A/N Yes It's me again. Just saying I enjoyed this chapter because it has lots of dialogue and I like dialogue. Also thanks to Kabbachan for reviewing!

The TARDIS had landed in what seemed to be a normal alleyway. The Doctor was studying it through the monitor while Martha had rushed to see if the girl was all right.

"Hello I'm Martha and this is the Doctor are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine." Abigail muttered as she tried to get up. Abby was on her legs when she collapsed once more.

"You don't seem fine."

"Well for your information I have actually just been chased by a manic football that was determined to eat me. So sorry if I don't appear fine." There was a hint of bitterness in her tone.

"Ok, but let me help you up." Martha said as she went to grab the girls' hand.

After much struggling Abby was now on her feet.

"I thought you said he was a Doctor," Abby said to Martha.

"He is, just not a very good one." Martha shot a look to the Doctor telling him to say something.

The Doctor turned around from the TARDIS controls and studied the girl for the first time.

She looked around 13 and was tall for her age. Had long flowing brown hair that had a life of it's own and hazel eyes. She was carrying a bag, which he assumed held schoolbooks and pencils.

"Sorry. Well I'm the Doctor, as Martha kindly said, and that football that was chasing you was a Zenxopia. They are perfectly harmless."

"Oh sorry I should have known it was a Zenxopia. And of course they are such harmless creatures. The only problem is that bloody great football out there just tried to eat me so don't you dare tell me they are bloody harmless!"

The Doctor looked taken back. The last person who talked to him like that was Donna. He tried to shake thoughts of Donna out of his mind as he saw Martha trying to hide a smile.

"Yes well… um… you see they are usually harmless unless you poked it. Oh please say you didn't poke it."

The girl was now looking sheepish. "Well… you see… I had to! I had to determine if it was harmless or more importantly if it was actually real."

But the Doctor was ignoring her now and had gone back to pressing buttons.

"Great now I have to go back into the vortex, fiddle with the species extrapolor and then come all the way back just because you poked it."

"Well!" But that was all Abby could say. Until, that is she felt the ground below her move.

"You're kidnapping me!"

"No we're not!"

"Yes you are! You're taking me to God knows where without my permission. That in my books counts as kidnapping me!"

"Listen do you want to be followed around by that thing out there?"

"Well, no but-"

"Then shut up!"

And with that Abby fell silent.

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They had been moving for ages when the Doctor plucked up the courage to talk to Abby.

"Sorry I didn't catch your name?"

"It's Abigail, Abby to my friends."

"Well Abby-"

"Who said you were my friend?"

The Doctor fell silent once more. Martha had been watching the two and couldn't help smiling. This thirteen year old sure had guts. Which then reminded Martha about what the Doctor had said.

"Umm Abigail-"

"You can call me Abby" Abby said without looking up from the book she had produced from her bag.

"Abby, when you were running from the Zenxopia, can you remember asking for help?"

Abby put down her book and was looking very pale.

"When I was running," Her voice was barely a whisper. "My mind went blank and I remember thinking about help. But the voice I heard wasn't my own, it was like… like I was possessed."

Tears had begun to run down Abby's cheeks but she quickly brushed them away.

"Anyway so what is this thing we are in?"

The Doctor put on the first smile he had since Abby had arrived and hurriedly tried to confuse the girl.