This is a prequel. A prequel to an angsty, maybe sometimes funny, but ultimately very tragic tale, involving my character.
Aisha had no family besides the Doctor, but what was going to happen when he regenerated for the last time? When he became the Valeyard?
Read on and find out…
She awoke on the floor, blinking at the lights in the ceiling above her. Aisha blinked, then realised something was different. As she raised her head she saw the console, the same as it had always been, but she couldn't hear her. She couldn't HEAR the TARDIS. Her head… she placed her fingers over where her cyberear should have been. Now there was flesh, bone and a proper ear. She looked behind her and saw the cyberear, and the computer technology that the Cybermen had inserted into her brain over a hundred years ago. She picked it up and clutched it close to her, feeling that she had lost someone dear to her. Suddenly she saw a flash of movement, and Adric materialised at the end of the console room. He looked absolutely terrified and unsure of her.
"Aisha?" he asked, in that weird echoy way, his eyes filled with doubt.
"Of course it's me!" Aisha said, then clamped her hand over her mouth
That hadn't been her voice; it'd been too high! And why had she snapped at Adric like that? She looked at her hand. The scar she'd gotten during that encounter with Sarah Jane, Jack Harkness, Ianto and those weird mud-like aliens that started slow and ended up fast. It had gone. She pulled herself to her feet, and quickly realised that her jeans were too short for her by an inch. She'd grown?
"What… What happened?" she asked Adric
"That was a terrible battle." Adric said, "You managed to stop the Zygon ship, but the shockwave was vicious…"
"I meant the body!" Aisha snapped, then paused and said in a nicer voice, "Sorry. Can you…?"
"It's a regeneration." He said, "I've watched the Doctor go through it many times. You'll get used to it after a while I think."
"The Doctor!" said Aisha suddenly realising
She looked around for him, but he wasn't there. The coat and shoes of his twelfth self were laying discarded on the console floor. It was then that Aisha knew. The Doctor had regenerated too…