Author note: here starts a little fun, I am starting to pull strings together, for the first part of the story, I think how fast you will recon what's happening... I hope I'll make it interesting, and unpredictable. So Why so late, job, I have something like job, not really because I need to take lessons first, so 'school - to be job' thing. And I'm reading like a maniac, I have all the books from Doctor who (starting with 9th Doctor) I think you can understand me.

But I lost some Favorites, and follows, still have new ones, anyway it made me sad, so I though there's something wrong with my story. So I really hope you will like this chapter.

Disclaimer - I own Doctor who ... NOT!

p.s. sorry for grammar.

John sat on the couch in the living room. He just couldn't stop thinking about Rose. Ginny sat next to him and talked about the events at the office, it was nothing new, the same old story, printer's broken and no one cares and she can't work properly, something like that, so he didn't feel guilty about not listening. His thoughts were elsewhere, and he couldn't concentrate. Since Rose left, he realised that his life is empty, it wasn't Rose he was missing, he knew exactly what it was that he was missing. After she left, and his little adventure ended, John tried to return to the old routine, but he had a feeling that something isn't right, he had the feeling that he have missed something, that something was wrong. He had feeling which he knew too good, the feeling Doctor had when he was in new place and something was just wrong, he didn't know what but he could taste it, just something was wrong.

John's job to get Rose in the right universe, reminded him what sort of man he was. He wasn't a teacher of physics, he wasn't the Doctor. But he also wasn't a man who lived a quiet life, his place was elsewhere. He had to do something, anything, he needed a life he was made for. At fist he considered the idea to start working for Torchwood. But he rejected idea as quickly as it came. Soon, a few more days and his ship TARDIS will be ready for her first flight, he could go on to explore this Universe, there was definitely a lot things to see. But he couldn't, something Rose told him on the phone, troubled him. And he just couldn't get it out of his head.

"What ar you thinking?" Ginny asked him, pulling him out of his thoughts.

"Nothing in particular, of the Stars," He smiled at the woman next to him "Had you Ever wanted a closer look at stars?" He asked with shining eyes.

"No, this isn't even possible, at least not in my lifetime, anyway untill people will be capable to travel around the stars it would take many hundreds of years. And for me there is a lot to do here on earth, I have no time for dreaming about unrealistic things, and stars is simply an uninhabited planet, probably deserted like Mars, there's nothing to see" she replied dryly,

"Well " He said in his old manner "I don't know, maybe there is life. Just think about it, how much solar system like this one we are living in, are there in the universe - billions, I recon some are even the same size " he said

" I didn't know that you're a dreamer. " she said with smile

"Dreams are a good thing. Do you have something against it?" He asked, though his quick thinking and experience with human psychology has told the answer to him, before Ginny had time to Answer.

"As long as you don't start to pull wires at home, disrupt televisions and bring strange technical things, I have nothing against it," she smiled, as if she had told a joke.

But John didn't smile. Ginny was as plain and gray, as his life. He needed five years to realize that he ran, ran away from the memories and responsibility. Ran away from his nature. He had a complex, he wasn't the Doctor, but he wasn't John Smith either. He was a new man. He had only one life, he couldn't hide anymore, he didn't know who he was, but siting on a gray couch wouldn't tell him, he needed to do what he wanted, not in the big things, but in every little thing. He clapped his hands causing Ginny to jump, with hand he messed up his neat hair, forcing them to stand in the air, and with a big smile that said - Adventures is Across the door, he said,

"Remember the blue fridge in my kitchen? That one that didn't work?" Ginny nodded slowly with her head, shocked by his sudden change. "It doesn't work because it isn't even a fridge. It is a spaceship traveling not only between planets, but also in time. it's called the TARDIS." He grinned at this, but Ginny looked at kim with opened mouth 'Well, it doesn't suit her, bu still I just told her that I have a time machine, 'corse she would be shocked, a good-looking man with time machine, irresistable and shocking '

"Is this a joke?" She asked slowly

"No it's true, in few days it will be ready for a ride, I needed to grow it, took five years, but still, all working now " he grinned

"Oh! My god! You're wacky! I'd never imagined, you were just, just SO normal, SO nice, and now turns out that you're CRAZY! I knew it was too good to be true, Oh god, I'm leaving", she took with trembling hands her bag, ready to defend herself with it, if John came near her.

"No, don't go away, I'll show you, I'm not crazy, well, not that crazy!" he said desperately

" Don't you dare to come anyway near me, and don't call me EVER!" she waved her handbag in front of his face wildly "and such as you teach children.I have to report it!" and with that she was gone.

"Well, it didn't go as I planed it" He said to him self "Still, I have something to do" he took a phone, and dialed number. He waited, no one picked up, it rang out. " Where are you!" But there was no one to answer.

Rory and Amy was sleeping on the road. There was an arch in cave but they didn't want to risk it, so they settled on the yellow brick road right in the middle. Doctor could hear that they had trouble sleeping, and he could understand that, it wasn't exactly peaceful around here. The cave was big but not wide, the walls was made of cool smooth stone, but he could here water from a distance, 'it must be the river,' He thought to him self, he didn't want to know what for a surprise this deadly river will present them.

"Don't you think it's weird?" Rose asked him

"What?"

" The mountain and cave? In the book there was no mountain and cave, and nether was the Dragon" she said quietly so she wouldn't wake up Amy and Rory

"Think of it, there's not exactly 910 years old Time Lord nether. But I have an idea" He said grinning "Rory and Amy is sleeping, and I have suspicions, that something is interfering with this land, it would be perfect if we could have a closer look at the Dragon and Kalidahs, I though maybe while Ponds are sleeping we could explore a little." Rose smiled at this "You take Kalidahs, and I do the Dragon, you just need to climb down the cliff, and take some example from them, I don't know what, hare or some part of the body, it's not important, just something it would be much easier, something big enough that I can scan it."

"And how will you find the dragon?" she asked

" I'll think of something, I'm good at thinking you know " he smiled at her,

" I'll see you back here, you understand" she said with grin

" Yes sir." he smiled and hugged her .

They both went to the caves entrance. At the edge Doctor shortly looked at Rose

"bridge, forgot about the bridge" He looked at the gorge

"We'll just have to climb down, you go right I go left " Rose said seriously.

" If the dragon starts to chase me, and you ar down there as well, there's no chance for you to run away, without the bridge you'll be much slower "

"Been worse," she said shortly "I'll manage," She said with smile "just go, we have only few hovers"

" Yes, of corse , just be careful" he said and hugged her tightly again

"You too" she said and turned away,

'last time she gave me a kiss on forehead, well on spacesuit glass, but there was a kiss and there was my forehead' before he understand what he was doing he said

"Rose, wait, " She turned around to look at him

"Wha' " she said

"Didn't you forget something?"

"What do you mean?"

" Well, I just thought, last time we where splitting up, you well... you " he pointed at his head with hands, she looked at him questioningly

" You mean kiss? " She said, trying hard not to laugh

" Yeah, I just thought, well , that, oh it just stupid, forget it" he said looking everywhere but not at her.

" You thought, I will do it every time we split up?"

"Sort off, yeah" Rose smiled, and gave him a short kiss on his forehead, and again turned away.

"It wasn't at the last time, " she said, the Doctor could hear a smile in her voice, but he felt too weird to reply.

Rose was taking the little path on her right, it looked like the cliff was easier to climb down there. Meanwhile Doctor made clever leap down on a small platform, left side of the cliff. He looked at Rose for the last time, before he went behind rock, where he could no longer see her.

He didn't know where to start looking. Dragon could have flew back to the forest. That would be obvious, so he needed to get to the forest edge, only save way that he knew was the yellow brick road. He couldn't go trough the woods so all the Doctor had to do to get there, was climbing down the gorge, and on the other side up again, then find the yellow brick road and go trough the forest, find the Dragon, and...

'Well I'll made up some plan or something on the way'

The rocks were sharp, but it was not impossible to climb it down. Rock was rusty and dry, very different from the cave, which's made of smooth and cold stone , it was weird. 'interesting' he took an example from the rock nearby, and put it in his pocket 'need to compare it with stone from cave, well when I'm back'

Although this body was clumsy, well more clumsy then the one before, Doctor was down quickly. Bottom of the gorge was full of old decayed trees, and crushed rocks, to pass through here was harder than he thought, somewhere near he heard a noise, as if someone was pulling something, and climbing over the rocks, 'it's definitely Rose.' he thought to him self, because the sound came from direction where she was, still he couldn't understand what made her do so weird noises 'maybe she is dragging the whole body, so I can have full scan, that would be weird, but then again she is human. They do drag bodes around for fun, well some of them do'
But on his side all was quiet.

The path that Rose found earlier led her straight down to the bottom of the gorge. She moved quickly and quietly, 'this is child's play' she thought to herself, the girl from the beginning thought that she would do a life-threatening climbing, slipping and stuff, but her path was easy.

'This was definitely a path that was used by the inhabitants in this land before the bridge was built, if we had known it, Doctor shouldn't climb down and up again'

All of a sudden she heard a noise, as if someone pulled something heavy on the rocks, she would thought that it's Doctor if the sound wouldn't come off the road in front of her. She slowed down and listened to the noises more carefully. It sounded as if someone was breathing heavily, as if it was doing something hard, pulling something heavy, and when this something hit a rock, she could hear weak roar. She slowly approached this someone. Hiding behind some stones she watched what happens in the dept of gorge. She saw the dark black silhouette dragging something heavy on the rocks. In the dark she couldn't see clearly, but the Month irradiated the light at the silhouette brightly, and she could recognise the silhouette of Kalidah, dragging other Kalidahs body.
He dragged it out from the gorge, obviously, these monsters knew all the path ways in the woods. Also, what led out of the gorge.

'I can't let it past, it is taking this path way, so it will go to the cave, it will find Amelia and Rory. I have to figure out something'

All thoughts about the sample from body, that Doctor asked her, was gone, but sill nothing good came to her mind, she couldn't push the monsters down of the cliff, it would be brutal. And they also didn't attack one of them just dragged the wounded or dead body back to their home.

'Think Rose think' she said to herself 'you were working for Tochwood, you're trained for such situations, but then again, the people mostly deal with situation like this by shooting. I could distract them,' but she knew it was impossible, she didn't have were to run if she made noises for distraction, she would have to jump down the cliff her self, so she wouldn't have a choice, she would have to run up in a cave, it wouldn't change anything, she couldn't do that but she could still warn Amy and Rory. Rose turned, as fast and as quietly as she could moved up the path to the cave. Kalidah was slower, and she heard noise stay behind.

"Amy, Rory wake up!" Rose said softly, and shook the Red Head.

"What?" she exclaimed, and then slowly opened her eyes, Rory heard Roses voice and woke up immediately.

"Be quiet" Rose said, "we have to hide"

"What's going on, where's the Doctor?" Amy asked,

"later, Rory, take the chariot and drag them to the arch, move and be quiet" Amy quickly tore off blanket jumped on her feet and helped Rory

"Me and the Doctor decided to investigate a few things, so we split up , he went in to the forest I think, and I went in the gorge, to have some example from Kalidah body but when I was down in gorge, I saw how one Kalidah pulled another Kalidahs body, I immediately ran to warn you, we can't run away because we have to wait for the Doctor, we have to hide, fast in the arch" Rose urged.

The Arch wasn't that big, if Kalidahs went by they could definitely see them, so they set down behind the TARDIS, it was dark, and the ship didn't stand out so much as they did. And they waited. But no one came. It was quiet out side.

"I'll go check" Rose whispered to them, she knew that they have to know where are these beasts, and before someone could stop her she was at the entrance, she slowly peeked outside, her heart in her throat and she saw huge bear body of Kalidah, dragging the heavy body, but not in the cave, it was dragging the body in to the mountain, in to the wall. There was solid wall, and the Kalidah went just trough it. AS if there was nothing, she stepped outside the cave and stared at the wall, there was nothing, just a wall of stone, there wasn't even a crack, it was perfectly smooth.