Time Spinner was frozen in terror. Suddenly she woke with a jolt screaming, her father bent over her with a very concerned look on his face.
"What? But, but I… " Time Spinner trailed off confused.
"Shh. It's okay. You're safe now." her father whispered soothingly, "Now tell me, what happened?"
"I-I'm not sure," Time Spinner mumbled, "I remember walking over here to see what you were doing, and when I came in everything was dark." She shuddered at the terrifying memory.
Her eyes suddenly rolled into her head as she collapsed. Time Spinner's horn began glowing like a bright flame as a beam of magic shot forward onto the control panel of the Tardis. Sparks flew everywhere and all the lights flickered and went out. When she came to, at first Time Spinner thought she was back in her dream, until she noticed the steam coming off of the control panel and her father working intently trying to fix it. She opened her mouth to ask what had happened but never got the chance, because at that very moment she heard a strange noise behind her and the next thing she knew she was teleported to somewhere different and alien, her body sprawled on the ground and her nose bleeding. It was the first time she had ever crossed the abstract plane before, but not the last. That same strange occurrence happened another three times after that, each seeming two to three years apart, when Time Spinner had only aged a few weeks. With each dimension Time Spinner went through, it seemed as if a little more of her slipped away. It didn't help with the fact that she wasn't even a pony for the whole experience.
Now it had happened again. Time Spinner snapped back to the present, realizing she had been crying from the memory of seeing her father. Her memories gave no help to finding out what was happening to her, and why. Willing herself to look around, her eyes grew wide with shock.
"I-I'm back in the Tardis," she squeaked, "I'm home! Doctor! Doctor are you here?"
A reply came from somewhere in one of the hallways and Time Spinner heard hoofsteps approaching. As her father came into view, she leaped towards him and hugged him as hard as she could, but the hug was not returned. Instead the Doctor pushed her away and the two ponies stared at each other confused.
"D-didn't you miss me?" Time Spinner asked, a lump of dread rising in her throat, "Don't you remember me?"
Her last words were slightly slurred as tears began to trickle down her face. She slumped down to the floor, realizing the most likely place she was; this was a parallel world, this wasn't her father, and she still wasn't home. The Doctor slowly sat down with Time Spinner and rested his hoof on her shoulder. She gazed up at him and stared deeply into his eyes, a spark of hope lighting up her heart. It quickly died away as she realized that there was no love for her in the Doctor's blue eyes; instead they were hardened from so many years of knowledge, and only mere curiosity flickered for the strange filly who had appeared in his ship. Seeing this made Time Spinner begin to sob heavily, burying her head in her forelegs.