Echoes of Time
"Chasing dreams into wanderlust," I yelled as I grasped the latch of the blue box. The TARDIS shrieked in protest I pushed open the doors. "Take care of him girl and do not let him travel alone to long this time."
The Doctor did not stop me this time. This was his doing. I closed the TARDIS doors and walked away from him into the distance of the Texas skyline. My silver hair in a fishtail braid, my big hazel eyes downcast and my cowboy boots clicking on the brick pathway. I was forced to be done with wanderlust. I had listened to the tall stubborn leather jacket wearing Doctor.
Traveling with the Doctor was the most fantastic and magical experience of my life. At the human age of twenty-six years old, the Doctor gave me the most precious gift: humanity and the time to live it all out.
"Felicity…." The Doctor whispered in my mind. "The silence will come. Just remember beautiful girl you're never really alone. You were fantastic and so was I".
Like a switch pain surged into my mind and then it was gone. The hum and electricity that connected us suddenly gone. No longer was there a connection but rather a gaping hole in my heart and mind.
Silver tears rushed down my face as I realized my time with my Doctor had finally run out. Bushing them away I looked forward instead of backwards. He had saved me like he saved everyone.
On my sonic watch, the human time line indicated it had only been a year. 365 days of crazy beautiful change. I may have been from the future but all I had ever wanted was this human past. Before I could say anything – the blue box was gone.
It was never really gone. It would appear all around the world throughout time leaving its mark. There came a time where it went quiet. To quiet for the world and universe.
- Years and Years and Years later -
It started with a dream. I was falling into time. There were five knocks and a long greeting of welcome. The voice awoke me was from a past time. My heavy aged eye lids fluttered open as I felt the old connection snap back into existence. Like lighting my body began rebooting. It had begun the un-aging process of going backwards in spite of the impossible.
Unlike regeneration, my curse was un-aging of the same soul and body. The only thing that remained were the memories of the times and lives before the process. It was the curse of my people and that's why we were almost all gone. Death was the greatest reward. We were an abomination that was just one of the millions of causalities of the Time War.
So long ago, the TARDIS chose me before the Doctor knew me. The spark from the TARDIS embedded in my heart screamed at me. I felt the connection getting stronger but with it came a wave of sadness that nearly brought me to my knees.
I tried shoving my hospital bed out of the room. I was so tired of the humans and their lives. So tired of them. My un-aging process was near competition when the shriek of the Tardis arrived in front of me.
I tucked a lose strand of my silver hair behind my ear as the doors of the Blue Police Box swung open. Nobody greeted me. No leather jacket wearing Doctor. I hesitated even though I could hardly contain my excitement. Another adventure tugged at my heart strings and soothed the emptiness of my soul.
As I stepped inside the TARDIS it was completely dark. As my steps left the doorway entrance it rebooted with lighting and gizmos flashing. There was a girl clinging to one of the chairs. Her hair was a disheveled mess and a look of desperation across her face. This TARDIS looked different than the one I knew.
"I begged the TARDIS to take me to someone who could help the Doctor." The girl said.
I blinked and tilted my head while my eyes looking up at the TARDIS console. "I'm Felicity and you are?"
The girl brushed her hair back and walked towards me. "I'm Clara and you Felicity have to help me."
"Where is he Clara?" I asked while trying to use our connect to search for him on board. I was only greeted by the TARDIS interface.
"I do not know but all I know is you have to help bring him back."
"And how do you expect me to do that? I haven't known him for a very long time. It's not like he's really gone. Just out of sync with the TARDIS"
"You're the only past that I could access because the others could not be reached." She said quietly.
"You mean the other companions."
"Who were they? Can they help us?" she asked. "I tried but the TARDIS wouldn't let me go to those timelines."
I shook my head. "If the TARDIS chose my timeline. It means the others cannot help us. What does he look like now?" I asked.
The TARDIS interface flickered and showed an image of the Doctor. A man with a bow tie and epic hair.
"That's not my Doctor." I said why crossing my arms.
Clara started pulling levers and the TARDIS shrieked. "She doesn't particularly like me," Clara yelled. "Can you help me fly her?"
I smirked and ran to the console. Time to get him back I told myself. "This is going to be fantastic!"
Clara stepped back in wonder and watched as I danced around the console like the Doctor to get the TARDIS to send us back to that year. The year that echoed time.