"Rose, he can't come back." They heard the whispers of the meta-crisis from outside. "Come on. It's just a statue." He said and they wandered off. Mai looked at her parents before opening the doors and walking out.
"MAI, DON'T!" They shouted after her. Mai stood outside the doors, looking over a empty beach. It was cold and dreary. There was only one place they could be. Bad Wolf Bay. She walked Rose and the meta-crisis walk away from the phone box.
"Rose!" She called out and they looked at her. She ran up to them and they stared at her in confusion, it must have been before The Doctor and River were taken way back. "Rose Tyler." She said breathlessly.
"Sorry, do I know you?" Rose said.
"Please say you recognize me? I know it's been a while but still." She said, staring at them both. "Rose. John." She whispered. "Please?"
"Mai, sweetie." River called out to her, standing by the door.
"Your travelling with him, aren't you?" Rose said, suddenly realising before looking back at River. "Who's she?"
"River?" The meta-crisis said.
"She's his wife, I'm their daughter." Mai said. "Look you have to know this, we came here by accident, and I have no clue how. But you'll see us again, soon. But this will be way back in our past, before I know I'm their daughter."
"Before you know-"
"It's timey-wimey." She interupted. "Just be ready."
"MAI!" River shouted. Mai flashed them a quick smile before turning round and running towards The TARDIS and inside.
They all ran round the control room, The TARDIS flying everywhere and sparks flashing across the room as they all held on for dear life, pulling levers and flying The TARDIS through the vortex.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HER?" Mai shouted.
"I don't know!" The Doctor panicked.
"First the black hole and now this, what is going on?" River screamed.
"I DON'T KNOW!" The Doctor shouted as Mai ran forward, yanking a lever as the shaking stopped. "Were back in our universe." The Doctor sighed, looking at the scanner. "NO!" He suddenly shouted.
"What is it?" River asked, helping Mai up from the floor.
"The house where Jenny was moving into, it's been blown up." He said, looking at them. "Luckily, they hadn't left New Earth yet, they're safe." They all sighed. "The black hole, then here, the house. I think someone's trying to bump you off Mai."
...
"The house in Messaline, it's been destroyed." Maria spat as Luke sat on his bed.
"No." He whispered.
"Don't give me that!" She hissed. "None of them had got there. If she isn't moving there, then she'll come back here. So, how did you manage to arrange that?"
"What?"
"Well it must have been you, to save you precious Mai Halo, your angel!"
"I didn't do it."
"Well then, this is what your gonna do next-"
"Was it him?" The little girl asked her hooded figure as they stood once again under the same street lamp as they did the day Mai found out of Melody's death. The hooded figure squeezed her hand.
"No."
"Can we go home? I don't like looking back on the past."
And they teleported off.
...
"Incredibly short trip to a parralel world then." Mai muttered as she lay across one of the chairs in the library whilst River and The Doctor sat with their feet in the pool. "How did we end up there in the first place?"
"No idea." The Doctor said. "Oh well, go on, get ready or something, we better go see The Ponds just to let them know were ok incase Jenny told them what happened." He said as him and River stood up, drying there feet of and Mai wandered off.
"Doctor, what's happening?" River whispered as he pulled her into a hug. "Who's trying to do this to our baby?"
"I don't know."
"This isn't fair on her, she's still just a child, after everything that happened with Melody." She suddenly gasped. "You don't think whoever's doing this done that too?"
"Sweetie, that was a natural cause, nobody could cause that." He muttered. "But we need to keep her safe."
"We try to do that anyway."
"River, she's the most searched after child in the galaxy."
"You make her sound like a celebrity."
"She's started wars and been in so many fights we can't count. She's not like me, she's happy to let people know who she is." He sighed, taking out a hanky from his pocket. "That's why I'm doing this, for all of you." He sighed, tears pouring down his face as he covered River's mouth with the cloth and she collapsed, falling asleep. He carried her through to the control room where Mai stared at her, horrified as The Doctor lay her down on the chair.
"What happened?" Mai asked, leaning over her before falling asleep as The Doctor put the cloth over her mouth too.
...
"I worked it out."
"Well done, time lord. Who'd have thought it eh?"
"I'll wear the hood, so the child isn't alone."
"How can I know your not going to tell them?"
"I sent them home, they'll understand, if they knew. I want Mai to get a headstart before you send of more traps."
...
When Mai came around, she found herself cuddled up in bed in Leadworth. Proper, upper Leadworth as they reffered it to. Amy's childhood bedroom. She sat up and looked over at the desk, rubbing her eyes as she looked over all the toys and puppets of her father, grandmother and The TARDIS. That's when it suddenly clicked. Her eyes grew wider as she suddenly realised where she was. Why wasn't she on The TARDIS with her parents? She jumped out of the bed, running downstairs and shouting the house down.
"!" She shouted. "NAN! NAN! NAN!" She shouted, running through the hallway. "GRANDAAAAAAAAAAAD! GRANDAD AUGUSTUS? NANNA TABETHA?" She shouted breathlessly, running into the kitchen as they stared at her. "Where's Mum and Dad?" She asked breathlessly. "Or Nan and Grandad? Are they here or at home?"
"Mai love, what are you on about?"
"I was on The TARDIS, with Mum and Dad, then I woke up here, what's going on?"
"Sweetie." Tabetha said. "You didn't go back to The TARDIS, remember? When you came here when your grandfather was ill, you decided to stay here, with us. You cancelled moving with your sister, remember?"
"Your lying." Mai said, feeling her pockets. "Where's my sonic? Wait, he had the cloth and... did he take it? What's Dad done? Hang on. Mum was knocked out. Where's Mum?" They stared at her, silently. "WHERE'S MY MUM? No! He thinks he's protecting us, but he's not!" She screamed, turning and running out of the house and along the street. She sprinted through the village, towards the more busier part Leadworth and up to the front door of Amy and Rory's. She yanked the key out of her pocket and slotted it in the key hole, loudly crashing into the house.
"HEY HEY WHAT'S GOING ON?" Rory shouted as him and Amy appeared in the hallway. She threw herself into her grandfather's arms, sobbing into his chest. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked softly. "Why aren't you on The TARDIS?"
"Dad, he knocked me and Mum out." She said through the tears, looking at them both. "Next thing I know, I woke up in Nan's old room back at home, they said none of it happened, that I stayed with them after Grandad's scare. I ran out, came here. I have no idea what's going on." She sobbed.
"Mai! Mai!" Amy said, shaking her granddaughter. "Where's your mother? Where's River?"
"That's the thing." She chocked. "I have no idea where Mum is."
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