Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who and never will. But I do own Artemis and any other characters I come up if any.

Summary: Artemis was only six years old when the Time War began, not old enough to join the Academy, or look in the Untempered Schism. Wanting to protect their daughter from seeing the horrors of war, her parents sent her to Earth with a perception filter around her neck to keep her hidden as a Time Lady. However, the Earth they sent her to wasn't like our own. It was a parallel Earth, one that a certain Doctor would eventually refer to as Pete's World. It wasn't long until she built a life for herself after being taken in by Pete and Jackie Tyler, who insisted on taking her in because at least this way they could have a kid without her having to gain that extra weight. As she grew up, Artemis never took off her perception filter, remembering the words her mother told her before sending her away, 'Never take this off. This will protect you from the humans.' Some days, she wanted to take it off as she hated staying hidden and not being able to show her full potential. But mother's words rang her ears every time she would even think about taking it off. Artemis thought she would never be able to show her real self to anyone, at least that was until she met the Doctor at her adoptive mother's fortieth birthday party.

Author's Note: I thought about this storyline one day and I decided that I needed to write it down. I'm really excited about this one since it starts in a episode that I haven't started in before, which is always fun. And this is another Time Lady fanfic, but the Time Lady in this one doesn't have an official title since she didn't go through the Academy, so she's simply Artemis, which is her actual name. Her relationship with the Doctor should be pretty interesting too. She's only ever heard stories about, some of them good, some of them bad. This will be a Doctor/OC Time Lady fanfic eventually though. When she does figure out her feelings, she denies it. It's like that song, I Won't Say I'm In Love, because she really doesn't and won't until she wants to. Obviously by the title of this chapter, it starts in the Rise of the Cybermen episode, but it kind of cuts to the middle of it when the Doctor finds the charger inside of the TARDIS and goes to tell Rose about it with Mickey. Oh and one more thing, at first, it'll be in the Doctor's POV but we'll get into Artemis's POV later on. Anyway, I'll stop and let you get to reading the story! :D Enjoy my friends!


The Doctor practically swaggered down the street of the Thames, proud that he figured out a way to get them home, away from the parallel world. Mickey Smith, who was right beside him, only shook his head at him in bemusement, which he ignored. No one was going to get him down today, not even Mickey the Idiot.

As they grew closer to this bench, the Doctor saw Rose Tyler sitting down there, causing him to beam.

"There you are!" he called enthusiastically. "You all right? No applause, I fixed it!" Finally making it over to her, he showed her the power cell, beaming away like Father Christmas. "Twenty-four hours, then we're flying back to reality." He sat down on the bench next to her, holding it up towards her. But she didn't look at it, a sad expressing on her face. Before he could ask, he saw the mobile in her hand and his grin faded. He frowned. He told her not to look him up. It would only lead to heartbreak and it looked like it did.

The Doctor sighed then. "What is it?"

Rose didn't even look at him. "My phone connected…" she said quietly. "There's this…Cybus Network, it finds your phone. It gave me internet access."

He gave her a serious look. "Rose, whatever it says, this is the wrong world."

She ignored him, "I don't exist."

"What do you mean?"

"There's no Rose Tyler. I was never born. There's Pete, my dad, and Jackie…he still married mum…but they never had kids…" She sighed heavily. "At least not in the normal way…" She glanced over at him and at his confused look, she elaborated, "They adopted a girl…she's my age now…and she's beautiful…in this…elegant way…" Tears filled her eyes.

Not wanting her to feel any more pain, the Doctor tried to snatch the mobile from her. "Give me that phone."

She quickly pulled it out of his grip. "They're rich. They've got a house and cares, a beautiful, elegant daughter…who's not even me!" Her voice rose angrily at the end then fell as a thinking expression crossed her face. "She's not even me…" She sounded close to tears now and the Doctor wished there was something he could do to comfort her but there was no words he could say that she hadn't already heard. Still, he opened his mouth to try to. He didn't have time as Rose stood up from the bench only to walk away from it. After a moment, she turned back around and looked over at him.

The words that came out of her mouth were ones the Doctor didn't want to hear.

"I've gotta see him."

"You can't." The Doctor stressed out. Seeing him wouldn't do any good, wouldn't change anything. But that didn't matter to Rose.

"I just wanna see him."

"I can't let you!" he argued as he stood up from the bench.

Rose glared at him. "You just said twenty-four hours!" she exclaimed angrily.

"You can't become their daughter, and you definitely can't take the place of their adopted daughter, it doesn't work like that!" Knowing that he would be on his side, the Doctor turned his head towards Mickey. "Mickey, tell her."

Instead of telling her, Mickey stood up from the bench and stated, "Twenty-four hours, yeah?"

A bewildered expression crossed the Doctor's face. "Where're you going?!"

"Well, I can do what I want!"

"I've got the address and everything," Rose added as she walked backwards, down in the other direction of Mickey.

Furiously, the Doctor looked back and forth between the two. "Stay where you are, both of you!" he warned but didn't make a move to stop either them as subconsciously he knew it would be of no use. "Rose, come back here! Mickey, come back right here right now!"

"I just want to see him," Rose said, giving him a pleading look.

"Yeah, I've got things to see and all."

"Like WHAT?!" What could he want to see here? The Doctor didn't get it.

Mickey just shook his head, almost sadly. "Well, you don't know anything about me, do ya? It's always about Rose. I'm just a spare part."

The Doctor looked at Rose as she walked away, giving him an apologetic expression.

"I'm sorry. I've gotta go."

He turned away from Rose to look at Mickey. They were both walking away from him and he didn't know which one to run after. It was more important to stop Rose though…

Mickey stopped walking and met the Doctor's gaze as he gestured to Rose. "Go on then," he said, understanding in his eyes. "No choice, is there? You can only chase after one of us, and it's never gonna be me, is it?"

The Doctor looked back at his Rose as she turned forward and left down the street.

"Back here in twenty-four hours!" he finally told Mickey before running after Rose, not hearing his words as he stared at his retreating back.

"Yeah…if I haven't found something better…"


In a large and gorgeous mansion where Pete and Jackie Tyler lived at, a loud yelp was heard from one of the rooms in the house.

Inside the room, a young woman around the age of nineteen, was sitting down on a chair in front of her vanity and wiggled in the seat as Jackie Tyler fixed her hair for the party that the Tylers were throwing tonight. Her name was Artemis Tyler, the adopted daughter of Pete and Jackie, who was starting to get frustrated with her.

"Stop wriggling Artemis." she scolded her adopted daughter. "I can't fix your hair if you don't."

"Maybe I would stop if you wouldn't keep trying to pull my hair out!" Artemis argued.

As if this was something she heard before, Jackie rolled her eyes. "Oh, stop complaining, there are worse things to complain about."

"Like that dress you're making me wear…" Artemis grumbled. Oh how she loathed wearing dresses, give her pants and combat boots any day.

"Oi!" Jackie slapped her on the shoulder, giving her a glare, which she saw in the mirror.

Artemis winced. "Sorry." Luckily, her mother's face softened.

"It's alright…I know you don't like wearing dresses but thank you wearing one tonight…" Jackie told her softly and she smiled at her mother in the mirror as her hand reached up to play with the butterfly necklace around her neck.

"No problem, mum. It's not every day you turn forty." Artemis' smile turned into a teasing grin. This earned another glare from Jackie, but it was a playful one.

"Oh be quiet, I'm not forty, I'm thirty-nine, thank you very much." She stuck her nose in the air in a rather stuck up way then she looked back down at Artemis and laughed loudly, making Artemis laugh too. Once they finished laughing, Jackie changed the subject with a smile, "Come on, let's finish up your hair and no wiggling this time. We have to make your hair beautiful, you're a Tyler after all and Tylers have to look their best, yeah?"

Artemis let out a chuckle. "But of course." She winked at Jackie, who gave another loud laugh as she shook her head and got back to work on her hair.

Because she hadn't wiggled, Jackie got her hair done thirty minutes later. It was done in a French braid at the side of her head in a rather elegant way. This was usually how she wore her hair when there was a party at the Tyler mansion, but thankfully, they didn't have many fancy parties, only during special days like this one.

What made today extra special, not just because it was Jackie's birthday, the President was coming, which Jackie was rather excited about.

But Artemis was relived that her hair was finally done. Now all she had to do was get dressed and then get the party over with. She would smile, chat, and pretend to have a good time. Artemis was a simple kind of girl. She would rather go hiking, than go to a party, especially with people that were more her parent's friends than hers.

"Alright, I'll leave you to get dressed," Jackie told Artemis, causing the young girl to look over at her. "While I go check on the caterers." Once her daughter nodded, she left the room, closing the door behind her, but then her head popped back in. "Oh and you should take off that butterfly necklace, it doesn't go with the dress." With that, she left the room again.

Artemis' hand went to her necklace and twisted the butterfly in between her fingers with a frown. She couldn't take it off for reasons unknown to Jackie and the rest of the world.

She might look like a normal, human girl, but she wasn't…she was an alien. A Time Lady, to be exact.

The last of her kind…at least that's what she thinks.


TBC...

In...

Rise of the Cybermen, Part 1

Sorry for the shortness of this part and the next one. I just really wanted to post this one so I can work on updating other stories. Since I've been busy with my CNA classes, I haven't been updating, so this weekend is dedicated to updating. So let's see how much I can get done this weekend! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and don't worry, we will see a lot more of Artemis in the upcoming chapters!

Until next time then!

The Doctor's Charlene :D