CHAPTER 9

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Cleopatra arrived in her TARDIS and as she came out Lily breathed a sigh of relief.

"You didn't change," Lily said.

"What are you talking about?" Cleo said.

Then she noticed that everyone around her except for the Doctor and Ron was Lily!

Cleo looked at her with an amused and unsurprised look on her face.

"What have you done now?" she asked.

"I didn't mean to do it! I had to fix the vampire plague so I had to use Ron as a template to fix everyone," Lily said.

Cleo finally understood what had happened. This was all her fault not Lily's! If she hadn't have released the virus, then Lily wouldn't have had to use Ron as a template to try to fix everyone in the first place.

"It wasn't your fault, Cleo. You didn't do this!" Lily said with empathy in her voice.

"You know that it is my fault, Persephone. I did all of this! Now I'm going to help you fix it if I can," Cleo said with a determined look on her face.

"Why didn't she change?" Ron asked.

Lily was glad to finally hear him speaking again. He hadn't said a word since everyone had changed into her.

"I'm not sure. Maybe it happened because of her former vampire nature. She wasn't human so it affected her differently," Lily suggested.

Ron just nodded, but Lily noticed that he stayed close to her. He was scared and was comforted by her presence. Lily was glad that at least he trusted her even if he couldn't remember her.

The Doctor kept looking at the Lilies in nervous apprehension as they all stared at him. The two Lilies that had been Allison and Robin in particular kept eying the Doctor.

"What is it, Doctor?" the Robin Lily asked him.

"Yeah, why do you keep staring at us? Do you need something? Is there something that we can do for you? If there isn't, then you need to look in the other direction unless you want me to slap that look off of your face," the Allison Lily said to him with a look of irritation on her face.

"He isn't bothering you. He's just confused. He wants to understand what happened to you," the real Lily said to her doppelganger.

"Nothing happened. I'm just as I always have been. I'm Lily," Allison Lily said with perfect honesty on her face.

"You don't remember anything, Ally?" Lily asked her with concern.

"I'm not Ally! I'm Lily!" Allison Lily insisted.

"No, I'm Lily! You're Allison Parker, my friend!" Lily insisted back to her.

"You're not Lily! I am!" Allison Lily insisted again.

"Allison! Your name is Allison! Please remember!" Lily shouted at her in frustration.

Allison Lily looked confused for a minute, and then she started to cry.

"Lily? Please help me!" she said in a small voice.

"Do you remember, sweetheart? Do you remember who you are now?" Lily prodded.

"Yes! It's hard to remember but I do. I have to really try hard to do it but I can," Allison said in Lily's voice.

She buried her head in Lily's shoulder and started shaking.

"Can you fix this? If you can't, am I going to forget who I am forever?" Allison asked afraid.

"We'll fix it somehow. I won't let you forget!" Lily said to her.

"My lady, I feel most strange. Am I a woman?" the Robin Lily said as he began to remember as well.

"Yes, I'm afraid you're me now, Robin," Lily told him with a grimace.

"I love you with all of my heart, my lady, but that doesn't mean that I want to be you!" Robin said with a horrible expression.

Lily had to stop herself from laughing. Even under duress, Robin still managed to come up with some funny lines.

"I'll find a way to fix you, I promise. You'll understand, I hope, if I don't kiss you until you change back, Robin? That would just be too weird for me! I've been accused of being a narcissist before, but this is ridiculous!" Lily said.

"I quite understand, my lady! It would seem most strange to me as well!" Robin said.

The Doctor seemed to be feeling a little more relieved now and was acting more like his old self now that the two nearest Lilies had begun to remember who they were.

"It seems that the other Lily clones are starting to remember who they are as well," the Doctor noted as he watched the other Lilies start to get upset as they regained their memories as well.

"Maybe the change will reverse itself if their memories are starting to come back," Lily suggested hopefully.

"That may be too much to hope for, Lily. We need to find a new template and fix this quickly," the Doctor said.

"Why not me? If my vampirism is gone, then maybe I could do it. I don't have a trace of you in me. I could help fix this mess I made if I do this," Cleo suggested hopefully.

The Doctor scanned her with his sonic screwdriver and read off the readings.

"Yes, you're completely human. The change has stabilized. Apparently Lily was right about your former vampirism somehow protecting you from her DNA taking over you as well. I see no traces of Lily's DNA in you. You'll be glad to know, Cleopatra, that your vampirism is completely gone for good. You're cured!" the Doctor told her with a smile.

"I'm glad, Doctor! Thank you!" Cleo said but she didn't seem very happy. She was still blaming herself for everything that she had done as a vampire.

"Well, let's get you into the machine then and have another go," Lily said to her.

Cleo got into the Immortality Gate, and Lily activated it once again.

The Gate's effects swept the world and everyone but Lily and the Doctor were now changed and were back to their normal selves once again.

Robin and Allison were ecstatic and were hugging each other and then Lily with joy! Robin and Lily finally kissed because even a short while without kissing was torture for them!

Ron too, it seemed, had been changed. In a good way!

"Mom?" Ron asked as he looked at Lily.

Lily looked at him with a look of pure joy on her face as she ran to him and hugged him.

"Do you remember?" she asked him.

"Yes! I remember everything! The Time Lords' blocks are gone. The Gate must have taken them out of me somehow!" Ron said with a wide grin on his face.

"I can't believe it! I finally got you back after all of these years!" Lily cried with joy.

Cleo looked at her with a true smile on her face for the first time since she became human once more. It didn't make up for everything that she had done, but it made her feel a little better about herself that she had brought Lily's adopted son back to her after so long!

Lily just looked at her with a grateful smile on her face.

"Thank you!" she mouthed to her.

Cleo just nodded at her with a huge smile on her face.

It was a start! Cleo thought to herself.

Next: Lily and her friends start on a new adventure together as Cleo wrestles with her own internal guilt and regret.