A/N: Sorry about the delay, I'm just glad you guys are still reading! I hope you like this story as much as I like writing it! Enjoy!

Chapter 4: 2168

Four Days Later…

The next few days of Cee's life were incredibly boring. She couldn't go to school because of not taking her turn with the spirit. She couldn't go outside because her parents thought it was 'too dangerous.' She couldn't even come out of her room because her father would just send her back in again. And the little times she did spend out of her room, eating particularly silent meals and spending some unsatisfying time in the bath, were no better. So all she had to do was lay on her bed, thinking the exact thoughts she had no desire to think. The room she had been so happy to see was becoming her prison.

. . .

These were the times in life that the Doctor is very glad he has the TARDIS. Taking the slow path would be too much to bear for him, considering the circumstances. Though he could tell he had to go back. Cee Vinson was, fortunately, not a fixed point in time, though he was too curious and too worried to let the circumstance alone.

When the Doctor left Cee in her room it wasn't like he wanted to do it. He just simply let her have some time to herself to figure things out. Yeah. When you put it like that it doesn't sound so bad. At least it's better than what his brain kept telling him, "You abandon a little girl just like that. She obviously still needed you; do you only have one heart? You must get over yourself…" and the comments only got worse from there. He already had enough of those nagging little voices, and one of them was named Rory. He frowned, and as funny as that was, it still didn't make him feel any better.

Amy noticed he had his troubled face on. "What's wrong now?" She asked a bit playfully.

"Just thinking, I guess." He said mournfully.

"No, I know your thinking face, and that is definitely not it." She frowned.

"Yeah, you're right this is my pitiful face isn't it?" He gave her a soft smile.

"There's the Doctor I know!" She gave him a big grin. "Now where are we going?"

He gulped. "Back," He said. "Way back."

"Err, back where, exactly?" Rory cut in, feeling very third wheel-ish in the conversation.

The Doctor sighed. "Back when the spirit first came to Dresden."

. . .

"I've traced back the signal to the year 2168," The Doctor yelled over the groaning of the TARDIS. "I think that's when this whole thing started! And maybe if we see what this thing actually is, I can figure out how to stop it!"

Then the TARDIS went still, the Doctor turned to the door, and walked outside. Again, Amy and Rory had to find him, though it was much easier this time considering that they already knew most of the town. They, again, found the Doctor in the exact same place he was last time.

"Why didn't we just come right here?" Rory asked in confusion. "Are we really just that stupid?"

The Doctor was in the middle of a conversation with a group of children. "No, I did not have anything to drink!" The Doctor said quite forcefully considering he already had most of this conversation. "Now do you kids know anything about a spirit?" The kids shrugged.

"The blessed you mean?" One boy asked suspiciously.

"Blessed?" The Doctor asked. Again, quite intrigued. "How do you mean, blessed?"

"Well, it's God of course," The boy said. "We woke up one morning and the man down the street had eyes all misty and grey, so obviously it's God speaking through him."

"Of course, thank you." The Doctor said, more to himself then to anyone else. Then he started mumbling until he got in the TARDIS.

"Doctor, what are you failing to tell us?" Amy asked after moments of silence.

"Oh, I'm so THICK why haven't I thought of this before! Stupid Doctor, stupid, stupid, STUPID!"

"Yeah, got that, but why exactly are you so… stupid, right now?" Amy asked, quite irritated by the Doctor's lack of words.

"Oh, don't you get it Amy!" He yelled. "They think this thing is a blessing! Or that's the way it started out. I'm guessing that at first they believed this thing would make all their dreams come true, God speaking through their people, but then people started dying. And they realized it was a curse. This thing, Amy, has been killing people for over a thousand years. It's been consuming their bodies and been using them for their own personal enjoyment, and it's succeeded completely. I think I know what it is now, but I'm not sure yet so let's go find out!"

The Doctor was raging mad with excitement and he seemed, just for a second, exactly like his old, happy self. Fighting monsters and fighting the universe, side by side, Amy Pond and the Doctor. I mean, now there was Rory but it felt like nothing changed. They grabbed onto the handle bars and prepared for the jolt. But it never came. The Doctor looked concerned and tried again, but still nothing happened. The Doctor's shoulders sagged and his head drooped lower than his hair.

"We're stuck." He said. "We can't go and save Cee. We can't go and save the world."

A/N: Thanks for reading, I hoped you liked it! Considering I'm probably talking to no one but the two people that are actually reading this, keep posting reviews! You don't have to if you don't want to, but they do brighten my day! I like knowing people are reading, you know?