A Coincidence he didn't like

The usual wheezing sound of the TARDIS materialising filled the street outside where he and Kate would meet, Clara was walking patiently behind the Doctor, biting her lip worried as she stared after her friend. She reached out an arm to touch his shoulder lightly, recoiling in shock as he turned around quickly, his eyes heavy and sad.

"Doctor….what's wrong, you haven't said two words to me after your phone call with Kate….what's going on?"

The Doctor smiled wearily, touching Clara's cheek for a brief moment, his green eyes softening as he apologised "Sorry,… Just…'' And so he told her, watching as her eyes widened lightly moving opening slightly as she listened.

"She could be… but shouldn't you be happy?" Clara paused raising an eyebrow as he had turned around and started walking ahead.

The Doctor sighed and paused briefly " If she is infected like everyone else, it won't be too long before she dies, and then I'll have lost them all over again" He started moving on again leaving Clara to walk briskly in order for her to keep up with his pace.

"Can't see change… you know like you do?" She queried as they walked on, noticing Kate and a couple of UNIT soldiers to her right.

"Sometimes its not possible, we don't know what this thing is that's causing these people to become infected, for all we know it could stop it completely" He held out his hand to Kate, shaking it vigorously as she approached.

"I wish we could meet on better terms Doctor" She smiled, her eyes looking tired as she nodded and acknowledgement to Clara.

Kate turned around and was already walking back inside UNIT base as she was informing him.

"How…how is she" The Doctor asked wearily as they walked through several corridors, each ending in strict security measures that meant Kate had to unlock them with different codes before they could progress.

"Stable for now, but …well maybe its better you see for yourself" Kate looked at the Doctor briefly before continuing through the corridors, gradually the sounds of screams echoed through the corridors. The Doctor looked down to Kate, concern on his face before he ran ahead, not being able to help himself as he ran to find out who this mysterious girl was.

"Doctor!… Wait...you don't understand.." Kate had called after him, but he wasn't going to stop, instead he skidded round the corner pausing at the doorway as he watched in horror as his eyes focused upon a girl restrained on a tilted metal table, body arching in the air as she screamed in agony as the medical doctor to the side of her poked her with what looked like a metal rod, silencing her for a moment. The Doctor suddenly angry ran forward, knocking the rod from his hand, as it clattered and dropped to the floor.

"What type of operation have you got going on here Kate… getting a grown man to Taser a girl.. She's nothing more then a kid…" His eyes wandered over her still body, noting the gently rise of her chest as her eye fluttered madly under her eyelids, her dark pink lips parted as they moved as if she was speaking slightly. Her skin was pale, and dirty he noticed, and her soft brown hair flowed around her face matted and looking like it had seen better days. Something inside his mind, told him what he wanted to know, something that made his hearts leap and made him want to jump up and down with happiness. A tear shone in his eyes as he looked down at her somewhat peaceful face. She was hooked up to a heart monitor, showing the rhythmic beeps of two heart lines , without thinking he went to reach out to cup her cheek before Kate's hand stopped him.

"I'm sorry Doctor, it's the only way we can stop her hurting herself, without knocking her unconscious, she hisses and her body is sent into spasms like you just saw." Kate held out a couple of gloves to him "Plus touch her and you'll be exactly like her, not what we need right now" The Doctor nodded and pulled back, straightening up as he looked to the lab coated doctor by her side, pulling on the gloves as his face softened

"Sorry…"

Clara's face bobbed uncertain in between Kate and a soldier as she tried to see over them. "So …is she a Time Lord.?"

The Doctor completely drawn into the situation span round and looked to Clara, pulling her towards him in a big hug, as he looked back down at the girl. "Did you know Time Lords can tell when they are in the presence of another' He paused as Clara shook her head, a huge smile on his lips before she got it. Clara hugged him tightly as she looked down to the girl, laughing and cheering for a moment before they settled down.

"Do you know who she is though…and how to cure her…?" Clara asked cautiously as the girl started to moan ad her lip curled in a sneer as she started to regain consciousness.

The Doctor moved back pulling Clara with him as he shook his head sadly, "Trouble is, we change so much…its not easy to tell, especially as she can't tell us herself right now, and …I'm still not sure if there will be a cure, sure Time Lord bodies are remarkable things…we'll have to se…" He was cut off as the girl opened her eyes, black orbs filled them as raised her head hissing and pulling at her restraints, she started to thrash around, and cautiously the Doctor approached her.

"Doctor…don't be stupid" Kate's voice urged from behind, but the Doctor ignored it moving on till he was face to face with her, keeping his voice low and calm as he spoke to her. Noticing her black eyes were flecked with light blue in the centre, her teeth were bared as she hissed and snapped at him.

"Don't be alarmed…I won't hurt you…I just want to know who I'm talking to….I mean the thing that is taken over this girls body…" He stared confidently not expecting an answer, but acting cool when he got one. The girls voice came out like a hiss, sending a cold shiver down Clara's spine.

"The Shril will feassst on all humanity…" The sneer tugged at her lips as she tried to escape the restraints again.

The Doctor nodded chewing his lip "The Shril ai... And here was me thinking you were just a fairytale of all the bad things hidden away at the edge of the universe.."

The girl winced for a second, sweat rested on her brow as if she was fighting something inside. "We travelled across the starssss, finding the closest planet to start our domination…sssoon other worlds will follow and we will be reborn"

The Doctor leant forward dangerously close, frowning deeply "Not on my watch….let the girl go…"

She laughed coldly staring at him with an amused smile "She …will serve our purpose, she will host our Queen…she is the only one that can maintain our bodies on this planet.."

The Doctor studied her for a moment, before a smile reached his lips "Not for long I think" His voice reached a dangerous coldness before he reached down to the metal rod and stunned her back in unconsciousness. Pulling away to scratch at his chin. Before a glint from around her neck made him pause and move back closer as her heavy laboured breaths and moaning under her breath let him know she was safe for now.

"Doctor…no skin contact" Kate warned again, though the Doctor ignored her as he moved his gloved hands up to her neck.

He pulled up a necklace from around her neck, pulling it up lightly and all at once it was if time had stopped, he could have sworn both his hearts missed a beat as he stared at the familiar locket that had hung around her neck. He barely noticed it slip from his hands, as he backed his way out of the room, no one stopped him as he turned and stood outside gasping and holding his hands in his head. She was dead…he'd been told years before he'd even stolen that box that she was dead, she couldn't be here, she couldn't, but she was. It was too coincidental that he just might have brought Gallifrey back, and now his youngest child was now possessed by a dangerous race. It just wasn't possible….but then Clara wasn't exactly possible to begin with.

Clara frowned and watched as Kate bent over with her own gloved hands to pick up the locket. Opening it slowly she read the inscription written on the left side

My dearest Angel,

May your eyes shine bright as the stars above

Always know that you are loved

Where ever your hearts may lie

As the silent stars go by

Kate gasped as she turned her gaze to the right side and stared at the frayed picture of a young ginger haired girl smiling and arms clasped around the neck of what looked like a middle aged man, hair just tinting at grey, wearing a black jacket with a cravat beaming ahead. It was unmistakably the almost fresh faced body of the Doctor's first body, with that in mind that must mean that..

"What…what is it…"Clara peered over Kate's student frowning for a moment "I know that face…don't I.. ?" Kate just nodded and turned around to look at her.

"Yes…it's the Doctor… but this must mean "She looked up at the girl before looking back round as the Doctor's voice spoke almost broken from behind.

"Yes…she's my daughter"

Authors Notes: Just realised I ruined that in my first note in the first chapter… Whoops.. And don't worry its not going to be a plain sailing relationship, there will be deaths, explosions and … heartbreak…but not for a while yet im afraid .