A/N Okay, you're gonna find out why Caitlin changed her name and who she really is, and I'm bringing two more people, who you DW fans should know very well.
Jack and Melody were both sitting in Melody's room that the TARDIS had made her. Jack was holding Melody, wrapping her completely in his arms while they sat on her bed.
"Cai- Melody. Why did you change your name?"
"Well, my name was Caitlin Pond. When you left me, my Auntie died, just like my parents. I ran away, and got a makeover. In memory of my family, I only changed my first name, keeping the last. I didn't want anybody to find me. I was hidden in my gay friends' house for those six years. I only managed to keep sane by thinking of you and the fact you were coming for me." Melody sniffed.
"Okay. Tell me about your family. Well, only if you want to, that is."
"My mum's name was Amy, my dad Rory. Mum was Scottish, dad British. Mum had red hair, while dad had golden brown. I just ended up with dark-ish brown. They were in a car crash when I was eight, but the bodies were never found. There were many search parties, but they ended when I turned ten. I was living with Auntie Rosalie. But she had cancer. Passed away two years after I left you. I-"she was cut off by the TARDIS crashing into something, sending them both flying across the room. "What was that?" She screamed.
"I don't know. I'm going to go check. Wait here!" Jack yelled over the loud noises. Jack walked out of the room, and stopped dead when he reached the control room. It was in shambles, and on fire. "What on earth happened? No pun intended." He added after an afterthought.
"Well, we were flung out of the space and time vortex, and we can't land. The TARDIS is just jumping from one different time and place to another, not stopping long enough to tell me where. There is only one way to stop it, but it's going to make me do something I'm really gonna hate." The Doctor was running around the room, pressing buttons and pulling and pushing levers.
"What's that then?" Asked Jack.
"Well, I'm going to have to go down to the bottom of the TARDIS, where all the radiation is. The only thing is, it's going to put me on the brink of death. I won't die, just regenerate, and I don't know how that's gonna work out. Could end up as a pubescent girl, or another old man." The Doctor yelled, grunting as he pulled a rather stiff lever.
"Why don't you let e do it? I can't die, remember?"
"Ahh, but you won't know what to do. And explaining it would take too long. And anyway, this much radiation could even kill you, Jack, and now that you've got Melody, you don't exactly want to die now, do you?" Without waiting for an answer, he continued. "Rhetorical question. Course you don't. Now, you somewhat know how the fly this thing, so take control. Try not to let it crash too much."
The Doctor ran down some stairs while Jack ran to the controls. He ran around, doing random things to the controls. He knew how to fly it... Sort of... But he didn't know what to do in this situation.
"Dear god! Jeez this hurts. Gah!" Even through the noise of the crashing, Jack could hear the Doctor. "Ouch... Ow... !" It was enough to bring Melody and Martha running from their rooms to see what the commotion was.
"What in god's name is happening!" Both ladies asked at the same time.
"The TARDIS... It's crashing! Something happened in the vortex, it's beyond repair! The Doctor... He had to go down to do something... He's going to regenerate!" Jack gasped out. He was still running around, trying to somewhat control the blue police box.
The girls had blank faces. "What?" They asked, yet again simultaneously.
"Regenerate. Regenerate! He's going to change. Change into a new man. Different face, different hair, different size, still the same madman with a box though."
Martha screamed. "What? So he's just going to be taken away from me? I can't let him do it." Martha ran and followed the Doctors screams.
"Wait, Martha! It's too..." But it was no use, Martha had gone down the same stairs. "Late..." Jack sighed. "Mel, come help me!"
************down those stairs**************
Martha ran down the stairs, which seemed to go on forever. She ran as fast as she could without falling down them, all the while screaming out the Doctor's name.
"Martha, no... Go away... You'll... Die..." She heard the alien she loved say. Not heeding his words, she continued towards him.
He was lying on the floor, still looking exactly the same. If not a bit golden.
"Be careful. It could start... any moment. You could get... hurt. I love... you. I- Gahhh!" All of a sudden the Doctor exploded in a golden light, blinding Martha. She staggered back in fright.
The golden light somewhat cleared, and Martha could see the Doctor. Only, it didn't look like him.
"Legs! I've still got legs!" The Doctor kissed one of them. "Good. Arms, hands. Ooh, fingers. Lots of fingers. Ears? Yes. Eyes: two. Nose... eh, I've had worse. Chin - blimey! Hair..." The Doctor pulled down a bit of his hair. "I'm a girl!" He checked his neck. "No! No! I'm not a girl!" The Doctor examined his hair again, this time looking agitated."And still not ginger! There's something else. Something... important, I'm..." He tapped his head, trying to remember. "I'm-I'm..."
The whole room shook, and Martha and the Doctor flew across the room.
" Ha-ha! Crashing!" The Doctor looked ecstatic.
The Doctor ran back up to the control room. Martha followed him. When she reached her destination, the Doctor was jumping around in glee.
"Now... Jack, Martha, Melody, I'll need to drop you off somewhere. It's not gonna be pretty. How about... Martha, you're place. Hold on!"
The TARDIS fell to earth, all of its passengers holding on to anything in reach. The Doctor was holding onto the central column, laughing and whooping with glee.
"Geronimo!"
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The Doctor ushered his companions out into the cold weather. They waved a quick bye to him as he walked back into his spaceship, before they started into Martha's apartment.
The Doctor ran to the central column and pulled more random levers and pushed random buttons. The TARDIS shook again, and it started back to earth. He past the hospital where he met Martha, and he passed the big Ferris wheel. The TARDIS hit something, and the doors flung open. The Doctor fell out, and held onto the edge.
"Whoa! Gah!" He split his legs, and pulled himself up slightly as the pointy top of a tower nearly castrated him. "Phew!" He breathed out in relief, his cheeks blowing out like a puffer fish.
He grunted, and pulled himself completely into his burning spaceship. He ran slightly forewords, and out his hands behind him, and fell backwards, pushing the doors closed. He sat with his back pressed against the white doors, perspiration coating his face, making it shine in the firelight.
The Doctor got up and back to the central piece, making sure to avoid the flames. Though he may be able to regenerate, he didn't want to unless it was absolutely necessary.
The TARDIS kept spiralling though, and the Doctor was thrown around the room some more while trying, and failing, to navigate his crashing ship.
Then, it crashed on its side, and the Doctor kept falling... and falling... and falling... right into the pool. Located in the library.
The Doctor, soaking wet, found a grappling hook that was just sitting there, never really needed for any use. The Doctor grunted as he reached over for it, and grabbed it, tying it around his waist.
Then, taking careful aim, the Doctor threw the hook up with all his might. He waited... and waited... and waited... till he heard a clunk. He pulled the long rope to make sure it would stay, and started pulling himself up and out of the TARDIS.
The Doctor reached the top slowly and held himself up, his legs dangling down inside his ship. The Doctor grinned as he spotted a small, redheaded girl watching him curiously.
"Can I have an apple? All I can think about. Apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving! That's new, never had cravings before." The Doctor looked down at his lovely TARDIS. "Woooah...! Look at that!"
The little girl kept on watching him. "...Are you okay?"
"Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up."
"You're soaking wet."
"I was in the swimming pool."
The girl frowned, unimpressed. "You said you were in the library."
"So is the swimming pool."
"Are you a policeman?"
The Doctor looked at her closely. "Why? Did you call a policeman?"
The little girl ignored the question. "Did you come about the crack in my wall?
"What cra- ah- ah- aargh- ha!" The Doctor started twitched and fell off the TARDIS and onto the ground in front of the girl.
"You all right, mister?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's okay... this is all perfectly nor-" The Doctor was cut short again and his mouth jerked open. Golden regeneration energy floated out of his mouth and up into the sky. The Doctor and the little girl watched wondrously.
" Who are you?" The girl went back to interrogating the man before her.
The Doctor held his hands in front of him. They're glowing with the same energy. He looks somewhat gleeful. "I don't know yet. I'm still cooking." The Doctor paused. "Does it scare you?"
"No. It just looks a bit weird."
"No, no no, the crack in your wall, does it scare you?"
"Yes."
The Doctor grinned at the thought of a mystery already. He leapt to his feet suddenly, causing her to take a step or two back.
"Well then! No time to lose! I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions, and don't wander off."
He turned abruptly and started to stalk off - right into a tree. He fell backwards after a nasty smacking sound, looking slightly surprised. The little girl stood over him, eyebrows raised.
"You all right?"
"...Early days. Steering's a bit off."
The Doctor got up, and he and the little red head started their trek towards the house.
A/N OMG! I have been so... What's the word? Oh, I dunno. Just haven't been around for a loooooooooooooNG time. Sorry. My laptop (Not really mine. Rent for a year from school.), I have to give back every Christmas holidays, and I get it back when the next year starts and I've payed. This is annoying, because I haven't been able to finish the story. Hey, c'mon don't blame me. Blame my school. They're responsible. Anywho, review your ideas and or feedback, PM me if you want, read my other stories, and my writing may be a lil different in this and the next chapter, but that's because I'm using a transcript. Bai bai XD