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Harper's POV
I slowly started to wake up. It felt so good to be back home in my own bed. I have to stay my bed is far more comfortable than I remember. Well… besides my pillow. The blood thing won't quiet moving. Up and down, up and down. My pillow is… moving?
My head snapped up. I looked up at the Doctor and saw that I was lying over top of him. How we ended up like this I don't know. I smiled at him for just a second; he looked so peaceful when he slept. But I want it not want it to be too embarrassing when he finally woke up so I slowly started to roll off of him.
Unfortunately for me, the Doctor, still asleep mind you, put his arm around me and pulled me back on top of him. 'How does he have this much strength when asleep?' I thought, once again trying to roll off of him.
Deciding there was only one thing I could do, I started to wake the Doctor up. "Umm... Doctor wake up. Doctor."
He mumbled something and just buried his face in my hair. I giggled a little and tried again. "Harper, stop talking," He mumbled. "To comfy."
I laughed again, "Oh, come on sleepy head."
He finally let out a sigh and looked up at me, "morning."
"Good morning," I giggled at him, but I saw the moment he realized our position. His face got red and he started to studded, "oh… umm… I… oh…sorry…how…"
He started to move and I roll to the side. He tried to get off the bed quickly, but his legs got tangled in the sheets causing him to fall to the ground.
I started to laugh at him; he jumped up, "right, um… I'll just be leaving now," and he ran from the room. This only caused me to laugh harder at him.
Once I had got dressed I went to the console room where Rose and the Doctor were talking.
"So where are we headed to next?" I asked coming up beside them.
"Well, Mickey just phoned and there's some pretty weird stuff happening at this school." Rose said and the Doctor flipped a switch saying, "so we're going to go and check it out."
I am going to bloody kill Mickey! I have to teach band in a high school. I knew nothing about it; I can't play the recorder. This was going to make for an interesting couple of days.
"Good morning class."
"Good morning, Mrs. Smith," the class all said.
"I am very happy to be your new band professor. To get started I am going to ask a couple of questions." I had to goggle all of them, "Number one, what classifies a woodwind instrument."
A girl on the front row raised her hand, "yes, and you are?"
"Katie," she said I smiled at her, "Okay Katie, go on."
"Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the wind instruments. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments."
"Very good Katie. Okay two, When was the first brass instrument made?"
Katie raised her hand, "anyone one else want to give it a try?" I looked around and no one raised his or her hand, "Katie?"
"Around 1400-1413 the earliest known S-shaped trumpet was developed, which was later followed by the folded trumpet and slide trumpet. It was out of the slide trumpet that the trombone developed around 1450," she said.
"Well I think that is enough questions for one day. Since I am new here, why don't we pickup where your old teacher left off? Can anyone tell me where that was?"
Katie raised her hand once again, "Okay Katie, where did you leave off?"
"The trumpets were learning their piece of music for the concert coming up."
"Right then, trumpets, carry on."
That was a horrible decision. I don't know if it was who taught them in the past or just me, but that was one of the worst sounds ever. I am pretty sure I have some hearing loss after teaching just two classes.
I was meeting up with the Doctor at his classroom and we were going to head to lunch together. So I made my way quickly there and saw him waiting on me.
"Hello," he said with a smile.
"WHAT?" I said not hearing him.
He raised an eyebrow, "You know you don't have to yell I am right here."
"SORRY, TWO CLASSES OF TRUMPETS. I THINK I LOST SOME OF MY HEARING," I yelled again.
He just laughed and took my arm pulling me to the cafeteria.
We both got in line for food. I saw Rose behind the counter serving food. The Doctor gave her a smirk and I shot her a smile. She looked very unhappy.
We went and sat at an empty table when Rose came up to us, "two days."
"Sorry, could you just…" the Doctor pointed at the table with his fork making Rose clean it. "There's a bit of gravy. No, no. Just there."
Rose rolled her eyes whipping the table again, "two days we've been here."
"Blame your boyfriend. He's the one who put us onto this," the Doctor said.
"AND HE WAS RIGHT," I said loudly. Both the Doctor and Rose gave me a look, so I just mouthed sorry and look back down at my food.
"Anyways, boy in class this morning, got knowledge way beyond planet Earth," the Doctor, continued.
"You eating those chips?" Rose asked taking one from the Doctor.
"Yeah… they're a bit… different," the Doctor said.
"I think they're gorgeous. Wish I had school dinners like this," Rose said. "You eating yours?"
I shook my head no and pushed them to her. She gave me a smile and the Doctor said, "It's very well behaved, this place. I thought they'd all be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones, yeah? Yeah? Oh, yeah, don't tell me I don't fit in."
I started to laugh when one of the lunch ladies came over to Rose, "Your not permitted to leave your station during a sitting."
"I was just talking to these teachers," Rose said standing up.
"Hello," the Doctor said and I gave her a wave.
"They don't like the chips."
"The menu has been specifically designed by the Headmaster to improve concentration and performance. Now, get back to work," she marched off.
Rose started to walk away saying, "See? This is me… dinner lady."
"I'll have the crumble," the Doctor called.
'Oh, make it two!' I told the Doctor so I wouldn't yell again.
"Make it two," he called again.
"So going to kill the both of ya."
We were both laughing when Mr. Wagner, on of the new teachers, walked up to the table next to ours, "Melissa, you'll be joining my class for the next period. Milo's failed me…"
'Milo is the student I was telling you about,' the Doctor told me.
'Then if what you said was true, how could he have failed anything?'
'I don't know!' We both looked at each other in confusion.
"So it's time we moved you up to the top of the class." Mr. Wagner looked down at a boy sitting beside Melissa, "Kenny, not eating the chips?"
"I'm not allowed," Kenny said.
"Luke, extra class. Now," Mr. Wagner barked, several kids got up and followed him out of the cafeteria.
I looked up to see Mr. Finch looking down on the cafeteria, and tapped the Doctor on the shoulder. Once I had his attention I pointed up to Finch.
'He just gives me the creeps,' I thought.
'I'll agree with you there.'
The Doctor's POV
"Yesterday, I had a twelve year old girl give me the exact height of the walls of Troy in cubits," a teacher told Harper and I.
After lunch we had gone to the lounge, to try and figure out what's going on.
"And it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?" I asked.
"Finch arrived three months ago, next day half the staff got flu. Finch replaced them with that lot." He pointed over to some teachers in the corner. "Except for the teachers you two replace. And that was just plain weird, her winning the lottery like that."
"HOW'S THAT WEIRD?" Harper yelled.
'No, no, no, stop. No! I'll ask the questions.' I saw her pout a little but he kept talking, "She never played. Said the ticket was posted through her door at midnight. Don't blame him to much, if my wife won the lottery I would quit also."
"The world is very strange," I said.
"Excuse me, colleagues, a moment of your time. May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith," Mr. Finch said.
Both Harper and I stood up and she asked, 'is that YOUR Sarah Jane Smith?'
'Yes! Yes she is. My Sarah Jane!'
"Miss Smith is a journalist who's writing a profile about me for The Sunday Times. I thought it might be useful for her to get a view from the trenches, so to speck. Don't spare my blushes," he smiled cockily and left.
"Hello," Sarah Jane said coming up to Harper and I.
"Oh, I should think so," I said, still in a bit of a daze.
"And you are?"
"Mmm? Uh, Smith, John Smith."
'Wow, way to act cool there Doc!'
"John Smith? I used to have a friend who sometimes went by that name," Sarah Jane said.
"Well, it's a very common name," I laughed.
"He was a very uncommon man. And you are," she turned to Harper.
"HARPER SMITH," Harper stuck out her hand to give Sarah Jane a handshake.
Sarah Jane looked a little taken back by Harper's yelling. "Right, sorry, she just taught to class of trumpets. Not sure she has all her hearing back yet."
Sarah Jane laughed and said, "Husband and wife I presume, nice to meet you both."
"Nice to meet you. Yes, very nice. More than nice, brilliant."
"Um… so have you two worked here long?"
"No, um… it's only our second day," I said.
"Oh, your new, then?" She stepped closer to Harper and I, "So what do you think about the school? I mean, this new curriculum, so many children getting ill. Doesn't that strike you as odd?"
'Yeah, she is so doing a profile on Finch,' Harper thought sarcastically.
"You don't sound like someone just doing a profile," I said what Harper was thinking; lowering my voice so no one could hear.
"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here," Sarah Jane said before walking over to the other teachers.
"No, good for you. Good for you. Oh, good for you, Sarah Jane Smith."
'Aww, you look like a kid who with just given some candy.'
'Oh, stop it!'
Harper and I started to laugh and I saw Sarah Jane look over to us with a smile before turning back to the teacher she was talking too.
Harper, Rose, Mickey, and I all started down the hallway. I had parked the TARDIS in a closet in the school so we could look around.
"Oh! It's weird seeing a school at night. It just feels wrong," Rose said.
"There is nothing creeper than schools at night," Harper, finally at normal volume, said.
Rose laughed and said, "When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in the school."
"All right team. Oh, I hate people who say team… uh, gang… uh… comrades… uh…"
Harper was laughing at me so I just went on, "Anyway, Rose, go to the kitchen and get a sample of that oil. Mickey, the new staff are all maths teachers. Check out the maths department. Harper stay here and be the look out."
'Really, the look out? Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence.'
I ignored her and said, "I'm going to look in Finch's office. Meet back here in ten minutes." I ran up the stairs in the direction of the office.
Harper's POV
I was mad at the Doctor. I could do more than be the look out. So I decided to go and help Mickey.
"Hey, Mickey Mick Mick… sorry I have been spend to much time with the Doctor. I am starting to talk like him."
Mickey laughed and put his arm around my shoulders, "that's okay, as long as you get my name right I'm fine with it. So what are you doing here? Weren't you the look out?"
"That was just stupid. We are in an empty school, who is going to be here to look out for?"
We had just got to the first classroom and started to look around. "Okay, so we are looking for anything abnormal. Something alien. Something out of place," I said as I look in the teacher's desk.
We had been quietly searching when Mickey said, "Harper can I asked you a question?"
"You just did, but you can ask me another one if you want."
He rolled his eyes at me and asked, "What is the deal with Rose and the Doctor?"
I stopped what I was doing and looked over to him, "I…well…" I was struggling to find the words. "I hate to tell you, but I am pretty sure Rose is in love with him."
"And the Doctor?" He said sadly.
"That is more complicated. I think it may be a one way street with them two, but the Doctor's hard to read some… no… all the time."
He looked sad, but he looked up at me and asked, "and you?"
"Me? Um… I guess… I mean… maybe… um… oh whom am I kidding? I am in love with him. Which is incredibly stupid."
He smile at me, "you two would be cute together."
"Yeah, well that's got as much chance of happening as pigs flying, so…"
We went back to searching when Mickey opened a cupboard and screamed.
The Doctor's POV
Sarah Jane, Rose, and I ran into a classroom to find Mickey picking something off the floor and Harper laughing hysterically leaning against one of the tables.
"Sorry. Sorry, it was only me. You told me to investigate so I started looking through these cupboards and all these fell out on me."
I bent down to take a look at them, and Rose said, "Oh my, they're rats. Dozens of rats. Vacuum-packed rats!"
I stood up and looked at Mickey, "And you decided to scream?" I asked mockingly.
"It took me by surprise."
"Like a little girl," I kept on making fun of him.
"It was dark! I was covered in rats!"
"Nine, maybe ten years old. I'm seeing pigtails, frilly skirt." Harper started laughing again and I made the comment, "Harper didn't scream. Hold on… I told you to stay put and be the look out."
She immediately stopped laughing and looked at me, she had a look that basic said 'she was sorry but not really.'
"Hello, can we focus?" Rose asked.
'We will talk about this later!' I told her.
"Does anyone notice anything strange about this? Rats in school."
"Well, obviously they use them in biology lessons," Sarah Jane answered Rose. "They dissect them. Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?"
Rose was mad I could tell, "Excuse me, no one dissects rats in school anymore. They haven't done that in years. Where are you from, the Dark ages?" Rose said to Sarah Jane.
'Did she really just say that or is my hearing still bad?' Harper asked me, but instead of answering I said, "Anyway, moving on. Everything started when Mr. Finch arrived. We should go and check his office."
I threw the rat I was holding at Mickey and grabbed Harper's hand pulling her from the room, but Rose and Sarah Jane soon got in front of us. "I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose asked.
"Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor."
"Oh, he's never mentioned ya," Rose said not looking back.
I heard Harper laughing lightly beside me and I said, "Oh, I must have done! Sarah Jane! Mention her all the time."
"Hold on…" Rose pretended to think about it, "sorry… never."
"What, not even once? He didn't mention me even once?" Sarah Jane asked as her and Rose walked ahead of us.
"Oh, mate! The missus's and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nightmare. Good thing Harper is not involved, then you would have the missus's, ex, and wife," Mickey said with a laugh. I stopped walking when he said this.
"Mickey!" Harper said before punching him lightly on the shoulder. He just laughed and put his arm around her shoulder, both of them following Rose and Sarah Jane. For some reason, and I am not sure why, but I was incredibly mad at Mickey right this moment.
"Maybe those rats were food," Harper said as I soniced the door.
"Food for what?" Rose asked.
I opened the door to Finch's office looking inside, "Rose, you know how you used to think all the teachers slept in the school? Well, they do." All four of them looked into the office and up to the ceiling.
"No way!" Mickey said before running for the room.
Rose and Mickey ran all the way out while Harper, Sarah Jane and I walked quickly behind them.
"I am not going back in there. No way!" Mickey said once we were all outside.
Rose, still trying to caught her breath, asked, "Those were the teachers?"
"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies, and a nurse, thirteen. Thirteen big bat people. Come on." I said turning to go back in.
"You've got to be kidding," Mickey said.
"I need the TARDIS. I've got to analyze that oil from the kitchen."
"Yeah, come on Mickey. Be brave," Harper said. She started to go back in but I grabbed a hold of her arm.
"No, you stay here."
"Why?"
"Because I said so," we were having a stare off which probably would have kept going on if Sarah Jane had not said, "I might be able to help you there. I've got something to show you."
We all walked to Sarah Jane's car where she opened the boot of it. "K9!" I said happily.
"Aww, he's so cute!" Harper squealed, kneeling down to get closer.
"Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Harper, allow me to introduce K9. Well, K9 Mark 3 to be precise."
"Why does he look so… disco?" Rose asked.
"Oi, Listen, in the year 5,000 this was cutting edge," I defended K9. "What happened to him?"
I turned to Sarah Jane and she said, "One day, just… nothing."
"Well, didn't you try and get him repaired?" I asked.
"It's not like she could have gone to the store and got parts," Harper said.
"She's right. Beside, the technology inside him could rewrite human science. I couldn't show him to anyone!"
"Ooh, what's the nasty lady done to you, eh?" I said to K9.
"Look, no offense but could you three just stop petting for a minute?" Rose sounded put out. "Never mind the tin dog, we're busy!"
Rose, Mickey, and Sarah Jane all got in the car. Harper and I both petted K9 one more time before joining them.
Sarah Jane's POV
Rose, Mickey, the Doctor, and I were all in a small shop. Harper had chosen to stay outside, wanting some quiet for a bit.
The Doctor was working on K9 when I said, "I thought of you on Christmas Day, this Christmas just gone. Great big space ship overhead, I thought, 'Oh, yeah! Bet he's up there'."
"Right on top of it, yeah," he answered.
"And Rose?"
"She was there, too."
"What about Harper?" I saw his eye leave K9 and go to the young girl outside. He smiled every so slightly and said, "Yeah, her too."
"I am going to take a guess and say you to aren't really married," I said with a smile.
He gave a small laugh, "No, that was all just an act. We're just really good friends."
'But you do love her,' I thought after watching them together.
We grew silent as he worked, but there was a question burning in my mind and I had to ask, "Did I do something wrong? Cause you never came back for me. You just… dumped me."
He stopped working, "I told you, I was called back home and in those days humans weren't allowed."
"I waited for you. I missed you." He started working again.
"Oh, you didn't need me. You were getting on with your life."
"You were my life," this made him stop once more. "You know what the most difficult thing was? Coping with what happens next, or with what doesn't happen next. You took me to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, you showed me supernovas, intergalactic battles, and then you just dropped me back on Earth. How could anything compare to that?"
"All those things you saw, you want me to apologize for that?" He asked, getting a little angry.
"No, but… we get a taste of that splendor and then we have to go back."
"But look at you, you're investigation. You found that school. You're doing what we always did."
"You could've come back."
"I couldn't," he said with a sad look.
"Why not?" We both just sat there for a second, but then he went back to working. I knew he wasn't going to give me an answer so I said, "It wasn't Croydon. Where you dropped me off, it wasn't Croydon."
"Where was it?"
"Aberdeen," I said with fake angry.
"Right," he looked a little surprised. "That's next to Croydon, isn't it?" He asked. I shook my head no while he gave me a big smile.
Right then K9 made a noise and the Doctor said, "Oh, hey! Now we're in business!"
He stood up in front of K9, "Master."
"He recognizes me!" The Doctor said happily.
"Affirmative," K9 said.
"Rose, give me the oil." Rose and Mickey came over to us and the Doctor took the oil from Rose. He opened the jar and was about to put his finger in the oil but Rose stopped him.
"I wouldn't touch it, though, that dinner lady got all scorched."
"I'm no dinner lady," he said before stopping once again, "and I don't often say that."
The Doctor dipped his finger into the oil and put it on a sensor on K9. "Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go."
"Oil, ex-ex-ex-extract, ana-an-analying."
"Listen to it, man!" Mickey said laughing, "That's a voice!"
"Careful! That's my dog," I warned him.
"Conformation of analysis. Substance is krillitane Oil," K9 said.
"They're Krillitanes," The Doctor said.
"Is that bad?" Rose asked.
"Very. Think how bad things could possibly be and add another suitcase full of bad."
I had to ask, "and what are… Krillitanes?"
"They're a composite race. Just like your culture is a mixture of traditions from all sorts of countries- people you've invaded or have been invaded by. You've got bits– bits of Viking, bits of France, bits of whatever. The Krillitanes are the same. An amalgam of the races they've conquered. But they take physical aspects as well. They cherry-pick the best bits from the people they destroy. That's why I didn't recognize them. The last time I saw Krillitanes, they looked just like us except they had really long necks."
"What they doing here?" Rose asked.
"It's the children. They're doing something to the children."
The Doctor's POV
Mickey and Sarah Jane had taken K9 back to the car. I followed shortly after, but wanted to check on Harper first. She was reading a book, where she got the book I don't know, but she has been acting off today. Before I could make my way to her I heard Rose said, "How many of us have there been, traveling with you?" She sounded quite angry.
"Does it matter?"
"Yeah it does… if I'm just the latest in a long line."
"As opposed to what?" I asked a little flustered. I turned around to look at her.
"I thought you and me were… I obviously got it wrong. I've been to the year 5 billion right, but this, this is really seeing the future. You just leave us behind," she accused. "It that what your going to do to me?"
"No, not to you."
"But Sarah Jane, you were that close to her once, and you never even mentioned her. Why not?"
I felt bad for Rose, she just didn't understand. "I don't age. I regenerate, but humans decay. You wither and you die." I looked over to Harper who was still reading her book. "Imagine watching that happen to someone who you…"
"You what, Doctor?"
I looked back at Rose, "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords."
Right after I said that, were heard a screech. I turned and saw a Krillitane coming right at us. We all ducked down, but it did nothing but fly at us and leave.
"What that a Krillitane?" Sarah Jane asked.
"But it didn't even touch us, it just flew off! What did it do that for?"
Harper's POV
We were trying to get some rest before the next day. I really needed to talk to someone right now and there was only one person who would understand, Mickey. I found him rather quickly and sat down beside him.
"Hey, Harper. What's up? I thought you would be with the Doctor."
"I just need to talk… you know how I said it was a one way street with Rose and the Doctor?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I heard them talking when we were leaving the shop and… and… oh Mickey I think he's in love with her." I started to cry and leaned against him.
"I… uh… man I'm sorry Harper." He wrapped his arm around me in comfort.
We sat there like that for quit some time, neither needing nor wanting to say anything.
I finally stopped crying and pulled away. "I'm sorry, I did not mean to start crying."
"That's okay, what are big brother for?"
I laughed at him, "So you're my big brother now, uh?"
"Well, someone's going to have to watch out for you. And if the Doctor's to stupid to do anything then I've got to step up."
I smiled at him. How had he done that, make me happy again? "Thanks, Mickey. You're the best!"
The very next day, we all arrived at the school in Sarah Jane's car. I felt like we were being a little dramatic all of us getting out of the car and walking in a line. But knowing the Doctor, this was to be expected.
"Harper…"
I stopped him from saying anything else by thinking, 'don't you dare say anything about being look out or going to the TARDIS. Because if you do, so help me you will not walk for a week!'
I saw the Doctor pause for just a second. " Go with Rose and Sarah. You three go to the Maths room. Crack open those computers. I need to see the hardware inside. Here, you might need this." The Doctor got out his sonic screwdriver and handed it to Sarah Jane, much to annoyance of Rose.
"Mickey, surveillance. I want you out side."
"Just stand outside?" Mickey asked. he had stopped walking.
"Here, take these. You can keep K9 company," Sarah Jane threw Mickey her keys.
"Don't forget to leave the window open a crack," The Doctor said.
"But he's medal," Mickey yelled back.
"I didn't mean for him."
"What are you going to do?" Rose asked the Doctor.
"It's time I had a word with Mr. Finch."
Sarah Jane was trying to get the sonic screwdriver to work with no luck. "It's not working."
"Give it to me," Rose, sounding very put out, took it from her hands.
"Used to work first time in my day," Sarah Jane said.
I smile at her was about to say something when Rose mumbled, "well, things were a lot simpler back then."
"Rose," I scolded her. I can't believe she is acting this way.
"Rose, can I give you a bit of advice?"
"I've got a felling your about too."
"I know how intense a relationship with the Doctor can be, and I don't want you to feel I'm intruding…"
"I don't fell threatened by you, if that's what you mean." I rolled my eyes at Rose, she so felt threatened by Sarah Jane.
"Right, good. Because I'm not interested in picking up where we left off."
"No? With the big sad eyes and the robot dog? What else were you doing last night?"
"Rose, she was helping." I said trying to calm her down, but I got two very different looks. Sarah Jane gave me a look of thanks, while Rose gave me a look that said 'but out'.
"I was just saying how hard it was adjusting to life back on Earth."
"The thing is when you two met they had only just got rid of rationing. No wonder all that space stuff was just a little to much for ya."
"I have no problem with space stuff!" Sarah Jane jumped up very mad at Rose now. "I saw things you wouldn't believe."
"Try me," Rose challenged.
"Guy lets not fight!" I tried to stop them.
"Mummies," Sarah Jane said not listening to me.
"I've met ghosts."
"Robots. Lots of robots."
"Slitheen, in Downing Street."
"Daleks!"
"Met the Emperor," Rose said unimpressed with Sarah Jane.
"Anti-matter monsters."
"Gas-masked zombies," I shivered when Rose mentioned this. I had not thought of the gas-masked people in a long time.
"Real living dinosaurs."
"Real living werewolf."
"THE LOCH NESS MONSTER!" Sarah Jane shouted making Rose and I stop.
"Seriously?" Rose asked, while I said, "Oh, I want to meet Nessie!"
Sarah Jane suddenly looked ashamed while Rose laughed out of embarrassment.
"Listen to us." Rose said calmly, "It's like me and my mate Shireen. The only time we fell out was over a man, and we're arguing over the Doctor."
I laughed at them saying, "It was pretty amusing to watch."
They both laughed at me. We were silent for a minute or two when Rose asked, "With you did he do that thing where he'd explain something at like, ninety miles per hour, and you'd go 'what?' and he'd look at you like you'd just dribbled on your shirt?"
"Oh, that makes my head hurt when he does that!" I said and Sarah Jane laughed and said, "All the time! Does he still stroke bits of the TARDIS?"
Rose and I busted out laughing. "Yes, oh my word, he does it all the time!" I said still laughing. "I'm like, do you two want to be alone?" Rose said causing us to laugh even harder.
All three of us were laughing when the Doctor walked in asking, "How's it going?"
We found this hilarious and busted out laughing once again. We just could not help are selves. "What? Listen, I need to find out what's programmed inside these?" We just kept laughing at him. "What?" I felt like it was one of those times where it really wasn't funny anymore, but you couldn't stop laughing. "Stop it!" The Doctor said with a frown. I fell to the ground because I was laughing to hard to stand anymore, but this cause Sarah Jane and Rose to lose any control there were getting back and bust out laughing at me.
'Harper? You okay? What's going on?' the Doctor asked, but I could not stop laughing to answer him.
The Doctor's POV
Once the girls had calmed back down I started to work on the computers.
"All pupils to class immediately. And would all members of staff congregate in the staff room." We heard announced over the intercom.
"Well that can't be good," Harper mumbled.
"No, no. This classroom's out of bounds." Rose told the students that were trying to enter. "You've all got to go to the South Hall. Off you go. South Hall."
She came back in coming over to us watching as I tried to open the computer. "I can't shift it." I was getting frustrated.
"I thought the sonic screwdriver could open anything!" Sarah Jane said.
"Anything but deadlock seals and wood," Harper said.
I never looked up letting Harper talk, but then said, "There's got to be something inside here. What're they teaching those kids?"
Sarah Jane, Rose and Harper were all looking at computers when a strange program came up on each screen and one big screen at the front of the classroom. "You wanted the program, there it is," Sarah Jane said. I looked up and stared at the screen trying to figure it out.
"Some sort of code," I said to myself more than the girls. "No, no! That can't be," I was horrified. "The Skasis Paradigm. They're trying to crack the Skasis Paradigm."
"The Skasis what?" Sarah Jane asked.
"The god maker. The universal theory. Crack that equation, and you've got control of the building blocks of the universe. Time and space and matter, yours to control."
"What and the kids are like a giant computer?" Rose asked.
"Yes, and their learning power is being accelerated by the oil." I started walking around. "That oil from the kitchens, it works as a, as a conducting agent. Makes the kids cleverer."
Rose looked freaked out, "but that oil's on the chips. I've been eating them."
"What's fifty nine times thirty five?" I asked her and she answered immediately, "two thousand and sixty five." I gave her a look and it hit her, "oh my."
"But why children?" Sarah Jane asked, "Can't they use adults?"
"No," Harper said. "It's got to be children."
"Harper is right. The god maker needs imagination to crack it. They're not just using the children's brains to break the code. They're using their souls," I said very seriously.
"Let the lesson begin," Mr. Finch said walking into the room. "Think of it, Doctor. With the Paradigm solved, reality becomes clay in our hands. We can shape the universe and improve it."
"Oh yeah? The whole of creation with the face of Mr. Finch? Call me old fashioned, but I like things as they are," I said sarcastically.
"You act like such a radical, and yet all you want to do is preserve the old order?" Mr. Finch continued to get closer to me. "Think of the changes that could be made if this power was used for good."
"What," I scoffed. "By someone like you?"
"No, someone like you," Mr. Finch smiled and it made my stomach turn just at the sight of it. "That Paradigm gives us power, but you could give us wisdom. Become a god at my side. Imagine what you could do. Think of the civilizations you could save. Perganon, Assinta, your own people, Doctor, standing tall. The Time Lords reborn."
"Doctor, don't listen to him," Sarah Jane. Mr. Finch walked over to the girls, "and you could be with him throughout eternity. Young, fresh, never wither, never age, never die."
"Trust me when I say this, but its way over rated," Harper said sounding done with Mr. Finch.
"Now you are something new. You look so young, but your eyes tell your true age. Umm… interesting." He ran his finger down her cheek, I nearly lost it there, before turning back to me, "Their lives are so fleeting. So many goodbyes. How lonely you must be, Doctor." I kept face was emotionless, "join us."
"I could save everyone," I said softly.
"Yes," Mr. Finch whispered back to me.
"I could stop the war," I said. 'Doctor? Think?' My eyes flickered over to Harper for just a second. I couldn't let her down, but…
"No!" Sarah Jane said, "The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship, everything has its time. And everything ends."
This was the final straw to break me out of my trance and I was livid. I ran forward grabbing a chair and through it at the screen in the front of the class braking it and stopping the program. "Out!' I yelled. We all ran for it.
We ran into a student named Kenny and Mickey, "What is going on?"
We saw four Krillitanes came flying down the hall. I grabbed Harper's hand and we all ran once again. We were going as fast as we could down the hallway and went into the cafeteria. I let go of her hand as I and Rose went to the door, but they were locked.
I did not have enough time to sonic them open as the Krillitanes and Mr. Finch came into the room.
"Are they my teachers?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah. I'm sorry," I said.
"Leave the Doctor alive. As for the others… you can feast," Mr. Finch said. Since I did not have to worry about the Krillitanes coming after me, I grabbed a chair to start fighting them off. I had to protect my girls.
Rose, Sarah Jane, Mickey, Kenny, and Harper were all ducked down attempting to stay away from them.
The next thing I knew, one of the Krillitanes was shot down. "K9!" Sarah Jane shouted and I looked over to my ever-loyal dog.
"Suggest you engage running mode, mistress."
"Come on!" I threw the chair we ran for it.
"Good dog," Harper said as she went by K9 and I yelled, "K9, hold them back."
"Affirmative, master, mistress. Maximum defense mode!"
We ran into the physics classroom and I soniced the door shut. "It's the oil. Krillitane life forms can't handle the oil. That's it! They've changed their physiology so often, even their own oil is toxic to them," I said rather fast. "How much was there in the kitchens?"
"Barrels of it," Rose said.
The Krillitanes started to try to get in. They were clawing at the door.
"So, we need to get to the kitchens," Harper said hopping up from her sit.
"Mickey…" I said turning to the young man.
"What now? Hold the coats?" He asked sarcastically.
"Get all the children unplugged and out of the school," I told him.
'You really need to be nicer to Mickey,' Harper told me.
'There's a time and a place,' I thought but for mumbling, "Now then bats, bats, bats, bats, how do we fight bats?"
Kenny set off the fire alarms making me smile at his cleverness. We ran from the room to the kitchens. I heard a robotic, "Master," and said, "Come on boy! Good dog."
When we made it to the kitchens I started trying to open the barrels. "They've been deadlocked sealed. Finch must have done that. I can't open them."
"The vats would not withstand a direct hit with my laser. But my batteries are failing," K9 said.
"Right, everyone out the back door. K9, stay with me."
"But…"
"No Harper, this time listen to me. And I mean it." She gave K9 a sad look and said, "You're a good dog, K9." Then she followed Sarah Jane, Kenny, and Rose out the back door.
Harper's POV
Rose, Mickey and I were getting the kids away from the school when Sarah Jane and the Doctor come running over to us. The school blew up not minutes later.
All the kids cheered and one girl shout, "Kenny blew up the school. It was Kenny!" The kids now were cheering for Kenny.
I looked over to Sarah Jane and the Doctor and saw how Sarah Jane looked like she was about to cry. I felt bad for her, losing her dog and all.
We did not hang around long after that, wanting to get out of there before anyone started asking questions. So here we were back in the TARDIS. The Doctor had gone outside to greet Sarah Jane as Mickey, Rose, and I were all talking about the latest adventure.
"You've redecorated," Sarah Jane said as she walked around the TARDIS. I had to smile seeing her look around. She looked happy to be here.
"Do you like it?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh, I, I do. Yeah. I preferred it as it was, but… uh… yeah… it'll do."
"I love it," Rose said make Sarah Jane look over to her, "hey you, what's 42 times 364?"
"No idea," Rose said proudly. "It's gone now. The oil's faded."
"But you're still clever. More than a match for him," Sarah Jane said nodding her head over to the Doctor.
"You, me, and Harper," I smiled at her. "Doctor?" Rose asked.
"Um, we're about to head off, but you could come with us," he offered smiling like a kid on Christmas.
Sarah Jane let out a sighed, "I can't do this anymore." The Doctor's smile fell. "Besides, I've got a much bigger adventure ahead. Time I stopped waiting for you and found a life of my own."
"Can I come?" Mickey asked. I wiped my head around to look at him in surprise and happiness. "Not with you," He quickly told Sarah Jane. "I mean with you. 'Cause I'm not the tin dog and I want to see what's out there."
I was bouncing on the balls of my feet waiting for the Doctor to answer him.
'Please, oh please, let him come aboard.' Ignoring Rose as she tried to get the Doctor to say no.
"Oh, go on, Doctor. Sarah Jane Smith, a Mickey Smith, you need a Smith on board," Sarah Jane said.
"Okay then. I could do with a laugh."
"Yes!" I cheered. "Welcome aboard me matey!" I said in my best pirate voice.
Mickey and the Doctor laughed at me. Mickey turned to Rose and asked, "Rose, is that okay?"
"No, great. Why not?" She did not sound to happy about it, but I did not care. My best friend was going to start traveling with us.
"Well, I better go?" Sarah Jane said. She took Rose aside to talk to her and then came over to me.
"I was wonderful to meet you Sarah Jane."
"And you too, Harper. I just got to say, be careful."
"What? Why?"
"Loving the Doctor is not easy, but having him love you back. That can be dangerous."
"I think you've got it all wrong. Yes I love him, but… he loves someone else." I looked over to Rose.
"I am not so sure about that. If you're every in town, look me up."
"Will do. Bye!" I gave her a quick hug.
The Doctor walked Sarah Jane outside and I turned to Mickey.
"Mickey you're going to love it! There is so much to see. Right Rose?"
"Yeah, right."
I decided I would not let her bad attitude get to me. I was going to enjoy my time I had with Mickey.
Well, what do you think? Poor Harper has a broken heart for no reason! Mickey to the rescue! He doesn't get enough love. Also I need to say, the answers to Harper's music question were all straight from goggle! I don't know much about music so I needed a little help ;) Enjoy my fellow Whovians!
