I love you.

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Summary: the doctor comes to see Sarah Jane before going off to war.

authers tought:Authors thought:  this crazy idea came to me, what if Royal Family all died and Sarah Jane became the Queen of England and Luke the crowned Prince?

He stood against a tree watching her work in the early morning sun, her back at him. Sarah had just move to this neighborhood he knew K9 had told him the night before. K9, he had given her that robot dog as a gift many years ago. He left her in Aberdeen by mistake; but he had never forgot her, never had stop thinking of her, never stopped loving her. Should he go and talk to her or should he just leave and go fight in the Time War without her knowing that he had been there. By Rossilone all he wanted to do was go to her, hug her, kiss her, and hold her just standing there under the shade of a tree was killing him. For her 16 years had passed since she had last saw him but for him centuries. Did she still remember him, he wanted to know. Will she recognize him? What kind of stupid question was that; of course she wouldn't recognize him: he had regenerated four times since she last saw him.

"Excuse me, do you need something?" Sarah Jane asked him.

She was standing a few feet from him, the only thing between was her small wooden fence. She was beautiful, her hair in the early morning sun. He smiled at her; he couldn't help starring at her she was dress in an old loose shirt and a worn dirt cover pants. Traveling with him through time and space had slowed her aging.

"You're beautiful" it was the first thing he was able to say. There was a small blush on her cheeks and a gentle smile on her lips; her lips oh how he wanted to kiss those lips once more.

"Thank you, but do you need something?" she asked him again, scratching K9 behind an ear as if were a real dog leaving dirt stains on his metal surface.

"What, um, no I…I was just looking at your plants," he said, "You have great taste. I bet that ounce you are finish the whole neighborhood will want to have a garden like yours."

She was smiling, such a beautiful smile she has. When she had travel with him back in his third and fourth regenerations he had done everything to make her smile, and after she left her smile was one of the thing he missed the most.

"Such a beautiful smile you have," he said. Sarah Jane raised an eyebrow. "Oh, sorry, I'm John by the way" he extended his hand to shake hers.

"Sarah Jane Smith, nice to meet you"

"Princesses God Is Precious"

"Come again"

"Your name, that's what it means," he told her.

Did he do something wrong? Why, oh, why did he have to say that? He had just gotten Sarah Jane to talk to him and now he was scarring her off. DAM IT! All he wants to do was spend some time with her before he goes off to fight in the Time War, just few minutes talking with her would have been enough.

"I'm sorry if I have offended you"

"What, no, no. It's that-well- I use to have a friend who would call me that."

It was true, he would call her Princesses after the TARDIS had landed on a planet whose inhabitance thought that Sarah Jane was the lost daughter of their Queen.

"Do you like gardens John?" she asked him

"Oh yes, yes I do, I even have my own garden back in my TARDIS."

By Rosilone, did he just mention the TARDIS? He looked at Sarah Jane and immediately became nervous. This was not the way he wanted Sarah Jane to find that he was the Doctor. Her face was unreadable; what was she thinking about, he wanted to know: was she angry, or happy, would she believe it was him, or would she think him be an imposter.

"It's me Sarah, the Doctor," He told her

"K9"

"It's the Doctor, Mistress" K9 confirm.

He wasn't expecting what Sarah did, she slapped him hard.

"That is for leaving me in Aberdeen!" she turns around and went inside with K9 right behind her.

"Sarah wait, Sarah!" he ran after her. He should have known that she would be angry at him, but he had hoped that Sarah Jane would have been happy to see him. The Doctor found her seating at her kitchen table with her head buried in her arms.

"Sarah," he said. She looked up wiping the tears from her face.

"What do you want?" she asked him

"I just want to talk to you" he answers her. By Rossilone, he didn't mean to make her cry.

"I waited for you and you didn't come back, 16 years I have been waiting."

"I'm sorry Sarah, I really am Princesses, but if I came back for you, you would have been dead already," the Doctor told her. "Sarah, for you 16 years has passed but for me it has been centuries."

He told her about the missions that he had been in and the companions that had come after her, he told her about some of his companions that had died while they had travel with him. He told her about the war, Time War, between the Dalecks and the Time Lords. He told her that at any minute the war would start and he would have to go and fight, that he came to see her and talked with her. He told her how much he missed her, how much he loves her. She hugged him and he held her tightly not wanting to let her go. He wiped the tears rolling down her cheeks and kissed her soft lips. The kiss deepened becoming more passionate and he held her closer to him. How they ended in her room he didn't care. Nothing mattered at the moment: the Dalecks, the war, the Time Lords; it was just him and his Sarah Jane. He made love to her that day, and as she slept in his arms that night he promised her that if he survived the war he would come back to her.

"I love you" he whispers in her ear before drifting off to sleep.

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