Eyes of Time: The Final Line ✓

Chapter 42: Partners in Crime

[House TARDIS Console Room - 4 months later]

"You need to go," Titan says with his arms crossed, standing before them with the rest of the family behind him and his siblings and niece.

The Doctor frowns, "What?"

"Go, you need to go!" Jessamy cries, pulling at her curls, "Travel! We can't take it anymore. You're following us everywhere, and we're not runners like you two! Even Susan's not as much of a runner as you and she's a runner! She's a runner like you! But you, You...you, you! ...Are driving us mad!"

"Mum's right, I can't take it anymore, grandfather. It's one thing to have Titan sitting in on my daily meetings with my Bondmate, but you're both always there! Café, restaurant, park... we even tried to escape by going to the butchery, and grandmother still followed us in!"

"Please, Daddy, Mum," Nightingale begs, "Please, from Alpha to Omega... get in your TARDIS and fly away. You can visit us. Just like you did before on your travels, just... give us some damn peace!"

The Great House Heads of Akmespiritus share a glance.

'We should go, they're right,' the Alchemist tells him, 'It's been over six months now.'

'We're getting ansty,' he agrees with a nod.

'And taking it out on our children. We should leave them be so they can really enjoy this place.'

The Doctor looks around at his family with a smile, "Okay."

[Café]

Sipping her hot cocoa, the Alchemist smiles at her Bondmate from her seat in the small London café they found for lunch. Her auditory sense is pulled back as far as she can as the area they're in is very loud.

For the last seven minutes, he's been describing his little adventure going down to the market square with the children right before they left. At the time, she was picking up the new Directors sonic devices and teleportation and time travel bracelets for them from the Tower of Margaritari. They can come and go from Alexius as they please and log into the systems to get any work done. She advised them to all wear sensory blocking bands just in case when they travel.

"...And there was this fruit called Apneseic! Apparently, it was only developed last year! They grow everything hydroponically using a water molecule expanding technique there, which is fascinating. I brought some back and kept a few for us. They taste a bit like Magentas. Reminded everyone of Gallifrey. It was lovely. Semine said she will work out a way to make Karmine Pudding from it."

"That sounds amazing! Karmine pudding used to be your favorite treat as a Timetot," she laughs, "You had me make it all the time for ours and top it with jelly babies for you because of that sweet tooth of yours!"

The Doctor nods, "Imagine being able to have something close to it again?" he sighs happily, "Oh, Ally, that city is lovely. That planet is too. And they're safe and there and alive and... and they're alive!" he laughs.

She grins, "You can thank my ancestor for the planet, but they did an absolutely amazing job protecting themselves by building a psychic secreter in that locket."

He nods, "To top it off, they aligned their time scar traces to it so they wouldn't be pulled into the Time Lock. Brilliant, our children are brilliant, and you're brilliant for saving them."

"They saved themselves," she shakes her head.

"No, Alchemist, I mean it... You pulled them from the war, and they worked so hard because of you," he says softly as he grasps her hand over the table.