The first time she ever met the Doctor was at her mother's wedding.
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They all ended up back in the reception hall, the brunette ran a hand over her face. Oh, very clever Trickster.
"How did we end up here again?" Clyde asked, his dark brows furrowed as he glanced between the older girl and the time lord.
"It's a spatial loop mixed up with a temporal loop." The woman explained, shoulders shrugging as she fiddled with the blue fabric of her dress.
"Come on, come on, come on, Sarah. Let me find you."
The girl sighed, running a hand through her hair and taking the flower out of it, and allowing it to fall on the floor. "What does he want? The Trickster, he's this all-powerful immortal who wants to cause chaos throughout the stars, and he wants Mum to get married. What does he get out of that?" Fingers tapped against her temple as she racked her brain for anything. "Oh, of course. She gives all of it up. She already started to. Fighting aliens. Saving the world." Jane's voice was now hardly above a whisper, brows furrowing together.
"She's here. If I can narrow the link ratio." The trio were all standing together as the Doctor spoke, turning himself around; pulling his sonic out of his pocket it began to beep and flash once more.
"Doctor." A voice echoed through sharp teeth, and the three turned around to face the trickster now head to toe in black.
"Ah. You look better in black. Or is white the new black?" His thumb pushed the sonic back down and put it into the inner pocket of his jacket. The Doctor had used his arms to indicate for Jane and Clyde to keep back as the Trickster spoke.
"At last. Doctor. I could feel this moment reverberating back through the ages. The meeting of the Pantheon of Discord and the last of the Time Lords." All three of them walked forward as the time lord spoke to the menacing figure. Clyde stopped, but Jane had continued until she was almost at his side once more.
"I've known the legends of the Pantheon since I was a little boy. I've fought your shadows and your changelings. I never thought we'd actually meet."
"And I know the legends of the Doctor. The man of ice and fire, who walked among gods, who once held the Key to Time in his hands. Now he is with a child and Sarah Jane's daughter."
"He's my friend." Pointing a finger back at Clyde. "And she's special. Which reminds me, you're looking a bit lonely for a Pantheon."
"I embody multitudes. And who are you, the man who has lost everybody, to talk to me of loneliness, when the Gate is waiting for you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Sarah Jane Smith is my prize. Even you, Doctor, didn't realise how wonderful she is. Though, I do need her daughter as well. She is as wonderful." His finger pointed at her, the dagger-like ring rather threateningly aimed at Jane.
"What do you want with her?"
"What I always want from any of those I visit. Her agreement. Goodbye, Doctor." And with those words, the Trickster vanished into thin air.
Her agreement. The power of words." The Doctor began to rant as soon as the Trickster was gone, turning to Jane and tapping his fingers against his temple.
"When she says I do." The young woman muttered, and the time lord snapped his head up and grinned at her.
"Yes, that's it!"
"That's what?" Clyde was a little behind their conversation, while the Doctor and Jane were on the same wavelength.
"She promises to love and honour her husband, the wedding ring goes on, and then she's agreed to it. She's totally under the Trickster's power. Marital bliss, but she forgets all about this. She starts living a new life."
"Forgetting about her old life protecting the Earth." Jane clarified, a grin on her face as she looked at her younger friend.
"And the planet's wide open, so aliens can just barge in?" Her friend finally got it, a look of horror on his face.
"Without Sarah, without you lot saving the world from your attic in Ealing, there'll be chaos and destruction. Meat and drink to the Trickster." The Doctor was shaking his head as he spoke, he was always so eccentric.
"As if she's gonna say yes," Clyde said, rather hopeful that Sarah Jane would do anything but agree with it.
"Yes, but we're not there," Jane said, horror filling her dark hues as she snapped around at the wonderful noise of the Tardis. But it wasn't fully there yet, a little blue cloud of electricity and sparks trying to get through.
"Tardis! Beautiful." The Doctor began to rant, arms out wide as he walked over to where the Tardis was materialising. It was doing its best to break through and land. "Yes! It's homing in on me. Emergency program, protecting the pilot. Of course. Partial materialisation." Jane had glanced up to him in excitement, fingers still clutched to the sonic lipstick that she held onto so dearly - the closest thing to her mother they had right now.
Luke had run up the stairs, glancing around and finally at the blue box. "What's happening?"
The time lord's arms were wrapped around Luke and Jane, full of excitement as he spoke. The Tardis was in full view now, the beautiful blue box surrounded by what looked like lightning. "Look, that's pure artron energy. Tardis power. Equal and opposite to the Trickster's power. That's how we can fight him."
The Doctor ran forward, his arm dropping to take Jane's hand and pull her towards the time-traveling box. He pulled a key from his pocket, opened the door, and pulled the two of them inside. "Run!"
Before the rest of the group could get in, that familiar force pull came back and split them in half. "Come on, all of you, get in. Come on now." Jane was looking over his shoulder as the time lord grabbed Clyde's hand, but he couldn't pull him in due to the strong winds that had picked up. The door slammed shut and the pair were alone.
The pair were thrown to the floor, but the Doctor got up not a second later and rushed to the console to try to get the Tardis under control. It was then that Jane stood up and looked around. Her mouth dropped open, eyes wide at the beauty of the machine.
"Wow." It was the only word that did it justice, looking around at the orange-lit components that made up that Tardis. "It's beautiful," Jane whispered, ignoring the happy tears that were gathering in her eyes. This is all she had dreamed it was - though she wished it had been under better circumstances.
"Yes, now get over here and help me." The Doctor called, having stabilised the Tardis just a little. She nodded, rushing over to help. The young woman placed her sonic carefully on the console, hoping that it wouldn't go anywhere as she flicked the leavers and pressed buttons as and when she was told.
"Where are we going?"
"To save your mum, your brother - everyone."
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