Tardis Incarnate
Written by DropDeadRomantic
Prologue
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters, settings, accepted cannon ideas, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The Original Character and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
AN: PLEASE READ THE NOTE AT THE BOTTOM! IMPORTANT!
Rose and the Doctor looked up from the TARDIS console when they heard a throat clear. Standing on the balcony was a girl. She was wearing pajama pants that had been cut into shorts and a Twilight tee-shirt. Her hair was a medium brown with natural Auburn highlights and her eyes were a brilliant blue-ish grey. Her eyebrow was raised, her hands were on her hips, and her bare foot was tapping the grating floor in agitation.
"What?" The Doctor said as his eyebrows moved up his forehead.
"Yeah, that's what I'd like to know." Rose's jaw dropped at the girl's American accent. Rose glared at the Doctor in her confusion.
"Who's the kid?" The Doctor shrugged and started hitting buttons on the console; trying to figure out who the girl was and how she had gotten on his TARDIS.
"Hey! I'm twenty years old, thank you very much. And I have a name." The woman crossed her arms and glared at Rose. She shook her head before looking at the Doctor.
"Well?" He wouldn't look away from the console and continued to ignore Rose and the stranger. Kira sighed and walked back down the hallway towards the room she had come from. Chloe was just about to creep out of the room but Kira bent down and picked the cat up off the floor before she could wander off.
She shut the door behind her and then set Chloe back down on the floor to wander as she pleased. She leaned back against the door and sighed. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before going over to her closet and opening the door. She expected to find her normally cramped, small, half closet, but what she found was a large walk in closet with all of her clothes hung up on racks and all her dirty clothes, that had been left in a pile on the floor, freshly laundered and hung up with the rest of her clothing. She caressed the wall with a gently had and smiled.
"Thanks, Sexy." The TARDIS gently dimmed the lights in response. Kira pulled down a pair of jean, a Deviant ART© tee-shirt, and grabbed a pair of sneakers off the floor before walking to the door that was, usually, her bathroom. So far, the only thing that had been changed by the TARDIS was her closet. When she opened the door she noticed almost everything was the same. The bathtub had gotten bigger and a shower head had been added but that was it. All her toiletries were just as she'd left them last night.
She changed out of her pajamas and into her clothes before walking back into her bedroom. She laid back on her bed and closed her eyes. Chloe climbed up the bed and laid at her owner's side; purring as Kira scratched behind her ears. Kira didn't have to wait long before there was a knock at the door.
"Come in." The door opened and both the Doctor and Rose stepped in. The Doctor stopped short when he was Chloe but shook his head and closed the door behind Rose so the cat wouldn't get out and run about his TARDIS.
"My closet has expanded." Kira said before they could speak. The Doctor nodded while Rose looked around the room. She noticed the bookshelf packed with books, the television and a cabinet that looked full of movies.
"Yes, that would be the" Kira cut him off before he could explain anything.
"The TARDIS. Yes, I know." Kira gave Chloe one last rub before she got up and walked over to Rose and slapped her hand away from the book she was about to pick up.
"Those books are from your future, Sweetheart. Spoilers." She turned away from Rose and to the cabinet holding most of her movies. She crouched down and rummaged through her DVD's for a moment before finding her "Doctor Who" section. She grabbed season one of the new series and closed the doors.
"Here, it's already happened for you, so you can see this." Kira handed the box set to the Doctor and watched as the shock and finally understanding filled his face.
"So, how are we gonna get me back home?" He looked up at her and shook his head.
"I don't know, but we will." Kira rolled her eyes as Rose cleared her throat.
"Someone tell me what's going on?" The Doctor nodded and began to pace across the room.
"She's from a parallel world where my life is televised, a show made by the BBC." He handed the box to Rose so she could see the two of them on the cover. Chloe jumped back on the bed and looked at Kira before meowing. The Doctor watched as the cat tried to get her attention before looking at Kira who was watching Rose with a smile on her face.
"She's hungry." Rose looked up at him and Kira raised an eyebrow.
"Your cat, she's hungry." Kira's face cleared and she nodded at him as she picked Chloe up off the bed.
"Right, you can understand every language, even something as primitive as a cat. I'd forgotten about that." Kira took the box from Rose and tossed it on her bed. She ushered the two from her room as she grabbed the key that would lock her door of the dresser.
"Hey, Sexy? Could you lock my room for me? So that only I can enter and only with this key?" Kira spoke to the door as she shut and locked it behind her.
"Why? And Sexy?" She turned to the Doctor and with a smile, winked at him.
"Because I have your future on DVD in there, and Spoilers." The hall light's dimmed for a second and the lock turning could be heard. Kira patted the wall and turned; walking down the hallway.
"Thanks, sweetie. Kitchen?" The Doctor walked ahead of Kira and let them down the hallway. Kira held Chloe close to her so she couldn't jump down and race around the TARDIS. With Jackie and Mickie having been on the ship she didn't think having a cat run loose would be good with his aversion to domestic's.
"So, what was the last adventure you two had?" Kira asked as she walked into the kitchen. She closed the door behind Rose and set Chloe on the floor. She went through the cupboards and drawer's until she found two bowls and some cat food.
"Well…" The Doctor started but realized he didn't even know her name.
"Sorry, what's your name?" Rose's jaw dropped when she too realized they didn't know this woman's name.
"That took you a while." Kira laughed before holding out a hand.
"Kira Strong." The Doctor shook her hand before she didn the same with Rose. She went back to filling the bowls with water and cat food.
"Anyway, we were just at the 2012 Olympics." Kira set the bowls down in an unused corner as she nodded.
"Ah, Chloe Webber and you with the torch. That was a good one." She leaned against the counter as she watched the Doctor and Rose get comfortable at the table. Rose ran a hand through her hair before looking at the Doctor.
"So she knows all about us because where she came from it's all on TV. And she knows about our future." He nodded so she turned back to Kira.
"Prove it." Rose glared at her and Kira nodded. She held up a hand and counted on her fingers as she spoke.
"Run, Face of Boe and Cassandra, Gelth, Slitheen, Dalek's, Satallite Five, your father, Jack, Margaret, Bad Wolf and your regeneration." Kira took a deep breath before starting again, this time with more personal things.
"Your full name is Rose Marion Tyler, your father's name is Peter Allan Tyler, and your mom's name is Jackie. Mickie Smith is not an idiot, and I think he's the best companion's companion, ever." Kira glared at the Doctor are she sppke the last part.
"Ok, ok. That's enough. What about you then?" The Doctor waved her over to the table and pushed a chair out with his foot. She walked over and sat down before talking.
"I'm twenty, I live alone with my cat, Chloe, and I'm working to go to school to get a teaching degree. No boyfriend, no husband. I talk to my mom every week and see my brother every month or so. Not much else." She shrugged and waited for them to say something. Chloe chose then to jump up onto her lap to get on the table. She walked across the table over to the Doctor and purred as he rubbed a hand down her back.
"Then why you?" He asked as he scratched the cat behind her ears.
"I don't know. I'm nothing like your companions. I'm not brave, I'm lazy, and I spend my Saturday night's reading with my cat instead of going out clubbing." Kira shrugged and crossed her arms while leaning back in her chair. He looked deep in thought as he stared at the cat.
"Well, why don't we go somewhere?" Kira nodded at the Doctor with a smile and jumped out of the seat while picking Chloe up off the table.
"Sure. Let me put Chloe back in my room and I'll meet you two at the console."
"So," Kira said as she walked down the stairs from the balcony. "do I get to chose where we go?" Rose and the Doctor looked up from their whispered conversation to see that Kira had grabbed a huge over the shoulder purse, and a sweater. The Doctor nodded as he started pressing buttons and flipping switches to get the TARDIS ready for flight.
"Yes. Where do you want to go?" Rose asked as she walked to the other side of the console.
"I want to meet Jackie and Jack." The Doctor nodded and then piloted the TARDIS. The journey was bumpy, as always, and Kira laughed as she hung onto the railing. When they landed Rose grabbed the bag of laundry she had by the doors and walked out. The Doctor followed but waited for Kira to follow him. She took a deep breath and tightened her grip on her bag before walking towards the door.
"Ow." The Doctor looked into the TARDIS to see Kira on the floor with her hands on her head. She opened her eyes as he helped her up.
"Are you alright?" She nodded and with gentle fingers felt her sore nose. She looked at the door in confusion as she held her hand out. The barrier that she had just walked into shimmered as her hand stopped in thin air.
"What?" She whispered in shock. She shook her head and leaned on the barrier. It held her weight and didn't budge. She exhaled sharply and looked at the Doctor. He was staring at the door in shick.
"Well, I guess I can't go with you guys." He stared at her before running to the console and hitting buttons and flipping switches. A low him filled the room and the lights dimmed so low that she couldn't see more than a foot in front of her face.
"Doctor? What happened?" Kira held her hands in front of her and walked with exaggerated slowness so as to not trip. As she made her way towards the console the golden light filled the room and lit her body with star dust.
"What the hell is this?" Kira looked at the Doctor when she saw her hands. She held her arms out in front of her and watched as the golden particles swirled around her limbs in circles and figure eights. It twirled in and out of her fingers and circled around her head. Kira smiled as the light washed across her cheek asnd left a trail of warmth and peace in its wake.
"It's so beautiful, Doctor. What is it?" The Doctor stared back at her in awe as his ship connected with her new passenger. A tear slid down his cheek as he saw the TARDIS wrap this small insignificant human girl in her soul. Only one person could bond this way to a TARDIS.
When Rose had opened her heart and taken in the time vortex she had torn a hole in the protections every TARDIS grew with. In old Gallifreyan legends, back before he was born, it was said that a TARDIS soul could reside in one person. A person neutral to right and wrong, good and evil. A person the Eternal's created and both Guardians protected, and when the need was greatest, this person would appear to keep those left of us level headed and comforted.
As he watched Kira and the TARDIS' soul flow and connect he wondered why she had waited so long to help them. The Time Lords had needed her during the Time War, even before that. Why had she waited until now?
"Do you hear that?" Kira asked as a melody played through her head.
"Kira, what is she saying?" Kira watched as he slowly walked over to her, he couldn't hear the song.
"Nothing, it's a song. Just a song." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The Doctor watched as she breathed in the particles and waited a moment before walking to her and taking her hands in his.
"Listen Kira. Please, just listen." Kira slowly opened her eyes and gently wiped the tear from his face. He held her hand to his cheek as he looked into her eyes. Wide with awe and unshed tears they were slowly morphing from blue to gold. With Rose it had been a power struggle between the human and Bad Wolf, but with Kira it was a gentle merging to create one soul, one identity.
"Yes." Kira breathed, and in the next second the console opened and the Time Vortex rushed towards her. It went around the Doctor and slammed into her. She stumbled back and took a deep breath before screaming.
The influx of information made her head pound and her heart race. Phrases and instructions burned new neural pathways, ideals she had never practiced crashed around her heart, and visions of the past, present, and future flashed across her eyes. The Time Lines rearranged to add her into the mix and fixed points in time changed to allow her interference. But not all was changed; she could not leave the TARDIS and today was the day the Doctor loses Rose. There was nothing she could do about it.
"Doctor?" He looked at the doors when he heard Rose should over Kira's screaming. Rose was watching Kira with fear, it was Bad Wolf all over again. Jackie, who stood behind Rose, watched as the golden light seeped into the strange girl and hoped she would be okay.
"You have to stop her! It'll kill her, Doctor!" Rose screamed as Kira's shout seemed to echo and deepen. The Doctor shook his head as he watched Kira, waiting for it to end. Kira tried to breathe through the pain but all she could do was scream. It was changing her; making her able to hold the TARDIS' sould. As the last of the information about the TARDIS flowed into her head her scream choked off.
"Kira?" The Doctor whispered in the deafening silence. Her head was tilted back and her arms were spread out at her sides. He turned to the console and fell t his knees as a ball of glowing, luminescent energy floated out of the Time Rotor. Gently, as if pushed by a summers breeze, it floated to Kira and disappeared into her chest. She took a deep breath and righted her head. When she opened her eyes Rose gasped at the gold the now filled in over the blue of her ees. They swirled with energy before calming to a beautiful light amber.
"How is she not dead?" Rose kept her eyes on Kira, narrowed in envy. She'd had all the power of the Bad Wolf, why did Kira get to keep it when she couldn't?
"Rose!" Jackie gasped at her daughters tone. She had never heard her voice that mean. The poor girl had obviously just been in a lot of pain and here was her child making remarks like that.
"No, mum. I know what that is. It's the Time Vortex. I've had it in me and it almost killed me. Why isn't she dead, Doctor?" But he wasn't paying attention to her, he was watching Kira.
Kira had kept her attention of the Doctor as well. She reached out to him as she felt her eyes close and her mind shut down. He caught her before she could hit the floor, and picked her up into his arms before walking over to the jump seat and setting her down. He leaned against the console and ran a hand over his face.
"Doctor?" Rose barked in annoyance. She didn't like his paying attention to Kira. She was here first, damnit! She rolled her eyes and growled before walking over to him and grabbing his hand.
"Okay, we don't have time for this. There's stuff going on out there, and we need your help!" Rose said as she pulled him out of the TARDIS and towards the flat.\
Kira groaned and held her forehead as she woke up. She opened her eyes and sat up in the chair. As she looked around the console room she realized she knew what everything was and what everything did. She knew where all the rooms were, she knew every secret the TARDIS had, and she knew, most likely, everything about the Doctor.
"Doctor? Rose?" She called out for them and when no one answered, she tried to remember what happened before she collapsed. A flash of memory flew through her mind; Rose standing at the doors with Jackie, yelling at the Doctor. The three of them leaving and then the Doctor coming back for the ghost detectors. Her eyes snapped open when she realized what episode they were at. Rose was gone.
She felt a keen sense of loss. She had her own memories of Rose, but she also had the TARDIS data-banks in her head. She had seen the episodes and knew what had happened outside of the TARDIS, but now she knew how connected Rose and the Doctor were, how connected Rose and the TARDIS were. She sobbed as she ran down the hallway and into her room.
Chloe watched as her owner fan into the room and collapsed onto her bed. She jumped up and gently nudged her arm with her face and purred; trying to comfort her.
"Chloe." Kira muttered as she turned her tear streaked face towards her baby. She rubbed her hand down the cats back and then under her chin.
"Happy?" Kira looked at Chloe with wide eyes before chuckling. She was the soul of the TARDIS now; of course she could understand her cat.
"Yes, sweetie. I'm okay." Chloe rubbed her face into Kira's hand and licked the back of her hand before going to the corner of the bed and laying down. Kira took a deep breath and wiped her face clean before getting up off the bed to look around the room. She closed her eyes and concentrated; she imagined a room any cat would kill for. Large enough to run around in, a climbing landscape on the walls, lots of toys, plenty of windows that let in sun twelve out of twenty four hours a day, and a nice place to sleep and relax. She make it so that outside the window's it looked like a warm spring day with birds and flowers and green grass.
Kira opened her eyes and there was a new door in her room. She opened the door and it was just like she imagined it; that was easier than she thought it would be. She laughed as Chloe raced into the room and explored the new space. She smiled and left the room, leaving the door open so Chloe could have acces to her room as well. As she returned to her room she thought about what she could do to make this easer on the Doctor. Her smile widened her movie cabinet and grabbed all the "Doctor Who" original series box's and season one and two of the new series.
Kira looked up from the screen and key board she was using in the console room and to the Doctor; he's just walked into the TARDIS. Tears were drying on his cheeks and his eyes were haunted. He looked at her with a blank face; like she wasn't even there.
"You're right on time. I'm almost done." She spoke gently, almost whispering. He slowly walked down the steps towards her.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He whispered as a few more tears ran down his face.
"Before? Because for all I knew, it was a fixed point. And then I was unconscious." She said as she looked back at the screen and continued typing. She swiveled the screen towards him and then started the video she had made using her DVD's and the TARDIS memory banks. It was all about Rose; clips of their adventures and moments in the TARDIS. She had done the same for every companion and Time Lord before Rose. She also added every episode that he's already lived through into the video data-banks.
He held his breath as he watched Rose talk and joke with his ninth incarnation. He watched as their adventures played across the screen and the tears began again as he saw their moments on the TARDIS. Kira stood and pulled him close to her. She ran a hand down his back and used the other to sweep the hair off his forehead.
"You'll be alright, my Time Lord." She whispered in Gallifreyan to the top of his head. He stepped away from her but looked into her eyes.
"You're my TARDIS." He whispered. She nodded and stepped closer to him; she grabbed his hand and held it to her chest. He could feel the power thrumming underneath her skin and her heart beating four times the normal human rate.
"The only difference is now I can talk to you; comfort you when you need me to." She whispered as tears gathered in her eyes.
"You'll never be alone again."
Rose stood on the beach and watched as the sun slowly made its way up into the sky. He'd called out to her last night; all she had to do was follow his voice.
"Rose." She turned around and there he was. His usual suit on but he was transparent.
"Where are you?" She asked as she pulled her jacket tighter around her stomach to stave off the wind.
"In the TARDIS; there's one tiny little gap in the Universe left, just about to close." He said. He looked the same, but Rose could tell something about him was different.
"You look like a ghost." She shook her head and pushed the hair from her face.
"Hold on." He pulled the sonic out of his breast pocket and fiddled with it for a moment before pointing it at the console. Rose watched as his image cleared and it was like he was right there in front of her.
"Can I touch?" She asked as she walked closer to him; her hand held out as if to touch his cheek. He shook his head and shrugged.
"I'm still just an image, no touch." Rose's eyes filled with tears and she held a hand over her heart.
"Can't you come through properly?" her voice was shaky with suppressed tears.
"The whole thing would fracture. Two Universes would collapse." He shook his head and watched as more tears filled her eyes.
"So?" She chuckled a bit and he smiled because for just that second, they could pretend.
"Where are we? Where did the gap come out?" He could only see a few feet around her, but it looked like a beach.
"We're in Norway." He nodded and took another look around.
"Darlig Ulv Stranden. Translates to Bad Wolf Bay." She chuckled as he smiled at her. Her laugh wavered into a shaky, watery breath.
"How long have you got?" she asked as she tried to keep in a sob.
"Not long." He smiled despite the pain in his heart and the tears in her eyes.
"Am I ever going to see you again?" She sobbed as the tears slid down her face. She pushed the hair out of her eyes; she had to see him. If this was it, she wanted to look at him for as long as she could.
"You can't." He whispered while he wanted nothing more than to pull her into his arms and tell her everything would be okay.
"What are you going to do?" she tried to control herself and breathed deeply to stem the tears.
"Oh, I've got the TARDIS. Same old life, last of the Time Lords."
"On your own?" he shrugged and looked at her for the last time. There wasn't much time left. Kira had tried to get them more time, but the best she could do was a few seconds.
"I lo-" She choked on her words, barely able to breathe through the pain clogging her throat.
"I love you." She sobbed out the last word in desperation. She was not letting him go before he knew how she felt.
"Quite right, too." He smiled gently as she nodded.
"And I suppose, if it's my last chance to say it. Rose Tyler-" That was all she got before he disappeared. She sobbed, closing her eyes and resting her head in her hands.
Kira watched as the Doctor said goodbye to Rose. She couldn't see Rose, but she'd watched this episode enough times to know the lines by heart. She felt the tears roll down her face as the Doctor was cut off before he could tell Rose he loved her. He rubbed a hand over his eyes to wipe the tears away and takes a deep breath. He turned to Kira and took the hand she offered to him.
"It'll be alright. I promise." She whispered as she wrapped her arms around him and held him tightly. His grip around her waist was tight and she felt him take deep breaths into her neck. She gently rubbed a hand up and down his back and used the other to gently push him away. She put her hands on his cheeks and wiped the lingering tears away with her thumbs. She pulled his head down and laid a gentle kiss upon his forehead. She leaned down to whisper in his ear.
"Here she comes." She held her stomach in her hands and rested her head on his shoulder. He looked at her in confusion until he saw the woman in a wedding dress and veil standing by the doors. His eyebrows rose up his forehead and his jaw dropped.
"What?" Donna Noble had closed her eyes one second and opened them to a set of doors. She heard someone speaking behind her and turned to see a man and a woman embracing. The woman was short, maybe five foot six inches, and she had beautiful brown hair and amber eyes. She was wearing jeans and a tee-shirt. The man was in a brown pinstriped suit with grubby white trainers.
"Oh!" Donna could feel her eyes widen; what the hell was going on?
"What?" The Doctor kept his arm around Kira's shoulder as his shock made his legs quit working.
"Who are you?" She sneered at him.
"But-" He looked from the woman in the wedding dress to the console and then back again.
"Where am I?"
"What?"
"What the hell is this place?"
"What?" Kira smiled; this was going to be fun, even if Donna made her a little sick.
Okay, this is the first chapter of my new story. I hope you all enjoyed it, I had a blast writing it. It took me two day's to write it all out by hand and then about an hour to type it all up. I'm trying to stick to my promise of only posting a chapter when I've already got the next chapter finished, and so far I can do that. Chapter two is finished and I'm about to start chapter three. I'm hoping to be able to write, and post, a chapter every other day, but we all know how my plans usually go.
I've read a lot of OC stories lately and I really wanted to try it myself; so this is the product of that. I modeled Kira (Kear-a) after myself, well, kind of. And Chloe is the exact replica of my cat, same name and everything! lol. Anyway, all I've seen of OC Doctor Who stories, so far, is where the OC and the Doctor fall in love, so I don't really want to do that. It may eventually end up that way anyway, because I'm a sucker for romance, but I'm trying to be original here. And that's where the TARDIS soul comes in. I haven't seen anything like that yet, so I figured I'd give it a try. And no, this has nothing to do with Bad Wolf, it's completely different.
Now I want to remind everyone that even though we all LOVE the TARDIS, we don't really see that much of her until Season five, when Matt Smith takes over as the Doctor. So these chapters are going to be pretty short; this one is about 4 thousand words long, and chapter two is about 5 thousand. I'm hoping to go through season 3 to whenever I catch up with season 7 with Kira and Chloe. After that? Who knows what I'll do then.
Okay, I'm done! Please, review and tell me what you think! I could really use some new ideas to keep the brain juice flowing. :)