She'd been running.

She'd been on the run for three months, as well as the rest of them. Sure, she could've skipped ahead, used what she knew about the Silence, even told them. But, she had to make sure that the information was the same. It was vital to the future.

She learned a few different things:

The Silence were still here, and their abilities still worked the same way. She'd been more than alarmed to realize that it worked on even her, just for a second, her turning away before she remembered that she'd seen one. She tried to strengthen her memory but it still happened. For a single second, she'd forget when she turned her back.

They still wanted Amy because Amy was pregnant. She'd checked and found that there was a fetus sitting inside of her uterus... and it likely meant that River was Melody. This was even more proven when the events of The Impossible Astronaut still played out exactly as they had. She'd stepped back and let events occur as she hadn't in a long time, because she needed to know. Time depended on it.

It was strange. She could feel it, twisting in random directions but still together, almost like a complicated jungle of vines.

It was the only reason she still let Amy get taken, and why she let the events of Day of the Moon play out as well. Amy still cried for Rory and the Doctor.

The only difference was, this time, she also cried for Anna.

"Come on, you're an all-powerful being, I know you can hear me, please..."

She flinched as the Doctor glanced over at Rory, inching a little bit closer to Anna out of some annoying habit that he'd gained.

She was shocked he let her leave his side at all, considering what had happened. He was making up for that in spades right now, making sure she was glued to his side twenty four seven, less than four inches from her at all times. Now, he was three inches from her, which meant their bodies were almost pressed together.

"Okay?" they asked each other at the same time, both using the same tone. She smiled a little at that, glancing over at him, though he was glancing at her with a worried glint in his eyes.

"I'm fine," she told him. "Mainly. We'll get her back. Not that I'm saying that as an all-powerful being or anything. Just, you know. I have faith in us."

"That's part of why I love you, Anna," he said. "Even after nearly a thousand years, you still have your unwavering faith in the universe."

She didn't know why it hit her then, just something about him saying she had unwavering faith in the universe. She dropped what she was holding, staring at the box she'd been searching. "Oh."

"Oh, what?" he asked.

"Remember when I told The Master how to kill me?"

He flinched before he asked, "Why?" in a negative tone.

"Because I think this is why," she said. She glanced around, something falling into place. "Shizen," she said.

"What?"

"I think... I think he changed things. I'm not sure I know what's happening now," she said.

"Oh, Anna?"

She felt her heart drop straight out of her chest.

"Be a good little all-powerful being and come alone, or I kill the pretty redhead that the Doctor's grown so fond of. He always did love gingers. It would be the least I could do, after you banished me to that alternate dimension."

She let out a short laugh before she shook her head. "Frac," she cursed, before she teleported out, catching the tail end of the Doctor's alarm all the while.

She reappeared in front of Saxon, though she felt alarm fill her when there was a gun pointed to Amy's temple. Silents were standing behind him, and she held her breath before she barely shook her head.

"Drain yourself of energy right now or I kill her."

She held up her hands before she did as she was told, making two buckets appear before she made her energy visual and she dumped it out into the buckets. She waited until she swayed, and then held her hands back up, a headache brewing on the edge of her mind. She might not be able to die like that, but it still sucked. It was like starving the body until you were almost dead. Except she would never be able to die.

He smiled. "Good girl," he said, and her skin crawled.

"I'm curious. How'd you engineer the Silents?"

"Me?" he asked, only answering because he was always happy to boast. "No, that wasn't me. That was the Church. Unless, of course, you're referring to the fact that I enhanced their little... forgetting trick. Works even on all-powerful beings like yourself."

"So you've become a religious man, then?" she questioned him. She'd been very careful to avoid him in the eight hundred years, remembering that he'd only known her as a companion who'd recently stopped traveling with the Doctor, so it was strange to see him again after all this time. She didn't like that Amy was the one in danger this time. "Don't seem the type."

"No, you wouldn't think so," he said. "But it's awfully easy to point out to a religious based entity that people with god-like powers, flaunting them and demanding to be worshipped, is really very blasphemous. We're just doing god's work, eradicating a sinner such as yourself. They're not wrong, are they? These funny little human religions, I think I read in one of those books that suicide is a mortal sin!" He shook his head, tsking her. "Very naughty."

She took her chance, teleporting Amy out. A moment after that, there was a bullet in Anna's shoulder. She cried out, stumbling back and then falling, the pain pulsating through her. She sucked in a breath through gritted teeth, clutching onto it as her healing ability tried to cope without energy.

He was standing above her in the next moment, pointing the gun directly at her. "You're lucky I'm not doing worse to you," he said.

She raised her eyebrows, smiling slightly. "Do you think that everyone is dumber than you, or are you intentionally leaving out the part that my death is a fixed point because you orchestrated it to be- ah!"

She screamed when he stepped on her bullet wound, digging his heel in.

"Motherfu-" she pushed her head back and down, before she laughed. When she looked at him, he was kneeled down next to her. "By the way, you should probably make sure that I've done something before you tell me about it. The only reason I banished you to an alternate dimension is because-"

He hit her, hard. She felt her nose crack and pain blinded her for a moment. She blinked the tears away to find that he'd grabbed her shirt, balling it up in his fist.

"I know how time works, I'm a time lord." He hit her again, but when he went to do it a third time, she teleported away, swaying where she stood.

"What do you actually want, Saxon?"

"Just this."

He pointed the gun at her and fired.

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Being dead was always an interesting experience. There was nothing and then there was something, and that was how it worked. This time was no different, gasping back to life.

She came to just as she heard the sounds of the Tardis and, a moment later, she heard the sound of the door slamming open.

"Anna?!"

She groaned. "Here," she got out, groaning again.

He was to her in a moment, and things happened in a blur after that. He helped her to get onto the Tardis before they were in the medbay. He helped her clean up while she explained what happened (because she was still getting energy back and if she didn't want to feel like she'd been run over by fifty trucks then she couldn't waste any energy right now).

"It doesn't make sense, though," she said, as he threw the last of the towels into the hamper. "He said he knew how time works. It means... But does it mean that he made a mistake? That he really thought that I was the Anna what had banished him to the alternate dimension? And how was he planning on keeping track of that, anyway?"

"Whatever he's doing, he's not finished."

She frowned. "How'd you know that?"

"Amy told me that she was pregnant and then said that it was a false positive. I scanned her because the Tardis is much more superior to those sticks what women use to find out that they're pregnant. It came back and said that it couldn't read her, so I ran a deeper scan. She's a flesh avatar. She's a glorified interface of Amelia Pond right now."

She raised her eyebrows, before she realized. "Hey, wait a minute, does that mean that they got married without me? What the hell?"

A look stole across his face, a cross of worried and amused. "It's been two years. We were all getting a bit restless."

She raised her eyebrows. "Two years? What the- why did you never mention this before?"

"We've been busy," he dismissed her. "Sort of like how we are now? Flesh avatar? Ringing any bells?"

"No, yeah, I know about that-"

"How'd you mean you know?"

"Television show," she told him.

He frowned. "I... don't understand. How was the Master still alive to do this in the television show?"

She shook her head. "I can't explain any of it right now because, you are right, he's not finished, but it's spoilers."

"Does that mean there's nothing you can do about the flesh situation?"

"Nope," she said, breathing out through her nose. "We wait until her due date and then we take Amy and Rory to the Flesh incident at the acid mining factory, the first recorded incident that the flesh can exist without being connected to people. We avert some people dying," she said. She'd always rationalized that it would've had to've happened two ways: the one in which the Doctor, Rory, and Amy were there, and made a difference and saved people... And the one where the human Miranda Cleaves and the flesh Jennifer Lucas started a war. She would've imagined that would've led to a civil war between flesh and humans... but it was in flux, which meant that it could be changed. And, because the Doctor had felt so guilty about letting his companion get taken under his nose, he would of course try to fix what he could, and make it so that the war was averted, making it so that the flesh and humans had a more peaceful start.

"And all that time we're just supposed to let him think that he's got her? What is he doing to her? What about the baby?" he asked.

She let out another sigh. "Do you remember what I said, when we were talking about us having kids, and I said that there were things we had to do and that they were spoilers?"

"Yes," he said, after a moment.

"This is what I was talking about. Just trust me," she said. "We have to let this play out. Time depends on it."