Not Dead

Charnel house

Dorium's box is being returned to its pedestal by two cloaked figures.

"Who's carrying me? I demand to know. I'm a head, I have rights. I want my doors open this time. I demand that my doors are open." Dorium shouted. The figure opens his door and turns to leave. "Is it you? It is, isn't it. It is you two, I can sense it. But how did you do it? How could you two possibly have escaped?"

Calisto B space bar

"Is there nothing else we can do?" Carter asked.

The Doctor and Susan leaves, then pops back again with a big grin on their face. "Actually, thinking about it could Susan and I borrow your suit?"

"I'm sorry, it only works for one person." Carter apologized.

"Doctor, you use it." Susan said, giving The Doctor a painful smile. "I'll figure something else out."

The Doctor opens his mouth to argue.

Recepter Room

"Look into my eye." The Doctor whispered. The Doctor waves at River from the eyeball of the Teselecta.

Pyramid Base

Only Amy, River and Jack are in the room, everyone else is gone and on all the door exits are the same device that Amy had put on the door of the train carriage to be able to talk to Susan alone. "-but will this work?" River was asking Jack.

Jack inspected the same needle that Amy had stabbed Susan with on the train. "It should. It worked for Rex and Vera. We need someone to adm-"

"I'll do it." Amy volunteered, interrupting Jack.

Charnel house

The Doctor, along with Susan, removes their cloaks. "The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor suit. Time said I had to be on that beach, so I dressed for the occasion. Barely got singed in that boat." The Doctor said.

"And when I died, the Tardis immediately transported my body into her Medbay where Jack was waiting for me." Susan said. "With Jack's blood addition to my body, my Time Lord TNA reacted accordingly and I am now able to regenerate properly."

Tardis Medbay

Susan drops to the floor of the Tardis as soon as she transported her out of there. A replacement body from the Torchwood morgue, in her place besides the lake. The body had a shape similar to Susan and they had accessorized it ahead of time with the same clothes she was wearing along with a glued on wig and face mask.

The Tardis was watching Amelia in Susan and Jack's bedroom.

Susan collapsed to the ground, screaming in pain as she felt the effects of Jack's spacesuit shot. Jack came running in from the console room, having watched everything unfold from the monitors. Jack's eyes were red. He had been crying.

"Susan!" Jack yelled, running to Susan's curled up form on the floor of the medical room on the Tardis. Jack kneeled down next to Susan, putting his hands out to rest on Susan's side, but stopped, hesitating just above her. "Susan, come on! Please fight it!"

After a couple minutes of Susan curled up in pain, bright yellow and orange light starts coming from around her neck, wrists and ankles.

"No." Breathed Jack, watching in horror as his wife's regeneration energy got stronger and stronger. The regeneration energy grew and grew until it exploded out, pushing Jack back from the force of it. It lasted for a couple seconds, then Susan reappeared… with the same body. "How?" Jack whispered in amazement, then lunged forward and caught his wife as she toppled over, unconscious.

"You weren't able to before?" Dorium asked. "Wait, don't answer that. It'll be a long winded sciency explanation that I won't be able to understand. So you're going to do this? Let them all think you're dead?" Dorium asked.

"It's the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows."

"And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?"

"Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that's between her and me, eh?" The Doctor said and Susan laughed.

"What about Jack?" Dorium asked. "He did officially kill you. The records stated it."

Susan glanced at The Doctor then back at Dorium. "That's for me and my husband to know. I won't run the risk of someone finding out."

"So many secrets, Doctor, Susan. I'll help you keep them, of course."

"Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?"

"But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you. The fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question."

"Goodbye, Dorium." The Doctor said, turning around with Susan.

"The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doctor Who."

Torchwood Command Complex

1st Person- POV (Susan)

The Tardis materialises in the control room. Jack and I walked out and I immediately called a meeting for Alpha members.

"What's this about, Susan?" Rex asked.

"Um... I'm not sure how to explain this, but I had a crazy nemesis after me. I had to fake my death in order to survive."

"Fake your death?!" Exclaimed Gwen, shocked.

"I know. I know. But since I am not supposed to be alive, I can't help with Torchwood anymore. Or Terra Firma."

There were exclamations of protest all around the table.

"Listen." I said, sighing. "I hate this as much as you, but I think it would be best if Jack and I left the planet for a while and come back when Amelia can handle herself. We're supposed to be lying low and I can't do that by helping Earth's first human-alien interaction government. That would only jepordise the people I am helping and put my life... and my daughter's in even greater danger."

"So... you're leaving?" Tosh asked.

"Only until Amelia is of age. Then we'll be back. don't worry though, we'll use the Tardis. In a year from now, we'll be back."

Drax Three, Constellation of Synthia 35,147,347,823 light years from Earth

August 3rd, 4023

The Doctor was leaning against the side of his Tardis as Jack, and I stood in front of our new farmhouse on the outskirts of Draxiar, the Planet's largest city. Amelia was asleep comfortably in my arms.

"Are you sure about this?" The Doctor asked again.

I smiled. "I'm sure. I want as normal a life as I can give to Amelia. I won't be able to have that on Earth."

"Alright." The Doctor said. "I guess I'll see you in eighteen years."

"No. You will see us for Amelia's 1st birthday party in May." I said, playfully glaring at The Doctor. "And for the ones after that. You are not out of this that quickly, Doctor."

The Doctor smiled as I hugged him. "Stay safe, Susan Jane Harkness. Amelia Rose Harkness." The Doctor said, kissing the top of Amelia's small head. The Doctor nods at Jack. "Captain."

Jack clicked his heels together into a salute. "Until next time."

A/N: To clarify Susan's method of survival: Jack and River put Jack's blood into a needle (Jack's same blood was used to stop Rex and Vera from dying at the end of Miracle Day), which Amy administered to Susan, lying to Susan and telling her it was a motion sickness drug. Since Jack is an anomaly, meaning he isn't supposed to be immortal, Jack's blood reacted poorly with Susan's Time Lord blood, causing a regeneration. Susan's full regeneration was used, but she didn't change her look. Susan is now on her 3rd regeneration, but in her second body. She is now able to regenerate properly, meaning she won't be dying (like at the end of the chapter Old Enemies) anytime soon.

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