A/N: Oh, dang I'm an awful person. How long has it been since I posted last; Two weeks, three? Oh, and I forgot to say, I don't own Doctor Who just the character of Cee Vinson, her family, and whatever the spirit is. And, now, after a long long wait, I present to you… CHAPTER 6! *dramatic fanfare plays*

Chapter 6: Weeping

The Doctor straightened up. "Alright Everyone?" He asked.

They all nodded in agreement, all except Cee. She looked lost in the wonder of it all, happy to be home, yet somehow a stranger in her own town.

"You okay?" The Doctor asked her softly.

She nodded. "Of course I am." She said. "Why wouldn't I be?" She added quickly.

Amy leaned over the Doctor's shoulder and stuck out her bottom lip. "Can we go fight monsters now?" She complained.

"Pond, what sort of question is that? Of course we are! And, technically, they're aliens. So! Cee, where should we go from here?" He addressed the girl.

"Umm, I don't know, the group center, I guess." Cee shrugged.

"Okay, group center it is. Amy, Rory, River." He motioned for them to follow him.

When they got the center the place was deserted except for one woman kneeling on the floor in the back of the room. When Cee got a good look at her, she realized that she was crying.

The woman looked up. "Mum?" Cee was shocked to see that this woman; this sad, lonely woman was indeed her mother.

"Cee!" Her mother leapt up off of them floor and enveloped her daughter in a huge hug. "Cee, sweetheart, where have you been? One minute you were there and the next you had disappeared! I've been so worried; I thought maybe you'd been kidnapped. Were you kidnapped? Oh, sweetie, please tell me you're okay. Oh, I've missed you so much!" She cupped Cee's face in her hands and let a new river of tears stream from her face.

"It's okay Mum, I'm fine. I haven't been kidnapped or anything, see?" She spread out her arms as if to let her mother examine her. "And, just out of curiosity, how long was I gone for?"

"3 days." Her mother said between sobs.

"Oh," Cee hugged her mother once more and sent a venomous look to the Doctor. "I'm sorry Mother; I hadn't realized the time had gone by so quickly. I promise I'll never do anything like that again."

"You better not! You had me scared to death!" She straightened up a little. "Don't ever leave me again, okay?"

Now it was Cee's turn to weep. "I won't. Now, can we go back to the house now? It's getting a bit dark, and I'm really kinda hungry."

"Of course sweetheart, just let me get something." She walked over to where she was seated and picked up a sweater, a rather wet handkerchief, and something that interested the Doctor probably a lot more than it should have.

"Mrs. Vinson, sorry for asking but, what is that? The thing he was referring to was a small black keychain-like object that had the words 'FOR THE STRONG' on it. It looked sort of like a small flashlight. *A/N: Sorry, torch for you British. I do not want to confuse anyone* although it did have a small hole directly through the middle of it.

"Sorry, what? Oh, this, just a little thing that we were given a long time ago. All the families are required to have them. We mostly just keep it on the shelf in our living room." She replied weakly.

"Oh, okay. But why do you have it inside the group center, why not just leave it at home?"

"Every time you go to the group center you have to bring it with you. They never do anything with it; it's just one of those silly little rules everyone has to follow." She stopped. "Is it of any importance?"

"No. Yes. Maybe. It's hard to tell, we might need to borrow that for a while."

Once they got out of the building she handed it over to him and continued to quietly sob over the return of her daughter. They continued back to Cee's house in silence, the only noise being the soft sniffs and wheezes of Mrs. Vinson.