Kimberley woke up with a start. As she sat there, trying to think what had happened, flashes started to come back to her. As she could see the nothing come towards her, she started to shake badly. "No!" she exclaimed, trying to force the horror from her mind. "Try on thinking on how you got into this room."

After a few minutes a blurry image comes to her mind. "Can't be!" Kimberley trys to scramble out of the bed and manages to land on her butt. That didn't stop her as she gets up and take off running to the door. Kimberley manages to open and stop dead in her tracks, when she enters the hallway. Not knowing where to go, she turns and runs right into a skinny man.

"Oh, good! You're up! Donna has been begging me to take her somewhere to eat. Would you like something to eat, yeah?"

Kimberley's eyes get really huge as she looks over the man. "You are real!"

"What?"

"Just wait until I tell my friend, Lady Dark Hope, that you're real!" Kimberley starts to sqeal very loud.

"Please, don't do that."

"This is the most awesomest day of my life!"

"Um, well. Let's go have a seat. I may change that." Kimberley just gives him a funny look, as the Doctor indicates the direction to go.

Kimberley sighes as she follows the Doctor into the control room. "I can't believe it!" Slowly she starts to turn on the spot, trying to take in all the details of the room.

"Yeah, right. Come sit down." The Doctor grabs her arm and gently guides her to the seat.

"Oi! So, she is awake!"

"Yeah."

Kimberley stands up in a hurry, only to be pushed gentle back down in the seat by the Doctor. "Donna! This is so cool!"

"Yeah, not after what I have to say." Kimberley looks up at him, giving the Doctor a questioning look. "Do you remember what happened to you?"

Kimberley's eyes get dark and the Doctor could see a visible shiver run down her spine. "Yeah."

"What happened to you was a terrible thing. Your whole realitily ceased to exist."

"What?"

"What I mean is that your fabric of space and time of your alternate reality is not there and I don't mean the earth. I mean everything. There is no aliens finding your home world and realising someone onced lived there, I mean nothing." Kimberley doesn't say a word, as her eyes start to get really huge. The Doctor doesn't even slow down to let her take it in or deal with it. "The only thing that is left that says anything, of anything that once existed, is you and what you know."

Kimberley stands up forcefully, tears streaming from her eyes. "Are you saying that I'm all that's left, of a huge universe and all I know is it. When all I know is just a little bit from some little backwater planet, off some little island?"

The Doctor crosses his arms, sits down, and leans back. Taking a deep breath he says, "Yeah. I'm so sorry, but yes."

Kimberley looked like she wanted to hit him or just bust down right there, but instead she takes off, out of the control room. She didn't get far. She stops just outside, to hear what they had to say, with tears streaming down her face.

"That was a pretty rude way to tell her!" Donna almost yelled.

"I know, but she had to know. It was better to tell her all up at front, instead of leading her on."

"That's not what I meant! I swear you have no consideration for peoples feelings. It's like you had to never break any bad news, to anyone!"

The Doctor gets up in a rush and his eyes get steel hard. "That is not true. I had to tell someone, that I really cared about, the exact samething. It tore at my hearts, when she cried for days in her room. I couldn't do anything for her. I couldn't comfort her like her real fami..." The Doctor clamps his mouth shut and breathes in really deep, calming himself. "It was really hard on the two of us. We drove Martha up the wall with the way we acted."

Donna gives him this sad kind of look. "Who was it?'

The Doctor sighes as he goes over to the control console. He starts to push some buttons and pull some levers. "Remember that girl you said wouldn't do to good of a job of being a companion, because I don't really see her as an equal or anywhere close to it."

"Oh, you mean..."

"Yeah. Her of all people."

"She's a tough kid. I bet she could handle it."

"Sometimes, I wonder if she could."

"So, where is she, now?"

"She left. Said she needed to try and live on her own." The Doctor glances over at Donna. The sound of his voice picks up, giving the impression of better reasons. "She mentioned that she's always with someone. She wanted to 'grow up' and take care of just herself, with no one to look out after her."

Donna smiled. She knew one thing and that was the Doctor knows best. "So, where are you taking us today, Space Man?"

The Doctor gives off a big smile. "I don't know. Let's find out!" the Doctor exclaims with vigor, as he slams on his controls.