Author's Note: Hey, Guys, this chapter is basically a small ending to the disaster of Doomsday and a bit of an intro to 'Smith and Jones' which I'll cover in the sequel, which makes this the last chapter.
Disclaimer: Well, I didn't get Doctor Who for Christmas so I guess I still don't own it :(
7. Moving On
Sarah Jane was doing the dishes when she heard it, the unmistakable sound of the TARDIS. She sighed, as much as she loved seeing The Doctor, his visits usually brought trouble with them too. The last time she had seen him and Rose had been when they visited her on her birthday and the guests got nearly eaten by a two-headed alien. It had been hell to sort that out, in the end, she had managed to calm everyone down and convince them not to tell anybody. She went up the stairs and to the attic, where the sound had come from and was indeed greeted by the TARDIS. She waited until the doors opened and The Doctor to come out, except he didn't. This worried her, was he even in there? She took a step forward, about to knock on the door, when she heard the door click. The TARDIS had opened the door for her! This confirmed her suspicions, something was definitely wrong.
She pushed the door slowly open and walked into the console room. Nothing seemed to be wrong here, but just the mere view of a Doctor-less console room activated the alarm bells in her head, maybe he got injured or captured or something worse.
"What's wrong? Where's The Doctor." She asked the TARDIS, hoping that she could give here some information.
The TARDIS' response came in flicking light around the screen on the console, making it clear that she needed to read this, so she did.
Medical file ~ 8th July 2007 14:47
Species: Human
Name: Rose Marion Tyler
Birth date: 27th April 1987
Gender: Female
Blood Type: B Positive
~8~
Important Abnormality:
Pregnant Test: Positive
Father: The Doctor
Gender: Male
Duration: 24 Days
Sarah Jane gasped, Rose was pregnant with The Doctor's child. That was something she wasn't expected. At least not exactly. She was one of the few people who knew that they had started dating, not that they had been planning on telling her. But snogging in her living room while she was getting tea hadn't exactly been the smartest thing to do if they had wanted it to stay a secret. But she hadn't expected it to go so far, well, she actually had, just not so soon. After seeing the two of them together, not hiding their feelings, they were just so cute together, not that she would ever tell them that.
That was when she realised something else, she knew that something must be wrong, otherwise, they would've been here and told her the news themselves and the TARDIS had let her in and showed her this information in an attempt to tell her what was wrong. She paled.
Did something happen to Rose!
She read the file again and noticed a horrible piece of information, which was the date of the file. The battle of Canary Wharf had taken place on 8th July!
Oh no!
"She died, didn't she?" She asked the TARDIS. The answer was a clear negative.
"She didn't die?" Positive
"Something did happen right?" Positive. She nodded to herself, the reason the TARDIS was here was probably because he was heartbroken and needed comfort.
"Where is he?" The lights flashed in the direction of the hallway and she took off. She followed the lights into a hallway and noticed something that made her stop in her tracks. There was a trail of blood on the wall. She didn't have to guess who it belonged to, there was only one option. She sighed and braced herself for the mess she most likely was going to find and started following the lights again. The lights led to Rose's room, well she knew it was actually their shared room, Rose had told her that. She took a deep breath and opened the door. What she saw next broke her heart. The Doctor was lying on the right side of the bed, hugging a huge teddy bear to dead as he was sobbing. His right hand was bleeding and clearly broken, that explained the blood on the wall, he must've punched it.
She sighed.
"Oh, Doctor." She walked to him and pulled him into an embrace, he promptly clung to her and cried into her chest. She ran her fingers through his hair in an attempt to soothe him a bit. They sat like this for a few moments when he had calmed down enough to speak a bit.
"I lost her." His voice was hoarse from the crying and clearly broken.
"What happened?" She asked he took a deep breath.
"Canary wharf." He took another breath. "She's not dead."
"I know, the TARDIS already told me that." He let out another sob.
"Did she tell... about the baby?" He asked.
"Yeah, she did. I'm so sorry Doctor." She felt the tears in her own eyes but fought them as she knew that he needed someone strong to comfort him, not someone who would cry with him. She would cry over the loss of Rose and the baby Time Lord later once the adult Time Lord had calmed down and had left.
"What am I going to do now?" He said after a while when he looked at her, not even trying to look normal, not that he could hide his sadness if he tried.
"How about we start with taking care of that hand." She carefully lifted his broken right hand, despite that he hissed out in pain.
"That might be a good idea." He said through gritted teeth.
"Come on, get up." She pulled him up and he complied, he still looked like he was about to break down again and wasn't initiating anything apparently. It was so unlike him, that she was wondering if he would recover from this. Whether he would actually be able to move on. She took his left hand and slowly led him out of the room to the infirmary.
"Here sit down." She said as she led him to one of the beds and then looked around the infirmary. She was relieved to see that he hadn't changed the layout, so she knew where to find everything she needed. She had learnt how to take care of broken bones from her travels, he had once nasty broken his foot and had a few dislocated bones. She had been given instructions on how to properly plaster him and she still knew how to do it.
She grabbed the device that allowed her to make a scan of his hand to know the extent of the damage, a device that would set the bones if they were dislocated and some futuristic plaster which was basically some sort of glove that would harden. She walked back to him and carefully lifted his hand again.
"Can you support it yourself so I can scan it?" She asked him and he nodded as he grabbed the wrist of his broken arm in his healthy hand, she scanned the hand and saw that he had indeed dislocated three of his bones.
"You dislocated some of your bones, I'll set them for you." He nodded and she moved to grab the device that would do that and carefully put it over his hand.
"I don't have to say that this is going to hurt, right?" He shook his head, he clearly had lost any ability to speak again.
She activated the device and he hissed in pain, she slowly moved the device towards the other bones to fix them. Eventually, the device gave a beep indicating that the bones were set.
"Okay, now I'll just plaster it, okay?" He nodded again, she carefully out on the glove on his hand and it hardened.
"Okay, all set, would you like some tea?" he nodded once again, her heart broke at the lost look in his eyes, she vowed to stay with him until he was feeling a bit better, although, she had her doubts whether this would happen.
Thankfully she was proved wrong, he quickly recovered a bit, he helped in the housework and gave his opinion about some of the aliens she came across, she forbade him to go out fighting them, as he still had his broken arm. He spend a lot of time with Luke, after learning the story of his creation, he helped him with his homework or just explaining something, she wouldn't even begin to understand and sometimes the things every teenage male ( and apparently Time Lord males were included in that list.) had to learn, she was really grateful that she didn't have to figure out how to teach Luke or that Luke had to figure these things out all on his own, Luke needed all the help to comprehend, to not have someone to teach him something most kids got taught would make it only more difficult for him to adapt.
She was glad that The Doctor still was capable of functioning, unfortunately, she still found him on his own in pretty much the same way as she had found him the first day, or just with this lost expression. She had hidden the keys to the TARDIS, in a place he would never look, until she would think him fit enough to travel again, she was considering giving him the requirement of finding a new companion to keep an eye on him, but she wasn't planning on letting him leave anytime soon anyway, he needed to process what had happened at least a bit before he could go on adventures again. What confirmed her idea that he wasn't ready yet, was the fact that he hadn't objected at all to this, a very uncharacteristic move for him as he would normally run away screaming at the mere thought of staying put in one place for too long.
He, however, had her worried three weeks after he had arrived, he was going out on his own shopping, something he had been doing for several times, when he didn't come back. They had looked for him the whole afternoon and had eventually called it a night, they hadn't gone to the police as he wasn't human and somehow Mr Smith nor K9 could track him down. The next day they went, of course, looking for him again. She was walking through a street he would've passed on his way to the shops, for what felt like the millionth time that day, when she noticed something weird. There was a huge black cloud on top of the hospital and just the hospital.
Okay, that's weird.
Then she noticed that that was not the only weird thing going on.
The rain was going up!
All of a sudden there was a flash and then the hospital was gone!
"Oh my…." Sarah Jane breathed, then the pieces of the puzzle fell together and she was not happy with the results.
If it turns out that he was in that hospital the whole time, I'll kill him into his next regeneration once he gets back!
"The baby is still growing at the same rate as usual, about three times as slow as a normal human baby." the doctor that she was visiting told Rose.
"Any complications?"
"None as we can see."
"Good." she nodded, although she was a thousand miles away, as she always was when she was visiting the torchwood doctor, somehow she always had to think of The Doctor when she was visiting that doctor. She wanted The Doctor to be the one screening her pregnancy, but as she was here she always got reminded of the fact that The Doctor wasn't here. She just hoped that it would be over soon, then she could direct her thoughts somewhere else easier.
"Was that it?"
"Yeah, you may go now, miss Tyler."
"Thank you." She stood up and left the examination room, which was located on floor 12 of Torchwood, she herself worked at floor 18 as an alien expert, there had been no debate about it, she wouldn't go out for field work because she was pregnant. It made sense and she actually liked this job, giving her opinion and advice about the aliens. Of course, she would've like field work better than this, but she wouldn't argue as it was the better for the baby.
She still missed The Doctor but at this point, she had the feeling that she could manage without him, however, she hoped that she would somehow get back to him before the baby is born.
But for now, she would make sure that she and the baby would stay healthy.
To Be continued in: Trying To Forget.
Author's Note: Thank you for bearing with me this long, like I said before there will be a sequel which will be an AU of series 3 and 4 up to and including Turn Left, I am planning on adding Journey's End in the third part (wow I'm thinking ahead :O). The sequel will only cover the things that are AU and not the things that are practically the same, so basically what I've done with The Runaway Bride.
