor looked up at her.
"You know what the most difficult thing was? Coping with what happens next, and with what doesn't happen next. You took me to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, you showed me supernovas, intergalactic battles and then you just dropped me back on Earth. How could anything compare to that?"
"All those things you saw - do you want me to apologize for that?" The doctor asked with his brow furrowed
"No, but we get a taste of that splendour... and then we have to go back." Sarah Jane told him simply
"But look at you, you're investigating. You found that school - you're doing what we always did." he pointed out smiling
"You could've come back." she said sadly
"I couldn't." he replied quietly
"Why not?" she whispered

The Doctor did not answer. Sarah Jane shakes her head and the Doctor switches his sonic screwdriver back on and returns to repairing K9. But I can see that she's still not done.
"It wasn't Croydon - where you dropped me off, it wasn't Croydon!" she told him
"Where was it?" the doctor asked curiously
"Aberdeen." She said with a frown irritated
Right. He said to himself realisation dawning

There was a Pause.

"That's next to Croydon, isn't it?" the doctor asked us.
I mentally slap my forehead and Me and Sarah Jane smile and shake our head at him. At that moment, K9 springs to life.
"yay!" I squeak
"Oh, hey! Now we're in business!" he exclaimed and He leaped to his feet and stands in front of K9.
"Master!" K9 says recognising the doctor
"He recognizes me!" The doctor said ecstatic I just smile at him.
"Affirmative." K9 replied
"Rose, give us the oil." the doctor ordered her.
The Doctor takes off the lid of the jar with the oil inside and is just about to dip his finger in it.
"I wouldn't touch it, though, that dinner lady got all scalged." rose said a warning quickly
"I'm no dinner lady. And I don't often say that." he replied to her and I giggle a little but stifle it before they hear it
He dips his finger into the oil and K9 puts out a sensor for the Doctor to smear it onto, which he does.
"Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go." the doctor cooed
"Oil. Ex- ex- ex- extract ana- an- analysing…" K9 stuttered out
Listen to it, man! That's a voice! Mickey said grinning delighted and I gave him a look.
"Careful! That's my dog!" Sarah Jane warned him and I grin at him and he had the decency to look sheepish.
"Confirmation of analysis - substance is Krillitane Oil." K9 said when he finished analysing the oil.
"They're Krillitanes." the doctor said shocked
Is that bad?" Bethany asked - she must of forgotten this episode…
"Very. Think of how bad things could possibly be, and add another suitcase full of bad." the doctor told us
"And what are... Krillitanes?" Sarah Jane asked not being familiar with this species
"They're a composite race. Just like your culture is a mixture of traditions from all sorts of countries - people you've invaded or have been invaded by, you've got bits- bits of Viking, bits of France, bits of whatever - the Krillitanes are the same. An amalgam of the races they've conquered. But they take physical aspects as well. They cherry-pick the best bits from the people they destroy. That's why I didn't recognize them. The last time I saw Krillitanes, they looked just like us except they had really long necks." the doctor explained to all of us.
"What're they doing here?" Louise asked curiously
"It's the children. They're doing something to the children." the doctor exclaimed as horrible realization spread across his face.

Me, Mickey and Sarah Jane were hoisting K9 into the boot of the car.
"So, what's the deal with the tin dog?" Mickey asked her
"The Doctor likes travelling with an entourage. Sometimes they're humans, sometimes they're aliens, and sometimes... they're tin dogs." she explained.
Mickey smiles and gives a small laugh.
"What about you two? Where do you fit in the picture?" Sarah asked us
"well you could call me a companion, but because I know all about his future, and the episodes are all the major events, its more brother/sister relationship he kind of goes into overprotective big brother mode sometimes without knowing" we giggled "he helps with the fact that in the episodes I know who dies and when, and it stresses me out and sometime if im too scared to change something I wont tell him about it even if it means sacrificing a lot of lives, like on Christmas day, the Sycorax ship getting blown up, I didn't know what would happen if they did go free, they could of told others that are worse and they would come try, just to take on the challenge of the doctors words. You see." with that my shoulders sagged with an invisible weight and Sarah Jane gathered me into a hug , once I felt better she turned to Mickey while still having her arm around my shoulders.
" and you?" she asked him
"Me? I'm their Man in Havana. I'm the technical support, I'm…" Mickey said enthusiastically but trails off when it hit him.
"Oh, my God. I'm the tin dog." he exclaims in horror and he sits down in shock. Sarah Jane grins and pats him on the shoulder.


ive notesed that with school it takes longer to do chapters :( R&R

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