I don't know how long it was, but Tardis and I stayed cooped up in our own rooms, never talking to each other except when needed. We avoided any sort of interaction if and when we crossed paths, if we left the safety of our bedrooms, that is. The two of us never really left our rooms because of the Lucy incident. I was just too guilty and afraid to leave, and Tardis... I don't know why she hid away. I still don't understand how she brought Lucy back. I can barely control my regeneration process right after a regeneration, I have no idea how she just did it on the spot. That's what made me realize that Tardis wasn't a normal Time Lord. There was something different about her, and not just the fact that she can control her regeneration. Ever since we started traveling together, there's been some weird instances and adventures...

The TARDIS stayed calm and didn't land anywhere, which was good, I guess. I didn't want to deal with saving an alien race, or prevent the apocalypse on some distant planet; not right now, at least. I find it strange that the TARDIS hasn't forced me to do something other than mope around. I'm sure she would love to travel somewhere else, it sure beats drifting in space.

Then one day, there was a knock on my door. "Dad, I'm tired of sitting around..." Tardis started. "I miss you, and I don't blame you for being mad at me." This caught my attention. I sat up from my bed and glanced over at the door. "Mad at you? I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at myself." "But I used my regeneration powers on Lucy. I brought her back to life... That's not natural." I couldn't stand the guilt in her voice. Out of all the things, she thought I was mad at her? That's when I got out of bed and opened the door. "Tardis, you don't need to be mad at yourself. If it were me, I'd do it." She looked up from her shoes and I tried to smile. "I just miss you." She hugged me and I patted her head of thick ginger hair. "We could go on a vacation. You and me." I offered and she nodded. "Where to, Tardis?" She let go and I smiled to her. "Surprise me." The two of us raced to the console room and laughed when I tripped up the stairs. "Ha, beat you!" Tardis looked up triumphantly and I rolled my eyes. "It's only because I tripped." She laughed. "You're as clumsy as a newborn horse, Dad." I didn't argue with her and flipped some switches and pulled on the lever. "You might want something warmer to wear." I warned and Tardis grumbled as she trudged back downstairs.

I landed the TARDIS and hopped down the stairs to where my personal wardrobe was and grabbed by overcoat. It wasn't the same one I'd used last time, but it was still nice and warm. Tardis returned with a puffy, grey winter coat; royal blue mittens; a royal blue scarf; and a matching knitted stocking cap with a moosey design on it. "Ready?" I held out a hand and she accepted it. "Why are we vacationing where it's cold?" She asked while we made our way to the doors. "Have you ever been sledding?" I raised a brow and her face lit up instantly. I opened up the doors to the outside and the cold rushed in.

"Don't let all the warm air out." I pulled Tardis gently and we took a step into the snow. We instantly sank a foot or so, and I laughed. "Well then, let me just lock the-" The doors shut and I remembered Tardis could lock the doors by herself. "Oh, forgot about that." Tardis giggled and we started to trudge our way to a nearby road. There was a sign that read: Only official personnel beyond this point. Any trespassers will be subjected to arrest. I nodded, and kept walking along the path. "Dad, that sign said-" "I love 'Keep Out' signs. They just make me want to see what they're hiding." I interrupted and she sighed. "I thought we were going sledding." "The better hills are up here." I answered absent-mindedly. "You didn't even grab a sled." "There was supposed to be like a winter resort, but obviously it's not here. So let's go check why it isn't here." I continued to slowly walk in the deep snow while dragging a grumpy teenager behind me. "We both know what's going to happen: some monster or alien or bad guy is going to want to take over or attack this secret base and we're going to either be stuck there or have to help everyone there." I couldn't help but laugh that off. "But that's what we do, Tardis. We can't help it."

We got quite a ways up the mountain, or hill, or whatever, before we got caught. "Freeze!" A soldier in a white uniform pointed a gun at us and I stood in front of Tardis protectively. "Hello, I'm the Doctor, and this is my associate, " I pulled my psychic paper out of my coat pocket and showed it to him, or her. "Gingerbread." The soldier put their gun down, seeing only what they wanted to see from the paper, and pulled their face scarf off. "Doctor?" She was about to ask the million dollar question, but I stopped her. "Just the Doctor." She stared at the two of us for a moment then put her scarf over her mouth. "Well, no use staying out in this cold. I'll lead you back to HQ." She gestured and we started to hike up the snowy incline. After some moments of silence, besides the whistling wind, I finally asked, "Now, you know who we are; what is your name?" She glanced back and answered, "Jane. Jane Kilgour." A smile spread across my face once she turned away and looked over at Tardis, who was just in shock as I was.

Jane Rose Kilgour was born on September 15, 3304 on a planet very similar to Earth, except it had more water and it was much smaller. It had the smallest human populations and didn't have much of a history. It was a quiet planet and not many celebrities rooted here, but Jane did. Jane started out as a soldier in the Galactic Military and trained on the only base on her planet. She graduated with high honors and served all over the galaxy. Though she was a soldier, she was an avid scientist, and started to study when she wasn't working. After a few years, she retired from soldier work and was transferred to the science division, molecular studies, to be exact. After many years of research, she came up with a formula. A calculation that would change human space travel forever. With her formula, humans could warp from one galaxy to the next in a matter of a day; that compared to the regular time of one month was phenomenal. Shortly before she died, she bettered the formula and cut the warp travel time in half.

Here was the young Jane Kilgour, leading us to the top of this snow-riddened hill. If this was where I think we were, then we needed to not interfere with anything.

"So, what brings the CDC up to Glacia?" Jane broke the silence again and I looked over at Tardis. "Um, well, we just want to do a routine check. Make sure there's no pathogens or dangerous bacteria in your facilities." Tardis nodded in agreement. Jane looked over her shoulder at Tardis. "She seems a bit young to be working with an organization like the CDC." "Oh, don't underestimate her. She's a clever girl, and my apprentice at that." I winked at my daughter and she smiled behind her blue scarf. "I never knew they took in apprentices... Why would the CDC want to waste time on a small base like this? And why send people instead of having one of us to the inspection?" "You ask really good questions, Jane." I complimented before adding, "We're here because they've got personnel to spare and since I had my apprentice they thought it'd be good field experience." She nodded, but I knew that she didn't buy it. She was too clever for that.

"Turn around." She ordered and we did. There was some beeping and then a woosh of a door opening. Where there once was a mound of snow now was an opening to a base. "Ooh, I love secret doors." I cheered and Tardis just sighed and pulled me inside behind her. When we were safely inside, I took a good look of my surroundings. It was very plain, to be honest. It was a round tunnel made of grey metal and had light bulbs hanging by simple cords. I expected something a little more, but simple was good too. "This way," Jane lead us through the tunnels to a room that was empty except for a filing cabinet, a desk and a woman. She had a cigarette in one hand and a pile of papers in another, reading each line so intently that the only interruption she had was to either take a whiff of the cigarette or to exhale the smoke. "Excuse me, ma'am," Jane's voice quivered as if she were too afraid to interrupt her. The woman revealed her slightly aged face and exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Yes?" She rasped, I could tell that she'd been smoking for years upon years. Her old blue eyes locked on Jane, who was slightly shaking in the knees, and then to me and Tardis. "Who's this?" She put her papers down and continued staring at the two of us intently.

"I-Inspectors. From the CDC." Jane quivered. "From the CDC-?" Jane blinked. "Ma'am." The woman stood up and started to pace around her desk. Her heels clicked and echoed with authority, and I tilted my head. "There isn't a scheduled inspection." She didn't break her cold gaze from Jane and then I tried to say something. "Hello, ma'am I'm the Doctor and this is-" "I didn't ask for your names." She practically hissed and I frowned in thought. "There's no reason for you being here. Leave." She shooed us away before sitting back down. "But ma'am, by regulation, we have right to do unscheduled inspections, and if you refuse, you could be subjected to criminal investigation on suspicion of concealment." Tardis challenged and I glanced from the woman and Tardis a couple times before the woman sighed. "Fine, Doctor, and-?" "Tardis, ma'am." She bowed slightly and the woman nodded. "You already know Jane. I'm Madame Rosenthal, but you will always refer to me as 'ma'am' or 'madame.'" She turned her attention to the door and then to Jane. "Miss Kilgour here will escort you throughout the facility." Rosenthal instructed, and Jane nodded, "Yes ma'am." With that, Rosenthal sat in her seat once more and read through her stack of papers. "This way." She led us back out the door and into the dim tunnel of a hallway.

"What exactly are you inspecting for?" We followed her through many twist and turns in the tunnel. "Mostly mold," Tardis started. "But sometimes we take samples from surfaces around the facilities." Jane turned into a doorway and the automatic doors swished open. We entered a plain room with a few grey tables and black chairs, a refrigerator, pantry, radio, and small television. Jane just sat down in one of the chairs as Tardis and I slowly strolled around the room. Tardis pulled something out of her coat pocket and I had to double take. It was the pair of round glasses Amelia had on when we were in Manhattan. The only physical thing I had left of her. I immediately patted down my jacket for the glasses, since they were supposed to be there, but they were gone. So Tardis had somehow stolen those without me noticing, which was nearly impossible because I carried them everywhere. I wanted to march over to her and take them, because not only were they not hers to take, but she reminded me too much of Amelia when she put them on. I avoided looking at Tardis while I scanned the counters with my sonic screwdriver, not really inspecting like we said we were.

"What's that?" Jane eyed my sonic, and I smirked, ready to gloat. "It's a sonic screwdriver." I tossed it in the air and caught it. "What are you doing with a screwdriver? Aren't you supposed to be looking for any possible germs or mold?" Her brows furrowed in confusion. "Well, it so happens that this screwdriver also scans for any sort of life and can lock or unlock doors." I scanned a corner of the room and looked to see the results; it was squeaky clean. I sprang up to my feet and put my screwdriver away. "Tardis, are you finished?" I looked at the floor as I said this so I didn't break down in front of, not only her, but Jane as well. "Yeah, Da- Doctor." She caught herself from saying Dad, much like when we first met. "Jane, would you mind taking us to the next room?" I walked out to the dim tunnel before I even received and answer. Jane and Tardis caught up with me, but it seemed like I was leading instead of Jane.

As expected, I tripped and landed on my face. "Doctor?" Jane kneeled down and placed a hand on my shoulder, as I hadn't moved for quite awhile. Tardis, meanwhile, was laughing her head off behind me. I finally sat myself up and Jane's face was practically touching mine. "I meant to do that." I got to my feet and helped Jane up, whose face was bright red. "Now, Jane, show us to the next room, before I break a bone." We came across a door, this time locked with a keypad and code. Jane started to punch in some numbers, but then realized we were still facing her. "Oi, turn around, you two." We turned around and Tardis was just barely getting done with her giggle fit. The doors behind us swooshed open and let out some cold. We turned to go inside the cold, dusty, pitch-black room. Jane switched the lights on and the lighting in here was the same as the hall; light bulbs dangling by cords. "Don't touch anything." Jane warned us. There were file cabinets in three long and neat rows. The room was much larger than the break room, that was for sure. "What's in these?" Tardis asked while coughing. "Top secret. Can't tell you." The tone of Jane's voice almost seemed apologetic. I squinted my eyes while staring at her, but quickly went to "work."

The green light of my sonic revealed the thick layer of dust due to years and years of being untouched. I tried to open one of the cabinets, but it was locked. I shrugged and moved on. I found nothing but dust and some dead bugs here and there, but it was getting very dull. Until I found a secret door, that is. I was scanning the wall just because and then looked to see what the sonic found. I was confused when it came up as a type of lock, but then I scanned it again. I got the same results. Tardis was nearby so I caught her attention by calling her name. "Tardis!" She turned at my whisper and I beckoned her over to where I was. It was a gap in the row of the cabinets, I don't know how I didn't notice it before, and was surprisingly clean compared to everything else in the room. "What are you doin'? Did you find something?" Jane rushed over to where we were as I put my ear to the wall. I knocked on it a few times and heard something strange. "Why is there a random space right here? Is there a secret door?" I asked while trying to figure out where the access panel was. There had to be some sort of way to enter it. "No. The missing filing cabinet is in Madame Rosenthal's office." Jane frowned and put her hands on her hips. "Why?" "My screwdriver picked up a reading of a door over here, and my screwdriver's never wrong." I pushed random places in the wall in hope that I'd reveal some keypad or hand print scanner. "Doctor, I can assure you, there's nothing to fret about." That's when a thought popped into my head: Where was everybody else? Surely there wasn't only two people in this facility. There was a break room made for many, but we'd only seen two other people besides us during our trip.

I decided to use my screwdriver to try and reveal the panel. I tried many different settings to try and find it. I checked high. I checked low. I even sonicked the ground, but found absolutely nothing. I frowned, and tapped my foot against the stone floor. I then felt my screwdriver being swiped from my hands. "Hey! Give that back!" I turned and Tardis was trying to change the setting on it. "I'm trying to help!" She said each word every time I lashed for the screwdriver. Finally she pointed it to the right of the empty space and pushed the button. It made it's usual sonic-y noise and a panel slid to the side revealing a keypad as well as a hand print reader. "Good job, Tardis." I nodded, impressed. She handed back the screwdriver with an "I told you so" face. Jane's eyes widened. "What is this?" "Haven't you always wondered why it's empty in this base?" I asked her and she just stared at me. "How this big facility only has two or three people in it at a time?" She slowly started to nod, and I smiled. "Well, this is what we were looking for." "It was?" Tardis tilted her head and I ignored her. Jane was in such awe that she couldn't finish her sentence."So you're not-" We shook our heads. "Who are you, then?" I tried to think of a way to explain it to her, but Tardis beat me to it. "We're travelers, and we go where we're needed." Very well said, no wonder she's my daughter.

"Let's try and see what's behind here, shall we?" I started to sonic where the door would be, but Jane put a hand on my shoulder. "I don't think we should. If I don't have clearance of this, than it's obviously important and should be kept secret." A smirk appeared on my face, and I shook my head. "Jane, were there more people when you first started here?" She nodded. "What does that have to do with anything?" "He's getting there." "Well imagine this place as a farm, and you guys as pigs. Or cows. Or chickens if you want. Some pigs stay, some leave. Some cows stay, some leave. What do you think happens to them?" The realization was slowly showing on her face. "Well, I want to make sure no pigs have turned into ham." Jane nods, but adds, "If you open that door, Rosenthal will know." "Let her know." I shrugged and opened the door. "I really think we shouldn't be going in there..." Jane steps hesitantly behind me and Tardis down the mysterious staircase.

*AN: You guys are so quiet... I would love to hear from you readers. Even if it's the usual "Oh I love it! Next chapter!" Or if you have a legitimate review, I don't care. Well, I hope you are enjoying it so far! :)*