They Call Her the Vortex

by Sabrina Lonewalker

An AU couching the origins of the Time Vortex as myth and legend. This is the story of the Time Vortex and the Chosen One she has waited for ever since time itself began. Care to guess who the Chosen One is in this AU?

2. Chapter 2

They Call Her The Vortex

Part Two

by

Sabrina Lonewalker

They first meet her when they are twelve years old. Possible Time Lords and Time Ladies look into her depths and either go mad or understand enough to become what they are meant to be. But once, in a generation, one comes along who not only understands, he or she sees the Vortex in all of her glory, splendor and danger. Those are the ones she takes special care of, they learn her, they come to know her as no other Time Lord ever will.

The last time she had seen a Time Lord like that had been several millenia ago. Since then, there had been some who had shown promise but, not the way she knew they could. She waited patiently because she knew there was one coming, one who would see her for who and what she really was. She smiled, even the Time Lord who had once been her brother did not know her. She had sacrificed herself to give her fellow Time Lords what they needed to power their TARDISes, she put a piece of herself into each control console.

Each TARDIS developed her own personality and quirks to match the Time Lord or Lady she was bonded to for life. Once a TARDIS was bonded, no other Time Lord could control her. He or she might be able to fly her but, as far as control was concerned, only the Bonded One could control her. Time Lord and TARDIS could communicate with each other and if the TARDIS chose to do so, she could communicate with a chosen companion as well.

No one knew her history any longer, no one knew who she had been as a Gallifreyan and that was fine as far as she was concerned. She knew though that the Chosen One would know who she was. He would know her name. She watched countless Time Lords and Ladies look into her depths. Those that went mad grieved her, this was not what she had intended but it was something she could not control. Those that passed the test intrigued her and she would watch their progress.

So far, none of the ones who had come to her had shown what she was searching for. Oh yes, they knew about timelines and making sure they didn't do anything to mess those up but all of that they had been taught. The one she was searching for would know all of this, instinctively. He or she would not need the schooling they were going to receive, they would know and it would drive their instructors wild. What they taught restricted what every Time Lord and Lady was to be.

But when the Chosen looked into her depths, all of that would be unlocked in his mind and in his soul. She watched as the Society of the Time Lords became stuffy, political and very, very bureaucratic. That did not please her. She wanted them to be taught the joy and freedom they had as Time Lords. True, there was responsibility with what they were but, it was not the be all and end all of being a Time Lord or Lady. She would watch and in the meantime, she would wait, wait for the Chosen One.

TBC