The Girl Who Forgot

"Please Remember..."

SO hello guys! I’ve noticed this isn’t getting many views and I was thinking of bringing this to an end soon. Maybe have 3 or 4 more chapters as a maximum – I would like to ask though if you’re reading this and enjoy it could you possibly leave a rate and comment so I know that these are still being read? Apologies just I would rather continue these knowing that people actually like it than not continue it and move to my Tumblr oneshots account when people were actually enjoying this! Anyway enjoy!!!

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Erica POV

I had woken up on a Doctor’s table in some strange dark green room alone, the only noise being the beeping of the machine besides me. I tried to get up, feeling my side ache a tad as all I could do was cough and turn over on my side to vomit in a conveniently placed bucket besides my bed.

Where was I? I could hear the Doctor’s voice from a room next door mumbling something about “will she remember?” Were they talking about me? Would I remember what? I scanned my brain hoping that I could find the last shred of memory that my mind possessed the panic attack with the Doctor. That was the last thing that I had left, the last memory to date, did something happen? Did the TARDIS crash?

“D-Doctor?” Was all I could muster up to half yell, pleading with whatever entity was out there that the Doctor would hear me. Thankfully, the entity responded as I watched the Doctor sprint his way into the room as he looked tensed and worried. His eyebrows quickly unfurrowed as he threw me a gentle smile and walked closer to the bed.

“Don’t try to move,” was all he said as he pushed my body back down flat on the bed once again.

“Doctor what happened?”

The smile only grew on his face, childish and excited as he gripped my hand tighter offering a generous squeeze.

“You’re not going to die Erica. You were mis-diagnosed on Earth, you don’t have cancer.”

At that moment I’m sure that my eyes grew so large it was almost cartoonistic. I wasn’t going to die, I could travel with the Doctor for my entire life if I wanted, if he wanted.  Of course I was mad at him, I specifically begged him not to take me, I didn’t want to raise my hopes and fail once more but – but I didn’t. I’m cancer free and for the first time ever I felt as if I could soar.

“Th-that’s brilliant!!!” I exhaled pulling him close to me by his suspenders, I didn’t realize what I was doing before it was too late. I had kissed him. My lips grazed across his before they were pushed together, all the passion in the world that I could muster was thrown into that one minute kiss. I made sure to give him a chance to pull away and he didn’t, he only sat down beside me and placed his arm around my waist to pull me closer. I could feel his warm breath on my lips, his intoxicating scent as he pulled back and smiled fondly at me. Once I caught my breath and managed to shake the unclean thoughts from my head I thought of the main question which was asked that night.

“If I don’t have cancer what was wrong with me to give me such a pain in my ribs today?”

“I uh... I’m not sure how to tell you this... to be quite fair I’m not sure how the doctors back on Earth didn’t notice.”

“Doctor.”

“Y-you’re not human Erica...”

“W.... what?”

“You’re... your real parents they weren’t human either...”

“What do you mean? Doctor – w-what are you saying?”

“You’re a Timelord Erica... your parents escaped the Great Time War that I did but they didn’t give you up because of hospital bills or anything... you all lived normal happy lives and the Daeleks came after you on Earth. They got a creature called the silence to erase your memory so you wouldn’t know you were a Timelord and gave you a made up past.”

The amount of thoughts that were clouding my brain at that moment was uncountable. I’m an alien? What does this mean? Does that mean I can travel with the Doctor forever now? Does he maybe want to get rid of me now that I’m not as interesting and different as he once thought? Would I never die? Why did they erase my memory? Were they trying to silence me? What the hell why? I was just a teenage girl what – what does this all even mean? Why is everything happening to me ? I- I’m no one...

“Erica...?” The Doctor shook me a tad to get me out of my own little world, earning a nod from me once I had cleared my throat.

“Y-yeah sorry just... a lot to take in. Why were they silencing me? How?”

“Timelords all have clocks you see... they took yours from you so you would age at a normal rate and seem human, as well as forgetting everything. Apparently from what I can gather, your real father was onto something huge which would end the time war at its core... destroy who was really controlling the Daeleks and  I suppose they found out. You must have known and they didn’t want you to remember... they thought that you would end them.”

“But how could I? Why me...? I’m just... a nobody. I’m just Erica.”

A smile grew wide on his face before I felt him hold my chin between two fingers lightly pulling my face up to look him in his deep, gorgeous eyes.

“Erica, that’s where you’re wrong... you have the knowledge of the entire Universe locked up right in there....” He poked my head slightly as he laughed, “Even more knowledge than I have... You can do so much, you can save the world. You’re the most important person in the Universe right now and you will be for millennia to come, you just need to remember...”

“How will I remember?”

“Malohkeh thinks that he can fix it... we need to put you under for a little while longer while he does some work on your brain and you should be back to normal...”

With a nod of my head I watched the reptilian Doctor place a mask over my mouth as he put me under once more. I was in space, the last words I heard was from the Doctor as he squeezed my hand tightly in his.

“I love you Erica, just please... remember.”

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I had regained all my memories, I woke up to the same room as before seeing the Doctor reading in the corner to not wake me. I sat up slowly feeling strange, within a second the pain in my skull grew larger and less forgiving, it felt like my head was about to expload and I couldn’t help myself.

“HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING GOD!!!”

The only words that left my mouth as I clutched my head crouched over in agony. Tears streaming down my face as I shivered, I couldn’t help it. All the pain was over coming me at once and I felt as if I wanted to peel my own flesh off just to keep myself distracted from this pain. Within no time the Doctor was by me, holding me in his arms as he shushed gently into my ear trying to calm me down.

“Shhh... shhhhh Erica calm down, I know it hurts but your brains just adjusting to having been unlocked.”

I tried to listen but I just couldn’t it was so unbareable...

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After a few hours of anguish I felt my body returning to normal. All my memories connecting once more as I felt myself let out a chuckle leaving the Doctor raising an eyebrow confused.

“You decorated a Daelek in glitter and feather boas to cheer me up on my 67th birthday...”

This made the Doctor smile to himself, I remembered everything now, from before and after I travelled with him. He really wasn’t lying about how he knew me. We did travel, for a long time, till I was 137 in fact, we didn’t realize I was a Time Lord, we had originally assumed I was a human alien cross of some sort and we had so much fun we forgot to even research what it might be. They came back one night and forced me to beg the Doctor to put me on Earth, threatening to kill him. The Cybermen then swiped my mind again and left me there to rot. I was 187 now, 30 years had passed and they kept swiping my mind and moving me around to make sure that I never figured out I wasn’t aging...

One memory however stuck out from the rest... the conversation I watched as a child between my father and the true leader of the Daeleks. With that I jolted up immediately from where I was lying and screamed at the top of my lungs.

“THE MASTER.”