Alicia

Now that my bodily functions had been explained to me in slightly more detail I thought about the real reason we were here. We had come to this lovely planet of Omaria to find out more on what was going to happen.

I didn't realize that, being twelve and expecting some strange new bodily occurrences anyway, I would now have to deal with other bodily functions no one is ever supposed to deal with. Unless you're Amoran.

Clman had given us some time to talk about what we had just learned. If I was honest I would have preferred not to have talked about my body so much in the same room has the Doctor. It's not like my dad took me to the doctor's when I was little.

I then realized that The Doctor hasn't touched me for a while and since then I have been getting steadily more irritated and emotionally unstable.

I just wondered whether it had something to do with our new situation. Then I began to think of all the times I had seen the Doctor, out of all of them that was the only time he had touched me. Skin to skin anyway. In fact, earlier today was the closest he has gotton to me in a long time. I shivered, what was going on to make me feel like this?

"Are you feeling okay?" The noise made me jump. I'd forgotten there was someone else in the room. Then I remembered it was the Doctor.

"Not really. Um, this is so weird, this is mostly your fault but I guess it is partly mine. And if I hadn't agreed to do that ritual when I was seven, less of this would have happened. (did I have a choice?) So, in a way we're equally responsible."

I'd started babbling things I'd hardly thought of in months. I don't know why.

I had to smile a little when the corner of his mouth lifted. I wondered what he was feeling. If I was feeling emotionally unstable was he feeling the same way?

"So what have you been doing for the past four years, protector?"

"Just making sure that Earth hasn't been invaded by dangerous aliens who want to overtake the human race, that kind of thing."

"Wow, all I've done is school work." Another small smile escaped the Doctor.

"Does that really matter when I just want you to be alive and unharmed?" He put out his hand and touched my finger. He quickly pulled away again when I made a kind of shudder.

It was like a light had been turned on and straight back of again.

For just one moment I had felt like crying from shear happiness. I felt tears on my face, just one or two, but as soon as he pulled away it stopped.

I was curious about that happiness. I reached over and took his hand again, I held on when he tried to pull away because now I had no way to stop the tears.

Something had changed in the way I felt towards him. It was as if I had to touch him to know he was safe. To know that it really was him and that he was alive.

It was then that I realized there was one way to stop my tears only I didn't want to let go.

Tentatively the Doctor sidled a little closer to me. "Why are you crying?" He whispered. He looked genuinely concerned but he also had no idea what he was doing.

Doctor

I felt something strange when Alicia took my hand. I think I stopped breathing.

I want to know why she's crying, but I'm unsure if I might already know.

"I don't know" She got out through great sobs. "I'm just so happy you're here. You're here and I'm here and we're both together and that makes me happy. But if you let go I know I won't be happy anymore and I'll stop crying."

I put my arm around her shoulder again and she stopped crying. I don't understand that. if she touches my hand she cries with happiness but if I hold her closer she stops.

Alicia

When he put his arm around me I stopped crying, but this time because I was in some amazing calm that only comes with him. I didn't need to worry about him pulling away anymore.

"We don't want you to be unhappy do we?" he whispered.

"No" was all I could whisper back.

I didn't have the strength to tell him I felt the same way about him.

Doctor

It was hard to listen to what Clman said and it left a lump in my throat. Or was that my indecisiveness trying not to move towards Alicia? I'm not sure how much she would appreciate me trying to hold her right now seeing as last time she flirted with me. This is so difficult! I don't want to get to close to her in case I do something I consider repulsive for her age. Even if she is growing rapidly into an adult technically she is still barely a teenager. But clearly if I stay to far away things aren't going to turn out well for either of us.