A/N: I had some time today to write another chapter. Here we have it. I've waited so long to write this. Anyway, please review and let me know what you think.

Chapter 38

Doctor POV

It's been three months since Canary wharf. I've barely travelled. Time seems to move so slowly but at the same time it feels too fast. I am aware of every millisecond that passes. I feel ashamed of what I am doing to Ayla. I miss her. I miss Rose.

Over the past few months I've contemplated letting Ayla out of the stasis chamber. I even sat next to her pod for a week with my sonic screwdriver two weeks after Donna left, I didn't eat or sleep, not that Time Lords need much but at that time and it has been over a month before I had last slept. I couldn't sleep, I knew my nightmares would resurface and they did. And not just about the Time War, but with Ayla's disappointed, betrayed and angry face looking at me. I would see Rose's scared face over and over as she fell into the void.

The TARDIS actually kicked me out of the chamber, hid her from me until I ate and slept. She is very convincing when she wants to be. She threw live fish at me from all sides of the stasis chamber. Fish slapping my face constantly until I acquiesced. Getting slapped by fish is painful. It's the TARDIS's way of getting revenge for what I did with Ayla but also for not taking care of myself. My ship does not agree with me, she loves children and has not had a child on board for centuries, especially a Time Tot. She understands my reasoning but still does not like it.

The TARDIS even wakes me up with fish to my face when I have a nightmare.

The TARDIS alerts me to something fishy happening at a hospital on Earth. Plasma coils surrounding the hospital. The humans would just see it as a thunderstorm. I decide to investigate, no harm in distraction.

I've been going around the hospital for hours, I see nothing as of yet. So I decide to book myself in with the excuse of stomach cramps.

"Now then, Mister Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?" Dr. Stoker asks me.

"Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know, blah" I tell him, imitating Ayla slightly, she did this with me once so I took her to the Med-bay for an in-depth scan. Turns out, she was just exhausted.

"John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains. Jones, why don't you see what you can find? Amaze me" he speaks to the young trainee doctor.

"That wasn't very clever, running around outside, was it? She asks.

"Sorry?" I ask confused.

"On Chancellor Street this morning? You came up to me and took your tie off" she states.

"Really? What did I do that for?" I ask, already thinking that a future me will go back in time to speak to her. 'Why?'

"I don't know, you just did"

"Not me. I was here, in bed. Ask the nurses" I tell her, at least I have an alibi.

"Well, that's weird, cause it looked like you. Have you got a brother?" she asks me.

"No, not any more. Just me" I tell her sadly.

"As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones" says.

"Sorry. Right" Ms Jones replies, she puts the stethoscope on my chest, listening to my hearts beat. I wink at her. Time to test her. If I will travel back into her time line, that means that I will probably ask her to travel with me, she is probably one of those clever humans.

"I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss Jones?

"Er, I don't know. Stomach cramps?" she suggests, keeping quiet about my hearts.

"That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient's chart" he tells her when he got shocked by the clip.

"That happened to me this morning" Ms Jones says.

"I had the same thing on the door handle" someone else says and it was echoed by another trainee doctor.

They are oblivious to the Plasma coils around the hospital. It's becoming stronger.

"That's only to be expected. There's a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by. Anyone?" he asks.

"Benjamin Franklin" I answer his question.

"Correct"

"My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite, and then I got soaked" I tell them.

"Quite" he replies.

"And then I got electrocuted" I tell them, it was quite an unpleasant feeling.

"Moving on. I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric. And next we have…" Dr. Stoker says, continuing on. 'Oops, that's what happens with time travel, but the reason I said that was to see how Miss Jones would react'.

I'm left alone. I get out of these hospital clothes, put on my suit. And explore. After half an hour the rain changes, it's going up. 'Fun stuff, Rose would've loved this. Ayla as well, she would be amazed by the rain and lightning'

The hospital is on the moon. I went to get Martha to see how she would do and she really did great at the end of the day.

Martha really is a clever human. She helped figure out what was going on in this hospital, she even saved me and the hospital with her actions.

Ayla would've been upset had she seen what I did, that I let the Plasmavore shape-changer assimilate my blood, but luckily she won't find out.

I offered for Martha to travel with me, she agreed. Our first official adventure started with Shakespeare. And so it went on, distraction after distraction. Running away from Ayla even if she is on the TARDIS. 'I'm doing this for her, for her safety', I try to convince myself over and over that what I am doing is right, until it was too late.

Ayla POV

I groan, I felt like I've slept for days. That feeling where when you sleep too long you wake up tired and all that's going to help you is to sleep some more, that's how I feel right now.

I open my eyes, coming face to face with the one person I least expected. I jerk back in shock, but my movement is restricted, I am inside one of those pods you see on those sci-fi films.

"Why hello little Time Tot. What is a child like you doing in a place like this, mmm?" The Master asks me, his voice all creepy, he looks like the Harold Saxon from the show.

'Where is the Doctor? How did I get here? The last thing I remember was escaping from the Cyber-men, I was hiding and then nothing, now I am here' I think to myself trying to work out how this happened and why The Master is in front of me all of a sudden.

"The Doctor placed you here. He probably put you in here for your own safety and then he decided to leave you in the stasis pod, because he thinks he knows better" The Master says smugly. 'He can read my mind, oh shit' . "Poor, little confused child, don't worry, I'm here to make it all better"

I am still trapped inside the pod. I am frightened beyond measure. 'The Doctor left me in here. How could he? How could he? HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO ME?!' I feel so angry, betrayed and scared. I start to hyperventilate, 'I need to get out of here'. I try to move the see-through dome covering me but it won't budge.

'Shhh, shhh, don't worry little tot. I'm right here, I'll get you out of there, but you need to calm down' The Master says, suddenly sounding calmer than a man on weed. He sounds gentle.

'Take deep breaths in, and out' He tells me in my mind, we repeated that action until I was calm enough to speak.

"Now tell me, what is your name little tot?" He finally asks.