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You step out and stop, frozen.

Jenny comes up behind you and stops too.

"Do you like it?" She asks quietly. You simply nod.

You are stood on slightly deadened brown grass, mind full of wonder as you walk forward a little.

You are on the cliff edge of a planet, the entire galaxy before you exposed in the sky. But it's not like any galaxy you've ever seen before. Blazing lights in every colour paint the canvas of the black sky, interspersed with distant planets and glittering stars.

A cacophony of sound blesses your ears as music swells around you. You could stare at this for a thousand years and never be dulled. Tears prick your eyes as you realise what a small person you are. At this you turn to Jenny, who is leaning casually against a boulder wall, hands in her pockets.

You break into a huge smile and she rocks forwards, taking your hand.

She leads you down a little path to a cute blanket with a wicker basket on it. It's the perfect view of the sky. She helps you to sit and pours you some champagne which you sip self consciously, happier than you have been since you can remember.

"Thank you for bringing me here" you say after some silence and she laughs .

"My pleasure, The Doctor helped me set it up while you were asleep. I didn't think anyone could sleep through the Tardis raucous but you proved me wrong." She says fondly. You feel warm and happy, but something is nagging slightly at the back of your mind.

You squint and try to hear her, anything, but you get nothing. You had assumed it would work the same for everyone. With Yaz and The Doctor, you didn't even need to touch them to hear a hint on their thoughts. But here, with your hand intertwined with hers, something is missing.

"Well that's a pretty face" she laughs catching you off guard. You are about to make up an excuse when you catch a very different internal voice, someone new, making you jump.

"(Y/n)? What's wrong? Did I say something?"

You shake your head wildly, looking for danger, someone was about ten feet away, with your face in their mind. There is a dull drumbeat alongside the thoughts in their head which you vaguely recognise.

"Doctor?" You hiss into the darkness, but the voice that replies certainly isn't hers.

"Oh now don't be a bitch" a woman says slyly, emerging from the dark.

She is fairly tall with dark bracken hair wound at the back of her head. She wears a purple dress complete with knee high tight black boots and a long black umbrella under her arm.

"(Y/n) do you know her?" Asks Jenny urgently but you shake your head, fresh fear coursing through the veins.

"(Y/n) is it? Ooh you're a clever one noticing me almost as soon as I saw you" she smirks playfully. You remain still. Whoever this woman is, she couldn't be trusted.

"Oh now that is interesting." She remarks. "You're definitely human, with a little bit of spice..."

"Stop it" you say, scared. This wasn't how Jenny found out.

"Take me to The Doctor and I won't tell your lovely friend here anything" she says mockingly.

"No" you stammer back.

"No? How rude" she says pouting.

"(Y/n) who is she?" Asks Jenny desperately.

"Jenny she's, she's a Time Lady" you respond in shock. The drum beat. Four beats. Often in the background of The Doctor's mind, you've noticed. The heartbeat of a Time Lord.

"Well now I really don't need you giving me away my secrets" the lady says with a theatrical eye roll "guess I'd better give away some of yours..?"

"Please" you say but she grins.

"And your name is Jenny? Oh you've noticed a change in your friend here recently haven't you? Would you like me to enlighten you?" She asks politely.

"I don't understand" She says sounding worried. It breaks you heart, but she couldn't know, she'd abandon you the second she knew you were a freak.

"Well to be perfectly honest, neither do I. And me not knowing is a rare thing" says the mystery woman, sitting on a boulder and flicking one leg over the other as though you were talking over coffee. "But she's got unnatural gifts for a human, which you've noticed. And I'm guessing you were confused how she could understand The Tardis? Yes?" She prompts, and Jenny nods. Your breathing suffers as she shares a violent thought of you. Unable to bear it, you clamp your hands over your head.

"And there it is! Jeez got there in the end! I'm not entirely sure how she's doing it, but she can hear what we're thinking, or somewhat" she says with a masochistic calm.

"(Y/n)?" Says Jenny slowly turning to you. You look up and shake your head wordlessly, hands still over your ears against her horrible thoughts.

"The regeneration energy?" She gasps making the connection and you nod miserably.

"Interesting... it wasn't The Doctor's energy then? It was yours? But you're certainly not a Time Lady, nope you're a hybrid of some kind..."

Her eyes widen and she laughs suddenly. "Oh god the stupid idiot had a child! Oh brilliant- How is he as a father? This I've got to see."

"No" you say stubbornly, forcing your hands away from your ears and interrupting her.

Her smile vanishes and she glares at you intensely.

You realise too late this was a mistake as you receive another dark thought from her, one that makes you shiver.

In one swift movement she pulls out a gun and points it at you head.

"Take me to your leader" she says with a manic smile. "Or else"

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