Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 6. I am glad that I am keeping people in character. It really means a lot to me. I couldn't wait to get started on this chapter. I really couldn't. I wanted to write it as soon as I started getting reviews for the last chapter. I just couldn't help it. I actually got it all written in one day. Which is really surprising to me because normally I don't get chapters written this quickly. But then again I have writer's blocks for the other stories that I have on here. So might as well update the one that I don't have a writer's block for now. I am glad that you guys are loving it so far. I hope that you guys will like this chapter. This one is going to be a chapter that well… lets just say that reveals something after he had been socked by Jackie. Also I know that you guys have been guessing that Gwendalyn is Artemis. Well I am not revealing who she is just yet. You will be finding out soon enough who she is. I like having some suspense when I write. It only seems fair. Also I changed a little bit of the first part from the little preview that I had given in the last chapter. Without further ado Chapter 6. Allons-y!

Chapter 6

Never Been Punched By A Mother

The Tardis appeared in Powell Estate. The three of them got out of it and into the streets.

Gwendalyn stuck her hands in her pockets looking around biting her lower lip softly.

Rose looked around. "How long have I been gone?"She asked looking at the Doctor and Gwendalyn. She was curious because well she had an amazing time so far travelling with the two of them.

"About twelve hours." The Doctor said, crossing his arms. Thinking that sounded about right and that he had gotten the flight pattern right.

"Oh. Right, I won't be long. I just want to see my mum." Rose said to the two of them before walking away from the two of them.

"What're you going to tell her?" The Doctor asked, looking at her.

Rose stopped for a minute. What was she going to tell her mother? She didn't know what she could tell her mother. "I don't know. I've been to the year 5 billion and only been gone, what, twelve hours. No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shareen's. See you later. Oh, don't you two disappear." Rose said going towards her flat.

The Doctor looked over at Gwendalyn. "And what about you? Where are you going to go? Are you going to go back to your flat and get your things and bring them to the Tardis?" He asked hopefully. His eyes had a pleading look to them. He was hoping that she was going to continue travelling with him. After all the danger he had put her through. He thought that she would want to stop travelling with him. She had regenerated while with him. He wouldn't blame her if she didn't want to continue to travel with him.

Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "I hardly owned much." She shook her head. It was sad that she didn't own much and she hated admitting it. She stuck her hands into her pockets of her jeans that she wore. She didn't care about the stuff that she had left behind in her apartment. After all it would probably just take too much room up. Not only that they didn't really do too much to her.

The Doctor noticed something. An old poster. Now that was odd. It looked like it had been up there for a while. Now that really was out of place and not normal.

Gwendalyn saw the confusion etched across his face. "Doctor is there something wrong?" She knew that there was something wrong. But whatever it was she didn't like seeing it etched across the Doctor's face. It concerned her more than it should have.

The Doctor walked over to it and flattened it. His eyes widened. This was not good. Not good at all. This meant that they were probably in major trouble if Rose had gotten to her family before they got to her.

Gwendalyn looked at it as well. "Well that is unexpected." She said as she read it as well. They had been gone for a year and that meant that there was trouble brewing. "Why can't we just have a day where we aren't going to be in some kind of trouble." She said furrowing her brows. She hated it when things like this happened. It would have been nice if they could have had a nice relaxing day, but no that would not be happening for them anytime soon.

"Won't you be in trouble?" He questioned her. He had taken her away for a year as well. He was hoping that he hadn't gotten her in trouble as well. He couldn't bear to have his two companions in trouble with work or family concerning Rose.

"With who?" She asked, looking at him. She was a little thrown off with the question. She wasn't expecting him to ask that question.

"Don't you have a job?" He asked, looking at her. He looked right into her blue eyes. He was trying to read her to figure out some information about her. Did she have a job? If she did then she was probably fired and ruled out as missing as well.

"No, actually." She said, shaking her head. She had been fired from her job because she hated the job that she had. She hated writing for the paper. It was usually of fake stories and nothing really real.

"Friends?" He asked hoping that she wasn't as alone as he was. If she was then he was glad that he had taken her along with him.

"No. Can't be friends with humans that well." She told him softly rubbing her red clad arm. "They didn't like what I was back then and I certainly didn't want to put myself through that again."

He felt bad that she didn't have any friends. But he was there with her now and he would be her friend. "We need to tell Rose." He said running towards the building.

Gwendalyn let out a soft sigh and ran after him. This was all her life was going to be now. All the running. She felt his hand grab onto hers and the two of them ran up the stairs. "You got the flight pattern wrong didn't you?" She asked as the two of them ran up the stairs. She should have known that he had gotten the flight pattern wrong. With the way he was acting, she knew he had. Which was bad.

"I did. But Rose isn't going to know that. I have to stop her before she gets there."

"Now she is if her family hugs her to death." She told him. "Parents are really protective of their children."

The two of them ran into the flat. Damn they were too late.

"It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry." The Doctor said looking at her.

Gwendalyn tried to catch her breath. God she really needed to get longer legs. She really wished she wasn't shorter than her last regeneration. But it was always a dodgy process.

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Gwendalyn stood next to the Doctor with her arms crossed. She was listening to Rose Tyler's mother yelling and getting her anger out in ways that she never thought that a human would. She closed her eyes as she continued to listen. She was the worst type of protective parent that she had ever seen.

"The hours I've sat here, days and weeks and months, all on my own. I thought you were dead, and where were you? Travelling. What the hell does that mean, travelling? That's no sort of answer. You ask her. She won't tell me. That's all she says. Travelling." Rose's mother shouted in anger.

Gwendalyn looked over at the Doctor. She wondered how he could stand this woman's yelling. She certainly couldn't. She sounded like nails on a chalkboard to her.

"That's what I was doing." Rose told her mother again. She really couldn't tell her mother the truth. Not really. She would be put in bedlam if she ever told. People would think she was insane.

"When your passport is still in the drawer? It's just one lie after another." Her mother said outraged.

"I meant to phone. I really did. I just forgot." Rose said softly. She had never meant to worry her mother. Not like this. But she was enjoying her travels with The Doctor and Gwendalyn. She wanted to see more, but she wasn't so sure if her mother would be able to handle her disappearing again.

"What, for a year? You forgot for a year? And I am left sitting here. I just don't believe you. Why won't you tell me where you've been?" Her mother pleaded with her.

Gwendalyn cleared her throat.

Jackie turned sharply to them.

"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of er, employed Rose as my companion." The Doctor said rubbing his arm.

Gwendalyn gave him a sharp look. Companion really? Didn't he know that they would think that it was a sexual relationship? Probably not because in a way he was dense.

"When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" The cop asked.

"No." The three of them said at the same time.

"Then what is it? Because you, you waltz in here all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth! How old are you then? Forty? Forty Five? What, did you find her on the Internet? Did you go online and pretend you're a doctor?"

"I am a Doctor." He said looking at Jackie. He wasn't pretending to be a doctor. He actually was The Doctor.

"Prove it. Stitch this, mate!" Jackie punched the Doctor.

Gwendalyn gave her a sharp look. "That was rude of you Mrs. Tyler." She was really beginning to hate this woman. She was becoming quite annoying.

"You're American." Jackie bit out.

"Yes, so wonderful for you to point out. Yes, I am American so what. And I am his companion as well. And his friend." She grabbed onto his arm. She looked at Rose. "I'll leave you two to it then." She said softly. She led him out of there. She couldn't take it any more of that woman. She was afraid that she would do something that she would later regret.

The Doctor rubbed his cheek. Damn that woman did have an arm on her. He hadn't expected it to hurt like that.

She took him on the top of the building. "Let me look at it." She told him. She wanted to make sure that he was alright. After all with the way that the hit sounded. It sounded like the woman had quite a pack behind her hand.

He looked away from her. "It's fine." He didn't want her to see it because he was embarrassed that it had happened.

Gwendalyn took his hand and moved it from his face. She winced when she saw that it was beginning to show up. She shook her head and brought her hand up to his face. Her hand began to glow purple. She pressed it lightly on his cheek palm open against his flesh. She shook her head as she healed him. She removed her hand from his cheek. "You know you kind of deserved the punch to the face." She said, as she sat down looking at him.

He looked at her and saw the laughter dancing in her eyes. "In 900 years I have never been hit by someone's mother."

"Oh? Never? You never had that problem with other companion's mothers?" She asked, looking at him. She was actually surprised that he hadn't had problems with companion's mothers.

"No, never." He said, shaking his head. He thought for a moment. "Although there was one time that I was hit by someone's father." He said sadly at the thought. He was remembering that day very well that he had gotten hit by someone's father. He really wished that he didn't bring it up.

Gwendalyn raised her eyebrow. "Oh? Someone's father? Really?" Now that was rather intriguing.

"Yes, Artemis's father hit me for taking her away from Helmos when we were kids. He thought that it wasn't right for a princess to be travelling through time." He said smiling fondly when he said her name and having the memory of her returning to him.

Gwendalyn looked over at him as he rubbed his face at the memory. "He didn't think that she shouldn't travel time?"

The Doctor looked at her with wide eyes. She was going to allow him to talk about this? "You want me to continue talking about this?"

Gwendalyn offered him a small smile. She crossed her legs at the ankles. "Why not?" She asked him softly. She tilted her head to the side. "After all it is something that makes you, well you." She didn't mind him talking about it. It really did make him who he was.

The Doctor smiled. He thought that he would push her off by talking about Helmos and the Princess that he had lost years ago.

Gwendalyn swung her legs back and forth. "So tell me, Doctor. Why did he think it wasn't wise for her to travel with you?" She wanted to hear the story that he had to tell.

The Doctor leaned back against the wall that she sat upon. "Well… he wanted her to learn what she could. It was possible that she would become Queen. But she wanted adventures. She had met me when we were both young and well… she had told me that she wanted adventures. I promised her that I would take her on some and well… the Witches well they didn't like flying. At least not through time and space." He shook his head.

Gwendalyn smiled a small smile. "So he hit you after she had come back?"

The Doctor nodded his head. "I had gotten the flight pattern wrong and she had been gone for six months instead of just a few hours."

Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "Well now I can see why." She shook her head. She began to wonder if he had ever passed his test in flying a Tardis.

Rose came out and let out a soft sigh. "I really am sorry about that." She told them. She really felt bad that her mother had hauled off and hit him. She didn't think that her mother had it in her.

The Doctor shook his head. He didn't want to hear her apologizing for what her mother had done. After all it was a normal reaction for a parent to do that. Always.

Gwendalyn looked at Rose. "Did she finally calm the bloody hell down?" Her American accent made it sound strange. Her saying a normal British saying.

Rose laughed lightly. It sounded strange hearing bloody hell from an American Gwendalyn. She wouldn't dare tell the woman that though. It would probably send her off the deep end.

"What's so funny?" Gwendalyn demanded to know what was so damn funny.

"You're saying bloody hell." Rose pointed out. She asked. So she had to tell the black haired woman the truth.

Gwendalyn shrugged her shoulders. "I can't help it that I sound American now." She clicked her tongue against her teeth. She had just gotten a bad draw.

Rose took a seat next to Gwendalyn. "I can't tell her. I can't even begin. She's never going to forgive me. And I missed a year. Was it good?"

"Middling." The Doctor said, crossing his arms.

Rose looked at Gwendalyn. "What about you?"

"Hectic." Gwendalyn said with a little laugh. "But middling."

"You're useless. The both of you are." Rose said, shaking her head. She wanted to know more. She really hoped that they had enjoyed it, but they said it was middling. What the hell was that supposed to mean?

"Well, if it's this much trouble, are you going to stay here now?" The Doctor asked, looking at her.

Rose let out a soft sigh. "I don't know. I can't do that to her again, though."

"Well, she's not coming with us."

"No chance."

"I think I would hex her." Gwendalyn said, shaking her head. "She is like a harpy."

The Doctor laughed lightly. "I don't do families."

"She slapped you!" Rose said looking over at him laughing lightly.

"Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother."

Gwendalyn laughed lightly.

"Your face." Rose said laughing lightly.

"It hurt!" He said, defending himself.

"Did hurt." Gwendalyn said with a smile.

"You're so gay. When you say nine hundred years?"

"That's my age."

"You're nine hundred years old?"

"Yeah."

"My mum was right. That is one hell of an age gap. Every conversation with you just goes mental. There's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things, and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist." Rose looked at Gwendalyn. "And what about you? How old are you?"

"How old do you think I am?" Gwendalyn was curious about what the 19 year old would say.

"Late 20's." Rose said looking over the woman. Yes, that had to be around the age she was.

Gwendalyn chuckled. "I'm older than that though. I am 897 years old." She said looking over at Rose. She hated admitting how old she actually was. Because it was just stating how old she was. And she was getting up there in age. She was getting really old. And she was already in her newest regeneration.

"Oh wow…" Rose said in surprise. She hadn't been expecting that. Not in the least bit. She had no idea that Gwendalyn was that old. She looked good for 897 years old.

The Doctor looked over at Gwendalyn. It just had to be a coincidence that she was the same age as… no he couldn't think about her now. She couldn't be her. It had been too long and he had a link to her. A big link with her. A link that couldn't be severed. And he couldn't feel that link. She was gone. That was why he couldn't think about her. His mind kept going back to when he couldn't save her. And he really did want to save her.

A deep horn sounds and a spaceship flies over their heads.

Gwendalyn stood up. "What the hell?" Gwendalyn said with wide blue eyes. Now this was something that was history in the making. Very much so.

They watch a black plume of smoke come up from where it had crashed.

"Oh, that's just not fair." Rose said looking with wide eyes. It really wasn't fair. Not in the least bit. It wasn't fair that they were getting to see this now.

Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "Now shall we go and see." She asked looking over at the Doctor with a smile.

The Doctor nodded his head. "Yes."

The three of them rushed down the stairs. Perhaps they would be able to get there before anything had happened.

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They get down to the streets.

"It's blocked." The Doctor said looking at the two of them.

"We're miles from the centre. The city must be gridlocked. The whole of London must be closing down." Rose said looking at them.

Gwendalyn groaned. "And we can't draw attention to ourselves by trying to get in there."

"I know. I can't believe I'm here to see this. This is fantastic." The Doctor said with a smile.

Gwendalyn shook her head lightly. "Of course you would think that this was fantastic. Causes a frenzy though."

"Did you know this was going to happen?" Rose asked, looking at him.

"Nope."

"Do you recognise the ship?"

"Nope."

"Do you know why it crashed?"

"Nope."

"Oh, I'm so glad I've got you." Rose said, rolling her eyes.

"I am you. This is what I travel for, Rose. To see history happening right in front of us."

"Well, let's go and see it. Never mind the traffic, we've got the Tardis."

Gwendalyn shook her head. "No." There was no way that they were going to take the Tardis there. It would send everyone into a tizzy. It wouldn't be good to say the least.

"What?"

"Better not. They've already got one spaceship in the middle of London. I don't want to shove another one on top." The Doctor said to Rose.

"Yeah, but yours looks like a big blue box. No one's going to notice."

Gwendalyn scoffed.

"You'd be surprised. Emergency like this, there'll be all kinds of people watching. Trust me. The Tardis stays where it is."

"So history's happening and we're stuck here."

"Yep." Gwendalyn said, crossing her arms.

"Yes, we are."

"We could always do what everybody else does. We could watch it on TV." Rose said, pointing it out to them.

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Gwendalyn and the Doctor sat together watching the television. They were going to try and get as much information as they needed. They needed to piece this together. And hopefully piece it together fast.

Rose looked over at the two of them. She tilted her head to the side. She was curious about why the two of them were sitting together. Perhaps it was because they didn't want to be near anyone else, but themselves.

"Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash lands in Central reinforcements are drafted from across the country to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance. A state of national emergency had been declared. Tom Hitchinson is at the scene."

Gwendalyn shook her head. "Of course there would be panic. They aren't going to be used by aliens."

The Doctor patted her jean clad knee.

Gwendalyn shut her mouth when he did so.

"The police are urging the public not to panic. There's a help line number on the screen right now if you're worried about friends or family."

"They really are taking this to the bank." Gwendalyn said sitting back in the chair that she was in with the Doctor.

"Well it is new to them." The Doctor whispered in her ear. "We are used to it. They aren't."

Gwendalyn bit her lip knowing that was true. Her cheeks were a little pink from him whispering in her ear.

"The army is sending divers into the wreck of the spaceship. No one knows what they're going to find."

Jackie brings a drink for her friend and Rose, but not to the black haired woman and the Doctor. Still fairly upset with the both of them. "I've got no choice."

"You've broken your mother's heart." Jackie's friend said.

"I'm not going to make either of them welcomed." Jackie said rather rudely.

Gwendalyn glared at the blonde haired woman. She really wanted to shut her up.

"I cradled her like a child."

"Oi, I'm trying to listen." The Doctor said from where he was sitting.

Gwendalyn patted him on the leg.

The Doctor looked at her and placed his hand on the top of hers.

"His current whereabouts. News is just coming in. We can go to Tom at the Embankment."

"They've found a body. It's unconfirmed. But I'm being told a body has been found in the wreckage. A body of non-terrestrial origins. It's being brought ashore A body of some sort has been found inside the wreckage of the spacecraft."

"Oh, guess who asked me out. Billy Crewe." Jackie said to no one in particular. She just wanted to talk about who recently asked her out.

"Brought to the nearest shore. Unconfirmed reports say that the body is of extraterrestrial origin. An extraordinary event unfolding here live here in Central London. The body is being transferred to a secure unit mortuary, the whereabouts is yet unknown. The roads in Central London are being…."

The television changed to another channel. Something that the Doctor didn't want to watch.

The Doctor was fighting with a toddler that was sitting in his lap.

Gwendalyn stood up and brushed her legs off. She took the remote and handed it to him. She gently picked up the toddler. She went and looked for his mother. She handed him back to his mother.

"Thank you." His mother said softly.

Gwendalyn smiled. "Welcome." She walked back over to the Doctor. "You could have asked me."

"I didn't think…"

Gwendalyn shook her head. "It's fine." She told him with a small smile.

"Albion Hospital. We still don't know whether it's alive or dead. Whitehall is denying everything. But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital. The road's closed off. It's the closest to the river."

"Go on." The Doctor said hoping that he would get more answers.

"You are impatient." Gwendalyn said looking at him.

"I just want to know."

Gwendalyn shook her head. "I know."

"I'm being told that General Asquith is now entering the building's been evacuated. The patients have been moved out to the streets. The police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body contained inside those walls."

"Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of the Prime Minister. He's not been seen since the emergency began. The opposition are criticising his lack of leadership, and. Hold on. Oh, that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale. He's Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission. On the monitoring of sugar standards in exported confectionary. With respect, hard the most important person right now."

Gwendalyn stands up. "Shall we?"

The Doctor stood up and dusted his pants off. "Yes."

The two of them walked out of the flat.

"Too many of them." Gwendalyn said rubbing her red clad arms.

"You did fine though."

Gwendalyn smiled at him. "I am glad that you think so."

Rose came out and looked at the two of them. "And where do you think you two are going?"

"No where." The Doctor said looking at Rose. "It's just a bit human in there for me. History just happened and they're talking about where you can buy dodgy top-up cards for half price. I'm off on a wander, that's all. And Gwendalyn was nice enough to come with me."

Rose crossed her arms. "Right. There's a spaceship on the Thames and you're just wandering."

"Nothing to do with me. It's not an invasion. That was a genuine crash landing. Angle of descent, colour of smoke, everything. It's perfect."

"So?"

"So maybe this is it. First contact. The day mankind officially comes into contact with an alien race."

"Hey." Gwendalyn said looking at him. "I've been here for years."

The Doctor shook his head. "They didn't know you were alien."

Gwendalyn nodded her head. "Okay point proven."

"I'm not interfering because you've got to handle this on your own. That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay. Now you can expand." The Doctor said with a smile. "You don't need us. Go and celebrate history. Spend some time with your mum."

"Promise that the two of you won't disappear?"

"Tell you what." The Doctor reached into his pocket. He pulled out a key. "Tardis key. It's about time you had one. See you later." He grabbed Gwendalyn's hand and the two of them walked towards the Tardis.

"You know we lied to her." Gwendalyn pointed out.

"It had to be done. We wouldn't have been able to get very far with her with us."

"You want to get a closer look at that body."

"Yes."

"I figured. We think alike then." She said with a smile.

"Besides, Rose needed time with those who came to see her."

Gwendalyn nodded her head. "She has a lot of people in her life. People who really care for her." She said sadly. She was glad to know that Rose had such wonderful people in her life.

"Hey you alright?" He was concerned about her.

Gwendalyn looked at him. "Fine."

"You sound like you are having flashbacks."

"Any one would have flashbacks. I knew that I would. Remember we are the last of our kind. We will always be lonely." She pointed out.

"Not lonely. You have me." The Doctor said as he looked over at her.

Gwendalyn smiled. "And you have me."

The two of them got into the Tardis.

"Shall we go and get the information we need?"

"Oh yes. Let's find out what this is all about." She said with a cheeky smile.

The Doctor smiled at her answer. He pressed the buttons that he needed to press so the two of them could go to the hospital that they needed to go to. They needed to get a good look at that body that was in that wreckage.

They didn't even know that Mickey was running towards the Tardis when they disappeared.

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This is the end of chapter 6. I hope that you enjoy it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I enjoyed writing this chapter. What did you guys think of the story that The Doctor told Gwendalyn about being slapped by the Princess's father? Until next time guys.