A/N: If it is more that you ask, then more you shall receive, since Ky asked sooo nicely. XD Don't worry, I love it when I get reviews, I'm still laughing from it! I am very very glad, no, ecstatic to say that some of my old companions have returned, you have been missed so here's a welcome back chapter, extra long, all for my little companions. Also I couldn't find a stopping point, but that's just a coincidence! We get to find out why he was in the medical bay! Yay!

Chapter 15

The Doctor sprinted to the TARDIS before anymore time could slip by, that feeling he had been getting was so obvious he was amazed he was thick enough to ignore it.

The moment he stepped inside, the irritation he had in his head from outside nearly burst into a full blown migraine, causing him to grip his head in sudden shock at the pain.

"Blimey! Little warning next time." He muttered in the air, rubbing his temples. Earning a not-so-pleased response from the TARDIS with an irritated hum.

Any previous complaints he had were silenced when he blinked at the bright light that was flickering behind the panel. His hearts nearly stopped when he saw the hauntingly familiar sight.

He stumbled to the console, struggling to walk straight with the distorted time muddling his thoughts.

The panel of strange controls was broken off the dashboard, bleeding out the light from the heart of the TARDIS. He panicked silently in his mind as he scrambled around the center and fumbled for the right controls as his head pounded away at him. When he finally finished the correct sequence of his buttons and levers, the gap closed away the light from the heart and he could think clearly once more.

What the hell?! How did the heart of the TARDIS get opened without me noticing? And why would the TARDIS turn on the time dilator with Alli still in here? He thought irritably to himself, he noted that it must have been a year in the TARDIS, give or take a month, so he ran a scan of anything that happened after him and Rose left.

His eyes widened at the long list that scrolled down the monitor as he sped read through what she did. One of the first warnings that popped up was a large download that came from the library. He checked to see how much she might have transferred and nearly fell back when the beautiful, circular language showed that all the books in all of history was pushed in her head.

"Search for life scans!" He yelled at the TARDIS, there was no way that she could have survived that, the human brain was way too delicate to even handle that, it should have burnt up.

Sure enough, a stubborn little blip of life appeared on the screen, defiantly showing she was still alive and kicking somehow. He sprinted near the area that she was currently inhabiting, which was, consequently, the virtual reality game room that Alli stumbled upon. He left the room before he could get the next warning from the TARDIS, saying that the time vortex had been partially absorbed.

After Luna finished insulting Alli on her way back to the console room, she felt her jaw drop slightly after just blinking and suddenly appearing where she first entered the box.

"I know that my sense of time and reality broke a bit, but this is ridiculous."

Crack

"If you quit dragging your feet we can get this sorted out."

Crack

"You're impatient for being someone made in a time machine." Alli chortled.

Crack

"Who said I never existed before being made in the time machine? Now hush." Luna said as she made her way to the panels of interesting objects. With grace and startling knowledge, she pressed a plethora of controls, as if already knowing what she was doing.

By the time she was finished, Alli decided to finally question her.

Crack

"What did you do? How did you know to press the right buttons?"

Crack

Luna scoffed first before answering, "As damaged as your brain was before you broke it, you would never have been able to create me so your mind didn't burn up. The TARDIS protected you in a sense and went in your head partially to split us. The TARDIS showed me how to operate her as well."

Crack

"So it's called a TARDIS? What's that stand for? No, wait!" Alli's mind suddenly began buzzing with information fluttering through her head, suddenly landing on the definition for the strange acronym. "Time and Relative Dimensions In Space. Oh that's cool!"

Crack

"Finally, took you long enough to figure that out, sadly that's going to have to disappear for a while, I need to sort through all the information before giving it back to you. Moving on to the problem at hand, it's important we get our 'sanity' back."

Crack

"I hear a but in there."

Crack

"But, that kind of energy isn't meant to fit in a human brain, especially one that's still growing and filled with hormones and other chemicals. We need to restore our inner clock and mentality so we aren't dependent on her. The energy she has is deadly if we use it too long. So, what I'm going to do, is just open her up just a little bit, and then all you have to do, is look at the pretty light."

Crack

"Huh, funny how I get that feeling that she's not going to like that."

Crack

"Can you shut up for a second, I don't think that it's good for our neck to keep talking!" Luna waited in the silence to see if she would respond, after a beat, she continued. "Thank you. Now, no, she won't care for it, but she does need us alive or else the Doctor will be very upset with her I'm sure, and besides, I'll be able to give it back once we're done. I'm not going to be able to close it, but we only need a little bit of the time vortex, just don't look too long and this won't hurt anyone... much."

Crack

"Much!?" Alli would have protested further, but then the ground shook beneath her, knocking her off her feet. She looked around in confusion for a split second before a bright, golden light blinded her.

She shielded her eyes as she looked up to the console seeing a warming glow curling from behind the center column. The soft, near inaudible hum that teased her in the back of her mind when she first stepped into the impossible box, was now as clear as someone singing in front of her.

Without even realizing, she climbed to her feet and slowly walked towards the light. It was absolutely stunning. The brightness that emitted from the console didn't even burn her eyes, it was comforting in a way, urging her to look inside.

She headed the words of Luna to not look too long, but it was captivating. It was only about four seconds, but it was as if she stood for an eternity. She gazed in the never ending depths of the vortex that zoomed through her eyes, finding the Doctor traveling through, all alone. She smiled and looked away when she felt the light being absorbed by Luna, taking it all in.

She spun around, back facing the console, and looked down the hallway. She knew all the rooms the TARDIS would guide her to would keep her occupied for her stay here. She got the message from Luna not to ever leave the TARDIS under any circumstances.

She skipped down the halls with a giddy laughter, back to the library. The comforting TARDIS kept all the pain away, so Luna could handle the distribution of the energy for the extended time period of their stay.

When she got to the library, she searched for something that would explain why The Doctor and Rose came looking for her in the first place, because what time traveler would want to go to boring old Nebraska, twice? It didn't take long for her to find ANAA, or the Emergency Adventure Machine, as Luna informed her. Either way, she recognized her own face on the monitor, and chuckled a bit at the information of her vanishing.

"Well, I know I can't leave here until the Doctor shows back up, so let's go explore." She said to Luna, strangely, she did not reply, but she felt her presence deep in her mind, festering in the back of her head, it felt like she was almost gorging on the energy and sorting it out.

It was quite a bit, and she must be going through a lot so it would be pretty hard to talk. She reasoned with herself. Still, she felt she might be a bit more lonely without someone to talk to. She felt her mind nudged by the TARDIS, giving off a mock offendedness.

Giggling, "Sorry, I forgot I could talk with you. It's hard to remember sometimes that you're alive. Now. Where would I want to go?"

She followed the lights and got settled into the long time ahead of her of being stuck in the magnificent box.

A year on the TARDIS later

"I hate Slender, that is the worst game ever. Whoever made it, they are going to get slapped and then put in the virtual reality version of it, see how they like it! I was up to six pages! I was so close, and then that stupid skinny pale guy in his stupid skinny suit comes out of nowhere and kills me! GOD!" Alli ranted as she began to exit the infernal game room.

She didn't even plan on playing a scary game, but she wanted to be surprised and picked randomly.

She was going to go look up who invented the game, but her plans were stopped when she heard running footsteps thudding closer.

She wouldn't think much of it since the TARDIS always played pranks on her, which she didn't mind, but after a horror game, she really didn't appreciate it.

She turned sharp around the corner where the noise enacted from to find the source of the sound, which usually was just a noise or hologram from the TARDIS, but this time she got knocked over on her back.

Looking up, she saw a tall, slender man in a suit. All reasoning she possessed was chucked out her mind by fear while a high pitched scream tumbled from her lips.

The Doctor shouted out as well from of shock. He was rooted to the spot momentarily when the stowaway jumped up and sprinted down the halls with the scream trailing after her. It only took half a second before his legs eventually followed orders and chased after her.

She ended up being grabbed around the waist, but didn't get very far, only to the medical bay that she enjoyed practicing medicine in. She was surprisingly light, and easily lifted off the ground to prevent any future chases, but this did not prevent the fact she could kick.

The Doctor grunted from the donkey kick to his gut, but pulled her around and set her down in front of her, trapping her to look up at his face.

"Alli Rose! Calm down!" He said forcefully. Alli's shrieking stopped and she looked back up at the familiar and concerned face. He was taken aback when her face that once harbored looks of nothing but fear whipped into one of amusement and shock.

"Oh. Hi Doctor! Sorry bout that, but you really shouldn't run up on me in your skinny suit right after I play Slender. I can't believe you screamed! Haha, like a little girl! At least I have an excuse for actually being a little girl, and I'm the one that hurt you. Oh, I didn't kick you too hard did I?" She spoke at a thousand words per minute and reached down to his abdomen where she kicked him, gently feeling for any damage.

She snapped up, satisfied with the finding no damage at the moment. If the Doctor's jaw wasn't already open, it would have fallen to the floor by yet another change in personality as her eyes suddenly glossed over and she looked incredibly lonely.

"Hey, I'm fine. Are you alright? How long have you been in here?" He asked softly. She didn't seem to have aged at all, but she must have been alone for over a year, and knowing how sociable humans are, especially at a young age, must have been unbearable.

"Don't know, hard to keep track when there's no clocks or anything. If I'd known you were coming I would've cleaned up." She joked, grinning even more at his look of incredulity. She still felt a surge of elated happiness at seeing another person after so long.

Shaking his head slightly, he got back on topic, "Are you okay? The TARDIS showed me what happened when you first got here."

"Oh my head's fine, in fact, it's being taken care of. The book download hurt at first and the psychotic episode that followed was quite a doozy, but the TARDIS was more than helpful. She's practically been my only friend for a year so I missed all these lovely conversations. God I missed talking to people!" She rambled at an impossible rate, seemingly without breathing.

Without any warning, she flung her arms around the Doctor's neck, she hugged him like he was about to vanish. Usually, she is very independent, but at the moment, she just wanted a hug.

Behind his mask of confusion, his mind was working at a thousand miles per hour. Her mind was still developing, she was obviously different from normal nine year olds, but that doesn't change the fact that she's still human. Especially after having all the books throughout the universe's history packed in her brain. She would have been in agony, no, she should be dead! But here she is, practically a year later and completely fine, besides the fact she had an apparent psychotic episode which could only mean one thing. And it was a very bad thing.

He knew what he had to do, hopefully she wouldn't put up too much of a fight. It was pure luck they were in the medical bay already, and it pained him to do this. He pulled her back gingerly and made the mistake of looking in her blue, soul-searching eyes, seeing the hint of a smile whither at his stare.

"Oooo… I don't like that look." She muttered.

Taking in a deep breath, "Alli Rose, I am so sorry this happened to you. The amount of knowledge that's going through your head, no human can handle that. I have to, remove it in a sense, before you can get seriously... injured... Wh-why, why the laughing?" He stuttered over the sudden outburst of giggles produced by the little girl in front of him.

She doubled over from her chortles erupting from her as she gulped deep, erratic breaths in between each laugh.

"It's not (gasp) me who's (gasp) using the download! You idiot!" She nearly fell over again from the painful giggles vibrating her stomach. If even she could tell what was going on with her then he must be really out of it to not understand what was happening.

Her laughing abruptly stopped when she felt the presence of Luna, who had been constantly absorbing energy in the back of her mind, finally stop. She had taken in all of the energy they got from the vortex, now came the final part.

The sudden silence did not go unnoticed by the Doctor. He had furrowed his brow at the sudden mood change yet again. Just as he opened his mouth, a cacophony of cracking interrupted him as Alli's head twitched to the right, pulling her hair extravagantly to cover the right side of her face and leaving her head drooping to the side.

Crack

"Alli? Are you alright?" He asked tentatively. Something was definitely wrong when she slowly looked up. Her mouth was distorted into a smug smirk with no sign of that familiar light in her eyes.

The chilling laugh that followed made him shiver, "Oh she is far from alright at the moment."

"Who are you?" He asked in a cold voice. "What have you done to her?" He brought out his sonic screwdriver to quickly scan her, only to be baffled by the results. It was still her.

"What have I done? Oh, just save her life, you're welcome by the way."

"How are you doing this? There's no signs of anyone else in her."

"Doesn't matter, you'll find out later. What's coming next should keep you entertained. Although, this next bit won't be as fun. Well, not fun for her." Her smug chuckle nearly set him over the edge.

"Don't you dare hurt her." He growled in a dangerously low voice.

"But I have to, I was the one in pain for more than a year, she can handle a few minutes. Otherwise, I'll die and this was just a waste of time, and if I die, she dies. Don't worry about who I am, all you have to do is just try and lessen the pain." She offered a quick smile that didn't reflect back in her eyes. Clicking her tongue as she sent an apathetic wink.

Crack

For a split second, Alli just stood there in shock before she released a piercing scream that sent her writhing in agony to the floor before the Doctor caught her. He struggled to carry her convulsing body to a bed and hold her down while he strapped restraints on her to keep her from hurting herself by her flailing limbs.

He pressed down on the button that released a restoration field, confining her, and her screams, in the hazy blue dome encircling her. It pained him to see such a small child shaking and screaming silently in pain he couldn't even imagine. He racked his brain for answers as to what the entity inside her was, why was it hurting her? Why did the sonic not show who was in her?

Alli's mind was being merged with the time vortex and all the information that Luna had possessed from the book downloads. She was barely letting anything in at an agonizingly slow pace, but even that nearly felt like a burning sword melting through her entire brain.

The Doctor's thoughts on what to do stopped when he heard Rose call from down in the console room, "Hey Doctor, I headed over to Phil and got your dream journal! He put in some notes for you to look over!"

Without thinking he shouted out for her, "Rose! Get to the medical bay! Quickly!"

A/N: Woohoo! Really long chapters! I don't if I should keep them as short as before or long like this one, so let me know if you like that. By the way, before I forget, I will be having Alli Rose/ Luna Erythro join the two in their adventures, but I want to know if you want Rose to stay in this story, or to follow the original timeline from the show. Just asking now, 'cause I have an idea on how to keep Rose here, but I need to know whether or not you want her to stay. I will be finishing my school this week and studying for finals, so next post will be a bit slow. Until next time my little companions!