A/N Thank you so much to everyone who is still following this weird fanfiction - and I'm afraid it only get weirder in this chapter. Please let me know if I went too far with Andy's power, which would be fair enough. But then this is fanfic, anything is possible right? Either way let me know, and enjoy.

And then she just stopped. The wind dropped almost instantly, as did the leaves and pine needles. The trees stood upright again, and the ground faded to its natural colour. She looked towards him with a slightly embarrassed look on her face. Clearly no one had ever seen this before. But the Doctor was speechless yet again. She didn't just make the trees dance; she pulled the power of the world to her. Nobody could do that, it wasn't possible.

But he knew better than to voice those thoughts, as he'd only receive the same snappy answer he'd gotten before, and as intrigued as he was by this girl, as admittedly the more he learned the more he became uneasy; he couldn't let her walk away yet. He had so much left to ask her. So he cleared his throat and said,

"That was amazing. I can quite honestly say I have never seen anything like that before," Andy blushed at his compliment, again making herself look younger, "What else can you do?"

"Err, I can feel the history of places," Again he gave her a quizzical look, "It happened in the Mayor's house. As soon as I walked through the door, it felt…cold, dangerous, and I was afraid. One day I touched the wall and saw…I suppose it was a vision, I didn't understand it at the time. I saw the old Mayor and the current one standing arguing. Our Mayor didn't have his badge on, so he wasn't Mayor yet. Anyway they looked like they were shouting at each other, but I couldn't hear anything. Then the younger Mayor shoved the older one and yelled in his face. The old Mayor grabbed his chest, where his heart was, and collapsed. The younger Mayor went on shouting, then realised he wasn't responding and ran to get help," throughout this story, Andy's hands clenched until they became white, "He was just lying there, pale, white as cream," she let out a deep breath, "I learned later that the old Mayor had died of a heart attack. Directly, our Mayor did nothing wrong, really, it wasn't like he shoved a knife in him. But he did seem to cause the heart attack," she paused to take another deep breath and run her hands through her hair, "I've never looked at him the same since."

The Doctor let out a long breath,

"Did you ever tell anyone?" Andy looked up in shock and then gave a harsh laugh,

"Who would have believed me? I was six years old at the time. Who pays any attention to the stories of six year olds?"

"Six years old," the Doctor shook his head in disbelief. For such a young person, she had been through a lot in her life, "So how did you see this again? You said you…"

"Touched the wall, yes. If I went back there today I could probably tell you the exact stone."

"So…just a touch?" Andy sighed again, blowing her hair out of her eyes,

"I don't know how it happened. I just…the earth remembers. That's how I would put it. You know how some people say that history is written in the stones of houses, or castles or something. Well, I can see that history. The earth remembers." As she repeated her words, the Doctor shivered.

The earth was supposed to be…well just that, some dirt and grass, and if you went deep enough, magma. It wasn't supposed to be a memory bank, or a power source. But like she had said, for Andy, it was. And there was absolutely no rhyme or reason for it. There was nothing special about her, not that his Time Lord senses could pick up on aside from the obvious, no feature that stuck out, not even antennae. She looked…well, human. As human as Amy had, or even himself. And yet she commanded what could quite possibly be the greatest power he had ever seen. And she did it all without even realising it! In fact she used it to help put barns back together!

She was staggering, she was incredible, she was…dangerous. Unbelievably dangerous, and there was nothing he could do to stop her. She was more powerful than him, he knew that without a doubt. She could do things that he could barely imagine. And if she chose to turn all of that power against him, then he had absolutely no chance of survival. If he was right about the strength of her powers…she could quite easily turn him into dust. And with just one thought!

She was nothing he'd ever seen before, she terrified him and exhilarated him. The only other person who ever did that was…well, River, but she was his wife, she was supposed to.

"Anything else?" Her voice broke him out of his spiralling thoughts. She was looking at him expectantly. He cleared his throat,

"Um…well, is there?" remembering just who was asking the questions here. Andy thought about it some more, and then smiled,

"It used to terrify old Matros when I did it…but you'll have to wait until tonight, I'm afraid. It only really works at night." Uneasy with the fact that she had already scared her 'guardian' with this particular power, he was willing to wait until nightfall before seeing anymore.

Looking up he saw the sun was nearing the horizon,

"Want to go into town for some food?" the Doctor asked in an upbeat voice, trying to alleviate his own tension. The effect was instantaneous. Andy's smile vanished, and she seemed to curl in on herself.

"I don't go into town," she said, "Not unless there's a rock fall."

"But how do you get food then?" the Doctor wanted to know.

"There's a food cart that comes up to the shack once a week, usually anything left over from the market. I buy up whatever I need there. Anything else, I generally find in the woods. Sometimes I even go hunting." Andy explained. The Doctor shook his head,

"That's no good, you shouldn't be afraid of those meanies. You know they're probably just jealous, right?" Andy lifted her head and stared at him, a sneer curling her lips,

"Do I look like I'm five? Don't try and fucking placate me, Doctor, or sugar-coat the truth. They hate me, they always have. I'm different and weird and a freak. Why the hell would anyone be jealous of that?" Her voice had descended almost into a growl by the time she'd finished. In the half-light her eyes appeared darker, almost black. The Doctor shivered at her tone, but still asked,

"Then why do you stay?" That seemed to stump her. She looked away, back towards the village and sighed, then turned back. Her eyes had changed back to their normal colour.

"Because if I don't protect them from the rock falls, who will? No one else can do what I do. They'd all be crushed, even the children. I…they hate me, but they're still people. Even if they aren't nice about it." The Doctor smiled, and released a silent sigh of relief. Underneath all of the cynicism and anger, there was a good heart beating in Andy's chest. He felt a little more at ease now. Someone who considered all life in that hateful little town precious would never endanger innocent lives, not even in anger. Right?

"So then, what's for dinner?" he asked, back to his usual jovial mood. Andy smiled at his childish antics and replied,

"I caught a deer earlier today, would that be acceptable for you?"

"Ooh, venison. Haven't had that in a long time," he replied, his mouth watering already.

A/N Hope you enjoyed. And please note the eye changing thing, which does become rather important later. Reviews are awesome, so let me know what you thought