A.N- Hey readers! Happy 30th chapter! This plot has been dragging out longer than I expected, so I am going to try and end it soon. Until this plot is over, when I say 'The Doctor', I mean 10, not 11. Also, this story is not planning to have any real romance in it, but we'll see what happens. Thanks everyone and keep favoriting, following, and reviewing:)

Scarlet couldn't hold her breath for much longer, she went up for air. Apparently the suit The Doctor gave her could withstand anything, except water. She broke to the surface to see the water completely empty, no boats or anything. Seconds later, The Doctor broke out of the water behind her.

"Doctor, where are we?" He closed his eyes.

"About 400 years in the future, we must have gone through a temporal shift, usually they are invisible though-"

"Doctor!"

"What?"

"How did you know what year it is?"

"Oh, its a Time Lord thing, always know what time it is.. also when you are in a fixed point in time, pretty handy." The Doctor smiled. Scarlet grumbled, his future self never mentioned those things. The whirlpool started to shrink in size, it shrunk until it disappeared, the only thing keeping them connected to the past was the small hole that was feeding the rope through. Scarlet dived underwater, but The Doctor quickly pulled her back up.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Trying to get back."

"You can't just jam it with a crow bar to get it back open, it must be on shifts."

"Shifts?"

"Yes, but if it was on shifts, that means someone is using it for their own benefit." Out of the corner of her eye, Scarlet saw a ship, a little bigger than their private cruise, but still pretty small. It looked like it held about 30 people.

"Shall we go investigate?" Scarlet asked.

"Of course, but let's get rid of these ropes." He said, unclipping his.

"How will we get back?"

"Watch." The Doctor took his ropes and tied them around a tall narrow rock that was underwater. When it was secured, he did the same to Scarlet's ropes. "Let's start swimming."

"But its almost a mile away."

"Then let's get started."

Scarlet had no idea how incredibly hard it was to swim with a space suit on, but they both managed. As soon as they got away from once whirlpool, The Doctor started a very uncomfortable conversation.

"Why did you change your perspective of me when you found out I was an alien?" He asked.

"Well, because aliens all act differently, some different than humans."

"So you're not human?"

"Why would you think that, do I act weird?"

"No, but earlier you told me I was the craziest human you ever met, meaning you have experience with other races, also, I'm sensing something from you, its different from everyone else, it's weird." Scarlet didn't know what to say, she couldn't tell him the truth, and she couldn't keep going on with the human act. Se thought back to a book she read in the TARDIS library called, Alien Races that Look Alike.

"Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not human."

"Then what are you?" He said, his eyes glowing with wonder.

"You won't tell anyone right, not even my girlfriend knows."

"I won't, you can trust me." He said, his tone of voice becoming more serious.

"I'm from the planet Sto, ever heard of it?"

"Oh yes of course, such lovely people." The Doctor smiled, Scarlet smiled back at him. She was glad he bought it, she didn't like lying to him, but like Clara said the other night, 'It's secrets that keep us safe'.

After about an hour or so of swimming, they finally reached the boat. They discarded their suits in a supply closet onboard, and grabbed two lab coats they saw lying on a railing. They had both been undercover before, and were pretty good at it. Nobody seemed to give them a second glance. They walked around the ship to get aware of the environment around them. There were many supply closets, lab rooms and room with lots of controls.

"This must be a research vessel." The Doctor whispered in Scarlet's ear. They both walked to the front of the ship, it was heading right towards the once whirlpool.

"Why would they research something that was manmade?"

"Good question."

"I have a plan." Scarlet smiled and separated from The Doctor's side. Scarlet had borrowed Clara's heels for the day, and they would work out perfectly. She walked into a room filled with 4 or 5 scientist, then caught her heel on the leg of a steel table and as ungracefully as possible, fell to the ground, making sure she hit her head on the way down. Two of the workers came to help her up.

"Are you alright, love." The woman scientist said as the man pulled her up to her feet.

"Where am I?" Scarlet asked, holding her head in pain.

"You must have hit your head hard, we're on the retrieving vessel." The man said, holding her up.

"Retrieving what?" Scarlet asked.

The Doctor didn't know what any of them were saying, watching from a distance. She was a good actor though. When she fell, it looked so real, The Doctor wanted to go and help her. She walked back over to him, pretending to still be in pain, and dragged him into the closet supply closet.

"Okay, I found out everything you need to know."

"Wait, seriously, how brilliant, so what are they doing."

"Well apparently, in the core of this planet is some really expensive natural gas that they have been extracting for over 300 years, but recently, they cleaned the planet dry. So they made a temporal shift to take them back in time to retrieve the gas before they started mining it in the first place."

"You got all of that by just bumping your head?"

"Hey being a pretty idiot can get you anywhere."

"Wait, but if they extract the gas before they did it in the first place, that will change the past!"

"Yeah, for some reason they think they will get double the gas or something, what a load of lab coat wearing idiots."

"We need to stop them, if they extract the gas now then they wouldn't have cleaned the earth dry earlier so they would have no reason to go back in time now. We can't have a paradox, why does everyone in the galaxy only care to make a profit." The Doctor yelled. Scarlet clutched her head in pain. She really did bang it earlier and him yelling was not going to help it.

"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He felt her head.

"Look at me in the eye." She did. "You have a concussion."

"I told you I'll be fine." But before she could do anything, The Doctor had his hand on her head, golden light coming out of it. The light entered her head, the cool rush making the pain go away. She knew it would take away from his life, but she couldn't tell him that, so she just smiled.

"Thank you." The supply closet door burst open. It was the man and woman from before. They must have seen the light.

"We checked the records." The woman said. "There should be no clumsy blonds on this ship. You too, pinstripes. Were taking you to the captain."

When the woman said captain, The Doctor expected the man who drove the vessel, but no, they were taken to the leader of the whole operation.

"And who might you two be?" He asked with a deep grumpy voice.

We are...uh.. Time Agents," He held up his psychic paper for proof.

"And what you are doing is against the Time...Laws." Scarlet said, knowing nothing about the time agents except for the brief summary Jack gave her.

"The biggest law too, no paradoxes, you could blow up," He paused to do the math, "One quarter of the galaxy."

"You are lying! You're Time Agents! you can go back in time and take the gas for yourselves!" The Leader yelled. Wow this guy is stupid. Scarlet thought.

"What can we do to convince you?" The Doctor asked.

"Nothing! I need this gas or my business will fail."

"Will this convince you?" Scarlet opened the pocket of her holster and pulled out he sonic blaster. She pointed it directly at the leader. They all knew, even The Doctor knew, that one hit with that will kill anyone. What they didn't know was that a bowtie wearing genius made it so it could only stun people.

"Scarlet stop, killing is not the answer!" The Doctor yelled.

"We can sacrifice one person for a quarter of a galaxy!" She played along with him.

"It may not even be 1/4th, it could only be 1/5th!" But it was too late, the yellow pulse hit the leader directly in the chest. He shot backwards and landed on the deck a couple meters behind them. To everyone else on the ship, he looked dead. Everyone started freaking out and screaming, especially The Doctor. Scarlet pointed the gun in the air and shot. Everyone quieted and gave her their full attention.

"Listen, I want you to turn this ship around and go back to where you came from. Stop messing with the past if you want the present to be the same as it is now, and if you don't like the present, too bad, someone else probably does. When me and The Doctor get back through that portal, I want you to close it or else I'll use it to come back and shoot everyone of you. You guys got that?" Everyone nodded in agreement.

Suddenly the boat stopped, it was at it's destination, Scarlet was glad she did not have to swim again, that would be an awful exit. They went to go get their suits before they left. The Doctor's face was red. He was furious.

"KILLING IS NOT THE ANSWER, WE COULD HAVE FOUND A PEACEFUL WAY TO STOP THOSE PEOPLE! IF I KNEW YOU HAD A GUN YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER CAME ALONG WITH ME-"

"Doctor!"

"WHAT?"

"That man is not dead."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOT DEAD, I SAW YOU SHOOT HI-"

"It was a stun gun."

"THAT WAS NOT A STUN GUN! I'VE SEEN THOSE GUNS KILL DOZENS OF TIMES."

"I programed it to be a stun gun." The Doctor calmed down a little bit.

"No way."

"Honey, I am as non-violent as you are, in a couple of hours, that man will wake up fresh and rested." With their suits back on, they jumped into the water and back into the whirlpool, which had opened up again.

Although they had only been gone a couple of hours, to Clara and Rose, it had been two days, exactly how long the cruise was supposed to go on for. They made sure to enjoy themselves the whole time, although Clara was worried about Scarlet.

"Don't worry, she'll make it back, The Doctor will make sure of it."

"I know but it's been two days!" Just then, they heard a large splash coming out of the water. Scarlet and The Doctor jumped out, both laughing. Clara pulled scarlet out of the water and gave her a gigantic hug.

"What? I've only been gone a couple hours"

"It's been two days!" Scarlet hugged her harder.

"Oh Honey, I'm so sorry."

"I want to hear everything about it." Scarlet looked over to The Doctor.

"I'll tell you when we get back 'home'."

"Captain, take us back to shore!" The Doctor called, and with that, the boat started moving.

"So how was your trip?" The (present) Doctor asked.

"It was good," Scarlet said, "But I'm beat, I'm going to sleep."

"Me too, Scarlet, would you like some tea before bed?"

"Of course."

A.N- So tea before bed is now Clara and Scarlet's gossip time. Hope you guys like the plot! R&R!