Rayne sat quietly in the console room while River poured a satchel of nanogenes onto her bleeding leg, she felt high and slightly dizzy, she could feel her body starting to heat up and each pump of her hearts sent another pulse of regenerative energy though her, which she was focusing very heard on suppressing, willing her body not to, silently telling herself that it wasn't necessary.

it seemed Her body wasn't convinced.

The doctor paced in front of the two women lecturing them about being irresponsible and rash, neither were really listening. He stopped in front of Rayne looking down at her, "are you listening to me?" Rayne didn't respond, she had all her outward attention focused on the nonogenes. "Rayne?... What are you doing?" He had just noticed the faint sheen of golden vapor covering Rayne like a layer of sweat, oh. The Doctor knelt down next to her gently prying his daughters hand from where it clenched the edge of her chair, he gave it a gentle squeeze. "It's okay Rayne," he spoke softly now switching gears from angry to gentle "you can let it take you, you don't have to fight the regeneration Storm." He said 'Storm' the way any other parent might have said 'honey or baby girl', it made Rayne look up at him, her eyes held the fear and pain she was feeling, they locked onto his steady gaze.

She already knew she could let the regeneration take her, she knew it was what should be done, but she didn't, Rayne was scared, one of her biggest fears was regeneration and she wasn't ready to face that fear yet, she gripped the doctors hand tightly. The gold sheen covering her grew brighter for a moment then slowly started fading from her extremities, pulsing over her hand, through to the Doctors.

River gasped and grasped Raynes shoulder, "Rayne... Stop it. Stop."

But it was too late Rayne had passed over the excess energy to the doctor who now frowned but didn't pull away from her. The doctor glowed briefly then it faded, Rayne gave a sigh of relief, with the energy now gone, the blood loss and her body now burning through what little nutrients she had consumed today in order to replace that blood, Rayne would have to fight to stay conscious, she was tired of fighting, the world went hazy and she released the doctors hand and crawled up on the chair falling to sleep almost instantly.

When Rayne awoke some time later she still lay in the same chair only with the doctors long purple jacket draped over her, she lay quietly for a moment listening for any signs of life, two distinctive voices rose from some wear nearby hushed and distorted but understandable,

"It's biology nothing else sweetie" Rivers voice said soothingly,

"Well, there are things River, many a things we could do" his voice sounded dark Rayne thought, as though he were talking about a foe. Rayne didn't like it, it gave her chills, she decided it was time to make herself known, she stretched and headed towards the voices.

Up some stairs and half way down a hall River and The Doctor stood very close, she was leaning her shoulder against the wall while he leant an extended arm out, River caught s glimpse of Rayne under the doctors arm and swatted him in the side, "hey" Rayne said to say something.

"Stormy" the doctor greeted, river reached out and pulled Rayne to her in a very motherly gesture, she brushed Raynes curls from her still sleepy face. "How do you feel?" River asked, Rayne Looked to the doctor.

"A little shaky" she admitted.

he thought she looked more like a child than before, small for her age rayne could still pas for a 14 year old her twenty years showed in her eyes though. she was by time load terms a baby, Rayne was only 18 years old maybe 19, the doctor was a child at 90, Rayne was a baby and her parents tended to treat her that way, times like this she didn't mind, but other times she rebelled against it like a human 2 year old might when going through a 'I can do it myself don't help me' phase.

"What now? Can I stay awhile please doctor? Mum will keep us from blowing up the universe" Rayne asked, leaning into river for emphasis.

He looked at river for approval, after all it was river who usually enforced the one psychopath per TARDIS rule, she didn't seem to have any objections at the moment.

"Sure! A bit of family time sounds great"

Rayne spoke suddenly something that had popped into her mind by its own, words foreign to her that she somehow understood, her parents froze stiff in response.

A/N: you asked for it, this one is a bit of a filler while I get back into the story line and characters, the next update should be back on track with the story line, I had a whole follow on story written out on my phone in unsent txt messages but a couple months ago accidently drown said phone with a 1.5hour wash through the sports cycle on my washing machine. needless to say nothing survived.