"Yeah, yeah it's ok. He's just having a bit of a breakdown River." Sadie sighed. "How are you even calling us from prison?"
"TARDIS re routed it for me, clever girl."
"I still don't know why he came to us of all people."
"You were her best friends."
"Yeah but you were her family."
"I'm in prison on a different planet, The Doctor could be anywhere in the universe, how would he get there? We didn't raise her, you guys knew her better than anyone. Anyway I'm just on my way to see Sarah-Jane, The Doctor's meeting me there then were gonna give Luke a lift to uni."
"But what about SJ?" She hissed.
"Were gonna take turns with her. She'll be at Bannerman Road, then with me and The Doctor when I'm not in prison, Martha and Mickey have agreed to take her once in a while, my parents and even Jack on a rare ocassion when Gwen's around. And you guys are welcome to take her too if it's not too much with Harley aswell. It's just until Luke's able to get back to normal."
"Well, of course we'll take her when we can, we'll be more than happy. It's what she would have wanted." She said baffled.
...
"Thanks Martha." The Doctor whispered into her hair whilst hugging her.
"It's ok." She smiled weakly at him. "Luke's obviously not coping."
"I don't think any of us are really, but we've had practice of dealing with heartbreak, and he hasn't." He said, passing Martha SJ in a moses basket. "We'll be back later." He sighed, getting into the TARDIS and materializing off. Martha grabbed the bag she had been given and slung it on her shoulder before turning round, heading into the hub. She put the bag on the sofa before putting SJ on her desk, watching her sleep as she sighed to herself.
"She looks so peaceful." Gwen sighed as her and Jack appeared behind her. "Poor child. Them lot seem to go through so much."
"That's why we all leave in the end, whether we like it or not." Jack said. "We all grow up and leave The TARDIS. Some have no choice."
"Me and Jack managed to get out before it was too late. Only one's that had the balls I think. Not that I regret one second of being there."
"Neither." Jack mumbled.
"What exactly happened to Mai?" Gwen asked.
"Timey-Wimey." Jack and Martha said before she had a chance to finish.
"Right." She said in confusion.
...
"It'll be ok Luke, you'll get through this." Clyde said, squeezing Rani's hand, as the other's stood further behind by The TARDIS.
"She's dead." He spat. "What's the point? She's gone and I have nothing left."
"You have a daughter at home to think about Luke!" Rani snapped. "I know just a few days ago we were all happy getting up in the morning, having a cuppa and looking at alien stuff before snuggling down to bed, but that's gone now! Your a father now, and Mai is gone. And because you refuse to even begin to accept it, the rest of us can't grieve. She was our friend too, remember?"
"I just need some time." He sighed, turning and walking through the doors and into the dorms, leaving them.
"He's still not good." Clyde said, as they got back into The TARDIS.
"He isn't gonna be for a while." Sarah-Jane sighed.
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13 Bannerman Road;
"STUFF'S HERE!" Clyde shouted up the stairs as he carried the boxes up, putting the boxes in the attic as Sarah-Jane came through, passing SJ to Sky the next morning. "Rani's coming later, having a lie in." He said, ripping open the boxes.
"Right, cot." Sarah-Jane said, rolling up her sleeves and pulling out pieces, trying to work out how to put it together. "Oop!" She said, picking up a piece of paper that fell out from the instructions. "What's this then?" She muttered, turning it over. "Every girl must learn to fight." She repeated, before looking at the back reading: to a attic in Ealing.
"Every girl must learn to fight?" Clyde asked, frowing and snatched it from out of her hand. "Nutter." He said, putting it on the side as they went back to building the cot.
StormCage Prison Facility, Cell 246;
"Thank you Angelo love." River sighed, taking the letter from him, freezing as she saw the name scribbled on the front. It said Cell 246 but underneath, there was writing in a perception filter, only River would be able to see. Melody Pond. She knew, what ever this was, it couldn't be good. She ripped open the letter, reading the carefully written words.
We all learned how to fight.
She stared back at the words in confusion before sighing and opening up her diary, seeing if she could find anything that could explain.
Leadworth;
"Do you think that The Doctor could sort some of teleport thing out for us so we could go see River?" Rory asked, crashing onto the sofa as Amy walked in with the post.
"Maybe." She muttered, freezing and looking a envelope with 'to the girl who waited and the last centurion' written on it. "Rory." She whispered, sitting down next to him and passing him it, as he opened it. "What does it say?"
We all had to fight, every single one of us.
He stared down, frowning before showing Amy.
College;
"Bloody computer!" Charlie muttered, whacking the screen.
"What's up?" Sadie asked, bouncing Harley up and down.
"My course work, it's all gone!"
"How can it be gone?" She asked, leaning forward.
"Well all the writing is gone, all my notes, dissapeared!"
"How?"
"I don't know, but now all it says is this."
But we all have to fight some day don't we? So please, call them back. Get them. Find them again.
Oxford University;
"What?" Luke sighed, swinging the door open and staring at a drunk student, he barely knew. "Barney is it?"
"Luke mate!" He grinned, placing his hand on the door frame. "I wanted to ask you something."
"Yeah?" He muttered.
"That girl you had a bust up with at Lis' party last week, the one who ran off."
"What about her?" He snapped sourly.
"Can I have her number? She was fit." He slurred.
"Fuck off Barney!" He shouted.
"Sorry mate, but she was obviously not that into you, thought I'd have a crack."
"DON'T TALK ABOUT HER LIKE THAT YOU-" He froze, looking at a blue envelope in his hand. "What's that?" He asked.
"Oh yeah, it came for you." Barney mumbled, Luke snatching it out of his hand and slamming the door on him. He sat down on the bed, carefully opening the letter and reading it.
Find The Oncoming Storm.
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