A/N: Hello everyone! A few hours early, but since I've been wide awake for a few hours now so thought I'd get it uploaded for you all.
Poll is up for 1 more week. After that, I'll let you all know the results.
Kari sat on her bed, her phone in her hand. She finally had a signal again, and hadn't stopped staring at it for the past hour. She really needed someone to talk to, to tell them everything that had happened and what she had done. She felt so bad about what had happened to the Doctor, there was no way that she could forgive herself.
After a few more minutes, she hit the call key and pressed her phone against her ear. She listened to it ringing at the other end, and after the fifth ring, she was ready to hang up. Instead it was picked up and a voice grabbed her attention before she could hit the key.
"Kari?" A familiar Welsh voice said, sounding a little worried.
"Hey, Ianto. Is Jack about? I really need to talk to him." She told him, wondering why Jack hadn't answered his phone himself. Usually he never missed her calls, no matter where he was or what danger he was in, he always answered.
"Uh, he's about, but in a bit of a mood at the moment." Ianto told her, a hint of worry in his voice. "He hasn't stopped shouting for the past two days, and he is always picking a fight with Owen."
Kari let out a sigh. "Well, I don't care what mood he's in, I need to talk to him." She told him, trying to work out why Jack could be in such a foul mood. "Would you get him for me, please?"
A few moments later she heard Ianto shouting out to Jack, telling him that Kari was on the line for him. Everything seemed to go silent, but a few seconds later, there was the rustling of someone else grabbing the phone. "Kari? Are you okay?" Jack asked her quickly.
"Uh, yeah, I'm okay. Sort of." She told him, before thinking differently. "Not really. No, I'm not okay. I'm anything but okay."
"Princess, I've been calling you for two days. What happened?" Jack asked her, the worry and concern floating to her ears in his voice.
She closed her eyes and let out a long breath. "When did I last call you? And what did I say?" Kari asked him, knowing that she needed to work out where he was and how far along the pair of them were.
"Two days ago. You were scared, there was something else in the TARDIS with you and the Doctor. We were talking and the line just went dead. What the hell happened?" It was clear that he had been worried about her, and the mood that he had inflicted upon his team at Torchwood was because of that. "I tried calling you back, but I got nothing."
"Jack, I've done something terrible." Kari managed to whisper. Just the memory of what she done to the Doctor upset her. "The time vortex, I… I used it to hurt the Doctor." There was silence at the other end, and Kari just knew that Jack was disappointed with her, and as far as she was concerned he had every right to be.
She finally heard him let out a sigh at the other end of the line. "What happened?" He asked her, his voice shaking a little. "Tell me everything, start to finish. Okay, Princess?"
A while later and Kari was finally silent, having told Jack every little thing that had happened. From hearing voices, to being locked in her room and calling him, to the moment when she left the Doctor on his own in the kitchen. She had to do her best not to think too much about what she had heard, what Balavin had made her think. She just felt so stupid now, because she had believed it.
"Hey, you didn't hurt him, Princes." Jack assured her. "The Doctor is a lot tougher than that. You need to just talk to him, Kari. If he said you didn't hurt him, then you didn't hurt him, okay?"
"Yeah, okay." Kari replied, her voice rather quiet. She knew she could tell her big brother anything, and she knew he would always help her and know the right things to say. And he was right about this as well, she needed to talk to the Doctor about all of it.
"Everything is going to be fine, Princess, I promise. Just go and talk to him, and I'll see you soon, okay?" Kari knew that Jack was telling her to get off her backside and go find the Doctor, to go and talk to him and make sure that everything really was fine.
"I'll speak to you soon then, Jack." She mumbled, still not sure that she wanted to go and face the Doctor yet. How could he forgive her when she couldn't forgive herself? "Tell everyone I said hi. And stop being in a bad mood with everyone."
Jack chuckled a little. "Well, now that you've called, I don't have to worry so much, do I? I was just worried about you and wanted to make sure you were safe, Kari, they understand that."
"Doesn't mean you get to take it out on Owen all the time." She grumbled, remembering that Ianto said he had been picking fights with that member of his team.
"Hey, Owen gives as good as he gets, trust me. Now go, Princess." He said to her, before ending the call, knowing that it was the only way to get her off the phone and to actually get on with what she was meant to be doing.
Kari knew she needed to talk to the Doctor, that she needed to make sure that she really didn't hurt him and that he knew she never meant to do it in the first place. At the time, she just couldn't help herself, she was just angry and upset and didn't know what else to do. But she should have listened to him, to the man that was standing in front of her and not the voices in her head.
She took a deep breath as she stepped out of her room, planning on going to find the Doctor and sit down and talk to him about everything that had happened. Kari decided that the first place to look for him would be at the console, since it was where he usually was. But she was surprised to find that he wasn't there.
Kari then remembered that she had left him in the kitchen, and decided to head there instead. Inside she was just worried that she had hurt him, and that maybe he wouldn't want to speak to her for a few days. Everything had been going so well with that Doctor, and she knew that she had messed it all up now.
Upon reaching the kitchen, she found it empty, apart from the mugs still sitting on the table. Kari touched the Doctor's one, and found that it was cold. She let out a sigh, wondering where else the Doctor could have been. "Where are you, Doctor?" Kari whispered to herself, running a hand through her messy hair as she tried to think.
She didn't want to just stand there, and wait for the Doctor to show up, so she ended up just wandering around aimlessly, hoping that she would bump into him or a bright idea would strike her at some point. It wasn't the greatest idea, but it was the only one that she had.
The corridors just seemed too quiet and empty, it was as if the TARDIS was sad or unhappy. It didn't make Kari feel any better, because she knew that the ship had tried to stop her from leaving her room, to let her know that it wasn't real. But she just hadn't listened, she had been too set in her own view.
Eventually, Kari stopped outside of the Doctor's room. The only times she had been there had been when she was with the Doctor, when he had taken her there. Or that one time where she appeared in his bed asleep. If he was in there, then he was probably trying to avoid her, that was her reasoning. She was tempted to knock on the door to see if he was actually there, but instead Kari turned around and started walking back the way she had came.
"Kari?" A voice called quietly, making her freeze on the spot and all the blood drain from her face. She swallowed the lump in her throat before slowly turning around and facing the owner of the voice. The Doctor was standing there in the doorway of his room, a concerned look etched across his face. "You okay?" He asked her, watching her but not making any attempt to move to her.
"Uh… yeah. I was just… um…" She said, playing with her hands nervously. "I just wanted to make sure that you were okay."
The Doctor finally moved away from his room and over to Kari. The moment he was in front of her, he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her against him. "I'm always okay, Kari. You know that. Now come on, we need to have a chat."
Kari pushed herself away from him a little and looked up at him with a hint of fear in her eyes. "A chat? About… about what?"
He didn't miss the hint of fear and let out a sigh. "About everything. All of this, everything that happened, and why you don't talk to me about things." The Doctor said, knowing that the pair of them needed to sit down and talk properly. "You always run away from talking things out, every single time, Kari. Not any more. We sit down, we talk, okay?" All Kari could do was nod at him, before letting him take her back to his room.
The pair of them sat down on the worn leather sofa that was in his room, Kari still fidgeting nervously. She wasn't even sure why she was so nervous, apart from the fact that she was still running through what she had done to the Doctor in her head.
"Kari, stop it." The Doctor said suddenly, grabbing hold of both her hands tightly and stilling them. "Don't." She looked up at him, a questioning look in her eyes. "I've seen the things that you can do, you wasn't even trying."
"Doesn't matter." She whispered. "I still did it, that's the point. It doesn't matter if you thought I was trying or not, what matters is that it happened, that I hurt you."
He let out a sigh, knowing that what had happened had really gotten to her and that it was going to take more than just a few words to get past it all. "Okay, I know that you have always been worried that something like this was going to happen, and you've always been able to control it. But this time, just this once, you wasn't able to." The Doctor explained to her. "You totally lost it ended up throwing me around like a rag doll."
"Thanks for reminding me." Kari grumbled, letting her gaze fall a little.
"But I know that you didn't mean it, Kari. Someone was playing with your head and your emotions. It was not your fault." He told her, just hoping that she would listen and snap out of it. He wasn't angry or upset about what she had done, because he knew that she really didn't mean to hurt him. The Doctor could accept that and move on, now he just had to help Kari to do the same.
"Doctor, I didn't have to do it, I had a choice. I could have listened to you, tried to make sense of everything, but I didn't. I left my room with the intention of hurting you, I… I wanted to hurt you." Kari admitted, hanging her head even lower. "You hurt me, I wanted to hurt you."
All the Doctor could do was shake his head at her. "Right, now listen to me, Kari. Whatever it was that you heard, that I said to hurt you, to make you feel how you did, it was not me. Do you understand that? I never said any of those things. Okay?" He watched her as she nodded slightly, letting him know that she understood. "Balavin was using you, he knew what you could do, and he was the one that made you do it. Stop blaming yourself, stop feeling guilty and sorry for yourself."
"He didn't make me do anything." Kari said, only for the Doctor to shush her.
"You could have done a lot worse. But you didn't. Come on, Kari. I know that what happened wasn't your fault, none of it was. It's over now, I'm okay and you're okay. That is all that matters." She wanted to believe him, to believe that it was all okay, but she still couldn't forgive herself.
Kari knew that she had been stupid in listening to what was going on outside of her room. She should have known it wasn't really the Doctor out there, she should have worked it all out and just ignore it. "I… I just want to know, do you think I'm selfish?" She finally decided to ask him quietly.
"When it comes to chocolate, yes, you really don't like to share your chocolate." The Doctor told her, trying to lighten the mood a little. But he could tell from the look on her face that she was asking him a serious question. "No, Kari, I don't think you're selfish. Yes you're stubborn, but not selfish. There are times when you insist that your right, and you always have been right, so you can be a little smug at times."
"It's just… the things I heard you, I mean, Balavin… I really believed it. And it made me think about everything. Maybe I really am all those things that he said, selfish with a massive ego. I did decide that I was going to make you suffer rather than talk to you about it all."
"And that's where you know you went wrong. So, now you know to just come and talk to me before you go do anything drastic. Got it?" He asked her, really hoping that she would just be herself again and stop overthinking what had happened. "Come on, you've got to get past this, Kari." The Doctor told her, yanking her up off the sofa and over towards the door.
"Where… where are we going?" Kari asked him, not fighting his grip but still a little worried about the way he suddenly sprang up and dragged her out of the room.
"Anywhere and everywhere." The Doctor replied, not stopping until they reached the console room. He made her sit down in the chair, while he bounced around like he normally did. "We have the whole of time and space to explore. But there is one place where we always go. No matter how much we try to avoid it, we always end up back there for one reason or another." He told her, as the grinding engines came to a halt. "Want to take a look?"
Kari just let out a sigh as the Doctor came over to her. "Let me take a wild guess, Earth? Third rock from the sun, Sol 3, Midgard."
The Doctor stopped and raised his eyebrows at her. "Midgard? Where did you hear that one? I haven't heard anyone call it Midgard in centuries." He asked, folding his arms across his chest and looking at her.
She shrugged her shoulders at him, knowing that there were people out there who called Earth Midgard, mainly those in Norse mythology. "Can't remember. So was I right? Did you want to show me Earth?"
This time the Doctor let out a sigh as he took a hold of her hand and waited for her to get up. Eventually she did, and he led her over to the blue doors of the ship. When he pulled the doors open it wasn't just the Earth that they were looking at, they were at such a distance that they could seen the whole solar system they were in.
Sure she had seen Earth from space before, she had seen the Earth while standing on the moon, but this was different. "Uh, not… not really what I was expecting…" Kari mumbled to herself as she looked at the space before her.
"Oh, it's never what you're expecting. You might have your all knowing power, but I can be one step ahead sometimes." The Doctor told her, wrapping his arms around her from behind. "This is what we do, Kari. We travel the universe and see the most amazing things. Sometimes, something bad happens, something out of our control, but there is always something amazing out there waiting for us."
Kari let out a groan. "I swear you and my brother trade notes with each other or something."
A smile spread across the Doctor's face, knowing that he had finally broken her out of her little mood. "Well, how can I do that when I haven't even met him yet? So come on, when do I get to meet this big brother of yours? You're always going on about him or on the phone to him or something."
"Uh, yeah… I'm not too sure that's such a good idea. My brother's a flirt, he even makes hello sound seductive." Kari told him, even though she knew that he would meet Jack eventually, but not exactly know that he was her sort of adopted brother.
"Ah, so that's where you get it from then, is it?" The Doctor then asked her, kissing the top of her head.
She nudged him a little with her elbow. "Not my real brother, you numbskull. You know that I don't exactly have a real family. I got you and sexy, plus the rest of my dysfunctional, time travelling family."
"Well, this brother of yours may not be family by blood, but he's done a good job at keeping you in line. I should shake that man's hand really." His comment earned him another elbow from Kari. "What? You keep telling me that he looks after you and for that I'm grateful."
Kari hummed in agreement. Jack was always looking out for her, even if he wasn't there. Then she let out a sigh. "Come on then, back to Earth. Rose is currently having a date with a plastic duplicate. I think we should go warn her."
The Doctor grinned at her, before closing the doors and dragging her over to the console. "And that's my Kari. Off we go to save the human race, again." He said, before pulling down the lever and sending them hurtling through time and space.
The moment they had landed, Kari was out the door. "Okay, it's you that should go and interrupt their little date, I'll be ready to clear the place out." She told him, dragging him through the backdoor. "It's going to be all screaming and running soon enough. Oh, and you might want to grab a bottle of champagne." The Doctor gave her a frown. "Not for us, you idiot, for the happy couple."
A few minutes later and Kari was hovering over by the fire alarm while the Doctor pretended to be a waiter, offering a full bottle of champagne to Rose and the plastic Mickey that was currently with her. She had to admit that it she actually felt better now that she knew everything was fine with the Doctor. He had been right, she did need to start talking to him more, letting him know what was going on inside that head of hers, because he wasn't a total mind reader, and she did have a habit of bottling everything up.
She was in her own little world until she heard people starting to scream. When Kari looked over at the Doctor, she saw that Mickey was now destroying the place, trying to get at the Doctor. She quickly hit the fire alarm. "If you would all calmly make you way to the exits, please." She shouted, knowing that everyone was just going to run no matter what she said. "Except for you, Miss Tyler." Kari called, grabbing a hold of Rose's hand while the Doctor charged towards her with Mickey's head under his arm.
Soon enough they were back outside and in front of the TARDIS. "Open the gate!" Rose called, while Kari watched the Doctor lock the restaurant door with his screwdriver. "Use that tube thing. Come on!"
"Sonic screwdriver." Kari and the Doctor said at the same time, causing both of them to smile at each other.
"Use it!" It was clear that Rose was in a bit of a panic now.
The Doctor just smiled at her as he pulled out his key to the TARDIS. "Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here." Before he had a chance to open the door, Kari put her hand on it, making it click open. "Will you stop doing that." He whispered to her.
Kari just grinned at him. "Never." She said, noticing that the rest of Mickey's body was trying to break down the metal door.
"You can't hide inside a wooden box. It's going to get us!" Rose cried as the pair of them disappeared into the box. "Doctor! Kari!" A moment later she stepped inside, only to be overwhelmed and go right back out again.
"Give her a minute. She's going to do the full walk around and then decide to join us when the Auton breaks through the door." Kari told him, sitting down in the chair by the console and just waiting patiently.
As she said, Rose came running back in, and the doors slammed closed behind her. "It's going to follow us." Rose managed to say as she approached the console.
"The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried." The Doctor told her. "Now shut up a minute."
Kari just rolled her eyes at him, knowing that he was being rude and that Rose was struggling with everything she was witnessing. "You're being rude again, mister." She called over to him, causing him to look over at her. "Oh, just get on with it." She ended up saying, knowing that he was in one of his rambling moods.
"You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." He said, before walking over to Kari and turning to face Rose with her. "Right. Where do you want to start?"
Rose just looked at the pair of them. "Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?" She asked, unsure of what she was actually saying.
"Yes." Kari and the Doctor replied at the same time.
"It's alien." The blonde then concluded, still looking at them both with a hint of uncertainty.
"Yeah." The pair once again replied in unison.
"Are you aliens?"
The Doctor's face fell a little, but Kari's didn't. "Yes." They both said, before the Doctor carried on speaking on his own. "Is that all right?"
Rose nodded at them, a little flustered. "Yeah."
"It's called the TARIDS, this thing." The Doctor told her, still holding on to Kari. " S. That's Time And Relative Dimensions In Space." The moment he finished speaking, Rose let out a sob, a sob that only Kari understood. "That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us."
Kari whacked him on the chest, before pulling away from him and making her way over to Rose. "Idiot." She muttered, glaring at him over her shoulder.
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" Rose asked, trying to keep herself together.
"Oh, I didn't think of that." The Doctor said, only now thinking about it.
Kari knew this was her moment to step in. She could save a lot of time and a lot of pain for Rose. "No, they didn't kill him. They need to keep him alive to keep the link. He's fine, Rose. And we're going to go and get him. Once the Doctor realises that the head is melting." She said, an arm around the blonde girls shoulders.
The Doctor spun around and saw that the head was turning into gloop. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" He shouted, before running around the console, sending them off to track the signal before it was too late.
"How do you know he's alive? How do you know Mickey is okay?" Rose asked her, no longer paying any attention to the Doctor.
There was a small smile on Kari's face now. "Because I do, Rose. Now trust me, yeah? It's all going to be fine." Rose nodded at her a little. "Well then, there we go. Let's get a move on." Kari said, just as the TARDIS landed.
The Doctor grabbed her hand as he was passing her on the way to the doors. "You can't go out there. It's not safe!" Rose shouted at the pair, before following them.
"I lost the signal." The Doctor said, pacing around while Kari looked out over the River Thames. "I got so close."
"We've moved. Does it fly?" Rose asked, looking at their new surroundings and then back to the blue box.
"Disappeared there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand." The Doctor said, making Kari roll her eyes at him once more.
She cleared her throat, getting the attention of the Doctor and Rose. "You are being rude, mister." Kari said, pointing at the Doctor. "And you, stop fretting over your boyfriend, he's fine." She said, pointing a finger at Rose now. "Look, we really need to get this sorted, now."
Rose just looked at her, not really sure what to say, before approaching the Doctor a little. "If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you're from the North?" She asked, looking at him.
"Lots of planets have a north." The Doctor replied, before wrapping his arms around Kari and putting on his thinking face.
"Girls, please. The Nestene Consciousness wants this planet, because it's so yummy with all its smoke and oil and toxins. With it's food stock gone, Earth is dinner. Now, we need to stop it." Kari said, trying to take some control over the situation. The Doctor and Rose were acting like a couple of kids, so she was willing to treat them as such. "Doctor, you got the anti-plastic?"
He nodded at her and pulled a vial out of his pocket with blue liquid in it. "Yup. You know where we have to take it?" he asked her, a smile forming on his face.
Kari put on a smile to match his. "Oh, I certainly do. Anyone fancy a trip over to the London Eye?" She asked, keeping her eyes fixed on the huge ferris wheel on the other side of the river. Rose looked at her as if she was mad and so she let out a sigh. "The Nestene Consciousness is sending out a signal. Now, to do that it needs a big transmitter, something metal, round, like a dish."
Then it dawned on Rose as she looked at the London Eye as well. "Oh my God. The London Eye!" She cried.
"Fantastic." The Doctor said, beaming away at her.
"Exactly. Now come on, we haven't got all night." Kari said, grabbing both the Doctor and Rose and heading towards Westminster Bridge. She was glad to have skipped a few things, little things that she hoped wasn't going to make too much of a mess. Then again, with her there a lot of things were different.
"Think of all the plastic, all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive." The Doctor explained as they finally made it to the other side. "The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables…"
"The breast implants." Kari and Rose said at the same time. The blonde gave her a weird look, but all Kari could do was smile.
"Don't worry, she does that. A lot. You get used to it." The Doctor said, answering Rose's unspoken thoughts. "Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath."
Rose ran off to have a look about, and Kari just stood there watching, knowing that she would find the hatch that would lead them down to the Nestene Consciousness. Soon enough they were descending down ladders and into the chamber where a large blob was filing up a large metal vat.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat." The Doctor explained to Rose. "A living plastic creature."
"Well then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go." Rose said, causing Kari to shake her head.
The Doctor was also shaking his head. "We're not here to kill it. I've got to give it a choice." He said, before walking down the walkway and towards the blob, taking Kari with him. "I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." The orange blob growled and bubbled a little. "Thank you. If I might have permission to approach?" Once again it growled, just as Rose spotted Mickey.
"Oh, God! Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's all right!" She shouted down to him, running to where he was curled up and looking like a frightened child. Kari just looked at him and remembered how much he was going to change, how much stronger he was going to be in the future.
"Told you, Rose." Kari called over, feeling just a little smug. "I knew they wouldn't kill him. Now, carry on, Doctor."
He nodded at her with a smile before turning his attention back to the vat. "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" Another growl came from the blob. "Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest of respect, that you shunt off?" Both the Doctor and Kari rolled their eyes at the reply that came. "Oh, don't give me that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights." More angry noise started coming from the Consciousness. "I am talking!" The Doctor bellowed at it. "This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go."
Suddenly arms were holding onto both Kari and the Doctor. While he tried to struggling with them, Kari just let herself relax, fighting would only make it worse. She noticed them reaching into the Doctor's pocket and pulling out the vial of blue liquid. "Uh, I don't think they're impressed with your back up plan, Doctor." She mumbled to him.
"That was just insurance." He called to the Consciousness. "I wasn't going to use it. I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not." There came some gurgling sounds along with the growls now. "What do you mean?" They all looked to where a door opened, revealing the TARDIS sitting there. "No. Oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's our ship. That's not true." He said, arguing with the plastic. "I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault. I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!"
Kari wished that there was something she could do, but she knew there wasn't. In the end, she knew who it would take to save them and the Earth. "What's it doing?" Rose shouted, not understanding anything apart from what the Doctor was saying.
"It's the TARDIS. The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion!" He shouted, panicking a little. "Get out, Rose. Just let it, now!"
Kari looked over at him. "No point even trying to tell me to get out of here, Doctor. We're in this together, right?"
"If you've got a plan, now would be a really good time to put it into action." He yelled, trying to fight off the plastic men that were holding onto him.
"All in good time, my dear Doctor, all in good time." She told him, pretending to look a little bored now. "I mean, I know it's activating the signal, and that everything is going to start coming to life now, but…" She was shut up when the Autons that were holding onto her pushed her forward and closer to the edge.
"No!" The Doctor cried, watching as they tried to push her over. "Kari!"
She knew she had to do something now. "Rose! Remember the under sevens gymnastic team? You got the bronze, didn't you?" Kari shouted up to her. "It's better than nothing!"
Rose's eyes widened as she realised what Kari was telling her, and quickly set to work at hacking away at a chain. The moment it was free she was swinging across the chamber, knocking the plastic men away from the Doctor and over the edge.
Unfortunately, she also managed to knock Kari over the edge with the two that were holding onto her. "Kari!" The Doctor shouted, rushing over to the edge and grabbing a hold of her hands. "I've got you. Come on, I've got you." He told her, pulling her up.
The moment she was back on the catwalk she let out a breath. "Thanks. But now we're in trouble. Guess where the anti-plastic went?"
Explosions erupted around them, and flames started roaring before them. They headed for the only safe place, the TARDIS, where Mickey was looking like a scared child waiting for them. As soon as they were all inside, they took off, taking Rose and Mickey back home, to where they were safe.
"So, I was thinking…" Kari whispered to the Doctor while Rose comforted Mickey during their short trip.
The Doctor looked up at her and seemed to know exactly what she was going to say. "Well, you could always ask. You know I don't mind."
A grin stretched across Kari's face as she gave the Doctor a quick peck on the lips. He had just given her permission to ask Rose to travel with them. She knew that Rose would end up going with the Doctor any way, but the fact that he was allowing her to be the one to ask, well she didn't really know what to say. All Kari did know was that it was going to be the start of another great adventure, like I was with everyone that travelled in the TARDIS with her and the Doctor.
A/N: I know I cut it off before the end of the episode, but it was just to leave you all hanging just a little. But I do hope you enjoyed it.
Kari has now had an extended stay with 9 as well as 10. I might give her an extended stay with 11 at some point, in fact I think I already know the best episode for that one.
Come to think of it, she hasn't seen 11 for a while now, so I guess I probably should send her off to him. Oh, there is so much to do, and so much going on.
Now, I know there are a few things on Kari that people are still unsure of, so if there are things you want explaining, please let me know in a review or a PM. I will endeavour to incorporate answers into chapters or PM you to fill you in.
I wish to say thank you to everyone who has read the story, and hit the favourite/follow button, I'm glad you like my story. And those of you who have taken the time to review, massive thank you to each and every one of you! I love reading your reviews, especially when I'm in uni and bored. So thank you everyone.
Well, I'm going to go and do some more writing now. Remember to go vote in the poll on my profile. It will be closed before I post the chapter next week. Catch you all next time!
Pippa.