Chapter 1

There were 2 things odd about Aggie's arrival in Everlost. One was simply that she arrived. Only children had ever gone to Everlost. The second was that most people didn't wake up in Everlost for months. It took Aggie a much shorter time. Both oddities might be explained by her being programed. It takes far longer for a person to be born than for a game character to be created, so it was waking up in Everlost. And in time Aggie had been a character she was far from an adult.

As it was Aggie woke up the morning after she'd died. She was lying on the pavement, with a good view of her hand. Aggie felt disoriented, unsure how she'd gotten there. But she didn't feel any pain, so she sat up with a sigh. There was a kid staring at her.

Aggie wasn't very good with children, but she smiled and did her best. "Hi there."

The kid took a step back.

Apparently that hadn't worked very well then. "I'm Aggie. What's your name?"

"I've never seen an adult in Everlost before." He said.

"Everlost?" Aggie asked. She looked around. It looked like the same town as before. Though something was off . . . she pushed it out of her mind. "What are you talking about?"

"That's where we are." The boy answered. "It's where dead people go sometimes."

"I'm not dead." Aggie told him. Instantly she thought back to the last time she'd thought that. She'd been in for a nasty surprise then. She tried not to panic.

The boy shrugged. "You probably just don't remember, but all people are dead here." He looked at her in confusion then, and completely changed the subject. "Hey what's wrong with your hand?"

"My hand is fine. . ." She said in confusion, looking down at it. She'd pushed herself up with it, it seemed normal. When she looked at it though she saw it had turned to coding. That was when she screamed.


Caelix walked through the halls of the Jedi temple. He noticed another Jedi, a real Jedi, and avoided eye contact. He might still be welcome in the temple, might still have his light saber, and he knew how to use the force. But he couldn't use it anymore, and far too often Jedi, intentionally or otherwise, reminded him of that.

He walked passed and stood by a window, looking out and Couracant. Then he heard a whirring. Caelix's eyes widened briefly. They were back to normal when he turned around to see the TARDIS, with the Doctor standing outside it. "Doctor. I don't believe I wanted to see you."

"No, but I wanted to see you. And before you use that thing on me," He waved his hand at the light saber on Caelix's belt, "I'm visiting because of Aggie."

Caelix looked behind the Doctor, but he didn't see Aggie in the TARDIS. He instantly became less defensive. "Why? What's wrong?"

"Well uh. . ." That wasn't a good sign. "Come on. I'll catch you up on the way." The Doctor told him.

The 2 of them walked into the TARDIS and the Doctor started it up. It would probably be gone before anyone else in the temple realized it had been there.

She. Caelix reminded himself. Back when he could still feel the Force, he'd felt that the TARDIS was alive. Caelix crossed his arms. "I'm waiting."


Kay stood at the hospital, watching Aggie. Not that she was interesting to watch. She hadn't moved since she'd been hit by a car.


"So she's dead?" Caelix asked in disbelief.

"Not dead, in a coma. Big difference." The Doctor corrected.

Caelix sighed at the ceiling. "So why did you want me if we're just waiting for her to wake up?"

"Well, normally we would just be waiting for her to wake up, but we're not now."

The TARDIS stopped moving, but instead of going towards the doors the Doctor walked out of the room, deeper into the TARDIS. Caelix followed. He'd never seen much of the TARDIS, he couldn't help being a little curious.

The Doctor continued. "The longer Aggie's in a coma the more likely she gets and electric shock and starts glitching. Then the other humans might take her and dissect her."

He said it very causally, but Caelix knew tone didn't mean everything with that Doctor. "Thanks for making the subject so cheery." He muttered. "So what are we going to do about it? You're telling me you can wake her up?"

"Yes actually." The Doctor confirmed. He walked through a door. Caelix followed him. They were in a huge empty, and kind of pink, room. Caelix turned his attention back to the Doctor as he continued. "I think Aggie's in a place called Everlost. You go there when you die, briefly. I'm not sure about all the rules, I've never stayed very long."

"But you've been there?" Caelix questioned.

"Yes, between all my face changes actually." The Doctor answered. "Some stays are long than other. Anyway, if Aggie's there, all we have to do is go there, find her, and tell her go back to her body."

"Right. . ." Caelix said slowly. "So if it's the afterlife, how do we get there?" He looked around. "And what's this room?"

The Doctor sighed, and Caelix noticed he'd gotten a lot more serious. "This is the zero room. It's good for recovering from regenerations, or comas."

It suddenly clicked for Caelix. "Doctor, I know what you're thinking. Don't do it. Doctor I swear I will kill you."

"Sorry Caelix." The Doctor said. He pulled his screwdriver out. "Geronimo." He turned it on.

"Doctor!" Caelix screamed. He sat up and looked around. He was on Earth, Aggie's world, but something was different. Everything was blurry. Despite knowing somewhere in the back of his mind he didn't need to breathe, Caelix sighed. He had a few . . . metal parts to make up for his sister shredding his organs. The Doctor must have used his screwdriver to shut off enough of them to put Caelix in a comma.

A few moments later the Doctor was lying next to him. But something was wrong. The Doctor sat up, grinned, and asked, "Hello. Would you like a jelly baby?"

Caelix's jaw fell a little.

"What?" The Doctor looked down. He had changed outfits into one that included a long scarf and, more importantly, had a different face. "Oh. Hold on." The Doctor closed his eyes and bowed his head for a moment. Then he was surrounded by a gold glow. When it faded the Doctor had a new face. "Sorry about that."

"Doctor. . ." Caelix started.

"This place runs on memory, you appear how you remember yourself." He explained.

"Doctor. . ."

"Now, we've got to save Aggie. Allons y!" The Doctor leapt into the air, landing on his feet.

"Doctor!" Caelix shouted impatiently.

"What Caelix?" The Doctor asked equally as impatient, turning around.

"You've still got the wrong face!" Caelix shouted. "This is what you looked like the first time I met you."

"Oh." The Doctor looked down again. He seemed more disappointed than last time. "I suppose you want me to change back." He sighed.

"Yeah, just a bit." Caelix said, raising an eyebrow. He really wanted it more than a bit, and his tone made that obvious.

The Doctor seemed very put out by this, but he glowed again and changed. "Alright, welcome back me!" The Doctor shouted, spinning on the spot. "Or one of me. Am I the right me Caelix?"

Caelix smirked. This was the right Doctor alright. He nodded.

"Oh that's a relief. I thought we'd have to do this all day."

"I severely hope you don't have that many faces." Caelix replied, still smirking.

The Doctor actually smiled then. That was when there a gasp nearby. The 2 turned. A kid was watching them, stepping up and down in place. After watching for a moment Caelix realized he was doing it because his feet were sinking into the ground. Caelix automatically looked down, he wasn't sinking though.

"Hi there." The Doctor greeted, waving. "I'm the Doctor, this is Caelix."

"I didn't think adults could come here earlier." The kid said, practically ignoring the introduction. "But I was wrong. There was the woman, and now there's you."

Caelix and the Doctor exchanged glances. Neither had any doubt who the woman was. "Well, here we are." The Doctor said. "And, where's the woman?"

"This means Mary Hightower was wrong." The kid muttered, frowning.

Caelix snapped his fingers twice. The kid blinked and turned to him. "Hey, the Doctor asked a question. Why not try answering it?" He suggested. He wasn't yelling, but he certainly sounded irritated.

"Um. . ." The kid started uncertainly. "I'm not sure. I offered to take her to Mary Hightower, but she said no. She said . . . she wanted to be left alone. She was scary."

Caelix sighed. He didn't know who Mary Hightower was and frankly he didn't care.

The Doctor luckily, had more tact. "Can you lead me back to where you found her?" He asked.

The kid nodded silently.

"Me?" Caelix questioned.

"Well you're obviously scaring him, isn't he?" He asked the kid, who once again nodded.

Caelix took out his light saber, hit himself softly over the head with its hilt, and put it back in his belt. "Fine. I'll just stand here like some statue then." Caelix said.

"Yes, well no. Don't stand like a statue, you might actually become one here. But if it helps, yes." The Doctor said. The kid looked confused.

Caelix just smiled. "Whatever you say Doctor."

"Right." The Doctor clapped his hands together. "Lead on." He told the kid.


Aggie sat on the sidewalk outside a building. It was one of the few places she could find where she didn't sink, though she wasn't sure why. She tried to figure out what to do now. She'd died before, but she couldn't remember it, and when she tried to she became slightly more coded and less body, so she stopped. She wasn't sure what to do.

Maybe I should've gone with that kid after all. Aggie thought. She sighed, and tried not to cry.

"Aggie!" A voice cried.

Aggie turned towards it. "Who are you?" She asked.

At the same time the man in front of her asked, "What happened to you?" The man responded to her question first. "What do you mean? I'm the Doctor."

Aggie shook her head, trying not to look panicked. "You don't look or sound like the Doctor." She told him. He had a bow tie, but the similarities stopped there. The big furry coat was quite the tip off.

The man looked down. "Ah. This is an old one. Sorry." He looked up and started glowing. The kid with him took a step back, alarmed. Aggie was tempted to do the same. But then the glowing stopped and the Doctor was standing there.

"H-how did you do that?" Aggie asked.

The kid nodded, silently agreeing.

"Well, this place relies on our memories. You remember yourself a certain way that's what you become." The Doctor explained.

That would be why she became more coding each time she thought of it.

The Doctor continued. "We're lucky really. I could've thought of. . ." He trailed off as he started glowing again. "No, no, no!" The Doctor shook his head violently.

Aggie leapt up. "Doctor!" She cried out. He looked terrified, and when that happened something bad was going to happen. The kid's eyes widened in fear of the 2 panicking adults and he ran away.

The Doctor ignored them both and shouted to himself. "Just because I thought of him doesn't mean I want to become him! Stop it!" It was too late. The Doctor finished changing.

Aggie wasn't sure what he was so upset about, and he was still upset even if he'd stopped shouting. He was older certainly, but that couldn't be so bad, especially here. Age didn't matter when you were dead did it?

The Doctor seemed to disagree. He was still shaking his head and closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to see himself. "I can't . . . change back. . ." He opened his eyes, but he hadn't changed. He sighed.

"Doctor." Aggie stepped forward and grabbed his arms. The Doctor looked up at her. There was something about his eyes, she could tell it was him. They had that pained look they'd had when Aggie had found out she was a game character. He obviously wouldn't agree, or wouldn't be comforted by the fact. And she didn't know how to change him back. After thinking for a moment she said the first thing she could think of, no matter how stupid it seemed. "Bow ties are cool."

The Doctor blinked in surprise, and then actually smiled. "Yes, I say that don't I."

"I'd assume you believe it too." Aggie said.

"In that body yes." The Doctor agreed. He looked at Aggie then, really looked. And he started glowing. When he stopped he was back to the Doctor Aggie knew. The Doctor looked down. He gave a little laugh. "Oh Aggie." He hugged her.

Aggie stood in surprise for a moment then hugged him back. They just stood like that for a while.

"Aggie?" The Doctor asked.

"Yes?"

"Why do I feel like I'm up to my knees in concrete?" He asked.

Aggie's eyes widened and she looked down. "Because you are. . ." She answered.

"Oh that's very not good." The Doctor muttered. "Come along Aggie." He let go of her and did a kind of hop towards the place she'd been standing earlier. Aggie followed. She had a slightly harder time, being shorter, but she and the Doctor made it safely to the part of concrete they wouldn't sink on.

The 2 of them started panting. "Well this is ridiculous we don't need to breathe." The Doctor pointed out.

"Oh right." Aggie looked away, slightly embarrassed she'd forgotten that.

"Now enough of that. What happened to you? You're human why would you imagine yourself all . . ." The Doctor waved his hand at her arm, clearly not sure what he was trying to explain. "TV fuzzy."

This wasn't helping Aggie's embarrassment. "Shut up!" She said, shouting so he wouldn't notice how close she was to crying. "I get it! I'm still Aggie! But I'm not human!"

"Of course you're human. Wait, is there something I'm missing?"

"Missing?! You knew before I did I-!"

"No wait stop!" The Doctor cried out. Aggie shut up. "Aggie, the place with the purple fields. Do you remember that?"

Baffled as to where this was going, Aggie nodded. They'd gone there after Caelix's sister died.

"That was the last thing I did with you." The Doctor explained.

"What?" Aggie asked. Not fully understanding. "Doctor, that's not the last thing we did."

"Well it is for you, but I'm a time traveler. The Doctor you saw after that is a future me. It's all very timey wimey."

Aggie shook her head, but it was more so she could understand what he'd just said, not that she thought he was being ridiculous. "So . . . I shouldn't tell you what's happened since then."

"No, then it would be set in stone." The Doctor explained. "Or changing it would create a paradox. Anyway, I think you've been dead long enough."

Aggie stared at him and asked, barely daring to hope, "Are you telling me . . . I can come back to life again?"

"Yes. Well no, you're not really dead this time. You're just in a coma. You can go back to your body and just pop back in."

"That's great!" Aggie exclaimed.

"I know!" The Doctor shouted, sounding just as excited. "But first, let's go tell Caelix we found you."


Caelix stood at the spot the Doctor had left him. To all the world it would look like he was relaxed, but he wasn't. If there was one thing Caelix had learned since losing the ability to use the Force, it was that he had to stay alert. So he watched and listened to everything he could.

The living people were a bit distracting though. Every time they walked through him without seeing him he could pick up on their thoughts. Caelix wondered briefly if this was where the Force ghosts stayed. He made a mental note never to walk through one of them.

Then he saw something out of the corner of his eye and turned. A kid was walking towards what looked like food. Not blurry food, that meant it was in Everlost. But why would there be food just sitting out in the open. Caelix looked around the scene a little more. There was a net over the food. It was a trap.

"Hey kid!" Caelix shouted. He ran towards her, luckily she was fairly close. "Look out!" He pushed her out of the way as the net came down. She was safe, but he was rather stuck.