Her Secrets {Doctor Who FanFic}

Utopia

After the night’s talk, we brought the Tardis to Cardiff, Roald Dahl Plass to be exact. It instantly brought on memories of Rose and Jack and the Doctor’s 9th incarnation. I smiled at the memories. It was our first date, so to speak, minus Margaret there, and it was the last adventure before I had basically killed him.

‘You didn’t kill me Ceryssida. I willingly took it in to save you.”

‘Got our first kiss out of it.’

‘That was not our first kiss.’

‘First kiss since finding each other, Theta. Especially since YOU knew who I was.’

‘Well, I suppose it was.’

“Cardiff.”

“Cardiff?”

“Yep. It’s built on a rift in time and space, sort of like California and the San Andres Fault, except the rift bleeds raw energy. Every once in a while  we need to open the engine and soak up the energy for fuel,” I said, walking over to the monitor.

“So it’s a pit stop.”

“Exactly. Should only take twenty seconds. The rift’s been active.” I shot him a concerned glance. Earth didn’t really have the equipment to use the rift, hell, they barely knew about it. The fact that it had been active generally confused and worried me.

“Wait a minute! They had an earthquake in Cardiff a couple years ago. Was that you?”

“It was. Different faces, though. We had some trouble with the Slitheen.”

“Long time ago. Lifetimes. I was a different man back then.”

“Yeah. We both were different people. Barely got along, the two of us. We’d argue and then Rose would push us together since I was the only one who could talk sense into him.”

“You still do that.”

“Yeah. I suppose unconsciously, we were drawn to each other, although I didn’t realize it, or how I felt until he regenerated.”

“But you were married?”

“I didn’t know then. I was human. There was the attraction, but I didn’t know why.”

He rushed to my side, flipping switches as he did so. “Right. Finito! All powered up.” I glanced at him, seeing his attention was on the screen, his lips turned down in a slight frown. I looked to see Jack running towards us. As the Doctor pulled down a lever, setting the time rotor moving, I punched his arm, extremely put off by what he was doing. Suddenly, there was a bang and the console sparked, the ferocious jolts sending us to the floor.

“Whoa! What’s that?”

“This is your fault, Doctor,” I angrily stated as I held onto the console. His arm wound around my waist, holding me steady and keeping me from falling again.

“We're accelerating into the future- the year one billion. Five billion. Five trillion. Fifty trillion? What? The year one hundred trillion? That's impossible!”

“Why? What happens then?”

“The end of the universe, Martha.”

The Tardis jolted to a stop and I pulled from the Doctor’s arms and ran to the door, pushing against it.  From the link I had  with the Tardis, I knew the locked door was not her doing but that of the moron I married. “Unlock the damn door.”

“Well, we’ve landed,” he said, ignoring me.

“Doctor… I am being very calm. Unlock the door.”