Now, this chapter is where it begins to become weird and rushed and you need to play a bit with your imagination.


Chapter 5

Xi did not come back for the rest of the night. Valentina was worried, of course, but there was so much to worry about. She activated the stones in the middle of the night and fell unconscious until the early morning. Her thoughts were blurry, but she started remembering her romance with Loki… though she did not realise it yet. She was late at work and confused. She did not even hear what the other secretaries said and only came back to herself when she accidentally poured hot coffee onto her fingers.

She brought the coffee to the president, Mr Saxon, the Master, but he did not remember her and who she was. It was the after-effect of meeting herself – the memory becomes all blurry.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yes, sure," she said and tried to smile. He watched her while she got back to her desk.

It was late in the evening already when Valentina went to bring some files back to the second floor. However, something was different now. She needed to walk the corridor twice to find out what it was. There was a perception filter working on her, hiding a door that she had never noticed before. She looked around, but everyone had already gone home. She decided to try her luck. After all, it was probably only the Master she had to deal with.

She walked down the stairs and ended up in a huge corridor with green stones and some sort of controls opposite to the staircase. She put the files on a table and looked at the console. It appeared to be some sort of mind control device – what else? She did not notice the president until he had reached the end of the stairs. She turned around and finally saw the true eyes of the Master again, his true face. She did not say anything, she was too amazed by how she could never realise that he was her brother.

"You shouldn't have come down here," he said.

Valentina realised how different he looked with his brown hair and shaven. So un-Master-y.

"What… did you do?" she asked.

"I only created a mind-field to control every living being on Earth… you know, it's re-election soon and I don't want to try my luck a second time." He pushed her body against the cold stone wall and grabbed her neck. "Unfortunately, you won't live to see that. It's a shame, you were rather a good pet… I mean secretary." He clenched his hand and Valentina felt how her oxygen was running out. She was stronger than the Master, but she let it happen. It felt kind of good, better than being killed by foreigners on the battlefield. Being killed by the Master felt rather familiar, rather on-turning. He vision became black and the last thing she heard was her body dumping on the floor.

She did not know how long she had been dead when she grasped for breath and sat straight up. She heard the Master stumble backwards. He had been bending over his console, adjusting something, and now he was staring at her as if – well, she did just resurrect in front of him.

"Oh Master," she said while standing up. "Did you really not recognise me?" She chuckled as he was still unaware of he identity.

He shook his head. She started slowly walking towards him. Without saying anything, she let her eyes become all black. It was the fault that her father could not erase. She and her sister both had the problem of their eyes turning all black when they were losing control over their powers. It had happened from time to time during the war and it had become characteristic for them. And of course, they could do it for dramatic effect.

"Warrior," The Master gasped. "Oh my god,… I am so sorry!"

She laughed and hugged him. He responded the hug. "It feels so good not being alone on this planet," Valentina said. She continued to tell The Master everything that had happened to her since she had set him out as a just regenerated child near the end of time on a planet where he would work on Utopia. She had taken his memory so that he would not try to join the war; she had been too scared to let him near Gallifrey again.

Back home, Valentina was however drawn back into her life as a human – she got a notification from Akiva. Xi had apparently left the US and travelled to Irak. It turned out she had been a spy all along. Valentina did not know how to respond. On one hand, she loved her. They had been engaged! On the other, Valentina had grown out of it. She was The Warrior! She was the most feared Timelord of all, she stood over such things, plus, she was the girlfriend of the God of Mischief. Or was she? She hadn't talked to him in over 2000 year… although for him, it was less time.

She decided to go look for him. He must have tried to contact her since she became lost on Earth. One of the best places to find anything was on the Lost Moon of Surel. It was the twin planet of Posh and one of the most prominent black markets in its galaxy. It did not take long for her to find a God. However, she nearly ran into the God of War, her ex who luckily did not recognise her due to her new body. She found Loki sat alone in a dark corner of a bar where he was staring at his Andorian sunrise drink. She saw another man with him, someone in Magician's clothes, probably a human rebel who had betrayed the ancient one – otherwise he wouldn't be sitting with another criminal. The grey-haired man left and Loki leaned back, trying to look relaxed. Valentina, who was wearing one of her old Sith robes walked over and sat down in front of him without asking permission.

"What do you want?" Loki asked.

Valentina shoved back her hood. "I've heard you've been to New York. Why didn't you stop to say hi?"

He stared at her with a blank expression on his face.

She laughed. "Have those years in exile really changed me that much?"

"Semeya?" he asked, using the name she had been known by before Rassilon had named her The Warrior.

She smiled.

When Loki had heard about Valentina's relationship with Xi, he had asked her to try and get back to her on Earth. They would have all the time of his life later on, but Xi was mortal and had at most 80 years they could spend together. After a long discussion, Valentina agreed, while Loki promised her to keep an eye on Earth. While she was going back to her life as a secretary, helping Mr Saxon to install a mind-influencing satellite in orbit to win the 2016 election, Loki went undercover in exactly the city where he was most wanted. It did not take him long to make friendship plus with another temporal refugee. Magneto had travelled from the 60s over fifty years into the future to avoid any responsibility after the fight against Apocalypse.

As Valentina's sister Theresa was still keeping an eye on her, they would have nearly managed to launch the satellite's program when suddenly Torchwood and UNIT appeared on the White House's doorstep. After a long discussion, they all agreed that The Master as president was a much better choice than the alternative, and all UNIT's officers got their memories erased from the incident while Theresa promised to keep an eye on one of Earth's mightiest countries. After all, she was glad that there was currently only one Raxacoricofallapatorian as country's head – or rather, dictator.

A few weeks after a rather weird incident in which Xi had turned up and pretended to go back together with Valentina, invite her to their favourite spot at the cliff and shooting her so that she fell down into the water, died, resurrected and then pretended to be dead when Xi went to check on her at the beach, Valentina was surprised to see that her ex-girlfriend indeed returned to their common flat to apologise. Valentina was not sure whether to believe someone who had broken both her hearts, but at least allowed her to live with her since she had just betrayed her actual country – again.

It was a Thursday afternoon, about two days after she had last time visited Loki and his new boyfriend in New York – they had both agreed on having another partner because they could hardly see each other and because they trusted each other enough with having a human around. It was nearly the end of her shift as private secretary of President Saxon when she had the urge to run to a bathroom as quickly as possible. Heather, one of the secretaries whose hatred for Valentina was mutual, was just washing her hands when Valentina stormed in to make it just in time for the toilet. However, her vomit was turquoise and shining this time, something Valentina had only experienced when another version of her had had too much of Tellarite tea.

"You alright?" Heather asked.

"Yeah, sure," Valentina said and flushed the toilet.

"You look like shit," Heather said when seeing Valentina leave the cabin.

She went on to splash her face with water. "I also feel that way," she muttered.

Heather shrugged and left. Valentina made sure the door was closed before she touched the one-man-teleporter Missy had given her to her 2900th birthday. She teleported right into The Creator's lab where she lost immediately balance and fell to the floor.

"My God, Valentina, what happened to you?" her father came rushing to her.

"I don't know."

He helped her up and felt her pulse and temperature. He heaved her onto one of the sickbay-like beds and started scanning her. He sighed and stopped all the measurements.

"What?" she asked.

"You've been seeing Loki lately?"

"Yeah?"

"Congratulations."

"What?"

"You're pregnant."

"Fuck." She closed her eyes. How could that have happened? They had both always taken their injections, specified for their species.

"Well, I've always wanted to become a grandfather again," The Creator said. "However, our species is not really compatible with Frost Giants. I will have to treat you medically and you might experience some difficulties."

However, he did not say that this included nearly daily headaches, nausea and the urge to toss your body into the next garbage bin. The first two months Valentina stayed on Earth, but then she and Loki decided to take a time off-world and settle on Triad III. It was a nice planet in the middle of the First Intergalactic Federation – not to be confused with the United Federation of Planets. Loki took a job as a bartender while Valentina first stayed at home until she bore their child, Maleya. When Maleya had reached the age to go to First Care, Valentina took on a job as maintenance worker at the local energy company – in the end, her university courses in Energy Resources (part of her Temporal and Astrophysic studies) finally did pay off. Maleya grew up with Frost Giant Language, Gallifreyan, English and the planet's two official languages, and learnt quicker than most of her age. Due to her Gallifreyan heritage, she was remarkably intelligent and graduated from the local school with 18 rather than 25 as it was normal. However, it was unfortunately also shortly after the 18th birthday that she accidentally discovered her parents' true identity. She had been brought up with no knowledge about the God of Mischief and The Warrior, and it ended in seven years of hardly a word spoken. Maleya had moved to a different city on Triad III to study Temporal Mechanics and to support her financially, Loki and Valentina stayed on the planet. After her graduation at the age of 22, Maleya got accepted into Starfleet's Department of Temporal Investigations on 26th century of the United Federation of Planets and did not talk to her parents at all anymore.

Valentina and Loki returned to the time on Earth where they had both left and pretended that nothing had happened. A month back into their lives, Loki was captured by SHIELD and attacked in one of the prison cells by Wanda who had wanted to take revenge on him for… well, she was just angry because Loki was sleeping with her father. Valentina was the first to arrive in time at the dying Loki. She transferred some of her regeneration energy into his body, but the Doctor ran in and she gave too much because she was too distracted to control it. Loki escaped only a day later of custody, but because his body could not cope with the regeneration energy, he went to visit The Creator. He suggested a DNA transfer, the only way that Loki would survive without metamorphosing into an energy being. Valentina agreed although a DNA transfer was always both ways – with the new Timelord DNA in Loki's body, he could regenerate without changing his appearance and too little energy was left for him to actually do it again. Valentina's genetically augmented body however regarded most of the Frost Giant DNA as inferior and only chose to add some of it to her own DNA strands – making her 0.3% Frost Giant. She could, however, now change blue or would do it automatically if the exterior temperature dropped to below minus twenty degrees. Despite her blue skin and red eyes, she would however not show any marks on her cheeks or front head which were characteristic for Frost Giants.