Life Goes On.
Chapter 1- A new start:
The night shimmered under her eyes as dawn crept through over the horizon. So new and interesting to these eyes even though she had seen thousands like it, intoxicating smells all so fresh clung to her, and the breeze prickled her skin.
Susan wandered down the streets her new feet absorbing every shock, no matter how small as her heals hit the ground. It had been about fifty years since the fateful day her grandfather left and to which she began her life with David, but that was over now and she was stuck here with no way to her long lost home; or anywhere for that matter.
After David took her to his home, all those years ago, she felt more alone than anywhere, but it all worked out in the end because she went on with her life. She made friends, got a job helping out at a local store, and she got married; in secret of course (she couldn't have the government knowing about her).
At that time the end seemed so far away. Caught up in all the hustle and bustle as it were, marrying David and starting a family of her own; even if she couldn't t have children because of the species difference but it didn't mean she was any less happy. Susan had offered more than once to turn herself human using her fob watch, in order to grow old at the same rate as her spouse, and to have children (she could easily programme it to give her all her memories with David and then it was just a simple back story), but he always refused. Would say he wanted her and no one else, no matter how close they are to her. No one could really tell of the aging difference for about twenty years, but once David reached fifty, everything changed, and people began to notice. They moved out of town into a secluded mountain area to get away from the questioning people yet still they were happy. They lived out the rest of their lives together until the worst day of her life. She used to think the worst day of her life was the day she ran away from Gallifrey but she realised she was wrong. Of course though after David died at 78 she could not go on so therefore after his funeral she forced herself to regenerate; that's the only good thing about regeneration- it's not your problem anymore.
Her face was relatively the same apart from being slimmer and less pale. Her hair was ginger (for some reason she loved the colour and purposely picked it out), and curly. She also craved to be taller and more feminine which also came true, but the rest she left to fate. Her breasts were more or less the same size, the one thing that was bigger though was her nose (rather unfortunately she often thought), as well as her ears. Very gobby she noticed as well and not afraid to speak up or as some people may put it "out of place." She was indeed a new woman.
Now she travelled, trying to recapture her life before David but it hardly ever worked as everywhere she went she found something to remember her deceased husband. It could have been easy enough to lock him away in her mind and let him sleep but she refused and believed it would be a disgrace on his memories, remembering how her grandfather had done that, remembering what that made him.
Heartless.
Often hoping to run into him again she found herself reminiscing and often getting lost because she wasn't concentrating but she didn't really care because moments like that were surprisingly nice to experience.
Oh how she missed them: Grandfather, Barbara, Ian, and David.
Regrettably she didn't miss the rest of her family though- Gallifreyans for you; boring sods. That's why she ran away- because she was bored, if only that was the reason her Grandfather had also run away but his reason was more unforgiving. This new young woman now craved adventure and willed herself to find it.
In the distance a scream of pure terror, and a growl unlike anything from Earth.
Finally, her first quest.