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Anna James grew up in Nottingham with an overprotective, controlling mother, and no father to speak of. One day when she was about five years old, she met a strange man at a playground, and he came back to visit her that night in his magical box. He kept coming back to visit her every night, and each time he would tell her stories of his adventures around the universe. He always said that when she was old enough, she could go on the adventures with him.
Then one night, the Doctor didn’t come to see her. Anna waited up all night, but he didn’t come that night, or the next night, or the night after that. He didn’t come back, in fact, until about fourteen years later, when Anna was living in a mental institution that her mother had put her in. The reason is as yet unknown, but she implied that it was because of her stories about the Doctor.
So he came back to visit her in the mental institution, and he took her away for a trip around the universe. They went to have breakfast at the Planet of the Coffee Shops (the number one place for the discerning galactic traveller), but found it destroyed by a massive meteor attack. They went to investigate, and this is where it gets slightly complicated – it was destroyed by the Master. This is between him being Professor Yana and Harold Saxon – there is an explanation for this later on.
The Doctor and Anna found that the Master had managed to set up a crude Archangel Network around the planet, and brainwashed all the residents into thinking that Anna and the Doctor had destroyed their planet, as well as making him the supreme leader. There was a confrontation, and the Master took Anna away. The Doctor went to get River to help him find Anna, but when they got back to the Planet of the Coffee Shops, it was some time later and they found that Anna was now working with the Master, having been brainwashed by him. She thinks she has been there for three years, when it has really only been three months. Also, during that time she may or may not have been abused by him. See, I told you it was complicated.
River and the Doctor are sentenced to death, but manage to convince Anna that the Master is evil. She hatches a plan with the natives of the planet to overthrow the Master, and they do so with seconds to spare before the Doctor and River are executed. The Doctor wipes the Master’s memory, and they deposit him on Earth to become Harold Saxon. Oh, and Anna’s former maid, Sraf, becomes the leader of the Planet of the Coffee Shops.
Anna goes back to the mental institution, and the Doctor and River promise to visit her again the next Wednesday. And that is where the two previous stories end, and this one begins. Read on, Macduff!