"Here we are." Sky looked up from his phone and smiled as Kit put down the mug of coffee in front of her. He then took the seat across the table from her and chuckled lightly when she sighed and passed him the phone.

"I lost it again." Kit looked at the screen and tapped the Internet icon for the fourth time for the woman before handing it back. "But thank you, I'll pay you back." Sky said as she sipped at the coffee, it was alright, nothing to brag about but human drinks never were.

"Don't worry about it." Shrugging it off, Kit watched the woman work on his phone as he sipped his own coffee. "What are you doing anyway?" Once on the Internet she was away, typing rapidly and reading through the pages but one wrong click and she would end up on the home screen and she'd be stuck.

"Looking up more about this Torchwood Industries."

"Anything good?" Kit turned to look out the window, surprised to see everyone already back to normal, shopping and laughing. It can't have been more than four hours since that spaceship had flew over all their heads but there they were just forgetting about it. A year ago everyone would be hiding, but nowadays things like this became more normal by the second.

"Not really...it's all smoke and mirrors. They don't want the public to know so they barely exist online. They're just a company...that's it a company." Sky grew frustrated quickly and passed the phone back over to him before she ended up breaking it. "I just don't get it." Her head fell into her hands, she felt like screaming. The a Doctor would know what to do, he'd be even more furious than she was, but at least he'd know what to do.

Kit felt the need to change the conversation so she would maybe forget about what she saw today, it didn't hit him as much as it did her. The fact humans had stolen all of that stuff hurt her, but he could understand. From what he'd gathered every living thing, alien or not, that had once owned those items was now deceased or a prisoner inside Torchwood. So he thought hard and finally just spoke something, anything he could think of which wasn't to do with Torchwood.

"Those things...the Raslox?" He smiled lightly when she raised her head from the table. "They said Gallifrey or something after they did that scan thing on you. What's that?" Noticing her smile, he almost sighed at the thought she was calming down.

"It's where I'm from. My planet." She spoke quietly as to not catch anyone's unwanted attention. "Gallifrey."

"Is that where your husband is?"

"No." Sky chuckled, he could have been anywhere but there. "It's gone, my home, lost in a war." Her mouth became dry and she swallowed hard. "There's no going home for us anymore, we just travel."

"I'm sorry." Kit frowned.

"It wasn't your fault." Picking up the mug in her hand, Sky watched the light foam on the top swirl in time with the hot liquid underneath. She wanted to smile at him, she really did. It wasn't until Lupa appeared behind her eyes that she shook herself. It was time to move on. "It was some form of evil." Sky licked her lips and smiled at Kit. "But they're all gone now, nothing to worry about."

There was a short silence after she spoke, both of them just sipping from their mugs and watching out the large window by their side. Sky still didn't know what she was going to do concerning the man in front of her. She still had yet to ask him if he wanted to come with her, wherever she was going. But she couldn't just straight out ask him, she had to build into it.

"But anyway...London...treating you well?" She tried to be casual she really did, but she'd never really talked to a human. Sarah Jane very briefly through a communicator back when she was the one traveling with the Doctor years ago. But that was a quick hello...not sat and having to converse.

"I guess. It's different to Scotland that's for sure." He answered as he looked out the window and up at the tall sky scrapers which surrounded them.

"I'm surprised you aren't off calling your friends and telling them what you saw." Smirking, Sky saw as Kit's smile dropped this time and he looked away awkwardly.

"No one to call really." Kit spoke quietly and fiddled with the neckline of his white t-shirt. "I only knew my girlfriend when I moved down. Never really had time to meet anyone else since."

"Hmm, you know sometimes that's not always the worst thing." Their eyes met from across the table and Sky smirked. "No people to warn, you could just take off...go wherever." Unless he had a job, but that wouldn't be a problem, time travel and all...why was she getting so into this? "But then there's always a job."

"No, no job either." Kit shook his head. "Well I work for myself, I'm just a freelance artist sort of. I do paintings on the river side."

"Aw, how sweet." She scrunched her nose up at him cutely. "People or scenery?"

"Both, depends on the day really I guess." He watched her and she was looking at him curiously as if in thought. "You want to ask something?" He quoted her from before, smiling teasingly as she narrowed her eyes at him and leant forward on the table. The sun was beginning to set, casting a red glow upon the coffee shop and it was starting to rain, so much for the warm British summer weather.

"Just earlier, you said you enjoyed it." She spoke calmly and slowly, perfectly pronouncing each word as she thought about it all. She didn't want to give him the wrong idea, after all she still had her Doctor. But her Doctor had been right, some company would be good. "And...you could come along with me if you wanted."

"Come along with you." The way he repeated her words gave Sky the impression he knew what she meant, he just didn't know how to take them.

"We travel sometimes, with friends. Showing them things." Sky explained briefly and remembered the time she had been the Doctors very first companion. Their first trip being in a stolen TARDIS just to the next Galaxy over. But it had been so beautiful, to leave her planet finally after learning about it all. To actually see it...it would be nice to know she had made someone feel all the way she had that day. "Worlds they never even knew existed. Times they did know of but couldn't imagine."

"And you want me to come with you?" Kit practically repeated himself again as he fidgeted in his seat.

"Well you seem like you could handle it, and that's a rare trait." Sky smirked at him and looked behind around herself to make sure no one was listening. "But there's a possibility of danger. And it would only be as a friend, not you know..." She made an odd face, both of them waiting for her to finish as they watched each other.

"I get it." Kit finally laughed. "But no offence, married aliens aren't really my thing."

"Okay good, so you can come if you want to." She smiled small. "But if you don't want to then-"

"I didn't say no." He interrupted her again and this time she smiled wide, laughing when he appeared to be sheepish and avoided her gaze. "I want to."

After finishing their coffees, Sky led Kit back to the TARDIS which she had hidden in an alley after retrieving it from Hyde Park. It stayed a telephone box this time, not as bulky and old fashioned than the Doctors own TARDIS.

"So where would you want to go?" Sky smiled and swung the key to the TARDIS around her finger as they walked down the busy street together. It was a lot less stressful than the rest of the day, but the Torchwood Institute still bothered her. She'd let it go though, she didn't know enough yet.

Kit started to shake his head cluelessly. "I don't know." It wasn't as if he had ever really though about it. "Anywhere you would suggest?"

"Hmm...if you want to go back...the 3rd Century is alright, Ancient Rome and all that." She smiled but Kit was having a hard time believing what she was saying could actually happen. "Forward...all of it. You can't really go wrong I say. Every bit is different but just as good."

"Forward it is then." Both smiling, they pushed forward and came to the TARDIS. Sky soon opened the door and yet again Sky went straight up to the console while Kit stood by the doors just looking around him. He had noticed before, that Sky had referred to the TARDIS as a 'she' and he didn't really understand why until now. When he stepped in, it felt alive. Everything around him felt as though it had a pulse and life running through it.

"You should pick up some things first. I have to live with a man who insists on only wearing one outfit. I'll be dammed if I let you do it to." She smirked and she thought of the Doctor probably still running around in that same brown pinstriped suit. And this time, she felt less pain as with the a Doctors image, came their children's. It wasn't much less, her hearts still ached but she felt the need to smile at their memory instead of cry. "So...your address Scottish Kit?"

"17 Granger Road." He answered as he joined her at the console and looked over all of the different controls, but never daring to touch anything.

"Good, now...you might want to hold on again for this bit." She slammed the lever down, sending the TARDIS shaking again but it seemed to only be a short trip as after a couple of minutes they stilled and she nodded for Kit to go look. Sky had focused on his house, his living room precisely so if she was good, and she was very good, they should have landed right there in said living room.

"That's mental, how did you do that?"

"Oh I'm very good." Sky spoke out what she was thinking herself and laughed as she ran to join him outside the TARDIS and in his...kitchen. Well...she was still very good. But then Kit frowned, seeing his answering machine blinking quickly.

He walked over to the small box and hit a button, sending a woman's voice sounding through the room.

"Kit? Just wondering why you haven't called for so long. I mean, a week is normal but three weeks?" The first message sounded and it seemed normal, the boy obviously just wasn't very close to his parents.

"Listen I know things are hard but this is ridiculous. Your mother is getting worried, if we didn't know better we would call the police but-" Kit hit the forward button before it could carry on, this was obviously something he didn't want Sky to hear.

"Kit! Kit Avery! This is your mother and this is not funny! Answer this phone! It's been long enough and it is done. If you don't call back then...if it's about them...oh forget it" The caller trailed off and then hung up.

Sky pretended she wasn't listening but she had been and she was starting to get a very bad feeling about it all. The massages increased in anger as they went on and Kit's face twisted more and more with each message.

"That makes no sense." He whispered under his breath. "I called them yesterday, last night. It was the first time in a while yeah but not three weeks. These messages are new." Uh oh.

"Everything alright?" She knew it wasn't but played it casual...maybe he won't notice. He'll just call them and everything will be fine and they'll be gone before he even knows what's up.

"Yeah...just..." Kit trailed off as he took a seat on the couch and his eyes landed and stayed of something. Sky followed his gaze to an electric clock which stated the time...and the date. Inwardly she cringed and prepared herself. "It's the 12th of September..."

"Is it?" Her head screamed at her to play it casual but she was finding it quite hard. "Is that..." She couldn't keep it up when Kit looked to her and she winced. "Okay...so maybe I'm not that good."

"We traveled forward a month?" He gaped. "Just there, in that thing. We time traveled forward a whole month?"

"Apparently so, completely accidental though...sorry." Sky cringed and leant back against the TARDIS's exterior. She was expecting him to be angry at her, livid, for making his parents angry at him and making him miss a month of his life. But instead he started to laugh, slowly at first but then he got louder and just shook his head from side to side.

"No harm done...was there?" He suddenly became worried but settled when Sky shook her head. "It could be worse...could have been a year." Sky smiled, relieved, and walked around to take a seat next to him on the couch.

"Will your parents be okay?" She didn't want to cause any problems for him already.

"Course, I've gone longer than this before without calling them. We're not exactly close." He focused on his hands which were fidgeting. "They're my adoptive parent so..."

"Oh...well then...but you should still call them." Sky took his phone off him before retrieving her sonic screwdriver. "I've had children...raised them when they weren't exactly mine." She spoke and thought back to the loom days when their 'children' we're really just cousins. "But I'd still worry and I'd still want to hear from them."

"What do you-" Kit was interrupted as she buzzed the device in her hands before passing it back to him. "What are you doing?"

"There, you can call from wherever you are now. Forwards backwards, different planet. No excuses." She knew she was talking to him like a mother but if it were her child, she'd want a call. "You want to come with me, you have to call them."

"Are you always this bossy?" Kit laughed and stuffed the phone back in his pocket. In the back of his mind he knew she was right which is why he didn't get mad at her bossing him around on the subject. The frequency of his calls home was always bothering him but they were awkward. Never the less, he could try. Maybe he needed someone like her to force him to.

"People say it but I don't believe them." Sky pouted and then stood, going to look at all of the photos stood on the shelfs above the fireplace in his living room. She chuckled when it showed a child who must have been him.

"Right..." He rolled his eyes. Kit was surprised how comfortable he already seemed to feel around the woman...or Time Lord. He didn't know whether it was her race that it was a trait to or just her, but to be able to tell her he was adopted and laugh at her so easily was...strange. But a very good strange. "I'll go get some stuff. Anything particular I'll need?"

"Erm...no." Sky's face twisted, glancing at him quickly before continuing to look around the room curiously. "Just clothes, phone, anything really personal. The TARDIS will make everything else for you." Kit just nodded and then left the room. She heard him running up stairs and went back to fall on the couch, choosing to reach out to that hum in her head.

'Theta?'

'Everything alright?' His voice was full of urgency, expecting her to be in some form of trouble for reaching out.

'Yes.' She laughed at him. 'Just to let you know, you won.'

'I knew I would.' Theta smirked. 'Be careful though, don't go showing off.'

'I'm not you Theta, and the same goes to you. Be careful.' It was a warning, an indefinite warning that he was to come back to her safely.

'You know I always am.' She could sense his smile, and he was focusing on her just as much as she was focusing on him.

'Theta?' Even in their minds they had shared a moment of silence, just enjoying the feeling of the other one being there finally even if they weren't together.

'I love you.' He spoke as if reading her mind, which he could have essentially done.

'I love you too.' She smiled and let the feeling dull. It was nice having that ability, she always came away with a smile, or in this case a grin. She had just jumped forward a month and he could have lived through a year since they last talked, that's just how time worked for them. But they could talk and that's all that mattered.

"Sky!" Kit's shriek from upstairs woke her from her peaceful and for once happy thoughts, making her stand from the couch in a second before running up the stairs to him. She wouldn't have rushed had it not been for the shock and fear in his voice.

"What is it?" She saw him standing in the doorway to what looked to be his bedroom and walked towards him with her head tilted. Kit didn't speak, nor did he ever looked at her, instead he kept his focus on whatever was behind the door. She sighed and walked forward faster, rounding the door to stand by Kit's side.

When she finally laid eyes on what he was seeing, she too stopped still. It was a blur...

A human shaped blur. A grey human shaped blur. And it moved slightly as if it was changing from one foot to the next. It even took a step forward at one point, causing the two of them to step back quick.

"They're here! They're here!" A voice screamed outside, it sounded like a child and Sky waited for the screaming to start. But it never came...laughter did however and she frowned. Attempting to step forward, Sky only got one step before Kit pulled her back.

"What are you doing?" He asked, still eyeing the...shadow almost.

"It's fine. Trust me." And for some unknown reason he did and let her go, watching her walk around the thing and over to his window. When she looked out to the street, there were dozens more of the same thing. Exactly the same shape, exactly the same movements. Everywhere and people were just playing around them, watching them and smiling. Something was wrong. "How long has this been happening?"

"What? Never. This is the first time I've seen anything like this." Kit answered confused. "What is it?"

"I don't know but it's been here before and recently..." Sky scanned the figure but the results came up null as if nothing was even there to scan. "No ones running so you lot are familiar with them. You heard that girl saying they're here?" Kit nodded but they both jumped when the shape faded and then suddenly disappeared from sight. "Something's happened. In the month we've skipped something's happened." Sky seemed to stumble backwards but then quickly ran down out and down the stairs, straight out the house and into the street.

"Excuse me?" She called to the first person she saw. It was a man in his early 50's maybe, stood in his garden trimming the hedges. She heard Kit's hard footsteps as he had followed her and he looked out over the street which was back to normal as she approached the man. "Sorry but...what was that, that just happened?"

"Ha! Where have you been?" The man laughed in her face, literally, after setting down his trimmers. "They were the ghosts. Who never noticed them before?" The ghosts? She could have laughed right back in his face at that.

"Well I've been away, on holiday."

"To where? The moon, they're all over the world!" Kit had joined them and his face twisted even more than Sky's.

"Something like that yeah." She mumbled quickly, the admission going straight over the mans head. "How long has this been happening?"

"About...three weeks? A month?" The man shrugged. "They just showed up one day, everywhere they were. The whole world panicked and ran away from them but then when everyone realised there was no one to run from and actually looked. We all realised they were harmless, nothing to worry about." Sky had a very bad feeling. Things didn't just show up and go away by themselves and if they did it wasn't for nothing. "They do shifts, that was the night one just gone."

"And what are they exactly?" Kit took over asking the very question on the tip of Sky's tongue.

"They're the ghosts. People we've lost. The other side crossing over, coming back to us." Sky could only nod, she had got all the answers she needed and with a brief smile of thanks to the man Sky retreated back to the house and fell back onto the couch. She found the tv remote on Kit's coffee table and flicked on the television, it didn't take her long to find what she was hoping for.

"They're everywhere...literally everywhere." Sky whispered to no one as it was a few minutes until Kit joined her. "But they can't be ghosts...why do you humans always just settle for the simplest answer?" She shook her head, deciding to ignore Kit's shrug.

"What are they then? I mean they certainly...looked human shaped."

"Yes but I'm human shaped and even if millions of Time Lords started popping up all over this world people would be a little worried." Sky rambled on as she flicked through the channels, all that seemed to be on were programmes about the 'ghosts'. Ghosts in reality TV, in soaps, in documentaries, in the news, in front of the Sydney Opera House. There were millions and millions, gathered everywhere.

"So...are they dangerous?" Kit asked, looking worried. Sky turned to look at him after letting herself sit back so her back pressed against the sofa.

"Not right now...but that doesn't mean they won't become it." Her voice was serious and dark, a lot less light hearted than it had been only a short while ago. "I'm sorry, but we might have to stake out here for a while. An adventure without having to leave your own home." She smiled at Kit and then looked to the TARDIS, before back at him. "Would you mind at all, in this brief delay, if I left the TARDIS here?"

"You want to stay here?" He asked, shocked she was wanting to keep him involved in whatever was happening.

"Yeah, I don't like walking much and if I'm going to work out what they really are..." She paused to smile. "I'll need someone's help."

"Of course, not as if it's that big." Kit attempted to joke but ended up laughing at himself and Sky cringed. "I'll work on them. But where do we start? Do we like catch one?" Laughing, Sky slowly shook her head and Kit looked sheepish but then she stopped and slapped his arm.

"You might be right actually." If the kid kept coming in handy like that all the time it might actually be a good thing for him to come along. "Come on." An evening in the TARDIS store rooms was in order.

A month passed. One whole month. And nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing showed up on the scans. Nothing showed up on tests she'd done. Nothing. Sky had even resorted to going back to Torchwood Industries to try and find something out. Herself and Kit had separately searched each floor and nothing, not a whisper, not even a breath of anything related to the Ghosts. It was ridiculous. She still tried of course but the longer she was there and the more she saw the ghosts the less threatened she even started to feel.

As for her and Kit, they had grown closer. They could even consider each other as friends now, who could talk and laugh easily together. But then again, they didn't really have a choice seeing as her TARDIS still stood in the corner of his kitchen. She was practically living with him...but not as she was actually in another dimension in the TARDIS...but same difference. Most of their night consisted of her working as they both watched tv, trying not to let the ghosts make them crazy and Sky hassling him to call his mother. Which he now did...a little more often than before.

"What are we doing today?" Kit asked as they walked side by side though the outskirts of the city. He was wearing pretty much what he always did, slim jeans and a t-shirt of some kind. Whereas Sky was wearing thick black leggings and a long loose emerald green t-shirt with a chunky black cardigan keeping her warm and black knee high boots. She had maybe gone on a little shopping spree while here after a trip to a cash point with her screw driver. Sky laughed at the memory, Kit's face had been a picture, she thought he was going to pass out when she had flashed the £200 in his face.

"Walking and looking. It's an observing day." She answered quickly but they walked slow. A pattern had been asserting itself over the past week or two, the 'ghosts' we're almost becoming more formatted. Standing in patterns...becoming more lined up it almost seemed. But she had to go see them for herself.

"Right." Kit rolled his eyes at her. "Any particular reason for that?" It was like trying to get blood out of a stone sometimes, he had to work to get her to talk to him about some things. It was like she expected him to read her mind and already know.

"I've noticed a pattern, or what is becoming a pattern." She had mentioned it before to him, but never really explained it.

"Is this to do with their footprints again?" Oh, now that she had explained to him. She still didn't get over how it had took her so long to notice but she had only seen it when they where in the park and a ghost had appeared in the wet mud. Sky had approached in and watched like she always did during the shift and when it was over, on the off chance she looked down and gasped. The 'ghost' had left a footprint, which meant it wasn't a ghost like the humans knew. Something was actually there, something real and hard. And it had the footprint of a boot.

She didn't know what to think but it wasn't good and she had a feeling, if it was what she thought it was. That they were all in very big trouble and she had to get figuring it out soon.

"Sort of." If they were formatting and boots...it sounded a bit too much like an army for Sky's liking.

"It weird though, they're sort of becoming familiar." Kit smiled as they walked between two blocks of flats and towards a small field.

"You're starting to sound like everyone else." Every human loved the ghosts now, and it was starting make them money. Merchandise, television shows, films, action figures. Everything. You couldn't go a day without hearing about how everyone loved the freaking ghosts.

"I'm just saying, after a few weeks it begins to feel normal. But it can't be can it?" Sky noticed the man frown as he glanced at her. "It won't stay like this."

"No, but I agree. You start to expect them." It was strange, because they just stood there all blurry. One had appeared in his living room one morning shift and just stood there, it looked like it was watching them, everywhere it walked it would turn back to watch them. Strange was the word. "Speaking of which, what's the time?"

Kit looked at his watch. "Ten past."

"Two minutes." Sky muttered under her breath and they came to a small clearing between some blocks of flats but before the field. Some kids were playing with a ball and a few people were stood chatting. Here would do. They stood against a wall and waited the short two minutes until 12 minutes past. On the dot, the blurry figures appeared. As expected they were moving closer to each other, in front of them were two very badly formed wobbly lines but they were there. No one would realise but Sky...Sky had been watching and there it was. There were a few solos dotted around but the time would come and when it did, that was the time she dreaded. "See they're forming lines." She pointed over for Kit. "Slowly but surely."

"What does that mean?" He was interrupted when a door banged open from their left and two figures came running out.

No...no! Sky found herself grinning before she could even contain herself and she stood up straight off the wall, taking a couple of steps forward.

"Doctor?"