Ace shows up in Perivale at an apartment complex walking up to the door she hasn't visited since dropping her off after the whole fiasco now two years ago. "Hello Dorothy."

"How are you doing Chantelle?"

"What do you want?" Chantelle moves to the side as she lets Ace in and they walk to the couch.

"Remember the bloke you met a few years ago when you happened to stay with me on the planet?"

"Ryan?" Ace wonders why her old friend mentioned Ryan when she has never dated anyone more than 20 years younger than her.

"No, his grandfather, Graham."

"I also remember him, slightly older."

"He is closer to my age. Graham and I are planning to get married, and I was wondering if you would like to be my maid of honor?"

"You Dorothy McShane are getting married?!" A surprised Chantelle asks.

"I am, why so shocked?"

"You seem to be changing every time I see you."

"The one thing constant in life is change."

"Are you happy?" Now needing to make sure her former babysitter is happy; Chantelle asks the important question.

"I can honestly say that I am happy," Ace's smile grows even larger.

"You are really happy." Chantelle sees the brightest smile that she can remember on Ace's face.

"I am, my foundation is going great, I am doing one of the things that made me the happiest while I was entering my young adulthood, and I found someone who loves me for me warts and all."

"Dorothy, you are a wonderful person, one of the biggest hearts I know."

"Ahh thank you Squeak."

"Please don't call me that, you know I will call you Ace." Chantelle purses her lips.

"I don't mind being called Ace, I have worked on the reasons why I didn't want to be known by Ace anymore."

"You have grown too."

"You are saying that to the person who used to babysit you."

"I know."

"Can I have your answer?" Ace presses.

"I will be proud to be your maid of honor."

Ace gives Chantelle a hug, "thank you."

"You had doubts that I wouldn't want to be your maid of honor?"

"Not really." Not meeting Chantelle's eyes, Ace answers.

"Sure?" Not believing Ace, Chantelle adds.

"Of course, I am, both Graham and I decided we each will have one person standing up with us."

"You picked me and not one of your Doctor friends?"

Ace bumps Chantelle's shoulder, "who else would I choose but the one who knows me best.''

"Who is Graham choosing?"

"Ryan."

"He's a sweet boy."

"Whose only in his early 20s." Ace says with narrowing eyes.

Chantelle laughs, "already becoming Momma Bear I see."

"I have been like that with you since you were a kid."

"I know," Chantelle rolls her eyes. "Now show me the ring.'' Ace takes out her hand and Chantelle looks at the ring.

Meanwhile….

"Welcome back Ryan," Graham says as Ryan sits down at the table that Graham was at a local cafe for a small lunch.

"Thank you, now what did you want to talk to me about?"

"I asked Ace to marry me," Graham says with a large smile.

"From the smile on your face, I take it she said yes."

"She did, now with both you and Yaz home we can start planning. I was wondering if you would be my best man."

"I would take joy in being your best man. You sure you don't want any of your friends?"

"You are my family."

"So."

"A marriage is about joining two families, and Ace will be joining ours."

"She already has."

"You have no idea no how happy that makes me to hear you say that.''

"I have an idea. She is someone that makes you happy and is someone that is cool. The Doctor only chooses the best of the best, and Ace was one of those." The waitress comes to take their order. "Now tell me more about plans."

"We knew that you wouldn't be hard to get home, but Yaz was up in the air. I didn't tell Ace this, but if she wasn't back within a year; I would've sent a message through the psychic paper asking to get Yaz home."

"Why not just call?"

"That would be good too."

"Have you two picked out a day yet, in case Yaz leaves again?"

"Have you talked to her recently?"

"Can't say that I have."

"Yaz has officially left the TARDIS."

"I didn't think that was ever going to happen."

"Left not that long ago, Dan and I saw her before the first meeting between the companions."

"How was she?"

"She was ok, the Doctor was about to regenerate, because the Master shot her."

"Anything else happened."

"The Master was also working with the Daleks and Cybermen, I also got to surprise Ace. She at first didn't like it."

"Why do you say that?"

"I think she was expecting a Dalek to be around the corner and not her fiancé." Their food gets delivered. "Though I made her laugh by using a fake name. Ace and I got to blow up some Daleks. Ace, Yaz, Tegan who traveled before all of us with the Doc, Kate Stewart who is the daughter of a former friend of the Time Lord, and myself got to fly the TARDIS."

"Sounds like you had fun."

"I did, it felt good to fight aliens again," Graham takes a bite of his food. "So you know only one person each will be standing up with Ace and I."

"Why not more?"

"We decided that it was the best for us, none of us wanted to try and search for many to make it equal on both sides."

"Who would have more?"

"I think she would have more."

"Do you know where you are getting married?"

"Somewhere here in London."

"Ok."

"Excuse me, is everything going ok?" The waitress comes up and asks.

"Everything is good," Graham tells her, "actually can we please get the bill."

"Of course," the waitress leaves.

"So, Ryan, is there anything you want to tell me?"

"No, nothing to add."

"You sure."

"Grandad, nothing has changed for me."

"Ok, just checking, you know I love you."

"I do." the waitress drops off their bill and Graham pays it they head out.

That evening Ace and Graham are lying in bed both with large smiles. "Did Ryan agree to being your best man?"

Running his arm up and down her arm, "he did, what about Chantelle, did she agree to be your maid of honor?''

"After the initial shock of me getting married went away."

"Ryan says you are already family."

"He does?"

"Yep.''

"I'm glad, Chantelle mentioned that I am already protective of him."

"You are?"

"Chantelle called him a sweet boy, and I know her history. I don't want to see Ryan get hurt."

He kisses her crown, "thank you."

"Whatever for?"

"Loving Ryan like your own."

"Of course, I do?" She yawns.

"I think we should go to sleep honey."

"Mhmm," Ace, already half asleep, mumbles.

"I love you." He brings the blanket up closer to their chins and he too falls asleep.