Right, second chapter. Admitedly, not much happens, but I promise it gets more exciting! Thanks to everyone who reveiwed, you guys are great.

My story doesn't seem to be appearing in the main Doctor Who section :( Usually it is by the next day, but it's still not there. Grr.

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.

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Rose and Jackie watched as the Doctor and this Susan person were talking, both looking very happy and very relieved and very surprised. The Doctor kept shaking his head and running his hands through his hair. Susan seemed to be speaking in a very high-pitched voice, which Rose guessed was because she was excited. Or maybe she just had a high-pitched voice.

All Rose knew was that, somehow, Susan must be the Doctor's granddaughter. She had, after all, run up to him shouting 'grandfather'. She'd never thought the Doctor had had a family; it was just such an odd idea. But that was definitely what she'd said. But that wasn't even the weirdest thing.

The weirdest thing was that she didn't understand what they were saying. It was a different language, and the TARDIS wasn't translating it. She'd gotten so used to every language automatically being translated for her, that suddenly hearing one she didn't understand was a bit of a shock to the system. As far as she knew, the only reason the TARDIS stopped translating languages was if the Doctor was hurt, but he looked perfectly fine right now. In fact, he looked more than fine. He looked absolutely bloody ecstatic. So why wasn't the TARDIS working?

Rose had guessed they had probably been talking about the Time War at some point, and how she had survived it. Now that she thought about it, the Doctor hardly ever talked about the Time Way any more. Not as much as he used to. Not as much as the other him used to. At first she thought that was good. She thought it meant he'd gotten over it. But he still had the nightmares he had before. He didn't sleep often, but when he did, she could hear him screaming, and she'd always been there to comfort him. Anyway, they'd definitely been talking about it, and they'd both gotten pretty emotional, her more so than he though. At one point he'd said something to her, and they'd been silent, as she took in whatever he had said. Rose had guess that that had been when he told her everyone died. If she was the result of the time ripple, it meant that she'd been transported from the war to here, or she'd been brought back to life.

Then they stopped talking, smiled at each other for a second, before hugging again. When they parted, she looked over at Rose and Jackie and said, "So, are you going to introduce me to your friends?" It was another shock to the system when she suddenly started speaking perfect English, after speaking a different language for ages.

"Oh, yes, sorry, being terribly rude aren't I?" said the Doctor, now also speaking in perfect English, "I seem to do that a lot in this regeneration, don't I?" he asked Rose, but she didn't get time to answer. "Susan, this is Rose, a friend I travel with, and this is Jackie, her mother. And before you ask me, NO I DON'T travel with her mother." He paused for a second, before carrying on. "And Rose and Jackie, this is Susan, my granddaughter." They exchanged hellos and handshakes. "She's a Time Lord. Well, Time Lady. Got brought back to life via the time ripple." The Doctor grinned, and Rose just stood, completely silent, still getting over the fact that the Doctor had a granddaughter.

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On the way back to the TARDIS, the Doctor and Susan had spent the whole time talking to each other, still in that untranslatable language. Jackie had gone back to the flat. Rose had so many questions, but it looked like it was going to be very hard to get the Doctor alone for a while. She wondered vaguely if Sarah-Jane knew he had a granddaughter. If he'd told her he had a family. She remembered suddenly when she'd gone back to save her dad, and the Doctor had said that his whole family had died, but she hadn't thought about it since then. She couldn't really imagine the Doctor with a family, with kids. It was all so domestic. Then again, this was a Time Lord family; maybe he went around the universe with his family in the TARDIS. But that would still be too domestic for him. Though, she had to remind herself, this would have been a different Doctor, in a different body. Maybe he didn't mind domestic so much then.

She was so lost in her own thoughts that it wasn't until she heard an excited shriek from Susan that she realised they were back at the TARDIS. Susan ran up to it, and ran her hand down it, smiling. She turned back to the Doctor.

"You still haven't fixed it!" she cried happily, "I would have thought after 600 years you would have changed it."

"Nah, I've grown to love it. Wouldn't have it any other way," he walked up to the door and reached inside to get his jacket to get his key, "the inside's changed, though. A lot." He opened the door, and they all went inside.

Susan looked around her, gasping. "Wow," she said, "you really have changed it." She walked up to the consol, and looked at the various controls, and looked at the screen, then frowned slightly. "What did you do to her?" she asked.

"Oh, that would be following the time ripple back here. She didn't enjoy it much," he sat in the seat, and watched as Susan looked around her. "So what do you think?"

"Its very different. Use to be so white. And the controls are everywhere! They used to be in all straight lines and generally be organised, now they're just sort of… everywhere." He laughed, as she looked up at him. "The Doctor I knew never would have had it like this."

"Well I've changed."

"You certainly have. The old you never would have ran up and hugged me like that."

"Like I said, I've changed. A lot." Susan nodded, slowly.

"Yea, you have." She said. There was a silence, as none of them seemed to know what to say. Rose was the one to break the silence.

"Well, I can see you two want to be alone, so I'll just… leave…" she walked out of the TARDIS, and closed the door behind her.

The Doctor and Susan stood for a while, neither sure what to say. Finally Susan asked the question that had been burning on her mind ever since he left her.

"Why did you do it?" she asked. The Doctor looked at her, confused.

"Do what?" She walked up to him, and stood just in front of him, folding her arms.

"You know what," she said sternly. She tried to look angry, but he could see behind the act there was sadness. Her expression softened, and she dropped her hands to her side. She spoke in a quiet voice. "Why did you leave me?"

"You know why I left you," he replied, sitting up, "so you could live your life, the way you always wanted to. Have a home and a husband. Have your own life, without aliens and monsters and life and death, with a family. I could hear what you were saying, how much you wanted to stay with him. You'd been with me for years, you needed to get your own life." The silence came back, as she took in what he'd said. She already knew that, really, he'd told her when he left her. She just needed to hear him say it again.

"You said you'd come back," she was almost ready to cry, as she remembered all those nights spent staring outside the window, waiting, hoping to hear that sound, hoping to see that blue box appear in front of her.

The Doctor looked down guiltily. He had said that he would go back, that he would visit her. And he never did. He wasn't even sure why. Then the Time War happened, and he thought he could never see her again. He hadn't seen her during the War, but he knew she was dead.

"Why didn't you come back?" she asked, brining him back to reality. He didn't look up.

"I don't know," he muttered; just load enough for her to hear. She frowned.

"What do you mean you don't know? How can you not know?" Suddenly he stood up, and looked her in the eye.

"I don't know!" he repeated, slightly angry. But he was angry with himself. "I don't know why I didn't come back. I don't know why I didn't visit you. And then there was the Time War and I didn't think I could ever see you again. And I hated myself. I hated myself for not going back for you, I hated myself for what I did in the Time War." He stopped, and looked at her, almost begging for forgiveness. "And I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He pulled her into a hug, and she hugged him back, crying quietly into his jacket.

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Rose sat on a bench, at looked at her watch. It had been 15 minutes since she'd walked out of the TARDIS, and she wasn't sure what to do now. She didn't know if she should go back in, if she would be interrupting them if she did. Maybe she should just wait for the Doctor to come out and get her. She kept thinking about the things Susan had said.

"The Doctor I knew never would have had it like this."

"The old you never would have ran up and hugged me like that."

That really was a different Doctor. She couldn't imagine the Doctor and not always holding his hand, and hugging him whenever they got out of trouble, or were reunited. She couldn't imagine the Doctor content with a TARDIS where all the controls were neatly organised in straight lines. It just seemed so undoctorish. Even when he regenerated, he's still been the Doctor. The small things she held so close to her heart had always stayed the same. But the Doctor Susan seemed to be describing was so different, she couldn't imagine him being like that.

She stood up, and walked around a bit. She kicked a stone, and stuffed her hands in her pockets. She walked over to the side of a park, where there were children playing on swings and seesaws and climbing frames. Smiling softly, she thought about when the Doctor had had children. She wondered if they had playgrounds like this on Gallifrey, and if kids went to school, and if they had birthdays and got presents, and all the silly little domestic things that happened on Earth that the Doctor would never want to do. At least, her Doctor would never want to do. Susan's Doctor was very different. She'd have to ask him, along with all the other questions she had yet to ask him.

Then she heard door opening, and spun round to see the Doctor coming out of the TARDIS. She grinned, and walked up to him, happy he was finally done.

He shut the door behind him, and looked around. He then looked at Rose, as she walked up in front of him.

"Where's Susan?" Rose asked, looking behind him waiting for her to come out too.

"Oh, she's just looking round the TARDIS, seeing exactly what's changed." Rose nodded, trying to decide which question to ask first.

"So… you have a granddaughter?" she asked. It was a bit obvious, so she decided to elaborate. "Which means that you had kids at some point, right?" He nodded.

"Yep."

"And a wife?" The Doctor sucked in through his teeth, something he seemed to like to do.

"Not exactly a wife, no, but the Gallifreyan equivalent, basically."

"So you did do domestic once," Rose said, more a statement than a question. The Doctor laughed, as he tried to remember back that long ago.

"Yea, I did. Hated every minute of it, mind you. Never was very good at the whole father thing. Susan was the only person in my family I ever really understood, we both shared the want to escape life on Gallifrey and break free from the Time Lord rules, and go explore time and space. We tried to do that, long story, we ended up getting exiled. Just us and the TARDIS. We travelled for a bit, landed on Earth, she ended up getting followed home by two of her school teachers and we went travelling again… wonder what happened to them… anyway, yea, I did do domestic."

"So you had a family?"

"Yea."

"How come you never mention 'em?" The Doctor's smiled fell, and he looked down at the floor. Rose suddenly felt bad for asking. Clearly he didn't want to talk about it.

"Because it hurts," he said finally, looking up at her, the pain evident in his eyes. "They're all dead. I never truly appreciated them, and it was me who ended up…" he caught himself before he went any further. "It hurts to think about them. Especially Susan." Rose wanted to ask why, but knew she probably shouldn't delve any further. She waited for a few seconds, before asking him another question.

"Before, you two were talking in a different language, that the TARDIS didn't translate." A frown quickly crossed the Doctor's face as he looked up at her. He looked so confused it was almost funny.

"We were? That's… worrying. Must be something wrong with the TARDIS…" he turned around to go back in, before stopping and spinning round again to face Rose. "Of course!" he said, "we were speaking Gallifreyan, and I had to set the TARDIS to translate any language except Gallifreyan for the Time War, in case any Daleks managed to get in and hear our plans. I suppose I really should turn that off, don't really need it anymore." Rose laughed, and he smiled.

Suddenly Susan burst out of the doors, almost knocking the Doctor over. She stopped in front of them, a look of absolute urgency on her face.

"Grandfather!" she said breathlessly, "I've got something to tell you."