Lost In Remnants

Walking Away

Martha:

Picking up the pieces of my house was never pleasant after someone found out where we lived, and that we were aware of the Archive.

This time at least we'd had warnings from Kate, someone from the past that Ellody and the Doctor had fought learned through linear time that I was their friend, and thought that we had either access to them, or the Archive itself. It gave us enough time for us to get Lilly out of the house to my Mums, because no one knew where my parents and siblings had relocated to, and try to defend the house as best as possible.

Everything still got destroyed, of course, because they kicked in the door, meaning another call to our locksmith and a new glazier so that questions weren't asked, and the place was torn apart as they looked for things. Mickey and I managed to get them subdued after a while, but not before they'd managed to get into the back garden to the shed. Where we had a large array of alien artefacts, a few books from LizBeth about how to send messages through time to her or her brother, and the fail safe.

The fail safe that clearly bore the symbol of the Archive on it.

Mickey, knowing that it was the only option left, grabbed it first and activated it and instantly we knew that it had worked as the soft blue light that had always glowed at the core turned dark red. "Good luck getting that Archive now, mate." He told the attacker as I managed to get behind them and finally get their legs out from under them, slamming their head into the desk, and then getting them flat on the floor as I restrained them. "Good luck to anyone who wants to find it or them."

That was why this time was heavier than normal, picking up the pieces once UNIT turned up to take them away. There were pictures and memories of my best friend that were smashed or broken, silly things like her admittance bracelet from the day we met, a few photos of her in her many faces these days, though they were hidden when we were aware Ellie was coming over, and then things I'd collected from travelling. And we had just terminated her life, the life of the Remnant, and the Remembrance herself.

All those times that we had saved her life as Lillian-Bethany, the times she had desperately tried to cling to life as herself, and we had just ended her ourselves. Strange how things can turn out in the end.

"Babe, have you seen the TV remote?" Mickey asked as I carefully tried to save a photo of myself, Lilly and Tish from not long before everything with Lazarus kicked off. LizBeth and Tish hit it of right away, solely because they both liked to sass people. "I was supposed to be recording that Disney thing for Lilly."

"Not a clue, but they broke the set top box, remember?" I sighed, carrying another bag of rubbish through into the living room, a pile of things already starting to form. New table, new arm chair, we now owed Lilly a new DVD of Last Unicorn because for some reason they thought that was something LizBeth put something in. It was a favourite of hers, but it was literally just a DVD. "I'll message Tish, see if she can do it for when she goes over there in a couple of days."

At which point the phone started to ring.

Not the house phone or our mobiles, but the work phone, and I knew that ring tone. The sound of the TARDIS.

"You said that they were travelling together, didn't you?"

"I thought she would have gotten sick of him by now. I have to answer, he'll turn up anyway if I don't." I told him, going over to the phone that I got to replace the one I gave to the Siblings, which still functioned as LizBeth's, now Ellody's, and saw the familiar TARDIS number calling me. "Mickey, we just killed his sister."

He came over and wrapped his arms around me, kissing my head as I let myself rest into my husband. "I know. But to him, she should already be dead, Ellie's just a friend. It'll be hard, but at least Elizabeth is already gone."