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Summary:Seventeen Times the Bad Wolf interfered.

A/N: Since I cannot access my previous account, this has been reposted to allow updates to occur in the future.

She looked around the small cell, examining everything, from the panels on the walls, to the dull walls, before nudging the creature asleep on the small bed with her knee.

He, and even then she used the term 'he' very hesitantly, but she supposed he was a he now, even if he had been a Q.

The creature, Q, rolled and mumbled, before sitting up in alarm, and staring at her, then at the forcefields still in place, and the security guard standing motionless at his post.

"What...What happened?" the creature had wide eyes and was looking at himself strangely, mumbling about diseases and such.

"You fell asleep"

Q looked up at her, and almost laughed, she could see the corners of his mouth twitching. He rubbed his eyes and stood, the effort of standing obviously taking a toll on him.

"Ah, it was horrible, I felt like I was slipping away...unconsciousness.." Q looked at her strangely, noting her clothes "And who are you? Civilians? But your clothes...humans don't dress in purple blouses anymore...do they? Or are you just visiting...wanting to see a Q in a cage?"

She smiles, and looks down at the omnipotent creature, she was omnipotent, he wasn't, he had never been.

"Who ever said I was human?"

Suddenly the Q straightens up and makes a curious sound, his eyebrows furrowing, his brain flicking through all the creatures he had ever seen, of all the creatures that existed, trying to match a face to a name.

He never would.

"Who are you then?"

Q looked outside the holding cell, then stared at his grey clothing in distaste, the security officer was pressing buttons on his consol, completely unaware of the intruder.

"Should I call the guards? Or are you here to settle a score, have I destroyed your species? Coming here before any one else, because now I'm weak, stuck in this feeble human body?"

The blonde woman who wore a purple blouse smiled, her eyes were gold, Q looked away, gold eyes meant power, and he wasn't that stupid as to get mesmerized by such a creature.

"Call me Rose. You could have been anything, Dalek, Sontaran, Hath- even the abominable snowman himself! Why human?"

Q mused on this, he sat on the bed, if the thing he was on could be called a bed at all, and hugged his knee in thought.

"Sontaran, dalek, now there's some words I haven't heard in a long time," He rocks back on his feet with an annoyingly child-like smile, "Tell me, how do you know of them?"

The blonde girl held her hands behind her back and walked back and forth the cell, looking like she knew everything, more so than he.

"But human, why human? They have short lives, why not, become one of the crystalline beings of Midnight, or.." she paused and took on a sad smile, reminiscing in her words "A Time Lord, you could have been a child of Gallifrey."

She turned to the former Q and looked at him sharply, demanding the answer "Why human?"

"Why not?"

Q looked at her, moving his free foot around in circles, curious at the female who had awoken him, and stirred curiosity in him, he didn't know who she was, or what she was, perhaps her species was a blind spot, or were they just freeloaders of the universe, unimportant.

"But there must have been a single seed of reason"

Q furrowed his brow, she was persistent, strange, for not many people would push further, she was just as curious as himself.

"What about you then? What are you? Why are you?"

The blonde ignored his voice and continued in her speech, "There must have been a single reason or even a subconscious thought behind your answer, for an answer always has a truth."

She stopped then turned to the Q, her eyes wider and her mouth forming a perfect 'O'.

"Ooooh, oooh, You like humans" Q snorted at her but she continued "Because of all their flaws, they could be as powerful as you, because you admire them"

Q froze, and stared at the intruder in amazement, mentally he checked his shields, they were perfect, not leaking, no cracks, how had she known?

"Homo sapiens, they've only just crawled out of the mud and started walking, surviving famine, war and plague, you admire them, because they've accomplished much, and they will survive. I'm right aren't I?"

Q shut his mouth and leaned back, his eyebrows still furrowed.

"I've underestimated you, Now, will you answer my questions? What are you?"

The blonde smiled, and looked out the cell, where the captain of the ship Q was currently stranded on was walking with a few of his officers.

"Q, you know me, my name is written in every star, spread across Time and Space, through everything, the only constant."

The captain drew closer and stood outside the cell, fury on his face, but it was clear he couldn't see the woman.

"You see Q, don't you?, I am not a who or what, I am me"

The captain lowered the shield.

"I am Bad Wolf"

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