Thanks to kage kitsune 14, Doctor and Bad Wolf for faving my story.

NicoleR85: thanks. I wasn't going to wait very long before he told her about the Bond.

frosty600: thanks. Glad you loved the conversation between them.

E-man-dy-S: I'll make sure that I make it a little clearer about who is talking in conversations

An: a special shout out to frosty600 for creating the cover for this story. Yet another amazing one to add to the collection of covers for all my DW stories.

The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS alone to face the soldiers waiting for him. He'd told both Amy and Melanie to wait inside until he called for them, to let them know it was safe. He had decided to do that the moment he saw the soldiers on the scanner. He wasn't about to risk his the safety Bonded or his companion …well mostly his Bonded as her safety was his top priority. Not that Amy's safety was important to him also, it was but Melanie's safety would always come first.

After a moment the soldiers parted to allow Winston Churchill to pass. The Doctor smiled at the man before calling for the women "Amy! Elle!"

Amy stepped out first, followed by Melanie both looking at Churchill in amazement. "Doctor. Is it you?" the man asked looking him up and down.

"Oh, Winston, my old friend" the Time Lord laughed, going to shake Churchill's hand but the man motioned with his own as if he wanted something. "Ah, every time!"

"What's he after?" Melanie asked.

"Tardis key, of course", the Doctor replied. Every time he'd met the man, he'd been trying to get the key off of him.

"Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine, Doctor!" Churchill cried "The lives that could be saved"

"Ah, doesn't work like that" the Doctor closed the TARDIS door behind Amy.

"Must I take it by force?" Churchill threatened playfully.

"I'd like to see you try"

"At ease", Churchill called and the soldiers lowered their guns. "So who are your two lovely companions?" he asked.

"Winston Churchill, Amy Pond" the Doctor introduced, nodding at Amy. The woman could only wave at him, still rather amazed to be meeting THE Winston Churchill "and this is Melanie Hannigan", the Doctor said introducing the brunette.

Melanie stepped forward, holding out her hand "it's nice to meet you", she said politely.

"It's nice to meet you too Miss Hannigan", Churchill said shaking her hand, making the woman internally jump up and down at the fact that she just shook hands with a historical figure. On the outside she opted for a smile.

"You don't need to call me Miss Hannigan, Elle is just fine", Melanie told him, letting go of his hand and moving back to stand beside the Doctor.

"You rang?" he asked, taking Melanie's hand. Churchill motioned them to follow as he turn and walked out the storage closet. He led them through a corridor, all them hearing the sounds of the air raid happening above. Somehow the Doctor had managed to obtain Churchill's walking stick while they walked, tucking it under one arm.

"You've changed your face again", Churchill remarked, eyeing the Doctor.

"Yeah, well, had a bit of work done" he shrugged.

"What does he mean you changed your face?" Melanie asked a little confused.

"Time Lords have thing called regeneration. When we're seriously hurt or dying, we regenerate. Every single cell in our bodies change. So does our appearance", the Doctor explained "If you like I can show you some of my old regenerations" the Doctor offered "Though I have to warn you, some of them may look a bit strange".

"Stranger than you look with that bow tie?" Melanie asked reaching up, gently tugging it.

"Bow ties are cool", the Doctor said straightening his bow tie his free hand.

"I'm still not so sure about that"

"Give me time Elle and I'll get you to agree with me", the Doctor said confidently. Melanie opened her mouth to tell him that she very much doubted that he'll be able to get her to agree with him when Amy suddenly cheered

"Got it, got it, and got it. Cabinet War Rooms, right?"

"Yep", the Doctor confirmed "Top secret heart of the War Office, right under London".

"You're late, by the way", Churchill informed the Doctor.

"Requisitions, sir" a young woman said coming up, handing over a clipboard.

"Excellent", Churchill checked them over.

"Late?" the Doctor asked lifting the hand that was holding Melanie's so he could check his watch.

"I rang you a month ago", Churchill said signing the papers he'd finished checking.

"Really?" the Doctor frowned "Sorry, sorry. It's a Type Forty TARDIS, I'm just running her in", he said apologetically ignoring the look Melanie was giving him.

Churchill hands the clipboard back to the young woman "Something the matter, Breen?" he asked noticing she looked not that happy "You look a little down in the dumps".

"No, sir" Breen hugged the clipboard "Fine, sir"

"Action this day, Breen! Action this day!"

"Yes, sir" Breen nodded, forcing a smile as she glanced at Amy and Melanie before leaving.

"Excuse me, sir. Got another formation coming in, Prime Minister" an officer called over "Stukas, by the look of them".

"We shall go up top then, Group Captain!" Churchill ordered "We'll give 'em what for! Coming, Doctor?"

"Why?" the Doctor questioned.

Churchill snatched back his cane "I have something to show you", he said before walking off. The Doctor turned to Melanie, mouthing 'ooh' getting a laugh from her and Amy. They followed Churchill into a lift. The man starting it up as soon as they were all in.

Melanie wrinkled her nose as she waved the smoke away from Churchill's cigar. The Doctor wasn't particularly happy about that either. Amy was luckier as she was behind them, therefore not getting any smoke in her direction. "We stand at a crossroads, Doctor" Churchill began "quite alone, with our backs to the wall. Invasion is expected daily. So I will grasp with both hands anything that will give us an advantage over the Nazi menace"

"Such as?" the Doctor asked. The lift stopped and Churchill opened the gate.

"Follow me", he instructed, exiting the lift. They all walked out onto a roof with sandbags lining the edge, a man with a white lab coat was watching the sky.

The two women looked at the scene before them, at the number of balloons and blimps tethered and waiting. "Wow", Amy breathed.

"You said it", Mleanie wholeheartedly agreed. To learn about WW2 in a classroom was one thing but to be actually there was something else entirely.

"Doctor, this is Professor Edwin Bracewell. Head of our Ironsides Project", Churchill said introducing the man in the lab coat. The Doctor held up his hand in a 'V for victory' sign earning a shake of the head from Melanie.

"How do you do?" Bracewell waved at them before resuming his watch on the London skyline. The Doctor, Melanie and Amy walked over to the edge as a formation of German planes approached, dropping bombs as they went.

"Ready, Bracewell?" Churchill called to the man.

"Aye aye, sir" Bracewell came him a thumbs up "On my order, fire!"

From within a sandbagged area, a laser shot out and fired at the German planes, destroying them instantly. Melanie stiffened "can't be", she breathed. She'd seen that kind of laser before, only once. The day there was planets in the sky. She really, really hoped that didn't come from the thing that had produced those kind of lasers before because that had been the stuff of nightmares.

"What was that?" Amy gasped.

"That wasn't human. That was never human technology" the Doctor muttered "That sounded like…Show me! Show me what that was!" he demanded running over to the ladder and climbing up it.

"Advance", Bracewell ordered.

"Our new secret weapon", Churchill said proudly as a Dalek trundled out from behind the sandbags, painted in army green, a utility belt around it with a small union flag under its eyestalk.

Melanie stared up at it horrified, her face paling in recognition. It was the same thing. Different colours but it was the same thing that had been responsible for the loss of so many, the loss of her friends…

Amy looked at her friend concerned when she started muttering 'no' repeatedly under her breath as she backed away, her eyes fixed on the thing in front of the Doctor, her face as white as a sheet. "Elle?" she said walking towards her, very worried.

"They killed them….so many people" Melanie gasped, her breathing becoming more erratic as more memories from that day came rushing to the surface. Amy ran forward, grabbing hold of Melanie by her upper arms as the brunette's legs gave way.

"Doctor!" Amy shouted, sinking to the floor with a shaking Melanie. Her friend looked like she was going to be sick. Or pass out. Probably both. At Amy's shout, the Doctor tore his gaze away from the Dalek, his eyes widening at the sight of the ginger on the floor, holding onto a very pale Melanie. He quickly clambered down the ladder nearly slipping on the rungs in his haste. The second he reached the bottom rung, he jumped off, raced across the rooftop to his Bonded and companion.

"What happened?" the Doctor demanded as he dropped to his knees beside Amy, taking his shaking Bonded from her.

"I don't know, she just freaked out when she saw that… thing. Before I knew it, she collapsed"

The Doctor glanced down at the woman in his arms, knowing by her state that he wasn't going to get anything from her. "Come on, we're going back to the TARDIS", He said standing up with Melanie in his arms. First he was going to get his Bonded in a safe place. Then he was going to deal with the Daleks.


When he reached the TARDIS, the Doctor didn't even need to unlock the door as it swung open on its own. As he stepped inside, the ship gave an unhappy hum at the terrified state her thief's Bonded was in. "I know dear, I know", the Doctor muttered as he crossed the console room with Melanie in his arms, Amy following him.

He walked up the steps and had barely entered the corridor when a door appeared marked with Melanie's name. The door swung open to reveal a nice room decorated in pastel colours. The Doctor entered the room, going over to the bed and tried to set Melanie down except she seemed have gotten a tight grip on his jacket and didn't want to let go. So the Doctor just sat down on the bed with her on his lap. "It ok Elle, you're in the TARDIS" he said softly "nothing's going to hurt you in here. You're safe. You're safe"

Amy watched from the doorway as the Doctor quietly assured Melanie that she was in fact safe. It did seem like his words were working as the brunette had stopped shaking although she was still very pale. "I'm sorry", she heard Melanie mumble.

"You don't need to apologise Elle", the Doctor said "it's those Daleks" Amy frowned when she heard the change of tone in his voice when he said the word Dalek.

"Is that what they are?" she asked coming over to sit on the Doctor's other side so she could look at them both in the face.

"Yes", the Doctor replied "you must remember them Amy, they invaded your world" he felt Melanie stiffen in his arms when he said that.

Amy shook her head "no, sorry", she said. She would've remembered if aliens like that had invaded. Both the Doctor and Melanie looked at her surprised.

"Planets in the sky", Melanie said quietly, her voice shaky. That got a blank look from the ginger woman.

"I'm sorry Elle but I don't remember anything like that", Amy said apologetically.

"That's not possible", the Doctor said looking at her slightly bewildered. How could Melanie remember them but Amy didn't? That didn't make any sense at all. However, figuring out why his Bonded remembered when his companion didn't was going to have to wait. Figuring out what the Daleks were up to and putting a stop to it took priority. "Amy, I want to you stay here with Elle", he said getting up, turning around and setting Melanie onto the bed, gently prising her fingers off his jacket.

"Why can't you stay?" Melanie asked not wanting him to leave.

"I've got to stop the Daleks", the Doctor replied trying to ignore how his hearts ached at the look on her face "and I need you both safe" he cupped her face "I'll be back as soon as I can, I promise", he said kissing the top of her head. He stepped away from the bed, turned around and walked out of the room resisting the urge to look back at Melanie. It was difficult but he managed to get to the door without looking back once. The Doctor quickly left the TARDIS, hearing the lock click after he closed the door. That made him feel all little better, knowing that Melanie and Amy were locked in, perfectly safe inside the TARDIS.