A/N: Hello, hello, hello! The clocks went back, so technically I'm posting this an hour early, but technically it's s few minutes later than last weeks chapter was posted. I'm rambling, enjoy the chapter!
The Doctor sat there, looking at Kari intensely, his face displaying no emotion at all. "So, that's what you think then? That you're just a speck of mud on my shoes?" He asked her, doing his best to ignore the tears that were staining her cheeks. "You think that I don't want you here?"
Kari looked at him and nodded a little. "Yeah, I do. Like I said, things never used to be like that, things were better before. You took me to the most amazing places, we went out for dinner, you even threw me in the pool because I called you dumbo. I was making fun of your ears and you got your revenge by throwing me into the swimming pool." Those were the good days, the days before everything went wrong, before they started fighting and arguing with each other every chance they had. "But now… now you act like I'm just getting in the way. We start arguing almost straight away, and it makes me feel like I'm not wanted here." Jack was right, she really did need to talk to the Doctor, she needed to get it all out of her system, because she couldn't take it anymore.
The man sitting at the table with her let out a long sigh. "That's… that's what you honestly think?" It was plain to see that he didn't really know what to say, everything that she had said to him had hit him rather hard, because he had no idea that was how she had been feeling.
Once again she nodded at him. "How can I think anything different when the moment you see me you're hostile towards me. I didn't plan on waking up in your bed like that, I can't control when and where I end up, but you made it clear that you were less than happy to see me." Kari told him, not really sure how he was going to react to that, but she didn't give him a chance, because she still had more to say. "Before Jack locked us in here, you brushed past me, like I was something that was just in your way. What am I meant to think from all of that?"
The Doctor knew that she was right, he hadn't been in the best of moods when she arrived, and he hadn't been that nice to her. "Kari, I'm sorry. I had no idea that you were feeling that way. You never talk to me, so I never know."
"You never talk to me either." Kari protested. "Answer me this, why do you dislike Jack so much? Why is he such a big problem for you?" Although she had heard things from Jack, she wanted to hear it from the Doctor as well. If they were going to talk, she was going to make sure that he explained things to her.
"I never said I disliked him." The Doctor declared, wondering where Kari had gotten that idea.
"You made it perfectly clear that you didn't want him here. You refused to save him, so I did, and then you got angry with me, you hadn't wanted me to save him." That was when all the problems had started, when she had saved her big brother. "But I did, because I know more than you, I know who he is and who he will become. Why did that bother you so much?"
His eyes met hers, before drifting away again. The Doctor couldn't look at her, he couldn't stand to see her there with tears in her eyes. "Because you were…" He trailed off, the final part of his sentence not even a whisper, causing Kari to frown at him.
She hadn't been able to hear what he had said, she hadn't heard his reason. "What? Because I was what?" She asked him, hoping that he would say it again, but this time a little bit louder so that she could actually hear him.
He let out another sigh. "I said, because you were flirting. You were constantly flirting with him, the whole time, and do you know what made it worse? You didn't know." The Doctor told her, quickly glancing at the ring sitting on her finger. "You didn't know, and you were flirting with him. Do you know how that made me feel?"
All Kari could do was shake her head at him. "No, how could I know when you wouldn't talk to me? How can I know anything if you don't tell me?" To her, it felt like they were going around in circles, all running back to the fact that neither of them actually bothered to talk to the other about things. It didn't help that her voice was starting to rise from the frustration she was feeling.
"The way you and Jack seemed to just get along, I was jealous, I'll admit it, I was jealous." The Doctor told her, finally telling her the truth. "I didn't like it, because I thought that he was going to take you away from me. And, I guess, that made me act a little off with you as well."
Kari raised an eyebrow at him. "A little off? Seriously? A little?" She asked him, not impressed with what he had just said. "You took me to Earth and let me walk out. You didn't even try to stop me. You were acting more than just 'a little off' with me." She was trying her best not to get upset, but just thinking about that moment got to her. He hadn't tried to stop her, he had walked away from her. He had left her there. He may have come back after, but he had let her walk in the first place.
"All right, so I wasn't happy with you at all, and I was angry with you. You had saved him and then decided that you didn't want to stay in the TARDIS with me." The Doctor told her, trying his best not to let the whole conversation get to him. "You walked out on me, Kari, you told me that if you had a choice of travelling with me or not, then you wouldn't, and that… that hurt."
She hadn't meant to hurt him, she really hadn't, but she really had felt that he didn't want her there at the time. She was angry, just as he was, and what Kari had needed was some space. "You know that I have reasons for saving Jack, and you have no idea how important he is to me. If you had ever bothered to ask me, I would have told you that he is the big brother who is always looking out for me." Kari told him, making it clear that there was nothing going on with her and Jack, and that there never would be. "He is my big brother, the one that is always calling me, checking up on me, making sure that I'm okay. Whenever I need him, he is there, every time, day or night."
There was a shocked look on the Doctor's face at the little piece of information that Kari had just given him. "He's… he's what? He's your big brother?" He asked her, clearly not believing it. "How can he be your big brother?"
"That is all he has ever been, and all he ever will be. He protects me when you can't, he looks after me when you're not there. If I need someone to talk to, I know I can talk to him." Kari explained to him, not regretting telling him now that Jack was the big brother that was always checking in on her. "The relationship I have with him is nothing like what you're thinking. Yeah, of course I care about him, I'm not going to say that I don't love him either, because I do. But in a very different way."
"Jack Harkness is your big brother?" The Doctor asked her, still in shock. He just couldn't wrap his head around that fact that an ex-time agent who had turned into a con man was Kari's brother.
Kari couldn't help but let out a sigh. "Yes, Captain Jack Harkness is my big brother, and you need to accept that, Doctor, because he is a part of my life, and he always will be." Maybe that was the wrong thing to say, but she needed to say it. He had to accept that Jack was important to her, "If we have any chance of sorting things out between us, then you need to accept that."
That was an even bigger shock to him. "Wait a minute, are you saying that if I don't accept that man and the fact that you claim he is your brother, then we're through?" That was what it sounded like to him, some kind of ultimatum.
"No, no that is not what I am saying. Jack is a part of my life, and if you can't accept it, then we are just going to have more problems." She really did hate the aggression between that version of the Doctor and Jack. Kari wanted them to get along, because they were the two most important men in her life. "I knew this was a bad idea. It would have been better if I just went to my room and stayed there until I was wanted somewhere else." She ended up muttering to herself. Talking wasn't helping, it was just making things worse.
"How well do you really know him?" The Doctor asked her, finally meeting her eyes. He could see the doubt and sadness that was hidden behind them, and he knew that the man he really didn't like was important to her.
Kari just gazed back at him. "I know when and where he dies, because I will be there. I know more about him then he would care to admit. I know about his family, I know about his past, and I know about his future. I know that Jack Harkness is a good man, and I know that he will do some amazing and wonderful things, if he is given the chance." The last past was aimed at the Doctor, because she wanted him to give Jack a chance.
"And what if I don't give him a chance? What if I drop him off at the nearest planet?" The Doctor wanted to cover everything, he wanted to find out exactly what Kari knew, without asking her directly.
"Then the whole future changes. Mine, yours, the whole universe will change." Kari knew that was true, Jack done a lot more than he would ever get credit for. "If he leaves now, I will most likely not be here. Without him, the whole universe will collapse. It's not just me that he is important to, Doctor, it's everyone." Yes, she was giving him a little too much information, but there was no other way she could think of to convince him that Jack was important and that there was nothing between her and the man.
The expression on the Doctor's face showed that he was actually thinking about what Kari had just said to him. She did know more than him, she knew much more than what he did, especially about the future. "Is one man really that important? And I mean to you." He cared more about Kari than he did the rest of the universe, she was his universe, Kari was everything to him.
"There's one man who is even more important. But right now, I don't know who he is anymore." Kari said, giving the Doctor a rather firm look. He was the most important person in her life, and he always would be. But Jack, he meant a lot to her as well, in so many ways, he was always there for her when she needed someone. "So, is that what this has all been about, Jack?" Kari ended up asking him, finding that he was just sitting there and looking at her now. "All those things that were said, the way we spoke to each other, the arguments, that was all because I saved one man?"
There was silence between them, as Kari waited for the Doctor to answer her, for him to let her know if there were other problems between them. She knew that in the future, Jack wouldn't be an issue, eventually the Doctor would accept him and the fact that he was Kari's brother. But Kari wanted this regeneration to accept him, because she was so sick and tired of the fighting all the time. She didn't want things to be like that, she knew that things could be better, and they had been better before.
The minutes passed, and there was still no answer, and Kari let out a sigh as she rested her head in her hands. That headache hadn't gone away from when she was with the Doctor and Clara, it hadn't gotten any worse, but it certainly hadn't gotten better. "You're not married yet." The Doctor suddenly said, which resulted in Kari lifting her head up and looking at him. "You haven't gotten married yet, have you?"
Kari shook her head at him, but only a little. The movement was actually making her head hurt even more. "No, I haven't. I've had the ring for a pretty long time now, and it was a while ago that you asked me, more than once." She watched him looking at her sadly before nodding. "Is that an issue for you? Because if it is, then you need to tell me."
The Doctor reached over the table and gently grasped Kari's left hand. "I don't want it to be an issue, but sometimes… sometimes it's difficult." He admitted to her. "I never know where we're up to, I see you and I don't know how far along you are, I don't know what you know. I see the ring, but I don't know what it means." He explained to her, twisting it a little between his finger and thumb.
"Does it really make that big of a difference to you? It's still me, whether I'm married or not, I'm still me." Kari really didn't understand how the fact that she wasn't actually his wife yet could make such a big difference. The only thing that she could think of was his insecurity.
"I know… I know. It's just… oh, it doesn't matter." It was clear that there was something that was bothering him, but he just didn't want to tell her exactly what it was.
And Kari was not going to let him get away with that. They both had to talk, they both had to get things out and off their chest, now it was his turn. "No, what is it? Come on, Doctor, we're meant to be talking, we are meant to be trying to clear the air and get past all of this."
The Doctor hesitated, and it actually worried Kari a little. "I know it's still you, and that it shouldn't be different, but it is. It's different for me."
"But why? Why is it different for you?" Kari just couldn't wrap her head around it. The Doctor knew that one day she would be his wife, she knew that as well from the amount of times he had slipped up and called her his wife. "I don't… I don't get it."
"Because I know you haven't met me yet, or rather, I haven't met you yet." Kari just looked at him in utter confusion. She really couldn't understand what the Doctor was trying to say. "You've always known me, for such a long time, but you haven't met that me yet, in your timeline, you've not met me for the first time yet."
Kari frowned at him as she tried to process exactly what it was that he was saying. From what she could work out, he was saying that because she wasn't married, he knew that she hadn't met him for the first time yet. At least, that was what she was thinking. "And why does that matter? So what if I've not met you in your first body yet. I still know you and who you are."
"It might not matter to you, but it matters to me. There are things that will happen, and they haven't happened for you yet. It's not easy to explain." The Doctor told her, wishing that he could just tell her everything and be done with it.
In all honesty, he hated it when they kept fighting as well, he hated the arguing just as much as Kari did, and although he never showed it, it upset him. He was good at masking his emotions and how he was feeling, and maybe he had been doing that a little too much with Kari. If he had just spoken to her, then she wouldn't have gotten upset and they wouldn't have argued, and things would have worked out much better.
"Is that really all it is?" Kari asked him, shaking him out of his own thoughts. "Has all of this really been because I'm not married, that I saved Jack, and simply because I've not gone back far enough in your timeline yet?" She still thought that he was insecure. A lot of things were pointing her in that directing, and she wanted him to just be honest with her. She was sick of the lies and the secrets, even though most of them were to protect her, it was just causing too much trouble between them.
"Yes." The Doctor answer quickly, a little too quickly. Kari ended up raising her eyebrow at him, warning him that she didn't believe him. "All right, so I get jealous." He admitted, throwing his hands up in the air, finally giving up. "You're not married, you're not my Kari. There is every chance that you are just going to saunter off with someone else, just leave me here. You didn't seem to care that you were flirting with Jack, do you know how that makes me feel?"
Finally, she was getting somewhere. "Insecure, especially since I've walked out once. You're scared that I'm going to do it again, and worried that the next time I won't come back. But do you honestly think that I would do that? Do you really think I'm that kind of person?" Kari had to do her best to keep herself calm. He didn't realise that it hurt her to hear that he had such little confidence in her.
"No, of course not, but this is who I am, Kari." The Doctor told her. "You want me to accept Jack, you need to accept that this is me. I get jealous, I worry about you and that you're going to leave me. I have my mood swings, just like you do, because that is who I am."
"I know that is who you are, Doctor, and I do accept that. I also know that you can be just as stubborn as me at times, which often results in both of us getting annoyed with each other over something completely stupid." Kari was glad that he had finally admitted that he got jealous. She had seen it, even Jack had seen it and told her about it, but she really had needed to hear it from him. "But what I also know is that you care, and we can go out and have fun together. That's what things were like before, and I… I want that again, Doctor. I want us to go out for dinner, to go ice-skating, to just go out and do something. We had that before, and then it just all fell apart."
"I remember when we went ice-skating, you were speechless the moment we stepped outside of the TARDIS. We danced beside a frozen lake."
"And you even sang." Kari added, smiling at him a little. "Then you convinced me to actually go on the ice, and I was worried that I was going to fall over. But you made sure that I didn't. What happened to all of that, Doctor? What happened to us?" Her smile was slowly slipping, remembering the good times and knowing that they were over.
The Doctor reached over and took a hold of both her hands. "We stopped talking, that's what happened. We let other things get in the way, I let my jealousy blind me to what was really going on. But that is going to change, I promise you, Kari, that will change." It was only now that he was starting to see just how much damage he had done by not talking to her, by not being honest with her. If he let things carry on the way they were, he was more likely to lose her. He knew that now, and the Doctor knew that things had to change.
She nodded at her at him a little. "Before we met Jack, everything was fine, I want it to be like that again. We went out for dinner, while Rose was asleep, and I loved it. It was just the two of us, and no monsters or saving people." Even if she did have to put up with three other regenerations of him deciding to show up, she had still smiled and enjoyed it.
"I should have just spoken to you, I know that now. Maybe if I had just spoken to you, you wouldn't have left that time." There was guilt on both sides now. Kari had always felt that pang of guilt from walking out, and now the Doctor was feeling guilty because he didn't talk to her or even attempt to stop her from walking out of the door.
"We both know that we can't go back and change it, even with a time machine. We just have to make sure that we don't make the same mistakes again." Even though at times Kari really did wish she could go back and do things differently. "I was angry with you at the time, and you were angry with me, it was a rash decision and probably not the best one."
The Doctor couldn't help but smile at her. "And that's my Kari, always full of logic and reason, with the occasional rash decision." He told her, but in a joking kind of way. He was trying to lighten the mood now, now that they had everything sorted.
All Kari could really do was roll her eyes at him. "So, everything… everything's okay now, right?" she asked him, hoping that they had finally cleared everything up and that he was finally going to accept Jack for who he really was. "I mean, there isn't anything else that's been bothering you? You were just jealous and insecure, and that was what made you not like Jack so much?"
"I was being an idiot, and I'm sorry. In future, if there is something that is irritating me, then I'll be sure to let you know." The Doctor told her, still smiling at her. All the tension that had been hanging over them had finally disappeared, and he was definitely feeling relieved. "But you have to do the same, if something is bothering you, then make sure you let me know, all right?"
She nodded her head at him, but only a little. That pain in her head was getting worse and worse, and she knew she needed to do something about it. "Doctor, I hit my head. You said it was concussion, and that it wasn't too serious, but you were lying to me." Kari had kept her eyes locked with his the whole time she had spoken, she needed to focus on something to try and stop the dizziness she as feeling, but it didn't seem to be working.
Now the Doctor was frowning at her, his hand reaching into his jacket to pull out his sonic screwdriver. "And why didn't you bother to tell me this sooner?" He asked, clearly not happy that she hadn't told him straight away.
"Uh, because you weren't happy to see me? I ended up in a special room that she created just for me and Jack, a Doctor free zone." Kari told him, closing her eyes a little as she rubbed her head. "And we had a chat before coming to find you and then getting locked in the kitchen."
"I did wonder where you had gone. I thought you might have headed to the console and tried to make a run for it again, but Rose was there and said she hadn't seen you." The Doctor explained to her, before he turned on his screwdriver, the end lighting up blue and buzzing away. "How did you hit your head in the first place?"
Kari knew she couldn't really tell him everything that had happened, it was his future, so she had to be careful of what she said to him. "Oh, the usual, big explosions, stuff falling, and me being thrown around."
He noticed the spot on her forehead where the flesh was still healing and lightly touched it, making Kari flinch a little. "Okay, yes you have concussion, but I'm also picking up high readings of the time vortex." The Doctor told her, a small frown appearing on his face. "High than they usually are around you."
"What do you mean? Higher than they normal are?" It was easy to see that she was confused, the whole time vortex thing was still a bit of a mystery to her.
"Like background radiation, there is always some residual of the time vortex around you. It's usually just a small amount, barely even noticeable, but it's higher than it normally is, much higher actually." He was worried, because he knew that the readings were right, and that there was something else going on that he couldn't explain. "Apart from a headache, anything else wrong?"
"Not really. The headache has been making me dizzy and sick but nothing else." Kari was doing her best not to let the Doctor see that she was worried as well. It was scary, not know what was going on when she knew something was wrong. "Is it bad, Doctor? Just tell me the truth and don't even think of lying to me."
A sigh slipped past the Doctor's lips. "I honestly don't know. It's not dangerous, I promise you that. I'll get the TARDIS to run a few scans, see if we can find out any more about it and why it's happening." He really didn't know what else to tell her, he didn't want to worry her even more, and he just didn't know what was going on.
Kari nodded at him, instantly regretting it because of the sudden throbbing she ended up having in her head. "Okay, so now what do we do?"
The Doctor got up from where he was sitting and flicked the switch on the kettle. "Well, since we're here, we might as well have a cuppa." He told her, turning and giving her a rather large smile. "I think that one's gone a bit cold now." The Doctor reached over to the table and picked up the pot of tea that he had made before Jack decided to lock them in there.
"Tea, the solution to everything." Kari muttered, watching the Doctor pour out the lukewarm tea and washing out the pot while they waited for the water to boil. "Top shelf, third cupboard, right at the back. There is a big tub of biscuits and stuff, if you want to get them out as well."
He turned and looked at her, tilting his head to the side a little. "Are you telling me where your secret stash is?" He asked her, before going over to the cupboard she was talking about and reaching to the back of the top shelf.
"Yeah, I guess I'm going to need to find a different place to hide them now. I have to keep some things hidden from you, because I know what little snacks and treats you will devour the moment you see them." Kari told him, just as his hand found the tub and pulled it out from the cupboard.
"Oi, I do not do things like that." The Doctor protested, placing the tub down on the table in front of Kari. "Why would you even say such a thing?"
Kari just looked at him with an eyebrow raised. "Jelly babies."
"Oh, come on, that was one regeneration." He told her, pouring the boiled water into the pot. "Have you got any jelly babies in there?"
She had seen that coming, and she carefully lifted the top off from the tub. "Yeah, I got jelly babies." Kari answered, looking past the jelly babies and at the jammie dodgers that were scattered around the tub. "No bananas, why is there no banana chips in here? There should have been banana chips in here as well."
The Doctor actually froze in place, his hands becoming completely still. "Uh, banana chips? What are those then?"
"Dried slices of banana. There was loads of them in here, because I know that you can get a bit obsessed with your bananas, because bananas are good, apparently." Kari told him, having noticed the way he had just stopped making the tea and the nervous way he had spoken to her. "I don't suppose you have any idea what could have happened to them, do you?" She was suspicious, because something was telling her that he already knew exactly where her secret stash was, and that he had eaten the banana chips.
"Me? Why would I know what's happened to them?" He asked her, trying his best to act all innocent. "It's your secret stash."
"Yeah, and I have a feeling that it's really not been that much of a secret, has it, Doctor?" There was a hint of accusation in her voice, which the Doctor had noticed.
With a heavy sigh he turned and faced her, holding his hands up in front of him. "All right, it was me. I was hungry, and I found your stash. I was going to replace them, but I haven't had the time to go to the shop and get some more." The Doctor admitted, knowing that there was no way that he could get out of it. It was clear that Kari had the suspicion that he was the one who had eaten them, and he really didn't want to lie to her or just start any more problems with her.
"Well, at least you admitted that it was you, but I'm still not happy. I really have got to find a better hiding place, if you find it in the future then there is really going to be a few disagreements." Kari told him, knowing that he would really become obsessed with jammie dodgers at some point in the future.
All the Doctor could do was smile at her as he poured out the brewed tea and took two mugs over to the table. "So come on, what have you been up to then?" He ended up asking her as he passed Kari her tea and sat himself down.
Kari shrugged her shoulders at him. "Oh, the usual, running from monsters and saving planets. Well, no so much a planet but us and another ship." She wasn't lying to him, she just wasn't telling him the complete truth. "Getting hit on the head by falling debris, and then having you fussing over me before ordering me to go to bed. Oh, and then, you decide to keep waking me up to check on me because of the concussion."
"Ah, so you did go to sleep exactly where I found you then." The Doctor said, smirking at her slightly. "And what did you get up to before that?"
"Date night." She told him simply, realising that it really wasn't all that long ago that she was last with him, and how different things were between them then. "Which was crashed by another regeneration of you."
"And you missed me so much that you just couldn't wait to come back and see me." The Doctor suggested smugly.
Before Kari had a chance to reply, or the Doctor had the opportunity to open his mouth and say something else, the door to the kitchen finally opened. The pair quickly glanced at each other with smiles on their faces, before their expressions completely changed.
"You are the most infuriating person I have ever had to misfortune to meet!" Kari shouted at the Doctor, as Jack looked at both of them.
"Oh, like you're any better." The Doctor retorted, making sure to give her his annoyed look.
Kari put her hands on the table, pushing the chair out as she did and standing up. "I'm certainly better than you. I don't treat people like they are nothing but dirt. I don't go around calling humans apes, or making fun of people. I'm not rude like you are, and I would never want to be."
Jack was looking at the pair with wide eyes. "So, uh… how's it going in here?" He asked them both nervously. He thought they had everything sorted, he was confident that they would have sorted everything out by now. But it looked like he had been very wrong.
"The stuck up little princess thinks she knows best." The Doctor spat, glaring at Kari, but throwing her a wink when Jack looked at her as well.
"Excuse me? You think I'm stuck up? You're the one that walks around all, 'oh, I'm the last of my kind. I'm all alone in the universe. Poor me, everyone should feel sorry for me.' That's what you sound like, Doctor." She was doing well to keep up the act, but she wondered if that was going a little too far, as the Doctor flinched a little as she said it.
The Doctor took two large strides towards Kari, so that he was now standing in front of her. Jack didn't like the way that things were going, and so he quickly pulled Kari behind him, facing the Doctor now himself. "I think you had better calm down, Doctor." Jack warned him, keeping Kari behind him.
"This has nothing to do you with, Captain. Now get out of the way. You wanted us to talk, well, we're talking." The Doctor told him, still doing a pretty good job at acting angry. Kari peeked out from behind Jack and gave him a smile. "No point trying to hide behind your big brother."
Kari done her best to look scared, but she just couldn't do it, and even though she was biting her bottom lip, a few giggles slipped out. She kept trying to hold it back, but by the time she was standing in front of the Doctor, she was ready to burst and she just couldn't hold it any longer. "Sorry… sorry…" She breathed through her laughter.
The Doctor simply rolled his eyes at her. "Oh, you and your giggles, you went and spoiled it with your giggled." He told her, before reaching out and pulled her towards him while she laughed some more.
Jack was just looked at them in utter confusion. "Wait a second, what's going on? I thought you two were still fighting? It looked like you were ready to kill each other just now." He had no idea that they had talked everything out, and had just put on a little show for him.
"Trust me, if I was going to kill him it would have happened a long time ago. And besides, I kill him, and he just comes back with a new face. Then again, his next face isn't so bad." Kari said, her eyes studying the Doctor's face.
"Oh, right. Thanks."
"Aw, did I upset you?" She knew that he wasn't impressed with her little comment about his next face, but he hadn't gotten upset with her, not really. "I'm sorry, you have a lovely face." Kari added, before having to stretch up so that she could reach his lips with her own. "Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go and get changed, I went to bed in this last night and I am not stepping outside of this ship until I've changed."
"Don't be too long, we have places to go." The Doctor told her, placing a hand under her chin and tilting her head up so that she was looking directly at him. "You got thirty minutes before I'm coming to find you." He warned her, before gently pressing his lips against hers.
Kari just smiled at him before darting out of the kitchen and back to her own room. She desperately wanted to get changed and into something more comfortable. She was just glad that the Doctor had actually listened to her, and that they had talked everything out. It was a bit of a relief to know that everything had been sorted, and that there wouldn't be any more arguing or hostility between them. The future was looking a little bit brighter now for Kari, and she couldn't help but smile at that. Unfortunately, the universe had other plans.
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed that chapter, the Doctor and Kari are finally going to start getting along, that should be nice. Or will it? *Maniacal laugh*
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As always, I want to say hello and welcome to everyone who has favourited/followed the story recently. It's always nice to see that people are still finding my story and enjoying it, even with my spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. And to those of you who have taken the time to review, thank you all so much. You are absolutely fantastic and wonderful, you really are.
The poll is still open on my profile, but only for a few more days. There really hasn't been as many responses as I would have liked, so if something happens that you don't like, it's because you didn't vote in the poll!
Time for me to shut up and go back to my corner, where I plot and scheme. Until next week...
Pippa.