Sally Morgan Sally Morgan ( born 2000 ) was a companion of the Seventh Doctor . Biography . Childhood . Sally ' s parents were soldiers , meaning that they were called away on duty often . They were killed in the Middle East in 2009 when their convoy was ambushed . From the age of nine , she was raised by her grandfather , who had served as a colonel in the Iraq War . ( AUDIO : " Black and White " ) Sally was in the chess club at her school . She did her Duke of Edinburgh award , spending some time camping on the Ridgeway near Wantage . ( AUDIO : " Gods and Monsters " ) In 2015 , she was a 15 - year - old orphan who was living with her grandfather . ( AUDIO : " Project : Nirvana " ) She was a Catholic . ( AUDIO : " Signs and Wonders " ) Adult life . She later followed in her parents and grandfather ' s footsteps and joined the British Army , serving as a private in the King ' s New Delta Squadron by 2020 . ( AUDIO : " Black and White " ) In 2020 , Sally was involved with the Blue Fire Project , as part of this she was placed into a dreamworld where she had lost her memory and met Magnus Soames . In this dreamworld she started to explore it with Rachel McMahon but they started to have a bit of paranoia . She eventually realised she could remember the infrastructure of the Earth but not things personal to herself . She first met the Seventh Doctor before dinner who explained some of what was going on . After dinner her phobia kicked in when neither Soames nor Jerome Fisher could see her . The Doctor managed to help her out of it and told her to watch over Toby Dodds before he was trapped in a mirror which she later smashed . She was the first to be revived from sedation . Sally joined the Doctor in the Black TARDIS after they defeated the Mi ' en Kalarash , one of the Elder Gods which fed on nightmares . ( AUDIO : " House of Blue Fire " ) Sally accompanied the Doctor to Mars , where they checked hieroglyphs on the tomb of an ancient star god . ( AUDIO : " Gods and Monsters " ) Two weeks after joining the Doctor they tracked down zombie lizards on a cemetery planet that were reanimated by their Elder God . During her travels with the Doctor , they were joined by Lysandra Aristedes . ( AUDIO : " Black and White " ) One of her missions with the Doctor and Lysandra was to Romania in 2015 , where she met a younger version of Lysandra who used a truth sayer to find out why she was there . When Derleth escaped , Sally was controlled by him and had extreme mood changes . She worshiped him and attacked Lysandra . ( AUDIO : " Project : Nirvana " ) At some point , Lysandra taught her how to fly a helicopter . ( AUDIO : " Signs and Wonders " ) After Lysandra and Her picked up Ace and Hex from a collapsing dimension . ( AUDIO : " Protect and Survive " ) Sally helped Hex to calm down and told him about she joined the Doctor and her life . She then went with Hex into the White TARDIS and followed the Black TARDIS to 5th century Denmark . After they landed the White TARDIS went transparent . She wast thought by Wiglaf to be a Valkyrie from Valhalla . Later Wiglaf and Beowulf thought her and Hex were demons . Her fellow companion Hex always referred to her as " Sal . " ( AUDIO : " Black and White " ) She travelled with Hex , Ace and Lysandra to the Land of Fenric . She found the edge of the world when following a River . Fenric sent her into her personal future using a Time Storm . At this time she was a General in charge of a high powerful weapon , which she aimed to use to destroy an alien fleet but she needed the code form Lysandra , initially using a Truthsayer on her . Both her younger and older self simultaneously worked out that the code was the next move in a famous chess game . The use of the weapon would destroy the earth . She was then rescued by Peggy Marsden and taken back to the board . The Doctor realised Hex had been possessed by Fenric when he heard Hex call her " Sally . " ( " Gods and Monsters " ) On several occasions , Ace referred to her as " Sergeant Barbie " and " Private Benjamin " . ( AUDIO : " Black and White " , " Signs and Wonders " ) After the Doctor took her back to her own time she sought out Hilda Schofield , Hex ' s grandmother , and looked after her . At the Doctor ' s memorial for Hex , she turned up when the Doctor couldn ' t do the eulogy with Hilda ' s heckling , and performed the eulogy . She told the Doctor of how the local police told her of the gang warfare . When Koloon came to attack Hilda she protected Hilda before the Doctor stopped Koloon . ( AUDIO : " Afterlife " ) Her grandfather died in the 2020s . ( AUDIO : " Signs and Wonders " ) After Hilda died she decided to go travelling , and became acquainted with Janet Green . She also started having dreams of the Hirudine . She couldn ' t manage to get a train away from Liverpool and ran into Ace at the train station . She told Ace what has been happening and blamed her for what had happened . She then rescued Hector when he fell in the Mersey . She helped the army to help the people of Liverpool when the Hirudine ' s attacked . When Ginny arrived in front of her she was given the choice of restoring Hex ' s memories which Ginny did . She kissed Hex to wake him up . Sally eventually settled down with Hex and had a child named Cassie after Hex ' s mother Cassie Schofield , though they never married . She was pregnant with another child when the Doctor and Ace visited Hex fifteen years after they parted ways . ( AUDIO : " Signs and Wonders " ) Personality . Sally suffered from athazagoraphobia , the fear of being forgotten or ignored . ( AUDIO : " House of Blue Fire " ) It was caused by the Elder God Weyland manipulating her life to foreshadow the invisibility effect of his shield . ( AUDIO : " Gods and Monsters " )