Too Good To Be True

11. Congratulatory Dinner...In London (Spoopy)

A/N: Check it out! I'm alive! And so is Mari! ...For now. (Jk but srsly)

"Nervous?" Harper asked.

"Extremely." Marianna replied, pacing back and forth and going over her speech in her head.

"Don't be!" Harper commanded with a smile, "You're gonna be brilliant up there."

Mari took a deep breath. She calmed momentarily, but her heart jumped when she heard the person on the loud speakers announce her. She looked around the football field, the stadium was full of families and students. She walked slowly up to the stage and took her place at the podium. She finally got her heart to settle.

"Graduation." She spoke, looking out at a all the students she had known for the four years of high school. She heard her voice echo slightly as it came out the speakers. "We finally made it." She swept over the audience with her eyes again, "Looking back over are time at this school..." Something caught her eye in the back. Something blue. "Umm, I can surely say that at sometimes, none of us thought we would make it here." Mari smiled but her eyes where still fixed on that something blue in the back. "But here we..." A door opened in the blue box. "Here we..." She stopped. "I have to go." Mari picked up her gown and ran off stage and to the back of the stadium.

The entire audience was in a state of confusion and slight panic as Mari heard thousands of voices calling her name, but she could only focus on one of them; the British one who was holding out a hand.

Marianna grabbed the Doctors hand and he pulled her into the TARDIS, closing the door behind her.

"Doctor!" She squealed happily, throwing her arms around him. It had been so long since she'd last seen him.

He hugged Mari back a bit tighter than she would've expected.

Mari pulled back and looked him over. "Doctor, what is it?" She asked. He looked at her in a way she couldn't quite describe. Awe? Worry? Relief? Fear? Perhaps all four.

"Nothing, it's not...nothing." He dismissed and looked her over. "Look at you all grown up and graduating." He smiled, "Congratulations."

Mari laughed a little and looked around at the TARDIS, taking in the familiar surroundings. Suddenly she was serious. "Doctor..." She spoke, "Last time I saw you," It had been two years since she'd unsuppressed these memories. She continued, "I saw myself, my own body in the headquarters of the silence...How...how is that at all possible?"

The Doctor looked away from Mari and at the TARDIS counsel as he answered, "I don't know, maybe she's a clone, or something."

For some reason Marianna felt like he was lying, but she didn't have an explanation. To be completely honest, she didn't really want to know. She just wanted to have the doctor there. She didn't want to be attacked by silence. She didn't want him to disappear.

"Come to dinner with me." Mari requested of the Doctor, "Meet my family, my friends, you can show them I'm not crazy, and we might actually have a good time."

The Doctor seemed surprised by the idea. "Oh, well, I'm not really one for the domestic stuff."

"Cmon please? For leaving me for four years, crashing my date, and now ruining my Valedictorian speech?"