Thick and Thin

What's happening? I don't know. Someone, someone's killed me again. But its different this time, somehow its different. I know I've regenerated. Where is Rose? What happened to Rose? I remember them taking her away, she was screaming, and then... Nothing. I don't remember anything. Where am I? What's going on?

It was about midnight when the creaking racket of the T.A.R.D.I.S. interrupted the quite night. It had managed to land itself in a cornfield, snug on all sides and well hidden. The Doctor stumbled out and began ambling in the first direction his feet would take him. When he stumbled into the road he realized something, he knew what made this regeneration different. He was smaller, younger, more delicate than any of his previous regenerations. This time, the doctor was a girl. Some how, though, this thought didn't seem to take much root in the Doctors mind, she was rapidly losing consciousness. She didn't even realize when the truck almost hit her. And she was already gone when the driver had rushed out to catch her as she fell.

"Where's Rose?" Was the last thing the doctor thought before she passed out.

Clark had been helping Chloe pull a late night at the Talon. Coffee, computers, and thanking the gods of journalism that no one had been killed or thrown into prison were the general happenings of the night. Finally, after managing to get Chloe to call it quits for the night, he'd got into his truck to head home. Everything had been going well, until a girl had wandered out into the middle of the road, walking like a zombie while holding her arms around herself. She didn't seem to be aware of her surroundings.

He'd had to swerve to avoid from hitting her.

After catching her he'd begun to panic. Was she hurt? What happened to her? Was she another meteor freak? He scanned her quickly with his x-ray vision, focusing on her skeleton. everything seemed normal. And she didn't have the typical meteor green glow.

What would he do now? She was obviously unconscious, and there had to be a reason, even if it were simple fatigue. But who was she? And what was she doing out in a cornfield in the middle of the night?

Clark decided that he would take her to the farm, and question her when she woke up.


Disclaimer: I'll say this once. They don't belong to me. None of them do. So there.