A/N: Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. There isn't much that I want to say at the moment, not with Queen Elizabeth's passing. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Kari leaned back in the chair and let out a sigh. She had made it back to the TARDIS just in time, the doors opening before she reached them allowing her to throw herself through before they slammed closed behind her. Then she had to deal with the Doctor, the hugging, the shouting, the threatening to lock her in the TARDIS for at least a month for what she had done. He was angry, he was relieved, he was just glad that she was safe but so frustrated at her for what had happened. She allowed him to berate her, he needed to just let it all out, but as soon as he was finished she told him that she needed some time alone. Now she was sitting in the kitchen on her own.

She couldn't stop thinking about that Dalek, about how it had changed, how it wanted to know so much. It wanted to feel more than just hatred, it wanted to be more than a Dalek. When Kari had told the Doctor what the Dalek was planning on doing, he followed and checked. Every single one of those Dalek ships were sucked into a black hole. Nothing escaped. They were all gone.

"He's looking for you, you know." A familiar voice said, breaking her out of her thoughts. Kari looked up and saw her big brother Jack standing in front of her. There was a worried look on his face.

"Yeah, probably to yell at me some more." She muttered, her shoulders dropping a little. He really had been upset with her when she made it back to the TARDIS.

Jack pulled out a chair and sat down, his eyes not leaving Kari's face. "Hey, he was scared and worried about you. I was scared and worried about you. You could have been killed, Kari, the Doctor was freaking out." He told her, trying to get her to understand, to get her to see what this whole event had done to him. "You know how much he worries about you, and with everything else that has happened recently, it pushed him over the edge."

All she could do was let out yet another sigh. "Yeah, I know." Kari replied, her voice quiet. "I just… I didn't want him to have that burden, you know? With the Daleks. There is too much history there." She knew that what she had done probably wasn't the best thing, but she had to do it, she had to try, for the Doctor.

"I get it, but I really think you need to go and talk to him. He is still worried and that isn't going to stop." Jack told her, hoping that she would listen. The whole time she had been out there with the Daleks he had been trying to calm the Doctor. To get him to see that she was okay and that she knew what she was doing. It was hard work, and the Doctor shouted at him for letting Kari go out there when he knew she was going to do something stupid.

"Okay, I'll go and find him." She replied, knowing that there was no point whatsoever in trying to argue. She did need to speak to the Doctor, to apologise one more time, to try and make things better. She didn't like it when he was angry at her, she hated it. "I'll see you later, Jack." Kari said, as she pushed the chair away and got up.

To her surprise, Jack got up as well and quickly grabbed hold of her, embracing her tightly. "Everything will be okay, Princess. You know why he is so mad with you at the moment, now you just need to go and fix it. Okay?" Of course, he was still worrying about her as well. The Doctor had brought him there for a reason, and things had escalated before he'd had a chance to work it all out.

"I know, thanks, Jack." Kari mumbled back, holding onto him tightly as well. He really did make her feel safe, and sometimes she just needed a hug from her big brother.

When he finally let her go, Kari started wandering through the impossible ship. Honestly, she had no idea where the Doctor was. She didn't think that he was at the console, there was something at the back of her head that was telling her to go to the workshop. So that was where she went. The last time she had been there was when she had made her own screwdriver.

To her surprise she found that the door was open slightly. It had been so long since she had been in there, and Kari had never actually seen the Doctor in there. She wondered if he would mind her just walking in, it didn't feel right even though she had spent a lot of time in the workshop before. Kari made the decision and knocked on the door, hoping that he was in there and that he wouldn't mind her coming by.

For a moment, she thought that she had been wrong and that he wasn't in there, then she heard something being knocked over and footsteps coming towards the door. It was pulled open by the Doctor, who was standing there with his hair a complete and utter mess and holding some kind of tool in his hand.

The state of him actually took Kari by surprise a little. "So… um…" Now that she was there, her mind had gone blank. "Jack said you were looking for me."

"How did you know I was in here?" The Doctor asked her, a hint of suspicion in his voice.

Kari wanted to let out a sigh, he was acting like he didn't trust her at all now. "I was walking by, saw the door was open. I assumed you may have been in here because of that." She told him, failing to mention the fact that she had a feeling she would find him there. "If now isn't a good time then we can talk later."

His face softened a little as he stepped to one side, allowing her to come in. "Right, yes, sorry, I was just…"

Now that she could see fully into the room she saw it was in utter disarray. There were tools and parts and things she couldn't even name just strewn all over the place. It looked as if several tool boxes had exploded or something in there. "Making a mess, or tidying the mess?" She queried, watching as the Doctor started picking bits and pieces up, moving them and clearing some space.

He was now a little flustered, and Kari could see that on his face. "Oh, you know, just a little tinkering." He muttered, trying to hide his face a little.

There was something wrong, Kari was certain of it. "Doctor, is everything okay?" She asked him cautiously, watching every move that he was doing. Something just seemed off, like he was nervous to be around her or something. It was beginning to make her worry.

The Doctor stopped and looked at her. There was so much sadness in his eyes, so much that he wanted to say but didn't know how. "Everything is fine."

"Really?" Kari asked him, raising an eyebrow. "Because I think you're lying. I think that you are still angry with me for what happened, for me just wandering off when the TARDIS was stuck on a Dalek ship. I think that you are angry at me for getting myself into a little bit of trouble with the Daleks, who wanted to use me as a power source which would have killed me. I think you are angry at me because I scared you."

She watched as his shoulders sagged a little, before he placed everything he was holding down on the table he was standing beside. "First, I am not angry at you." The Doctor told her, taking a step towards her now that his hands were free. "What you did was…"

"Stupid?" Kari offered, knowing that there was so much going on in the Doctor's head. It was weird, his mind was still closed off but she could still sense what he was thinking and feeling.

"Reckless. Kari, what were you thinking?" His frustration was now showing, and Kari's hearts sank slightly. "You know what the Daleks are like, you know how dangerous they are. Why? Why would you do that? What was going through your head? And then to get Jack involved as well…"

"I'm sorry. Doctor, I am really, really sorry." Kari told him, hoping that he would listen to her and that she would be able to calm him down. "I know how much history there is between you and the Daleks. I know what has happened and what will happen. I know how they make you feel. I wanted you to see that you are not alone, that they are not just your problem. I needed you to understand that we are in this together. They are one of your oldest enemies, you have faced them so many times. Each time you think they are defeated and gone, they show up again. I know how that makes you feel." Now that she had started she was finding it hard to stop. "I haven't been through the Time War, I haven't experienced what you have, but I know how it hurts you. I want you to see that you are not alone in this, Doctor. Okay?"

Instead of answering her, the Doctor just grabbed hold of her and wrapped his arms tightly around her. Kari wrapped her arms around him in return and hoped that this meant he understood and accepted that she was sorry for what she had done. "I can't lose you, Kari. I can't." He ended up mumbling as he embraced her.

The guilt that she was feeling was growing by the second. Kari had no idea that it was going to have such an impact on the Doctor, that he was going to turn into a bit of a mess. "I am so, so sorry, Doctor. I swear to you, I am so sorry." Was all she could say, doing her best to comfort him. He was just radiating with so much emotion that it was starting to get to Kari. She was trying to sort his emotions from hers, but they were beginning to become tangled up together. "I didn't know you were going to feel this way. I just wanted to help, Doctor." She told him, now struggling to keep herself together.

The Doctor pulled away slightly, just so that he could see her face. He gazed into her eyes softly as one of his hands gently rested on her cheek. "You always help, just by being you." His voice was soft and calm, which just made Kari feel even worse about what she had done. "Never think, for one second, that you do not help." All she could do was nod at him, before the first wave of tears that had slowly been building in the corners of her eyes decided to fall. The Doctor used his thumb to quickly wipe away some of the tears. "The past few days haven't been easy, have they?"

Kari shook her head at him a little. "No. They haven't been much fun either." She told him, causing him to chuckle slightly. She was glad that he had forgiven her, that everything that had happened with the Daleks was dealt with, but there was something else still that was on her mind. "Doctor, there is something wrong with me, isn't there?" While she had been really reluctant to admit it, she did feel different. She didn't feel sick or unwell, some just felt… not normal, and she couldn't explain it at all.

"Every scan that I have done tells me there is nothing wrong with you. You are perfectly healthy." The Doctor replied. He had been so worried that she was getting sick, or that something really was wrong with her, he had constantly been getting the TARDIS to do so many scans. Everything was coming back clear. He couldn't find anything wrong with her at all.

"Then what's wrong with me? How do I know what you are thinking? Why am I able to feel what you are feeling?" At first it hadn't really bothered her that much, but now it was starting to scare her. Especially since she was able to see into the Dalek ship, to find out where they had been and what they wanted. Kari had never done anything like that before.

The Doctor could see how worried she was. "Whatever it is, Kari, I promise we will work it out. Okay?" All she could really do was nod at him. "Good." He wrapped his arms around her tightly once more, relaxing as he did. He was relieved to have her be honest with him, to tell him that she knew something wasn't right but didn't know what it was. Kari was just glad that he wasn't angry at her for what she had done. The past few days really had been tough for both of them.

All Kari wanted to do was stay there with him, to be there with her bow tie wearing Doctor and go on a much better adventure with him and her big brother. Maybe go for dinner and listen to some more of Jack's stories. However, that was not going to happen at all. "Doctor, my head…" What had started as a light throbbing was now a very intense banging.

He looked at her, his face dropping as he noticed the golden glow begin to spread. "Oh, Kari… Behave, don't go getting into trouble."

She couldn't help but chuckle a little. "Now, we both know that is going to be impossible with you around. I'll see you later. Do not let Jack go anywhere. I'll be back, okay? Just wait for me." Kari told him, not knowing how long it was going to be before he saw her again, or how long it would be before she made it back to him at that point in his timeline. "I love you, Doctor."

"I love you too, Kari." The Doctor said, reaching down and kissing her quickly before she was whisked away from him.

Kari kept her eyes tightly closed as she waited for the world around her to stop spinning. Instead she listened, trying to work out where and when she was. "Oh, it was on this er… this er… planet thing. Asteroid. It's a long story, you had to be there. Er, what're you doing that for?" A smile crept across her face as she heard the voice, she knew who it belonged to.

"Because you told me to." Another familiar voice replied, a man's voice.

"When was that?" The Doctor said, clearly not yet having noticed that Kari had arrived. How could he have not noticed that she was there?

Kari decided that it was time to let her presence known. "About half an hour ago." She said at the exact same time as the other man, Mickey Smith.

There was silence for a moment and Kari wondered what was going on. Something felt a little bit off, but she didn't know what. "Um, you can let go now." The Doctor finally said, his voice much closer that Kari thought it was going to be. She opened her eyes and was face to face with the Doctor. He was there on the floor in front of her, smiling at her. "Hello."

A huge grin spread across her face, she was not expecting him to be right there in front of her. "Hello." Kari just threw her arms around him, so pleased to see him and to know that he was happy to see her. There was no awkwardness at all, and that was just how Kari liked it.

Before anything else could be said by anyone, there was a massive explosion from the time rotor in the centre of the console. Without even thinking about it, the Doctor used his body to shield Kari as best he could. "You okay?" He asked her softly, ignoring the chaos around them and focusing solely on her.

"Yeah, but our TARDIS isn't." She told him, causing him to turn and see the smoke coming from the console. Without any hesitation, he pulled Kari up and dragged her over to the console with him. There was smoke coming out of the broken time rotor and Kari couldn't help but place a hand on the console. She could still feel her, knowing that she was there and that things would be okay in the end.

Suddenly there was someone else beside them. "What happened?" Rose asked, while the Doctor worked on the console, trying to do something, anything.

"The time vortex." He announced, looking at Kari and noticing how quiet she was being. "It's gone. That's impossible. It's just gone." There was clear panic in his voice. "Brace yourself! We're going to crash!" The only problem was, none of them had time to prepare themselves, as the next moment they were all thrown to the metal grilled flooring of the impossible ship. The Doctor had just managed to grab a hold of Kari, pulling her with him, keeping her safe and making sure that she didn't get hurt. "Kari? Kari, are you okay?" He asked, his worry growing for each second she was silent for.

She pulled herself away from him a little. "Yeah, I'm… I'm okay." Kari replied, feeling her head spinning. It wasn't as bad as when she was pulled somewhere, but it still wasn't pleasant. "Oh, no I'm not. Dizzy." She ended up adding as she tried to push herself up. "Yeah, I'm just going to stay here for a minute." Her head really wouldn't stop spinning for some reason.

Now the Doctor was even more worried. "Kari, what is it?" He had a feeling that there was more to it, something that she wasn't telling him.

Kari could feel all of his worry. He was trying to replay what had happened, work out if she had hit her head at all. Did something else happen? Was he missing something? "No, I didn't hit my head. Yes, something else did happen. Yes, you are missing something." She muttered, wishing and waiting for the world around her to stop spinning.

Even though she couldn't see it, Kari knew that the Doctor's face fell when she spoke. "What happened?" He froze, his eyes wide as he looked at her. "Kari, how did you…"

She let out a groan, they didn't have time for this. "Focus, Doctor. Focus on the TARDIS. I will be fine, I just need a few minutes." Once they were safe, and he wasn't panicking so much, she could talk to him, give him some kind of explanation for what was going on, with her.

Finally he realised that there were other people there with them. "Everyone alright? Rose? Mickey?" He called, looking around the darkened ship. He had a reply from both Rose and Mickey before he took a closer look at the console. "She's dead. The Tardis is dead." He heard a moan come from Kari and instantly forgot about the TARDIS and was crouching down next to her once more. "Kari…"

"Oh, that was not fun. I am never, ever doing that again." She said, her head swirling. It felt as if there was something else in her head, as if she wasn't alone. It wasn't the same as when Cassandra had tried to take her body, it was something different, something that she couldn't explain. "I don't even know what it is I don't want to do again." Kari said, before giggling a little. She stopped abruptly and frowned. "Okay, that… that wasn't me…"

"No, it was me, my Angel." A very familiar and reassuring voice called in her head. "I'm here, I'm with you."

The Doctor just watched as Kari's eyes widened. He had no idea what was going on and he was on the verge of having a very major time lord freak out. He was just about to whip out his sonic screwdriver when Kari turned to him. "No, Doctor. I am fine. Just a bit dazed, that's all. I've had a very, very stressful few days and very little sleep." She told him, trying to ease his worry a little. "Right now, we have bigger things to worry about."

Lucky for Kari, Rose spoke up, grasping the Doctor's attention. " Can one of you can fix it?" she asked hopefully, wondering what was going on with Kari as well. She seemed different, only Rose couldn't put her finger on it.

The Doctor tore his gaze away from Kari and looked at the console once more. "There's nothing to fix. She's perished. The last Tardis in the universe. Extinct." There was so much sadness in his voice, but his mind was still on Kari and not the dead TARDIS.

"We can get help, yeah?" Rose asked, seeing that Kari was having some kind of conversation with herself. At least that was what it looked like to her.

"Where from?" The Doctor asked her, trying his best not to keep glancing down at Kari.

Rose was having none of that attitude from the Time Lord. "Well, we've landed. We've got to be somewhere."

But the Doctor was quick to fire a response back at her. "We fell out of the vortex, through the void, into nothingness. We're in some sort of no place. The silent realm. The lost dimension." He seemed to just get lost in his thoughts for a moment, a distant look on his face.

"Otherwise known as London." Mickey called from over by the door.

Finally, Kari pushed herself up from the floor, stumbling a little as she did. Rose was quick to grab her, stopping her from falling over. "Thanks." Kari said cheerfully, a smile on her face. "Hello, Rose Tyler! Nice to see you again." She added, before giving the woman a big hug. "Thank you for looking after the Doctor and me."

"Er, you're welcome?" Rose wasn't exactly sure what was happening or why, but she was feeling something off with Kari as well.

"Now, did someone say we were in London?" Kari asked, before grabbing a hold of the Doctor and heading towards the door. He just managed to grab his coat from the railing as he was dragged along. Before they actually made it to the door, Kari stopped and turned to face him. "Doctor, I know you think something is wrong with me right now, but I promise you, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. When we get a chance I will explain everything to you. Okay?" She needed him to focus.

He gazed at her, his eyes locking with hers as if he was trying to read what was going on inside her head. "You seem… different." Was all he said.

Kari felt a little deflated. "I know. A lot has happened, a lot that I can't tell you about because it's all in your future. Right now, at this moment in time, I'm not completely just myself." How could she explain to him that she had part of the TARDIS soul stuck in her head, let alone all the other stuff that had happened? She didn't even understand how that was possible, but that is what seemed to have happened. If he knew, he would just freak out even more than he already was, and Kari couldn't have that.

"Are you okay?" Again, there was so much concern and worry in his voice and on his face.

All Kari could really do now was smile at him. "I promise you, I am okay." She replied, before she took him by complete surprise, reaching up and crashing her lips against his. It took a moment for the Doctor to register what had happened, but the moment he had his arms wrapped around her.

They only broke apart when they heard someone clearing their voice. Kari was breathless and blushing while the Doctor was beaming away. "Yup, we're coming." He said, looking at Rose who was standing there looking slightly awkward. The Doctor just grabbed a hold of Kari's hand and led her out of the TARDIS with him.

Once they were all outside, they looked at their immediate surroundings. Mickey was quick to make a few comments. "London, England, Earth. Hold on." He said, spotting a newspaper that had been thrown awak sitting on the top of a bin. "First of February this year. Not exactly far flung, is it?" Rose quickly jumped off the low wall and came to stand beside him, looking at the newspaper he was holding.

"So this is London?" The Doctor asked him, giving Kari's hand a tight and reassuring squeeze. While he was still worried, he knew that he had to trust Kari, he had to believe that she was okay and would explain everything later.

"Yep." Mickey called to him, sounding very confident.

However, the Doctor had spotted something that he hadn't. "Your city?"

Mickey was oblivious to what was going on, he was too busy looking at the newspaper still. "That's the one."

"Just as we left it?" The Doctor knew it wasn't the same, he knew that something was off, different.

"Bang on."

Kari cleared her throat a little. "And that includes the zeppelins?" She asked, causing both Rose and Mickey to look at her and the Doctor. Their eyes were all trained on the sky where there were some great big silver zeppelins.

It was then when Rose and Mickey finally tore their eyes away from the newspaper and looked up behind them and saw what the Doctor and Kari were seeing. "What the hell?" Mickey exclaimed in utter shock as he watched the gigantic airships passing them overhead.

Rose on the other hand had a more appropriate comment to make. "That's beautiful." Kari couldn't help but smile, Rose would always find something good in everything.

But Mickey wasn't ready to give up yet. He was sure that this was his world, his home. "Okay, so it's London with a big international Zeppelin festival."

"Nope, this is not your world, Mickey." Kari told him, watching the sky and all the traffic that was up there as she and the Doctor began walking down the path a little.

"But if the date's the same, it's parallel, right?" Neither the Doctor nor Kari answered Mickey. "Am I right? Like a parallel Earth where they've got Zeppelins." The Doctor and Kari stopped and looked at him. "Am I right? I'm right, aren't I?"

This time it was Kari who gave the Doctor's hand a squeeze. She knew he was now filling up with worry, and not about her this time. "Mickey Smith, you may be right."

Rose had a shocked expression on her face. She knew that something wasn't right with the Doctor or with Kari. "So, a parallel world where…" She didn't know what else to say, this wasn't something that she had ever thought would happen travelling with the pair of Time Lords.

Lucky for her, Mickey was quick to explain it to her. "Oh, come on. You've seen it on films. Like an alternative to our world where everything's the same but a little bit different. Like, I don't know, traffic lights are blue, Tony Blair never got elected."

However, Rose was not listening to him as she had noticed something else, something that had her full attention. "And he's still alive." Everyone else looked at what she was seeing, an advert with a man holding a bottle for drink, something called Vitex Lite. "A parallel world and my dad's still alive."

Kari was quick to intervene as her friend started walking towards the poster, to get a closer look. "Don't look at it, Rose. Don't even think about it. This is not your world." She called, marching after her, dragging the Doctor with her.

"But he's my dad and…" She touched the poster, before watching as it came to life, a short animation of the man giving a thumbs up and saying 'trust me on this'. "Well, that's weird. But he's real." There was a smile on Rose's face now. "He's a success. He was always planning these daft little schemes. Health food, drinks and stuff. Everyone said they were useless. But he did it."

"This isn't him, Rose, this is not your dad. Okay? Please, listen to me, this is not him." Kari said, her voice pleading with her friend. Rose wasn't listening to her.

The Doctor could see that Kari was getting nowhere, and that she was desperate to help her friend. He stepped in front of Rose, taking her by the shoulders, getting her to look at him. "Rose, if you've ever trusted us, then listen to me now." Rose turned to look at her father again. "Stop looking at it." The Doctor called, getting her attention again. "Your father's dead. He died when you were six months old. That is not your Pete. That is a Pete. For all we know, he's got his own Jackie, his own Rose. His own daughter who is someone else, but not you. You can't see him. Not ever.

In the background the advert was still playing, still repeating Pete Tyler's words. "Trust me on this. Trust me on this. Trust me on this. Trust me on this."

Kari couldn't take it, it was hurting her to see her friend in such a conflicted state. "Doctor, we need to get back to the TARDIS, we need to see if we can fix this." She told him, turning to look at Mickey. Rose was still looking at the advert, drifting off into her own little world as she thought about the father that she never had the chance to know. "Look after her. Do not let her go wandering off. Okay?" Mickey saw how serious she was and nodded at her. "Come on, Doctor."

The Doctor couldn't help but frown a little as Kari tugged him away, leading them back to the TARDIS. "Kari, what's wrong?" He asked her, knowing that there was so much going on that she wasn't telling him. He just hoped that now she would give him some kind of indication as to what was happening, or had happened.

She didn't answer him, not until they were safely inside the darkened ship of theirs. Kari let out a sigh as she threw herself down on the chair by the destroyed console. "I know where we are. I know what's going to happen."

A/N: I do hope you enjoyed this chapter. Thank you to all those who review, I appreciate it. If you would like to review then please do, or you can send me a PM. I hope to be updating again soon.

Pippa.