A/N: Hey, I took a little trip in my TARDIS to Narnia, but then we got sidetracked and had to help out Sam and Frodo, and then I coincidently got reaped for the 50th Hunger Games in the future, and then Peter Pan came by after I came back in my TARDIS, and I had to help him defeat Capitan Jack Sparrow. Or help him. I can't remember which.

Did I mention chapter sixteen is fixed?

2067 in Pete's World, but 2020 in the Original Universe...

Carina nearly fell flat on her face in the hot sand. Raising her head slowly, she blinked in the blinding sunlight, trying to get a glimpse of her surroundings. The hot sun was already making her sweat and making her head hurt worse. It had been a weird feeling, travelling dimensions like that. It felt like being pulled and stretched from every direction. Her head was pounding and aching. Groaning, she pulled her self to her feet.

"Blimey", she muttered to herself as she slipped off her black, leather jacket and placing it in her backpack, along with the silver dimension retriever. And there it was, a city in the distance with what looked like adobe. Maybe she was earlier in Egypt or something. Time didn't run as fast over here anyway. She grinned to herself, thinking that maybe there was a chance to save the people she loved.

Her first thought upon entering the city was that this most definitely wasn't earth. First clue? Spaceships and Jeep-like vehicles were coming in and out of a huge gate that led it's way into the dusty, but modern city. Carina's second clue was that there were no humans around. There were aliens of all kinds, but the most prominent ones were lizard-like people that were slightly taller than the average human and came in every ugly colour imaginable. They also didn't speak English, because the guards at the gate, instead of accepting her smile and answering her questions, decided to grip her arms and check her ankle for something.

"Oi", she squeaked at them when they tried to take her bag, "What do you think your doing?"

They simply grunted and yelled something in a gruff, harsh language that attracted more of their buddies. They came over and confiscated the bag and dragged her along to what look like a humongous city hall made of marble and wood. The first room was huge and held aliens of all kinds, some walking as though they owned the place, and other looking down with their hands (clawed, webbed, some normal) or feet (normal, hooved, furry) tied. Some dared to look up at her face and gave her a pitying look. Slaves, she guessed, sickened. The Sycorax had some.

All of a sudden, a horrible feeling came over her.

They dragged her up a huge staircase in the middle of the room and went down the right hall, bringing into what looked like an office. An oakish wood covered almost the whole interior that held a desk, chair, bookcases, and filing cabinets. The ceiling was white and shell-like. Carnia thought it to be beautiful until their grinding language filled the room and she wondered what they were saying.

"Honourable Praefectus, we've found this human wondering outside the gate." The dark green lizard guy at the desk seemed to look her over and she diverted her gaze, studying the ceiling. "It has no number and no one seemed to recognize it when we came through the reception downstairs."
"It just walked in?"
"Yes, sir."

"You didn't see a strange ship or anything?"

"No, sir."

"Must be a drop off. Well, more income for us. Were you the ones to find it?"

The guards, dark blue and mustard yellow, nodded.

"I'll be sure you get compensation then, miles. Take it to the idenifaction room and have it listed as a city peon, and set in lined for training. It's obviously never been here before. I'll check in later."

"Yes, sir."

Carina had no idea what they were talking about. She'd only been able to pick out a few words that might mean things like yes and no. What she did know what that she wanted her backpack, with her ticket back home, back. She had put up a fight, but it was to no avail. These people were stronger than she guessed. Yellow left Blue to drag her to a metal room where she was roughly handed off to what looked like a grandma lizard, dark gritty pink. Things were quickly explained and Blue left while Carina was taken into a smaller room. A young girl, who looked humanoid, but smaller with long, dark blue hair and a very pale complexion waited. Instructions were harshly given by Grandma and the door closed. Carina stood stock still and surveyed the room as the girl gaped at her.

"Can you speak English?"

The girl simply looked at her and rummage through a pile of clothes in the corner of the empty, metal room.
"Any earth language then?"
The girl pulled out a tan dress that was a tan colour and handed it to her. It was identical to the one she was wearing. Carina held the dress and the girl gave her a pitying look before talking in a lilting, almost musical language.

"I can't understand you", Carina kept telling her and the girl stopped talking, and pointed to Carina's jeans and grey-and-flowered shirt and then to the dress.

So she had to change. Awkwardly, Carina stripped down to her knickers and slipped on the rough, linen dress. It fit perfectly and Carina wondered how the girl had guessed her size so well. She picked up her clothes and folded them. The young girl took them and set them next the pile of clothes. Carina was about to put on her shoes and socks when the girl shook her head and took them, placing them with her clothes.

"Blimey, you guys are all about taking personal items. Can't I even have my shoes?", she asked, brushing a brown curl behind her ear.

The blue-haired girl looked confused, but then pointed to the door, to her own ankle, and then to Carina's ankle. Carina looked at the girl's ankle. There was a tattoo.

21-00-137

She looked at her own ankle and realised what the girl was trying to explain. Taking her things, giving her the outfit, the tattoo. Carina felt the throb of a panic thinking about how she'd be caught once. Suddenly, she went wild and tried to open the window at the other side of the small room, but it wouldn't help. They were way to high off the ground. Carina slid to the floor, her back resting against the wall. The girl sat next to her and held her hand until the woman came in.

Martha was in her room, on the phone with her mum, while the Doctor and Jack were tinkering with the TARDIS before heading to Kur-ha for some ice skating. They all were a little shaken by nearing dying and people being possessed by the sun. Cold weather was definitely next on the list of requirements of places to go.

The conservation had lolled and the two men were working in companionable silence when the TARDIS started screeching for the Doctor. Quickly, he pulled himself from under the console and fixed his glasses, focusing on the console screen. Jack followed and stood next to him, unable to read the words because they were written in Gallifreyain.

"What is it, Doc?"
The Doctor's brow furrowed as he typed something in and a map appeared.
"Well?"

"Some thing's fallen through the universe walls. I have no idea how, but it has", the Doctor ran a hand through his hair. "This isn't right. The universes should be collapsing or something. How'd they even get through?" He started pulling levers and pushing buttons while he ran around the console.

Jack stood watching and thinking. "You don't think- Maybe- It could be-", he trailed off.

The Doctor stood still and looked. "I don't think so, Jack. She's got him now. Even if she was-", he swallowed the lump in his throat. "Even if she was coming back, it couldn't be for a long time. But she'll have family, and she'll be happy. She won't want to leave", the Doctor barely spoke the last part as he pressed the last button. "Rasslion, with my luck, it's probably more Daleks."

Jack nodded and pointed a thumb down the hall. "I'll go get Martha."

A few minutes later, Jack and Martha found the Doctor once again pouring over the TARDIS screen, reading about the planet and time they were at.

"So, what's the plan?", Martha asked. "Jack told me what the TARDIS found."
"Right", the Doctor rubbed his hands together. "So we're going to act as royalty. Though I'll warn you, Vertston isn't know for it's human rights, it's a slave planet. But if we don't mess it up, we'll do just fine."

They stared at him. "Yeah, no thanks", Martha said, "My race has had enough with slavery, thank you very much."
"C'mon, I'll even let you be the queen", the Doctor whined.
"Fine, but on one condition."
"What's that?"
"I'm queen of Freedonia and you are my assistants", she smirked.
"But that's not fair, I'm the Lord of Time, may I remind you. I don't get to use that very often."
"Thank goodness, because you're already full of yourself", Jack commented and earned an expression of approval from Martha, as well as a glare from the Doctor. "We're popping in and out, right?"

"True", the Time Lord sighed and checked the console screen, "We're about a exactly a year after it landed here. It shouldn't make much of a difference." He turned to the doors. "Allon-sy!"

It was only a few months until she had finally broken down. It was while she was being whipped for one hundredth and sixty-second time that Carina decided to give in. She slunk to ground and laid on her stomach while it kept coming until someone yelled to stop. It was Monari, the dark green lizard guy from the marble-and-wood city hall.

Oh, how she hated him.

Carina had never hated a soul in her life until she came to this world, and now she hated several people. One, the universe for being so cruel. Two, Monari, for the pain and toture that he subjected her to. His job's done now, she thought to herself as someone pulled her up. She winced as the harsh language made more sense in her ears. (Their language here on Vertson wasn't too hard to learn.)

"Had enough?", Monari spoke and she could hear the smirk in his voice, but she kept her head down in fear of another punishment. She didn't speak either, but simply nodded.
"Put it in for the night. It can come back to work in the morning."

After getting back to the servant's room that was more like barracks, she sighed and laid on the bed. It was hot, sticky, and her back stung. Carina desperately want to get her backpack and get out of here. But it wouldn't happen. She obviously wasn't strong enough to get out herself. How would anyone who knew her, find her anyway? They couldn't. She faced the facts. Carina Andrea Smith was stuck, as a slave in the lowest class, and was never getting out.

No one would be coming for 00-00-84.

(At least, not for a while.)

Martha walked in front of the Doctor, who held the physic paper, and Jack, who kept grinning at various aliens. They had gotten through the gate easily enough and the Doctor thought they should get through easily, depending on what it was that came through the Void. They were being escorted to the governor of this town as Queen of Freedonia, her personal researcher, and the head of her, what they called, peons. Martha appeared to be unimpressed at the government building's architecture as they were led up a huge flight of stairs. They all had decided to wear purple, the colour of royalty on this planet, and people were showing them utmost respect. Jack noticed that there weren't any humans. At all. It was weird, but travelling with the Doctor, you get used to these kind of things. After all three were graciously accepted by Monari, the Praefectus, and given tea and the planet's version of cookies, the Doctor began asking him questions.

"So, um, Honourable, her highness has been looking for a personal, er, slave", he winced at his own words.
Monari gave him a grin. "Then you've come to the right place. Our production is so big here, not even the Shadow Proclamation tries to stop us."
The Doctor tried grinning at him as Jack and Martha stiffened up. He created a quick and easy plan for today. One, cancel the ice skating. Two, find out what fell through the Void. Three, overthrow an entire planet.

Easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.

"Right, of course. Have you had anything come in the past, uh, year or so."

"We've got stock to choose from." All three shifted uncomfortably again, wishing they could take this guy out now.

Later, Jack told himself.

"What about anything in the last year?", the Doctor asked, "Anything odd that's come through?"

"Now that you mention it, we did find a human wondering through the gates. Quite young, female, and extremely stubborn, or at least used to be. Not that it's different for you."

"Actually, I'd love to have a personable, uh, peon-", Martha spoke up. She couldn't bear to see a girl caught up in this mess, not if they failed to overthrow this guy later, "-as my same species."
"A human, you say?", the Doctor tugged on his ear, "What's she like?"
"Short, brown haired, small. Not what you'd be looking for."

"That sounds fine to me, doesn't it, Doctor?", Martha gave him a sideways glance, "It's not extremely hard work."

He and Jack nodded in agreement, and Monari sat back in his chair slowly with a grin.
"When would you like to see it?"

"Is now ok?"

"Now listen to me, merda, behave or there's going to be consequences. Severe. And my I remind you that you haven't had a severe one in a while."

Monari drug Carina along the hallways of the city hall. He'd had her pulled out of the fields and brought to her the city to be bought. She looked down at her dirty feet with too-short toenails as she nodded. It wasn't any use to fight against it. People sounded interested in buying her. In no way was she giving up a chance to never see her master's lizard face again. Not that she would ever voice that thought. He might lock her up in the prison again. A place she never hoped to visit again. Maybe the people who bought her would be kind hearted towards someone so young. That was her prayer she kept chanting through her head.

Before he opened up the door to the room, Monari faced Carina so close that she could smell his breath. It reminded her of old onions. "I'll be glad to get rid of the likes of you", he said wickedly.

In a last act of defiance, she raised her bruised head and smiled at him. "Likewise, Master."

The slap was worth it.

A/N: It's dark, it's gloomy, it's how I feel at the moment. Don't judge. SUPER SORRY FOR THE HIATUS. I promise it won't happen without warning again.

Also, my birthday was in the end of July. SO maybe we could get to 200 reviews to celebrate? I'll bring some ice cream, cake, and Nutella next time. ^_^ Just a thought... O_o