Epilogue

Robert's mother finally arrived with Giselle the day after prot's departure and stayed through the weekend, but there was no indication whatever of cognizance on Robert's part. She really was a sweet woman, who had no idea what had happened to her son and had not even been aware of prot's existence. I told her there was no need for her to stay longer and promised to let her know of any change in his condition. I dropped her off at Newark Airport. I planned afterwards to spend time with my family in the Adirondacks as well as talk to my son concerning his 'problem.'

As for the Doctor, now that's a strange case. He said he was leaving the same day as prot but he didn't. He stayed with Robert for a few days along with his mother. He never mentioned once to his mother that he was an 'alien' but comforted the woman and kept saying, 'I am so sorry.'

The day before Robert's mother left I went into my office and found a strange blue box. I wasn't even sure where it had come from. The Doctor walked in and said to me. "I have stayed longer than I said I was, but this time I really must go."

I cried out firmly, "Please Doctor, please stay."

The Doctor shook his head, "Nope, it's time I moved on."

He stroked the blue box affectionately.

"How? Where?" I had a hard time trying to formulate the questions on how exactly this blue box came into my office. I know I hadn't asked for it to be in my office in the first place.

"This is the TARDIS, Doctor Brewer, my ship. Yea, I know she looks like a big blue box. That's a long story. A long time ago, she use to be all sorts of shapes and sizes, but the camouflage thing burnt out on me and she's been stuck as a blue box ever since."

I was silent I couldn't say anything.

The Doctor grinned, "Now knowing how you doubt everything you see, you'll probably discredit this just as soon as I leave. But if you can so easily discredit K-PAX so easily, there is one thing you're not going to discredit, at least not for a little while and that's me. Just watch this….you'll like it, I think." The Doctor paused for a moment as he dug through his pockets and then he said, "One other thing, if Sarah Jane Smith calls….tell her I said hello."

The Doctor took out a key and unlocked the door to the blue box and stepped inside of it. I touched the box and tapped it a few times. It seemed to be just an ordinary wood box. I laughed, how could the Doctor obviously think he was going anywhere in a blue box? Suddenly there was a whirring sound. A strange sound I have never heard before and I don't think I could describe what that sound is or was. Papers on my desk flew off and a gust of wind blew through my office. I gasped as I saw the blue box fade away.

I blinked, impossible, this just couldn't have happened, a blue box just disappearing and taking the Doctor with it. The phone suddenly rang in my office. I went over and answered it.

"Hello…."

A voice on the other end answered, "Hello, this is Sarah Jane Smith. I….was given this number to reach you, I was told that you've seen the Doctor."

I was quiet. I couldn't speak. For a few minutes there was silence. Meanwhile Sarah Jane's voice was on the phone. "Hello….hello…..Doctor Brewer are you still there?"

I finally spoke, "Yes….I have seen the Doctor."

"Is he still there?" The voice seemed anxious.

I sighed and paused for a moment, "No…..he just left."

Sarah Jane was quiet and then she laughed, "That sounds like the Doctor. He's always like that. I suppose he just got into the TARDIS and disappeared without much of a goodbye."

I was quiet for a moment and I licked my lips, "The Doctor wanted me to tell you something."

Sarah Jane was quiet for a moment and then said, "And?"

"He told me to tell you hello."

There was no sound over the phone for a long while and then I heard Sarah Jane's voice, "Thanks….Doctor Brewer for telling me that, you don't know how long I have wanted to…well even if it isn't his voice, just you telling me that he said hello means a lot to me."

I coughed a bit trying to gather my thoughts and said, "Sarah Jane, who is the Doctor anyway?"

"Oh, I thought you would already know. He's a Time Lord. He can be a bit on the melancholy side as well. He'd mope forever on that. Gives me all that 'I walk through eternity, Earth isn't my home bit', but don't let that fool you. He really is a wonderful man."

"So he is from Earth?"

Sarah Jane suddenly laughed, "Of course not. Like I said before, he's a Time Lord. And…." She sighed and said softly, "I love him. Despite all his faults and him leaving me, I love him. So now you understand why your message from him means so much to me."

This was getting awkward and I said to Sarah Jane, "Thank you for your help Ms. Smith. But I better let you go."

"No problem and thank you, Doctor Brewer. It means so much to me to know that the Doctor is still out there and still alive. Good bye, Doctor Brewer."

The phone clicked and I put my phone back on the receiver. I sat there quietly mulling over the conversation. I still don't know what to think about the Doctor.

Even today, five years later, I still don't know what to think or even to believe. Perhaps I never will. I have spent these past five years with Robert, one of these days I think perhaps he'll wake up and ask me for some fruit. But he just sits there in a comatose state. Giselle still visits him and I tell him the news of the hospital. Like most catatonics, he can probably hear everything but won't acknowledge anyone.

I still don't have any information on Bess, if anyone has seen a young black woman with a pretty face anywhere, perhaps sitting on a park bench hugging herself and rocking, please help her if you can and let us know where she is. I know what the Doctor said but….I just can't believe that she's on K-PAX. To me there is no doubt that K-PAX is the product of Robert Porter's mind, it was created to help him deal with the horrible things life has given him. However, there are times I swear I see a blue box somewhere on a street corner and wonder if I go up to it the Doctor might end up popping out of it and say hello. And sometimes at night I go out and look up at the sky, toward the constellation Lyra, and I wonder…..

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A/N: Okay this is the end of the story. Kind of hard to say that it's finished but it is. I hope you liked it. I know I had fun writing it and typing it out. Please R/R.