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"Well, we've landed." The Doctor said, reading the Tardis monitor. His shoulders are tense as he read the Gallifraen symbols on the screen and he can't help but feel that he should run away.
"So what's out there?" Martha asked, now also on her feet from the Tardis' rather bumpy ride.
"I don't know." The Doctor admits he then turns to Gaia who shrugs at his gaze.
"Say that again. That's rare." Martha joked.
"Not even the Time Lords came this far. We should leave. We should really, really... go." The Doctor grinned at the pair then bounded for the door, grabbing his trench coat along the way. Gaia and Martha quickly followed.

The landscape before them is pretty bleak and quiet... to quiet. Gaia, who use to having an entire planet in her head, found the silence horrid, not even the planet beneath their feet sung its song. Every planet Gaia had stepped onto albeit with Jack or the Doctor, she'd been able to hear the planets distinctive and individual song, but this planet, this barren wasteland, had given up. Before Gaia could voice these thoughts to the Doctor, Martha came out of the Tardis behind her and gasped in shock. Completely unnoticed by Gaia, a certain Captain Jack lay a few meters away motionless and un-breathing.

"Oh my God!" Martha gasped and ran over to Jack; she instantly tried to find a pulse. She's couldn't find one. "Hold on, you've got that medical kit thing." Martha continued and ran back into the Tardis. Gaia couldn't help but giggle after Martha had left. After everything she'd been through in the last few hours a little innocent fun messing with Martha wouldn't do any harm.

Grabbing the Doctor's hand, Gaia walked over to the `dead` Jack. "Hello again. I'm so sorry." The Doctor said quietly.
While Gaia muttered: "I'm going to be in so much trouble." Before either could question the other on what they said Martha came running out of the Tardis.
"Here we go." Martha said and crouched down to Jack's side. "It's a bit odd though. Not very 100 trillion, that coat's more like World War II."
"I think he came with us." The Doctor answered.
"How d'you mean? From Earth?"
"Must've been clinging to the outside of the TARDIS all the way through the vortex."
"Trust him." Gaia added with an eye-roll for good measure.

"What you know him?" Martha asked shocked.
"Friend of mine. Used to travel with me. Back in the old days." The Doctor replied, not realising the question wasn't directed at him.
"But he's, I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat. There's nothing. He's dead." Martha admits and Jack being Jack, with his impeccable timing as always, chose that moment to wake up. Gaia took a step back hiding slightly behind the Doctor; he raised his eyebrows at the gesture.

"Oh well, so much for me. It's all right. Just breathe deep. I've got you now." Martha said slightly shocked.
"Captain Jack Harkness. And who are you?" Gaia rolled her eyes, back from the dead seconds and he's already flirting.
"Martha Jones."
"Nice to meet you, Martha Jones." The Doctor had just about enough.
"Oh, don't start!" He whined and Jack looks up at him
"I was just saying hello." He replied innocently, Gaia had to refrain from snorting in laughter.
"I don't mind." Martha admitted and then helped Jack get to his feet.

"Doctor." Jack said coldly.
"Captain." The Doctor return.
"Good to see..." But Jack stopped half sentence having seen Gaia cowering behind the Doctor. "Gaia?" He questioned. Gaia took a step forward. Jack's eyes lit up and before anyone can say anything he's swooped Gaia up in a bone crushing hug.
"Hey Jack." She manages she mutter, her lungs currently being squashed by Jack's fierce hug.

"So there I was, stranded in the 200,100, ankle-deep in Dalek dust, and he goes off without me. But I had this. I used to be a Time agent. It's called a vortex manipulator. He's not the only one who can time travel." Jack explained to Martha, they were now walking across the barren wasteland, the Doctor in front of them and Gaia at his side. Their hands are held tightly together, with Jack not wanting to let her go. After her mysterious disappearance from Torchwood Jack had thought she'd been taken by someone or thing. Relieved didn't cover how he felt knowing that she was fine.
"Oh excuse me. That is not time travel. It's like I've got a sports car and you've got a space hopper." The Doctor retorted to Jacks previous comment. Gaia and Martha replied simultaneously, with the former shouting "Oi" and the latter laughing chortling "Boys and their toys."

"Alright so I bounced. I thought 21st Century, best place to the Doctor, except I got it a little wrong. I arrived in 1869 and this burnt out so it was useless." Jack admitted.
"Told you." The Doctor retorted.
"I had to live through the entire 20th century waiting for a version of you that would coincide with me."
"But that makes you more than 100 years old." Martha stated.
"And looking good, doncha think? So I went to the time rift, based myself there, 'cause I knew you'd come back to refuel. Until I finally get a signal on this detecting you and here we are." Jack said then hesitated for a second before turning to Gaia. "Question I want to know is where have you been for the last fortnight?"
"Fortnight? I was gone that long?" Gaia replied shocked that River had sent her back that late.
"Yeah, you were. I got your response, what does complicated mean?" The Doctor had now slowed a little to hear this conversation, Martha was also listening intently.
"Its means... well, complicated. I honestly didn't mean to be gone for so long."
"Okay, that I believe. But where were you?"
"Erm... I was with him." Gaia admitted nodding her head at the Doctor. The Doctor stopped in his tracks confused.
"Wait, what?" He said confused.
"Not you you, an older you, although he looked younger which is really confusing." Gaia admitted, her thoughts drifting back to what the 11th Doctor had said to her in the forest. "I love you, always will and always have." She couldn't help but wonder if this Doctor felt the same.

"Okay, Doctor I'm completely confused." Martha said.
"Well it's quite simple really. Gaia's been with me, an older me. I have a future, that's nice." He said and started to walk off again. He then stopped abruptly a few paces away. "That's not so nice."

All thoughts of the previous conversation are pushed aside in the 4 time travellers heads as the sight before them shocks them to the core, none more so than Gaia. She couldn't stop the tear that rolled down her cheek. In front of them laid a large canyon, the walls had been cut a shaped into pathways and roads, but all that remained now were ruins.

"Is that a city?" Martha asked hesitantly, the awe of the alien world in front of her catching in her throat.
"A city or a hive, or a nest, or a conglomeration. Looks like it was grown. But look there. That's like pathways, roads... Must have been some sort of life. Long ago." The Doctor said solemnly.

Gaia was now standing by his side and he could see the glistening layer of tears on her cheeks, he had always hated to see her cry. So without a second thought he put his arm out and pulled her next to him, allowing her to rest on his shoulder. Once Gaia was comfortable on his shoulder the Doctor was shocked by his own reactions, he hadn't been comfortable to hold anyone like this for... well a long time. He may have loved Rose but they were never close physically, the closeted they got was the occasional hug or holding hands but he did those things with Martha. Why was he so comfortable like this with Gaia? And to that question he couldn't give an answer. Yet.

Gaia didn't question the Doctor's action, after the closeness of the 11th Doctor it wasn't surprising, and she found great comfort in hearing his double heart beat vibrate though his body. She had tuned out the conversation of the other almost completely, her eyes had glazed over and all she focused on was the soothing drum beat of the Doctor's twin hearts. Her tense body slowly seemed to relax.

Neither of the pair saw the bubbles of jealousy that formed on Martha's expression, but like a bubble it popped in almost an instant, Martha's calm face replacing the jealousy. This bubble though didn't go unnoticed by the good Captain though.

"What killed it?" Martha asked, her tone not displaying any of the underlying envy she felt for Gaia.
"Time. Just time. Everything's dying now. All the great civilizations have gone. This isn't just night. All the stars have burned up and faded away into nothing." The Doctor replied softly, feeling surprisingly relaxed with Gaia at his side.
"What about the people? Does no one survive?"
"I suppose we have to hope. Life will find a way." The Doctor answered rubbing circles with his thumb on Gaia's arm. She had stopped crying now the sound of the heavy footsteps vibrating through the Doctor from the ground catching her attention. She looked up at the same time Jack pointed out the running man.
"Well he's not doing to bad."

The Doctor noticed the man Jack had pointed out and started to run towards him, pulling Gaia along for the ride. "Is it me, or does that look like a hunt? Come on!" He shouted to the other 2. As they ran down the hill towards the clearly terrified man, Gaia can hear Jack whooping behind her, shouting: "Oh, I've missed this!"

In the middle of the wide gorge they met up with the running man, Jack grabbed a hold of him. "I've got you." He reassured the man, the man didn't seem to listen.
"We've gotta run! They're coming! They're coming!" He urged as a group of what seemed like tribal men rounded the corner.
"What in the hell are they?" Martha shouted terrified of the men in front of her, whom all seem to have pointed teeth and strange markings on their skin.
"There's more of them. We've got to keep going." The man urged. The Doctor tried to calm him down.
"I've got a ship nearby. It's safe. It's not far; it's just over that..." He turned around to point in the direction they'd just ran from to see a line of `tribal men` come running over the peak of the hill. "Or maybe not."
"We're close to the silo. If we get to the silo, then we're safe."
"Silo?" The Doctor asked the others.
"Silo." Everyone agreed.

The group ran as fast as they could, following the man up to, what seemed like, a military compound. "It's the Futurekind! Open the gate!" The man yelled at the guards stationed there. Now right up against the fencing the guards asked to see their teeth, satisfied that they were human the guards let them in. After a semi-stand off with the guards, the Futurekind backed away and a soldier led the group into the silo.

"Thanks for that." The Doctor said his hand still firmly in Gaia's.
"Right lets get you inside." The guards said leading them through several doors.
"My name is Padrefet Shafekane. Please tell me, can you take me to Utopia?" Padra asked the guard.
"Oh yes sir. Yes I can." The guards replied with a smile.

"It's a box, a big blue box. I'm sorry, but I really need it back. It's stuck out there." The Doctor asked one of the Guards. They were now deep within the base known as the silo and were shocked to find 100's of other humans inhabiting the corridors. Talking to another guard Padra asked if his family had made it. A young boy named Creet came to his aid.

"A blue box, you said." The guard confirmed with the Doctor.
"Big, tall, wooden. Says `Police`." The Doctor agreed.
"We're driving out for a last water collection. I'll see what I can do." The guard replied.
"Thank you." They were then led by Creet down corridor after corridor looking for Padra's family. Thankfully they found them and the family was happily reunited.

As this family reunion took place the Doctor and Jack took the liberty of opening one of the many locked doors down the corridor. After some tampering with, the door slid open revealing a large ship almost ready to take off. Surprised that the refugees lining the corridors were in fact passengers, the Doctor didn't notice the elderly, well dressed, man run towards the group.

The elder man, Professor Yana, stopped right in front of the group and started to point between them. He finger stopped at Jack. "The Doctor?" He asked.
"That's me." The Doctor replied. Yana turned around smiling and grabbed the Doctor's arm and pulled him down the corridor, chanting "Good" very happily.
"It's good apparently." The Doctor called back to the others, a smile also on his face. Jack and Martha followed the Doctor and Gaia as they were pulled into a small room that was filled to the brim with machinery.

"Chan, welcome, tho." A blue woman said as the group entered the room. Gaia let go of the Doctor's hand as he was led by the Professor over to some of the machinery. "This is the gravitissimal accelerator. Its part of the..." Yana said but Gaia's attention was drawn to the blue woman in the corner.
"Hello. Who are you?" Gaia asked politely.
"Chan, Chantho, tho." Chantho replied.

"We can't get it to harmonise!" Yana said to the Doctor, everyone's voices seemed to get jumbled up in the small room.

"Captain Jack Harkness." Jack said, introducing himself to Chantho.
"Stop it." The Doctor called over his shoulder.
"Can't I say hell to anyone?"
"Chan, I do not protest, tho." Chantho added.
"Maybe later blue." Jack replied with a wink. "So what have we got here?"

"And all this feeds into the rocket?" The Doctor said, now talking to Yana.
"Yeah, except without a stable footprint we'll never achieve escape velocity. If only we could harmonise the five impact patterns and unify them, well, we might yet make it. What do you think, Doctor? Any ideas?" Yana asked.
"Well, um basically... sort of... not a clue." He looked to Gaia for help, she grinned.
"Nothing?" Yana said dejectedly.
"I'm not from around these parts. I've never seen a system like it." The Doctor began still facing Gaia, who was now examining some of the equipment. "Sorry." He finished now facing Yana.
"No, no. I'm sorry. It's my..." Yana began but before he could finish Gaia interrupted them.
"Oh, you're brilliant." She said happily, a smile now stretched across her face. Everyone turned to her in shock, Yana raised his eyebrows. "You bound the neutralino map using gluten extract. You've built this entire thing from nothing more than food, string and a couple of staples." Gaia continued looking at the circuit board at the centre of the room. "It's ingenious; I don't say that to a lot of people. Especially humans, love you to pieces and all, but this... Doctor you've been out done, tenfold." Gaia joked and the Doctor pouted.

"So you understand it?" Martha asked shocked that someone had out smarted the Timelord.
"The basics anyway." Gaia replied and walked up to the Doctor and dove her hand into his jacket pocket. "Borrowing something." She said with a cheeky smile at the Doctor's obvious discomfort and pulled out his sonic screwdriver.
"Now Professor Yana. Most of this stuff is well beyond me, but all the same, a boost reversal circuit must be a circuit which reverses the boost." Gaia began, Yana nodded and the Doctor caught on to her train of thought. "So I wonder, what would happen if I did this?" Gaia said happily and soniced one of the appliances. With a few sparks and a surge of electricity the machinery burst into life.

Then everything really kicked off. The Doctor took control along with Yana and started to prepare, the now working, machinery for the rockets flight. During this period Gaia remained very out of action, her sudden burst early had tired her out. She guessed being this far away from her own planet, so long after its death, her energy levels must've been lower than usual and hence she was exhausted now. Not to mention the fact that she had only a few hours ago been climbing out of the Byzantium with the 11th Doctor, it was no wonder she was tired.

Sitting on the couch in the small room, it allowed her to think. She had crossed her own timeline in being at the Byzantium with River and the 11th Doctor and she was sure there were several rules about that kind of thing. Not to mention the kissing! She was so confused! In the future she decided to travel with the Doctor, as a couple with Amy after meeting her when she was 7. That was weird to think about in itself, but then with the whole River thing...
But the biggest problem was, no matter how much Gaia tried to deny it, kissing them both hadn't felt wrong. She hadn't felt guilty about the Doctor declaring his love for her, then she getting kissed by River. And the scariest thing about it was it felt right, natural even. A relationship like that, with 2 Timelords, well Human plus and Timelord, shouldn't be natural for a Planet Keeper. A Planet-keepers nature was to find a mate when a new planet or moon was formed of the same species. So why did this relationship still feel as natural and right, as with her husband before?

Gaia was knocked out of her thoughts by the Doctor, the 10th Doctor, approaching her. "You alright?" The Doctor asked softly.
"It's so quiet." Gaia muttered, she couldn't tell him what she was really thinking about, she hadn't told anyone of her past and wasn't planning too in the near future, so she changed the topic.

The Doctor's face softened at Gaia's innocent response. "I know." He said and kissed her head. "The Tardis is right over there, she'll help. Just sit in there for bit and you'll feel fine." The Doctor said, helping her up and over to the Tardis. Gaia hadn't noticed that they'd brought it in, never mind retrieved it from the Futurekind.

Gaia entered the Tardis and sat herself down on the jump seat. In her mind she could hear the gentle song of the Tardis and through her, as an entity that existed through all time and space; she heard the Earth's song. It had been a distant lullaby to her when she was a child and it still served the same purpose today as it did 2 millennia ago; it soothed her and eventually led her to sleep.

In the her mind Gaia's dreams were a mish-mash of colour and sound, never really settling on one image, memory or fantasy long enough for any outsider to make any sense of it. But to Gaia it made perfect sense.

She was currently sitting on the floor of the Tardis, the 11th Doctor's Tardis, with an infant boy in front of her. He was playing with a set of building bricks; his small uncoordinated hands trying to fit the pieces together had Gaia giggling. With a pout the infant boy looked up to her. "Doesn't fit Mummy." The boy moaned. Gaia chuckled at him.
"I'm sure it does sweetie." She replied, ruffling his curly brown hair. His eyes focused on concentration at the bricks, the gold flecks in his bright green eyes reflecting off the console light.
"Mummy!" Another voice called behind her and Gaia turned to see another child a little older than the boy come bouncing down the stairs on her bum. As she bounced down each step she had to stop to brush her blonde curly hair out of her eyes. Once the girl had reached the bottom step she crawled over to Gaia and sat herself in Gaia's lap. "Shh..." The little girl said and then she covered her eyes with her hands and curled up in a ball on Gaia's lap. Several seconds later the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard coming down the corridor.
"Ready or not here I come." The voice said, now at the top of the stairs. Gaia looked up to see the 11th Doctor standing there a mischievous grin on his face. "I wonder where she's gone!" He said playfully, pretending to search around the console for the little girl. Gaia could feel the little girl vibrate with giggles, then no longer able to hold it in the girl opened her arms and yelled: "Here I am!" This caused the Doctor to pick her up and swing her around, much to the little girl's excitement, as she screamed and giggled at the top of her lungs. Once worn out the Doctor rested the girl on his hip and sat down next to Gaia. He leaned in to give Gaia a kiss but just before their lips touch Gaia woke up and the dream faded.

The next thing she heard in the conscious world was the groan of the Tardis as someone other than her designated pilot tried to control her. With no time to question the dream she'd just had, Gaia opened her eyes shocked to see Professor Yana standing there, pressing buttons on the console as the Doctor hammered at the door. "Just let me in!" The Doctor yelled, but Yana ignored him and ranted. Gaia chose to remain quiet, he hadn't realise she was there yet and she'd like to keep it that way for a bit.
"Killed by an insect! A girl! How inappropriate. Still, if the Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I. The Master... reborn." He said. Before Gaia could comment the Master burst into a ball of golden light, his regeneration taking hold.

Gaia blocked her eyes as the golden Atron energy filled the control room and she heard the Master let out a scream. But as quickly as it began the golden light receded, leaving a very young man in Yana's place. With a manic glee he skipped about the console, still not realising Gaia is there, but he stopped at the microphone and openly gloats to the Doctor. "Doctor... ohh, new voice. Hello, hello, hello. Anyway, why..." But the Master stopped as he caught sight of Gaia trying to make a dash for the doors. "No, no, no." He said and caught Gaia around the waist with one arm, restraining her from reaching the door.
"Get off." Gaia struggled, but it was futile. The Master was just too strong. He dragged her back to the console and the Master resumed talking to the Doctor.

"Planet-keeper 'ey, you've gone up in the universe Doctor. Although I'm not sure what's she doing with you to be honest? Someone as... delicate and powerful as her, hanging about with you? Now that is a mystery." The Master said eyeing Gaia.
"Don't you dare hurt her!" The Doctor yelled from outside.
"Ooh, protective. Anyway, why don't we stop and have a little chat while I tell you all my plan and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think!" The Master gloated raking his eyes over the squirming Gaia in his arm.
"Let her go! I'm asking you really properly! Just stop! Just think!" The Doctor said from outside, his voice being picked up by the exterior microphone and bounced around the interior of the Tardis.
"Use my name." The Master replied, his voice deep and feral.
"Master. I'm sorry."
"Tough!" The Master said his voice now full of a maniacal glee. Still with one hand around Gaia, stopping her from running, the Master proceeded in piloting the Tardis.
"Stop, please, just stop." Gaia begged but was ignored. The console seemed to spark as the Doctor outside used his sonic screwdriver on the Tardis.
"Oh, no you don't!" The Master grumbled and got the Tardis column moving again. "End of the Universe. Have fun. Bye, Bye!" He continued as the Tardis dematerialised, leaving the Doctor, Martha and Jack behind. "Now it begins, to the 'Sound of Drums`."