This chapter has brief mild domestic violence and mass choking.

Also, the end part of this chapter was never meant to happen.


"Can you feel it?" Jaime asked The Doctor, Rose, Jenny and J.D. She had her arm around the Half-Time Lord and was snuggled close to him.

The Doctor nodded his head, although the frown on his face said that he was beyond confused. "Yes, I felt it," The Doctor replied. "But I still don't understand what happened. How can an event that is meant to be a Fixed Point suddenly become a Flux state?" He questioned.

He clearly hadn't come across many events that happened like this, though Jaime had a feeling that this was a rare event. "Why d'ye think!" The Scots-girl answered back. "Once he reached Hyper-Sonic his telekinesis went Ultimate. When tha' happened the Timeline changed. Considerin' he's the only one who's T.K level has ever reached Ultimate, it's clear he was meant tae win this race. He's meant tae go back in Time and he is meant tae save the Palestinians of the past from certain death."

There was a stunned silence until Amy spoke up. "So what you're saying is, he's like a modern day Jesus?"

A thoughtful sounding grunt was heard from Alexia. "Now there's a thought," she spoke up. "If Jesus was born in Bethlehem and that is technically Palestine, does that actually make him Palestinian and not Jewish?"

Everyone stared at her in awkward silence and Jaime wasn't even sure she was joking or not, and it worried her.

J.D shook his head and decided to speak up to end the awkwardness. "I'm not sure, but that really just complicates matters when it comes to that part of the Middle-East. Best not dwell on it."

Alexia was about to answer him back, only for Rose to quickly interrupt. "Has anything like this ever happened before, Doctor?" She asked the Time Lord. "A Fixed Point turning into a Flux Point?"

The Doctor shook his head. "No, never. A Fixed Point is meant to stay Fixed. It's not meant to change, so I don't even know how this even happened!" He continued to frown in confusion and ran his hands through his hair, while Rose smirked. She always found that expression he did rather adorable. "However, we need to be careful with this Timeline," The Doctor continued to speak. "Because at the moment it's very volatile and one tiny mistake could set it off and unravel the Universe."

Jaime thought her dad might have been a wee bit over-cautious, but when she checked the Timeline herself she got a flash of danger as she found it was somewhat fraught. Why hadn't she noticed it before? She was going to ask about this until a commotion caught their attention.

"What's gotten into him?" Alexia wondered.

Sensing a flash of danger, Jaime looked over at Shawkeh who had started arguing loudly with the woman he was with. He was extremely angry. Intuition told her he was a danger to everyone and he needed calming down.

"I don't care!" He shouted at his woman. "I don't care that they'll hear. They cheated, the both of them. I don't know what happened, but they cheated and I'm going to find out how!"

Through their connections Jaime could sense that J.D, her mum and The Doctor were offended or worried by his remarks. Both Jenny and Rose were tensed up, sensing and seeing he was about to do something drastic and felt they needed to stop him.

*Wait, don't attack him,* The Omni mentally told them. *That'll make us look bad.*

Jenny glanced at her sister. *You want him to attack us first?* She inquired and Jaime nodded her head.

*Then it'll be him who'll look bad.*

Jenny and Rose understood what she meant and turned their attention back to Shawkeh. He'd gathered quite a bit of attention by now as the poor woman continued to get shouted at. Then suddenly he roughly pushed her away, where she tumbled to the grass, and turned to Jaime and Leith with a cry of rage.

With another flash of danger hitting her she suddenly found herself being Force Choked. As she fell to her knees she could tell it wasn't just her and Leith being choked, but everyone else in the near vicinity. Everyone was in danger of being choked to death by a very angry Shawkeh. Everything was going dark but she couldn't let herself pass out like this. She had to fight back. 'Go to sleep'. The Omni sent along the tether and within seconds the choking eased off and disappeared. That just left dozens of people coughing or gasping for breath.

"Sore loser much!" Alexia croaked out, followed by a coughing fit.

"Ma'!" Jumping to her feet, the Scots-girl went to her mum and pulled her up off the ground. "Are ye okay?" She questioned worriedly. The woman nodded her head and replied that she was fine. "Are any of you okay?" Jaime next asked The Doctor, Rose, Amy, Rory and Jenny, enquiring about their condition. Turned out they were also fine aswell, so no harm done, especially to Rose.

"Why did he do that?" Rory croaked a question as he helped Amy to her feet before checking her over.

"Maybe he just lost his damn Mind!" Amy answered her husband. "Because nobody sane would actually strangle someone."

Jaime felt she had to agree with Amy and looked over at the sleeping Shawkeh. He was now surrounded by Race Officials and Law Enforcement, unsure what to do. They'd obviously never had somebody commit a crime via telekinesis before. And considering he had murderous thoughts before and during the race it was probably best if she suppressed his telekinesis so he couldn't use it anymore, then she disintegrated the tether.

When she'd been doing that, another Race Official had approached them, apologising and asking what they want done. "I'm just goin' tae get changed." Jaime told everyone before hurrying off towards the changing room. On the way there she noticed that Leith's Timeline had now stabilised, so that was a plus.


Once she'd changed back into her regular clothes of Capri's, denim jacket and black long sleeved shirt, Jaime exited the changing room and rushed back to where everyone else was still congregated. The sleeping Shawkeh had been taken away, but something else now caught her eye. A young child was piggybacking on Leith's back while he held a ten month old baby in his arms. His wife held a two year old child in her arms and they were talking. Jaime couldn't quite believe what she was seeing. Leith Totah was a father and he was going to leave them behind in order to save his people. He had a family and the Scots-girl wasn't sure if he was downright stupid or just…brave. Egotistical, stupid and brave, a hell of a combination for this fella.

Jaime shook her head. As she continued to watch the little family she sensed someone approach and stand next to her.

"Yeah, that actually surprised me too when I saw them," John spoke up. "He's leaving his family behind in order to give his people a future. Isn't that extraordinary?" The Half-Time Lord seemed to question.

Jaime faintly nodded her head. "Aye," she replied. "Tha's one way of puttin' it."

John took her hand and they walked back to the others. A wide grin spread on Jaime's face when she spotted Janine and her mum, Ramallah, talking to them while handing over a medium sized box. Waves of happiness and excitement washed off her ma' as she took the box off Ramallah.

"Hey, what's going on?" J.D asked as the couple approached the group.

"Oh, hey! Look what Ramallah just gave us!" Alexia spoke up, even sounding excited.

"What is it?" A confused Jaime asked.

"They are Dates and Olives," Janine answered her. "Mum wanted to gift them to you before you all left our planet."

Alexia smiled. "Thank you." She said.

"Yeah, thanks!" Rose added, yet she too was puzzled.

"They are traditional," Ramallah said. "We have been growing Olives and Dates for Centuries. Unfortunately our Ancestors were prevented from harvesting them so they were left to rot on the trees or were stolen by the enemy."

Alexia scowled angrily and shook her head in disgust. She wanted to say something about this, about the absolute unjustness the Palestinians of the past suffered through. But she was so angry she couldn't find the right words.

Jaime, Rose and Jenny could all feel and see the anger coming from Alexia. It was an ugly deep red.

"That's horrible!" Jenny said for Alexia. Having followed the history of Palestine at the museum she did feel some empathy for these people and their Ancestors.

"Indeed!" The Doctor muttered. "Anyway, enough about Politics, it's time we got going."

J.D and Jaime nodded in agreement with the Time Lord. Then Janine asked if she and her mum could accompany the Time Travellers to the parking area, in which The Doctor said they could. He was quite excited to see their reactions to the TARDIS. So the Time Travellers and the two Palestinian natives walked over to the parking area, but on the way Jaime and Janine got chatting.

"What will you be doing next?" Janine questioned. "WHERE will you be going next?" She amended, fascination washing off the teenage girl.

Jaime smirked a bit at Janine's excitement. "Well, tha' depends on where the Time Winds take us!" She answered mysteriously.

It only caused Janine's fascination to spike and she was also excited and curious. "Okay, where have you been previously?" She asked next.

This time Jaime smiled as she took a quick glance at Janine. "We've been tae all sorts of places," she answered. "But one of my favourites is a Funfair Planet called Helter. We had a lot of fun there."

Janine's excitement rose when Jaime said this. "The Almighty Allah!" She exclaimed. "A funfair planet? Something like that really exists?"

"Och, aye!" The Scots-girl said, grinning now at the teenager's reaction. "There's a couple of similar planets knockin' 'bout, but I liked Helter the best. It has diversity as its not jus' humans that visit it, but humanoids and aliens visit too."

Janine gasped, amazed. "The people who come by to trade with us have weird ridges on their heads and have pointy ears." She then said.

"Sounds like a Romulan." The Doctor spoke up, having been listening to the conversation.

Jaime felt there was something familiar about the aliens mentioned, then her mum spoke up.

"Isn't that from Star Trek?" Alexia asked.

"Yep!" The Doctor replied.

"So… Romulans exist in this universe?" Alexia queried once more.

"Yep!" The Doctor repeated. "Where do you think Gene Roddenberry got the idea from!" He added with a grin.

Alexia rolled her eyes. "You're such a name dropper!" She said to the Time Lord.

"Yep!" Jaime, J.D, The Doctor and Rose all said at the same time.

Janine laughed at the total ridiculousness of the conversation. She'd never even heard of Star Trek before and the traders never had it either. Perhaps they found it offensive in some way. "Where else have you been to?" Janine soon asked.

"Well, there is the time we turned up on a planet full of humanoid dogs." Jaime replied and told Janine and Ramallah how she saved the planet and its people from the Red Carnivorous Maw.

"What happened to the creature?" Ramallah asked once the Time Travellers finished their story.

"It followed us back to our ship." The Doctor told her.

"It's because it had an attachment tae me after I stopped it attackin' the natives," Jaime explained. "Now it lives with us in one of the garden rooms."

At this point Janine was truly fascinated and extremely curious.

"Here we are," The Doctor uttered once they reached the parking area and began approaching the TARDIS. "And here's the Old Girl!"

Both Palestinians stopped and stared at the Time Machine, confused and disbelieving. Maybe even a tad bemused. "Your ship us a box?" Janine questioned. "How are eight of you supposed to fit in there?"

"You'd be surprised how roomy it actually is!" Rory answered her.

"What on Falastin is a 'police public call box'?" Ramallah asked as she continued to stare at the TARDIS.

Rose smiled as she stroked the Time Machine lovingly. "It's an old Earth device," she explained. "Used by police in England."

But the two Palestinians were still none the wiser. All they knew was their own past history of Earth. When The Doctor opened the door of the TARDIS, Janine watched as Alexia, Rose, Jenny, Amy and Rory walked inside before speaking up. "Can I come with you?" She requested and her mum cried out in disagreement before grabbing her hand.

Surprised, Jaime turned her attention to the teen as John and The Doctor quickly escaped into the TARDIS. "Och, no," Jaime shook her head. "No. Though I would like you tae travel with us, now is not the time."

A sad expression appeared on Janine's face. "Why not?" She asked.

Jaime gave her friend a hint of a smile. "'cause you've still got a lot too do. You've proved tae those ignorants that you can fly just as good as them. Now you jus' need tae help the rest of the vulnerable ones."

"Huh?" Confusion washed off Janine as Jaime turned away and walked into the TARDIS.

But before she closed the door she looked back at the young Palestinian. "This ain't goodbye. I will see ye again, but only when you're ready!" And she finally shut the door.

Ramallah and Janine watched in wide-eyed disbelief as the TARDIS noisily Vworped away. "Allah be praised!" Ramallah exclaimed in shock.

"Wow!" Janine breathed out in awe. She couldn't quite believe what she had just seen and was completely amazed by it. With a grin on her face she took a hold of her mother's hand and began to walk away from the spot.

Though seconds later an odd humming noise made them stop, and then there was the re-occurrence of temporal winds.

"What is going on?" Ramallah cried out as a vending drinks machine appeared in the space the TARDIS had previously been in.

"What's that?" Janine wondered, yet the machine looked like the type she'd seen in history books of Earth. Only it looked different…very different.

It's door opened and a female with long curly frizzy type hair who appeared to be Janine's age, peeped out. "Hey there. You coming in?" The strange female asked. She had a hint of an American accent.

"Who are you?" Janine asked, eyes narrowed in suspicion. And how exactly could she fit inside a drinks machine?

"I'm Melody." The strange female said and explained about the TARDIS and who was inside.

Janine perked up. "Really?" She asked and Melody nodded her head.

So the young Palestinian turned to her mother. "Please, mama, can I?" Janine pleaded.

But Ramallah shook her head, eyes wide and full of fear. "No. No, you can't. What if you don't come back?"

"It's okay Mrs Asghar. We'll only be gone five minutes." Melody assured the woman.

"Please!" Janine continued to plead.

Still extremely worried, Ramallah looked at Melody. "Do you swear by the Almighty Allah to bring her back safely and quickly?" She questioned and Melody smiled, nodding her head. "We promise." She replied before disappearing into the Time Machine.

Ramallah breathed in deeply, still feeling worried before turning to her daughter. "Go on. But I expect you to be back in five minutes."

Janine smiled at this. "Thanks, mama." She said, gave her mother a quick kiss on the cheek and hurried over to the Time Machine, disappearing inside it.

Inside, Janine stared around at the huge room in absolute awe. It couldn't be possible at what she was seeing. On the outside it had just been a small vending machine, but inside it was big…very big. "It's bigger on the inside!" She cried out in wide-eyed disbelief.

"Och, I should think so, or it would be a very tight squeeze!" Spoke that familiarly accented voice and Janine looked over at Jaime before letting out a surprised gasp. She was sitting on a comfy looking seat wearing lounge-about clothes instead of what she'd been wearing about a minute or two ago. She was also holding a baby and breastfeeding it.

Blushing, Janine looked away from such an intimate moment. Clearly quite some time had past since their visit to her planet. "Didn't you tell me I had to wait?" Janine asked, confused.

"Aye. But when we came back tae visit you and invite ye aboard the TARDIS you didnae seem all that surprised. Then you told us what happened."

"So here we are closing another Paradox." J.D added.

"And you get one trip before we take you back home!" Jaime concluded.

Janine nodded her head in understanding and looked at the controls where J.D, Melody and one other were stood around. The boy was black and in his mid-teens. "Who are you?" She asked the boy.

"I'm Daniel," he replied. "Daniel Smith-Pink. Mum and Dad adopted me, like my sister." He grinned over at Melody who grinned back, ready to start co-piloting the TARDIS with him and her dad.

"Best grab onto something. Sometimes the flight is bumpy." J.D told the young Palestinian.

Nodding again, Janine hurried to sit next to Jaime, asking about the baby as the young TARDIS hurtled into the Vortex.