Chapter 14: "Ginger"

The streets had been deserted. Everyone ran, the cybermen were dead, and as it seemed to the Doctor, so was Poppy.

The Doctor ran over to her, and held her hand. "Poppy? Poppy are you there?"

Poppy coughed and opened her eyes. "Well that was fun." She said, her voice scratchy.

"Katherine Poppy, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He cried, kissing her forehead.

"Everything's fine. Don't worry. I'm not dying." She whispered. "I mean, I am dying, but I'm not going to die."

"What do you mean?" He asked her.

"Doctor, I.." She coughed and closed her eyes. "I'll be right back."

"No, Poppy. Please!" He pleaded. "Why! Why did this have to happen again!"

He held her hand to his chest and fell to his knees when he noticed something. Her wrist, the one that was broken, was glowing.

"No.." He said, beginning to smile. "Impossible."

She soon began to change, her hair slowly turned a dark orange, her skin paled and her cheeks became freckled. Her legs were longer, and The Doctor reckoned she was now taller than him. It was different than all the times he had done it himself, instead of bursting with energy, she just glowed lightly, and her new self spread throughout her old self, like dropping food colouring in a glass of clear water.

"Impossible" he whispered again.

Her eyes fluttered open, but instead of the soft brown ones, they had been replaced with large light green ones.

"I'm back." She whispered.

"Oh, Katherine Poppy." She whispered, crashing his lips against hers. She sat up and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him closer to her then they had ever been before.

They broke apart and Katherine Poppy smirked. "Who's a better kisser, Old Me or New Me?" She asked.

"Definitely New You." He smiled.

Poppy blushed. "What am I like? Am I asian? I've always wanted to be asian."

The Doctor studied her a moment. "No, not Asian. You're tall now, pale, you've got lots of freckles."

"What about my hair, what's it like?" She asked.

The Doctor frowned. "It's just hair."

"I'm ginger aren't I?" She laughed.

"It's not fair! How come you get to be ginger!" He exclaimed.

"Oh, don't be jealous. You can't where fezzes when you're ginger." She said.

"I think we both know perfectly well that you will still be wearing a fez, even though you're ginger."

A/N: So? What do you guys think? Tell me what you're thinking! I remember what I was thinking when I first decided about this happening: "HOLY CRAP PLOT TWIST OH DARN NOW I HAVE TO FIND A NEW FACE CLAIM SHOOT I REALLY LIKED THIS ONE"

Speaking of face claims, just wanted to let you know, Poppy's new face claim is Laura Spencer from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I'd google image search her so you can see what she looks like, but for some reason, it isn't very accurate, but if you search "Jane Bennet Lizzie Bennet Diaries" it should come up with more accurate pictures. Or, if you're lazy, you can just wait until I upload the rest of the one shots, or the sequel, because both of their covers have pictures of her new face claim.

It's official. All of my OC's are gingers. (Except for my psych fic though...)

Thanks for reading so much guys, the last three chapters will be uploaded tomorrow! Review!

-KLR