A/N: I apologise for the lateness of this chapter, but I was in Ireland for a while and then my laptop had to go and get fixed AGAIN because the stupid keyboard broke! And it is very hard to type with a broken keyboard...
And then my internet decided to short circuit...so I was inclined to write this chapter while it was being fixed. But here it is! Enjoy x

Chapter 4 – The Return

"Who's back?" Michael asked. Me and Tiff both looked at him as if he was stupid.

"Him!" Tiff squealed, excitement was leaking from her pores.

"Who!"

"Ughhhh." She gave up and dragged us both into the building. The new atmosphere was slightly scary and the fact the only light I could identify was coming from across a corridor. We all ran towards the light and that's when I realised that we weren't the only ones here.

"Bonsoir!" A man said. I recognised the voice but it was impossible...he had changed hadn't he? Tiff saw the look of confusion on my face and explained. Apparently he changed back to his original appearance before he left.

I walked around the corner to see The Doctor, Lucy, Sarah, Philip, Gareth and Tiff all sat around a bonfire.

"Marshmallow?" The Doctor offered. I laughed and shook my head, sitting down as well to join the circle. Michael still stood; a look of slight shock could be seen upon his face. I jumped up again to give him a hug.

"It's okay, the Doctor will explain." I whispered.

"What if it isn't? What if whatever we heard screaming hurts us!" His voice was harsh. The Doctor stood up too and took him into a different room. I decided to catch up with the rest of them and depict why they were all here already.

"Tiff phoned us." Gareth eventually said, "She said that one of the meteors had hit, and it contained a gas that polluted the lungs of some people. They are now going round biting people so they get the same Alien disease. Okay?"

"But how come you are all here already...yet nobody phoned me?" I asked.

"Well, we didn't want to ruin the night for you..." Philip said.

"Well thanks."

"And then we saw that there was somebody in Heaton Park that had the disease, so Lucy phoned you to get you out of there..." Tiff said. Lucy must have been the hysterical one. I was surprised she was here; she would normally be with her family or her other friends such as Neeve and Spencer. Still, I was sort of glad she WAS here instead of somewhere else in risk of being infected.

Michael and The Doctor returned to the small room where the fire was, both looking a lot calmer than they had before they left.

"Right, I have a plan!" He said, looking very excited, "we're going to trap one of them!"

"And how do we do that, lure them in here and trap them in a room?" Tiff asked, about 3 steps ahead of the rest of us."

"Exactly! But it will take a lot of skill, and teamwork."

"We can do that!"

"Good! Let's get started then!"

We were all made to stand outside with flashlights, attracting these monsters. A lot more people had now caught the disease and I could see them walking towards us. They were all a purple colour, like their skin had died and they were already rotting. I could feel the fear and tension rising among us as the people got closer. To my left, Gareth and Philip were shaking slightly. They weren't used to all this action, considering they were dead last time. It was only because off Tiff, who had looked into the heart of the TARDIS, that they were brought back to life.

One person was really close to the building and it was heading my way. I recognised the person immediately as some guy from school. I think his name was Matthew, from the year above.

"I've got one!" I shouted to the rest of the gang. We all switched off our lights, leaving the only visible light one somewhere in the building. Together, we ran into the Academy, in hope that we would lure the person into the room. It worked. The infected Matthew walked right into the trap and we locked the door behind him.

"Well, that went easier than expected." The Doctor laughed. Gareth started a massive mass of yawns and we decided that we would have to find somewhere safe to sleep that night. Eventually, we all decided on using the art room on the top floor. The door there could also lock and there was a small room some of us could escape to if we were attacked that night.

I lay out my jacket and lay on the floor, feeling excited about the events. To think, not only had we met the Doctor, but to be saving the Earth alongside him for the second time. I was pretty sure that Tiff was even more excited than I was. When the lights went off, we couldn't help but start to talk.

"Tiff, are you scared?" I asked her.

"Hell no!" She replied.

"Me neither, well, maybe a little, but I'm more excited than anything."

"I should throw you in front of a Dalek, see how exited you are then."

"Oi! I wasn't scared of the Daleks the last time."

"That's because you were too traumatised by the loss of the love of your life!"

"Aw." I heard Michael whisper from beside me.

"Yea, the Jonas Brothers. How can I live without their music?" I laughed.

"Oh." I reached out for Michael's hand, which is an incredibly difficult thing to do when you have no idea how close he is to you and you can't even see your own hand in front of your face.

"Night." I said, getting nights back from everybody apart from Lucy, who had already fallen asleep. Poor girl, she wasn't used to all this drama. She died first last time, maybe this time she would be the one to save us all. You never know, stranger things have happened.