Fourth chapter, Yey! This is chapter is another important piece of the jigsaw that is the overall plot and the reason why I described this story as very timey wimey. Again I do not have the privilege of owning doctor who because if I did Martha would have been treated better by the Doctor and had more epic scenes, oc is mine though.

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Last time:

Scrunching up my eyes I tried to wait for the pain to die down.

Instead the floor disappeared from under me.

I was falling….

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*Thump*

"Gravity sure has been against me a lot recently." I thought sourly.

"Ow…."was my actual voiced response.

My body still seemed to be a bit achy but other than that my headache had all but gone and the burning sensation had completely vanished.

"What was that? Was the TARDIS attacked? Was the doctor okay? I thought we were stabilized…"

The sound of rushed footsteps getting louder had me turning my head to the left cutting off my previous thoughts.

Turning my neck to the side I saw red converses coming closer to me before eventually pulling to a stop at my side.

Looking up I was met with a face.

A very familiar concerned looking face.

"Arghhhhhhh!" I yelled throwing myself backwards into a roll before quickly sitting up.

It seemed my scream also surprised the man for he let out a much shorter surprised "Argh!" taking a step backwards.

For a moment I just stared at him in shock. My gaze starting on the red converses before moving up to the blue pants, black shirt and purplish tie under a matching blue blazer to that of the pants. Most of which was covered by his long brown coat.

"Impossible!" I thought as my eyes locked with partly shocked partly confused brown eyes.

"Y-your-your face!" I exclaimed breaking the staring match to point dramatically at his head.

"Wha…?" he started confused, clearly not expecting me to say that. "What about it?"

When I didn't reply and just gaped some more he subconsciously touched his cheek and rubbed it a little. "What is there something on it?" he asked.

Blinking a little and shaking my head no I repeated, "What happened to your face!?"

There was a snort from somewhere over my shoulder which I chose to ignore for now to focussed on staring.

The Doctor now wore a partly offended expression and exclaimed, "Hey!" before ranting, "It's not my fault I'm a brunette no need to be so rude just because your ginger." He seemed to puff out a little.

I blinked stupidly at his retort my thoughts faltering as I automatically corrected him "Strawberry blond."

The Doctor seemed to smirk at that but I was far too distracted by what this meant.

"How could this happen? Did we really crash?" I thought to myself.

Reaching out I poked him in the cheek as if to make sure what I was seeing was real before saying "Did we crash is that it? How could this happen? We crashed and now you…. you… How can this happen?!"

The Doctor's eyebrows knitted together his face becoming even more confused and slightly concerned.

"Crash. Crash? What happened? What are you going on about?" he asked.

With a sigh I waved my open hand out in his direction up and down, "You! Duh! You regenerated!"

He looked quite perplexed as I continued, "You're not supposed to regenerate yet! How can you just skip a full regeneration? This is your fault for tricking me into thinking the Tardis was safe. Now this has happened!

It's. Not. Supposed. To. Happen." I kneeled up and prodded him in the chest on the last five words.

"Is she alright?" I heard a voice over my shoulder ask.

The Doctor's face was now concerned as he said, "I think she must have hit her head pretty hard when she arrived."

I didn't like the look he was giving me or the fact he was talking like I wasn't here.

"You're the one who hit your head! I'm not the one who regenerated!" I said going to stand up.

"I didn't hit my head" he protested but lunged forward to grab me as I wobbled on my legs.

"That's it take it easy, here sit." He said as he led me over to a chair.

Funny how easily the roles were switched.

The Doctor was now looming over me and waving his sonic screwdriver in my direction as he seemed to inspect my head.

"Hey Martian!" someone snapped at him knocking his hand away from me.

The two then proceeded to quarrel but I tuned them out in favour of muttering to myself.

Letting out a groan I complained, "Now the universe is going to explode or something."

There was a pause in which I realised it had gone quiet again and I looked up to see a partially serious, partially confused look on the Doctor's face.

"Wait. Sorry, what?" he questioned.

"Because this isn't supposed to happen!"

The second voice that wasn't the Doctors broke in with, "You keep saying that but why?"

I didn't really listen as I wallowed in my sorrow. I must have done something to muck everything up.

"Now the time lines are all different because YOU (I pointed at the Doctor) decided to crash the ship and regenerate early." I proclaimed then muttered "Dying early, stupid selfish space man…"

It seemed he still heard as there was a bemused smile on his face and I noticed he seemed a lot more relaxed, the tension that had built up when I mentioned the universe exploding seeming to have disappeared.

Putting his hands on both my shoulders he said, "Rachael calm down…"

I looked at him surprisingly doing exactly that.

"I'm a Time Lord Rachael. Trust me when I say I think I would know if the time lines had been majorly altered." He said.

I went to interrupt but faltered at the logic he had presented. But still I was unsure because if this was true then how…?

He seemed to know I wasn't quite relaxed as he continued, "I think you've just hit your head a bit hard when you arrived here. Stop worrying the universe is not going to end and both I and Donna can assure you that I haven't crashed the TARDIS…well not in a long while anyways…"

"With your driving skills that's hardly a surprise…"

"Donna!" the Doctor complained turning away from me to look at the fiery ginger.

I was just mulling over what the Doctor had said, starting to relax when my head snapped round to where the Doctor was looking.

"Donna!"

"But the doctor didn't start traveling with her till much later on. But how…? I was just with his ninth self and now… He knew my name… I never told the Doctor my name before…and I guess it would explain how he's suddenly regenerated….But how is that possible…how could I have gone from the TARDIS with the ninth Doctor, to the future with the tenth….Then again how was it possible to jump universes in your sleep…"

I was just mulling this over when I heard someone saying my name and looked up to see both the Doctor and Donna hovering over me with matching looks of concern.

"You okay there? The sonic said all the usual readings so your fine but you were kind of zoning out there…" the Doctor said fiddling with his sonic as if looking for something faulty with it.

"Yeah…yeah..." I replied more firmly, "Guess I just banged my head…don't worry about it…."

He didn't look convinced but after a short assessing pause he stepped back.

"Wait, so was it you who sent the Doctor that message?" Donna asked me.

I shot her a confused look. So did the Doctor until he seemed to remember something.

"Oh look at me Oh! I'm thick! Look at me, I'm old and thick! Head's too full of stuff, I need a bigger head!" he exclaimed out loud. "Got distracted, to distracted by your arrival that everything else was filtered out. How stupid!"

As the Doctor was ranting I started looking around, there was something about this place that was so familiar. There wasn't much to see as the room wasn't that bright. Even now I noticed one of the lights flickering on and off down some sort of corridor.

Donna seemed to have noticed it to as she commented "Power must be going out."

"This place runs on fission cells. They'll out burn the sun." he shot back and I could feel the confused expression settle on my face.

"Then why is it dark?" Donna asked mirroring my thoughts.

Then of course the Doctor had to go and be all ominous and creepy.

"It's not dark." He stated

Apparently it was my turn to be lost in the conversation now.

"Remember when we first arrived, when we spotted that shadow and I asked you what was casting it?" he continued.

Donna nodded.

"Then we heard a noise, her arriving." He nodded in my direction at this point. "And we investigated."

"And your point is?" Donna said clearly getting impatient.

"Look back to where we just were…" was the Doctor's simple answer.

Donna turned to where (I guess) they had just been. I followed her gaze but didn't see the big deal as nothing was there.

"That shadow. It's gone." Donna said still staring at where they had been.

"We need to get back to the TARDIS. That includes you to Rachael" The Doctor said sounding dire and sparing me a glance.

Finally getting sick of not understanding what they were on about I decided to speak up, "Why?"

The Doctor was now looking at me fully with both me and Donna staring at him.

"Because that shadow hasn't gone. It's moved." He stated grimly.

"Wait. What? A moving shadow? And apparently I was making no sense. The cheek!"

Before I could argue this thought a third unfamiliar voice spoke up from behind me.

"Reminder: The library has been breached. Others are coming. Reminder: The library has been breached. Others are coming. Reminder: The library has been breached…."

I was about to look to see who the hell it was and where they came from when a set of double doors in front of us flung open and I was to shocked to bother with the voice. I had to cover my eyes as light streamed in but as I squinted through my fingers I could vaguely make out six figures.

Six figures in space suits.

A vice cold hand gripped my stomach as the pieces started to fall into place.

"Oh no."

What looked to be the leader of the group adjusted something on the side of their helmet and we could now see her face.

It was River Song.

I may not understand how I got here but I now understood where I was and what it meant…

I was still in the Library just not the Tardis's…

River's next words sealed the deal and I felt my chest tighten, her words sounding strangely like a warning of what was to come….

"Hello Sweetie…"

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Okay that's chapter four done with. Okay I know it's short but it's more of an opening to the Silence in library/Forest of the dead episodes. Also don't worry nine will be back as well as more ten and eleven. I did warn you it would be a timey wimey fanfic. Basically from now on she'll be jumping time streams, meeting the doctor in every order possible and generally spending all her time trying to figure out what's going whilst trying to do her best by everyone. So thanks for reading, post soon.