DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, Doctor Who or the Chronicles of Narnia. I own this plot only, and any OCs. My depictions of real life characters are based on stereotypes or suppositions and no insult is intended. I have no desire to own the series this story is based on, although if anyone could give me either a wand, TARDIS or wardrobe portal into Narnia I certainly wouldn't say no.

IMPORTANT: This is a rewrite of my story, You Are Not Alone and, as such, any resemblence to that story is intentional. No offence is meant by my portrayal of the Royal Family. I have the utmost of respect for Her Majesty the Queen and her wider family.

Author's Note: While writing this chapter, I noticed that midway through my narrative notes (my plan) I changed the Gryffindor family's ancestral birthplace from near Caerphilly in Wales to near Bodmin in Cornwall, which better fits canon of Godric's Hollow being in the West Country. I will update earlier chapters to reflect this. Apologies that this took so long!

Chapter Forty: Saving the Doctor

'If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.' J.K. Rowling, Author of Harry Potter

Location: Harry's TARDIS
Time: Unspecified

BRRRRRRING BRRRRING!

The playful banter between the Duke and Duchess of Gryffindor was interrupted by the incessant ringing of a phone sitting on the console. "Harry here!" he said into the mouthpiece as he picked the phone up.

"Harry! This is Jenny. We could really do with your help here," Harry took in the slightly frantic tone of the Cockney girl.

Harry's grin widened as he replied, "Certainly Jenny dear, anything for my favourite homosexual woman and lizard couple."

"Careful Harry or I might just bite you!" a different voice echoed through the headpiece.

"Oh, uh, hi Vastra... How's London?" Harry cringed slightly, not realising that both Vastra and Jenny were on the other end of the line.

"There is something strange afoot, young Time Lord," Vastra said, "London's snow is alive, and the Doctor will do nothing about it! He has been moping in the clouds for many months now."

"And you want me to talk to him?" Harry asked, a puzzled look crossing his face.

"Well, we can't get through to him, but we hope you can..." the Victorian Homo reptilia trailed off to let Harry think.

"Okay," Harry decides after a few moments' thought. "Give me your temporal coordinates and we'll make our way on foot from there."

"We?" Vastra's voice was full of curiosity.

"My bondmate. The Duchess of Gryffindor," Harry explained, it was after all his first year that he had last seen the Great Detective of Paternoster Row and her beautiful Cockney maid and later wife.

A few moments of banter followed before Harry returned the phone to its place and turned to Lucy, pulling her up. "Come on Lu, we're off to visit some old friends," Harry said before setting into his manic routine of piloting his marvelous time machine.

Location: Number Thirteen Paternoster Row, London, England, Earth
Time: December 1892 CE

The young Time Lord and Lady stepped out of the applewood wardrobe into the front room of Number Thirteen Paternoster Row to be greeted by the three occupants of the townhouse; Vastra, Jenny and their valet, Strax. "Vastra! Dear Jenny! And Mister Potato Head!" Harry said to sniggers from the lizard woman and her Victorian lover.

"That's Mister Potato Head, SIR!" Strax joked, having long got used to potato jokes from the Doctor and his associates. He mused that he was perhaps the only Sontaran in the universe that did not kill any person who would make a joke at his expense.

"Hey Strax," Harry greeted the Sontaran valet properly this time. "Now, introductions! Madam Vastra, Miss Flint, Mister Strax, this is my wife and bondmate, the lovely Her Royal Highness Lucy, Duchess of Gryffindor," Harry added, bringing Lucy to stand next to him, "and Lu, this is Madame Vastra, her wife Jenny Flint and their valet, the Honourable Master Strax. So where is our wayward Time Lord?"

"Up in a cloud, exactly where he has been since he lost Amelia and Rory," Vastra said, her eyes looking to the sky.

"Lost Amy and Rory?" Lucy asked in confusion. "He can visit them any time."

"No, he can't," Jenny added, stepping forward. "They were touched by Weeping Angels, the Doctor saw their headstone and he can't go back and see them again. He's been moping for near on 14 months now and he won't do anything to save the world from the danger."

Harry was silent for a moment as he thought about the Doctor's long-time companions and his own older brother and sister figures. "Well come along Lucy, lets go see what we can do about getting the Doctor back on his feet, so to speak," he finally spoke, offering his hand to his wife.

Location: Outside the Doctor's TARDIS, The Cloud over London, England, Earth
Time: December 1892 CE

Harry looked around at his long time mentor's cloud-top retreat, smiling at the ingenuity of the taller-on-the-inside staircase and the high-density water cloud platform. Slowly he reached out and hesitantly knocked on the door of the blue police box.

"Go away! There's no-one home!" Harry heard from inside and shook his head, glancing sideways at Lucy.

"Doctor! If you weren't home, you wouldn't be able to tell me that!" Harry called out as he pushed open the door, the TARDIS recognising one of its children.

"Oh, right," the Doctor sighed as Harry and Lucy took in the console room's new desktop theme. It looked similar to the default theme, very metallic and white, and yet it was far less clinical, which blue and yellow lights in the roundels and Gallifreyan writing around the top of the of the time rotor.

"Come on Doctor! Amy wouldn't want you to just waste away living on a cloud above Victorian England. And what about your other companions? Sarah Jane? Polly? Jo? Rose? Martha? Donna? Me? None of us want that, you need to keep on living, Doctor. You need adventures..."

Harry's heartfelt plea was interrupted by a small, almost inaudible tapping on the main door. "Hold that thought," the older Time Lord muttered as he stalked towards the door, leaving the younger two in his wake.

Harry and Lucy waited patiently for the Doctor to return, hearing only snippets of what was happening, "Hello? Hello? HELLO?!" catching a glimpse of a pretty young woman running from behind the TARDIS and across the cloud to the staircase and the sounds of her footsteps retreating before the Doctor returned.

"I don't need or want adventures!" The Doctor yelled suddenly, causing the couple to flinch, and after a few moments of tense silence, they took their leave from the TARDIS in silence.

Location: Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, Earth
Time: July 1995 CE

"I know that Amy and Rory are gone, but really? Does he have to be so much of a..." Harry started before trailing off, looking for the right word.

"Bastard?" Lu supplied helpfully.

"Lu!" Harry chided the auburn haired girl softly. "He's just lost his best friends. It can't be easy for him to lose his friends again and again."

Lucy's eyes widened and she nodded in a sad sort of agreement, but any reply she could voice was drowned out by a sudden grinding and groaning accompanied by the telltale draft which signified the impending arrival of a TARDIS and the Doctor stepping out. Immediately, the two Gryffindors could clearly see that something had changed in the Doctor's demeanour. He was wearing a bow tie once more and he seemed to be on the hunt for some kind answer, on an intellectual adventure.

"Harry, Lucy! I need your help!" The Doctor cried, happiness clear on his face, it seemed the Doctor had re-found his purpose in life, his joie de vivre.

"I thought you didn't want or need adventures?" Harry asked, although the accusation in the question was softened by the sparkle in Harry's eyes.

"That was before I met Clara Oswin Oswald!" The Doctor replied, putting emphasis on each word of the girl's name. "I met her on the Asylum and she died, I met her in Victorian London and she died! I've met her twice and she died twice! It's impossible but true!"

"Okay, where are we looking for her?" Harry continued his questioning after a few moments thought.

"I don't know! She could be anywhere in space and time!" The Doctor said, clearly pleased by this possibility.

"Well at least he's his chipper self again," Lucy said with a shrug after Harry glanced at her skeptically. "Come on then, let's go!" she added, starting to drag Harry and the Doctor towards the still open door of the TARDIS.