Escaping the ordinary (a Doctor Who daughter-story)

Dancing like never before

Cadence pov

"Did you meet her again?" I was still lying in my bed - conected to the machines that helped me breathe and in my fathers arms. "Who?" It had been a while since dad and I talked last so he kind of snoozed of after that he came in to my room and I told him that my 'dream' wasn't a dream and that it in fact was a memory. Dad looked at me questionably. He had his arm around my shoulder and he looked down at me while he talked "It was only for a day." I sat up - obviously too quickly since I groaned in pain. I felt dads arms take a tight grip around my shoulders as he pulled me down in to bed again. "You need to stay still - you are badly injured." I chuckled a little bit "Yeah I kinda noticed that." I snuggled in to his chest again as I started questioning him once again. "Did she ask about me?" I felt him squeeze my shoulder and then he snuggled his lips in to the top of my head. "Of course she did. She would never forget about you." I looked down at my hand before asking the question that had been bugging me for a long time "Is she alive?". "I don't know but I think so - she's just in another universe, that's all. Living with a old version of me that looks like I did when you where nothing but a child." I smiled a little bit - still looking down at my hands. "Does she know?" "Know what?" I took a deep breathe. "Does she know that I'm her daughter?" I looked him in the eye. "You know that she can't." I looked down at my hands again. "I guess you're right. Well, to bad for me that I'm part human part timelord since I obviously still can get the same deceases as them." I chuckled a little bit - but dad didn't. He took a hold of my hand with his right hand and pulled my chin up with his left hand. He looked me dead in the eye. "You are a beautiful young woman and you are going to survive this. I know - you are a fighter." I smiled sadly at him - both him and I knew that this was fatal. Niether one of us knew if I could regenerate since I had never regenerated - what, you can't blame me! I'm sixteen!

Just to get you some background information - when I was a newborn my father and mother decided to leave me on earth because of the chances of me getting killed or something like that. They took the timelord part of me and placed it in a golden necklace so that when I was old enough - I would become me again. Except that in that necklace there where also things that I didn't know from experience - like who my my parents where and who I was. I lived with a lovely family in London, then I don't know why but they threw me out. I accidentally opened the locket and became my timelord self. Dad and I had a adventure where I met dad and mom - except I wasn't born yet. I also met my future self. I was told my my feature self that I was the savior and that I always needed to remember that and that I had to stay strong for what's to come. Then my feature self made me forget again so that we wouldn't create a paradox and then I ended up at Miss's Finnegans orphanage. Just so you know. Oh, and the reason why mum couldn't know who I was because they had to errase her memory of me to make sure that nobody could find me - but if I ever met her again there was a chance that she could remember me.

My eyelids suddenly started to feel heavy - then I let the darkness corrupt me and take me in it's arms.

Cadenece's pov

As my eyelids flutterd open I felt that I was alone in my bed - I guess he left after I fell asleep. I sat up and then realised - I'm healed. I smiled thankfully at the TARDIS. "Thank you T." I giggled a little bit. My breathing was still bad but I guess that will stay with me for a while. I stood up and looked around me. On my desk there laid a stack of clothing. I came closer and saw loads of different dance-shoes and a black outfit. I held it in my hands as I stood in front of a mirror. I always loved to dance - even when I was Wendy I used to dance even though it wasn't allowed. I got training by helping the owner of the studio with cleaning and eventually, I thought the toddlers. Then I felt a little note in the pocket - I picked it up and read it for myself.

Dear Cadence. I know how much you love to dance and how restricted you feel with this sickness that you carry along with you every day. The white door next to the closet is a room especially made for you - in there you can breathe as normal again - but only for a hour at a time! I fixed the air a little bit and did som installations. In the closet next to the door there is a gastank and a tube that you can carry with you when youre not here. I hope al of this helps - and by the way, I hope that you like the work the nanogines did on you.

-T

I smiled thankfully - I swear, I'm lucky that I have two ears to stop my smile because otherwise it would probably go around my head. "Thank you T, you are the best - you know that right?" She did a noise in responce. I smiled as I popped in to the bathroom to change. When I had finally dressed I had the dance-bag that I got along with it in my hand. I walked towards the door, took a deep breathe and opened it.

Amys pov

The Doctor had been fippeling with the TARDIS for hours now - and my husband was helping him. Sure, I'm glad that they got along but al I really wanted to do at the moment was to go on a adventure. I stood up from the leather seat. "I'm gonna look around - anybody tagging along?" "Yeah, yeah - we're just gonna fix everything here first. NO Rorry! Not that! I meant the chicken-yellow one - not the neon yellow one! Oh and Amy, can you peek in to C's room just to make sure that she's alright? I think she should be awake by now." "Got it." I started walking down the corridors until I reached the door that had 'Cadence' written all over it. I opened the door slowly - not wanting to wake her if she was asleep. "Hello, it's just me - just old Amy." I then opened the door compleatley when I saw that nobody was there. Then I saw the white door in the corner. I started walking towards it with suspicion in my eyes. "Cadence?" I then opened the mystery door to be hit with a sight I thought I would never see. Cadence - dancing for her life with the biggest smile ever plasterd on her face.

She was wearing black bootie-shorts, a black shirt with long sleeves and a pair of half-shoes thingys. She was dancing along to 'What a feeling' by Irene Cara. She looked so full of life - so beautiful. Her long hair was tucked in to a bun, placed neatly at the top of her head. Her feet where barley toching the ground - she was either on her tiptoes or in the air doing jumps, leeps and so many other things that I don't even know the name of. Her eyes looked so full of life - her entire body was shining. I'm not a big eighties fan or anything but this was wonderfully done. She moved like a hunter but she was happier than ever. I then felt a big grin take it's place on my lips. I then picked up my phone and quickly dialed Rorys number before calling. "Hello it's the husband." "Rory, get to Cadence's room now and take the Doctor with you - quickly." "We're on our way!". I quickly hung up and continued watching the young lady in front of me. She ended the dance and went over to the bench. She then changed out of her half-shoie thingys and replaced them with a pair of pointe-shoes.

She walked to the middle of the room and positioned herself - she still didn't see me. I did not recognise the song but I recognised the voice - it was Cadence. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder and a quick breath in my ear. "Is everything okay, where is she? Where is my daughter?" I smiled and pointed at the middle of the room and imedietly he became quiet. She started talking to the sky. "Really T, that's my song! Youre not supposed to hear it yet!" She then became serious and started moving along with the beat. (The song is 'Fight Song' by Rachel Platten.) She started moving softly and then became more consequent in her movements. She spun around more times than I can count on just one foot. I then tared my gaze from the skinny girl in the middle of the room to my best friend beside me. His eyes where teary - he was going to cry. I smiled slightly. Then the music stopped.

Cadences pov

I made the last move before looking in the mirror - I dance again. I danced. I smiled at myself in the mirror before I heard a sniffle, a chuckle and clapping coming from my left. I turned my head and left my position. There in the door stood Amy, Rory and dad. Dad started walking towards me as I looked down at the ground. He had tears in his big eyes and by the state of his hair he lookt like he had been running - but when dosn't he run?

I looked down at my shoes as I started rolling my thumbs. "You where not supposed to see that." I felt a pair of big hands cup my face - it was dads. I looked him in the eye and he looked in to mine - his eyes full of tears. "You where wonderful. My beautiful daughter - what would I do without you?". He kissed me at the top of my head and pulled me in to his chest, I was still a whole lot shorter than him. I was not short but I was at least a head shorter than him.

"I love you dad."