This chapter contains a graphic description of a death.
in the next chapter, The Doctor and Co visit Alternate Gallifrey in the DeltaVerse.
Someone calling to her to wake up brought Jaime slowly out of unconsciousness. She could sense a change to her situation. Her body no longer felt like it was weakened or in pain. Well, apart from her head. That seemed to hurt more than ever and she moaned pitifully. She had the urge to rub her head of the pain but she couldn't seem to move her arms and legs. She became extremely panicked and the sound of popping and glass breaking could be heard. This was followed by more things smashing, the whump of fires starting and what felt like wind blowing over her, and she realised she was losing control of her abilities. Somebody swore and Jaime cried out in pain as her entire brain seemed to burn.
"By all the gods of Gallifrey. You really are very powerful." The vaguely familiar voice stated. "It's a good thing I implanted a control chip within you, or you could have done some serious damage. No need for some silly inhibitor band. Mind you, I am impressed how quick your broken bones healed so quickly. Not a crack in sight. And they're stronger now. Almost as if your abilities are meant to protect them."
Listening to the female talking on, Jaime had no idea what she was saying. She hadn't even known she had a bone defect. Nor could she barely remember who she was or how she got here! Had she been travelling with somebody else maybe?
"Though what really puzzles me is how you managed all this Universal destruction with a large inoperable haemorrhage. It should have killed you long ago, if it hadn't been for these pills here." The female continued to waffle and Jaime could here what remained of her pills tinkling away in their bottle as it was shaken. "I'll analyse these, along with your DNA and biology. And that haemorrhage may be impossible for humans, but not for me. I know how to get past that."
Jaime wanted to tell the woman there was no way she could get near it, but she could feel herself nodding off again. The next time she woke up her head still hurt a great deal, though it wasn't as bad as it was before. She still couldn't move her arms and legs so she carefully opened her eyes in case the lights were too bright. Luckily they were dimmed.
A severe looking woman with long brown hair, blue eyes and too much make-up was glaring at her. She appeared to be wearing somewhat familiar traditional clothing, but she couldn't quite put her finger on why it felt familiar.
"Who are you?" She asked but it barely came out as a croak.
"Maybe I should be asking you that," the woman snapped back at her. "You're biologically human, from 21st Century Earth, yet I found you in the universe's most notorious prison Volag-Noc in the 24th Century. Yet you have fluctuating DNA, your bones are infused with artron energy and your DNA is partly Gallifreyan and it matches an old enemy of mine. Did he give you these?" The woman asked, shaking the bottle of pills. "These pills are infused with ingredients only found on Gallifrey."
Jaime only frowned in confusion at the info, trying her best to remember if she had been travelling with anybody else.
"Well? Answer me, Fire-Bird!" The woman demanded.
"I'm not the Fire-Bird," Jaime croaked back. "It's not my name."
The woman sneered at her. "Well you certainly look like her," she replied. "If you aren't the Fire-Bird, then who are you?" The woman now asked.
Jaime opened her mouth to tell the woman her name, but she couldn't quite remember it. "I don't know." She croaked out. "Why can't I remember it?"
The woman sighed in exasperation. It was probably for the better that the girl forget her previous life. If things went her way, and in good time, then she might be able to use her in her planet's little skirmish with a bunch of dustbins.
"I came from a parallel Universe," Jaime spoke next, thoughtful.
The woman gasped and took a surprised step back from the Medbay bed. "Impossible! All inter-dimensional travel has been suspended due to some skirmish with another species. Nobody should be able to get through." She said. But what the girl said next really truly surprised her.
"Yes, the walls are closed off," she croaked. "Because of the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks."
"What? How did you know that?" The woman demanded. "Was there a Gallifrey in your universe?" She and her fellow future Time Lords had all been told that Gallifrey was the centre of the universe and only one existed. But the girl shook her head, frowning.
"No. There was a TV show about…a Time Lord…travelling in a…time machine…and Gallifrey was destroyed in the war."
The woman held her breath, shocked. There was a TV show about one of her fellow Time Lords? There were only a handful of them that went travelling in their TT Capsules. And that included herself. But what disturbed her the most was that this TV show seemed to predict the destruction of her home planet. "Which Time Lord is this apparent TV show based on?" The woman demanded, glaring at the girl on the bed.
"I don't know," the girl croaked a little louder. It seemed she was regaining the strength of her voice. "I can't remember…except it was blue…" She frowned before grimacing and letting out a pained grunt. "I thought you said you would do something about the haemorrhage? Why does my head still hurt?" The girl asked.
"That's because it's still a part of you," the woman said with a roll of her eyes. "I just shifted it into another dimension." The look on the girl's face was one of utter confusion. "Now you stay there and rest. I've got other projects to see too."
Jaime watched as the woman turned to leave the room. It was a bit silly telling her not to go anywhere when she couldn't even move. She didn't even know the woman's name. "Wait! What's your name?" Jaime asked.
The woman stopped at the door and looked back at her. "You can call me The Rani." The woman answered her before exiting the Medbay.
Xxx
An extremely pale faced, perspiring Jaime sat in a purposely created training room, taking a break. Her head was practically killing her as she took one of her pills to ease the pain. Closing her eyes, Jaime sighed as the pain in her head died away. The woman who called herself The Rani had been replicating them for her, despite airing her displeasure that Jaime hadn't needed them. That was until she had started the intense training to control her powers.
The pain in her head had been horrible and it weakened her so much she hadn't been able to carry on. She also should have been bleeding very heavily from the nose, but because her brain haemorrhage was in a different dimension there was no sign of any blood. So, much to The Rani's disgust, she gave Jaime her much needed life saving pills.
The teenager had been with The Rani for awhile now and the things the woman would do continued to intrigue her. After finally being released from the Medbay all Jaime had on her was a medical gown and her clothes had seen better days. So the Time Lady found her several pairs of clothes, underwear and trainers that were 'suitable for a human'. And that surprised her because The Rani didn't look the type of Time Lady to be wearing casual human clothing.
At one point she had asked the woman about her TARDIS but was only given a strange reaction. Maybe it had been too familiar, so Jaime didn't bother asking again. Nor did she further question what The Rani was doing in her lab after hearing screams of other people. It seemed this Time Lady was a bit of a mad scientist type. And ever since then she had been restricted to the kitchen, her room, the bathrooms and training room, which she was fine with as it felt like The Rani was anti-social.
"Well look at you!" The Welsh voice spoke, making Jaime let out a gasp of shock. "From jail bird to scientific experiment. You look quite the mess, little Fire-Bird."
Angered, Jaime sprang to her feet and looked around the training room for the person who's voice belonged to. Once again there was nobody there. "Stop calling me that!" She growled out. "I'm not this stupid Fire-Bird person you accuse me of. Where the hell are you? Why don't you face me?"
The Welsh voice laughed. "Sure you are. Why else would you activate your Pyrokinesis?"
Looking down, Jaime saw that her hands were on fire and she couldn't remember turning it on. She shook her hands to extinguish the fire before looking around the room with a scowl. "Stop playing games with me and show yourself!" She growled out.
"No, I think not," the voice said from somewhere else in the room and Jaime whirled around to follow the voice.
But she let out a yelp of surprise when she saw movement, realising seconds later it was a mirror. A mirror that hadn't been there before.
"Look at you, a walking, talking lab experiment freak of nature dancing ever closer towards death." The voice said from behind her, but Jaime didn't follow it. She was staring into the mirror at her own reflection. "The Rani thought all her Christmases had come all at once when she found you," the voice continued to taunt. "The All-Powerful Fire-Bird under her control and at her fingertips. She doesn't really give a stuff about you. She'll train you up and use you for her own nefarious purposes. Then you really will be the most dangerous being in the entire universe."
But at this point Jaime had stopped listening and continued to stare at her reflection. She couldn't recognise the person looking back at her. Sure, she had long brown hair and hazel eyes. But under those eyes she had dark patches that almost made her look panda-like. The whites of her eyes looked irritated and bloodshot and she looked white as a ghost, not to mention gaunt.
Anger came to her easily and her hands sparked with energy. "Leave me alone!" She snarled and attacked the mirror with a big blast of telekinesis. The mirror shattered to pieces before the whole thing tumbled to the floor, damaged.
"Melisende-Jaiyana! Whatever did that mirror do to you?"
Jaime jumped in shock and turned to face The Rani, a sheepish smile appearing on her face. That was the other thing about this Time Lady. Because she couldn't even remember her own name, The Rani had taken to calling her Melisende Jaiyana. It made her wonder if it was a Gallifreyan name. She shrugged her shoulders.
"Nothing really." Jaime muttered, her pale cheeks taking on a hint of pale pink. How could she tell the Time Lady that she could hear voices that wasn't in her head.
The Rani glared at the girl suspiciously. She had been stood in the doorway long enough to know that wasn't the case. Her Capsule had alerted her to an intruder in the training room. Only when she got there she found the girl staring at the mirror that shouldn't have even been there. It was very odd, not to mention the girl had obviously previously travelled with The Doctor. No other Time Lord or Lady called their Time Capsule a TARDIS. Only that buffoon of a goody two shoes did. "Right then, if it was nothing then maybe you should get back to training. The Rani pushed and the girl nodded silently.
Xxx
Now fully trained, but deathly pale that she almost looked like a ghost, Jaime followed The Rani, feeling extremely intimidated by her surroundings. They had travelled to Gallifrey and were now walking through the main part of the Citadel. It appeared they were in the early days of the Time War, as there were hardly any damage of the moment. She was awed by how tall the buildings were and when she looked up she could see sun glare on the dome. But what was really scaring her was that she could hear whispering about herself from the locals. And when she'd glance at them she could see she was being glared at by various Time Lords and Ladies. In her memory she recalled somebody saying that humans were unwelcome on Gallifrey. And by the looks of it they really didn't like humans at all.
As Jaime passed by a group of gossiping Gallifreyans she saw something that caused her to slow down. Stood behind the group was a Gallifreyan or Time Lady with dark ginger hair and icy blue eyes staring back at her. It surprised her because ginger was a very rare hair colour on Gallifrey, but what really got her was that she was wearing normal human clothing. She wore sand coloured jeans, trainers with blue laces and orange trim, an orange t-shirt and a blue and orange jacket.
"Come along, girl, stop your dawdling." The Rani snapped at her and a wide-eyed Jaime looked at her.
"Sorry. I was looking at something. Did you…" When she looked back at the odd stranger she had disappeared. "…see…" Whoever that person was she couldn't have walked away that fast. "Weird!" She muttered before hurrying to catch up with The Rani. She was beginning to get the makings of a horrible headache, the type that comes from the use of telepathy from other people.
"Do I have to use that control chip to control you?" The Rani warned her with a glare.
"No, sorry." A wide-eyed Jaime once again apologised with a wince. Because she had a short fuse The Rani had used the control chip on her several times, disabling all her abilities and hurting her head to excruciating levels of pain. She obediently followed the Time Lady into a political looking type of building with even more Time Lords milling about.
When they saw her and The Rani they stepped aside to let them through, murmurs of morbid curiosity could be heard. "Rani?" A Time Lady spoke up, taking a quick distainful glance at Jaime, her eyes narrowing. "By all the gods of Gallifrey! What monstrosity have you come up with this time?" She asked.
Feeling self conscious at the way everyone was staring at her, Jaime tried her best to hide away behind The Rani.
"This, my dear," The Rani smirked as she pulled Jaime in front of her. "Is our answer to defeating the Daleks. Where is the President?"
Widening her eyes as several Time Lords scoffed at The Rani's claim, Jaime wasn't all that surprised that she was to be used as a weapon against the Daleks. But she was surprised that the woman wanted to speak specifically to the President of Gallifrey.
"Don't be ridiculous, Ushas," a male Time Lord spoke up, glaring at The Rani and Jaime. "What could this weak and sickly human possibly offer us?" He demanded.
Turning to him, The Rani grinned, predator-like. "Looks can be deceiving, Keissel. She may appear weak and sick but she is extremely powerful." Her grin turned mischievous. "And the President may like to know that she isn't just human but partly Gallifreyan as well."
Jaime watched in confusion as several Time Lords and Ladies let out stunned gasps. One of them rushed off somewhere, presumably to go and find the President.
"Rassilon, Omega and The Other!" The Time Lord called Keissel blurted out. "Have you any idea what you've just done? The Hybrid was just a myth that was perpetuated to scare the Lord President. And now you have brought an actual Hybrid to Gallifrey."
A hybrid? So that's what she was now? Jaime wondered to herself. Part human, part Time Lord… A frown appeared on her face when she realised that term sounded familiar. Then sudden flashes of memory came to Mind and she gasped as her head hurt and blood rushed in her ears. Sinking to her knees with a pained moan, Jaime quickly dug into her pocket for her pills. Once she was able to take one she sighed and closed her eyes as the pain eased off to a dull thud.
The images that had popped into her head had looked a lot like an episode of that programme she watched back in her universe. Except it had almost felt like she'd been there in person. Suddenly she realised she could feel waves of fear wasting off everyone and when she looked around she saw that they were all staring at her. Had she done something wrong?
"What is the meaning of this?" Boomed an angry voice and man in full Presidential regalia strode out on a raised stage. "Why am I to be disturbed?" All the other Time Lords in the room, except for The Rani bowed to him, the fear upped a notch.
Wide-eyed, Jaime put her pills away and scrambled to her feet. The President was Rassilon and he really did look like James Bond.
His glare turned on the teenager and she felt his anger rise as his face turned red. "What is that…thing…doing here?" He demanded. "Who brought it?"
Despite his dominating aura, The Rani stepped forward with a continued smirk. "I did, my Lord President," she spoke, roughly holding onto Jaime who had tried to hide behind The Rani again. "I have brought you the perfect weapon to deal damage to the Daleks. The Fire-Bird."
Jaime rolled her eyes and listened to the Time Lady tell how she came across her find, waves of revulsion coming from the President.
"And further more," The Rani added. "This little weapon has Gallifreyan DNA despite being human." The Rani got the reaction she wanted.
The President's eyes widened in what looked like horror. "A hybrid?" He snarled, just about apopalyptic. "You dare bring me a hybrid?" He roared out and murmurs of nervous Time Lords and Ladies could be heard.
Jaime could feel their fear and it made her feel scared as well.
"And whichever Renegade decided to procreate with a human I will strip them of their regenerations." Then the President raised his hand that was wearing some sort of gauntlet. It began to crackle and the teenager could sense electricity coming from it and had a really bad feeling. He was going to kill her, just like how he killed that Time Lady.
"STOP!" Jaime cried out, voice echoing out of fear.
The President hesitated, his eyes wide out of surprise, then after awhile he lowered his hand, stunned. This was followed by puzzled chatter from the other Time Lords. He wasn't going to admit it, but he'd felt his Mind become hazy and a compulsion to actually stop. The pale and sickly abomination had used a verbal type of Mind Control on him.
"I'm human!" Jaime croaked out. "I've always been human to human parents. And stop calling me Fire-Bird," she said to The Rani. "I may have a similar look to her but I am not that person…"
Looking at her Timeline, the President could see that she was very wrong. She was going to be a destruction, yet at the same time she'd been imprisoned. The girl was a walking, talking Paradox and he didn't like it one bit.
"…And I don't know how I've got Gallifreyan DNA either, cos that should be impossible." Jaime looked around at everyone, a new headache forming. "None of you should even exist right now. You're just characters from a TV show!"
Everyone was confused by Jaime's waffling. "Rani, what is she talking about?" The Time Lady from earlier questioned.
The Rani sighed and rolled her eyes. She had hoped to avoid that little bit of info. "She claims she's from a parallel Universe." She answered the Time Lady's question.
"Lies!" The President snarled. "Inter dimensional travel was suspended…"
"Yeah, and I arrived in this universe long after the Time War ended," Jaime snapped at the President. "And long after Gallifrey is nothing but rocks and dust." After that, the silence was deadly, but Jaime cared very little for the consequences. Nor did she care when every Time Lord and Lady began to squabble and shout, waves of heightened fear washing off them.
"SILENCE!" The President shouted loudly and was thankful when they actually did shut up. "Lady Rani, you will keep your abomination quiet." He snarled at the wide-eyed Time Lady.
The Rani had been just as surprised as everyone else was about Gallifrey's demise in the future.
Meanwhile, Jaime grimaced at the President's insult, but she was still angry. "Rassilon!" She called out, completely shocking everyone else there, including President Rassilon. No-one had specifically named him, yet she knew it. "You were only resurrected to find a way to end the Time War. Only they didn't realise how batshit crazy you turned out to be."
Rassilon's face turned deep crimson as he continued to glare at Jaime. He was extremely angry now. "What? How dare you speak to me in this way," he thundered. "A spawn of a lowly species and a renegade." Once again he raised his hand wearing the gauntlet. "This is how I should have dealt with you from the beginning."
Jaime shivered as she found herself standing alone. The Rani had backed off, leaving her to face Rassilon's wrath.
"My Lord President!" Somebody spoke up, their accent a mix of British, American and perhaps German as well.
Curious about the Time Lady brave enough to speak up, Jaime looked around and spotted the ginger woman from earlier. Only this time she was wearing traditional robes instead of Earth clothes. She was a Time Lady?
"The telepathic Mind of this human is very powerful. Earlier, before you arrived, we all received multiple telepathic images of Daleks being blown up."
Feeling and looking sheepish, Jaime hadn't realised she had broadcasted to everyone in the large room. And to her surprise all the other Time Lords and Ladies agreed with the ginger Time Lady. "I believe she can be very helpful in our cause to destroying the Daleks."
Rassilon stared at the girl, still suspicious of her. But there was one thing he truly hated and that was the Daleks. Well, them AND The Doctor. "Fine," he relented with a growl. "Lady Rani, you will take your abomination to a secure room and will teach her to control herself verbally and mentally. I would also like to see a demonstration of her powers very soon."
Jaime shivered at the odd look he gave her while a grinning Rani bowed to Rassilon. "Thank you, Lord President." She said before taking the teenager by the scruff of her collar and dragging her away.
Xxx
Jaime wasn't sure how long she'd spend on Gallifrey. Just that the Time War had gotten a hell of a lot worse. At first she'd been placed in a room in the lower levels of the Citadel, away from everyone else, forced to train harder and demonstrate her powers to Rassilon and the High Council. But as time went on she got even more paler and all the more sicker despite the help of the pills. Using her powers for more than five minutes was extremely painful and her head hurt far too much. And because she was identified as a Paradox she was mostly kept in a room that kept Paradoxes stable. She began to suspect something was up when she only got to spend an hour or two a day outside of the room.
The teenager wasn't entirely alone in the strange room. She'd often be visited by The Rani, or that odd ginger Time Lady with the multiple accents. Jaime thought she was really weird and was beginning to suspect she wasn't all there. Whenever she spoke it was like she was talking in code. She'd say things like 'needing to wake up', 'dreaming', 'illusional surroundings' and 'nothing being real', and Jaime would still be none the wiser. But what she found even more unusual was that when she asked The Rani about the ginger Time Lady she claimed to not know who the young female was talking about.
Now, for the moment, the teenager was stood, staring out of the window and watching one of Gallifrey's Suns set. The sky was turning orange, but once the second Sun set it would turn into a deep purple. It was the only thing that was beautiful about the Dry Lands. When nights came, if she stared hard enough she could see an actual fight happening above Gallifrey. The Daleks were getting closer and because of her abilities she knew she was going to be used very soon. The door behind her opened and she didn't need to look around to know who it was.
The ginger Time Lady closed the door behind her and turned to Jaime. "It's almost time," the Time Lady spoke. "I've come to prepare you."
Jaime looked back at her, a grimace like smile on her face. No matter how many times she had asked, the Time Lady never gave her name. "I know!" The teen muttered, looking back out of the window. "Check out this Sunset!" She invited.
The Time Lady approached the younger female, giving a quick glance out of the window before reaching out and gently grabbing her.
Jaime turned to her, wincing at the way the sudden movement hurt her head. "What's your name?" She asked as a distraction.
The Time Lady smirked, her icy blue eyes showing humour. "You don't need to know my name." She replied and Jaime shrugged her shoulders. It was worth one last try.
"What are you going to do?" She asked the Time Lady nervously.
"Don't worry," she replied with a friendly smile. "I'm just going to help you maintain your power use for longer. It won't hurt."
Nodding faintly, Jaime closed her eyes and let the Time Lady go into her Mind. She was right, it didn't hurt a bit. In fact the pain she'd been feeling in her head melted away. Now something felt different but she couldn't figure out what it was.
"There, that'll do," the Time Lady took her fingers off Jaime's temples. "That'll get you out of this dream state you've been forced into once you've completed your so-called mission." She sighed and shook her head when she received the usual blank expression from the teen. "I did my best to keep your little unseen visitor away, but they still have a powerful hold over you. She's trying to keep you alive so you stay here longer." This time she saw Jaime frown and a wave of confusion came from her. "Good luck and see you soon!" With a smile the Time Lady turned away, opened the door and exited the room.
Still frowning, Jaime realised the ginger Time Lady had a point. She hadn't heard from that Welsh accented tormentor in a long, long time. And she was pretty much thankful for that. She was about to turn back to the window when she heard the humming of a TARDIS arriving. She thought it might be The Rani, but it appeared to be a Battle TARDIS.
When it fully materialised the door opened and The Rani stepped out. "Put this on." She said, grabbing Jaime's left wrist and forcing on some sort of electronic wrist strap. "That should stabilise the Paradox around you when you leave this room for longer than necessary."
Now THAT really surprised Jaime and it made her wonder how exactly there was a Paradox around her. She opened her mouth to ask The Rani a question but she didn't get a chance too, as the scruff of her collar was grabbed and she was dragged into the Battle TARDIS. "This is not your TARDIS?" Jaime questioned as she watched several Time Lord soldiers work around the console, some of them eyeing her warily, almost as if they…feared her?
The Rani shook her head. "No, of course not," she replied. "I'm only here because this lot wouldn't go near you." She scowled at her fellow Time Lords for having been inconvenienced. This was the closest she'd ever been to combat and all she wanted to do was get back to her lab and her experiments. "Now, you do know what you're doing, don't you?" She questioned the young female.
Jaime nodded her head. "Take out as many Dalek saucers as I can." She answered.
"Good, that's good…" Rani muttered, appearing to be distracted. "We've almost arrived…" The Rani guided Jaime over to a spot in the console room that looked like a teleporter. "Believe it or not, I'm going to miss you." The Time Lady said. Which really surprised Jaime, her brows raised. "Despite your humanity and your odd mix of DNA, I really enjoyed your company." Still feeling surprised, the teen watched as The Rani shifted nervously on her feet. Something that the Time Lady really wasn't. "I respect you," Rani said next. "You put up with so much pain and sickness for a human and you've barely complained." The girl was dying a slow death because of a brain haemorrhage for Rassilon's sake!
"Okay," Jaime uttered. "Thank you for saving me. I would have died a lot sooner if you hadn't." The Time Lady smiled back in reply.
They felt the Battle TARDIS land and heard the sound of Dalek activity outside. "Good luck and goodbye, Melisende-Jaiyana." The Rani watched as the girl began to fade away from view as the Battle TARDIS dematerialised away.
Jaime could see dozens of Daleks enter her vision as the Battle TARDIS left her behind. Apparently it must have been invisible because not one Dalek had even reacted yet. Well, that was until the Time Machine had disappeared all together. Every Dalek in the vicinity stopped and stared at her and Jaime suddenly felt very scared, her hazel eyes wide with fear.
"INTRUDER!" Screamed a Dalek. "INTRUDER!" Then more Daleks screamed the same thing until the words "EXTERMINATE!" Could be heard through all the noise and cacophony.
It was all too much and she found herself becoming short of breath as she began to panic and lose control of just about everything. All the Daleks were shooting at her now, but none of the shots were even reaching her. The feeling of wetness caught her attention as her bladder let loose, urine darkening patches of her trousers and puddling on the floor.
Suddenly, as she unconsciously activated her fire and called up internal Psionic Explosion, an EMP burst deactivated much of the electronic equipment, including the Dalek weapons.
One of the Daleks peered closely at her, understanding what was happening. "WARNING, WARNING!" It screamed. "THE INTRUDER IS THE ABOMINATION KNOWN AS THE FIRE-BIRD!"
Angered at being once again accused of being the Fire-Bird, Jaime screamed as her fire grew. "Stop calling me that!" She shouted out. "I'm not that person…" She took in a deep breath as the internal Psionic Explosion grew, realising at the last moment why she was a Paradox. "And I never will now!" She growled. Jaime closed her eyes and barely two seconds later there was a huge explosion that took out a fleet of Daleks in a distant quadrant of a nearby Galaxy.
Xxx
At the very last second, before she exploded, Jaime unconsciously opened up a Portal made out of fire. Now she was spinning out of control through a fiery vortex, vision blurred and dizziness hit her as her head hurt with the worst headache imaginable. She had no control over herself as she continued to tumble through the strange fiery vortex and at one point she threw up what she last ate. The teen thought she'd keep falling, lost forever in a Timeless no place, but then she suddenly found herself falling through a Salmon pink sky.
Well, that's what she thought it looked like as her eyes were still far too blurry to see right. Barely a minute later and Jaime smashed into the ground in an explosive way, causing a Ground Quake. A long whine of pain escaped Jaime's mouth and she closed her eyes. It wasn't just her head that hurt anymore, it was every part of her body. Her neck, her back, her arms and legs felt like they were on fire. She couldn't move an inch and now she was finding it hard to breath. Finally, she could hear faint voices coming from somewhere.
"Doctor! There's somebody down there!" Cried the faint voice of a female with the hint of a French accent.
"Oh, wow, so there is." Another voice spoke up, this one male with an Irish accent. "Looks female and…human maybe?"
Jaime groaned. From the sound of it she had probably created a massive hole from her fall.
"Oh, now, she could be any type of Species," spoke up another male voice, softly spoken. "There are millions of humanoid-type species throughout the universe that look human. This one is probably a…" The teen heard a shocked gasp come from the second male voice. "Rassilon! It can't be!" He cried out.
"Doctor?" The female questioned while the sound of soil being kicked up could be heard. "What are you doing? Do you know her? She then asked.
"Yes!" This Doctor person huffed and he sounded a lot closer. "It's Jaime. She travelled with me and I lost her. Well, technically she was taken from me." He was inches from her now and he could see she was in a very bad way. Her skin was white to the point of translucency, there was blood coming from her ears, nose, mouth and eyes, and her clothes were singed or burnt as if they'd been on fire. And finally her breathing was so wheezy that he didn't need to use his Screwdriver to know she was dying. "Jaime!" He called out and gingerly took a hold of her left hand. It was cold and clammy. "What happened to you?"
As soon as he'd taken her hand, Jaime let out a gasp as old memories flooded her Mind. Her name was Jaime MacInarah and she'd once travelled with The Doctor, his Tenth Incarnation, after finding herself in his Universe. Well, that was until the Shadow Proclamation thought she was somebody else and saw fit to send her off to a frozen hellhole. Jaime opened her eyes but her sight was even more blurry than ever and red tinged. "Doctor?" She wheezed out. "I waited for you…to find me…but you…never did…" It was getting really hard to keep breathing.
The Doctor winced. "I know, I'm sorry," he replied with a grimace as his companions joined him. "I looked all over the Universe for you after I went back to the Shadow Proclamation. They wouldn't tell me where they sent you."
A small smile appeared on Jaime's face once she realised The Doctor hadn't given up on finding her.
The Time Lord smiled sadly in return as he passed a soothing hand over her clammy forehead and through her hair. "I was given a tip off that there was a human female in Volag-Noc accused of Universal terrorism, but by the time I got there you'd already been sold on. And once I knew who had you I couldn't follow you," she'd been taken into the Time War by The Rani and he had faint memories of watching a whole fleet of Daleks be destroyed in a massive explosion. Now it was obvious that had been Jaime. "I'm so, so sorry my darling girl." He lent over and kissed her on the forehead.
Jaime continued to smile as she wheezed noisily, her heart slowing down by the second. She was happy that The Doctor never forgot her. "S' okay…" She wheezed out. "Thank…you…Doctor…" She managed before closing her eyes and wheezing out her last breath.
Back in the TARDIS, Jaime gasped awake, her dark eyes wide and confused. It had all felt so real, all the pain, all the beatings in prison, the feeling of death as her heart slowly gave up. It was scary. Nightmare-ish even.
"This wasn't supposed to happen," a Welsh accented voice spoke up. "You weren't even supposed to die! There was somebody else interfering. Somebody stronger!" The voice sounded angry.
Quickly sitting up, a wide-eyed Jaime looked around for the source of the voice, only to find everyone else around her were also sleeping. "What the…?" She mumbled in confusion. Ignoring the dull thudding of a headache, Jaime scrambled over to The Doctor and shook him in an attempt to wake him up. "Doctor, wake up, wake up." There wasn't a peep from him. "For the love of sanity, wake up Da'!" The Doctor remained sleeping, so Jaime moved on to her mum and tried shaking her awake as well. "Mum! Ma'!" Her mum couldn't wake up either and she looked around at everyone else, wondering how long they'd been in this situation and why?
"Oh, I think you'll find they'll be out for quite awhile." The Welsh voice spoke to her. "Not while we have unfinished business."
Looking around, Jaime finally spotted the purple haired, blue eyed wild chick who called herself 'Psy'. Who was basically herself from another nightmare, but was somehow stood opposite her as if she actually existed. This should have been impossible! Psy's chuckle was full of humour.
"Wha' have ye done tae 'em?" Jaime demanded as she gained her feet and stood in a defensive position.
"They're just in a deep sleep, so they won't be bothering us." Psy answered the question.
Jaime really didn't like the sound of that. "Wake 'em up then!" She again demanded, only for Psy to chuckle once more.
"No, I'd rather not." The purple haired female replied, a nasty looking grin on her face. "I'd rather play with you."
Jaime glared, feeling a rush of anger coming to her. Psy's idea of 'playing' with her was forcing her into a nightmare situation and taunting her throughout. She was not going to let that happen again. "Fine, ye wee bawbag!' She snarled, dark eyes full of cold anger. "Ye wanted my attention, ye got it!" Dark red fire tinged with black activated and then Jaime threw fireballs at Psy with a roar of anger.
Psy instantly reacted when the fireballs were thrown her way, repelling them off her with telekinesis. "Oh dear," she uttered with a smirk once the fire burned itself out. "Not very smart are you?"
Jaime raised her brows in a questioning way.
"Using Pyrokinesis in a Library full of books?" Psy tsked and shook her head. "Very dangerous."
The Scots-girl huffed a laugh, surprised that Psy actually gave a damn about books. This purple haired nightmare was just being condescending.
"Could cause an out of control fire. Of course, we both know just how dangerous we can be, don't we? Striking terror across multiple world's, manipulating time, people, killing them…murdering our own parent…" Psy could see that last one stung, the fire flickering momentarily. So to further twist the knife she sent an image towards Jaime, who yelped out in pain and scandalised anger. Fire flickering out, the Scots-girl was forced to watch the images of her younger self play out as she literally ripped the heart of her mum right out of her chest.
"NOOOO!" Jaime roared loudly, forcing the images away.
They only made her more pissed off with Psy and as she glared at the purple haired nightmare she felt her anger boiling away. She knew she was losing control but she didn't care. With a roar of anger, Jaime lept at Psy and they went tumbling to the ground, letting out stunned grunts or angry snarls as struggled and fought. The Scots-girl seemed to gain the upper hand and landed a blow on Psy as hard as she could. Then she just continued hitting the nightmare with blow after blow.
Despite being brutally and painfully punched in the face, Psy just laughed gleefully until Jaime stopped hitting her, looking puzzled. "Why are ye laughin'?" She questioned.
"Why did you think you could hurt me?" Psy counter-questioned with a nasty grin. "Though I do like it when you get angry. So much better to just let loose isn't it?"
Through the dull thudding of the headache, Jaime began to understand what Psy was trying to do and it shocked her. Feeling utterly disgusted, the Scots-girl quickly scrambled off and away from Psy, her eyes widened. "I am NOT your Darth Vader!" She growled out.
Psy outright laughed at Jaime's reaction and especially at the movie reference. "Oh, such a pity," Psy teleported to a standing position over Jaime. "That you wouldn't want to be just like me." The sound of electricity suddenly crackled from the purple haired nightmare. "Yet there are many other ways I can bring out that darkness from you."
Jaime shivered as she really didn't like the sound of that. Then her eyes widened even more when Psy turned to her fellow sleeping Time Travellers with electrical balls of energy in her hands.
"NO!" She cried out. Time seemed to slow down as Jaime teleported to stand in front of her prone family and friends. Time sped up and Jaime found herself being electrocuted by Psy's Electrokinesis. She jerked and winced as the bolts of electricity hit her, having no chance to absorb them.
Shortly after that she was blasted off her feet and went flying backwards until her back smashed against a row of shelves. She tumbled to the floor, laying on books and broken shelves. Groaning painfully, the Scots-girl shook her head. That had been the second time she'd been smashed against the library shelves, only this time it had been an evil version of herself and not a wolf.
But then her eyes widened and she scrambled away from the mess as Psy stalked towards her, Black Fire tinged with dark red active. "I thought ye didnae approve of fire bein' used near books?" Jaime asked. And it really did look like very nasty fire.
"I lied." Psy smirked in reply. "And now I'm going to use it on you!"
Jaime gulped. The Black Fire looked extremely dangerous and it felt very hot. It could do some serious damage to her. Scrambling to her feet, Jaime turned tail and Aeroported away.
Psy laughed rather callously. "You may run but you can't hide!" She stated before teleporting after Jaime.
One minute and thirty seconds later, Jenny gasped awake, dark blue eyes wide as she quickly sat up. Where she had been in her sleep had felt so real, but now she had to save her sister. Speaking of… The young Time Lady looked around for Jaime, only to notice she was missing and possibly already awake. Standing up, Jenny soon raced out of the library.
There were several more gasps as Alexia, John, The Doctor and Amy woke up.
"Psychic Pollen!" Alexia cried out.
"What?" The Doctor mumbled in confusion before noticing Rose and quickly scooting over to her. "Rose? Wake up, love!" He said softly and gently shook her to wake her.
"Psychic Pollen?" J.D asked. "How'd that get on board the TARDIS?" Then he looked around. "Where's Jaime?" He now questioned, frowning.
"It came from Karass Don Slava." Alexia answered his first question. "There were meadows of Candle Flowers but they were psychic. And now a Dream Lord is somewhere with my daughter."
Two more gasps were heard and Alexia watched as Rose was hugged by The Doctor. Amy was kissing Rory continuously and appeared very upset. In fact they were both upset.
The Half-Time Lord stood up and helped Alexia to her feet. He really didn't like the sound of that, especially that Psychic Pollen had been let loose and was doing its nasty work on his Impossible Girl. "Where's Jaime?" He asked, more or less demanded. "Where is she?"
Before anyone could answer that question there was the noise of something being thrown about in another part of the library. It sounded close.
"Just follow the sound of destruction." The Doctor replied. He sounded worried as he and Rose hugged each other.
John and Alexia exchanged worried looks, then they hurried off to where they last heard the noises of fighting.
Jenny had reached the Console Room and as she approached the Console she pulled out her Sonic Screwdriver. "It's alright, Old Girl," Jenny spoke to the TARDIS. "I'm looking for some intruders." She flicked it on, it's white light bright as it whirred. She'd really improved it since she began building it. It looked sleeker and it now had a lot of settings than previously.
She circled the Console with a look of concentration, listening to the Sonic until it's whirring changed pitch. "A-ha!" Jenny mumbled and leaned closer to the Console section, noticing a glinting. "Bingo!" She cried out and reached out to pick up the Psychic Pollen that had blown in and gotten jammed.
There were two little pieces, enough to cause serious trouble. "Out you go." She told the Pollen and hurried to the door, opening it. She was surprised to find they were drifting in Space when she knew they'd been in the Vortex. Shaking her head, Jenny raised her palm and got ready to blow the Pollen away.
Back in the library, Jaime thought she had managed to evade Psy, but the purple haired nightmare seemed to know her every step. And now she was hanging in midair via telekinesis once again being shocked by Electrokinesis. It hurt but she refused to scream out, nor did she want to give in to what Psy wanted.
"Come on, show me your darkness," she demanded. "It's in there, yearning to be free. Let it out, just let go!"
Jaime groaned and shook her head.
Suddenly, Psy became distracted. "Oh dear!" She uttered. "It appears our fun is coming to an end." She could sense that everyone else had wakened and she was about to disappear. So she let go of Jaime and she went tumbling to the floor with a stunned gasp. "But don't you worry. I'm you, I'm sure we'll find a way out and cause more chaos." Then she finally disappeared and Jaime yelled out as a sharp flash of pain dug into the centre of her brain. It left her feeling very discombobulated and she took in deep breaths until her head thudded dully.
When she opened her eyes she realised she'd been joined by her mum and J.D. They had looks of deep worry on their faces as they asked if she was okay as they helped her back to her feet.
Looking around with a confused blank expression, Jaime couldn't see Psy anywhere. "It's okay, she's gone." She muttered in a dull monotone way.
J.D really didn't like the way Jaime spoke or the distant look. It was the same blank expression he'd seen from her when they'd been in bed.
Alexia turned her daughter towards her. "That's not what I asked," she said, noticing Jaime blinking out of whatever stupor she had been in. "I asked how you were."
"I'm fine!" Jaime replied with a grim smile before pushing them away from her. Then she turned and walked away.
Alexia and John exchanged another worried glance, following after Jaime shortly after.