Alan looked up at the Doctor. Somehow he wasn't all that surprised to hear it.
"I wouldn't have minded. You were her best friend, Doctor. She worried about you, quite often." He wiped his running eyes. "You brought her so many friends, even when she thought she was past making new friends."
Maybe it didn't have to be joy versus grief. Maybe he could just stop being so damned angry with the Doctor for not being the person he really wished he was with.
"Maria came back from telling her -- Sarah Jane -- we weren't going to America after all... she said Sarah Jane was happier than she'd expected. She knew she'd be happy, of course... I knew how much Sarah Jane loved Maria."
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"I wouldn't have minded. You were her best friend, Doctor. She worried about you, quite often." He wiped his running eyes. "You brought her so many friends, even when she thought she was past making new friends."
Maybe it didn't have to be joy versus grief. Maybe he could just stop being so damned angry with the Doctor for not being the person he really wished he was with.
"Maria came back from telling her -- Sarah Jane -- we weren't going to America after all... she said Sarah Jane was happier than she'd expected. She knew she'd be happy, of course... I knew how much Sarah Jane loved Maria."