"Go! Get in! Leave me behind Honey! Just get into the TARDIS!" The Professor shouted.

"Father I won't leave you!" Tari cried.

"Exterminate!" came a robotic voice from around the corner. Then a scream that was drowned out by the sound of a laser. Tari thought she would cry. First her mother and now her father.

"There isn't time child! You must go before the Time Lock seals it's self completely!" Tari's father commanded.

Then he pushed her through the TARDIS doors. Tari started to climb back out, she wanted to save her father, but she saw a Dalek come around the corner. She quickly closed the doors and leaned against them, terrified, listening to the horror play out on the other side.

"EXTERMINATE!" sounded the Dalek's mechanized voice. Tari thought she heard the sound of a Dalek laser but the TARDIS began to move before she was sure.

Ryan Tyson looked at his alarm clock. 12:23. He couldn't sleep. He yawned and rolled onto his side. CRASH! Ryan sat up. What was that? Looking out his window didn't reveal anything- there was a tree in the way- so Ryan snatched up a flashlight, grabbed his father's pistol, and hurried out of his room fast as he could. He quietly poked his head into his parents room. Snores emitted from the room. Mom must be using earplugs. Maybe I should get dad...I'll check it out on my own first.

He tiptoed out of the house, and quickly ran to the backyard. He put his back to a tree and turned his head to hear. He was startled to hear a voice speaking a strange language. Someone's in my backyard! I should go wake up dad…after I find out who this is. He cocked the pistol, gulped, and then slowly looked around the corner. A girl stood next to a black box in a small crater. She ran her fingers through her hair, then with a growl she kicked it. She sat down against the box, and brought her knees up to her chest. Ryan stepped closer. Crunch. The girl looked up, fear screwing up her tear-stained face. Ryan crouched down behind a bush. He had never used a gun before, but this girl didn't know that. Ryan jumped up holding out the gun.

Hands shaking he warned, "I'm armed and you're trespassing! Get out now!"

Tari's hearts caught in her throat. She didn't know what kind of weapon this was, but she didn't want to die. She gulped as she raised her hands.

"Please! Don't make me leave! If I get separated from my..." she began.

Ryan interrupted her, "Be quiet. Just…just leave! I'm not afraid to shoot."

"Please! I…"

"I…I said be quiet! Now get out before I call the authorities."

Tari walked away, hands up, and sobbing. Not only was her planet destroyed, but she was being separated from her TARDIS. What a day.

Ryan walked to his front door. He let out a sigh as he thought about what just happened. The girl didn't look like a burgler, she looked lost and afraid. Maybe he had made a mistake. He might have just sent an innocent girl into a part of town that would chew her up and spit her out. Out of the corner of his eye he saw movement. He turned hoping it was the girl seeing nothing he turned around. A dark figure slipped behind him and put a gadget to the back of his neck. Then Ryan's world went dark.

Tari ran unable to control her sobbing. Where would she go now. What would she do. She was trapped on a planet that hadn't invented FTL yet, and she couldn't get to her TARDIS. She knew that it would seal itself until she came back for it.

Tari shivered. On Gallifrey it had been summer, and she was wearing her silk, sleeveless gown, and a sheered shawl. With nothing to keep her warm, she lay down on a hard, wet seat in a garden. For the fifth time that night, she wept for her people, and her planet. And she cried herself to sleep, with wishes and regrets clouding her mind.