The dreams had continued for the next few nights and the Doctor was always there to comfort Jaime, hoping she would tell him what was going on. Except she didn't because she was too confused and too frightened to tell him. Not only was she having nightmares of the incident on Midnight but she was also having dreams of her mum. It was times like this when she wished she could be with her mum and fall asleep in her comfort. The training continued to help control her abilities but Jaime's mind was so out of sync she couldn't help it when she accidentally blew up or caught something on fire. At one point Donna tried to coax the teen in a bid to tell her what she was dreaming about only to disappear right in front of the girl.
Poor Jaime screamed that roar of hers until the Doctor did his best to calm her down. They later found an unimpressed Donna floating in the zero gravity room. She hadn't been able to get back down. The next night Jaime had yet another bad dream and her roar was beginning to get on Donna's nerves. "Urgh!" She exclaimed, hands over her ears. "Doctor, do something." She was tired and wanted to go to sleep. "Okay, okay." He said, wincing and rubbing the back of his head. Then he went into Jaime's room in order to calm her down, the roar almost deafening him.
"It's okay Jaime," The Doctor soothed her after gathering her up in his arms. "It's going to be alright." The teen stared wide-eyed and to his surprise she just shivered and mumbled something he couldn't quite hear. Perhaps she was ready to talk about what she was dreaming. "So who is this David Tennant fellow?" The Doctor asked her and he felt her tense up, then she remembered what she'd said to the other humans in the Crusader. "He's an actor, in my universe." She whispered, listening to the 'thump thump, thump thump' of his twin hearts. "He played you and you look like him." The Doctor smiled grimly and was still un-nerved that he was just a TV character in another universe with an actor playing him.
"Or HE looks like ME!" He counter argued and Jaime giggled at this. "What have you been dreaming about, huh?" He decided to cut to the chase and hoped she would tell him this time. Jaime felt his curiosity. "It's horrible," she muttered. "It's really horrible." "It's okay. I don't mind hearing it." He pushed and so she told him, with Donna listening in, how the entity went into her instead and killed everyone else on board using variations of her abilities. When it got to the Doctor he was frozen with cryokinesis, then herself was self destructed. Now the teen was crying, the nightmare still fresh in her mind. The fact that she was having these sort of dreams horrified the Doctor, not to mention how graphic they were. Not even the TARDIS could help her on this one and she was usually pretty good.
"Come on Jaime, there's no reason to be be scared anymore." Jaime seemed to nod, snuffled and went back to sleep after awhile. Putting her back to bed The Doctor hoped she would get a peaceful nights rest and left the room. Donna was still outside the room having listened to the whole thing. "Nice fatherly advice Spaceman, but can that thing really do that?" The Doctor thought about it but shook his head. "I don't know. We didn't really get a chance to study it, especially after it was thrown out." He studied his ginger companion for a moment. "Get some sleep Donna, looks like you need it." She watched as he walked off up the corridor and wondered if he was okay. After all he was also on the Crusader with Jaime. He never did talk about it. Instead Donna shook her head and went back to her room.
By the time morning arrived on the TARDIS...or what could be considered as morning...the Doctor decided to take his two companions to Shan Shen. It was described as one big friendly China and the Time Lord thought it might help Jaime after the nightmares she had. Jaime knew that once they got there Donna would end up wandering off and getting stuck in her own parallel universe. And it had to happen or she would never meet Rose Tyler, then the Doctor wouldn't get the message. Everything Donna did was a fixed point in time. "Sounds good." Donna said as she and Jaime clung onto the console while the TARDIS flew through the Vortex. "What do they sell on the stalls?" She enquired only the Doctor just smirked. "He's not going to tell us!" Jaime said, sensing something mysterious come from him.
He sent her a telepathic picture of a very frothy looking drink that looked nice. Jaime tried to do the telepathic image back but she was still learning. All that the Doctor got was something that looked like a bad TV signal. It was a start but she was getting better. The TARDIS finally landed and the three exited into the bustling market streets. It did look like there wasn't much room to walk but Jaime noticed that didn't seem to be a problem as she held the Doctor's hand. Donna was marvelling over all the stalls and then laughed when she saw which stall the Doctor and Jaime stood at. Very frothy drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic. "Here you go, try this." The Doctor handed Donna a drink to which she complained it was going to go up her nose.
Since Jaime was underage she got a blueberry flavoured frothy drink. It was cool and warm at the same time and she even wondered how that was happening. The Doctor smirked, being all mysterious again. Fair enough. The next stall they came across was selling really strange looking fruits and Jaime spotted the spiky one she'd seen the Doctor holding in the episode 'Turn Left'. "What's that?" She asked, pointing at it. Both the Doctor and the stall holder became lively as they explained what the fruit was. All she got was 'spiked pineapple' before she felt a sense of intrigue from somewhere. Knowing that Donna had walked off on her own she looked passed the Doctor to see Donna about to go into a fortune tellers tent. The ginger Londoner looked to see what the Doctor was doing and saw Jaime looking at her. She waved at the teen who smiled and waved back. She watched Donna walk into the tent.
Sighing, the teen turned her attention back to the Doctor who was now having a conversation with the stall-holder about the spiky fruit. She watched as he bought that along with several other odd looking fruits, putting them in his never-ending pockets. "Perhaps they'll make a good mixed fruit juice." The Doctor said after he caught Jaime staring at him. He took her hand and they walked to another stall that was also selling food items. But her attention soon took a nose dive and she looked elsewhere at all the other visitors and residents in the little street. There was a couple of green aliens, several other humanoid figures, a guy in a cricket uniform, something that looked like a dragon and a...hold on! Jaime pulled herself back. A guy in a cricket uniform? She looked back at said man and grinned. No way!
"Doctor! How many times have you been to Shan Shen?" Jaime enquired. "Several times." The Time Lord replied. "Do you always go at the same time in the same year?" "Sometimes but not all the time". "Aren't you worried you might bump into yourself?" "Nope," he popped the 'p'. "Why do you ask?" Jaime smiled. "What about him?" She pointed and the Doctor followed her gaze. On the other side of the road was his Fifth self, all in old timey cricket regalia. He was with Nyssa, Tegan and Adric. "Oh no!" The Tenth Doctor muttered. "I should have remembered this." Then he noticed the boy. "Oh Adric!" The teen smiled a tad sadly. She'd only seen a handful of classic episodes and 'Earthshock' was one of them. Not to mention she could feel his guilt over Adric's death.
"If it makes you feel any better his last thought was that he'd never know if he got the equation right or not!" Jaime told him and suddenly felt his hostility. "What? Was every part of my life on TV in your universe?" Ten asked. "Yes. Since 1963. Your first incarnation and Susan. Even if it hasn't been on TV all the time it still continued in books and audio." "Hmmm!" The Doctor grunted and frowned. "Should I call him over?" Jaime asked and without waiting for an answer did just that. Only she did it in her own little way. *HELLO!* She shouted mentally only for both versions of the Doctor to wince, holding their heads in pain. Jaime panicked and went to help her Doctor. "What is it? What's wrong?" She cried, feeling his pain and annoyance.
"Jaime! That was a psionic attack!" The Doctor practically growled, eyes closed for the moment. That was probably felt from five miles away. "If you want to get someone's attention you give them a friendly knock. Like this." Jaime felt several soft taps in her mind and she squeaked out in pleasant surprise. "Now you try it." But before she could they were interrupted by a voice. "Oh no, not you again." The Tenth Doctor looked up at the Fifth Doctor and his three companions, then smiled grimly as he stood up. "You've met each other before?" The female with the Australian accent spoke up. This was Tegan. "Who is he Doctor?" "He's me!" Five replied. "Well, a future me...how far are you exactly?" "Tenth regeneration." Ten replied with a smile. "Yes, the Tenth version of me. Still a bit skinny though." Five continued and Ten looked a bit offended. "But he looks good though," Nyssa replied. "In a pretty boy kind of way."
"Thank you Nyssa!" Ten said, a hint of red face going on. Jaime smiled at the interactions, unable to believe her luck she had just met another Doctor. Funny, considering in her universe Peter Davison was David Tennant's father-in-law after he married his daughter. "Yes, okay girls. Calm down." Five was also blushing. "But apart from causing a paradox your companion here has a very powerful ability...and I'm guessing psionic call isn't the only ability she has." Jaime could feel a wave of emotions come from this Doctor, especially suspicion. "Sorry about that." Ten smiled grimly. "She's still in training. But every time we get one ability stabilised a new one pops up." "Is she one of us?" Five asked and Jaime felt a wave of sadness come from her Doctor. Of course, how was the Fifth Doctor to know he would someday destroy his own planet to stop a war. She took hold of Ten's hand and he was rather thankful for her comfort.
"I'm human," Jaime told Five. "From the 21st Century." The Fifth Doctor looked surprised. "But that's impossible!" He said. "No human in the 21st century is that powerful." "I know." The Tenth Doctor replied. "Total mystery. She never knew she had psychic/kinetic abilities until I showed her. Not to mention she's from a different universe." "There are other universes?" Tegan asked, looking rather astounded. "Oh yeah," Adric spoke up for the first time. "Different universes are stacked upon each other in which we commonly call the multi-verse. It's also entirely possible to fall through one universe into another if you know where to look."
The teen stared at Adric in surprise while the Tenth Doctor smiled. "Oh Adric, you always had such a brilliant mind." And he hugged the boy before he could even question what this Doctor meant by 'had'. "Don't ever let them keep you down." Adric was even more confused and as a distraction Jaime asked him a question. "If you can fall into another universe does that mean you can fall back into your own universe again?" "No." The Tenth Doctor said while the Fifth Doctor said; "Yes. With a little help from the Time Lords." "Oh!" Jaime mumbled and Ten was rubbing the back of his head looking sheepish. The Fifth Doctor didn't question the expression. He had plenty of time to find out. "So, how come you didn't know you had psychic/kinetic powers?" Five asked Jaime. She smiled. "Because my mum never told me. I think she was just protecting me." "Except her uncontrolled abilities caused her to have mild neurological damage and headaches." Ten finished. "What does that mean?" Tegan asked. "I'm a human and we're not supposed to have this much power. The headaches are brain hae..haim..." "haemorrhage's." "...that." Jaime nodded. "Caused by my abilities. Every time I use a certain ability it hurts my head. They're killing me." "Oh, I'm sorry." Both Tegan and Nyssa hugged the teenager while the Fifth Doctor was grim.
"How long has she got?" He asked his older self. "She wouldn't have lasted long if she hadn't fallen into our universe...maybe into her late teens. But I created some fast acting pain killers for her which should help her last longer into her fifties. And she doesn't have anyone else in this universe." Five nodded at the info and watched as the girls separated. Ten remembered Donna and looked around for her. "I have another companion somewhere but she seems to have wandered off." A chuckle came from the Fifth Doctor. "I have that problem all the time. Anyway we have to go now, but Doctor...err.." "Jaime." She said. "...Jaime..." Five smiled. "...with abilities as powerful as yours watch out for that Torchwood lot. They never seem to want to give up." "We will. It was good to see you again Doctor." The Tenth replied and they watched as Five and his companions disappeared into the crowds. "Torchwood? You've already dealt with them though." "I know that but he doesn't need to know that just yet."
Jaime nodded in understanding. "By the way Jaime. Where's Donna?" The Doctor asked and the teenager shifted uncomfortably. "Is her disappearance one of those episodes?" She sighed and stretched her mind out to Donna, feeling her distress. Her ordeal was almost over. "It was called 'Turn Left' and she was put in a universe where you and everybody you knew died saving the world...apart from Jack who got transported to the Sontaran home world." The Doctor was frowning. "I think he just did that because everyone else died. It was a really dark episode where everything bad happened." "What do you mean?" "If you hadn't met Donna you'd have died under the Thames, then everybody in Southern England died when the Titanic crashed, then it got worse from there." The Doctor was clearly disturbed. "Yes, but where's Donna?" "I can't tell you!" Jaime said. "I think it's a fixed point. You have to listen for a scream." "What do you mean by that?"
Before Jaime could answer they heard a scream come from one of the tents. "Donna!" The Doctor and Jaime ran to the fortune tellers tent and were just in time to see the woman scuttle away screaming 'what will you be!' "Odd." The Doctor muttered and went into the tent followed by Jaime. "Everything alright?" The Doctor asked, more than a little worried. "Oh, god!" A frightened Donna uttered and hugged The Doctor. Jaime spotted the bug and grimaced. "Wow, that's a really big bug!" She stated. Looking over at it as the Doctor went to pick it up. "I've seen bigger." He said and began to poke it with a stick to make sure it was dead. "What is it?" Donna asked. She and Jaime were now sitting opposite the Doctor and the bug. "I can't remember now. It's all slipping away. You know like when you try and think of a dream it just sort of goes."
Jaime nodded. She'd had a lot of dreams like that. "Just got lucky, this thing." He replied. "It's one of the Trickster's Brigade. Changes a life in tiny little ways. Most times, the universe just compensates around it, but with you? Great big parallel world." He already knew the details of what happened in said parallel world from Jaime. "Hold on. You said parallel worlds are sealed off." 'Thats an interesting question.' The teen thought to herself. The Doctor looked from Jaime to Donna and said; "they are. But you had one created around you." The ginger just waved it off. "Just goes with the job I suppose." "Sometimes I think there's way too much coincidence around you Donna. I met you once, then I met your grandfather, then I met you again. In the whole wide universe, I met you for a second time. It's like something's binding us together." Donna snorted. "Don't be daft. I'm nothing special." "Yes you are. You're brilliant!"
She appeared to remember something. "She said that." Donna said and Jaime, who'd been trying to work out what was different in the conversation, looked at her with a little smile, knowing who she was talking about. They were all about to reunite with Rose Tyler, the defender of Earth. "Who did?" The Doctor asked, eyes narrowed. "That woman..." She groaned and shook her head. "I can't remember." "Well, she never existed now." "No, but she said 'the stars'...she said 'the stars are going out'." Hearing this Jaime suddenly gasped and sat up straight, eyes wide. "What is it?" He asked her, confused.
"That's what she said to me too!" "What? When was this?" Donna asked. "On board the crusader on Midnight. I fell asleep and in the dream she kicked a door open thinking it was...someone else...only to find me. Then she told me, to tell you that the stars were going out before I faded." "Sounds like you had a psychic dream." The Doctor said. "Who was she? This person and why didn't you tell me straight away?" "Because we were dealing with something much bigger at the time...and this is Donna's story to tell." The Doctor looked at Donna with raised brows only she shrugged and said; "I don't know." "What did she look like?" Donna thought hard. "She was blonde." 'Getting there!' Jaime thought. "What was her name?" "I don't know." "Donna, what was her name?" "But..." Donna was remembering again. "...she told me to warn you. She said two words." "What two words? What were they? What did she say?" Jaime could see and sense that the Doctor was in near panic mode. "Bad Wolf." Donna all but whispered. 'Bingo!' Thought Jaime. "What does it mean?" Without a word the Doctor ran out of the tent to find that everything in words had been changed to Bad Wolf.
He was joined by Jaime and Donna who was looking around, mystified at all the changes. They ran to the TARDIS to find that had been changed too. Jaime could sense and feel an odd being hanging around the TARDIS and instantly knew it was Bad Wolf. "Wow, I wouldn't want to mess with you!" She muttered. Next they entered the TARDIS but her lights had gone red and she was setting off her cloister bells, which just made Jaime's head feel a lot worse than normal. "Doctor. What is it? What's Bad Wolf?" Donna asked, confused. "Something very powerful!" Jaime could feel the same presence and was scared. "It's the end of the universe." Is all the Doctor could reply with.