Since they had dropped Adam back home and stopped the Jagrafess the Protector hadn't joined the Doctor or Rose on their adventures and instead stayed in the solitary of the TARDIS. The human male annoyed her too much, he was a selfish idiot and it angered the Time Lady, instead, she opted to stay in the comfort of the TARDIS library or its garden in an attempt to relax. She had to admit staying inside the TARDIS was working. Her temper since the Time War was growing thinner and thinner with each passing day.

The Protector was enjoying her solitude until the TARDIS began furiously beeping at her one afternoon midway through a shower demanding she immediately make her way to the console room and even going so far as to turn the water off halfway through her conditioning her hair.

The Protector walked in after finally getting the conditioner out of her hair and changing into her usual buttoned-up white shirt that was slightly creased with the lack of ironing time. She left her jacket in her room and half rolled up her shirt sleeves with the shirt half tucked into her trousers.

"That's what Mum always says." The Time Lady heard Rose say to the Doctor while she rubbed at her damp air again with the towel she had brought along with her. "So I was thinking, could we..." She averted her eyes, looking to the console for a moment in her nervousness. "Could we go and see my dad when he was still alive?"

"Where's this come from," the Doctor questioned, his eyes looking to the Time Lady who he hadn't noticed had now entered the console room, she shook her head guessing the conversation she had walked in on. Her eyes narrowed at the Doctor in warning, "all of a sudden?"

'So this is why you wanted me to hurry?' She thought, glancing up at the console. It was definitely odd for the TARDIS to try to encourage her of all people to stop the Doctor, it wasn't like he was going to listen to her after all.

"All right then, if we can't," she shrugged, knowing it was likely they couldn't for some reason or another. "If it goes against the laws of times or something, then never mind, just leave it."

"Doctor, don't." The Time Lady warned as she saw the Doctor thinking about it for a moment.

"No, I can do anything." The Doctor ignored her, before his eyes darted to the Protector after a moment, watching her glare at him in her anger. This was exactly what she wanted to avoid. "I'm just more worried about you."

"I want to see him." Rose shrugged.

The Doctor nodded. "Your wish is my command."

The Time Lady shook her head, turning on her heels in anger. "This is stupidly dangerous. Don't come running to me when you need saving!" She practically shouted into his mind. "Because it won't happen!" She huffed again. 'He's ridiculous!' She snapped at the TARDIS.

Rose frowned, hearing the stomping of the Time Lady's boots. "What's wrong with the Protector."

"She doesn't agree with me." The Doctor shrugged. "But it's my TARDIS, therefore it's my rules." He grinned.

×××

The Protector shook her head in anger as she quickly stormed through the corridors of the TARDIS, long strings of Gallifreyan curse words escaping her lips as she went. "How could he be so careless!" She shouted, looking straight forward. "This is exactly what I wanted to avoid and he knows this isn't allowed! The Time Lords would have never allowed this to happen!"

The Protector looked up and stopped walking as the TARDIS beeped at her. "What do you mean?" The Protector raised a brow, looking up to the ceiling. Why was she still talking to the TARDIS? She was going insane, then again she was a Time Lady over nine hundred years old, of course, she was insane. The Protector shook her head, mumbling Gallifreyan and something about Rassilon and she huffed in annoyance. Of course, she was going to have to go back and stop the Doctor and possibly Rose from making a stupid decision they'd later regret.

But first, she could wait a little bit and torture the Doctor into thinking she'd never come and save him from destroying the universe. She needed to iron out her shirt after all.

×××

A good hour or two had passed since the Time Lady stormed out of the console room, refusing to help. She didn't want to exactly rush to help and decided to go for a stroll through the corridors of the TARDIS before playing the great rescuer. The Protector stepped out of the TARDIS after fixing the buttons on her shirt sleeves. It was a cloudy and cold November. The Time Lady sighed and patted the TARDIS before she frowned as the wind picked up slightly. "My jacket." She shook her head remembering that she had left it on the console after growing bored wandering around the corridors. She opened the door to the TARDIS and blinked.

The interior was missing, it was just an ordinary box. "That's not good..." She muttered, glancing around before noticing the Doctor. Oh, he looked pissed... well more than pissed as he stormed up towards the TARDIS. The Protector quickly shut the door to the TARDIS, watching him storm up to the box before frowning and looking up at the sky.

"What?" The Time Lady asked calmly, following his gaze and frowning.

"Nothing..." He muttered.

"And where is Rose?" She raised a brow almost smugly as she leaned against the TARDIS.

"Staying here." He snapped, glaring at the 'told you so' look on her face. The Doctor opened the TARDIS, his eyes widened as he saw inside the TARDIS or rather the now empty shell of it.

"Oh yeah..." The Time Lady faked a wince as the Doctor stepped inside, touching each side as he spun around in panic. She poked her head around the corner and pointed at the inside of the box. "I should have mentioned that... happened." She frowned slightly. "Not sure why but I'm guessing it has something to do with whatever you and Rose have done."

The Doctor narrowed his eyes at her. "Fine!" He huffed as he quickly headed off the Protector followed him as he ran off down the street. "Say it."

"I told you!" The Time Lady snapped, pointing at him as she quickened her pace to match him. "This is your fault."

"Yes." He snapped back, turning his head and narrowing his eyes at her. "I'm aware of that, now can we get a move on!"

The Protector didn't reply as they turned the corner and a little boy cried out, running around another. "Monsters! Going to eat us!"

"Rose!" The Doctor shouted having spotted it first. "Get in the church!"

The Protector's eyes widened as a large creature with bat-shaped wings suddenly appeared out of thin air in the sky. It hissed loudly and began to fly around. The Protector narrowed her eyes and dived at the blonde as the creature swooped down to the human.

"Hi, Rose!" She greeted, pulling the blonde up on her feet and quickly pulling her to the large church. "In here!"

"Get in the church!" The Doctor ordered, letting everyone inside as two more of the creatures appeared.

"Oh, my God." A woman in a wedding dress gasped in horror. "What are they? What are they?"

"Inside!" The Protector ordered, poking her head out the door.

"Sarah!" A man shouted at the woman in the wedding dress as he went to run out.

"Nope!" The Time Lady grabbed his arm, stopping him from running out just as the Doctor ordered:

"Stay in there!"

One of the creatures suddenly pounced on an older man and another blocked Sarah's path, the woman screamed in terror and the creature flew off for a moment before jumping on the nearby vicar.

"In!" The Doctor ordered, gesturing to the woman in the wedding dress who quickly complied and ran into the church.

The Protector sighed when the doors shut and looked down, grumbling slightly at her white shirt that was now ruined with a large dirt stain from when she dived at Rose.

She looked up when the creatures began to launch at the windows, the outline of their shadow on the stained glass. "They can't get in." The Doctor explained to the scared humans inside. "Old windows and doors. Okay." He looked at the Protector. "The older something is, the stronger it is." He frowned. "What else?"

"The other doors." The Time Lady supplied, brushing herself off as best as she could.

Jackie Tyler eighteen years younger than when they had first met suddenly appeared beside the Time Lords. "What's happening? What are they?" She asked. "What are they?"

"There's been an accident in time." The Doctor explained. "A wound in time. They're like bacteria, taking advantage."

She gave them a funny look. "What do you mean, time? What're you jabbering on about, time?"

"Oh, I might've known you'd argue." The Doctor huffed. "Jackie, I'm sick of you complaining."

"How do you know my name?" She demanded, narrowing her eyes at the Doctor.

"I haven't got time for this." The Doctor grumbled at the Time Lady. The Protector shrugged, he got himself into this mess as Jackie looked at him even more annoyed.

"I've never met you in my life!"

"No, and you never will unless I sort this out." He snapped. "Now, if you don't mind, I've waited a long time to say this." He pointed in the direction of the back of the church as he shouted at her: "Jackie Tyler, do as I say. Go and check the doors."

"Yes, sir." She nodded and quickly headed off.

"I should have done that ages ago." The Doctor told the Time Lady beside him.

The Protector rolled her eyes as the groom walked up to them. "My dad was out there."

"You can mourn him later. Right now we've got to concentrate on keeping ourselves alive." The Doctor informed.

"My dad had-" He tried but the Doctor cut him off as he shook his head:

"There's nothing I can do for him." 

"No, but he had this phone thing. I can't get it to work. I keep getting this voice."

The Protector raised a curious brow. "May I?"

He nodded and handed her the phone, she frowned as she put it to her ear and heard Alexander Graham Bell on repeat. "Watson, come here. I need you. Watson, come here. I need you."

"If I remember rightly that's the very first phone call ever made." The Protector remarked.

"Alexander Graham Bell." The Doctor nodded. "I don't think the telephone's going to be much use."

"But someone must have called the police."

The Protector shook her head. "Police can't help now. No one can. Nothing in this universe can harm those things. Time's been damaged and they've come to sterilise the wound. By consuming everything inside." She shot her eyes at the Time Lord as Rose spoke up:

"Is this because?" She swallowed hard. "Is this my fault?"

"Doctor?" The Time Lady tilted her head, a stony expression on her face. "Is it?"

The Time Lord narrowed his eyes in return as Rose swallowed hard looking between both the Time Lords.

Pete stood looking out one of the windows. "There's smoke coming up from the city but no sirens. I don't think it's just us. I think these things are all over the place. Maybe the whole world."

His face grew puzzled as a beige car suddenly appeared around the corner before disappearing. "Was that a car?"

"It's not important." The Doctor cut in while the Protector raised a curious brow, watching the Doctor closely as he walked away from Pete. "Don't worry about it."

The Time Lady swiftly turned on her heels and followed him. The Time Lord sitting down on a church bench.

The Protector stood over him, her arms crossed and a blank yet slightly annoyed look on her face. "What actually happened."

The Doctor looked up at her: "She stepped into her own timeline."

"You let her do that." She shot back, her eyes narrowing into thin lines as she glared at him.

The Doctor looked back just as angry as her. "I didn't think she'd jump into her own timeline!"

"Not only did you take her to see her father the day he died but you took her to the same point in time, twice!" She snapped. "You're lucky I left the TARDIS when I did or Gods know where I'd be!"

The Doctor didn't reply and frowned furiously at the Time Lady before standing up and marching away from the Protector.

The Time Lady shook her head, watching him go. "This conversation isn't over Doctor, if the Time Lords aren't here to hold you accountable, I will."

The Time Lord stiffed slightly before continuing on, reaching a nearby curtain and pulling it away from the wall before scanning the concrete. The Time Lady narrowed her eyes and quietly stood up before walking towards a wall that would hide her from the Doctor while she spied on him. She couldn't trust him at all in their current state.

"Excuse me, Mister." The bride and groom walked up to the Doctor, who turned his head to look at the man who spoke.

"Doctor." He corrected.

"You seem to know what's going on."

"I give that impression, yeah."

"I just wanted to ask-"

"Can you save us?" The bride cut in looking at the groom worryingly.

The Time Lord looked between the pair smiling slightly. "Who are you two, then?"

"Stuart Hoskins." The man answered a moment before the bride replied:

"Sarah Clark."

The Doctor looked down at the growing bump Sarah had and he raised a brow. "And one extra. Boy or girl?"

Sarah shook her head at the Time Lord. "I don't know. I don't want to know, really."

"How did all this get started?"

"Outside the Beatbox Club, two in the morning." Stuart began.

Sarah chuckled slightly at the memory. "Street corner. I'd lost my purse, didn't have money for a taxi."

Stuart shrugged sheepishly. "I took her home."

The Doctor looked between them. "Then what? Asked her for a date?"

Sarah smiled and nodded, gesturing to her hand. "Wrote his number on the back of my hand."

"Never got rid of her since. My dad said."

"I don't know what this is all about, and I know we're not important." Sarah sighed.

The Doctor frowned at them. "Who said you're not important? I've travelled to all sorts of places, done things you couldn't even imagine, but you two. Street corner, two in the morning, getting a taxi home. I've never had a life like that. Yes. I'll try and save you."

The Protector watched the Doctor closely from behind the wall, her head poking out slightly and her eyes narrowed the further the conversation went on. Maybe the Doctor wasn't as bad as she had told herself for centuries. Maybe she was only trying to convince herself otherwise, he had managed to tear the universe in half and allow the creatures to purge everything in their path.

No, he was just as bad as she remembered and told herself as she turned away and walked away. It was only a facade he was putting on, he was still the egotistical asshole she had known since the Academy.

She narrowed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose while she wondered just how she was going to get out of this mess without anyone else getting hurt.

×××

The Doctor sat in one of the pews, baby Rose in her carry cot beside him. "Now, Rose you're not going to bring about the end of the world, are you?" He cooed at the baby. "Are you?"

"You're the one who did that by bringing her here." The T

The Doctor looked up at the Time Lady's ice cold tone, her arms were crossed defensively but she no longer looked like she wanted to kill him with her bare hands at least.

"As you won't stop reminding me." He sighed and averted his eyes, looking at the floor. "I was slightly wrong."

The Time Lady blinked not actually expecting him to say that, she frowned slightly and sat down beside the Time Lord, watching him closely. "You're terrified." She stated, blinking again for a moment as the realisation hit her square in the face.

The Doctor quickly glanced at her before looking away again and giving her the slightest of nods. "I wasn't thinking."

"You were showing off." She corrected. "After the Dalek and then Adam you wanted something to go your way for once, didn't you?"

The Doctor looked at her, blinking at how easily she had managed to read him. "How?"

The Time Lady shook her head, smiling slightly at him. "Because I thought about it too." She sighed, refusing to face him. "We'd had so much loss lately that for once I want things to go the right way," she turned back to face him. "But this isn't the right way Theta, this is wrong. Blaming Rose is wrong."

The Doctor nodded. "I'll fix it."

"I know you will." She told him before nodding down at baby Rose in the carrycot. "If not for yourself, for her."

The Doctor nodded again and they both turned their attention to Rose as she walked up to them. "Jackie gave her to me to look after. How times change." He hummed.

"I'd better be careful. I think I just imprinted myself on Mickey like a mother chicken."

The Time Lady snorted. "Sounds like your boyfriend alright." She shook her head and nodded at the baby. "Just don't touch her, you're the same person and that paradox will make things ugly." She winked at Rose. "And I can't stand looking at the Doctor let alone an ugly paradox."

The Time Lord rolled his eyes and then blinked as the Protector suddenly gave him a pointed and almost encouraging look.

The Doctor sighed, "I wasn't really going to leave you on your own."

"I know." She looked at the Time Lady. "If you did I know Leah would've made you come back."

The Protector smirked proudly, her face dropped at the Doctor's next sentence: "But between you and me, I haven't got a plan. No idea. No way out and I don't think Leah does either."

"You'll both think of something." Rose looked between the Time Lords.

"The entire Earth's been sterilised. This, and other places like it, are all that's left of the human race. We might hold out for a while, but nothing can stop those creatures. They'll get through in the end. The walls aren't that old. And there's nothing I can do to stop them. There used to be laws stopping this kind of thing from happening. My people would have stopped this. He looked at the Protector. "You would've stopped it. And now I'm going the same way."

"If I'd realised-" Rose began.

"This isn't your fault." The Protector cut in, crossing her arms at the blonde while looking at her scoldingly. "The Doctor brought you here. You didn't understand the consequences."

"But I'm sorry." She swallowed hard.

The Doctor nodded and stood up, hugging Rose tightly. "It's okay."

Rose frowned the second they pulled away. "Have you got something hot?"

The Doctor frowned while the Protector pulled on her shirt sleeves and dug her hand into the Doctor's pocket, fishing out his TARDIS key.

"It's the TARDIS key!" He laughed. "It's telling me it's still connected to the TARDIS."

The Protector grinned as the Doctor took off his jacket and safely took the key from the Time Lady using his own jacket to hold it.

The Protector quickly made her way up to the pulpit. "Excuse me." She called and huffed as everyone other than the Doctor ignored her. "You asked for it." She muttered before whistling loudly causing the room to go into silence. "Thank you." She nodded. "The Doctor has a ship called the TARDIS which was thrown out of the universe but he has a key that could bring it back and then that can mend everything but we need a bit of power, so do we have any batteries about?"

Stewart picked up the mobile phone, holding it in the air. "This one big enough?"

The Time Lady raised an eyebrow at the Doctor, who grinned. "Fantastic!"

The Protector headed down from the pulpit, the Doctor joining her near the back of the church. "Just need to do a bit of charging up and then we can bring everyone back." The Time Lord muttered, taking the battery out of the phone, using his screwdriver on the device.

The Protector looked up as the creatures battered against the door, screaming from outside. "I do hope this works, Theta."

The Doctor nodded in agreement and continued to hold his screwdriver to the battery, charging it up before using it with the key.

The Protector watched as the Doctor carefully placed the key at the same level the TARDIS' key hold would be. The sound of the TARDIS engines echoed and the Time Lady laughed.

"Right, no one touches that key." The Doctor ordered. "Have you got that? Don't touch it. Anyone touches that key, it'll be, well, zap. Just leave it be and everything will be fine. We'll get out of here. All of us." He looked at the bride and groom. "Stuart, Sarah you're going to get married, just like I said."

×××

The Protector sat beside Rose with the Doctor on her other side while the TARDIS continued to slowly materialise. "When time gets sorted out" Rose began.

"Everybody here forgets what happened." The Protector explained nodding at her. "And as much as I don't agree with messing with it the things you changed will stay how they are."

"You mean I'll still be alive," Pete spoke up from where he sat behind them. "Though I'm meant to be dead. That's why I haven't done anything with my life, why I didn't mean anything."

"It doesn't work like that." The Doctor replied, shooting the Protector a dirty look.

Pete scoffed. "Rubbish. I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly. Now it's my fault all of this has happened."

"This is my fault."

"No, love. I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault."

"Her dad?" Jackie said, Pete looked up at Jackie who stood in front of him, staring at him. "How are you her dad? How old were you, twelve?" She looked at him horrified. "Oh, that's disgusting."

"Jacks, listen. This is Rose."

"Rose?" She looked at him worse than before. "How sick is that? You give my daughter a second-hand name? How many are there? Do you call them all Rose?"

"Oh, for God's sake, look." He exclaimed, taking baby Rose from Jackie's arms. "It's the same Rose!"

Before either Time Lord could say anything Pete placed baby Rose into the older Rose's hands. " "No!" The Time Lords shouted. The Protector grabbed the baby, handing her back to her mother but it was too late, one of the creatures appeared at the back of the church.

Everyone screamed, running towards the front of the church, the Time Lords shot up instantly, the Doctor stepping in the middle of the aisle, the Protector following.

"Everyone, behind me! I'm the oldest thing in here."

"You're the oldest thing?" The Protector snapped. "No Doctor."

The Doctor narrowed his eyes. "Let's not have that argument now Leah."

Before either of them noticed the creature pounced onto them and then pounced onto the TARDIS, knocking the key to the ground.

×××

The Protector groaned as she woke up, her head was fuzzy and her eyes slightly stung but she slowly sat up, frowning in deep confusion.

How the hell did she end up in the TARDIS console room when she was just in a church moments ago...

Her eyes widened in horror and she shot up, pushing the dizzying feeling away as she ran for the TARDIS doors.

Her heart sank as she opened them to see the Doctor standing a few feet away, the duo watching sadly as Rose knelt beside her father in the middle of the road, the man dying in front of their very eyes.

"It had to happen." The Protector reminded the Time Lord gently. "Rose saved the world."

The Doctor nodded slightly before turning and walking past the Time Lady and back into the TARDIS. She sighed and slowly made her way towards the blonde who stood up and walked to the Time Lady, the pair meeting halfway while Rose wiped at her eyes with the sleeve of her jacket.

The driver of the car got out as the Protector and Rose made their way back to the TARDIS hand in hand.

─── ｡ﾟ☆･*.☽ .* ☆ﾟ. ───

If you're wondering why this only ended up being one chapter and shorter than the majority of the others I wouldn't have been writing the Protector right at all if she went with the Doctor and Rose and allowed the Doctor to cross their timeline again after already being there once and then let Rose her save her Dad. She just wouldn't have ever allowed it to happen in the first place.