Chapter 12 - From The Ashes
The Doctors all stood before the Guardian. All eight of them.
Each Doctor that had brought a segment of the Key To Time came forth.
The First Doctor approached his fifth incarnation and spoke to him.
"Your memories have traveled back to all of us my boy. I hope we do have a family again. Perhaps you could take them to meet Susan."
The Fifth Doctor smiled. "I will."
The Second and Third Doctors gave encouraging smiles.
And then the Fourth Doctor approached.
"These feelings you have for Tegan. Was I capable of that?"
"Ask Sarah." He answered.
"You know as well as I do that we won't remember any of this."
Before the Fourth Doctor could ask any more the Guardian began his task.
The segments rose from their hands and spun in front of the White Guardian. Slowly they began to come together and formed the key.
"Doctors, when my task is done, the time streams will be restored and all of your knowledge of these events, past, present and future will be erased from your memory. The Guardians of Time and Space are indebted to you once more."
As the Doctors began to fade one by one, the memories of all his time streams rushed through his mind, In a mere few seconds, he had lived out every possible timeline. Tears flowed down his cheeks as feelings of joy and pain became one. Then a deafening noise, a flash of brilliant white light and then..nothing.
The Doctors all stood before the Guardian. All eight of them.
Each Doctor that had brought a segment of the Key To Time came forth.
The First Doctor approached his fifth incarnation and spoke to him.
"Your memories have traveled back to all of us my boy. I hope we do have a family again. Perhaps you could take them to meet Susan."
The Fifth Doctor smiled. "I will."
The Second and Third Doctors gave encouraging smiles.
And then the Fourth Doctor approached.
"These feelings you have for Tegan. Was I capable of that?"
"Ask Sarah." He answered.
"You know as well as I do that we won't remember any of this."
Before the Fourth Doctor could ask any more the Guardian began his task.
The segments rose from their hands and spun in front of the White Guardian. Slowly they began to come together and formed the key.
"Doctors, when my task is done, the time streams will be restored and all of your knowledge of these events, past, present and future will be erased from your memory. The Guardians of Time and Space are indebted to you once more."
As the Doctors began to fade one by one, the memories of all his time streams rushed through his mind, In a mere few seconds, he had lived out every possible timeline. Tears flowed down his cheeks as feelings of joy and pain became one. Then a deafening noise, a flash of brilliant white light and then..nothing.