Chapter Seven-Doctor's POV

Warning: Lot's of dialoge, bear with me here.

"Oh! You were brilliant!" I told Lexi proudly as we walked through the door of the TARDIS, "I mean, you totally and completely confused them!"

"It was just some ballet positions, tap steps, and a few simpiler breakdancing movies." She replied modestly, laughing.

"You had those adaptiod repeat units going in circles!"

"It's not my fault they can't dance!" We both burst in to peels of laughter as I wandered over to the consol and sent us into the Time Vortex.

"Where to now? I was thinking 18-" My train of thought was cut off as a ringing sound filled the Tardis. It sounded like a phone. A Phone? A working phone? A cell phone!!!! As I realized what it was I jumped to a pocket in the consol and pulled out Martha's cell phone. For being the one to leave me, she certainly called alot.

Listen
Can you hear me now
Can you hear me I'm callin' for lovin'
Hear me
Won't you listen now
Can you hear me I'm callin' for lovin'

I held up a finger to Lexi to quiet her while I answered the phone.

"Ello?"

"Doctor!" replied Martha. I could almost hear the smile in her voice. God she was clingy!

"Yes, Martha?" I asked, "What's the big emergency now? Slitheen in Downing Street? Cybermen in the sky? Daleks in Manhatten? Is it those rotten Sontarans again?"

Martha laughed, "Even worse, you have to put on that tux of yours and come to my wedding."

"Oh!" I remembered, "Right you're getting married! To what's his name, the doctor who isn't nearly as important as me. Ten? Tim? Tan?"

"Tom. Tom Milligan, and I expect you to remember that and not insult him at the wedding. Also, no alien talk yeah?"

"Oi! Who said I was going? I don't do domestic remember? Besides, that tux is seriously bad luck. Do you want aliens to attack your friends and family again?"

"Oh no! You're coming! You can buy a new tux for all I care and Donna too."

"Oh, Donna isn't, um, here. She went back home…..errr….without her memory."

"She lost her memory!"

"It's a long story."

"Good. You can tell me when you get here, the day before the wedding. Tom wanted to have it on Christmas, but I know that you and christmas don't really mesh so I convinced him to move it to January 3rd. Come by my Mum's house by twelve noon on the 2nd that's where we'll all be, ok?"

I sighed, "Fine. We'll be there."

"We'll? Who's we? Donna's gone and I'm just guessing here, but it isn't Rose and your freaky look alike."

"Oh! Her name is Lexi. She's great. Met her in a pub!"

"Sounds like she's fun."

I laughed and glanced over at Lexi once and grined.

"Yeah, she is. And…I guess you'll get to meet her, because I really have no choice do I?"

"Nope!" She gloated. "See you soon!"

"Yeah, yeah." I smiled and shut the phone. She hadn't changed that much. I turned to Lexi and said,

"I guess we are going to be going to a wedding, whether I like it or not." She laughed at me and nodded.

"So?" She said coming over and placing her hand in mine which I had extended, "Martha?" I nodded. "She's the one who ditched you?" Again I nodded. "Can't wait to meet her!" She said laughing at me. I rolled my eyes.

I leaned over to the consol, flippped a switch and set a date. "Well you won't have to. Come on, lets get this over with." We landed and I pulled her towards the door. As we went she grabbed her bag filled with her drawing supplies and sketchbook. I grinned and shut the door behind us.

She looked around a bit and then much to my amusment started walking away is if she knew exactlly where she was going. I grabbed on to the strap of her bag and chuckling I pulled her back.

"First of all, her house is that way," I said pointing the opposite direction from which she had been walking, "and second," I paused looking serious for a moment before grinning at her, "I think that it's high time I gave you this." I pulled out a spare key I had made the night before and slid it down over her head and around her neck. It hung there looking like it was ment to be there always and she grinned up at me.

"A key…" She said as it dawned on her, "…to the Tardis?! For me!?" She pressed her hand to her chest, her fingers brushing against the key that now rested there.

"Yup!" I laughed at her excitement, "Go forth and wear it proudly! And don't lose it! Come on then."

I grabbed her hand, flashed her a grin, and we took off.

Standin' in the street, shaved, I'm washed and neat
And the time is mine
But I don't even know where I'm goin'
Been too long in town, just workin' right tied down

I banged on the door rather loudly and nervously. It had been awhile since I had last seen Martha's mum and I wasn't looking forward to it.

I heard a crash from behind the door and Martha called, "Could someone get the bloodly door!"

I smirked and glancing over my shoulder at Lexi I said, "That's good ol' Martha for ya'."

As I turned back, the door swung open and there stood a very unhappy looking Francine Jones. "Oh, its you!" She sneered at me.

I forced at grin and grabbing her hand shook it hard, "Francine! How wonderful it is to see you again! You look marvalous, how's the family?"

She scowled at me and made to shut the door, "I'll not let you take her from me again Doctor."

"Mum!" I heard Martha call from another room and soon her head popped out from behind a door. She hurried over and giving her mum a look she re-opened the door. "Doctor!", she squealed and threw her arms around my neck.

"Martha Jones!" I squeezed her back and lifted her of the ground breifly before letting go. "But not for long. What is it then? Martha Milligan? Double M, rotten luck!"

She just laughed at me and said, "You have no room to talk about last names when you go around telling people your name is John Smith. Come on inside."

I took Lexi's hand and pulled her inside. "No aliens here. No reason to be nervous, unless Francine decides to turn us over to the government again." I shot a bemused look at Martha's mother who was still fuming.

Martha shook her head and turned to her mum. "Mum! I'm getting married. I'm not about to run away again. Besides he doesn't need me anymore." Here she turned to Lexi and extended her hand, "I'm Martha by the way."

"Lexi." Said Lexi who had been silient up till then, "Nice to finally meet you. I've heard your name mentioned often as the only one who managed to get out realativly unscathed." They both laughed and I coughed uncomfortably.

Martha nodded, "At the time, I thought it was the end of the world, but I moved on, lived my life. You will too one day," She paused and met my gaze before continuing almost darkly, "Or you'll wish you had." I nodded in agreement. She spoke the truth. Lexi would learn this soon or later. I hoped it was sooner, before it was too late.

"But I'm glad he found you," She continued smilling again, "I reckon you'll be good for him. Someone to distract him from his moping."

"Actually," I said caustiously, "Lexi just stops and listens to my 'moping'. I mean, actually listens and understands. She's an artist. I talk, she draws. It actually really helps." Lexi nodded in agreement, but I noticed she didn't make a move to show Martha her drawings. She and I both knew how personal those were, to both of us now.

Martha breezed over it and asked, "Really? How far are you?"

"I just finished telling her about the time Rose and I went to the 2012 Olypics."

"Oh." Martha said. I hadn't told her my entire history with Rose when she was traveling with me, but she knew what happened next; Canary Warf. She nodded her head in understanding.

Suddenly we were interupted by a bang on the door. "As if there weren't enough people shoved in here!" muttered Francine as she opened the door and bustling in came Mickey, followed by Sarah Jane and her son Luke.

I grinned and called out to them, "Well! If it isn't my favorite Smiths!" They all turned to look at me as if they'd heard ghost (which was rediculous because I was very much not dead) and Mickey called out,

"Doctor! What you doing here?"

"Wouldn't miss Martha's wedding for all of time and space." Behind me Martha snorted and I heard Lexi giggle. I shot them a look that feigned innocence (and annoyance) and reached out a hand to Lexi. She walked over and threaded her fingers through mine. "Right then, introducions! This is Mickey Smith, but you may call him Rickey."

"I really thought we'd moved past that." Said Mickey unhappily but leting a grin slip through his scowl.

I ignored him, "This is Sarah Jane, she's the former compainion who Rose, mister Mickey, and I ran into in that school. Remember the story?" She nodded shaking there hands. "And this is her son…Luke, right? Luke, I don't believe we've met, I'm the Doctor."

"I know." He said eyes wide as if metting a movie star. This perterbed me a bit, even though he had every right to be so amazed by my presence, so I switched the focus away from me and to Lexi. "And this, is Lexi. She's a singer, an actress, a dancer, and an artist and I must say I'm a bit jealous of the last one. However, I'd like to point out, I can sculpt. I learned from Michelangelo himself."

Lexi turned to me in surprise, "You went to the Renaissance and didn't learn how to draw!"

"Well, I was in a bit of a rush, trouble in ancient Rome. Remember?" She nodded once again catching the reference to a story, which was more than just a story to me.

"Right!" said Martha changing the subject because no one else knew what Lexi and I were talking about, "I promised my mum we'd get out of the house before she has a heart attack. So, lets go over to the hotel down the street from the church and book the rooms for you lot."

"Err…" I said slowly pulling at my ear awkwardly, "I think I'll stay in the Tardis."

"Oh! Come on!" said Lexi smacking my arm playfully, "You're so set in your ways. Go with the flow and at least try to be normal for once."

"But normal is boring. And speaking of not normal, is Jack coming?"

"He said he had some sorta' big alien thing to deal with all the way in northern Scotland or something." answered Martha sounding a tad bit upset before she brightened up and said, "Alright then, off we go!"

And our odd little group of time travelers walked out the door into busy bustling London where we blended into the crowd, and for once, looked normal.

Get me on down, get me into the place
Where the beat of the street, and the people that meet
Take the blues far away
'Cause I'm lonely, ya baby I'm lonely
And life still goes on where I'm goin'

Notes: Reference-Stone Rose by: Jacqueline Rayner- Song: Life Still Goes On (I'm Lonely) By: Bachman-Turner Overdrive