They Call Her the Vortex

by Sabrina Lonewalker

An AU couching the origins of the Time Vortex as myth and legend. This is the story of the Time Vortex and the Chosen One she has waited for ever since time itself began. Care to guess who the Chosen One is in this AU?

1. Chapter 1

They Call Her the Vortex

Part One

by

Sabrina Lonewalker

This was in idea my Muse dropped into my mind after reading the novelized version of "An Unearthly Child". So, this is an AU of the orgins of the Time Lords and their Society. I hope you like what plot bunny I have been given to run with. So, we begin in an old, old library, one so old more people on Gallifrey has forgotten it exists. On a dusty shelf is an ancient book, one written when Gallifrey still had a language that wasn't all swirls and flourshes. It tells a tale, on belived to be legend but then, don't all legends have their basis in fact?

There is an ancient legend on Gallifrey from before the time of Rassilon, so old most have forgotten. There will come the One who will end Time and renew it but it will cost him all he has ever known. The Vortex knows this legend is truth. He will come and when he does, She will know him and nuture him. For him, she will give up her freedom and consign herself to the inside of a TARDIS and she will do whatever is necessary to keep him alive for she knows his future and the future of time itself for she is the Time Vortex. She is all that is left of the very first of the race of Time Lords, not Rassilon, he was not the first, She was and her name was Asteria. She was Rassilon's grandmother and she sacrificed her mortal existence to power a dying vortex. History recorded her as dying because of a failed experiment but that was to hide the truth and the fact that a woman saved Gallifrey. She has watched and waited all of these millenia and finally, she sees him , The Chosen One and time and the universe will never be the same.

TBC