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Hi

Wrote this ages ago - before series 3. It was originally for Martha but can be any new character. Hope you like it.

xxx

"Right then, just need to fix this and then we're off. If you want to of course. You do want to come, don't you? 'Cos I'm not forcing you or anything. Don't want you getting any mad ideas about kidnap or that you're replacing Rose. Definitely don't want you thinking that," the Doctor babbled, whilst pressing buttons and pulling levers on the console.

"Where are we going to?" she asked.

"Oh, I don't know. Some place. You choose."

"Can I?"

"I just said you could. Come on, surely a human with a brain like yours can think of somewhere to go!"

"I love it how you call me a human."

"It's your species!"

"Hey, I don't call you Martian!"

"I'm not Martian, that's why." The Doctor grinned.

"Oh, why, where are you from?"

"Gallifrey."

"Can we go there?"

"No."

"Why?"

"It was destroyed. A long time ago. Everything was lost."

He lowered his gaze to the floor. He didn't want to explain it again. He'd said it so many times and each time it hurt him more and more. His planet. His home. Lost to the pages of history.

He raised his eyes back up to meet hers and through his pain, he smiled weakly.

"So, where do you want to go?"