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Sophie's POV…
"Oh, it's weird seeing the school at night," Rose commented with a small grin as the Doctor opened a fire door and we – including Mickey – followed him through a dark corridor.
It was late at night and we stuck into the school to do some investigating. Before coming here, I expected that I would be running into my aunt so I prepared myself. Hopefully the doctor wouldn't be too mad at me for keeping this from him. I hated to lie so I hated that I kept it a secret, but I didn't know how he would react to it. So I kept it to myself.
I nodded in agreement with Rose. "I know, it really is." I then grinned to myself as I nudged my best friend in the side. "Remember how we always thought that the teachers slept in school?"
"Oh yeah." Rose laughed quietly. Then in a whisper as if it was some big secret, "I still think that too."
My grin widened at that as I nodded. "Same here."
We finally stopped walking near these stairs and the Doctor turned to us. "Alright, team." As soon as those words left his mouth, his nose wrinkled in disgust, "Oh, I hate it when people say team'." I giggled to myself as he continued on, trying to find the right word to describe us. "Um… 'gang'. Um…'comrades'. Uh…" He gave up, "Anyway…Rose, go to the kitchen and get a sample of that oil."
He turned to Mickey. "Mickey, the new staff are all Maths teachers, go and check out the Maths department. I'm gonna look in Fitch's office. Oh!" He turned to me, "Sophie, come up with me and you can check the classes' rooms up there."
I nodded, "Okay. Sounds good."
The Doctor gave me a grin before looking at all of us. "Be back here in ten minutes!"
I followed him up the stairs after giving Rose and Mickey a hug. Once up there, we went in different directions.
"Be careful!" I called to the Doctor, who raised a hand in response as he quickly went down the hall with his coat swishing behind him.
I shook my head before making my way down the other way. There wasn't that many classrooms in the direction that I went in so it didn't take me that long to go through them. Deciding to meet the Doctor at the Headmaster's Office, I got there but the Doctor was nowhere in sight. However, someone else was and that person was my Aunt Sarah Jane, who was trying to pick the lock of the office. She didn't notice me as her back was to me. I was frozen in my spot, just watching her. But she eventually gave up on trying to unlock the door and I was still standing there when she turned around. She gasped at the sight of me.
"Sophie?" She sounded surprised to see me.
"Hi, Auntie," I said, waving at her with a sheepish smile on my lips.
Sarah Jane opened her mouth to say something, probably to ask what I was doing here, but before she could, there was a loud bang followed by a screech that caused us both to jump.
"What was that?" I squeaked out.
The screeches seemed to be getting louder and louder as whatever was trying to get to us got closer and closer.
Sarah Jane grabbed my hand, "Come on Soph."
She didn't have to ask me twice and we backed away from the corridor and ended up backing up into a room. I slammed the door behind us with my free hand. It was when I noticed the TARDIS that I remembered that this was the room we had appeared in when we came to the school. I knew that the Doctor was close by and I grew nervous, palms sweating. I opened my mouth to say something to my aunt before she noticed the TARDIS but it was too late because she turned around and took notice to the TARDIS, gasping. I could tell from the look on her face that she couldn't believe she was standing in front of the TARDIS. I smiled at that. She had been looking for the Doctor forever and she was going to meet up with him again. Though I was nervous about him finding out about me being Sarah's niece, it made me happy to see my aunt with that happy gleam in her eyes.
She turned to me. "He's here, isn't he?"
I was the first one to notice the Doctor who hadn't notice me. All he was seeing was Sarah Jane.
Not wanting him to notice me just yet, I whispered to my aunt, a smile on my lips, "Why don't you ask him yourself?"
A confused look crossed her face but then came the Doctor's voice,
"Hello Sarah Jane," he greeted her quietly as she turned around to face him.
I stayed quiet as Sarah Jane spoke.
"It's you," she whispered. "Oh…Doctor…" A smile spread across her face as she stepped closer to him. "Oh, my God, it's you, it's … it's … you've regenerated."
"Half a dozen times since we last met."
"You look…incredible," Sarah Jane breathed out, eyes raking over his form. The way she was looking at him rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't know why.
"So do you."
Sarah Jane gave a chuckle. "I got old," she said as she edged around him, staring. "What are you doing here?"
"Well…UFO sighting, school gets record results – I couldn't resist. What about you?"
"Same."
They laughed together and I smiled. You could feel the comfortable air around them as if they had never been separated before. But then the smile fell and a sad smile replaced when my aunt Sarah Jane spoke up, voice breaking as she obviously held back her tears,
"I thought you'd died. I waited for you to come back, and I thought you must've died."
"I lived. Everyone else died." I saw the sadness in his eyes and I looked on confused, wondering what he meant by everyone else being dead. My aunt seemed to wonder the same thing.
"What do you mean?"
The Doctor looked at her and I could practically feel the quiet pain rolling off of him like a wave. "Everyone died, Sarah."
She shook her head. "I can't believe it's you," she whispered.
I still had no idea what he was talking about. I stiffened at my aunt's next works.
"When Sophie told me…"
The Doctor cut her off, eyes wide, "Wait, what?"
Sarah Jane looked at me. "You didn't tell him?"
Now the Doctor took notice to me being there and his eyes seemed to widen even more. "Sophie? When did you get here?"
"Since Sarah Jane came in," I replied sheepishly.
"You know Sarah Jane?" The Doctor's eyes went to me then to my aunt then me again. "And what haven't you told me?"
"Yes I know her… because she's…" I bit my lip and he pressed,
"Go on."
"Sarah Jane's my aunt," I finally said and weight seemed to lift off of my chest, glad to get that out there.
"What?!"
"Surprise," I weakly stated.
"What?!"
"Doctor," I said exasperatedly.
"What?!" He said one last time before he blinked at me, shaking his head. "No wonder you looked so familiar and reminded me of Sarah Jane." He looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Before I had time to respond, Sarah Jane said,
"I still can't believe it's you."
Out of nowhere, there was a loud, girlish scream and Sarah grinned.
"Okay! Now I can!"
We ran out of the room only to end up skidding to a stop when we bumped into Rose.
"Did you hear that?" she asked but then she took notice to Sarah Jane and demanded, "Who's she?"
I saw jealousy flash in her eyes and I winced. I was the one, who answered first,
"This is my aunt," I told Rose and she looked at me surprised.
"What?"
Are we going to start that again? I opened my mouth to say something; the Doctor cut me, off which I gave him a look for,
"Rose, Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane, Rose," he said, introducing them.
An unpleasant look crossed Rose's face as she shook hands with my aunt who put a fake smile on her face. The smile she got when she didn't like someone all that well. It didn't happen often, but you really wouldn't want one of those smiles from her. It meant trouble.
"Hi, nice to meet you," Sarah Jane told Rose. She looked at the Doctor. "You can tell you're getting older – your assistants are getting younger."
Rose looked insulted and outraged all rolled into one. "I am not his assistant."
The Doctor scratched the back of his ear uncomfortably. Even I felt uncomfortable.
"No? I get you, tiger."
The Doctor and I shared a look and we seemed to be thinking the same thing because we sped off at the same time in the direction of the scream with my aunt and Rose right behind us.
We found Mickey in one of the class rooms. It was obvious he had been the one who screamed. I couldn't blame him one bit for it. Because all around was him was a load of vacuum-packed rats. But what the hell were they doing there?
"Sorry! Sorry it was only me," Mickey apologized quickly. "You told me to investigate, so I – I started looking through some of these cupboards and all of these fell out."
The Doctor bended down and picked up a few to examine them.
"Oh, my God, they're rates," Rose stated the obvious, eyes wide. "Dozens of rats. Vacuum packed rats."
"And you decided to scream," The Doctor asked Mickey, looking over at him amused.
"It took me by surprise!" he protested.
"Like a little girl?"
"It was dark!" Mickey exclaimed in an indignant tone of voice. "I was covered in rats!"
"Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails." I couldn't help but giggle as Mickey's hand went to his head. "Frilly skirt."
I gave him a light smack on the arm. "Hey, be nice." But I found myself grinning.
"Oh, you have to admit it was funny," The Doctor teased.
"No, it wasn't funny at all. It's not nice to laugh at the expense of people." I crossed my arms, giving the Doctor a look."
"Then why are you smiling?" he pointed out.
"I'm smiling because of how cute it is when you act childish, that's all," I said nonchalantly but then blushed when I realized what I said.
The Doctor blushed as well, letting out a cute, nervous laugh. Sarah Jane stared at us amused while Rose just glared at us.
"Hello, can we focus?" she snapped and my aunt narrowed her eyes at my friend. "Does anyone notice anything strange about this? Rats in school?"
"Well, obviously they use them in Biology lessons, they dissect them," Sarah Jane shared as if this was something we didn't know. She looked at Rose. "Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?"
'Uh-oh, here we go.' I thought to myself with sigh, looking between Rose and my aunt and from the corner of my eye, I saw Mickey and the Doctor doing the same thing.
"Excuse me," Rose practically sneered. "No one dissects rats in school anymore. They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the dark ages?"
The Doctor cut in quickly, "Anyway, moving on."
Dirty looks appeared on their faces, directed towards one another. And I could tell my aunt wanted to make a nasty retort to Rose but she managed to hold herself back especially when she glanced at me and I gave her look, pleading with her to be nice. But I knew my aunt wouldn't. If Rose wasn't nice to her, she sure as hell wasn't going to be nice either. I couldn't blame her though. I don't think anyone would.
"Everything started when Mr. Finch arrived," The Doctor continued. "We should go and check his office." He chucked the rat he was holding back to Mickey who dropped it. We followed the Doctor.
"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose asked my aunt.
I stayed back with the Doctor and Mickey, standing in the middle of them.
"Sarah Jane Smith," my aunt answered. "Sophie's aunt and I used to travel with the Doctor."
"Oh! Well, he never mentioned you," Rose said nonchalantly. "And neither did Sophie."
The Doctor spoke up, "Oh, I must have done! Sarah Jane! Mention her all the time."
Rose pretended to think about it. "Hold on…sorry…never…"
"Well, I mentioned my aunt all the time, you just didn't know her name," I pointed out.
"Well, you didn't mention her traveling with the Doctor," she retorted.
"What, not even once?" Sarah asked annoyed. "He didn't mention me once?"
Looking at Rose, I could see her smirking as she walked off and my aunt followed her, probably to probe her further.
Mickey laughed, slapping the Doctor in the back, "Ho, ho! Mate! The missus and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nightmare." He grinned as we followed Rose and my aunt.
"I can't believe you didn't mention my aunt to Rose," I said shaking my head.
"Well, same could be same for you," Mickey pointed out. "You didn't mention that Sarah Jane was old companion of the Doctor or that she was your aunt."
"Right," I said, nodding. "You have a point."
He gave me a grin. "Yeah, I know."
I rolled my eyes at him, punching him playfully on the shoulder, "Don't get a big head, Mick. We already have one of those, we don't need another one." I looked at the Doctor when I said the last thing and he looked at me with raised eyebrow, obviously not hearing what I said,
"What?"
Mickey and I looked at each other and laughed.
"What?" The Doctor asked confused.
-0-
"Maybe those rats were food," The Doctor said as he used the sonic to open the door to Mr. Finch's office.
"Food for what?"
He opened the door and peered inside. There was series of strange noises coming from the room.
"Rose…Sophie…" The Doctor started off.
"Yeah?" I looked at him.
"You know how you used to think all the teachers slept in the school…? Well…they do."
The rest of us looked inside and my eyes widened at the sight of these bat-like creatures hanging upside down from the ceiling. They were huge!
"No way!" Mickey turned on his heel, running off.
My aunt and Rose were the first to follow him. The Doctor and I were the last one as the Doctor slammed the shut but not before I got another good look at them. He took my hand and we ran off after Rose, Mickey, and Sarah Jane.
We ran out of the front doors of the school, still holding hands.
"I am not going back in there," Mickey said out of breath from the running. "No way."
"Those were teachers!" Rose exclaimed.
"Those were huge bats! What are they?" I asked.
The Doctor frowned. "No idea." He changed the subject, "When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies and a nurse. Thirteen. Thirteen big bat people." He turned towards the school. "Come on." He began to walk back inside.
"Come on – you've got be kidding!"
"I need the TARDIS," The Doctor told Mickey, turning to him. "I've got to analyze that oil from the kitchen."
Sarah Jane grabbed onto his arm, a wide grin on her face. "I might be able to help you, there. I've got something to show you!"
A big grin appeared on my face, knowing exactly what she wanted to show the Doctor. "You brought him, didn't you?" I asked and Sarah Jane nodded.
"Him?" The Doctor echoed and he looked at my aunt curiously. She smiled at him.
"You'll see," Sarah said, grinning still. She tugged on the Doctor's arm and pulled him excitedly in the direction of the car parking lot.
Once at her car, she opened the boot of her car. Inside was something covered with a green blanket.
"Go on," I said to the Doctor, unable to hide my grin, knowing how excited he was going to be at who my aunt brought.
The Doctor pulled the blanket off to reveal K9 and a great big grin spread across his face causing my own grin to widen. "K9!" he cried delighted. "Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith – allow me to introduce K9 – well, K9 Mark III to be precise."
"Why does he look so … disco?" Rose asked staring at K9 like it was the weirdest thing in the world.
"Oi!" The Doctor looked and sounded offended as he looked at Rose. "Listen; in the year five thousand, this was cutting edge!"
I nodded. "Yeah, K9's the best." I patted K9 on top of the head fondly, "I loved playing with him when I was kid…"
"Did you grow up with Sarah?" the Doctor questioned, a look of interest on his face.
I nodded again. "Yeah, Auntie took me in when my parents died when I was six."
"Oh, I'm sorry," The Doctor said softly.
"Thanks…" I smiled to myself sadly. I changed the subject, back to what I was talking about before, "I used to play with him all the time…that is until he stopped working."
The Doctor immediately looked over at Sarah. "What happened to him?"
"Like Sophie said, he stopped working… one day, he was just…nothing!"
"Well, didn't you try and get him repaired?"
I saw Mickey shake his head and Rose just stared at the Doctor. They obviously didn't get it.
"Well, it's not like getting parts for a mini-metro!" Sarah Jane protested. "Beside, the technology inside him could rewrite human science. I couldn't show him to anyone."
The Doctor cooed at K9, patting his head, "Oooh, what's the nasty lady done to you? Eh?"
I giggled as I patted K9 on the back and rubbed it once as I said, "Oh she's done horrible things. Terrible dog owner."
The Doctor laughed and Sarah joined in.
"Oh be quiet," my aunt said, nudging me in the side.
"Never!" I nudged her back with a grin.
Mickey stared at us while Rose rolled her eyes as the Doctor continued to coo over K9 and my aunt threw Rose what could be described as a triumphant glance. Rose glared back.
"Look, no offence, but could you three just petting for a minute?" she questioned annoyed. "Nevermind the tin dog, we're busy!"
I scowled at her for calling K9 'a tin dog'. You never diss K9. It's like dissing the sonic! It's something that can't happen. Ever!
The Doctor stopped petting K9, but he was still grinning happily. I gave K9 one last pat on the head before I let the Doctor close the boot of my aunt's car.
Mickey Smith found this whole Sarah Jane Smith thing amusing. He had told Rose time and time again that the Doctor was just like other blokes and this proved it. "You see, what's impressive is that it's been an hour since we met and I still haven't said, 'I told you.'"
Rose stood next to him at the counter at this chip shop that was nearby and her eyes were at the table where the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Sophie were at, laughing and talking to each other happily while they fixed K9 who was sitting on the table top. Not only was she jealous of Sophie, but she was jealous of Sarah Jane who used to be an old companion of the Doctor and Sophie's aunt. Rose moved her eyes away from the threesome with a huff.
"I'm not listening to this," she grumbled.
Mickey grinned as he sniggered, "Although I have prepared a little 'I was right' dance that I can show you later." He sniggered again and the shopkeeper who was behind the counter held her hand out towards Rose, the one that didn't have the chips.
"Two quid, love," the shopkeeper told Rose.
She gave her the money, took the chips, and tucked in immediately, practically shoving the chips into her mouth, angrily.
"All this time you've been giving it, 'he's different!' – when the truth is, he's just like any other bloke," Mickey said as they sat down a table away from the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Sophie.
"You don't know what you're talking about," Rose said in another grumble.
"Maybe not. But if I were you…I'd go easy on the chips."
She stopped chewing, a chip almost falling out of her mouth. The way she looked made Mickey laugh and she cracked a smile.
"See there's that Rose Tyler smile," he told her, smiling as well.
She rolled her eyes at him but continued smiling.
Sophie's POV…
I glanced at Rose and Mickey from the corner of my eye. I didn't miss the fact that my friend was looking over here with jealous eyes. But now Rose was smiling. It was surprising to see considering Rose hadn't been smiling all that much lately. And that was my fault. I sighed, but it was unheard by my aunt and the Doctor as Sarah spoke up.
"I thought of you on Christmas Day," she said. "This Christmas just gone? Great big spaceship overhead – I thought, 'Oh, yeah. Bet he's up there.'"
"Right on top of it, yeah."
Sarah smiled, "I figured as much since Sophie told me that she found you afterwards." Then she said in a cautious tone of voice, "And Rose?"
"She was there too."
There was a pause and my aunt stared at the Doctor, who was fiddling with K9's wires. She looked at me then and I could tell she wanted to be alone with the Doctor.
"I'm going to get a drink, be back in a minute," I told the Doctor and my aunt.
The Doctor gave me a nod in response as he continued to fiddle with K9's wires, eyebrows furrowed. I smiled to myself at how cute it looked. I felt my aunt staring at me and I looked up at her, and saw the questioning look on her face. I blushed. I quickly went over to counter before my aunt could say anything else to me.
By the time I got my drink, K9 sprung back to life.
"Oh, hey! Now we're in business!" The Doctor leaped to his feet, grinning, as he stood in front of K9.
I grinned, standing next to the Doctor.
"Master!" K9 said.
The Doctor sounded ecstatic, "He recognizes me!"
"Affirmative."
I leaned down to get a better look at K9, still grinning. "Hello K9. Do you remember me?"
"Affirmative Mistress."
My eyes sparkled happily as I leaned back, my grin so wide that I was surprised that my mouth didn't fall off.
"Rose." The Doctor turned to the other blonde in the room. "Give us the oil." She quickly handed it to him and he took off the lid of the jar with the oil and was about to dip his finger in it but Rose stopped him quickly,
"I wouldn't touch it, though, that dinner lady got all scalded," she warned him.
"I'm no dinner lady." The Doctor added right afterwards, "And I don't often say that often." He dipped his finger in the oil and K9 put out a sensor for him to smear it onto and he did just that. "Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go." He encouraged.
"Oil. Ex—ex—ex—extract ana—an—analyzing …"
Mickey grinned, delighted. "Listen to it, man! That's a voice!"
"Careful! That's my dog!" Sarah Jane scolded him and his delighted grin turned into a sheepish one.
"Confirmation of the analysis is Krillitane Oil."
The Doctor looked shocked. "They're Krillitane."
"Is that bad?" Rose asked.
"Very. Think of how bad things could possibly be, and add another suitcase full of bad."
"Yeah, that's very bad," I said, once I thought about it.
"And what are …" Sarah tried to word out a couple times before she could finally say it, "Krillitane?"
"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 Vikings, 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."
"That's creepy," I couldn't help but say, consciously touching my neck, thinking of how it feel to have a really long neck. It wasn't very pleasant.
Rose nodded in agreement with me before asking the Doctor, "What are they doing here?"
The Doctor suddenly took on this horrified realization look. "It's the children."
My heart went cold, not liking where the Doctor was going with this. "You're not thinking what I think your thinking, are you? Doctor?"
He met my eyes. "What am I thinking?"
"You thinking that they're using the children."
His eyes hardened. "Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking. They're using the children."
-0-
I was outside with my aunt and Mickey, helping them put K9 back into the boot of the car.
"So, what's the deal with the tin dog?" Mickey asked once K9 was back in the car, leaning against it.
"The Doctor likes travelling with an entourage," My aunt said. "Sometimes, they're human, sometimes they're aliens, and sometimes…they're tin dogs."
"Auntie, I think only the Doctor would actually bring a 'tin dog' on a trip in TARDIS." I laughed.
Sarah Jane smiled softly, "Are you enjoying yourself? Travelling with the Doctor?"
"Yea… he's as amazing as you told me he was," I said fondly. 'And more.' I thought to myself, eyes soft. I snapped out of it when I heard my aunt ask Mickey,
"What about you? Where do you fit in the picture?"
"Me? I'm their Man in Havana. I'm the technical support… I'm…" His enthusiasm died down as he was stuck with a realization, "Oh, my God. I'm the tin dog." He sat down in shock and Sarah Jane patted him on the shoulder with a grin.
"I'm sure you're more than the tin dog, Mick," I told him, patting his shoulder shoulder.
He sighed, "No…I'm not."
"Yes, you are," I pressed. "You just have to believe in yourself. But if you have this kind of attitude, if you won't be who you know you can be."
Mickey stared at me for a moment before smiling at me. "Thank you," he said softly.
I gave his shoulder a squeeze, "No problem." I started to walk towards the chip shop, "I'm going to see what's taking them so long."
I was almost there to the shop when the Doctor came out of the shop followed by Rose. Before I could say anything to them, Rose called after the Doctor,
"How many of us have there been, travelling with you?"
"Does it matter?" he asked back as he continued walking, but he didn't see me not that he had time to considering Rose had spoke up again that caused him to stop and turn around.
Her voice shook as she said, "Yeah, it does, if I'm just the latest in a long line."
"As opposed to what?" The Doctor sounded hurt and angry.
"I thought you and me were… but I obviously got it wrong. 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," he said in the most abrupt voice that I had heard from him. "Not to you."
"But Sarah Jane…you were that close to her once and now … you never even mention her. Why not?"
"Rose…"
But she cut him off, "And what about Sophie? I've seen the way you look at her." Her voice turned angry, "I hate that she's taking the fun and attention from me. It was just supposed to be us; you and me. Not you, me, and Sophie! I never even wanted her to come in the first place. I didn't have a choice in the matter. You obviously wanted her to come, it was so obvious. And don't bother denying it. You feel something for her. And I don't even know why, she's not even that pretty!"
I couldn't believe I was hearing this. Tears welled in my eyes. But what hurt the most was that the Doctor wasn't even saying anything as if he agreed with everything she said. I couldn't stay here anymore. I ran off, running past my aunt and Mickey who asked me what was wrong. Because I ran off, I didn't hear the Doctor defend me.
TBC...
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