School Reunion: Confrontations
"No way!" Mickey shook his head, seeing the larger than life bats, before turning and bolting down the hall. Rose and Sarah Jane dashed after him as the Doctor and Angel exchanged a look before shutting the door.
At the sound of the clicking one of the bats awoke and screeched.
~8~
Mickey burst out of the doors of the school followed by the others, hunching over to pant, "I am not going back in there. No way."
"Those were teachers!" Rose shouted.
"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies, and a nurse," the Doctor explained, "Thirteen. Thirteen big bat people. Come on."
He turned to head in again when Mickey called out, "Come on, you've got to be kidding!"
"We have to get the TARDIS," Angel remarked, "How else are we going to analyze the oil Rose got?"
"I might be able to help you there," Sarah Jane grinned, taking the Doctor's arm and leading him towards the car park, "I've got something to show you!"
She led them straight over to her car, opening the boot and tossing a green blanket aside to reveal…
"K9!" the Doctor grinned at the powered down, rocotic dog sitting there, "Angel, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, allow me to introduce K9, well, K9 Mark III to be precise."
"That's K9?" Angel smiled, excited, moving to pat the dog, "He's so cute!"
"He's so retro," Rose corrected, eyeing the lump of metal, unimpressed, "Why does he look so...disco?"
"Oi!" the Doctor mock glared at her, "Listen, in the year 5,000, this was cutting edge! What's happened to him?"
"Oh, one day, he just...nothing!" Sarah Jane sighed.
"Well, didn't you try and get him repaired?!"
"How could she?" Angel asked, "Half the technology used to make him won't be around for at least another 2,500 years."
Sarah Jane nodded, "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!"
"Ooh, what's the nasty lady done to you?" the Doctor cooed at K9, "Eh?"
Rose and Mickey stared at him as though he'd lost what little of his mind he had left, especially when he started making the cooing noises and petting the tin dog. Angel looked up at the sky, a slight shiver running down her spin, she couldn't help but feel like they were being watched.
"Look, no offense but could you just stop petting for a minute?" Rose cut in, "Never mind the tin dog, we're busy!"
"She's right Doctor," Angel said, her eyes still on the sky, he looked at her, growing serious at the tone of her voice, "I think we should go somewhere else…just for now."
He followed her gaze, looking up but not seeing anything. Still, he agreed and closed the boot. He'd learned to pay close attention to what she said.
~8~
They decided on a nice chip shop close to the school to get to work. The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Angel sitting around a table by the window, working on K9, while the Doctor and Sarah Jane chatted and laughed. Mickey and Rose stood at the counter, ordering chips, "You see, what's impressive is that it's been nearly an hour since we met her and I still haven't said 'I told you so,'" Mickey smirked.
Rose looked away from the trio, "I'm not listening to this."
"Although, I have prepared a little 'I was right' dance that I can show you later."
"Two quid, love," the shopkeeper held out a hand to her. She handed over the money and took the chips, tucking into them immediately.
"All this time you've been giving it, 'he's different!' When the truth is, he's just like any other bloke with loads of girls!"
Rose plopped down in a seat away from the trio, "You don't know what you're talking about."
And he really didn't. The only girl she could ever picture with the Doctor was Angel. To be honest, that was the only girl she ever wanted with him either. For all the joking that she and Angel were sisters, given their blonde hair, she really did feel like Angel was an older sister of sorts. And she just wanted her to be happy, which the Doctor made her, exceptionally so. She could remember what Cassandra had made her do on New Earth, how she'd been forced to kiss the Doctor. She could remember his reluctance, how much he really didn't want to kiss her. There was a man, with an attractive (she liked to think) woman practically throwing herself at him, and he refused, Angel had even told her that he'd actually apologized to her for the kiss, been upset that it had happened. 'Any other bloke' would have probably loved the fact that two women were attracted to him, but not the Doctor, he really only had eyes for Angel, as it should be.
"Maybe not," he shrugged.
He probably didn't know, he could agree there. The last time he'd seen the Doctor and Angel had been when the man had regenerated. He knew Angel had been terribly upset about it all, blaming herself, Rose not helping her guilt in the slightest, but...he could just tell...he'd seen it on her face, it went much deeper than concern for another person. He knew that expression, it was one he often saw in the mirror after a particularly awful nightmare where he would see Rose getting hurt. It was the look of someone who was terrified for the person they loved. He didn't know if the Doctor returned the feelings, but he could see it between them. If he hadn't, the man surely would soon, if he had, well...Angel was a great girl and he could understand why Rose would defend him in that. He was of the opinion that the Doctor tended to cause a lot of other people to fade into the background, his presence just being near overwhelming. He could just tell though, by the looks he'd seen the man give Angel, that she did the same but in an entirely different way. Whereas men and women alike were forgotten while the Doctor was around, no other woman could even be noticed by the Doctor in that way if Angel was in the same room.
He smiled a bit at that, good on them, he was happy for 'em...but then his smile faded into a bit of a grimace as he noticed Rose, still piling in the chips, "But if I were you...I'd go easy on the chips."
Rose looked over at him, half a chip sticking out of her mouth.
~8~
Mr. Finch stood on a rooftop, on a building, on the other side of the road, "Come to me...come to me..." he called out to one of the bats, waiting till it swooped towards him and landed beside him, both of them watching the Doctor and Angel through the window of the shop.
~8~
"I thought of you on Christmas Day," Sarah Jane told him, "This Christmas just gone? Great big spaceship overhead, I thought, 'Oh, yeah. Bet he's up there.'"
"Unfortunately he was right on top of it," Angel remarked as she worked on fixing one side of K9.
It wasn't as easy as fixing the TARDIS, but she could recognize some of the tech at least. She paused, that was...ironic...that she should have an easier time reparing a box that could bend the laws of the Universe and travel through space and time...but not a simple robotic dog. Oh well, she'd probably just spent so much time around the TARDISes she liked to think they just told her, in their own way, what was wrong.
"And Rose?"
"She was there too," he nodded.
They were silent for a moment, Sarah Jane watching the Doctor before speaking, "Did I do something wrong? Because you never came back for me. You just...dumped me."
"I told him that was rude," Angel remarked, "Not even saying goodbye."
The Doctor rolled his eyes, they'd gotten into about an hour long debate when he'd told her of some of his adventures with Sarah Jane in the TARDIS and how he'd left, "I told you. I was called back home and in those days humans weren't allowed."
"I waited for you," Sarah Jane admitted quietly, "I missed you."
"Oh, you didn't need me! You were getting on with your life."
"You were my life," she corrected gently as he looked 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?"
He furrowed his brow, "All those things you saw, do you want me to apologize for that?"
"I think she means that it was hard returning to everyday life," Angel cut in softly, the Doctor looked at her, "If I were to take off in the TARDIS and leave you on Earth to live life as a human, time moving in the proper order, slowly…how would you feel?"
He blinked, looking down, slowly understanding, before beaming at her, "You just understood a human!"
She laughed, "She's not just any old human though," she countered, "She's YOUR companion. I understand them better because...they're a part of you," she looked at him, "You're a part of them. I understand you, don't I?"
"More than I ever thought someone could," he admitted.
She nodded, "She just missed you, a lot, like she said," Angel gestured at Sarah Jane, she could understand that. She'd miss someone as great as the Doctor too if he left.
"To get a taste of that splendor with you..." Sarah Jane nodded sadly, "And then we have to go back."
"But look at you," he smiled at her, "You're investigating. You found that school, you're doing what we always did."
"You could've come back."
"I couldn't," he replied quietly, looking away.
"Why not?"
The Doctor couldn't answer.
Sarah Jane shook her head and the Doctor turned his sonic on, returning to repair K9. Sarah Jane looked at Angel, shooting her a grateful smile at her attempt to help her get through to the Doctor, "It wasn't Croydon. Where you dropped me off, it wasn't Croydon!"
"Where was it?" he frowned.
"Aberdeen," she replied, irritated.
His eyes widened at the thought, "Right…that's next to Croydon, isn't it?"
Sarah Jane smiled and shook her head and a second later K9 sprang to life.
"Oh, hey! Now we're in business!" he leapt to his feet and stood before K9, Angel getting up to stand beside him.
"Master!" K9 exclaimed.
"He recognizes me!" the Doctor beamed, ecstatic.
"Affirmative."
"K9," the Doctor pulled Angel a bit closer so the dog could see her, "This is the Angel, a Time Lady."
"Nice t…to m…meet you!" K9 waggled his ears.
"Nice to meet you too," Angel smiled.
"Rose, give us the oil," the Doctor called, holding his hand back to her for it.
He took the lid off the jar and was just about to stick his finger in it when Rose called out, "I wouldn't touch it, though, that dinner lady got all scorched!" she warned.
"I'm no dinner lady. And I don't often say that," he dipped his finger in and smeared it on K9's sensor, "Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go."
"Oil," K9 examined, "Ex…ex…ex…extract ana…an…analyzing..."
Mickey grinned, delighted, "Listen to it, man! That's a voice!"
"Careful!" Sarah Jane pointed at him, "That's my dog!"
Mickey smiled at her, sheepish.
"Confirmation of analysis, substance is Krillitane Oil," the dog announced.
"They're Krillitanes," the Doctor breathed, shocked, as Angel's eyes widened, recognizing the aliens.
"Is that bad?" Rose asked.
"Really bad," Angel nodded.
"Think of how bad things could possibly be, and add another suitcase full of bad," the Doctor agreed.
"And what are...Krillitanes?" Sarah Jane shook her head.
"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."
"What're they doing here?" Rose frowned.
"It's the children," Angel blinked, "They're doing something to the children."
~8~
Mickey and Sarah Jane hoisted K9 into the boot of her car once more, "So, what's the deal with the tin dog?" Mickey asked.
"The Doctor likes travelling with an entourage," Sarah Jane leaned against her car, "Sometimes they're humans, sometimes they're aliens, and sometimes...they're tin dogs," Mickey smiled and laughed a bit at that, "What about you? Where do you fit in the picture?"
"Me?" he smiled proudly, "I'm their Man in Havana. I'm the technical support, I'm..." he trailed, "Oh, my God. I'm the tin dog," he sat down heavily in shock.
Sarah Jane just patting him on the shoulder.
~8~
The Krillitane on the rooftop screeched, but Mr. Finch put his finger to his lips to silence it, "On my command."
~8~
The Doctor and Angel left the chip shop, Rose following after them, "How many of us have there been, travelling with you?" she demanded of the Doctor.
"Does it matter?" he continued walking.
"Yeah, it does, if I'm just the latest in a long line," she replied, her voice trembling.
"As opposed to what?" he turned to face her, angry and hurt.
Angel remained quiet, this was really an issue Rose had with the Doctor, his past, not hers.
"I thought you and me and Angel were friends," Rose said, tears in her eyes, before she turned her gaze on Angel, "I thought we were sisters," she sniffled, upset, "But I obviously got it wrong."
"Rose…"Angel began, she really considered Rose to be one of her good friends, truly more like a younger sister than anything…why the girl would ever think differently she couldn't understand.
"I've been to the year five billion, right, but this...now this is really seeing the future. You just leave us behind. Is that what you're going to do to me?"
"No," the Doctor sighed, "Not to you."
"I won't let him," Angel agreed, "I won't let him do that to anyone else, not anymore," she promised.
Seeing him with Sarah Jane had made her realize how much he needed his old companions, the memories he cherished with them, the closure of seeing them doing fantastic and living brilliant lives. She couldn't ever imagine doing that to one of his companions, to her friends, to her...family.
"But Sarah Jane..." Rose shook her head, looking at the Doctor, "You were that close to her once, and now...you never even mention her. It's like you don't even think about her. Why not?"
"We don't age," the Doctor told her, "We regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone you care about."
"Imagine thinking back to a friend," Angel added quietly, taking his hand, understanding why the Doctor didn't bring up his past companions, but knowing that he really should start, "Only to find out they're dead," because even in death their memories should be celebrated.
The Doctor squeezed her hand tightly, "You can spend the rest of your life with us, but we can't spend the rest of ours with you. We have to live on. That's the curse of the Time Lords."
"Time Lord!" Mr. Finch hissed. They looked up to see him and the other Krillitane on the roof. It screeched and swooped down towards them. They ducked down but the bat just flew away.
"Was that a Krillitane?" Sarah Jane asked as she and Mickey ran over.
"But it didn't even touch us, it just flew off!" Rose exclaimed, "What did it do that for?"
~8~
The next morning, when the school bell rang, and the children rushed towards the building, the Doctor, Mickey, Rose, Sarah Jane, and Angel got out of Sarah Jane's car, striding towards the school. The Doctor paused for a moment, turning to them, "Rose and Sarah, you go to the Maths room. Crack open those computers, I need to see the hardware inside. Here, you might need this," Rose held out her hand for the sonic but he gave it to Sarah Jane, "Mickey, surveillance. I want you outside."
"Just stand outside?" he asked.
"Here, take these, you can keep K9 company," Sarah Jane tossed him the keys to her car.
"Don't forget to leave the window open a crack," the Doctor reminded him.
"But he's metal!" Mickey shouted.
"I don't think he meant the dog," Angel called. Mickey just pouted and she jogged over to him, "Krillitanes are very dangerous Mickey," she told him, reaching out to put a hand on his shoulder, "I'd honestly rather have you and K9 safe till we can see what they're planning."
He looked at her, just a bit shocked that her reason for wanting him to stay outside was his safety, it was oddly nice having someone care about him like that.
She grinned, "And you never know, if we get trapped in there, you get to come and rescue us!"
He laughed at that, nodding. That would be the day.
"What're you gonna do?" Rose looked at the two as Angel walked back over to the Doctor who was beaming at her.
He'd actually developed a bit of a growing respect for Mickey the Idiot. Ever since Angel had pointed out how Rose had treated the poor boy when they'd faced Margaret, he'd learned to appreciate just how much Mickey cared for Rose and his drive to help them despite his treatment. And then that respect had just grown when he'd defened Angel against Rose when he'd regenerated, he could hear the boy, how he'd tried to comfort Angel, how he'd tried to get Rose to lay off. He knew that it was quite easy to stand up to your enemies, it was much harder to stand up to your friends, and ever harder still to stand up to the person you loved. The fact he'd done that for Angel had made him respect the boy that much more.
Not that he'd admit that openly, he liked to tease the man too much.
But, he had to admit, it did make him smile to see Angel taking such an interest in Mickey, trying to include him, make him smile, cheer him up when things went a bit too far. She was so considerate like that, hated seeing others sad.
"Meet the Krillitanes," Angel answered Rose, pulling him from his thoughts.
He nodded, "It's time we had a word with Mr. Finch," he said, taking Angel's hand and leading her into the building.
~8~
Mr. Finch paused in the stairwell, looking up to see the Doctor and Angel looking down at him, neither of them making a move to disguise the fact they were watching the other. After giving a hard stare, Mr. Finch continued on his way as the duo headed up the stairs.
~8~
The Doctor opened the door to the school's swimming pool, allowing Angel in first as they saw Mr. Finch waiting for them at the opposite end of the water, "Who are you?" the Doctor called to him.
"My name is Brother Lassa," he introduced, "And you?"
"The Doctor."
"The Angel," Angel greeted, adding, "Nice to meet you," if just for politeness sake.
The Doctor had to smile at that, it was becoming her own little catchphrase so to speak, much like he'd always said 'Fantastic!', "Since when did Krillitanes have wings?"
"It's been our form for nearly ten generations now," Mr. Finch explained, "Our ancestors invaded Bessan. The people there had some rather lovely wings. They made a million widows in one day, just imagine."
"And now you're shaped human."
"A personal favorite, that's all."
"What about the other teachers?" Angel asked.
"My brothers remain bat form. What you see is a simple morphic illusion. Scratch the surface and the true Krillitane lies beneath," they slowly started walking to the same side of the pool, "And what of the Time Lords? I always thought of you as such a pompous race. Ancient, dusty senators, so frightened of change and...chaos. And of course, they're all but extinct. Only you two. The last."
"This plan of yours, what is it?" the Doctor eyed him, taking a single step ahead of Angel, unconsciously trying to guard her against the enemy before them.
"You don't know?" he raised an eyebrow.
"That's why I'm asking," the Doctor replied as they came to a stop before each other.
"Well, show me how clever you are. Work it out."
"If we don't like it...then it will stop."
Mr. Finch paused a moment, eyeing him, "Fascinating. Your people were peaceful to the point of indolence. You seem to be something new."
"War changes people," Angel reasoned, though the frown on her face proved just how much she hated that fact.
"Would you declare war on us?"
"I'm so old now," the Doctor remarked, "I used to have so much mercy," he turned to stare at Finch, "You get one warning. That was it."
He took Angel's hand, turning to walk away, when Finch called out, "But we're not even enemies. Soon...you will embrace us," the Doctor paused, looking back, "The next time we meet, you will join with me. I promise you," he walked past them with a knowing smile and left.
"No you won't," Angel remarked as the door closed, "You're stronger than him."
He squeezed her hand at her faith in him, turning to go, they needed to find out what Rose and Sarah Jane had discovered.
~8~
Mickey wound down the window of the car, folding his arms, sighing, bored, "'Surveillance.' If you ask me, it's just the Doctor's way of saying 'go sit at the back of the class with the safety scissors and glitter.'"
He definitely preferred Angel's reasoning, made him feel less like a…tin dog.
Speaking of, he looked over at K9 who wasn't switched on but had his head poked through the gap between the two front seats.
"That'd be me talking to a metal dog, then."
~8~
Sarah Jane crouched beneath one of the computers, trying to turn the sonic on. She straightened, hitting the keyboard and stared at the sonic as Rose sat with her legs crossed on one of the chairs, "It's not working!"
"Give it to me," Rose took the sonic and rolled her eyes, ducking beneath the desk.
"Used to work first time in my day."
"Well, things were a lot simpler back then," Rose replied, turning on the sonic and using it on the computer.
"Rose, can I give you a bit of advice?" Sarah Jane asked, eyeing the young woman.
"I've got a feeling you're about to," Rose straightened.
"I know how intense a relationship with the Doctor can be. And I can only imagine what a friendship with two Time Lords can be like. I don't want you to feel I'm intruding…"
"I don't feel threatened by you if that's what you mean," Rose cut in quickly, a bit too quickly to Sarah Jane.
"Right," she nodded slowly, "Good. Because, I'm not interested in picking up where we left off."
"No?" Rose scoffed, "With the big sad eyes and the robot dog? What else were you doing last night?"
"I was just saying how hard it was adjusting to life back on Earth..."
Rose stood and walked a few feet away, "The thing is...when you two met...they'd only just got rid of rationing. No wonder all that space stuff was a bit too much for ya."
"I had no problem with space stuff," Sarah Jane walked over to her, indignant, "I saw things you wouldn't believe."
"Try me," Rose challenged coldly.
"Mummies."
"I've met ghosts."
"Robots. Lots of robots."
"Slitheen. In Downing Street."
"Daleks!"
Rose gave a smug snort, "Met the Emperor."
"Anti-Matter monsters."
"Gas masked zombies."
"Real living dinosaurs!"
"Real living werewolf!"
"The Loch Ness Monster!"
Rose blinked, "...seriously?"
Sarah Jane put her hands over her mouth, shaking her head as Rose smiled and laughed, "Listen to us. It's like me and my mate Shireen. The only time we fell out was over a man, and...we're arguing over the Doctor and he's not even ours," Sarah Jane relaxed against a desk as Rose looked at her a moment, "And…I suppose…I am a bit…threatened…" she admitted.
"Rose I really don't mean to start up again," Sarah Jane told her earnestly.
"It's just…the Doctor and Angel, they're like my best friends now, I mean Angel's practically adopted me as her little sister. I don't…" she trailed off, trying to find the words.
"You don't want to lose them," Sarah Jane nodded, understanding, "You don't want me to take them away from you."
Rose nodded, looking sheepish at that, she knew she didn't have a claim to the Time Lords. She understood they could be friend with whoever they wanted. It was more the fact that she really hadn't known they'd had other companions on Earth before her. She thought the Doctor at least had been travelling all over with other Time Lords, other aliens, robots and things, maybe a human here or there...to be confronted with the fact that there was someone else out there, someone so close, who knew so much more about the Doctor than she did...having Angel react so happily and warmly, so accepting and excited to meet this old companion...it made her worried. She just...
She didn't want to be forgotten or replaced.
She shook her head, that was the most ridiculous thing she'd ever thought, she now realized. Actually giving herself time to work out why she was so cold to Sarah Jane...what had she been thinking? As though the Doctor would ever replace her! As though Angel would ever just let him dump her without a goodbye! The Doctor had far too much respect for his companions to ever try to replace one with someone else and Angel was just too kind to ever just leave someone. She'd been a fool, worrying needlessly over that. And poor Sarah Jane had gotten the brunt of her fears. She didn't deserve that.
She looked at the woman and smiled, really wanting to put that whole mess behind her and start new. This was an old companion! This was someone who had done and seen what she had, when else would she get the chance to talk about everything with someone who understood it and all the wonders of it completely?
"With you," she began, "Did he do that thing where he'd explain something at like, ninety-miles-per-hour, and you'd go, 'what?' and he'd look at you like you'd just dribbled on your shirt?"
"All the time!" Sarah Jane laughed.
"I swear the only person I've ever seen who could keep up with him when he gets to talking about time is Angel," Rose laughed as well, "Even Captain Jack got lost a few times."
It was true. She knew Angel kept on about how she wasn't all that clever and she supposed the girl did get lost on quite a few things. But...when the Doctor got really excited, especially about time travel, Angel really was the only one who could keep up with him. There were times she'd even seen the girl surpass him! One thing could be said, a lifetime around TARDISes had certainly made Angel quite the expert on the subject of space and time. She'd actually seen the Doctor get lost and confused and unable to actually give an answer once or twice when Angel got started, though she was sure a few of those times might have been because he was just staring at Angel instead of actually listening. She, herself, hadn't a clue what they were talking about during those debates, but the Doctor's expression when he realized he didn't know something was hysterical.
"Does he still stroke bits of the TARDIS?" Sarah Jane asked.
"Yeah!" Rose pointed at her, "Yeah! He does! I'm like, 'do you two wanna be alone?'" they started laughing madly, "He's even got Angel doing it!" she added before sobering quickly, "But between you and me," she leaned forward conspiratorially, "I think he'd rather stroke bits of her instead."
Both women reared back in hysterical laugher at that.
"How's it going?" the Doctor asked as he and Angel walked in.
Rose and Sarah Jane looked at them, the sight of the pair making them laugh even harder.
"What?" Angel frowned, not sure what was going on.
The women just pointed at her, cracking up.
"Listen," the Doctor cut in, "We need to find out what's programmed inside these…"
The duo just ignored him, flailing around, laughing hysterically, Rose pointing the sonic at him as she laughed.
"What?" he cried, genuinely confused, "Stop it!"
Angel shook her head, "I don't get it."
"Me either," he muttered, sighing as the women held onto each other to keep their balance as they continued to laugh their heads off.
~8~
Mr. Finch entered his office where the rest of the Krillitanes were sitting around a table, waiting for him, "Brothers, we must initiate the final phase. Get the children inside and seal the school. Our time has come, my brothers. Today we shall become gods."
~8~
The children were in the play area, laughing and talking, when the buzzer went off, "All pupils to class immediately," the speaker called, "And would all members of staff congregate in the staff room."
The students started to move indoors quickly with the exception of Kenny. Melissa paused as she passed him, "Break time's finished early. Isn't that fantastic?!" she rushed off again, Kenny waiting till everyone had gone before reluctantly following after them.
~8~
The children tried to get inside the IT suite the Doctor, Angel, Rose, and Sarah Jane were in but Rose quickly shooed them away, "No, no, this classroom's out of bounds. You've all gotta go to the South Hall. Off you go, South Hall!"
The children turned as Rose shut the door with a huff of air.
~8~
Mr. Finch and his brothers entered the staffroom when one of the teachers stood, "What is it now, Mr. Finch?"
"Slight change in the timetable," Finch replied, "We're having an early lunch."
Mr. Wagner closed the door and soon it was filled with screeching and screams.
A/N: Awww, so that's why Rose was a bit cold to Sarah Jane. ...wonder how she'll feel when Mickey tags along, though, it'll be a little different how he comes aboard the TARDIS compared to the show :)
Also, wow! How great are you guys? Pretty fantastic! I got so many reviews and PMs about my offered Sneak Peeks on how my other OCs are going to be introduced in my upcoming fanfictions that I decided to go ahead and open the polls early. On my profile is a poll of Criminal Minds, Big Bang Theory, Merlin, and Robin Hood, the four that I have the scenes written out for. The poll will be open for a week and all you need to do is pick your favorite. Once the poll is closed I'll go in that order for posting the scenes in Sneak Peeks. One for February, March, April, and May...which means the last one'll probably be posted just when DW Series 7 finishes airing and my other two OC series will be back up :) If you don't have a profile, feel free to leave a review with your favorite :)
Just a note...it actually IS cubits :) They do say 'cubits' in the episode, but also a cubit is a real measurement as funny as it sounds. It's a measurement of the forearm (from elbow to tip of middle finger) that was used mostly in the classical and medieval world. Lol, I was watching Jeopardy once and the answer to the final Jeopardy question was...cubits! I was like, DW so would have won me that money lol :)
And, I got a PM which brought up a good point to clarify. I will be posting the actual Time Crash mini-sode at the start of Series 4. I will also be giving a 'Time Crash' themed one-shot involving the Professor/Evy/Angel and the Doctors :) Won't say what will happen though :)
Other notes on reviews…
Yup, the bit about his gob and silence in a library was intentional along with the part about the lottery :) Good spotting!
Hmm…Family of Blood…have to say I really am DYING to post those two episodes. Probably my FAVORITE ones of Series 3 but alas, I think the way the chapters fall that would be about...beginning of April? Such a long ways away! As for what Angel will or won't do…all I'll say is, John Smith will have a little bit of the Oncoming Storm in him, so imagine what it'll be like for the Doctor when both he AND John are angry at the Family :)