Right, here's the final part of Family of Blood. The next chapter will be a filler chapter where the Doctor talks to his wife, anyway. On with this...

"We'll blast them into dust, fuse the dust into glass, then shatter them all over again!" Baines said. There was a slight metal twang and the Family turned as one to see the Doctor enter the ship

"Just-"he said as he gave a clumsy lurch and leant against the side of the ship, hitting a few buttons "Just stop the bombardment. That's all I'm asking. I'll do anything you want, just stop." "Say please." Baines said

"Please." The Doctor said

After a pause, Jenny turned a switch and there was a hiss as the ship responded "Wait a minute." Jenny said as she inhaled deeply "Still human."

"Now I can't-I can't pretend to understand, not for a second, but I want you to know that I'm innocent in all this" he said "He made me John Smith. It's not like I had any control over it." He messed with more buttons.

"He didn't just make himself human, he made himself an idiot." Jenny said

"Same thing, isn't it?" Baines asked

"I don't care about this Doctor and your family, I just want you to go." the Doctor said "So, I've made my choice." he held out the watch "You can have him. Just take it, please! Take him away."

"At last." Baines took the watch. He gazed at it and then grabbed the Doctor by the lapels "Don't think that saved your life." He pushed the Doctor away and, as he fell, the Doctor hit more buttons. "Family of Mine, now we shall have the lives of a Time Lord." Baines said as he opened the watch. The Family all breathed deeply "It's empty!" He turned on the Doctor

"Well, where's it gone?" the Doctor asked

"You tell me." Baines said as he threw the watch and the Doctor caught it one handed

"Oh, I think the explanation might be you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection-little bit like ventriloquism of the nose." The Doctor said in his normal voice "It's an elementary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. But it has got to be said-" He put on his glasses "I don't like the looks of that hydroconometre. It seems to be indicating you've got energy feedback all the way through the retrostabilisers feeding back into the primary heat converter-ah" he hissed through his teeth "'Cause if there's one thing you shouldn't have done, you shouldn't have let me press all those buttons. But, in fairness, I will give you one word of advice-Run." He ran out of the ship.

"Get out!" Baines ordered "Get out!" The Family ran out of the ship and across the field behind the Doctor before the ship exploded, throwing them to the ground. The Family looked up to see the Doctor standing over them

"He never raised his voice." Baines said "That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he'd run away from us and hidden-he was being kind." The Doctor bound Mr Clark in thick metal chains, he was standing behind him unmoved "He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains, forged in the heart of a dwarf star." The Tardis doors opened behind Jenny and she was pulled out of the ship "He tricked my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy to be imprisoned there...forever" The Doctor watched with no emotion on his face "He still visits my little sister once a year every year." The Doctor looked into an ornate mirror where a door is cracked open and Lucy peered out. "I wonder if one day he might forgive her, but there she is-can you see? He trapped her inside a mirror, every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and see something move behind you, just for a second, that's her. That's always her." He dressed Baines as a scarecrow "As for me, I was suspended in time. And the Doctor put me to work..." The Doctor placed a hood over his head "...standing over the fields of England...as their protector." The Doctor walked away from Jeremy Baines the scarecrow "We wanted to live forever, so the Doctor made sure that we did"

Martha was waiting alone beside the Tardis as the Doctor approached "All right." he said "Molto bene!"

"Is everyone alright?" Martha asked

"Yeah" he answered "Where's Rose?" he asked wondering where his wife was.

"She's in the Tardis somewhere." Martha said

"Right." he replied, deciding he would look for his wife after the Tardis was safely in the Vortex "And I never said thanks for lookin' after me." he said before hugging his friend. "Doctor, Martha." Timothy said as he approached them

"Tim-Timothy-Timber." The Doctor said enthusiastically.

"I just wanted to say good-bye." Timothy said "And thank you, because I've seen the future and I now know what must be done. It's coming, isn't it? The biggest war ever."

"You don't have to fight." "I think we do." Latimer said

"But you could get hurt." Martha reminded him

"Well, so could you, travelling around with him, but it's not going to stop you." Timothy replied.

"Tim, I'd be honoured if you'd take this." the Doctor said, handing him the watch.

"I can't hear anything." Timothy said

"No, it's just a watch now." the Doctor told him "But keep it with you. For good luck."

"Look after yourself." Martha said as she hugged him and then kissed him on the cheek before going into the Tardis to find Rose.

The Doctor walked towards the Tardis "You'll like this bit." He said before he went inside. A few moments later the Tardis dematerialised. Timothy smiled and walked away.

"In June 1914, an archduke of Austria was shot by a Serbian and this then led, through nations having treaties with other nations, like a line of dominoes falling, to some boys from England walking together through France on a terrible day...

World War I in the trenches, men were struggling through the mud. A bomb whistled "Incoming!"

Timothy opened the watch "One minute past the hour. It's now. Hutchinson, this is the time, it's now." Timothy looked up. They heard the whistle of a bomb. "To the right! To the right!" They jumped into a muddy ditch as the bomb fell were they had once stood. Timothy smiled "We made it." he said "Thank you, Doctor." this was spoken softer "Come along chap."

"Leave me." Hutchinson said "I'm not gonna make it." "Oh yes you are. Didn't I promise you, all those years ago?" Timothy said "Now, come on-and that's an order!" The two boys slog across the muddy battlefield.

Years later a Remembrance Sunday service was being held. An older man sat in a wheel chair, others standing behind him. A female vicar was reading For the Fallen by Laurence Binyan. "...They mingle not with laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam. They went with songs to the battle," The old man in the wheelchair was wearing a jacket that showed a number of medals. In his hands, he held a watch. It was Timothy Latimer "...they were young Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted," Timothy turned and he saw Rose attaching a poppy to the Doctor's lapel with Martha standing next to the couple. He smiled and turned back to what was going on. "They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them." Timothy looked down at the watch in his gloved hand.

Right, I'm off to sort out the filler. Well, I'm going to deal with the guilt Rose is feeling.

TTFN

Julie