I walked through the shopping mall quite content to browse over the items I could see in the windows without going inside. I was waiting for Jack- Captain Jack- and we had agreed to meet here because he needed help with a 'problem'; he hadn't told me what….. joy.

I smiled as I saw a pregnant woman slide down onto a bench in the middle of the hall; she had to be at four months because her bump was still small. She had short ginger hair that stuck out around her face crazily but one part just kept falling into her eyes, she pushed it behind her ear and froze in place as she stared at something down one of the darkened halls between two of the shops.

Her eyes darted around in a panic, she had seen something that terrified her. She looked towards me and our eyes met, we both froze…..oh no!

I ran towards her without a second thought; not caring about the shoppers who stared at me like I was crazy, that woman was me!

I slid to a stop in front of her.

"You…..you….." I couldn't speak.

"Yes me." She looked so sad. I sat down beside her quietly.

"Does he know, about the baby I mean?" I asked, staring at the small bump that I would carry one day.

Future me smiled, like she was remembering something funny.

"I didn't expect to get pregnant, you know, it just sort of happened." I laughed gently.

"Isn't that how everything happens with the Doctor?" she laughed but stopped quickly as whatever was down that hallway caught her eye again, she shuddered. I tried to turn around but she grabbed my hands.

"Please don't look." She begged, "Please."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because once you do it's all over."

"What's over?" I asked sharply but she didn't answer, just kept begging me with her eyes.

"Please."

I stared to turn again and the future me sighed.

"This is the longest I've ever held a regeneration y'know?" I looked at her and she nodded. "Three years, almost four, I've had this body and so many more to come but you," she looked sad, "you were one of the shortest."

"What happened?" I asked.

"I can't remember."

"What?" I asked in surprise and shock.

"The last thing I remember is talking to the ginger version of my future self." I stared at her in shock; the last thing she remembered was happening now.

I stared into her eyes a moment. I was about to die, my time was up. I kept staring into her TARDIS blue eyes that matched mine perfectly; they were the only thing that never changed no matter the regeneration.

"Is it a good life?" I asked desperately. "Will I be happy?" I was fighting tears. I was going to die.

Future me smiled and held up her left hand. On it were the two rings the 10th Doctor had given us. Then she pulled up her jean leg to show me an ankle bracelet and lastly pulled a necklace up over the collar of her maternity jumper; it was a bonding necklace only to be given when a Time Lord told his mate his true name.

Tears where trailing down my face, but I smiled through them.

"Thank you." I muttered. I gave her hands one last squeeze before standing. I turned away from her ignoring the tears falling down her face; she was lying to me about not remembering and that had me worried; what could be so bad that she didn't want me to know what it was?

I sighed and turned down the hallway. It was time for me to die.