LIFE WITH THE FAMILY
Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty Two "So why am I just learning about this one now?" Rain teased as they got into the TARDIS. "Because I'd prefer to forget her, that's why," the Doctor replied as he shut the doors and walked with her to the console. "That bad? As bad as Sharina?" Rain said. "Not that bad, but pretty damn close," the Doctor said, starting up the TARDIS. "She was more enamored of me than I was of her and it apparently still continues to this day. But no more. This is it. Once and for all, I'm telling her to piss off." "Ooo, glad I'm coming along then if the sparks are about to fly," Rain said. She giggled and gave his butt a playful slap when he finished taking the TARDIS into the vortex. "Wife, children?" Eight said, rubbing his chin. "You mean there are other Doctors in the other universes. But the ancient writings say that Rassilon made sure that the Time Lords existed only in one universe." "Well, I s'pose Rassilon was bending the truth a bit," Alternate Rose said. She froze when she felt him briefly touch her mind and sense it. "You're a Time Lady." Alternate Rose nodded. "Yeah, my husband is a short distance away repairing our TARDIS." "Why? What's wrong with it?" Eight said. "Dunno. We were flying and suddenly it crashed landed here," Alternate Rose said. "I see and…you obviously know me but who are you?" "Oh, I'm Rose, this is Tara and Simon." "Hi," Tara and Simon said in unison. The Doctor smiled warmly at them. "Boy, you're a lot friendlier than the Sixth Doctor was," Tara said. "You met my Sixth life?" Tara nodded. "And your second life too." "Blimey, what are you doing? Trying to find all my lives?" "No, we come upon them by accident. That's how my original daddy and me found her and my second daddy," Tara said, pointing to Rose. Eight was taken aback. "She has two fathers?" she said to Alternate Rose. She nodded. "How did you manage that. I mean, the looming…" "She wasn't loomed, she was adopted," Alternate Rose said. "And so was Simon." "But…she's Gallifreyan, I can sense her mind. I can understand adopting her but still, she had to be loomed at some point." "It's…a long story and I don't think I should tell it," Alternate Rose said. "You see, my husband is your tenth incarnation." Eight's eyes boggled. "Oh, I see, so the distant future," he mused. "Yes, best not to tell me too much. Don't wanna change events and ruin something." "Yeah, like my marriage," Alternate Rose muttered to herself. "Well, best to separate then. Don't wanna muck things up by meeting another me." "Yeah but we come from another universe," Tara said. "Yes but still, the universes are only parallel and there's enough similarities that I could mess up something in this universe that's meant to happen if I know too much about your father's future. I'm glad I met you and I wish you all well but…" "That other Time Lord, he talked about the Time War, so that's going on right now?" Tara asked. "Yes, it's the sixth year of it in fact," he said grimly. "We've been fighting non-stop almost every day and still neither side seems able to get the upper hand." "Do you know Grace?" Tara asked. Eight smiled. "Grace Holloway, yes I do. Why? do you?" "Yes, she's my…friend," Tara said, catching herself before she said aunt. "How is she?" "She's fine," Tara said. "She's very nice." "Yes, she is. I miss her terribly and I often think about what happened to her. But I know she'll do great things in her life." "Yup, she will," Tara said, smiling. "So who you travelin' with now?" "No one," Eight said. "You don't have any companions?" Alternate Rose said. "I commanded them to leave as soon as the war started. I had a duty to fight but they didn't so I made them leave." "Who were they?" Tara asked. "A man called Fitz and a woman called Compassion." "Never heard of them, Amo'mya," Tara said to Alternate Rose. Eight grinned. "You call your mum Amo'mya, I love that," he said. "Yup and I call my daddy, A'ner'ra and he calls me Ya'mer'la." The Doctor smiled and nodded. "Well, it's nice to meet all of you. I s'pose this is a preview of my own future and if it is I'll be looking forward to it. For now, I must bid you goodbye, I need to go meet with some members of my team and keep alert for any signs of Dalek attack. So if I were you, I'd get your TARDIS repaired as quickly as you can before they get here." "Can you help us then?" Simon said. "If you help Pa, it might get done faster." "I…I'm not sure if I should, Simon. I mean, I really shouldn't know too much about…" "Rose? Kids?" John came up over the hill and froze when he saw Eight standing there with them. "Oh bugger," he said. Sarah Jane smiled when the TARDIS door opened and the Doctor and Rain stepped outside. "So, you brought along the wife to see your old girlfriend, eh?" she teased. "Yup, just like Mickey said when we were at Deffreyvale, the misses and the ex, welcome to every man's worst nightmare." Sarah Jane chuckled. "I'm assuming at that time, Rose was the misses then?" "You assume correctly. So, where is she?" "I'm here." The door opened as Valotte said that and she stepped outside. She was pure white with thin black stripes crisscrossing her body from neck to ankles. She had lavender hair and eyes to match and she was wearing a lavender dress that was so sheer, you could see the lavender underwear underneath it. She wasn't wearing a bra and Rain made a face when she saw her ample breasts bouncing up and down as she walked towards the Doctor. "Thete, it's good to see you again." Rain was thrown for a loop when she heard her personal name for her husband coming out of her mouth. The Doctor stiffened upon hearing it and she could see the anger in his eyes. "Please don't call me that," he said, tersely. "Why ever not? I've always called you Thete, haven't I?" she said. The Doctor shot his wife an apologetic look as Valotte pressed her body to his and gave him a hug. Rain gritted her teeth when she noticed her rubbing her crotch up against his leg. The Doctor jerked back and glared at her, warning her not to do that again. Valotte shrugged and smiled as she briefly ran her finger down his cheek. "Shall we go inside for human refreshment?" she purred. Without waiting for an answer, she turned and walked back into Sarah Jane's house. The Doctor put his arm around Rain and drew her near. "After you, Sarah," he said, gesturing to the open doorway.
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