To Kayla, running to the small platform on the second floor that overlooked the first floor was not fun experience, and she made sure the Doctor was well aware of this.
'I hate you, have I mentioned that?'
'This is the third time, dear.'
'But I still hate you.'
Martha, who was panting hard but otherwise quiet, looked around at the silent couple that seemed to be exchanging multiple glances.
"Are you guys having a silent conversation?" She asked half-jokingly.
"Yes," Kayla snapped huffily.
Martha blinked and then eyed the pregnant woman. "You're 14 weeks, right? You okay?" she questioned, figuring that it was the pregnancy that was making her head a bit messed up.
Instead of answering immediately, Kayla glanced at the Doctor and got a subtle nod that made her scowl. 'Fine,' she replied to the Doctor mentally, 'But only a practice trip after this.'
The Doctor beamed and then turned to Martha. "Actually," he started, "Kayla is 7 weeks pregnant."
Martha blinked and then bluntly eyed Kayla's stomach. "Are you just really bloated?" she finally asked.
"No, I have a 64 week pregnancy," and then, at the shocked and horrified and concerned expression on Martha's face, Kayla added, "The Doctor and I are aliens."
"Time Lords, to be exact," the Doctor put in.
Looking skeptical Martha pushed open the door to the second floor and then opened her mouth to reply...only to have the Doctor's hand blocking it. Without speaking, he pointed to a potted plan that was large enough to vaguely hide them. Martha gave him a nod and he removed his hand and then wiped his hand off.
Once Martha was behind the plant, which took only a few seconds, the Doctor had Kayla, who was fiddling with her dress, sneak across as well.
Then, once the Doctor had also snuck across, the three looked down at the first floor just in time to see the Judoon enter the hospital. The people on the ground, mostly workers, started to run and cower. This did nothing. Instead, the Judoon at the front took off his helmet to reveal a rhinoceros head. This made people shriek and cower, something that Kayla could understand. These people had just been transported to the moon, had a troop of aliens marching towards them, and had seen the alien itself.
For a moment, Kayla placed a hand on her stomach and thought about all the other children here and their mothers. If all did not go well, as it usually did when it came to the Doctor, multiple people, especially babies, would die. And it would be the Judoon's fault.
It was at this point that Kayla got very pissed off. Enough so that the Doctor looked over at her with clear worry and squeezed her hand tightly for both comfort and for a warning. She had to stay calm. Getting the message, Kayla bit her lip hard enough to draw a small amount of blood. While it wasn't the best way and the Doctor clearly didn't approve by the way he touched his own bottom lip, it did calm Kayla down enough to be able to listen.
"Please don't hurt me, I was just trying to help, I'm sorry, don't hurt me, please don't hurt me," someone, a male with freakishly pale skin and an understandable stammer, had cried out when the Chief Judoon had pressed a translator that looked a bit like a torch. Pressing a button, a blue light was flashed in the poor man's face. After a moment, the Judoon moved the translator nearer to his own face and pressed the same button. Instantly, the man's words were echoed back to the Judoon. Once this was done, the alien put the translator down.
"Language assimilated. Designation: Earth English. You will be catalogued," the Judoon said in its own deep voice. Looking even more terrified, the man once again had the translator thrust into his face. Like before, a blue light was flashed at him, but then something new happened. A happyish noise came from it and the Judoon grunted in what could be described as approval.
"Category: human," at this point, the Judoon paused and made a little 'x' on the man's right hand before letting him go and turning to his troops, "Catalogue all suspects."
At this order all the Judoon, including the Chief one without his helmet, started to grab people and scan them. When each scan showed that the people were human, the Judoon would grunt out, "Human," and put a cross on their right hand.
"Oh look down there, you've got a little shop. I like a little shop," the Doctor said suddenly while nudging Kayla.
While the brunette just shook her head as she was used to such sidetracking, Martha snapped, "Never mind that! What are Judoon?!"
"Galactic police," the Doctor said at the same time as Kayla saying, "Thugs."
Martha blinked. "Sorry?"
"Thugs," Kayla repeated, "Really stupid, interplanetary thugs."
The Doctor shrugged at this and mentally asked the brunette, 'Do you not like them?'
'If they find out I'm a Time Agent they'll use me as target practice.'
At this, the Time Lord shot out a strong amount of anger. This time, it was Kayla who calmed him down while Martha just stared at the suddenly angrily Doctor in shock.
"Is he...is he okay?" the black doctor-in-training asked carefully.
Kayla sighed and nodded. "He's fine, but I'm surprised you haven't asked that many questions," she pointed out.
"Why the moon?" Martha asked, a bit shocked that Kayla was talking to her so...civilly and not as terse and snappish as she usually did.
The brunette shook her head at Martha's question and quickly answered it. "It's neutral territory according to galactic law, which the Judoon follow. On the moon, as long as they follow common laws it's neutral territory for everyone."
Martha nodded and then looked in between the Doctor and Kayla. "What were they doing down there?"
"Cataloguing everyone to make sure they're human," Kayla explained.
"Then what about you two? What does it mean?"
"It means that coming here was a mistake, and that's why," the Doctor said suddenly while motioning to the mess of Judoon and humans below. Turning to Kayla, he took one of her hands and squeezed it tightly. "We should have just stayed in the TARDIS."
"But we're here now so let's save these people," Kayla replied instantly.
Hugging her, the Doctor nodded to the stairs. "Come on, then," he said though he still looked very troubled.
Once up the stairs, the three ran out onto one of the higher floors. Not wasting any time to look around, the two ran into one of the many offices on that floor. Inside the office, Kayla and the Doctor instantly set to work and Martha, feeling useless, went to go check on the Judoon.
"They've reached the third floor," Martha reported to the two when she came back. "What's that thing?" she asked.
The Doctor paused in sonicing the computer for files and Kayla looked up from fiddling with the plug. "Sonic screwdriver," the two answered together.
Martha huffed. "Well, if you two aren't going to answer me properly," she snapped.
Kayla sighed and straightened up. "No, it is actually a screwdriver that is sonic as well."
Taking that surprisingly well, Martha eyed the sonic for a few moments. "What else have you two got? A laser spanner?" Martha asked semi-sarcastically because at this point she wouldn't be surprised if the answer was a positive.
Instead, she got the brunette sighing and giving her the stink-eye and the Doctor rambling. "I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst and Kayla slapped her for being so cheeky," pausing in his story, the doctor whacked the computer. "Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon," he finished with a grumble.
Kayla turned to the Doctor and placed a comforting hand on his arm. "It's not your fault," she reminded to him and then turned back to Martha. "He feels guilty because we were just wandering and the Doctor noticed the plasma coils around the building."
"I thought something was going on inside, it turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon above," the Doctor finished, and then placed his hand on Kayla's stomach. "And now I've endangered my Bonded and our child."
Martha frowned, "But it's like Kayla said, it isn't your fault. Besides, how can you guys be in any danger? Don't they know what type of alien they're looking for?"
Kayla shook her head. "They're just looking for an alien that's not human but looks human...that isn't us. And I'm a Time Agent. Judoons and Time Agents...they don't get along," Kayla stated and then broke off as the Doctor suddenly hugged her and kissed her gently.
Feeling like an intruder of their private moment, Martha stared at the floor until Kayla cleared her throat. "Sorry," she apologized, "We aren't use to someone else being with us…"
Martha quickly nodded. "I understand," she replied in a way that added a few brownie points. "Just keep working. I'll go ask Mr. Stoker, he might know someone who's been acting off." And with that, she ran out and left the two alone.
"What do you think of her?" the Doctor questioned hopefully.
Kayla shrugged and placed a hand on her stomach. "I know I'm being really snappy, but she's doing really well."
"But do you think she'll fit well in the TARDIS?"
"Are you saying I'm gaining weight?"
"What?! No! But-"
Kayla quickly cut the Doctor off with a soft kiss. "I'm just joking dear. Martha seems like an interesting person and she'll fit in well with the two of us...as long as you don't flirt with her."
The Doctor wrapped his arms around Kayla. "There's only one person I'd ever flirt with, and that's you."
Grinning, they kissed again just as Martha barged into the room. "Stop kissing! I found her!"
Pulling apart, Kayla looked at the woman. "Found...what?"
"I found her," Martha repeated, and then looked pointed at something behind her. "And there are these leather guys-"
"Slabs," Kayla cut in quickly.
"Run!" The Doctor yelled needlessly. But it was sound advice, so the three did.
Huffing down the stairs, the threesome skidded onto the fourth floor only to swivel away at the sight of Judoon marching towards them.
Noticing a sign, Kayla called out 'Radiology!' mentally and the Doctor nodded and made for the room with the two others following.
"When I say 'now,' press the button," the Doctor instructed immediately upon arrival.
"Which button?" Kayla pointed out while motioning to the complicated panel of buttons.
The Doctor ran a hand through his hair helplessly. "Find out!" he advised and then started to fiddle with the MRI machine using his sonic screwdriver.
Growling under her breath, Kayla grabbed Martha and dragged her behind the glass that would hopefully block the radiation from them. Of course, the control panel was a mess of almost all buttons. Martha instantly grabbed the Operator's Manual and started to flip through it rapidly while Kayla just eyed down a giant red button with a warning symbol on it and waited.
On the other side of the glass, a Slab broke down the door. "Now!" the Doctor yelled at the sight of it and the two women slammed down on the same button.
For a brief, horrible, second, nothing happened. But then, the Slab was zapped with radiation and Kayla winced at the Doctor's skeleton becoming visible and an itching sensation that spread all over her body. Thankfully, though, the Doctor seemed uninjured while the Slab fell over, inert.
"What did you do?" Martha gasped.
"Increased the radiation by five thousand percent. Killed him dead," the Doctor explained with more pride than anyone should have in their own actions.
"Isn't that likely to kill you?" Martha pointed out and then glanced over at Kayla who seemed fairly relaxed.
Instead of looking worried, the Doctor laughed and beckoned the two of them out. "Nah, it's only radiation. We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery."
Kayla stepped out carefully but kept a safe distance from the Time Lord. "Not our child," she stated.
"Yes dear," the Doctor agreed instantly. "You coming out? It's safe cause I absorbed it all," the Doctor told Martha.
Hesitantly, Martha walked out. Upon seeing that she wasn't dying from radiation, she headed into the room a bit more.
Grinning widely at this, the Doctor turned to Kayla. "I just need to expel it to a point," he informed her.
"Do the shoes," Kayla suggested, "They're falling apart anyways."
The Doctor nodded at this before he started to bounce, hop, and explain himself at the same time. "If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It's in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go, easy does it," the Doctor, at this point, started to shake his left foot violently.
"Out...out...out...out...out. Out...out...ah...ah...ah...ah...It is...it is...it is...it is...it is hot. Ah - hold on," pausing in his complaining, the Doctor removed his shoe and threw it into the dust pins. "Done," the Doctor finished.
Grinning, Kayla hurried over and kissed him. Once that important task was done, the two turned to the gaping Martha. "Well?" Kayla asked.
After a long pause, Martha closed her mouth to swallow hard. "You two are completely mad!"
Kayla laughed, "You get over it," and simply stepped back to the eye the Doctor. "One shoe?" She pointed out.
"Right," the Doctor agreed, "I look daft without one shoe." And with that, he took off his remaining shoe and threw it out as well. "Barefoot on the moon!" He cheered with a wide grin.
Martha blinked, shrugged, and then decided that someone should actually do something worthwhile and went over to the dead Slab. "So what is that thing? And where's it from? The planet Zovirax?"
"It's just a Slab. They're literally called 'Slabs,'" Kayla replied and kicked the Slab. "It's a basic slave drone made entirely out of leather."
"Someone has a hell of a fetish," the Doctor remarked from the MRI machine. In response, Kayla groaned.
"It came with that woman, Mrs. Finnegan. It was working for her. Just like a servant," Martha explained to the brunette.
"My sonic screwdriver," the Doctor suddenly said. In his hands were the burned bits of hissonic screwdriver.
"She was one of the patients, but-"
"My sonic screwdriver!"
"She had a straw like some kind of vampire."
"I loved my sonic screwdriver!"
"Doctor!" Martha and Kayla snapped at the same time.
Not looking as sheepish as he should have, the Doctor tossed the bits away and then grinned widely. "You called me 'Doctor,'" he informed Martha proudly.
Shrugging, the black woman gave the Doctor her best annoyed look. "Anyways! Mrs. Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mr. Stoker's blood."
Processing this, the Doctor tilted his head in thought. Funny time to take a snack. You'd think she'd be hiding. Unless-no. Yes, that's it, wait a minute. Yes!"
"What is it Doctor? And how do you think that fast? It's giving me a headache!" Kayla snapped and then frowned. "Sorry," she apologized.
"The Doctor just hugged her tightly. "It's fine," he brushed it off and then kissed her temple. Only after this did he seem to remember what he had thought about before and turned to Martha. "She's an internal shape-changer. She wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it."
Kayla suddenly froze. "IF she's assimilating blood from a human then they'll never know. We gotta try and explain it to the Judoon! And if they don't listen then we'll do something to show them!"
The Doctor frowned slightly, sensing something in Kayla's mind that she was hiding, but still grabbed her hand. "Come on!" He shouted at Martha and the three ran out.
They didn't get very far. Only a few spots out, they had to crouch by a water cooler as the other Slab walked past them. "That's the thing about Slabs," the Doctor started as he helped Kayla up, "They always travel in pairs."
"But they're thick," Kayla remarked with a grin to the Doctor.
Pouting, because 'thick' was his word, the Doctor helped Martha up. She promptly asked, "What about you two?"
"What about us?" Kayla questioned.
"Well, why bring someone pregnant? Don't you guys have back-up or something?"
The Doctor shook his head. "Kayla's the entire backup I need."
"But still," Kayla put in, "You're on the moon helping an alien couple and we're evading the Judoon while trying to catch a bloodsucking alien, and we're running out of air, but the human asks personal questions."
The Doctor laughed and hugged Kayla with one arm briefly. "Come on, dear."
"I like that, 'the human,'" Martha said from behind the two, "I'm still not convinced you two are aliens."
Kayla suddenly cursed under her breath and threw an arm out to stop Martha. The Doctor and Kayla and Martha hadn't paid attention and they had accidentally run into a Judoon without a plan.
Mechanically, the hooded Judoon shone his blue light in Kayla's face. "Non-human," it grunted, "Time Agent!"
"Oh my god, you two really are!"
The Doctor grabbed Kayla by the hand. "And again!" He shouted, and the three sprinted to the stairs and ran up them with the Judoon shooting at them. Kayla shoved open a door and Martha locked it, which earned her an approving nod from the brunette.
In the corridor, Kayla could feel the air thinning. Time Lord biology allowed her to have larger lungs, but other people weren't so lucky. Everyone in the hallway were slumped on the ground, gasping for breath.
Looking just as bothered as Kayla felt, the Doctor squeezed her hand before he began to talk. "They've done this floor. Come on. The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won't go back to check a floor they've checked already," he paused and frowned, "If we're lucky."
Kayla looked back to check on Martha but saw the black woman paused and speaking to the hysterical girl from earlier. "How much oxygen is there?" Kayla heard Martha ask in a soft voice.
The woman looked up from the young patient she was helping and shook her head. "Not enough for all these people. We're going to run out."
Kayla stepped forwards and placed a hand on Martha's shoulder, which made the black woman turn. "How are you feeling? Are you alright?"
Martha seemed to struggle with a reply. Finally, she grinned a smile bit. "I'm running on adrenaline."
"Welcome to this world," Kayla said and then hugged the Doctor as she had been doing for most of that floor.
"What about the Judoon?" Martha asked.
The Doctor eyed her, confused, but Kayla shook her head. "Great big lung reserves. No air will do anything."
"Where's Mr. Stoker's office?" the Doctor suddenly asked.
"It's this way," Martha replied. Starting off, the couple followed her.
Inside Stoker's office, Martha was looking around. "She's gone! She was here."
Kayla turned to her. "Did you expect her to stay around him?" She asked while motioning to Mr. Stoker's body, which the Doctor was examining.
"Drained him dry. Every last drop. I was right. She's a plasmavore," the Doctor said as he got up and joined the brunette.
"What was she doing on Earth?" Martha asked.
Kayla tilted her head in thought. "She's on the run and hiding."
"Like Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janeiro," the Doctor put in.
"Yes dear," Kayla agreed quickly, "But what is she doing now? The Judoon could execute us all-"
"Execute us ALL?!" Martha suddenly cried out.
Not very surprised by this outburst, Kayla gave Martha a hopefully comforting smile. "The Judoon will only do that if they have complete proof that she's here but they didn't find her. It rarely happens."
"But we don't know if there's proof, which means she doesn't know if there's proof so she's still not safe," the Doctor added in, and then sighed and shook his head. "Come on, let's keep looking."
"Wait a minute," Martha spoke up and went over to Mr. Stoker. Kneeling down, she closed the man's eyes and then got up.
Kayla gave her a small smile. "That was nice," she remarked and then left with the Doctor. Behind them, Martha turned off the lights and closed the door.
"Alright, she started, "What now?"
Kayla turned to Martha. "If you were an alien on the run from the police, what would you do?"
Martha blinked, surprised and being quizzed yet again, but soon scanned the area. After a moment she pointed at the MRI sign. "I would try to take them with me if I was that...thing."
Kayla clapped her hands together, kissed the Doctor, and then froze at the sound of the Judoon's yelling, "Find the Time Agent! Get her!"
The Doctor ran a hand through his hair. "Stay here. We need time."
"You'll have to hold them up. Here," Kayla quickly took the Doctor's jacket off and hugged it to herself before she handed it to Martha. "Just wear it."
Martha nodded and the couple ran off. "This will be nothing after A&E," Martha muttered, "Nothing."
In the MRI room, Florence the alien was standing in front of the MRI machine. Of course it was making weird noises and of course, Florence was working the machine.
The Doctor and Kayla exchanged a glance and the brunette nodded. Deliberately, she placed a hand on her stomach and the Doctor wrapped his arm around her. Looking like a normal, young couple, the two started their plan.
"Have you seen," at the Doctor's voice, Florence whirled around, "there are these things, those great big space rhino things, I mean rhinos from space."
While Florence tilted her head to study the two, Kayla continued from where the Doctor left off, "And, we're on the moon! Great big space rhinos with guns on the moon."
The Doctor nodded shakily and placed his hand over Kayla's on her stomach. "We only came for Junior's ultrasound but one of the nurses saw my bunions-"
"Show her, dear," Kayla interrupted. Nodding, the Doctor held up one of his feet. "Perfectly good treatment," the brunette remarked.
"I said to my wife, didn't I?"
"Oh yes, he said 'he'd recommend this place to anyone,'" Kayla stated.
"But then we ended up on the moon. And did I mention rhinos?" the Doctor finished.
All through this exchange, Florence appeared very annoyed. Once she sensed that the two were done, she ordered to her Slab, "Hold him," and then, as an afterthought, "Hold the girl back as well." After a slight struggle, which was more of the Doctor telling the Slab to, 'Mind the wife's stomach,' Florence went back to fiddling with the machine and ignoring the couple.
"That thing, that big machine thing, is it supposed to be making that noise? Only the wife is pregnant with Junior here ad she might have to go somewhere else," the Doctor remarked.
Florence turned towards the two briefly. "You wouldn't understand," she dismissed.
"Isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of magnet?" Kayla asked carefully.
The Doctor nodded. "We did magnets at GCSE. Well, I failed and she passed, but all the same."
Florence sighed, "The magnetic setting is now set to 50,000 Tesla," she explained.
"But that's rather strong, isn't it?" Kayla pointed out.
"I can send out a magnetic pulse that will fry the brain-stems of every living thing within 250,000 miles. Except for me and the brunette. We'll be safe in this room," Florence explained.
The Doctor and Kayla exchanged quick, worried looks. Their plan revolved around the Doctor and Kayla being eaten, not just the Doctor.
"Why will I be safe and he won't be?" Kayla asked.
Florence laughed softly before she answered. "You're my dessert. Once your child is born I'll eat you both. Until then you and I will make our escape on the Judoons' ships."
Kayla bit her lip. "You're talking like some sort of alien," she accused.
"Right-o," Florence replied.
"No!" the couple gasped together, rather surprised she had given up this information so soon.
Florence smirked at their shock. "Oh yes."
The Doctor shook his head. "You're joshing us," he accused.
"I am not," Florence disagreed with a shake of her head.
"Has this place got an ET department?" Kayla joked weakly.
Florence just shrugged. "It's the perfect hiding place. Blood banks downstairs for a midnight feast, and all this equipment to protect myself with should the police come looking," she explained, and Kayla had to admit. The woman had seriously thought this out well. And by the tattoo she could see faintly on the woman's neck, the brunette was near positive that she was a Time Agent.
Sending this thought to the Doctor, she watched as the Time Lord's mouth dropped open. Thankfully, he seemed to recover his wits quickly enough to stammer out, "So, those rhinos, they're looking for you?"
"Yes, but I'm hidden from those thugs," Florence finished with a sneer on her face.
Kayla glanced over at the Doctor before she started. "But the big head rhino said, 'no sign of non-human/Time Agent, we must increase our scans to…setting two?'"
The Doctor quickly nodded. "Setting two," he agreed.
For a moment, it seemed that it had not worked and Florence had seen through this lie. However, the minute she paled a small bit, the two knew they were okay. "I must assimilate again," she said more to herself in a tone that was hard.
"What does that mean?" the Doctor asked.
Florence glared at him and took out a straw. Very slowly, she started to walk towards him. "Steady him," she ordered the Slab.
The Slab pushed the Doctor to his knees and Kayla backed up quickly while her eyes scanned the room. She couldn't kill the woman, that might make the Judoon target her. But she couldn't risk the Doctor dying. Especially if that meant she might die. The baby was the most important thing to them.
It was at this point, while the Doctor stammered out pleas, that Kayla noticed the small room. Allowing herself a brief grin, she started for the room in a slow manner. All the while, she watched as Florence started to stick her straw into the Doctor's throat-
"Hey Florence!" Kayla yelled, which made the woman pause and look over at the brunette, who was behind the glass. "Word of advice, don't mess with a couple who has sonics." Holding her own sonic screwdriver and an old one, she leaned around the glass and threw them at the MRI machine which would hopefully save them. And then, while Florence screamed for her Slab to grab her, she banged down on the red button from before.
There was a bright flash, and Florence cried out in agony. Kayla heard yells from outside as the hospital shook. And then…it was still.
For a second, Kayla remained in the crouch position she had gotten into when the hospital started to shake. She peered out of the glass to see the Doctor sitting up with a groan. On the floor near him was the dead Slab and a very dead Florence. Before he could get much time to react however, the door was nearly broken down by the Judoon and a very worried Martha. The Doctor got to his feet fairly quickly and pressed himself against the wall while Kayla remained in the side room.
The Chief Judoon, who was still not wearing his helmet, scanned Florence and pronounced her not only a Time Agent, but the alien they had been looking for. A lesser Judoon picked up the dead body and started to march out of the room and presumably the hotel.
Martha, her eyes wide, looked at the Doctor, who was starting to grin, and Kayla, who was only now leaving the room. "What happened?"
"It's a long story," Kayla sighed, and then placed a hand on her stomach. "Doctor, do you think you're jacket could work?"
The Doctor frowned and then held his hand out. Puzzled, it took Martha a moment. Then she went, "Oh," and handed the Time Lord his jacket.
Carefully, the Doctor slipped it on and started to put all the radiation, which was quite a bit, into the jacket. So focused on his task, he didn't notice the air thinning until Martha suddenly gasped loudly and fell to the floor with Kayla following.
As the world went dark, the Doctor heard Martha cry out, "Doctor! It's Kayla!" the Time Lord whirled around and ran to her just as Kayla's closed her eyes.
"The Judoon will fix it," he stated, and then placed a hand on her stomach, "They have to."
And the Judoon did. The Doctor heard the clap of thunder just as they were transported back to Earth.
Later, in the TARDIS, Kayla once again stopped the Doctor from starting the ultrasound. "I want Martha to do it," she explained.
The Doctor gave Kayla a bright smile. "If that's what you want then we'll find her."
About thirty minutes later, Kayla waited by the TARDIS until the Doctor arrived. The brunette leaned against the wall and pulled down a wrinkled 'Vote Saxon' sign and studied it before she tossed it away. As the voice started to rise, Kayla winced and then bit her lip when she saw a blonde woman stomp away with an older black man following her.
The Doctor suddenly arrived and leaned against the wall next to her. He gave her a smile while Martha walked into the alleyway. "I went to the moon today," Martha stated.
The Doctor nodded. "A bit more peaceful than down here," he noted dryly.
Kayla grinned. "So that was that noise," she remarked and then looked over to Martha. "Your family is quite loud."
Martha just rolled her eyes. "You two never told me who two you are," she pointed out.
"I'm the Doctor and Kayla Hark is my wonderful Bonded and fiancé," the Doctor answered.
"What sort of species?" Martha pushed, "I know you guys already told me but still, it's not every day I get to ask that."
Kayla arched an eyebrow but answered anyways. "We're Time Lords, though I'm a Time Lady."
Martha grinned, "So you weren't making up a pompous name?"
Kayla laughed loudly while the Doctor just pouted. "It is," she agreed, "But since you saved our lives-"
"And we've gotten brand new sonic screwdrivers that need road testing," the Doctor cut in.
Used to this kind of interrupting, Kayla just sighed before she continued, "Would you like to travel with us?"
Martha's mouth fell open and she blinked rapidly. "What, into space?"
"Well…" Kayla said with a shrug.
Martha shook her head. "I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad…" as her voice trailed off, Martha shook her head once more.
"If it helps," Kayla started, "the TARDIS stands for: Time and Relative Dimensions in Space." At the blank look, Kayla sighed and shook her head. "It can travel in space and time."
"Get out of here," Martha gasped, her eyes wide.
"It's true," the Doctor said.
"Come on now, that's going too far," the black woman protested.
Grinning, the Doctor grabbed Kayla's hand. "We'll prove it," he stated and ran into the TARDIS. After a few moments they took off.
In the past, Kayla threw open the TARDIS door and nodded at the sidewalk where they could see Martha on the phone.
The Doctor smirked and walked straight to the black woman. "Like so," he cried out and took off his tie.
Kayla rolled her eyes next to him. "Sorry, it'll make sense later."
Martha blinked and then watched as the two walked away. Shrugging, she headed off for another boring day of work.
The Doctor and Kayla, however, hurried back to the TARDIS and carefully piloted back to the alley they had left Martha in.
"Told you!" the Doctor yelled as he left the TARDIS.
As she had done earlier, Kayla rolled her eyes. "Does it makes sense now?"
Martha blinked. "I know, but…that was this morning! But-Did you…Oh, my God! You can travel in time!"
The Doctor arched an eyebrow and Kayla sighed, "That's what we said."
"But hold on, if you could see me this morning, why didn't you tell me not to go into work?" Martha asked suddenly.
"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden," the Doctor started.
"Unless you know what you're doing…or for cheap tricks," Kayla finished with a small smile.
Martha just decided to nod and move on. "And that's your spaceship?"
"Yep. It doesn't look like much but…well just open the door," Kayla explained.
Laughing, Martha opened the door and then gasped. For a second, the woman just stared while Kayla and the Doctor followed her in and leaned against the opening. "Oh, no, no," Martha muttered and ran out of the TARDIS to run around it. "But it's just a box. But it's huge. How does it do that? It's wood." She ran back into the ship and shook her head. "It's like a box with that room just rammed in. It's bigger on the inside."
Having mouth the last part with her, Kayla laughed and shook her head. "Is it? I hadn't noticed."
The Doctor grinned and closed the door behind Martha. Taking his long coat off, he threw it over a railing and, grabbing Kayla's hand, ran with her to the console. "All right, then, let's get going."
Martha frowned. "But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?" she pointed out.
"It's just us," the Doctor answered, and then smiled over at Kayla. "Just us and our future child."
"Speaking of our child," Kayla started, "Martha will you please do us the honor of doing my ultrasound?"
Her eyes widening, Martha nodded. "Of course I will."
"Then welcome aboard Miss Jones.
"Likewise, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Harkness."
And I'm back! I'm so sorry for leaving for a month, camp and all, but now I will be resuming normal posting schedule, which means Love With The Doctor will be updated every Saturday!
For this chapter, I loved it. I could really see Kayla trying to be nice but the stress getting to her and making her snap a lot at Martha and the Doctor as a result. Also, as Martha seemed to really grow on Kayla, I like how she wanted Martha to do her ultrasound, which is apart of her first prenatal.
And now...review time:
grapejuice101: Thanks!
NicoleR85: Thank you!
ThisIsMeAndYou: Yeah, Rose really wasn't a good companion idea. Plus, I see the Doctor and Kayla traveling by themselves for a bit so they aren't used to having someone running with them and asking questions. No, Martha will have no feelings for the Doctor. If anything, she'll see them as family.
Myrtle Turtle 1: Thank you so much for the amazing review. I'm glad that you liked the direction with Rose, and I also am glad that you're excited about the baby Time Tot. Martha and Kayla will be fairly good friends because Martha isn't trying to steal the Doctor anything. As for her true name...I don't know. I have an idea for the 50th special that will go with that but only if I think it will actually work. Part of me feels like that's a life she's put in her past. With Jack's daughter, Kayla would be very happy that he moved on and glad to see him having a family. How they'll get along however...spoilers. ;)
And that's all for now! Thank you so much for reading, I am so sorry for the wait, and see you next week.