"She's unconciousness." John muttered, feeling her pulse. "She's still breathing."

"Come on Mai, wake up." The Doctor fretted, shaking her. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" He screamed at the man who made the drink behind the counter.

"You poisoned her!" Sherlock said.

"OI!" A woman shouted from the door. They all turned round and there she stood, bold as brass, her ginger hair tumbling over her shoulders. "WHAT YOU DONE TO THAT GIRL?" Donna Noble.

"AH!" Mai screamed, throwing herself back up, clutching her chest and breathing heavily. The Doctor jumped up, chasing the guy round the counter and out the back, dissapearing, with John and Sherlock following. Donna held out her hand and helped Mai to her feet sitting down at a table. "Thanks." She muttered, looking at Donna as it dawned on her. "I should really go." She whispered.

"Mai." She said quickly, stopping her get up. "You wern't poisoned it was just a quick knock out thing. I had to speak with you alone, without him."

"You were meant to forget again!"

"But I didn't." She sighed. "I have my own life now but, I needed to see if he was ok. How is everything with you guys?" Mai sighed, telling Donna everything that had happened since they last met. "Oh god." She muttered. "There's something more isn't there?" She asked, tilting her head.

"Time is running out, it's nearly time for her to go to the library. You were there, wern't you? When he first met her at the library?"

"Oh sweetie. I'm sorry." She sighed. "Have you done oh, what is it?"

"Towers of Darrillium?"

"That's the one."

"No." Mai said, shaking her head. "He wants me to go with him. But it's their last time together, I can't."

"She's your mother."

"So?"

"She didn't get to raise you, to see you grow up, and when your paths finally crossed again, she couldn't tell you and then when you knew, you were away for a long time. She'd want you there no matter what."

"Maybe I'm not meant to be there. She never mentioned it."

"It's his future. She couldn't have said anything."

"I know." She sighed. "I don't think I should be there though. He has all this time left with me, that's the last he'll see of her."

"And the last you'll see of her too! Don't make any rash decisions Mai." She said, getting up and walking to the door.

"Wait, where are you going? You can't just get up and walk off in the middle of a conversation!"

"Time lord brain." She said, tapping the side of her head. "His brain. He's coming back. Gotta go before he starts asking questions. So should you." She nodded at the floor.

"Donna!" She called as she walked out the door. "What if I need to find you again."

"His jacket." She said, walking out of the shop. The Doctor eventually came walking back through the door. He sighed and sat down in front of her, where Donna was sitting just moments before.

"You ok?" He asked softly.

"Yeah, I think I might have just had a allergic reaction to something." She lied, smiling quickly.

"Come on, let's get out of here, you need some rest." He said, taking her hand and yanking her out of the shop.

...

When she was pretty sure The Doctor was caught up doing something, Mai slipped out of her room, tip toeing along the corridor and into the wardrobe, full of everyone's clothes. Many were packed away but some of River and Mai's clothes were in there along with The Doctor's, and his last regeneration's too. She felt the long brown jacket, sweeping her fingers along the arm. She dug her hand into the jacket pocket, pulling out a silver, thin mobile before stuffing it into her pocket and sliding out of the room, walking along the corridors and into the console room again, down the steps and onto the second swing under the console that had appeared, opposite The Doctor. He had goggles strapped tightly around his eyes, pulling and replacing wires, leaving one out for the chameleon circuit. He yanked his goggles off and grinned at her.

"Hey there Pond, how's it going?"

"Alright Daddio." She chuckled, folding up her legs and sitting cross leggeded. "When did you put this second swing in?"

"Earlier." He said, tilting his head slightly. "You alright?"

"Fine." She smiled softly.

"Fancy a adventure?"

"Why not." She giggled.

...

"We look ridiculous." Mai muttered, walking up towards the castle.

"It's the style of this time." The Doctor replied, smiling at their clothing. He was wearing the same suit from Amy and Rory's wedding, without the scarf, and she was wearing a old fashioned dress, down to her ankles, but wasn't big and puffy, she inisted that, she couldn't be able to walk round in it. They approached the door of the bustling castle, where two guards stood guard outside, letting people in.

"1756 and got bouncers eh? Life isn't any different wherever you are in time and space." She muttered.

"I do believe everything is in order." The Doctor smiled politely, showing his psychic paper to the guards, who just nodded and let them through. As they entered the giant castle, it was elegant, full of many posh people in very old fashioned clothes, Mai's first proper experience fitting in with the past. "We are Lord and Lady Eddison, brother and sister." Both their hearts twinged, thinking of one of the adventures The Doctor had with Donna, where they met the Eddisons.

"Brother and sister?" She hissed.

"Well this is a pretty young regeneration, I couldn't exactly pass off as your Dad could I?" He said, as they were offered drinks, watching people dance, extremely formally. "We were orphaned a few years ago after our father died from Nuemonia as our mother died in childbirth with you."

"This is ridiculous!" She muttered. "How are we even here, nobody knows us!"

"We were invited by King George the 2nd, to celebrate his grandsons 18th birthday."

"As in his grandson who becomes King George the 3rd?"

"That's the fella."

"But as soon as the king see's us and realises he doesn't know us, were in deep trouble."

"Nah, good friends me and Georgie boy!" He chuckled. "Met him during the 200 years I spent waiting for Lake Silencio. So from his point of view, it's been about 6 months since we last met. You'll like younger George, his grandson, good looking kid, very funny."

"Oh god, don't try match making me with people. I can't imagine to think how Mum will react." She groaned. "Oh crap, Mum. She's gonna love this. I'm a single mother. God, never thought I'd say that. What on earth have I done with my life?"

"Your mother won't be bothered, she just wants you happy."

"I want my family back to normal, when he wasn't being a dickhead. Were gonna have to go back and get her soon aren't we? I'm dreading it."

"Your dreading seeing your own daughter?"

"I don't know if you realised, but I am a teenage mother, on her own, hadn't even prepared for having a baby, and I CAN'T COPE!" She hissed. "When I came back, I went upstairs and didn't come down for 3 days, it made me realise, I couldn't cope, and I don't think I ever could."

"Where did you go?"

"To see Captain Magambo at UNIT."

"Why?"

"I wanted to make a better life for me and Melody. I didn't know if you were gonna want to know me anymore, be ashamed of having me as a daughter."

"I'd never be ashamed of you, after everything you done, fighting in the war."

"But speaking to her made me realise what a mess of my life I had made."

...

"Da- Doctor." Mai hissed, rushing over to The Doctor as he stood chatting to King George the 2nd. "We gotta go, now." She said. He dragged her to one side, frowning.

"Why?"

"I've done a you."

"You've done a me?"

"I've somehow got engaged to George the 3rd."

"How?"

"How did you get engaged to Marilyn Monroe?"

"That's different."

"How is that different?" She panicked, looking round to see George the 3rd approaching them. "Look, I need to tell you something, it's important!" She said, as the future king quickened his pace, near to them. "I've decided." She said, a dark, guilty look in her eyes.

"Decided what?"

"To give Melody up to The Shadow Proclamation."

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