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Chapter 9 – Epilogue

On the planet of New Gallifrey due to some slight climate manipulation by a certain Timelord, it was snowing outside. The new capital city streets were white with snow and the whole city looked like an Earth Postcard, powered by a new Eye of Harmony created from the notes and tools they'd stolen from Rassilon's Spire.

Inside a Tardis parked in the capital's science building as there was in other buildings all over the planet there was a grand Christmas celebration going on. The grand hall of Rani's Tardis was decked out in decorations like the red and gold tinsel that hung from the walls and ceiling, a tall and grand Christmas tree stood in the corner with parcels wrapped in an array of dazzling colours, a warm fire burned in its hearth blocked by a safety guard to stop the little children from burning themselves who were running about playing with the Doctor's grown up cousins quite happily as the rest of the group looked on. The Doctor sat in one of the big chairs with Martha at his side holding their infant son who they'd decided to call Omega after the brave Timelord founder who had saved them not once but twice when he'd first held Rassilon at bay so they could escape from Gallifrey on that last visit but also just recently when one of the Master's clones had appeared and tried to open a link with the drumming inside his head into the war so Rassilon could escape. As the Doctor had struggled to prevent it after the Ood had warned him, Omega had appeared again on Rassilon's side of the link and pulled Rassilon back into the war, swearing to the Doctor that he would keep him forever contained as he relived the end of the time war over and over again, the Master had aided Omega by blasting Rassilon with some kind of bio-electrical pulses this version of him could fire after finding out the it had been Rassilon who put the drumming in his head and ruined the Master's life. The clone of Master had perished doing this and the Doctor had too from radiation poisoning as he saved Wilfred Mott only to regenerate into his eleventh form. Martha had had to adjust a bit but he was still the Doctor she loved and eventually got over it and had even thought about what her new form might be once she regenerated.

At the Doctor and Martha's side was a new version of his robotic dog K-9. The fifth version of this mechanical pet was equipped with improved systems, a forcefield and hover jets so it could fly about. The Doctor had built it solely for the purpose of protecting Martha and their son and the little watchdog never strayed far from their side. Their little family had also been joined by a little human girl named Amelia Pond who was running around with the other children, her parents and later aunt had been erased from history by a crack in her bedroom wall that was in fact a crack in space and time, who Amelia still existed wasn't clear but she did exist and with no one left in the world Martha insisted they take her in. This was the first sign of the Silence according to the Visionary's predictions so Rani had taken the matter very serious and watched for any other cracks so they could be sealed. They had decided to wait till Amelia was grown up before giving her the option of becoming a Timelord.

Wisdom sat in a high backed chair to herself as she watched the children with some of the other adults like Jenny and Susan slipping her hot chocolate. Mia and Yuri now a married couple with their first child on the way sat in a chair of their own cuddling, Melody and Lucy stood talking with Sally in the corner discussing the new High Council run by its new President Wisdom.

Rani sat back on her own chair watching everyone else as she slipped her drink, the new Timelord species had been a hard sell to make to the others but eventually she persuaded them by saying that with so many different races they could keep each other in check so the blind arrogance and power mad nature of the old Timelords could never return. Each new species had members on the new High Council despite having worlds of their own and were developing nicely; the Tellarians for example had created incredibly useful temporal based psychic technologies and the others were building up their strength too. The upgrades she made to her own people had already born fruit; the younger generations were already showing signs of vortex leaping which K'anpo had endeavoured to teach them from his mountain retreat. But the biggest change was that once the limiters placed by Rassilon on their genome all the Timelords new and old had quickly developed the ability to absorb artron energy from the vortex and use it to recharge their regeneration cycles giving them infinite regenerations, they could still be killed but now if they were careful they could potentially live forever.

She looked at the group sitting closest to the fire Romana, K'anpo and Chronotis sat with the latest recruits to the new Timelords, despite creating hundreds more embryos from the race banks they'd acquired she had gone to see if any of the Doctor's former assistants would be willing to join them and become the New Timelords; Nyssa of course had done so immediately and was looking a lot healthier now they'd helped her recover from her treatment at the hands of the Daleks, Repek and Thalira had joined them too and as Thalira's pregnant stomach was a testament too quite in love. Zoe now with her memories restored sat in the arms of Jamie McCrimmon who like Zoe now had his full memories again; Leela was standing near the fireplace watching her own children playing with all the others. The fiery savage woman had become one of Wisdom's advisors her frank opinions were a breath of fresh air and cut out the crap.

Peri had been hard to convince to join them probably because of her previous experience with the Rani but had finally decided to join the timelords after the Doctor had put in a good word for her, she too sat near the fire joined by Lucie Miller, Liz Shaw, Steven Taylor, Chang Lee and Grace Halloway.

Another group sat close by made up of other companions to the Doctor like Christina de Souza, Sally Morgan, Thomas Brewster, Deborah Castle, Raine Creevy, Samson Griffin, Flip Jackson, June, Ria and Izzy Sinclair. Some of the companions she'd approached had turned the offer down because they were too involved in what they were doing where and when they were, others had been too important to the timeline to remove like Sara Jane Smith or Ace.

Mickey Smith and his wife Trish were sitting with their little girl who they had christened Jackie Smith playing with the little girl as she played with her alphabet blocks.

The atmosphere in the room was warm and soothing; no-one in it could find a care in the world as they celebrated Christmas, the Earth holiday which had been officially adopted by New Gallifrey and the other Timelord worlds.

Even as the storm clouds gathered on the horizon with the Silence threat looming, everyone just took one day to be thankful for what they had and each other.

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The End

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