Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 9. I know that this is a bit late. It's kind of hard when someone is sore from moving out stuff to another place. So it took a bit to write this because of sore arms and having to lift them to type on my laptop, but I tried my best to get this up on here. I hope that you like the chapter. I did work fairly hard on this chapter. I also wanted to answer my reviewer for the last chapter which asked me when I was updating Between the Lines and Hold On. Between the Lines is a finished story. I haven't quite written part 2 to that story. As for Hold On I'm currently trying to flesh out the last few chapters, but it is taking me a bit longer than what I had planned it. Hopefully it'll be out soon. Without further ado Chapter 9. Allons-y!

Chapter 9

Sarah Jane took the Doctor and Gwendalyn to her car. She opened the trunk of her car and inside was something covered in a green blanket.

The Doctor reached in and pulled the blanket off. His eyes widened. A grin broke out onto his handsome face. "K9! Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, allow me to introduce K9… Well, K9 Mark III to be precise."

Gwendalyn smiled. She was happy to see K9 again.

Mickey and Rose looked at one another.

"Why does he look so… disco?" Rose asked looking at the Doctor in confusion.

"Oi! Listen, in the year five thousand, this was cutting edge! What's happened to him?" The Doctor asked looking at Sarah Jane.

"Oh, one day, he just… nothing!" Sarah Jane explained to the Doctor sadly.

"Well, didn't you try to get him repaired?" He asked her, his brows raising slightly in concern.

Gwendalyn shook her head. He must've forgotten that there was no way to repair them in this time.

"Well, it's not like getting parts for a mini-metro!" Sarah Jane said crossing her arms. "Besides, the technology inside him could rewrite human science. I couldn't show him to anyone!"

"Oh, what's the nasty lady done to you? Eh?" The Doctor cooed to K9.

Gwendalyn shook her head as the Doctor continued to coo at the metal dog.

"Look, no offense but could you two just stop petting for a minute? Never mind the tin dog, we're busy." Rose snapped frustrated about the whole thing.

Gwendalyn turned and faced Rose and narrowed her eyes at the girl. She was beginning to really get on her nerves. She didn't want to yell at Rose, because yelling never did any good.

The Doctor closed the boot of Sarah's car grinning.

Gwendalyn looked at him. She knew that look. She shook her head. Sometimes that look got him into trouble. "You want to repair him don't you?"

"With some help." He said with a cheeky wink.

Gwendalyn let out a soft sigh. "Alright."

DWDWDW

The five of them went to a local chip shop. Rose and Mickey went to go and get something to eat while Sarah Jane, the Doctor, and Gwendalyn were sitting next to a window while the two aliens were trying to fix K9.

Rose looked at the three of them were were laughing and having a good old time. She didn't like it. He was her Doctor. Why didn't he just have the both of them go? Didn't he care about her?

"You see, what's impressive is that it's been nearly an hour since we met her and I still haven't said I told you so." Mickey said looking at his girlfriend.

Rose tore her eyes away from them. "I'm not listening to this." She said shaking her head.

"Although, I have prepared a little I was right dance that I can show you later." He said snickering.

"Two quid love." The shopkeeper said holding out her hand.

Rose handed her the money. She dug into the chips as the two of them went to a table of their own.

"All this time you've been giving it, he's different! Well the truth is, he's just like any other bloke."

The two of them sat down.

Rose shook her head. "You don't know what you're talking about."

"Maybe not. But if I were you… I'd go easy on the chips.

Rose continued to eat the chips. Her eyes were on the Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Gwendalyn.

"Careful there." Gwendalyn said softly moving the wire out of the way so the Doctor could continue his work.

Sarah looked at the two of them. "I thought of you two on Christmas Day. This Christmas just gone. Great big spaceship overhead, I thought, "oh, yeah. Bet they're up there"."

"Right on top of it, yeah."

"And Rose?" Sarah asked softly.

"She was there too."

"Made a huge mistake and you had to fix it." Gwendalyn said moving his hand.

"Did I do something wrong? Because you two never came back for me. You just… dumped me."

The Doctor let out a soft sigh. "I told you. Artemis was called home…."

"She's royal." Sarah Jane said softly knowing the story behind Gwendalyn well.

"I was called home too. Those days humans weren't allowed." The Doctor said shaking his head.

"I waited for you. I missed the two of you." Sarah Jane said sadly.

"Oh, you didn't need us. You were getting on with your life."

Gwendalyn shook her head. "Doctor."

"You were my life." Sarah Jane admitted.

The Doctor looked up at her. He was shocked to hear Sarah Jane admit that.

"You and Artemis were my life. You know what the most difficult thing was? Coping with what happens next, and with what doesn't happen next. You took me to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, you showed me supernovas, intergalactic battles and then you just dropped me back on Earth. How could anything compare to that?"

His brows furrowed. "All those things you saw, do you want me to apologize for that?" The Doctor asked in confusion.

"No, but we get a taste of that splendour… and then we have to go back."

The Doctor smiled. "But look at you, you're investigating. You found that school, you're doing what we always did."

"You could've come back."

"I couldn't…" The Doctor said softly.

"Why not?"

The Doctor didn't answer.

Gwendalyn took his sonic from him. She turned and looked at him. "You alright, Theta?"

"No… She wouldn't understand."

"I know. But you need to focus."

The Doctor's eyes held thanks. He was glad that his Artemis was with him. That was the only thing that mattered to him at that moment and trying to get K9 fixed. He took his screwdriver back from Gwendalyn.

"It wasn't Croydon, where you dropped me off, it wasn't Croydon." Sarah Jane told him.

Gwendalyn shook her head and laughed lightly.

"Where was it?"

"Aberdeen."

"Right." The Doctor said realizing his mistake.

"Really?" Gwendalyn said shaking her head.

"That's next to Croydon, isn't it?" He asked.

Sarah Jane shook her head smiling.

K9 sprung to life.

"Oh, hey! Now we're in business!" The Doctor said jumping up.

"Master!"

"Good work." Gwendalyn said.

"Mistress!"

"He recognizes us." The Doctor said ecstatically.

"Affirmative."

"Rose, give us that oil."

Rose picked up the canister that she had and brought it over to him.

The Doctor took it from her. "Let's find out what this is." He said as he took off the lid of the jar. He went to dip his finger into it.

"I wouldn't touch it, though, that dinner lady got all scalded." Rose said quickly stopping him.

"I'm no dinner lady. And I don't often say that." He said dipping his finger into it.

K9 pushes out his sensor out for the Doctor.

The Doctor smeared the oil onto it. "Here we go. Come on, boy. Here we go."

"Oil. Ex, ex, ex, extract ana, an… analysing…."

"Listen to it, man. That's a voice." Mickey said delighted and making fun of the voice that K9 had.

"Careful! That's my dog." Sarah Jane said warning him.

Mickey rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Confirmation of analysis. Substance is Krillitane Oil."

Gwendalyn crossed her arms. Krillitanes were the worst at times. At least the times that she ran into them.

"They're Krillitanes." The Doctor said in shock. He was hoping that it wasn't them.

"Is that bad?" Rose asked.

"Very."

"Terribly." Gwendalyn said running her fingers through her hair.

"Think of how bad things could possibly be, and add another suitcase full of bad." The Doctor explained.

"And what are… Krillitanes?" Sarah Jane asked the two of them.

"Composite race." Gwendalyn said looking at Sarah Jane.

"Just like your culture is a mixture of traditions from all sorts of countries, people you've invaded or have been invaded by, you've got bits, bits of Viking, bits of France, bits of whatever… the Krillitanes are the same. An amalgam of races they've conquered. But they take physical aspects as well. They cherry pick the best bits from the people they destroy. That's why I didn't recognize them."

"Same here." Gwendalyn shook her head.

"The last time that we saw Krillitanes, they looked just like us except they had really long necks."

"What're they doing here?" Rose asked looking at the Doctor.

The Doctor's eyes widened.

"No… they…" Gwendalyn looked at her fiance.

"The children. They're doing something to the children."

"We have to stop them." Gwendalyn said shaking her head. "They are using the children for something by feeding them the oil."

Mickey and Sarah Jane picked up K9 and took him outside.

The Doctor ran his hand through his hair messily. He groaned.

"We will come up with something Doctor." Gwendalyn said softly before going out the door.

The Doctor walked out and Rose followed him.

"How many of us have there been, travelling with you?" Rose asked looking at him.

"Does it matter?" The Doctor asked putting his hands in his pockets.

"Yeah, it does, if I'm just the latest in a long line." Rose complained as she looked at the Doctor.

The Doctor stopped and turned. He was hurt by what Rose had said. "As opposed to what?" He asked softly.

"I thought you and me were… but I obviously got it wrong. I've been to the year five billion, right, but this… now this is really seeing the future. You just leave us behind. Is that what you're going to do to me?" Rose asked softly tears coming to her eyes. She didn't want him to leave her behind. Leave her behind and continue on with Gwendalyn. It wasn't fair.

"No. Not you." The Doctor said shaking his head.

"But Sarah Jane… you were that close to her once, and now… you never even mention her. Why not?"

"I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay. You wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone who you…" The Doctor stopped not wanting to finish that sentence. He had a woman that he cared for that was with Mickey and Sarah Jane at that moment. And he was going to marry her. But he cared about Rose as well.

"What, Doctor?" Rose asked.

"You can spend the rest of your life with me."

Rose looked up at him with shining eyes. That was all that she wanted. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with The Doctor.

"But I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords." The Doctor admitted to her. He was hoping that she would understand it.

Gwendalyn looked up and saw Mr Finch and a Krillitane on the roof. She saw it take off up into the air. She threw her hands up protecting Sarah Jane who it was aiming for at least that its that what it had looked like. It bounced off of the barrier that she had put up. Gwendalyn let out a breath and let her hands come down to her sides.

"Was that a Krillitane?" Sarah Jane asked looking at the Doctor and Gwendalyn.

"But it didn't even touch her, it just flew off. Why did it do that for?" Rose asked in confusion.

Gwendalyn put her hands in her pockets. "Well I think we have some work to do."

The Doctor nodded his head. He looked at her. "You alright?"

"Fine." Gwendalyn said looking up in the sky. "They know what you are. Now I am sure that they know I am here too."

The Doctor nodded his head knowing that was true. They were going to have a long day ahead of them tomorrow.

DWDWDW

The five of them came back to the school. They got out of Sarah's car.

"Rose and Sarah, you go to the Maths room. Crack open those computers, I need to see the hardware inside." The Doctor told the two women.

"Doctor." Gwendalyn said looking at him. "Do you want me to go with them?"

The Doctor looked at her and rubbed his face. He knew that they would be able to get something done if she would go with. He wasn't sure if they would want her help. "Yeah."

Gwendalyn nodded her head.

"Here, you might need this." He said handing his sonic screwdriver to Sarah Jane.

Rose looked upset that the Doctor didn't trust her with the sonic screwdriver.

"Mickey, surveillance. I want you outside."

"Just stand outside?" Mickey asked in confusion.

"Here, take these." Sarah Jane said tossing him her keys. "You can keep K9 company."

"Don't forget to leave the window open a crack."

"But he's metal!" Mickey shouted.

"I didn't mean for him."

Gwendalyn shook her head. "That was rude."

"What're you gonna do?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"It's time I had a word with Mr. Finch."

"You be careful." Gwendalyn told him.

He winked at her. "Always am."

"I've heard that one before." She said shaking her head.

DWDWDW

Sarah Jane is crouched beneath one of the computer desks trying to switch on the sonic. She comes out from underneath and hist the keyboard and stares at the sonic that was in her hand.

Rose sat in one of the chairs with her legs crossed.

Gwendalyn was underneath another one of the tables. Her hands were glowing purple and she was trying to get what the Doctor wanted them to do.

"It's not working!" Sarah complained.

"Give it to me." Rose said swiping it from Sarah Jane. Rose rolled her eyes and ducked under the table.

"Used to work first time in my day."

"Well, things were a lot simpler back then." Rose bit back and turned on and she held it to the computer.

"Rose, can I give you a bit of advice?"

Gwendalyn's head poked out from under the desk that she was under. She shook her head trying to tell Sarah not to say she was Artemis.

Rose got out from under the table. "I've got a feeling you're about to."

"I know how intense a relationship with the Doctor can be, and I don't want you to feel like I'm intruding…"

"I don't feel threatened by you if that's what you mean." Rose said tucking a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear.

"Right. Good. Because, I'm just a friend of his. He only had eyes for Artemis." Sarah said with a small smile.

"Oh? Last I heard she had died." Rose said rolling her eyes. "He doesn't think about her any more."

Gwendalyn zapped herself on one of the wires. "Ow."

Sarah looked over at Gwendalyn. "Are you alright over there?"

"Fine." Gwendalyn said waving her hand.

"Robot dog." Rose snapped out. "What else were you doing last night?"

"I was just saying how hard it was adjusting to life back on Earth…"

Rose began to walk away from her. "The thing is… when you two met… they'd only just got rid of rationing. No wonder all that space stuff was a bit too much for ya."

Sarah Jane walked over to her. "I had no problem with space stuff. I saw things you wouldn't believe."

"Try me." Rose said harshly.

"Ladies please." Gwendalyn said getting out from the desk. "We have something we are supposed to be doing."

"But out of this Gwendalyn." Rose said coldly.

Gwendalyn narrowed her eyes.

"Mummies."

"I've met ghosts."

"Robots. Lots of robots."

"Slitheen. In Downing Street."

"Daleks!"

Rose snorted. "Met the Emperor."

"Anti-Matter monsters."

"Gas masked zombies."

"Real living dinosaurs!"

"Real living werewolf!"

"The Loch Ness Monster!"

Rose gasped. "Seriously?"

"ENOUGH! We have a job to do. Rose quit being a spoiled brat!" Gwendalyn yelled. She hated fights. It reminded her of the old days and Rose was just begging to be yelled at again by here. Which it ended that way once again.

Sarah Jane put her hand over her mouth and shook her head.

Rose smiled and laughed lightly. "Listen to us. It's like me and my mate Shireen. The only time we fell out was over a man, and… we're arguing over the Doctor."

Sarah Jane relaxed against the desk.

Gwendalyn shook her head and went back to work.

"With you, did he do that thing where he'd explain something at like, ninety-miles-per-hour and you'd go, what? and he he'd look at you like you'd just dribbled on your shirt?"

"All the time." Sarah Jane said with a smile.

The two of them laughed.

"But only Artemis was able to understand him." Sarah Jane admitted. It was true. When she was his companion Artemis was the only one that was able to follow what he said. She would make it so much easier explaining it to her after he kind of gave up. "Does he still stroke bits of the Tardis?"

"Yeah! Yeah! He does! I'm like, do you two wanna be alone?"

The two of them laughed madly.

The Doctor walked in. "How's it going?"

The two of them laughed harder.

"What? Listen, I need to find out what's programmed inside these."

Rose pointed the sonic at him still laughing.

"What? Stop it!" The Doctor yelled confused.

"Just give it up." Gwendalyn said moving a bit so he could see her.

The Doctor huffed and took his sonic from Rose. He moved towards Gwendalyn. "Do I even want to know?"

"No not really." She said getting back to work.

Children began to come into the room.

Rose stopped them. "No, no, this classroom's out of bounds. You've all gotta go to the South Hall. Off you go, South Hall."

The children moved away.

Rose closed the door.

The Doctor had the sonic clenched between his teeth as he rips a handful of wires from the computer and hung them around his neck. He ran it across the back of the computer. "I can't shift it."

"I thought the sonic screwdriver could open anything!" Sarah Jane said in shock.

"Anything except a dead lock seal."

"And wooden doors." Gwendalyn said moving the wires off of his neck.

The Doctor nodded his head. "There's gotta be something inside here. What're they teaching those kids?"

"It could be anything. Codes… dangerous things that no one should know." Gwendalyn said shaking her head. Anything could be bad if they were teaching it to children.

Something popped up onto the computers.

"You wanted the program… there it is." Sarah Jane said pointing it out.

The Doctor looked at it. "Some sort of code…"

Gwendalyn looked at the code as well. "Doctor." She said her eyes widening.

"What?"

"Look at the code closer."

"No… no, they can't be…" The Doctor's eyes went really wide. This was bad. Really bad. "The Skasis Paradigm. They're trying to crack the Skasis Paradigm."

"The Skasis what?" Sarah Jane asked confused.

"God maker." Gwendalyn said shaking her head.

"The universal theory. Crack that equation and you've got control of the building blocks of the universe. Time and space and matter, yours to control." The Doctor said explaining it fairly quickly.

"And very dangerous to do this."

"What, and the kids are like a giant computer?" Rose asked with wide eyes.

"Yes." The Doctor said pacing back and forth. "And their learning power is being accelerated by the oil! That oil from the kitchens, it works as a… as a…"

"Conducting agent." Gwendalyn said looking at him.

"Makes the kids cleverer." The Doctor said with a nod of his head.

"But that oil's on the chips. I've been eating them." Rose said coming to conclusion that she had been eating them.

"What's fifty-nine times thirty-five?"

"Two thousand and sixty five."

The Doctor gave her a look.

"Oh my God."

"But why use the children? Can't they use adults?" Sarah Jane asked looking at the Doctor.

"No, it's gotta be children. The God-maker needs imagination to crack it. They're not just using the children's brains to break the code… they're using their souls."

Mr. Finch walked to the room. "Let the lesson begin."

Gwendalyn narrowed her eyes as her hands glowed purple.

The Doctor turned and faced Mr. Finch.

"Think of it Doctor, with the Paradigm solved, reality becomes clay in our hands. We can shape the universe and improve it."

"You are going to destroy everything!" Gwendalyn snapped.

"Oh yeah? The whole world of creature with the face of Mr. Finch. Call me old fashioned, but I like the things as they are." The Doctor said narrowing his eyes at Mr. Finch.

"You act like such a radical, and yet all you want to do is preserve the old order. Think of the changes that could be made if this power was used for good."

"What, by someone like you?"

"No…. someone like you."

The Doctor remains silent. He was not expecting that.

"The Paradigm gives us power, but you could give us wisdom. Become a god and her a goddess. At my side. Imagine what the two of you could do, think of the civilizations you could save. Perganon, Assinta… your own people, Doctor. The witches. Standing tall. The Time Lords and Witches…. reborn."

The Doctor remains silent.

Gwendalyn's hands stopped glowing. She looked down at the ground.

"Doctor… Gwendalyn don't listen to him." Sarah Jane pleaded with the two of them.

Mr. Finch turned his attention to Rose and Sarah Jane.

"And you could be with him throughout eternity. Young… fresh… never wither, never agae, never die. Their lives are so fleeting. So many goodbyes. How lonely you must be, Doctor. Join us."

The Doctor had a far off look in his eyes.

Gwendalyn shook her head. "No."

"I could save everyone." The Doctor said softly.

"Yes." Mr. Finch said.

"I could stop the war…."

"No." Sarah Jane said shaking her head. "The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love."

Mr. Finch closes his eyes.

"Whether it's a world, or a relationship… everything has its time. And everything ends."

The Doctor gritted his teeth. He picked up the chair and hurled it through the air into the screen displaying the code that smashed. "Out!"

The four of them ran out of the room. They meet up with Mickey and a boy.

"What's going on?" Mickey asked.

"We don't have time for this." Gwendalyn said running down one of the halls. "Come on!"

They ran into the canteen hall but the doors were locked.

"Doctor."

The Doctor reached into his pocket to get his sonic screwdriver out.

Mr. Finch burst through the doors followed by several of Krillitanes.

Gwendalyn's hands went up and put a barrier up.

"Are they my teachers?" Kenny asked.

"Yeah sorry." The Doctor said sadly.

"Leave the Doctor and the witch alive. As for the others… you can feast." Mr. Finch said glaring at him.

The Krillitanes swooped down on them.

Gwendalyn shot purple light at them.

"Dalyn!" The Doctor shouted.

"I'll be fine!"

"No!"

One of the Krillitanes was hit by a beam of red light and it fell to the floor dead.

"K9!" Sarah Jane said with a smile.

"Suggest you engage running mode, mistress." K9 told Sarah Jane.

"Come on!" The Doctor yelled.

"Doctor!" Gwendalyn said staggering towards him.

"You used too much didn't you."

"Well what do you expect." Gwendalyn said with a small smile.

The Doctor looped his arm around her middle and threw her arm over his shoulders and ran quickly leading them out. "K9 hold them back!"

"Affirmative, master. Maximum defense mode!"

The Doctor reached the door and he made sure that they got out of there. "Come on!" He slammed it shut. He locked the door with his sonic.

"Doctor… The oil." Gwendalyn said looking at him.

"Oh brilliant!" He pressed a soft kiss onto her head. "Krillitane life forms can't handle the oil! That's it. They've changed the physiology so often, even their own oil is toxic to them. How much was there in the kitchens?"

"Barrels of it." Rose said looking at him.

They jump.

"We gotta move." Gwendalyn said as they were beginning to rip holes into the door.

"Okay, we nee to get to the kitchens. Mickey…"

"What now, hold the coats?"

Gwendalyn shook her head. "Listen to him Mickey."

"Get all the children unplugged and get out of the school. Not then, bats, bats, bats, how do we fight bats?"

Kenny strided over to the fire alarm and breaks the glass with his elbow causing the alarm to go off.

They run past the Krillitanes who are screaming.

K9 rejoined them. "Master!"

"Come on, boy! Good boy."

"Good luck Mickey." Gwendalyn shouted to him.

Mickey nodded his head and ran to get the children out of there.

They ran into the kitchens thanks to Rose's lead.

The Doctor moved Gwendalyn over to Sarah Jane. "Can you hold her up?"

Sarah Jane nodded her head.

The Doctor handed over Gwendalyn and tried to use his sonic to open one of the oil barrels. "They've been deadlock sealed!" He tried another. "Finch must've done that. I can't open them."

"The vats would not withstand a direct hit from my laser. But my batteries are failing." K9 told the Doctor.

"Right. Everyone out the back door. K9 stay with me."

"Doctor." Gwendalyn said looking at him with wide eyes.

"I will join you shortly." He said looking at her.

Gwendalyn saw the look in his eyes. She nodded her head. "Come on."

The four of them go out of there.

Gwendalyn closed her eyes. "I hope you know what you are doing, Theta."

"So do I." He replied in her mind.

A few moments later the Doctor came running out. He locked the door with his sonic screw driver.

"Where's K9?" Sarah Jane asked.

"We need to run." He said looping his arm around Gwendalyn. He began to move.

"Where is he? What've you done?"

The Doctor grabbed her arm and pulled her away. "Come on!"

They ran away from the school as it exploded.

Rose reunited with Mickey.

The Doctor, Gwendalyn and Sarah Jane stood far away from them.

"I'm sorry." The Doctor said sadly.

"It's alright. He was just a… daft metal dog. Fine, really." Sarah Jane said before bursting into tears.

Gwendalyn moved away from the Doctor.

He looked at her with wide eyes.

"Comfort her."

The Doctor pulled Sarah Jane into his arms comforting her.

Rose looked back at the school with Mickey.

Gwendalyn put her hands in her pockets. This was a wild ride that was for sure. At least the school was safe now.

DWDWDW

Sarah Jane walked up to the Tardis.

The Doctor stepped out of the Tardis. "Cuppa tea?" He asked her. He stepped aside to allow Sarah Jane to come into the Tardis.

Sarah came into the Tardis. Her eyes widened.

The Doctor came inside and closed the door.

"You've redecorated!"

"Do you like it?"

"Oh I, I do. Yeah. I preferred it as it was, but uh… yeah. It'll do."

"I love it." Rose said with a smile.

"Hey, you, what's forty seven times three hundred and sixty nine?"

"No idea. It's gone now, the oil's faded."

"But you're still clever. More than a match for him." Sarah said with a smile.

"You and me both." Rose said with a smile.

Sarah Jane nodded her head.

Rose looked over at the Doctor who was fiddling with the computer. "Doctor?"

"Um… we're about to head off, but… you could come with us."

Rose looked at Sarah Jane hoping that the older woman would join them.

Sarah shook her head. "No… I can't do this anymore."

The smiles faded.

"Besides, I've got a much bigger adventure ahead. Time I stopped waiting for you and found a life of my own."

"Can I come?" Mickey asked.

Sarah Jane looked surprised at what Mickey said.

Rose didn't look none too pleased.

"No, not with you." He said to Sarah Jane. He looked at the Doctor. "I mean… with you."

Gwendalyn smiled. She would love to have Mickey with them.

"Cause I'm not the tin dog. And I wanna see what's out there."

Rose mouthed no to the Doctor.

"Oh, go on, Doctor. Sarah Jane Smith, a Mickey Smith. You need a Smith on board! You and Artemis were always handled well with a Smith."

The Doctor smiled. "Okay then, I could do with a laugh."

Rose rolled her eyes.

Mickey laughs in delight. He stopped when he saw that Rose wasn't happy. "Rose, is that okay?"

"No, great. Why not?" Rose said sarcastically.

"Well, I'd better go." Sarah Jane pulled Rose aside. She talked to the girl and then went to the door that was held by the Doctor and Gwendalyn.

The three of them walked out of the Tardis.

"It's daft. But I haven't ever thanked the two of you for that time, and like I said, I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Sarah Jane said with a smile.

"Something to tell the grandkids." The Doctor said with a smile.

"Oh, I think it'll be someone else's grandkids now."

The Doctor cleared his throat. "Right. Yes, sorry. I didn't get a chance to ask. You haven't… there hasn't been anyone… You know…"

"Well, there was this one guy. I travelled with him for a while. But he was a tough act to follow and he had his eye on a princess." She laughed lightly.

The Doctor and Gwendalyn smiled.

"Goodbye, Doctor. Goodbye Artemis."

"Oh, it's not goodbye." The Doctor said.

"Say it, please. This time. Say it."

The Doctor looked right into her eyes. "Goodbye. My Sarah Jane."

"Bye." Gwendalyn said softly.

The Doctor threw his arms around her and lifted her right off of the ground. He gives her one final smile. He went into the Tardis.

Gwendalyn hugged Sarah Jane.

"You be good to him." Sarah Jane told her softly.

"Always."

"I saw the ring. He proposed didn't he?"

"Yes…"

"You two are good for one another. Be careful."

"I will." Gwendalyn released her and went into the Tardis. Gwendalyn closed the door and closed her eyes. Tears fell from her eyes. She was going to miss her. Sarah Jane was truly a wonderful companion and she would miss her being around.

The Doctor flipped the switch and they were off. He looked at the two companions. "You two should rest."

Mickey and Rose nodded their heads knowing that was very much true. They needed their rest after such a long trying time at the school.

The Doctor looked at Gwendalyn as the two of them left. "You alright?"

Gwendalyn looked at him. "Yes. I'm going to miss her."

"I am too." He said softly. He opened his arms up.

Gwendalyn moved towards him.

The Doctor pulled her into his arms.

Gwendalyn rested her head against his chest listening to his two heartbeats calming herself.

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This is the end of chapter 9. I hope that you enjoyed it. The next chapter is a pure OG chapter. Shall they go on their own adventure or some place where they could relax? Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Reviews help me keep going when it comes to writing stories. I always have a bit of a hard time sometimes when it comes to writing. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter out next week. Until next time.