"What day is it?" The Doctor asked his shell shocked companion Karana, with his new face.
In complete disbelief, she turned from him and looked back, somewhat hoping that he'd return to the Doctor she knew. That it was just her mind playing tricks on her. It wasn't. "Um, hello?" He called. Karana turned slowly. "Yes, the date, please." He said in the most sardonic feeling manner.
"I don't know what day it is." She said back harshly. The Doctor clicked his tongue and threw his hand down at her.
"Then what are you here for? Aren't I meant to be doing this alone? You know, sailing the universe haplessly until something good happens."
"I'm here," She walked to the other side of the Tardis console to retrieve her coat. "Because you wanted me here. Well, not this you, but you-you."
"Are you serious? Why would I want you here? You're all sass."
"You know, I don't know." She scoffed and headed towards the doors. Before she could pull them open, the Doctor ran over to her and turned her by her shoulders. "What?" He feigned a laugh.
"Well, Martha. It's Martha, isn't it? No. Donna, then?" He sounded genuinely confused.
"Ana, Doctor. It's Karana. Am I even supposed to believe that you're the Doctor- my Doctor? Am I supposed to believe that you'd just change your face and replace what I know and love with indecency? As if the real Doctor would treat me like this? Forget everything about me, only to use me like a watch?"
"Well, yes, but no. Not your Doctor. The Doctor. And I did just change my face, and everything else about me. 'Your Doctor' was old. He needed replacing, and firstly, dear, I didn't do this," he gestured to himself. "For you. I did it for me. Now, I might not know why at the time, but I know that I'm not him. I'll never be him again, if it pleases you to hear me say it."
"No. You'll never be him again. All the more reason for me to be gone, and out of your hair. Whatever hair you have left." She turned back towards the door, only to be grabbed again.
"Secondly, dear, you might not want to wander too far outside. We're actually floating in a-" She swung open the doors only to be greeted by the overwhelming emptiness of the void of space. She dropped her arms and sat on the lip of the entrance.
"You might want to learn how to take a warning before you fall into space and get lost somewhere."
"Just take me home, 'Doctor'." She said, not even bothering to turn and look at the Doctor who'd betrayed her.
"What's that? The thing you just did. Why'd you say my name like there's something wrong with your tongue?"
"There's nothing wrong with my tongue. There's something wrong with you. And it's not like the other times. I can't just fix it. Fix you." She admitted, on the brink of tears. She was seriously going to miss this. The boundless feeling of being able to go anywhere and everywhere. But she hated this new Doctor, and after loving the old one and losing him, she couldn't stay here.
The Doctor looked around her head to see her trying to hold back the tears. He made several gestures of annoyance before figuring that he should ask if she were alright.
"Are you-"
"Take me home, I said." She spoke loudly, tears escaping their watery prisons. The Doctor immediately shut his mouth and walked over to the console.
"Sure." He agreed faintly. He allowed her a few moments more to bask in the emptiness and irregularity of space, before he informed her that she needed to shut the Tardis doors.
Karana did as he said without a single word. A single glance. The Doctor pulled levers and pressed buttons until the Tardis landed. Without hesitation, she opened the ship's doors and said goodbye, to which she purred. And she walked right out. Leaving her behind, and more devastatingly, leaving the Doctor behind. He'd made up his mind when he made the turn, and it was up to her to understand from that moment. She keyed the door to her apartment and let herself in. Once in, she collapsed, back against the door. This was it. She heard the sound of the Tardis drifting farther and farther away, until it was gone.