This is the final chapter of Book five and then it is over to the sixth book in the series 'Times Will Change' Just because I'm nice this is the cover which I made myself, do you like it? 

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With the TARDIS empty of companions the Time Lords didn't really know what to do with themselves. Amy and Rory were off on a honeymoon planet leaving the Time Lords all alone. Thankfully they become less bored when two rather large ostrich looking aliens named the Shansheeth described them as a gigantic old battlefield that was still unexplored. Of course, the Doctor couldn't resist and practically begged the Stone to agree to it. They were both as bored as one another. The Stone reluctantly agreed. Then they were stranded, tricked by the Shansheeth. No sonics and no TARDIS.

"Of course it was a trap." The Stone groaned as the Doctor connected wires together.

"The Shansheeth failed at one thing though." The Doctor reminded her. "They told us that they had our friends." He grinned. "And whose the easiest of our companions to contact?" He raised a brow.

"Sarah Jane!" The Stone grinned. "Of course!"

"Exactly." He laughed. "If Sarah is there then so will Clyde."

"The artron energy." She muttered. "Of course. Sweetheart, you are very clever."

"Not as clever as you dear." He grinned kissing her cheek.

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After figuring out the Shansheeths plan Clyde, as well as the other children, ran through the corridors suddenly coming to a stop seeing Sarah Jane and Jo. The two woman had been going back and forward with their hopes all day. They believed that there was no way either of the Time Lords were dead. They didn't understand why it was just them. They knew that Lilac was still alive and she was the Stones most recent companion and she wasn't anywhere in sight.

"There you are." Sarah Jane said running into the children.

"Sarah Jane, it's the Shansheeth." Clyde panted after having been running away from the Shansheeth. "They're lying through their beaks. They want you and Jo. This whole thing's a trap."

"I knew it." She grinned.

"Hold on." Jo held up a hand. "If they're lying, that means the Doctor and Stone are still alive."

"Yes!" The woman exclaimed high fiving each other.

"Of course we're still alive, Jo." Clyde or rather a man that was definitely not Clyde speaking through him replied. "I thought that was obvious. Catch up."

"I beg your pardon?" The oldest woman blinked.

"Clyde, is that you?"

"Course it's not. It's me. I'm using Clyde as a receiver. I've keyed into his residual artron energy so I can organise a very complicated biological swap across ten thousand light years. Hold on."

Clyde suddenly cried out in pain. "That wasn't me. That wasn't me speaking. I'm getting..." he then swallowed raising his hand. "That's not my hand because my hand's not white." More energy surged through him as he cried out in pain as he was replaced with a tall floppy-haired man.

"Sorry..." The Doctor cried changing back into Clyde and then the Doctor again. "Clyde..." Clyde appeared again. "But this." Clyde. "Space." Clyde. "Is taken!" "Good. So, gosh." He grinned as the humans stared in a mixture of shock and horror. "That was different. Hello, everyone."

"Who are you?" Rani narrowed her eyes at him. "Where's Clyde?"

"Come on, Rani, use your brain." He resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "Clyde and I swapped places. I'm where he was, he's where I was. Which means, right now, ooo, he's in a lot of trouble but not to worry my wife is there." He beamed. "She'll look after him."

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"What's going on." Clyde stepped away from the strange ginger woman wearing a combination of red and black along with a red beanie that didn't really match her outfit. "Where am I?" He worryingly looked around.

"Clyde you're fine." She reassured holding a hand out and stepping closer knowing what some humans were like when something like this happened.

"Who are you?" He took another step back.

"Oh." The Time Lady blinked. "Sometimes I do forget about that... don't tell the Doctor I did but it's me Clyde." She grinned. "It's the Stone."

"The Stone?"

"Sarah Janes wedding. Me, you, the Doctor, Luke and Rani were trapped in a second and Sarah Jane was trapped in the next. Rani tried to correct us that Sarah likes to be called Sarah Jane but the Doctor told her she doesn't mind us calling her Sarah."

His mouth flew open in shock. "It is you!"

"Of course it's me." She chuckled. "Now I got to try and get this to work..." she muttered at the device that was making a rather loud and bad noise.

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"You bring him back, whoever you are," Rani demanded pointing at the Doctor.

Suddenly it clicked. Sarah Janes eyes widened as she stared at the Time Lord. "No, no, no. Rani, don't you see?" She asked then looked at the Doctor. "It's you, isn't it? You've done it again. " she breathed softly smiling.

"Hello, Sarah Jane."

"Doctor."

"That's the Doctor?" Rani looked between Sarah Jane and the floppy-haired man.

"What Doctor? The Doctor? My Doctor?" Jo quickly asked looking back and forth.

"Yeah, well, he can change his face."

"I know, but into a baby's?"

"Oi. Imagine it from my point of view." He replied. "Last time I saw you, Jo Grant, you were, what, 21, 22? It's like someone baked you. Everyone. Meanwhile..." he looked up seeing the Shansheeth marching in. "Ah, yes. The Claw Shansheeth of the 15th Funeral Fleet. " he angrily marched up to them. "I've been looking for you. Have you been telling people my wife and I are dead?"

"Wife?" Jo blinked wondering who the Time Lord had married. She had an idea and hoped who it was.

"I apologise. The death notice was released a little too soon." He sarcastically replied. "Though I can rectify this, immediately." He shot out a strong red energy from his claw. The Doctor cried out in pain falling to his knees. "I'm so sorry for your loss, Doctor. Rest in peace."

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The Stone fell to the floor clutching her chest as she cried out in pain. "Stone!" Clyde shouted.

"They're doing something to the Doctor." She whimpered "and it's actually killing him!"

"What do I do?" He shouted.

"I don't know! Press something." She groaned out. Clyde then suddenly disappeared, the Doctor in his place.

"Stone!" The Doctor shouted bolting upright running over to her.

"Thank Rassilon." She breathed closing her eyes for a moment panting.

"You okay dear?" He asked tightly hugging her.

"Am I okay?" She screeched. "What in the name of Rassilon happened to you?'

"The Shansheeth."

"I thought so." She dryly replied standing up after the Doctor held out a hand for her.

"Did you touch it?" He questioned.

"Sweetheart I know how to work it." She stopped when he gave her a pointed look. "-ish." She added. "But no that was Clyde. I wasn't planning on dying here today although it would be quite ironic." She tilted her head at the thought. "Dying at supposedly our own funeral."

"Please don't say that dear." He winced at the thought of her ever possibly dying.

She groaned resisting hitting the device before blinking suddenly appearing in a corridor the Doctor nowhere in sight.

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"Faster." Sarah Jane called then blinked when a strangely dressed ginger woman ran past.

"Come on Sarah!" The woman shouted.

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"No, no, no!" Clyde cried. "Don't slow down. Take me back."

"Clyde." The Doctor frowned. "But if we're both here then..." his eyes widened. "Oh."

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"In, in, in." She shouted letting the humans go in before slamming the door. She then blinked slowing opening it again before nodding and slamming it once more. "Anyone got a sonic?"

"Who are you?" Rani asked.

"Do we have time for this." She groaned.

"It's the Stone." Sarah Jane breathed breaking into a smile.

"Yes hello." She nodded holding the door as a loud bang was heard from the other side. "Please sonic?" She looked at Sarah.

"Don't you have one?"

"They stole it." She glared at the door. "They're lucky that they haven't tried to use it." She continued to glare as Sarah Jane flashed her sonic lipstick at the door locking it.

"They do sonic lipsticks now." Jo blinked looking at the device in Sarah's hand more closely.

"We're running out of time." The Stone winced. "Sarah, Jo I need to borrow you both if you are okay with that?" She took their hands.

"For what?" Jo questioned.

"Nothing bad I promise." She winced knowing that the children would be left alone. They then disappeared to be replaced by Clyde.

"No, no, no, no." The Doctor cried hitting the machine as the three appeared. "Ah Let's get you working properly." He grinned running over to the Time Lady.

"Where are we?" Sarah Jane asked.

"The Wasteland of the Crimson Heart." The Stone replied.

"Planet Earth's..." the Doctor said frowning for a moment before looking out at a wasteland. "...that way." He grinned. "Bit of a long walk. Sonic, please." He held his hand out for it.

"It's so many years since I was on another planet." Jo breathed.

"Me too."

"I would be slightly concerned and excited if you did manage to get on an alien planet without us." The Stone laughed.

"So you're both married now?" Jo looked between the Time Lords noticing their rings.

"Er yeah." The Doctor nodded hoping that the topic of the Time Lords or Gallifrey didn't come up in the conversation.

"I always said." She chuckled shaking her head. "You both always denied it."

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"There, and there." The Doctor pointed to where Sarah Jane needed to flash the sonic.

"Did it hurt?" She questioned the Time Lords who both diverted their eyes away to the ground. "I mean, the regeneration." She added. "Them last bodies of yours, were they okay in the end?"

"Sarah." The Stone quietly muttered. The Doctor grabbed her hand squeezing tightly. She never really thought about how much it hurt her. She was more worried about the Doctor, she knew he would blame himself, and he did almost locking himself in their room and refusing to come out for three days. It definitely hurt them both, more so emotionally than physically. "It always hurts." She then admitted giving the Doctor a small reassuring smile after a moment.

"And there." He pointed quickly trying to change the conversation.

Sensing that they didn't want to continue on with the topic and the look she could see in the Stone's eye she dropped it. "So how did you end up in this place?"

"The Shansheeth lured us," he said before correcting himself, gaining a pointed look from the Time Lady. "Okay they lured me." he corrected giving the Stone a cheeky smile fondly shaking his head. "A mighty old battlefield, just begging to be explored. Because we're travelling with Amy now. And Rory. They got married."

"And we dropped them off at a honeymoon planet, which isn't what you'd think." She tilted her head in thought. "It isn't actually a planet for a honeymoon, it's a planet on a honeymoon. Which is strange in itself."

"It married an asteroid." He chuckled as Sarah Jane did. "Then they nicked the TARDIS. The Shansheeth, not Amy and er." He trailed off. "Fortunately, we had all this wreckage to build a space swapping doo-dah thingummy wotsit."

"And you pointed out that I didn't use real words once." The Stone fondly shook her head at him. "Honestly Sweetheart."

"I can't come up with names for everything dear." He shot back sending her a playful look.

"So, you have a married couple in the TARDIS." Jo looked between them.

"Mister and Mrs Pond."

"Well technically it's Williams but Pond does sound better." The Stone hummed.

"I only left you because I got married," Jo muttered looking at the Doctor who swallowed thickly, his grip on the Stone's hand tightening as she sucked in a sharp breath feeling slightly guilty. She had spent so much time with Jo during her and the Doctors exile to Earth. Learning quite a lot about humans. Not that she didn't already know a lot but there was definitely things she didn't already know. "Did you think I was stupid?"

"Why do you say that?" The Doctor stopped what he was doing looking out into the distance.

"I was a bit dumb." She muttered slightly shrugging. "Still am, I suppose."

"Now what in the world would make you think that." He slowly walked towards her the Stone beside him. "ever, ever, ever?" He asked sitting down.

"We'd been travelling down the Amazon for months, and we reached a village in Cristalino, and it was the only place in thousands of miles that had a telephone, so I called you." She said looking between them. "I just wanted to say hello. And they told me that you both had left." She shook her head. "Left UNIT, never came back. So I waited and waited because you said you'd see me again. You did, I asked you and you said yes. You promised." She looked at the Doctor. "So I thought, one day, I'd hear that sound, Deep in the jungle, I'd hear that funny wheezing noise, and a big blue box or something to fit in would appear right in the middle of the rainforest." She chuckled looking at the Stone. "You see, they wouldn't just leave. Not forever. Not me." She let out a small sob as the Time Lords faintly smiled at her. "I've waited my whole silly life."

"But you're an idiot." The Doctor fondly smiled at her slightly shaking his head.

"Well, there we have it." She waved a hand at him sniffing once more.

"No, but don't you see?" He went on. "How could we ever find you? You've spent the past forty years living in huts, climbing up trees, tearing down barricades. You've done everything from flying kites on Kilimanjaro to sailing down the Yangtze in a tea chest."

"Not even the TARDIS could pin you down." The Stone added now smiling herself.

"Hold on." Jo looked at them eyes wide as the Time Lords held back their grins waiting for her to put two and two together. "I did sail down the Yangtze in a tea chest. How did you know?"

"And that family." The Doctor smiled in thought. "All seven kids, twelve grandchildren, thirteenth on his way. He's dyslexic but that'll be fine. Great swimmer."

"So you've been watching me all this time?"

"No." The Stone cut in shaking her head.

"Because you're right, I don't look back." He added. "And after so long neither can the Stone. We can't." He admitted squeezing the Time Lady's hand. "But the last time I was dying, we looked back on all of you. Every single one. And we were so proud."

"It really is you two isn't it?"

"Hello." They both broke out into smiles only for the Stone to practically jump into the Doctors lap when Sarah Jane blew a whistle.

"Stone?" The Time Lord raised a brow, slightly smirking.

"My ears are more sensitive than yours." She muttered and rolled her eyes at him.

"Sorry." Sarah Jane gave the Stone an apologetic look. "But we've got that lot back at home with the Shansheeth."

"Yes, yes." The Doctor stood up after the Stone. "And we still need you, Jo."

"Now, that bag of yours." The Stone sniffed the air for a moment. "I think if my nose is as sensitive as my hearing that I can smell blackcurrant." She sniffed again. "Is it buchu oil?"

Jo nodded handling the Time Lady a small bottle. "Hand-picked in Mozambique."

"Oh, perfect." The Doctor grinned opening the top of the device as the Stone poured some of the contents inside. "These circuits need connectivity. Wonderful. Little tiddly drop. That's it." He smiled at the humans before kissing the Stones cheek. "What a team."

The Time Lords then began to mess with the wires, muttering to themselves and each other as they worked before stepping back. "There." The Doctor rubbed his hands together. "That should work. Intergalactic molecular streaming, with just a hint of blackcurrant."

"But what'll happen to Clyde?" Sarah Jane asked.

"He stays where he is." The Stone gave her a reassuring smile. "We fixed it no more swapping with them now."

"Mhm." The Doctor hummed. "All we needed was you two. Oil and sonic. Now we can go back and Clyde can stay where he is." He held a hand out to Jo his other entwined with the Stone as she held a hand with Sarah Jane. "Hold tight."

After arriving back the Time Lords heard the sounds of children shouting. Quickly they followed the noise with the two human woman behind them. Running through the corridors, being extra careful not to run into any of the Shansheeth. "Get us out of here. Doctor!"

"Maybe leaving Clyde in the same place wasn't such a good idea." The Doctor winced.

"Look out, stand back." Sarah Jane flashed her sonic lipstick at the gate. "Ah! Ventilation shafts." He grinned motioning for the Stone to go first. She rolled her eyes at him as he grinned kissing her cheek. "That takes me back. Or even forwards." He remarked heading inside after her.

"Hurry up," Clyde shouted through the vent. "We're getting boiled alive."

"Hold on Clyde." The Stone ordered. "We're coming."

"Don't worry, Santiago, I'm here." They heard Jo shout from the entrance as they continued before freezing hearing the two companions cry out for their help.

"Jo?" The Doctor shouted stopping and looking back and forward. "Sarah?" He wasn't sure where to go. The Stone would obviously without a doubt continue on to help the children but he didn't want to leave her alone. Not when the Shansheeth wanted them both dead. He couldn't leave her to go towards what was practically an oven.

"They're roasting us!" Clyde shouted. The Stone quickened her pace as the Doctor continued to hesitate.

"Let us out!" Rani shouted.

"Sarah." The Doctor winced.

"Sweetheart I got to get them."

"I'm not leaving you to crawl towards what is basically an oven." He countered quickly following her.

"Doctor-"

"No." He firmly cut in. Stopping her from continuing. She swallowed thickly knowing why he was being like this when only a couple of days ago the Universe almost existed without them. They continued on without saying another word until they reached the entrance where they both barely fit side by side as they fiddled with the wire attempting to open the door. "And release." The Doctor grinned as the steel door slid up revealing three quiet sweaty children and a Groske.

"Blimey." He looked between the Time Lords. "You two really have changed completely haven't you?" He questioned. "I wasn't really paying much attention before, I was too busy swapping and being on another planet."

"Oi, we're still cooking back here." Rani reminded.

"Where's my gran?" Santiago asked.

"Right, yes, sorry, she's in danger." The Doctor said wincing at the panicked look on his face. "So, we'd better, er. Dear, I can't turn round."

"You'll have to shuffle backwards," Clyde said before the Stone could reply.

"Oh, yes, okay." He slowly nodded not even allowing the Stone to go first. They didn't know what would be waiting for them at the exit. "Thank you, Clyde."

"Even your eyes are different," Clyde said in wonder. "It's weird, cos I thought the eyes would stay the same. Can you change colour or are you always white?"

"We could be anything." The Doctor chuckled.

"Everything except ginger for you sweetheart." The Stone laughed.

"Maybe it should be rude and ginger." He replied most likely pouting by now.

"And is there a limit?" Clyde asked. "How many times can you change?"

"Five hundred and seven." The Doctor automatically replied almost making the Stone blink before she realised what he had done.

"Clever."

"Thanks, dear." She could hear the smug replied.

After exiting the vent the Time Lords shared a look clearly hearing the device. "They've started." The Doctor murmured before dashing off with the Stone, the humming becoming louder and louder as they ran.

"They've sealed it off." The Doctor groaned after pulling on the doors to the chapel. "Jo, Sarah, can you hear me?" He shouted trying to be louder than the humming.

"They want the key," Sarah replied sounding very much in pain. "They've got the TARDIS and a Memory Weave."

"Too late." They heard Karim the UNIT guard laugh. "Full activation."

"Try to find a way in." The Doctor ordered the children. The Doctor ran to the Stone by a control panel. Connecting wires together and trying to somehow open it or allow them to hear what was going on.

"There's nothing." Santiago shook his head. "We need a bulldozer."

"I've got the original here." The Doctor pulled his key out shouting to the Shansheeth. "You can have it if you let them go."

Clyde started to hit on the door with a fire extinguisher. Only seeming to make matters worse for both Time Lords. They had a grandson clearly hearing his grandmother in pain. Two other children hearing their best friends mum in agonising pain as well. "What do we do, Doctor?" Clyde asked dropping the fire extinguisher. "Stone, what do we do?"

"Because the Shansheeth are making them remember." The Stone murmured.

"I know."

The Doctor let out a laugh seeing what she had figured out. Kissing her forehead he then turned to Clyde. "Then don't you see?"

"I don't see anything."

"We do the same." He grinned.

"Opening comms." The Stone joined two wires together. "Sarah, Jo, can you hear me?"

"The key." They heard Sarah wince from inside. "It's almost ready."

"Listen to me, both of you." The Doctor moved to the door pressing his head against it murmuring. "I want you to remember."

"We are doing." Jo protested. "That's the trouble."

"No, no, no, no." The Stone joined the Doctor taking his hand "We want you to remember everything."

"Every single day with us. Every single second."

"Because your memories are more powerful than anything else on this planet." The Stone continued. "Just think of it. Remember it."

"But properly." The Doctor cut in emphasising its importance. "Properly. Give the Memory Weave everything."

"Every planet, every face, every madman." The Stone chuckled glancing at the Doctor who then cut in.

"Every loss, every sunset, every scent, every terror, every joy, every Stone and every Doctor."

"Every one of us." The Time Lords both finished.

"I remember." Sarah quietly replied. There was a long silence until they heard the cry of Karim.

"I remember." Jo then breathed making the Time Lords break into grins tightly hugging each other.

"We need that key!" Karim shouted making the Doctor and the Stone groan knowing it was working. "What is happening?" She then questioned gaining more and more impatient. "What's happening?"

"The device is overloading." One of the Shansheeth cried. "Too many memories. Too many."

"Reverse it! Bring that key back.

"Come on, all of you." The Doctor pulled the kids to the door himself and the Stone standing behind them. "Tell them, tell them."

"Think of us, Sarah Jane." Clyde started. "Remember Maria and her dad, and all the stuff we did, like the Gorgon."

"And the clowns!" Rani added. "And the zodiac. And the Mona Lisa."

"Mona Lisa?" The Doctor mouthed to the Stone.

"All of it. All of it." Sarah Jane quietly laughed.

"Just think, Gran," Sandiago spoke up pressing himself against the door. "All the countries you've been to."

"Every country in the world."

"Weave starting to self-destruct."

They then heard a loud bang. "It's blown a circuit," Sarah said rushing over to Jo.

"I can't get out."

"I've got you."

"Now we're in trouble." The Doctor muttered hearing the alarm blaring. "The Weave's going to blow up and we can't get them out."

"What?" Rani gaped at them.

"Can't escape."

"Weave now entering detonation phase."

"I can't unseal the doors." Karim groaned pressing buttons. "The power line is gone. Argh!"

"We've drained it," Sarah said quietly on the other side of the door. "Doctor? Stone, I can't get out."

"We can't open it." The Stone sighed shaking her head.

"No sonics."

"They're inside the Tardis." The Doctor sighed.

"And we can't get in, because guess what?" Sarah choked up slightly. "We stopped ourselves getting the key. Oh, that was clever."

"I just want to say, I'm so glad I saw you two again," Jo said trying to sound happy. Of course, she was beaming from seeing both the Time Lords again, even more so knowing that they were happily married to each other now after the Stones marriage broke just before her exile to Earth with the Doctor. He had been a great friend to the Time Lady and definitely a great help. Her children were in a way motherless and she was stuck on another planet with no way to contact them. Even when they were grown up and didn't exactly need her any more she couldn't reach them, just giving them another reason to hate her. She was never the best mother to them with rules that stopped her from doing what she felt was right. The Doctor being her best friend always blamed himself for the lack of time and bonding she had with her own children in the limited years she had with them before they moved on in their lives with attending the academy. "I waited all this time, and it was worth it." Jo continued. "Every second. Funny thing is though, your funeral turns out to be ours instead."

"Our funeral?" The Doctor repeated.

"Doctor, Stone, all of you, you'll look after Luke for me, please."

"No, no, no, no, but listen." The Doctor quickly cut in suddenly realising. "Our funeral."

"Don't you see?" The Stone asked grinning. "It's our funeral."

"With a lead-lined coffin!" Jo and Sarah said in unison quickly running over to the coffin.

"How much time have they got?" The Doctor asked the Groske. "Big bang, ten seconds."

"Come on." The Doctor pushed the children away taking the Stone's hand they both ducked out of the way of the doors.

"Ten, nine, seven, six." The Groske counted down. 

"Hurry up, Gran."

"Five, four, three, two..." it quickly darted out of the way realising where it was stood.

The doors flew off and a large ball of fire escaped the room. Slowly standing the Doctor brushed himself off checking the Stone while he was at it. He kissed her forehead seeing that she was fine. He then turned to Clyde and Rani. "What do you mean, the Mona Lisa?" He asked knowing exactly where the original was. Definitely not on one of the walls of his and the Stones bedroom...

"Smells like roast chicken." The Groske commented walking in.

"Great that's the second time I am not going near, chicken." The Stone grumbled seeing the Doctor turn a slight pinkish colour before he lightly coughed. 

"Now then. Smith and Jones." He opened up the coffin lid. Jo and Sarah Jane were huddled together. "The coffin was the trap. The coffin was the solution." The Doctor hummed then grinned at the Stone. "That's so neat, I could write a thesis."

"Of course you could sweetheart." She rolled her eyes fondly shaking her head at him. "I'm looking forward to reading it."

"That's what I thought dear." He smirked kissing her cheek before looking at the human women who were both laughing. "Come on then, you two. Out you get."

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"Still the same old TARDIS." Jo smiled looking around just after the kids wondered out and into the attic. "It doesn't matter what's changed, it still smells the same." She sucked in a deep breath sniffing deeply before shaking her head. "No. I've got to say goodbye, or else I'd stay with you forever." She chuckled. "Besides, I probably couldn't keep up any more. Get you into trouble with the Time Lords." She commented. The Doctor and the Stone shared a look. The Stone thickly swallowing at her next words. "Plus you probably haven't seen your children in a while Stone, I know how much you like to see them from time to time even if you weren't on the best of terms with them last time I saw you."

"Yeah, we probably better go." The Doctor interrupted, his eyes meeting Sarah Janes for a brief moment as the woman slowly nodded in understanding. "You know us," he mumbled squeezing the Stones hand almost too tightly as she closed her eyes for a brief moment. "Stuff to do."

"It's daft, though, because we were both saying." Sarah said. "We had this theory that if you two ever died, we'd feel it, somehow we'd just know. But that's just silly, isn't it?"

"I don't know." The Doctor hummed in thought. "Maybe not. Because between you and me, if that day ever comes. I think the whole universe might just shiver."

"Boo!" The Stone exclaimed making the humans jump and then burst out laughing. The Stone quietly laughed with them before they shared small hugs and left them both in Sarah Janes attic.

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"That was definitely something different." The Stone remarked sitting beside the Doctor under the console as he worked on his never-ending fixing of the TARDIS.

"I have to agree." He nodded. "We should really tell UNIT to keep an eye on who they employ..."

"Didn't we tell them that we resigned?"

"Not technically." He grinned.

"We can never say goodbye to it can we?"

"We really can't dear." He chuckled kissing her cheek before focusing back onto the wires. "I meant to ask." He said breaking the short silence in the room. "Are you okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?' She frowned slightly looking at him as he let out a small sigh setting the wires back down before grasping her hands. 

"What Jo said..."

"About?"

"Your children."

"Oh, sweetheart." She murmured cupping his cheek. "Of course I'm okay." She shook her head at him. "It's been years-"

"I know you Stone." He cut in. "You can't lie to me dear, I need to know."

"And I'm telling you." She reassured squeezing his hands. "I'm okay. I promise you, I just had a moment where I thought back and it wasn't really a sad thought. I said goodbye to them before I left during the war and we were all okay but of course, you already know that."

The Doctor softly smiled. "Of course I do." He hummed and wrapped an arm around her waist as he stood up, pulling her up against him. Her arms wrapped around his neck as he lent into her lightly kissing her lips. He completely forgot about the work he was doing on the TARDIS as they made their way down the halls of the TARDIS in an attempt to find a certain room.