Chapter 2
"My dear Martha you see when we were at home. We were old; back home this was not the handsome young cad in a brown pin stripe suit. He was a cantankerous old git with a cane who liked to tweak noses; Susan hated that and so did I. Remember when you tweaked the President's nose. Once you hit me right between the eyes with it. God I nearly killed you that day! But he always was a smooth talker. That's what made me fall in love with him; and I bet he still is." Dia laughed as the Doctor blushed.
"Hey in my defence I was trying to kill that fly! Gosh do you remember that time we went to Adrois; the beach were deserted our two hundredth anniversary, that purple sand and golden water. Just the two of us all alone on the planet bar a few cats." He beamed, remembering how they had actually gotten old together in their first life cycle.
"Oh how you sneezed, but then you were allergic. But here we are in the same T-40. Is our chamber….?" She sighed he again had taken her hand and was stroking it softly.
"I haven't changed it at all; I've not been in it since you died." His voice became so quite both women leant into to hear.
"Died?" Martha asked.
"The High Council put me in charge of the Genesis Arc just before the final war. They sent word I had been killed in Arcadia. You were there too on the front line beside me for the first day. Then I was Trans-Mated to the Arc, they made it look as if I had been killed. I am sorry but I did it to save you, Killian, Juno and the rest of our family; if I'd known." Tears streamed down her cheeks.
"I watched from the Arc as Gallifrey burnt and I mourned you all. I thought I was the last Time Lord until the Arc came through the void and my T-79 sucked me into the Cardiff rift and then I sensed you and a companion. I went to the Face of Boe and I spoke with him in the year five billion hiding not knowing what to say. He said he would keep my secret until it was the right time to see you."
"You are not alone in the universe. We thought he meant the Master." Martha sighed rocking back on her chair.
"No not even he knew that the Master was hiding."
"So what happens now for you two? Two time lords two TARDI is this right, where do ye go from here?" Martha sighed feeling as if a journey had come to an end.
"I don't know, what do you this Doc; Your T-40 with my T-79; we could literally go even further then anyone. Then again we could just settle down." A wisp of a smile on her face.
'We could you know. Start again; you and me on Earth or anywhere?' He thought,
'Could you really stop travelling?' Dia thought looking deep into his eyes.
'No I don't think you could; I don't want to stop; the universe has changed and I want to see it; with you." Dia sighed smiling softly.
"You know what you two have to stop that. It's kinda rude." Martha smiled looking at them and smiled sadly knowing that any chance of her having a relationship with the Doctor was gone.
"Oh we could go to Gala it is amazing ice palaces and the people are as friendly as you're likely to ever meet. They make a great Merlot; don't know how they do it but god it's good." The Doctor said clapping his hands together excitedly.
"Giddy as a school boy; he was like this all the way to puberty can you imagine we don't even reach puberty till we are ninety. He has had the same glint in his eyes since that time. You should imagine what he was like; all bullshit and balls. I might have stopped off in New York; the shopping the speakeasy's." Dia blushed.
"That's my Dia. Let the adventures begin." The Doctor smiled smacking his hands together.
"Martha would you like to come?" Dia asked. The Doctor turned eagerly to her and smiled. Martha looked at her hands and saw the where the time band had burned her and thought about Jack and Matt. Her sweet Matt the man in the lost year who had given his life to save her's. Could she leave him to travel with the two immortals?