Author's Notes: I do not own Doctor Who or any of the many, many characters I've taken by now. There must be a lot. Thanks for the reads and reviews. Hope you enjoy this chapter and happy reading!

Author's Notes Again: When I first published this, I screwed up my Second Doctor companions. It was Zoe, not Victoria, who got her memory wiped. So, sorry and I changed it.

John and Amy entered to see the Doctor sitting on the sofa next to Georgiana.

"Yes, I know, Georgiana, I'm sure you could do a better job than Mummy, but she doesn't think you're tall enough to reach the pedals. Or the hand brake, really. Not to even consider looking out the windscreen." He looked up. "Amelia Pond!"

"Doctor?," asked Amy with a quizzical look.

"Well, come here, give us a hug!"

"You changed," said Amy.

"I do that from time to time," he said. He held his arms out. Amy ran and gave the Doctor a hug.

The Doctor stood back and took a look at John. "Human Time Lord metacrisis. How did that happen?"

"Hand in a jar." John looked at the Doctor. Is this what he would have turned into? Had the Doctor already turned into this? Bow tie? Braces?

"Right, well, lots of work to do, very little time and seeing as how I broke out of Gallifrey for this, we had better make it good, hadn't we?"

"You broke out of Gallifrey?," asked John.

The Doctor ignored him. "Go pick up Georgiana, she's been waiting for hours," said the Doctor. "And where have you been? She says you disappear for five days a week, for roughly the same amount of time at the same time. What are you up to?"

John went to pluck Georgiana from her walker. "Work. It's called work."

"Work?," asked the Doctor with disdain. "With a boss? And a clock you punch in and out of?"

"We had to go to sensitivity training," said Amy. "It was Jack's fault really."

"Jack? Is Jack here?," asked the Doctor.

"No," said Amy. "He went to dinner with the lady running the seminar. He says he'll catch up later."

John looked up. The Oracle had entered with Mayantha and Donna. It was a new regeneration, one he had never seen, one who had never existed. Mayantha gave him a hug and John turned his attention to the Oracle.

"Hello," said John.

"So, the famous John Smith," she said with a smile. "Mayantha couldn't stop speaking of you."

"Oracle!," said Amy. She squaled with delight and ran to give the Oracle a well-received hug. "You look so different, but you sound the same."

"She always does," said John absentmindedly.

"Not quite. I think my second was a bit more sarcastic," said the Oracle.

The Doctor cleared his throat. "Okay then. Better get cracking. Now, what is Bad Wolf?"

John sat. "One of the Doctor's former companions was called Rose Tyler."

"Oh," said the Doctor, "universe hole puncher girl."

"Oh, my God, they've heard of her," said Donna.

"Yes," said John. "She looked into the Time Vortex and became the Bad Wolf-"

"Why would she look into the Time Vortex?," asked the Oracle. "Was she an idiot?"

"Well... See she was trying to save the Doctor's life and she opened up the heart of the TARDIS-"

"She did what?," asked the Doctor.

"What?," echoed the Oracle and Mayantha.

Donna looked at them. "Sorry, am I missing something?"

"The TARDIS is a living thing," explained the Oracle. "You don't just open it up and have a look. How is she alive?"

"The Doctor's ninth self gave his life for her," said John, starting to feel embarassed at this whole story. It had been a long time since he had to explain himself to other Time Lords, not that he had ever cared for it anyway, but he knew if Rose had done what she did in this universe, they probably would have wiped her memory and sent her back to her time like Jamie and Zoe. At the very least.

"The ninth," said the Oracle. She looked at Donna. "Wouldn't have pegged him for a sacrifice his life for a companion type."

"It was difiificult for him," John managed to stammer out. "She was his first companion after the Time War. He was very attached to her."

"Alright, girl absorbs the Time Vortex, girl becomes Bad Wolf, presumably Doctor absorbs Time Vortex from girl and girl goes back to being a regular human, but she didn't. Not for long anyway. What happened next?," asked the Doctor.

"She got trapped in this dimension. She started trying to find a way back to the Doctor."

"So," said the Doctor, "the energy was just taken away, leaving a hole, that got filled with more dimensional crossing stuff, until she finally becomes the Bad Wolf again."

"And she has the power of a god," said the Oracle. "Presumably, you don't know where to find her?"

"No, she's been working with the Silence," said John.

"Yes, but what has she been doing?" He paused. "Mayantha said she crashed your wedding."

"Yes," said John.

"Where did you find her?," asked the Doctor.

"The linen cupboard in the en suite in the Master Bedroom," said Donna.

"Right!," said the Doctor hopping over the back of the sofa. "Where's your bedroom?"

"What do you need in our bedroom for?," asked Donna.

The chase began up the stairs as the Doctor started flinging open doors, with everyone following him.

"Oh, football fan!," said the Doctor, shutting Josh's door.

"What do you think is in our bedroom?," John asked, balancing Georgiana.

"I think Rose Tyler was in your bedroom for a reason, that whatever she was doing there wasn't an accident." He finally opened the door to the Master Bedroom. "Ah! Here we are! Grown up room!"

He entered and looked at the Oracle. "Can you hear that?"

"Yes, I can definitely hear that," she said, looking around the room.

"Sorry, what are you looking for?," asked Donna.

"Yeah, I was sort of wondering that, too," said Amy.

"Something that shouldn't be there," the Doctor said, making Donna cringe as he walked on the bed.

"So sorry," said the Oracle, "he was raised in the Wastelands by savages."

"I was not! Just in the summer!"

The Doctor stopped at the night table and took out his sonic screwdriver. He waved it across as he scanned and stopped.

"Whose clock is this?"

Donna looked. "I don't know. It's just been there."

"It has a perception filter on it, like my TARDIS, makes it so you don't notice it," said the Doctor.

Donna rolled her eyes. "Your TARDIS is a big blue box in my sitting room. I noticed it."

"Well, not exactly like his TARDIS," said the Oracle.

"What about the clock?," asked John.

"Let's find out," said the Doctor.

He pointed the sonic screwdriver at the clock and activated it. The casing on the clock came open, revealing a...

"A Time Cube!," said the Doctor.

"A what?," asked Donna.

"A tiny piece of the Time Vortex that the Time Bureau uses to try to understand time travel. Still packs quite a punch, though. Rose Tyler must have left this here to try and get you two to make a Time Baby."

It all started to click for John. "That's what Jack was looking for. The Silence must have taken it and had Rose bring it here. The Silence wanted us to have a Time Baby. They want to use her."

"Use her for what?," asked Donna.

"We don't really know," said the Oracle.

"They wanted to use my daughter as an assassin," said Amy. "Then they took their daughter anyway."

"We need to find the Silence," said the Doctor.

"How?," asked John. "We haven't seen them since they took Rose Tyler. Ella hasn't seen any monsters."

"Ella?," asked Mayantha.

"Oh, right, Ella can remember seeing the monsters of the Silence," said John.

"She can remember seeing the monsters of the Silence?," asked the Oracle.

"Yes," said Donna.

"But no one can do that," said Mayantha.

"Sorry," said the Doctor, "getting this from Georgiana. Ella is the one who looks like Mummy, only smaller?"

"My daughter," said Donna.

"Have you seen them?," asked the Oracle.

Donna shrugged. "I must have. I remember seeing S&M pirate fetish lady."

"Right, she's always with them," said the Oracle. She stepped closer to Donna. "And you never did anything you don't remember why you did it?"

"No, I mean, I saw her at this fertility clinic and she wanted to do things, but it was just too creepy," said Donna.

"Oh, Donna," said John, "that is just too brilliant."

"What?," asked Donna.

"You and the other Donna. You both have great big minds, whole universes start forming around you."

"Right!," said the Doctor. "You and multiverse saving Donna, you're both made out of the same stuff! That's how you can resist the Silence, must be the same reason Ella can remember seeing them! She's got your big mind!"

"Then why can't Donna remember seeing them?," asked Amy.

"She's too grown up, head too full of numbers and reports and mortgages and gym memberships and-"

"Gym memberships?," Donna cut in at the Doctor. "What are you saying?"

"Sorry, I don't really know anything about being a grown up," said the Doctor. "I was guessing."

"So," said John, "we know what they've done, we sort of know what they want, but where are they?"

"They won't have gone far," said the Doctor. "Now, Georgiana says the not quite as big as Mummy and Daddy people are home."

"She says what?," asked Donna.

"Mummy! We're home!," shouted Ella from downstairs.

"There's a blue box in the sitting room!," Josh echoed.

"Oh, well, that does make sense now," said John.

Lydia had been sitting in the TARDIS console room for hours. She wished her parents had bothered asking her if she wanted to go to Earth, she certainly didn't and as bad as it was at home, would much rather be in her room right now, not wondering what was on the other side of that door. She hadn't been able to hear anything since her father shut the door at Donna's insistence, she didn't want her baby wandering into a spaceship. She wondered how much longer they would be.

How long could it possibly take to defeat the Silence and the Bad Wolf?

Tentatively, Lydia stepped towards the door as the TARDIS gave an encouraging hum. She rolled her eyes in exasperation. The ship was always in her head, in a way she couldn't cope with. It wasn't like the others Mayantha had shown her at the TARDIS cultivation center, her mother said it was because it had lived so long and seen so much. It was always nudging her and now it wanted her to open the door.

So, she relented. She opened the door and stepped outside.

"Oh, hello," said Donna. She was picking up some papers. "You must be Lydia. I'm Donna."

"Hi."

There was a gulf of silence between them.

"Your parents are in the back garden, so's your sister."

Lydia couldn't bear the idea of going outside. "I'm fine."

Donna nodded. "Are you hungry? We just ate. Thai takeaway."

"I'm fine."

John came down the stairs. "Donna, Ella needs your hep with the homework, it's history, I don't know anything after Queen Victoria gets killed." He stopped and looked at Lydia. "Oh, hello!"

Lydia froze. Seeing her dad's old self in front of her was just too much. The last time she had seen that face, he was dying, telling her it wasn't her fault and he would do it all again for her. He was babbling, trying to explain regeneration in the short time he had left, leaving her nothing but confused. She had just been saved, just accepted that she had a family, that maybe she wasn't alone with the monsters. Then he was gone.

"I should be getting back," said Lydia, rushing back into the TARDIS and shutting the door.

Donna looked at John. "She's a little shy. Understandable, I suppose."

"Yeah," said John.

"Has your eyes, though."

John shook his head. "She looks just like the Oracle's last regeneration. Sorry, my, the Doctor's-"

Donna smiled. "Don't get into a tizzy. I know what you mean." She gave him a peck on the lips. "Check on Georgiana, will you? What does he mean he speaks baby?"

"He speaks baby. He speaks everything."

Donna shook her head. "There's no such thing as speaking baby."

"You thought there was no such thing as time travel, or probably coming from a hand in a jar."

"Mummy!," shouted Ella.

"Coming!," shouted Donna. She pointed at John. "We'll discuss this later."

Donna hurried up the stairs and John turned to look at the TARDIS in his sitting room.