"What do you mean? What exactly are you sorry about?" I asked after breaking free from the Doctor's embrace.
"Everything. The Time War, creating the Time Lock, the…"
"Woah! Slow down. What are you talking about? What war? And what lock?"
"Violet, what species are you?"
"Um…isn't it kind of obvious? Human. I mean, what else would I be? I'm not exactly a goat." I chucked at the thought of being a goat.
"Violet, this isn't funny. You're safe with me. You can stop pretending that you're a human now."
"Why would I? You're really starting to confuse the hell out of me." The Doctor sat there for a moment, deep in thought.
"Wait. So you actually believe you're a human?"
"What do you mean by 'believe'. I am a human, you weirdo!"
"Of course you'd think that. Violet, I know this is a lot to take in, but you're not human. You're a Time Lord, well actually Time Lady, from the planet Gallifrey. All the Time Lords fought in a war against our greatest enemy, the Daleks. This was known as the Time War, the greatest and most dangerous war the Universe has ever seen" the Doctor explained. "In fact, the Univere would have been destroyed by the Daleks had I not put the Time Lock in place. The Time Lock froze all of the Time Lords and the Daleks in time with no means of escape. I was on the outside of it, which is how I'm here. What I don't understand, however, is how you managed to slip through."
"Look, I'm really sorry about the war and you losing all of your people and your planet, but I'm not a Time Lady. I'm a human. What can I do to make you believe me?"
"Let me scan you" he responded.
"How?"
"With this?" he said holding up a small silver probe-like object.
"What's that?"
"My sonic screwdriver. It'll tell me in 10 seconds flat what species you are by scanning your DNA."
"Will it hurt?" He shook his head. "Go for it then. Whatever shows you quickest that you're wrong about me."
The Doctor scanned me with his screwdriver object and a few seconds later it made a couple of high-pitched beeping sounds. He then proceeded to examine it. "No! No!" the Doctor quickly said standing up. "This is impossible! But only it isn't. Oh, I can't believe it. You're ok, Violet. You're really, truly ok!"
"Yeah, of course I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" He sat down next to me.
"I know exactly what happened. Why you don't remember anything other than your time on Earth."
"So your scan…it showed that I'm a Time Lady?"
"Not just any Time Lady. Violet, you are my beautiful, amazing daughter."
"What?" I managed to get out, in complete and utter shock.
"Just let me explain everything, ok? Someone must have sent you off in an escape pod before I put the Time Lock into place. It seems like they wiped all of your memories of your life on Gallifrey in order to protect you; in case anyone tried to probe your mind, they wouldn't find anything. They may have even planted false ones so there were no holes in your memory. So you or anyone else wouldn't become suspicious. Look, Violet, whoever did it, didn't do it maliciously. They did it to protect you."
"How do you know that?"
"Because if it were someone I cared about, I would have done the exact same thing."
"Wait! Were you the one…"
"Who did this to you? No, I didn't send anyone away or wipe or implant any memories?"
"How did…"
"I know what you were thinking?" I nodded, stunned into a silence.
"Time Lords are telepathic by nature" the Doctor explained. "And before you ask, the reason you can't read my mind is because I put mental walls up whenever I'm not in the TARDIS, so no unwanted visitors can go snooping around in my head. It would be rather dangerous if they did. By the way, the TARDIS is my spaceship slash time machine. Any questions? No?"
"Sorry, I guess I'm still kind of in shock about all of this. It's a lot for my brain to process."
"Understandable."
"It's just that I can't believe I've been living a lie for so long. I mean, I always knew I was different. Just not that different. You know?" the Doctor nodded. "I feel like I've missed out on so much."
"How old are you?"
"14. At least that's what I think."
"So 14 years you've been here. Barely a blink of the eye for a Time Lord. Trust me, you haven't missed out much. Not much at all."
