"It's beautiful here, Doctor."
"It is. And there's a great big secret hiding underneath."
The Archivist frowned and looked down at the ground beneath her. "There is?"
"Step right this way, ma'am," the Doctor took her hand and tugged her towards a very special spot on the sidewalk.
He stopped right in the middle of a particular tile on the sidewalk and they stood there a moment before Archie gave him a puzzled look. "Um, Doctor?"
"Just a moment. Jack must be out, otherwise we'd have been brought down much quicker. It'll just take a moment for whoever is there to scan and determine that it's safe to bring us down."
Suddenly the ground under them seemed to shake. Archie grabbed the Doctor's arm with her free hand just as the sidewalk square began to lower into the ground. She gasped as the Torchwood Hub began to appear as they were lowered.
"Doctor, can I presume your newest companion has gone through the proper checks and is safe to bring into the Hub?"
"First off, Gwen Cooper, I'd like to think you'd know better, by now, than to question my choice for companions. Second of all, the woman standing before you is not my companion."
"Then who is she, Doctor?"
"That will remain unexplained until Jack is present. Where is the Captain?"
"He should be back any minute now."
Just then, as if on cue, the main hatch of the Torchwood Hub rolled open and two familiar faces came running through.
"Hah! Pay up! I told you he'd be down here!" Jack exclaimed as he and Martha Jones came over.
"Jack! Martha! Perfect! You're both here!" The Doctor grinned as he hugged his old companions.
"Doctor, who's your beautiful friend?"
"Jack!" Martha swatted at his shoulder before turning and trying to put up a better impression than the one Jack was providing. "Hi, I'm Martha Jones. Are you traveling with the Doctor now?"
The Archivist smiled. "Um, yes—yes, I suppose I am."
"Oh, still new to it, are you?" Martha asked, assuming based on the woman's answer.
"Well, in a manner of speaking, yes."
Martha looked a bit confused, but before the Doctor could begin to explain, Jack stepped forward and took Archie's hand. "Captain Jack Harkness, ma'am—it's a pleasure to meet you." He leaned over and kissed her knuckles. "What was your name?"
"If you'd stop flirting a moment, Jack—I could get around to explaining."
Martha frowned. "Her name requires explanation?"
"Well, on Earth I've been known as Christine Madison," the female Gallifreyan began to explain.
"On...Earth?"
"But amongst the Time Lord's, I'm known as The Archivist."
"Amongst Time—" Martha repeated her.
"Time Lords? You're a Time Lord?" Jack interrupted.
A few minutes later the Doctor and the Archivist had finished explaining the story of her arrival on Earth to go into hiding.
"You've been on Earth this entire time? Doctor—there was another Time Lord out there the whole time—"
"Well, I have brought her forward from the time she spent. When I first met Archie as Christine it was the year 2001 in New York City."
"He saved me and a whole lot of other people from a bomb in the building I was in for a meeting."
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FanfictionSometimes, the Doctor meets someone on his journey that makes him pause. Sometimes, that person becomes someone very important to him. Sometimes, he discovers they always were. Notes: This story includes references to and stories of the Doctor's tim...
