Author note: Sorry i haven't been updating to anyone who likes this story, but i've been watching that Doctor who episode on saturday at least three times and forgot all about this! LOL i'm so weird! Hope you like this chapter, please review! xxx

Chapter seven.

The evening was coming and still Lydia had not come back. Jessie snuck into the house to grab a few things. She changed into some different clothes and stood looking at her room. She noticed a spider on the floor. Grabbing a pot and bent down and scooped it up, not scared at all. She disposed of the spider delicately onto the window ledge outside her window. She put the pot back and began to tie her shoe lace. Suddenly she heard a noise. She looked up, expecting to see the Doctor, and so was shocked to see at least six people who she didn't know standing in her room. She stood up at once. She stared around at the silent group and looked closely at their eyes. She stepped back in horror. They weren't blinking. She looked in the mirror, careful not to look at her reflections eyes. The door was behind her. She could easily slip out. But what if she spoke to these aliens? Perhaps she would be able to get more information out of them than the Doctor! "Wait! Okay…I know who you are. The Keroslates. And your planet is having a war and you want to transform everyone on this planet into your species by using the mirrors, which you turn into windows. Right, I get that. But your transmitter is broken, so you can't use it? Well listen. I have a friend who can help you find an inhabited planet and start over there, escaping the war. He has a spaceship. You can start on a different planet, put as many windows you like there and save your race. But you can't do that here." she said, her voice going on and on. She sounded very knowledgably, very grownup, very fair and…in fact, she sounded just like the Doctor.

The Keroslates looked at her. "Well…you may know all that, but there's something you don't know. One touch from us on your arm and you will become one of us." said a woman, her eyes glinting.

"If you can do that, why use the mirror attack?"

"Because we can only do the touch attack once and then the power runs out in our hand. So the transmitter is our only hope." said the woman again. Susie Carter stepped out of the circle, her hand out. "But I'm sure one person won't hurt…" she said.

Jessie stared wide eyed as Susie came towards her. "Wait!" she said, but Susie didn't stop, "Never mind then! I said WAIT!"

Still Susie didn't stop. Jessie just ducked from her reach. "Well, there's one thing that you don't know either. Never back a person against a door. Only idiot would do that." she said, slowly backing away towards the door, "Bye bye!" she said innocently, with a smile on her face.

She turned to go and stopped short. She was staring straight into her own eyes. The Keroslates had tricked her. Jessie was staring into a mirror, her eyes locking onto her reflection's. "That was a bit clever." gasped Jessie.

After several moments looking at the mirror, she rushed passed it and down the stairs. The Doctor was waiting for her by the TARDIS and saw her white face. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Jessie stared up at him, desperation flooding through her. "The Keroslates tricked me. I tried to back out the door, but they put a mirror there, and so…" she took a deep breath, "They made me look at my reflection's eyes."

The Doctor took out his sonic screwdriver shone it in her eyes and she squinted. "Is one of them inside me?" she asked.

"I think so. It's still connecting with you…you're obviously not going to turn into a Keroslate just yet." he explained.

"How do we stop it transforming me?" she asked.

"Well…we need to find some way of showing that you are too strong to be taking over by another species."

"Yeah but how?"

"I think I know. You know that you can tell what people are feeling?"

"Yes."

"Well…it's because you have a low level ability to read minds. But not in every day subjects, just with feelings. But, you can't tell your own feelings. You can't really read your own mind of your feelings. Which is what you've got to try and do now." explained the Doctor, his voice grave, his eyes locked on hers.

"But, everyone else can read their feelings in their minds, if you put it like that, and that didn't help them." said Jessie, not really seeing how what the Doctor said made sense.

"I know, but if you can do it then it will be stronger than their thoughts and feelings. So try your hardest. What are you feeling right now?" said the Doctor. For the first time Jessie realised that she didn't know what she was feeling. She felt something inside her, but she didn't know what. "I don't know. Doctor this doesn't make any sense. Why don't I know what I'm feeling. It's just crazy!" she said, her voice impatient.

"Because you can read other minds for what they are thinking. I don't know why but if you can read other minds, that power can't be used for yourself. I think that's it."

Jessie closed her eyes. She concentrated hard, searching her mind for the answers. Why had she never realised this before? A huge bang erupted and her eyes flew open. The Doctor stared over at where a spiral of smoke was rising. "I have to go. Get in the TARDIS and do exactly as I was saying." he said, throwing her the key and running off. "But DOCTOR!" she said, but he was already a distant figure, running off. Away. And that was the first time that Jessica White had ever felt lonely.

The Doctor advanced towards the smoke. He spotted a group of Keroslates, in true form, circled round an object that he couldn't see. The true form of the Keroslates was nothing nice to look at. They were the same shape as human, with two feet, but had grey skin, which didn't seem to fit their body and so sagged off them. Their eyes were red and their noses were small pinpricks in their faces. Their hair was white, dry and short. "What have you done?" said one Keroslate.

"It wasn't my fault. The transmitter just blew up in front of me!" replied the accused Keroslate.

"Great."

The Doctor saw suddenly that the transmitter was in the middle of the group. "Well, at least we have that little girl now." said the Keroslate.

"I suppose. But now we've broken the transmitter even more!"

"We need to get back to our hideout. Anyone could see us here." said a different Keroslate. As if they all sensed at the same time that someone was behind them, the group turned and faced the Doctor. He ducked down just in time. "Lets go." they said and started off towards their hideout. The Doctor sat back against the bush. Why did they want Jessie so badly? What was she to them? He decided to get back to Jessie. But the temptation to follow the Keroslates took over him. He was already too used to being without a companion.

Jessie sat in the TARDIS, her eyes closed. She was so lonely and scared, thinking that every minute was closer to her death. The Doctor had been gone a while now and she had almost given up seeing him again. In fact she had almost given up on seeing anyone ever again. The loneliness closed in around her and suddenly she sat up. She was feeling something and she knew what it was! But…how? She could feel something, but she could never tell what it was. And now she seemed to know she was lonely. She suddenly felt a power well up inside her, as if a huge weight was being lifted from her. She struggled to breath and fell to the floor, gasping for breath. The last thing she saw was her reflection in the glass...