Sorry that I haven't uploaded anything in quite a while. I've also started another fanfiction ("The other Side of the Crime", for the NCIS fans among you) and now that I've got internet in my new flat, I can also upload new chapters on weekdays. But now, allons-y!

Chapter 9

"It's simple. There should only be Pablo Juarez left in there. We go in, kill him and leave," Katie said.

"It always sounds simple," Theresa complained but got out of the car. They both entered the empty hall in the commercial area where neither a sane person nor a courageous cop would enter. They opened the door and already spotted they guy they should kill. "What do you want?" Juarez asked and looked at the two girls.

"Rend is sending his greetings," Katie said and without hesitation, she pulled the gun and shot the man in his head. He immediately fell down and a puddle of blood was growing around his head.

"When I joined MI5, contract killing wasn't in the job description," Theresa whispered.

"But that's what you're now known for at the whole West Coast," Katie commented and they just wanted to leave the abandoned service station when two men had appeared in the door.

"What are you doing there?" one of the guys asked and walked around to spot Juarez. "You killed our boss. Who're you working for?" she shouted angrily.

Theresa shortly side-looked at her girlfriend, then pulled out her own gun but instead kicked the other man into his stomach, grabbed Katie's hand and together they ran outside. They haven't parked right in front of the building and so they ran down the street to the left. Theresa heard the men already coming after them and shots were fired. Instinctively, they both ducked down but suddenly Katie felt Theresa's hand grip loosening. She turned around and saw that she was bleeding.

"You run," Theresa said with heavy breath. "I'll hide here."

"No," Katie decided but Theresa pushed her forward so that her stumbling turned into running away. Theresa entered a very small street to her right and waited, hoping that the man would ran past without noticing her. She had nearly already calmed down, when suddenly she looked up and stared exactly in the face of one of the men.

"I found her," he shouted and the other guy came back within seconds. He grabbed her and pulled her out back on the street.

"There you are, you filthy bitch. Who are you working for?" he shouted.

"Fuck you," Theresa muttered and still pushed her hands on the bleeding wound in her upper body.

The guy slapped her and asked again, "who told you to kill our boss?"

She didn't answer.

"Shoot that bitch," the bigger one said but Theresa already bent forward to attack the men. Usually, she was better and faster with her martial arts knowledge, but the guy already had a gun in his hands and Theresa only heard the shot being fired. She stumbled backwards and looked at her hands. They were now full of blood and her shirt was soaked. She didn't really feel much, and she feared for a moment that she was already dead. The man stared at her, waiting until she finally fell down. But nothing like this happened. Suddenly, her hands began glowing golden and so did her head and probably her whole body.

"What the fuck?" the man yelled out of one mouth.

She was glowing more and more, until she finally released this stored energy into all directions. This seemed to be either painful or stressful but suddenly, all of the energy was gone and Theresa was still standing there, not bleeding anymore, her whole body healed.

"Holy shit," the bigger man cursed and wanted to run away, but Theresa was faster. She took the knife she always had in her shoes and threw it after him. He fell down and Theresa grabbed the other guy's neck and clenched her hands together until he didn't struggle anymore. She proved their pulses – both dead – and picked up her knife again. She cleaned it and looked at her own reflection. She hadn't changed, this was a bit strange. In a usual regeneration, a Timelord changed his appearance. But she had so much power that with a bit concentration, she could influence her own new appearance. "That's cool," she muttered and then walked back to the car where Katie already waited and tried to reach her on her mobile phone.

"You've been shot!"

"No, it's just the blood from the other guys. I killed them."

"But you had been shot before! I saw you bleeding."

"That wasn't a direct shot. It just strived my skin."

"Theresa, don't lie to me," Katie said but Theresa showed her perfect body by holding up her shirt.

"See, I wasn't hit."

"That's impossible, I saw-"

"It's dark. Perhaps you didn't see it right. Let's go home," Theresa said and grabbed Katie's car keys.

"That were two weeks," Theresa complained when she was just coming home late at night.

"Well, it was one week for me."

"And?"

"And what?"

"Did you find out anything about your...timeline-crossing and why all of this is happening?"

"No, no idea. But something big is about to happening and again I have the feeling that I'll be the last one who becomes informed."

"So, what do you know so far?" Theresa asked when she already followed him into his TARDIS.

"Something that should not created was created and this 'something' is gaining power. This 'something' is a puzzle and one part of the puzzle, which is also the puzzle itself, has been fed with too much energy and it starts appearing and disappearing."

"Appearing and disappearing where?"

"Well, it started to exist. Imagine a few puzzle pieces lying around and one of them is a picture of the puzzle itself. It suddenly appeared from non-existence. But it shouldn't actually exist and therefore constantly changes time and space. This 'something' has energy of a certain kind and this energy feels lonely. So it searches a similar kind of energy."

"What kind of energy?"

"TARDIS energy."

"So you wanna tell me that this 'something' is a person but also contains energy from the heart of a TARDIS."

"Exactly. It's becoming greater and bigger and with enough energy it could – ...wait, I said TARDIS energy, not 'Hear of a TARDIS'-energy. How comes you know that the energy comes from its heart?" the Doctor suddenly said and stopped walking around the console.

"I...I...I don't know," Theresa said and also kept quiet. It had been something that popped into her mind. "You said something about a remote control. Can this effect be wanted? Someone who wants to resurrect himself but couldn't do it right after he died?"

"Yes, that's possible. But whoever it is, he's risking a complete collapse of time...and space. That would rather destroy the universe than bringing anything back."

"The Timelords didn't care before..." Theresa muttered and looked at the blinking buttons at the console.

"The...what?"

"When the Master wanted to bring back Gallifrey."

"How do you know about that? I didn't tell you that?" the Doctor asked surprised. Then he calmed down himself, "how do you know?"

"I don't know myself..."Theresa said but then decided to tell the whole truth. "I told you I recognized this golden watch of yours."

"Which is impossible."

Theresa took out her own watch from her pocket. "My father gave it to me on my 18th birthday. I think he had inherited as well and he passed it on to me. He said it was broken but then I opened it two weeks ago. Now, I remember everything, from the Time War until now."

"Wait...who are you? You aren't The Master, are you?"

"No, of course not...but he's my brother," she admitted.

The Doctor stumbled back a few steps. "Who are you?" he asked suspiciously.

"I am The Soldier. I was punished by being splintered through time and space and I think that I am part of the puzzle. When all of us start to know who we are and all puzzle pieces combine their energy, we would be powerful enough to resurrect Gallifrey with all its people."

"But you can't do that! You're allowed to do that? It would rip the whole universe apart."

"But Gallifrey would stand again and could hold everything together. It would be the greatest galactic empire."

"Theresa, you can't do that!" the Doctor shouted desperately. If she truly was The Soldier then he could stand no chance against her. She was a ruthless, reckless Timelord who achieved her goal without caring for incidents and people who were left behind.

"I know. And I would have never figured out that plan nor would I have found out who I really was if I hadn't travelled with you. So how did the Gallifreyan scientists plan to resurrect our planet?" she asked and smiled. Although she remembered all of what she had done, part of her was still Theresa, a normal human, and as long as this part overweighed The Soldier's one, she could help the Doctor.

"I don't know. There must somewhere be a trigger. Something must happen to one of you and he or she would deliver it automatically to all the others. Do you have the knowledge of the other 'puzzle pieces'?"

"We're all called Valentina and Theresa, most of us have identical twins wherever we live on Earth. But Doctor, we were splintered through time and space. It could happen to any of us and the others don't even know yet that they're Timelords," Theresa argued. And even if they knew how the Timelords had planned it, would they actually be able to prevent it?

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