[Today, you lucky things. I will be putting up two chapters. 1: because I want to, 2 because you deserve it, and 3: because I'm not certain I will be totally consistent for the rest of the week as I'm planning a party for Thursday and I'm therefore planning on being majorly hung over on Friday.]

You take what you get and you get what you give
I say don't run from yourself, man, that's no way to live
I've got a record in my bag you should give it a spin
Lift your hands in the air so that life can begin

Pink - God Is A DJ

The Eleventh Hour

Okay.

This was…different. Winter rolled off the captain's chair and stretched. That's just what she'd needed, sleep. One night without having to listen to Jack's lament, one planet where the sun wasn't in the sky all day. Her eyes blinked open and she fell back onto the chair. The control room was totally different it was orange and yellow for a start. Where had all the green and coral gone? The console had changed too; it was still sectioned but there were different instruments mixed into the glass casing. It was almost, neater. There was a preciseness to this new TARDIS, she liked it. What? That was odd, she hadn't liked neat things back at Torchwood, her room had been a tip at the best of times. Why did she like them now?

A small ball of black fur zoomed out of the new door up a small flight of stairs. Peregrine nestled into her arms and she looked down at the jeans and t-shirt combo she'd been wearing for ages. Time for a bath and a change of clothes maybe.

The TARDIS lit the lights one by one as she walked tentatively down the new corridors. They weren't as ragged as before. All the flooring was wood, a dark rich colour and the walls no longer had circles of metal holding them up. They were smooth and painted a warm orang colour. She pushed open the door she was led to and smiled. The bathroom was similar. Still a bath the size of a swimming pool, just less of an organic roman feel, it was more alien. Bubbles hanging in the air lighting the room, a rounder pool not rectangular like before. Odd looking chairs at the side and towel rack that slid into the wall.

A large mirror surrounded a set of sinks against one wall and she made her way over almost dropping Pip in shock. What had happened to her hair! Peregrine didn't seem remotely bothered as she lifted strands of white running through her fringe. He squeaked and turned his nose up at the water filling the pool. She looked down at him grinning and then taking a running jump.

After finally convincing Peregrine that she was sorry Winter managed to find her way to the wardrobe. That too had changed. The different parts of outfits were now sectioned off. Jackets, underwear, shoes, hats, scarves all hung up behind cupboard doors. She grinned at Pip and threw the first one open. This was going to be fun.

TTT

An hour later she appeared in the console room fully dressed. Dark high-waisted jeans, that hugged her stomach and gave her hips enough room? Check. Comfy boots for running with a bit of a heel for height? Check. Smart but versatile blouse that didn't gape over her chest…This was the best wardrobe in the world.

Winter sighed turning in front of the mirror and smiling at herself. It was the first time in so long she'd really felt like smiling. She felt rested and taken care of and the bath and change of clothes had really helped her to feel more like herself again. Or at least… herself now.

Pip raced over to the edge of the TARDIS wall and hopped back onto her shoulder carrying the old Captains hat. She smiled and stuck it on her head, laughing at the image looking back at her.

'What on earth is he going to say when he sees me Pip?'

He squeaked and she followed him back to the console room, listening to the quiet clump of her shoes hitting the floor and wondering who she would be meeting when they got there.

In the doorway of the console room, just before the stairs they heard a key turn in the lock and the door swung open to reveal the new Doctor.

'Oh you sexy thing,' he commented in his brand-new voice.

Her mouth dropped and she slid down the bannister, landing at the bottom and turning to him. 'What did you say to me?'

The new Doctor took a step back and then ran forward. 'No, not you the… have you grown?'

She dropped the outraged look and grinned widely. 'Four inches. I'm five foot four inches. I've never been so tall, it's amazing, I can reach shelves! Just.'

He smiled at her.

'And…' She pulled the hat from her head and he raised his eyebrows. Oh, his forehead crinkled when he did that, that was new.

'Your hair is blue!'

Her face dropped. 'No it's not, just some highlights on the fringe.'

'Your hair is blue!'

'When I woke up it had gone white, and I didn't like it so I dyed it.'

'Your hair is blue!'

'I didn't think it was that bad,' she said sadly.

He stepped back and held her at arm's length. 'Who said it looked bad?' Instantly he span around and clapped his hands together, rubbing them a little before running his fingers over different buttons and levers as if to test them out.

'Well…I thought you did…'

He tapped a few selected words into the typewriter and looked up at her sideways.

'No I didn't. I think it looks nice.'

She frowned taken aback as he carried on talking.

'And yes, it was probably the TARDIS that bleached your hair, and made you taller, it was quite a big change for her, bound to get one or two things a bit wrong.' A loud booming noise radiated from the core of the TARDIS.

Winter smiled. 'I don't think she liked that.'

Pip leapt from Winter's shoulder to the Doctor's and grabbed his new long hair. The new Doctor looked up at him a little put out and then suddenly his eyes grew even wider.

'Oh! Amy!'

'Amy? Who's Amy?'

'Who's Am…Who's Amy! My you've got a lot of catching up to do.'

TTT

Winter hung back when the tall leggy red head entered the TARDIS understanding that this was her moment of awe but Pip didn't quite comply. Amy stood gazing wondrously around the room as if walking into Aladdin's cave and the bundle of fluff hurls himself across the ceiling. Amy shrieked and ducked and The Doctor looked up. 'I hope you're not going to bother all our new friends like that, look at her, she's pale enough as it is.'

Amy hadn't heard she was looking at the console in shock. 'I'm in my nightie.' Amy reminded him.

'Oh don't worry, plenty of clothes in the wardrobe,' he Doctor commented. 'And possibly, a swimming pool.'

Winter wandered out of the shadows around the console. 'Nope, that's in the conservatory this time.'

Amy stared at her wide eyed and the Doctor screwed his nose up. 'Is it? Well, we can't have that, it's a bit normal.'

'No, it's ordered. I like it, it feels right.'

'That's because you're human and…' he got right up in her face waving his fingers around, 'all, precise and, just so.'

She frowned at his comedic posh accent. 'Excuse me, what's wrong with being human? There are two of us in here remember. We outnumber you two to one and you know Pip will be on my side. So, a little less of the racial abuse please.'

The Doctor paused and looked down at her from his normal height. 'I never thought of it like that.'

'Excuse me!' Amy suddenly yelled. Pip was stood on her shoulder, tugging her hair in every direction and Winter smiled.

'Sorry. Pip.'

He hmphed and descended Amy, grasping the nearest pole and climbing upwards while the Doctor turned his back on them and looked up at his glorious machine. 'So, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will, where do you want to start.'

Nemo propped herself up on the seat and put her feet up on the console. 'Amy's choice. Oh, I like the sound of that. Amy's choice. It would make a good book.'

Amy shook the shock and confusion from herself and then stalked up towards the Doctor. 'You are so sure that I'm coming.'

The Doctor turned to face her. 'Yeah I am,' he replied.

'Why?'

''Cause you're the Scottish girl in the English village, and I know how that feels.' He seemed to think for a second before pointing over at Winter, 'and so does she.'

'Oh do you?'

'All these years, living here most of your life and you've still got that accent, yeah! You're coming!'

'Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?' Amy asked, circling the console.

'It's a time machine I can get you back for five minutes ago, why what's happening tomorrow?'

'Nothing, nothing just you know, stuff.'

There was no way Winter believed that. She sniggered and moved her feet to allow the Doctor past before placing them firmly back on the console.

'Alright then, back in time for stuff,' he assured Amy.

A strange bleep filtered out from the TARDIS and Winter jumped off the seat and over to the console where she pulled out what seemed to be a new sonic screwdriver. The Doctor snatched it away from her earning a smack on the arm and he pointed it at a random point in front of him. 'Oh! A new one! Lovely.'

'What happened to the old one?' Winter asked, following him as he walked around.

He pulled it out of his Jacket pocket and flipped it back to her.

'Old and dull! This one's far bigger. And look,' he pointed it at her, 'it's green.'

She flipped the old screwdriver over in her hands, it seemed a shame he was just dumping everything old. When she looked up he was right in her personal space again. 'You can keep that if you want,' he paused. 'Call it a, a house warming present.' Then he was suddenly leaning across the console again, tucking his new screwdriver into his pocket and whispering to the TARDIS. 'Thanks dear.'

'You're welcome.' Winter absentmindedly replied.

The Doctor rolled his eyes and continued to power up the console. Winter sidled around the area to stand next to Amy. 'It's pretty isn't it?'

Amy looked down at her surprised.

'I'm sorry, we weren't introduced,' Winter held her hand out and smiled. 'I'm Winter.'

The Doctor stuck his head out from behind the column. 'I thought your name was Nemo.'

Winter scrunched up her nose. 'Yeah well, maybe to Jack and you, but… I'm Winter.'

'You human's why can't you stick to one name. First Amelia to Amy and now Nemo to Winter, you don't see me changing name every three seconds do you. What could possibly make you want to change names?'

'Too fairy tale,' Amy replied then shrugged, 'I was angry you never came back.'

'Ianto chose it,' Winter told them.

The Doctor froze and looked up at her. She turned away to look up at Pip and when she turned around he was gone, back to spinning around the TARDIS.

Amy looked between the two then darted around to meet The Doctor by the captain's chair. 'Why me?'

'Why not?' he replied.

'No seriously you're asking me to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question, why me?'

Winter cocked her head and smiled, she had a point.

'Don't know. Fun, do I have to have a reason?'

'People always have a reason.'

'Do I look like people?'

'Oh!' Winter exclaimed, 'this is fun, I could watch this all day.'

The Doctor and Amy stared at her.

'What? I've been living a rather boring life for a while. This is the best entertainment I've seen in weeks either of you mind pausing until I can get the popcorn in?'

The Doctor looked like he was about to say something but chose instead to answer Amy's question. 'Been knocking around on my own for a while, my choice, but I've started talking to myself, all the time, it's giving me ear ache.'

Amy read between the lines. 'You're lonely, that's it. Just that.'

Winter nodded and rounded the console to look up at the screen firing data out about the engines and oxygen balance. 'She's good. I like her.' At the bottom corner of the screen she read "Reboot: one hundred per cent complete". She thought back to Jack's room and wondered if he'd mind her using it…if it was even still there after the reboot.

Amy moved closer to The Doctor. 'Okay.'

Winter smiled and excused herself quickly. She made her way through the corridors to her newly adopted room and hung up the hat before throwing herself down on the bed and pulling her old phone out of her back pocket. Shuffling through the contacts she came across 'Jack', her finger hung over the call button. Would he want her to call? Would he want to hear about this? He was probably having the time of his life in some gentlemen's club on a far away planet.

A loud voice accosted her over a tannoy system.

…

'Put that phone down and come back, we're here!'

…

'The Small But Powerful One': I can safely admit that the Ianto Jones Winter knew is gone for the foreseeable future. However, if (and that's a big if) she does travel to Rachy Babes' parallel universe, then he'll be back.

'sonotalady': Well she used to like hanging, besides I'm going to do much worse then that. A rather nasty argument with the doctor for one thing :) however in the same episode she does reveal what it was that she worked out in the companion piece

'Sashaxh': which wedding did I forget?

'Rachy Babes':I have a habit of doing that. Swanning into peoples lives and taking up a massive portion of it before sodding off. Wow! That makes me sound like the doctor. Ace! Congratulations for once again hitting the nail on the head. Yes, Winter will be affected, just wait and see how. I'm pretty certain she'll like it. as for the pandorica thing… I'm not giving much away about that. For all you lot know I might not be doing it. However I may use Fawks at some point. I'll get back to you on that.