I walked into the village hall frowning, I'd being half way through a party when I received the TARDIS distress call and judging by the shocked face's as I entered I was not dressed appropriately for whatever time frame I was in; I was wearing a mini-skirt and a halter top with thigh length boots, daggers in my boots and my gun hidden in my purse.
"Make you decision, Mr Smith." A woman was holding Martha by the neck and had a gun to her head.
Who the hell was Mr Smith?
"Perhaps if that human heart breaks, the Time Lord will emerge." A young man was staring at the Doctor.
Wait! Human heart? He wouldn't have! Would he?
John Smith, the Doctor looked between the two human captives one was Martha and the other a blonde woman I didn't know.
"What the hell is going on?" I stepped into the room.
"Tory!" Martha called out happily.
"What have you lot done?" I asked looking around at the scared humans and then at the Doctor, "What happened Martha?" I asked the young Doctor.
"He became human."
"I can see that!"
"Do I know you?" the Doctor asked me, "It feels like I should."
"You know me." I told him sadly. I turned back to the woman holding Martha, "What are you lot then?"
"We are the family of blood."
"Oh! Now I get it!" I walked towards them.
"We are armed." The boy threatened. I smirked.
"Mines bigger." I reached into my hand bag and pulled out a disruptor that was the same size as a small child, "It's bigger on the inside." Martha laughed, "How you feeling now boyo?" I asked priming the weapon.
"You are a companion of the Doctor you wouldn't shoot." He laughed.
"Oh I'm more than that." I smirked and aimed the gun straight at John Smith.
"Tory!" Martha screamed, "What are you doing?"
"Drop the women or I kill him."
"What are you?" the family asked. John Smith seemed to be frozen staring down the barrel of my gun.
"I'll give you two guesses." I primed the gun.
"Wait!" the woman dropped Martha and she ran straight to John Smith as did the other woman.
"Very good." I smiled at the gathered humans, "Now run!" they did as they were told. Only Martha, John Smith and his woman remained.
"I'm not leaving you," Martha came and stood by my side, "The Doctor never would." I glanced back at John Smith, "The Doctor isn't here."
"No he isn't." she agreed. I grinned and winked at John.
"Then that means I can do this!" I smirked at the family, "'Cause he won't stop me." I pulled the trigger. The Family were caught in a stasis field, "Booya! I still got it." I shoved the gun back into my purse, "Now then let's get to the running shall we?" I grabbed John's arm and pulled him out of the door followed by Martha and the other woman.
"So where now?" I asked Martha.
"The school!" John announced, "We must warn them!"
"What?"
"John is right," the woman agreed, "We can not leave them."
"Who are you?" I asked her.
"Nurse Joan Redfern."
"Oh okay. Right Martha where's the TARDIS?"
"West."
"Okay we can't go there."
"Why?"
"First place they'd look for us. So the only place we can go is this school." I shrugged, "Goodie!" I muttered sarcastically. Martha gave me questioning look, "Me and schools don't get along. So John where is this school?"
"This way." He grabbed Joan's hand and began running. Martha shot me a sympathetic look as we followed.
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"What are you wearing?" Martha asked me as we ran.
"I was at a party." I smirked at her confused look
"I love a good party, not that science lot the Doctor enjoys give me a drinking contest any day!" we laughed, "I'll meet you at the school."
"Where are you going?"
I started to glow silver.
"I'll tell you when I get there!"
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I was searching John Smith's rooms when Martha and Joan ran in, neither of them asked how I had gotten there first. Martha was talking to Joan.
"I know it sounds mad, but when the Doctor became human, he took the alien part of himself and stored it inside the watch. It's not really a watch, it just looks like a watch."
"And alien means...not from abroad, I take it."
"The man you call John Smith...he was born on another world."
"A different species."
"Yeah."
"Then tell me, in this fairy tale...who are you?" Joan asked.
"Just a friend. I'm not...I mean you haven't got a rival, as much as I might...Just his friend."
"Excuse me but what am i?" I asked annoyed that Joan still though she had a claim.
"You're human I take it?" Joan ignored me and continued talking to Martha.
"Martha is." I answered.
"And you?" Joan asked.
"I'm like John and not like him; I guess the best way to put it is that I'm a crossbreed part human part Time Lord part TARDIS." Joan looked at Martha for help.
"I'm completely human, don't worry, and more than that, I just don't follow him around. I'm training to be a doctor-not an alien doctor-a proper doctor, a doctor of medicine."
"Well that certainly is nonsense. Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a skivvy and hardly one of your colour."
"You did so not just make a racist remark!" I rounded on Joan. She backed away from me.
"Tory its fine; I've gotten used to it while we've being here." She tried to calm me down.
"Then he should never have brought you here! Me and that man will be having words!" I was angry on Martha's behalf who knew what she'd had to go through because of him? Martha turned back to Joan.
"I can prove it: Bones of the hand." She held up her left hand to show Joan as she spoke, "Carpal bones, proximal row; scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform. Distal row; trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. Then the metecarpal bones extending in three distinct phalanges; proximal, middle, distal."
"You read that in a book." Joan refused to accept what she was hearing. Martha laughed.
"Yes, to pass my exams. Can't you see this is true?"
"I must go." She ran for the door.
"If we find that watch we can stop them." Martha called after her.
"Those boys are going to fight. I might not be a doctor, but I'm still their nurse. They need me." She walked out of the door.
"Is the Doctor going to fight?" I asked Martha.
"Yes."
"Then I have to go too," I ran to the door, "someone's got to keep him alive!"
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I walked into the room Joan planned on using as a medical room to find John and her talking. I backed away around the corner but I could still hear and see everything.
"Martha was right about one thing, though. Those boys-they're children. John Smith wouldn't want them to fight, never mind the Doctor. The John Smith I was getting to know-he knows it's wrong, doesn't he?"
"What choice do I have?" he asked her before he pulled her into a kiss. I watched their kiss a cold feeling building up in my chest. I turned away and ran outside to where the boy's where readying their guns.
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I stood on the roof of the school knowing full well that none of the men would let me be in the fight as I was a woman. I pulled out my gun and balanced it so it was pointing at the gates the scarecrows would come through. I programed it to fire when I pressed a switch and then pulled to short swords out of my handbag. I put the bag down on the floor and fastened the swords to my waist.
"I'm sorry my Doctor." I muttered.
The gates burst open and I let the silver light take me. I appeared in the centre of the scarecrow mass and pulled out my swords.
"Bring it on fella's." they all turned towards me and a cut though them like butter. I destroyed half of them before I let the silver light take me. I fired my gun and the thing I had destroyed burnt. I laughed sadly and packed away my stuff.
I put the bag over my shoulder and let the silver light take me.
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I appeared next to Martha in a bush I looked around and saw the TARDIS surrounded by scarecrow guards and one of the family.
"You recognise it, don't you?" Martha asked John softly.
"That son of a bitch has the TARDIS!" I tried to stand but Martha pulled me back down.
"I've never seen it in my life." He objected stubbornly.
"Do you remember its name?" she insisted.
"I'm sorry, John, but you wrote about it. The blue box. You dreamt of a blue box." Joan looked at him sadly.
"I'm not-I'm John Smith." His voice was breaking, "That's all I want to be. John Smith, with his life...and his job...and his love. Why can't I be John Smith? Isn't he a good man?"
"The Doctor has a love too." I told him sadly looking up into his eyes, "And you're breaking her heart." I pulled away from Martha and ran off into the trees.
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I ran and didn't intend to ever stop.
"Please wait!" I heard a young voice call out. I slowed down to a walked and the young blonde boy caught up to me. He panted heavily and held out his hand, in it was a fob watch, the fob watch.
I took it slowly and stroked my fingers over the surface.
"Tory"
"Doctor." I smiled and the boy took my hand.
"They're this way." He led me off through the trees.
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We knocked at the door to a house. Martha opened it.
"I brought you this." The boy held out the watch.
"I brought you this!" I lifted up the boy. Martha laughed and took the watch.
We followed her inside and watched as she held out the watch to John.
"Hold it." She commanded.
"I won't." he refused.
"Please, just hold it." Martha begged.
"It told me to find you. It wants to be held." My little friend told him.
"You've had this watch all this time? Why didn't you return it?" Joan snapped. I glared at her.
"Because it was waiting. And because I was scared of the Doctor."
"Why?"
"Because...I've seen him. He's...like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun."
"Stop it." John commanded.
"He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe."
"Stop! I said stop it."
"And he's wonderful." We finished together.
"I've still got this. The journal." Joan pulled it out of a pocket.
"Those are just stories."
"Now we know that's not true. Perhaps there's something in here."
Suddenly something exploded outside.
"What the hell?" we all moved to the window and looked out, objects that could pass as meteorites fell to the ground around the village.
"They're destroying the village." Joan muttered softly.
"Watch." John picked up the watch.
"Can you hear it?" my little friend asked.
"I think he's asleep. Waiting to awaken." John stared at the watch in his hand.
"Why did he speak to me?"
"Oh, low-level telepathic field. You were born with it. Just an extra synaptic engram causing—" he stopped and inhaled deeply, "Is that how he talks?"
"That's him!" Martha looked excited, "All you have to do is open it and he's back."
"You knew this all along and yet you watched while Nurse Redfern and I—" he accused. Martha stepped forward.
"I didn't know how to stop you! He gave me a list of things to watch out for but that wasn't included."
"Falling in love? That didn't even occur to him?" John asked.
"No," Martha looked at me, "because he already is." The whole room looked at me.
"Hello honey I'm home." My sarcasm was ruined as I burst into tears and fell to my knees. John stared at me and I heard the watch call out.
"Tory!" he wanted to embrace me, to keep me safe but enclosed in his metal shell he had no hope, "Calm down! You need to calm down!" the watch continued but I ignored it. I stood up slowly keeping my head bowed.
"You love her?" I asked John.
"Yes."
I looked up at him sadly, tears still running down my cheeks.
"Goodbye my Thief." The silver light exploded out of me and I vanished.
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I opened my eyes on a street in modern day Earth. I could see a crowd gathered around a memorial. I looked at the older man who was sitting in a wheelchair. I walked up to him and took his hand.
"I never asked you your name." I knelt beside him. He smiled.
"He chose to become the Doctor."
"I know." I looked over my shoulder where the Doctor and Martha were standing both staring at me sadly, the Doctor looked like he wanted to run to my side but Martha was holding his arm.
"I can't go back."
"You have to; he loves you."
"He marries someone else." I looked at him with tears in my eyes. He patted my hair.
"But he loves you."
"He loves her." I stood and backed away, "I can't stay." I looked over at the Doctor once more before I turned and ran the other way.
"Tory!" I didn't stop.
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My hands where chained behind my back as I was dragged through the corridors of the Valiant beside the Jones family, we were prisoners of Harold Saxon, The Master. The doors in front of us slid open and we were shoved onto the bridge.
"Mum." I heard Martha before I saw her, she was in the middle of the room bent over an old man wearing the Doctor's clothes.
"I'm sorry." Francine sobbed.
"And not just the Jones's!" the Master laughed, "The first and last HTL-TARDIS!" my guard shoved me forward to the Masters feet where he forced me to kneel, "The last female of our kind." The Master continued, "What did you do to scare her away?" he asked the Doctor, "She ran straight into my cells!" he laughed, "And there she embraced me." He lifted me to my feet carefully, "My TARDIS," he stroked my hair, "My TARDIS."
"Tory!" Martha stared up at me in shock.
"She didn't have a choice Martha," Francine called out, "what he did to her!" she was cut off as her guard clamped his hand around her neck.
"Oh I would never hurt you, would I Tory?" I asked me. I looked up into his eyes slowly but didn't answer. He stared down at me.
"Tory…" the Doctor was trying to speak, "Tory." I turned to him, "The Toclafane, who are they? Who are they?" I staggered back a step and the Master grinned, he didn't care about me! I felt my face harden.
"Doctor, if we told you the truth, your hearts would break." The Master and I spoke at the same time, "And there, the bond is complete!" he yelled triumphantly, "She still love you until you said that but now," he took my hand, "you destroyed that one last piece of her that was left. Your Tory is dead and mine lives on." He grinned.
"Is it time?" the Toclafane asked.
"Is it ready?"
"Is the machine singing?"
The Master checked his watch.
"Two minutes past." He climbed up the steps and I followed, "So! Earthings. Basically, um, end of the world." He held up his screwdriver, "Here…come…the drums!"
I started to sing.
"Here come the drums. Here come the drums…
Baby, baby, baby. You are my voodoo child, my voodoo child…
Don't say maybe, maybe. It's supernatural. I'm comin' undone…
Baby, baby, baby. You are my voodoo child, my voodoo child…
Don't say maybe, maybe. It's supernatural. I'm comin' undone. Baby, baby, baby. You are my voodoo child, my voodoo child…"
I watched the Earth as it burned.
"And so it came to pass…that the human race fell and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion as master of all and I thought it…good."