Chapter Six: Shock

"What was that?!" Tony ran out the door into the storm. "Oh my God, Cassie!" He ran to see his sister collapsed on the ground. "Cassie! Cassie, wake up!" She didn't move.

"Cassie!" Tony quickly scooped up the blond girl and ran inside. "Rose!" he screamed as he flew through the door. "Rose!"

Rose came over immediately. "Cassie!" she cried out. "Oh my-"

She was cut off by the sight of a faint golden light emitting from Cassie's still body, a light she had only seen once before, a very, very, very long time ago. "Tony. Stand back." She tried as hard as possible to keep her voice straight. Oh my God she's going to change she's going to change oh my god she's going to change. It took all she could to not burst into tears. What would her little girl look like now...?

The light grew brighter, and then faded away. Cassie's body rose with a great big breath and her eyes fluttered open. "Mum?" she asked. "Mum, what happened?" She bent over, clutching her chest. "Ah! Oh my God..."

"Cassie! Oh my God, Cassie, you're alive, you're you, oh my God..." Rose could barely speak.

"I'm not so sure," Cassie muttered. "I've got two hearts and God knows what else."

Cassie felt somehow like a piece of her had been unlocked, a piece that had been hidden away for so long, since she was a little kid. Her head had so much more in it, more thoughts, more ability. She could sense everything around her, and she could feel in her skin each moment that passed. All this new knowledge overwhelmed her a bit, but oh did she love it. Two words kept echoing in her head, ones from a distant past that she could grasp, but not quite...

"Time Lord," she murmured. "Time Lord, Time Lord, oh, where have I heard that before? I swear I've heard that. Time Lord. Time Lord..." And then it came to her, memories of sitting in the grass with Tony as a little girl, hearing fairy-tales...

"They're true," Cassie realized. "All of those stories you told us, Mum... they're true!" She grinned. "Oh my God, that's who my dad was all that time!"

Rose sighed. "This is coming as a bit of a shock to me," she murmured.

"Not a very good pun, Mum," Cassie sighed, her eyes all of a sudden looking very much like her dad's. "But I see the point..." But something else was on her mind at the moment. She reached out with her mind, something she found herself able to do now. "Okay... so my dad's the Doctor from all of those stories... but where is he...?" She turned to her mother, trying to reach out there. "Canary... Wharf... Canary Wharf... okay, what does that have to do with anything?"

"How are you even- oh, why do I even bother asking?" Rose sighed. "Okay, let's just tell the story normally if possible. Yes, your dad is the Doctor. The actual stories weren't real. No such thing as Clockbots or Klikarones or Rangaroos... I think."

"But Raxacoricofallapatorius is real," Cassie giggled. "And you went there, didn't you?"

"Yeah, with an egg and your dad and our best friend Jack."

"Isn't Mickey your best friend?"

"Our other best friend. Anyway. So, your dad and I got separated, like I said, a long time ago. You and I, we're on a parallel universe."

Cassie had no need to ask what that meant. She understood instantly, her new timey-wimey senses totally in tune with everything... where did timey-wimey come from? Anyway... "Okay. Parallel universe. And my dad is on the one you come from. Oh... oh, that explains... No! I am going to fix this! I am absolutely positively fixing this if it is the last thing I ever do!"

"What?" Rose looked at her daughter. And she saw that insane resilience, that incredible spirit and passion and energy and brilliance.

"I am going to bring our family back together."


Hey everyone!

Yay! Cassie's a full-fledged Time Lord now! This is where things are going to start to get interesting. The stock characters (like what I did with their names?) from the mud-rope game are going to play into this a bit, but I won't tell you much. Spoilers.

Love,

Kathryn-Willa/Kate