The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Eternal Pt. 2

Abbey reveals over dinner that she wasn't always called Abbey; however, she could no longer use her birth name, it wasn't possible.

She knows it didn't make sense, but she insisted that she's telling the truth, that she couldn't use her birth name, anymore, because she was considered dead.

Ironic, isn't it?

Spending centuries watching everyone around her age and die, how she hid from everyone else when she realized that she wasn't aging, now, she's back, but only because there's no fear of judgement.

Aliens among them lived centuries longer, she didn't have to fear that her immortality would've put her in danger, yet again.

Going into more details, Abbey revealed that she was born in 1942. She just celebrated her birthday the other month.

"That'd make you... 1,058 years old," Lila estimated Abbey's true age and she nodded, acknowledging that it was correct, she's over a thousand years old, but to anyone who looked at her, she's still in her twenties.

It fascinated Theodore, but unfortunately, he didn't know Abbey, that was someone else, and trying to keep up the ruse, he leaned on what he knew, picking out what he needed, and going from there.

"I don't understand, this man, how could he have brought you back to alive by transplanting your heart to someone else's body?" Lila questioned how Abbey survived in the fashion she claimed and she replied that for the longest time, she wondered the same, but in the years of traveling, she thinks she has her answer.

She thought she destroyed everything, but something survived despite her attempts at covering up what transpired.

Of course, her hometown's far different than it was when she left so long ago, but it didn't deter Abbey, she got into contact with an archeologist who was excavating the area. He'd discovered there was a spiral notebook locked away in a metal trunk, buried beneath where Paul (the man who'd attempted surgery on her) lived, and discovered that it buried beneath where the basement would've been.

He determined the age of the trunk and the spiral notebook to be older, about two years older, this was before Paul started collecting blood from Abbey for the heart transplant.

In the spiral notebook, it was Paul's writing, Abbey recognized it, and it looked like he was taking a course shortly before he returned home.

It described transplants in a way that Abbey wouldn't understand if someone showed her back in the '60s, but now, she's certain, that whoever taught Paul this, was far more advanced than professors were then, noting that there were things in the spiral notebook that weren't invented then.

Somehow, Paul thought if he'd followed the teachings, he'd save his sister, but it was much more advanced than he's used to, and it forced his hand, trying to make with what he had.

Why it was buried beneath the basement, Abbey assumed that he didn't want anyone finding it, because he was convinced it was going to work, that his sister would've survived like the teachings hinted.

Handing it over to Theodore's large hands, he opened the spiral notebook delicately, the spiral notebook written like a college student, diagrams, scribbles, short notes, the work.

His icy blue eyes glided over the pages, reading the notes, and as he went through the notes, he found that indeed, the teachings that Paul copied weren't something found in the '60s when the incident occurred.

There are things that wouldn't have been known until later, things that weren't to be, yet.

"Where did he learn this from?" Theodore inquired as he rubbed the side of his mouth as he looked over to Abbey.