Heart of Gold

United We Stand ....

"This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger, and you had everything to lose."
- Switchfoot: 'This is Your Life' (The Beautiful Letdown [2003]

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(A/N: Please note: 'blah' = Rose, and 'blah' = Katy)

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"Planet Earth. This is where I was born, and this is where I died..."

"I was not born on Planet Earth. I did not know it at the time, but I was born on Gallifrey; a distant planet that existed eons before humans even existed. I was sent through time and space to the late 20th century for my own protection. My adoptive parents, Peter, and Jackie Tyler took me in and brought me up as their own. It was not until I turned nineteen that I learned the truth:

I was not human, I was Gallifreyan. A Time Lady."

"For the first nineteen years of our life, nothing happened. Nothing at all. Not ever."

"Then we met a man called the Doctor."

"A man who could change his face. He took us away from home in his magical machine. He showed us the whole of time and space..."

"We thought it would never end..."

"At least that's what we thought. But then came the army of ghosts..."

"Then came Torchwood and the War..."

"And that's when it all ended. This is the story of how I died..."

"And this is how my life changed forever..."

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The Tardis: No P.O.V

Katy was in her room on the Tardis, straightening it up and just generally keeping herself occupied before she and Rose returned back to the Powell Estate to check in with Jackie, and for Rose to drop her a rather large load of laundry for their mother to clean before they resumed their adventures with the Doctor.

"You never answered my question from earlier, you know?" Katy turned and saw Rose standing in the doorway to her room, leaning against the door post and scowling at her sister disapprovingly.

"Which question?" Katy asked, turning back, and tucking in the flat sheet on her bed neatly and smoothing it down, before reaching for her colourful duvet and making an attempt to put it back. Seeing she was struggling with it a bit; Rose sighs and comes in to help her.

"About the mind meld the Doctor did on you," Rose prompted, and Katy hesitated; trying to figure out how to humour her sister's request without revealing her true status as a Time Lady.

"Oh! That... uhm," Katy stalled, for a moment.

"I mind-melded with Katy after our trip to Van Statten's museum," the Doctor's voice calls out, and both girls turn to see the man himself standing in the doorway, looking at Rose with mild annoyance. He had been searching for the sisters to let them know it was nearly time for them to go back to the Powell Estate; but overheard what sounded like Rose ambushing Katy.