A/N: So it's short and I had to rush the ending a bit because of time restraints, but here's the latest chapter. I promise you more Doctor chapters very soon, just be patient. Check pinterest for pictures of the new OCs!

I woke up one day, nearly four months after joining Nesbin's tribe, to shouting just outside my tent. Scrambling to my feet in a confused panic, I rushed outside to see an unconscious Madelie being carried into the center of the camp by Kyra and her brother Kiran. I hurried towards the trio and knelt by Madelie's side as she was placed gently on the ground.

"What happened?" I asked, looking up at Kyra and Kiran.

"Spies from the Capitol," Kyra said bitterly. "One of them shot her."

Nesbin raced over to Madelie's side and quickly assessed the situation. Madelie's shirt had been burned through and her bare chest was badly damaged. Whatever weapon the Time lords had shot her with, it was going to kill her, that much I could tell. Madelie's injury was bad enough that some of her muscles were revealed beneath her burnt and damaged skin.

"The others?" Nesbin asked.

"Anouk and Ophelie stayed back to take care of the spies," Kiran explained. "We brought Madelie as soon as it was safe to, but it won't be long until she regenerates."

Nesbin's face grew serious and worried as she looked back at Madelie. She was silent for a minute or two before she suddenly asked, "Where's Lenaya?"

I froze at the mention of the other Gallifreyan's name. Lenaya, Madelie's beloved wife, had left for the lake before sunrise with Patli to get more water and yaddlefish for the tribe. I quickly explained this to Nesbin before leaping to my feet and offering to find Lenaya for her. Nesbin thought for only a second before shaking her head.

"No, I want you to remain here with the others in case more spies should come near the camp. Find Cairbre and tell him to find Lenaya, then come back here immediately. Madelie needs looking after." Nesbin turned to Kyra and Kiran then. "Go back and find Anouk and Ophelie."

Once we had been given our instructions, I ran as fast as I could out of the camp. Cairbre was one of the members of the tribe who was not especially gifted at hunting or fighting and had been given the job of finding what edible vegetation he could find. Luckily enough, I was able to find him only a few minutes run outside the camp. After telling him that it was an emergency and that Lenaya was needed back at camp, Cairbre took off running for the lake immediately.

When I returned to the camp, Madelie had been moved to the tent she shared with Lenaya. Nesbin was waiting just outside Madelie's tent and once she saw me, she left to act as guard at the entrance to the camp. Madelie was still unconscious but was groaning in pain very softly. Her wound was bad enough that I couldn't even stand to look at it. Anger flared up in my chest as I saw the damage that had been done to my friend and I wished then that I had the ability to heal her.

Barely ten minutes later, Lenaya came bursting into the tent with a cry. She immediately rushed to Madelie's side and took her wife's head in her hands, cradling it against her stomach. Tears were already starting to streak across her pale cheeks as she leaned over Madelie's body.

"What... What happened?" she asked me.

"Kyra and Kiran said that she was attacked by spies."

"Spies?"

I nodded. "From the Capitol." I sighed as we both glanced down at Madelie's unconscious body. "Lenaya, I'm so sorry."

Lenaya shook her head as she ran her hand along the side of Madelie's face. "How could they do this to her? She's... not going to make it."

"But she'll regenerate, won't she?"

Lenaya looked back at me, her green-gray eyes red and brimming with tears. "Yes," she began softly, "but anything could happen." She turned her gaze back to her wife and took a shuddering breath. "She might not even love me anymore."

Madelie moaned again in her unconscious state and Lenaya, still softly crying, leaned down to press a kiss to her wife's forehead. Madelie's eyes fluttered open for a moment then and locked onto Lenaya, making the redhead and I gasp in shock.

"Lenaya," she whispered. "I-I'm sorry."

Gold tendrils of light began to whirl around Madelie's body then as she fell unconscious again. Lenaya gently, yet quickly, laid Madelie's head on the ground again and leaned back as golden regeneration energy overwhelmed Madelie's entire body. I narrowed my eyes and leaned closer as the wound on Madelie's chest healed completely. It was difficult to see through the golden glow, but I was able to see Madelie's face morph into the face of a stranger. Then the regeneration energy became too bright to look at directly and Lenaya and I had to turn away to shield our eyes.

A sharp inhalation told us that the regeneration was over and I quickly turned back to Madelie to see what had happened to her. Madelie had changed so much that if I hadn't seen the regeneration with my own eyes, I never would have thought it was the same person. Lenaya was frozen in shock as she stared at her wife's new body.

"Lenaya?" Madelie asked, the Gallifreyan's voice now much deeper and with an American accent.

Lenaya, her cheeks still somewhat damp, nodded but I could see fear and worry shining brightly in her eyes. "Madelie?"

"Lenaya, I- Oh." Madelie recoiled in surprise when he noticed how different his voice sounded. "Oh. That's... unexpected. I'm a... man?"

Madelie had regenerated into a dark skinned man with close cut hair, a firm jawline, and a muscular build. Sitting up almost immediately, Madelie looked down at his new body in surprise and almost wonder. He looked over his hands and arms, then his chest, and finally his legs. Moving his hands to his head, he slowly mapped out the new shape of his face. Then he gasped and clutched at his chest, obviously searching for the wound he had suffered before his regeneration.

"I'm a man," he repeated under his breath. "I-I..." Glancing up at Lenaya again, I could see that Madelie was just as worried as his wife was. "Lenaya, I don't... I wasn't expecting this."

Finally realizing that I was intruding on a very private moment between the two, I quickly got to my feet and hurried outside. Kyra and Kiran had returned with Anouk and Ophelie, as well as Cairbre, and they had gathered just outside Nesbin's tent. The other members of the tribe were also gathered there as Ophelie and Anouk explained what had happened. However once Nesbin spotted me, she gestured for me to join the group.

"How is Madelie?" she asked worriedly.

The others all turned to look at me and I took a breath before replying, "She- erm, he just regenerated." Everyone all gasped in shock, but didn't say anything despite the surprise. "He's talking with Lenaya now."

After a few silent moments, Nesbin nodded. "Very well. Let them have however long they need together. The spies have been dealt with and I doubt we'll be receiving anymore trouble from them. At least not for a while."

Ophelie and Anouk quickly explained to me what had happened after Madelie was brought back to camp. Apparently four spies from the Capitol, dressed very conspicuously in Time Lord robes, had been trying to find the camp and when Madelie made a show of threatening them in the hopes of scaring them off, one of the spies shot her with his gun. Anouk and Ophelie fought against the four spies easily and took care of them all, but not before gaining as much information about their intentions as possible.

"I think they may have been curious as to what we were doing out here in the Wastelands, but they were scared enough to bring weapons," Ohpelie added. "But we don't need to worry anymore. Not for tonight, at least."

I looked back at Lenaya and Madelie's shared tent and sighed heavily. "I just hope everything turns out okay," I mumbled.

Over the next month, Lenaya and Madelie had to relearn everything they once knew about themselves and their relationship. The strain that Madelie's regeneration had put on their marriage was obvious, but it broke my heart to see them struggle so much. Madelie was still the same person, but some of his minor personality quirks had changed. Lenaya still loved Madelie very much and the change in Madelie's appearance only surprised her, but Madelie was learning how to love Lenaya all over again.

I became a confidant to the two Gallifreyans and since I had some experience dealing with a significant other's change due to regeneration, I offered what comfort and advice I could. The two were very grateful to me for my help and over time they were able to begin moving past whatever differences they had recently discovered.

No more Time Lords were sent to spy on us from the Capitol, which was a relief to everyone. Nesbin still had twice as many guards watching the camp day and night, but no one else was attacked or hurt and we were able to go back to the peaceful lives we had established.

Madelie's regeneration and the way it had affected his relationship with Lenaya made me start to worry. I wasn't sure when I would see the Doctor again, but I wondered if something like that might ever happen to us. What if he were to regenerate into a woman? Would he still love me? Would I still love him? I had never thought of being with a woman before, but would it even matter? The Doctor would always be the Doctor, whether his face was older or younger or he was a man or woman. So why should a different gender matter to me or stop me from loving him?

But the same question still rolled around in my head, even after I had stopped wondering about the Doctor turning female. Lenaya had said that it was possible for Madelie not to love her after regeneration. Did that mean that one day the Doctor would stop loving me?

A/N: Please don't forget to review!