The Worlds Within

Hope or Sorrow

"This place can get pretty scary..." Luna muttered to Angie as she held onto the older girl's hand.

"Not usually," Angie smiled reassuringly, "Once we finish the game you'll see how awesome this place really is." Luna nodded shyly. Angie saw the Doctor look over at them periodically and remembered something. "Have you asked the Doctor to help find your sister?" She whispered to Luna.

She perked up, "Could he really help!?"

Angie smiled, "Doctor?"

"Yeah?" he asked as everyone turned to her.

"Luna wants to know if you could help find her sister Emmie?" she saw his face pale at the mention of Emmie's name. "Doctor? What's wrong?"

The Doctor stepped back, "I'm---I'm so sorry..."

"D---d---did she die!?!?" Luna cried.

"I... I don't know..." he choked, "But I've tried---," he cleared his throat, "I've tried looking..."

"Why didn't you ever tell me what happened to them?" Luna cried.

He opened his mouth but swallowed instead, he seemed to be holding back tears and couldn't speak. Donna noticed and walked over, kneeling in front of the small girl, "The Doctor, Sarah Jane, Emmie and all of her friends went to investigate a building because of a group of bad aliens who wanted to enslave the world. We all evacuated the humans from the building and tried to get rid of the aliens. While we were saving the world..." she paused for a moment and looked down, "There was an explosion... And part of the building collapsed on them... We looked and looked and looked for them, but we couldn't find any trace of them, none at all. The Doctor even used his sonic screwdriver, which should've been able to find them, but all he found was a weird spacial disturbance thingy that slowly dissipated."

The room was silent. Angie examined the Doctor, shame was plastered on his face. His gaze drifted to her absently and she read his heart, she shuddered and backed up as realization hit her full force.

"You'll find them," Pepper smiled reassuringly, "The TARDIS said that once we beat the game everyone will get a reward; their missing loved ones."

"Really!?" Janet asked.

"Maria and Matt will come back!?" The twins shouted in unison.

Angie stood silently, If I get my memory back... What will happen then...? He already wants to abandon me...

"Probably," Donna said.

Luna smiled and hugged Angie, "What are we waiting for!! Let's beat this game then!!" Luna looked up at her and the smile left her face. She hugged her, "It'll be okay..." she whispered.

"... I feel so empty inside..." Angie whispered absently.

"It'll be okay," Luna whispered back, "I'll stay with you."

They filed into a door at the end of the hall, into a bright room with a pool in the center. The pool was an inch deep on one side getting deeper and deeper as it spread across the room, they couldn't even tell how deep it was. "Entering level seven, the Pool. New elements have joined the game."

They could barely see three people at the deep end of the pool, and walked towards them, noticing strange ripples through the dark water along the way. "Does anyone else hear that noise?" Cloud asked.

Angie recognized it immediately as the theme from Jaws "Shark Attack!!" Angie shouted backing away from the pool, everyone else backing up as well.