The sound of beeps filled my ears. I squinted and rolled my eyes around the room. It was very white. In a chair in the corner, I saw my mom, passed out. She was sleeping.

Where was I? It looked like a hospital room. The Doctor had taken me to an Earth hospital? And by the looks of it, he had brought me back to my parents.

Tubes laced into my arm and I took a look at the machines I was hooked up to. They were nothing like what Etnom and the Lord Commander had hooked me up to. The Lord Commander, I thought, there was no way he was still alive. Unless by some miracle he escaped before the place blew, he was long gone. I sighed and sank deeper into the clean, white sheets.

I heard a gasp and saw my dad standing right beyond my mom's chair. Mom woke up from his shocked gasp and the second she saw me, she burst into tears.

"Anne, you're alive!" Mom rushed forward and hugged me around the neck. Weakly, I raised my arms and hugged her back. Mom held me back by my shoulders and her face was now completely streaked with tears. "The second we heard, we rushed straight over."

"What did you hear?" My voice came out as a croak. Mom's eyes filled with more tears. Dad stepped forward.

"You were hit by a car, Anne," Dad said. "We got the call from the hospital saying that you had been brought in."

"Who brought me in?" I asked immediately. Where were the Doctor and Mercury? They couldn't have gone far…

Dad glanced over his shoulder to where the waiting room probably was. "Some man named John Smith saw the whole thing. He's already reported it to the police and everything. He just wants to make sure that you're okay."

"Can you bring him in?" I asked. Mom and Dad glanced at each other before agreeing and allowing me and "Mr. Smith" to talk to each other alone.

The Doctor walked in, still wearing his blue pinstripe suit and brown overcoat. His hair was spiked from running his hands through it and his warm eyes were burning silently. Color rushed to his face when he saw that I had woken up. Without a word he charged up to me and hugged me tightly.

"You have been out of it for a solid week, Miss Worthing." He said as he settled down into the chair that my mom had slept in. I shook my head and gave him a small smile.

"So I got run over by a car?"

The Doctor smirked. "It was the best explanation I could come up with concerning your several broken ribs and crushed leg. Those fools you call doctors said you'll have to go through rehab to be able to walk properly again."

For the first time, I glanced down at what had happened to my leg. It had been crushed by the marble statue. I could make out the crushed flesh and broken veins underneath the surface and I let the sheet fall again, not wanting to look at it. The Doctor was staring at me sadly.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," He said. I felt my stomach swoop when he said that. I knew now that whenever the Doctor started telling you how sorry he was, it was big trouble.

"We can't travel together anymore, right?" I asked. The Doctor looked into my eyes and I knew that it was true. When you traveled with the Doctor, you had to be ready to run as fast as you can on a moment's notice. You can't do that when you were crippled.

"I'm coming back for you." The Doctor told me. "You're not going to sit here by yourself."

"Yeah, but it could take years before my legs have fully healed, Doctor." I pointed out. He looked like he was trying to convince himself otherwise, but my logic was winning. He looked close to tears. I lifted my arm and hugged him across the shoulders. After that, I looked him in the eyes.

"You go ahead," I said. "Have more adventures for me. Get another companion and take them across the universe. But don't forget to come back for me and I want you to tell me about your new adventures."

The Doctor let one tear fall down his face before standing up to leave. He leaned down and kissed me on the forehead. "I'll be back, Miss Worthing." He muttered into my hair. With closed eyes, I listened to him leave.

After the Doctor left, I felt my tears start to burn down my face. But even as I told myself not to worry, that he'd come back one day, I heard the whirring sound of the TARDIS. I realized that he must've parked it somewhere close by so that I could hear him. I blinked away more tears and collapsed back down into my pillows.

I was going to see the Doctor again someday. Whether it was in a few months or a few years, he'd come back. And I'd be able to run away again. Until then, I was just going to have to do one thing that hundreds of people have done before me.

Carry on.

A/N: Thank you everyone who read, reviewed, favorited, and alerted this story! I've loved writing it and I hope I have actually started writing a sequel which should be on my profile and it is called "See You Again".

I'd like to dedicate this story to my good friend Lawrence; without him, I never would've watched Doctor Who and I never would've felt the drive to write about Anne and her adventures with Ten. I hope everyone has enjoyed this story and I have made a soundtrack to the songs that I obsessed over while writing it (it's on my profile).

Once again, thank you so much for clicking on "Carry On" and for going on this grand adventure with me.

-Katie