Finally! I am so excited for you to read what I have really struggled to write for over three months, I lost my motivation and 'flare' for any kind of writing, it felt a lot like a chore but reading your comments on my fics and seeing all the votes each day from new readers to old readers who have been here from the start, that is what kept me going because I have so much more to offer you guys, I have so much planned with all my Doctor Who OCs, I'm very excited!

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The Stone and Jenny watched the scanner some more, switching the security cameras to the ones that were still active until they found the Doctor hanging on to a thick wire that was breaking by the second. His eyes caught sight of a spacesuit and he used an arm to reach for it. Muttering something until his eyes widened the suit breaking free and falling towards the Earth with the pull of gravity. The Doctor then lost his grip and he began to fall following the spacesuit. In an attempt to reach it the Time Lord started to do breaststroke as if he was swimming.

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After Jenny had grabbed popcorn and watched a woman who was helping the Doctor accidentally make him bump into multiple objects the Stone had enough of seeing her husband in pain and decided to help. She left the giggling blonde watching the scanner and pocked her head out of the TARDIS. Instantly spotting the Doctor and quickly rushing over before he hit his head on the inside of another police box.

"Doctor!" The Stone shouted and ran over.

"Dear?" He questioned turning his head as the redhead snorted seeing that he did really put the helmet on backwards and wasn't lying when he telepathically complained to her.

"Oh hello." The woman helping the Doctor smiled.

"This is my wife the Stone." The Doctor pointed at nothing. "She can look after me now. "Has been for centuries."

"Hello Stone." The woman looked at them slightly oddly.

"Doctor how did you get the helmet on backwards." The Time Lady sighed patting his arm.

"Well, I was busy after you and Jenny ignored my plead for help.

"You got yourself into that mess." She protested.

"Did Jenny not suggest to help?'

"She did." The Stone snickered. "But I told her that you would be fine.

"Of course." He replied in a slightly annoyed tone before setting out his arm to shake Madge's arm, getting where she was standing completely off. "Well thank you for taking care of me. You didn't have to, you know. You've been very kind."

"Oh, don't be silly." The woman smiled. "It's Christmas Eve. No one should be alone at Christmas."

"Ah but I'm not.'

"You was when I found you." She replied.

"Well, there is that. What did you say your name was?"

"Madge," Madge answered. "Madge Arwell."

"If there's anything that I can do for you, let me know."

"How?"

"Don't know. Make a wish. That usually works."

"Does it?"

"It did for me." He replied. "When my wife ignored me you appeared."

"You know I wasn't going to ignore you forever." The Stone winced a little.

"Oh don't worry dear I know." He smirked when Madge left, they entered the TARDIS and Jenny ran up to her parents. "I'm okay." He lightly chuckled sensing her worry as clear as day over the parental bond he had with his child. She was practically screaming at him and the Stone.

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Three days after the incident with Madge the Stone worked under the TARDIS, the Time Lords hadn't left the TARDIS since they met the human woman who helped the Doctor. Amy and Rory still had no idea that the two Time Lords along with Jenny was still alive.

The Doctor walked into the console room and into the console. The Time Lady raised a brow and placed down the equipment she was working with on the TARDIS before she headed up to the main part of the console. "Sweetheart?" She questioned.

"Madge needs our help."

"The woman who helped you three days ago?"

The Time Lord nodded. "It's why we haven't been anywhere." He sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "I knew something seemed off like I recognised her from somewhere so I did some digging in the library but didn't find anything and now I've suddenly got this." He held out his psychic paper to her. "Please, help -Madge."

The Stone looked up at her husband with a smile." She probably doesn't even know she's done this."

The Time Lord smiled. "Probably not."

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After some research, the Time Lords and Jenny managed to convince a Mr Digby that the Doctor was stepping in as the caretaker for Christmas. The Doctor, the Stone and Jenny spent the week preparing before the Arwells arrived for Christmas. The Stone chuckled at the Doctor as the Stone watched her husband and daughter bring in a large present.

"Are you sure it's safe?" Jenny questioned as they set the present down beside the large Christmas tree.

"One hundred percent." The Doctor rubbed his hands together and grinned "your mum and I have been there millions of times before."

"We first discovered it when we were around a hundred." The Time Lady shrugged. "My parents weren't that fond when I caught a cold and had to return home from the academy for a week."

Jenny frowned "For a cold?"

"Oh, it was a bad cold." The Doctor winced. "When you have millions of young Gallifreyans in one place a cold can be catastrophic."

"How?"

"Well, they're still growing and developing." The Stone explained. "A cold can sweep across the Gallifreyans like the black death, obviously it doesn't result in death but it moves fast."

"So there was a risk of everyone getting it?"

The Doctor grinned and pointed at his daughter. "Exactly!"

The Stone shook her head as they headed a knock at the door.

"I think they're here."

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The Doctor headed to the door with the Stone as they heard a woman shout: "Mister Cardew!"

"Father!" Two children shouted. The Doctor winced apologetically as he tried to open the door. "Sorry, it's the door. It's developed a fault."

"Oh, hello?" The woman frowned. "Mister Cardew?"

The Stone watched the Doctor and facepalmed as one of the Doctors became unattached from its hinges. "There we go. Well, come in. In you come." He waved them inside.

"Mind your step." He warned as the woman he knew to be Madge Arwell and the two children, Lily and Cyril Arwel walked in. "Now, don't worry. The back door is still, broadly speaking, operational."

"That is until someone get's their hands on it." Jenny giggled.

The Doctor playfully pointed at his daughter with narrowed eyes. "Why you."

"Doctor." The Stone whispered gently nudging her husband as the three humans stared at them.

"Right." He clapped his hands. " May I take your cases?"

"Thank you." Madge and the two children smiled and placed their cases down for the Doctor.

"Lovely." The Doctor grinned. "Would you mind carrying them for me?" He asked. "I need to show you around."

The Stone rolled her eyes as the Doctor ran up the stairs. "Oh no, wait!" The woman called. "Who are you?"

"I'm the caretaker."

"But you're not Mister Cardew," Madge replied.

"I agree." The Doctor replied.

"I don't understand." He frowned. "Are you the new caretaker?"

"Usually called the Doctor." He began to ramble, the Stone sighed knowing this might take a while. "Or the Caretaker or Get Off This Planet. Though, strictly speaking, that probably isn't a name. Hello, Madge Arwell." He finally stopped and smiled.

"Hello," Madge replied.

"And Cyril Arwell." The Doctor beamed, leaning down slightly to look at the boy. "And Lily Arwell." He grinned at the girl who looked to be around 15 years old compared to her brother who the Stone could only guess to be 10. "Now, come on, come on. Lots to see. Whistlestop tour. Take notes, there will be questions."

The Stone shook her head and leaned towards Jenny. "You might want to go entertain yourself for a bit, the Doctor's probably going to take them around every room."

Jenny giggled and nodded before heading up the stairs, most likely heading towards the attic to get to the TARDIS.

The Doctor and the Stone walked into a sitting room with the three humans following. "Smaller sitting room. Just chairs. Bit pointless without a television, so I made some repairs." He grinned and pressed a button by the door. The Stone shook her head as Madge stared at the two chairs that began to move around on there own.

"I know." He grinned.

They headed into the kitchen next and the Doctor beamed happily. "Kitchen! That's a cooker, probably." He frowned. "And these are taps." He lightly tapped them. "Hot, cold, lemonade."

"Lemonade?" Cyril frowned.

"I know!" He grinned.

"Staircase." The Doctor stated as they moved from the kitchen and headed upstairs. "It seems to have broken down. We'll have to walk up."

The Stone headed up first and stood in the way of the spiral stairs leading to the attic.

"We sleep up here with our daughter Jenny, she might appear in a bit, don't be alarmed though, she isn't a stranger."

The Doctor chuckled and pointed to the stairs. "Yes and stay away. Beware of panthers."

"Panthers?" Lily frowned.

"Our... Pets." The Stone slowly replied and shot an annoyed look to her husband.

"Sorry dear." He apologised. "They're terrifying. Have you never seen panthers?"

The Doctor lead them away from the stairs and stood in front of what was to be Madge's bedroom. He opened the door and announced: "Mum's bedroom. Grown-up. Your basic boring."

The Stone whacked her husband over the head and he yelped. "What was that for?"

"Are you calling me boring?" She asked. "I'm a mother."

The Doctor chuckled. "Course not, dear. You're not boring at all, Jenny would say you're exciting."

"Good," she hummed as she headed towards Lily and Cyrils shared bedroom. "I don't want to know what you did to their room if it's anything like how the living room and kitchen have turned out." She telepathically told him.

"No, it's better." He promised, kissing her temple before swinging open the door. "Lily and Cyril's room." He grinned seeing toys scattered around the large room. "I'm going to be honest, masterpiece. The ultimate bedroom. A sciencey wiency workbench." He ran in and started to point at each object. "A jungle. A maze. A window disguised as a mirror. A mirror disguised as a window. Selection of torches for midnight feasts and secret reading. Zen garden, mysterious cupboard, zone of tranquillity, rubber wall, dream tank, exact model of the rest of the house, not quite to scale. Apologies. Dolls with comical expressions, the Magna Carta, a foot spa, Cluedo, a yellow fort."

"Where are the beds?" Cyril asked.

"Well, I couldn't fit everything in. There had to be sacrifices. Anyway, who needs beds when you've got..." He pulled a lever and grinned as his device worked. "Hammocks!" He exclaimed as they fell from the ceiling. "I know."

The Stone sighed and sent Madge an apologetic look as Cyril looked up at the Time Lord. "But how do you get on?"

"Watch and learn, kid." The Doctor told him and stepped back slightly before running and jumping at the hammocks, only to fall flat on his face.

The Stone facepalmed and groaned out about her husband being a complete idiot as Madge exclaimed: "For God's sake!"

The Doctor shot up and his eyes narrowed. "This hammock has developed a fault."

"Can you please stop talking?" Madge begged. "Can you please just stop!"

"Sorry." The Doctor apologised, looking at his shoes for a moment.

The Stone lowered her gaze as well and sighed slightly, as silly as the Doctors 'changes' were he was only trying to help and make the Arwells Christmas a memorable one.

"Children, go downstairs." Madge ordered.

"Why?" Lily asked.

"Are we leaving?" Cyril questioned.

"Yes." Madge answered before quickly cancelling out her answer with: "No." She then sighed. "I don't know. Just please go downstairs!" She snapped.

Even the Doctor jumped slightly and the Stone walked over to her husband and gently took his hand. Of course, the big unfearful Doctor wasn't scared of the Daleks (that much) or the Cybermen but really a mother, one who just wanted to protect her children when she sensed something was wrong.

"You don't need to shout," Lily commented before taking her brother's hand and leaving.

"Why are you doing all this?" Madge asked.

"I'm just trying to take care of things." The Doctor forced a smile and shrugged. "I'm the caretaker."

Madge shook her head. "That's not what caretakers do."

"Then why are they called caretakers?" The Doctor questioned.

"Their father's dead."

The Stone slowly nodded, not even able to imagine how Madge must feel at that moment in time, not that it was ever going to be possible but if the Doctor didn't somehow make it back from an adventure she wasn't sure how she would even be able to tell Jenny. "We're sorry."

"Lily and Cyril's father, my husband, is dead," Madge sucked in a breath before she sighed and looked up at the Time Lords, "and they don't know yet, because if I tell them now, then Christmas will always be what took their father away from them, and no one should have to live like that. Of course, when the Christmas period is over, I shall. I don't know why I keep shouting at them."

"Because every time you see them happy, you remember how sad they're going to be, and it breaks your heart." The Doctor answered.

The Stone softly smiled and kissed her husband's cheek. "I don't think you could have put it any better sweetheart."

"Mother, come and see!" They heard Lily shouted happily upstairs.

"Mother!" Cyril shouted as well. "You've got to see this!"

"Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later." The Doctor added.

"Mother," Cyril called again.

"Mother, are you coming?" Lily added.

"The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later." He finished. The Doctor straightened his bowtie and took the Stones's hand. "Now, we'd better get downstairs. I think they may have found the main sitting room."

"Did you 'repair' it." The Stone shot him a playful look.

"Maybe." He grinned, kissing her cheek before heading out with the Time Lady. Madge followed behind the two who headed down the stairs and into the large sitting room.

Madge's eyes widened at the large Christmas tree sat in the room near the fireplace. "

"I know." The Doctor grinned before spotting what Lily and Cyril had both found. The Stone winked at her husband who shook his head. "Didn't think you wanted to 'endanger them' dear?" He telepathically asked his wife.

The Time Lady shrugged. "I figured that we would only let them go if we were observing them, plus Jenny would be able to see the snow."

The Doctor nodded and they looked up when Cyril looked at the label on the present. "Look at that present. It's for me."

"No, it says it's for all of us." Lily corrected.

"I'm the youngest. I get to open it first."

The Doctor and the Stone took the opportunity to leave the family in the large living room and head upstairs. "Doesn't say who it's from." Lily frowned. "Mother, who left this here?"

Madge turned around and frowned, the Time Lords were nowhere to be seen. "That man is quite ridiculous and I'm not 100% sure about the woman You must stay away from them," Madge ordered her Children.

"I like them" Lily spoke up.

"I like them, too."

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The Doctor and the Stone headed upstairs in the loft and worked on rewiring the TARDIS, the two sat at a large desk with Jenny watching them work.

"Mum?" Jenny frowned as she watched them work. The Time Lady stopped fiddling with the wires in her hands and looked over at her daughter. "If the TARDIS is as great as dad says it always is why do we have to keep getting parts and fixing it?"

The Doctors mouth opened as the Stone giggled at Jenny and the shell shock look on her husbands face. "Do you want to answer that one sweetheart?"

The Doctor grumbled and set down the wires. "Jenny the TARDIS is old, much older than me or your mum's age put together, no doubt. So she needs a lot of work to be kept brilliant and amazing otherwise she wouldn't be able to take us anywhere and we'll be stuck."

"And you know what we get like when we're stuck."

Jenny nodded thinking back to an adventure they had a week ago and the tantrum the Doctor had created after the TARDIS refused to work. "So the TARDIS just constantly being made younger?"

"Yeah!" The Doctor grinned. "Exactly that, the TARDIS is just really old and obviously the only one left, not that we ever would but we can't go and get a new, younger TARDIS."

The Stone chuckled. "He loves the TARDIS too much to do that."The Doctor opened his mouth to speak but frowned and looked up as the young Arwell girl gently pushed the door open and stepped into the attic.

"You were lying about the panthers." She crossed her arms.

The Stone chuckled as the Doctor smiled and replied: "Famous last words."

Lily's eyes drifted over to the TARDIS sat in the middle of the room, the door open a crack to allow all the wires out as the Time Lords worked. "Why have you got a phone box in your room?"

"It's not a phone box," Jenny protested. The Doctor nodded. "Yes, it's my wardrobe. I've just painted it to look like a phone box."

"He really likes phone boxes." The Stone nodded and shot her husband a slightly annoyed look.

"Well, what are you doing to it then?"

"Rewiring." The Doctor hummed."Why would you rewire a wardrobe?"

"We're trying to get it to make a funny noise when we open the door." The Time Lady cut in.

"We'll show you if we get it to work."The Doctor nodded. "Adds to the humour."

"What?" Lily frowned.

"Well, have you seen the way I dress?" He shrugged. "The funny noise and the outfit, it's hilarious."

"It's a nice outfit." The Stone shot the Doctor a glare. "My tenth self would have a field day arguing with you about blazers."

"Oh yeah." He hummed. "She wore those didn't she?"

"Yes."

"Dear I'm getting old." He grumbled.

"Oi!" She lightly hit him on the arm."

"Sorry." He apologised.

Jenny giggled at her parent's banter while Lily grimaced slightly. "Who are you three? Really, who are you?"

The Doctor went to answer but frowned and turned around as a small beeping noise and a flashing red light went off.

"Your brother," The Stone placed the wires on the small table. "Where is he?"

"Still in bed, asleep." The Doctor nodded and looked at his wife as she shrugged at him. "Okay. Faulty, then, we better fix that dear."

The Stone hummed. "I want to see for myself if that's alright Lily?"

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Sorry she gets stubborn when her things stop working as they're supposed to, could you go and double-check that for us, Lily?"

"Alright." Lily shrugged and headed off. The Stone sighed and looked at her husband. "I'm sure it isn't faulty." She protested.

"Stone, if it is we will just fix it." He reminded her. "Right Jenny?"

"Yeah." The blonde nodded passing another wire to her father.

The Stone slowly nodded. "I just don't want to try to fix it if it isn't broken, it wastes time when I could be fixing something else."

The Doctor chuckled and placed the wires down before he took his wife's hand. "Not everything you design and make has to be perfect, first time."

"I know." She sighed.

Lily smiled and walked back into the room. "He's asleep in bed, well the hammock."The Doctor nodded and kissed his wife's cheek. "See dear? Nothing to worry about."

"Umm." Jenny frowned and picked up the wire that was beeping and flashing again. "Is it supposed to do that?"

The Stone frowned and pointed her sonic at the wire. "No, it's not." She frowned when checking the readings of her sonic. "That's not right..."

"What is it, mum?" Jenny asked.

"The sonic says it's all working." She looked up at Lily. "You're 100% he's in bed, you saw him right?"

Lily shrugged. "He was rolled over but I saw his hair."The Time Lady frowned and stood up. Lily watched as she headed to the door and exited the room. The Doctor ran his hand down his face and stood up.

"Your mother." He looked at Jenny. "Never cross her when it comes to her devices because she will find a way to prove you wrong."

Jenny laughed and followed her father and Lily out of the room and down the stairs.

The Stones sonic beeped and she frowned. "What is it?" The Doctor asked noticing something was very wrong now.

"Well, I scanned the wires." She frowned digging her sonic out of her pocket. "My sonic is constantly scanning for any change, the wire just went off again."

"Okay I have to agree with my wife now, something isn't right." He looked up.

Jenny nodded. "I don't like it either."

"That makes three of us." The Stone muttered as they reached the children's bedroom."See?" Lily whispered poking her head through the door, the Stone did aswell and frowned.

"Hush." She whispered.

"What are you doing?" Lily asked as the Time Lady stepped into the room."

"I've been a child, I know the tricks, hell I've caught my own children using them tricks."

The Doctor snorted. "See? She's stubborn."

The Stone shot her husband a warning glare as she made her way over to the bed and gently peeled back the cover only to narrow her eyes and pull it off completely. "Oh, he's good."

The Doctor nodded. "The old bear and duvet, eh? Classic, nice one dear."

"Like I said." She grinned, you can't fool me."

The Doctor laughed. "You better watch out Jenny, she will find out you've done something even before you think of doing it."

The Stone shook her head and headed out of the room. "Come on, we need to find him."

"Why?" Lily asked. "He's probably just gone to the toilet or to get a drink of water."

The Stone shook her head and bought her sonic out of her pocket. "My sonic is blinking which means it has been opened."

"What?"

"Nevermind." The Doctor quickly waved a hand at the girl before he ran down the corridor and the stairs with the Stone. "Cyril!"

"I'm so confused." Lily ran after them with Jenny.

Jenny laughed. "Reminds me of when I first met them."

"But aren't they, your parents?" Lily asked.

Jenny nodded at the girl. "It's a long complicated story." They headed down the stairs and followed the two Time Lords into the main sitting room where the large present had been opened. The four sets of eyes widened as they spotted a young child's hand reach out and grab the torch lying in front of the box before it disappeared into the box.