Lelia smirked to herself as the TARDIS dimmed the lights in the bedroom as she entered. The woman mentally thanked the machine as she closed the door behind her and walked over to the small chest of draws on the other side of the room. She pulled open the first draw and found a blue t-shirt, it would do, so shy threw it on the bed and started to take off her clothes which were still dirty and a little damp.

First was the thick carry she had been wearing for what seemed like weeks without taking it off, and then her top and her leggings. Lelia threw the top over her head quickly so she wasn't stood half naked for long. Theta was only going to finish some...upgrades...to the TARDIS and then he was joining her, she had tried to wait for him but then he had pulled out his hammer and her exhausted head couldn't handle it anymore.

But just as the t-shirt fell over her head and covered her chest and torso, the door to the bedroom creaked as it opened and Theta appeared. They both stopped, Lelia smiling at him and hoping he didn't mind her borrowing his clothes and Theta trying desperately not to focus on the amount of bare skin she was showing.

"Eh, sorry I'll-" He went to turn to leave her to get ready for bed alone, but Lelia interrupted him before he could even blink.

"What for?" She was smirking, just faintly as the left corner of her lips perked. She had noticed his blank face and concentration on anywhere but her legs from the moment he saw her. Lelia wasn't stupid and she knew him, she'd be able to spot that face a mile away.

"Eh..nothing!" His voice was almost a squeak and his hand went straight to his head, burying in his hair. "Nothing..." Theta trailed off and finally allowed his eyes to drift down over her figure as she turned to move her clothes she's just taken off, from the bed to the floor.

The top she wore, which he guessed was his, only just reached her thigh and he only just managed to pull his eyes away as she bent over to move her shoes. She wasn't just beautiful, she was the most beautiful. But she always had been to him, always. Blonde, brunette, tall, short, no matter what face she was given she had always ended up being prettier each time. Theta found himself smiling at Lelia before he knew it and he closed the door behind him, unbuttoning his jacket as he walked over to the bed.

"You didn't answer me?" Theta spoke first, catching her attention, but it took a few moments for her to look up. She had a curious expression, but she looked at him as if to tell him to go on. "When I asked where you wanted to go?"

"Oh." Lelia finally smiled and stood again to pull back the covers on the bed. "I did answer...I told you to choose." Honestly, she didn't know where she wanted to go. She didn't even know whether it was best if she stayed. They still had their agreement but she sort of wanted to stay, but first she had to let him get over Rose properly.

"I don't want to choose." Theta laughed and dropped his suit coat over the back of a chair before starting on loosening his tie and shirt.

"I want you to choose." Lelia climbed into bed and laid on her side to face Theta as he undressed but threw her a teasing smirk as she continued to shake her head at him.

"But I want you to choose." He started to slip out of his shirt and threw that over the back of the chair with his tie and jacket. "And don't say no because you know I always win." Theta pointed a finger at her and winked.

"Fine." Lelia smiled slowly and rested her head down on the pillow. "But no running!" She looked up at him seriously but Theta only laughed as he stepped out from his suit trousers and climbed into the bed next to her.

"No running." His reply was soft, and he turned on his side so they were both laid facing each other. They were both silent for a while, but it was comfortable and each of them took the time to relax and listen to the silence which surrounded them. They didn't have to think about anyone or anything, just each other.

"I would take you home if I could." It was such a strong thing to stay and it was so suddenly spoken that Lelia's eyes grew sad a little before she hid it. He was trying to be nice, she knew he was, but both of them wished he really could take them home.

"I know you would." Lelia smiled and reached across to hold his hand.

"Right now." Theta continued, this time beginning to smile. "Back to that house, with those gardens..." He tried to keep their memories of home happy as they had been sad for too long. "You could see the southern mountains from one window and the Citadel from another."

"That house you kept ripping apart." Lelia muttered, half under her breath as she looked past the Doctor with her eyes glazed over in thought. But she was teasing him, coming back to the real world for just a second to chuckle. "Every time you came home, the next minute at least one thing would be dismantles or in bits."

"Some things needed an upgrading." Theta tried to defend himself. "You would ask!"

"Ask you to fix it, not take it apart and break it more!" Lelia yelled as she laughed and threw her head back on the pillow. All she could remember was the countless times she had yelled at him over that sort of situation. "You know what this feels like?" She asked suddenly and Theta nodded for her to go on. "Back at the start, in the academy. You still remember back then?"

"How could I forget?" Eyebrows raised, Theta's voice picked up. "When you fancied me? I couldn't get rid of you."

"Oi! Other way around thank you!" Beginning to laugh, Theta dodged a hit from her hand and caught her wrist in his hand. He used it to pull her closer towards him, their noses almost touching as Theta's arm wrapped around her waist. "You use to drag me out in the middle of the night? You hadn't even passed your TARDIS exams, I don't know what I was thinking."

"Well...I was too handsome for you to say no to." He smirked and leant his forehead against Lelia's. "And charming, and...adventurous..." Theta's lips pouted playfully and couldn't help but burst out in laughter at the look she was giving him.

"Adventurous? That meaning you almost got me killed every time you illegally took me somewhere."

"Not every time...alright a few times." Her stare got harder as he went on. "Okay...almost every time." He stuttered nervously and smiled at her. Then they grew quiet again and the question she knew Theta wanted to ask started looming behind his eyes, she could see it. That little cloud of curiosity and want. "We could do all that again, those adventures, just like old times?"

"Not yet." She didn't want to trail him along, just tell him and let him accept it so they could have a nice night together. But she saw the sadness fall once more over his face as soon as she said it, so she took Theta's face in her hands and kissed him softly. "One day...like all those years ago. One day you'll knock on the door to my room and I'll take your hand and let you lead me anywhere."

Theta's hearts skipped a beat when she said that and he remembered. That first night he had went to her room while they were still in the Academy. He had only talked to her once between meeting her in her Houses gardens and knocking on her door that night. But it had felt right to him, going to see her and the look on her face when she had opened the door was a picture. Those were the sorts of memories he had turned to when he had thought everyone was gone, even her. Times like that, which were indescribable and irreplaceable and warmed his heart.

Lelia was laying on her front on the large bed in her dorm room at the Academy. The small cream lamp on her bedside table gave just enough light for her to read the book she held loosely in her hands. It was a calm night, all of her work was done for the first time in a while and she could finally relax. She had been able to play slow music and sing and take a bath, everything she had missed doing when she had once had the time. She felt good and happy...

Until suddenly there was a knock on her door. She wasn't expecting anyone, and it was even too late for inspections. The Suns had set hours ago and it was passed anyone's curfew for being out. But never the less, she got up to answer when the knock sounded a second time. It was quiet, which was why she was so suspicious but she kept tight a hold of the door handle as she slowly turned the lock and opened the door.

"Lungbarrow?" Her voice had left her before she even realised, but she blushed when he smiled at her recognising him. It was that boy, that one from her grandfathers party months and months ago. "What are- why?" She had only spoke to him twice in her whole life but now he was there, stood in front of her. It went against all the rules of the Academy. You weren't allowed out past curfew and boys weren't allowed in the girls dormitory corridors.

"Thought I'd come say hi." He had on that cheeky smile she had first noticed in her Houses gardens and it only made her blush more.

"But why?" Lelia was smiling at him now, but she hardly realised, all she could think about was how close to her he stood as he leant against the door frame of her room.

"Can I come in?" There was amusement in his voice as he asked the question, but it seemed to instantly bring her back to her senses. There was a boy she barely knew asking to come into her room.

"What?" Lelia perked, eyes wide.

"Before someone catches us, can I come in?" The man from Lungbarrow asked again, this time allowing himself to chuckle out loud but still almost silently. "I...wanted to talk to you." A sudden noise from down the corridor made both of their heads snap to the right and Lungbarrow seemed to stand straighter and become nervous as footsteps started to sound. With no warning, Lelia grabbed his hand and pulled him into her room fast, before slowly shutting her door as gently as she could.

"You could get us in a lot of trouble." Gasping, Lelia turned to look on the man who was now stood in front of her...only a few feet away...in her dorm room. His hands were stuffed in the pockets of his trousers and he was smirking at her, but he was cute as he did so.

"Could do...might do..." He shrugged and pouted his lips in thought. "Or we might not." Her heart quickened as he continued to look at her. "Did you have plans?"

"I never have plans, it's past curfew, no one has plans." Lelia laughed lightly. "Why?"

"I had a plan, I wanted to go somewhere and thought you might like to join me?" It was spoke as a question and she could tell he was waiting for an answer.

"Go where?" Lelia was frowning as she spoke, the footsteps out in the halls had disappeared but that didn't mean she wanted to start wandering them with a boy.

"Do you always ask so many questions?" Cringing, it still came across light hearted and she looked to the floor with a blush before looking up and smirking at him.

"When a man comes to my door in the middle of the night, asking me to go somewhere with him? Yeah." Their eyes met and both fell silent for a second, until he walked to her and took her hand in his.

"Somewhere secret, but you won't regret it." Shaking his head in an attempt to back up his words, Lungbarrow squeezed her hand and took a single step back. "Come with me."

"Okay." Lelia almost did a double take towards herself, it was an instant answer. But something in her gut trusted him and she could deny that she wanted to go, even if it was a deep instinct. "I'll get changed, stay there."

Lelia walked past him and took some clothes out of a large wardrobe, before she went into the adjoining bathroom and shut the door. But as soon as the door was closed, he started to snoop upon being unable to hold himself back. He scanned over the book laying on her bed first, before moving to the other large stack that were stacked on a shelf. Then he looked over the pictures on her dresser, he recognised some from her House, but not all of them. Next was some music on a small table, she had a large room, much larger than his but he had seen her home and this is obviously what belonging to a rich house got you.

Before he could be anymore snoopy, the door behind him opened and she stood in front of him in light jeans and a white t-shirt and a navy cardigan. She smiled at him as soon as their eyes met and then he held out is hand to her for her to take.

It only took a few seconds, and before he knew it this girl who had captured Theta's attention so quickly and so intensely, walked to him and took his hand.

"You sure? No turning back." He warned her but she only laughed and held his hand tighter.

"I'm intrigued Mr Lungbarrow. So I'm sure." Slowly, he walked backwards towards the door to her room, still looking at her. But then he turned to open the door and peep his head out. He put a finger to his lips, telling her to keep hushed and then stepped out, pulling her with him.

They each made sure their footsteps was as light as a feather, but the further into the centre of the Academy this man led her, the more worried she became. They passed the library and then the kitchens and then some classrooms...until they reached the more speciality concerned area.

"Where are we going?" She dared to asked, but only when she was sure there was no one around to hear. "The only thing down here is the laboratories?" Theta just turned his head and smirked quickly before he pulled her behind him towards a door. "What? We can't go in there!" He had to hush her, but he couldn't help but laugh at her. "This is where they keep the TARDIS's."

"I know." Came his short reply as he took a rickety looking device from his pocket and started to work on the doors lock.

"But the real ones...I've only ever seen the simulators." Of course, he kept forgetting she was younger. This was going to be even better for her in that case. "Why are you taking me here?"

"Just wait and see." Theta said, smirking to himself as he heard the lock snap open for him and the door shook lightly. "There, come on, almost there." He took her hand again and pulled her through the door, it didn't take long for him to guide her to where he wanted and they stopped just for a second, Lelia coming to stand by his side. "What do you think?"

"I think you're going to get me expelled." She whispered breathlessly but then took a step forward. "This plan of yours? What was it?" Lelia didn't look to him as she approached one of the living ships and slowly reached a hand out to touch it. Lelia could feel her humming under her hand, it made her smile and walk around the box slowly, trailing her hand over each short side as the excitement grew when she thought about what was inside.

"Is there anywhere you've ever really wanted to go?" Lungbarrow suddenly asked her. "A time? A place? Anywhere?"

"Maybe...but why? You can't..." Lelia's face fell as she caught on. "You can't be thinking of going...actually going?" She stared at him with wide eyes, turning away from the TARDIS finally to stare at this strange man.

"Trust me." Was all he said.

"But...but I've never...there's meant to be more than two people on a ship and I haven't even passed my exams." Lelia started to ramble as her eyes switched between the ship and the man. She barely knew him, met him twice, but he was here trying to take her away in a TARDIS neither of them properly knew how to operate. He was mad. But that pinch in her gut telling her to trust him was there again.

"Neither have I...I will though, in a few weeks. So it's fine." Theta smiled as reassuringly as he could and then took a set of keys from his pocket and walked over to a particular TARDIS. "I know what I'm doing. Trust me."

"Where did you get the keys!?"

"Sneaked them out of Professor Hearts office, I'll get them back by morning. No one will ever know." He put the keys in the lock and turned them. Even he was surprised when the door opened so easily and the lights from inside the TARDIS shone though the small crack in the door.

"Promise me?" Lelia spoke sternly, looking the man in the eye. She never did anything like this, no one ever put this much effort into her. She was semi suspicious but if he was trying to woo her he was going about it the right way too. But she needed to know she could trust him.

"I promise." He smiled, staring back at her but then pushing the door open for her to enter first. "Now...where would you like to go?"

"Even if you think I'm mad." Theta asked her teasingly as his hand found its way into her hair at the back of her neck. As his fingers began to run through it, softly pulling at it, Lelia closed her eyes and sighed.

"You are mad, you'll always be mad." Smiling, still eyes closed, she pushed her head against his more almost as if she was nuzzling him and felt his breath on her lips. "My mad and raggedy man." She didn't seem real in that moment as she muttered those words which were at one points the words he longed to hear. So meaningless to anyone else but him, but they were her words and the words he'd fell in love with on that night he'd stolen her away. A man and raggedy man. But he'd always be hers.

Soon they fell asleep after that, close to each other and concentrating on the hum in their minds which lulled them to sleep.