"Why aren't we going anywhere?" Jamie asked, having entered the console room right before the Doctor could've said something against the name 'old cheater'.

"We'll have to wait for a while. The TARDIS is blocked again. It's because of my energy being spent in that particular point of time and space. It's the maximum distance we could've gone to in order not to break the rebuilding of history".

"I would've thought that I'm sleeping and having a freaky dream if it wasn't... re-haaaa-lity..." Erfin's head was nodding, and her eyelids obviously went heavy.

"If you don't want to fall asleep unexpectedly for the next three days, find strength and follow me".

Erfin was half-hanging on the Doctor's arm when they reached the Zero Room - it was time for recharging sleep instead of draining kind of it.

"How d'ya find ways here? Geeky alien labyrinth, Doctor Two Hearts..." she mumbled.

"You're going to find the following even more geeky, if it works with you".

The girl smelled the air, as if her sight wasn't going to serve her any longer.

"Smells like roses".

"That means we're close".

"I thought you aliens were keen on technology and completely lost the remains of beauty sense". Erfin blinked and looked around - the Doctor and she reached the destination. "Zero Room, you say? Totally zero. And what now?"

"Now is when the giddy part begins. Stand in front of me, face to face... right. Now tear your right foot off the floor".

"Alien yoga much?" Erfin shrugged, but did as she was told.

"And the left one as well. Don't lower the right".

"You're crazy... Whoop!"

Erfin's black eyes fixed on her feet that now were not touching the floor. In fact, now her only communication with it was indirect - through the Doctor, who was holding her by both her hands.

"How?.."

"Local gravity. But it's not about that, my sweet. It comes to you naturally". The Doctor, not letting her go, walked over, having made her take a horizontal position. "There, Finny. Relax. Zero Room has a healing effect because it's isolated from the rest of the world".

"So you expect me to relax?" Erfin didn't realize that she wasn't moving her lips while her voice still sounded. Then her brows nearly reached her hairline. "What's that? I don't hear my voice!"

"That's because you don't speak, you think", the Doctor replied, thoroughly articulating.

"Are you going to hear everything from start to the end?!"

"Finny, Finny, I'm not going to hear anything unless you blab it out. Now I want you just to sleep. You need recharging. Don't you feel tired?"

Erfin gazed at her hands, still held by the Doctor.

"I hear whispering", she confessed, her voice half-fearing. "Is that okay when... when all thoughts are out like this?"

And truly, the Doctor heard whispering of a thousand voices. Young, old, mature, angered, calm, sad - all kinds of voices, but they all had the same source and core.

"Yes. Those are your subconscious voices. You're not a full Timelord, so you cannot control them very well, but I promise I won't listen".

"If you do, I'll make your Beatle hair change to billiard-ball style", Erfin replied without speaking and finally surrendered to her feeling of being tired.

"But I don't get it. It's a locked circle", Jamie said after the Doctor closed the doors of the Zero Room. "The Master kidnaps Erfin and makes history change. Then her brother comes to past to find us, we get Erfin out of the wrong time and space and... then what? And that wee lad Lionel said that his sis was present when those manipulators were there... Ack, I might get a headache".

"Let me check the data of the alternative history..." the Doctor muttered. "A-ha. Now when we have a direct DNA source..." Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap - his fingers danced over the keyboard. "Yes! There we go! Do you remember that there were sixteen satellites, Jamie?"

"Aye. One was broken".

"That's it. It was broken not only to distract from Erfin's time kidnapping, but to create her melting double as well".

"Melting double?"

"Mm-hmm. It's a kind of cloning. The double dissolves, but so slowly that no one mentions this, and is gone completely after being left alone. That explains why there was another Erfin... And we still have to return the original".

"Doctor... and what about the Master? Won't he find another way to twist history?"

"No. Remember, I told you that every living being's life energy has a unique shade? Erfin's was very very similar to mine, this is why I could replace her energy with a small bit of mine. And I guess that was not a coincidence... but I also guess that I shouldn't know that yet..."

"So without you or the wee lass he won't be able to adjust the fake TARDIS?"

"Exactly! He's going to stay there... We returned the point of time to its proper condition, and the energy blocks are going to become one of history riddles. But I still want to know one thing. Why did he call the fake TARDIS the Temple of Nobility?"

"Clear. No one there".

"Very well..." The Doctor opened the front door with his sonic screwdriver and entered the house which now contained nothing related to time-travelling, as well as the rest of the houses and their inhabitants.

"Why are we sneaking here like burglars?" Jamie whispered - he was carrying sleeping Erfin in his arms.

"Because, Jamie, no one here, including Lionel, knows us. The world in which he called for us never existed".

"But we remember it".

"Hush..."

The room shared by Temple siblings didn't change. Only the dusted vortex manipulator was missing. Jamie placed Erfin on her bed, and she sighed in her sleep.

"I wanna watch", he confessed. "Let's watch the wee lad find his sister".

The Doctor agreed and added that he had wanted to see it from the very start. They returned to the TARDIS and switched the small camera disguised as a button that the Doctor had left in Erfin's coat.

"A strange building called Temple of Nobility existed in Middle Ages", the Doctor whispered, the corners of his mouth crawling up at the sight of Lionel entering the room and freezing, stunned. "That's a fact. Humanity didn't master time-travelling until XXII century. That's a fact too. One of them cannot exist while the other does, and it was decided which".

"Aye, decided..."

"I'm not any Finny to ya!"

The following was from the screen - Erfin woke up when her brother glomped her.

"Finny?"

Erfin, still half-asleep, sat on her bed and cut off:

"I - am - Erfin - Temple! Or at least Noble. If you wish".

The Doctor and Jamie snorted with laughter. Temple and Noble were worth each other.

A/N: The end. Or beginning, or middle? Those timelines are so twisted...