Tried to do 2 posts in a day, *sighs*, ahh well, btw, guys keep the reviews coming, you have no idea how much they warm my heart, and pwweeeeeaaaaassseee give me suggestions, *cute face* pretty pwweeaasse. *clears throat and brushes off awkward moment" Anyway here we are...

Abi's eyes flickered open, only for her to roll them and shut them tightly again. Moments past but till she sighed and woke up full, knowing she wasn't able to get back to sleep again. She sat up on her bed in the Tardis and rubbed her eyes, she flung the blanket off her legs and got up. Walking through the corridors was always interesting, there were many routes to the console room and each one had many different interesting objects along the way. She would always take her time to observe them because the Tardis reminded her of Sky in so many ways but was also different in so many ways.

She got to the staircase underneath the console and looked up through the grills to see if he was there, she had been avoiding the Doctor for a while, simply because she didn't want to know why he kissed her because it would change things and she hated change which was ironic seeing as her lifestyle revolved around change; change of scenery, change of time, change of people...

She couldn't see any bodies above the grills or hear any footsteps so, deciding it was safe, she walked up the stairs leading to the console room. She got up the last couple of steps with her eye fixated on the control panels, she observed them for a while, working out what they were before she got close to them. She flicked a lever down and flicked another similar one up. Her eye's widened as she heard the machine whirr accordingly, she then twisted a dial and went over to type random coordinates into a keyboard. Finally she pushed a blue switch and the Tardis landed quietly. She looked at the scanner which was showing Gallifreyan space-time coordinates.

She turned her head to look at the door, slowly she walked towards it. her gaze unfaltering. She reached the door and place her hands on the lock, turning it as she took in a breath. She was meet with a black canvas, with stars dotted all overs, bright lights and swirling colours all around her, it reminded her vividly of Van Goghs painting. She smiled as she looked around and down, the box was seemingly floating in the mid space. Her smile turned into a grin, she must've stared at the view for moments until she sat down on the box edge, leaned on the side and gazed out with her legs dangling off the edge.

Her eyes darted around excitably but her thoughts were more deep and mournful, she was scared more than anything because it had been around a month in human terms since she had lost Jack and she was- she thought -and she wasn't sure... but she thought she was falling in love with him. And that was bad, because falling in love was bad, she didn't have the right lifestyle to be falling in love and what's more she wasn't the right person to be in a relationship. She sighed and looked down. Not only that but her thoughts have been drifting to something else, or rather someone. That young boy, Koschei, the one with the drums. Now she wasn't sure but she had a feeling that not only was he the one Rassilon was talking about when he spoke about the other failed experiment but also what he said about there being another time lord out there. But what insanity was it, because there were many. And if he was back, how could the Doctor and her help. She still didn't feel like Salia, and although she could sometimes access her memories and abilities she was more Abi than Time Lord and it was going to stay that way.

Footsteps behind her interrupted her thoughts, she didn't turn to see who it was, he just sat next to her without any introduction. A moment passed before she spoke,

"Hey"

"Hey",

She finally looked at him and smiled, she turned back to the view, but he blurted out,

"I don't know your last name!" She stared at his outburst but he only frowned, "Or your age, how do I not know your age!" She looked out again, intensely trying to remember if and when she told him these things,

"I..I did.." She sighed , "I must've..." She turned to him again, "Oh wow"

He nodded, "Yeah, soo..."

"Oh I don't have a last name, I took Jari's, it Borso, and I am physically 25 in human years, and Salia would be .. uh...253"

He looked out, "Wow", He looked back at the console, "Good driving by the way"

She smiled, "Yeah, it was...easier than I thought",

He turned and looked her dead in the eyes, "I meant to say, what happened with you and John, I don't.. I mean, I don't feel that way",

She nodded and looked down, "So why did he..."

He shook his head and sighed, "Human emotions, I love you, as a friend, some of that bleed through but must've got lost in translation, another kind of love",

She laughed, "Right, course, yeah, now tell me honestly, do you, you as in Doctor, love Joan",

"Nah, that was him, John Smith", She nodded, "And you? What about Jack?"

She looked down, shrugging, "I dunno, I..can't, you know, not when he's never coming back",

He nodded, "I know...better still, at least he didn't see your dancing"

She laughed and he joined her soon, unconsciously she placed her head on his shoulders and he draped his arms around her,

"I wish I never met him" She sighed,

"I know the feeling"

Abi appeared over her bed and after a quarter of a millisecond she fell onto in, she grinned happily,

"Yes, I got a bed, yaay", She kissed the bed sheets, "Thanks old girl"

She got up and stroked the Tardis walls, smiling, she had a feeling the box liked her more than she should have done this early. Maybe because she's had her fair share of sentient computer.

Abi left her room and headed for the swimming pool but her manipulator beeped, rather insistently. Sky's voice spoke out, it felt like an age since she heard her voice,

"Abigail"

"Hey Sky, how's Dasdre"

"Fully functioning, incoming massage for you"

"From.."

"Sir Antino"

"From Alixon?"

"Yes"

She rolled her eyes and taped the manipulator, "But what does he want, I gave him back his baby!"

She stepped up the steps onto the main controls, "Play the message"

"Playing hologram"

A well dressed man appeared on the docking platform, he was smiling, "Abi, hii again uhh, thanks for everything from before but we need you again. On our supply search we found Cyberman limbs and we think they're back. We're at a loss and the people are close to panicking. Please help us"

She sighed when the message ended and the man disappeared, she turned to the screen, "Well, what do you think?"

"I doubt he would trick you again Abigail, and this does seem like a genuine request"

"Yeah yeah", She began typing into her manipulator, "Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf, that's all I'm saying"

She landed with a audible thud, "Ugh, dammit", she whispered before standing up a dusting herself off. She took a moment to survey her surroundings, she was in a basement, the lights flickered slightly. She was surrounded by ice boxes with fogged up window but what was odd was that the room wasn't as cold as it should have been but nevertheless she decided to ponder on that later and went up the staircase on her right. It led to a corridor, filled colours and abstract art on the walls. Many of the painting were a dissimilar remake of Michael Angelo's work. She gazed at them for a while before a loud bass note came from the end of the corridor, taking one last look at the paintings she walked down. She got to a doorway which had a half door, She had to step over the bottom half of the door into a room which looked strangely similar to a high school American beer party. Red cups and everything, she frowned at the different types of aliens that were there and the weird looking drinks that was served.

She had to tip toe pretty hard but she saw a stand and a microphone not far so she slid through the crowd ducking when the occasional water pistol was shot. When she reached the stand she stepped up and tapped the mic to get everyone's attention's,

"Hey! Guys!", Everyone turned to look at her infront of the mic, some wolf whistled, "Right, ok, do any of you know-",

"Hey, it's Abi!" A voice came from the crowd,

"Say what now?", She tried searching for the voice but now everyone was talking about her,

"Oh yeah, it is!"

"Wow, she's so different to the photos"

"Hey, girl, you're really pretty!"

"We love you!"

After that last remark everyone became silent and some craned their heads to see who said that, Abi frowned deeply, extremely uncomfortable with the situation,

"How- How do you guys know me?"

"You saved us, remember!"

"Yeah but I don't remember meeting every single person I saved",

A girl in the front row called out to her, "Yeah but Antino broadcasted a message to the entire planet, you're kind of an idol now"

Her eyes widened, for a brief moment she was a tiny bit flattered but she shook out of it and remembered what she came in for, "Do any of you guys know where Antino is?"

"He's in the pool!"

"The pool!"

"In the pool!"

"And where is the pool?",

"Outside!"

"Round the back!"

"Just behind you!",

She turned her head to see the night sky and she could see the corner of the pool if she shuffled to the left a bit, she turned back to the crowd, "What? On his own? Isn't that sad?"

"He's waiting for you!"

"He said you were coming!"

"Oh well, okay, uhh nice meeting you guys", She gave a timid wave and got off the stand after being waved of by the crowd with yells of "See ya!", "Good luck!" and "Nice meeting ya!"

She thought they were nice enough people as she made her way to the back door, she opened it and immediately the cold sifted through her and she got a sudden wave of goosebumps, she looked out to the view, "Wow", she breathed,

"It's so beautiful, nothing compared to you though" A smooth voice from behind her called, she smiled but didn't turn,

"I told you I don't like compliments",

She finally swiveled and grinned when she saw her old friend, also grinning madly. She laughed and jumped into his arms, they hugged tightly. When they broke apart she punched him, quite hard, on the arm. The impact was so sudden he took a few steps back,

"You told people about me?"

He held his hands up in surrender, "It wasn't like that, the press were all up in my business and things went from bad to worse, I just- it escalated."

She crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows, "How's the baby"

He held out him arm and pointed behind her, "See for yourself",

She narrowed her eyes at him but turned to the ledge and peered down, below was a city, with scattered lights and the stars were up above them. Somewhere middway was another bright light, floating in the air but still moving around, as if it was alive (which it was). She smiled at the light and held her hands up to it, it immediately moved towards her and floated just in front of the both of them. A couple years ago, when Abi first visited this planet they were just finding a lot of new, beautiful life, that to many other life forms could mean a lot of money. Antino back then was a tradesman or as Abi liked to call him, a crook. After she had saved all the different life forms that were about to be solved Antino had found a star, a star with a consciousness, Abi said they were called Incenses, apparently there weren't many left and this one was a baby so she took it, to find it a good home, but Antino wanted it, he had supposedly felt a connection with it and wanted to take care of it like it was his baby. Unfortunately Abi didn't trust him so she took the baby anyway, which caused him to send his men after her but she was too clever for them. In the end Sky convinced her to come back and give Antino a chance so he proved his worth to her and he got the baby Incense.

In between all of the commotion then, Abi had also found the time to dance with Antino, before realising the whole 'crook' thing and perform a concert in Alixon during the festival seasons. During this time they did have a tiny kiss, and dance and heart to heart but with all the other things going on they didn't really pursue anything. Other than the fact they got accidentally married but that was a whole other incident. Right now thought, the Incense was dancing through the air and to Abi she was a vision, she turned to Antino,

"What's her name",

"It's..er.. it's actually Sky",

She looked back at Sky, "No.. really?", He nodded and she laughed, "Well she's gonna be pleased"

He laughed, "Yeah",

"What's going on, you said there were -"

"Cybermen, yeah, Sky?",

The bright light floated over their heads, and descended on the other side of them, it spoke much to Abi's surprise,

"They found Cyber remains in the depths of the oceans, they were old but still functioning and they sending out a message, we think there are other Cyber legions homing in on its signal",

Abi stared at the lights, completely in awe, from its voice and from its general beauty, "Oh um, well do you know how long it's been functioning for?"

Antino tapped her shoulders, "There's a base in this building, it's got the records and the remains, come on", He turned to Sky, "Meet us down there"

"Yes father", she disappeared immediately. Antino indicated for her to go back through the doors, and as they made there way back through the crowds they were meet with cheers and acknowledgments, Abi smiled at the people and turned back to Antino, having to shout over the noise,

"So, what is this then!", She bumped into a red midget who nodded her head in apology,

"Celebration!"

"Of what?"

"Hang on..DUCK!", they both narrowly avoided a green substance that flew in their direction and splattered on the wall, she turned to him silently asking him, but he shook his head,

"Don't ask!"

"Whaa-", She got cut short because he dragged her out.

They were walking through the corridors of the intricately designed building, Abi questioning him at every corner,

She caught up to him and asked, "So..what..what is this supposed to be?"

"This?",

She spread her hands out, indicating to the whole building, "This, I mean, the last time we meet you were..well kind of a crook, how did you get this place?",

"It's not all mine, just a couple floors. I work for the government now." They went down some ruby steps, still in deep conversation, "I investigate any alien contact threatening or otherwise",

"Nice, and the parties?"

"Not mine, that floor up there wasn't mine, it was my friend, Bailey, nice bloke...senile", She stopped walking to stare at him because of his remark,

"Where is Sky in all of this?",

"Oh, she's a beauty, don't you think? Yeah she just helps me out, turning into a teen in a couple years"

She grinned, "They grow up fast, don't they", He turned to her and rolled his eyes, they came up to a ruby door, which slide open at there presence,

"In here" H

She walked in and she followed intensely observing the room.

It was a red painted room, much like most of the building that she had seen, it was a large room, filled with filling cabinets and frozen ice boxes, like the boxes in the basement. There was that green substance from before in dishes, some glowing, some moving, Abi frowned at it but moved on. She followed him to a tiny room in the corner of the base, it had really worn and really damaged cyber items, an arm, the arc of a cyber head, a cybermat, a cybermite and a cyberchip. She looked around the room, nodding in a appreciation,

"Nice place", When he didn't reply she looked behind for him, frowning she left the tiny room, "Ant?",

He was in the other room, looking at a screen with Sky behind him, "Look at this, the readings, they've been sending out a call but I.." He began typing in the keyboard, "I can't trace it..or decode it", He sighed and looked at her, eyes pleading.

"Alright, alright, I can't make any promises ok, any there's a very good chance that you might have a very angry cyber legion on you soil", She stared at the screen, "Yep, they're sending out a signal, Hang on lemme just", She ran into the other room and got the cyberchip and brought it to the computer,

"Sky can you tell me the longitude and latitude of where you found this stuff?",

"51.5072° N, 0.1275° W"",

She typed that onto the computer and put up a projection for them all to see, there was a pin pointer showing them all where it was found, Abi looked back to the computer, "I can show you the signal..."

The projection zoomed out of the planet and showed the signal leaving the planet and fanning out into space but fading away as it got further away from its source, Abi grinned, "Ahh see, the signal never got picked up, no one close enough"

Antino's eyes widened, "Well that's great, problem solved"

Abi nodded but turned to look at the screen, she went over again and zoomed out just a little but more, on the projection there was now a ship visible and getting very close to the signal rays, "There's a cybership within range, if it gets close, it'll pick up that signal no problem, and then..."

Sky moved around to her father, "How long till it gets here?"

Abi looked at the projection and then at the screen statistics, "Not long, about 30 minutes, I gotta stop that signal" She picked up the cyberchip and connected it to the computer just as a blare filled the room,

"29 MINUTES AND COUNTING TILL CYBER INFILTRATION"

Abi frowned and looked around the room, but Antino just sighed, "Not the time Sky, not the time"

The little ball of light giggled and disappeared, Abi kept down to her work, suppressing a smile, "She's really got you settling down"

"Yeah but she can be a handful"

"Balls of light usually are", She looked up at him, smiling, "It's good to see you like this",

He faintly blushed and walked up to her, "How've you been? It's been a while"

"I'm good, I'm always good",

"Are you still scared of commitment?"

She looked up, frowning in confusion, he sighed, "Oh come on, I knew that's why things ended with us, So?"

She stayed looking down at the keyboard, typing away furiously but still maintaining the conversation, "I..I actually met someone, Jack",

"Lucky guy", He looked down, "So where is he, I always imagined, if you ever were with someone he'd be your partner in crime", He chuckled to himself, she didn't,

"I...er..I lost him", He stared at her, immediately stiffening,

"What, is he..is he dead?"

"No, no, not dead, just somewhere far away, it's a long story, bad day, bad stuff happened. He's alive, he's safe and well but I don't know where"

"Oh Abi, I am so sorry", Abi shook her head,

"It's fine, I'm fine", She moved to another computer, still working away,

"How can you be fine?"

"I just am"

"You had to have felt sad, right?"

"I can cope with it"

"How?"

She stopped her work, and stared at him, straight through his eyes, "Look, I spent most of my life stuck on a ship, in the sky, I had no family, no friends, just a sentient computer for most of my life, I can survive heartbreak, I'm strong...I have to be", She moved back to the other computer, he followed,

"But you have to mourn him, at least allow yourself that", She didn't reply, "Abi-"

"20 MINUTES AND COUNTING",

He sighed at the interruption, "Why won't you at least mourn him, it's not healthy, doing this to yourself",

She shook her head, "I can't"

"Why?"

She finally looked up at him, tears formed in the corners on her eyelids, she spoke with her voice breaking, "I just can't, don't you get it, I spent my life isolated, I don't know how to feel anything, not sadness, not happiness...not love", A tear drop fell at this, "He only began to break down my emotional barriers before he got taken away from me, now the only emotion I know is pain, ", she sniffed, "And I don't want it", she moved back to the other computer, he didn't move to her immediately, he looked down, slightly shocked by what he heard, he looked back up at her working,

"So what happens now?"

She sniffed again, "Well, I'm gonna stop this signal, hopefully in time, then -"

"No, Abi, what happens now?"

She stopped typing again and spoke with a soft voice, "I don't know" ,

"15 MINUTES AND COUNTING"

She continued working and he left her to, no more interruptions or arguments occured during that time. He just kept to himself for a couple more moments, she glanced at him occasionally, to see what he was doing. A few more moment past before another announcement blared out,

"SIGNAL SUCCESSFULLY WIPED"

A small smile graced her lips as she walked around the room to look at the projection, she looked back at Antino who was also noticeably smiling, she sat next to him looking at the room, her eyes settled on the green thing from earlier,

"You never said what that green stuff was"

"It's glue" He said simply,

"I'm sorry?"

"It's glue" He shrugged,

"You..you can't just say 'it's glue' and expect me to...to just know" She frowned at him, he rolled his eyes and turned to face her,

"It's bonding glue, for the celebration, it's a symbol"

"Oh yeah, you never said what the celebration was for"

"Ah yes, well...it's our", he cleared his throat, "our..um anniversary"

She blinked at him, her mind whirring as the words went through her brain, "Excuse me?"

"Well, when we got, accidentally married which by the way wasn't my fault-"

"It was! I told you to hold the ring, that's it, just hold the ring. But could you do that, noooooo, I swear, half of the marriages I get into are your fault"

"What! How can you say that! Who else have I got you married to?"

"Shakespeare!"

"That's not fair, that dealer was a cheat, the peg landed on black 15, I saw it!"

"You shouldn't have been betting on me anyway!"

"I was drunk, I'm allowed"

They glared at each other before turning away and avoiding the others glares, a moment past before Abi remember the beginning of the conversation,

"Wait, our anniversary?!"

His eyes widened, he had hoped that the argument made have made her forget, "Oh yeah, well after we got married, everyone found out and it;s kind of became a worldwide holiday",

"So, according to the entire planet I am in a loving marriage, with you"

"Yes"

"And the parties upstairs are to celebrate that?"

"Yes"

"And the glue is to symbolize..what, our bond?"

"Exactly!"

She groaned, "Agh, you're worse than me"

"Now that's saying something"

She flipped her head to him, "Hey!", he looked back at her, maintaining his gaze but he broke out into a grin and so did she, he smiled at her sadly,

"So, what was he like?",

She scrunched up her nose, "Ah he...he was a flirt, but so was I, we had fun together, you know, we worked, like friends worked and he was just as...adventurous as me",

She smiled at the memory, "Did you ever say...",

"No, no, we weren't there yet",

"But did you?",

She paused, "I didn't let myself, which was bad, I guess, but no who cares cos he's ...", he rubbed her back soothingly, " I don't want to feel like this", she sobbed gently into her hands , "I don't want to ever feel like this", she sat up and cleaned herself off with the edge of her sweatshirt, laughing gently at herself, "Ahh, I'm ok",

"People who say they're okay all the time are usually not okay"

She looked up at him, eyes wide and pleading, "Then what do I do?"

"You're already doing it", He got up but she stayed looking down and frowning, "You're grieving", He walked out of the room, she was quick to get up and follow him,

"But..how does that make things better?"

They were walking back up the staircase they went down, "It won't seem better now, but later.."

"Can't I just...carry on, I mean I've done my mourning now, can't I just carry on?",

He turned to face her but was still walking backwards, "If you think it helps", He turned back and went round a corner,

"What does that mean!", She caught up to him

"Listen, it takes time to get over people, it took long with me too"

"Who were you trying to get over?" She scoffed, then he turned back to her and looked her dead in the eyes, her jaw dropped, "Whaa..me?"

He didn't say anything, just walked into the party room, she had to find her way back through the same crowd, smiling at a few familiar faces, she got to the back door and opened it. She looked around for him, walking around, until she found herself at the ledge. A bright shining star popped up from no-where, Abi gasped then laughed,

"Hiya, Sky"

"Abi, you're very pretty"

"Thank you, so are you"

The light floated above her head and danced in the air, giggling, "Antino is behind you"

A deep chuckle came from behind her so she turned to see him, then looked up at the light, "Thanks Sky",

"You're welcome, bye bye father, bye bye Abi" The light floated of the edge and went down to play with the lights of the city below. Antino went up to the ledge to join her looking down at his daughter, smiling fondly,

"You were the biggest mistake I ever made", He looked up at her and frowned , she was smiling, "You made me softer, Jack broke down my emotional barriers, you weakened them", She looked down at the view, he did too,

"I think sometimes, if things were different, if I'd met you later...would..?"

She nodded, "Probably, but then that's always the problem, timing"

"Yeah"

"Abigail, reminder, return to Tardis"

She brought her wrist up between the and they both looked at the manipulator, Antino nodded, impressed,

"Upgrade?"

"Yep"

"Nice", She smiled at her manipulator, proudly,

"Sky?"

"Abigail, return to Tardis"

"Ok, ok", She put her arm by her side and looked up at him, he nodded, knowing it was her time to go, "I'll see around"

"Yep...C'mere!" He brought her into a hug, both of them holding on tightly, when they broke apart she gently pressed her lips to his and held it there for a moment. When she leaned back his eyes were wide and shocked. She chuckled lightly and began operating her manipulator, "Enjoy the celebrations"

He was left looking a the dark view where Abi used to stand, he brought his hands up and touched his lips, smiling at the memory.