"I demand to see the captain. I changed my mind."

"Glad you chose this option." The captain smirked as she saw the cold frame of Tia. "Melting you would have been… messy."

Tia gave a sharp stare. The captain had deliberately lowered the temperature in the cells. "Tell me, what are you going to use the poison for?" She asked, fiercely staring into the captain's eyes.

"To stop the war." She icily responded. "With your poison, the war would be over before it even started."

Tia clenched her fist. People like the captain, condescending people who thought some people were lesser than others, disgusted her. But she had to let go. She had to think about Clara and the Doctor.

"I have three conditions." Tia supressed her anger. "One, Clara and I will not be kept in cells, but somewhere free. Two, you will get me anything and everything I need without questions. Three, you will not bother us until we have created the poison. The poison will take a long time to complete because the one and only prototype was destroyed when you kidnapped me."

"Deal." The captain sprayed something on her face and everything went blank.

oOooooOoOoOOo

Tia was fiddling with her magnifier. The Doctor was a nice guy. He gave her a magnifier, just like the ones her parents had. Her parents had always warned her about stranger danger, but it seemed that they were wrong. The Doctor was very friendly and acted almost as if he knew her like family. She ran towards the river, eager to show the new gift to her parents.

"Mummy! Daddy!" Tia abruptly stopped running. There was someone else with them. Something else. They weren't humans, they looked more like the assisting robots she had seen while staying at her parents' lab.

"Tia, RUN!" Her mum screamed after spotting her. Tia stepped backwards and fell over on her bottom, startled and confused. Her dad knocked the robots off in a swift movement, while her mum held her and started running. She curled up in her mum's grasp. She heard the panicked breath and her heart thumping wildly. From far away, she saw the robots shooting a bright light that knocked her dad into the river.

"Daddy!" She screamed. Her mum suddenly jolted to a stop. "Mummy?"

Her mum slowly placed her down on the ground and fell forwards. She wasn't moving. "Mummy? What's happening? Don't sleep here!" She pulled her mum's hand. The robots were closing in and Tia looked around nervously for help.

Suddenly, there was a zap and a person arrived. A young woman who had a friendly face. "Hello Tia, bit of a rush, grab my hand."

Tia, desperate for help, instinctively reached out, but one hand still on her mum's body.

One minute she was seeing her mother dead on the grass and the next she was in a dark room. No… they were on a spaceship. She could see the stars zooming past them, or rather, she was zooming past the stars. That wasn't important.

"Where's my mummy?!" She demanded. She could still vividly imagine her falling to the grass. She wasn't there anymore. "She needs help! You've left her there!" She burst into tears.

"Shhhh. Tia, I'm sorry." Her soothing voice calmed her down. "We're going to fix all this." She squeezed her hand as reassurance.

"How?" She stared at her warm hand. That was when she noticed the silver bracelet around her wrist. The one she'd seen on grandpa.

"My name is Clara." She gave her a warm smile. "…and everything is going to be okay. I promise."

Behind her, came a shy woman. A woman whom she had never seen, yet was so familiar.

She was the older version of herself.

oOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO

Tia was on a comfortable bed. She rubbed her eyes and sleepily looked around her surroundings. It was a warm bedroom, furnished modestly and with windows covered by delicate curtains. She opened the curtain to discover a welcoming ray of sun.

"Morning!" Clara chimed from the outside. "I baked you a soufflé, but it was too beautiful to live. Instead, have breakfast in bed." She chuckled.

"You look much better than before!" Tia said, giving her a big smile and a hug.

"I fell asleep in the cell, and woke up here. I found you sleeping and thought I better not disturb you." Clara explained. "Well, enjoy your breakfast, I'll be outside, having a walk."

Where were they? How were they there? Millions of questions flooded Tia's mind. As she was eating bacon and eggs prepared by Clara, she saw a little note written in a rushed handwriting.

"We are being watched."