And here it is… the last chapter. This is officially the first story I have finished. I hoped you all liked it. I have started a sequel/series, if anyone is interested. The next adventure will be called "To Dream of Memory." Hobey ho…

Epilogue

Year: 2016.

Bry and I had spent two years, TARDIS time, with the Doctor. True to his word, the Time Lord had brought us back home about two hours after we had left. Our families noticed that we had come back from the hostage situation changed. We knew we couldn't tell them about any of our adventures in time and space. We had gone to visit Sarah Jane about a week after we came back.

It had been nine years since the Dalek hostage situation, not including our two "TARDIS Time" years. Bry and I graduated from university with a PhD in archaeology each. Three days after that, we had gotten married. Sarah Jane and I had built a transmat link between our two houses, since we lived in different countries. With a quick call, we could visit each other almost instantly. Maria, Luke, and Clyde attended the university near their homes

Right now, the two of us were heading a dig in Egypt, near Cairo. We had found, despite what all the other archaeologists had told us, a temple, lost in the sands of time, until now. And, in the temple, we had found-

"Tegan! Bry!" called the voice of an Egyptian boy named Aziz.

"Down here, Aziz," Bry called back.

Aziz scrambled through the tunnel that led to the area of the temple we were excavating. He dusted himself off when he stood up. "There you are. There is a man at the tent who wants to see you."

"Did he say why?" I asked.

Aziz shook his head. "Nothing specific. But he did want to see you two in private."

Bry and I glanced at eachother and shrugged. "We'll take a break in a few minutes. We'll see him then," Bry replied.

With a nod, Aziz clambered back through the tunnel. My husband and I followed a few minutes later. We entered the enclosed break room tent. We were alone except for a man wearing a long brown Jedi-ish robe. The hood concealed his face.

"Are we alone?" he asked.

"Yes," answered Bry.

The man took something off of his wrist, then pushed back his hood.

"Sec!" I cried, throwing my arms around his neck. I kissed his tentacled cheek. Bry shook our friend's hand in greeting.

"It has been a good nine years for you two, hasn't it?" Sec said after I let him go.

"Definitely," Bry and I said in unison.

"You?" I asked.

"There are still many places I have not been. But, I heard that the two of you would be here."

"You're lucky you came when you did," I replied. "We're getting on a plane to London in about five hours."

"Why?"

"We have to take a few artifacts to the London Museum of Archaeology. And we're going to see Sarah Jane while we're there," Bry answered.

"We have a couple extra seats on the jet," I informed.

"I have never been on an airplane of any kind before," Sec hesitantly said.

"Don't worry, you'll be fine. That reminds me, I was going to ask Aziz if he wanted to come," I said.

"Aziz? Are you sure about that?" my husband asked.

"Yes. He's been asking me to take him to London for the past month. I might as well indulge his wish."

"Uhhuh. As long as you claim responsibility for him. A fifteen-year-old formerly homeless boy…"

"Oh, he'll behave, I'm sure. Sec, we leave for the airport in about three hours. You can relax here until then. Please don't wander off."

The jet landed in Heathrow Airport five hours after we took off from Cairo. Most of the artifacts we brought with us were in our suitcases. But the special ones were in our carry-ons. Our contact with the museum was waiting for us. He led us to a van.

"I'm sorry, Mr Ackerman," I said. "But my husband and I won't be joining you."

"Why not?"

"We need to go see our advisor about a few things. I'm sure you understand," I told him before Bry and and I took out the bubble-wrapped artifacts from our suitcases and putting them in the seat next to Aziz. "Can I trust you to take care of these?"

Aziz enthusiastically nodded his head.

With a wave, Mr Ackerman drove away.

We called a taxi and told the driver Sarah's address. It didn't take very long to get there. As soon as I paid the driver, he drove off. We lugged our backpacks and suitcases to Sarah's front door. I knocked.

It took a moment before a young brown-skinned man answered the door. "Hello, Clyde," I greeted.

"Tegan? Bry?" he asked. "But you always come by transmat."

"Clyde, who is it?" we heard Alan Jackson ask from inside.

Tegan and Bry and… some other guy," Clyde answered. He helped us get inside with our luggage and closed the door. Sarah, Luke, Maria, and Alan came to greet us. Before they could say anything about us always using transmat, I drew their attention to the hooded Sec.

"Everyone, say hello to Sec Diagoras," I said.

We spent dinner playing catch up, mostly with Sec. Afterwards, I took out the Special artifacts and laid them on the table.

"We have discovered that there were Star Poets in Ancient Egypt," I announced.

The evidence of that statement was painted and engraved on the stone tablets. Clyde let out a low whistle.

"Of course, we can't exactly put this on display," said Bry.

"I know what you mean. You'd be laughed out of house and home," Alan remarked.

"Exactly," I replied. "Still, there were a lot of things in the temple that wasn't alien-inspired."

"Was there anything else about the Star Poets?" asked Sarah.

I shook my head. "We found evidence of a fire. We think that anything else related to these tablets were destroyed."

"That's a shame," Maria commented. "Still, at least we know they were there."

At that moment, K9, Sarah's robotic dog, came up to us. "Mistress, there is a situation in Cardiff that requires your attention."

"Thanks, K9." Sarah turned to us. "Well, what do you say?"

"Time for an adventure," we all said in unison. Sec nodded his head after a moment.

We were a family, all of us. We carried on the Doctor's work on Earth. In secret, of course. But that didn't make us any less important.

My best friend, Sarah Jane Smith, said it best. "I saw amazing things, out there in space. But there's strangeness to be found wherever you turn. Life on Earth can be an adventure too. You just need to know where to look."