Warning since I think Tory has earned the right to have a swearing fit strong language will be included in this chapter.

)0(

I didn't go back to the TARDIS I landed on Earth in 1940. I knew that I could ask the Doctor for help through my link to the TARDIS but somehow I couldn't bring myself to do it, not after what he just did.

I got a job singing in a high class bar and set myself up for the long hall, all I had to do was survive the war. By 1941 I was the most sort after singer in all of London and tonight I was preforming.

I walked out onto the stage wearing a long white cocktail dress. The music started and I began to sing.

"It had to be you,

The one who took my heart.

It had to be you,

The man on the other side

It had to be you who broke me.

It had to be you!

The summer days past us by,

But we kept on livin'

We didn't have a chance,

But we kept on lovin'.

It had to be you,

Who held my hand when I was scared.

It had to be you,

That was my light in the dark,

It had to be you.

It had to be you!

The summer days past us by,

But we kept on livin'

We didn't have a chance,

But we kept on lovin'.

It had to be you."

The crowd clapped and I bowed. I walked off the stage and into the back of the dressing room, I heard a man step up to the microphone and the crowd laugh and I smiled as I walked into my dressing room.

I shut myself in my dressing room and changed into a more comfortable set of trousers and a large shirt that fell to my knees like a dress. I fastened the shirt in place with a thick belt and attached my gun and army knives. Ounce upon a time I would have run screaming if anyone tried to get me to carry a gun, but times change.

I sighed as I looked at my reflection; I hadn't changed in my year I was exactly the same in every way. Sometimes I wondered if the Doctor knew where I was or if I was lost to him, lost to time.

I walked out of the room briskly, it did me no good to dwell on these things, I had to visit Dr. Constantine.

)0(

I walked down the hospital corridors calling out for the Constantine.

"Constantine! Are you there? It's me!" I sighed, "Guess not." I turned back towards the door.

"Hello?" I heard a man's voice call out, it was American.

"Hello?" it was a woman and the voice was familiar but I couldn't remember where from.

I followed the voices to the corridor outside of ward two. The voice's where coming from inside. I pushed open the door gently and peered in. All of the beds were full of people all wearing gasmasks. A man was leaning over one of the beds scanning it with something on his wrist while he was being watched by….Rose Tyler and the Doctor.

I felt the anger swell inside me and fought back the urge to run into the room and slap the living day lights out of the man.

"This just isn't possible. How could this happen?" the American, the man who was scanning asked frustrated as he moved to another body to scan it.

"What kind of Chula ship landed here?" the Doctor asked suddenly.

"What?" the American asked.

"He said it was a warship. He stole it. Parked it somewhere out there, somewhere a bomb's gonna fall on it - unless WEmake him an offer." Rose didn't seem happy.

"What kind of warship?" the Doctor asked again.

"Does it matter?" the American asked agitated, "It's got nothing to do with this!"

"This started at the bomb site. It's got everythingto do with it. What kind of warship?" the Doctor was shouting now.

"An ambulance!" the American shouted back he turned on his wrist device and a hologram of a pod-like device appeared, " Look. That's what you chased through the Time Vortex. It's space junk. I wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty. I made sure of it. Nothing but a shell. I threw it at you. Saw your time travel vehicle, love the retro look, by the way, nice panels, threw you the bait..."

"Bait?"

"I wanted to sell it to you and then destroy it before you found out it was junk."

"You said it was a warship."

"They have ambulances in wars." He walked away from them and closer to me, "It was a con! I was conning you, that's what I am, I'm a con man! I thought you were Time Agents but you're not, are you?"

"Just a couple more free-lancers." Rose told him disgustedly.

"Ahh... should've known. The way you guys are blending in with the local colour, I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but U-Boat Captain?" I laughed scornfully in my mind.

"Anyway... Whatever's happening here has got nothingto do with that ship." The American argued.

"What ishappening here, Doctor?" Rose asked looking around the room with new eyes.

"Human DNA's being rewritten... by an idiot."

"That'd be you then?" I threw the door open and swaggered in.

"Tory?" Rose asked disbelievingly.

"That's ma name." I glared at the Doctor, "So what lie did he tell you about where I disappeared off to?" I asked her.

"Lie?"

"I assumed he didn't tell you the truth." I spat at the Doctor and saw him flinch. I swaggered over to the American and held out my hand, "I'm Tory." He took it and lifted it to his lips.

"Captain Jack Harkness."

"Oh a captain! I'd let you fly me anytime." I winked at him and turned away.

"Tory." The Doctor stared at me blankly, "Tory I'm so sor-"

"Oh no you don't!" I yelled, "Don't you dare give me any of that crap! You're sorry!" I muttered sarcastically, "Sure you're sorry I've being stuck here for a year!" I saw the Doctor flinch, "Did you even know what you were doing or were you too busy feeling me up to check your coordinates?" I threw my hands in the air, "The TARDIS wasn't talking to me when she said that someone had to be a Thief it was you! You had to steal the one thing that I never gave anyone and now here you are swanning in a year later telling me you're sorry!" I turned away from him.

"Tory." He stepped up behind me, "I thought you were dead. You cut off your link to the TARDIS-"

I interrupted again.

"Don't even get me started on her!" I shrieked spinning to face him again, "I thought she was my friend and then she went and dumped me here! And with 8! How dare she decide my life like that! How dare she!" The Doctor grabbed me by the hips and pulled me into a kiss. I stood unresponsive as he asked for permission to enter my mouth with his tongue. I pushed him back suddenly and he staggered.

"You son of a bitch born whore!" I slapped him around the face. He staggered back further.

"Tory!" Rose tried to grab my arm but I pushed her off. She landed on the floor and Jack rushed to help her stand. I froze seeing her on the floor.

"No," I muttered, "No."

"Tory, you have to calm down." The Doctor was a safe distance from me a red hand print across his cheek. I shook my head.

"I warned you, I told you what would happen, I tried so hard." I felt a burning sensation on my hand and looked down, it was glowing with silver light, "Oh that's new." I muttered lifting my hand up to eye level to study it.

"Tory.." the Doctor seemed to be close to tears. I looked at him coldly.

"I am a human, Time Lord TARDIS. A HTL-TARDIS and I can travel in time. Goodbye." I let the silver light travel through the rest of my body and the Doctor faded from my view.

)0(

It was Christmas and a giant rock space ship was floating over London. I was staring up at it interestedly. I smirked as the now familiar silver light spread over my hands.

It was my version of the huon particles that kept the TARDIS in flight.

I landed on the sycorax ship just as the TARDIS doors opened.

"Did you miss me?" the new 10th Doctor asked I saw Rose smile in delight as the Sycorax leader roared in anger and lashed his whip at the Doctor. I held out my hand and it glowed silver. I stopped the whip in it's tracks. The whip glowed with the same silver light as my hand and then vanished.

The Doctor and Rose recognised the light and looked around franticly for the source. I slid further back into the shadows.

"You could have someone's eye out with that!" the Doctor bluffed pretending that he had done it. The Sycorax roared again falling for the Doctors bluff, he tried to attack him with his staff but it shone silver and broke into pieces in the air, "You just can't get the staff." The Doctor looked around for me franticly, "Now, you just wait. I'm busy." The Doctor walked towards the gathered humans.

"Mickey! Hello!" he turned to the female I couldn't remember the name of, "And Harriet Jones MP for Flydale North! Blimey, it's like 'This Is Your Life'!" he beamed and turned to Rose, "Tea! That's all I needed! A good cup of tea! Superheated infusion of free radicals and tannin. Just the thing for healing the synapses..." he lowered his tone but it was still loud enough for me to hear, "Now... first thing's first... be honest. How do I look?" I snorted and the Doctors head jerked in my direction.

"Um... different." Rose answered.

"Good different or bad different?" the Doctor asked. I turned away from the happy little scene and worried if the Doctor knew where I was or not.

"I DON'T KNOW!" I jumped as the Doctor shouted, "See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I- I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested." He walked towards me talking as he went, "Am I funny? Am I sarcastic?" he looked directly at me, "Sexy?" he winked ant then turned back around, "Right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob." I stifled my chuckle, "And how am I gonna react when I see this? A great big threatening button." He ran towards it laughing, "A Great Big Threatening Button Which Must Not Be Pressed Under Any Circumstances. Am I right? Let me guess, it's some sort of control matrix? Hmm? Hold on, what's feeding it?" he knelt beside it and I sent the silver light to open the lock, "And what've we got here? Blood?" he tasted it, "Yeah, definitely. Blood. Human blood. A Positive. With just a dash of iron." I sent the silver light into the gap and it swirled around the blood, "Ahh. But that means... blood control—" he suddenly became delighted, "Blood control! Oh! I haven't seen blood control for years! You're controlling all the A Positives!Which leaves us with a great big stinking problem. 'Cos... I really don't know who I am. I don't know when to stop. So if I see a Great Big Threatening Button Which Should Never Ever Be Pressed... then I just wanna do this." He slammed his hand down on the button.

"No!" the gathered humans yelled.

"You killed them!"

"What do you think, big fella?" The Doctor asked the sycorax, "Are they dead?"

"We allow them to live."

"Allow?" the Doctor scoffed, "You've no choice! I mean, that's all blood control is. Cheap bit of voodoo. Scares the pants off you, but that's as far as it goes. It's like hypnosis - you can hypnotise someone to walk like a chicken or sing like Elvis, you can't hypnotise them to death. Survival instinct's too strong."

"Blood control was just one form of conquest. I can summon the armada and take this world by force."

"Well, yeah, you could, yeah, you could do that - of course you could. But why? Look at these people." He gestured down at the humans, "These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun. There is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than- no, hold on..." he paused and I rolled my eyes, "Sorry, that's 'The Lion King'. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!"

"Or what?"

"Or..." the Doctor grabbed an sword from one of the Sycorax and ran down into the empty space in front of the TARDIS, "I challenge you." The Sycorax laughed, "Oh, that struck a chord. Am I right that the sanctified rules of combat still apply?"

"Oh Doctor what am I going to do with you?"

"Love me, feed me and never leave me." I jumped at the response and I glanced back out of my hiding place to see the Doctor staring straight at me.

"You stand as this world's champion." The Doctor shrugged off his dressing gown and tossed it to Rose who caught it.

"Thank you. I've no idea who I am, but you just summed me up. So - you accept my challenge? Or are you just a cranak pel casacree salvak?" the leader hissed and they both knelt with their swords.

"For the planet?"

"For the planet." They stood and ran at each other. I used the silver light to speed up the Doctors movements and he managed to land a hit, the leader hissed and threw the Doctor aside laughing. The Doctor ran at him again.

"Look out!" Rose called.

"Oh, yeah, that helped. Wouldn't have thought of that otherwise, thanks." The Doctor led the fight outside, "Bit of fresh air?"

I had to run to catch up with them I couldn't do anything if I couldn't see. I pushed the humans to the side. They gasped and I knew that I was glowing.

The Doctor fell back and the leader chopped off his hand. The sword and the hand both fell off the side of the ship.

"You cut my hand off." The Doctor looked surprised, he got to his feet, "And now I know what sort of man I am. I'm lucky. 'Cos quite by chance... I'm still within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration cycle. Which means I've got just enough residual cellular energy... to do this." He held up his arm and it grew back.

"Witchcraft."

"Time Lord."

Rose pulled another sword from somewhere and threw it to the Doctor.

"Doctor!" he turned and caught it spinning it in his hand.

"Oh, so I'm still the Doctor, then?"

"Always my Doctor."

"No arguments from me!" The Doctor turned back to the Sycorax leader,

"Wanna know the best bit? This new hand..." he switched to a Texan accent, "It's a fightin' hand!"

The next few moments passed in a blur and somehow the Sycorax ended up on his back with the Doctors sword at his throat.

"I win."

"Then kill me."

"I'll spare your life if you'll take this champion's command: leave this planet, and never return. What do you say?"

"Yes."

"Swear on the blood of your species."

"I swear."

"There we are, then! Thanks for that! Cheers, big fella!" the Doctor stabbed the sword into the ground and walked towards the humans. I moved out of his way still glowing; I was ready to leave.

"Bravo!"

"That says it all. Bravo!" Rose rushed to him and helped him back into the dressing gown.

"Yeah! Not bad for a man in his jim-jams! Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice man. Hold on, what have I got in here?" he put his hand inside of the pocket and pulled out a satsuma, "A satsuma. Ah, that friend of your mothers - he does like his snacks doesn't he? But doesn't that just sum up Christmas?" The party started moving towards the doors and I stood still watching, "You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there's always one stupid old satsuma. Who wants a satsuma?"

The Sycorax leader climed to his feet and picked up the Doctors sword. I spun around and held up my hand. He stopped dead surrounded by my silver light. I slowly clenched my fist crushing him.

"Tory you have to stop." The Doctor was behind me, he put his hands on my shoulders, "Please stop." I looked around at him.

"For you." I released the leader and he fell to the floor.

"Thank you." He kissed the top of my head. I turned to face him properly and grabbed his face, I pulled him down to my level and kissed him. He responded eagerly and our tongues intertwined quickly. I felt the silver light spread over my face and I pushed the Doctor away.

"Until next time."