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Chapter Nine Changing

There was, standing before the young Catharine, a blonde haired woman wearing a red dress. Catharine felt fear rushing through her small body while trying to stretch forth her empathic abilities to sense what the woman was feeling. She couldn't sense anything but total bliss. The man with the business suit and untruthful smile walked up to them, in his hand was a silver chain.

"Catharine, darling, I want you to hold your hand out for me." He said while kneeling in front of her. She didn't do what he told her to until she felt him starting to get angry, she opened her hand and held it out in front of him. He put in her palm the silver necklace, attached was a small blue gem. "This is a smart diamond, I want you to activate it when the memory of this pops up, you'll know what to do when the diamond activates." He smiled as little Catharine slipped the necklace around her neck.

Catharine looked at the Doctor as he pulled away from her mind. He looked indifferent but the emotions he was giving off were those of anger, fear and hatred. She felt at her throat; remember the feel of the necklace but it was no longer there. Panic struck her in the heart and she ran off to search through her clothing. She remembered having the necklace as a child but when it came to where she had left it, she didn't remember. As she rummaged through her belongings her attention was drawn to a blue gem. Slowly she pulled it out and there to her amaze was the necklace from the memory. The Doctor watched in despair as she ran back to the control panel to the Tardis and plugged it in, he wanted to stop her but knew that the programming that had been done to her mind was too deep to stop.

The Tardis suddenly was scanning Catharine. A beam was emitted and she dropped to the ground in pain. The Doctor started to move forward to help her and found that there was a force-field around her while she rolled around inside it. Her screaming stopped after a while and the Doctor could sense it almost immediately, she was at least half Time Lady. "No," He whispered.

She didn't move even with the force-field lowered. He checked her pulse, slow and steady. The Doctor tried to shake her awake but there was nothing. He picked her up, carried her to her room and held her to his chest. Catharine still didn't stir but at least she was resting from the pain.

Martha walked into the Tardis then towards Catharine's room. She had heard the screaming from outside. When she got to Catharine's room she could hear the Doctor sobbing. Slowly she opened the door. "Doctor, is she—"

"No, she's alive…the Master put a sub-conscious programming in her mind to make her put something into the Tardis." He whispered while using his suit sleeve to wipe the tears away. "The smart diamond she put into the Tardis turned her…turned her…" He couldn't bring himself to finish his statement.

Martha pulled out her stethoscope and put it against Catharine's chest. Martha checked both sides then looked at the Doctor wide-eyed. "She was turned into a Time Lord? But why would the Master do something like that?"

"I don't know, I just don't know." He was looking at Catharine in curiosity now.

Catharine looked at her surroundings. It was dark, cold and filled with the smell of burning flesh. Suddenly there was a bright light that moved as Catharine moved. It shinned in her eyes with a burning blazing feeling. It was almost frightening to her as she walked towards where the light was emanating from. Behind the light was the familiar dark shadowy face of the man wearing the red Victorian era coat. "Hello little one," He said with a grin. "You probably noticed by now that you were changed by my Master, he used my technology to punish me through you."

"Where are you father?" She asked reaching out to him. He didn't move to reach for her at all.

"He has me, in order to make sure that your task will be finished."

"What is my task?" She felt tears stinging her eyes. Catharine feared that the answer was to kill the Doctor.

"To start the end," He walked away and disappeared.

Catharine bolted awake screaming at the top of her lungs. The Doctor looked across from the room to see her holding her chest. He started to stand up to see if she was all right but she looked him in the eyes. She gave off the feeling that she was afraid. "What's happen to me?" She asked.

"Catharine, you must understand—"

"Doctor, what has happened to me?" She asked more forcefully.

"You were changed.

"What was I changed into?"

"A…a Time Lord…or turned at least most of the way into a Time Lord." He sat next to her on the edge of the bed. "Catharine, I'm trying to find a way to change you back to human."

"Why would you want me back to normal?" She asked while looking him in the eyes. "You said yourself that you didn't want to be the last of your kind…maybe this is what God wanted."

He scoffed. To think that she still believed there was a god. After all the things she had been through and seen he would have thought that she would have stopped believing in one a long time ago. "Catharine, I would but…you don't…you need to be yourself."

"How do you not know?" She stood up and faced him in all her wrath. "I was born one fourth Time Lord, my birth father was half, my real name is—" He swiftly clamped a hand over her mouth as he stood up.

"Don't say it…I like the name you have now." He whispered as he pulled his hand away. She stared at him stunned. "I haven't told you my real name so you don't need to tell me yours."

Catharine nodded her head then walked away from the Doctor. She knew why this had happened. It was to punish her real father for not cooperating with his Master but also punishment for herself. She didn't want to go back to her human life; as a Time Lord she found everything more and more intriguing.

"You will do as I command." a familiar frightening voice commanded. The drumming started up again and this time there was no stopping it for Catharine, she knew what her orders were.

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