Heyo! Another chapter for y'all lovely people!

Enjoy!

Jace and the Professor sat at a table in the reception as the Doctor threw chairs around the room. Jace looked around the room then leaned across the table.

"Who are those people?" He motioned to the ginger and blonde man across the room.

"That is Amy and Rory Pond. The Doctor's current companions. They were at the school as students; you probably know them as Melody and Arthur." The Professor explained.

Jace noddles slowly. "So they are really bother and sister?"

"No, they're married. They actually have a child together." Professor was in too deep of thought to actually be paying attention to Jace's questions. She was thinking of the Doctor. (Who else?) He doesn't know who she is or that she's even back at the moment.

She thought that if she told him now maybe everything would be okay, but she can't do that. She meets him in the future, on the spaceship with the dinosaurs on it. But she had a plan.

"Soooo... were you two guys like... a thing?" Jace's eyebrows waggled on his forehead. "Cause... I totally ship it."

"What does boats have to do with any of this?" The Professor was confused.

Jace snorted and sighed as he leaned back in his seat. "So, were you?"

"Yes. Well, no... it's complicated. I mean, it was complicated." The Professor's gaze wondered over to the Doctor. "I thought that he... well... I was wrong."

"Did you guys friend-zone each other?"

She looked back to Jace. "Yes. I suppose if you put it that way. But, I thought that we had something special. And when it was time to choose a universe, he decided to leave me." She shook her head and stared at her fidgeting hands.

Jace nodded. "I really hope you guys repair whatever you had, because I see the way you look at him." Jace winked and the Professor scoffed with a smile.

"At least I don't look at men like they're food."

"Well someone has too."

The Professor zoned out while the others talked. Jace sat silently and watched the people converse with each other. They had figured out that the creature fed off of faith instead of fear; and Amy was next.

"Praise him." The Doctor and Rory exchanged looks and Amy got up from her chair.

"Oh no."

So they ran. The Doctor grabbed the Professor's arm and tugged her along with him. "Jace!" Jace got the memo and ran with them. The monster was on their tale. "Everyone! Pick a room!" They dispersed. Jace ran in with Rory, and Amy in with an alien, but of course the Professor and Doctor got shoved into their own room.

"I think-" The Professor panted against the wood of the door. "We should wait at least a couple minuets to catch our breath before-"

"Rose."

The Professor froze.

That wasn't the Doctor who had spoke. She slowly turned around so see an old man laying in the bed and the Doctor's eyes wide. Her breathing slowed as she figured it out. "Rose." The man spoke again.

"R-" The Doctor pointed to the Professor and she hung her head as she walked to the side of the bed. The old man held out his hand and she took it, and knelt beside him. "Rose... Tyler..." The Doctor's voice quivered and the Professor didn't dare look up at him.

"You finally came." The old man smiled up at her and blinked slowly. He looked exactly the same. She ran her thumb over his hand and saw his wedding band that she had given him on their wedding day.

"John." She whispered, brushing back his gray hair like she had once did before.

"You finally came for me." His old voice crackled and he tried to smile. "And with him." He nodded over to the Doctor who was still shocked.

"Yeah, avoiding him is kinda inevitable." She felt hot tears prickling their way through and she quickly brushed them away.

John's breathing slowed and his eyes focused on nothing. "My Rose... back from the dead in so many ways. I can see it in you. You're starting to forgive and forget." He squeezed her hand. "Until next time." His hand went limp in her shaking grip and his eyes glossed over.

"No." The Professor shook his arm. "No, not again, you're not leaving me, no." She couldn't stop the tears now, they just kept falling and she put effort into calming herself down. "No!" She screamed.

A pair of hands grasped her shoulders and gently pulled her away from the bed. She started to stand up but her knees threatened to buckle under her. She couldn't let go of John's hand, no matter what she told her body to do it wouldn't respond.

Her whole body shook with utter lost as the pair of hands guided her to let go. John's hand slowly slid from her grip and she was practically in hysterics. She screamed to be let go, that she couldn't leave him, that she couldn't handle leaving or being left behind again. But the pair of hands wouldn't let her go.

She collapsed into the other person and sobbed into his chest. His arms came around her body and held her. She clawed at his shirt and her knees finally gave out and he came down with her.

She lost track of time and her sobs quietly came to silent whimpers as the Doctor hushed her and rocked her back and forth. "I'm so sorry." He whispered. He hasn't even met her yet and he's apologizing... to her.

The Professor forgot where she was for a minuet, so she pushed him away and stood on her feet. "We have to get the others." She wiped her eyes clear of her tears and exited the door.

The others apparently had the same idea as they were already out in the hall. "Did we loose it?" Jace asked, approaching the Professor. All of a sudden a low growl came from down the hall.

"Apparently not, run!" The Doctor grabbed the Professor's hand and all seven of them bolted down the hall. Amy ran into a random (maybe not so random) room. The Professor turned around to find Jace and he was falling behind. "Jace!" The Professor stopped as everyone else piled into the room and grabbed Jace's hand.

She pulled him into the room and they closed the door behind them. The creature pounded on the wood of the door and the Professor and Rory held the door shut. Everything after that went by in a blur of events as the door flew open and the Professor was squished into Rory. "Uh- Hello." Rory said.

"Ah, hi." Electricity crackled as the not-hotel started to brake down on itself as the creature started to die.

"What happened?" Jace walked up to the Professor.

"Well, when the Doctor stopped Amy in believing in him, he kinda stopped the creature's feeding." The Professor explained. The creature started to growl like it was talking.

"What's it saying?" Amy asked.

"'An ancient creature drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space, through an endless, shifting maze. For such a creature death would be a gift and accepted. It takes two to carry such a burden.'" The Doctor translated the words. "Then sleep well." He told it and stood up.

The creature spoke one last time and the Doctor stopped. "'I wasn't talking about myself.'" Then it closed it's eyes and stopped it's motion. The Doctor and the Professor made eye contact for about a second, but it was just a second too long.

"Hey!" Jace yelled from across the room. The Professor looked over to where he was standing and it was next to the Doctor's TARDIS. "What's this thing?"

The smile that came across the Doctor's face was the biggest smile that the Professor has ever seen. "Well, it's my TAR-" The Doctor clapped his hands together and was about to spend at least 20 minuets explaining things but the Professor had things to do.

"It's basically the TARDIS, Jace." She crossed her arms and leaned back on her own.

"Oh, okay then." Jace shrugged and the Doctor looked crushed. Amy patted him on the shoulder and walked into the blue box along with Rory and the spare alien. Jace walked over to the wardrobe and stopped before he fully stepped in. "I am going to be extremely upset if this ship doesn't become canon." He told her.

"Again with the boats, I don't understand!" The Professor pointed him into her spaceship and he muttered, "I have the feels." under his breath before closing the door behind him.

The Doctor walked up to the Professor and she sighed. "So, I'm going to have to make you forget that I was even here." She already talked to Rory and Amy about not mentioning her to him, they understood.

"I don't want to." He looked hurt.

"I'm sorry, but the next time I touch your hand... you will remember." She slowly raised her finger tips to his temples and closed her eyes. She walked through his mind and how lonely it really was. And she was going to fix that if it's the last thing she does.

He drew in a deep breath and closed his own eyes as she opened hers. She lent forward and softly pressed her lips to his, and it was over faster than it had started. But when she felt him relax she pulled back and stepped into her TARDIS and left.

Please don't hate me too much. There will be a happy ending... maybe ;)