(A/N sorry for no uploading at all last week... had some personal things happen that I had to go through and was very distracted. But I'm back now)
"We're safe! We're safe! We're safe! We're clean! We're clean! Look, look." Her dad says. Oh thank god they're safe.
"Show me your skin."
"Look, clean. Look, if we'd been touched, we'd be dead. So how's it going up here? What's the status?"
"There's nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we're the only ones left and that's only because of the girl that was with you. She's doing something to keep the doors shut. And I've been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad." She tells him. He looks at his daughter and she's shaking slightly, she's using a lot of energy and he has no doubt that her eyes, if you were to look at them, right now were silver. And they were.
"You can't do that. If they forced entry, they'd break quarantine." He tells the stuck up woman.
"I've told her that, dad. She just won't listen." Ky shouts, not able to turn. Not even able to turn her head incase her powers stop holding the doors.
"I am not dying in here."
"We can't let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They'd all be at risk. Now, turn that off!"
"Not if it gets me out."
"All right, fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!"
Everyone but Ky, she's still holding the doors, grabs drip bags while the Doctor collects a long piece of heavy silk rope and starts hanging them on his body.
"How's that? Will that do?"
"I don't know. Will it do for what?""Ky how much longer can you do that for, princess?" He asks coming up to her side looking at her shaky body.
She just looks at him out of the corner of her eye and nods. He runs off and opens the lift doors.
He talks with the Rose look alike and jumps. Ky can't pay attention very much to anything else. She has to focus on the door.
"Seal the door!" Frau says sealing the only door in the room with a mechanical seal.
Ky keeps the door sealed as long as she can, but by the time she starts to falter the sick people start to walk away. When they are all gone, she finally lets go of the doors. Her body just collapses and some people run over to her, including Frau Clovis.
"Someone get her some water. Quickly she just saved all of our lives. Water quickly. Someone help me get her to a spare bed or something."
A barely conscious Ky is moved to a bed and a cup is put to her lips and she passes out completely.A little later, the quarantine has been formally lifted. The Doctor is still wet. He runs up to ward 26, but can't find his daughter standing around.
"This is the NNYPD. Please step away from the shuttles." A voice says over a loudspeaker.
"All staff will present themselves to the officers for immediate arrest. I repeat, immediate arrest. All new life forms will be catalogued and taken into care. All visitors to the hospital will be required to make a statement to the NNYPD." Comes over the tannoy seconds later.
"Ahh, you, Mr.Doctor. This way."
Frau Clovis says dragging him to a bed near the back.
"Kyraiah, oh little one, are you okay?" He says when he sees her. She just nods sleepily, slowly sipping some water. She goes to get up and he rushes over to her. She must have used all her energy if she passed out. It was different to what she used when they were storming the game station to get to Rose, that was just the surface powers she had. The shimmering wisps he had seen earlier were stronger and more powerful but god knows how long it's been since she's used them properly and on her own. By this point everyone else has left as he helps her walk. But it became apparent to him that she was very quickly becoming stronger again.
"The Face of Boe!" The Doctor shouts and they run to the last person left on the ward.
"You were supposed to be dying." The Doctor told him.
"There are better things to do today. Dying can wait." The face tells him.
"Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face." The not-Rose says. Ky still isn't sure what's going on with her friend.
"Shh!" Both Timelords say to her.
"I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, Kyraiah, but you two have taught me to look at it anew." Boe tells them. It was weird him calling her that, but if he called her by her nickname the Doctor would know who he was. After all he's the only one to ever call her that.
"There are legends, you know, saying that you're millions of years old." The Doctor says. Ky says nothing at this, she knows it's true but a promise is a promise.
"There are? That would be impossible." Boe tells them.
"Wouldn't it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell us." He say pointing to himself and his daughter.
"A great secret."
"So the legend says."
"It can wait."
"Oh, does it have to?"
"We shall meet again, Doctor, Kyraiah, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day" Boe says as he beams away.
"That is enigmatic. That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic. And now for you." The Doctor says and turns to the Rose looking person.
"But everything's happy. Everything's fine. Can't you just leave me?" It says .
"You've lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra." The Doctor says.
"Wait, Cassandra, the bitchy trampoline. From where was it, platform one? That Cassandra?" Ky ask her father. He just blinks at her and then nods. She had clearly been speaking to Rose about the adventures they went on before they found her.
"I don't want to die." Cassandra said.
"No one does." Ky softly tells her.
"Help me."
"I can't."
"Mistress!" A pale man with marking on him said.
"Oh, you're alive."
"I kept myself safe for you, mistress."
"A body. And not just that, a volunteer."
"Don't you dare. He's got a life of his own." The Doctor said sternly.
"But I worship the mistress. I welcome her."
"You can't, Cassandra, you..."
The energy transfer takes place and Rose collapses into the Doctor's arms."
"Oh! You all right? Whoa! Okay?" The Doctor says looking down at the blonde.
"Yeah. Hello!"
"Hello. Welcome back."
"Oh, sweet Lord. I'm a walking doodle."
"You can't stay in there. I'm sorry, Cassandra, but that's not fair. I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you've done."
"Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I'm afraid we don't have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he's been through so much. His heart is racing so. He's failing. I don't think he's going to last..."
Cassandra says and falls to her knees. Ky rushes forward to catch her.
"Are you all right?" Ky asks her as holds onto her.
"I'm fine. I'm dying, but that's fine." Cassandra in Chips body says looking up at the compassionate girl. She was, in Cassandra's eyes, so similar to the Doctor yet also completely different.
"I can take you to the city." The Doctor says to her.
"No, you won't. Everything's new on this planet. There's no place for Chip and me any more. You're right, Doctor. It's time to die, and that's good." Cassandra tells him.
"Come on. There's one last thing I can do."The Tardis materialises out of sight of the party.
"Oh no, don't. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were..." a woman says, Kyraiah doesn't know who it is but she would bet that, that was Cassandra at some point.
"Thank you." The doodle Cassandra says.
"Just go. And don't look back."
"Good luck."
"And if you actually see them, you're shocked. But don't quote me on that. Oh, naughty..." the original Cassandra said only to be interrupted by Chip-Cassandra
"Excuse me, Lady Cassandra."
"I'm sorry, I don't need anything right now. I'm fine, thank you."
"No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful."
"Well, that's very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much."
"I mean it. You look so beautiful."
"Thank you."
Chip's body collapses. Lady Cassandra cradles him.
"Oh, my Lord. Are you all right? What is it? What's wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly!"
"Who is he?" A woman asks.
"I don't know. He just came up to me. I don't even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he's dying. Someone do something! I've got you, sweetheart. It's all right. There you are. There you are, I've got you. It'll be all right. There, there, you poor little thing."
The time travelling trio walk off and into the Tardis and the Tardis dematerialises.(A/n this episode was a little hard to place Kyraiah in so I decided to put her having a sweet moment it's the Face of Boe/Jack)
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Last Timelady In Space
FanfictionThe Doctor has just regenerated, and now he and Kyraiah have to navigate their relationship whilst the Doctor figures out who he is exactly. Book two in the Last Lady Of Time series.