Cynthia's POV

Bear with me on this chapter. It's a bit... well... You'll see.

After what seemed like an eternity of awkwardness, we all went our separate ways. Christopher and I exchanged numbers so we could keep in contact but it seemed to me that the Doctor really didn't like that.

"What were you thinking running around with a guy you just met?" He scolded me, stopping in the middle of the street and looking me straight in the eyes, fury raging in them.

"You're one to speak!" I retorted, anger starting to come over me at his tone. "I literally met you what, a month and a half ago? And the day I first met you, you asked me to be your new companion!"

"Oi! That is totally different!" He snapped.

"How? How is it 'totally different?' then, huh?" I responded, my tone getting angrier.

He growled at me, throwing his hands up in the air before turning to me and pointing a finger in my face.

"You… You are impossible!"

"Well so are you!" I replied, almost yelling.

He stood there and huffed, turning his back to me and putting his hands on his hips.

"I'm going to go somewhere!" I told him, frustrated.

"And where is that?" He said sarcastically as he turned to me, causing our faces to be inches apart, and narrowed his eyes angrily.

"I don't know! Anywhere to get away from you right now because I'm not going to deal with this! Not right now!" I yelled at him. "I've had enough of this kind of stuff happen in my life already that I can't…" I said, stopping mid-sentence at the memory of what happened and trying to hold back my tears.

With that, I walked away, leaving an angry and upset Doctor behind me.

After about half an hour of walking, I found a place to sit. It was the perfect spot to be alone because it was out of everyone's way. All the memories and emotions from my past flooded back to me and, no matter how hard I tried not to cry, it didn't work. I pulled my knees to my chest and buried my face into them, trying to muffle out my crying and hide my tears. It wasn't long before I completely broke into millions of little pieces, letting everything that I had been holding in out. It felt good to finally let go of some of the things I had let build up for so long.

"Cynthia?" I heard the Doctor's voice say behind me, his footsteps coming towards me.

He sounded so concerned and upset that I didn't even respond. It was all I could do to try and pull myself together but, at this point, I knew it was useless.

I heard him sit beside me and sniffle, taking in a breath and letting it out shakily.

"I…" He said, clearing his throat to get rid of the unevenness behind his voice. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay…" I mumbled into my knees, not wanting the Doctor to see me totally broken.

"Come here…" He whispered, pulling me in for a hug and holding me tightly to him.

He wrapped his arms around me protectively and rubbed my back gently, resting his cheek on my head.

"Shhh… It's okay…" he said softly, now running his hand through my hair. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know that you'd get this upset. I never want you to get upset."

At those words, I sat up and wiped the tears from my eyes. He still had an arm around me and looked at me with sorrow in his eyes. I could tell he had been crying as well because his eyes and nose were red.

"Doctor…" I started to say, wanting to apologize.

"No… You shouldn't apologize for anything, Cynthia." He told me, looking down. "It was all me. I shouldn't have blown up on you like that."

"Hey…" I said as lifted his chin up to look at me.

Our eyes met and I saw a few tears fall down his cheeks.

"I blew up on you too, remember? I guess you could say this was a team effort?" I told him, hoping to see my happy-go-lucky Doctor again.

Sure enough, a little smirk appeared on his face.

"Yeah. I guess it was, huh?" He said. "We make a pretty good team." He nudged my arm.

I laughed a little. "An interesting one for sure." I replied, smiling.

We sat there in silence for a little bit before the Doctor spoke up.

"Hey, why don't we go do something to cheer us up?"

I nodded and looked at him, "I'm for it! What do you have in mind?"

He looked up to the sky and made his thinking face before clapping his hands together, signaling he had an idea.

"I know exactly what to do! But it's a surprise!" He got up and held his hand out to me. "Follow me."

Intense, huh? Sorry about that. It's all back and forth in this chapter! What did you think? Leave a review and let me know what you thought! :D

I won't be able to update the next chapter until later because I'm having to go do a bunch of errands! Once I'm home I will update it ASAP!