OMG guys I am so so so so so sorry!!!! I have abandoned you for so long!! I just got caught up with my school work, and lots of stuff came up, and I just forgot/didn't have the willpower to write/forgot again. Thank you for keeping an eye on me, Bubblez. Without you, I would still be watching Spongebob and eating mac'n'cheese on the sofa instead of writing this. Thank you.

Disclaimer: If I owned Doctor Who, this fanfiction would have been done about two months ago.

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"What?" the Doctor asked, staring at her in disbelief.

"Silly! I said, what game would you like to play first?" Giggling, she put a finger to the corner of her mouth anime-style. "There are so many, I don't know which one you could possibly choose!"

"Who are you? Who sent you? What is this place?" He tried to pull Donna back inconspicuously and shield her slightly with his shoulder, but she gave him a look and wouldn't budge.

"I'm Kimiko, silly!" she laughed, waving vig2orously. "Daddy sent me to greet you! And this, like I already told you, is the Playhouse." Her happy smile seemed to waver in her eyes, as if she were annoyed. "Now, you have three super-duper options! One, you can start playing right away. Two, you can read the rules first. And three, which is my personal favorite, you can go see Daddy and he can explain the rules to you!"

Donna had never seen such a putrid person, and she stared at her with her mouth slightly open. The whole cute and peppy air surrounding Kimiko aroused a fury in her that she couldn't control. Sensing her repulsed body, the Doctor gripped her wrist to say, "Calm down." Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath like her therapist had told her, she relaxed and tried not to listen every time Kimiko spoke.

Trying to make sense of the situation, the Doctor spoke, "Is 'Daddy' the one in charge here?"

"Oh, yes!" sparkled Kimiko, twirling around and beckoning them further inside. "Everyone does what Daddy says!"

"Everyone?" asked Donna.

"My sisters and me!"

Donna's mouth dropped open. "You mean the mean there are more of you???"

"Anyway," interrupted the Doctor, "can you lead us to him?"

She nodded and skipped to the chrome metal door a few feet away. "It's through here and a ways. I'll show you!"

Nervously, the Doctor and Donna gave each other meaningful looks and followed her to the door. With a polite "After you!" they stepped into a literally dizzying corridor. The area they had previously left has been a simple atrium with a chrome finish. This place, however, was much different. It branched off into five different hallways, each circular like tubes. About ten yards down each one, Donna could see a similar open space that split into a quintuple fork. But the strangest thing by far had to be the walls. Each was painted in nauseating rainbow colors, like an abstract painting gone wrong. Their stomachs were turned even more, however, by the fact that the walls were spinning. Round and round and round they went, giving the illusion that they, in fact, were the ones spinning.

Immediately, Donna doubled over and clutched her stomach. "I'm gonna be sick!"

"Sick? Did you say 'sick'?" asked Kimiko. "Oh, no no no, we cannot have sick! You need to be tip-top healthy to play!" Her face twisted back into that slightly irritated, very unnerving expression.

The Doctor bent down next to her and patted her back awkwardly. "C'mon, Donna. I don't know what these people are up to, but from the look on this one's face, being sick probably won't help matters."

Shuddering, she straightened up and marched bravely toward Kimiko. "All right then, you, which way?"

"This way!" She pointed toward the far left hall. "You first. You may observe what you wish, but do not enter any rooms just yet!"

Donna kept a firm grip on the two handrails all the way down, pausing every few feet. As they approached a niche in the wall, the Doctor peeked around to see a circular chrome door not unlike the one they had used to enter.

"Can I - " he began, but Kimiko nodded and he did not continue. Twisting the handle cautiously, he pushed open the door and looked inside.

Before them was a vast plain, grass rippling in all directions. Wildflowers grew in patches, and a brook could be seen meandering into the distance. A small cottage sat on a ridge about thirty yards away. No matter which way they looked, all that was visible was open prairie.

Donna was the first to notice it. "Hey, wait a minute." She stretched her neck back and peered down the hall. "There's another door right there." Bravely, she sprinted to it with wobbly knees and opened it. "This isn't a meadow. It's a boat!" Frowning in thought, she ran back to the small clearing from which they had started. "That meadow is way too big to stop right there. But there's another hall, I can see it!" Slightly green in the face, she tottered back to the other two. "What's going on here?"

With a horrified expression, the Doctor opened his mouth. "It's bigger on the inside." He turned on Kimiko, prepared to yell, but her bland smile stopped him somehow. Instead, he merely said, "Who?"

A slight, but noticeable pause followed. "What do you mean, silly?" she giggled. "Follow me!" And, turning around, she skipped down the corridor, looking back for a moment to wink at the furious Doctor.