Once the door had closed, the Doctor pulled on a lever, sending the Tardis into the vortex. We had both decided to rest for a bit, recover after the events that had passed. I'd gone to sit on the jump seat, my thoughts erratic but focused at the same time. I was thinking about Martha. I felt the Doctor's gaze on me, most likely wondering why I had blocked my thoughts. I ignored him and continued my thinking., even though I was slightly distracted. While she wasn't my companion, she had become a friend. Sure, the beginning was slightly turbulent, but I could understand why and after a bit of explaining, she had become dear to me. And while she was nothing like Rose, she added her own flair to the Tardis; no one could deny that.

As I came to the realisation, an alarm began to blare and the Tardis violently spun, throwing us to our feet. When things had calmed a bit, I stood and looked around for a moment before something... rather someone caught my eye. Hearing footsteps, I turned to the corridor and saw Kie running towards the console room. Before he had made it though, I had rushed to him and dragged him around the corner. Although he tried to protest, he soon stopped when I pointed out the fifth incarnation of his father. I couldn't help but smile as I saw that version of him. It had been so long since she'd seen that incarnation but it brought back so many fond memories... and some bad but nonetheless, it made her happy to see that incarnation again. He was quite dapper in his cricket attire, not that the others weren't in their desired attire. I couldn't help but smirk as I heard my husband speaking with the Tardis.

"Ah, stop it! What was all that about, eh? Eh? What's your problem?"

"Right, just settle down now." I had to stifle a giggle as the two bumped into each other. His fifth barely turned as he offered his apology. "So sorry." They quickly faced each other, neither moving as they seemed to examine the other.

"What?"

"What?"

"What!"

"Who are you?"

"Oh, brilliant. I mean, totally wrong. Bit emergency, universe goes bang in five minutes but, brilliant." While I wanted to say something to the- my idiot husband as he rambled on, I refused. I didn't know if our mental bond would cross over to his previous incarnation and then create a paradox. That would be terrible, and make things so much worse. I did however want for him to know that I was there, that I'd always be with him. However, the time had not yet come for my reveal.

"I'm the Doctor. Who are you?"

"Yes, you are. You are the Doctor."

"Yes, I am. I'm the Doctor." I turned to see Kie face palm, embarrassed by his father's stupidity. I myself gave a small sigh but I was also aware that there was some happiness in seeing his younger self, no matter how grumpy he was. .

"Oh, good for you, Doctor. Good for brilliant old you."

"Is there something wrong with you?" In our little corner, Kie and I shared a glance, and shortly nodded, even though we both knew neither man could see us. It did nothing to stop us though. We each knew there were some quirks that caused others found odd and unnerving. It was part of his charm; it made him all the more lovable. His fifth incarnation, however frowned, not at all amused with his successor's shenanigans.

"Oh, there it goes, the frowny face. I remember that one." He placed his hands over his previous incarnation's cheeks, moving them up and down. "Mind you, bit saggier than I ought to be. Hair's a bit greyer. That's because of me, though." When the Doctor pulled his hand away from his hair and worked the console, his poor fifth incarnation immediately brought his hands to his face, trying to assess what his successor had said. "The two of us together has shorted out the time differential. Should all snap back in place when we get you home. Be able to close that coat again." I rolled my eyes at the obvious insult. I doubted he even knew that'd left his mouth. "But never mind that. Look at you! The coat, the crickety cricket stuff… the stick of celery. Yeah. Brave choice, celery, but fair play to you. Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable."

"Shut up!" He snatched his hat from his head. "There is something very wrong with my Tardis, and I've got to do something about it very, very quickly, and it would help, it really would help if there wasn't some skinny idiot ranting in my face about every single think that happens to be in front of him!" With that, I lost the little control I had and barked out a laugh as the Doctor sheepishly apologised to himself. Kie shot me a glance and chook his head, knowing I had just given myself away. "Who's there?"

Since I could no longer hide, I mouthed for Kie to stay put before I pulled on my bracelet. While it could no longer carried my essence, the perception filter was fully functional and would be enough to make the man believe I was human. Putting up my blocks as an extra precaution, I stepped out of my hiding spot, a sheepish smile on my lips. "Hello. Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. It's just, there hasn't really been anyone to tell him off like that… well besides me."

"And you are?"

"Marion Smith. It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor. This idiot's told me all about you. You're amazing. Ignore what he said, like the suit. You pull off a decorative vegetable just fine."

"Thank you." His fifth incarnation gave me a small smile and turned to the console.

As he did that, the Doctor playfully pushed me, and I quickly returned the assault and gave him a "glare of death" as Martha called it. Instead of being intimidated, which he never really was, he placed a quick kiss atop my head. In doing that, I glanced up and pointed up to the back of his fifth self's head, seeing the bald patch he was sporting. I watched as he immediately sobered up, chuckling as he did. "Oh, the back of my head."

"What?"

"Sorry, sorry. It's not something you see every day, is it, the back of your own head. Mind you, I can see why you wear a hat." I rolled my eyes. "I don't want to seem vain, but could you keep that on?" I slapped the bumbling idiot on this stomach for being rude. I was pretty sure his fifth incarnation took some offence and seemed glad I had struck him.

"What have you done to my Tardis?" He looked around. "You've changed the desktop theme, haven't you? What's this one, coral?"

"Well…"

"It's worse than the leopard skin."

"Leopard skin?" I questioned as the Fifth Doctor put on his half-moon spectacles.

"Oh, and out they come, the brainy specs. You don't even need them. You just think they make you look a bit clever."

"Still does," I muttered before another alarm went off. I glanced around, knowing my idiot had just been stalling. Unfortunately, his predecessor did not. "That's an alert." Thanks Captain Obvious. "Level five, indicating a temporal collision. It like two Tardises have merged, but there's definitely only one Tardis present." My Doctor walked around the console leaning on it as he watched himself. "It's like two time zones or more at the heart of the Tardis. That's a paradox that could blow a hole in the space time continuum the size of. Well, actually, the exact size of…" The Doctor pushed the monitor to his fifth self. "…Belgium. That's a bit undramatic, isn't it? Belgium?"

"Need this?" the Doctor asked as he offered up his sonic, trying to give the man an oblivious clue.

As usual, and as he'd always been, the previous incarnation was oblivious. "No, I'm fine."

"Oh no, of course, you liked to go hands free, didn't you? Like hey, 'I'm the Doctor. I can save the universe using a kettle and some string. And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable'." I rolled my eyes at the skinny idiot beside me.

"Who are you?"

"Take a look?"

"Oh. Oh no," the man sighed in horror.

"Oh yes."

"You're… oh no."

"Here it comes." Ten said excitedly. "Yeah, I am."

"A fan."

"Yeah," the Doctor immediately said before he finally realised what his fifth incarnation had said. "What?"

"This is bad. Two minutes to Belgium."

"What do you mean, a fan? I'm not just a fan, I'm you!" I slightly glanced back to see Kie face palm again from the corner as I clutched my stomach, trying to keep myself from falling over in laughter. This was hilarious. If only there could be a time when all his incarnations got together. Then again. that would be more of a headache than fun, especially with their egos. I'd probably end up locking myself and Kie away in fear for their safety.

"Wow, this is rich. I should record this for future companions. They'd love to see it." Ten nudged me, not at all appreciating my input. It was true though, hell, I was even thinking of calling up Martha and Jack to tell them about the encounter. I was sure they'd have a right laugh.

"Okay, you're my biggest fan. Look, it's perfectly understandable. I go zooming around space and time, saving planets, fighting monsters and being well, let's be honest, pretty sort of marvellous, so naturally now and then people notice me. Start up their little groups. That LINDA lot. Are you one of them? How did you get in here? Can't have you lot knowing where I live."

"Wow, I can honestly say that I'm glad your ego has deflated a bit. This would have been unmanageable. Trust me, you would have been tied to a post somewhere," I managed to get out, jabbing a finger into my Doctor's middle. He swatted my had away, annoyed with how the conversation had gone. "Wait, is LINDA your fan club? Oh my gosh, you have a fan club!" Before I could say anything else, the skinny one covered my mouth with his hand.

"Listen to me. I'm you, I'm you. I'm you with a new face. Check out this bone structure, Doctor, because one day you're going to be shaving it." The cloister bell tolled.

"The cloister bell!"

"Yeah, right on time. That's my cue." Soon, the both of them are throwing control levers as I watched, highly amused. No matter what incarnation it was, the Doctors always had most of his original traits. It was one thing I loved most about his regenerations. They were never too far off from the man I'd fallen in love with.

"In a minute we're going to create a black hole strong enough to swallow the entire universe!"

"Yeah, that's my fault, actually. I was rebuilding the Tardis, forgot to put the shields back up. Your Tardis and my Tardis, well the same Tardis at different points in its own time stream collided and whoo, there you go, end of the universe, butterfingers. But don't worry, I know exactly how this all works out. Watch." Ten began to make his way around the controls. "Venting the thermobuffer, drawing the Helmic regulator, and just to finish off, let's fry those Zeiton crystals."

"You'll blow up the Tardis."

"No, I won't. I haven't."

"Who told you that?"

"You told me that," the Doctor said as he took my hand, a moment before the room whited out, only for it to fade.

"Supernova and black hole at the exact same instant."

"They cancel each other out."

"Pressure remains constant."

"It's brilliant."

"Far too brilliant. I've never met anyone else who could fly the Tardis like that."

"Sorry, mate, you still haven't." I slapped the Doctor again for that comment. The man knew damn well I could fly the Tardis better than him, even with my absence. Hell, I'd passed the exam. I glanced up to see the Fifth Doctor suspiciously glancing between us. "I mean, won't, not for a very long while."

"You didn't have time to work all that out. Even I couldn't do it."

"I didn't work it out. I didn't have to."

Realisation dawned upon the young Time Lord. "You remembered."

"Because you will remember."

"You remembered being me watching you doing that. You already knew what to do because… I saw you do it."

"Wibbly wobbly-"

"Not this again," I muttered. Unfortunately it fell on deaf ears.

"Timey wimey!" The Doctor moved to give himself a high five but was ultimately left hanging. His fifth incarnation just stared at him, unamused. "Right, Tardises are separating. Sorry, Doctor, time's up. Back to long ago. Where are you now? Nyssa and Tegan? Cybermen and Mara and Time Lords in funny hats and the Master? Oh, he just showed up again. Same as ever."

"Oh no, really? Does he still have that rubbish beard?"

"No, no beard this time. Well, a wife."

His fifth self began to fade. "Oh. I seem to be off. What can I say? Thank you, Doctor."

"Thank you."

"I'm very welcome." As the Fifth Doctor vanished, the Doctor flipped a few switches and brought him back, the younger man's hat in his hands.

"You know, I love being you. Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you. It was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted. I still do that, the voice thing. I got that from you." His predecessor put on his hat, and we both watched as the current Doctor placed his foot on the dash. "Oh, and the trainers, and…" he put his specs on, "snap. Because you know what, Doctor? You were my Doctor."

Smiling, I walked up to him, placing a light kiss on his cheek. "It was a pleasure to see you again," I smiled before removing the bracelet. The expression on his fifth self's face said it all. The man was beaming. As I moved away, he gripped my hand and pulled me back to him, embracing my form. He kissed the top of my head before whispering something that brought tears to my eyes. Five then released his hold on me and I stepped back.

He tipped his hat, the smile never leaving his face. "To days to come."

"All my love to long ago." I smiled and reached onto my toes, and removed Ten's glasses, giving him a kiss on the cheek as his previous self vanished for the second and final time.

"Oh, Doctor, remember to put your shields up, and take care of our lovely Ame Soeur." As that was said, the Doctor pressed a button on the console and wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me to him. .

Kie joined us a moment later, desperately trying to keep his laughter controlled. Before I could say anything to him, there was the blast of a ship's horn and a prow crashed into the console room not a second later. The force of the collision sent the three of us to the floor, me hitting my head incredibly hard on the grated surface. Groaning, I sat up and scanned around the room, seeing the bow of a ship impaling our beloved Tardis. Clutching my head a bit, I glanced at Kie to see he was back on his feet and staring at the ship, same as his father when I finally found him, sitting on the floor a foot or so away from me. What?" the man asked in disbelief. "What!" He picked up a lifebelt and stared at it, before turning it to us where I could make out the word "Titanic" in bold block letters. "What?"

13/31/2015

Yay, so another chapter down. I LOVED writing this one because I am adore Five. There's just so much about him that's amazing and he can pull off a decorative veggie wonderfully. I have to say, I am so happy with the following this story has gotten. It literally makes my day to get alerts telling me about reviews, followers, and favourites. Honestly, while I am writing the story for me, seeing those alerts definitely make me want to update a lot more. I am soooooo very sorry it took weeks for me to update. I've been under so much stress lately that the only time I'm on my computer is when I have to do homework (5 papers a week all due on the same day 8 am Wednesday). Luckily though, I'm on spring break and have time to write. That being said, I'm going to try to update at least twice during this week. With that said, thanks so much for all the reviews, favourites, and follows. It means a lot that you guys have stayed with the story. Now, onto the reviews.

I'm-a-Klaus-addict: Ah, gotcha.

NicoleR85: So glad you enjoyed the chapter. Two more chapters before we hit one of our favourite gings.

Takara Matsudaria: Yep, he sure is. I will say that some things will change and some won't. It all depends on the episode. I really wanted to give them something else to fight for, if that makes sense and Kiel plays a major part in the rest of the story. I definitely got your PM and I will be replying in a bit. As I said before, I've been a bit stressed so sorry for not replying sooner.

Ronin Kenshin: Thanks. Glad you've enjoyed it so far.

PhoenixTheTimelady: Oh my gosh thanks so much. I'm so happy you enjoyed it. I had to do a quick double take when I saw your review because I had just started to read your fic The Universe Challenge. It's such a good story. But Her Secrets is now updated :)

margie-me: Yeah, Kiel does accuse the Doctor of being an ass but he also admits that he wasn't any better. As for his anger, I think if anyone were put in that situation it might have the same outcome. He just got both his parents back only for one to be kidnapped and for the most part tortured. He is angry, not only at the situation but at the Doctor as well. I personally don't think it was misdirected but that's just my opinion. And maybe he doesn't have all the facts but at the same time, when a person is angry, the facts don't matter. But I totally appreciate hearing your opinion and was by no means arguing if it comes off that way. Trust me, I love hearing your thoughts. But yeah, Kiel is their son and the Doctor was unaware of it during the last two (three) chapters. Kiel has his own perception filter so that helped a bit. The rest will be explained in later chapters.

tardiscompanion101: Glad you loved it and no worries. It took me forever to post this one. Donna is coming up in just a bit.