"Crap, crap, crap!" I did a little awkward dance as I waved my arms around, trying to get rid of the burning from the vortex manipulator. I didn't even bother to look around as I jumped up and down.

I only stopped once the burning was gone and I had banged my elbow against a wall. Only then did I bother to look around.

I was in a dark alleyway and a stench was emitting from some abandoned cardboard boxes sitting around. I lifted the sleeve of my hoodie to my nose, trying to block out the smell.

"God, that stinks worse than-" I didn't even get to finish that sentence as I spotted something that almost made me stop breathing.

A blue police box. Something that I had only seen on t.v. and hoped to see in my dreams.

My dreams. Oh my god.

The man in my dreams was the Doctor. How could I not notice that! The man with the different faces and the constant companions. I am such an idiot! I watched Doctor Who every day and I claimed to be obsessed, yet I didn't notice.

And the world I dreamed of, the red grass and the silver leaves, it was Gallifrey. I was dreaming of the time war. I saw time lords die and now actually knowing what I was dreaming about, it made my dreams a million times worse.

I had always shrugged it off as nonsense.

I freakin' shrugged off the deaths of hundreds of people. Of innocent children screaming as Daleks killed them off, one by one.

"How could you!?" I asked myself over and over again. "How could you!" I didn't deserve this. "How could you!" I sank to my knees and kept accusing myself. Each time, I raised my voice a little more. I didn't deserve to be here. There was a chance that all this was real and I would be able to meet the Doctor and I didn't deserve it.

I pressed my hand to my mouth as a sob escaped my lips.

After a while of pointlessly bawling my eyes out, I finally found the energy to get up.

Cautiously approaching the tardis, I reached my hand out to touch it and let out relieved breath as it seemed to make a humming noise as my fingers came into contact with the blue box.

It was real, I wasn't dreaming.

I dragged my hand toward the door handle and prepared to pull it open but not before I took a deep breath and wiped away my remaining tears.

This was it, what I had been waiting for. A chance to travel with the Doctor.

I eagerly pushed through the door and my mouth fell open at what lay in front of me.

Oh, she was gorgeous. A hum came from the walls and scared the hell out of me.

"You're really alive, aren't you old girl?" I let out a surprised laugh.

Another warm hum sounded.

I was overflowing with excitement, barely containing all the energy I suddenly found myself with.

I let out a shriek of surprise as all the lights turned off.

"Um, hey. Could you please turn them back on?" I pleaded. I wasn't a big fan of the dark and I was currently a bit nervous.

I gave a small jolt as the lights suddenly turned on in one of the closest corridors I had overlooked earlier.

Should I follow it?

Curiosity got the best of me and I hurried toward it, walking past all the dark doors and to the one door that was lit up.

"I'm not intruding, am I?" My question was directed toward the ceiling and I immediately relaxed as the door opened by itself.

"Your killing me, you know that?" My question fell on empty ears as I walked into the room.

Why was I in here? No, screw that. I didn't really care.

I was in the wardrobe and I was itching to go through the clothes.

The tardis seemed to sense my impatience and urged me on with a warm hum.

"Since you insist." The words barely left my mouth as I raced off to one of the racks that were filled with clothes that looked about my size.

I was to busy digging around the clothes to hear the amused hum that emitted from the walls.


What felt like hours later, even though I knew that ten minutes had barely passed, I found clothes that suited my tastes.

I had ditched my oversized hoodie, my really comfortable sweatpants, and my converse for clothes that felt more like me.

I was wearing dark skinny jeans, a ardis blue plaid shirt that made my grey eyes seem a bit darker, black combat boots and a jean jacket. A leather looking

belt with lots of compartments was placed loosely on my hips.

As I changed I remembered the vm on my wrist and quickly ripped it off, scared I might disappear again.

"Don't want to go through that again anytime soon." I shoved the vm into one of the compartments in my belt quickly. I really like it here and I had barely been here a few minutes and I hadn't even met the Doctor yet. I could only imagine when I did.

"You and me are going to get along really well." I softly patted the closest wall of the tardis before heading out the wardrobe and toward the console room. On the way there, I grasped the fob watch around my neck when it slipped out from under my shirt.

I had forgotten about it.

I found it when I was cleaning out my stuff to move to London but what really intrigued me were the Gallifreyan symbols on the top clasp. Maybe there was a fellow whovian in this house before me.

I didn't even bother to open it. I didn't think I would be able to handle it if nothing happened when I opened it. It was better if it remained close. It made it special, it wasn't just Doctor Who merchandise to me.

"Now, to find him." Walking out of the tardis after I slipped it back under my shirt and patted the wall again. "I'll be back, I won't let him get away that easily." A sad hum from her made a small smile appear on my face. "I got this far, I won't give up. I promise."

With one last look at the old girl I disappeared around the corner of the alleyway, loosing sight of the tardis.

I wasn't joking when I said I was going to do anything possible to make him take me along.

Although I actually wanted him to ask me to be his companion because he wanted me to come along not because I threatened him. He didn't deserve that but

I had also made the mistake of promising the tardis that I would be back.

I'll figure it out when the moment comes.


I had no idea where I was going.

It did take me a while to admit it to myself though and that just happened because I had crashed into the same man about three times now. Each time I bumped into him, a cold gaze followed me as I hurried to get away.

Talk about creepy.

I let out a relieved sigh as I wandered onto a unfamiliar street, finally managing to escape the creepy guy.

After walking straight for a while, I noticed a very familiar man in a leather jacket leaning over a brick wall while he was balanced on a trashcan.

I almost let out a fan girl scream when I saw his ears. God, they were hilarious.

It was the one and only Doctor, currently in his ninth regeneration as I could tell from the leather jacket and the ears.

A stupid grin spread across my face. It was him.

I was like three seconds away from hyperventilating. Deep breaths Bay.

You wont be able to travel with him if you die from lack of oxygen.

That thought snapped me out of my faze.

Okay act cool.

Screw that.

I carefully climbed onto the wooden crate that was beside the trashcan the Doctor was on, making sure I didn't make a sound.

"Ooh, cool! Who we spying on?" I excitedly asked.

He cast a glance in my direction before he placed a finger on his lips shushing me and turning back to the sight in front of him.

"Oops! Right, sorry." I whispered, turning to look at what had captured his attention.

Trying to look around, I completely missed the snap of his neck as he turned to look at me again, as it finally registered in his mind that he wasn't alone.

His brows furrowed in confusion as he saw what I was wearing. Not really clothes that fit in this time period.

"What are you doing?" He asked me as I gracefully lifted myself up and over the brick wall as soon as I saw the girl enter the house. I think her name was Nancy.

"Isn't it obvious?" I smiled as the confused look never left his face. Maybe I could intrigue him enough where he would think I'm interesting."Fulfilling my curiosity. You coming?"

My smile turned into a grin as I saw him struggling to get over the wall.

"Well come on. We don't have all day." I took his hand as soon as he got over the wall and basically dragged him toward the house.

God, he was really quiet.

"What's your name then?" I almost let out a relieved sigh when he finally spoke.

"Ah, ah!" I wagged my finger inches from his face as I pulled him to a stop, smiling at the annoyed look that crossed his face before I continued. "That's not how it works. You introduce yourself, then and only then, do you ask for my name. Otherwise, it's considered rude." I continued to pull him toward the house again.

"Fine, I'm the Doctor. Now, who are you?"

I didn't answer him because we were already inside. My eyes widened a little when I noticed that I still hadn't let go of the Doctor's hand.

I softly cleared my throat before quietly dragging the Doctor to a chair at the table where Nancy was placing food on plates for some of the kids there.

I wanted to laugh as no one noticed us sit down and grab a plate.

I could feel the Doctor's gaze on me as I drummed the beat of a song on my thighs. I hadn't answered him earlier when he asked who I was. I was kind of having fun. Good thing he didn't seem that tense around me though. I would have thought he would be sending glares but he just looked really curious.

My mouth almost watered as I smelled the food on the table. I was starving, I didn't even get my bag of chips at the airport and by the time the food got close to us, I basically pounced onto the Doctor when I saw him holding the plate of meat.

"Thanks miss." He got a couple of pieces and placed it on his plate.

"Yeah, what he said." I absently minded said as I got my fork and dug into the food he had placed on his plate, too hungry to even bother to get my own.

The Doctor shot me an annoyed look as he tried to take his food back and I barely even noticed the kids gasp.

"It's all right. Everybody stay where you are!" Nancy reassured the kids and they slowly sat back down.

I let out a hiss as the Doctor swatted my hand away from his plate for the tenth time.

"Good here, innit? Who's got the salt?"

"Yeah and another plate since this idiot won't share." I cast a glare at the Doctor. I had been waiting most of my life to travel with him but if he was going to get in between me and food then I wasn't sure this was how I wanted to live.

I gave a wink to a boy about thirteen years old as he passed me a plate with food and smiled as a bit of pink dusted his cheeks. Grabbing a fork, I basically shoved the food into my mouth, trying to calm my hunger.

"You're American." I looked up from my food, my cheeks puffed out from all the food stuffed in my mouth, as Nancy and the Doctor spoke simultaneously.

After swallowing my food, I tilted my head sideways. "Well my accent is."

The Doctor seemed to store this piece of knowledge for later as he turned back to Nancy.

"So, you lot, what's the story?"

"What do you mean?" It was the same boy who blushed when I thanked him. I think his name was Ernie.

"You're homeless, right? Living rough?" The Doctor asked. I decided to keep out of the conversation and started to make weird faces at the smaller kids as I saw how nervous they were. Giggles erupted from a few small kids and smiles from the older ones as I crossed my eyes and stuck my tongue out while I pulled on my ears.

I was about ready to dance around when I saw the Doctor throw me a genuine smile before he looked at a kid as they spoke.

"Why do you want to know that? Are you a copper?"

"Of course I'm not a copper. What's a copper going to do with you lot anyways? Arrest you for starving? I make it 1941. You lot shouldn't even be in London. You should've been evacuated to the country by now." I nodded along to what the Doctor had said and stabbed some more meat and shoved it into my mouth. I didn't care about manners at this point, well other than the part where I chewed with my mouth closed because I didn't want anybody to see that. Gross.

"I was evacuated. Sent me to a farm." A boy said.

"So why'd you come back?" I asked in between bites.

"There was a man there." I nodded. Figures.

"Yeah, same with Ernie. Two homes ago." Another boy commented.

"Shut up. It's better on the streets anyway. It's better food." Ernie defended.

"You got that right! This is great." I placed more food on my plate and ignored the glare Nancy sent my way. They weren't going to finish anyways since that scary little kid in the gas mask was going to show up pretty soon.

"Yeah. Nancy always gets the best food for us." A boy agreed.

"So, that's what you do, is it, Nancy?" The Doctor questioned.

"What is?"

"As soon as the sirens go, you find a big fat family meal still warm on the table with everyone down in the air raid shelter and bingo! Feeding frenzy for the homeless kids of London Town. Puddings for all, as long as the bombs don't get you."

"Something wrong with that?" Nancy seemed offended.

"Don't listen to him. It's brilliant." I assured her.

Nancy gave me a small nod before directing her question at the Doctor. "Why'd you follow me? What do you want? And who are you?" The last part she directed at me.

"I want to know how a phone that isn't a phone gets a phone call. You seem to be the one to ask. And about her, I don't know. She didn't even tell me."

Everyone looked at me at once. Creepy.

"It's Bay." I told them as I ate more meat.

"What?" Nancy asked.

"My name. It's Bay."

She didn't say anything but instead turned back to the Doctor. "I did you a favor. I told you not to answer it, that's all I'm telling you."

She got up and walked toward us as the Doctor opened his mouth again. "Great, thanks. And I want to find a blonde in a Union Jack. I mean a specific one. I didn't just wake up this morning with a craving. Anybody seen a girl like that? Also, I'm looking for this girl's parents." At the last part, he pointed at me.

My parents. Why did he have to bring them up?

I sent him a glare. "I don't need something as silly as parents. I'm eighteen not thirteen and they were never there for me, so what would the point be? I can make my own freakin' decisions."

The Doctor sent me a strange look before looking at Nancy as she took his plate away and basically ripped mine from my tight hold.

"What have I done wrong?" He asked confused.

"Screw him. Just give me back my plate!" I lunched forward but Nancy just moved it away.

"You took two slices and you," She glared at me. "Basically ate the whole dinner!" She turned back to the Doctor. "No blondes, no flags. Something else before you leave? Before you both leave?" Another glare was shot my way.

Rude.

"Yeah, there is actually. Thanks for asking. Something I've been looking for. Would've fallen from the sky about a month ago, but not a bomb. Not the usual kind, anyway. Wouldn't have exploded. Probably would have just buried itself in the ground somewhere, and it would have looked something like this." He held up a poorly drawn picture and I barely manage to stifle my laugh as he sent me a glare.

I was getting a lot of glares.

A knock sounded from the door, making everybody jump except me. I knew what was going to happen and I was still hungry so I was thinking of ways to get my plate back from the other side of the table, where Nancy had placed it earlier.

"Mummy? Are you in there, mummy?" A really creepy sounding child asked from the other side of the door.

The Doctor looked out the window and I caught a glimpse of the boy in the gas mask. This was so much creepier than it was on t.v. and that's saying something because I watched the episode alone at three in the morning with all my lights off.

"Mummy?"

"Who was the last one in?" The words left Nancy's mouth in a hurry.

Ernie immediately responded by pointing at a boy. "Him."

"No, I saw him come in from the back." I piped in before I tensed a bit as everyone stared at me.

"It was me." A boy timidly said.

"Did you close the door?"

"Er."

"Did you close the door?" Nancy basically demanded.

"Mummy? Mummy? Mummy?"

Nancy dashed toward the front door and shoved it close as the boy in the gas mask was about to come in. Jamie. Wasn't that his name?

I barely heard what the Doctor and Nancy said after that because I had gotten up from my spot and grabbed my plate of food. I fist bumped the air and did a little dance in a circle before shoving more food into my mouth.

I stopped as I felt the kids watching me with a look of disbelief. With the fork in between my lips, the words left my mouth with a struggle. "What? Nothing gets in between me and food. Nothing. Not even a creepy kid in a gas mask."

Nancy rushed back into the living room shouting orders. "Right, everybody out. Across the back garden and under the fence. Now! Go! Move!"

All the kids quickly grabbed their coats and ran out of the house.

I left Nancy talking to a little girl as I went to the front door where the Doctor was talking to Jamie.

I saw Jamie's hand come in through the mail slot and I took a small step back before getting another mouthful of food.

"Are you all right?"

"Please let me in." Jamie barely finished saying those words as Nancy appeared and threw what I think was a vase at him.

I threw her a glare at her but she completely ignored me. "You mustn't let him touch you!"

"What happens if he touches me?" The Doctor asked.

"He'll make you like him."

"And what's he like?"

"I've got to go."

"Nancy, what's he like?"

She opened her mouth to answer but I beat her to it. "He's empty, Doctor."

The telephone rings suddenly, scaring the heck out of me and making my plate slip from my grasp because of the scare.

I can hear them talking but I ignore them as I pout at the wasted food scattered across the floor. I shrug, at least I got my fill. By the time I bother to pay attention to anything around me, Nancy is gone and the Doctor is opening the door.

I tense but immediately relax when I see the boy is gone.

Then a thought hit me, I was here, being extremely creeped out by the kid in the gas mask meanwhile Rose and Jack were getting really comfortable on his spaceship. It wasn't fair.


"Are you really eighteen?"

The Doctor and I had been following Nancy and I could tell the whole way there that he was dying to ask me more questions.

I slowly nodded. "Yeah. I know I don't look like it though. I'm really short and I have the 'privilege' of a young face." I made quotation marks with my fingers before shushing him and standing about a foot away from Nancy as she put the food away.

Whenever people found out what age I was, they were surprised and always commented on how it was a privilege to have a young face but I hated it. No one ever took me seriously because I looked like a kid trying to tell them off.

Nancy stood up from her crouched position and spotted the Doctor and me with smiles on our faces.

"How'd you follow me here?"

"I'm good at following, me. Got the nose for it."

"I'm just here because he basically dragged me here." I pointed at the Doctor. It was true, he seemed keen on not letting me out of his sight.

"People can't usually follow me if I don't want them to."

"My nose has special powers." He defended.

I tried to conceal my smile as I herd what Nancy said next. "Yeah? That's why its-" She stopped as my loud laugh interrupted her.

"Sorry." I apologized. "Couldn't hold it in any longer."

The Doctor and Nancy ignored me and continued talking as I sat down on the ground, holding my stomach.

I let out a soft groan as I rubbed my stomach. I ate way too much and the laugh right now, didn't help one bit.

I rapidly bolted up from my sitting position as I noticed how quiet it got. Those bastards! They left me here alone.

The Doctor was in for a good smack when I find him again.


I saw Nancy again but she didn't even talk to me, just pointed toward the hospital.

I gave a her a nod of thanks and raced off toward it.


After what felt like hours of running around the halls of the hospital, I spotted the Doctor, Rose and Jack at the end of one of the halls. They were in a room

filled with the people with gas masks. Thankfully, they weren't going to be moving anytime soon.

A wide grin broke across my face before being replaced by a pissed off look. He left me!

I ran toward them, not making a single noise on the tile floor.

The Doctor let out a surprised grunt as I jumped onto his back, wrapping my legs around his waist, which thanks to my short nature, wasn't very hard to do.

A yelp of pain came from him and looks of shock were on Rose's and Jack's face as I smacked the back of the Doctor's head with the palm of my hand.

"You idiot! You left me!" I accused him as i continued to hit him.

Since I was hanging off his back, I didn't notice the relieved look that crossed his face when he heard my voice.

The Doctor finally got me off his back and pinned me to the wall in an effort to stop me from hitting him.

"You're alright." He let out a breath as he said this.

"Of course I'm alright! I'm that badass." I stated. He was acting a little too relieved that I was okay for someone he met about an hour ago and it was starting to worry me. He shouldn't be this attached to someone he only met.

"You okay?" I asked him worriedly, ignoring Rose and Jack looking at us, seeing as the Doctor still had me pinned against the wall.

"Yeah." He gave a small nod before he got a confused look and slowly let me go. His cheeks tinted pink when he finally noticed what little space was between us.

He quickly moved back and without looking at me he said something that made my heart almost stop. "I'm glad your alright."

Those words could mean anything but being the fan girl I was, I let myself imagine that they meant more than they probably did.

"Yeah." I gave a small nod and cleared my throat before turning toward Jack and Rose and giving them a wide grin.

"Hi, names Bay." I sent them a wink and was rewarded by Jack's flirty smile.

"Jack Harkness."

Only he could use his name as a pick up line. I let out a small laugh and nod before I gave the Doctor my best smile. I was too happy over the fact that I was actually seeing them in real life that I completely missed Rose's glare and the Doctor's frown when he saw her gesture.

I squeaked when the people on the bed suddenly sat up, too worried to pay any attention when the Doctor slightly pushed me behind him.

"Mummy. Mummy. Mummy? Mummy?"

"What's happening?" Rose asked, freaked out.

"I don't know." The Doctor answered her.

"I can tell you it's not something good." I spoke from behind the Doctor and shot everybody the most innocent look I could muster when they gave me a 'Are you serious?' look.

I immediately tensed up and grabbed the Doctor's hand as the patients stood up.

"Mummy."

"Don't let them touch you." He told us.

"What happens if they touch us?" Rose asked.

"You're looking at it." I said under my breath, tugging the Doctor back as they approached us.

"Jack, Rose. What you waiting for? Come one." I said after they didn't move. I chose to ignore the glare Rose sent my way. I had barely met her and she didn't like me, this was hurting my ego. I wanted her to like me, she was the first companion after the time war.

"Help me, mummy."

"Crap. If I don't survive this, so help me Doctor, I will haunt you down in our next lives." I didn't miss the slight quirk of his lips as he tried to hide his smile.

"Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy."

A/N- Please comment on this story! I need to know if you guys like it so far or if i should just go into a corner and stop writing. I would appreciate constructive criticism so don't hold back please. Other than that, i hope you like it!:)