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He didn’t obviously know about her own inner monologue, and his own worries and fears were piling on his chest, thick and heavy. 

Still, he rushed away with her. The TARDIS wasn’t far, and as he could hear there was disruption behind them. He turned to Sarah, then back towards the destroyed library with some horror in his features. 

“In we go, come on – come on, quick quick!” And with that he closed the TARDIS door behind them, his head hitting the back of it and letting out a relieved sigh. You could see the worry etched still in those anger eyebrows. 

“I need to just take you a few hours forward, just so you’ll be safe, and then I’ll handle this, all right?” He’d not even thought about the fact she’d not seen this TARDIS yet, not even registered that she didn’t even know this face. The Doctor just had too much on his mind. 

She’d seen many a version of the TARDIS over the years and it never ceased to surprise her how The Doctor’s brilliant machine seemed to change along with her pilot. 

Sarah Jane studied this Doctor, his eyes gave away that he was probably after the young one in the bow tie who’d crashed his own funeral. 

And, like always it unfortunately seemed, the years were not kind to him. 

Something he said broke through her thoughts and she stopped, glaring at him and crossing her arms. 

“I’m sorry, you’re going to deal with it? What makes you think I’m going to let you do this alone?” 

Stupid stubborn Time Lords who feel like they need to do everything themselves...

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“I swear we have this argument each time we get caught up in something like this?” Lilia chuckled uneasily before ducking with a small squeak beside Sarah Jane, her bravado slipping a little. 

“And my boss is gonna kill me after today,” She flicked her head to the car they were hiding behind that was being battered by lasers, “This is his car.” 

Sarah Jane couldn’t help but chuckle. “Trust me, while your name brings trouble, it brings a certain knack for getting out of it.”

She popped over the car, trying to get a look at what was firing at the pair. Just a friendly lunch with the granddaughter of an old friend. But, like Lilia had said, her name seemed to attract all manner of things and simple trips could turn into anything but. 

Like the time a simple interview turned into an adventure on The Doctor’s home planet, or a simple investigation into a research facility turned into the adventure of a lifetime. 

Aiming the sonic lipstick, she tried to get a reading, a feature she’d picked up from The Doctor’s later incarnations. “Step one, let’s figure out what we’re dealing with. Then we’ll worry about your bosses car.” 

Doctor Who moodboard: Sarah Jane Smith (requested by:@adventuresonearth)

OOC: I LOVE THIS 

Side note, my set of those overalls in that last picture are actually really comfortable. 

Thanks so much @drwhoboards for combining both Classic and New Who SJ! 

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“Yeah! That’s it! He was called K-9! Your fellow has the same name too, huh? Guess these robot dogs just don’t have many puns they can use for names.” What else could someone call a robot dog? T3RRI3R? F1-D0? Oh, hey - that last one was good, actually. John might use that in his book!

Anyway, the offer of a hot drink was enough to lure the author in. Thank God nobody had attempted to kidnap him before - it would be so ridiculously easy to get him somewhere where it would be possible to take advantage of him in any way.

“You got coffee? I mean, tea is good too, but coffee is better. And what about biscuits? The answer is yes whatever the case, mind you. Love a coffee, me.”

Sarah Jane led the man into the sitting room, offering him a seat before retreating to the kitchen. What had possessed her to even consider letting this man see K-9?

She knew of him, Rani and Clyde were obsessed with it. But why was she doing this. Luckily, the only outer space thing in there were pictures of her first Doctor which she could (and had) passed him off as her grandfather,. 

The kettle on, she went upstairs to where K-9 and Mr. Smith were bickering about something. “K-9, there’s someone downstairs that wants to talk to you.”

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“Saint Sarah Jane. You definetly deserve that title!” dealing with one Doctor was a lot of trouble, four doctors? The woman deserved a galaxy named after her. “Does he argue with himself? I bet he argues with himself! He will randomly make a comment about his old body – usually not a very nice one – just for the heck of it!”

Sarah Jane leaned back in her chair and took a sip of her tea, falling back into the memory for a second. 

“I was heading off to an interview, what I thought was aliens ended up being corruption - which would later help inspire the show I had on Planet 3 a couple of decades ago. K-9 tried to warn me that there was danger and that I should stay home and listen but in my stubbornness, I went to the bus stop but didn’t make it. I later found out a time scoop picked me up and sent me to the Death Zone on Gallifrey.” 

She looked at the picture of her first Doctor. “I found my first Doctor  there and we travelled torwards the Tomb of Rassilon where we met up with his First, Second, and Fifth incarnations”

Sarah Jane laughed. “Fighting might not be the right word. You see Rose, the Doctor is used to be the smartest person in the room, and he usually is. But when there’s more than one of him then its a contest to see who’s the most clever. I’ve wondered if some of it is to help keep them from losing face with the companions they have in tow but it’s quite fun to watch.”

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He hadn’t wanted to run into her like this during such a bloody escapade. There had been a library here, and now it was destroyed, debris scattered at their feet. Inside, bodies lay to waste. He had given them a choice hadn’t he? He had told them to stop or he’d be forced to take the next step. He’d forgotten that this was near where she was based these days…and he hadn’t wanted her to see what he had been forced to do. What was it he had once said? 

ONE OF US ARE LYING ABOUT OUR BASIC PROGRAMMING AND WE BOTH KNOW WHICH ONE OF US IT IS.  His hearts sink as she instantly recognises him. Sometimes he wishes she wasn’t that good at it..  “We need to leave this area, right now. TARDIS. They’ll be looking for their dead and now you’ve seen me you’re a target too come on!” And of course, the explosion is enough of a sign that they’ve arrived. He rushes towards her, hands outstretched hoping to keep his once companions balanced. He barely has time to look her over, not even a chance to gage timeline or age, and even if he did, he’d probably read it wrong. Still dizzy with the horror of what he’d come to cause witness.

His words registered to her as she stared at the scene of destruction around what used the be the library mere blocks from her house. Staring at the man and looking around for that beloved blue box, she couldn’t help but take in what had happened,. 

Oh it wasn’t that he had done it, it was more that once again someone had forced him into that position. 

Again.

What was it with this wild wonderful universe that seemed to throw the worst it had to offer at a man who had given it so much.

She stumbled through the rubble, occasionally taking his hand and the support it offered. 

Sarah Jane had come for a book, there were supposed to be a series of nice days and without a pending alien invasion she had plans to curl up in her garden and read. After all, Luke was at Oxford and Skye was at school all day. 

Had these people come to this library for her? 

Sarah Jane was stupid. She knew over the years she’d made her share of enemies, some of who had come back to Earth with the express intent of causing her pain. 

Was this one of those times?

Was it her fault that the Doctor had been forced into doing what he had done?

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“I’m a Lethbridge-Stewart, my dear Sarah Jane, it’s an onomatological hazard, I’m afraid.”

Sarah Jane ducked behind what used to be a rather nice car as a laser of some sort shot in her direction. “Trust me, Lilia, I know all about the Lethbride-Stewart name.  My name doesn’t seem to have much better luck I’m afraid.”