AN: Sorry for the delay, this has been sitting on my harddrive for ages, but I couldn't get past a very out of character line from the Doctor in the first segment. Eventually I just cut the entire chunk of conversation, the story works just as well without it. Not much really to say about this one other than it's longer than the others.

As the class ended the Doctor peered into his bag where he had his Timey Wimey detector, the lights on the side indicated that there had been a large spike in the background readings of arton energy since he'd last checked on it, but this was more in keeping with the activity of a temporal rift similar to the one in Cardiff but on a far smaller scale, as opposed to the end of the universe. He heard a very deliberate sounding cough and looked up to find the enthusiastic girl from earlier standing in front of his desk staring at him intently.

"Can I help you...Haruhi wasn't it?" The girl gave a slight smile at the Doctor's accidental informal use of her first name.

"You can drop the act now. No-one in this class is interesting enough to ever consider eavesdropping."

"I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about." The girl gave a short laugh,

"You mean to tell me that there's another John Smith walking around this school in a blue jacket talking about aliens?"

The Doctor had up until this point been speaking on autopilot, his mind considering the possibilities of a miniature rift, but this statement dragged his mind back into the conversation with a lurch. He gave Haruhi a long quizzical look before deciding that he had definitely not met her before. On the other hand she did seem to know him. Realization struck him with all the force of a large truck: he'd managed to cross his own timeline again. As if this situation wasn't complicated enough.

"I don't suppose you have any intention of becoming English and changing your name to River Song do you?" The girl looked at him with a look of intense puzzlement on her face, she still looked unbelievably excited though and the two expressions combined to make her look rather psychotic.

"Why? Should I?"

That had far been too much to hope for, but now it meant that there were two mysterious human females who were making cryptic comments about meeting him in their past and his future. He would've asked her what had happened, she didn't seem to have River's obsession with Spoilers, but given how close to the unexpected end of the universe he was he didn't want to make the situation worse by setting up a paradox. The girl seemed to be taking the Doctor's thoughtful silence as an answer so she continued her face falling,

"You genuinely don't know who I am, do you?"

"Sorry, afraid not." Haruhi stared at him intently before saying,

"Actually, now that I think about it. You do look a lot older than you did three years ago. Maybe the guy I met three years ago was actually a seer, I must remember to add seers to the list of people we should meet, who was hinting at me to come to North High and talk to John Smith when he finally turned up! And now the time has come for me to fulfil the great and glorious destiny that he foresaw for me. So, Real John Smith, what are you? Alien? Time traveller? ESPer? Slider? No wait, Fake John Smith said that he doesn't know any of them. So just Alien, Time Traveller or ESPer then? Or maybe all three?" She trailed off, less due running out of things to say and more because most of her impromptu speech had been given in a single breath.

The Doctor stared at this hyperactive young girl who was so desperate for him to be exactly what he was, that for a second he considered telling her the truth. But then he remembered. His song was ending. He knew he liked to start his new bodies with a new outfit and given that Haruhi was claiming to have met a younger looking version of himself wearing the very jacket he was currently wearing, it would be soon. There was no way he was risking the lives of the people who had faith in him ever again. Not after what happened to Donna. And Astrid. And Martha. So instead he forced his mouth into a grin, and said with as much false cheerfulness as he could muster,

"Just a normal human I'm afraid." The girl laughed, a genuine one this time,

"There's no way I'm believing that. But fine, have your secrets. I never expected it to be as easy as an alien announcing himself at the start of class anyway, that's far less fun. We'll find it out the truth through good old fashioned investigation Dr John Smith." And with that ominous announcement she left the classroom smiling happily. Despite himself the Doctor found himself quite looking forward to seeing her try.

I only needed to duck my head into the doors of Asahina and Nagato's classrooms to signal to them that I was calling an impromptu SOS Brigade meeting. Koizumi on the other hand was not in his classroom and I searched several other areas of the school before giving up and fuming, headed back to the clubroom. I arrived to find him already there and before I could open my mouth to explain the problem he blurted out,

"Suzumiya's emotional state has been fluctuating wildly for the past hour, what did you do?" Actually for once it wasn't me.

I proceeded to explain the events of the morning in a rushed manner, as we could not be certain how much time we had before Haruhi returned.

"I concur with your suggestion that someone has finally decided to make an attempt to break the stalemate which we have found ourselves in for the past ten months. I know that there are factions within my own organisation that are less than happy with the static state that situation has been in since Haruhi founded the SOS Brigade. Ryoko Asakura threatened that there were similar factions within the Integrated Data Entity who would wish to bring about a change and we have been contacted by a group claiming to be from Asahina's time and that there interests better match our own than the group we have been previously dealing with."

"Wha? Classified Information has attempted to make contact with you?"

While I was appalled at the idea that Koizumi's organisation could ever be considering abandoning the group that had sent us the angel that is Asahina, my attention was drawn by Nagato who had an even more glazed look than normal in her eyes, an expression that I had finally managed to deduce meant that she was doing something involving data.

"There are no other artificial humanoid entities using IDE data channels operating within the vicinity of this school at the present moment. This does not rule out the possibility that Dr Smith is an agent of the Sky Canopy Domain. I am also registering the existence of two unusual data sources within the area. One of these conforms to the description of Dr Smith that we have just received, the other is...troublesome."

The general message I took from this cornucopia of pointlessly fancy words was that neither of these three were responsible for Dr Smith's unwelcome intrusion into my already chaotic life and that further more they didn't know who was behind it either. Furthermore the presence of something that Nagato would describe as "troublesome" was enough to cause me great worry. I was about to ask for more information or this troublesome data source when the door burst open and Haruhi burst in, her meeting with Dr Smith evidently having taken far less time than I had expected. From the determined grin plastered over her face he had at least not confirmed Haruhi's suspicions about him, but on the other hand he completely failed to do anything to cause them to decrease.

"Is he an alien?"

"Of course he is! Though he's trying to hide it." She walked over to the desk by the computer and rooted around for something before triumphantly pulling out what I recognised with a sense of growing dread as her "Ultra-Detective" armband.

"Why do you suspect him?" asked Koizumi in a doomed attempt to get Haruhi to see logic and reason. Doomed because for once, her claims about supernatural beings were actually based upon logical premises. Oh Koizumi, why pick this particular crisis to attempt to stop Haruhi with sensible arguments. I was expecting Haruhi to wave off the question but instead she seemed to decide that the time was right to tell the four of us her most precious and guarded memory. It actually made me feel guilty that the four of us knew this story already. Of course this was before I found out how badly her deranged mind had mangled the events of three years ago.

The Doctor stalked through the corridors of North High, his timey wimey detector held outstretched in his hand, he attracted a variety of weird looks from the staff and students he passed. Something in this school was definitely causing a high background reading of arton radiation and in the absence of any other clues he had decided to track it down by the highly scientific method of holding the timey wimey detector in the air and walking in the direction that made it "ding" the most, while being careful to avoid the school's kitchens where there was God knows how many raw eggs that could be accidentally boiled.

His progress was leading him slowly towards what his brief orientation had told him was the school's "club-wing" which he guessed made sense. If he was hiding some sort of universe destroying device in a school he would probably place it in a classroom that was used by a non-existent club that he'd invented. But as the source of the radiation grew closer he realised he was wrong, the clubroom was in use, at least judging by the loud female voice emanating from its door. Standing outside, the amount of "dings" the timey wimey detector was emitting was immense and he quickly turned it off for fear of it being heard on the other side. The members of the computer club, whose room was situated opposite, must have been receiving a massive dose of the arton radiation, it wouldn't kill them, but they're immune system would be noticeably better than that of their contemporaries. He edged closer to the door in order to hear what the voice was saying, and realised with a shock that it was none other than Haruhi Suzumiya, somehow he felt he should be more surprised.

"Three years ago on Tanabata night I was breaking into my school." It seemed to speak magnitudes about the other occupants of the room whomever they might be that none of them stopped her to ask why. "I was helped by an older guy carrying who he claimed rather unconvincingly was his narcoleptic sister. This man who was clearly an immensely powerful seer, Mikuru add that to the list of people to search for, told me to come to North High School where I would find aliens, time travellers, ESPers but not sliders, and that I should investigate John Smith when he arrived."

The Doctor knew he should just walk away. This girl was clearly talking about events in his future that he should not yet know about and he'd already resolved not to involve her in what was going on. And yet, from what she was saying she was pretty involved already and the Doctor was never one to walk away from a mystery. Having thus justified doing exactly what he shouldn't he burst open the door and strode in.