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?

3. Chapter 3

They Call Her the Vortex

Part Three

by

Sabrina Lonewalker

She looked and another group of Academy graduates was approaching her. More boys than girls this time, she noticed. Well, sometimes that happens. Then, they began bringing them one by one. The first five did ok. The next one however, wasn't able to withstand the sight of her and began screaming. The child was carried away and Vortex cried. She always cried when that happened because she always felt responsible. The thing was, no one knew she could cry, until the next child, a young man, gazed into her.

"Don't cry," She heard. She looked into his eyes. They were an intense blue she had seldom seen before. "You know I'm crying?" She asked. He nodded with a sad smile, "Yes, I can see you and hear you." She looked and gasped, it was him! The Chosen. "What is your designation?" she asked. He grinned, "Theta Sygma." "You will do well, young one." His face changed, "Yeah, only if I can ever leave this place."

She smiled, she had been right. The Chosen would not remain on Gallifrey. "You will, someday little one, trust in me. I know you." His blue eyes widened but then, he smiled, as if they shared a secret no one else knew. He was then led away to begin his training as a Time Lord. She didn't speak to him again as he went through the Academy but, she watched what happened to him. She saw the way the timelines converged around him and she knew none of the others could see it. She wasn't sure that he, himself knew.

She watched him as he grew, learned and became a man. He married, had children, grandchildren and then, one day, she felt a wrenching sadness from him. She saw his beloved wife had died. His children preferred their indolent lives here but him, he wanted to leave and only one grandchild wanted to go with him. She wondered how he would leave since all TARDISes were registered then, she remebered the Type 40 that was in to be decommisioned and recycled. That was when she made her choice.

She bled off enough of herself and made her home inside the central control station, becoming the heart of this TARDIS. Sure enough, he and his beloved granddaughter stole her and headed out into the wilds of time and space. She felt free, more free than she had felt in eons. The Timelords had lost a lot of their knowledge about her origins and hadn't realized she could split herself into infinity if she so chose. This time, she chose to.

He would need her, she knew that. She read his timelines and had an idea what was coming for him and that he would need her. Then, she smiled, her Chosen chose the name by which he would forever be known throughout the universe and beyond. It started once they were on an intriguing little blue and green planet called Earth and he met two humans named Ian and Barbara. He had no idea what he was starting when he said, "Hello, I'm the Doctor.", but she did. She knew that time and space would never be the same again.

TBC