CHAPTER 50

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THE STUFF OF LEGENDS

The Doctor and Rose listened intently as the Doctor's future self explained to them exactly what was going on or at least as much of it as he could at any rate. Rose could already tell that whatever he was about to reveal must be something that the Doctor already knew or at least suspected from the look of anticipation on his face. It reminded Rose of a child who already knows what they're going to get at Christmas because they've unwrapped all of their presents early.

Not that she had ever done such a thing of course no matter what her mother might tell people.

"It all started when the network needed ideas for new shows back in 1963. I made sure that I was on hand at the right moment to pitch an idea of my own to an employee of theirs. I then agreed to let the network have the idea in exchange for a permanent advisory role and ultimate approval on the show," The future Doctor said.

"And you've really kept this up for the last fifty years? How did you work that out?" Rose asked curiously.

"As each new producer came along, I passed myself off as the son, grandson, etc. of the original John Smith who came up with the concept in the first place so that no one realized that I never aged. I have always left each new producer of the show my number in the TARDIS and told them to call me for approval on any and all future changes to it so that I could keep the show as accurate a portrayal of our lives as possible," The future Doctor said.

"Why though? What was the point of all of that?" Rose asked as her Doctor remained silent for once and let her do all the talking.

That convinced Rose more than ever that her Doctor knew exactly what his future self was going to say. Then of course he would, wouldn't he?

"I did it so that past me would be suspicious of it for the very reason that it was so accurate and be drawn here where you would eventually find me. I had to draw your attention to this place so that I could make sure that you and he got out of here when and how you were supposed to so that I could properly maintain our timestream," The future Doctor answered.

"Why go to all of that trouble though just to get our attention? Couldn't you have found a much easier way to do it? Wasn't all of the time and effort involved in coming up with and silently maintaining a show based on you just a bit too much trouble to go to in order to get your past self's attention?" Rose asked with a knowing smile.

The future Doctor looked away from her as he admitted, "I . . . may have had other reasons for doing it."

Rose laughed as she said, "Uh huh and those reasons are your enormous ego and your vanity."

"Nonsense. That had nothing to do with it whatsoever. You must be thinking of Pretty Boy not me, Rose. My actions were purely based on logic and nothing more. If you're going to let someone do a show based on your life, then you might as well make sure that they get it right. I knew that they'd get it all wrong without me," The future Doctor said indignantly.

"And making yourself look good had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever, right?" Rose asked in amusement.

"Nothing," The future Doctor said proudly.

"You're just as full of it as ever, Doctor," Rose said as she shook her head at him.

"We don't have time to waste talking about future me's many, many personality flaws, Rose. We need to find out exactly what he went to so much trouble to tell us because I'm sure that even I don't know everything," The Doctor said in an impatient voice.

"You do realize that you just insulted yourself, right?" Rose asked with a warm smile.

"Who better to do that than me? I know more than anyone else possibly could just how truly flawed that I really am," The Doctor said with a sad look.

"You're too hard on yourself, Doctor. You're nowhere near as bad as you think you are. Trust me on that," Rose said as she gave him a tender kiss.

Then she saw his future self looking even grumpier than usual and shooting his past self a dirty look which immediately caused her to say, "Come here, you."

She then put her arms around him and gave him a kiss as well. A small smile briefly came over his face while the present Doctor muttered derogatory remarks about him under his breath.

"Stop being jealous of yourself, Doctor," Rose admonished.

"That's telling him, Rose," The present Doctor said as he suddenly smiled at his future self smugly.

"I was talking to both of you. Now, future Doctor, get to it. Tell us what you came here for so that we're ready for what's to come," Rose said in a no nonsense voice.

The future Doctor smiled as he said, "Right, Boss."

"No, no. Clara's the boss, Doctor. Not me," Rose said with a mischievous smile.

"I think even past me will agree that we have two bosses instead of just one, Rose. You're just not as obvious about it as Clara is," The future Doctor said.

"That's because I'm the nice boss. Now get to it and stop mucking about already," Rose said.

The two Doctors traded an incredulous look which made Rose say, "I saw that."

"Sometimes she's just like her mothers," The future Doctor said.

"Definitely," The present Doctor said.

"You're going to find out just how much like them that I really am if you don't stop flapping your gums, Doctors," Rose said in a voice filled with underlying menace.

Both Doctors shuddered then and the future Doctor immediately continued with his story as he said, "Past me already knows part of the reason why I'm here. It's about Eliza Newman."

"What about her?" Rose asked in a worried voice.

"You feel a connection to her don't you, Rose? You've felt it almost from the very moment that we met her. It's why you instinctively trusted her from the start. It took me a while but I finally realized exactly what that connection was back in the car on the way over here. She's not just an ordinary human. She's someone very special. At least she is to me anyway," The present Doctor said.

"Who is she? You know don't you?" Rose asked.

"She's my mother, Rose. Or at least she will be anyway," The present Doctor said.

Suddenly they heard a strangled gasp coming from behind them and Rose and the present Doctor turned to see Eliza standing there. Her face had gone pale and she was shaking all over.

"Eliza, it's alright," Rose said in a sympathetic tone as she remembered how she felt when she first met the Doctor as Rose.

Eliza's voice trembled with emotion as she said, "You were both in here for so long that I thought that I'd come find you to see if I could help somehow. I – I never expected to see two Doctors who look identical to one another and then to – to hear . . ."

"Eliza, I know that it's a lot to process at first but . . ." Rose said as she started towards her.

"Stay away from me! Crys was right about you. You're both mad and you're trying to suck me into your little delusions too now. Just what were you and the Doctor's twin here planning on doing to me? How sick are you two?!" Eliza shouted as she backed away from her.

"Eliza, we're not going to hurt you. I know that we sound like nutters right now but we're really not. You're just going to have to trust us on that. I would never hurt you and neither would the Doctor. I mean we've lived with you for a while now. Have we ever done anything even remotely threatening to you in all of that time?" Rose asked in her gentlest tone.

"I know why. You were lulling me into a false sense of security weren't you so that you could strike when I was least expecting it?" Eliza said.

"No, of course not," Rose said in an offended tone.

"Rose, she doesn't understand. You can't talk to her right now. Not while she's in this state," The present Doctor said as he started towards Eliza.

"What are you doing? Stay away! I'll scream," Eliza said in a panicked voice.

"Doctor, don't go any closer. You're only making it worse. She's scared to death as it is," Rose warned.

"I think deep down that you know that I won't hurt you, Eliza, or you would have already screamed by now. Look into my eyes and tell me that you honestly think that we're trying to hurt you in any way," The Doctor said as he drew closer to Eliza.

Eliza did as he asked and then said, "No, I – I still trust you. That's exactly why I shouldn't though. My instincts are wrong. They have to be. Nothing else makes any sense. There's no way that I could be your mother. That's just crazy. What are you, a time traveler?"

The present Doctor smiled for a brief moment which immediately caused Eliza to say, "You're kidding me."

"You really haven't ever watched Doctor Who have you?" Rose asked with a grin.

"Maybe it's time that I started," Eliza said with a nervous laugh.

"Eliza, I'm not going to hurt you. You'll have to trust me," The present Doctor said as he started to reach towards the sides of Eliza's head.

"No, don't. She has to remember all of this in order to tell me what happens here one day," The future Doctor warned.

"How do we ever get her to calm down then without wiping her memory of what she just heard?" The present Doctor asked.

"You could try talking to me. That usually works," Eliza said with a frown.

"Not for him. He's not too good with people in this incarnation," Rose said.

"This incarnation? Now I'm really confused," Eliza said.

"So am I. Why do we have to stay here? The longer we're around Eliza the more likely that we'll be to accidentally alter your own past," Rose said to the future Doctor.

"No, in this case it'll actually ensure that I have one. You'll see what I mean very soon now, Rose. Don't worry. It won't be much longer. Just stay with Mother a while longer, and then you can leave," The future Doctor reassured her.

"And how are we going to leave exactly? Are you going to wait to take us back when whatever happens with Eliza happens?" Rose asked.

The future Doctor smiled as he said, "No, it won't be me that brings you back, Rose. Let's just say that mine won't be the only familiar face that you're going to see today and leave it at that."

"Cryptic much, Doctor from the future?" Eliza asked with a snort.

"See how intelligent she is, Rose? She's working it all out and accepting it already," The present Doctor said proudly.

"Yay me," Eliza said in a voice that clearly told Rose that she was still bothered by all of this and struggling to accept it.

"It's okay," Rose reassured her as she finally approached her now and put a comforting arm around her.

"So you're my daughter-in-law then? I bet we get along great," Eliza said with a brief smile.

"I sometimes think that you like her better than you do me," The present Doctor admitted.

"That's crazy. You have to know that's not true, Doctor. Just because she's sweeter and much easier to get along with than you are doesn't mean that I'll like her better than my own . . ." Eliza said and then stopped herself as her eyes widened.

"You almost said it didn't you?" Rose said with a grin.

"It felt so natural. So natural that it's very, very scary. This . . . This can't be real," Eliza said in a worried voice.

"It's alright, Calliope. Don't get upset," Rose blurted out without thinking.

"Calliope?" Eliza asked in surprise.

"Rose," The present Doctor said in alarm.

"No, it's alright," His future self whispered at a level where only he could hear him.

"Did you call me Calliope?" Eliza asked.

"Don't worry about it. Just forget you ever heard it. It was just a slip of the tongue," Rose said as she tried to talk her way out of it.

"You really do know me in the future don't you? I've never used that name around either of you two. In fact, I haven't been called that in a long time. Not since . . . My mother used to call me her little Calliope when I was a child because she said that I had a beautiful singing voice just like the muse Calliope was supposed to have. She was a huge fan of Greek mythology. So I start calling myself that again in the future, huh? I always did kind of like it. Crys hates it though. She said it used to give me a swelled head whenever Mum called me that," Eliza said with a grin.

"So that's where you get that from," Rose joked to the two Doctors.

Eliza smiled liking Rose more and more as she could sense that she was only playfully teasing her and her . . . the Doctor. She had always liked people with a good sense of humor after all.

"So do we get found here?" Rose asked the future Doctor.

"No, not here. It won't happen in an area with a lot of people. They always like to do things with as few witnesses as possible so as to lessen the impact on the Web of Time," The future Doctor said.

"Displaying even more crypticness I see," Eliza noted.

"So where will it happen then?" The past Doctor asked.

"Let Mother take you back home with her, Doctor. That's all that you have to do. The rest will work itself out," The future Doctor said.

"Right. Let's go then, Mother," The present Doctor said.

Eliza looked uneasy as she said, "Don't call me Mother, Doctor. No offense but I – I'm just not ready for that. I'm still not sure that I even believe it yet."

"Yes, you do. You just haven't accepted it," The Doctor said in a knowing voice.

"Well, it's a lot to swallow. I'm only twenty-two and I have an old man calling me his mother. How old am I in your time anyway? I must be ancient," Eliza said.

"You're not that old. Only about three thousand or so. You never have told me your exact age so even I'm not sure," The present Doctor said.

"What?" Eliza said as her jaw dropped.

"It'll all make sense later," Rose said.

"Really? That'll be a first. Nothing's made sense to me at all since I met you two," Eliza admitted with a smile.

"Yeah, get used to that feeling, Eliza. It never goes away. It does stop being scary though. In fact, you actually start to like it before too long," Rose said as she spoke from experience.

"I bet. I know I'm going to like you now. Thank you for making me feel better," Eliza said as she kissed Rose on the cheek making Rose smile at how close the two of them had already grown in such a short time.

"So are we going back now?" The present Doctor said impatiently.

"Why are you in such a hurry, Doctor? Don't you want to spend some time with me back when I'm still young?" Eliza teased him.

"You're still young in my own time so I don't really see the need to prolong our visit for that reason," The present Doctor said.

"Huh?" Eliza said in complete confusion now.

"You'll . . ." Rose started to say.

"Yeah, yeah. I'll understand it later. Sure I will," Eliza said with a sigh.

"Enjoy your time with this version of her now that you know who she is, Doctor. She's still so young and uncertain here. You won't get this opportunity again to know who she was before we knew her," The future Doctor said.

"I really do change in the future it seems," The present Doctor said.

"Yes, thanks to Rose. She always calls me her work in progress because she's constantly trying to make me more relatable to ordinary people," The future Doctor admitted.

"That must be a full-time job. It's a wonder she has any time left to save the universe," The present Doctor said.

"You're enjoying this way too much," The future Doctor said with a frown.

"Yes . . . Yes, I believe that I am," The present Doctor said with almost a sense of surprise in his voice.

"Right. Well, it's been nice seeing Rose and Mother, Doctor, but I suggest that you all leave right now before any more fans spot you. You don't want to get mistaken for the actors from the show again, do you?" The future Doctor said in an irritated voice.

"Definitely not. Those humans acted very strangely. I still think that they were under some kind of alien influence despite what Rose says," The present Doctor said as he briefly scanned the area with his sonic screwdriver.

"No, they just love us. They think that we're incredible and amazing," The future Doctor said with a smug smile.

"Oh, that explains it perfectly then. Well, you can't really blame them for that, can you? It's only natural," The present Doctor said with an equally and identical smug smile on his own face.

Rose and Eliza both rolled their eyes as Rose grabbed him by the arm and said, "Come on, Doctor. You can boast about yourself later."

"Wait. There's something that I have to give him before he goes. This is the main reason why he had to meet me here today," The future Doctor said.

He then pulled a small device that Rose could clearly tell was made out of a hodgepodge of spare parts from the TARDIS out of his pocket and gave it to his past self.

"A Vortex Inhibitor?" The present Doctor asked after he briefly studied it.

"Trust me, Doctor. You're going to need that almost as soon as you go back. Keep it handy," The future Doctor warned.

The present Doctor simply nodded knowing that his future self couldn't tell him anything else.

Then the future Doctor whispered something in his past self's ear that neither Rose or Eliza could hear. Rose couldn't help but wonder what it was all about but the Doctor wasn't telling.

The three of them then immediately left the future Doctor behind as a woman's voice said to him from the shadows, "That was so weird seeing all of that from this point of view. Now we wait until it's time for me to do what I came here to do. It won't be too much longer now from what I remember."

"Do you think that she'll understand?" The future Doctor asked.

"I hope so. I've missed her so much over the years," The woman said in a distant voice.

Before too long a time had passed (at least for everyone but the Doctor anyway), the Doctor, Rose, and Eliza were back at the Newmans' home once more. As soon as Eliza reached a television, she quickly looked through the channels and then smiled.

"What do you know? I can actually get it. Well, there's no time like the present to do some research about who you really are, Doctor, especially since this episode is called Rose," Eliza said as she winked at Rose.

"Oh, it's about me is it?" Rose said to the Doctor with an affectionate grin.

"Don't look at me. I have no idea what it's about. I haven't helped write it yet," The Doctor said.

"I'd say it's about Rose alright since she's in the very first scene. Is that you acting in it? She looks just like you. Or have you not done that yet? Did I get that right? These future tenses are confusing to me," Eliza said.

"Yes, you got it perfectly. See? You're getting it already. No, that's not any version of me. It's a very good friend of mine who just happens to look like me. I'll have to find a way to thank her for her help back at the convention sometime," Rose said.

The three of them then finished watching the rest of the episode in silence and once it was done Eliza seemed to have even more questions than ever.

"If you're an alien, how can I be your mother since I'm human? Isn't that like biologically incompatible or something? Who's your father and where do I meet him? Why is Rose human here but she says she's an alien now? How does that work? Is this story completely true? I mean do you actually fly around in a blue box? Why? Why not something cool like a real actual spaceship?" Eliza said as she shot out question after question.

"The TARDIS is a real ship," The Doctor protested with an offended look on his face.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad. I'm sure it's a very nice ship. It's just not exactly the look that I would have chosen for my ship is all," Eliza said apologetically.

"The Chameleon Circuit broke when it was in that form and I couldn't fix it. The TARDIS and I both grew to like it that way anyway so we just kept it in that form," The Doctor said.

"Yeah, and that has nothing to do with your never having fixed the circuit at all," Rose said.

"No, it definitely doesn't. I could fix it if I really wanted to. I just don't want to," The Doctor said.

"Oh, I believe you, Doctor. I really do," Rose said with a smirk.

"I'm sorry but I have to go to work now. I hate to leave when I'm just starting to figure things out but unlike you, Doctor, I have a regular life to live," Eliza said as she started to head for the front door.

Then she paused and turned back to hug the Doctor as she said, "If you leave before I get back, I just . . . I just wanted you to know that I . . ."

"Let's not get overly emotional, Mother. I know how you feel," The Doctor said as he stiffened at her hug.

"Shut up, Doctor, and let her say it," Rose said.

"It doesn't need to be said. I already know," The Doctor said.

"Are you still spouting that line? Yeah, it really does," Rose said.

"It's okay, Rose. He knows and I know how he feels too," Eliza said.

"It must be genetic this whole not being able to tell someone that you love them thing," Rose said in exasperation.

Eliza laughed and then waved good bye as she went out the door.

"Okay, what's that look about?" Rose asked as soon as they were alone.

"What look?" The Doctor asked as he did his best to appear completely innocent.

"You know exactly what look, Mister. It's that guilty look of yours that you always have when you don't want me to find out about something. Is it about whatever your future self told you just before we left him?" Rose asked.

"You'll see," The Doctor said as they heard Eliza's car refusing to crank over and over again.

Then they heard something in it explode.

"Doctor, what did you do? This is a terrible way to start things out with your mum," Rose said in an angry voice.

The front door then flew backwards and slammed into the wall as Eliza stormed back inside and glared at the Doctor. Rose unconsciously backed away from her as she instantly recognized the furious look on her face from a lifetime of seeing it there.

Come to think of it, it was always the Doctor who put it there then too.

"Doctor, did you maybe use your sonic screwdriver to do a few 'improvements' to my car's engine when my back was turned?" Eliza said in a voice filled with barely controlled anger.

"I may have done one or two. They were perfectly safe though I assure you," The Doctor admitted.

"No, they were definitely not safe! How did I ever put up with you while you were growing up? Can you answer me that, huh?" Eliza asked through clenched teeth.

The Doctor said nothing and Eliza threw up her hands in surrender as she raced to the phone and said, "I'm calling Crystal. She'll have to use her lunch break to take me to work now. Thanks a lot, Doctor."

"What was that about?" Rose demanded.

"My future self said that she can't leave the house today. He didn't say why," The Doctor admitted.

"Even so that's still a nasty way to accomplish it. You could have just told her. What is it with you and blowing things up to keep people from going to their jobs anyway?" Rose said with a grin.

"That wasn't why I blew up your department store. I did it to stop the Autons," The Doctor said.

"Are you sure it was just because of the Autons or because you wanted me all to yourself?" Rose teased.

Thirty minutes (and a long and extremely awkward silence between mother and son) later, Eliza's sister Crystal pulled into the driveway of their home. As soon as Eliza came outside to join her, Crystal greeted her with a worried look on her face.

"What is it, Crys?" Eliza asked as she saw this immediately.

"We have some more visitors, Eliza. More like them," Crystal said as she gestured at the Doctor and Rose.

"What? Who?" Eliza asked in surprise.

"Rose!" Jackie Tyler shouted as she suddenly got out of Crystal's car and rushed towards Rose.

"Mum? How did you get here?" Rose asked with a huge face wide smile.

The two women immediately embraced as Jackie said in tears, "I finally found you. You're safe."

"I'm alright, Mum. You worry too much," Rose said as she hugged her mother tightly.

"I wonder why. You're going to wind up killing me yet, Rose Tyler," Jackie said even as she continued to hold onto Rose just as tightly as she was holding onto her.

Jackie wasn't the only visitor either it seemed as the Doctor's sister Emmy also emerged from the car. She slowly walked up to the Doctor with seemingly no concern or trace of emotion on her face whatsoever.

"So I see that you made it through okay . . . again. What a surprise. You're got everyone worried at home and all over nothing. I bet you've been living it up without a care in the world this whole time, haven't you? It was just a huge waste of my time searching for you for so long through so many dimensions. You were probably going to find your own way back soon anyway," Emmy said in a nonchalant voice.

"Are you quite through?" The Doctor said with a frown.

"No, I'm not. I have one more thing to say to you," Emmy said.

The Doctor sighed as he said, "If you must. Please go ahead and get it over with."

"I love you," Emmy said as she hugged him tightly and started to cry with joy.

"I almost wish you had stayed your usual cheerful self," The Doctor said as he stiffened.

"Who are they, Doctor?" Eliza asked as she watched this.

"The annoying blonde one is Rose's mother and this other equally annoying woman is my sister. She's your daughter, Mother," The Doctor said.

Now it was Emmy's turn to stiffen as she said to her brother, "What? What did you call her?"

"This is Eliza Newman. She's the past version of our mother," The Doctor said in an unemotional voice as if he were telling Emmy to cross the street.

Emmy turned around in complete shock and mother and daughter studied each other in silence for a long moment before Emmy said, "I'm your daughter. I – I guess you should call me Emmy. That's not the name you give me but it's the one I take later on. I can't say anything else because . . ."

"You might change your own past, right?" Eliza asked.

"Yeah," Emmy said in surprise.

"I'm really getting it now. It's not so hard once I think about it long enough," Eliza said.

Crystal looked at everyone like they were insane as she said, "What are all of you talking about, Eliza? What is going on here?"

"Wait a minute. You mean the first person that we ask for a ride after leaving Emmy's TARDIS just happens to be the Doctor's aunt, and she takes us straight to you?" Jackie asked incredulously.

"The universe works in mysterious ways, Mum, or as a previous Doctor used to say, 'Wibbly wobbly timey wimey'," Rose said with a chuckle.

"The Doctor's aunt? What in the - ?!" Crystal said in confusion.

"I'll explain later, Crys," Eliza said before turning to Emmy and saying, "I can't believe that you're really my daughter. I have a daughter and she's so beautiful and sweet."

"Sweet? Ha!" The Doctor protested.

"Zip it, you. You're still in enough trouble with me as it is," Eliza said.

"You're Mum alright," Emmy said with a warm smile.

"I get the feeling that this happens a lot then in the future," Eliza said.

"Oh, yeah," Emmy said with a grin and then she suddenly began to frown.

"What is it?" Eliza asked.

"You knew! The future you knew that I would find them here because this you was here to see it. That's why future you was so unworried about them coming back," Emmy said.

"I think I almost understood that," Eliza said as she struggled to keep up.

"Sorry. It doesn't matter anyway," Emmy said with a warm smile as she hugged her.

"Can we all go home now?" Jackie asked.

"For once, I'm afraid that I have to agree with Jackie on something. Where is your TARDIS, Emmy?" The Doctor asked.

"You really don't have any emotions in this incarnation at all do you? This is our Mum when she was still human. I'd like to get to know her better this way," Emmy protested.

"Eliza, what is she talking about?" Crystal said in an increasingly upset voice.

"Later, Crys. I promise," Eliza said dismissively.

"Maybe you should just tell her now. I guess we probably should go. Our universe is in a lot of trouble according to what the future you told me that last time she contacted me on the TARDIS. We need Rose and – I hate to have to actually admit this. We need the Doctor too," Emmy said.

"Then go. I'll see you later anyway won't I?" Eliza asked in a sad voice.

"I guarantee it and you're going to love me. A lot," Emmy said.

"Suck up," The Doctor said.

"Much more than him," Emmy said causing Eliza to burst out laughing.

Then Emmy pulled a TARDIS remote control out of her pocket and said regretfully, "Good bye, Mum."

Emmy's TARDIS then materialized around Emmy, Jackie, the Doctor, and Rose moments later. It then dematerialized a moment later and in a single instant they were all gone leaving the two Newman sisters completely alone at last.

Eliza sighed as she said, "At least hers wasn't a big box."

"What was that? What's happening?" Crystal asked in absolute confusion now.

"It's a long story, Crys. I'll tell you all about it on the way to work, okay?" Eliza said as she started towards Crystal's car.

She never made it there though because a moment later the distinctive sound of a TARDIS materializing made her instantly turn her head in its direction. She smiled in anticipation as she hoped that maybe the Doctor and Emmy were already coming back to see her again.

What she saw instead was something completely different. It was a long metal cylinder which immediately formed a door as soon as it finished materializing. As Eliza watched in mute fascination, the door opened to reveal a man.

He was the most handsome man that she had ever seen and she found herself smiling at him as soon as she saw him as he looked at her with a shy smile on his face. She thought that she already knew who this must be. She just had no idea that she would be meeting him this quickly.

"I – My name is . . ." The man said nervously.

"It's okay. Take your time," Eliza said in a patient voice as she smiled at him warmly.

"I am Apollo Sigma of the House of Lungbarrow from the planet Gallifrey. I mean you no harm. I only came to study the temporal disturbance that I detected here moments earlier. Were you just visited by another ship like mine? I recorded an unauthorized TT Capsule landing here and I am duty bound to investigate it," The man said.

"Yes, I did. They were from your own people's future and they weren't tampering with anything. They were just picking up some people who wanted to go home. I know you don't know me but I'm asking you to trust me that that's the truth. You don't need to investigate any further than that or you might be altering the future yourself. Do you trust me?" Eliza asked.

"I do trust you. You have a very trustworthy face. It's also very pretty . . . I mean, uh . . ." Apollo said as his face turned bright red.

Eliza laughed as she said, "You're really bad at this aren't you? It's okay. I'm not offended. Thank you for trusting me. I guess . . . I guess you can go now. If you want to that is. I mean you don't have to if you'd rather do something else."

"Such as?" Apollo asked curiously with a growing smile of anticipation.

"Such as you could take me on a trip in that ship of yours?" Eliza asked as she thought about the television episode that she had just seen.

"I . . . Humans aren't allowed on my planet. I'm sorry," Apollo explained reluctantly.

"So who has to go to your planet? Just take me to another one. I want to see what's out there, Apollo. Just one trip? Please?" Eliza pleaded.

Apollo hesitated for a moment and then smiled from ear to ear as he said, "Just one trip."

As Eliza started towards the capsule, Crystal said, "Wait! Are you going to disappear too? Don't leave, Eliza. Please!"

"Don't worry, Crys. I'll be back in five seconds. I promise. It is a time machine after all," Eliza said.

"How do you know all of this? Did the other Time Lords tell you?" Apollo asked.

"Yes, they did but don't tell anyone, okay? That would alter the future too. Trust me," Eliza said.

"I do trust you. I trust you completely somehow even though I don't even know your name yet," Apollo said as he stared at her with a huge smile on his face.

"It's Elizabeth Newman but I usually go by Eliza. You can call me Calliope if you want though," Eliza said.

"Calliope. I like that," Apollo said trying it out on his tongue.

"I thought you might," Eliza said with a grin.

"What?" Apollo asked as he pulled her into the Capsule with him.

"Nothing. Good bye, Crys. I'll be right back," Eliza said as she disappeared inside the ship.

The Capsule dematerialized seconds later leaving Crystal standing there in a bewildered state as she said in a scared voice, "I don't understand."

"It's okay, Crys. You're not going to be alone. I would never do that to you no matter how long it took me to make my way back here," A woman's voice suddenly said behind her.

Crystal turned to see a young woman that she had never seen before looking at her with a look of pure love in her eyes. Crystal could swear that those eyes were familiar to her somehow even if the rest of the woman's face wasn't.

They were the eyes of . . . No, that couldn't be though.

"You see it even if you don't quite understand, don't you? They say that the one thing that never really changes no matter how many times that a Time Lord regenerates are the eyes. I mean sure they might change color from time to time but they're always basically the same in every incarnation especially what lies beneath them," The woman said.

"Who are you?" Crystal said as her voice cracked with emotion.

"I think you know. You don't understand how but you know. I'm so sorry that it took longer than five seconds, Crys. One trip became two and then that became three and so on. Before we knew it, we had fallen in love and I became pregnant. That pregnancy changed everything for me. It altered my body into that of a Gallifreyan's in a matter of months and then I found myself on Apollo's home planet as his wife. I picked the name Calliope as my new name there by the way. It seemed appropriate somehow. I always wanted to return here someday though because I never, ever wanted to leave you wondering what happened. I know it's hard to believe but it's really me. It's Eliza," Calliope said as she looked at her sister with hopeful eyes.

"Eliza?" Crystal asked in disbelief.

"It's really me, sweetie. See? I kept my promise after all," Calliope said.

"I still don't understand how it can really be you," Crystal said.

"Don't worry. This time I'm going to take the time to explain it for you. Come on. I'm going to take you to my new home and let you meet my current husband. You'll like him. His name is Wilf," Calliope said as she gestured for her sister to join her.

Crystal hesitated for only a moment and then eagerly took her hand. Neither Eliza or Crystal Newman were ever seen again.

At least not on their own Earth anyway. Their adventures together in another universe had only just begun however.

Meanwhile back in that other universe, Cassiopeia was fully healed once more from her previous injuries and preparing for the battle of her life as she and Clara hunted down the deadly new invader from another reality that Oswin Oswald had started calling Psycho Clara. This version of Clara from an alternate reality not only had incredible power that she had received from the Heart of her Doctor's TARDIS but she was also completely mad.

She had already wiped out entire universes in an insane quest to kill everyone everywhere in the name of giving them true peace of mind after she had lost hers when her version of Danny Pink died. According to Oswin, Psycho Clara actually thought of what she was doing as giving her victims a gift by keeping them from ever having to suffer again.

How could you ever fight someone like that?

Cassiopeia knew that she had to find some way to do it though. By all reports from those who had been lucky enough to manage to survive coming across her, the psycho Clara was heading straight towards Earth. Cassiopeia wasn't about to let that happen.

She would never let her parents down that way by letting anything happen to it while they were gone.

"Have you found a trace of her yet? She has to be very hard to miss from what Oswin said. Just follow the trial of destruction in her wake," Clara said.

"She doesn't attack with any rhyme or reason though. She's like a tornado in the way that she attacks one planet and then skips another one entirely just like a tornado does to houses. Only from what the Daleks found out this tornado eventually always comes back to finish the job sooner or later. She's making herself unpredictable on purpose just to scare whoever comes after her more. I know that Clara because I know her type. I used to be just like her when I worked for Kovarian," Cassiopeia admitted.

"Somehow I truly doubt that, Cass, and I should know," Clara said in a shameful tone.

"She's nothing like you for sure, Soufflé Girl, and don't you forget it," Cassiopeia said with a reassuring smile.

"She's nothing like either of you and don't you forget that, Cass," Jenny said as she and Oswin both arrived in the middle of the TARDIS' Console Room.

"It's a Clara thing, Jen. We always beat ourselves up for things that aren't our fault," Oswin said.

"It runs in my family too . . . in spades," Jenny admitted as she looked at Cassiopeia.

"Lecture received and understood, Little Sister. Shouldn't I be giving you the lectures though instead?" Cassiopeia said.

"If and when I ever do anything wrong to deserve one then be my guest," Jenny replied smugly.

"You're so much like your dad sometimes it hurts, Jen," Clara said.

Then she immediately looked apologetic as she said, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to . . ."

"It actually is okay to bring him up, Clara. You don't have to pretend they don't exist just because they're lost. Don't worry about it. I'll take that as a compliment by the way," Jenny reassured her.

Suddenly the entire TARDIS shook violently throwing all of them around like ping pong balls as a voice called out to them over the console, "I heard you were looking for me. Well, here I am. I really hope that I was worth the wait, girls."

Somehow Cassiopeia managed to make it to the console and was able to land the TARDIS on the nearest planet just before it would have crashed. Cassiopeia noted with relief as she briefly checked the ship's sensors that at least the planet was already deserted and mostly lifeless.

As soon as the TARDIS materialized, the psycho Clara immediately broke inside of it and stood there with an evil smile on her face.

"So you're what passes for the Doctor in this universe, eh? I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed. I was really hoping for the real thing," The psycho Clara said to Cassiopeia.

Then she turned to Oswin and smirked as she said, "And I thought that I killed you already. You're going to be a challenge I see. Good. I like that. It's always fun when they fight you a little bit first. It keeps the whole thing from being boring doesn't it?"

Then she saw Clara and said, "Another one? How many of me are there here? This is even better though really. I get to save two of me at once from all of the horrors still to come."

"I thought you were the horror still to come," Clara quipped.

"Oh, there's worse horror than me out there, Clara. I know. I lived it when Danny died," The psycho Clara said in a brief moment of sadness.

"If you're trying to make us have sympathy for you, that ship sailed a long time ago. You won't get any from me after destroying all of those universes especially since you're trying to do the same thing to this one," Jenny said.

"Let me guess. Jenny Tyler, the Guardian of the Multiverse, right? I've heard a lot about you. It's going to be so wonderful to get to finally kill you at last. I'm not about to let anyone not even a Guardian stop me now," The psycho Clara said with a look of pure glee in her eyes.

"You're not killing anyone else. That's all over with starting right now," Cassiopeia said as she fired several volleys of arrows at her at once.

The psycho Clara began to glow with the power of the Vortex as she halted all of the arrows in mid-air and studied them intently for a brief moment as she said, "Ooh, Vortex energy draining arrowheads, eh? Someone's certainly been doing their homework, haven't they? They might have actually weakened me too . . . if they had reached me."

The psycho Clara then completely incinerated the arrows with a single gesture.

Even as they disintegrated though, they released a fine powder that sprayed right in the psycho Clara's face temporarily blinding her. Cassiopeia then took full advantage of this single moment of distraction by firing several explosive arrows at the psycho Clara that knocked her right out of the TARDIS as they went off.

Cassiopeia immediately ran outside to finish her off only to find that psycho Clara was nowhere around. She was just about to rush back inside the TARDIS to avoid the ambush that she knew was coming when an enormous blast of power hit the entire area around her instantly knocking her out cold.

"You're a clever one. I'll give you that but that's not going to be enough to save you. Now it's all over. Thankfully you won't even feel a thing," The psycho Clara said as she closed in on the unconscious Cassiopeia while preparing for the final blow.

"I don't think so. No one's touching her on my watch," Jenny said as she unleashed a massive blast of energy that instantly threw the psycho Clara miles away.

"I'll just have to make sure that I kill you first then won't I?" A voice said that seemed to come from everywhere at once as Jenny's eyes widened in surprise.

"There's no way you could have gotten back here so quickly," Jenny said.

"I'm just that good, Blondie. I'm so fast that nothing and no one can touch me. Not even you," The psycho Clara said as she suddenly appeared behind Jenny and aimed a massive blast of energy at her back.

Jenny fell to the ground almost right next to Cassiopeia and lay there in a completely helpless state as the psycho Clara started towards both of the unconscious women with a malicious gleam in her eyes. Yet again she was about to be prevented from reaching them though.

This time it was from a blast from a Vortex Inhibitor that temporarily took away much of her access to the Vortex. The psycho Clara instantly cried out in pain as the attack violently ripped a great deal of her power away from her all at once badly weakening her.

As the psycho Clara turned to look at her attacker, the anger on her face immediately turned to a smile as she saw who it was.

"Get away from my daughters," The Doctor said as he and Rose stood there with determined looks on their faces.

Clara and Oswin both began to smile as Clara said to her alternate self, "Now you're in for it. You're going to wish that you never came here, Psycho Me."

"No, you are. Finally I get to kill the Doctor of this universe. Now this is really going to be fun. I can never get enough of it no matter how many of him that I finish off," The psycho Clara said with maniacal laughter.

The Matriarch stood nearby watching the whole thing invisibly as she realized that it was happening all over again. No matter how much she had tried to alter the timelines or what she tried to change it was still happening just as it had before.

Unless the Matriarch's ultimate plan succeeded, someone was going to die here today. She couldn't allow that to happen. Not this time after she had done so much and come so far in order to change it.

She wouldn't let her down again.

Next: This storyline will continue in The Adventures of Rose Tyler Chapter 115 coming soon as the Doctor and Rose find that they've returned just in time to fight the psycho Clara. What a welcome home present, huh? Plus we'll see exactly what the Matriarch has been trying to prevent all of this time. Who is supposed to die and will time be rewritten this time around?

Then next time you can return here to find out the full outcome of that battle and see its aftermath as the Doctor and Rose's lives are suddenly rapidly changed overnight and neither one of them even realizes it. What exactly has happened? Who is behind all of this and can anyone change things back to normal once again?