All Jane could see was the light. She tried to throw up her arms to shield her eyes, but then she felt something rush at her from inside the light. When it hit her, she was knocked hard against the floor. The girl cried out with surprise. Whatever it was, it felt like it had hit her in the head. Or rather, that it had gone inside her head…

The light shone for a moment more, and then, as quick as it had come, it was gone. By now, the shaking had stopped, too. Jane lay on her back on the floor, slightly stunned, wondering what had just happened.

The Doctor commando-crawled to the other side of the console and saw Jane lying where she was. 'Are you okay?'

Jane's eyes unglazed at the sound of his voice, and she looked over at him. 'Um… I don't know. Did you, by any chance, see a bright flash of light, or anything…?'

He continued to look at her strangely. 'No, I didn't. Did you?'

She tried to sit up, but when she did, her head spun, and she lowered it back onto the floor. 'Oh, jeez… a little help here?'

The Doctor stood up and took her hand, helping pull her up. Jane stood waveringly for a minute or two, dizzy, but soon the sensation went away, and she shook her head. 'I, um… there was a thing…' She gestured vaguely in the direction of the door.

When he saw what she was pointing at, the Doctor's eyes grew open wide, and he quickly got to his knees and slammed the door closed, being careful not to look inside. Standing up, he turned to Jane. 'How did that door get open? Did you open it?'

'I… I don't think so…? Woah.' Jane stumbled over to the captain's chair. 'My head feels weird…'

He was puzzled. That door opened to the heart of the TARDIS, but would take a backhoe all its power to open. How could an earthquake have done it, even if it was as bad as that last one?

The Doctor strode over to where the girl sat, holding her head and breathing slowly. 'What happened?' he asked her.

Jane thought back to a few minutes before, though it was hard. 'It was… everything was shaking. I was just trying not to get hit by stuff when all of a sudden…' She remembered the burning sensation that had suddenly spread through her left hand. 'My hand was stretched out near the console when it suddenly felt really hot. I looked up to see what it was, and I saw a door. It was falling off, only being held on by one hinge, and there was a glowing light beyond. Then it just fell off and that light filled the room.' She paused, her expression growing confused. 'There was something in the light, and it rushed at me. And…' Jane looked up at him. 'Then it was gone.'

He stepped back, thinking. 'You… you looked inside the TARDIS, Jane,' the Doctor told her, somewhat disbelievingly.

'Oh. Okay. So?'

But he couldn't wrap his mind around it. Jane had looked right into the heart of the TARDIS, and for several minutes, too, and yet she was generally unharmed. So what had…?

'What's the big deal, dude?' Jane asked him. 'Did I break something? I'm really sorry. I'll fix it, y'know, whatever it was…'

Puzzled and not listening, the Doctor turned to the console and its readout screens, not really looking, simply musing. Yet when he saw what it said, his face fell. 'There's no way…'

After studying the screen for a moment, he dashed down to the doors and threw them open. When he saw what lay beyond, his mouth dropped open. 'Oh, no…'

Jane shook her head, trying to get rid of the weird feeling she had that was spreading all over her. She got up and followed the Doctor to the door. 'What is it?'

The Doctor moved to the side so that she could look out. When she did, Jane, too, was shocked.

Beyond the TARDIS doors was space and not much besides. On the horizon was the sun, and two small planets besides: Mercury and Venus.

'Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. That's not good, that's so not good, like, at all.'

'No, it isn't,' the Doctor agreed. 'It's never good when the Earth disappears, really.'

She looked up at him, astonished. 'Again? It's disappeared again?'

He nodded unconsciously.

The girl tried to wrap her mind around this, and when she put what had happened moments before with what she saw now, she came to a terrible conclusion. 'Did… did I do that? Oh, God…'

Jane turned and wandered, shaken, back up to the console. 'I broke the solar system. Holy crap, I broke the solar system! Earth's gone, again, and who knows where it's gone this time…'

The Doctor closed the doors and went back up the ramp himself. 'No, you didn't break the solar system. Earth isn't gone, the TARDIS couldn't have done that… at least, I don't think it could…'

Then she realized something. 'Doctor, what about all the people? My mom and dad are on that planet, all my family, all my friends… What did I do?'

'Hush!' he finally said, and she listened, moving over to look at the screen with him. 'What is it?' she whispered.

'It's… changing.'

True enough, the shapes were slowly moving over and around until they formed a new pattern.

'What's it say?' Jane asked quietly.

Without a word, the Doctor marched back over to the doors and again opened them.

Now it was not space they saw, but a thick fog blanketing the world.

'That's impossible…' the Doctor murmured.

Jane could see the fog well enough from where she was standing. 'What is it, what's wrong?'

'We haven't moved, we never have, and suddenly there's two scene changes within a few seconds? I don't think so.' He walked up to the console and hit a few buttons. 'Something's going on here, and you're involved.' He pointed at Jane. 'I just don't know what or how yet.'

'Oh. Um, okay.'

With that, the Doctor went back to the doors. He took a cricket ball from his pocket and tossed it out. It bounced, and eventually rolled along the solid white floor silently, finally disappearing into the mist.

He looked over his shoulder at Jane. 'Coming?'

'Oh hell yes.' She dashed to his side, and together they walked out of the TARDIS, journeying out into the unknown.

0-0

Yeah, here's where things start to get really weird.

So now with what happened in Series Five, with Amy not knowing the Daleks and all, I don't know what they did with "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End". Like I said, this was written before we knew about that stuff, so just go with it, please. Also, it was bothering me about the Doctor's clothes… he couldn't be wearing his regular outfit cos he stole that from Leadworth Hospital (XD), so I guess he's still in (the remains of) Ten's clothes? I don't know. Again, written before I knew what was going on… ^^;

Which I feel bad about, sorry. But I guess it can't be avoided… Hm… Anyway. Thanks for the reviews, guys, and have a good weekend. I'll be back home on Sunday, but I and my mates will be having a four-hour long "Doctor Who" spaz-a-thon, so I probably won't do any work. Meaning I don't know when the next post will be! Sorry, gang. But thanks again for reading and reviewing! It means so much to me. Hope you're all enjoying it. 8D