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This story will continue on for as long as I see fit and will, so far, go straight through to Capaldi's Doctor and maybe further but it will, at some point stop, for reasons that I know but cannot tell you because of Spoilers. :)

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Disclaimer: If I owned Doctor Who, the Ponds would still be around, as would Rose, Jack Harkness, River and countless others! Also, there would be more females and probably a sister to help the Doctor along.

The Fire of a Ruby
A Doctor Who Fanfiction
Chapter 1: The Girl Who Dreamed

Elizabeth Abbey was nothing special. She was just an invention, a way for me to escape the Time War. Or that was what was supposed to happen anyway. No Time Lord (or Lady) has ever truly remembered what it's like when your consciousness is stuck in the fob watch but you get this crippling sense of being trapped and something repressing your true self, like a bad dream or a memory that you want to be forgotten.

I couldn't stay in Gallifrey and I had to run. I would love to say that I had no choice, that if I did I would've died but I can't say that because it's a lie. And after everything else I've done, I want to at least try and be truthful now. There was a 98% chance that every Time Lord and Lady that went into the Time War would die or at the very least regenerate into a completely new person.

Yet there was that 2%, that some Time Lords came back alive but I was scared. I was too much of a coward to face the percentages and prove that I can be that 2% that would come back alive.

And so I ran. With nothing left for me, my children, my husband gone, I changed my biology so that I looked human and stored my Time Lady consciousness into a fob watch, and I hid on Earth, the human with my face going around and living, her human parents calling her Elizabeth Abbey.
But I didn't take into account the fact that I was alone in the universe and no one knew that I was a Time Lady disguised as a simple human. The fob watch grew dust on her childhood windowsill – sometimes, late at night, she'd run her hands over the cool metal, admiring it but the perception filter never really let her see it, not truly know that my consciousness was trapped inside, imprisoned.

Of course not everything was forgotten by Elizabeth Abbey. Her subconscious mind still remembered what her human mind could not. About TARDISes and Gallifrey and Time Lords and even the Daleks. They kept her awake some nights, her childhood nightmares.
Elizabeth grew and as she did, her subconscious mind quieted, leaving her free of Daleks and Gallifrey plaguing her mind and still the fob watch grew dust.
She got older, going through secondary school and 6th form and eventually university and the fob watch lay on an old shelf, being every embodiment of the phrase out-of-sight out-of-mind.

Then she met Rose Tyler.

First, there came the plastic shop window dummies coming to life. Of course, the Nestene Consciousness; easily fixed and sorted and I'd have known instantly what was going on if I was there. But no, Elizabeth Abbey had no idea and she ran around screaming like every other human until the danger had stopped.
Rose went missing – even I didn't know what had happened there but it shook Elizabeth.
She started holding the fob watch much more, the supernatural events causing her subconscious to bring up other things that had happened before, with the Daleks and the Cybermen and so on.
Yet she never could bring herself to open it.
Until now.

If I thought that going from Time Lord to human was painful, then it was nothing compared to going from human to Time Lord or maybe that was just me. Because, Elizabeth Abbey fought back, something I'd never heard of happening. The human woman didn't want to leave, because she had figured out that as soon as my consciousness joined back with that body, she would be erased. And she didn't want that at all.
It was difficult, I'll admit, trying to fight against a consciousness that was fairly similar to your own; because Elizabeth Abbey, whilst not being a Time Lady, was similar to myself. She had the same determination, her intelligence was high for a human and she was very open with others, often speaking her mind and not sugar coating the truth for people.

However, I won the fight between the two consciousness's and Elizabeth Abbey was extinguished. I tested the Time Lord mental link to see if I could find anyone there and was greeted with total silence. The silence could have only meant one thing: the Time War had failed with victory on neither side and, the utter coward I was, meant that I was the last Time Lord in existence; revealing myself to be the true weakling I am, I sat down in Elizabeth Abbey's room and cried: for my family, my love and my planet.

I must've fallen asleep after crying and I woke to the sound of the TARDIS materialising. Of course I wrote it off as just a dream, still being sure that I was the last Time Lady.
"Stop please…" I muttered, curling myself into a tighter ball. "You're all gone… I'm the only one left, please…"

"Doctor," someone whispered and I stirred slightly; I think I recognised the voice or more Elizabeth Abbey would have.

"Elizabeth?" Someone asked and I opened one eye to look at the person. Blonde hair, bright blue eyes. I'd never seen her before in my life but Elizabeth Abbey's memories told me that this was Rose Tyler.
I felt a slight intruding presence in my mind and I shied away until my groggy mind realised what that meant; human telepaths were rare and they couldn't affect a Time Lord's mind – the only thing that could enter a Time Lord's mind was some serious black magic or another Time Lord. The presence was too gentle to be black magic so it could only mean one thing: I wasn't the last of the Time Lords.
And the best part was that I recognised the presence and I realised with a jolt who it could be.

"Doctor…" I murmured, looking up.

The man smiled, as Rose looked between us, bewildered.

"Hello little sister."

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