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Ciara's POV

As we were all waiting for the Doctor to return I struck up a conversation with the woman I didn't know.

"Hello, I'm Ciara." I said nervously. Looking at the other woman expectantly.

"Cathica. It's nice to meet you," She held out her hand towards me and I took it in my own. Our conversation was interrupted, however, by a loud alarm type noise coming from the speakers. I looked around as everyone started packing up their lunches and moving towards workstations. I spotted the Doctor running towards us with Rose and Adam trailing behind. Once they had reached us the Doctor immediately handed me a strange burger with some kind of mystery meat and a cup.

"There you go, eat this." He smiled at me as he said this and watched expectantly as I took a small bite from the strange looking burger, it actually tasted pretty good, and I continued taking small bites of it as I watched the others talk. It didn't take long before I was done with the food and stood up ready to go.

As I stood the others began to walk towards a nearby room. Inside there was already quite a few people standing around a large octagonal control panel with a chair in the center and a whole mess of wires and tubes connecting the two. Suki and Cathica broke off from our group as the Doctor, Rose, Adam and I went to stand by the edge behind a railing. I watched as Cathica took her place by the chair in the center and all the others sat on small pads on the outside of the control panel.

"Now, everybody behave. We have a management inspection." Cathica said while looking around at the people in the room. She then turned to the Doctor, "How do you want it, by the book?"

"Oh, right from scratch, thanks." He had a slight smile as he said this.

"Okay. So ladies, gentlemen, multi-sex, undecided or robot, my name is Cathica Santini Khadeni." She had turned to the others in the room as she said this then turned back to our group, "That's Cathica with a C, in case you want to write to Floor five hundred praising me, and please do." She seemed kind of breathless as she said this all quickly with a somewhat forced smile on her face. I'm sorry to say I kind of zoned out after this and didn't pay that much attention to what was happening.

I was thinking, about Suki mainly, but also about my future knowledge (limited though it may be). Could I save Suki, I mean what if something bad happened because of my interference. But at the same time aren't I already changing things just by being here. And I'm not even entirely positive of how she died just that she does and that it has something to do with floor five hundred. It has been quite some time since I last saw the episodes. Seven years down in Van Statten's lair was long enough to forget quite a bit of my previous life in the other dimension, heck, the only reason I still remember the show is because of my new mind. I can remember more now that I'm a Time Lord, but I'm so scared to change anything because I know time is a delicate thing but at the same time I don't think I will be able to live with myself if I just let all those people die.

The way I was going I probably would've ended up passing out again if I hadn't been brought out of my mind by a monotonous voice proclaiming "promotion" and the wall lighting up with the same word. I looked around this all seeming slightly familiar and seeming very foreboding.

"Come on. This is it. Come on. Oh God, make it me. Come on, say my name, say my name, say my name." I looked over at Cathica, concerned, as she clasped her hands together with her eyes pinched closed begging and praying for her to be the one to get the promotion.

"Promotion for Suki Macrae Cantrell. Please proceed to Floor five hundred." the monotonous voice sounded again and caused Cathica to look up with surprise and a tinge of jealousy.

I just stood there in slight shock, watching as Suki became excited and Cathica questioned her. This can't be happening, it's too soon, floor five hundred is where she dies. I can't let her go up there, but how in the world was I supposed to stop her?

The Doctor grabbed hold of my hand and started pulling me out of the room as we followed Suki and Cathica to a nearby elevator. I just followed not really paying that much attention to what was being said, just thinking, until I was set off balance by Suki jumping and hugging me. It took me a second to balance myself again, and then I hugged back then looked around. The Doctor, Suki, Cathica, and I were all standing by the elevator while Rose and Adam stood a bit farther away, talking. I started to panic thinking quickly for someway to get Suki to stay here and not go in the elevator.

"Um, Suki," I said, hesitantly. "Do you really need to go up there, I mean, isn't it great down here?" I looked at her hopefully at this.

"What do you mean Ciara?" She laughed. "This is an amazing opportunity I can't just pass it up." I was about to try again but she quickly grabbed her bags and hurried to the elevator. "Oh my God, I've got to go. I can't keep them waiting. I'm sorry. Say goodbye to Steve for me. Bye!" She waved excitedly until the doors closed and she was blocked from our view. I sighed sadly at that. She was going to her death and there wasn't really anything that I could do about that. I zoned out again stuck in my own little depression party thinking about Suki and didn't snap out of it until the Doctor said my name.

"Ciara, we're going to investigate are you coming or what?" He called back to me from few feet away. I thought about it for a second before shaking my head no. The Doctor's expression grew confused as he walked back towards me.

"I think I will stick around here maybe find a bench and rest for awhile." I smiled shakily up at him as I said this, hoping he would let me go. Call me a coward but I didn't want to see Suki's dead body. Watching it on T.V. was one thing but seeing the real thing. I don't think I would be able to handle that. He stared at me for a moment before nodding and directing me toward an observation deck with some seats.

I walked there slowly and sat down just watching the Earth below and thinking about my life before. Then Adam walked in and toward a console near the window. He seemed slightly surprised when he saw me sitting there.

"Oh, um, hi." he waved at me awkwardly. I just stared at him unimpressed. I didn't like Adam much, he worked for Van Statten and while he wasn't one of my torturers he didn't seem against my treatment. He began fidgeting when I didn't answer but just stared at him for a few moments. "Um, I'm just looking around, y'know. Thought I'd see what kind of tech they had around here. Kind of more my thing." He just became more and more nervous as I stared. Finally, he decided to just go for it and walked up to the console and put his hand on it.

"Give me access," The console lit up "Give me…" he was cut off as a mild electric shock went through his hand and he jerked it back. "I can learn anything" He said excitedly and put his hand back on the console. "Let's try computers. From the twenty first century to the present date, give me the history of the microprocessor." Data started scrolling down the screen and he looked at it in awe. "Oh my God."

"What are you doing?" I decided now was the time to get up and stop him as he started to pull out Rose's phone. He jumped in surprise and turned quickly.

"Nothing, nothing. Just calling home, felt a bit homesick and all." He fidgeted with the phone nervously as he said this. I just looked at him disbelievingly.

"I'm not an idiot. You are trying to change history, aren't you." I started walking toward him, intent on taking the phone from him. He watched me get more and more panicky as I got closer and as I was reaching for the phone he quickly grabbed my arm and twisted it away, pushing me to the ground in the process. It seemed he pushed me a bit harder than he intended as I cracked my head against the ground and my vision went black for a moment. He looked down at me surprised for a second before bolting and when I was able to gather myself together and get up he was gone.

I rubbed the side of my head as I went and sat back down on the bench, trying to ease the pounding. That didn't go as planned. Oh well, I decided, it's not like he gets away with it anyways. The Doctor will stop him from changing history. I decided to just sit and rest for awhile and as I did that I started to nod off slightly.

I woke up again when I heard alarms blaring and everything started shaking and falling apart. I quickly rolled off the bench and underneath it, curling up into a ball with my arms covering my head. The chaos didn't last too long and everything settled down. I looked around before climbing out from under the bench and standing up and walking out of the observation deck.

I was helping people walk over to the makeshift medical area on floor 139 when the Doctor and Rose found me. They motioned me over and we walked toward the TARDIS. The Doctor got more and more angry as we walked, however, and I decided to stick closer to Rose.

"Now, don't.." Rose started but was cut off as we got nearer to the TARDIS.

"I'm all right now. Much better." Adam had a nervous smile on his face as we approached. "And I've got the key. Look, it's." He pulled out the TARDIS key and held it up for us to see. The Doctor grabbed it forcefully out of his hand as we reached him and grabbed Adam by the scruff "It all worked out for the best, didn't it?" He was very scared now as the Doctor just opened the door and he decided to switch tactics slightly, "You know, it's not actually my fault, because you were in charge." He said pointing at the Doctor accusingly, but he just ignored Adam and pushed him into the TARDIS.

I didn't go out with them when we stopped and the Doctor dragged Adam out the doors with Rose following. I just sat and stared up at the console, thinking, once again, about what I was going to do.

Sorry for the wait, but you may have to wait for awhile longer for the next one. I have 22 credit hours this semester and I think that I may be killing myself with that workload so I won't really have much time to write this. I will attempt to do so though.

Rosesroses25: Thank you so much for your review it had me smiling for the rest of the day. I will try to do what you suggested. It sounds like some very good advice.