Hello! For those who know me and those who don't, I'm very glad you've discovered my latest fanfic. It is an OC fanfic and i did my best to keep it as original as i could. i tried to go for something a bit different from the usual, but i hope you guys and girls enjoy it. I will be updating it semi-regularly about once a week or once every other week since i've written up 36 episodes already. but anyway, i'm rambling, please review and let me know what you think!

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It was bright. Very bright. I swear that I had just fallen asleep for a nap after a long afternoon of taking care of my bratty younger siblings—I had six, mind you. It's not easy—but if that was true, why was it so bright? I groaned, feeling as though I had been hit by a car with how badly my body ached, and I sat up; rubbing my head with my eyes clenched shut at the brightness.

"Sandy, what's with the lights?" I complained to my younger sister, who was known to not care whether I had just gone to sleep or not.

When I opened my eyes though, I was very much confused, because there was no Sandy or bed or my room, for that matter. All there was, was an expanse of white and rather large pieces of silvery metal hanging suspended in the air. Now I wasn't stupid. At least, I'd like to think so. So when I wake up to this I quickly began thinking, trying to figure out what happened. So…I'm dreaming, right? Or I'm dead. Which I'd rather hope isn't the case. If I had to choose, dreaming over death, dreaming would win every time, so let's go with that. I stood up, wobbling slightly as I frown at the ground that…wasn't really there. How's it doing that? Dream or not, most of mine at least had some sort of natural element of physics in it and a floor, but the feeling of a floor without a physical floor has never happened befo—I shook my head, smacking the palm of my hand to my head.

"Nope. Shush brain. Who cares about the physics or the floor? Dream or not, I need to find a way out of this."

Taking a deep breath, I started walking through the pieces of twisted metal, giving those a few glances as something in the back of my head tingled. As though this was familiar somehow. I am getting a sense of deja vu. I thought, just before I tripped over something and let out a yelp of surprise as I smacked my face into the ground.

"Ow." I groaned, lifting my head and touching my nose carefully with my hand to make sure I hadn't done too much damage, when my eyes widened.

I was surrounded, almost, by the metal pieces and as I scrambled up to see what had happened, I was hit with a realization. I was in the middle of it all. Whatever this metal came from… I turned around from the outer ring of metal and back to the center of empty circle I was standing in. It was all one thing. One object sitting right here.

"It's like a video getting paused in the middle of an explosion…" I muttered, jumping when a loud hum echoed in the room, sounding almost in pain. "Hello?"

I spun around, searching for the source, but there was nothing other than the metal bits and—Is that a crack? I frowned, hesitantly stepping towards the dark crack in the center of the circle, leaning over to get a look through it, but I couldn't see anything. I wrinkled my nose though at the musty smell coming from it and stood back upright, rubbing my nose. Huh, odd. I was startled once more by that hum, but this time, I caught sight of a glowing ball just sort of hovering behind me. Like I said before, I'd like to consider myself not completely stupid, so I knew better than to just go and poke something, even if I was curious. The thing was, the ball seemed to want me to touch it and before I knew what was going on, my arm was acting on it's own and reaching for it.

And I don't just mean my curiosity got a hold of it. No. I mean it was literally not me reaching for it. I was trying to pull my arm back, but it didn't even budge! It just kept pulling me closer to the glowing orb as the hum returned, almost encouragingly.

"Uh, not cool! I'd rather not touch the creepy ball thing, if you don't mind! So could I please have my arm back?!"

Whatever was doing this didn't listen to me though and once I'd realized there was nothing I could do to stop my rebellious arm from touching the ball, I simply grimaced as my hand touched it. Needless to say, I wasn't pleased as a burning fire of pain seemed to race up my arm and over my shoulder at the contact, causing me to shout as the pain became nearly overwhelming and I stumbled back. Back, into that crack I had been looking at earlier and that only caused more pain, managing to knock me out before I could figure out what was on the other side. And what I had just been thrown into.

"Ugh, my head." I groaned, lifting my face from the metal floor I was on and placing a hand on my head.

My shoulder also hurt for some reason—rather painfully, I might add—but that was quickly forgotten as a hot breath of air was snorted across my face. Hesitantly, I opened my eyes and quickly scrambled up to a sitting position at the huge beast in front of me.

"T-T-That's not right." I stuttered out, looking at the animal and taking in it's large, spiky, reptilian appearance. "Y-You're a… a dinosaur. An Ankylosaurus!"

It took a step towards me and I scooted back a little, but I was already up against a wall and I really hoped it knew how big it was compared to me and wouldn't crush me on accident. Oddly enough though, it was nudging my hip with it's nose and I slowly reached into my pocket and pulled out one of a handful of apple candies in my pocket; something I used to bribe my siblings into behaving.

"D-Do you want one?"

It's large, club of a tail swung back and forth behind it excitedly, reminding me of a dog and I hesitantly unwrapped the candy and held my hand out; the large dinosaur eating it happily and giving me a chance to stand up, even more confused than I was before in the white room. Alright. A dinosaur in some metal building of some sort. I-I don't think this can be anything other than me dreaming. The dinosaur nudged me again, nearly knocking me over with it's large head and I gave it another candy. Where am I supposed to go from here? I suppose sticking with this thing would be best, in order to keep from being eaten by the carnivores that are probably hanging around, but—

Suddenly, I was lifted off my feet and tossed, landing on a sloped surface and nearly falling off if I hadn't grabbed one of the large spines within reach. With wide eyes, I felt myself being nudged again and I shifted my position on the dinosaur's back, lost as to why the dinosaur tossed me on top of it but very excited at the same time.

"I-I'm riding a dinosaur…" I chuckled out of nervousness. "Heh, I'm riding a freakin' dinosaur."

I made a decision then, to enjoy my dream for what it was worth and—with a good grip on the Ankylosaurus – I pulled a long branch from off a nearby tree and with a string from my pocket, did what any sane person would do while riding a dinosaur. I tied a candy to the end of the stick and held it out like a fishing pole with a grin.

"Onwards, Danny!" I called out, naming it and leading it back down the hallway where it came from. "God, I love my dreams!"

We bounded around, occasionally stopping Danny and giving it a candy, before we found yet another Ankylosaurus who seemed to be a bit jealous of the treats Danny was receiving. I tried to get us away from the other one, but that wasn't working out well and it followed us into an elevator type room; forcing me to share the candy I had left—something Danny wasn't too pleased about. As the elevator opened, the two began to fight a bit, ramming each other and shifting me off balance as I tried to keep hold and get them to stop. At the same time though, I heard voices and saw people running from the dinosaurs as they rushed out of the elevator. People? Actual people?! I'd travel with people over dinosaurs any day! But first I need to stop these two!

I tossed a handful of the candy off to the side, out of sight of Danny but within reach of the other Ankylosaurus so that it would leave, and then used my candy fishing pole to lead Danny away from it and over towards the people. People that I actually recognized! Is that Lestrade from Sherlock?

"I can take one of them. Short blow up into the throat." He whispered to his companions, holding a large knife.

And Amy Pond! And the Eleventh Doctor! And—Is that a pharaoh? Blinking in surprise, I turned Danny towards them as the Doctor went to argue with Greg.

"Now that's not very nice." I said, catching their attention from atop the dinosaur. "They're dinosaurs! Herbivores at that. Practically harmless."

The Doctor grinned up at me along with Amy as the others stared in shock. "Alex!"

How does he know—Oh wait. Dream, duh. I gave him a small wave with my free hand, only to have to grip Danny as the other Ankylosaurus returned and bumped into us.

"Oi! No fighting!" I called out, before tossing the rest of my candy away and jumping off Danny as they both went after it.

I landed with a wince, the height I jumped from sending a wave of pain up my legs for a second, before brushing myself off and pulling a hand through my hair. "Whelp, that could've gone better."

'Greg' gave me an odd look. "Were you just riding that thing?"

I nodded, holding out my fishing pole. "Yeah. Used the proverbial 'carrot on the stick' trick."

I was suddenly pulled into a hug by the Doctor and dropped my pole in surprise, holding my hands up in surrender.

"Um, h-hello." I peeked over at Amy and mouthed the words 'help me' to which she did.

"Um, Doctor? Weren't we doing something?"

He pulled away, but kept a hand on my shoulder, making me slightly uncomfortable. "Right! Yes! Well, to sum things up, we're on a ship filled with dinosaurs!"

Amy rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I think we've got that part."

The group moved over to make sure the Ankylosaurus' had passed and Rory came over; someone I hadn't noticed was there.

"Okay… So… How, and who's ship?" He asked, counting off his fingers as I ducked out from under the Doctor's arm and stood over by Amy, who grinned.

"Well, there's so much to discover. Think how wise we'll be by the end of all this." The Doctor responded, sending me a sad look, though I didn't have any idea what for.

"Sorry, sorry." Brian, Rory's dad, spoke up. "Are you saying… dinosaurs are flying a spaceship?"

"Brian, please. That would be ridiculous. They're probably just passengers." The Doctor said in exasperation before holding up a finger. "Did I mention missiles?"

"Missiles?!"

I looked over at that as well, my brain finally picking up on what episode we were in. Don't know why I didn't realize it before. You'd think the Ankylosaurus should've given me a clue.

"Didn't want to worry you. Anyway, six hours is a lifetime." The Doctor said, nudging Brian. "Well, not literally a lifetime. That's what we're trying to avoid. And we're all really clever."

He chuckled like it was funny, but Rory was shaking his head in an attempt to stop the Doctor from making things worse. Thing was, the Doctor wasn't really paying attention and shined his flashlight—Torch, I reminded myself—over towards a monitor in the wall nearby.

"Ooh, let's see what we can find out. Come on."

We all headed over and once he'd brushed the cobwebs off the monitor, he turned around with a grin.

"Right! Introductions! Alex, you know Amy and Rory. This is Brian, Rory's dad; Neffy, and Riddell—though you probably knew all of that anyway." He muttered the ending, before joyfully throwing a hand out in a grand gesture. "They're my gang! Gang, this is Alexander Holmes, residential time jumper!"

I gave them all a little wave. "Hello."

Time jumper? What is he talking about? I thought, getting a bit confused as a little inkling formed in the back of my mind about this possibly not being a dream. But that's impossible. I shook my head, ridding myself of the thought as the Doctor sonicked the monitor to turn it on and Amy touched a couple of scratch marks on a nearby wall.

"How many dinosaurs do you think are on here? Did you see any, Alex? Other than your friend?"

I shook my head. "Just the two and I stuck with them because they won't eat me."

"Good choice." Rory muttered, over by the Doctor and Brian as they looked over the screen.

"Oh, well done, whoever you are. Looking for engines. Thank you, computer. Look at that. Different sections have different engines, but these look like the primary clusters. Where are we now, computer? We need to get down to these engines."

"What happened?" Nefertiti questioned, making us turn over to find the trio gone.

"Oops, forgot about that." I muttered, it having slipped my mind that the trio would've been teleported away.

"Oh great." Amy said with a roll of her eyes. "Do you at least know where they've gone? You usually know things."

I nodded. "Yeah, sure. They were teleported down to the engine room, but how do you know that I know?"

She raised a brow, pointing her torch at me and giving me a look over. "Where did you come from? Before here, I mean."

I blinked, confused. "Well, I was at home taking a nap and then in some white room and then here. Why?"

She looked surprised before running a hand through her hair. "Right. Um, first time here then. Just, uh, keep doing what you're doing. The Doctor will explain it later."

I was suspicious, but nodded. "Alright. Shall we, uh, go see what we can find then?"

She nodded. "Yeah. Who knows. We might beat the Doctor to the punch for once."

We all agreed and started walking around in search of the Doctor or anything that could help us. As we did though, we stumbled upon some broken eggs on the ground.

"There's clearly more than just two of those creatures." Riddell commented, drinking from a flask.

"Hey, put that away!" Amy scolded, lightly smacking his arm. "I need you sober."

"It's medicinal." He grumbled. "And I don't take orders from females."

"Ooh, you're going to regret that, Greg."

He frowned at me. "Why are you calling me that? My name's Riddell."

"Not to me, Greg. And like I was saying, you better be nice to us females or Neffy's not going to be happy." I said, gesturing over at said woman who nodded.

"Yes. You best learn to take orders from us. Any man who speaks to me that way, I execute."

"You're very welcome to try." He smiled, but Nefertiti sent him a look that said—given the chance—she would kill him on the spot.

Amy though, was ignorant of the tension and leaned over to her. "Sorry. What was your name again?"

"Lady of the Two Lands. Wife of the great King Amenhotep. Queen Nefertiti of Egypt."

"I'll be damned." Riddell said, taking off his hat as Amy made a similar exclamation.

"Oh my God. Queen Nefertiti."

"And here we go." I muttered with a roll of my eyes as Amy went fangirl on the woman.

"I learned all about you in school. You're awesome. Big fan. High five." She raised her hand, but Nefertiti just stared at it, before she put it down. "Yeah, a bit behind on that. You're really famous."

"Shush. Listen." Riddell said and we all went quiet to hear some heavy breathing.

Pointing all of our torches downwards, we spotted a sleeping adolescent T-Rex at our feet.

"Okay." Amy said in a whisper. "At a guess—"

I cut her off, speaking in an excited hushed whisper. "A juvenile T-Rex and we're standing in the middle of a dinosaur nest! This is the coolest dream ever."

"Alex?"

I glanced over at Amy, who gave me a pointed look.

"I know you think this is a dream and all, but can you just pretend that this is a real situation for the moment?"

I hesitated, whining a bit. "But… it's a miniature king of the dinosaurs…"

"Yeah, and if it wakes up, it'll eat us." She said.

"I propose retreat." Riddell said and we started heading back the way we came, only for the lizard to make a wheezing noise and Riddell changed his mind. "Or perhaps forwards."

"Agreed." Amy said as Riddell went to step over it. "Just don't wake the baby."

He stepped on an egg shell and the lizard twitched in it's sleep, making everyone jump. Thankfully, Riddell managed to make it over the lizard, though he wobbled a bit, and he chuckled quietly as the rest of us let out sighs of relief and started to head down the next hallway.

"Who are you anyway?" Amy questioned and Riddell put on his cocky voice.

"John Riddell. Big game hunter in the African plains. I'm sure you've heard of me too."

He swiped a finger across the rim of his hat, but Amy shook her head.

"No."

"Well you clearly have some alarming gaps in your education."

"Or men who hunt defenseless creatures just don't impact on history. Face it, she's way cooler than you." Amy sang, making Nefertiti laugh.

"Ha. And you, Amy. Are you also a Queen?"

"Yes. Yes, I am." She said, making me snort, only for her to punch me in the arm. "Oi, shut it. No laughing!"

Riddell chuckled as well as Nefertiti turned to me.

"What of you, Alex?"

"Nah. I'm nothing important like that. I'm just a kid along for the ride." I waved off.

"And your relation with the Doctor?" She questioned, confusing me.

"What relationship? Like I said, 'along for the ride'. I barely met him today, though I've known him for a while now."

"I knew it." Amy whispered under her breath, but I heard her.

"What?"

Nefertiti wasn't finished though. "He seemed quite taken with you though. Are you sure?"

I turned back to her, furrowing my brows. "Yeah. Pretty sure."

What's going on? Amy keeps mentioning things that don't make sense and the Doctor liking me? That's never happened before. In my dreams—sure, he'll be friendly, but that's it. I was always just another companion because I knew that there were other people he loved and who loved him and, being human meant that nothing more would happen anyway. So why is everyone talking like he really cares for me?

"Bit of weed killer wouldn't go amiss in here." Amy said, pulling me from my thoughts as we all walked into what appeared to be a lab overgrown with plants and cobwebs.

"Whoever was running this vessel left in a hurry." Riddell said.

"Maybe a plague came and took them." Nefertiti said after.

"No, there'd be corpses and bones."

"Unless the animals ate them."

"Whoa, Chuckle Brothers. Lighten up, would ya?" Amy said, stopping them from arguing more.

I rolled my eyes before wiping the cobwebs from off another monitor, turning to them. "Over here, ladies… Greg."

"I'm Riddell."

I ignored him, waving my hands to allow Amy to start pushing buttons. Once the lights came on, we all looked around in slight surprise—minus me, of course.

"How'd you know how to do that?"

"Well," Amy turned off her torch, setting it down. "I've spent enough time with the Doctor to know that whenever you enter somewhere new, press buttons."

"What else have you learned from him?" Nefertiti asked, as Amy picked up a disk-like object and put it in the slot, pushing another button.

"Don't stop at button pressing."

The screen fizzed to life, showing static as the video started playing and a voice could be heard.

"One hundred and seventeen years."

Amy smirked with a chuckle. "Data records."

"The ship's owners?" Riddell asked as Amy began button pressing again.

"Could be… Come on. Help us out."

"Mainly cryogenic. I will continue to work."

I heard the sounds of dinosaur calls and the pitter-patter of claws on the floor and turned with Riddell to see the silhouette on the wall. Not the silhouette of a T-Rex, but that of a Velociraptor.

"Not good." I muttered quietly under my breath.

"How about a picture, hm? Come on, for me." Amy asked, before dropping the smile and slapping the side of the monitor.

"Far beyond our—"

"Look." Nefertiti pointed to the screen as a picture of a reptilian-hominoid appeared on screen with the occasional glitch. "Oh, it's beautiful."

"I can't tell how far we have come. Far enough to avoid the destructive impact forecast for our planet. Far enough for me to feel a profound sense of loss."

"What is that?"

"A Silurian." I said, before I realized something and pouted. "Aw man. I don't get to see the Triceratops."

Amy turned to me as I explained with a wave of the hand. "The trio of boneheads who got teleported to the engine room would've made it back on board by now after being taken in by the guy who has this ship. They meet a Triceratops on the way—Big plant eater with three horns and a big…" I made a gesture behind my head. "…plate thing on it's head—and he really likes Brian's golf balls. They get to play fetch with it and I missed out."

"Really?" Amy gave me a disbelieving look. "You got to ride some big spiky dinosaur thing—"

"An Ankylosaurus." I corrected, making her roll her eyes.

"Whatever. And you're whining because you didn't get to play fetch with another one?"

I gave her a look. "We're in space, on a ship, with dinosaurs. That's every five year old boy's wet dream."

"But you're not five nor are you a boy." She argued, brows furrowed in confusion.

"Doesn't mean I can't like dinosaurs." I quipped back as the Silurian went on.

"Of the fifty species loaded, only one has had any difficulty surviving. All the others are thriving and we expect them to be able to repopulate."

"Probably a Brachiosaurus." I muttered. "Too big, very gentle things, but not exactly the best things to have aboard a tiny ship."

"We're on an Ark. A Silurian Ark." Amy said, having decided to ignore me for now.

"Lizard people herding dinosaurs onto a Space Ark? Absolute tommyrot." Riddell complained.

"Says the man who just got here via a time and space machine." I said with a roll of my eyes as Nefertiti agreed.

"Only an idiot denies the evidence of their own eyes."

"Egyptian queen or not, I shall put you across my knee and spank you."

"Oh lord." Amy muttered as the two started arguing… or flirting, depending on the perspective.

"Try, and I'll snap your neck in a heartbeat."

"Oh, they certainly bred firecrackers in your time."

"Oh, no, no. Please don't start flirting. I already have one set of flirting companions. I'd rather not have another."

"Really?" I questioned. "Who?"

She gave me a look but didn't answer as Nefertiti went on.

"If the Doctor trusts Amy, so do I. Stop doubting her."

The argument ended there and Riddell frowned slightly.

"If this ship was built by—"

"Silurians. Yeah." Amy said.

"Yeah, where are they?"

She frowned and then stood upright to face him. "Surprisingly good question."

I sighed as they eyed each other and leaned down to the computer myself. "Display signs of homo-reptilia."

The scanner went over the map of the ship, before displaying 'no life signals detected'. I moved back, showing Amy.

"There's none here."

She looked at the screen and frowned. "But where have they gone?"

"Perhaps they found another world, left the ship." Nefertiti offered, but I shook my head.

"They wouldn't leave the dinosaurs and they wouldn't come back to Earth knowing that there'd be no place for them or people like Greg over here will hunt them back down to extinction."

"Riddell!" He growled, but I ignored him again as Amy spoke.

"So what's changed between then and now? Wait. Computer, show me the ship at launch with all life signals."

It did, a large number of dots scattered on the map and I grinned, leaning over to speak as well.

"Now show the ship today with all life signals."

The number of dots diminished.

"Thousands less." Amy commented. "But why?"

"Let's play spot the difference." I said. "Computer, show both images side by side."

"What are you looking for?" Riddell questioned.

"What changed." I said, as Amy continued for me.

"Spot the difference, like she said. What changed and what happened to the Silurians?"

Nefertiti tapped the center of the map. "The center."

"Computer, zoom in to the center." I said.

"Hold on."

"What is it?" Riddell asked, all of us looking at the red shape in the center of the map.

"Another ship." I answered. "Someone else is on this ship and I don't doubt for a minute that they had something to do with the Silurians' disappearance."

"Is this from you knowing things, Alex?" Amy questioned and I grimaced.

"Well… um… possibly? I mean, I could tell you—"

"No. Don't." She said, waving a hand at me to stop me. "I don't want to know. You've told me before that talking about these things could mess up time lines and paradoxes and other… time things."

"Uh, good to know?" I pointed at her then. "Shouldn't you call the trio? I'm sure the Doctor would like to know about the Silurians and, uh, Rory might want to know you're alright."

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Alright." Pulling out her phone, she started to pace before Rory finally picked up. "Where are you?"

I couldn't hear the other line, so I just kept an eye out for the raptors that would soon show up.

"Rory, this is a Silurian ship. Can you give me to the Doctor?"

There was a bit of a pause, before she spoke again; my ears perking up at the sound of the claws tapping on the floor again. Velociraptors hunt in groups. They'll gather together first.

"This is an Ark built by the Silurians. They were looking for another planet… None on board. I mean, thousands of stasis pods, all empty." She hung up the phone with a sigh and shake of her head, before turning to us. "So? What now?"

"We've got a pack of Velociraptors heading our way." I said seriously, starting to worry about what would happen if I die here and not wake up in my bed at home.

"Oh great. Raptors. Just what we need… How do you know that?" Amy questioned. "We don't get eaten, do we?"

I shook my head. "No. Listen."

Everyone went silent and I raised a finger.

"There. Did you hear it? Tapping. Clicking. Whatever you want to call it."

"And what does that have to do with raptors?" Riddell questioned as I popped open a panel and started pulling out the two guns they had there and loading them

"Think. With dinosaurs, they have flat feet that 'thump' on the ground. That's how you've heard them coming so far, yeah? So what does the clicking mean?" I turned to him and tossed him a gun. "Clicking means claws. Claws that are just tapping the ground. Velociraptors have one hooked claw that curves to hover just above the ground. The clicking is coming from them."

He frowned, still suspicious. "Then how do you know it's a group?"

I smiled innocently. "Easy. Fossil records show that Velociraptors most likely hunted in groups. They hunt big prey, so they have to be fast and smart. And you can't kill something big without numbers. That, and I've seen at least three shadows pass that wall already."

"Hm. Alright. I'll admit." He turned to me with a small smirk. "I'm starting to like you."

I smiled back a bit, before Amy snatched my gun from me.

"No weapons!"

I rolled my eyes and showed her the ammo. "Calm down. They're stun guns."

Riddell nodded. "Enough to make a dinosaur take a nap. Even the Doctor couldn't object to that."

She sighed, passing it back to me. "You're almost clever. Can you even shoot that thing?"

I smacked the ammo in and cocked the gun with a grin. "Dad gave me shooting lessons out in the desert all the time."

"You and the Doctor, are you his queen?" Nefertiti asked Amy.

"No, I'm Rory's queen. Wife." She corrected. "Wife. I am his wife. Please don't tell him I said I was his queen. I'll never hear the end of it."

I smirked despite knowing she wasn't talking to me. "I'll think about it."

She sent me a frown as Nefertiti went on.

"And the Doctor, does he have a queen?"

Amy nodded, making me raise a brow in her direction before she caught me looking and she suddenly stopped. "Uh… Nefertiti? I thought you had a husband?"

She's ignoring me…

"The male equivalent of a sleeping potion."

"You clearly need a man of action and excitement. One with a very large weapon." Riddell cocked his gun and I groaned.

"Ew."

Amy gave me a look before I followed him towards the doorway, hearing her behind me as she talked to Nefertiti. "So, human sleeping potion or walking innuendo. Take your pick."

"That's very bad indeed. Completely unhelpful."

We all turned at the voice and wandered over to the monitor up on the wall to see the trio wandering around.

"Doesn't the ship have any defense systems installed?"

"Good thinking, Rory!" The Doctor kissed him full on the lips before turning to the computer. "Computer, show us weapons and defense systems."

Our own screen flashed the words 'No systems available' and the Doctor started lightly slapping Rory on the cheeks.

"Oh, well, that was a waste of time, wasn't it? Getting my hopes up like that."

"What ship doesn't have weapons?"

"Ah, they're an ancient species, Rory, still full of hope."

"What about the control deck? You said we should go to the control deck next."

"It's too late. It won't make any difference." The Doctor told Brian, walking off.

"Would could at least try—"

"It won't work, Rory! The missiles are locked on!" The Doctor yelled at him and I sighed.

"How long has he been away from you guys?" I asked Amy and even she seemed a little surprised at the Doctor's behavior.

"Ten months, but he's usually got yo—I mean…"

I frowned at her starting to get a little annoyed at how she kept dancing around the subject. "Alright. What's going on? Just tell me."

She looked away awkwardly. "Um, well… I already said the Doctor will tell you."

"I don't care. He's forgetful and I want to know, now."

"Alright then." She stood up straight, having gathered some confidence. "You remember how I told you to treat this like it was real for a while?"

"Yeah. And?"

She took a deep breath and looked at me seriously. "It's real."

"What?" I frowned, not wanting to believe what she'd just said.

"It's really real. All of this?" She gestured around. "Dinosaurs outside, the Doctor, space. All of it is real. We don't know why or how, but you somehow travel around the Doctor's time-line and pop up here and there."

"But that's—"

I was cut off as a bright light emanated from the screen beside us and a couple of large robots and an older man on crutches showed up. Immediately, my throat tightened as I remembered what happened next.

"Amy, I need to get down there."

"What?"

"I need to get down there now." I said, turning to the monitor controls and scrambling to try and figure out which buttons to push to activate the teleport, hanging my gun off my shoulder. "Come on, come on. Teleport. Teleport."

"You were telling the truth, Doctor. Earth has launched missiles. This vessel is too clumsy to outrun them, but I have my own ship." Solomon—I remembered—said.

"You won't get your precious cargo on board, though. Just be you and your metal tantrum machines."

"We do not have tantrums!" One of the robots complained before Solomon shushed it and I smacked myself in the forehead.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid! Duh! Voice commands! Computer, how many teleports are you capable of to the area in the video?"

Words flashed across the screen. 'Two available teleports'. I smirked.

"Perfect. Amy, I have to go. There's one more teleport here, but I need the other one."

"What? What for?"

I smiled. "To save a life. And Neffy?"

She faced me in confusion as I looked at her seriously.

"Do whatever you think is right." Nodding to them, I turned to the computer. "Computer, teleport me to the area in the video."

It did so, me disappearing in a flash of light as Solomon spoke and Nefertiti realized why I said what I did.

"…I had the IV system, scan the entire ship and it found something even more valuable. Utterly unique. I don't know where you found it, or how you got it here, but I want it."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Earth Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. A face stamped across history. Give her to me, and I'll let the rest of you live."

"No." The Doctor said seriously, not willing to let one of his companions get hurt because of him again.

"You think I won't punish those who get in my way? Whatever they're worth?" Solomon said, tapping a crutch on the ground.

The Doctor moved back as a robot stepped around Solomon and aimed it's gun at the Triceratops, the same moment a flash of light popped up a few feet away. Just as the robot went to shoot however, another blast hit it, zapping it and causing it to shut down and topple over.

"Whoops, sorry, was he one of yours?" Alex cocked the stun gun and aimed it over at the other robot, face dead serious. "Because I don't take kindly to violence."

"Alex!" The Doctor shouted in absolute shock. "What are you doing here?!"

"Bit busy, Doctor." She replied back. "Don't think I won't shoot the other one, Solomon, because these dinosaurs are very kind and gentle creatures and if you dare to try and kill this one again, I'll take you both out."

"Hm." He smirked. "You have quite a bit of spirit I see." He turned back to the Doctor as the robot raised it's weapon towards me. "Bring her to me, or the robot will make it's way through your corpses. Starting with that one."

The Doctor hesitated and Alex frowned, eyeing him from the corner of her eye.

"You better not be hesitating because of me. Because I swear to God, I will punch you if you are."

"Oh, I've missed you, Holmes." He smiled, turning over to Solomon and loosing the grin. "And the answer's, no."

Just then though, Amy, Riddell, and Nefertiti flashed into the room, confusing the Doctor even more.

"What are you doing?"

"I demanded to be brought here." Nefertiti said, voice full of authority.

"No, no, no, no, no way."

"It isn't your choice, Doctor. It's mine." Nefertiti glanced over at Alex and the Doctor groaned again.

"Alex, why do you always have to meddle with people?"

"What?" She questioned, confused once more.

He ignored her and looked seriously at Nefertiti. "Listen to me. If you go with him, I can't guarantee your safety."

"You saved my people. I am in your debt."

"No. N-No debts. You don't owe me anything."

"Then I do it on my own."

"No. Neffy. Neffy."

"No! Take her and I shoot you!" Riddell shouted, raising his weapon.

"Put your weapon down. Let me make my choice."

"Do it, boy." Solomon demanded as the robot turned it's gun from Alex to him.

Riddell lowered his weapon and Nefertiti turned to Alex.

"Alex. You are capable of seeing futures, yes?"

"Sure."

"Then can you promise me what the Doctor couldn't?"

Alex looked at her seriously and gave the briefest of nods, to which Nefertiti nodded back and moved over to Solomon's side.

"My bounty increases." Solomon smirked. "And what an extraordinary bounty you are." He reached a crutch up towards her, but she slapped it away.

"Never touch me."

Immediately, he brought a crutch up to her throat and pinned her to a column.

"I like my possessions to have spirit. It means I can have fun breaking them." He dropped the crutch and sneered at her. "And I will break you in with immense pleasure." He then turned to the Doctor. "Thank you, Doctor. Computer, take us back to my ship."

"Hostile targeting in progress. Hostile targeting in progress. Hostile targeting in progress. Hostile targeting in progress." The computer repeated once Solomon teleported away.

"Bingo."

"What is it? Doctor?" Rory asked, and Alex smirked, slinging the gun over her shoulder.

"He's got a plan."

He grinned. "Oh, you bet I do. Computer, teleport us to the control deck."

They were all teleported and he pointed down at the two chairs covered in cobwebs.

"Okay, control deck."

"So, what's the plan?"

The Doctor lifted his head out of the area he'd just popped the top off of and gave Rory a look.

"Come on. The missiles are locked onto us. We can't outrun them. We have to save the dinosaurs and get Nefertiti back from Solomon. Isn't it obvious?"

"Um, it's sort of the opposite of obvious."

"Seventeen minutes before the missiles hit. We need to turn this ship around." The Doctor explained, shining his sonic screwdriver into the control panel.

"You said it was too late. That there wasn't any time."

"Ah, yes, but I didn't have this plan then, did I? Riddell? Keep an eye out for dinosaurs."

"I was rather hoping you'd say that." He smirked, passing Brian his gun as he took off his coat.

"No killing any. Rory, Brian, get rid of the cobwebs. Alex, come here."

Alex stepped forward beside him, confused. "What's up?"

He popped his head out from the open hole, turned around, grabbed her by the face and slammed his lips into hers. It took a moment before he pulled back with a grin and pat her shoulder; eyes closed in happiness.

"Good job with saving Tricy. Now go help Riddell with the dinosaurs."

He quickly turned back to the control panel, but Alex didn't move, frozen to the spot; something Amy quickly noticed and called out to the clueless Doctor.

"Doctor?"

"What now, Pond?" He said, poking his head out to pout at her.

She gave him a pointed look and tossed a thumb over at Alex. "Yeah, it's her first time."

He frowned, confused. "First time for what?"

"Everything."

That made his eyes widened and he turned to the still stiff Alex who was now pointing at him with her mouth gaping.

"W-W-What… W-Why did you…"

"Oh dear." He said, turning back to Amy. "Everything?"

"Yup." She said, popping the 'p'.

"Right." He grabbed Alex by the shoulders and carefully eyed her. "Alex? I'll explain everything later."

"B-But you just—"

He shook his head. "Yes, yes. I know. Sorry. Didn't mean to… Well, I did, but that's not the point. We're running out of time, so I need you to just forget about the kiss for now and go help Riddell with the dinosaurs, yes? I'll explain everything later. Promise." He kissed her on the forehead and pushed her towards Amy. "Can you get her outside?"

She nodded, pulling Alex along as she turned to her; very much in the same state she's been in.

"H-He kissed me."

"Yup."

"The Doctor, h-he—"

"Yes, yes. I know." Amy rolled her eyes, pushing the red-head out the door and with Riddell. "Now go take care of the Veloci-whatevers."

Riddell frowned and went to complain, but before he could, he spotted one of the raptors and aimed his gun.

"Come on, boy. I'll get you."

It gave out a call, which shocked Alex out of her stupor as another approached and she aimed her gun at it; only for two more to show up.

"Hell's teeth." Riddell complained, lowering his gun a bit. "That's really not fair."

"Told you they hunt in packs."

"Yeah, well, that's no help to us at all, is it? What are you doing out here anyway? This is a two man job."

"Yeah? Well, I'm about as man as you can get, if you haven't noticed." Alex explained, pushing the Doctor's kiss out of her head for now to focus on the danger in front of her. "Look like one, act like one, fight like one. None of that slapping and pulling hair bit. Nah, I pack a punch. Took three different martial arts classes and a boxing class. Shooting trips with my dad. ATV rides. Nearly tried out for American football in high school."

"You mean like rugby?" He questioned and Alex shrugged.

"A bit, yeah. And if you didn't notice before," She smirked at him. "I just shot a robot, saved a Triceratops, threatened a murderer, and rode an Ankylosaurus. I think I can handle this."

He smirked at her, cocking his gun. "Quickens the blood, doesn't it?"

"Oh, you bet."

"You know what I want more than anything?"

"A dinosaur tooth?" She questioned and he grinned even wider.

"Oh yeah." He shot an approaching raptor, excitedly. "Dinosaurs ahead, lady at my side, about to be blown up. I'm sure I've never been happier."

"Shut up and shoot." Alex quipped back. "I want a tooth too."

A number of shots later, and the two of us stood beside one another with equal grins; about six stunned Velociraptors lying around us and two dinosaur teeth tucked away in our pockets.

"Heh, not bad." Riddell grinned at me, both of us a little out of breath.

"Not bad yourself." I smiled back.

"Oi! No flirting!"

We both spun around at the Doctor's voice, surprised to see him standing there with Nefertiti and the others and I paled; mind going back to the kiss and body not really knowing whether to be shocked or a little flattered. Riddell went over and spoke a bit with Nefertiti and the other four approached me, but before the Doctor could say anything, Amy spoke up; her arm around Rory's waist.

"Wow. You two really did a number on these guys."

"What?" I looked around, remembering the raptors and nodded. "Oh, right. Yeah. Forgot about them." Turning to her with a smile, I decided to ignore everything for a bit longer, pulling the tooth out of my pocket. "Look! I got a Velociraptor tooth!"

Rory's eyes widened along with Amy's. "You didn't… I mean, did you knock out a dinosaurs' tooth?"

I nodded, tucking it away again with a grin at Rory. "Oh, yeah. It got too close, so I hit it with the butt of the gun."

"You knocked out a dinosaur's tooth." He said again.

"That is what I just said, yeah?" I shrugged, turning away and tucking my hands in my pockets; gun hanging off my shoulder as I walked around the unconscious dinosaurs. "Doesn't matter though. They'll grow another. They're like crocs and alligators. They loose teeth all the time and constantly replace them. They'll live."

We all headed back to the Tardis and I kept my distance from the Doctor, sticking with Amy and Rory just chitchatting about dinosaurs and such, before the Doctor grinned and bounded towards the blue box.

"So, dinosaur drop off time."

"Actually, we think home for us." Rory said, stopping the Doctor just as he entered the doorway.

"Oh, fine. Of course."

"Not forever. Just a couple of months."

"Right. Yes. I'm pretty busy anyway. I mean, I've got to drop everyone back." He turned to me and I stiffened, though he looked a bit sad. "And I need to explain things to Alex."

"About that." Brian stepped forward, looking between the couple and over at the Doctor with a small smile. "Can I ask a favor? There's something I want to see."

Brian sat on the edge of the Tardis door not long after we dropped off Nefertiti and Riddell, eating a sandwich and sipping tea as he looked over Earth. Amy and Rory went over to peek out as well and the Doctor came up behind them with a small smile, but I watched as it slowly fell off his face, my stomach clenching a bit in worry. I'd seen him do that a lot when he thought no one was looking. In the TV show, anyway. I always sympathized with him when he did that, because I knew that I did the same thing sometimes. Even now, I felt my face drop and I turned my eyes back up towards the ceiling of the Tardis.

I was given a quick look around when we'd first stepped in, having not seen it before other than in my dreams and on the TV. I mean, I still thought I was in a dream, but there was still that nagging sensation in the back of my mind telling me that there was a small chance it wasn't. And the evidence for that was stacking up. The Tardis was just so complex that I doubted my mind could've come up with every switch and knob on the console or the complicated wiring below it, or even the sound. The sound was what got me the most, because it was like it seemed to reverberate through my head and it made my shoulder tingle a bit for some reason. And it felt like I could almost understand it. Not in an actual speaking-to-me-in-words sort of way, but just understanding that it was pleased to see everyone or worried about the sad look the Doctor had. It was weird and, it was another reason I was starting to doubt everything.

"Right then!" The Doctor called out, flipping some switches as Brian came back inside and the Tardis doors closed. "Time to drop off the Ponds! There we go!"

The wheezing of the Tardis stopped and everyone said their goodbyes; Amy promising to hit the Doctor for me if he tried anything and Rory giving me a small smile. Once they were gone, the Doctor dropped the dinosaur ship off on a planet very much like the prehistoric Earth, letting the beasts run off into their new home as he posted up a sign declaring the planet Siluria. After he took a quick photo to send Amy and Rory, he returned to the Tardis where I had waited and sent it up to drift, turning around to lean up against the console and face me with a sad look on his face.

"Stop it." I said, frowning and confusing him.

"Stop what?"

I pointed at him, rather rudely. "That face. Stop it."

He touched his face with his own frown. "What face? Am I making a face?"

"Yeah. You're making a face that says you know what's going on but I don't and you're upset about it. And I don't like it. I don't like you being upset for me and I don't like not knowing things. So explain. What's going on? Because I can't figure everything out. I'm not clever like you. I'm confused and lost and nothing is making any sense and I just—"

I was cut off as arms wrapped around me, not even realizing that my hands had started shaking or that my throat had tightened with the onslaught of tears trying to break through.

"Sh. It's okay." The Doctor hummed, resting his head on top of mine in comfort, but I couldn't do it.

I could never handle someone hugging me when I was in the process of breaking down. I was supposed to be strong. I was the oldest of seven. It's just something that had been ingrained in me since I was little. I was the oldest, so I had to be strong for everyone. I couldn't cry, and people hugging me when I was trying to pull myself together only made it that much harder to do. Even if it was the Doctor.

"N-No. It's not okay!" I said, wincing at my loud voice and at the look the Doctor gave me when I pulled away. "Just… Just tell me what's going on."

He looked at me worriedly, hands out like he was trying to calm a frightened animal; an action I immediately didn't like.

"You time travel. You jump around my time-line and pop up in different places with me. I haven't quite worked out how yet, but it has something to do with the mark on your shoulder."

My eyes widened in a slight panic. "What? W-What mark?!"

"Alex, please. Just listen."

I took a step back, but nodded, knowing that I needed to hear everything before I started just blurting out questions; though I was now biting my bottom lip and my fingers danced nervously on my thigh.

"I didn't know that this was your first time here and I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." He said sadly, though eyeing my fingers warily.

"Stop it." I muttered, clenching my hand around the fabric of my pants. "Stop saying that like it's your fault."

"Oh, Alex." He breathed out with a soft smile. "You always cared for others more than yourself."

"What about us?" I asked, lifting my head to look at him worriedly. "Amy kept skipping around it and even Neffy—"

"I'm sorry." He apologized again. "I can't tell you."

"Spoilers?" I questioned, stealing River's line with a shaky smile.

He sent a small smile back. "Spoilers."

I winced as my shoulder ached, bringing a hand up to rub it, before I noticed the Doctor's eyes widened. This worried me.

"W-What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Your shoulder hurts?" He asked and I nodded, cringing again as the pain steadily grew worse.

"Yeah. Ngh, don't know why. It's getting worse."

His expression saddened, before he knelt down in front of me as I leaned against the railing, my breathing growing more ragged as the pain grew.

"I'm sorry, Alex."

"W-Why? What's happening?"

"You're going to meet another me. Maybe the same me, but earlier or later in my time-line. Maybe a different me with a different face." He placed a hand on mine, squeezing it reassuringly as I grit my teeth with a quiet grunt of pain; my shoulder feeling like it was on fire. "Things are going to be hard on you, Alex, but you have to remember; this isn't a dream. This is real. What's going to happen to you is actually happening."

"B-But that can't—"

"Please, Alex. You have to trust me."

I glanced over at him, seeing the seriousness in his worried gaze as I was slowly enveloped in light but I still wasn't sure. How could any of this be real? The Doctor, the adventures, any of it. It was impossible, but the look he was giving me settled that seed of doubt in my mind and, as the light fully enveloped me and the pain reached an all time high, I let a tear fall. Because if this were true, if everything was real, then everything I had before was gone. And everything I was about to deal with, could actually kill me.