Back on the planet I hurriedly typed on the computer I had found and I was almost done. The soldiers ran into the room just as I finished. " oh hello, I bet you're here to kill me. Just give me a moment then if you will because I need to take a moment to ready myself mentally to die." I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, focusing as hard as I could I jumped to the TARDIS.
I got there but I was really weak and knew that soon I would have to sleep. I looked around and noticed that I had not landed in the same TARDIS that I had left, at least not at the same point in its time stream. It was big and bright and looked new. I didn't like it and wrinkled my nose in disgust.
"Hello Katie. Its been a while since I have seen you. How are you doing with Jack?" "What are you talking about. I just found him again and I jumped to the wrong point in the TARDIS' time stream I guess. So are you the new Doctor or are you a companion?" I inquired as he stared trying to figure out what I was talking about. Before he could answer a bell went off, the cloister bell. I rushed to the control panel and started hitting buttons and pulling switches trying to find the problem. All too soon the problem became evident as the TARDIS shook and Sarah Jane Smith appeared in the room. I jumped under the console and swiftly rewired the stabilizers so that they could have a larger power amount conducted to them, but I couldn't fix the problem completely. So I came back up to the top just in time for the TARDIS to begin to shake again.
In seconds the Doctor that I knew, the one in pinstripes showed up, yelling and hitting the screen trying to get it to work. The desktop switched to coral and back again. "Doctor" I exclaimed excited to see someone I really knew. Then all over the control room people appeared. There was a guy in a black leather jacket, a girl with bright red hair, a girl in a lab coat, a second girl with red hair this one was holding the hand of a guy dressed like a nurse, a girl in a red dress with brown hair, a black guy who looked very confused, and a girl with crazy blonde hair. I had managed to stop the TARDIS from calling any more but the ones she had began to call I couldn't stop. Then just as I finished taking in all the people who had shown up I realized that I had to do something for the first redhead, the TARDIS had told me about her I knew her problem.
I jumped over to her and put my hands to her head, even though I had no clue what I was doing. I pulled all the time lord thoughts from her head and into me. Once that was done I stepped out of her mind then backed up physically while my head adjusted to the extra knowledge. I had overdone it and now I could feel the blackness taking me. One word managed to escape my mouth and all I knew was that it was not english, it was not even a language I should have known. It was Gallifreyan. \
When I woke up I was laying on the floor of the bright console room and there were a lot of people bending over me. My head was in Jack's lap and the Doctor I knew was trying to tell him I would wake up soon. I groaned and silence fell while everybody looked at me. I tried to push myself into a sitting position and Jack helped. "Why is everybody staring at me?" I asked and ended with a bad cough. "Well" Began my pinstriped Doctor, but The man in leather cut him off. "How did you do that? Not even He could do that and He is a time lord." "I think I am a Time Lord but I really don't know what I am. I know I stabbed myself in the chest and I was about to die, then the gold came." "What ….. " Began the man in leather but Jack cut him off. "Back off Doc, let her head settle before any interrogation begins." "Doc? What? Oh, crap. I'm sorry I really messed it up this time." "What makes you say it was you?" Asked the bow tie Doctor. "I broke the time dimension stabilizers when I jumped into the TARDIS, Because I landed in the wrong point in the time stream. I started to stand up and Jack helped me. "I really need to change clothes but first, Doctor can you tell me what I am?" I looked at the pinstripe Doctor. "You are the last time lady, I don't know how, I don't know who created you, but you were human and now you are a Time Lady." I took a deep breath, "Okay, nice to know and i think I know how to find out more about me but first I really need to change."
"Need any help?" Jack offered. I could tell that he was trying to lighten the mood but he really was worried too. I just smiled and shook my head. I walked down the hall a little unsteadily at first then more so until I was fully steady. I headed straight to the wardrobe and hoped the TARDIS, could help me find something I would like.
*****Jack*****
"Well should we go make something to eat while we wait?" Asked one girl. "Lets introduce ourselves first." Said the leather Doctor. "When you introduce yourself say which Doctor you traveled with,and your name, I'll start. I'm Jack and I traveled with leather Doctor there, and I've helped pinstripe Doctor as well." "I'm Rose, and I traveled with Leather Doctor and Pinstripe Doctor." "I'm River song I travel with bow tie from time to time." " I'm Amy and this is my husband Rory and we used to travel with bowtie." "I'm Martha I traveled with pinstripe Doctor, and would someone please explain how there are three Doctors?" "It has to do with me being an alien with two hearts, Martha." Explained pinstripes. "I'm Clara and I traveled with bowtie." "I'm Donna, I traveled with pinstripes and I told you not to make me forget." "Yes, well I thought your life was worth angering you." "Don't get smart with me." She said very sassily. "Of course not Donna." The pinstripe Doctor returned. "I'm mickey and I traveled with pinstripe but I knew leather as well."
"Now that we've all introduced ourselves lets go to the kitchen and I'll make something to eat." I said. There was a general agreement and the group moved to the kitchen with the Bowtie Doctor leading. Everyone sat at the table except Jack who went to the stove to put water on for tea. "Doctor, the snog box didn't make enough seats for me. Why does she hate me so much?" Clara complained "Don't worry she hates me too." I said.
"You could try not calling her 'the snog box' She really doesn't appreciate it. She is so amazing and advanced but you just insult her all the time." Katie said suddenly appearing. She was wearing a pair of blue skinny jeans, tan boots, and a white top that reached her mid thigh. I whistled and she blushed. "Oh, you blush now I always wanted to see you blush." I said. She just rolled her eyes at me and went to the table. As she approached three more seats appeared. "Thank you." She said with a glance at the ceiling. She sat down in the middle one and Clara sat in the one next to Bowtie. The tea was done by this point so I Put it on the table and next to it cups appeared, we were one cup short though and I knew why. I went over to the fridge and found some chocolate milk and fixed a cup for Katie. I set it in front of her. "Thank you." She said and with the way she was looking at me I leaned down and kissed her, It was short but was full of passion.
"Jack you really don't have to kiss everyone." Leather said. "Its not like she's complaining." I retorted. "Besides I've only ever kissed three people at this table." "Who besides me?" asked Katie. "I kissed leather and Rose at the same time, when we were sure we were about to die. In fact I did die." I said with a glare at leather. "I know thats why I left." "how long are we going to have to stay here?" asked Amy, obviously trying to avoid an argument. I headed back to the cooking area to make some food for everyone.
"A month at the least, six at the most." Katie answered quietly. "What! Thats ridiculous, I have a husband, he'll be going crazy." Donna exclaimed. "No he won't. first of all your in a time machine and second the time machine will put you back right where she found you she's not gonna let the Doctor try to drop you off. His driving never changes." Katie replied in that same quiet tone. "What's wrong, Belle?" I asked."Nothing, I just am tired and hungry." "Maybe you should try this little known thing called sleep." I suggested sarcastically, though I was sure my worry was audible. "I tried for years eventually, I just gave up. Some day I might try again."she replied dryly. "Oh you won't need to try hard, Time Lords need very little sleep. Life will become easier even with all that sleep you seem to be missing." Pinstripes said with emphasis that told me he knew not just how much sleep I had been missing, but also why I so frequently used that excuse. I blushed and ducked my head, sipping my milk. "I really would appreciate an explanation about why that is embarrassing, however I would really like to point out to everyone now that she's not the first human parented time lady." River put in. "I would like to put in that these two are not the only ones with first hand Time Lady experience present." Clara added. "Thanks, I was trying to avoid mentioning that, I really didn't need this conversation." Bowtie said. "Well you got it anyway, explain. Now." Leather said. "I was conceived in the TARDIS and thanks to that I am, I believe the phrase was, child of the TARDIS. thanks to that I have that third strain of DNA." River explained. "I jumped into the doctors time stream and lived thousands of lives all trying to save him, one life was as a time lady." "You two explain so much simpler than the Doctor does he just rambles all the time." Amy said. "Who are your parents, River?" asked Rose. "Amy and Rory pond over there are." Said bowtie.
I was just putting the noodles in the water when Mickey spoke up. "What are you cookin', captain cheese cake?" "Pasta, like spaghetti but with better flavor." "Why did you call him captain cheese cake?" "Because I am captain Jack Harkness." I responded and with a grin I added, "and he's mickey mouse." I began on the sauce and didn't pay much attention as the conversation moved on to music for some unknown reason. When the food was done there was an argument over whether rock or country was better. I carried the food to the table, first the salad then the pasta, then the sliced peaches. "Hope you all like pasta, because this will blow away any other pasta you've ever had." "some day you'll be less full of yourself." Mickey said. "you've never had him fix you food, he was gone before you joined, most the time its not exaggeration." Rose said already fixing herself an overly large portion. I sat down next to Katie and waited as she fixed herself some then I fixed me some.
As we ate the conversation moved away from music and to how we met the Doctor. I told my story of the con I was going to pull off and how i ended up leaping on to a bomb in order to save lives. Everyone told their tales from him showing up in your backyard eating your food then running off saying five minutes and showing up 12 years later to save you from a prisoner, all the way to, walking down the aisle and all the sudden being in the TARDIS, to being a patient when your hospital ends up on the moon, to showing up in a blue box when you're a child and taking you to grow up alongside your mother so that she could raise you, to meeting him when undercover in UNIT to calling a help line and then having him show up outside your house and refuse to leave you alone until you talk to him. At this point Rose interrupted the tellings. "So you're just rude in all you regenerations is that it?" She asked pinstripes "No, i wasn't always rude. Sarah Jane I wasn't rude when you traveled with me was I ?" She raised her eyebrows and spoke as if quoting someone. "No Brigadier I will not get off the desk, yes Doctor you were rude even then." She looked at Rose "I don't think he will ever move past that, however it is more evident in some regenerations than in others." I noticed that Katie didn't share her story.
"So you weren't there at introductions is your name Belle?" Martha asked "No, and I'm liable to punch anyone who calls me Belle." Katie said. "Thats a lot more violent than your threats used to be." Rose said "There not threats they are promises and now I fully have my own head no ones thoughts trying to fight their way in, I'm able to violent now." Turning back to Martha she said " my name is Gabby or Katie or just about anything else so long as its nice." "Then why does Jack call you Belle?" "He's the reason no one is allowed to call me Belle." "How so?" "I dated him for a while in my teens, I fell hard and then he left. He worked for the time agency and he was recalled from the assignment. He had always called me Belle and after he was gone I never let anyone call me Belle, it just hurt too much. And now hearing him say it makes me smile so I let him." "Alright Katie, how did you meet the Doctor and which one did you meet first?" Donna asked her.
"Pinstripes. I was in ancient Rome and I saw him, I knew who he was because I had been having mental conversations with Rose. I called out to him to get him to stop moving. Then I told him my story. He talked to Rose through me and I felt their love. I couldn't let them be separated like me and Jack so I traveled to Pete's world and got Rose and came back." "Whats this about separation, where was Rose?" Leather asked. Katie cut in before anyone else could. "She got trapped in a parallel universe. and there was no possible way to get her back except my unique ability. However I probably shouldn't have done it but I'll have to take her, to some point in bowties future so that I don't screw up time badly. A few more adventures with a friend who hadn't died won't mess time up too bad, I hope."
"My turn for a question, Katie, how did you get to ancient Rome in the first place?" asked Clara. "I jumped. some how i can travel through the time vortex with out a ship or anything, but it really takes a lot out of me. Its also how I got to Rose." "Can you go anywhere? anywhen?" asked Martha. "Theoretically, but I don't have very good control over where I land, but I can now control when I leave. I wasn't always able to." "How did you discover this ability?" asked Mickey. "Lets see my first jump was, oh. I just really needed to get away once and I was pacing trying to figure out my problem and then all the sudden I was on a totally strange planet." "What planet?" I asked. Her gaze had gone blank as she spoke and now she was staring but not seeing. Obviously she remembered this planet like it was yesterday. "What planet, Belle?" "Belle?" She didn't answer as she kept staring blankly at the wall. Then I realized that there were tears on her face. I gently touched her shoulder and she jumped. "What?" "Why are you crying?" I asked. "What?" she touched her face with a hand and felt the tears. "You might as well tell them, Katie. None of them will judge you." Pinstripes said softly. She nodded and took a deep breath.
"The planet's name is unimportant. What happened there is important. I landed in the King's office. when I passed out I was taken to the hospital wing. I met the queen who was in the bed beside me. We became friends. Two weeks after I arrived the queen died and two weeks after that I…" She faltered here, then taking a deep breath continued. "I gave birth. She was the most beautiful baby girl ever. When she was six months old the king proposed. I declined saying I loved another man with all my heart. when she was two he proposed again and I declined again but asked him to take care of my daughter while I went looking for the man I loved. He agreed. I left then and went back to earth, I landed almost three months from when I had left and I went home to visit family. Then I started searching for Jack. I went everywhere, all over the planet searching for him. Every time I went home there were always questions about moving on or boys or if I even tried anymore. On one trip home I just really needed to get away from the questions. I came home because I missed my family but I always hated it once I got there because there were always far too many memories brought up. So I packed a bag and was pacing until others got up so that I could tell them I was leaving and I ended up in ancient Rome. Then I earned some money and got a tent and worked a poor jobs basically being a psychologist for troubled teens who wandered my way and talking to Rose in the evenings, until I found the Doctor and started traveling with them."
By this time we were all done with dinner and she stood up and began collecting dishes. "How do you live with the knowledge that you have a kid growing up without you?" asked Mickey she stared at the dishes she was grabbing as she answered. "I just hope that she won't forget me, and that when I find her she won't hate me for being gone so long. But I'm not the only one here, PInstripes over there should understand." "What, I don't have any kids wandering around." Pinstripes replied indignantly. "Right, I forgot you don't know."She responded with a sly grin. "What, I think I would know if I had a child, thats not exactly something you miss." He said. "Unless you think that she is dead and then she wakes up after you are gone." She said with a smirk. "What the only dead child I have, because you singled me out, would be Jenny. But thats impossible she died, she didn't regenerate." Katie looked at him with a very pointed look. "Except for the fact that she died in a room where a ball that gave life had just been broken, I would believe you. And I know that because I met her, person not too long after she stole a rocket to search for her Father." She finished and turned on her heel sassily to go put the dishes in the sink. "Whos the mother if you're the father?" Rose asked and everyone knew why she asked that. "Ohhh yes do tell." Amy prodded. Pinstripes was blushing really badly, "Well actually, I am. I am father and mother. I stuck my hand in a machine and it took my DNA and created a child from it. A daughter, Donna named her Jenny." Katie laughed from by the sink. "And on that note, I'm going to bed, maybe I'll actually get some sleep tonight." Katie said. "I could help with that." I offered. "I might take you up on that. Its your fault I haven't been able to sleep for years." She sounded half angry but I knew she wasn't really, mostly by the smile on her gorgeous face. "Wow, I wasn't expecting that response from you. You've never been one to say yes to me." "You got me through all the horrid nights when I had insomnia in the middle of the summer. I figure you can do it again."
"And how exactly did he help you through that insomnia?" Asked Leather, in a voice that said he knew exactly how I would have liked to help her with insomnia. "By holding my hand and whispering to me. He calmed me down enough that the heat didn't matter. I lived in Utah for years not being able to sleep during any summer, then he managed to get me to sleep. He was truly a knight in shining armor to me at least. My Dad never did agree on that particular point." Katie answered. "Yeah if by not agreeing you mean that he wanted to kill me everytime he saw me with you, then yeah he didn't agree on that point. Though I did gain some points when I was good with guns." "Yeah that gained some points. My Father has always been a firm believer in guns, and boy, did it make him made when you proved your skill with guns. He hated you all the more for it." "Someday I will convince him that I'm not a bad guy, but first I have a question." Her smile dropped and she replied obviously knowing what the question was. "Ask away." "Whos the father?" She looked me straight in the eye and replied with a determination in her voice that I had only heard once. "A man who will never meet her. I do not hold what he did against him, I know why he did it. But he will never meet her if I have anything to say about it." I nodded. "alright then." She smiled at my acceptance. "Then I am heading to bed if that's all settled." "wait, first I want a dance, you promised me."
She looked at me, then asked a simple question. "fast or slow?" "Why don't we let the TARDIS, pick the music? Then we can just dance." She nodded and held out her hands, I rose to meet her and the music began.
**********Katie***********
I stepped into his arms as if I had never left them, as if I had never regenerated, as if all those years apart had never happened. The song was by Meatloaf called I'd do anything for love. It was the last song we had danced to and I promised at the end of that dance that the next time we saw each other we could dance to it again. I loved the lyrics and they fit so perfectly for us.
And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that.
At the end of the first verse, others began to join us, leather and Rose, Mickey and Martha, Clara and bowtie, SarahJane and Pinstripes. Then came the rest of the versus.
Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again
Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you
As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it
But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
Oh I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
Some days I pray for silence, and some days I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of sex and drums and rock 'n' roll
Maybe I'm lonely and that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep
As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it
That I would do anything for love, and you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love, and there'll never be no turning back
But I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no no no I won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that
Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?
I can do that, I can do that
Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?
I can do that, oh oh now, I can do that
I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around
I won't do that, no I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.
Before any of us could separate another song began. This one still the perfect combination of slow and upbeat, and still one from my fondest memories. This was the song that was playing on the radio that someone had brought to the park on the day that we met, it was also the first song we ever danced to. It was our song.
I see the questions in your eyes
I know what's weighing on your mind
But you can be sure I know my part
'Cause I'll stand beside you through the years
You'll only cry those happy tears
And though I'll make mistakes
I'll never break your heart
I swear
By the moon and stars in the sky
I'll be there
I swear
Like the shadow that's by your side
I'll be there
For better or worse
Till death do us part
I'll love you with every beat of my heart
I swear
I'll give you everything I can
I'll build your dreams with these two hands
We'll hang some memories on the wall
And when there's silver in your hair
You won't have to ask if I still care
'Cause as time turns the page
My love won't age at all
I swear
By the moon and stars in the sky
I'll be there
I swear
Like the shadow that's by your side
I'll be there
For better or worse
Till death do us part
I'll love you with every beat of my heart
I swear
I swear
By the moon and stars in the sky
I'll be there
I swear
Like the shadow that's by your side
I'll be there
For better or worse
Till death do us part
I'll love you with every beat of my heart
I swear
I swear
I finally moved my head from Jack's chest at the end of the song, but only to look into his eyes. I knew that all my emotion showed, if not on my face then in my eyes. One glance at his face showed me the same overwhelming emotions that I felt. I knew that I could not live without this man. I saw his eyes flicker, however briefly, to my lips, and when the kiss came I welcomed it. When we separated, there was still silence and I didn't care enough to look around to see why. Then Jack spoke. "Come on, you need to get some worthwhile sleep tonight." His hands moved from my back to my hand. I followed him down the hallway barely able to think. When we reached a door, I recognised as mine he paused and looked at me. He was waiting for me to open the door. It was my room and he would not enter without permission. I stepped forward and opened the door.
The bed had pillows arranged in the corner so that the wall could not be felt when leaning against them. Jack went and after removing his coat and placing it on a chair, he sat on the bed and I climbed on his lap. He wrapped his arms around me and I snuggled against his chest. It was how we had slept for the time we had been together, I didn't need to try to explain that the others they would, no doubt tease me for it and I had no need for that. I fell asleep for the first time in years, without effort and no bad dreams awaited me. I slept peacefully and restfully for the first time since I was 17.
