AN: Hello lovely readers! I feel really happy that I've written the next bit of this story, because we are so so so close to my favorite part wiring, and you're are going to kill me for the next episode. So love you my readers and start reading! Ree/Ashes/Isa's outfit is on my polyvore.
Disclaimer: I only own my OC
Totally making it up. There's no weapons up there, there's no threat. He just invented it," the Doctor said.
Ms. Jones asked, "Do you think they will believe him?"
"They did last time," Rose said.
"That's why the Slitheen went for spectacle. They want the whole world panicking, because you lot, you get scared, you lash out," the Doctor said. I laid down on the floor and watched the scene play before me. I got bored when they started talking about the nuclear missiles. I sat up really quickly, only to smack my head into the table and fall back to the floor.
"Ree! Are you okay?" Rose asked. My vision was blurry and my head was pounding. I opened my mouth to answer, but the world faded to black and I drifted into unconsciousness.
My dreams were odd ones. They all seemed to be memories of someone's past, from their point of view. I suddenly realized that they were my memories.
The first few were of me and my adoptive family. We were at the beach and I was four. My brother and I were playing in the sand, when my dad came up behind us with two buckets full of water, in which he proceeded to dump on us. I jumped up and tried to run away, but my dad caught me in his arm and hauled me over his shoulder. I was squealing when my brother tried to tickle me.
The next was a few years later when I started school. My brother died two years ago. Never told how. My best friend, Lily, and I were sitting next to each other in our class. We were coloring when another little girl sat next to us. I was shy, so I only waved hello, but Lily was the very opposite of me. She said hi and invited the other girl to color with us. Her name was Eve and we all instantly became best friends.
Flash to when I was ten. Lily, Eve, and I were crying because Eve was going to move from here, Washington D.C., to Chicago, Illinois. Her dad got a job offer. We had a little goodbye party with cake and games.
A year later, I came home from school. I couldn't find my mom and dad, so I went out to the backyard. I saw some flames in the fire pit, which was odd since we hadn't used it in years. I smelled something like roast pork. When I got closer to the fire, I realized the smell was coming from it. I tried to look into the fire to see what was in it. I screamed when I saw a skull. I ran back inside, called 911, and cried until an ambulance, fire truck, and police car came. The police man called in a team of people called forensics. They worked at the Jeffersonian. A nice lady from the ambulance gave me a bright orange blanket, she called it shock blanket. I tried to refuse but she put it on my shoulders anyway. When the forensics team arrived, they walked over to the fire pit. I followed them, very interested in what they were doing. When they were setting up everything, I walked up to a lady with shoulder length brown hair and fair skin and pulled on her sleeve. She turned her head towards me.
"Hi," I said quietly.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you," she replied.
"Hi," I said a little louder.
"Hello," she said.
"I'm Ree. Who are you? What are you doing?" I asked.
"Hi, Ree. I'm Doctor Brennan. I'm here to look at the skull in the fire," she said.
"Oh! I learned about bones last week in school! It was fun, we got to name the fake skeleton Mrs. Edwards used to teach us. His name is Francis Phalanges," I said. She smiled. I thought for a moment, and then asked her, "Can you please try to give the lady at the ambulance this blanket? She won't take it from me."
"Why don't you want it?" she asked.
"I don't like the color orange. It's weird," I told her. She smiled again.
"How about I ask my friend Booth if he can. I have to look at the bones now that they finished setting up everything, okay?" she said. I nodded eagerly and she called him over. He was tall and was muscular.
"Hey, I'm Booth. Let's take you back to the ambulance," he said.
"But I wanna watch Doctor Brennan and her people look at bones!" I complained.
"Maybe later, okay?" I nodded. "Do you have any other family?"
"No, I had a brother but he died a few years ago. No grandparents or aunts and uncles, my parents never talked about their families. Do you know where my parents are? They never came home," I said and sat down, "I'm not getting up until you tell me where they are."
Booth sat down next to me and looked me in the eye. "Ree, your parents are, well, they're dead. They were the ones in the fire. I'm sorry." I stared at him, letting the words sink in. I laid down on the grass, curled up in the orange blanket, and cried. Booth put a hand on my shoulder comfortingly. I decided that I should stop crying and talk instead. I sat up and began to run my mouth.
"Mr. Booth, do you know what today is?" I asked him.
"It's February 27th, why?" he said.
"Today's my birthday. I opened presents this morning. They told me I was adopted. Gave me the pocket watch I had with me when they found me. I was in the forest behind their old house. I also got this sand dollar necklace. It was Mom's, but she thought I should have it since I love summer so much. I went to my best friend's house today while my parents had lunch with an old friend. They didn't tell me much about their jobs. Lily and I made cupcakes and I took some home. Do you want one? I do. Can we go inside and get some?" I asked. He nodded and I led him inside and to the kitchen table. I grabbed two plates from the cupboard and two cupcakes from the basket of two dozen. I put a cupcake on each plate and sat down next to Booth.
"This is an amazing cupcake," Booth said. "You and your friend made these?"
"Yeah. Well, I made them, she frosted them. Should we give Doctor Brennan and her team some cupcakes? They might be hungry. I know a lot of work makes me hungry," I said.
"Yeah, I'm sure they would like that," Booth said. I raced outside back to Doctor Brennan. I couldn't find her so I asked a man with curly hair.
"Excuse me, sir," I said. He turned towards me.
"Yeah, kid? Oh, are you the girl Brennan mentioned?"
"Yes, can you tell me where she is?" I asked.
"She's over by the table. Can I ask why?" he said.
"I want to give her a cupcake to say thank you for being nice to me. Also, it's my birthday." The man gave me a sad smile.
"Sweet kid. I'm Jack Hodgins," he said.
"I'm Ree. I have to go find Doctor Brennan. It was nice meeting you!" I said, waving goodbye and pulling Booth with me towards Doctor Brennan. I found exactly where Jack said I would find her. Booth was talking to the guards around the table. I walked up to Doctor Brennan and tapped her arm. She turned towards me and smiled.
"Doctor Brennan, do you want a cupcake when you're done? I made them with my best friend," I said.
She nodded. "That sounds good to me."
"Yay! Tell Mr. Hodgins he can have one too. I made a lot today, maybe your friends can all have one. Booth had one and said they were good. See you later!" I said, walking out of the tent with Booth. I went back to my house and into the living room. I curled up on the couch and waited. After a few hours, I heard the door open and I turned around, thinking it was another police officer to as me about the crime scene. Five had already come through with their interviews, one asked if I wanted to go to the police station, but I refused. Instead of it being a police officer, it was Booth with Doctor Brennan, Mr. Hodgins, and two other people I didn't recognize.
"Hi Doctor Brennan! Hi Mr. Hodgins!" I said enthusiastically.
"Hey kiddo, just call me Jack," Mr. Hodgins, now Jack, said.
"Hello," said Doctor Brennan.
"Who are you?" I asked, pointing to the other two people, a man and a lady.
"I'm Cam, and this is Zach," the lady said, pointing to the man next to her. He looked like he was younger than the rest.
"Hi!" I said. I pulled all four of them into the kitchen where there were four cupcakes on the island. I picked two up and handed them to Doctor Brennan and Jack. I got the next two and handed them to Cam and Zach. They all took a bite and looked surprised.
"Do you not like them?" I asked, worried.
"No, they are fantastic. I wasn't expecting such a good cupcake," Jack said. I grinned and grabbed on for myself. I ate it in two bites and got some of the blue frosting on my nose. Doctor Brennan reached down and wiped it off my nose. My grin widened.
"So are you done now? Are you leaving?" I asked.
Zach nodded. "Yes, we should be leaving shortly."
"Aww," I said sadly, "I want you to stay. It's sooooooo boring here. Science is way cooler than waiting and talking to cops."
"Really, kid? Maybe you can come by the lab someday, if Cam will allow it," Jack said. Cam nodded and I smiled until something dawned on me.
"Um, what will happen now that Mom and Dad are gone? I don't have any other family, my brother died when I was a year old and the rest of my family is non-existent," I said.
"Foster care, probably," Zach said. Doctor Brennan looked saddened by this. Suddenly, she smiled.
"Hey, Ree, what if I get a friend to help you get into a good foster home?" she asked. I nodded. The scene faded out and a new one came to light.
I was in the Jeffersonian. Actually, I was in Doctor Brennan's office there, waiting for her to come back. I had been staying at Lily's house until they can get me into the foster system. It's been three days since my birthday, and I can't get over the fact that my parents were gone. It was hard, but Lily and her family were helping me through it. I just didn't understand who would want to kill my parents. They were nice people, had lots of friends. They were a bit secretive of their jobs and families, never told me anything.
Doctor Brennan walked into the room. "I have some big news for you, Ree."
"Really? Tell me now! Is it good or bad?" I said.
"It's good news," she said. A slight smile graced her lips.
"Tell me!" I said, jumping up and down with excitement.
"So we did some DNA tests on your parents to do some identification, and we found something very shocking. Your parents worked for the CIA and had fake identities. We got the CIA to give us their real identities. Your father is my older brother who moved to England and lost contact with me. I used to live in foster homes so it was hard to keep up with where I was," she looked down at me and smiled, "I'm your aunt."
I squealed with joy and gave her a huge hug, squeezing the breath out of her. She returned the hug, though not as ferociously as I did. I opened my eyes and saw Cam and another lady at the door. I broke the hug with Doctor Brennan and ran over to go say hi to them.
"Hi Cam! Who's this?" I asked.
"Hey Ree, this is Angela," she said. Angela waved hello.
"Hi Angela!" I said to her.
"Hello Sweetie, your name is Ree, right?" she asked.
"Yep!" I said, nodding. "I'm eleven, I think. Yeah, eleven. That's a fun number, eleven. It's my favorite. I like ten, too. Ten was fun." (*cough FORESHADOWING cough*)
"That's cool. So, Brennan's your aunt?" I nodded enthusiastically. "That's awesome, sweetie."
"Yep!" I said. Suddenly, a thought hit me. "Aunt Brennan, am I going to live with you?"
"Yes," she said, "But only if you want to."
"Of course I do!" I said, then hugged her again.
"You can call me Aunt Temperance, okay? Brennan is too official for family." She hugged me back. I decided to call her Aunt Tempe instead because Temperance was too long for an eleven-year-old.
"Hey, kiddo," a man's voice said from the doorway. I looked up and saw that Cam and Angela left and that Jack took their spot.
"Hi Jack!" I said. Zach walked up behind him. "Hi Zach!"
"Hello Ree. Doctor Brennan, I have the reports on the fire damage to the bones," he said, showing Aunt Tempe the bones.
The scene had ended and I was in a new apartment, in a new room. It had one wall that was just a bookcase, two grey walls and one turquoise wall. (Sound familiar?) There was a small closet and the bathroom was across the hall. There was a twin bed in the middle of the second grey wall. A dress was on the wall next to it and a desk on the wall opposite. Two windows were on the third wall.
"Do you like it?" Aunt Tempe asked.
"It's perfect!" I said. I pulled my bags into the room and began unpacking. The first thing to be unpacked was my books. I put them on the bookshelf wall, but they only filled it halfway.
Flashing to a new scene, I was at school. It was eighth grade now (I skipped fourth grade), two years after my parents died and I moved in with Tempe. Lily went to a different middle school than I did, but we were planning on going to the same high school. My newer best friends, Molly, Anne, Paris, Ali, and Emmy, were sitting with me at lunch. It was my birthday and the anniversary of my parents deaths. I brought in cupcakes and shared them with my friends. I started talking to Emmy about a case I recently helped my aunt solve. Emmy was the only one willing to listen to my stories, the others found them creepy.
Five years later, we were all in high school. Molly moved to Denver. Ali and Anne went to a different high school, Emmy was at an arts school in Chicago, and Paris and I were in the same high school. Lily went to the same high school as us. Tonight was a big night at our high school. It was our prom night.
I was wearing a deep blue and black gown, my hair was in fishtail milkmaid braids on my head, and my makeup was done by Lily. One of my friends, now boyfriend, Ben, had asked me. I was so excited. He and his two friends picked up Paris, Lily, and I from Lily's house. We got to the school and had fun.
Ben disappeared a while ago to get us drinks, but he never came back. I went looking for him and found him kissing another girl. I was so furious I slapped him. I called Aunt Tempe, who came to pick me up from the school after I told her what happened. I was in the parking lot, waiting for my aunt. I saw her across the lot, waving to me. I was running across the lot, but I was in heels and I fell. A car was rushing towards me, probably some kids late to prom. I was lying face down on the ground so I didn't see it coming. Everything was glowing with golden light and the last thing I heard was Aunt Tempe calling my name.
My eyes fluttered open and my vision was blurry. I could see three fuzzy shapes, one pink and yellow, one with a black shirt and one with gingerish hair.
"Ree, are you okay?" the pink and yellow asked me. My vision focused and I saw that it was Rose.
I sat up and groaned when my head started throbbing. "I'm fine, but I might have a concussion. What's going on? How long have I been out?" I asked.
"You were out for the last ten minutes. You look sad, are you sure your fine?" the Doctor said.
"I swear I'm fine, we can talk about it later. Why are we in a closet?" I asked.
"We are waiting for a missile to impact with the building and get rid of the Slitheen," Ms. Jones answered.
"Oh, okay then," I said. Suddenly, the building shook and we were rocked back and forth with the explosion. Once the movement stopped, we got out from the closet and walked out of the steel doors.
"Made in Britain," Ms. Jones says.
A police man walked up to us. "Oh my god, are you alright?" he asked.
Ms. Jones flashed her I.D. "Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. I want you to contact the UN immediately. Tell the ambassadors the crisis is over. They can step down. Go on, share the news." She pulled him along to spread the news.
She turned back to us. "Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out. Oh Lord, we haven't even got a Prime Minister!" she cried.
"Maybe you should have a go," the Doctor suggested.
"Me? Huh. I'm only a back-bencher," she said dejectedly.
"I'd vote for you," I said.
"Me too," said Rose.
"Now don't be silly. Look, I'd better go and see if I can help. Hang on!" she said, walking towards the road.
"I thought I knew the name," the Doctor said as we watched Ms. Jones leave, "Harriet Jones, future Prime Minister. Elected for three successful terms. The architect of Britain's Golden Age."
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The Doctor and I walked back into the TARDIS while Rose gets her stuff from her mom's flat. He sat in the captain's chair and I sat next to him.
"So, I guess you want to know what happened when I was unconscious." He nodded. "Well, I got my memory back. I know exactly who I am. My name is Teresa Meredith Brennan, niece of Doctor Temperance Brennan. My adoptive parents were killed when I was eleven, that's how we met. The police tried to keep me from the crime scene, but I was a nerdy kid and couldn't resist science. Later they did some DNA tests and learned that my father was Aunt Tempe's long lost brother. I lived with her until I was seventeen, when I appeared on the TARDIS and lost my memory.
"Right before I arrived on the TARDIS, I was at prom. My date cheated on me so I slapped him. I called Tempe and asked her to take me home. I was waiting in the parking lot when I saw her. I started running, but tripped in my heels and fell. A car was about to run over me, but then there was this gold light, then POOF! I'm on the TARDIS," I explained.
"That's great that you remember! Do you want to visit your family?" he asked.
"No, I would think that they would believe me to be dead," I said, then I remembered something. I put my hand in my pockets, but my watch had fallen out. "Oh no, have you seen the pocket watch I had? It fell out of my pocket."
The Doctor nodded and pulled it out of his jacket pocket and handed it to me. "Yeah, here. Ree, do you know what kind of watch this is?" I shook my head. "This is a fob watch. Can you open it?"
"It's broken, it wouldn't open," I said.
"Try now," the Doctor said.
I did as he said and popped the lid open. Gold light poured out and into my head. I fell out of the chair and onto the ground. So much knowledge and hundreds of years of memories seeped into my brain. I now knew who I truly am. I am a Time Lady. My name is Isa, meaning ice. My best friend, the Doctor, helped me create this name. My name before that was Aisling, meaning dreamer. I have knowledge of the future and the power to control ice. I escaped the Time War on my TARDIS, but it died when I crashed on Earth. I used a chameleon circuit when I regenerated, so I took the form of a human baby.
My eyes opened and I knew immediately that I had regenerated. All of that information was too much for my old brain to handle in human form, so that body died and another took its place. I looked down and saw that I had grown a bit taller, still pretty thin though. My hair was a deep blue, like the color of the TARDIS. I was paler than my last body and my feet felt a bit smaller.
I stood up and faced the Doctor. "Hello Theta," I said. His eyes widened in surprise.
"Who are you? How did you survive the Time War?" he asked.
"I'm known to many as Isa," I said before becoming succumbing to unconsciousness.
I woke up in my room. I realized it looked exactly like my old room in Tempe's apartment. I walked into the closet and grabbed some new clothes. The TARDIS had changed the sizes of my wardrobe so that they would fit this new body. I picked out a pair of light-wash skinny jeans, white sweater with tiger-ish stripe markings all over it, a pair of deep blue Converse sneakers to match my hair, and a snowflake necklace.
I walked up to the mirror and studied my new appearance. My blue hair reached my waist and was slightly layered. My skin was pale white, almost like snow. I had a similar facial structure as my old body. My lips were slightly full and tinted a purple-blue hue. My eyebrows were the same shade as my hair and I had long, dark eyelashes. My eyes looked like moonstones, very mesmerizing.
After taking in my new look, I put on some clear lip gloss and curled my eyelashes. I walked out of my room and into the TARDIS control room. The Doctor was talking to Rose on the phone.
"Well, you can stay there if you want, but right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires are burning ten million miles wide. I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it, the ride the shock wave all the way out. Hurtle across the sky and end up anywhere. Your choice," he said before ending the call.
"I think that sounds wonderful," I said, startling him. My voice sounded different, a bit lighter than my previous.
"Oh, it's just you," he said.
"Wow, thanks. Feeling the love," I said with fake hurt.
"So, who are you? I know you're a Time Lady. How did you survive the war?" he asked.
"I'm hurt, Theta, I would you would remember your best friend," I said, crossing my arms defensively.
"Ashes? It can't be you. Her mum told me she died," he muttered.
"I was never dead. I promise, I was never dead," I told him, putting a hand on his shoulder. He looked into my eyes.
"Prove it. Prove that you're my best friend. I don't want false hope," he said.
I took a step back and opened my palm. A small burst of snow popped out and swirled across the room until it landed on his face. I closed my eyes and stomped on the ground. It started to snow. I opened my eyes and watched the snowflakes swirl around.
The Doctor ran up to me and scooped me up in a giant bear hug. I hugged him back. We stood like that for a while until the Doctor broke the hug and looked at my hair closely.
"Your hair is blue," he said.
"Yeah. Do you like it? I think it's rather cool," I said.
"Bit like the color of my TARDIS," he commented.
"Yep. Pretty though," I said.
"Mmhmm," he mumbled.
"You don't like it, do you?" I said. I watched as a smile lit up his features.
"No, I love it. Perfect color," he said.
I heard someone walk into the console room. I turned around and saw that it was Rose. "Hi Rose!"
"Who the hell are you?" Rose asked, frowning.
"It's me, Ree. Well, I'm actually Isa, a Time lady. Doctor's bestie, right doctor?" I said, elbowing his side.
"Yeah," he said, still smiling.
"No, you're not Ree. She has blonde hair, not blue, and is really short," Rose said.
"True, I did, but I regenerated and TADA! New Isa, or Ree, but I would prefer Isa," I said, smiling.
"I'm lost," she said, giving the Doctor a confused look.
"Basically, Isa is a Time Lady. She used a special device that changed her DNA code to that of a human and kept her Time Lady consciousness in a special container. She became Ree, but then she opened up the container and returned to Time Lady. She also regenerated, but that's complicated," he explained. Rose still looked a bit confused, but decided to accept the information.
"Yeah, what he said, just call me Isa, okay?" I asked. She nodded. "Awesome. So Doctor, what's our next adventure?"
"I've received a message on my psychic paper," he said. I grinned as he put in the coordinates and the TARDIS took us to our next destination. Even though I am slightly psychic, I had no idea what awful thing was going to happen to me.
AN: Thanks for reading! I should update again in a fortnight! That's a weird word, fortnight. Anyway, review and tell me what you like about Ree being a Time Lady. Also tell me if you think fortnight is a weird word. Feel free to criticize, ask questions, etc.
PS- Temperance and all of them are from an American TV show called Bones. It's about a team of forensics that solve murders and crimes. You don't need to watch it to understand this, but you should watch it if you like science and crime shows. I just used them because I love their characters, but I made them really OOC. I don't think I need to put this under the crossover category since I don't use them in the story except maybe a reference here and there. Let me know if I should put it in the crossovers, though.
