Sorry its taken longer than usual!!! *Begs for mercy* Also sorry its a bit shorter than usual, I really wanted to get the next chapter out before the end of the day but I believe this is the last of Loki's past pretty much summed up. The next chapters will be back to present time with out favourite Time Lord and Lady along with River and a guest appearance from none other than Captain Jack Harkness!! ^_^

Also thanks to: ell the weasel for the review! I'm hoping to writechapters for Human Nature and Family of Blood because it would be rather interesting to see how Zera/Loki reacts to the Matron.....I can imagine a cat fight between those two XD Hahaha. Hopefully I will be able to write them in the near future :)

Disclaimer: Do I have to keep writing this damn thing?!?! I DON'T OWN DOC WHO!! But I do own Loki and my crazy ideas!

Time Leap

Chapter Twenty Eight

It had taken her many weeks to get over the fact that Theta....the Doctor, was now married and had a child. The majority of the time she spent avoiding him to which her parents helped. Loki would spend days on end in her room, talking with Driti who listened to her words, occasionally driiting. He was a smart bird. The one day she had been laid on her bed ignoring the world when the sound of raised voices fell through the walls.

"Why won't you let me see her?!" she sat up straight at the Doctor's voice.

She almost cringed when her father shouted back, "Because you've broken her heart!"

"I thought she was dead! Just like you!"

"Both of you, stop it," Astha was once again the voice of reason, "If Loki will see you then do come in. The sooner this is sorted out the sooner we can get Loki back to her life."

The raven haired Time Lady rolled her eyes before looking at Driti.

"What do you think? Should I talk to him?"

He cocked his head to the side, staring at her with one golden eye before driiting loudly. She couldn't help but smile and stroke the feathers under his beak much to the bird's enjoyment.

As expected there was silence as her mother dragged her father away before there was a quiet knock at her door.

"Loki?"

For a moment she wanted to ignore him, something she would never have done before, and let him leave. However Driti snapped at her finger earning the bird a glare.

"What?" Loki had trouble with holding the bite from her voice.

She could almost hear the Doctor cringe outside her door and there were several more moments of silence before he tried again with a weary sigh.

"Can I at least come in? Its not easy talking to a door."

The anger rose up once again but she forced it back as she stiffly rose and unlocked the door, letting it slide open and faced him with crossed arms.

"What?"

He looked almost exactly the same although he had aged some more but his eyes remained the same and they were currently looking down at her sadly. Just as he was about to speak, no words left his lips and he ended up closing his mouth again. Instead he settled for pulling her into his arms and holding her close, trying to ignore how much it hurt when she didn't return the gesture.

"I'm sorry Loki....I'm so sorry...but you were gone so long, we all thought...."

"Thought what?" she practically growled, the incessant drumming in her head only seemed to intensify for a moment, "that I was dead?!"

His arms tightened round her, "would you stop making this harder?

Loki squirmed from his arms and stepped back with narrowed eyes, "why won't you just leave me alone? You've got all you want. A wife and child," her eyes started to burn, "just stop rubbing salt in the wounds and leave me alone!"

And the floodgates opened. As a Time Lady she was used to the few tears every now and then but right now she felt like pouring her heart out. The Doctor looked at her with utmost guilt before wrapping her in his arms.

"I can't just leave you alone, Loki. I really thought I'd lost you...we all did," she sobbed into his neck, "I know that we can't be like how we used to be.....but I still want you in my life, need you in my life," he pulled back to look into her eyes, "Loki...I felt like I had died when you didn't come back."

They sat like that for several minutes before her tears dried up and slowly she started to come to terms with the new changes.


"Dysaa, meet Loki," the Doctor picked up a small girl with long brunette hair that fell round her cute childish face in curls, curious blue eyes looking at Loki with interest.

Loki was meeting the Doctor's family for the first time and was nervous as hell. Not only at meeting his wife - Cassa - but mainly his daughter. She had given up, too tired to argue and had decided to wind back her mental clocks to when she had been just friends with the Doctor, however she refused to call him Theta ever again.

"Loki?" the child tried out her name and said woman couldn't help but turn to mush at how adorable she sounded.

There was a brief moment before a positively gleaming smile broke out onto the girl's face and she held out her arms to the stunned Time Lady.

"Loki!"

Her heart instantly melted and she took the young girl into her arms, balancing her perfectly on her hip much to the child's excitement as she hugged her round the neck. Loki laughed and looked at the Doctor accusingly. Cassa chuckled warmly at the sight as she walked into the room.

"All he's ever told her as bed time stories are the 'Tales of Loki', she practically thinks your her hero."

Once again she felt a stab to her heart. She couldn't hate these two. In fact she loved them both already. Cassa was a beautiful woman and a brilliant wife, perfect for the Doctor, and Dysaa was simply adorable and already following in her father's footsteps, constantly caught playing with his sonic screwdriver and taking things apart much to her parents' annoyance.

"Would you like to stay for dinner, Loki?" Cassa asked warmly.

A brief thought hit her telling her to leave if anything just to spite the Doctor however her mouth had a mind of its own as she found herself taking up the offer.

Dinner went surprisingly well, the majority of the time was spent with her pulling faces at the Doctor when he wasn't looking earning squeals of laughter from Dysaa. Loki found herself spending hours on end round at their home talking with Cassa over things and playing with Dysaa, entertaining the child with her own childish antics. The Doctor watched with merry warmth at the scene of Loki running round on all fours, Dysaa on her back squealing happily.


Gradually she was getting her life back on track. She kept her travelling to a minimum, mainly to visit Earth a few times and bringing things back for Dysaa. Some times she babysat said girl while her parents went out either in the TARDIS or just around Gallifrey. Loki enjoyed every second she spent with the adorable girl. Her time spent with Dysaa was narrowed down when the Council gave her and her father a large laboratory in the temple. Loki spent many days stuck away in the lab testing, creating and mending things. Most of her time however was spent on altering a vortex manipulator one of the Elders had confiscated from someone. She didn't care, she just wanted to take it apart and put it back together even better. Loki was also enlisted in TARDIS repair earning her the nickname; 'Alchemist' for her inventions and the sort. Her father, the Master, was more than proud of her just as her mother was proud with her for getting on with her life. Still she spent her free time with Dysaa and sometimes the Doctor and Cassa.

That was until the Council had announced that they would be at war with the Daleks. A great Time War to save the Universe from the Daleks. Loki was far more than worried about it. She was physically ill at the idea of going out to fight. It was at this point the Doctor came to her aid, comforting her for several hours.


It all went in a blur for her. The fighting. The screams. Death. Being separated from the Doctor. Falling. Fire. Not a forest on fire. All of Gallifrey on fire. Falling again. And only then did her mind seem to comprehend she had escaped to Earth, the one place she had only ever felt like a second home to her. Without her TARDIS, only her vortex manipulator left, Loki spent quite a while curled up in tears on a grassy hill before she unsteadily got to her feet and looked round.

According to her vortex manipulator, and of course Time Lady skills, it was Cardiff, Wales, in the year 2007. She'd been to Cardiff several times before so knew her way round. However, as she started walking through Cardiff at night she didn't expect a black SUV to come tearing round the corner and head straight towards her. She felt like the proverbial deer in headlights as it screeched into a halt and a tall man dressed in what could only be called World War II clothing stepped out. He looked at her confused and shocked and for several moments they were stood there looking at each other confused.

"Why are you bringing up the same signal as the Doctor?" he seemed to be talking more to himself however Loki heard him loud and clear.

"You know the Doctor?!"

He was alive after all. She felt several tears fall from her eyes. Thank god he was alive. She wiped her eyes just as the strange human walked over to her.

"Err, yeah...I'm sorry, who or what are you?"

She couldn't tell him her real name or what she really was, Loki didn't want anyone knowing she was in fact a Time Lady. You could never be too safe when passing out names especially as a Time Lady. Could create a paradox.

"I'm Zera....51st Century kinda woman," she smiled holding up her vortex manipulator, "I and the Doctor are old friends."

He looked at her for a moment before smirking, a flirtatious look coming across his face, "Captain Jack Harkness," he held out his hand, "head of the Torchwood Institute here."

She took his hand and actually blushed when he kissed the back of her hand. Gosh, she hadn't blushed in quite some time.


From there Loki became known as Zera and spent several months at Torchwood getting to know Jack, Gwen and Ianto better and putting together a background for her human self. Amongst which entailed her creating a perception filter for her that made her Time Lord qualities invisible. She may as well have been a human however if anyone checked her heart they would notice that she had two. For a time she started a relationship up with Jack that went well for some time however they soon split up as she decided she needed to go looking for the Doctor.


One day she was walking round Cardiff just waiting for her vortex manipulator to detect even the slightest trace of the TARDIS and the Doctor. She had been half way through eating when her vortex manipulator started beeping quite furiously. Almost choking on her sandwich she looked at the watch only to see the readings weren't picking up the Doctor but something different....something odd. And being who she was she couldn't pass up seeing what it was. Once away from sight, she travelled through the Vortex only to find herself in...

"Chiswick?!" Zera/Loki exclaimed in utter confusion.

Following the signal, she hid behind a wall as a red haired woman walked past her, the signal was the woman? She looked completely normal yet the readings she got from the woman said she wasn't normal at all. For hours she followed the woman trying to figure out what made her different and why she was being picked up on the signals she was using to find the Doctor. Giving up, the Time Lady decided she would see what would happen with her just as her manipulator started beeping once again. This time it had a lock on the TARDIS. Grinning to herself, she quickly followed the signal, vanishing through the vortex once again only to appear outside a hospital. However the TARDIS was nowhere in sight. Tapping the manipulator with a growl, she had to force herself not to throw that damn thing at the nearest wall. According to the blasted thing she had managed to overtake the TARDIS and landed at least several weeks before the TARDIS was due to land there.

"This is just great. Great!" she threw up her arms, "now what am I supposed to do?"

Eyeing up the hospital a thought came to mind that made her smirk. While she waited for the Doctor she would put her own doctor skills to work.

Once again for it being short and brief *sigh* but my motivation is running low once again, my fault, thanks to the smexy David Tennant playing Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter I have now become re-addicted to the thing and have started writing ANOTHER fanfiction *facepalm* I really have to stop and concentrate on only one, especially with all the college work I'm gonna be doing this year. Damn you college! *shakes fist* Thanks for reading and PLEASE REVIEW!! Believe it or not, reviews really do bring the motivation back to me :D