A/N: As always, I own nothing but Bella. Le sigh!

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Bella felt numb and yet in agony when she finally stepped out of the shower. The Doctor had offered to remain close just in case she needed assistance. Bella had politely refused so he had instructed her to meet him in the Console Room when she was ready so that he could take them out to dinner.

All Bella wanted was to be left alone. She wanted to crawl into her new bed, pull up the covers, and hide from the insane reality that she found herself in. She wanted to scream into the pillows and cry until there wasn't a drop of water left in her body.

Bella wasn't sure how much she believed of the story that the Doctor had woven (her grandfather was a space alien? Really?) but her instincts told her that his intentions were good so she decided to play along while she figured out what to do.

She had to admit that it was an amazing coincidence that the exact same doodles her grandfather made were considered a written language by the brown-suited stranger but that was no longer Bella's biggest concern. She was more freaked out by the fact that this self-professed space alien had two hearts beating in his chest. She had heard them beating as he comforted her and while she had to confess that the sound had soothed her in a way she hadn't felt since her grandfather had passed, it frightened her just the same. Even more upsetting, Bella had finally figured out the source of the mysterious scent that reminded her so much of her grandfather. It was him.

Bella didn't know which was worse: being a defective human or a normal space alien. How did the ugly duckling feel when he realized that his whole life had been a lie?

Bella didn't have the answer to that question.

Why would Gramps lie to me? What possible reason could he have had to keep something so important from me?

Even with all of the evidence she had been presented Bella still doubted the truth of the Doctor's words. If a man can lie and claim that a tiny little piece of furniture was a spaceship as huge as the one she was apparently flying in, that man can lie about anything.

As a result Bella wondered at his motives for "helping" her. What if he wasn't a space alien like he claimed? What if he was just part of some freaky government project that planned to use her for whatever reason?

Bella had encountered shady scientists before; one time while she had been walking out to visit her dad a stranger that offered her a ride had actually been a determined scientist who had been secretly stalking her. She was considered a novelty by the medical community and some of them were willing to do anything to learn more about her unusual medical condition.

But he's got two hearts like me Bella argued with herself. If he wasn't a space alien, maybe he was just somebody who had experienced his share of creepy scientists and wanted to help her out. He could be lying even to himself on his space-alien status. It could just be wishful thinking.

What if it was all a lie? Bella had to admit that geography wasn't her strong point. Maybe she had remembered her maps wrong. Maybe things had changed since she last went to school. It had been 30 years since she graduated, after all. It wasn't like she studied geography for a hobby. What if that really was her Earth floating below them and he just wanted to convince her otherwise to keep her from going home? While that didn't explain how she had ended up wherever she ended up (Bella had never been to England so she still wasn't convinced even with the Doctor's assurance), at least then she would at least have a home to return to.

What if it had been faked? Seriously, the so-called spaceship she was in was huge. How could something that big possibly fly, how could just one person be capable of flying it, and how the heck would he land the thing? He could have rigged some kind of barrier so she wouldn't be able to go outside, then played some video that had been recorded by a satellite for all Bella knew. She had never seen space videos with such high resolution but she wouldn't be surprised if the government had that sort of capability. What she saw when she opened those doors might have been an elaborate trick.

Pondering all of the questions Bella realized that the situation might not be as bad as she thought. While she didn't sense any deception from the man, there was still a chance that the Doctor was trying to trick her and that gave her hope.

She might actually be able to make it home.

Sighing, Bella realized that she wasn't going to learn anything new about her situation if she continued to stand there and stare at herself in the mirror. She finished running a comb through her long black hair and exited her room.