The mysterious woman stood still for a minute or so, taking in the information.
"What?" she whispered to herself, staring at the device monitor.
She shook her head defiantly "Nah"
Then without warning the woman suddenly turned around and ran back towards her car. The Doctor sprang into action. He had to talk to her before she drove off because didn't much fancy chasing after her in the TARDIS, not after the all the problems that happened last time when he was chasing after Donna in the taxi driven by a Santa robot.
He quickly walked over to her, then stopped in his tracks.
"Oh my God!" he said aloud, without realising. Not believing what he was seeing. It was only a quick glance but it was enough to fill his hearts with joy.
From the position he was standing he could see into the interior of the car as the women opened the driver's door. It was not a car. It was a TARDIS! There was a large circular room inside with lights mounted to the walls. The Doctor only caught a fleeting glance but it was enough.
There's another TARDIS, he thought to himself, a wide smile appearing at his mouth. How could there be another TARDIS and he didn't know about it? He quickly reached into the pocket of his brown suit and pulled out the Sonic Screwdriver, and aimed it at the Mini. The reading was positive. It IS a TARDIS!
But wait, if there is another TARDIS then that means there must be..
"Another Time-Lord!" he whispered to himself, trying to contain his excitement.
All the prophecies were wrong. He wasn't alone anymore. There was another Time-Lord in existence and she was right in front of him. He looked over at the Mini and felt all the hope drain out of him, he had been dawdling too long. It was disappearing. He ran as fast as he could towards it but a second later it was gone.
The Doctor turned and sprinted across the tarmac to the TARDIS (his TARDIS).
"Oh no you don't!" he said to himself. "You're not getting away now!"
When he reached the TARDIS he wrenched the door open and ran inside. When he reached the main console, he flicked all the mains switches and fired up her up. He turned the main monitor towards him and started logging onto the main computer, sending out a signal to latch onto the Mini-TARDIS and track where it was heading this time.
"OH YES!" he exclaimed, the signal was coming through clearly. Now all the had to do was follow it.
A couple of seconds later the TARDIS shuddered violently then was still. It had arrived. Where it had arrived the Doctor had no idea. He shut everything off, then turned to face the door. This time though he wasn't hanging around. He grabbed his brown coat and ran outside.
He was standing in a very white sterile looking room. It could have been a hospital but it was completely empty of anything. No furniture, no fixtures on the walls, nothing. No woman and TARDIS either. The Doctor stood looking around for a moment trying to place where he was. He knew this place from somewhere. He had been here before. When? The answer came very quickly when he saw two Judoon marching past an open doorway away from the room. The Shadow Proclamation! Why did he not recognise the co-ordinates?
The lady had come to the Shadow Proclamation, but why? He ran across the room to the archway and peered out. The Judoon were gone and the passage-way was empty. Silently, he ran down the passage, occasionally coming across another archway leading into another white room but they were all empty like the first. All the time his brain was doing overtime, trying to work out the how, the whys and everything in between. How did she escape the Time War and how did he not sense her existence? Was she really a Time-Lady or was she something else that had just got lucky and manage to get hold of a TARDIS? No, only Time-Lords could work a TARDIS, they only responded to Time-Lords. That's another thought, another TARDIS, a working TARDIS that could still camouflage itself. The smile that appeared on the Doctor's mouth was still there.
"This is just getting better"
In the distance something made the doctor stop. Voices. Female voices. Slowly he padded his way towards the origin of the voices. It was the last room at the end of a the passage. The Doctor carefully made his way over and carefully positioned himself behind the right pillar of the archway entrance, in a way that he could both hear and see what was happening.
The room was exactly the same as the one the TARDIS had landed in, albeit, larger. Inside standing in the middle were the two large Judoon, both holding large guns. In between them was a tall, willowy woman with curly white hair, dressed in long white robes, she was similar to the woman he had met not so long ago, when he had come with Donna. Donna. That was the first time he had let his mind wander back to that raw memory, but he quickly dismissed it as there were more important matters to address at the moment.
Standing in the left-hand corner of the room, next to the now stationary Mini-TARDIS, was this new creature the Doctor was chasing. He took his time looking over her. She certainly could have passed for Time-Lord, but then any young woman working in a fish and chip shop could too, so that didn't really help the evaluation. The Doctor was very tempted to get his Sonic Screwdriver out and finally find out but that would have made his presence known at right now, that was not needed. Especially not with the Judoon carrying guns as big as the Doctor.
"And what are you?" asked the Shadow Proclamation woman, her attention focused on the other woman in the room.
"I'm pissed off, is what am I!" retorted the woman, slamming the door of the Mini-TARDIS shut and striding over to them in the middle of the room, the device cross-shaped device still clutched in her hand.
"Here I was, flying through space, minding my own business, when suddenly everything in the TARDIS just stopped. Stopped dead. Kaput! Finnito! At first I though it must have been a short circuit or loss of power, but no, everything as it should be. So looked outside and there was nothing. Nothing in sight. I checked my computer system. You know where I was. Stuck in the flipping VOID! How the hell could that even happen? No-one just falls into the Void. Have you ever heard anyone say, 'I just popping out to the Void?' No, you flaming well don't. So, I try everything I can but you can't just fly out of the Void can you. Apparently it's a one-way system. Nearly ten years I was stuck in that pit. I.."
The Shadow Proclamation woman, held her hand up.
"Origin? What are you?"
The woman looked indignant at being asked such a question.
"Are you thick? What do you think? TARDIS! I'm a Time-Lady"
"Not another one!" sighed the woman, rolling her eyes.
"Charming!" replied the Time-Lady. "Anyway I finally get out of there. Long story- find a hole, wriggle through etc etc. Land on the planet Earth, use my co-ordinate locator," She holds up the device. "to find my way home and it says 'Gallifrey Destroyed' Is there something wrong with signals at the moment?"
She looked at the woman from the Shadow Proclamation, then to the Judoon, then back to the woman again. The woman was silent, looking at the Time-Lady in slight shock.
"Gallifrey was destroyed. It's gone"
The Time-Lady shock her head violently. "No. No it…it can't be gone. What do you mean gone? How do you mean gone? Planets don't just disappear! What happened? I don't…"
"A war happened. The Time-War" said a male voice across the room.
The Doctor walked out from behind the pillar and across the arch toward the Time-Lady. This time there was no smile on his face, only a solemn look in his eyes.
"They're all gone. All the Time-Lords. Perished in the war along with Gallifrey itself. I'm the only one left. Well, technically, we're the only ones left now. The Last of the Time-Lords."
The Time-Lady looked the Doctor up and down and slowly started to back away. Then she stopped and walked forward to the spot she was originally standing. She was staring intently into his eyes. She could tell he was telling the truth. She could also sense it was the truth. She said nothing for a minute or so and when she tried to speak, to ask something, anything, she couldn't produce the words. It was the Doctor who finally broke the silence.
"I'm the Doctor and you are?"
"I'm…I'm the…the Sable"
Sorry it took me so long to update, been sooo busy working.
PS. You probably think I cheated, just explaining that the Sable just "wriggled through a hole" to get out of the Void but don't worry there's a lot more to it than that, coming soon... Stayed tuned.
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