Her end. His beginning.
Her doctor.
Her silly, goofy, wonky doctor. Her silly, goofy, wonky doctor and his silly, goofy, wonky bow tie. Every time they met he knew her less and less, so much so that she could practically feel it. That day. That horrible, dreadful, awful day. The day when she would look into his eyes and see a stranger reflected there. The day when she would know absolutely everything about him and he wouldn't even know her name…
But he surprised her. He showed up at her doorstep with a new haircut and a new suit and he knew her. He knew all of her favorite things and all of her memories were memories that he recalled. He took her to Darillium, to the singing towers where they laughed and flirted and kissed and shared a picnic feast… And then he cried. He cried and wouldn't tell her the reason, just smiled sadly and said 'spoilers' and then he gave her his sonic screwdriver.
His sonic, his precious everything but wood sonic.
She should have realized, should have gotten the hint and seen what was coming. The end. Her end and the end of 'her doctor'. A far away memory fuzzily tickled the back of her mind. A memory of the doctor with a new haircut and a new suit and no sonic. The day he died. Killed by a spacesuit at the lakeshore that he had chosen, they had had a picnic that day. It was a memory from long ago but as always her past was his future.
An archeological expedition. Today she was visiting the library. For one hundred years no one had entered the library, not since the day it sealed itself leaving one last cryptic message.
'4022 saved. No survivors.'
How could 4022 people be saved when there were no survivors? She couldn't figure it out on her own and it sounded like trouble. It was sure to be a mysterious adventure. And whenever, wherever there was a mysterious adventure there was only one thing to be done.
She called The Doctor.
She sent him a message via psychic paper.
"The Library. Come as soon as you can.X."
She knew he would come. He always came when she called. He had promised he would. He was 'her doctor' after all.
So when she arrived at the library and burst casually into the room she didn't hesitate to walk straight up to him and give her standard greeting.
"Hello sweetie." He looked at her for a second, puzzled and a bit curious.
"Get out." He said it quickly and without malice but still…She flinched before quickly regaining her composer. He walked past her and addressed the rest of her crew."All of you turn around, get back in your rocket and fly away! Tell your grandchildren you came to the library and lived. They won't believe you." She smiled and quickly addressed her crew.
"Pop your helmets everyone! We've got breathers!" Anita piped in suspiciously.
"How do you know they're not androids?"
"Cause I've dated androids. They're rubbish." And then Lux cut in with an annoying side comment.
"Who is this? You said we were the only expedition! I paid for exclusives!"
"I lied. I'm always lying. Bound to be others." Lux continued to squabble with The Doctor for a bit. She watched, amused by his antics. No matter how much time went by or what form he took he would always be 'her doctor'.
He immediately tried to take charge of the situation. Giving orders, trying to warn her crew away from danger, he always had to save everyone, everywhere, every time. She quickly organized the situation, giving real orders, translating The Doctor's nonsense into something doable for her crew. She called him over, hoping to get a grip on his timeline and gauge how much he knew of her, what she could and could not tell him.
"Pretty Boy, you're with me. Step into my office." She gathered her bag and helmet and wandered over to a tolerably lit corner of the room they were in. When he didn't follow immediately she called out to him again. "Pretty Boy, with me I said!" She propped her bag up on the table and began digging for her diary. He wandered over curiously and she smiled again. He leaned against the table and cleared his throat to get her attention. "Thanks."
"For what?"
"The usual, for coming when I called."
"Oh that was you?"
"You're doing a very good job of acting like you don't know me. I'm assuming there's a reason."
"A fairly good one actually."
"Okay. Shall we do diaries then? Where are we this time? Ah, going by your face I'd say it's early days for you. Yeah? So, uhm…Crash of the byzantium, have we done that yet?"
"…"
"Obviously ringing no bells. Alright uhm, ah! Picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet?"
"…"
"Obviously not…Blimey. Very early days then. Whoo! Life of a time traveler! I never knew it could be such hard work! Uhm..." She stopped to look at his face for a moment. "Look at you! Haha! You're young!" She could barely believe it. Here he was, her doctor wearing glasses and a tie!
"I'm really not, you know."
"Oh but you are! Your eyes! You're younger than I've ever seen you!" She was star struck and in awe. She had never seen the doctor so young before!
"You've seen me before then?"
"Doctor. Please tell me you know who I am." He gave her a blank look. He didn't have the slightest idea who this strange, cheeky ginger woman was.
"Who are you?" No. Not yet. Not now just weeks after that wonderful date at Darillium.
She couldn't breath. Her heart ached and her mind whirled. She knew this day was coming and she had done all she could to prepare herself! But now? Now that the dreaded day had finally come? She was lost. She trembled. She could feel tears pooling in her eyes but held them back. Now was not the time for tears. Not now, not when the doctor was staring back at her, not an ounce of recognition on his face or in his eyes.
So she did what she had to do.
She pushed away the pain and prepared for the worst day of her entire life.
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