Chapter 4

The Doctor stared at the unmoving girl laying on the captain's chair in his TARDIS for a long while, still contemplating what had just happened. Taking a stethoscope out of his pockets, the Doctor moved a few feet closer to sleeping Harmony. She had said she didn't mind, as long as he heard the story-and he had-so technically, he was allowed.

Laying the circular part on Harm's chest, the Doctor didn't hear anything-well, not anything but a wispy sound that didn't register as a sound. Confusd, he felt for a pulse on her wrist; none, pulse in her neck; none, but the wispy sound was louder now. Sitting back on his heels quickly-so quickly he fell down-the Doctor gasped, she wasn't breathing! He shakily stood up and started pacing. Oh my Rassilon, oh my Rassilon, what-how-she's dead! Oh my Rassilon she's dead, Rose is goin' to kill me! Wait a second, he quieted himself and listened to the new sound. Hmmm, wispy sound, kind of like... breath! A wispy sort of breath that no regular human would've heard.

Quickly, he put his ear over Harmony's mouth. She was breathing! But, how? Taking out his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor scanned her with the organ setting. He took a deep breath and started walking to the room farthest from the console room. That happened to be the kitchen, so he quickly made some tea.

She doesn't have any heart/hearts! The Doctor was confused (which he was ashamed to admit happened fairly often), what was he supposed to do with her? He couldn't throw her out, that just wouldn't be right! Taking a sip of tea, the Doctor started figuring out what to do.

I could just go somewhere, go fight an evil villan while she's sleeping; who knows how long she'll be out? No he couldn't leave her on her own. 1) Rose would kill him, and B-no sorry-2) Who knows what havoc Harm could cause if she was alone in the TARDIS?

The Doctor knew these probably weren't the only reasons and that they could probably be broadened and simplified to other mini-reasons. Ha ha, 'mini-reasons', they're not like mini-corn. Wow, train of thought is being weird today! Rose would kill him, and he knew for certain why. After spending approximately 2 1/2 months with Harmony as company and being the only one that could even imagine to understand, the Doctor thinks he knows exactly why Rose would kill him.

Rose didn't think of Harmony as a friend, not even as a sister. No, Rose thought of Harm as her own child.

The Doctor couldn't blame her, Harm looked almost exactly as you would expect a mini-Rose to look: long, blond-ish hair, big hazel eyes, and she was wearing the exact same overalls and pink shirt that Rose had been wearing in 1879 when they met Queen Victoria and beat the werewolf. Rassilon, Harmony was even wearing the same colored converse as Rose had been.

Taking the last gulp of tea, the Doctor slammed the cup to the table and stormed back to the console room. Taking a right, left, left, right, another right, left, right, and straight up the little ramp. Walking up to Harm, he was about to wake her up when he stopped short.

Harmony looked so peaceful and content, and the Doctor knew he didn't have the hearts to wake her up. So instead, he decided to be nosing and see what her dreams are about. (If Rose were there, she would've rolled her eyes at him) Placing his index and middle fingers on her temple, the Doctor sunk into Harm's dreams.

At first, he saw Harmony dancing around in a meadow, when some people suddenly appeared around her, grabbing at her hands and feet, trying to pull her out of the circle of protection. She stopped dancing and started crying, and the people closed in around her, but Harm couldn't get a good look at their faces.

They dragged her to a weirdly clean prison and threw her in a cell, then told her she was arrested for uncanny happiness. The whole dream went gray, white, and dull. She was stuck in a bare white walled cell for who knows how long. Suddenly, there was a visitor that went by the name of Zeta.

The second Harmony saw the strange new visitor, everything became colorful and bright. She laughed in spite of the situation and went to talk to Zeta. They talked for what seemed like a very long time, when suddenly, Zeta started fading away and Harm started crying again. "No Zeta!" she exclaimed. "Stay with me, I need you to make my world colorful again!" Harmony kept crying as Zeta kept getting more and more see-through.

"I'll be back, sweetie." Zeta promised. "I'll be back." then a tear escaped Zeta's eye as she diappeared and everything went black.

The Doctor stepped back quickly as Harmony opened her eyes. "She's gone." Harm whispered.

"Yes, but with you here she can come back." the Doctor tried to comfort her. "She didn't abandon you and she will come back." he gave her a reassuring nod. "So, you're here, why don't we go on an adventure of some sort?"

"Yes, I guess that'd be nice, but where?" Harm gave this strange man a questioning look. Why am I thinking he's strange? I know him well enough, he's not that strange. she asked herself.

"Well, we could go to the beach of Tarium. Purple ocean and almost untouched sand; it's not even an island with a city or town or anything, it's just a beach miles and miles long. One day the ocean waves were at the highest they'd ever been, so a few of the passing cruise liners that happened to be near called the only person there that could help them with the little problem. That was me." he said excitedly, but then frowned, confused. "I don't know how they knew I could help, but I froze the waves right as they were. Then, me and Rose walked right under them, it was fantastic!" he grinned.

Glancing at Harmony though, the Doctor knew she was just pretending to care and was really worried about whether she could bring Rose back or not while she was on this side of the Void. "Harmony," he whispered. "Let me show you something." She walked quietly over to where he was standing near the monitor.

"What do you want me to see?" she asked hesitantly.

"Something that happened before I became like this." he gestured to his face. "Something that happened when I was big eared, big grinned, and blue eyed. Back at the game station."

"But I've seen it." Harm was confused, he knew she had seen all of his and Zeta's adventures. "Well, I didn't exactly see much of that one, it was mostly some Daleks and a very handsome guy, but I didn't pay attention afterwards." she confessed.

"Jack.." the Doctor murmured so softly Harmony wasn't sure she'd heard it. Who's Jack? "Did you see what happened after I sent Rose home?" when she shook her head he smiled. It was a sad kind of smile. "Well, the TARDIS saw most of it. I want to show you that part."

I know I keep making the Doctor not notice things, but if he noticed them this story would end... really, really soon. Anyway, I think he might actually not notice this sort of stuff, and he always finds out in the end.