The TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, but now with nine people, even though four were Hobbit's, it was getting pretty cramped. As the Doctor set the TARDIS in flight Ron and Hermione were debating in rather loud voice their relationship. Harry insisting they loved each other, Ron and Hermione insisting that they weren't. After all, as they pointed out, the Doctor and Rose held hands but they were just friends.

"But are they?" Harry asked lowering his voice. The other two were momentarily stunned and Harry took the opportunity to wander away. His friends needed time to think things over.

All four Hobbits were sat in a circle on the floor swapping stories. Frodo was explaining how though Bilbo had died and no longer had a body, in the Grey Havens it didn't matter because that was were Elvin souls went to rest. Sam was muttering something about missing Frodo's confidence to talk to Rosie cotton.

"Has he still not asked her out?" Frodo said to Merry and Pippin.

"No," Merry laughed. Pippin merely shook his head, his mouth full of food. Sam went bright red.

"That's easy for you to say. I don't see you asking Violet out," Sam shot at Merry, "Or you Pippin. You haven't asked out Willow."

Pippin choked on his apple. Merry went red and refused to meet Frodo's gaze as he laughed.

"It's good to be back," Frodo chuckled.

Rose was stood alone in a corner. Since the others had turned up the Doctor had seemed distant. Or maybe she felt that they couldn't be so close when everyone else was watching. Even so she was miserable. She didn't notice the Doctor come up behind her.

"Are you ok?" He asked placing a hand on her shoulder. She smiled slightly.

"I'm fine." She glanced at the others. "You always have to play the hero don't you?"

The Doctor smiled. Rose had meant it as a compliment.

"Yeah, well..." he trailed off.

"It's because your race was destroyed isn't it? You couldn't save them so you feel obliged to save others. It's like Nancy. She couldn't save Jamie so she helped the other kids." Rose watched the Doctor carefully. His big blue eyes wouldn't meet hers.

He didn't answer but slipped his hand into hers. She squeezed it gently and he returned the gesture.

"You'll always have me you know." Rose whispered as they watched the others talking, blissfully unaware of the Doctor and Rose. "Even if I'm going to die first."

"I know."

The TARDIS started to shudder to a halt. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin all stood up from where they had been talking.

"Ok. Let's go and see where we've landed." The Doctor smiled opening the doors of the TARDIS. Him and Rose stepped out into a baroness desert.

The others followed. Harry, Ron and Hermione wandered a little way away and began studying a weird kind of plant, while the Hobbit's stepped forward more cautiously, talking in whispers so quiet they were barely audible.

The Doctor frowned. Rose watched him walk forward and look around.

"Something wrong?" Rose asked slipping her hand back in his.

"I'm sure I've been here before." He frowned even more.

"Ummm, what's that?" Frodo asked pointing to something off in the distance. All four Hobbit's were looking at it and now Harry, Ron and Hermione went to join them. The Doctor and Rose wandered over. Past the TARDIS there was a huge building far off in the distance. Just in front of that there was a cloud of dust that seemed to be moving ever closer.

The Doctor's eyes widened.

"It can't be," he mumbled.

"What?" Asked Rose staring transfixed at the dust cloud.

"The only place I've seen that building is my home planet." The Doctor breathed.

"You what?" Asked Rose suddenly realising the implications of this.

"We're on Gallifrey." The Doctor whispered. "Oh and the last time I saw that dust cloud, it had a thousand Zogorns moving under it."

"I take it that's bad?" Rose mumbled. She started backing away but couldn't move that far without letting the Doctor's hand go.

"We have to hide." He mumbled. There was a cluster of rocks a little to the right of them. "HIDE! NOW!"

The Hobbit's immediately jumped behind the rocks flinging their cloaks over them and looking almost like rocks themselves. The Doctor and Rose huddled with their backs to the rock while Harry, Ron and Hermione had disappeared completely under the invisibility cloak.

The Hobbit's huddled together under their Elvin cloaks behind the rocks. They could hear the dust cloud, whatever it was, moving closer. Sam was shaking and Frodo could hear Merry and Pippin muttering to each other.

"It's all right Sam," Frodo said grasping his friend's hand. Outside under the invisibility cloak Harry, Ron and Hermione were a little distance from the rock, watching the ever-approaching cloud.

"What is it?" Whispered Ron in Harry's ear. Harry gave him a withering look.

"How do I know?" He replied. Ron rolled his eyes.

The Doctor and Rose crept round to the side of the Rocks furthest away from the advancing army. The peered over to look.

"What happens if we get caught?" Asked Rose. The Doctor frowned and didn't answer for a moment.

"If we get caught then we're in trouble. But you know me," he grinned at her, "I love trouble."

"Well you'll be pleased to know," said a weird voice from behind them. "That you're in a lot of trouble."

The Doctor and Rose turned to see tall scaly creatures had the Hobbit's in their arms and Harry, Ron and Hermione by their robes.

"We shall proceed to the the great hall!" Barked the scaly creature that had spoken before pointing back at the building in the distance.

"Oh yes let's, I'd love a cup of tea," said the Doctor smiling.

The Hobbit's, who were struggling in the scaly creatures arms, looked at him bemused at how he could stay so calm.

"Shall we?" Asked the Doctor leading the way.