A/N: Finally getting notifications on this website for reviews etc - it's been since April ish that it all stopped, and I wonder if I'm finally going to be able to see the views as well as that has been dead since mid September.

Dalek Sec reaches towards them, its singular eye twitching as he says, "These humans will become like me. Prepare them for hybridisation."

Kathy watches out of the corner of her eye as the Doctor sneaks away behind some equipment, not moving as she decides to stick with Martha as the Pigmen grab at them.

"Leave me alone! Don't you dare!" Martha cries fearfully.

Kathy smirks as she hears Happy Days Are Here Again start playing. Everyone stops, looking around in various degrees of confusion.

"What is that sound?" Sec questions, disoriented.

The Doctor pokes his head out and strides forward casually. "Ah, well, now, that would be me." He puts the radio down by a Bunsen burner and walks up to Sec. "Hello. Surprise. Boo. Et cetera."

"Doctor." Sec utters.

"The enemy of the Daleks!"

"Exterminate!"

"Wait!" Sec quickly orders, the rest of the Cult of Skaro back down.

The Doctor walks up to Dalek Sec, closely analysing the hybrid. "Well, then. A new form of Dalek. Fascinating and very clever."

"The Cult of Skaro escaped your and the Prophet's slaughter." Sec spits.

Prophet… Kathy is pretty sure she's heard that word before.

"How did you end up in 1930?"

"Emergency temporal shift."

"Oh, that must have roasted up your power cells, huh?" The Doctor chuckles, turning to the other Daleks with a mocking grin. "Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world, but instead you're skulking away, hidden in the dark, experimenting." He turns back to Dalek Sec, curious. "All of which results in you."

"I am Dalek in human form!" Sec declares.

"What does it feel like? You can talk to me, Dalek Sec. It is Dalek Sec, isn't it? That's your name? You've got a name and a mind of your own. Tell me what you're thinking right now." The Doctor prompts.

"I feel humanity." Sec turns away.

"Good. That's good."

"I feel everything we wanted from mankind, which is," Sec turns back to the Doctor, speaking almost gleefully, "ambition, hatred, aggression and war. Such a genius for war."

"I think you've got the wrong end of the stick, mate." Kathy retorts, striding past the Pigmen as well as Martha, Frank and Laszlo's attempts to stop her.

Sec glares at her. "No, I think I do, Prophet. At heart, this species is so very Dalek."

"All right, so what have you achieved then, with this Final Experiment, eh? Nothing!" The Doctor reprimands. "Because I can show you what you're missing with this thing. A simple little radio." He pats it.

"What is the purpose of that device?" One of the Daleks says.

"Well, exactly. It plays music. What's the point of that? Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it, fall in love to it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise." The Doctor aims his sonic screwdriver at the little radio. It emits a shriek that hurts Sec, the Daleks, and the Pigmen.

"Run!" Kathy cries, shoving Martha and Frank forward along with all the others.

Kathy can hear the Daleks frantically crying out the need to protect Dalek Sec as they flee down the sewers.

Kathy leads the group towards where she knows the ladder is from which they had entered. They run into a lost Tallulah and Kathy wastes no time in grabbing her hand and yanking her along with them, ignoring her questions about where Laszlo is. Kathy knows he'll be safe for now, the Daleks and the Pigmen think he's one of them, and he'll be fine for now.

They reach the ladder and both she and the Doctor quickly encourage them all to go up. The squeals of the Pigmen echo in the sewers and the Daleks moving through.

"These Daleks, they sound like the stuff of nightmares. And they want to breed?" Solomon questions in disbelief. He, Kathy, the Doctor, Martha, Tallulah and Frank are gathered around the campfire in Hooverville.

"They're splicing themselves onto human bodies, and if I'm right, they've got a farm of breeding stock right here in Hooverville. You've got to get everyone out." The Doctor tries to persuade.

Solomon shakes his head. "Hooverville's the lowest place a man can fall. There's nowhere else to go."

"I'm sorry, Solomon. You've got to scatter. Go anywhere. Down to the railroads, travel across state. Just get out of New York." The Doctor pleads.

"There's got to be a way to reason with these things." Solomon argues. God, Kathy really hopes she'll be able to save him.

"There's not a chance." Martha counters.

"You ain't seen them, boss." Frank adds.

"Daleks are bad enough at anytime, but right now they're vulnerable. That makes them more dangerous than ever." The Doctor persists.

Kathy sighs, listening to the group argue about their plans of action. She knows it will be futile. Even if Solomon and everyone in Hooverville do run, the Daleks have already succeeded in gathering up enough humans for their experiments. The Daleks only now pursue them for the Doctor, wanting to exterminate the Time Lord and her maybe her too. Now, they only have seconds before the Pigmen army arrives with a Dalek right behind them.

"It's them! They're here!" Kathy hears someone shout.

She shoots up from her seat as people begin to panic as the sentry continues to scream it, running through Hooverville. People rush around to gather up the guns and other weapons they had collected.

Solomon organises the masses, getting them ready for battle. A few people take off, not wishing to fight. Kathy can hear these people screaming off in the distance as the Pigmen catch them. The Doctor quickly grabs Kathy and Martha, pulling them both back from the fight, making certain that both stay in the middle of the large group around them.

Kathy gasps when the guns start to fire. She closes her eyes to the sight of one of the Pigmen dropping to the ground in a heap. Even though they are more animal now than human, they had still been people once. Innocent people who were just victims of the Daleks' cruel nature. She only hopes that the once people are long gone.

"If we can just hold them off till daylight." Martha suggests.

"Oh, Martha, they're just the foot soldiers." The Doctor rebuffs.

And he's right as a Dalek comes flying towards them. Frank attempts to fire his shotgun at it but Kathy quickly shoves it off course when he fires. Not a good idea to aggravate them too much.

Another Dalek comes up beside the first, hovering in the air as well. It swoops down, firing at a structure of the community. Everyone within the town who are not a part of the firing group scatter and scream in fright as the small makeshift building explodes into fire. The Daleks continue to fire, destroying many buildings and killing people all around them. Kathy gasps in horror when she sees Charlie almost fall victim to the Dalek beam. But luckily, he dodges out of the way in time with the help of Alice who comes out of nowhere. She grabs him and leads him off to a safer direction. The two children disappear around a building as more destruction rains around them. Okay, they're safe, for now.

"The humans will surrender!" One of the Daleks cries as it hovers in front of them.

"Leave them alone. They've done nothing to you!" The Doctor cries.

Solomon steps forward causing the Doctor to push him back. "No, Solomon. Stay back."

Solomon ignores him, turning to the Dalek. "I'm told that I'm addressing the Daleks. Is that right? From what I hear, you're outcasts too."

"Solomon, don't!"

"Doctor, this is my township. You will respect my authority. Just let me try. Daleks, ain't we all the same? Underneath, ain't we all kin?" Solomon puts down his rifle. "Right. See, I've just discovered this past day, God's universe is a thousand times the size I thought it was. And that scares me. Oh yeah, terrifies me right down to the bone. But surely, it's got to give me hope. Hope that maybe together we can make a better tomorrow. So, I beg you now, if you have any compassion in your hearts, then you'll meet with us and stop this fight. Well? What do you say?"

"Exterminate!"

The Dalek shoots at Solomon without any hesitation. Not caring in the slightest about reason or to talk. It only wishes to kill. But at the same time, Kathy is ready. Before it even finishes its cry, she rushes around the Doctor and grabs Solomon, throwing both of them to the ground a few feet from the spot on which he had stood. The beam missed them by inches, hitting the ground in a small ball of fire behind them instead of killing the man.

Kathy breathes out in relief. Solomon looks wide eyed in shock, stunned. She pats his back in reassurance that he is fine, standing up to glare at the Dalek.

"Coward! You'd shoot a harmless being who means you no harm?! Just like that?!" she shouts at it. She marches forward towards it, staring hatefully at the metal creature while it just eyes her coolly with its dead blue light. "You really are vile creatures, you know that!"

"Kathy! Get back!" The Doctor yells. Kathy feels him trying to pull her back, but she stands her ground firmly.

"How can you shoot someone with such courage?! At least you can understand bravery!" She yells. "Shooting the innocent doesn't make you brave or strong! It makes you weak! It makes you worse than anything in this universe!"

The Dalek calmly aims its weapon at her, ready to kill her. Then the Doctor is hurriedly stepping in front of her defensively.

This breaks through Kathy anger clouded vision, watching with wide eyes as he yells, "Kill me instead! Just leave everyone alone!" He shouts.

"Exterminate!" Cries the Dalek.

Kathy freezes in panic but nothing happens. She looks up curiously to the Dalek when it still has not fired. It seems to be getting orders to stop as it questions why. Kathy sighs, remembering now what is being said on the other side. Dalek Sec is going against the Dalek instinct.

"You will follow." The Dalek tells the Doctor after a moment.

He nods, turning to Kathy. "I've got to go." He whispers.

"I know." She replies.

He looks at her curiously. "You all right, now?"

Kathy laughs. "Uh, yeah, kind of lost it there, didn't I?" He raises an eyebrow. Kathy smiles slightly, it dims a bit as she glances at the waiting Dalek. "But you need to make sure they won't attack them." Kathy nods over to the crowd of people.

The Doctor nods in return, turning back to address the Dalek. "One condition! If I come with you, you spare the lives of everyone here!" He yells at the Dalek. "Do you hear me?"

"Humans will be spared." The Dalek answers. "Doctor... follow."

"No, you can't go." Martha cries, walking over to them.

"Martha, you and Kathy need to stay here. Do what you do best. People are hurt. You can help them. Let me go." He turns to go but then turns back to them. "Oh, and can I just say, thank you very much." He takes Kathy's hand in his, and winks, then leaves with the Daleks. Kathy looks down to see his psychic paper.

"He left us." Martha says. "Why did he just leave like that?"

"Because he's protecting us." Kathy tells her. "He has a task he must accomplish, just as we have one as well. Come on."

Kathy splits off from Martha to go looking for the children. Hooverville is a mess all around her. Fires are burning down homes and other things, shacks have been torn apart by the explosive shots from the Daleks, and there are more than a few dead bodies lying around the place. The echoing cries for help only make the whole thing even eerier.

She finds them, cowering behind tents. Alice and Charlie had managed to hide in a small tent with Philip holding them close as they shake from head to toe. Tears streaming down their faces as they make small whimpers. They startle when Kathy pulls back the flap.

"It's alright. It's alright. It's just me." She quickly says in a hushed voice. Alice leaps forward and wraps her arms around Kathy's middle.

Charlie blinks at her. "Have the mean metal monsters gone?"

"They have. Don't worry." She reassures. She pulls Alice back so she can look at her face. "We're any of you hurt?" They all shake their heads.

"I lost Marvin though." Philip says, chewing his lip anxiously.

Kathy tries not to show worry about those words cause as to not scare the children. "Okay, I'll go find him. You stay here for now while the others clean up, okay?" She really doesn't want them to see dead bodies or get hurt by the fires.

They all nod.

Kathy leaves them and continues to search for Marvin. When she eventually finds him, she frantically rushes over. The young boy is underneath a large lumber piece that had been a part of a shack. His head is bleeding from a cut, and his leg looks a bit twisted. Her hearts race as she quickly gets the large lumber piece off of him and begins to check him over. She lets out a sigh of relief when she feels a pulse on his neck. Good. Just unconscious, then.

Hurriedly, she gets him up off the ground and into her arms, looking for the medical station Martha would've set up.

Marvin begins to groan, making Kathy worried that she is hurting him. "Damn. What hit me?" He mumbles groggily.

"Well, it looked like a whole beam from a shack." Kathy replies casually, trying to sound calmer about the situation than she feels. "Could have been the whole house fell on you."

"Yep. That would do it." Marvin laughs weakly. He lifts his head from where it lay on her shoulder, opening his eyes in a squint, glancing at her. "Where are the others?"

"All safe. I left left them together in one of the tents." Kathy assures him. "But don't worry about it now. I know someone who can help you."

"I hope this doesn't ruin me workin' later." Marvin jokes, closing his eyes as he just lets Kathy carry him.

They pass people throwing water on the remaining burning tents as Kathy looks for Martha. Gazing around, she finally spots a familiar red jacket tending to several people.

Martha's latest patient is leaving when Kathy and Marvin approach. "Martha." Kathy calls.

Martha glances over, immediately looking at Marvin in concern. "Bring him in." She says, waving Kathy to come inside the shack.

Once inside, Kathy places Marvin onto a makeshift bed made out of crates and blankets. Martha gently looks him over, being very thorough in her care.

"Looks like a concussion and a sprained ankle. But nothing worse than that." Martha says. "He'll be all right. Just needs to rest for a few days. I'll get some bandages for his head."

"I'll do it." Kathy walks out to find Tallulah working with a few people to gather supplies to help the wounded. She happily hands over clean white bandages to wrap up Marvin's head.

"Hey, Martha. I got some more bandages, and it looks like all the fires are finally out." Kathy says as she comes back into the small space.

Martha takes them and methodically wraps Marvin's head. Another patient arrives and Kathy turns to offer her help while Martha finishes off with Marvin.

The flow of patients eventually slows down as well as helping Hooverville's citizens sort through and find survivors within the rubble of the destroyed community.

"So, what about us? What do we do now?" Tallulah questions.

"I don't know." Martha pauses. "Wait." She turns to Kathy. "Kathy, what did he give you?"

Kathy lifts the psychic paper up for the girl to see. "This?"

"What's that?" Tallulah asks her, blinking in bewilderment.

"It gets you into places. Buildings and things." Martha eagerly explains, grinning but then frowns. "But where? He must have had a reason."

"Of course, he does." Kathy reassures, grinning. "You did want to visit the Empire State Building, right?"

Kathy, Martha, Tallulah, and Frank all rush out of the lift and onto the very top floor of the Empire State Building.

Solomon had tried to come, but Kathy told him to stay behind. She knows he is needed in the community. The people within are still frightened and in a panic. They need their leader. He agreed in the end, understanding his purpose. Kathy is glad he had listened. She fears that something else might try to hurt him. Something that she might not be able to see coming.

Tallulah walks over to where one portion of the floor is still open to the cold autumn night, gazing out and looking down at the city below. Kathy, Martha and Frank go to the drawing board with the blueprints on it.

"Hey, look at the date." Frank points to one of the sheets. "These designs were issued today. They must've changed something last minute."

"So, the Daleks changed something?" Martha questions. "Kathy?"

"Well, the one underneath is from before meaning a last minute change," Kathy says pulling both plans from the board and scattering them on the floor. "So, let's use our noggins and play spot the difference."

A storm can be heard building up outside. Thunder sounds off every few minutes as they analyse the plans.

"Gotcha!" Martha cries excitedly.

Kathy grins. "Knew you would find it." She turns to Frank and Tallulah who look at them curiously. "Look. There, on the mast. Those little lines? They're new."

"Added what?" Tallulah asks.

Kathy gives her a pointed look.

"Dalekanium!" They all cry together with a grin.

"It's what they need to change the human genetic code down below us." Kathy further explains.

"Can't we go up now and take the Dalekanium off?" Martha asks.

"No, we have to wait for the Doctor." Kathy replies. "We sort of have to time it just right for the storm to come. Or else things will go wrong."

It isn't long before the lift arrives. Kathy is quickly on guard momentarily, just in case it's the Daleks or the Pig Slaves but quickly relaxes when the Doctor and Laszlo appear. The latter quickly embraces Tallulah while Martha and Kathy dart over to the Doctor, pulling him over to the plans. They eagerly show him, sharing their own hugs when the lift doors shut.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" The Doctor cries, going to the lift. He pulls out his sonic, making it buzz as he tries to stop the descent. "See? Never waste time with a hug! Agh! Dead-locked sealed. I can't stop it."

"Sorry. I'd forgotten." Kathy tells him, feeling bad. Now the Pigmen will be coming up, leading to something awful. How could she have forgotten that?

"It's fine. You can't remember everything, I guess." The Doctor grumbles. He bangs the lift's side, angry.

"Where's it going?" Martha questions.

"Back downstairs to the Daleks. They're going to send up the Pigmen for us." Kathy tells her. "We have to stop them." She glances over, seeing the metal scaffolding.

"What's the time?" The Doctor questions.

"Er, 11:15." Frank answers, glancing at a clock.

"Six minutes to go. I've got to remove the Dalekanium before the gamma radiation hits."

"Gammon radiation? What the heck is that?" Tallulah questions.

She's ignored as they run to the open area and look out.

"Oh, that's high. That's very. Blimey, that's high." The Doctor observes.

"And we've got to go even higher." Martha says, pointing to the mast above them. "That's the mast up there, look. There's three pieces of Dalekanium on the base. We've got to get them off."

"That's not we, that's just me." The Doctor says.

Martha opens her mouth to protest but Kathy interrupts. "We've got to stop the Pig Slaves, Martha. They're coming for us; we've got to fight."

She goes back inside with the others following as the Doctor begins his climb.

"We can't fight them." Laszlo argues. "If they send Pig Slaves, they're trained to kill. They're trained to slit your throat with their bare teeth."

"I'm not talking about a physical fight." Kathy says.

"Then how?" Martha questions.

Suddenly there's a clang. They all look over to see Laszlo falling to the ground. Tallulah hurries over to him, fretting.

"Great, we're already a man down." Frank remarks.

"We can still do this." Kathy persists. "We can use the chairs and the scaffolding. Point some outside for the lightning to hit and aim it at the lift. It'll work."

"That's brilliant, Kathy!" Martha cries.

Kathy blushes uncomfortably. "Well, actually, it's technically yours."

Martha shrugs. "Who cares."

Kathy, Frank and Martha get to work, grabbing sections of metal scaffolding and using chairs to trail them in from outside.

Tallulah looks over to them from where she's been comforting Laszlo. "What the hell are you three clowns doin'?"

"This building will get hit either way. Great big bolt of lightening, electricity all down this building. This connected to the lift means they'll get zapped." Kathy quickly explains.

"Oh my God, that could work."

"Then give us a hand!" Frank cries. Tallulah leaps up to do just that.

They have set up a line of metal from the lightning conductor to the lift doors just in time.

"Is that going to work?" Tallulah asks.

"It's got to." Martha replies.

"I've got it all piped up to the scaffolding outside." Frank says as he runs back in.

"Okay, everyone, we need to just sit in the middle and don't touch anything metal." Kathy instructs.

They huddle together where Laszlo lies, propped up by a pillar. The lightning hits the building just after the lift doors open to reveal a mass of Pigmen. The electricity flows down the conductor, along the scaffolding poles and straight into the Pigmen in the lift.

Once it's over, the group slowly stands. Kathy walks over to the bodies of the dead Pig Slaves. She looks at them sorrowfully, thinking of how they were people once but glad they'll no longer have to suffer.

Martha does up next to her, also looking upon the creatures sadly. "They used to be like Laszlo. They were people, and we killed them."

"No, the Daleks killed them. Long ago." Laszlo argues, standing up.

"He's right, Martha. Now, we need to stop the Daleks." Kathy agrees.

"The Doctor!" Martha cries, running out to the open area.

Kathy follows her, they find the Doctor lying by the mast, very still with Dalekanium still attached. He groans awake, jumping up to run back down. Kathy is relieved to see he's alright just like she knew he would be.

To stop the Daleks going on the warpath throughout New York, Tallulah helps them all get into the theatre after hours to draw the Daleks to them.

"There ain't nothing more creepy than a theatre in the dark." Tallulah remarks. "Listen, Doctor, I know you got a thing for show tunes, but there's a time and place, huh?"

Laszlo sits down, sweating. Kathy watches him in concern though she knows that they'll be able to help him.

"What are you doing?" Martha asks as he fiddles with his sonic.

"If the Daleks are going to war, they'll want to find their number one enemy. I'm just telling them where I am." The Doctor turns to Kathy. "Kathy?"

Kathy brings out her silver and red sonic. "Ready."

They hold their sonic screwdrivers in the air, beeping. The Doctor tries to argue for Frank to get Martha out of the theatre but the companion refuses with Kathy backing her up. She knows Martha will be fine if she stays where she is and would rather not risk anything happening by letting her go.

The doors are suddenly broken down and the people march in from both sides. Their faces are blank as they move in sync, carrying Dalek-like guns. There is an explosion on stage. The two Daleks appear (Jast and Thay), with Sec on a chain and crawling on his hands and knees, like a dog. Kathy watches in sympathy at what this new being has been reduced to.

"The Doctor and the Prophet will stand before the Daleks." One of the Daleks cries. The Doctor walks forward over the top of the seats with Kathy following but a tad bit slow as smaller legs. "You will die, Doctor, Prophet. It is the beginning of a new age."

"Planet Earth will become New Skaro." The other cries.

"Oh, and what a world. With anything just the slightest bit different ground into the dirt." The Doctor quips scathingly. "That's Dalek Sec. Don't you remember? The cleverest Dalek ever and look what you've done to him. Is that your new Empire, hmm? Is that the foundation for a whole new civilisation?"

"My Daleks, just understand this. If you choose death and destruction, then death and destruction will choose you." Sec warns weakly.

"Incorrect. We will always survive."

"Now we will destroy our enemies, the Doctor and the Prophet."

"But they can help you." Sec argues.

"The Doctor and the Prophet must die." One Dalek cries.

"No, I beg you, don't."

"Exterminate!"

Kathy braces herself as Sec stands in front of the Dalek just as it fires. Sec's skeleton is visible before he crumbles to a heap, dead.

"Your own leader. The only creature who might have led you out of the darkness and you destroyed him." The Doctor growls.

Kathy turns to Dalek humans. "Do you see what they did? Huh? You see what a Dalek really is?" She turns back to the Daleks. "You say we have to die, well, why not make it a special one, eh? These new Dalek humans, let's give them a shot. Their first blood. Go on, baptise them."

"Is that your prophecy?" One of the Daleks asks.

Kathy shrugs, smirking. "We'll just have to see."

"Dalek humans, take aim." They do.

"What are you waiting for? Give the command!" The Doctor cries.

"Exterminate!"

Kathy knows that it should be fine, that the new Dalek humans won't actually fire but she tenses just the same, but nothing happens. Kathy smirks, they did it.

"Exterminate!"

Still nothing.

"Obey. Dalek humans will obey."

"They're not firing. What have you done?" Martha questions.

"You will obey. Exterminate."

This time, one of the humans turns to look at the two Daleks, perplexed. "Why?"

"Daleks do not question orders." One Dalek retorts.

"But why?"

"You will stop this." The other persists.

"But why?"

"You must not question."

"But you are not our master. And we, we are not Daleks." The man realises.

"No, you're not. And you never will be." The Doctor speaks. He turns to the Daleks all smug. "Sorry, I got in the way of the lightning strike. Time Lord DNA got all mixed up. Just that little bit of freedom."

"If they will not obey, then they must die." The Dalek declares, shooting the man.

"Get down!" Kathy yells.

Everyone drops below the seats as the Daleks and their mutated humans fire at each other.

"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!"

Some mutated humans fall but the others are able to destroy one of the Daleks.

"Extermin—" The other tries to cry but it too gets blown up.

The group stand up, looking at the mutated humans, who stand there dazed but determined.

"It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. You did it. You're free." The Doctor says softly.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, there's still one more Dalek, it won't—" Kathy tries to apologise/warn when she's cut off by a high-pitched sound. The mutants clutch their heads, collapsing then die.

"No! They can't! They can't! They can't! They can't!" The Doctor cries, angrily as he rushes towards them.

"What happened? What was that?" Martha questions.

"They killed them, rather than let them live. An entire species." Kathy explains, sadly.

"Genocide." The Doctor hisses before springing up and running out the the theatre towards the laboratory.

Dalek Caan escapes and Laszlo nearly dies but is easily saved before he moves to Hooverville with Tallulah after Solomon and Frank argue for his right to stay.

Kathy then walks off we the Doctor and Martha to Bedloe's Island where they had parked the TARDIS to say one final farewell. For now anyway.

She shares a hug and a goodbye with Martha before the companion steps inside the TARDIS.

"Well, I suppose this is it again." The Time Lord grins, drawing her into a hug. "Till the next time, Kathy."

"Till the next time, Doctor." They pull away and he turns to step inside the TARDIS, but Kathy has one last thing to ask. "Wait, Doctor, just one question."

"What?"

"You and Martha, you've acting strange towards me ever since you both arrived in Hooverville." Kathy says, witnessing the Doctor grimace at her words.

"Nah, that's nothing. It's—" The Doctor carelessly shrugs, but Kathy can see it's an act.

"I'm not stupid, Doctor." She retorts. "I know we meet in the wrong order most of the time and we shouldn't tell each other about what's to come, but this is different."

"Of course, you're not stupid, you're brilliant." The Doctor argues, clearly avoiding answering her.

"So, I know it's not nothing. You know about something in my future. Something terrible." Kathy says as she feels tears well up.

"Kathy, you know I can't tell you." The Doctor reminds her sombrely.

"I know that, but I just want to know," Kathy can hear her voice breaking as she speaks, "if there's something waiting for me in my future."

There's a moment of silence before the Doctor speaks, "Spoilers."

Kathy lets out a watery laugh. "Idiot." She huffs. There's a tickling noise emitting from the TARDIS and Kathy grins. "See, she agrees."

"Oh, how I hate it when you two gang up on me." The Doctor huffs as Kathy laughs but he doesn't look mad at all.

Kathy understands that the Doctor can't tell her what's going to happen in her future, just as she doesn't tell him but in a rare moment, instead of worrying about everyone around her, she actually feels worried about what's to come for her.