Erchhh, I know, I know, I should be revising, but to be honest with you I've had it up to here with Women and the bloody vote so I'm going back to this to cheer me up. Anyway, so dispite the fact that this episode was obviously stolen from me in some crazy alien experiment byt the writers of Doctor Who. I do not intend to sue them and instead I will work around the little hazards they are throwing at me and be the bigger person. (BBC please don't sue me, not that there's any point all I own is this laptop and some revision books.)

'Rachy Babes': at the time Winter wasn't supposed to be split in half at all. The story got away from me a bit and suddenly she was split in half and I was left thinking, well now what do I do with her? She can't do anything! Luckily I think it worked out. Just. Unfortunately it did mean that I couldn't use the same premise for this ep but that turned out to be a good thing. I'm rather fond of this first chapter. (oh yeah and consider your blackmailing over as Fawks is now in the position to come back to my side of the fence)

'Sonotalady': no, I've noticed there seems to be a trend of me putting Winter in really crap situations. Maybe just so the Doctor and Jack can save her. Can't say I'd be complaining :) I've seen clips of blackpool but never the whole thing. I think I may have been on holiday or something when it came out. I HAVE however seen 'Taking over the asylum' God he looks young in it. Oh dear the Eurovision song contest. I did watch, with my twitter feed open and a glass of cider in one hand. I can't say I was amazed by anyone apart from one of the acts who just happened to be incredibly hot. Which I think Rachy Babes' Fawks agrees with me on ;) I can't say I particularly enjoyed your song, I think the whole popular thing was a bit, 'they will like me, they will vote for me, I am awesome.' And it made him come across as a bit of a dick, but then again at least he wasn't wearing an oversized traffic cone on his head like one of the acts. And I wished they'd played more of the sand painting thing rather than showing the singer because that was far more interesting than her song. Yes I'm not sure about Italy, to be honest it was a bit forgettable unlike yours. As for ours, meh, I remember the band when they were really big over here and they did perform well but they were so forgettable that I'm not surprised we didn't do amazingly. But then again everyone knows that everyone votes for their neighbours rather than the ones that were actually good. I generally turn over before they do the results now because the political voting annoys me so much. It's a singing competition that no one takes seriously. Russia isn't going to bomb you just because you didn't give them 12 points at Eurovision.

'': I'm glad you were really feeling that emotion because the whole point of the loss of the TARDIS in that chapter was to show how naïve it is to just want her to be free of her connection without repercussions. I wasn't sure if I brought it across right so I'm glad it worked for you :D yeah, I'm hoping I somehow manage to do this ep. Justice but I guess I'll just have to wait and see what you think :S

'Zaziness': hello stranger :D reviewing late is fine, it just means I see them as a little treat every time I manage to stop myself from writing. Besides with most eps (this one in particular) I think it's better you watch the show before reading because you only get one half of the story from me. I thought I'd really struggle with the Winter/Jack bits because it's so difficult to get a proper relationship down on paper but I'm actually rather enjoying it. Although there are times I wonder if it would have been easier to separate them somehow generally I manage to keep them together though because they're just such a good team. Oh and sorry, you said no Fanfictioning but I guess I'm breaking that rule by being here now ;)

A freak of nature, stuck in reality
I don't fit the picture, I'm not what you want me to be...sorry.
Under the radar, out of the system,
caught in the spotlight, that's my existence,
You want me to change, but all I feel is...

If you want to fix me, push me
into your fantasy,
if you try to get me, sell me
your personality
You try to leave me, I don't get better,
What's making you happy, is making me sadder,
In your golden cage, all I feel is...

In my dreams,
together, we'll be... Strange

Tokio Hotel feat. Kerli -Strange

'What has she done this time?' Winter laughed as she unpacked a host of gifts from inside Fawks' coat. The item in question had just appeared in the console room, landing squarely on the Doctor's head.

'I don't know but you can tell her that next time she wants to apologise she can call or, write a letter. It's much less dangerous.' The Doctor replied. Winter laughed and got up, bouncing to his side and kissing his cheek.

'Relax your head's still attached isn't it.' She frowned. 'Unlike king Arthur.' He smirked.

'That wasn't exactly my fault. In fact I seem to remember it was you that took his head off.'

'You told me too!' she replied

'You took off someone's head?' Rory asked incredulously. Winter smiled and let the Doctor explain, choosing instead to admire a picture of her girlfriends baby.

'Oh, Kam,' she sighed, 'I hope she finds you.' A flash and beep ended his story as Amy passed by her husband and Jack poked his head around the door.

'Oh it's the warning lights, I'm getting rid of those!' the Doctor yelled, 'they never stop.' Jack raised an eyebrow at the Doctor as Winter stored away the remaining items and the coat. A knock at the door raised everyone's heads. Amy jumped onto the platform and looked towards the closed doors. 'The door. It knocked.' The Doctor told them. Slowly they edged closer and closer, no one daring to open up the offending objects.

'That's impossible.' Jack frowned.

'We are in deep space?' Rory added as the Doctor put a hand on the door.

'Very very deep,' he replied, 'and somebody's knocking.' He knocked on his side of the door and it knocked back. With a wary smile he inched open the doors, coming face to face with a glowing cube. The cube flew into the TARDIS and darted around as the Doctor tried to catch it, eventually it fell into his hands and he grasped it tightly, a grin on his face. 'I've got mail!' he proclaimed.

He danced back over to the console and began explaining the finding of the small box. As far as Winter could understand it was pretty much a last resort message from another Time Lord. A sort of 'thought in a box', type, thingy. She wasn't really trying to pay attention to his babbling, she was too busy laughing at him. He was suddenly so bubbly and jubilant, the thought of there being another Time Lord somewhere in the universe meant he was suddenly bursting with energy and happiness. Jack however looked wary as they held on for dear life while the TARDIS hurtled through space.

'If there was another Time Lord…why wouldn't they have got into contact by now?' Winter shushed him and whispered.

'Maybe this is them contacting him.'

'Nemo they died, I know he doesn't want to admit it but they all died.'

'That's what he thought about me after the weeping angels. You didn't give up did you? Why should he?'

'I think I had more going for me.' He replied as the ship landed.

'Not really. The Doctor had seen some of the other people on that ship murdered by the angels. I was the only one saved, I still have no clue why. He had every reason to believe I was dead.' Jack opened his mouth trying to think of a come-back. 'So you see, now leave him aloooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhh' Jack grabbed her arm as the lights in the console room dimmed and went out.

'Everything's draining but it can't that's…it's impossible.' The Doctor complained, worry coating his voice.

'What is that?' Rory questioned, his eyes darting around the room.

'It's as if the matrix, the soul of the TARDIS has just vanished.' He spun around to look at Jack and Winter. She stood up, eyes wide.

'I'm fine.'

'No you're not.' He replied, 'you said 'ahhhh'. Why did you say 'ahhhh" she shrugged.

'The feeling, the one after pins and needles.' She replied. Amy snapped her fingers.

'The one where you don't want to move your toes or fingers because it almost hurts.' Winter nodded.

'I just got that for a second. I'm fine.' She picked up her weapons and headed for the door. The Doctor rushed up behind her but she stepped out first. A sudden wave of sadness hit her and she began to walk away from her companions. She picked up small stone from in amongst the rubbish that lay around her in what appeared to be a huge junkyard. It glowed gently at her touch and she ran a finger over it, as the pad of her finger traced the contours of the stone the first tear trickled down her face. 'You shouldn't be here.' She murmured. She wasn't sure why, but she knew it to be true. 'Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling Clementine, Thou art lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry, Clementine.'

'Thief! Thief! You're my thief! Look at you!' Winter rushed back over to the others, wiping her face of the tears and staring at the three people who had joined them. Two rather ugly and mismatched humanoids and one, woman. Well there weren't really words for her. She was tall, with dark, messy hair, her face was pale and a little shadowed. She was thin but not unhealthily so and her quick eyes darted this way and that at the sound of her own voice. Crazy, that was the only word that came to mind. Brilliant! 'Goodbye! No not goodbye what's the other one.' She grabbed the Doctor's face and kissed him as he struggled to get away from her. Winter launched herself forward and pulled the woman off but to everyone's surprise instead of pushing her away, she hugged the strange woman. As the ugly pair welcomed Winter's friends the strange woman laughed and Winter giggled in response while she rambled on. 'Scraps of this and scraps of that, the pirate thinks that she's a cat.' An arm went around Winter's stomach and pulled her away from the odd woman.

'I think we should stay back.' Jack warned her. The woman looked shocked.

'Back! No, back is boring and…' the crazy woman grinned.

'…Boring isn't nearly as fun as the unknown.' Winter finished.

'Quite right and what's a tea-cosy for if you can't…'

'…Sit in it.' The two women giggled hysterically and Jack let go of Winter again.

'Why am I a thief?' the Doctor asked, 'What have I stolen?'

'Me! You're going to steal me! You have stolen me! You are stealing me! OH! Tenses are difficult aren't they?' She stared at him wide eyed as Winter sat on the floor at her feet and grinned madly.

'Indubitably.' She threw her arms wide and giggled.

'Are you drunk?' Amy asked her. The crazy woman approached Amy and pulled at her hair.

'She's you, and you're me and he's he and…' Winter jumped to her feet and stumbled, tripping and grabbing the woman's dress.

'…Who's who.' She finished lamely as the crazy woman bent down and patted her head before approaching the Doctor. The ugly pair introduced themselves as uncle and auntie and uncle patted the Doctor's shoulder understandingly.

'Stay back from this one. She bites.' He growled to the Doctor.

'Do I?' the woman asked 'excellent.' She leant over and bit down on the Doctor's ear, Jack leaped over to pull her off and Winter's face turned solemn and she shook her head.

'No, biting baaaad. Biting badly.' She repeated. The woman pulled back as the Doctor yelped angrily at her. It didn't seem to faze her. She pulled Winter to her feet and gave what was supposed to be a whisper but was so loud everyone easily heard it.

'Biting's excellent, it's like kissing. Only there's a winner.'

'What's the point in winning…' Winter started.

'…if you can't have the pirate.'

'I do have the pirate.' Winter smiled.

'And I have scraps, so I have the pirate.' The woman countered.

'But he's my pirate.'

'And you're my scrap.'

'So you feel me.'

'And I feel you. NO! You feel me,'

'That's disgusting.'

'Quite revolting.'

'ENOUGH!' the Doctor yelled. Both women turned and looked at him wide eyed.

'Sorry, she's doolally.' Uncle told them.

'I'm not doolally I'mmmmmmmmm.' The woman frowned at them all, 'I'm mmmmmmmm. It's on the tip of my tongue.' The Doctor edged closer and stared at her as Winter picked at the woman's hair and lifted strands gently.

'you're ahhhhh, ahhhhh something, ahhhhhhh.' The woman grinned,

'I've just had a new idea about kissing.' She grabbed Winter's face and kissed her. Jack's mouth dropped open at his girlfriend's behaviour as everyone pulled the pair apart. 'Scraps of this and scraps of that, the pirate thinks that she's a cat.' Winter giggled. As the woman looked around the congregation of people. 'Oh but now you're angry.' She told the Doctor, 'No you're not. You will be angry. The little boxes will make you angry.' Winter nodded solemnly and leant back against Jack's chest.

'Sorry, the little what?' the Doctor asked, suddenly very interested. 'Boxes?' She laughed and Winter joined in as she grabbed him under the chin.

'Your chin is hilarious!' she pointed out. Winter nodded.

'Maybe next time.' She sang, swaying on the spot. In a rare solemn moment the woman turned to Rory and cocked her head.

'It means the smell of dust after rain.'

'What does?' Rory asked.

'Petricorn.' Winter told him. He looked between the two women in confusion.

'But I didn't ask.'

'Not yet, but you will.' The woman told him.

'Idris. Maybe you should rest.' Auntie told her. The woman nodded.

'Rest, rest yes, I'll just…see if there's an off switch.' She collapsed straight to the floor and Winter frowned shaking her head like a dog after a bath.

'Is that it? She dead now, so sad.' Uncle asked blandly.

'She's still breathing.' Rory told them.

'So who is she then?' Winter asked. The TARDIS crew looked at her confusion written all over their faces. 'What?'

'you were rambling.' Amy told her.

'You finished her sentences.' Rory added.

'You hugged her.' The Doctor mentioned.

'You kissed her.' Jack crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. Winter's eyes widened.

'But…I don't remember that.' Jack looked back at her with a smirk as if to say 'yeah right', 'No really I don't.'

'What do you remember?' The Doctor asked.

'The feeling, the one after pins and needles.' She replied. Amy looked up stunned.

'The one where you don't want to move your toes or fingers because it almost hurts.' Winter nodded.

'I just got that for a second. I'm fine.' Then she shook her head, 'wahhh, Déjà vu. Did I already say that? Yes, yes I said that. Then we left the TARDIS.' The Doctor nodded encouragingly. 'then I cried.' Jack frowned.

'Why.'

'They're all gone, broken, ripped and torn in the winds.'

'Who?' Amy asked.

'S…sisters…but…I don't have any sisters…I don't have any siblings at all. What the hell am I talking about?' The Doctor looked down on her seriously and then snapped up and shrugged.

'No idea.' She rolled her eyes turned back to Jack, taking his hand for some comfort as her memories of the past few minutes came steadily back to her. It was like waking up after a really good party and trying to remember the conversations you had and the people you snogged. 'OH Hello!' the Doctor smiled as they turned away from Idris the mad woman to see a strange bald headed creature with tentacles where its mouth should be.

'Doctor what is that!' Amy yelped.

'Oh it's alright,' he replied, 'It's an ood. Ood's are good! Love an ood. Hello ood!' he approached the ood as everyone else hung back. 'Can't you talk?' The Doctor set about fixing the ood's translator ball as Rory and Jack compared ood impressions. Amy and Winter laughed but it was interrupted by a cacophony of voices. Mainly in English, all calling for help in different ways. All desperate.

Suddenly the voices broke off and the immature teasing of the ood finished with it. Rory looked across to the Doctor questioningly.

'What was that? Was that him?'

'No.' the Doctor replied, 'no it's ah, picking up something else. But that's…' he looked distressed. Winter stepped over towards him as he moved back and forward on the spot. 'that's not possible, that's…who else is here? Tell me, tell me, show me.' He advanced on uncle and auntie away from his friends.

'Just what you see.' Auntie replied. 'just the four of us, and the house.' She pointed to the ood. 'nephew, would you take Idris somewhere safe…where… where she can't hurt…nobody.'

'The house? What's the house?' the Doctor asked.

'House is all around you my sweets.' Winter snorted.

'This place makes 'tube line chic' look minimalist.' Jack smiled and nudged her playfuly. The woman ignored her comment.

'You are standing on him,' she continued, 'this is the house. This world. Would you like to meet him?'

'Meet him?' Rory questioned. The Doctor held a finger up and hushed them.

'I'd love to.' Jack looked down at Winter and raised an eyebrow she shook her head and smiled.

'I have a bad feeling about this.'