Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 8. I want to thank those who have left reviews for this story it really does mean a lot to me. I figured out what should be done with Gwendalyn in this chapter. Either a teacher or librarian. But more specifically an English teacher. Now I know I got questions if Gwendalyn and Sarah Jane are going to be friends. Well there will be a back story between the two of them. :) You will find out what she is in this chapter. Rose will most likely be very catty in this chapter and the next as well. Will Gwendalyn be putting her in her place? I hope that I did alright writing this chapter. Without further ado Chapter 8. Allons-y!

Chapter 8

Rose came running up to the Doctor and Gwendalyn who were busy working on something. She was putting her phone in her pocket. Her face was written over with concern. It didn't help who had called her. Mickey had called her about something important. Something was going on at Deffry Vale High School. "Doctor." She called him hoping that it would stop him from being close to Gwendalyn.

Gwendalyn and the Doctor looked from what they were doing.

"What is it Rose?" The Doctor asked. Worry was now across his face. Something had to have happened if she was calling for him like that. He realized that she didn't say Gwendalyn's name. Something was very wrong here.

"Mickey called. He needs us to come in."

"What for?"

"Something is going on at Deffry Vale High School."

The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn. "Well what do you think, Dalyn."

Gwendalyn looked at him and smiled. "I think it is worth a check out."

"Alright. Rose tell your boyfriend that we will be there." The Doctor said flashing a smile to the pink and yellow girl.

Rose sent a look towards Gwendalyn. She really was hoping that the Doctor would be the only one that would be going with her and not having Gwendalyn following them.

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Gwendalyn smoothed out what she had chosen to wear. She had picked a blouse that was purple and it was a tight fit, she had to throw a blazer over top of it that was black, a black tight pencil skirt, and black high heeled dress shoes. She came out and walked towards the Doctor. "Well is this good enough?" She asked twirling a little bit showing her outfit to him.

The Doctor's cheeks flushed. "You look beautiful."

"Flattery will get you places in life, Doctor." Gwendalyn said winking.

The Doctor laughed. "Alright. We have work to do."

"Are you certain about those converses?"

The Doctor looked at her. "Huh? Oh yes I am."

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The Doctor came strolling into the Physics room. He put his bag down onto the table. "Good morning, class. Are we sitting comfortably?" He asked with a cheeky grin. He wrote physics in capital letters on the board and underlined it. "So. Physics." He put the cap back onto the pen and threw it onto the desk. "Physics. Eh? Physics. Phyyyyyyyysics. Physics! Physics. Physics, physics, physics, physics, physics, physics, physics." He sniffs when the class looked bemused. "I hope one off you is getting this all down." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Um, okay, let's see what you know. Two identical strips of nylon are charged with static electricity and hung from a string so they can swing freely. What would happen if they were brought near each other?"

Milo raised his hand.

"Yes," The Doctor said pointing at him. "Uh, what's your name?"

"Milo."

"Milo! Off you go."

"They'd repel each other because they have the same charge."

"Correctamundo! A word I have never used before and hopefully never will again. Question two, I coil up a thin piece of micro wire and place it in a glass of water. Then I turn on the electricity and measure to see if the water's temperature is affected. My question is this, how do I measure the electrical power going into the coil?"

Milo's hand goes up again.

The Doctor cleared his throat. "Someone else."

No one else raises their hand.

"Nope…? Okay, Milo, go for it."

"Measure the current and PDs in an ampmeter and a voltmeter."

The other students were impressed.

"Two to Milo! Right then, Milo, tell me this, true or false, the greater the dampening of the system, the quicker it loses energy to its surroundings."

"False."

The Doctor's eyes widened at this. "What is a non-coding DNA?"

"DNA that doesn't code for a protein."

"Sixty-five-thousand-nine-hundred-and-eighty-three times five?"

"Three-hundred-and-twenty-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-fifteen."

"How do you travel faster than light?"

"By opening a quantum tunnel with an FTL factor of 36.7 recurring."

His jaw dropped. What the hell?

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Gwendalyn had become the new librarian after they had fired their old one. She sat there behind the desk. The library was too quiet. No one came in. It bothered her. If it was the one thing that bothered her it was long periods of silence. Hell even in a library you could still hear noises of some kind. A turning of a page and clicking on the keyboards, but in this library nothing. Heck the library on Helmos was busy busy busy and the noise was beyond what you would hear in a school library.

She heard footsteps of someone coming into the library. She turned and saw the Doctor standing next to her large desk. "Mr. Smith." She said with a smile. She knew that they had to keep up with the ploy.

"Miss Holmes." He said offering her a small smile. "Care to join me for lunch."

Gwendalyn laughed lightly. "Of course."

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The Doctor and Gwendalyn are in line to get their lunch.

Rose spoons mashed potatoes onto their trays. Rose gives them both a look. Why couldn't he have Gwendalyn as a dinner lady instead of her? She was hurt that the Doctor did that to her. What was so special about Gwendalyn anyways?

The Doctor just smirks at her and lead Gwendalyn to a table so they could eat.

Gwendalyn looked at the chips that were on her tray. Her nose scrunched.

The Doctor speared a chip onto his fork, he took a little nibble of it and stares at it. Chips didn't taste like that.

Rose came over to them with a dishcloth and wiped their table down. "Two days." Rose muttered.

"Sorry, could you just… there's a bit of gravy." He said pointing to it with his fork.

Rose wiped it down.

"No, no, just there."

Rose wiped the gravy. "Two days, we've been here."

Gwendalyn rolled her eyes of course Rose would complain.

"Blame your boyfriend, he's the one who put us onto this. And he was right. Boy in class this morning, got a knowledge way beyond planet Earth."

"You eating those chips?"

Gwendalyn and the Doctor scrunched their noses.

"Yeah, they're a bit… different."

Rose takes one from his tray. "I think they're gorgeous." She said chewing the piece that she had stolen. "Wish I had school dinners like this." She sat down right next to the Doctor.

The Doctor looked around the lunch room. "It's very well behaved, this place."

"Mm."

"I thought there'd be happy-slapping hoodies. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs. Happy-slapping hoodies with ASBOs and ringtones." He looked at Rose. "Yeah? Yeah? Oh, yeah! Don't tell me I don't fit in."

Gwendalyn shook her head. No he really didn't fit in. He didn't understand the meaning of being around humans. There was no way that he would be able to fit in. Not in a school environment.

A dinner lady approached them. "You are not permitted to leave your station during a sitting."

Rose stood up. "I was just talking to this teacher."

"Hello." The Doctor said with a smile.

"He doesn't like the chips."

"The menus has been specifically designed by the headmaster to improve concentration and performance. Now, get back to work." She said leaving.

Rose began to walk away from the table. "See? This is me." She gestured to the uniform that she wore. "The dinner lady."

"I'll have the crumble." The Doctor said with a grin.

"I'm so gonna kill you." She said returning to her station.

Gwendalyn put her hand up to her mouth trying not to laugh.

The Doctor grinned like here was no tomorrow.

"You know you shouldn't have done that." Gwendalyn said with a giggle.

The Doctor laughed lightly. "Well.."

Gwendalyn shook her head.

The Doctor looked past her.

She quirked her eyebrow. "Doctor what is it?"

The Doctor brought his finger up to his lips.

Gwendalyn quieted down and turned her head a little bit. She turned back and looked at him. She knew that it wasn't right to have two teachers looking in the same place.

"Melissa. You'll be joining my class for the next period. Milo's failed me… so its' time we moved you up to the top class." Mr. Wagner said looking at the young girl.

The Doctor continued watching chewing absently.

Gwendalyn took a drink of her bottled water that she had on her.

"Kenny? Not eating the chips?"

"I'm not allowed." Kenny said sadly.

"Luke, extra class. Now." The man said leaving and several of the children left with him.

The Doctor looked up and saw Mr. Finch.

"Mr. Smith what is it?"

The Doctor stood up. "Come on Miss Holmes. It seems there is something major going on."

Gwendalyn got up and followed him.

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Rose's cell phone rang. "What you got?"

"Confirmation. I just got into army records. Three months ago, massive UFO activity. They loved over forty sightings, lights in the sky, all of that. I can't get any photos, 'cause then it gets all classified and secret. Keeps locking me out." Mickey told Rose.

"Tell you what, though, three months ago, turns out all the kitchen staff were replaced." She watched them wheel another barrel into the kitchen. "And this lot are weird."

"See, there's definitely something going on. I was right to call you home."

"I thought maybe you called me home just to… well, just to call me home."

"Do you think I'd just invent an emergency?

"Well, you could've done."

"That's the last thing I'd do. Because every time I see you, an emergency just gets in the way…"

The barrel falls over and spills onto one of the dinner ladies who screams in agony and begins to smoke.

"I've gotta go."

"Get her up, get her up." The dinner lady said quickly.

"What is it?"

Rose hung up her cell phone. She was going to call 999.

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The Doctor is sitting on a desk, nibbling at a biscuit.

Gwendalyn shook her head.

"What?" He asked her.

"Nothing." She said with a small smile.

A teacher named Mr. Parsons is pacing back and forth in front of them. "But yesterday, I had a twelve-year-old girl give me the exact height of the Walls of Troy… in cubits."

The Doctor and Gwendalyn looked at the teacher. They could tell that he was concerned.

"And, it's ever since the new headmaster arrived?" The Doctor questioned.

"Finch arrived three months ago. Next day, half the staff got the flu. Finch replaced them with that lot." Mr. Parsons said nodding over to the group of smart looking teachers stood. "Except for the teacher you replaced, and that was just plain weird, her winning the lottery like that." He shook his head. "And you replacing the librarian."

"How's that weird?" The Doctor asked him.

"She never played. Said the ticket was posted through her door at midnight."

The Doctor popped another biscuit into his mouth. "Hm. The world is very strange."

"Excuse me, colleagues, a moment of your time." Mr. Finch said coming into the room.

The Doctor turns. His eyes went wide and he stood up.

Gwendalyn turned around. Her eyes widened.

"May I introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith. Miss Smith is a journalist, who's writing a profile about me for the Sunday Times."

Sarah Janes smiles at them.

Gwendalyn smiled a small smile.

The Doctor's mouth beings turn upward in a smile.

"I thought it might be useful for her get a view from the trenches, so to speak. Don't spare my blushes." He said leaving the room.

Sarah Jane sees both the Doctor and Gwendalyn standing together. She walked towards them. "Hello."

"Oh, I should think so!" The Doctor said with a smile.

"And, you are…?"

"Hm? Uh, Smith. John Smith and this is Melinda Holmes." The Doctor said introducing Gwendalyn as well.

"John Smith and Melinda Holmes? I used to have friends who sometimes went by those names." Sarah Jane said with a smile.

Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor with wide eyes. She elbowed him a little bit.

The Doctor cleared his throat a little bit. "Well, they're a very common name."

"They were very uncommon people." She held out her hand. "Nice to meet you."

Gwendalyn shook her hand first. "Nice to meet you too."

The Doctor shook her hand after Gwendalyn. "Nice to meet you. Yes. Very nice. More than nice, brilliant."

"John."

"What?"

"Rambling." Gwendalyn said looking at him.

"Right."

"Um… so, um have you two worked here long?" Sarah Jane asked looking at the both of them.

"No. Um, it's only our second day here."

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

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

"Sound like someone who wants to go very deep into getting your information." Gwendalyn said with a smile.

"Well, no harm in a little investigation while I'm here." Sarah Jane said with a smile.

"No. Good for you." The Doctor said with a smile.

She walked away from them to talk to the other teachers.

Gwendalyn smiled a small sad smile. She had to admit that it was nice to see Sarah Jane again.

"Good for you. Oh, good for you, Sarah Jane Smith."

The bell rings letting them know that it was time to go back to the classrooms.

Gwendalyn looked at the Doctor. "I suppose that I should go and get back to the library."

The Doctor nodded his head. "Keep an eye out."

"I will."

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Night had come and the Doctor, Gwendalyn, Rose, and Mickey went back to the school.

The Doctor opened the fire door and walked through it followed by Gwendalyn, Rose, and Mickey.

Gwendalyn had long since changed her clothes. She thought it was wise that she didn't wear the clothes that she had picked when she was pretending to be their librarian.

"Oh, it's weird seeing school at night. It just feels wrong." Rose said shaking her head.

Gwendalyn rolled her eyes. She couldn't understand why Rose had to come with. Rose had a tendency to get into some kind of trouble. And trouble right now, well it was something that they didn't need.

"When I was a kid, I used to think all the teachers slept in school."

"Alright, team. Oh, I hate people who say 'team'. Um… 'gang'. Um.. 'comrades'. Uh… anyway. Rose, go to the kitchen and get a sample of that oil. Mickey, the new staff are all Math teachers, go and check out the Maths department. Gwendalyn and I are gonna look in Finch's office. Be back here in ten minutes." He took Gwendalyn's hand and the two of them were off.

Rose looked sourly at the two had left. Why didn't the Doctor want to team up with her? It wasn't fair. He was always wanting Gwendalyn to go with him. Never her. She was just going to have to up her charm. Get the Doctor to like her more. She hated the fact that Gwendalyn was getting close to the Doctor. She only knew that they were friends. She fiddled with the sleeve of what she was wearing. She looked at Mickey. "You gonna be alright?"

Mickey looked at her. "Me? Please. Infiltration and investigation? I'm an expert at this." He said striding away.

Rose crosses her arms and waited for him to come back.

Mickey came back. "Where's the Maths department?"

Rose pointed in eh opposite direction that he went. "Down there, turn left, through the fire doors, on the right."

"Thank you." He said walking away.

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They walked down the dark corridor.

A screech was heard along with flapping.

They looked at one another. They paused before going to find out where the noise was coming from.

"Doctor I don't like this." She told him softly.

"I know Dalyn, but we will figure this out."

Gwendalyn knew that was true. "I know, but what ever that screeching came from. I don't think it is going to be very nice."

"Prolly not."

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Gwendalyn and the Doctor went back to the Tardis. They saw Sarah Jane.

Sarah Jane turned and looked at the door that she closed not believing that she had seen the Tardis there. She turned and saw Gwendalyn and the Doctor standing there.

"Hello, Sarah Jane." The Doctor said softly.

"It's you. Oh… Doctor." Sarah Jane said with a smile moving towards them. "Oh, my God, it's you, it's.. it's… you've regenerated."

"Half a dozen times since we last met."

"You look… incredible."

"So do you."

"I got old. Who is this?"

"This is Artemis." The Doctor said with a small smile. "You remember her?"

Sarah Jane nodded her head. "Oh my… What're you doing here?"

"UFO sightings." Gwendalyn said looking at Sarah Jane with a small smile on her lips.

"School gets record results, we couldn't resist. What about you?" The Doctor asked curiously.

"Same."

The three of them laughed.

Sarah Jane's smile faltered and tears came to her eyes. "I thought you both died. I waited for you and you didn't come back, and I thought you must've died."

"We lived." The Doctor said softly.

"Everyone else died." Gwendalyn said even softer.

"What do you mean?" Sarah Jane asked them.

"Everyone died, Sarah." The Doctor told her telling her the truth.

Sarah Jane shakes her head. "I can't believe it's you." She said in a whisper.

A scream was heard.

Sarah blinked a few times. "Okay. Now I can."

They grin and run together to find the source of who screamed. They almost skidded into Rose.

Rose looked at the Doctor. "Did you hear that?" She questioned him. She saw Sarah Jane. "Who's she?"

"Rose, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane, Rose."

Rose doesn't look happy. She shook Sarah Jane's hand.

Sarah Jane put on a fake smile. "Hi. Nice to meet you." She turned her attention to the Doctor and Gwendalyn. "You can tell you're getting older. The both of you. Your assistants are getting young."

"I'm not his assistant." Rose hissed out. If anything it was Gwendalyn who was his assistant.

The Doctor uncomfortably scratched his ear.

"No? I get you, tiger."

The Doctor speeds down the hall.

Gwendalyn shook her head. She rolled her eyes. This was going to be a long night. She followed the Doctor. She hated it when the companions meeting up with one another always ended up getting into a fight with one another. It wasn't fair to anyone that there was fighting. And honestly she couldn't handle hostility that was coming from Rose.

Rose and Sarah Jane followed them.

The four of them found Mickey surrounded by a load of vacuum-packed rats.

Mickey looked up. "Sorry! Sorry, it was only me. You told me to investigate, so I, I started looking through some of these cupboards and all of these fell out of them."

The Doctor picked up one of them.

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

"And you decided to scream." The Doctor said looking at him.

Gwendalyn shook her head.

"It took me by surprise!" Mickey shouted back.

"Like a little girl?"

"Doctor." Gwendalyn told him.

"It was dark! I was covered in rats."

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

"Doctor." Gwendalyn snapped narrowing her eyes at him. She knew that humans had many fears including rats.

"Hello, can we focus?" Rose asked looking at the Doctor. "Does anyone noticed anything strange about this? Rats in school?"

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

Gwendalyn pinched the bridge of her nose. Oh yes, one long night.

The Doctor and Mickey looked between the two companions.

"Excuse me, no one dissects rat in school anymore. They haven't done that for years. Where are you from, the dark ages?" Rose snapped.

The two women gave each other dirty looks.

"Okay then. Moving on." Gwendalyn said quickly.

"Everything started when Mr. Finch arrived. We should go and check his office." The Doctor said with a small smile. He then chucks the rat to Mickey.

Mickey dropped it in disgust.

The Doctor led them towards the office.

"I don't meant to be rude or anything, but who exactly are you?" Rose questioned Sarah Jane.

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

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

"Oh, I must've done! Sarah Jane. Mention her all the time." The Doctor said not looking back at Rose.

"Hold on…" She pretends to think. "Sorry… never."

"What, not even once? He didn't mention me once?" Sarah Jane asked annoyed.

Rose walked off and Sarah Jane followed her.

Mickey put his hand on the Doctor's shoulder. "Oh ho, Mate. The missus and the ex. Welcome to every man's worst nightmare."

"Don't have time for this." Gwendalyn said walking past them irritated. She was rather frustrated about the whole thing.

The two men followed her.

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The Doctor used his sonic on the door to unlock it. "Maybe those rats were food."

"Food for what?" Rose asked.

The Doctor opened the door. He looks inside. His eyes went up to the ceiling. So that's where the noises were coming from. "Rose… you know you used to think all the teachers slept in school? Well… they do."

Gwendalyn's eyes widened.

The five of them stare at the creatures.

Mickey turned on his heels. "No way."

They followed him.

The Doctor had closed the door and perhaps a bit too hard because a bat awoke screeching.

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They ran out the front doors of the school.

Mickey stopped and his hands were on his knees. "I am not going back in there. No way." He said trying to catch his breath.

"Those were teachers?" Rose said trying to figure out what the heck was going on.

"When Finch arrived, he brought with him seven new teachers, four dinner ladies and a nurse. Thirteen. Thirteen big bat people. Come on." He said walking towards the building.

"Come on, you've gotta be kidding." Mickey yelled at the Doctor.

"I need the TARDIS. I've got to analyze that oil from the kitchen."

Sarah smiled. "I might be able to help you there. I've got something to show you two." She grabbed the Doctor's arm.

The Doctor grabbed Gwendalyn's hand and they followed Sarah Jane.

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This is the end of Chapter 8. I hope you enjoyed it. It was a little bit of a pain to write. But I did try my best with this chapter. There will be some interaction between Sarah Jane and Gwendalyn and the Doctor in the next chapter. Perhaps there will be a fond memory of Sarah Jane in the next chapter. Please review to tell me what you think. Do you think that Gwendalyn and Sarah Jane are going to be friends or just acquaintances? Do you think that Gwendalyn will go off on Rose when Rose and Sarah Jane go into a tiff. Will Sarah Jane say who Gwendalyn really is to Rose? I will hopefully update very soon with the next chapter. I'm having so much fun with writing this story and these chapters. I hope that I don't fail with future chapters. Until next time.