Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who! I just own my OC, "Katerina Draganova", and any other characters I make up on the way!

Author's Note: I am so glad you guys are liking this? I was a little iffy at first, but now I'm really getting into it! Oh, and expect Katerina to act like this a majority of this story. I think I might split it into books, like, separate parts. I don't know yet, but I'll be sure you let you know as soon as I do. Also, I am open to taking requests of episodes, and I'll consider them if they fit well into my storyline.

Thank you to everyone who's reviewed! Thanks!


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Katerina and Clara came to a stop when they reached some sort of cave. "Hello?" Clara called out.

"Little girl?" Katerina tried.

The sound of a bang from behind them made both girls yelp, and they turned to see what made the noise, but nothing was there. Clara sighed in relief, but Katerina wasn't so sure.

Turning around, they walked further in, and the sound of footsteps coming from Katerina's left is what made her turn, and she was face to face with the little girl again.

"Are you lost?" Katerina asked at the same time Clara asked, "Are you okay?"

She glanced at them, terrified, before taking off again. The two girls followed her, looking around the huge storage area. There was a scream, and Katerina and Clara automatically screamed too, clutching at each other. They quickly let each other go when they see the same girl.

They had a little stare down, until eventually, Clara started giggling, the little girl doing the same. Katerina though, was looking between the two of them like they were crazy.

I'm not going to make it here, Katerina thought to herself.

"Are you alright?" Clara asked, and the little girl nodded.

"What are you doing here? Who are you hiding from?" Katerina asked after she recovered.

"How did you know I was hiding?" The little girl asked.

"Well, you're in a big storage room, thing, by yourself," Katerina said. "Either you're hiding or you really don't like people."

"You don't know who I am?" The little girl questioned, a confused look on her face.

Katerina and Clara shook their heads. "Sorry, no," Katerina told her.

"So why did you follow me?" She asked.

"Well, Preppy McHelpy over here dragged me here," Katerina said, and Clara poked her in the stomach with her elbow.

"You looked lost," Clara said.

"I don't believe you," The girl said, shrinking into herself.

Clara looked behind her and Katerina, then back to the girl. "We've got no idea who you might be," Clara whispered. "We've never been here before, well, at least me. I've never been anywhere like it. We just saw a little girl who looked like she needed help.

"Really?" The girl said hesitantly.

"Really really," Clara said.

"Can you help me?" She asked.

"That's why we're still here," Clara said, putting her hand on Katerina's arm.

"What did we say about touching?" Katerina said, slinking her arm away from Clara.

"I need to hide," the little girl said, interrupting the two.

Clara's eyes light up, and she looks over to Katerina. "I know the perfect box," She said, extending her hand to the girl.

Katerina looked from the little girl back to Clara. "Are you saying you want to take the girl back to the TARDIS?" Katerina whispered.

"Yes," Clara whispered back.

"What about the Doctor? What'll he say?" Katerina asked, but then she stopped herself. "Hang on. That man kidnapped me," Katerina said, before extending her hand too. "Let's go see if we can call a policeman."


There was a strange heavy breathing that seemed to follow Katerina and Clara as they led the little girl out of the storage area.

Peeking over a corner, the three of them shrank back as three strange looking aliens passed. After they were gone, they quickly ran out, watching out all around them. They quickly made it back to the TARDIS.

"What's this?" The little girl asked.

"It's a space, shipy, thing," Clara said distractedly, looking back to see if they were at all followed. "Timey, spacey."

"Does anybody speak proper English here?" Katerina asked, throwing her hands up.

"It's teeny," The little girl commented as Clara grabbed onto the door handles.

"You wait," She said to her, before pulling on the doors. They wouldn't budge though, and Clara frowned as she tried again.

"What's wrong?" The little girl asked.

"I don't know," Clara said, stepping back, hands on her hips. "I don't think it likes me."

Katerina's jaw dropped open. "'It doesn't like you?" Katerina repeated. "It is a box. Sure it's a time machine, and it's bigger on the inside, but it's still a box."

Why am I the only sane one here? Katerina asked herself pitifully.

During their little conversation, the little girl had quietly slipped behind the TARDIS. Katerina and Clara looked over, and Katerina went over to where she saw her. "Little girl?"

She peeked her head over. "My name is Merry," She said, before going back behind the TARDIS.

Clara went the other way while Katerina continued to follow behind Merry.

Seeing her sitting on the ground made Katerina smile, and she sat down next to her. Merry reminded her of Nikolina, in a way. "What's happening? Does someone want to hurt you? Is that why you're hiding?"

"No," Merry said. "I'm scared."

"Of what?" Clara asked, now sitting on her other side.

Merry looked between the two of them before saying, "Getting it wrong."

Clara took a deep breath in. "Okay, can you pretend like we're totally space aliens and explain?"

"I'm Merry Gejeluh," Merry said.

Katerina and Clara exchanged glances as Clara said, "We're really not local,

sorry."

"The Queen of Years," Merry explained. "They chose me when I was a baby. The day the last Queen of Years died."

"Okay..." Clara said, waiting for her to continue.

"I'm the vessel of our history," Merry continued. "I know every chronicle, every poem, every legend, every song."

"Every single one?" Clara asked.

Merry nods with a sigh.

"That's a horrible thing for a girl so little to have on her shoulders," Katerina said, fighting the urge to pull Merry towards her in a hug like she used to do with Nikolina.

"Blimey, I hated history," Clara joked.

"Me too," Katerina couldn't help but add.

"Now I have to sing a song in front of everyone," Merry said, a slight shake

in her voice. "A special song, I have to sing it to a God," She finished, her eyes trailing away. She looked back to Katerina. "I'm really scared."

Katerina smiled at the little girl. "Everybody gets scared when they're little. I used to be scared of the dark. Whenever my father turned the light out, I would always cover my face with my blanket, and sometimes I still couldn't sleep, so I would snuggle in with my mum and dad. And then to fix this, my parents got me a nightlight. Now one day, there was a blackout. And my nightlight went out."

"What happened?" Merry asked.

"I screamed. I felt like I couldn't breathe. And my mum came rushing in. She picked me right up, and started rocking me back and forth, singing this one song that always made me smile, ever since I was a baby. It's okay to get scared, Merry," Katerina said.

"Listen to Katerina," Clara said. "I used to be terrified of getting lost. I used to have nightmares about it," She said, looking down, a cloudy look in her eyes. She looked back up at Merry. "And then, I got lost. Blackwood beach, bank holiday Monday, about ten billion people and I was about six. My worst nightmare come true."

"What happened?" Merry asked, and Katerina found herself nodding in agreement with the little blonde. Knowing virtually nothing after supposedly knowing Clara, Katerina was eager to find some stuff out.

"My world ended," Clara answered. "My heart broke." The edges of Clara's lips lifted as she broke into a smile. "And then my mum found me."

Katerina and Merry both smiled, but Katerina quickly caught herself and stopped. "We had fish and chips, and she drove me home, and she took me to bed and she told me a story."

Clara's eyes turned cloudy, and Katerina imagined that she was thinking of the story that her mother told her that day.

"You were never scared again?" Merry asked, and it looked like it snapped Clara out of whatever reverie she was in.

"Nah," Clara said, shaking her head. "I was scared lots of times. But never of being lost."

The three of them smiled, before Clara spoke up. "So, this 'special song', what are you scared of exactly?"

Merry looked down before she answered. "Getting it wrong. Making grandfather angry."

"Trust me kid, you're going to get nowhere constantly living in fear," Katerina said. "Do you think you're going to get it wrong?"

Merry was silent as Katerina continued. "I don't. I don't think you'll get it wrong. I have a lot of faith in you. I believe in you. Maybe it's time you believed in yourself. I promise it'll be okay."

Merry's smile grew with every word Katerina said, and when she was finished, she leaped forwards, grabbing Katerina into a hug. Katerina didn't like contact from people she didn't know (hence why she insisted that Clara and the Doctor not touch her) but poor little Merry Gejeluh looked like she was in need of a hug, and to be honest, Katerina enjoyed squishing the little girl against her chest.


After their little pep talk, Katerina, Clara, and Merry got out from behind the TARDIS and stepped back out into the open market area. This time, Katerina let Merry hold on tightly to her hand, and Katerina knew Merry was holding onto

Clara's hand with the same ferocity.

The came to a stop when they found the same people in the red robes from before, and Katerina looked down at Merry for confirmation that she was ready. Merry gave a slight nod, and they looked back to the men in robes, who caught their eyes and walked towards them. Katerina pushed Merry slightly forwards, and she walked towards the men.

"I think you did good," Clara said to Katerina as they watched the men put

a necklace of flowers over Merry's neck.

"I didn't do much," Katerina said as Merry looked behind them one last time before following the two men.

"Yes, you did!" Clara insisted. "That girl was terrified before. But after talking to you, she went willingly to them."

"You helped too!" Katerina said. "Your story definitely helped her."

"Of course it did," Clara said with a smile. "But this is the kind of stuff that you and the Doctor do together all the time."

"Really?" Katerina asked, looking back at the spot where Merry was at.

"Yes," Clara said, nodding her head.

Katerina looked back over to Clara. "Well, now that you're with him, this is the kind of stuff that you'll be doing too, don't worry."

Just as Katerina finished her sentence, she felt someone behind her, and when she turned around, she saw that it was the Doctor, eating the same slushy fruit from before. "What have you two been up to?" He asked.

"Exploring," Clara answered.

"It's a very unique place here," Katerina agreed. The three of them exchanged looks as they all shrugged.

With a nod, the Doctor started walking forwards without a word. Katerina and Clara exchanged bewildered looks, before going after him. "So is this 'not explaining anything' thing something I should get used to?" Katerina asked.


Following the Doctor inside a room revealed to be a stadium, Katerina came to an abrupt stop, lurching forward and nearly losing her hat again. "I'm never wearing a hat again," Katerina mumbled to herself as she righted it. She turned around to follow Clara and the Doctor, and they walked up the seats of the stadium, walking past a bunch of aliens Katerina tried her best not to step on.

They sat down, Clara bumping into an alien as she sat. She muttered a quick apology before she turned to the Doctor. "Are we even supposed to be here?"

"Shh!" the Doctor said.

"But are we?" Clara asked.

"Don't kill the fun!" Katerina said to her. "Live a little!"

"I can live," Clara, said, crossing her arms. "Let's get on with it!"

They all looked back to the front, and the first thing that Katerina noticed was that it was Merry standing at the front. Merry looked back, and Katerina gave an encouraging smile to her, waving a little to her. Smiling back slightly, Mary looked back to the front, and she began to sing.

It was gentle, the perfect voice for a girl her age. Eventually, a male voice from the pyramid on the asteroid across from them joins Merry. It was something that Katerina could fall asleep to. In fact, she was dozing off when the Doctor nudged her. She snapped back to attention, and looked over at him. She scrunched her eyebrows at the sight of him wearing very round, Harry Potter-esque glasses.

"They're singing to the Akhaten in the Temple. They call it the 'Old God', sometimes 'Grandfather.'"

"What are they singing?" Katerina asked. "It sounds wonderful."

"The Long Song," the Doctor answered. "A lullaby without end to feed the Old God and keep him asleep. It's been going on for millions of years, chorister handing over to chorister, generation after generation after generation."

"Akhaten..." Merry sang.

"It's a lot of pressure for a little girl," Katerina commented. She knew if she was in Merry's position she would have been too frightened to do it. She now felt even worse for the little girl than she did before.

The alien beside Katerina opened up his hand, revealing a piece of food. Perplexed, she looked around and saw all of the aliens in the stadium doing the same, but with other objects other than food in their hands. "What's going on?" Katerina asked the Doctor.

"They're offerings," He explained as Merry continued to sing. "Gifts of value, mementoes to feed the Old God."

Clara giggled as she saw the offerings turn into bits of gold dust and swim up into the air towards the sun, and Katerina took her camera out again, sneakily taking pictures of the ordeal.

"Oh God of..." Merry started smiling. "Oh God of...oh God of Akhaten..."

"Sleep my precious king," another male voice sang.

Suddenly, the whole crowd was singing. Katerina gazed above at them in wonder. How could they all know the words?

"Lay..." the Doctor tried, but he was too early, and Katerina couldn't help but laugh at him. He stuck his tongue out at her before chuckling himself.

"Lay down my warrior," the crowd sang around the threesome.

"Oh god of...oh god of..." Merry's voice shook. "Oh god of...oh god of...oh god of Akhaten..."

Merry's voice faltered, as did the back up voice. A rumbling sound began erupting from the pyramid. Wide eyed, Merry turned around to face the audience, and in that moment, Katerina had known that something had gone wrong, it didn't need a genius to figure it out.

"Has this ever happened before?" Katerina asked the Doctor, looking around at the crowd who had no idea what was going on either.

Before Katerina could even blink, a gold light sparked out of the pyramid, grabbing onto Merry, pulling her up into a force field of a kind.

"Okay," Clara said. "What's happening? Is that supposed to be happening?"

"Doesn't look like it, Clara!" Katerina said as Merry began to scream.

"Help! Help me!" She screamed as she struggled.

"Why is no one helping her?" Clara asked.

"Doctor, I don't think this was a part of the program!" Katerina said. The Doctor leaped up as Clara turned around to talk to the person behind her. Katerina wasted no time in getting up to follow behind him. She thought that he was going after Merry, but he simply exited the stadium. Katerina's stomach dropped.

"What are you doing?" She asked him.

"Why are we walking away?" Clara's voice came out, and Katerina turned around to see the short brunette following behind them.

"We can't just leave her there!" Katerina said as the Doctor kept walking. "This is my fault, I talked her into doing it!"

"It's my fault too!" Clara said. "I helped just as much as Katerina did."

"Clara said that we go through time and space and help people. You're breaking your own philosphy by leaving her back there!" Katerina exploded. It felt like she was leaving Nikolina or Nikolai behind.

"Listen," he said, turning around to go face to face with her. "There's one thing you need to know about time traveling with me, well, one thing, apart from the blue box and the two hearts, we don't walk away," he said, before he turned around to start walking again.

A smile on her face grew as she watched the Doctor walk, but the smile quickly disappeared as something dawned on her.

"Wait, you have how many hearts?" She called after him as she ran.


Katerina and Clara followed the Doctor back to Dor'een's stall, where he started barking to her.

"Okay, I am so sick of people not speaking English!" Katerina said. "Start speaking normally or I'll go into that blue box and never come back out."

Ignoring her, the Doctor turned around and walked back to them. "I need something precious."

"You must have something," Clara insisted. "All the places you've seen there must be something."

The Doctor pulled out the same wand with the green tip from before. "Just this, but I need it, it comes in handy."

"One thousand years and that's it? Your spanner?" Clara asked.

"It's a screwdriver," the Doctor said.

"What kind of screwdriver is that?" Katerina asked.

Clara looked at him before looking down at her hand, fiddling with a ring on her finger. "It's my mum's," She said, looking at Katerina and the Doctor.

Without a second's hestiation, Clara pulled her ring out and held it out towards Dor'een. She took it, examined the sentimental value, and then gestured to the moped behind her.

The Doctor tapped Clara's head, and Katerina could only look at Clara in a bit of impression.

"What?" Clara asked.

"That was the bravest thing I've ever seen," Katerina said. She knew the signs of a person who lost a parent, she should know, she lost one herself. And the look on Clara's face when she looked down at her ring after she said it was her mother's confirmed Katerina's thoughts that it was her mother that passed.

Clara didn't say anything as the three of them got on the bike, the Doctor in front, Clara after him, and Katerina after her. The Doctor turned the moped on, and the second they took off, the force of the speed of the air made Katerina's hat fly right off of her head.

"Oh! No!" Katerina said, reaching down towards it. She growled, wrapping her arm back around Clara. "I am never wearing a hat ever again."

They sped past asteroids and large pieces of rock flying off of them. Merry was still being pulled towards the pyramid.

"Merry!" Katerina called after her. Clara climbed on top of the Doctor's back, and Katerina carefully shifted herself up on Clara's back. She reached for Merry, and Katerina's hand just touched Merry's when the force field violently pulled her back quickly, pulling her all the way back into the pyramid.

"No!" Katerina cried, and that's when she realized that the force and the speed the Doctor was forced to go at was making them head for the wall at warp speed.

"Brakes! Brakes!" Clara screamed.

"This is not the way I thought I'd die!" Katerina screamed.

"No one is dying!" the Doctor said as he turned the moped to the side. It began skidding into the small landing, and the trio screamed as the moped made contact with the ground. It only lasted a few seconds, and they came to a complete stop. With a sigh, Katerina climbed off of Clara and off of the moped.

"Okay," the Doctor gasped. "Time to let go."

"I can't!" Clara cried, burying her head into the Doctor's back, desperately clinging to him.

"Stop being dramatic!" Katerina grumbled to herself as the Doctor explained to Clara that he couldn't breathe.

The Doctor and Clara got off of the moped and Katerina followed the Doctor as he ran up to the door, pulling out his screwdriver and pressing a button, making the end glow and the wand to make a sound.

"What does the screwdriver even do?" Katerina asked.

"Everything," the Doctor said as he inspected it. "Oh, interesting! A frequency modulated acoustic lock. The key changes ten million, zillion, squillion times a second."

Katerina looked at him blankly. "I'm sorry, I know you were talking, but all I heard was a rushing sound in my ears because of how fast you were going," She said. "Can you get into it?"

"Technically, no," the Doctor said. "In reality, also no. But still...let's give it a stab!"

Before Katerina could say anything, the Doctor went charging at the doors, banging himself against it. Clara squealed and covered her eyes when he fell back on the ground. He turned around, and clicked a button on his screwdriver again, and traced the door. When that didn't work, the Doctor actually knocked on the door.

"Oh yeah, I'm sure they'll open the door and roll out the welcome matt for you!" Katerina said sarcastically.

"How can they just stand there and watch?" Clara asked.

The Doctor sighed. "Because this is sacred ground."

"But she's just a kid!" Katerina protested. She saw her siblings in the little girl, and wanted, no, needed to help her.

The Doctor stepped backwards, pointing his screwdriver at the door as he did so. "I don't...I can't...it..."

A piercing scream suddenly erupted from the other side of the door. "Merry!" Katerina yelled after her as she recognized the sound of the child's voice. She couldn't help but run over to the door and try body checking it. "Merry! It'll be okay, I promised! I promised you it would!" Katerina tried to assure her.

"Doctor?" Clara asked, wondering what the situation was at the moment.

"Yes, yes, yes yes yes," He said. "Oh hello!" He said, looking at his screwdriver.

"Hello what?" Clara asked.

"The sonic's locked on to the acoustic tumblers!" the Doctor said excitedly.

"English!" Katerina said, an exasperated sigh exhaling from her nose.

"Right," the Doctor said. "Basically, what I'm saying is, I get to do this!"

Aiming the screwdriver at the door, he pressed the button on the sonic screwdriver and the door began to lift. Katerina started smiling as she ducked down to see it open. The Doctor's hands began to shake as the door went higher up, but he eventually managed to get it open.

Katerina peered in and saw a man kneeling in front of a god-like statue surrounded by a box. Looking over, she saw someone else...

"Nikolina!" Katerina cried, smiling like crazy at her little sister. But how did she get here?

"Who's Nikolina?" Clara asked, and Katerina looked from Clara back to Nikolina.

"She's-" Katerina started, but when she looked back, it was Merry. It had been Merry the whole time. "No one," Katerina said.

"I'm the Doctor!" the Doctor introduced. "You've met Katerina and Clara! They were supposed to be having a nice day out," the Doctor let go of the door, and it came down an inch, making the three of them instinctively duck down. The Doctor reached back up and aimed the screwdriver at the door to do the same thing he was doing before to keep the door up. "Still, it's early yet. Are you coming then? Did I mention that the door is immensely heavy?"

"Leave!" Merry said, nervously glancing behind her. "You'll wake him!"

"Really, quite, extraordinarily heavy," the Doctor said, and unexpectedly dropped to his knees, making Katerina and Clara bend so that they're at his level too.

"Doctor!" Katerina found herself calling worriedly.

"Katerina!" the Doctor said, glancing over at her, and the look clearly said, 'take care of it'.

"On it, boss," Katerina said as she and Clara ran inside.

The man sitting in front of the statue thing was still chanting as Katerina and Clara passed by him. Katerina stopped behind him, so that they didn't pass him. "Merry, we have to go," Katerina said, extending her hand.

"We are not leaving here without you," Katerina told Merry.

"You said I wouldn't get it wrong!" Merry protested. "And then I got it wrong! And now this has happened, look what's happened!"

"You didn't get it wrong!" Katerina defended.

"How do you know?" Merry asked. "You don't know anything! You have to go now, or he'll eat us all!"

"Listen, as long as I'm around, no one is getting eaten, okay?" Katerina said.

"Plus, he's ugly," Clara added. "But, you know, to be honest," She said, running over to the statue. "I don't think he looks big enough."

"Not our meat. Our souls," Merry said worriedly.

Clara looked over to Katerina, silently asking for help. Katerina begins walking over as Clara extended a hand towards Merry.

Merry put a finger on each temple, and a large purple vein popped up on her forehead as she scrunched her eyebrows in concentration. Katerina was confused at what was going on for about one second until she saw Clara being pushed up against the glass with the man inside as she screamed.

"Merry, no! Stop!" Katerina said. She was about to touch Merry's shoulder when she began to feel a pulsing pain course through her stomach. She yelled in pain, bended over, and felt herself fall to the ground. Tears sprung, and the pain quickly subsided. However, it was enough to keep Katerina winded and not to have enough energy to stand up.

"Katerina? You okay?" the Doctor asked.

"Yeah," She groaned, putting a hand to her stomach, and awkwardly shifting to the side so that she was doing a sideways plank with her arm. "Merry, stop this. What's wrong? What's going on?"

Slowly, Merry lowered her hands and looked from Clara to Katerina. "It doesn't want you, either of you. It wants me. If you don't leave, he'll eat you up too."

"Yes, and you don't want that, do you?" the Doctor asked, and Merry turned around to listen to him. "You want us to walk out of this really quite astonishingly heavy door and never come back."

"Yes," Merry said, glad that someone finally understood.

"I see, right," the Doctor said. "Right. Katerina and Clara are right. Absolutely never going to happen." Taking a chance, the Doctor stopped pressing the button to keep the door up, and bent and rolled to get himself out of the way before the door could crush him.

"What did you just do?" Katerina asked the Doctor as he stood up.

"Did you just lock us in?" Clara asked, closing her eyes to try and keep herself calm.

"Yup," he said.

"You did hear the part about him being a soul eating monster, right?" Katerina asked.

"Yup," he said again.

"You are going to get me killed," Katerina said, leaning her head back. "I wish I was home right now."

"Wouldn't be the first time," the Doctor commented.

"Is there a way out?" Clara asked from her spot on the glass box.

"What? Before it eats our souls?" the Doctor asked as he made his way over to Katerina.

"Ideally, yes," Clara said as the Doctor gently bent down to Katerina's level. "Are you okay to stand up?" He asked.

"Yeah," Katerina said, and moved to stand up, but she was having a hard time, so the Doctor gently reached under Katerina's arms, and said, "On three?"

Even though she was a bit uncomfortable, she still needed to stand up, so she nodded. "Yeah."

"One," he started, getting his legs ready. "Two," He said, getting his arms ready, and Katerina steeled herself for the pain. "Three!" At the final number, the Doctor lifted Katerina up, who had to surpress her screams. When she was standing, she just had to get used to her legs for a couple seconds and she was fine. "Thank you," She said to him, before turning to Merry and Clara, avoiding his gaze.

"Doctor," Clara started as she watched the Doctor turn to the man on the floor. "Why is he still singing?"

"Doesn't exactly have an 'off' switch," Katerina says.

The Doctor crouches in front of the man, and Katerina backs up a bit so that she's standing next to Merry, ready to run if they have to. "He's trying to sing the Old God back to sleep, but that's not going to happen. He's waking up, mate. He's coming, ready or not. You want to run."

After the Doctor stopped talking, the man stopped singing. "That's it, then. Song's over," the Doctor said.

"The song is over," the man said, standing up. "My name is Chorister Rezh Baphix, and the Long Song," Rezh pulled the sleeve of his left arm up, and pressed a button on a bracelet that was revealed there. "Ended with me." After he does it, he disappears. Into thin air.

"That's it, then. Song's over," the Doctor said, and at the last second he whips out his screwdriver and presses the button, pointing it towards the man in the box, who roars.

The roar makes Merry scream, and Katerina didn't even think as she did it; she grabbed the girl by the arms and pulled her right into her chest, holding her close. "What is that?" Katerina asked.

"Ah ha!" the Doctor said, running to press his face to the glass. "Look at that."

"You've woken him," Merry said, her tone very clear that she was scared, and Katerina automatically pulled her closer.

"I think he knows what he's doing," Katerina tries to reassure Merry, but Merry has a look on her face that shows that she didn't believe her. "Oh, who am I kidding? The man's a lunatic!"

"It's awake? What's it doing?" a wide eyed Clara asked, still pushed up against the glass as the monster wacked against the glass.

"Oh, you know. Having a nice stretch," the Doctor said.

"No time to be sarcastic!" Katerina said from her spot a good distance away from the very glass box.

"No, we didn't wake him. And you didn't wake him, either," the Doctor said, pointing at Merry. "He's waking because it's his time to wake, and feed. On you, apparently," He said, pointing at Merry. "On your stories."

"She said souls, not stories, and he's not feeding on anything," Katerina said, keeping one arm around Merry.

"Same thing," the Doctor said. "The soul's made of stories, not atoms. Everything that ever happened to us. People we love, people we lost. People we found again against all the odds. He threatens to wake, they offer him a pure soul. The soul of the Queen of Years."

When the Doctor said 'the Queen of Years', Merry stepped back and shrank into herself.

"Knock it off spaceboy, you're scaring her," Katerina said, following Merry and wrapping her into another hug, one that Merry stepped out of this time.

"Good. She should be scared. She's sacrificing herself. She should know what that means," the Doctor said, and he started walking towards them. "Do you know what it means, Merry?"

"A god chose me!" Merry said.

"It's not a god. It'll feed on your soul, but that doesn't make it a god," the Doctor turned and pointed towards the monster, who was snarling and banging against the glass, which Clara was still against.

"It is a vampire, and you don't need to give yourself to it. Hey, do you mind if I tell you a story?" He asked, rubbing his hands together, something that Katerina had picked up on. "One you might not have heard. All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a far away star that exploded and died," he started, crouching down so that he was balancing his weight on the balls of his feet, but Merry was more into paying attention to the creature that was repeatedly lunging towards them. "That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years, these elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings," the Doctor stood up, and circled around Merry so that he was standing behind her, putting his hands on her shoulders. "Until eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Gejeluh. And there will never be another." Katerina couldn't help but smile at the encouraging words that the Doctor was giving Merry. She felt a drop on her hand, and was surprised to see that she was crying. She quickly wiped her tears away so that no one would have noticed them as the Doctor and Merry walked toward the beast in the cage. "Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice. It is a waste," the Doctor finished, pointing at the monster.

"So, if I don't, then everyone else..." Merry trailed off.

"Will be fine," the Doctor finished for her.

"How?" She asked with a quick glance at the monster.

"Well, Merry Gejeluh," Katerina said, walking up so that she was standing next to the Doctor. "Where I come from, there's this saying. 'Where there's a will, there's a way'."

"And I always find a way," the Doctor added.

"You promise?" She asked him.

With a nod, the Doctor says, "Cross my hearts," As he literally crosses both his hearts, and gently touches Merry's face. The Doctor offers her his hand, and cautiously, she takes it. Merry looks over at Katerina, and she nods in confirmation. Based on what she has seen so far, she had a good opinion in mind of the Doctor. Not that she'd ever trust him herself, though.

Looking back towards Clara, Merry releases her binds. Just as Clara begins to enjoy her freedom, the alien had finally managed to crack a hole in the glass right where Clara's head was.

Katerina runs over to Clara, grabbing her hand. "And that is our cue to leave!"

The four of them move to run, but there was a sudden rumbling sound as the ground shook. Clara releases Katerina's hand, and she turned back around. "Something's coming," Clara said.

"Again, our cue to leave!" Katerina stated.

"The Vigil," Merry informed them.

"And what's the Vigil?" the Doctor further interrogated.

"If the Queen of Years is unwilling to be feasted upon," Merry began in a shaky voice.

"Yes?" the Doctor pressed.

"It's their job to feed her to Grandfather," Merry finished.

"That just made things a lot harder," Katerina commented.

A puff of black smoke erupts from in front of the cage, and in it's place when it disappears are the three robotic beings.

The Doctor took his screwdriver out as he observed the robots.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry," Merry began apologising.

"Over my dead body," Katerina said, reaching back to clasp Merry's hand protectively.

"I hope for no dead bodies," the Doctor said. "But, yeah, stay back. I'm armed. With a screwdriver," he said, pointing the screwdriver at the robots.

"You're going to go up against robots with a screwdriver?" Katerina asks through gritted teeth. This man is out of his mind! She thought to herself.

The Vigil standing in the front sends out an acoustic blast that knocks the screwdriver out of the Doctor's hand, then another that sends him somersaulting backwards.

"Doctor!" Katerina cried after him as she, Merry, and Clara backed up. The Vigil on the right side sends out another blast that sends Clara flying to the wall on the other side.

"Clara!" Katerina called after her, and finally, the Vigil on the left blasted out a blast towards Katerina. Taking her hand out of Merry's grasp, she threw her in the opposite direction as the blast hit her square in the chest, sending her backwards and slamming her against the wall.

It was even worse pain than when she was hit by Merry, and for a minute all she could see was black. But her subconscious mind began fighting to wake up, and she lulled her head to the side as her eyes opened slightly. She looked over to see Clara and the Doctor, but they were still knocked out. Katerina looked to find Merry, and saw her standing at the front with the Vigils.

That's when Katerina began fighting every sense in her body to get herself up. Maybe if she could stall them somehow, Merry could get away, or at least away from the Vigils and the alien.

"Clara," Katerina heard, and she turned her head to see the Doctor was awake, as well as Clara. "Sonic," He said, and using all her strength, Clara got up and ran to the corner where his screwdriver was thrown. She grabbed it, and threw it towards the Doctorm who caught it easily.

Flipping on his stomach, the Doctor used the power of the sonic and pointed it at the Vigil's, who turned around and tried using their powers against the Doctor, but they were being stopped by some force field, and it took Katerina a minute to realize that it was the screwdriver creating it.

It was enough of a time window for Merry to hop off of the platform and run right back into Katerina's arms. The Doctor groaned at the pressure of the screwdriver against the vigil.

Clara turns Merry towards her, gently grabbing her arms. "You know all the stories. You must know if there's another way out."

"There's a tale. A secret song. The Thief of the Temple and the Nimmer's Door," She quickly says.

"And that song would open the door?" Katerina asked, bending down so that she was at head level with Merry, who nodded. "Okay, how does it go? Do you know it, can you sing it?" Katerina asked, her questions coming out in a blur just like...

Ooh, Katerina winced. Just like the Doctor.

Turning, Merry begins to sing a series of notes, and a door slides up in the wall just beyond the Vigils and the creature.

The Doctor glanced over at the door, and then back to the three girls. "Go!"

Not wasting any time, Clara and Merry begin to make a run for it. However, Katerina hesitated.

"Come on, Katerina!" Clara called after her.

Katerina looked back to the Doctor, who was struggling with the weight. The Doctor just helped save Merry, and save Katerina. Now it was Katerina's turn to help.

She waved them off. "Go! I'll be there!"

Reluctantly, Clara and Merry ran for the door as Katerina ran back to the Doctor. She put her arms around him, and grabbed his hands where he was holding the screwdriver.

The Doctor looked over to her in surprise. This was probably the first time that day that Katerina willingly helped the Doctor without criticizing him.

Katerina just gave him a small smile as she firmly grasped the sonic screwdriver as best as she could. She didn't really know how it worked, but the Doctor made it look like he just concentrated really hard and then it did stuff, so Katerina concentrated as hard as she could. She put her worry for Merry into the power, her anger at the Vigils, her wariness of the Doctor while wanting to help him, everything that she was feeling that day into that one power surge.

Eventually, Katerina and the Doctor were about to temporarily break the force field which gave them enough opportunity to run while the Vigils were distracted.

"Doctor! Katerina!" Clara's voice rang out, and the Doctor and Katerina quickly managed to get back to where they had first come in. Katerina ran right for Merry, and the Doctor turned around to find that the Vigils had followed them and were back again, and soon enough, he was pointing the screwdriver at them again.

There was a soft whisper of a voice, that made Katerina, Clara, and Merry so scared that the three of them managed to wrap around each other.

"Where are you? Where are you?" It said.

"What was that?" Katerina asked, looking around at the space around her.

Just as Katerina finished her sentence, the Vigils disappeared, and the four of them all relaxed.

"Where did they go?" Clara asked.

"Grandfather's awake. They're of no function any more," the Doctor said.

"Well, you could sound happier about it," Clara commented.

"Actually, I think I may have made a bit of a tactical boo-boo," He let slip. "More of a semantics mix-up, really."

"'Boo-boo?'" Katerina repeated. "What do you mean? You're speaking like a two year old."

"I thought the Old God was Grandfather, but it wasn't. It was just Grandfather's alarm clock," the Doctor said.

Katerina and Clara exchange confused looks. "Why do you always talk to us like we're on your level of thinking?" Katerina said.

"What Katerina means to say is, we're a bit lost," Clara said, rewording what Katerina said to sound nicer. "Who's the Old God? Is there an Old God?"

"Unfortunately, yes," the Doctor said. As he said this, the sun started getting brighter, and somehow, bigger. That, or Katerina was shrinking to the ground in fear. Most likely the latter.

"Oh, my stars," Clara said worriedly. "What do we do?"

"Against that?" the Doctor asked. "I don't know. Do you know? I don't know. Any ideas?" he asked, opening the floor.

"But you promised," Merry insisted, looking up at the Doctor. "You promised!"

"I did. I did promise," the Doctor reminded her.

"He'll eat us all," Merry said, starting to panic. "He'll spread across the system, consuming the Seven Worlds. And when there's no more to eat, he'll embark on a new odyssey among the stars."

"I say leg it," Clara gave.

"Leg it where, exactly?" the Doctor asked.

"Don't know. Lake District?" Clara asked, and Katerina could only look at them in confusion. Was she the only one that was aware that there was a big, Grandfather thing that was going to eat the entirety of the Seven Worlds?

"Oh, the Lake District's lovely," the Doctor said. "Let's definitely go there. We can eat scones. They do great scones in 1927," He finished, and seemed to have trailed off, looking at the sun. Katerina follow his gaze, and couldn't believe her eyes. The sun had a sort of sinister look on it's face, if that was even possible.

"You're going to fight it, aren't you," Clara said, not even a question. She knew as well as the Doctor that he was going to do it.

"Regrettably, yes. I think I may be about to do that," the Doctor sighed.

"It's really big," Clara pointed out.

"I've seen bigger."

"Really?" She asked.

"Are you joking? It's massive," the Doctor said, gesturing towards it.

"I'm staying with you," Clara said, suddenly determined.

"No, you're not," the Doctor immediately said.

"Yes, I am. I can assist," Clara tried again.

"No, you can't," the Doctor said.

"If you're not taking her, I'm coming," Katerina said before she could stop herself. Too late to take it back.

"No, you're not either," the Doctor said firmly.

"What happened to the mighty bull talk about not walking away?" Katerina asked, and Clara nodded in agreement.

"No. We don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something

precious, we run. We run and run as fast as we can and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow," He said, his face going serious. Then he went back to his usual manner. "Now, off you pop. Take the moped. I'll walk."

Katerina walked over to him so that she was standing in front of him. "Listen here, Bowtie Boy," She grabbed his bowtie and pulled him forward, so that his face was close to hers. "You might be able to keep Preppy McHelpy from helping you, but you're just one man. You can't possibly do everything by yourself," She said, releasing his bowtie. She pushed him back and straightened it as she said, "Besides, I am not a 'sit in the sidelines' type of girl."

The Doctor smiled proudly at her. This might not be the Katerina he knows, but it's still his Katerina. "No, you're certainly not."

"Wait, you're letting Katerina go?" Clara asked.

"We've been through so much more, apparently," Katerina said, turning to face Clara. "Now we can sit here and talk about it till next Sunday or we can go stop a sun from eating millions of people."

Still not liking the idea, Clara turned so that she could leave with Merry, but before they left, Merry went over to Katerina and gave her a big hug.

"Be careful," She whispered.

Katerina smiled at the little girl and wrapped her arms around her quickly. "Don't you worry about me, kid," She removed her arms, and bent down to her level. "Go with Clara, she'll keep you safe."

Merry nodded, and went over to Clara. The two of them gave Katerina and the Doctor one last look before leaving to get the stadium.

Katerina turned to face the Doctor, and he was still looking at her in awe. "Please tell me you have an idea," She says.

The Doctor smiles, shaking his. "Not one."

Sighing, Katerina smoothed down her skirt as she said, "Didn't think so."


Katerina and the Doctor turned to face the big sun, with the sinister smile. They stood in silence for a second, trying to think of an idea. Then came a beautiful, vocalization of Merry, who was singing to awaken the sun.

The Doctor and Katerina turn around towards the direction of the voice, and exchange looks with each other as the Doctor turned back to face the orange thing in the sky. 'Okay, then. That's what I'll do. I'll tell you a story."

Clearer, Katerina could hear the voices of all the people in the stadium. "Please, wake up. And let the cloak of life cling to your bones," they sang.

"Can you hear them?" the Doctor asked. "All these people who've lived in terror of you and your judgement? All these people whose ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed themselves, to you. Can you hear them singing? Oh, you like to thing you're a god. But you're not a god. You're just a parasite eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow," the Doctor said, his voice going higher and higher. He calmed himself down, and said, "So, come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories."

"What?" Katerina asked the Doctor, but he wasn't listening to her. A tendril of light from the sun makes its way over to the Doctor.

"But I hope you've got a big appetite, because I have-" He flinched mid sentence as the tendril struck him. "Lived a long life," Another strike. "And I have seen a few things."

"I walked away from the last Great Time War." Time war? Katerina needed to do her research. "I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me," He continued, his voice thick with so much emotion that tears began trickling at Katerina's eyes and she didn't try blinking them away.

"I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn," He said, tears slippin down his face. Katerina fought the urge to run up to him and wipe them right off of his face, because she couldn't stand seeing someone, anyone, in that much pain. But she just stood there, as if her feet didn't work, crying tears of her own at the Doctor's emotional performance. "I've seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze. So come on, then," He widened his arms. "Take it! Take it all, baby! Have it! You have it all!"

The sun grew darker as the tendrils withdrawed. The Doctor hung his head, as if all of the energy was gone from him.

Katerina couldn't believe her ears. In her mind, memories were the most important thing a person could have. Why would he give them up willingly?

Because that's just the person that the Doctor is, Katerina thought to herself. She'd only known the man a day, but in this moment, she felt like she knew him a lifetime. The Doctor had lost people, just like everybody does. But he lost so much more people than a single person could. He's saved them all at Akhaten, and Clara had said that saving people was what her and the Doctor did. But had anybody actually sacrificed themselves for the Doctor? He was always the one to save people, to give stuff up. He did it, for the sake of saving people. It was time that somebody did it for him.

"Stop! Stop!" Katerina said, pushing the Doctor out of the way of the sun.

"What are you doing?" He asks Katerina, falling to his knees, partly because he was out of energy and partly because she pushed him.

She turns to face him, tears running down her face. "There is no reason for you to always give." She turns back to face the sun. "You want a meal, you great, big, stupid thing?" She asked. "I'll give you a meal!"

Katerina reached under the shirt part of her dress, revealing the pendant that her grandfather gave her. She ripped it off, not caring that she just broke the chain. She held it up by the top of the chain to the sun.

The Doctor noticed what she was trying to do and started shaking his head. "No, Katerina, no!"

"This necklace," She started, ignoring him. "Has been passed down to me, Katerina Draganova, from my grandfather, Grigor Draganov. It has been in my family for seven generations. It is passed down when the grandparent turns 60. Seven generations, four hundred and twenty years. Four hundred and twenty years of memories. Happiness, sadness, anger, love." More tears flooded Katerina's eyes, making her vision blurry. "I know it's no, 'watching the creation of the universe', but it's better than nothing, and it's better than watching a man who gives up everything all the time give up the most precious thing in the world. Memories."

The same tendril as before started approaching Katerina's necklace, wrapping itself around it. The Doctor watched as Katerina looked at the tendril surrounding the necklace. "Take it. Take all the memories, you big, stupid beast."

The necklace dissolves into thin air, gone. Forever.

Katerina takes a deep breath in, hoping to help stop herself from crying. She sinks down on her knees, trying to control her grief. She just lost a part of her grandfather, a part of herself. And for what? Pretty much nothing. But Katerina took a risk, and she was proud of herself for it. She was now on the same level as the Doctor, who was watching her in awe. "You know that you didn't really help, don't you?"

To his surprise, Katerina gave a watery smile. "I know. But if I helped feed it's belly, maybe our losses wouldn't be so great."

The sound of footsteps alerted Katerina and the Doctor that someone was coming. They looked over, and saw Clara run in, a book in her hand. She was alarmed at the sight of the two of them on the ground, but when she saw that they were fine, she turned back to the sun, who's face had returned.

Clutching the book to her chest, Clara said, "Still hungry?"

Opening the book, she said, "Well, I brought something for you."

From where she was sitting, Katerina couldn't see what was inside the book, but Clara picked up what it was, she got a better view. It was a brown-orange leaf, one that you would find around fall. The Doctor lifted his head to face Clara, and she continued talking. "This. The most important leaf in human history," A smile grew on her face, but behind it, Katerina knew was pain. "The most important leaf in human history."

The sun sinisterly smiles, and Katerina had to fight the urge to smack it off, since it wasn't physically possible.

"It's full of stories, full of history," Clara said. "And full of a future that never got lived. Days that should have been that never were. Passed on to me." Clara held it out even more for the energy tendril that was approaching it to take.

"This leaf isn't just the past, it's a whole future that never happened," She explained. "There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day we live. An infinity. All the days that never came. And these are all my mum's."

By that time, Katerina and the Doctor had stood up, the Doctor on one side of Clara, Katerina on the other. Katerina looked over to Clara, smiling at the brave girl. Clara was braver than Katerina could ever comprehend.

"Well, come on then. Eat up!" the Doctor said. As it consumed more of the leaf, the face started frowning. "Are you full? I expect so, because there's quite a difference, isn't there, between what was and what should have been. There's an awful lot of one, but there's an infinity of the other," He finished.

Katerina looks away from the sun back to the leaf, but it wasn't there anymore. It had dissolved into enery for the sun.

"And infinity's too much, even for your appetite," the Doctor stated.

Katerina looked over to Clara, who had also lost a lot that day, and saw that despite the tears in her eyes, there was a smile on her face. She reached over and grabbed Clara's hand, giving it a squeeze.

The other brunette looked over at Katerina in surprise. "What happened to your rule?"

"Temporarily banned," Katerina said with a smile. She could relate to Clara, as they had both suffered losses that day.

The Doctor, Clara, and Katerina all watched as the orange sun shrunk into itself, disappearing.

The Old God was no more.


After saying all their goodbyes, the trio made their way back to the TARDIS, where Clara had requested to be taken home. So about ten minutes later, they were back at the same house, on the same street that they had started their journey at.

"Home again, home again, jiggity jig," the Doctor said as he flipped a final switch on the TARDIS console.

"Please never say that again," Katerina, who was standing next to him, said, crossing her arms.

The Doctor gave her a look that clearly showed that he was offended, so Katerina said, "Be glad I said please."

"And she's back!" the Doctor said, reffering to Katerina's attitude.

Clara goes over to the door and opens it. "It looks different," she commented.

"Nope. Same house, same city, same planet," the Doctor said, walking around so that he was in front of the part of the console across from the doors. His eyes lit up as he reviewd a monitor. "Hey! Same day, actually. Not bad." He mimed a golf movement. "Hole in one."

Katerina pretended to look off into the distance. "You missed."

The Doctor was about to argue that he didn't when Clara's voice stopped him. "You were there," She said. "At mum's grave. You were watching." The Doctor turned around to face Clara as she asked, "What were you doing there?"

"Being creepy?" Katerina suggested. She hadn't felt weirder in her life, though it was second hand.

"I don't know. I was just making sure," he said, fiddling with some controls.

"Of what?" Clara asked.

"You remind me of someone," the Doctor said, walking up so that he was standing closer to Clara.

"Who?" She asked.

"Someone who died," the Doctor said.

"Well, whoever she was, I'm not her, okay? If you want me to travel with you, that's fine. But as me. I'm not a bargain basement stand-in for someone else. I'm not going to compete with a ghost," Clara said, and the whole while for the end bit the Doctor was shaking his head.

"No," the Doctor said. He reached into his pocket, and pulled something out. Closer inspection by Katerina revealed it to be Clara's ring that she gave to Dor'een. "They wanted you to have it," the Doctor explained.

"Who did?" Clara asked.

"Everyone. All the people you saved," the Doctor said, and Clara picked her ring up. She put it to her lips and gave it a sweet kiss, something that made Katerina smile. She was happy that Clara got something back, especially after what she gave up. It was more valuable than what Katerina gave up, that was for sure.

Clara gave the Doctor a smile before she turned to Katerina. "I might not see you again for a while, so I wanted to ask you something." Clara glanced over at the Doctor before saying, "Girl to girl?"

The Doctor took the hint (after a couple of minutes of hard staring at him from Katerina and Clara) and quickly went off to another part of the TARDIS that wasn't too far from the console.

Katerina nodded for Clara to ask. "What is it?"

"When we got to Merry after taking the moped, you called her Nikolina," Clara said, and Katerina instantly felt uncomfortable and homesick. "Who's Nikolina? If you don't mind me asking?"

Katerina looked down at her hands, suddenly every interested in the lines of them. Clara immediately backed off. "I'm sorry for asking, I shouldn't have."

"It's okay," Katerina said, clasping her hands together before she looked up. "Nikolina is my little sister. She's around Merry's age, maybe a little older. And she and my brother, her twin, mean the world to me."

Clara smiled. "Is that why you were so desperate to protect Merry? Because she reminded her of your siblings?"

"Partly, yeah," Katerina admitted. "Mostly because she was a scared little girl, and if I were in her shoes, I'd want help from two pretty looking girls."

Katerina and Clara laughed, before it quickly died down. Clara looked down at her ring before looking back at Katerina. "I'm sorry about your necklace."

"How did you-" Katerina said, her hand immediately going to the spot where it used to sit.

"Because you weren't wearing it the first time we met, and you're not wearing it now," Clara said. "And giving it up to that sun, thing, is something that you would do."

"Well, the Girl who Impossibly knows everything," Katerina said, which made Clara smile. "Is there anything else?"

Clara shook her head. "No. I guess I'll see you when I do." She quickly leaned over before Katerina could protest and gave her a hug. With a sigh, she awkwardly patted Clara's back before pushing the woman off of her. "Baby steps, Clara."

"Right," she said. "Bye!" Clara waved, and was gone from the TARDIS.

"Girl time over?" the Doctor asked as he came back to the console room, his fingers in his ears.

"Yes, and wash your hands before you touch me," Katerina said.

"Oh, right!" the Doctor said, and reached into a pocket in his jacket, walking towards Katerina.

"What are you doing?" She asked him.

He pulled his hand out, and dropped something, but it didn't fall to the ground. It was a necklace, and the Doctor was holding it by it's chain. It was the red heart necklace that Katerina had noticed looked exactly like one her grandmother had.

"For you," He said, holding it out towards her.

"Where'd you get it from?" She asked, tears building up as she looked at it. It wasn't really her grandmother's, but it was the closest she was getting.

"From the market in Akhaten. It was the one-" He started, but Katerina cut him off.

"I know where you got it from," She said. "I meant, what thing sentimental did you trade it for? You said you didn't have anything but your wand thing."

"Sonic screwdriver," the Doctor couldn't help but correct. "And I didn't get it for you. "Someone at the market noticed you admiring it and after you left, bought it for you, then gave to me to give to you."

"Who?" She asked.

The Doctor shrugged. "Didn't know her. She just slipped it into my hand, saying that 'The girl deserves it'."

Katerina smiled, and as she reached towards it with her right hand, noticed that her ring began to glow.

"Why is it doing that?" Katerina asks, forgetting about the necklace and studying her hand.

"You're about to jump again," the Doctor said, lowering his hand.

"Jump? What does that mean?" She wondered.

"It means-" the Doctor started, but he stopped when he noticed the glowing starting to crawling down Katerina's legs and around her body. "Never mind what it means! I just need you to promise to trust me."

"How can I trust a man that I just met?" She questioned.

"You just have to!" the Doctor said. Katerina was now squinting through the brightness to try and focus on the Doctor's face. "Be care-"

But Katerina didn't hear him finish his sentence as she was struck with a violent pain that started in her lower abdomen that quickly moved throughout her body, and all she could see was brightness.


The first thing Katerina saw was two figures standing in front of something. The brightness completely disappeared when she landed on her feet, but her head was throbbing again, and she still wasn't used to the force of the jumps. The pain of what felt like someone poking needles into her brain and jelly legs combined is what sent Katerina falling for the floor.

"Oh, this better stop soon," She grumbled to herself as she clutched the sides of her head. She remembered this happening the first time she landed in the TARDIS, but the time she had the pain in her head was a bit shorter. It ended quick enough, though, and Katerina was able to focus on the two figures who had turned around to face her.

Katerina pushed herself up so that she was in a sitting position as she studied the faces. There was a man and a woman. The woman was shorter than the man, with blonde hair and blue eyes with a heart shaped face, and the man was tall, with brown hair, brown eyes, and a pinstriped suit, one that Katerina distinctly remembered.

The memory finally came back to her. These two people were frequents on her wall of pictures, the man more than the woman.

"Katerina! How nice of you to drop by," The man said.

Now who are these people? Katerina thought to herself, letting out an exasperated breath.


TBC...

Sorry this part came so late. I wrote up a bunch of the episode a couple days ago, but then my laptop battery died, and even though I saved it all, it had disappeared! So I had to rework all of it. But it's finished! So here it is.

I want to see who can guess which Doctor it is, which companion, and which episode it is. The Doctor and Companion are fairly obvious, though.

Oh, and I know that Katerina did a lot of the things that Clara did in the original episode, but I made her more of the prominent character because Katerina has been an older sibling longer than Clara's been a nanny, and I think that Katerina would have connected better with Merry, which I think she did. Don't worry, next episode, she is standing on her own. Oh,and don't expect her to like travelling with the Doctor any time soon. She might enjoy it from time to time, but she'll never truly love it because she isn't there willingly. Well, at least at first.

Katerina's outfit is staying the same for this episode and the next, because she came halfway through this adventure, but still, her outfits shall be on Polyvore!

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