" After the time war," I started, " I followed you to Earth. We had the best of times. We went to the 2022 Olympics, and ment Marco Polo. And it was great until, one day something happened that would be too painful to remember."

"What?" He asked eagerly, yet nervously.

"If I tell you you'd have to go," I say turning to the door.

" Why?" He asked.

" It is too painful for even the most powerful time lord," I say shivering at the thought, "Resulting in a total shut down of your brain. That would result in an inability to regenerate."

" Well then what are you?" He asked, his voice was full of concern.

"I… I…" Nervousness overwhelmed my body as I try to get the words out, " a… a… human," I lie through my teeth, " A human with a really messed up life." I sigh lying through my teeth."

We just stare at eachother for a second. He pulls a stethoscope out of his coat pocket.

" Humans have one heart," He says before placing it on the left side of my chest.

He paused for a second before moving to the right side of my chest. His eyes widened, as he place the stethoscope down next to him. We stayed silent for a few seconds, I guess he was trying to process all of it. I felt a single tear roll down my cheek before I wrapped my arms around him.

" I'm sorry," I whisper softly, before breaking away.

"For what?" He asked.

" This," I said as I pulled a sonic screwdriver from my pocket, and pointed it directly at his head.

"Wait!" He yelled, but it was to late I flicked the switch.

He grabbed his head, and fell to his knees. This was the part I hated. When all the memories of us would come flooding back to him, like water escaping from a breached dam. Memories, of all the good times we sent together. I had to do it, for him. I had to at least try to get him to forgive me for everything else, by giving him that. He winced in pain as he rocked on the floor. Clenching his fists trying to rid himself of the pain. And then suddenly it just stopped. He sat on the the floor holding himself up with his hands.

" Oh, Kate," He said softly, "We had the best of times."

Something came into my head sending me into an urgent state of panic, "You have regenerated since I last saw you," I said, as he got up from the floor.

" Yeah, I quite do like this look," He said.

" But, why haven't I?" I asked turning to a hallway, " Stay here," I tell the doctor before running down the hall to the room at the very end.

I slowly open the door to the pitch black room closing it behind me. I head to the center of the room where I find a few buttons and a lever that illuminate as soon as I get close. I push a few of the buttons and then pull down the lever. There is a loud popping sound before nine illuminated figures scatter around the room. I jumped a little when I turned to see to see the silhouette of a man standing behind me. The silhouette was completely dressed, a plaid waistcoat, and red jacket, grey pants, a long colorful hat wrapped around his neck, and his velvet hat sat on top of his brown curls.

"Have you seen Sarah Jane?" He asked in a weak distorted voice.

It tore me to pieces to see the once happy and lively now, just a shell of himself, forever looking for his beloved companions. Not just that version of him but eight other previous doctors reduced to mere shells of themselves forever wandering alone, his worst fear.

"What? Who?" I heard the current doctor's voice breaking from the door.

" And you wonder why your companions don't stay put either," I saw running to the door guiding him out of the room to the hallway.

" Is that me?" He asked.

"No this is you," I say pointing to him, " Those are merely souls of men whose life were too adventurous to end."

" No those men were sad, and lost. Is that going to me?" He said as his eyes started to water, "Is that what I am destined to be, just a lonely man, stuck wandering."

"That is not important right now!" I said trying to attend to current matters, " Right now you are you, but your most recent past you isn't in there. Which means the universe doesn't know you have regenerated yet. And that means I haven't regenerated yet. And that means I am a ticking time bomb." I stop to gasp for air.

"So I don't exist yet!" He exclaimed.

"Of course you do but not everyone… not everyone," I tried to say before I started wincing in pain as I started experience a sharp pain in my chest. and then everything went black.