Prologue- introductions
This Fanfic is a sequel to my own one-shot story "the girl who can" and a story (based on another RP) by charmedMillie, called "the angels of Carlon" I would suggest reading angels of Carlon first
This fanfic is based on an RP by these people- Myself, the Stilinator, Flower getting' lady, charmedMillie, Pinetree13, thenerdwholivesnextdoor, maddyk Wolfbark
If you would like to get involved in the RP, there is a link in my bio. The more the merrier
Now for a summary of the OC's we have already met, or important new history for existing characters
Oswin Oswald- she escaped from the asylum by linking her own emergency temporal shift with the teleport the doctor used. She appeared on the daleks ship rather than the TARDIS. She stole a ship and has left the daleks, vowing to take them down, and hunting for the doctor, still in her Dalek appearance. She met the doctor once, in the angels of Carlon, but it was too early, being the 10th doctor and rose, so they parted ways. Oswin continues to search for the doctor and take down the daleks. –NOTE. This RP was done BEFORE snowmen, before the link between Oswin and Clara was clear
Athena white- this OC stowed onto the TARDIS shortly before the angels of Carlon. During the adventure, she learnt that her father was a human they met, who the doctor had saved from being converted into a weeping angel. He was then sent to the past, and became Athena's father. Part of her heritage means that Athena is immune to the angels and can turn angels back into humans if they were converted. The true extent of her angel heritage and what she can do as a result is unknown to everyone, even Oswin and the doctor. Athena decided to travel with Oswin, or R2 as she calls her, whom she had become friends with.
Elizabeth mills – part time lord, part human and the daughter of the doctor. She was left stranded on Carlon after a previous encounter with the weeping angels while she travelled with rose and the doctor. She re-connected with the doctor and rose on Carlon, along with meeting Athena and Oswin. She decided to leave the doctor, and travel in her own TARDIS, after trying to re-connect with her old friend and companion, olive.
And I think… that is all of the OC's who were mentioned in the other fanfic. On with the show!
CHAPTER 1- Reunion
Oswin opened the door. This was the penultimate stage... the last trip before she needed the doctor... Until the end began.
Oswin glided into the command room, unnoticed to the rest of the daleks. She took her position as the navigation controller as the Dalek ship reached the planet.
"Begin the attack" the supreme Dalek ordered. The Dalek ship began its attack on Telos. Oswin had hacked into the system and gained the location of the final base.
Now to destroy the ship before the attack succeeded. After disabling the weapons, Oswin opened a communication link to Dalek central command before aiming the ship at the planet.
"Explain this at once!" the supreme Dalek ordered.
"The plague strikes again, see you soon, command" Oswin said, before teleporting away to her cloaked ship.
On the ship, Athena was stood there, waiting. "So where next, how about Felspoon? Apparently they have mountains that sway in the wind. Sounds worth a look"
"Sounds like fun," Athena said looking at Oswin from her seat.
"Right... Felspoon. How did you sleep?" Oswin asked.
"Fine," Athena said rubbing her eyes. She had truthfully just gotten up not too long ago. She wanted to ask Oswin how her thing went but she knew Oswin wouldn't really answer. She would just say fine. This had become a regular occurrence now; Oswin would go on a mission just after Athena went to bed. After all, she didn't sleep. This had been a cause of several disagreements over the 5 months the 2 had travelled together.
Athena didn't mind Oswin going on the missions, but she was annoyed that Oswin refused to take her with. And Oswin refused to put Athena in danger like that.
"I'm hungry. We're out of food." Athena complained.
"Oh..." Oswin tended to forget about things like eating "anything specific you fancy? We could get some 31st century flopsitarts... Or something closer to your time... Pizza?"
"Pizza sounds good or McDonalds. How about getting to 2012 and I'll find a place to eat." Athena said.
"Sure... ill drop you off somewhere in Britain... Cardiff, maybe" Oswin said, lost in thought "and you can stock up a bit too while we are there" Oswin flew the ship through a wormhole to earth.
"Sounds good to me," Athena said with a smile as she waited for Oswin to find a place to land.
Oswin landed the ship "ok... Here we are in Cardiff... I think. I need to update the ships information banks so I will stay here... Plus this is only a couple of years after the crucible so I might cause a riot out there. Don't forget to take the phone with you" Oswin said.
"Okay got it," Athena said as she grabbed money and her phone. "See you later R2." Athena chuckled to herself at the nickname. When they had first met Athena had said Oswin looked like R2D2 and the name kind of stuck. Athena left the ship and started to walk around. She truthfully had no idea where she was. Never really been in modern day England before. Oswin had taken her back to the time of knights at her request.
"I am so totally lost," Athena said to herself as she ended up in a neighbourhood. She got out her cell phone and was planning on calling Oswin to see if she could get directions when she saw a blue police box outside one house. It looked different then the TARDIS but something drew her to it. She went to open the door and after a minute of playing with it the door unlocked. Athena smiled to herself as she saw the inside. After five months she was back in the TARDIS. "Hey there girl. I think you just like me and won't lock me out." Athena said as she walked up to the controls.
-DW-
"How hard is it to land in London?" Rory asked agitated, adding for his own bemused benefit: "I could DRIVE to London. You know, Cardiff is NOT London!"
"I know that NOW!" the Doctor responded in equal agitation, "I was just off by a few miles, that's all. Just be glad it wasn't a few years."
They had just faced the Gunslinger in Mercy, dropping the Ponds off home as per their request and he'd gotten a few coordinates wrong. He wasn't going to admit it, but it troubled him; he had landed the TARDIS in front of their lovely little London house a million times by now – had the coordinates practically in his memory – and he had landed in Cardiff. He had even walked them out of the TARDIS and to the front door of the house which should have been theirs when both the Ponds had coughed aloud then complained profusely. It had been a walk of confused shame back to the TARDIS, trying to stick up for himself while eagerly wanting to get back to his machine so as to find out what was wrong. The answer had been waiting for him.
Standing by the console, proud and so much more grown up, was Athena White – a girl whom had once saved an entire planet from Weeping Angels by pure chance. The Doctor remembered that she had snuck aboard the TARDIS, been discovered by Rose, had had an adventure then left with a Dalek. A friendly Dalek. A Dalek that the Doctor was sure he had met again more recently.
"Hey Doc, did you miss me?" Athena asked with a smirk.
Amy looked up, catching sight of the girl a few feet ahead of them. "Doctor, who's that?"
Athena waited as the doctor stared at her. It was getting annoying as the red head ask who she was. "Come on doctor. You can't not remember me. I mean saviour of Carlon. I also highly doubt too many other people have been a stowaway on the TARDIS." Athena looked at the red head. "Nina, right. Hey where's rose? I miss her."
"Uh, Doctor?" Rory's voice echoed in the Doctor mind as he stared blankly at the girl, Amy also questioning the girl as the Doctor steeled himself with a smile.
"Athena! Long-time no see, eh? I do hope you remember the whole concept of regeneration so this doesn't all freak you out – of course you do." He had run up to give her a squeeze before releasing her. "Where's Oswin?" he was sure Athena's Dalek and the Asylum Genius Dalek had to be the same one. It was that or he was about to receive odd looks from more than just two people…
"Oswin?" The name reminded Rory of someone, someone familiar, he turned to look at as just-as-confused Amy and mouth the words 'Soufflé Girl?'
Athena smiled as the doctor finally reacted. "Hey doc missed you. R2 is still on the ship probably scanning for u. Oh she will be so jealous I found you." Athena laughed. "Of course I remember regeneration and seriously where's rose?" Athena looked
around for her friend. She missed rose the most and then her stomach reminded her why she left the ship. "I'm starved. You got any food?"
"R2..." the Doctor mused, remembering, as if from a dream, Athena referencing the droid in their similar appearance to a Dalek, it seemed that it had become a sort-of nickname the way it was being used by the woman. Ignoring the Rose reference entirely - he'd get to that when the Ponds weren't around - he instantly moved around to Athena's side to look down at the married couple, he had his arm around Athena's shoulder. "Right Ponds, change of plan, slight delay in your return home - and I mean only slight!"
"Great..." Rory moaned, a little annoyed. He wanted to call his dad; he had meant to the night the Doctor had picked him up and a few odd texts really didn't cut it, despite Brian's joy that they were with the Doctor.
"Oi, no! Find Athena something to eat, I'm sure you've got some cash to spare Wonder Nurse and... What job are you on now, Amy? Never mind. Take her out, bond and I shall... well..." he planned on scanning for Oswin. He had to apologise for what had happened to her. Yes she had met his past self since becoming a Dalek but for him he had last left her to die on the Asylum, as a Dalek, away from home. There had to be something he could do to help.
Athena realized the doctor skipped the rose questioned and decided 2 bring it up later. "Sure thing," Athena said as she left the TARDIS with the two. She looked at the red head. "So it's Amy not Nina?"
"That... That was me" Rory confessed, "but it's Rory, not Nina, just to let you know and this is Amy - my wife" he grinned the red-head's way.
Athena very nearly started laughing. "You're Nina? That's just like r2, I mean Oswin," Athena said realizing they wouldn't get the nickname. "So how did you end up with the doctor?"
"A long story" Rory muttered, "Mainly Amy's - I just tag along, I suppose. How did you end up with Oswin? How did she survive the explosion of the Asylum?"
"You'd have to ask her about the explosion, but as for me I was with the doctor in his last regeneration. R2, I mean Oswin, showed up looking for him. Because of me we were able to save Carlon from the weeping angels and I left with Oswin." Athena said.
-DW-
Rose sighed heavily, pushing hair back from her eyes. It had been nearly a year since she'd been left in Bad Wolf Bay, with a broken heart and empty arms, as the holographic Doctor faded from sight. She kept thinking back to then, wishing that he'd been able to say what she thought he would. It was late nights at Torchwood, like this one, that always had her reminiscing. And when she started to remember, her chest would constrict and her lungs would feel like they were filled with lead.
"Rose?"
"Hmm...? Yeah, Mickey?"
Mickey, also a Torchwood employee, gestured to the dimension canon; it was a simple machine comprised of hundreds of wires, all wrapped around what looked like a metal cage. It simulated Vortex energy and was able to fling Rose across dimensions. Unfortunately, being very TARDIS-like, it also tended to throw her into random time periods, and even dimensions she'd never been to before. There was the one with no shrimp, the one where everyone had a light green tint to their skin, the one void of any people at all, and the one with a war-crazed Doctor that had never met Rose, and whose eyes burned as he advanced on her until the canon pulled her back last second.
She realized that Mickey was speaking. "... and you're sure it's a good idea for another trip?"
"Yeah, 'course I am." Rose said assuredly. Truthfully, she was exhausted. She'd been at it for so long, ever since the stars had begun to go out five months ago. So many trips, so much pain... her arms, hidden by a dark blue leather jacket, were littered with scars. The worst one was the jagged one across her back, from the mad Doctor. She had to tell herself over and over that he hadn't been her Doctor; he'd been scared and alone.
Mickey shook his head at her. "You haven't slept in days."
"The stars are goin' out, Mickey, I think sleep can wait."
"You'll get hurt." his fingers traced lightly across her back, and she shuddered. "How can you know if you're in the right dimension, or if he's safe?"
"I'll... I'll just know." said Rose. "And I think maybe I'll get it right this time."
He looked like he wanted to protest, but allowed her to step into the cage, gun at the ready. "Be safe, yeah?"
"Yeah."
She closed her eyes, letting the dizzying feeling wash over her, buzzing and popping sounding around her head. Very suddenly, she was wrenched from the ground, body hanging for a split second in the Void before her legs buckled beneath her and she was crumpling on the felt like pavement. Gagging, she swallowed back the imminent feeling of nausea and glanced around.