I stumbled to the door, and at first failed to open it. The second time it swung open. I was met with an interesting view. Pete was on his knees crying, Steve looked ready to yell, and the Doctor looked stressed. "Ok, Steve, Pete. Tell the truth, what do I look like?" As the words left my mouth both Pete and Steve fell backwards in a faint. I raised an eyebrow and turned towards the Doctor. "Am I that ugly?"
The stress quickly disappeared from his face as he began to laugh. "No." He finally managed.
"Then what is it?" I demanded.
"You just look different." He breathed, trying to calm himself.
"How so?"
"Well you're no longer brunette, but ginger. Again." He feigned a sad look, "and well, um…" He held his hands out from his chest.
Confused, I looked down towards my own chest, only to realize that where I once was having problems filling out a bra, I was now over flowing one. "Why didn't you say so!" I took his jacket from him. Choosing to ignore him, I buttoned it up and attempted to wake the other two up.
Steve was the first one up, I turned to try and get Pete up, when I heard a tesla charge up. "Who are you? Where's Marie?"
"You know, getting shot twice with electricity in one day is definitely not on my to-do list." I turned towards him and crossed my arms. "Even if I said I was Marie, you wouldn't believe me."
"Why do you say that?"
I walked towards him until his tesla was touching the jacket. "You don't like me, you think in black and white. But there's a gray and that's where I like to stay."
Steve began to shake from nerves or anger, I don't know. "Just tell me who you are!"
I placed my hand to my head and wavered slightly. I could see the Doctor start to rush forward. "Humans, they always want the short answer." The Doctor grabbed me before I fell. "Fine you win. I'm Marie. Now can we please get to the car? Regenerating takes a lot out of a girl."
I could tell Steve didn't want to accept what I said or not at first, I could see in his eyes that his brain was trying to decide if I was lying or not, but at last he nodded. He walked towards Pete and gave him a slight kick. "What? Who are you? What's going on?"
Steve didn't answer, he just helped Pete stand and we headed to the car.
Pete kept trying to turn around in his seat and ask me questions, but I ignored them and laid my head in the Doctors lap. He started petting my head and leaned close to my ear. When he spoke, he was speaking Gallifreyan. "You'll have to tell them the truth."
I turned so that I could look in his eyes, "Must I?"
He nodded and placed a small kiss on my forehead. "But for now rest."
Drifting off to sleep, I tried to think of a way to explain.