The Prologue:

The constant beeping of heart monitors filtered throughout the small white, sterile room. A form slumbered underneath the many scratchy and thick blankets, white as well, snoring softly with each breath. In and out, in and out, in and out, a constant cycle for the young girl.

Her strange eyes opened, drowsy with sleep, saddened with loss; she didn't know who she was. Each day, those sleepy eyes became startled and her heart would pound, the monitors getting louder and louder, but she couldn't stop. The beeps frightened her, any loud noise frightened her. But each day, no one come. No one would turn off the monitors or say hello or even check up on her.

She knew someone came though, the evidence was on her arms. Red wires, blue wires, green wires, more wires injected themselves into her skin each day, unknown fluids cycling in and out. This kept her from leaving her bed. More cuts and bruises splattered and blossomed on her flesh, each a mystery on who did this, why did they do this, and how are they doing this. She grimaced, scratching at everything.

Her fingers trailed up to touch her bald head; she wondered her hair looked like. She wondered what she looked like. She sobbed; she didn't know. She didn't know anything about herself, nothing, blank, everything was blank. Tears turned to anger and anger turned into shaking and clawing and ripping and tearing and scowling and crying and roaring and-

She passed out.

-/JEL/-

The Doctor stood next to his companion, staring down at the isolated building. Rose herself was confused. After deciding to go on a random trip, they ended up in the desert around 2009 in front of an isolated white building. Rose looked at the leather wearing Doctor.

"What?"

"What in bloody hell are we doing here?" she asked, her British accent bleeding through.

"I don't know but the TARDIS seems to like it here."

"Why would she like the hot, empty desert in June!"

"Oi! Stop shoutin', let's just go check it out then we can leave."

"Fine," she sighed as she headed for the door. The Doctor opened it for her and they entered the white halls. The building had maybe two levels, with no windows to illuminate the halls. The lights flickered like those in horror films, making Rose instantly move closer to the Doctor. He didn't resist his friend, himself being a bit startled when he heard the clicks, ticks, and hums of machines that made a rhythm that sent a shiver down to his spine. Triple, four, triple, four, triple, four. Each machine he could her repeated this song, fusing the different noises together.

"Doctor," Rose whispered, "What's that noise?"

"Let's find out," he mumbled as they ventured further and further down the eerie halls. Another hum in the silence made them stop in their tracks. A woman with a face that shouldn't be in this time, walked down the halls into the only room. She had a feline's face that should have been in New New York. One of the Sisters of Plenitude, he realized by the Cat Person's nun-like clothing. The Doctor was startled at this Cat Person in the wrong time period-or maybe he and Rose got the time estimate wrong, but that doesn't happen often.

The feline had just opened the room when the noises become louder, flooding into the quiet space. "Doctor, that woman has a cat's face." He gave her a look and Rose immediately shut up. "Don't need to be so touchy," she muttered; his eyes rolled. They continued to creep closer and closer to the opened door, hoping to get a peek inside, but just as they were about to enter, the Cat Person exited the room and caught them. She wasn't surprised and not at all happy at finding them, the frown clear on her face.

"My office. Now!" she hissed at the two, making them jump. She didn't take no for an answer as she grabbed their hands and pulled them up the stairs, past the various rooms of labs, and into a small office. Ignoring their protest, she pushed them down into the chairs and sat in her own across the desk. "How the MROER did you find me?" she yelled.

"You aren't supposed to be here in this time, who are you and what are you hiding?" the Doctor demanded, standing up from his chair and pointing a finger at the cat woman.

"Doctor." Rose pulled him back into the chair after seeing the glare the cat lady had for the Time Lord. Reluctantly, he sat back in his chair and gave the cat a look that said, 'I want answers now.'

"You are early Doctor," the cat woman started, "I wasn't even supposed to contact you for at least another few hours and not even in this form-"

"What form?" Rose whispered to the Doctor. He paled at the thought.

"-and because of that I ask for you to leave. You aren't supposed to receive your package until it is completely secure and safe. Also, the one who assigned me this job wished for themselves to be unknown for the time being, so don't bother asking. I will contact you when you are ready to receive this. I'd also like to inform you that I myself don't like this arrangement."

"Why? How did you get to this time?"

"I was transported across time to get here and I will return when the time comes. I don't like this arrangement is because I don't like taking care of someone with amnesia, much less one with…..let's say unique qualities."

"You have a person down there! Are they you're prisoner? What are you doing to them?"

"Fixing them," she replied curtly.

"Fixing them? What's wrong?" the Doctor demanded as he stood up. If this cat was doing something bad to another organism, he would send her back to her time in handcuffs.

"I cannot explain that or go any further on the subject, I've already said too much."

"Let us see it."

"No." She got up from her chair and left the room. The Doctor and Rose followed her out.

"Why not?" Rose asked.

"Time paradoxes, burning holes in the time vortex. Do you want that? I don't. So no. N. O. If she-"

"Oh it's a she!"

"-even sees you in this form now, her whole brain will deteriorate. It will burn apart. Do you want someone innocent to have their brain destroyed by just one glance?"

"Do I know her?"

"No, and she won't ever know you. I have strict instructions to make sure she never knows you now. Wait until the next form and come back, but she is unstable for you to meet her now."

"Can we at least see her through a camera? You surely must have security in there to monitor her being your patient and all. What about seeing her while she sleeps? She wouldn't be able to see us then," Rose pressed.

"Even close proximity of him could kill her in a second…..but I do have a camera in there," she stopped, sighing, "Fine, five minutes and then you must leave. ONLY five minutes." The two strangers nodded in agreement with the doctor and soon they were being led to another room. It was small, smaller than her office but it had many screens lining the walls and majority of them were posed in the one room.

It really was a girl that lay on the bed. Many tubes and wirings connected to her body as she slept. Rose zoomed in to get a closer look at the girl. Her hair was completely shaven off, but you could tell she was female by the heart shape face and lips. And then there was the obvious of her chest-which although not extreme, was there, slightly-not that the Doctor was looking or anything. "What's wrong with her though?" Rose asked the doctor.

"Listen," she replied, turning on the audio as the girl thrashed in her sleep. Moans erupted from her mouth as she clawed at her body and the bed underneath her. Moans soon turned into screams of agony, reminding the listeners of nails on chalkboards. Then the words began to leak out of her mouth.

"Stop! Stop! Don't-don't do this! Please! I-I can't hold on!" wails erupted from her mouth and the woman clutched at her chest in agony. "SSSSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOOOoooPPPPPPppppPPP! DON'T LET GO! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE! DON'T DO THIS TO ME, YOU SAID-YoU SaiD-you said..."

"Oh no, it hasn't been like this since the first night, excuse me," the cat muttered as she left the room to go to her patient. Just as she left, the girl began to shake, tears flowing down her face, clawing at her scalp.

"What do you…what do you think happened to her?" Rose's voice was small as she watched blood show out of her claw marks, like it was the only relief she could find.

"I don't know Rose...I don't know," he sat down in the chair to study the girl. Something about her…something was…

And then the girl did something unexpected. Her wails, screams, shouts, any of her sounds turned into one heart wrenching noise as she called desperately, "DOCTOR! DOCTOR! SAVE ME DOCTOR! YOU SAID-YOU SAID YOU WOULD SAVE ME DOCTOR!" Rose and the Doctor both froze at the phrase. The Doctor tried to zoom in on the girl to see if he knew her.

Her shaking got worse and worse as her body flinched and her back arched. The feline entered the room, syringe in hand, to put in a sedative to calm her down. But after it was injected, the girl opened her eyes in shock, clawing at her surroundings, trying to escape. The doctor tried to restrain the girl by pushing her shoulders down, but she was clearly awake and struggled, screaming, "He's here! He's here! The dark is here! He touched me! Kill him! You promised you would save me Doctor! You are the Doctor, why won't you save me Doctor!"

Shivering, he heard the girl's words mull in his head. But what really worried him was that she was looking directly into the camera, directly at him. "Rose," the Doctor asked, quietly.

"Yes?" she sounded worried; the Doctor himself was worried, startled.

"We're going," he told her and she nodded as they left the room, building, and time period, leaving behind a hysterical girl and a misplaced cat woman.