A/N: Okay I'm still crazy. Starting another new story. But this plot bunny wouldn't let me be. At least now I know I can finish a story if I just work on one story at a time. Granted this is an ongoing series so it's not done, but the point is, no cliffhangers to keep you waiting. I just wanted to try my hand at a 'long lost Time Lady' story. So, I don't own anything besides my oc. So enjoy.

Flames and kisses,

Mlle. P. Fox

The Last Lady of Time

AU of Series Five and Beyond

In a parallel universe, Melody Pond never became River Song. But her parents Amy and Rory still traveled alongside the Eleventh Doctor, bow ties and all. But when the TARDIS lands on a planet that worships a living goddess known as the Phoenix, the Doctor is shocked to discover that their goddess is a Time Lady! And she's being worshipped against her will. For hundreds of years she's tried to escape the planet, but she's never succeeded. So it's up to the Doctor to save the day and take her away in the TARDIS. Now if he can just stop a matchmaking Amy from suggesting such impossible things. Like restarting the Time Lords with a pretty Time Lady for instance.

"Doctor?" A little voice asked, startling him. He banged his head on the underside of the console and cursed under his breath in a language many thought long since dead. The tall, thin alien rolled out to regard the little human girl staring at him expectantly, standing in her nightie and bunny slippers, her mop of blond curls all over the place.

"Melody Pond! What are you doing up?" The Doctor asked.

"I had the dream again." She mumbled, clutching her stuffed dinosaur to her chest tightly.

"The...funny one where a giant monkey eats a Cyberman like a banana?" He asked hopefully.

"No. The other one." Melody said.

"Oh. That one." The Doctor muttered, scratching his head.

"The one where the mean lady with the eye patch steals me away as a baby, and the Silence raise me to kill you. But I grow up and fall in love with you and marry you instead." Melody said.

"Yup. That's the one. So what happened this week?" The Doctor asked getting to his feet. Melody followed him around the console as he made course corrections.

"Because of my exposure to the Time Vortex, I regenerated into a black girl, but I was still named Melody. But Mummy and Daddy called me Mels." Melody told him, matter of factly.

"Uh huh." The Doctor hummed.

"I grew up with them you see. Then I regenerated again into River Song. I used up the last of my regeneration energy to save your life." Melody said.

"Oh that was thoughtful of you." He said.

"But...none of those things really happened, did they Doctor? I mean, no mean lady ever stole me. The Silence are your allies, and I'm still a little girl." She asked.

"Yes that's all true. But I think the limited exposure you had to the Time Vortex while you were in your Mummy's tummy made you susceptible to psychic interference." The Doctor said sitting her down on the steps leading up from the front door of the TARDIS to the center console.

"Psychic interference Doctor?" Melody asked.

"Un huh. You know how I told you about the Void and parallel universes right?" He asked as she nodded. He went on, "And you know that feeling you get when you swear you've done something, or experienced something before? Humans call it de-ja-vuex. But it's really psychic interference. Where we remember something from a parallel universe. Something from a life we never had. It's all very...wibbily wobbily timey wimey."

"So, in a parallel universe, those awful and wonderful things really happened to me? Even the Library?" Melody asked.

"I'm afraid so." He sighed.

"I'm glad I'm in this universe then. With Mummy and Daddy. Even if I don't get to marry you." Melody concluded. The Doctor chuckled and hugged her close.

"Like mother like daughter." He said fondly, kissing her forehead.

"Oh...but what about Aunt Fee? I've never seen her in my dreams." Melody Pond asked. The Doctor swallowed a lump in his throat.

"Then that probably means...she didn't escape the Time War in that universe. And I'm probably still the last of my kind." He croaked out.

"Then I'm very very glad I'm in this universe." Melody nodded snuggling into his side.

"Me too." The Doctor sighed kissing her forehead again.

"Doctor? Tell me the story of how you and Aunt Fee met?" Melody asked.

"Now Melody. Your Mum and Dad told me explicitly to get you in bed at a reasonable hour. Think of the slap I'll get if your Mum walks in from their night out and she sees you're still up and about." He said sternly. Even going so far as to give her a cousin of his Oncoming Storm look. But the Oncoming Storm was no match for puppy dog eyes and the Infamous Pond Pout.

"Please Doctor?"

"Fine! But I warned you. Now let's see. Where to start?" He said, searching the ceiling of the TARDIS in thought.

"Doctor, you're suppose to start a story with 'once upon a time'!" Melody giggled.
"Oh right! 'Once Upon a Time. Which is a fitting start to this story because it is about time. And two people who were born to travel through time. They grew up on the same planet in the same galaxy. But she was born a few hundred years later than him. But when one can regenerate twelve times, well age is just a number then. The point is, that while they came from the same place, they never crossed paths. Not even during the most horrid of all wars, the Time War. It wasn't until many many years later, when their home was gone, and the man, (who called himself the Doctor) thought he was the last of his kind that he finally met this young lady. An impossible but wonderful girl. His miracle and salvation. The last lady of time." The Doctor began his tale.