The Doctor, Rose and Aries walked silently back towards the Exhibit Room where the Time Lord's TARDIS was waiting. The Doctor still had his arm around Aries' shoulders and the red head could feel the glare coming from Rose, though she took no notice.

She was still a little shocked at what the Dalek had done, along with learning that the Doctor was the last of his kind, whatever it was. Although she could relate to the Doctor a little in that regard, Aries couldn't help but think that it explained why he had been so excited when he had stopped the nanogenes and saved everyone.

If he had lost his planet and people to the Daleks, she could understand his desire to try and save anyone he could. It had been the reason behind why Aries had been working in the hospital in the first place, having, by that point, lived through two wars. Having the foreknowledge of history, knowing what happened before it did was pointless if you didn't try and do something, and although she made sure she didn't do too much, knowing that changing anything significant would be disastrous, Aries found she also couldn't just sit on the sidelines.

And she could admit that it explained why the Doctor had brought Rose back to see her father not once, but twice. The Doctor would have, more than anyone, understood the need, the desire to see a loved one again and having the ability to travel in time. It just made doing so possible.

"A little piece of home," the Doctor said sadly as he removed his arm from around Aries and stepped towards the TARDIS. He patted the side of the ship, successfully breaking Aries from her thoughts, "Better than nothing."

Aries' looked away from the Doctor and towards the blue police box, recognising it as the same box that had started materializing in the church as she tried to ignore how the Doctor's warmth had disappeared the moment he had let her go.

"Is that the end of it? The Time War?" Rose asked, rather glad the Doctor had let Aries go. She didn't know how much longer she could have stood by silently, seeing his arm around the red head.

"I'm the only one left," the Doctor replied, trying to sound unaffected, but both women could tell that he was, "I win. How about that."

"I..." Aries swallowed as she hesitantly grabbed the Doctor's hand, trying to offer some sort of comfort as she spoke, "I didn't know. I'm sorry," she said quietly, suddenly thinking that if she had known, she wouldn't have given the Dalek a chance.

"The Dalek survived," Rose spoke up a little louder than necessary when she saw the Doctor intertwine his fingers around Aries', causing both to glance at her, "Maybe some of your people did too."

The Doctor shook hid head, "I'd know. In here," he tapped his temple, causing Aries' eyebrows to raise in surprise, "Feels like there's no one."

"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere," Rose said with a grin, knowing that she wouldn't disappear on the Doctor like Aries had. It fell not a moment later when she realised that the Doctor wasn't even listening to her as he had refocused back on Aries.

"Do you-"

"We'd better get out," Adam said as he jogged up to the trio, unknowingly cutting off whatever the Doctor had been about to ask Aries. "Van Statten disappeared...they're closing down the base."

The Doctor turned to the young man with a glare, not having liked the interruption.

Adam however continued on, oblivious to what he had done, "Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement! Like it never existed!"

"About time," Rose muttered, having a feeling that the Doctor had been about to ask Aries if she wanted to join them.

"I have to go back home," Adam stated.

"Better hurry up then," the Doctor retorted with a roll of his eyes as he let Aries' hand go and wrapped his arm back around her shoulders, "Next flight to Heathrow leaves at fifteen hundred hours."

Rose glanced at Adam before looking to the Doctor, ignoring Aries as an idea came to her. "Adam was saying that all his life he's wanted to see the stars..." she hinted.

"Tell him to go and stand outside, then," the Doctor replied bluntly, his arm tightening around Aries, causing her to glace at him.

She wasn't too sure how to feel by the Doctor's arm around her. And although it felt nice, almost natural, it was also a little confusing. What confused her the most however, was that Doctor's scent. Aries hadn't really noticed it before, but there was something almost...familiar about it. She just couldn't put her finger on why.

"He's all on his own, Doctor," Rose continued to try and sway the Time Lord. She hoped if Adam came along with them, the Doctor would get jealous. "And he did help," she added, seeing the Doctor's expression hadn't changed.

"Wait, did you say Heathrow?" Aries suddenly cut in, her eyebrows furrowing and Rose glared at her. Adam just looked baffled by the red heads sudden question and the Doctor looked to his Nesdra, a little confused himself. Seeing his confusion, Aries asked, "Where exactly are we?"

"You don't know?" the Doctor replied with his own question, though something occurred to him as he looked, really looked at his Nesdra. She didn't look much different than when he had last seen her, but her hair was a little shorter and the Doctor should have slapped himself for not having realised sooner, but he also couldn't feel the same connection he had after their bond had started to form. It was as if the woman beside him hadn't formed it yet, but that should have been impossible.

"How do you not know where you are?" Rose asked with a laugh, her tone sarcastic as she continued, "What, did you appear out of thin air?"

Aries just raised an eyebrow at her, "No. Actually, it was a vortex," she said, her expression and tone serious and it caused Rose to pause.

"You can't be serious?" Rose asked as she stared at Aries, not believing her.

"What type of vortex?" the Doctor questioned curiously. It did seem a bit out there, but it did explain how she had ended up in a sealed vault, forty-six levels below the surface and also in two thousand and twelve, if what he was thinking was correct.

"I'm not certain," Aries replied, looking back to the Doctor.

"What are you guys talking about?" Adam cut in as he looked between them like they were crazy, "We've got to leave!"

The Doctor spoke as if he hadn't heard the man. "What did it look like?" he asked Aries as he let his arm drop from around her so he could unlock his ship. He may not like Adam, but the young man had a point. And if Aries had come from a time before they had met, before he realised who she was to him, it gave him the perfect opportunity to show her the TARDIS.

Aries' eyebrows creased as she watched the Doctor pull out a key and unlock the box, trying to once again ignore how she felt by the loss of his touch. "It was black and gold," she explained, "Well, more black than gold and it also felt as though..."

Rose watched Aries disappear inside the TARDIS after the Doctor had gestured the red head to go first before he followed after her. She glanced at Adam before throwing up her hands with a huff and followed after the Time Lord as she called out his name.

"What are you doing?" Adam exclaimed as he watched Rose also disappear inside, "She said 'cement'. She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in. "Rose? Doctor?" Adam called, sounding genuinely concerned, "What're you doing standing inside a box?" he asked before he tried to look inside.

The TARDIS had another idea, however and the door slammed shut on Adam's face and the engine's started up.

He stumbled backwards and watched on as the TARDIS dematerialised before his very eyes.

"...as though the wind had been knocked from me whe..." Aries trailed off as she took notice of the inside of the TARDIS, seeing that it was surprisingly much more spacious as to how she imagined it after seeing the police box starting to materialise in the church.

Sure she had seen things that were, unknowingly to muggles, bigger on the inside. Even her pockets were impossibly bigger. But as Aries ran her hand over the railing, feeling that it was warm at her touch, she also knew that what she was standing in should have been impossible. There wasn't a trace of magic that went into the workings behind the Doctor's ship and Aries was both awed and curious as to just how the ship was made.

The Doctor smiled as he stopped to watch Aries, hearing a welcoming hum in the air as she slowly approached the console. "She's called the TARDIS," he explained quietly, enjoying how her eyes were filled with amazement, wonder, and curiosity, "Stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space."

Aries turned to the Doctor with a small smile as her hand rand along the edge of the console. "She's beautiful," she said, earning herself a warm hum as a slight breeze ruffled her hair. Her eyes widened in surprise at the reaction to her words. "Oh, that...that's not possible. Is she sentient?" she asked as she eyed the Doctor.

His Nesdra's expression was of both wonder and caution and it made the Doctor pause. Before he could say anything however, Rose's voice cut through the air as she stormed into the TARDIS and he rolled his eyes as he turned towards her.

"Doctor! What are you doing?" the blonde demanded, shooting Aries a glare as she continued, "You say that Adam should go stand outside, and then allow her to come along?"

Sighing, Aries looked away from the Doctor and Rose as her hand ran over the side of the console. She had no idea why Rose had always disliked her and it wasn't as if she was going to apologise for doing something that she either hadn't done yet, or whether or not Rose had actually deserved whatever Aries had supposedly done in the first place.

Aside from that, the red head wasn't even too sure if she should travel with the pair. Firstly, she had no idea as to what had happened to Luka and Mickey after she had stepped through the vortex...well, she believed she had stepped through it. And secondly, Aries wasn't even sure where the Doctor and Rose appeared in her timeline and really didn't want to run into herself.

It had been made clear to her that the Doctor and Rose had run into her on more than one occasion and although they had never mentioned Adam before, for all Aries knew, this was their future. She had no idea if where they went next was somewhere she had been, and after what had happened at the church, Aries really wasn't interested in a repeated performance...as it were.

The red head was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't see the golden wisps of energy that appeared around her hands as they rested atop the console. Nor did she notice that her silver-grey eyes had turned golden and it wasn't until a voice spoke up behind her did Aries realise something was amiss.

"Ly, dear. Come have some lunch," a female's voice called and Aries turned, just in time to see what looked to be a young girl run past, though she looked to be made up of thousands of golden particles.

Her golden eyes widened a moment later when a voice she recognised spoke and the room shimmered and changed, golden particles floating past faster than her eyes could see before Aries found herself standing inside her father's classroom.

"You must learn to control your mind. If you cannot do that, there is nothing more for me to teach you," Severus said to a young Rieka and Aries realised it was their first Occlumency lesson.

The scene changed again and everything went dark for a moment and Aries heart stopped when she realised where she was and looked up, seeing a full moon glowing golden in a night sky. Her head snapped to the side and she took a step back when Lupin appeared from the darkness. "Professor?" she questioned at the same time her younger self said the same thing.

"Strolls around the grounds when a full moon is out seems a bit foolish to me," Lupin said and Aries stumbled backwards when his form started to change, only to run into someone and spun on the spot.

"Chestnut," Aries breathed in relief when she recognised the Centaur filly she had bumped into, though the Centaur didn't respond as she ran past Aries and headed towards where Rieka was standing, giggling and laughing as she was surrounded by other foals. Severus stood just to the side, watching silently over Rieka and the foals as they nickered and tried to drag Aries' younger self away to show her something.

Suddenly an adult Centaur entered the vision and Aries couldn't help but smile at the sight of Magorian, her heartrate slowly evening out to something more normal.

"We can not give a name to one who already has been named, Lestari," the elder Centaur stated, "Nightshade, I would have believed you already knew this," Magorian added, glancing at Aries' father.

Particles flew past her, changing the scene once again and Aries gasped, her eyes going wide when she came face to face with Severus.

"These blocks may seem unnecessary now," Severus said as his fingers hovered above Aries temples and she swallowed heavily, "But you must understand that I do this for your own protection."

"I love you too," Aries heard her own voice whisper around her as the golden particles shifted and changed again.

"No," the red head breathed in both fear and alarm when the Shrieking Shack started to appear around her, bathing her in a dim golden light. She shook her head and dropped to her knees, her eyes clenched shut as she tried to think of anywhere else as she heard Harry Potter shouting that he and the other two thirds of the 'Golden Trio' needed to leave. "Please," she begged, not wanting to relive what was to happen next.

"Just stop it!" she shouted, her eyes snapping open and a wave of magic erupted from within her in an attempt to get the visions to stop.

"At the Snake's setting sun, the Wolf will be reborn," was the last thing she heard before everything went dark.

Down one of the many corridors of the TARDIS a door shimmered into view.

"Aries?" a voice called and the red head opened her eyes when she felt a hand resting on her cheek, blinking a few times to clear her vision and was confused when she found herself looking at the concerned face of the Doctor.

The Doctor was frozen to the spot when he saw the flicker of gold pass over Aries' eyes and his hearts quickened their pace as he realised what had happened. It should have been impossible, but he had seen it with his own eyes and it caused the Doctor's thoughts to swirl at the meaning behind what the gol-.

"Wh-what happened?" Aries cut through his stunned thoughts, frowning a little when she found herself resting against the console and the Doctor's hand dropped from her cheek as he moved back to give her a little room.

"You fainted," Rose said with a snort and Aries' eyebrows creased, knowing she hadn't fainted. Something else had happened, but she had no idea as to what that was exactly.

"Rose, enough," the Doctor snapped as he shot his companion a disapproving look. Rose only rolled her eyes with a huff and looked away. The Doctor turned his attention back to Aries as she tried to get up and he was quick to assist her. "Easy," he muttered when she swayed a little on her feet.

"Sorry," Aries muttered as she ran a hand over her face, trying to get her thoughts straight, "I don't know what happened."

"Are you okay?" the Doctor asked her in concern, "I can take you to the med bay if you're not feeling well."

"No, it's fine," Aries waved him off.

"Aries, you fainted wi-" the Time Lord begun, though he stopped when Rose scoffed and he shot her a look.

"Where's Adam?" Aries asked when she didn't see the younger man and successfully changed the subject. Although she still wasn't sure as to what exactly had happened when she 'fainted', Aries needed time and a quiet place to even trying to think over what had occurred and getting into an argument was not going to help her in any way.

"He's not here," Rose replied angrily, crossing her arms against her chest.

"I can see that," Aries muttered under her breath, causing the Doctor to hold back a grin.

"I don't think my ship liked him," he explained with a shrug, knowing that it was not only his ship that hadn't liked the younger man. There had been a small part of the Doctor that had actually considered allowing Adam to join them, if only to keep Rose distracted and away from Aries and himself, but the Time Lord didn't trust the younger man around his Nesdra.

Aries glanced to the console, her eyebrows creasing slightly before they raised in realisation having figured out what could have happened to her. But why would she show me old memories? she asked herself. The red head felt as though she should feel a little more alarmed at the fact that the Doctor's TARDIS could create a mental connection with someone, but Aries' confusion as to why the ship had done so with her to only show her old memories caused her alarm to take a backseat.

"So where are we going now? Are we dropping her off at home?" Rose asked with a nod in Aries' direction, not having liked how the TARDIS had left Adam behind. And she knew it had been the Doctor's ship and not the Time Lord himself that had left him behind since the Doctor hadn't been anywhere near the console when the TARDIS had suddenly taken off the moment Aries fainted.

The Doctor's head snapped to his Nesdra as a small spark of fear appeared in his gut at the thought of her leaving. Especially after she had fainted. It was not something that he had really experienced with a former companion. Although as he stepped up towards the console to check the scanner, the Time Lord knew that there was a bit more to do with what had happened to Aries.

Every Time Lord knew that a TARDIS only had one pilot. But in exceedingly rare occasions, the Doctor also knew that ones Nesdra could also form a sort of bond with their ship. But it didn't explain why Aries had fainted.

He shook his head and glanced at Aries again, rather afraid to ask her if she wanted to go home. He knew that Aries was from a time before Downing Street, though he still had no idea as to what the vortex was that she had passed through to end up in the vault, and understood that it meant she couldn't stay with them.

But, is there any harm in asking? he thought, Even if it is just one trip.

"You can't be serious?!" Rose exclaimed when she noticed the Doctor's expression and causing both Aries and the Time Lord to look at her.

"What?" Aries asked, her eyebrows furrowing as she looked between the Doctor and Rose.

"Rose," the Time Lord warned, but she wasn't listening.

"No!" she snapped, "Ever since you have bloody met her," she jabbed her finger at Aries who just raised an eyebrow, "It's like no one else exists. You don't even know h-"

"Enough!" Aries shouted as she rubbed her temple, causing both the Doctor and Rose to turn their attention the her. "I can clearly see that me being here is causing problems," she said with a frown, "Maybe it would be best if I le-"

Before she could even finish the word, the TARDIS lurched, throwing the trio off their feet.

The Doctor was quick to scramble to his feet, trying to work out what his ship was doing as she flew herself through the vortex.

"Doctor, what are you doing?!" Rose shouted as she managed to get to her feet, scowling darking when she spotted Aries getting up off the floor as well.

"I'm not doing anything," the Time Lord snapped at her with a glare.

Aries held onto the console, her eyebrows furrowed as she watched the Doctor try and get some sort of control back. Something caught her attention on the console, though she ignored it in favour of staying on her feet when the ship jerked again.

The Doctor was growing more frustrated by the second as he dashed around the console, almost losing his balance if it hadn't been for Aries grabbing his arm to steady him. "Thanks," he said before moving off, flipping switches and pressing buttons.

Aries was about to reply when her gaze was once again drawn to something on the console and she felt a warm hum in her mind, causing her to frown, her eyebrows creasing.

"Doctor!" she heard Rose shout, but the blondes voice sounded muffled, far away as she continued to stare at the lever.

Without thinking, Aries reached forwards and pulled the lever, causing the TARDIS to stop suddenly, almost throwing her off her feet.

"What the hell was that?" Rose huffed as she pulled herself off the ground again, not having been as lucky as Aries or the Doctor.

The Doctor frowned as he looked to the time rotor before glancing at Aries, seeing her frowning at a lever she was still holding and a small grin appeared on his face. "That was the TARDIS letting us know her thoughts."

Aries turned to look at him, "What do you mean?" she asked, rather confused as to what exactly had just happened.

The Doctor's grin grew as he replied, "I don't think she wants you to leave."

The TARDIS gave a warm hum, as if agreeing with the Doctor's words.

Rose just glared daggers at Aries as she looked back to the console, her hand slipping from the lever.

"I don't think-"

The lights flashed quickly, causing Aries to stop and look at the Doctor in confusion. She wasn't sure as what to make of his ships thoughts, but she also knew she couldn't stay. Luka and Mickey were, as far as she knew, at the church with those Reapers and she had been gone lone enough as it was.

"One trip," the Doctor said, moving slowly around the console and closer to Aries, ignoring Rose's angry expression, "Anywhere in time and space. What do you think? Afterwards, I can take you back to where you were before."

Aries' eyebrows creased, still uncertain. It was tempting to take the Doctor up on his offer, but if she did agree, that would mean that to drop her back off...

"Can you drop me off somewhere else?" she asked, causing the Doctor to grow confused, "Afterwards, I mean?"

It was the TARDIS who gave her an answer with another flash of the lights and the Doctor grinned.