Author's note: So here is the final chapter. It may just raise more questions that it answers, but that was my plan all along. I suppose it gives you a little preview into what may come in the next series (which I have decided to write because a few of you have expressed interest). Unfortunately, this is going to be my last post for a while because I'm going overseas. Hopefully I will be able to do some writing while I'm away. I do give a bit of a preview into the next story (which is meant to be a Christmas special, but its a bit late/early depending how you look at it!) to tease you a little! Anyway, if I don't reply, its because I haven't been on a computer, but I will reply to you as soon as I can! I hope you enjoy!

With a flash of white light, Edgar Mann appeared out of thin air down a dark alleyway just across from the car park to the school he had taken over a week ago had once stood. It had only just disappeared and he let out a relieved sigh; he had only just escaped the Judoon. He grinned triumphantly for a moment before he heard a voice behind him.

"Hello Mr. Mann,"

He spun round and found a tall, dark haired man in the greenish uniform of a major belonging to U.N.I.T. smiling at him.

"Relax Mann, I am not here to capture you or to turn you in," the man said with a sneer. "I do believe that you just met the Time Lord known as the Doctor and his ever faithful half alien companion. I think you may become very handy to me, Mr. Mann in the very near future..."

Edgar looked at the middle-aged man, who had stepped forward into the light coming from a nearby street lamp and felt that there was something off about him, something that didn't feel very human.

"Who are you?" he whispered fearfully.

"Someone who has a score to settle," the man smiled with an evil glint in his eyes.

-o-

After letting everyone in through the back door and hoping that they hadn't woken up Rani's parents across the street, Sarah Jane led everyone into the kitchen, glancing down to her watch; 02:30am. She shook her head slightly. "Anyone for a cup of tea?"

"Oh, yes please!" said Bella enthusiastically. "Do you mind if I go and check the news? I am quite intrigued as to what they'll blame this alien event on."

Sarah Jane smiled as she prepared mugs. "The living room is just across the hall,"

Bella smiled and left the room as Rani asked "What are the Judoon and what will they do to the Mann's?"

"The Judoon are sort of like the intergalactic police force," the Doctor explained as they heard the television turn on across the hall. "Edgar and Sophie Mann will most likely be sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against a level five planet."

"You should get paid," Clyde said seriously. "I bet you and Bella send heaps of villains to them."

Sarah Jane laughed slightly, not being able to imagine the Doctor working for people like the Shadow Proclamation while she poured hot water into the mugs. He did work for U.N.I.T. at one point, she reminded herself.

"I could never work for them," the Doctor said, nodding in appreciation as Sarah Jane handed him a mug of steaming hot tea. "I hate politics!"

Sarah Jane laughed heartily. "Luke, can you take this to Bella, please,"

Luke nodded and took the mug off his mother and walked from the kitchen as the Doctor begun to speak in Judoon ("Tro to go flo po go!") and Rani and Clyde laughed loudly. He walked into the living room to find Bella fast asleep on the lounge, the television remote still in her hand.

"Uh, Doctor?" he said, unsure if this was normal behaviour for her.

"She's asleep, isn't she?" came the Doctor's unsurprised voice from the kitchen.

Luke shook her slightly. "I think so," he said hesitantly, "she just won't wake up..."

"She can't, not yet." The Doctor said emerging in the doorway, looking quite calm compared to everyone else that followed him in.

"Why not?" asked Rani, feeling worried.

"It took a lot for Bella's body to keep fighting and repairing the damaged that was caused by the carbon dioxide," he explained, kneeling down beside Bella and looking at her fondly, "and even then, it only was repairs the body enough so that it can get out of the hostile situation that it's in. The full healing only begins when the body is in a calm, restful state and the mind feels safe enough to allow the body to rest."

He stood up, took the remote out of Bella's hand and gently lifted her up into his arms.

"You aren't going to leave are you?" Rani asked, she still had to thank Bella for saving her life.

"We aren't going anywhere just yet," the Doctor smiled and Rani nodded thankfully. "Thank you though, Rani." He added lightly and she looked up to him surprised.

"What for?" she asked.

"For looking after her when I couldn't," the Doctor said softly, before leaving the room, Sarah Jane following him out into the hall.

She opened the back door to let the Doctor out into the crisp morning air. It was still dark and the windows from the TARDIS emitted a soft blue light. As the Doctor moved past her, down the short steps, Sarah Jane glanced at Bella, who seemed quite content in the Time Lord's warm arms.

"She will be okay won't she?" Sarah Jane asked, hoping that the Doctor's words were true and not just something he had made up to stop them from worrying.

The Doctor turned and looked back up to Sarah Jane. "Give her a few hours and she'll be running around and giving me cheek again," he said with a fond grin on his face.

Sarah Jane smiled at him, thinking that finally he had met his match

"We will most likely see you later today then!" he grinned before turning back around to the TARDIS, the doors opening automatically and spreading a warm golden glow over Sarah Jane's garden.

Next Time: Southwark Cathedral, the oldest gothic church in London. Strange sightings have been seen around the church that some believe have something to do with the Vatican in a desperate attempt to lure people back to the faith, but others are thinking along the lines of some kind of alien attack. Giving London's track history with alien encounters at Christmas time, that surely must be the case. But in the Doctor's and Bella's excited haste to get to the church, have they made a serious mistake that could endanger both of their lives? And just what is one of the girls they meet's problem with adventure?