Invisible

by Helen Nurse

The Doctor accidentally leaves behind his and River's daughter Elaine in 1996 London just as she began to regenerate. She hid herself like her father had done on many an occasion by turning herself into a human child. She was found and adopted by a kind man who raised her along with her honorary uncles. Sherlock time is back about ten years. Up for adoption

1. Prolog

I pushed him away from the crack, crying out in pain as it tried to break apart my timeline and erase it from history. My pocket watch opened and I remembered my past as I began my life again.
I screamed "No More!" and the world around me seemed to explode into flames. I saw him turn away before I regenerated. I wanted to become young and someone he could love as a father to a daughter. Not that he knew we were that already.

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The Doctor turned and walked away from Elaine, his daughter. She'd pushed him away and screamed as she felt her timeline being erased, bit by bit. He felt the crack close permanently and felt an overwhelming sense of loss as he walked into his TARDIS. He closed the doors with a reluctant sadness and charted a new course through the vortex to meet with his wife River and explain what happened to their daughter.

He didn't see the little girl in the scraps of a shirt and a silver necklace around her neck in the shape of a tiny pocket watch. She looked to be about two human years old, a toddler with china blue eyes and golden blond hair that fell to her hips. She whimpered as she saw her father leave her on Earth in the year 1996.

"Daddy, come back! I'm here!" she wailed, but her father didn't come back. She sniffed and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of the tattered shirt she wore. She undid the clasp on her necklace and held it in her hand.

She opened her watch and programmed it to send out a signal to bring the correct TARDIS to where she was when she turned 18 human years of age. She then programmed her watch to turn her into a human. She closed it and after putting the necklace back around her neck she closed her eyes and let it fall back onto her neck. She knew that she'd return when her father needed her the most. She screamed in pain as it rewrote her DNA and sealed her Time Lord consciousness inside the watch. When she fainted, she didn't see the man that heard her scream run over to her and hold her close. She didn't know that she was going to be the daughter of the DI of Scotland Yard Gregory Lestrade.