Chapter 22: What Would Happen
"Oh, yeah, sure you were!" The Doctor said to Jack. Jack rolled his eyes.
"All my family is finally together again!" Fern exclaimed hugging Jack again.
"Did you make it back stage to the dancers?" Fern asked Chris.
"What? Oh no, sorry what'd you say? I wasn't paying attention." Chris's gaze snapped away from Jack who just winked at Chris.
"Chris, you're happily married!" Fern said.
"And your point is?" Chris asked. Fern rolled her eyes.
"Did you see the dancers or not?"
"No, I haven't, they won't let me back." Chris huffed and crossed his arms. Fern smiled and took one of Chris's arms and pulled him to where the dancers were. Fern tugged him along through the back area.
"Sweetheart! Come here! You can't bring your friend back here!" The voice of Janet said. Fern turned to her left to see Janet walking up to them.
"Are you a dancer?" Chris asked.
"Yes, but I help out when I'm off." Janet answered.
"Do you mind if I ask you questions? I've been curious on what happens in the Moulin Rouge." Chris said. Janet, suddenly intrigued nodded.
"Alright, just follow me around." Chris nodded and followed Janet as she started her way to help out another dancer. Fern smiled and left again to where the Doctor, Rose and Jack were. But, they weren't there. Fern started to panic.
"Oh no. No no no no no, it can't be happening again." Fern said running her hands through her hair, becoming stressed. She frantically searched through the crowds, looking for any sign of Jack's flashing smirk, the Doctor's anti-gravity hair, and/or Rose's blonde hair. Fern didn't see any of those things. She could feel tears start to prick her eyes.
"No, not again." She murmured to herself. Fern continued searching, more frantic than before due to her crying. The searching was useless of course since everything was blurred because of her tears. Fern spun around as she searched for the three. The laughter, the yelps of unprepared women, the talking, and the music blended together making Fern's head spin. Fern hurriedly wiped away her tears, not caring if her make-up was smeared, and continued looking. When she didn't see anything, she ran back to Chris. She bumped into something and she looked up, and saw a blurry Chris.
"What's wrong? I could sense you crying!" He said holding her by the shoulders to look her in the eye. Tears started to stream down Fern's face again.
"I-I-I can't find the D-Doctor! O-or Rose, a-and I-I can't find-" Fern wasn't able to finish the sentence she was crying so hard. Chris was very worried. One, the Doctor was his only way back to Greg and Eric, two, Fern was a crying mess, and she seemed to only be broken up about how they were gone and not that she'd ever get back to her one of her adoptive fathers and adoptive brother.
"Fern, it'll be okay, we'll find them. Don't worry." Chris hugged Fern close, stroking her hair and soothing her. Fern continued to cry into Chris's chest.
"He left, l-like he did when I w-was little, Chris. H-he left me again!" She broke into sobs once more, and Chris could feel anger bubbling inside him. How could the Doctor leave them? Especially knowing that Fern was still recovering from the first time the Doctor had left her. At least Chris thought it was the Doctor she was talking about. There was also the ever-so-handsome Jack. Maybe she was crying about him. Chris wasn't able to really find out unless he asked, and he knew that if he did Fern would just start crying again.
"Fern?! Chris?! Where are you?!" A voice exclaimed. Fern pulled away from Chris's lean body and whirled her head around to where the voice was coming from. The Doctor stepped through the crowd Rose next to him and Jack in the other side. Fern wasn't sure to be happy or enraged.
"Where were you?!" Fern yelled at the trio when they got to her.
"We were just outside Fern." The Doctor said.
"You didn't tell me! I was a mess! I was worried- w-worries th-that you-" Fern was crying again thinking about it. Before the Doctor could hug his 'daughter', Jack stepped in and hugged her. Jack could feel the glare that the Doctor was giving him and didn't care, he wanted Fern to know that he was there for her.
"Shh, it's okay now. We're sorry for not telling you. . .I'm sorry." Jack said in Fern's hair. Fern shuttered and pulled away.
"J-just don't do it again." She sniffed. "I think I've had enough of the Moulin Rouge."
"I've learned, and I feel better now thy my questions are answered. Let's go home then." Chris said. The Doctor nodded and led the way out and to the T.A.R.D.I.S. Fern, exhausted from the day was stumbling. The Doctor noticed and picked up Fern, as if she was the little kid that she used to be. Fern's head rested on his shoulder, her eyes fluttering to stay up.
"Back home then?" The Doctor asked Chris quietly.
"Yeah," Chris answered. The Doctor nodded and set Fern down on the Captain's chair so he could fly the T.A.R.D.I.S. Jack stood beside Fern, occasionally looking over at her to make sure she was alright. Rose stood on the other side of Jack, noticing this. She smirked to herself. Rose knew what was going to happen when Fern got older, and she couldn't wait to see what would happen.
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