I opened my eyes and looked around; I stood next to the console like always, but the inside of the Tardis's console room was so much different than what it was before. It was larger…not like it was before and it much more like a…living room. As I waked around I saw an old disk player, bookshelves, two cushioned chairs, carpet, lamps, but no sign of the Doctor. It was odd…it was like he was hiding?

"Who are you? How'd you get into my Tardis", I heard a man say from behind me and when I turned around it was the same man from my vision…the one who rescued me from the battlefield when I was an infant!

"So, it was you", I exclaimed, "It was me? I'm sorry", the Doctor questioned, and I soon realized he was looking at me in a very peculiar manner…like he didn't recognize me…

"Doctor? It's me…Acacia, don't you recognize me", I asked, and he narrowed his brows as if contemplating the question. He stood a great distance away so...he might have been wary of me, but as we continued to talk he was taking a small step at a time towards me.

When he was close enough, so he could study my face, I played with my fingers nervously...how could he not recognize me? Then suddenly he grabbed his head like it was in pain, then looked at me with a look of shock across his face.

"Acacia? What…what are you doing here", the Doctor asked, "So, you recognize me then", I asked, "Of course I do, but…", then he grabbed his head in pain again as the Tardis began to shack and the console short circuited.

"Doctor…what's going on", I asked as the Tardis flipped around, both the Doctor and I grabbed onto the console.

"You're crossing over onto your own timeline…the Tardis doesn't like that", the Doctor told me.

We were being jerked around in time and space, "Is there a way to fix it", I asked, "We can try mending it by…landing in the same time and place where you first left", the Doctor told me.

"You mean connecting the timelines together", I asked, "In a loop, yes", he told me, "Now…where and when", he asked.

I thought about the time and date…my graduation, "Um…two-thousand and eleven, June fourteenth, four o'clock p.m., Colosseum, in- ", "I now where", the Doctor finished as he put in the coordinates.

As we traveled the Doctor asked me, "Any particular reason why that day", out of curiosity, "It was when I graduated", I told him, and he seemed to be a little loss of words when I said that.

When we landed we were a good distance away from the coliseum and everything seemed to calm down.

"Well…we've landed", the Doctor told me as loosened his grip from the console as did I, "Yeah…but now what", I asked.

"I'd think you would have known by now", he told me, I smiled a bit unsure as I pressed a button, then looked at the screen. I saw a forest and a small glimpse of the coliseum in the background.

"Are you sure it's safe…to be walking around while my other self is out there", I asked, "It is…as long as you're not seen", he told me, and I nodded at that.

We both walked out of the door just as I saw my other self running across the field…she or I wore a long graduation gown and hat. The Doctor and I hid after I accidently stepped on a branch, that's when my other self looked in our direction before she decided to continue her run across the field.

"That was close", I joked as the Doctor glanced me smiling as he was half annoyed.

Suddenly there was a strange beeping sound and as I watched as the Doctor pull out his screwdriver, I realized it was the same one that I used to call a future regeneration of the Doctor. Soon, everywhere around we could hear Tardis's appearing and I wanted to look around.

The Doctor wanted to look as well noticed and then I realized what the Doctor had told me before, "Look at me, don't look around", I told the Doctor.

"Why not", he asked, "Well…right now there are many generations of you all round us right now and I don't know who else…and that's what you told me to do. When this happened", I told the Doctor.

"This happened before", he asked me, "Yes, right before I left", I told him, and he seemed to nod at that, but looked anyway. It was only a glance and then he quickly ducked as his breathing quickened and looked directly at me.

"You're a Time-Lord again", he asked me, "Yes", I questioned, "Why?" He didn't answer me and when all the other Tardis's had vanished, we were about to leave as well...until I heard my mother call my name…the one who adopted me.

"Acacia", she called as did her boyfriend and my siblings were with them as well, which was good since our father wasn't the most loving person.

"It's time to go", the Doctor told me, "Can't I say goodbye", I asked him, I knew with this messed up time line again there was a chance I may never see them again. Or I might, and I may be a totally different person.

Just as the Doctor was about to say something, my mom noticed me anyway, "Oh my god…Acacia", she cried as she ran to me and pulled me into her arms.

I hugged back as the others came to join us, but when she pulled away she looked at the Doctor in anger.

"So…you came back…you gave her to us and now you're taking her back", she cried as she pulled me away from the Doctor.

"Mom…", I said and then she glanced back at me as if noticing my outfit for the first time and looked into my eyes.

I smiled sadly at her as she cupped my cheeks, "What's happened to you", she asked as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I…already left…it's too late, but I've been on this amazing adventure…this experience has meant so much to me", I told her.

"Did he hurt you", she asked me, "No…of course not", I told her and the look in her eyes knew that I couldn't or wouldn't stay.

"Please don't go", she pleaded, and tears began going down my cheeks, "I have to…I've already lived it", I told her as I shrugged.

"This maybe the last time I ever see you…like this", I told her as I gestured towards myself and she cried at that.

"You're not dying are you", she asked frantically, and I was quick to reassure her, "No, no, I'm not dying.

"But, you are a Time-Lord again", my mom's boyfriend asked, "Yes", I told him after much hesitation, "That doesn't matter", my mom told him, and my mom's boyfriend bit his cheek.

"I'm taking a walk", he said as he walked away, "How long has he been like that", I asked confused, "Ever since I told him everything", my mom told me.

"When was that", I asked her, "Months back and he didn't believe me", she told me and I glanced at my siblings, who looked at me awkwardly…they were both in middle school and perhaps they didn't know what to think of the situation.

"We have to go", the Doctor whispered and could feel time being mended, but I knew we had to go if we wanted it to stay that way.

"What's wrong", my mom asked, "We have to go", I told her, "Can't you stay", she asked, I smiled as tears rolled down my cheeks. She didn't know that what I wanted this entire time as I kept traveling forward through the Doctor's time-line.

I shook my head, "No, but this won't be goodbye…you may see me again and I may look different", I told her.

"No offence, but if that does happen…can you not come", my brother asked me, and I was taken aback from that.

A tear rolled down my cheek as I was quick to wipe it away, "Sure", I said as my voice cracked, "He doesn't mean it, your free to visit", my mom told me as she held tightly onto my arms.

I smiled, "I will", I told her as we hugged tightly, then I hugged my sister who seemed to be holding back some tears, but she was smiling, my brother however just refused to look at me.

"Goodbye", I told them as I saw tear roll down my brother's cheek as he rubbed away in frustration.

"Goodbye Acacia", the Doctor told me, "Goodbye", I said in return as I sensed the others confusion behind me.

The Doctor hugged me before we both entered the Tardis and as before like always I disappeared in a ball of white light. To be pulled forward through the Doctor's time line and visit another one of his regenerations.