Okay, here's part two.

The Doctor was sitting in the staff room talking to one of the other teachers "Yesterday, I had a twelve year old girl give me the exact height of the walls of Troy in cubits."

"And it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?"

"Finch arrived three months ago, next day half the staff got flu." he answered "Finch replaced them with that lot. Except for the teacher you replaced, and that was just plain weird, her winning the lottery like that."

"How's that weird?" the Doctor asked

"She never played." he answered "Said the ticket was posted through her door at mignight."

"Hmm?" the Doctor said "The world is very strange."

"Excuse me, colleagues." said Mr Finch "A moment ofyour time."

The Doctor turned around and saw a very familiar face standing beside Mr Finch "May I introduce Miss Sara Jane Smith." he continued "Miss Smith is a journalist who's writing a profile about me for the Sunday Times. I thought it might be useful for her to get a veiw from the trenches, so to speak. Don't spare my blushes."

"Hello." Sarah Jane said to the Doctor

"Hello."

"And you are?"

"Mmm? Uh, Smith." he answered "John Smith."

"John Smith?" said Sarah Jane "I used to have a friend who sometimes went by that name."

"Well, it's a very common name."

"He was a very uncommon man." she said "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, too."

"So, have you worked here long?"

"No, it's only my second day." he answered.

"Oh, you're new, then?" she asked "So, what do you think of the school? I mean, this new curriculum, so many children getting ill. Doen't that strike you as odd?"

"You don't sound like someone just doing a profile."

"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here." She walked away. The Doctor grinned.

--

At the end of the day, the Doctor met Rose outside the school "So, what did you find out?"

"Well, there's this oil." she said "It burnt one of the dinner ladies, they wouldn't even let me call an ambulance. It was just weird."

"I was speaking to one of the other teachers, he told me that yesterday a 12 year old girl told him the exact height of the walls of Troy in cubits."

"So, we keep investigating, then?"

"Let's go back to your mother's for dinner and come back later and we'll bring Mickey the Idiot with us."

Rose shook her head and they walked on in silence.

--

That night after eating with Jackie, they went round to Mickey's flat. "What are you two doing?" he asked

"You up for a little infiltration and investigation?" Rose asked

"Why?"

"We're going back to the school to find out what's going on." the Doctor answered "What do you say?"

"Yeah, we'll take my car."

They walked down the stairs from Mickey's flat and got into his car.

--

They entered the school quietly. "Oh! It's weird seeing school at night." Rose said "It just feels wrong. When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in school." (AN: I did, too. Who didn't?)

"All right, team..." said the Doctor "Oh, I hate people who say 'team'. Uh, gang." Rose laughed "Erm, comrades. Anyway, Rose, go to the kitchen, get a sample of that oil. Mickey, the new staff are all maths teachers. Check out the maths department. I'm gonna look in Finch's office. Meet back here in 10 minutes." He ran up the stairs and out of sight.

"You gonna be all right?" Rose asked Mickey.

"Me?" asked Mickey "Please. Infiltration and investigation? I'm an expert at this." he walked off. Rose stood waiting. He turned around. "Where's the maths department?"

"Down there, turn left, through the fire doors, on the right."

"Thank you." Mickey said and he walked off, this time in the right direction. Rose headed to the kitchens. She got a large sample of the oil, just incase he wanted to run it several times.

--

The Doctor headed towards Finch's office, making a detour via where the Tardis was, wanting to stop Sarah Jane from finding it, if she was there. He stopped walking when he saw her backing out of the room that the Tardis was hidden in. She turned around and saw him "Hello, Sarah Jane." he said

"It's you." she said "Doctor. Oh, my God. It's you, isn't it? You've regenerated."

"Yeah." he replied "Half a dozn times since we last met."

"You look...incredible." she said

"So do you."

"I got old." she said "What are you doing here?"

"Well, UFO sighting, school gets record results." he answered "I couldn't resist. What about you?"

"The same." she answered "I thought you'd died. I waited for you, you didn't come back and I thought you must have died."

"I lived." the Doctor replied "Everyone else died."

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone died, Sarah."

"I can't believe it's you." she said

Suddenly there was a scream, the two of them ran. They ran into Rose "Did you hear that?" she asked. "Who's she?"

"Rose, Sarah Jane." said the Doctor, knowing that by the look on Rose's face, he was in trouble "Sarah Jane, Rose."

"Hi." said Sarah "Nice to meet you. You can tell you're getting older, your assistants are getting younger."

"I'm not his assistant."

"No?" asked Sarah. "Get you, tiger."

They ran on.

--

Mickey was in one of the maths classrooms picking up stuff from the floor when they found him "Sorry." he said "Sorry, it was only me. You told me to investigate, so I started looking through these cupboards and all these fell out on me."

"Oh, my God, they're rats." said Rose "Dozens of rats. Vacuum-packed rats!"

"And you decided to scream?" asked the Doctor

"It took me by surprise."

"Like a little girl."

"It was dark!" Mickey said "I as covered in rats!"

"Nine, maybe ten years old." the Doctor said "I'm seeing pigtails, frilly skirt."

"Hello, can we focus?" asked Rose. "Has anyone noticed anything strange about this? Rats in school?"

"Well, obviously, they use them in biology lessons, they dissect them." said Sarah Jane "Or maybe you haven't reached that bit yet. How old are you?"

"Excuse me, no one dissect rats in school anymore." Rose said "They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the Dark Ages?"

"Anyway!" said the Doctor "Moving on... Everything started when Mr Finch arrived. We should go and check his office."

--

"I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose asked

"Sarah Jane Smith." she answered "I used to travel with the Doctor."

"Oh!" said Rose "Well, he's never mentioned you."

"Oh, I must've done." said the Doctor "Sarah Jane. I mention her all the time."

"Hold on, sorry...never." said Rose.

"What, not even once?" asked Sarah "He didn't mention me even once?" The two of them walked off leaving the Doctor and Mickey together. The Doctor felt the other man's hand on his shoulder and knew that he was about to gloat

"Oh, mate." he said "The missus and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nightmare."

Okay and that's part two. Part three will be up as soon as possible.

TTFN

Julie