It was pitch black, and as she walked along the cobbled street, listening to the clop of her shoes on the ground, Mai clutched onto her bag and a sleeping Melody. She pushed open the gate and looked up at the blue house. She chuckled, looking at it, knowing her father had on purpose chosen that colour. She slipped out her sonic, and pointed it at the door, breaking into her grandparents house once again.

...

"OH FOR CHRIST SAKE!" Luke shouted, running his fingers through his hair. "Next time I see her I'm gonna take that teleport and hide it."

"It's Rivers, nothing you can do about it." Rani muttered. "Where are you going?" She called as they followed Luke as he stormed out of the attic and into his room.

"Australia." He said, throwing clothes left, right and centre into a bag.

"Your just gonna let her go like that?"

"Yes."

"You could never see her or Melody again you know that?"

"Yes."

"Your a prick you know that?"

"Oh yes." Luke muttered, walking out the front door and down the road.

"Arsehole!" Clyde spat as he slammed the door.

...

She trailed up the stairs and into her room she usually stayed in, throwing her bag on the floor and put Melody into the cot. Amy and Rory had bought it long ago, when they were still hoping for their Melody to be returned to them. She slumped onto the bed, rubbing her eyes and stared at the ceiling. She quickly got changed and looked at the clock 3:15 am - before turning off the light and going to sleep.

She woke up with a start. She gasped and looked round the room, realising where she was before looking over at Melody, who was still asleep. She quietly got changed and pottered downstairs to breakfast. She knew that today, would be the beggining of her brand new life, if she got a job and had a life on earth, seeing her grandparents and Sadie and Charlie and Torchwood or if she took Melody and went back to The TARDIS for good. Amy rubbed her eyes and sat up, got out of bed and put on her dressing gown before trailing along the corridor, stopping suddenly when she noticed the spare room door ajar.

"Rory, I told you to shut it." She muttered, pushing Mai's bag out of the way as she walked in the door. "Isn't that Mai's?" She looked up at the cot, seeing a sleeping Melody. "RORY!" She called out, loud enough for him to hear but not for Mai downstairs.

"What?" He asked as he walked through the door, spotting his great-granddaughter asleep in his spare room. He sighed and rolled his eyes as Amy picked her up, stroking her hair. "MAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" He shouted. Mai froze as she heard her grandfather's shouting before dropping the slice of toast in her hand, grabbing his car keys and her sonic and running out the back door to the front and into the car. They opened the front door and watched as their granddaughter drove away, groaning. "She is so much like Mels."

Half A Hour Later...

"Enjoy that little drive did you?" Rory asked as Mai walked through the door, throwing the keys on the side. They sat in the kitchen, Amy walking round bouncing Melody up and down on her hip. "Your too much like your mother you know, she stole a bus and drove it through the Platanical Gardens, then she stole a car to come to The TARDIS before we ended up in Berlin when she regenerated."

"Look, there's no damage, it's fine." She sighed, perching herself on the worktop.

"What the bloody hell are you doing here anyway?" Amy asked. "You can just go walking out and leaving her here, what if we wern't here eh?"

"I knew you were here."

"It's not the point. Your not being a responsible mother. Why aren't you at home? Isn't Luke at uni? What about Sky is she with someone? Is Sarah-Jane still with your father? You can't just walk out when you feel like it! You could do that normally but your a mum, you have responsibilities! What about Luke? She's his daughter too!"

"Right." She said. "Sky is fine, Sarah-Jane is still with Dad, and yes I do feel I have a good enough bloody reason to walk out!"

"Did you have a little bust up again?" Rory said sarcastically.

"Shutup!" Mai snapped. "Ooh, yes little bust up. He rung us up, casually said he was coming back to get his stuff and go to Australia for 3 months to do with his course, saying he had no responsibilities and then, Luke told his mates from uni that I started to annoy him when we were together, and before he had a chance to get out, Melody was born, then all he wanted to do was leave and said he didn't want anything to do with his little 'brat', because he never really wanted her. So yes, I hope you don't mind me turning up at your house but as my grandparents, I did think you may be a little bit more supportive."

"Shit."

"Oh yes, shit indeed."

"Where is he now then?"

"Don't know, don't care." She muttered. "So if you don't mind us staying here-"

"Course it's fine." Rory smiled apologetically.

"I'm gonna wait until Dad comes back and then decide what to do. I might go back to The TARDIS for good this time, or stay on earth, make a life here, I know Dad will come and see me probably every day, and I've got you guys, and Sadie and Charlie." She sighed, hopping of the work surface, entering coordinates onto the vortex minipulator. "I need to go out. I won't be long."

...

"Bloody UNIT." She muttered, pushing past all the staring soldiers as they were on their tea break. She wasn't sure if they were staring at her for casually walking around because of her age, or because of who she was. She walked through the crowd and along a corridor, stopping outside a door, inside a office filled with people with a soldier outside.

"Sorry kiddo, you can't come in here, it's for adults, where's your mummy and daddy hm? Do they work here?" He said sarcastically, smirking.

"Don't talk to me like shit!" She snapped. "Get me Captain Magambo now!"

"And who are you?"

"Mai Halo." His face dropped. "Security clearance 74-263. I think you'll find that your looking a bit of a idiot now, don't you? I could have your job gone like that." She said, clicking her fingers.

"Sorry Miss Halo." He muttered, looking at the floor and pushing open the door as she pushed past.

"Erisa!" She called out as she walked through, everyone walking round with paper work or at their desks, adding different screens to the main one on the wall, working on their latest project.

"Mai Halo, never thought I'd see the day you'd walk through my door again."

"Have you heard from him?"

"We saw Brigadier a month before he died and he had just seen The Doctor and Sarah-Jane then, so that's where I'm guessing they are."

"I might need a job."

"Why would you need a job? Your Mai Halo. With Torchwood and Sarah-Jane and The TARDIS, why would you need money?"

"My life has turned to shit." She whispered.

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