So here we go it's time to find out where allegiances lie and the fate of Daisy hangs in the balance. What will they do, and What does the TARDIS want to show Winter on the computer screen.

Sonotalady: No, I doubt many people would like to face Fawks when she's angry. The TARDIS (as you will find out here) has been trying to warn them all for a long time. It just didn't go to plan.

total-animal-lover: Yeah, I feel most sorry for her because she thinks her friends have all turned against her for no reason but sometimes we have to trust that our friends have out best interests at heart. Maybe not when they're trying to kill your child though :/

'sSydney: Fawks just had to make an appearance. I mean who can you turn to when everyone around you fails you. Your partner seems the safest bet generally and I think she also played on the idea that Fawks had a child that was taken away from her so she's hardly going to want her girlfriend to suffer the same fate. Have a nice holiday :)

1945: :) it's a fair cop, I am quite mean to her, but if I wasn't this story would be ever so boring.

Rachy Babes: Yeah those double updates might be necessary. I've just written three eps of Miracle day in one morning. Luckily for me I managed to fall behind on three eps that Jack and Winter aren't in Tooo much. Oh! And if you're bored at any point I have something you could do :D

I tried to kill the pain
but only brought more
I lay dying and I'm pouring

crimson regret and betrayal

Do you remember me
lost for so long
Will you be on the other side
or will you forget me
I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming
am i too lost to be saved
am i too lost?

My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance

Evanescence - Tourniquet

Winter's eyes had glazed over, her hand was wrapped around her silver heart shaped necklace that, now that she thought about it, she couldn't remember the origins of. Was it true? Could it possibly all be true. Was she crazy? Was this all the Trickster. But Daisy…Daisy. She had to be real. There weren't word for the feelings that welled up in her heart. The perfect pain that burnt beneath her skin like crackling flames. The door that had been locked swung open and she lifted Daisy from her lap and floated in an almost trance like state, into the control room. She flicked a few buttons and looked up at the column. 'Take me where I need to be.' The levers moved themselves and Winter headed down the steps. She pulled open the chest to her right and placed Daisy among the coats pulling out a long forgotten item and them closing the lid gently.

TTT

Fawks weighed up the story in her head. Her allegiance always would be to Winter but she could see it now. Her girlfriend was under an influence that had changed her mind and therefore she had to help to break the hold. She turned from the group faceing her and entered the library… there was no one there. Only a loop of TARDIS camera videos on the computer. 'She knows.' The Doctor guessed at once. Fawks flew out of the door like a woman possessed. Winter was in such a state, who knows what she would do.

TTT

When she pushed open the TARDIS doors she was confronted with a landscape. Snow covered every surface, the bare trees, the flat ground, the destroyed temple that lay in ruins about her. And several meters away stood two cloaked figures. One Winter recognised. 'Trickster.' The other cloaked figure stepped towards her.

'Your mind is stronger than I thought. This is most unexpected.'

'And yet here you are.'

'My ghost has been monitoring you and noted the revival of your friends.' Winter pulled back the hood of the figure and took a revolted step back. It was a walking corpse. His flesh rotted and missing and his eyes wide and staring. 'We came straight to the child's aid at the time we deemed most appropriate. Now.' The hooded figure collapsed with one wave of the tricksters hand.

'The ghost.'

'A man who had no wish to die but could not complete his task. He is the one I sent to warn you of what was to come and prepare your mind for the transfer. He also saved your life in and orphanage in 1969.' Winter produced the baby blanket that had been handed to her by the ghost so long ago.

'What was this?'

'My little Joke I'm afraid. Such a pretty name.'

'You put the Daisy's on it and you wrote Daisy in Gallifreyan. Why?'

'The Daisy has an ancient meaning of 'innocence' and 'secrets kept'. It was written that the key would hold this name as an old magic runs in the use of words and names.' Winter held back her tears of sadness and rage to ask her next question.

'Why the Doctor? Why not Jack?' The Trickster glided forwards.

'It was necessary that the child should be protected. The Doctor could never kill his own child. Even if he knew the truth.'

'You misjudged him.' She told the Trickster.

'No, I think not.' Winter frowned but passed the comment off as stubbornness.

'Your plan has failed.' She continued, he laughed.

'The child has, and will survive. I shall take her to the temple when she is of age and her blood will flow.'

'No.' Winter told him, 'No you won't. You won't find her, because you won't be alive to do it.'

'Child. No man on earth can kill me.' Winter smiled but there was no happiness in her eyes. Only pure grief and sadness.

'Then it's a good thing we're not on earth.' She pulled her sword from the chest, out of its scabbard and plunged it into his body. 'And I'm a woman.' The Trickster let out a High pitched screech of pain and bright blue bolts of energy crackled around his body, Winter's hand seemed stuck to the sword as the bolts coursed through her body. She gritted her teeth and watched the white snow become marred with the black blood that trickled form his wound. Finally she was able to yank the sword out , she fell back against one of the rocks and watched as the Tricksters body seemed to crumple in on itself.

TTT

The control room was quiet but the doors were open. Fawks and the others rushed to the doorway and stopped in time to see Winter thrust her sword into the Trickster's chest. The Doctor yelled out in shock and fear but he held them back as Winter shuddered under the strain of the blue crackling energy. Suddenly she fell back against a snow covered stone. Fawks darted under the Doctor's arms and hauled her up, pulling her back to the TARDIS. The doors were slammed shut and the Doctor set the co-ordinates for the furthest place he could think of. John eyed the group slowly.

'Where's Daisy?'

'Leave her alone.' Winter snarled and pushed herself away from Fawks, 'The Trickster is dead, we can go back to how we were...' She looked over at the Doctor. 'Happy.' He shook his head.

'The Trickster isn't so easily killed. Daisy…' He trailed off and Winter Shook her head.

'No, No I won't, I don't want to go back to some other life. I want this one. I want this life!' She yelled. The Doctor looked down at her sadly.

'Nemo…'

'No, I won't let you. Fawks.' She turned to her girlfriend, ' Fawks tell them, tell them you won't let them.' Fawks' eyes filled with pain and she faltered.

'Winter.' Winter shook her head softly.

'No, no not you too.' She let a tear escape, 'I thought… 'always" Fawks looked down, ashamed at her betrayal but the silence was broken by a child's cry. Jack opened the chest to reveal Daisy squirming among the coats. Winter moved forwards as he picked her up.

'No…No give her… give her to me, no, please no!' He looked at her sadly so she turned back to the Doctor and grabbed his coat. 'Please! Oh please, God no!' He tried to hug her but she pushed him away and span around searching her friends for anyone who would help her. But just as no one would step forward to help Winter, no one could take the child. She just wailed in Jacks arms as Winter reached out to her. 'Please, my baby, please give me back my baby, I love her, please don't, you can't my baby!'

In a flash of his red coat John Hart made a courageous decision. He grabbed the child from Jack's arms and in a flash of gold and orange light, he and the baby was gone. 'NO!' Rory and the Doctor grabbed Winter's waist and held her in an iron grip as she screamed for her child. 'Daisy, Daisy!' Amy and Fawks didn't bother holding back the tears in their eyes as their own torment came back to haunt them. Everything had gone wrong, horribly wrong. Another crack of the bright light brought John back to the TARDIS, no child in his grip. Winter threw off the hold of both men and silence reigned for a moment until Winter peered at him through tear filled eyes. 'Daisy?' she whispered. He opened his mouth but couldn't look at her. The Doctor put a hand on her shoulder but she slapped it away. 'Get away from me.' She growled. He nodded, 'Everyone.' Almost everyone moved towards the door, Jack and Fawks paused. 'Everyone.' She repeated. The pair looked at each other and Fawks nodded, taking Jack's hand and leading him away.

Winter stumbled up onto the platform and gripped the banister tightly, she slid to the floor pulling the embroidered blanket from her pocket. She held the blanket up to her face and breathed in the scent of the missing child. She sobbed pitifully, an unconscious hum escaped her mouth and slowly became a tune, mournful and soft.

'Daisy… Daisy… give me…your answer do, I'm… half crazy… all for the love of you…'

Her sobs took over, becoming louder and angrier. 'You knew.' She accused the TARDIS, 'You knew, you played me my own voice, my own singing, you were trying to warn me.' The golden glow of the room fluctuated. 'Why didn't you stop it? You could have stopped it.' She gritted her teeth in disgust and despair. 'Go away.' Winter ordered the light. The glow diminished until the room was dark and cold as death. Winter's shaking hand reached up to her necklace. It closed gently around the silver heart. Then with one quick motion she snapped it off.

The ornament glowed mauve, lighting up the entire room, and then shattered into a million pieces. As it did, Winter's eyes slid shut and she passed out.

Ok, you most likely hate me at the moment but…Review anyway? :D