Chapter 12

It was a couple of hours later when the Sparrow Lane minibus stopped outside a cafe Wilf, Katie and The Doctor all got off as they did they waved to the rest of the passengers. As the minibus drove off Wilf turned towards a cafe.

"Come on!" He said to them going into the Cafe Katie and The Doctor followed him

"What's so special about this place we passed fifteen cafes on the way," The Doctor said as Katie wondered why Wilf wanted to go to this Cafe

"Yea.." Wilf replied "Afternoon He said to a couple who passed them on the way out of the cafe.

All three sat down at a table close to the window

"We've had some good times didn't we though I mean all those ATMOS things and planets in the sky and me with that paint gun," Wilf said to The Doctor as Katie was ordering coffee at the counter Wilf looked at her and then back to The Doctor

"You look after her," Wilf said to him and The Doctor looked at Katie

"Yea" The Doctor replied and turned back to Wilf

"I keep seeing things Doctor this face at night!" Wilf said to The Doctor as Katie came over with a tray with three mugs on

"Here I got you something," She said to The Doctor

"I said I didn't want anything!" He told her

"Well tough I got you something anyway" She replied and sat next to him as he turned his attention back to Wilf

"Who are you?" He asked

"I'm Wilfred Mott" Wilf replied stunned as Katie took a sip of her tea glancing at The Doctor

"No people have waited hundreds of years to find me and then you manage it in a few hours"

"Well I'm just lucky I suppose"

"I think we all are when we meet him," Katie said and The Doctor looked at her but she turned away

"We keep on meeting Wilf over and over again like some things still connecting us"

"What's so important about me?" Wilf asked

"Exactly why you?" The Doctor asked and looked at Katie who was sipping more of her tea he looked back at Wilf "I'm going to die" Katie stopped as he said this and looked at him

"Well so am I one day"

"Don't you dare" The Doctor replied

"All right I'll try not to" Wilf replied and looked at Katie "What do you think?" He asked

"I dunno I guess we don't all have a choice... sometimes people make them for us" Katie replied and looked at her tea thinking of her mom

"But I was told he will knock four times that was the prophecy knock four times and then..." The Doctor started but went quite and Katie wondered who told The Doctor this prophecy

"Yea but I thought when I saw you before you said your people could change your whole body," Wilf said and Katie was thinking the same thing

"I can still die if I'm killed before regeneration then I'm dead... even then even if I change it feels like dying everything I am, dies some new man goes sauntering away and I'm dead..." The Doctor said and Katie looked at him she had never thought he could die before regeneration her father never told her that.

"It's been a strange few months what with the skies opening with people last months"

"What?" Katie asked but Wilf looked out of the window and saw someone

"What?" The Doctor asked as he and Katie looked out of the window to see Donna by her car

"I'm sorry but I had to look can't you make her better?" Wilf asked

"Stop it!" The Doctor said as he looked at Wilf

"No but you're so clever can't you bring her memory back look just go to her now go on just run across the road go up say hello" Wilf said pleading with The Doctor and Katie was looking at Donna remembering what her mother and father had told her of what Donna did and how her father came to be Katie smiled

"If she ever remembers me her mind will burn and she will die" The Doctor replied but Katie knew that wouldn't happen she was after all told by her father what The Doctor planned to do to Donna to save her

A police warden walks over to Donna's car

"Don't you touch this car!" Donna had said to the woman making Katie and The Doctor laugh The Doctor turned and looked at Wilf

"She's not changed"

"No... oh there he is" Wilf said as a man approached Donna with bags "Shaun Temple they're engaged getting married in the spring"

"Another wedding," The Doctor said

Better than Christmas Katie thought

"Yea" Wilf replied

"Hold on she's not going to be called Noble-temple that sounds like a tourist spot"

"No, it's temple-noble"

"Right... is she happy... is he nice?" The Doctor asked as Katie got her phone out and turned it on for the first time in ages she saw that she had missed calls and messages

"Yea... he's sweet enough he's a bit of a dreamer mind you, he's on minimum wage and she's earning tuppence so all they can afford is a tiny little flat... sometimes I see this looks on her face like she's so sad but she can't remember why" Wilf replied as Katie turned off her phone again and put it away worried

"She's got him"

"She's making do"

"Aren't we all" The Doctor replied

"How about you? I mean I know you have Katie with you but happened to you after you left?"

"Travelling along I thought it was better but I did something it went wrong I need..." The Doctor replied but broke down into tears Katie put her hand on his arm as he wiped tears away

"Oh my word I'm sorry"

"Merry Christmas," The Doctor said as he said this thought Katie looked around and for the first time today noticed it was Christmas she had been away from Earth for some time then

"Yea and you"

"Look at us"

"But don't you see you know it's not just Katie you need... you need Donna to Doctor look wouldn't she make you laugh again good old Donna," Wilf said and The Doctor nodded

A little while later both The Doctor and Katie walked out of the cafe Katie waves to Wilf and follows The Doctor but someone was watching them.

End Of Chapter 12