Chapter 4
The girl who saved Time.
Disclaimer: No I don't own Doctor Who. Just this plot and the new character
Rose stares open mouthed at the city. It has a beauty that can be described only as awe-inspiring. Having followed the little girl, Aria, though the dense foliage of the silver trees, they come to a cave, its entrance covered by led them down to a ledge on the side of a cliff. Cut in to the side of the opposite drop-off is the city. Two elegant waterfalls sparkle on the east and west sides. Down below they meet a huge slow moving river. The buildings sparkle in the light of the setting lesser sun. In the center is a huge palace -like structure. It looks like one of the palaces from earth-Arabia. The ones the sultans and princesses lived in. Its roof is sparkling gold.
But the city is not dead. It blooms with life. Huge silver gold and blue trees soar above the buildings providing shade for those who dwell bellow. Ivy with specks of pure white hangs over the edge into empty space. The branches of all of the plants including the waving flowers down on the dark streets reach toward the sky. The only way across is a bridge made of living branches of the tallest (and Rose figures the oldest) tree.
"Welcome to Merona Doctor." Aria lets go of Rose's and the doctor's hands and skips down the path leading to the colossal bridge.
"Doctor she's a lovely girl she is, but who is she?" Rose asks. The Doctor turns to face her. His big blues eyes are so alight with joy.
"Oh sorry Rose. Aria… she is my niece." Rose stops.
"What? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I didn't even know you had siblings." She is scared. Rose is scared. She brought the Doctor here so he could be happy. But at what cost? Would he just abandon her for his people, the all-superior Time Lords?
The Doctor touches Rose's face. "Rose don't you ever think for one moment I'm going to forget you. You have saved me. Ended the cycle of years of grief and misery I have endured." And then the Doctor does something so unlike him self time seems to actually stop. He kisses Rose very lightly on the lips. Because she is the girl that saved time.
You see Time cannot survive without a mature Time Lord. Years of loneliness' pain, and thinking he was alone had eaten away at the Doctor's grip on life. He did not know it but he had been dying. Bringing him here had started him healing. And it is only a matter of time.
I had so much fun writing this. I hope you like it as much as I do. Keep a look out for the sequel. So long.
Love
Shadow Princess Liana.