A/N: Hello everyone! Apologies for any grammatical errors that you may spot, it's early in the morning and I'm still half asleep. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Kari was still clutching onto the Doctor. She hadn't let him go since the Master had died. There was so much that she needed to say to the Doctor, to tell him about, but she was just happy to remember everything and be back by his side. The reign of the Master was over, and only a few people remembered it.
"Time was, every single one of these people knew your name." Martha said, as they watched the people wandering around the Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff. "Now they've all forgotten you, and Kari."
The Doctor just smiled a little as his arm wrapped around Kari's waist just a little tighter. "Good." He said, before lightly planting a kiss on the top of Kari's head, making her smile.
"Back to work." Jack said suddenly, pushing himself away from the railings and ducking underneath them. He had been watching the water tower, where the rest of his team were none the wiser as to anything that had happened.
"I really don't mind, though. Come with us. I know Kari wants you to." The Doctor said, asking Jack once more if he wanted to travel with him and Kari once again. Even though Jack would have loved to go travelling with the Doctor and his Princess again, he knew that he couldn't.
Jack had moved on from his life with the Doctor, but Kari would never leave his life, no matter where he was. "I had plenty of time to think that past year, the year that never was, and I kept thinking about that team of mine. Like you said, Doctor, responsibility."
The Doctor smiled at him. "Defending the Earth. Can't argue with that." He quickly grabbed Jack's hand, and revealed his vortex manipulator that Martha had given back to him.
"Hey, I need that!" Jack protested, as the Doctor broke what he had fixed, causing Kari to giggle a little. They had missed her giggles, her laugh.
"I can't have you walking around with a time travelling teleport. You could go anywhere, twice. The second time to apologies." The Doctor told him, turning on his sonic screwdriver and getting to work.
"And what about me?" Jack asked seriously. "Can you fix that? Will I ever be able to die?"
Kari just smiled at him. "Nope. Absolutely nothing that anyone can do. You're an impossible thing, big brother Jack." She told him, beaming away at him. She had her family back, and they were all alive and relatively okay.
Jack chuckled at her a little. "Been called that before." He said, before saluting. "Sir. Ma'am…" He stopped when he looked at Kari, who was pouting at him. A grin spread across his face as she ducked under the railing and charged at him, not wanting to let him go without getting a hug from him. "See you later, Princess." He whispered to her.
"Oh, you'll see me. You know you can't get rid of me for long, Jack." Kari told him, holding onto him tightly and not wanting to let go. She had only just got everyone back, and now they were all going to leave her again. "Please, don't go. Please, please, please, come with us. We can get you back for yesterday, well I can at least."
He laughed just a little more before shaking his head at her. He knew he couldn't just run off again, not after everything that had happened. He knew that she would be safe with the Doctor, and that if she needed him she would find him. "Sorry, Princess. You got the Doctor, I'd just be cramping his style." Kari pouted at him a little more as he kissed her cheek and let her go, turning to walk away. He didn't get very far before turning around and looking at the group again. "But I keep wondering, what about aging? Because I can't die, but I keep getting older. The odd little grey hair, you know?" He asked. "What happens if I live for a million years?"
"I really don't know." The Doctor told him, while Kari looked at him with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Okay, vanity. Sorry. Yeah, I can't help it. Used to be a poster boy when I was a kid living on the Boeshane Peninsula. Tiny little place. I was the first one ever to be signed up for the Time Agency. They were so proud of me. The Face of Boe, they called me." The Doctor and Martha's faces both dropped. "Hmm. I'll see you." Jack said, before finally jogging across the plass and back to his team.
"No…" The Doctor said in disbelieve as Kari duck under the railing again to re-join the Doctor.
"It can't be." Martha added.
"No. Definitely not. No. No."
Kari just grinned at them both. "Oh yes it can." She sang happily. "You just met the Face of Boe. Bet you didn't see that one coming, did you?"
The Doctor looked at her with a frown on his face. "And how long have you known this for then?"
She shrugged at him. "Uh, since forever? You know me, I know everything. Anyway, time to go, we have all of time and space to explore. And we kinda need to have a chat while Martha hunts down a certain Thomas Milligan." Kari said, dragging both the Doctor and Martha over to the TARDIS.
While Martha was off doing things, Kari and the Doctor were sitting in the console room. "So…" Kari muttered, playing with her hands in her lap. She knew that the past year had been hard for the Doctor, just like it had been hard for her.
The Doctor sensed her nervousness and quickly draped his arm across her shoulders. "I don't blame you, Kari, not for any of it. I know you didn't have a choice, you had no idea what was going on." He told her, getting the conversation started. He had seen his Kari while they had been with Martha and Jack, and he was just so relieved to know that his Kari was still there.
She nodded at him a little. "Doctor, what really happened? I remember the Master seeing through the perception filter, how did he do that?" Kari asked him, but not actually stopping to let him answer. "The next thing, I have these bracelet things on, and then I can't remember anything. I spent three months travelling with Martha, listening to her stories of the Doctor, trying so hard to remember. I just… I don't get what happened."
"He saw through the perception filter because of the paradox." The Doctor informed her. "The Master tried to stop you from jumping. He created those bracelets and they cut off the connection to the time vortex that you have. He didn't realise that by doing that he was slowly killing you. You lost your memories because he took away a part of you. The time vortex is what makes you who you are, Kari, and without that…" He didn't want to say it, he refused to tell her that without the time vortex running through her, she wouldn't be Kari, she wouldn't be anyone. "Even after he took them off, you still couldn't remember, because the TARDIS wasn't able to protect you."
"The TARDIS?"
He looked at her a nodded slightly. "Come on, Kari, you know there is something more between the pair of you. She'd do anything to help you, to protect you, but with what the Master had done to her, she couldn't do anything." The Doctor explained. "It was only when Jack destroyed the paradox that she was able to help you, and everything you had forgotten came back to you."
"Doctor, I'm… I'm sorry. I know I said things that hurt you, and I didn't mean to hurt you, I really, really didn't. He told me things, and I believed them." Kari knew that she had hurt him by listening to the Master's lies, but she didn't really know what else to do. She couldn't remember anything, she had been naïve. "But I knew something wasn't right, I could just feel it. I just didn't know what it was."
"Kari, you know none of this was your fault. There was nothing you could do to stop it, no matter how much you tried." The Doctor told her, moving his arm and placing both his hands on her cheeks. "The Master, he… he was always unstable."
She quickly shook her head at him. "No, it's not his fault, Doctor. I mean it, he really isn't crazy. Look, I know he has done some stupid and terrible things in the past, but the Master has never been crazy." Kari didn't realise that she was talking in present tense, as if the Master were still alive.
"Even though he shot you? He shot you as well as lied to you, and you still stand up for him?" The Doctor asked her, already knowing what she was going to say. He had been so worried when he had seen her enter with the Master, blood all over her top and a tear in it. He knew that she had been hurt, but he had no idea what had happened.
"That was an accident. We were fighting over the gun. I was the one to point it at him in the first place, Doctor. God, I don't know what had gotten into me, standing there and holding a gun to him." She said, still unable to believe that she had done something like that. "But he knew it was wrong, and he… he healed me, just like you did when I broke my wrist."
The Doctor let out sigh as he ran a hand over his face. "Why do you always have to see the good in everyone?" He moaned, knowing that she couldn't help it, that it was part of who she was. What he didn't realise was that it was because of him that she saw the good in everyone.
"Doctor… everything's going to be okay now, right? I mean, you know, between us?" That was what she had been the most nervous about, how everything that had happened was going to have an impact on their relationship, especially after what she said and done.
He frowned at her a little. "Of course it is, Kari. Why wouldn't it be? You had been lied to, you didn't know what was really going on. You were lost and confused, Kari, everything is going to be just fine." The Doctor informed her, wrapping his arms around her tightly.
"Even though I stood beside the Master? After what I said about knowing where I belonged?"
"You had no choice but to stand beside him. And I saw the look in your eye when you said that, when you announced that you knew where you belonged and what you needed to do, I knew there was something more behind it." And he was right. Kari had said that to convince the Master that she was happy to stay with him, to make him feel secure that seeing the Doctor hadn't stirred something inside of her. But it had, and Kari knew that she had to get away, and she had secretly told the Doctor that.
"Doctor, the things that I saw when I was with Martha, the things that I know he has done, I wanted to hate him for it. I really wanted to hate him for it, that's why I was holding a gun at him." Kari explained, trying to get everything out in to the open. "And for a moment I did hate him. He had taken you and Jack away from me, helped me to lose my memories, lied to me, hurt people I care about, he deserved to be hated."
The Doctor could see that she was struggling to get through everything. He knew her better than anyone else, and he knew this wasn't going to be something she got over very quickly. "You just had a moment where you lost yourself, that's all it was, Kari. I know you didn't mean it, and he knew as well."
"That's the thing though, isn't it? Even after everything he put us through, what the whole planet had to suffer because of him, I still can't hate him." She hung her head, as if she were ashamed of admitting that she didn't hate the man who had caused her so much pain. "Everyone else hated him, they all wanted him dead, but it wasn't his fault, Doctor, it really wasn't his fault."
He let out a sigh, knowing that she was going to keep on dwelling on it until he managed to pull her out. "I told you, you see the good in everyone." His arms were still wrapped around her, only now they were holding her a little tighter. "I know you forgive him, and that's okay, Kari, honestly, that really is okay."
Before Kari could say anything else to the Doctor, Martha walked in, a sad smile on her face. Instantly she knew what was going to happen, she remembered it. Martha had called the hospital where Tom worked, she knew where he was and she knew that he was alive. "Hey, Martha." Kari said, as she and the Doctor both got up from where they were sitting.
Instantly the Doctor was bouncing around the console. "Right then, off we go. The open road. There is a burst of star fire right now over the coast of Meta Sigmafolio. Oh, the sky is like oil on water. Fancy a look? Or back in time. We could, I don't know, Charles the second? Henry the eighth. I know, what about Agatha Christie? I'd love to meet Agatha Christie. I bet she's brilliant." He said, before finally looking at her and stopping. "Okay."
"I just can't." Martha told him, a sorrowful look on her face.
"Yeah." He muttered, wrapping his arms around Kari from behind her.
"I spent all these years training to be a doctor. Now I've got people to look after." Kari wanted to protest, to tell her that she always had to look after her because she was always getting into some sort of trouble, but she just bit her lip instead. "They saw half the planet slaughtered and they're devastated. I can't leave them."
The Doctor just nodded at her. "Of course not. Thank you." He said, his arms uncurling from around Kari as they both took a few steps closer to Martha. He gave her a hug, as did Kari. "Martha Jones, you saved the world." He announced when the three of them finally broke apart.
"Yes, I did. I spent a lot of time thinking I was second best to the pair of you, but you know what? I am good." Martha said, making Kari giggle a little. Both the Doctor and Martha smiled at that, they had missed hearing Kari's giggles over the past year. "You both going to be all right?"
The Doctor nodded, as did Kari. "Always, yeah."
"Right then. Bye." There were tears in Martha's eyes, as there were in Kari's, who quickly jumped at the woman.
"Look after yourself, Martha. Please, just look after yourself as well." Kari whispered to her.
Martha chuckled a little. "And you, look after yourself and him. I know it's hard, but you're the only person in the universe capable of looking after him."
Kari pulled away from her, nodding and blinking back the tears. "Make sure you call me, Martha. You've got my number, and I've certainly got yours."
"Well, I'm not having you two disappearing on me. If that rings," Martha said, pointing to Kari's phone. "When that rings, you'd better come running. Got it?"
The Doctor smiled and nodded as he snaked his arm back around Kari. "Got it."
"I'll see you both again."
"Course you will, Martha. I can't get married without my bridesmaid now, can I?" Kari reminded her. It didn't matter that Martha was no longer travelling with them, Kari knew that she was still going to be at her wedding, no matter what.
"You better not. I'll be waiting for my invitation." Martha said, smiling at them both before she turned and walked away from them, closing the door behind her.
Kari finally let the first few tears fall. No matter how much she had wanted Martha to stay, she knew that she wouldn't. Martha had her own adventure waiting for her now, and such a big adventure as well. Kari wouldn't want to take that away from her. Beside, she knew she was going to see the woman again one day.
"Time to go now, Doctor." Kari said, reaching up and giving him a quick peck on the lips as she pulled down the lever. Only the Doctor didn't want to settle for just that. They had been apart for a year, and Kari was more than just a little surprised when the Doctor pulled her back and gave her a more passionate kiss.
"Did you really think that was going to make up for a whole year?" He asked her, watching as she blushed.
"Well, I was hoping so. Because we have incoming in three, two, one…" The moment she finished speaking, an alarm was blaring and the pair was thrown about.
The Doctor let out a groan as he let go of her and started wandering around the console. "Ah, stop it!" He cried, hitting some buttons and getting everything to calm down. "What was all that about, eh? What's your problem?" He said, before Kari's eyes fell upon another man going around the console.
"Right, just settle down now." The man in the red and white striped trousers, long white coat with a stick of celery attached to it said. "Oh, so sorry." He added, as he bumped into the Doctor that Kari had just been kissing.
Both of the men suddenly stopped and looked at each other. "What?" The Doctor said, looking rather stunned.
"What?" Kari had to refrain from laughing, although she was struggling to keep it in already. She was standing in the TARDIS with the Doctor in his fifth body as well as his tenth.
"What!" The pair of them was now standing in front of each other, sizing each other up.
"Who are you?" The other man asked, even though Kari knew who both the men were.
Kari just sat there by the console, watching as her converse wearing Doctor started to get a little excited over what was happening. "Oh, brilliant. I mean, totally wrong. Big emergency, universe goes bang in five minutes, but brilliant." He said, risking a glance over at Kari who was just sitting there, beaming away.
But the other man didn't seem to be as excited. "I'm the Doctor, who are you?" He demanded to know.
"Yes, you are. You are the Doctor." Kari was desperate to laugh at the way the Doctor was acting with his old self. It wasn't something she got to see very often, two Doctor's in one room, and she knew it would only ever happen a few times, but she loved it all the same.
"Yes, I am. I'm the Doctor." The Doctor with the stick of celery reiterated.
Kari's converse and suit Doctor was still smiling away, still a little over excited. "Oh, good for you, Doctor. Good for brilliant old you."
"Kari, dear, did you let this strange man in?" Kari suddenly sat up straight, looking around for herself. But when she looked, the man was staring at her.
"Uh, well, not exactly, Doctor." She replied, not entirely sure what she was meant to say. She hadn't seen herself there, there was only ever the two Doctor's in that short little scene after Martha left. Kari had absolutely no idea how it was going to pan out with her there as well.
The celery wearing Doctor let his eyes leave Kari and fall back to the man before him. "Is there something wrong with you?" He asked, having absolutely no idea what was going on and who he was talking to.
"Oh, there it goes, the frowny face. I remember that one." The suit and converse Doctor said as Kari finally got up from where she was sitting, wanting to join in with the Doctor's a little more. "Mind you, big saggier than I ought to be. Hair's a bit greyer. That's because of me, though." He rambled on while Kari just rolled her eyes. "The two of us together has shortened out the time differential. Should all snap back in place when we get you home. Be able to close that coat again." He patted the other mans stomach a little.
Kari cleared her throat, giving him a warning with her eyes to calm down. "Rambling just a little there." She whispered to him, while the other Doctor watched her with slight concern.
"But never mind that. Look at you! The coat, the crickety cricket stuff, the stick of celery. Yeah, brave choice, celery, but fair play to you. Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable." He carried on rambling.
Kari knew what was coming next, and she was ready for it. "Shut up!" She shouted the same time as the celery wearing Doctor, also whacking the rambling Doctor on the arm as she did.
The fifth Doctor looked at her and gave her a smile as he took his hat off. "Yes, thank you, Kari, dear. There is something very wrong with our TARDIS, and I've got to do something about it very quickly, and it would help, it really would help if there wasn't some skinny idiot ranting in my face about every single thing that happens to be in front of him!" He ended up shouting.
"Doctor, just calm down. I'll deal with the 'skinny idiot'." Kari told him, giving him one of her best times.
Then he took her by surprise, leaning over and giving her a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thank you. You are a blessing." He told her, before getting back to working on the console.
Kari looked up at the skinny idiot of a Doctor, only to find him grinning away at her, causing the slight blush that was already in her cheeks to spread even further, making him chuckle.
Then, something else caught his attention. "Oh, the back of my head." He exclaimed, causing the fifth Doctor to look at him, but only for a second, and ask him what he was talking about. "Sorry, sorry. It's not something you see every day, is it, the back of your own head. Mind you, I can see why you wear the hat. I don't want to seem vain, but could you keep that on?"
Suddenly the other Doctor span around. "What have you done to my TARDIS? You've changed the desktop theme, haven't you? What's this one, coral?" He asked, looking around the console room and then back at the skinny Doctor.
Kari was just having so much fun watching the pair of them. It was even more amusing than she remembered it to be, probably because she was getting a little involved with it all as well. "Well…" she said, watching her skinny Doctor shrug his shoulders a little.
"It's worse than the leopard skin." The Doctor with the stick of celery announced, before putting on his half moon spectacles.
As soon as they were on, suit and converse Doctor became even more excited. "Oh, and out they come, the brainy specs. You don't even need them. You just think they make you look a bit clever."
"Yeah, and they do make him look clever. I'd watch what you say, mister, it might just come back to bite you one day." She warned him, knowing that he was exactly the same, that he wore glasses even when he didn't need to, just because Kari thought he looked sexy with them on.
The Doctor opened his mouth to speak, only he was interrupted by an alarm blaring through the ship. "That's an alert, level five, indicating a temporal collision. It's like two TARDISes have merged, but there's definitely only one TARDIS present." Doctor number five said, working away on the console while Kari and the other Doctor stood back and watched him. "It's like two time zones or more at the heart of the TARDIS. That's a paradox that could blow a hole in the space time continuum the size of…" He trailed off as the other Doctor tugged at the monitor and showed it to his previous self. "Well, actually, the exact size of Belgium. That's a bit undramatic, isn't it? Belgium?"
A moment later, and a sonic screwdriver was being offered to the man. "Need this?"
"No, I'm fine." The older man said, waving him off as he carried on trying to work on the console.
"Oh no, of course, you liked to go hands free, didn't you? Like, hey, I'm the Doctor. I can save the universe using a kettle and some string. And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable." He swiftly received an elbow in his ribs from Kari, who shot him another warning look.
She leaned over while the other Doctor was busy. "Seriously, Doctor, behave. You don't really want to scar yourself for life, do you? Oh, no, wait, I'm pretty sure you've already done that. I mean, look at you, a stick of celery?"
"Who are you?" The fifth Doctor quickly asked, getting rather irritated with the other man in his TARDIS.
All the Doctor could do was smile. "Take a look." He said, both of them facing each other and leaning in to get a better look.
"Oh… oh, no."
"Oh yes." The Doctor said, beaming away and missing the way Kari was biting her lip.
"You're… oh, no."
"Here it comes. Yeah, I am."
The next thing said was not what the converse wearing Doctor expected. "A fan."
"Yeah… what?" He asked, his face falling. He glanced over at Kari, and saw how badly she was struggling with her giggles.
But he was just being ignored by the other Doctor, who was more concerned with everything that was going on with the TARDIS. "This is bad. Two minutes to Belgium."
The skinny Doctor was still in shock. "What do you mean, a fan? I'm not just a fan, I'm you." He protested.
"Okay, you're my biggest fan. Look, it's perfectly understandable. Kari and I go zooming around space and time, saving planets, fighting monsters and being, will, let's be honest, pretty sort of marvellous." Kari had to roll her eyes at that point. "So, naturally, now and then people notice us. Start up their little groups. That LINDA lot. Are you one of them? How did you get in here? Can't have you lot knowing where we live." He said, before putting a protective arm around Kari, startling her a little.
"Uh, yeah, that's right." Kari said, not really know what else to say or do. It was definitely a little more awkward now, having a Doctor that she hadn't really met yet wrapping his arm around her, and the Doctor who proposed to her just watching her in amusement.
No matter how amusing he found Kari's awkwardness, he knew he had to say something. "Listen to me, I'm you. I'm you. I'm you with a new face. Check out this bone structure, Doctor, because one day, you're going to be shaving it." He said, slapping his cheeks a little.
That was when the cloister bell started, and everyone's faces fell, including Kari's. "The cloister bell." She said at the same time as the Doctor who was holding onto her.
"Right on time. That's my cue." Kari's suit wearing Doctor said, before charging around the console with the other Doctor.
The pair of them started throwing levers and rushing about, trying to get everything stabilised. "In five minutes we're going to create a black hole strong enough to swallow the entire universe!" It was easy to see that the older looking Doctor, who was actually the younger Doctor, said in a bit of a panic.
"Yeah, that's my fault actually. I was rebuilding the TARDIS, forgot to put the shields back up." The Doctor that Kari had originally been with admitted. "Your TARDIS and my TARDIS, well the same TARDIS at different points in its own time stream collided and woo, there you go, end of the universe, butterfingers."
"Which is just you all over, isn't it?" Kari called, an amused looked on her face still.
"Oh, hush." He told her, while the other Doctor looked on in utter confusion. "But don't worry, I know exactly how this all works out. Watch." He said, before starting to work on the console. "Venting the thermobuffer, drawing the Helmic regulator, and just to finish off, let's fry those Zeiton crystals."
"You'll blow up the TARDIS."
"Nah, he won't." Kari told him, watching both of the Doctor's closely.
The skinny idiot just grinned at her madly. "I haven't."
"Who told you that?"
Kari knew what was coming next, and she was holding onto the railings tightly, ready for the Doctor to pull that final lever. "You told me that." He announced, before pulling the lever and causing the TARDIS to shake about.
Kari was the only one who had been prepared for it, but it still made her feel a little bit queasy. Straight away, she had her sexy Doctor beside her, a hand gently resting on her arm. "You all right?" He asked her in concern. She just nodded at him as she pulled herself together.
"Supernova and black hole at the exact same instant." A voice said, getting the Doctor's attention away from Kari for a moment.
"The explosion cancels out the implosion…"
"Pressure remains constant."
Kari just looked at the pair of them, finding it just fantastic they way they were talking with each other.
"It's brilliant." Kari's converse wearing Doctor said, once again giving her a concerned look as she rubbed her head. She had felt a little dizzy the moment the two TARDISes collided, and when the Doctor finally decided to jump in and help, her head started aching instead.
"Far too brilliant. I've never met anyone else who could fly the TARDIS like that. Well, apart from Kari, of course. She learned from the best, you know." The fifth Doctor said, puffing his chest out a bit, looking rather proud of himself.
The other Doctor knew he was about to deflate that slight ego that had grown. "Sorry, mate, you still haven't."
"You didn't have time to work all that out. Even I couldn't do it."
"I didn't work it out. I didn't have to." Once again he looked at Kari with worry. He knew something wasn't right, especially with the way she kept rubbing her head.
"You remembered…"
The Doctor simply smiled at him. "Because you will remember."
Kari looked between the two men, watching as one was smiling happily and the other looked in shock. "You remembered being me, watching you doing that. You already knew what to do because I saw you do it."
"Wibbly Wobbly…" The Doctor said, still keeping his eye on Kari. "Timey wimey!" Both Doctor's ended up saying. But the Doctor couldn't hold in his worry for Kari anymore. "Kari, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. I'm… I'm fine. Just a bit of a headache." She replied, rubbing her head with her hand. "You two just keep taking. I'll be okay."
That was when the fifth Doctor looked at her, really looked at her. "The paradox from the two TARDISes is affecting you as well." He said, stepping over to her and placing his hands on the side of her face. "It's that stupid connection to the time vortex that does it. It will pass when the TARDISes separate." The man told her softly.
Kari found it strange to see him, and to see the concern that was in his eyes as well. "Uh, you know, as great as all this is, I have a confession to make." She said, causing the man to frown at her a little. "I kind of, maybe, sort of haven't met you yet." Kari admitted. "Well, not this version of you. Well, I guess technically I have now, but that's not what I mean. I mean…" She stopped and let out a sigh. "Never mind."
Both of the Doctor's chuckled a little. "Well, you have much to look forward to, Kari. And it looks like I have a lot to look forward to as well." He said, noticing the way that the Doctor in his skinny suit was looking at Kari. It wasn't hard to miss the look on his face, to guess what he was thinking about.
"And I can't wait, Doctor. All the running around, saving planets and people, travelling with you is the best thing in the universe." Kari told him, a huge smile on her face as she said it. "Every single version of you." She added, looking at her skinny Doctor.
"Oh, TARDISes are separating." He said suddenly, noticing something on the screen while his younger self was still looking at Kari. "Sorry, Doctor, time's up. Back to long ago. Where are you now? Nyssa and Tegan? Cybermen and Mara and Time Lords in funny hats and the Master?"
"Spoilers!" Kari sung, hoping that he wouldn't say anything more about the Master like he was meant to.
But he did. "Oh, he just showed up again, same as ever. Trying to take Kari away from us, he actually went one step further this time though."
The fifth Doctor looked at Kari, and she just shrugged at him as if it was no big deal. "Oh, no, really? Does he still have that rubbish beard?"
"Nope, not this time." Kari told him, feeling the pressure building in her head a little more. "He did have a wife, poor woman."
"Oh, I seem to be off now." The older but younger Doctor said, as he started to fade a little. "What can I say? Thank you, Doctor."
Kari's converse wearing Doctor wrapped an arm around her as he smiled at himself. "Thank you."
"I'm very welcome. Make sure you look after our Kari."
"Oh, she looks after us. You should know that by now, Doctor." He replied, giving Kari a little nudge, to which she simply rolled her eyes.
Both of them men were just smiling at her, and she did find it a little weird to have two different Doctor's there with her. She had imagined that if she had been present, that there might even have been two of her, and that she would get to talk to her future self or something. However, that wasn't the case, and so both the Doctor's had to share just the one Kari.
"Well, someone has to try and keep you out of trouble. I'm telling you, Doctor, it's not easy, you're a lot of hard work sometimes." She told them both. "But then again, I guess I can be hard work at times as well." Kari added with a bit of a smile on her face. She knew she had caused him problems in her past, but she didn't know what she was going to be like in his past. It was something for her to look forward to. "I'll see you soon, Doctor."
The Doctor who was wearing a stick of celery finally vanished, only for the Doctor with his arm around Kari to flip a switch and bring him back, holding his hat in his hand. "You know, I love being you. Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you, and it was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted." The Doctor explained in a bit of a rush. "I still do that, the voice thing. I got that from you. Oh, and the trainers, and," he put his own pair of glasses on, the ones that Kari loved so much. "Snap. Because you know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor."
Kari couldn't help but smile. She knew it was a bit of a big thing for him to be meeting his past self, but it was a past regeneration that he adored and loved being. Without even thinking about it, she rested her head against the Doctor as he held onto her, that soft smile still there.
The fifth Doctor didn't miss the action and the smile, and he looked at her and the Doctor. "To days to come."
"All my love to long ago." He replied, before the other Doctor vanished once more.
Only he wasn't completely gone, not quite. "Oh, Doctor, remember to put your shields up." Kari nudged her Doctor, and he went to put them back up, only he didn't manage to do it in time and They were both thrown around the console.
A ships horn blared in their ears, as something smashed into the TARDIS. When the Doctor looked up, he saw the prow of a ship, and a life preserver amongst the rubble. "What? What!" He cried, before picking up the life preserver and taking a better look at it. His face fell when he read the word 'Titanic' on it. "What…"
He looked over at Kari, who he had managed to keep a hold of during the slight chaos. "Kari, are you okay?" The Doctor asked her in a panic, noticing that she had her head in her hands. When she looked up at him, he saw the golden glow that was swimming around her hands. "Oh… oh, it's okay, Kari." He told her quickly, wrapping his arms around her.
"I'll be back, Doctor. I swear, I'm coming back. I can't let you go out there on your own now, can I?" Kari told him, trying her best to be brave and not worry too much about what was going to happen if he was left on that ship alone.
The Doctor chuckled at her a little. "I know you will. You'll come and find me soon enough, I know you will. Stay out of trouble, Kari." He told her, tilting her head up so that he could see her better. "I love you." The Doctor reminded her, before placing a gentle kiss on her lips.
"I love you too, Doctor. Please, behave." She managed to say, before the light engulfed her and she was dragged away from him and taken somewhere else.
A/N: Well, I do hope you guys enjoyed that chapter. I know it's not the start of the next episode, but I'm still working on that. I'm sure you've all had a look at what Clara chapter I am going to do first, and I am working on that as well. I'm actually working on a lot, now that I think about it.
Now, big thank you to everyone who has favourited/followed. I do like to know that people are still reading this and enjoying it. And all of you wonderful and amazing people that have taken the time to leave a review, you are super awesome!
Can I just say, all of your responses to the Master and how I wrote him were fantastic! I honestly could not believe how much you liked it. Which has only gone and led to me thinking up a few more ways to get the Master back in the story.
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Pippa.