A/N hi again. So this chapter and then most chapters after this will change POV from Ari's to the Doctors. Hope you enjoy.

P.S I don't own anything other than Ari x

Ari's eyes widened and she cried out as she pulled back from him and pulled the blade free. As the Doctor started to fall she dropped the knife and caught him, she said his name and slowly let him fall to the ground, once there he pushed something into her hand and looked right at her.

"Remember what I showed you." He whispered in her ear and then he started to glow. Ari watched in awe and then she noted that the golden chains around his wrists also started to glow. As the light from him intensified the door behind her opened and she was pulled backwards away from the Doctor and out of the cell. The last she saw of him was his eyes holding hers and once the door closed she looked down at her hand at the object he had given her.

.*.*.

The Doctor trembled as he tried to hold back his regeneration, he wanted to wait as long as possible to see if his instincts where correct, to see if he had put his trust and faith in the right person. But he also wanted to regenerate fully. The last ten times he had always kept the same face as the chains only allowed him to heal himself before taking the rest of the regen energy and feeding it to the planet. But he also wanted to start again, to fully heal and have a new body to go on with. And if Ari did everything he had showed her, then any second now it would all end.

Curling up on his side he kept his hands pressed against the wound in his chest and he was thankful for having two hearts as one of them had been pierced by the blade.

Slowly he could feel himself losing the grip he had on his regeneration and he found himself begging for Ari to hurry up, but just as he was about to let go a sound filled the cell and his ears and it was a sound he had not heard in a very long time.

Opening his eyes as the TARDIS materialized around him cutting the chins that held him and freeing him from his prison he let out a breath. Looking up at the console he saw Arianna looking at him for a moment before she started towards him but he held a hand up and shook his head.

"Stay back."

"Doctor…"

"I don't want you to get hurt." He said as he slowly stood and then golden energy ripped through his body and it exploded out of his arms and around his head.

.*.*.

Ari couldn't believe it when the Doctor appeared within the ship, but then this ship or whatever it was, was unlike anything she had seen before. It was a small blue box on the outside but when she had first walked in she had to walk straight back out again and walk about it a few times before going back in again and all she could do was stare in wonderment at how big it was on the inside.

It had taken her nearly a year to find it but in that year she knew something had happened as her world suffered power shortages and blackouts lasting weeks. So a part of her knew she had found this amazing ship and she had somehow save the man she was meant to have killed.

And now he was before her once again.

She started to walk towards him but he told her to stay back and she stopped, saying his name.

"I don't want you to get hurt." He said as she took a step back and watched as he slowly got to his feet and then golden energy exploded from him and he screamed. Ari quickly took cover behind the console and looked up at the middle section as it started to move and the engines started up but she was quickly distracted as the room she was in started to be ripped apart by the energy the Doctor was releasing.

"Now that feels better!" A voice said from the other side of the console and Ari frowned having never heard that voice before. Slowly she stood and flinched slightly as something exploded to the left of her. As she reached her full height she moved slight to look around the middle section of the console and took in the man pushing buttons and moving leavers.

He was clean shaven with a lot of brown hair and he was young, no more than her now twenty six years. He had green eyes and they where full of excitement as he watched what he was doing and the smile on his face was almost catching. However when he looked up and saw her the smile disappeared.

Ari held his eyes and for the briefest of moments she saw pain and hurt there that reflected the same pain and hurt she had seen in the others eyes.

"Doctor?"

"You've changed." He said walking around to stand in front of her his hand going to the top of her head and then to himself, he was a little taller than last time her head just reaching his chin. But she herself had cut her long black hair and her bed clothes he had last seen her in where gone replaced by black fitted trousers and a blue top which she wore under a black leather jacket.

"So have you." She said then picked up a bit of his raggedy clothing. "But you still need to change your clothes.

He suddenly moved forward closing the gap between them as he looked deeper into her eyes. "How long?" He asked.

"A year. But I guess for you it's only been moments." She looked down at her hand and opened it to look at the object he had given her. A TARDIS key. "I guess this worked."

"No." He said and picked her up in a hug and spun her around. "You did!" She laughed as he spun her and he kept whispering thank you to her as she hugged him back.

The TARDIS then suddenly jolted forcing him to let her go and she stumbled slightly as he went back to the controls.

"Ah yes, I forgot. We are crashing!" And he started to try and get the ship back under control but in the end they did crash and Ari fell to the floor and held onto whatever she could find for dear life.

As the ship stilled a hand grabbed hold of hers pulling her to her feet as smoke and fumes started to fill the TARDIS. Looking at him they both smiled and then her started to pull her towards the door.

"Quick, we need to get out of here!" She responded to the tone of his voice and ran with him to the door.

Once outside they both started to cough and Ari lent forward as she tried to catch her breath.

.*.*.

The Doctor allowed himself to fall back and sit down as he took in the place they found themselves in. They had ended up in a field in the middle of no where but above him he could clearly make out every single star in the night sky. Smiling he fell onto his back and just looked up. It had been far too long since he had seen stars, far too long since he had felt the cool air on his face and far too long since he had felt alive. Letting his sense free he allowed himself to just feel for a while before he looked to Ari on his right who was still catching her breath and then to his TARDIS on his left. He had missed his ship, his home more than he had come to realise and now that he had her back he was never going to leave her again. Well maybe until she sorted herself out but after that, never again. He smiled brightly and reached out to the TARDIS his fingers just running over the blue wood.

"Hello old girl." He whispered then turned back to Arianna and took in his saviour. She was so different from when they had pulled her from his cell and not just in appearance. She had a harder edge about her and he wondered what she had been through in the last year.

When she had caught her breath she looked at him a slight questioning look on her face.

"So" He said brightly. "How are you doing?" He asked as he patted the grass next to him inviting her to sit with him. He saw her hesitation but in the end she sat, but not where he had indicated. Sitting up her kept hold of her blue eyes and waited for her to answer.

"Truth?" She finally asked.

"Truth."

"I'm messed up. I was looking for that box for a year and in that time I lost my family as they never believed a single word I told them, I lost all my friends and I have been totally alone in everything I have done. And then on top of all that I had the government after me and I have been running for so long I do not even know where I belong. And in all that time I was never sure if you where okay. All I knew was that something had gone wrong with the power, cities and towns shut down over night and people suffered. But I always knew that I couldn't give up and that what they where going through was nothing compared to what had been done to you!"

He saw the tears build up in her eyes as she spoke and by the time she finished he held a hand out to her. She stared at it for a moment before taking it and he pulled her towards him and hugged her.

"I am so sorry Arianna." He said as he felt her shaking as she cried in his arms, his new arms, her face hiding against his chest.

He allowed her to cry for as long as she needed but his new body had other ideas as new cells continued to rebuild with him and he winced in pain. She must have felt him move as she pulled back from him a questioning look on her face which he was about to answer when he took in a deep breath and then let it out allowing excess regen energy to leave his body.

He let her go as she pulled back even more and she watched as the golden energy disappeared into the darkness. The Doctor looked back to her and gave her a small smile before looking about again.

"So where are we?" She asked looking about herself.

"Visigher still, your world." He looked at the TARDIS and sighed. "I hope she resets herself soon."

"Why?"

"Because they will be looking for us, me." He frowned suddenly and looked back at her. "You said your government where after you. Why?"

"I don't know, I thought maybe some how they had found out what I had planned."

"How would they have found out?" He wondered out loud.

"No idea." She said and then lights suddenly appeared all around them and he jumped to his feet as he looked up at the hoover craft above them.

"Of course." He said and turned back to the TARDIS. "Wait here!" He ordered before running back into the TARDIS thankful for the deep breath he took before entering. He quickly grabbed hold of a coat that was on the side by the console then hit a few buttons before running back outside.

He didn't stop running as he grabbed Ari's hand and ran with her into the darkness away from the lights.

"Where did it go?" Ari shouted looking over her shoulder.

"I made her invisible, now keep running!"