"What about you Doctor?" Rani asked.
"Err, well, I'm not so good at the fighting, but I'll have a go." The Doctor smiled. "We don't know how Bella's going to be yet!" The Doctor added optimistically.
When Amy woke up the next morning, the first thing she did was look over to Bella's bed.
Empty.
"Bella? Bella! Oh my god, Star came and took her while we were asleep. Oh, Bella!" Amy felt tears in her eyes as she clutched Bella's toy bear to her chest.
"Amy? Amy! Come in here!" She heard Bella call from the bathroom. Amy breathed a sigh of relief and stood up quickly but slowly walked to the bathroom; apprehensive of what she was going to find there.
"What?" Amy asked, curious but cautiously.
"Watch this." Bella turned away from the full length mirror and towards Amy. She shut her eyes, her face relaxed but concentrated. Amy watched and a kind of sparkly dust appeared over Bella's head and then travelled down her body, in and out at every single bump and notch. As the ring of sparkly dust passed over Bella's skin, significant changes occurred; her skin became pale white but her cheeks had a light blush, her skin seemed to give off a light that certainly brightened the windowless room, whenever she moved Bella seemed to leave a trail of sparkly dust, her eyes had changed to a vibrant purple and the hospital gown seemed dull. Then, finally, Bella opened a full pair of translucent purple wings Amy was amazed to say the least.
"Wow," Was the only word Amy could manage; every other word to her knowledge had disappeared. "Every four year old girl in the world would be jealous if they could see you now." Amy added. Doh! Why the hell did I just say that? Amy thought.
"I know! I don't know how it's even possible!" Bella was just as shocked as Amy. Amy kept quiet about 'how it was possible'; the Doctor had wanted to tell her that. Bella changed back to her human form almost instantaneously and ran over to hug Amy.
"Oh I've missed your hug!" Amy said, hugging Bella back.
"Missed?" Bella asked.
"You've been out of it for 2 days!" Amy informed, going to rummage through her stud to find her camera. She'd seen this coming and taken pictures of Bella so she could show her.
"2 days?" Bella couldn't believe it.
"I believe this is where I step in," The Doctor said; he'd appeared silently at the door.
"What?" Bella was confused. The Doctor walked confidently into the room, put his arm round Bella's shoulders and led her away.
"Let's walk." He muttered. Amy was left in the room; worried about how Bella was going to react to the Doctor's revelation.
"What's going on?" Bella asked the Doctor; she was beginning to panic.
"It's not bad, I promise. Well, not too bad."
"You don't keep promises." Bella confronted; having heard Sarah Jane and Amy's stories. Rory's died. Twice. The Doctor shrugged.
"So you can change into, something now then." The Doctor had stopped walking, and was leaning over a bar which blocked a drop to the next floor, giving a view of the classy front entrance to the hospital.
"How do you know? I've only shown Amy."
"Well, it's kind of linked with where I went, that night when I came back in the tux." The Doctor wasn't sure how to go about telling her.
"Go on..."
"I went to July 11th 2001," Bella's face was a picture of hurt and a feeling of betrayal. Tears already were swimming in her eyes. "I met your parents, I saw the crash. But, it wasn't a crash,"
"What?" Bella demanded, her voice rising, tears threatening to fall.
"I guess you've learnt you are a creature from the mythical world. And so were your parents; a centaur and a pixie, in disguises. They'd predicted you were a brand new species,"
"What happened?" Bella demanded, with the distinct feeling of her life being a lie; she'd believed her parents had died in a car crash all these years.
"A Griffin attacked them; smashed the back window, dragged your parents out, murdered them,"
"The screaming," Bella whispered.
"Then it smashed the car, dropping on it like a bomb, with you inside." The Doctor explained. Bella looked at her right arm; jagged scars ran up and down, the Doctor knew it was from where the car roof had practically shattered her arm, but Bella couldn't remember the night.
"One of the Doctor's told me it was a drunk lorry driver."
"Yes, Sarah Jane told me that when I asked and when there wasn't a lorry around I parked it up and started screaming about a drunk lorry driver," Bella laughed a little.
"I can imagine you screaming."
"You were there, Bella, well, you may have been knocked out in the car,"
"You kept your promise."
"What?"
"It wasn't that bad." Bella smiled a half hearted smiled.
"What's going through your mind?" The Doctor asked.
"I have singlehandedly created a brand new species, no one will ever understand what it's like to be me."
"I'm the last of my species, I know how you feel."
"No. You're the last of your species, I'm the only of my species, I created a species there was never anyone else, I am and always will be," Bella paused. "Alone."
"No. Never alone."
"You're alone."
"No. I've got Amy. Rory. Sarah Jane and Luke." The Doctor paused. "And you." He met her eyes.
"Can I come with you?" She asked.
"Would you really want to leave?" Bella shrugged.
"I'd like to go back to the crash." Bella answered.
"You can't. I've been there once already, you were there, it'll cause a terrible paradox." Bella closed her eyes, trying to accept what the Doctor had just told her. She opened them again and their gazes met.
"Your eyes have changed colour." The Doctor stated.
