When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end.
But however hard you try, you can't run forever.
Everybody knows that everybody dies.
And nobody knows it like the Doctor.
But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.
"If I'm gonna die here, properly this time, just tell me." Mai said as she searched through the crates. Her Nanna sat behind her, waiting as Mai searched and searchd in the abandoned warehouse.
"Did it scare you?" She asked, ignoring Mai.
"Did what scare me?" She asked, pulling out the de-mat gun. "Here we are."
"You know what I mean. You watched it burn. Arcadia fell and you saw it, you couldn't run or not watch because you wern't really there."
"I know how he feels now. The pain and suffering. I thought he was just being stubborn and pompus, but now I understand the hurt of it. I'm gonna get out of here and be with my parents, where I should have been all this time. I shouldn't have been getting pregnant and running away."
"I thought you wanted SJ protected?"
"I do. And I don't regret having her but I should have been with Mum and Dad. And now look what's happened? It's just like what happened to my grandfather, dying and casually becoming a soldier again. But Rome wasn't time locked!" Mai muttered, looking at the gun.
"Your a time lord, it's not surpising you ended up here."
"Dad's time lord, Mum's human plus time lord, doesn't mean I am!"
"You have no faith in youself do you? That's why your father had Rose, Martha, Donna, Jack and your grandparents. They thought they were worthless, and he showed them they were brilliant. And so are you, you need that more than anything, you just didn't have the time for that to happen, everything was thrown on your shoulders and by the time you had fought Kovarian and you and your father gained each other's trust back, the worst happened. So I tell you what your gonna do." She said getting up and leading Mai to the open door, looking across the battlefield one again. "Your gonna get out of this, and your gonna go home and make up for all the adventures you never had with him."
"But what if he doesn't want these adventures, he thought I was dead." Mai asked, heaving up the gun in her arms.
"Your his daughter, like he'd dump you on earth."
"Wouldn't be a first." She muttered.
"He was upset. I looked, and I saw, he realised what a idiot he had been, he regretted everything he had done to you. So you get out of here, and you have the life you never had, 'cause life is short, especially with him."
"When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard you try, you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies. And nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it." She chuckled lightly. "My mother said that. Will say that." She sighed. "That's the burden of it, The Doctor told me everything about River before he found out who I was. Now I know how she dies, and I have to think about that every day."
"I know it's hard love but if we don't sort this out you might never see any of them again, you won't be able to say goodbye at Darillium."
"Like I could be there." Mai scoffed. "That's for them, for him to say goodbye to her. Not me. I couldn't be there."
"She's your mother."
"I know." She sighed. "And she left me for my own safety, and I love her for that. But I'm gonna be a bad mother. Amy and River, lost their babies because of war, and stayed away for their baby's safety. But me, I'm just abandoning her. Because I can't cope!" She spat, a single tear rolling down her face. "And I will stay away because I'm a coward, and one day, she'll hate me, because I left her. But that's what we do isn't it?" She looked up at her Nanna. "Us time lords. We run away and we abandon and we hurt them. Because we must."
"What matters now is you save your people Mai."
"Let's go then." She whispered, walking out. "And that's the building there yeah?" She said pointing at another abandoned warehouse a few metres away.
"He finds it in there after the explosion, and uses it with the moment, so be quick."
"And I get to go home? Or do I stay locked in here?"
"Take this..." She said, passing Mai a vortex minipulator from her pocket.
"I'll come back for you Nanna."
"I need to stay here, there's still a time in his past that I need to be there for. When he time locks it, there will be a brief second you can get out through, but some things may come through with you, that's why I sent for protection."
"Who's protection?"
"UNIT and Torchwood."
"Brilliant." She muttered. "Bye Nanna." She said, hugging her tightly before running across towards the battle field. She clutched the de-mat gun close to her chest, ready to run into the building and looked back for a second, noticing her Nanna had gone. She looked down at her watch. 10 seconds. She fell backwards as a flash of light appeared in front of her, Sky and Luke holding SJ appearing in front of them. "NO!" She screamed as the building exploded, the gun still in her hands and not in the wreckage.
"Mai." Luke whispered, cradling SJ as she cried. "Oh my god Mai!" He said as he started to cry. "I- we all thought you were dead!"
"No." Mai whispered, ignoring Luke and shaking her head at the building. "It exploded!" She snapped, looking back at them.
"Just in time too, we could have died!" Luke said, walking towards Mai to give her a hug. "I can't believe your alive!"
"Oh god no!" Mai fretted, pushing him away and over to the building as it burned.
"Mai! Where the hell are we? What's going on?" Luke snapped angrily.
"Time is about to be re-written, if I don't do this." She called back as she ran off, he had to be not far from here.
"MAI! IGNORE ME THAT'S FINE BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR DAUGHTER?"
"I'm sorry but this is important!" She stopped and looked back at him.
"What more important than SJ?"
"If I don't sort this, there will be no SJ! Because your mother will never have met The Doctor again when he was still 10, so she would have never found you! And you would have never found me, because The Doctor would have never met River, in fact, she wouldn't be River, she'd be normal human Melody Pond again. Infact she might not have existed, so if you don't mind Luke!" She growled, walking back down and snatching his wrist and typing in coordinates on the vortex minipulator and attatching Sky to him. "Hope and luck, that's all I have now."
"NO!" He shouted as she teleported them off, running to find a version of The Doctor before he knew them.
...
"Those letters, when did you get them?" The Doctor asked as he stormed into the UNIT truck with River, getting lots of surprised looks from everyone.
"Doctor." Sarah-Jane managed to mutter.
"Listen-" Martha began.
"Oh come off it you lot, I knew you were here I'm not stupid. But we've managed to track the source." The Doctor interupted. "I take it you lot have as well then."
"How the hell is Gallifrey getting a message to us?" Jack asked.
"Oh I don't know..." The Doctor muttered.
"Your bloody daughter!" They looked round to see Luke and Sky storm into the truck, Luke muttering in anger!
"Luke what the bloody hell are you doing here?"
"So somehow we track her down, and what does she do? She ignores us, including SJ and sends us home!"
"Luke, Mai's dead." The Doctor mumbled darkly.
"Oh no she isn't!" He said loudly and angrily. "She's very much alive and in the time war!"
"What?" The Doctor whispered. "She can't be it's time locked!"
"Doctor, our little girl is not in the time war is she?" River gasped, tears brimming in her eyes.
"This is Mai Song calling the Unified Inteligence Task Force. COME ON SOMEONE!" A hologram of Mai appeared, pointing her sonic in front of her, before pulling it down and grinning. "I don't have much time but Dad, time could be re-written. Someone..." She glared at Luke quickly. "Got in the way so I couldn't get the de-mat gun in the wreckage. I need to know if it's safe to go in there. I don't have time to explain."
"Just put it inside the door and go, you only have a split second to get out!" He said jumping up, tears of happiness streaming down his face. "Your alive! I just want to tell you how much I regretted treating you badly. I could promise you the whole of time and space."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because you know I can't. I always mess it up."
"No Daddy, I mess it up." She grinned. "And when I get out of here, were gonna go see time and space, you and me. Just you wait." She winked, before dissapearing.
...
"I guess we'll see you soon yeah?" River asked as they pulled out of a hug. River, Mai and The Doctor stood alone in the control room after being reunited.
"No you won't." Mai said, getting looks of confusion from both her parents. "I'm moving back in."
"Right well I'm gonna have to make a nursery now and another extra room for Luke-" The Doctor blabbed on.
"There gonna share a room sweetie." River interupted.
"No they're not!"
"Doctor-"
"No." Mai interupted. "Just me. I'm not staying here anymore."
"What about Luke and SJ?" The Doctor asked.
"I'm leaving them."
"She's your baby, your gonna leave her?"
"It'll be better for her, away from all this. Sarah-Jane gets the odd alien, what we do, I don't want her knowing or be near this. I know Luke will look after her."
"Are you sure?"
"It's ok, we never get to raise our children in this family. I'll be fine. I'm going to talk to him." She sighed, walking out of the doors across the drive where everyone was standing outside, SJ in Sarah-Jane's arms. She walked past them and into the empty UNIT truck, where Luke was sitting. "I'm sorry." She whispered. He looked at her, and knew exactly what she was about to say.
"Please don't." He said, tears brimming in his eyes, putting his forehead to hers. "Don't."
"I'm sorry." She kissed him lightly on the head, turning back and walked out the truck, tears splilling down her cheeks and walked to Sarah-Jane, placing a kiss on SJ's head, before walking to The TARDIS.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE MAI!" Luke shouted. "PLEASE DON'T YOU DARE DO THIS TO HER." He fell onto his knees as she opened the doors and The TARDIS materialzed.
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