A million light years away, in deep space, there was a lonesome police call box floating amongst the stars. Inside that box was a man. A man who had saved the world over and over. A man who was feared all over the universe. A man who was jumping around his spaceship's console. A man known as The Doctor.

"Doctor who!" He laughed to himself.

He smiled into the gears of the TARDIS. That Oswin girl, or Dalek, he had recently met was brilliant. Suddenly, he heard a whoosh sound from the TARDIS door. He straightened his bowtie and walked over to the door to see...a TARDIS-blue envelope. He picked it up. It looked exactly like the TARDIS, squares drawn on with pen. He frowned. The last time he received an envelope like this, he had sent it. Invited himself to his own death. He slowly tore open the envelope and pulled out a drawing. In the corner was a drawing of a blue box, obviously the TARDIS, and next to it, the letters 'C-O'. There was a letter attached. He pulled it out and took it over to a slot in the console.

"Enable random voice interface to read this" The Doctor told his spaceship as he slid the letter into the slot.

"Random voice interface enable, sweetie" The TARDIS said as it brought up a hologram of his wife, River Song.

"Oh, very funny," The Doctor said with sarcasm, "Just read the letter"

The River Song hologram took a deep breath and began saying the words on the letter.

"Dear Doctor," it started, "My name is April Scott. I am a young Australian teenager from Summer Bay. I have a healthy relationship with my boyfriend, Dex. He is a very charismatic, nerdy, funny, intelligent person. There is one person in the entire universe he admires more than me. And that is a certain Time Lord. He has heard all the stories about you and hopes to meet you sometime in his life. That is why I'm writing this letter. Recently, Dex has had a tragic car accident that has left him in a bad state. He can hardly walk, and even struggles to talk. It would mean the world to him for you to show him the stars. I have attached a picture of the TARDIS he drew for me. I assume the C and O are the start of the word 'come'. His relevant time co-ordinations are; Summer Bay Hospital, New South Wales, Australia; 2012; Room 6. Please, Doctor. Come"

The hologram stopped talking. The Doctor was staring at the drawing.

"I don't know," He said, "Should I?"

He got up from the chair he was sitting on. He paced back and forth.

"I ruin everyone I take with me's lives. Isn't this kid's life ruined enough?" The Doctor asked no one in particular.

"It would not be the same" The hologram stated.

"Huh?" The Doctor questioned.

"It would only need once," It said, "Perhaps what he is lacking is hope of becoming better"

"But showing him the stars would only fulfill his dream of travelling with me" The Doctor argued.

"Don't show him the stars" The hologram said, beginning to transform.

It turned into Rose Tyler.

"Show him.." It began transofrming again.

This time, Donna Noble.

"People who are.." Transforming again.

Captain Jack Harkness.

Worse are still living their lives..." Another transformation.

Rory Pond.

"He can even meet these last two and be told" It finished.

The Doctor was silent. The TARDIS was right. He ruined all these people's lives. Showing this kid how they're going on about their lives despite everything might give him the hope he needs.

"Set destination to the co-ordinates on the letter" He told it.

Then looking at the Rory hologram, "And disable voice interface"

"Romans" He mumbled as he pulled the lever.

Sid Walker was just finishing helping his son back to bed.

"That's it, mate," he told him, "You're doing good"

"Rest up" He told his son as he left the room.

Dex watched as his father left. He looked at the three action figures the urses had set up on his windowsill. The ones April bought him. He suddenly heard a noise like gears grinding behind him. He turned his head as uickly as he could. He saw a blue police call box in his hospital room. A man with a tweed jacket and a red bowtie stepped out.

"Dex, I presume?" The man asked.

"D-D-D-" Dex tried saying.

"One second. Let me get the TARDIS to alter your speech while I'm here, so I can understand" The man said as he stepped back into the box.

He came back out within seconds.

"Try that" He said.

"Doctor?" Dex tried.

He gasped. Whatever he did in there, he was now able to speak properly.

"In the flesh" The Doctor smiled.

"How?" Dex asked.

"I got your girlfriend's letter," The Doctor replied, "Oh, and your drawing"

"April?" Dex asked, still astounded.

"That's the one," The Doctor said, walking up to Dex's bed, "She wanted me to show you the stars. But I'm going to give you something better"

"What?" Dex asked The Doctor, as he allowed him to help him out of bed.

"Hope" The Doctor replied as he lead Dex into the TARDIS.

"The nurses," Dex said before they entered the TARDIS, "Won't they realise I'm gone?"

"I'll bring you back to this exact moment in time" The Doctor winked, as he helped Dex into the TARDIS.