Raine Creevy Raine Creevy ( born 7 November 1967 ) was a companion of the Seventh Doctor and travelled with Ace . She was a safecracker from 1989 . Biography . Early life . Raine was born in 1967 to Markus Creevy and Raina Kerenskaya , with the Seventh Doctor acting as her obstetrician . ( AUDIO : " Thin Ice " ) Raine learned to fence at school and could fly a helicopter . The Doctor always remembered her birthday and ensured she had presents every time while she was growing up . ( AUDIO : " Crime of the Century " ) As a child Raine holidayed on the Red Sea and learned to scuba dive there . She went to Kings College in London . She wished she went to a university campus in the country but her parents wanted to keep an eye on her . ( AUDIO : " Animal " ) By the age of 22 , Raine had become an experienced safe - cracker . She had also grown estranged from her father , upset with the way she felt he had treated her mother before her death . ( AUDIO : " Crime of the Century " ) Meeting the Doctor . Raine met the Seventh Doctor on 13 October 1989 at a garden party , where he was hiding in a safe . Thanks to the stories told to her by her parents , she knew all about him , although still had a hard time believing it all at first . She was also forced to work with her father for the first time in several years , and thanks to the Doctor ' s efforts , the two of them began repairing their relationship . Together they defeated the Metatraxi , and during the adventure Raine and the Doctor forged a friendship , which prompted her to accept his invitation to travel with him . ( AUDIO : " Crime of the Century " ) Travels with the Doctor . Raine ' s first journey with the Doctor and Ace was to Margrave University in 2001 where , with Brigadier Bambera and UNIT , they defeated a Numlock plot . While at first Ace and Raine did not get along , they soon put aside their differences when they realised they had more in common than they realised . However , her curiosity about the future lead her to discover that by this point , her father had died . Upset by the revelation , she decided to stay in Margrave for a short time , and the Doctor and Ace left without her , promising to come back to pick her up in a week ' s time . ( AUDIO : " Animal " ) Determined to find out the truth about her father ' s death , Raine journeyed to Johannesburg to retrieve some documents left to her that had fallen into the possession of someone else . While attempting to steal them from a safe in a hotel , she was kidnapped by the Metatraxi and placed inside the safe with a life support unit that slowed her metabolism . The safe was stashed aboard the starship " Vancouver " , as part of a plot by the Metatraxi to get revenge on the Doctor . The Vancouver was assigned to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome , where onboard , the Doctor was posing as the ship ' s medical officer , and Ace as it ' s captain . They discovered her quite by accident , but after freeing her , she helped them defeat the Metatraxi , as well as a species called Grub s , a brother - race of the Metatraxi , that were devouring the grain for themselves . Once that situation was resolved , she continued travelling with Ace and the Doctor . ( AUDIO : " Earth Aid " ) While she left the Doctor ' s company at some point , she rejoined him as a companion much later in his personal timeline , while Ace was on Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " Dominion " )