Prologue
As I stare death in the face, I think back to the time before I knew the doctor. It wasn't a peaceful time, but it was better than this. I thought about my family and I tried to recall their faces but it has been so long since I've seen them that I'm not sure exactly what they look like anymore. I look up to see the ceiling to the left of me collapse. The fire was out of control and surrounding me now. I had long lost sight of the Doctor, the only one that could save me now. He had warned me before we had arrived that this would be a tricky adventure, but I thought I could handle it. As tears stream down my face, I think no, I can't. I know that I will die sitting here, my arm crushed under the weight of a fallen beam. Light years away from Earth, my grave will be a burned-out planet that no other human knows about. The Doctor must be in his TARDIS by now, flying away before everything explodes. He might feel the pain of my loss for a while, but he'll soon find another girl to take my place. I'll just go down in his history books as one of the others, lost in the battle of the fiery planet. As the smoke coughs me, I choke and black out. I dream of a time before I knew him, a time without the Doctor…