The Day My Life Began

Journey's End

Spoilers for my DW fanfiction. You can avoid it, if you don't want to spoil it.

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The Doctor was regenerating.

It has been a pretty busy day, that was for sure. I mean, yeah, going to the alien market Shan Shen was normal for us. We had been to almost a dozen of them with Rose way back when.

This trip was supposed to be a calming one. Yesterday we had stopped a coup on the planet Xoelia, an invasion on Qouater, and helped the people of Rama build their Treeborg prototypes. All in all, a pretty normal day.

Donna had been a bit weirded out though. The Ramaians looked basically like Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, except they were blue and not pirates. Well, maybe that one was a pirate...

Sorry. Not helping. Back to my story.

The Doctor decided to take us to the Shan Shen market after Donna asked/ordered him to take us somewhere calming. The Time Lord went along with it, if only because the last time he said no to that (also the first time) Donna kept hitting his arm till he said yes.

I had been holding off on this for over ten years, hoping that by the time I'd come up with a way to save her life. I'd gone Home while wandering around. Donna had just walked into the tent. So, it was like hopping right onto a moving train when I came back.

The Doctor and I had gone running towards Donna, appearing just in time to see the beetle drop from her back. She explained to us her dream, how the Doctor and I had died with the Racnoss, that all the other things we had stopped had gone on and killed most of planet earth.

Then she brought up the people who had told her the Doctor and I called her important. That's right, people, plural. It wasn't just Rose helping fix the gaps in time. The Doctor had pressured her on Rose, so all I knew was that someone else had been helping. Dang, that made me mad!

After that, we rushed to Planet Earth-yadda yadda yadda. You know how today goes! If you haven't watched it on Netfljx a trillion times (like I did), then you read about it in a fanfic!

So, we landed on the resolute streets of London. Ours friends were in trouble, twenty-seven planets had been abducted, and I was starting to get hungry. The Doctor had pressured Donna again, asking her if Rose had said anything else, when the ginger said one of my top ten favorite lines on the show.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?"

Oh, I had screamed when I saw Rose again. It had broken my hearts when we lost her at Torchwood. I had been arguing with myself over what to do for weeks. Originally I was all for letting myself fall into the Void instead. Then a sad realization came to me.

I was a Time Lady. The Last Time Lady. Abandoned on Earth long before the Last Great Time War, with nothing more than a perception filter and the smoked up rags on her back. She managed to survive to my age at the time, 180, all the while avoiding the Doctor and his hijinks.

Then, ya know, I showed up. First Day. Real drag. Future Me had been there, Terra Four as she delightfully informed me. Eleven was there too, dressed up in purple tweed and a darker bowtie. Oswin had been there, which sent me reeling. It confused me more than that Christmas Special.

End of the day, I ended up regenerating into Terra Two. First Day and I was already dead. Well, I think I died twice, never really got to find out what happened to Four after Eleven dropped me off in 2005.

Where was I? Right. Losing Rose. She was a really great friend, one of the best. She was a person I could talk to when Doc was annoying me with teaching me about Time Lords and all that jazz.