Someone asked if I didn't like Rose - I neither like nor dislike her, but several authors on this site have written stories that seem to bring out the worst aspects of Rose and her personality. They seem to give a more….realistic view of the girl. Read " Broken Faith " by Marcus S. Lazarus and you can read all of Rose's most worst - whilst she's married to the Master !

Disclaimer - I don't own Doctor Who or its characters.

The Granddaughter and the Clone.

Revelations.

It was late at Tyler Manor with everyone gone to bed, fortunately Tony was at a friends, so Jackie and Pete didn't have much grief. They'd left Susan and John alone on the couch with a bottle of red wine between them with the fire going.

They were comparing stories, laughing at times.

Eventually John decided to ask the one question he'd wanted to ask from the moment he'd laid eyes on Susan in her new incarnation.

" So, you gonna tell me how it happened ?" John asked.

Susan was sipping her glass, she'd known this would come and knew what he was asking. " You mean my new appearance ?"

" Yeah, "

Susan sighed, " Do you remember, before we met Ian and Barbara, we dropped in on Germany, Kristallnacht ?"

John nodded, dimly remembering the memory. It'd been centuries ago but he still remembered the night in question.

" I'm hardly likely to forget that night, the glass….the cries of the dead. But I don't see…."

" Humanity became like the Nazis', before the Dalek invasion, humanity was slightly xenophobic but it wasn't widespread. That changed after the invasion, during the rebuilding of Earth people started to become….angry. There were protests, riots, marches, whispers and worse."

Susan took a deep breath, trying to maintain her composure as she was inundated by the hideous memories of that time in her life.

" After a while aliens came to Earth, offering help to rebuild the planet. It was a nice touch, I admit to hoping and praying that the aliens would quell these risings. It didn't, it just made it worse. The aliens were slaughtered and their technologies and ships taken."

" I tried to stop the madness, but David stopped me. We didn't have much of a cordial relationship after you left, there was a time we hugged and kissed, then…he barely even noticed my presence. Then one night, he hugged me. Usually it was round the shoulders. That hug was with both hands on both halves of my chest, then he knew."

Susan took a deep breath, the memory of this was enough to make her hate the man, " He grew angry, I tried to reason with him but he wouldn't listen. He shocked me with a stun gun and I came to in a cell. They raped me, beat me," she decided to tell him what they'd done.

John looked at her, aghast. He - the Doctor, he meant - had always been broken hearted by Susan's departure, the trickery he'd used to lock her out of the TARDIS.

But he'd honestly thought it had been for the best. Susan was an adult, who'd been looking after him for years and knew she needed to move on.

David had been a grand excuse for this, he'd honesty liked the man and thought he would be a great person to look after Susan and give her the life she needed - a domestic life, the life his double could not give or have.

" What - what happened after ?" He asked quietly.

Susan breathed out, " I don't know how much time passed, they kept injecting me full of drugs and god knows what else, David arrived and he had the nerve to try one of the oldest tricks in the book - he tried to act sweet and gentle, even though the pig was anything but, he tried to sweet talk me. I didn't fall for it, so he started going on and on about how the DNA of the aliens he helped capture was going to be used for viruses and plagues to build and empire based on bloodshed. I'd decided I'd had enough and summoned my TARDIS. The materialisation startled David and he shot me, the TARDIS retaliated and killed him. I regenerated and used the next few hours to rescue the surviving aliens and get them back home. I wiped their memories and destroyed the tech they'd stolen and set them back for several years."

Susan kept on, telling him about the visit she'd made to Ian and Barbara and later on her later travels to other galaxies and times. Later, the decision to travel to other realities, before coming to this one.

" I was on my way home, visiting other realities, spending a month in them, travelling and noting the changes and differences."

John was intrigued, " What did you find out ?"

Alternate reality was something the Doctor had intended to do once he'd finished travelling through the universe of his conception. But, alas, that was no longer possible with the walls of reality closed.

Susan grinned. " Did you know that in one of the realities that the Time lords were in fact a more god like race, with the power to virtually rewrite time and space ? That in one reality, the Daleks were in fact a peacekeeping race with authority from their universes version of the Time lords ?"

" One universe had the Daleks created by the Time lords, and they were peaceful ?" John's voice was tinged with disbelief.

" I know, weird isn't it ? I was shocked as well, especially since I provided memories of the Daleks of our universe and what they did. I left after that, I don't know what would've happened."

John looked thoughtful, but decided to ask a question he'd been dying to ask. " How is it you're able to travel through different times and places whilst the walls of reality are closed ?"

The walls of reality were in essence the barriers and passes that enabled peoples to travel to other dimensions and realities in creation. Each reality had their own walls and the Time lords of John and Susan's home reality only had control of their own walls. The walls had been sealed to stop the Daleks poring in to other universe and causing havoc and destruction. The walls were like the poles of magnets - north and south and now, the walls of the two Time lords reality were set to a negative pole and stopped people from accessing them.

Susan nodded. " I admit I had a lot of trouble sorting that out, I studied void ship theories and CVEs."

" Charged Vacuum Emboitments, yes, it makes sense." John nodded. CVEs worked on a different level to wormholes and passed through every dimension. Susan must've changed the polarity to match the walls' frequency so she could gain access to the target reality's time vortex.

John looked at her over the rim of his glass. What an extraordinary young woman.

A/N What do you think ?

Next time, confrontations with Rose.