Dear Readers,
Welcome to the rewrite of the sequel to The Doctor's Son. I was inspired by the idea of how the original sequel fit with the third installment so well. I decided to blend the two into one story. I hope you enjoy this story and everything that it holds. I do apologize for the delay between chapters life has been getting in the way. But to make up for it here is two new chapters! Yay! I would like to thank all of my friends, especially my writing mentor and co-writer, Rae Carson who without I wouldn't be where I am as a writer. I owe her everything. I thank all of my wonderful friends for being my inspirations and help during this creative trek. Here it is the next chapter in Emma and Ryder's journey.
DJ Vivian
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Doctor Who stories or characters. The same with Harry Potter.
Companions are a breed of their own - a beautiful, incredible race. They are special and chosen by the universe to do what most cannot. They look like most human beings, but they contain something within them which makes them vastly different. All of them. Perhaps they are stars that had fallen from the sky looking for a place to fit in, or they are looking for some kind of higher purpose. Most view at them as the ones that will never be anything more than what they already are, just the ordinary people in the world.
Little does the world, know that these unknown beings are so much more, a destiny that only one other incredible man knows. The same man that has become the protector of the planet. The man who is called the Doctor, who is drawn to the human race but there is something else that connects him to this galaxy. Perhaps it is the lost heavenly body that walk among us, never knowing until the precise moment that they are special. Their destinies are intertwined by the same force that drives the oncoming storm to the call of the universe. Where does this race come from? No one knows but the Doctor...and possibly...not even him.
Companions are their own grand race and they are so exceptional at blending in, these individuals often get lost in the bustle of humanity.
The Doctor once chose the blonde shop girl who dove into all of time and space to save the only man she ever truly loved. She became so much more, a hero in her own right and eventually saved not only him, but the entire world from destruction.
The shop girl who he was forced to leave behind and who he never forgot, held a secret that remained unspoken for not only her own good, but for the good of the universe - all of the universes. In time, even she brought that treasure home, where it had always belonged.
Then there was the med student who later became a doctor in her own right. Like so many before her, she fell hard for the Doctor, even though he had no means of reciprocating her emotions. In his mind, she was one of the top three companions whose time with him changed her the most - the girl who walked the Earth.
The Time Lord found the most important woman that became the true platonic soul mate of the Doctor. She sadly, crushingly had to lose her special gift of this beautiful race in order to save her own life. Her legacy still lives on through the memories that reside inside the twin hearts of Gallifrey's last soldier of time.
The girl who traveled around the world with a story that would put an end to a horrible dark era for the people of Earth, but misunderstood an order that could have doomed everything. She was still a child in the new race, not yet mature in her time.
Then came the couple-companions whose love broke all boundaries of the universe, whose first and last encounters were both ultimately perfect and ultimately crushing, having left both anticipating something amazing that was never meant to be. The Doctor first met the woman when she was little girl. Then he met her again, as she sat outside in her ill-fitting red boots, anticipating the time her best raggedy friend would return and whisk her away to the heights of adventure. She ran away with the Doctor before she would have been joined together with her own true soul mate. Her fiancé - the man whom she initially left behind - waited two millennia for his bride to awaken from her slumber. Eventually, this companion-couple even reset time. She became the girl who waited, and even tore apart the fabric of time for love. Both man and woman made the choice to stay joined in death forever.
The Doctor's second true love was the child of this couple. She knew his past yet her future flew by him. They shared a timeless bond that ended all too soon. She was the trained assassin who was meant to kill the last Time Lord. Eventually, almost magically, somehow their love and shared DNA made her human and she transformed into one of the most beautiful stars in his latest creation.
Finally, the traveling man discovered another old friend - and old friend with ten-thousand lives who sang the truest song of the universe. He was the Doctor's oldest friend, even though in the end, even the Doctor could not recognize him. So many more belong to this ever growing race of stars belonging to a new unseen universe. The ones that comprise this brilliant, inspiring, and oh-so-incredible young race.
He never forgot the soufflé which carried his favorite scent. He died twice to never leave his mind and feeding his curiosity of the mystery she held. To find out she was born from a leaf and came to be, so that she might save him through all of his lives. She became his friend that never broke through anything that wasn't meant to be broken. She was his impossible treasure.
These are the ones who the Doctor seeks, the ones to whom he is irrepressibly drawn, and even he is often unaware of who they are at first. In a way they are his children, needing his love and guidance to unlock the potential that they carry within their very souls. They are the few that extend throughout the galaxies, to be discovered by him in order to fulfill their destinies, for good or ill. They are more than merely the Bad Wolf, the woman who walked the Earth, the universe's most important woman, the one that walked around the world, the ill-fated lovers, the jaded diamond, the man with a thousand lives, and the impossible girl.
I was one of the Doctor's companions. I discovered my place in the universes as the companion race. I hope that these words are passed on throughout time and space to all in this very young species that we are infinitely more than what we seem. This is for future companions to come so they will know about their people and why the Doctor chose them to be by his side. This is so they learn how important they are to him and to all universes as a whole. We are the heavenly bodies that shine out in the vastness of universes, that they light the way for the protector of human life so that he is never alone. And the Doctor must never be alone. I write these words as an honored memorial to the ones before the new and upcoming generation of the Companions. This is to make certain that we will never be forgotten or fade into the annals of time. Heed these truths and know that once chosen, you are forever part of something invincible and everlasting.