Holy Crap how long has it been? Well I had this chapter just sitting around and I thought when the hell am I going to upload it? So I did a bit of editing here and there and Ta-Da! I'm slowly but surly working on the next one but it probably won't be out until June or if I find some random spare time it'll be up sooner! So please enjoy, probably not my best but it's here! 3

I took a second glance at the beach and the homes that lined it. What happened here? Was there any people still around or did they abandon it? Leaving everything behind to decay and wither away. I looked back up at the Doctor.

"What happened?"

"I have no idea, this can't be right."

That's when I grabbed the Doctor's arm, feeling a little uncomfortable. He looked down at me with reassuring eyes. And I felt suddenly calm and relaxed, at least a little bit. I let myself let go of him and I straightened my back. I walked out heading for a spot I assumed was a house once upon a time. As I reached the smoldering foundation I saw, in the ashes around it, a doll it was covered in soot. I brushed most of it off, I stared at the doll for awhile and I felt a tear roll down my cheek. The Doctor walked up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder. I spun around and I looked up at him with tears in my eyes.

"Doctor there were children."

"I know. And we're going to fix this. Come on." He started down a road that ran down between then burned village; I placed the doll into my purse that was slung over my shoulder before I followed him. I wasn't sure where we were going but I guess we'll stop when we see people. And I couldn't help but think that what happened to the village wasn't an accident, I could feel it. I also didn't want to make any assumptions so I'll just wait.

We must have been walking for at least a half hour before I got tired of the silence and I stopped and found a tree with blue leaves growing from it, I walked over to it and sat under it in the shade. The Doctor kept walking until he noticed I was no longer walking with him. He spun around with his long coat twirling with him, he raised an eyebrow, the corners of his mouth rose and he was beaming as he walked toward me.

"You could've said something, I would have stopped." He said taking a seat next to me.

"Yes, but don't actions speak louder than words?" I responded wittily.

"Indeed they do, but yours tend to remind me…." He began to drift.

"Remind you of what?"

"I'm talking about you and your actions even though I know your past, I still don't know who you are. I know that your life growing up was very lonely, and hard on you. I know that you found that you could be happy with your friends and when you were at your happiest one of them was taken from you. Then you were hospitalized for your depression, and had only been released in the past year, you planned to move to London trying to run from your past…."

"What, Doctor?"

"It just sounds a lot like me." The Doctor looked off into the horizon…..

The ground beneath us began to tremble. The Doctor jumped up immediately, unfortunately I didn't move fast enough, and the ground collapsed, me going with it. The Doctor reached out and grabbed my arm, I was slipping.

"Don't let go!" I yelled.

"I won't- just- hold on!"

"I'm trying." The fear of what might happen if I fell kept banging in the back of my head. My hand was too sweaty and it made me only slip faster. I looked at the Doctor exposing all my fears.

"Do you trust me?"

"What?"

"Just, trust me!" His eyes were pleading me. I had to, despite my fear. I had seconds. I nodded struggling.

"Yes, I trust you!"

Just a millisecond after I said it he let me go and then I was surrounded in darkness, I was afraid of the dark.

I picked myself off the floor of wherever I was and I reached into my bag and dug around for my flashlight I never went anywhere without it. When I turned it on, I looked up the ground above me sealed back up. I scanned my surroundings with my flashlight looking for somewhere to go. Fortunately there was a tunnel like opening, I started walking into it, and I walked for about fifteen minutes. I decided the tunnel went on forever.

The ground had sealed itself back up, Kitt had disappeared into darkness, and the Doctor had no idea of whether if she was alright or not. He knew he couldn't just wait around for a miracle to happen he had to find some way to get his kitten back. He stood up and stared at the ground for a bit before he turned and headed back to the road, there had to be another village nearby somewhere.

While he was walking the Doctor took into account that Kitt seems to be attracting a lot problems, sort of like how death followed him. They defiantly are a dangerous pairing, something bad happens to her and someone dies because of him. The Doctor came out of the dark place in his mind when he stopped at a village's gates.

The smell of dirt everywhere was beginning to make my nose twitch, and I had the strangest feeling that someone or something was following me. I would turn to see who or what but when I looked there was nothing there. I was beginning to think I was going insane down here; a fast breeze sped past me. I whipped around and shone my flashlight it the direction of the breeze, but as before there was nothing. I continued forward and sure enough there was a light, which had to be my way out! I started to sprint to the opening, I was just a few feet from the sunlight, when I was tripped and sent flailing forward.

Pulling my face out of the dirt, I turned to see what sent me sprawling on the ground. Still wrapped around my ankle was someone's hand and it was pulling me back into the darkness. I tried kicking my leg free but it was no use, the hand had its grip on me and was determined to keep pulling me back.

"NOOOOO!" I screamed at my hidden attacker, aside from the hand. I plunged my nails into the dirt hoping I would magically stop being pulled back. It didn't work.

As a last resort I reached into my bag of wonders and pulled out my mace, turning completely to face the darkness. My attacker lunged forward at me, and it was terrifying. The creature had parts of its face ripped away and its eyes were the worst part they weren't even looking at me they were looking everywhere, I assumed it was blind. As it came at me I sprayed the mace into the creature's eyes, it might be blind but it must have feeling in its eyes. Luckily for me it did and I sent it back into the dark, and I got up and made my escape.

I didn't stop running, until I collapsed in front of a village's gates. I closed my eyes and past out from exhaustion. I was shaken back into reality by two rather muscular men; they picked me up and told me that 'The Great One' was waiting for me or something, I wasn't really paying attention. I was more focused on what had happened in the last couple of hours and most importantly, where the hell was the Doctor? Was he looking for me? Was he still waiting for me to magically pop out of the ground back at the tree, or did he leave me behind?

No. He wouldn't leave me. I trust him, he made me trust him and I'll be holding him to that trust until he proves himself. Not that he already has but I need to know if he'll come and find me no matter what the circumstance. I know I have high standards but this will only ensure my safety. Although I don't know who would even miss me if something does happen, I mean I don't know if I even have a family. I have only one friend and even she may forget me over time, no one would miss me if I died.

Whatever, I need to cut the dramatics and focus, I need to find out where exactly I am and how far I might be from the Doctor and the T.A.R.D.I.S. Secondly I need a freakin' glass of water or whatever liquid they have on this planet. And thirdly I need to find out what these people want with me. Or maybe I should reorder my priorities?

The men took me into the village It wasn't big but it wasn't small. The streets had a few people in them, not very busy I assumed. They took me into a fairly large building for a small village; whoever lived here must run the town. The masculine men lead me into a hall, where sitting so smugly in his 'throne' with his chin held up high thinking he was something else was the 'The Great One'.

"It would be you wouldn't it?"

"Well, I guess when you're a very clever person, with a vast knowledge of culture in your head, plus do a few favours for a small village, who have little to no modern technology, to make their lives a bit better, you tend to get noticed as Great, with a capital 'G'. So what have you been up the last couple of hours?" The Doctor grinned his biggest and most charming grin.

"Trying not to die, while you lay around with people calling you 'The Great One', I'm beginning to think all your other friends did all the work while you were off looking good."

"Aw, that's not fair. I do the work; it is my brain that keeps us alive most of the time."

"But it's you curiosity that gets us in trouble in the first place."

"What do you mean trying not to die?"

I rolled my eyes. "Well after I fell, I walked through miles of tunnels and guessing which one would lead me out, lucky for me I found the way out but before I could make my way out I was attacked! It pulled me down and I think it tried to eat me!" After I realized how close I was to dying, tears began to roll down my face, and I fell to my knees trying to keep myself from completely falling apart. The Doctor came down to my level and wrapped his arms around me as I cried. I buried my face in his shoulder, soaking it in my tears.

"It's alright you're safe now, eh?" Still sobbing I pulled my face out and looked at him, his eyes made me feel safe and protected again. There was just something about the way I felt when he looked at me like that, I'm not sure what it was but it felt good. I wiped my face with the sleeve of my sweater. The Doctor stood up and held out his hand. "Now show me, where this nasty thing is hiding."