Lost In Remnants

Let Fate Guide Your Hand

Not gonna lie, I struggled a bit with this chapter. I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense or seems a bit gabbled and rushed, but I both had too many ideas, and not enough sleep in my system at any one time to make any of them fit into the narrative. Yay for working retail during a Pandemic, amarite? It should be better once you get to the next chapter, so just bare with it  and enjoy the moments of sass from Ellie. Thanks, Butterflies, LJ xxx

Ellody:

"What would you say to going for some food, Ellie?" The Doctor asked me just after dropping off his precious Ponds back home. "What do you think, Chinese, pizza, or maybe something a little off world. What about some Venusian Afternoon Coffee?"

"Can you please return me to where I was taken from? I wish to move." He just looked at me. "Doctor, I am not your friend, nor your Sister. I am someone else, and I wish to be left in peace. I have a job to complete."

He looked... Sad. Of course he was, he was in mourning, but he was not doing it healthily. His Sister was dead, and what did he want to do? Replace Her with the first telepath with an affinity for computers and a lack of emotions. Elizabeth had very few remaining at the end, but still more than I had. "You're alone, Ellie. Your wife died, and I lost my Sister-"

Yes, I was aware. But I wanted to be on Starmyst near her grave, where I could lay flowers, should I ever be able to face it. Alys was my beautiful wife and I loved her with everything, it was the only thing I had now. She was the only reason I stayed here to finish the job. "Loss does not have to dictate the course of our future. Alys and Elizabeth gave us love and kindness in the past until their present ran out. All we can do now is treasure what they gave us and keep going until our own does the same."

"You can't want to be alone. No one wants to be alone!" I was not no one, I knew what I wanted and it was to be as far away from the Remembrances leftovers. "Please. Ellody, I don't want to be alone and so far, you're the only other person who has no one to go home to. Amy and Rory have lives and stuff, and who else is there that knows that I'm still alive?"

"Everyone that you meet on your frivolous adventures. Why not drop me off and go on several of those and create new friends. That is what you do, is it not?" He looked rather frustrated. "Look, I will admit to both appreciating the data I collected from the creatures on the Ark, and the cathartic relief I had from killing another man like those who took my Alys from her family, but that is as far as our relationship will ever go. Me being picked up to save you from your own problems."

Which was when Divinity walked into the console room, the little old lady cat grumpily complaining that the Doctor had not come to the library to cuddle yet. "Hey, Divvy! Sorry, we had a bit of a situation. You remember Ellie, don't you?" She hissed at me as I offered a hand. I liked animals, they just were never sure on me, thinking me too different to the average living creature. They were not wrong. "That would be a yes, but play nice. She hasn't actually done anything to annoy you, has she?"

Her response was just that she didn't like me in principle, most likely due to the fact I was a Remnant of her old Mistress, before She was killed. "I believe that your precious sisters Familiar also believes that I should not be here. Take me home, Doctor, please." He hesitated, so I put a hand on the console to do it for myself. Only the TARDIS lurched at the contact, throwing me aside into the Doctor and the slow old cat as she began to move us somewhere. "I want to go home! Take me home, Idris!"

"What did you just call her?" I faced him in confusion. "The TARDIS. You just gave her a name, I've never heard anyone else call her that aside from-"

"I am connected to the TARDIS through the Archive, remember. If the Remembrance called her Idris, then I would know this, especially if the TARDIS consented to the name. Where are we going?" I asked, pulling myself along the console to reach for the monitor. "Wait. Wait, this is taking me home. That is the Starmyst backstreets, halfway between the sea and the market."