Chapter 31

Early Years

By: Izzy

Two months had pasted since New Earth, and Lady looked like she was about to pop. She felt like a bus and some days she even couldn't move. The Doctor wasn't helping how she felt at all, which she didn't blame him for, he was male. They can't understand what pregnancy is like. But Martha was a blessing. On days Lady couldn't move Martha was there to help. Lady new that they all were restless but she couldn't help herself. But maybe she could help Martha and the Doctor. Lady got out of her recliner and walked to the console room, to see him pacing the floor like he was at a race track.

"Something wrong, Love?" she asked.

"No, no," he said hurriedly. "Nothing wrong."

"Love," she said. "I don't need our bond to tell that something is wrong with you." She grinned at him. "So spill the beans."

"I want to be here for you," he said.

"But you are bored out of your mind," she said when he didn't continue. He nodded. "It's fine I'm sure that Martha is too. Take her to see New York, she'd love it."

"I don't want to leave you alone," he said.

"So long as I'm on the TARDIS I will never truly be alone," she said with a smile. He smiled back at her, then closed the distance between them, he kissed her with a love and passion that would would put the sun to shame with it's brilliance. She was left breathless when he finally broke the kiss, it was not the length of the kiss that took her breath away it was the love she felt from him that left her breathless.

"We'll only be a few hours, I promise," he said. "Would you tell Martha that I'm preparing?"

"Sure," she said as she moved back down the hall to find Martha. Lady found Martha in the kitchen washing up the dishes she had just dirtied. "Hey, Martha." She jumped and dropped the glass she had been washing. The glass hit the floor and shattered. "Are you alright? I didn't mean to scare you."

"I'm fine," she said. "I can't say much for that glass though. I'm so sorry."

"As long as you weren't hurt," Lady said. "The glass can be replaced." They share a smile. "The Doctor said he's gonna take you on a trip."

"I'll join him once I pick this up," Martha said.

"Don't worry 'bout it," Lady said as Martha bent down. She stood back up and gave Lady a questioning look.

"I'm not letting you pick this up," Martha said.

"Jess'll get it," Lady said.

"Jess?" Martha asked.

"My name for the TARDIS," Lady said. "I named her after my sister."

"OK," Martha said as she started to walk out of the room. Lady grabbed Martha's hand, she looked back.

"You are strong," Lady said. "Never doubt yourself. You can help him. You can defeat them and don't ever feel like you can't."

"'Them'?" Martha asked.

"I can't give you the answers," Lady said. "Like the saying, 'I can only show you the door you're the one that has to walk through it.' Just don't forget. You can do it." She let go.

"I don't understand," Martha said.

"Just remember what I told you," Lady said. "Oh, and if he wants to check on me I'll have my cell." She showed Martha the cell phone.

"I will," she nodded and left the room. Lady sighed. She wanted to go with them but she knew in her current state she would just slow them down. About two more months of being stuck in the TARDIS. She sighed again and left the room to go read on the sofa.

Hours later Lady woke up suddenly, to sharp pains. She screamed as the pain grew in intensity she moved to grab her cell phone that she left on the table. She needed the Doctor. She missed the table with her hand and tumbled off the sofa. She cried out again. "Lady!" she heard a familiar female voice yell as she passed out from the pain.

Lady woke up again and was no longer on the TARDIS. She sat up slightly and noticed that it was easier to move. She panicked as she looked down and let out a sigh of relief when she saw that she was still very pregnant. "Don't move around too much," the female voice from earlier said. Lady looked up to see Melody Pond smiling at her. And not just any Melody Pond the regeneration before she becomes River Song.

"Melody?" Lady asked. "Melody Pond?"

"Hello, Lady," Melody said. "It is strange that you always knew me even when the Doctor didn't."

"Well if you know me than you know why," Lady said.

"I do," Melody said with a smile. "Your my dads' best friend."

"Well not yet," Lady said. "I ain't met Rory yet."

"You miss heard me," Melody said with a light shake of her head. "Dads, I have two. You save me from Madame Kovarian, and give me to the one person, outside of your family, you would trust to raise your own children, if the need arose."

"Todd," Lady said. "You were raised in my original universe?"

"Yes, and no," Melody said. "My young live was spend in your original universe but you brought me back so I could grow up with my parents."

"Wait, how are you here?" Lady asked. "I know that the 21st century doesn't have time travel and very unreliable space travel."

"Jack," Melody said as she got closer. "He gave me his Vortex Manipulator, so I could help you."

"Now here the questions I should have asked earlier;" Lady said with a small laugh. "Where am I? And how long was I out?"

"You are on New Earth," Melody said. "In the hospital. You were out for a week once they got you stable."

"Where's my bondmate?" Lady asked. "Where's the Doctor?"

"Your Doctor is still with Martha," Melody said. "Probably in the TARDIS looking for you."

"Did you bring my cell?" Lady asked.

"Oh, yeah," Melody said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out Lady's cell phone. "It's been going off for a while now." Lady snatched her cell out of Melody's hands rather roughly.

"And you didn't answer it!" Lady scolded loudly. She unlocked the phone and saw that there were 100 missed calls, and 203 unread texts. She sighed heavily and decided to call the TARDIS first. She entered the number, it started to ring and by the second ring she heard his voice.

"Lady?" the Doctor asked sounding so panicked that it broke her heart.

"Hi," she said sheepishly.

"Are you hurt? How are the twins? What happened? Where are you? How long has it been for you?" he shot off each question one after another so fast that she couldn't answer any of them.

"I'm fine, now," she said once he final stopped.

"Now?" he asked his voice cracked. "What happened?"

"I had a sharp pain," she explained. "It hurt so bad, and I tried to reach the cell but I fell of the sofa and passed out."

"Passed out?!" he asked so loudly she had to pull the phone away from her ear and rubbed it.

"Yes," she said. "I passed out but a future friend of ours came in a saved me."

"A future friend?" he asked. "Who?"

"Spoilers!" she exclaimed and that made Melody giggle. "The twins are fine. I was out for a week, and I'm in the New Earth Hospital."

"The one in New New York?" he asked. Lady covered the microphone on the phone with her hand and looked at Melody.

"This is New New York right?" Lady asked. Melody nodded. Lady removed her hand. "Yeah."

"What date?" he asked. She looked over at Melody.

"What date is it?" Lady asked.

"April 8th, 5.5/Apple/80," Melody said. "Until next time, Lady." Lady repeated the date to the Doctor and told him that she wanted to rest so she was going to hang up. She hung up, but she didn't sleep, she was too busy trying to process the information she just received.

The Doctor parked the TARDIS just outside of the hospital, he and Martha exited the TARDIS. They walked up to the building and were blocked by a large man that looked like the last incarnation of the Doctor. Though he had emerald green eyes and he wore a black business suit with a purple tie. "Doctor," he said with a thick northern accent.

"I need to get to my bondmate," the Doctor said firmly.

"I'm aware," the man said.

"Then let us through," the Doctor commanded firmly.

"Sorry but no," the man said. "Not while you are still upset."

"Of course I'm upset!" the Doctor exclaimed. "My bondmate is pregnant with my children and she is in this hospital because she passed out! Why shouldn't I be upset?!"

"She don't need you like this," the man said.

"How would you know what she needs?" the Doctor asked angrily.

"You haven't even asked who I am," the man said.

"I'm Martha Jones," Martha said as she walked up to the man. "Forgive him, he's a bit high strung. What's your name?" She offered him a welcoming smile.

"I'm the Shaman," he said.

"The Shaman?" the Doctor asked.

"It was Lady's idea," the Shaman said. The Doctor found the way the Shaman said Lady's name, was like it was foreign to him.

"How do you know my bondmate?" the Doctor asked.

"I can't tell you how but I have known you both my whole life," the Shaman said. "Right now she is afraid."

"You really don't know my bondmate," the Doctor said with a laugh. "She has faced Daleks, Cyberman, and Slitheen and never even batted an eye."

"Yes," the Shaman said. "But I know she is afraid." He sighed heavily and shifted his weight onto his other side. "The only things that scare her is losing another and being alone. And right now she is alone, and she just came close to losing them." The Doctor looked at the Shaman surprised. This man knew Lady like she was close to him.

"Who are you?" the Doctor asked.

"I told you," the Shaman said.

"To me," the Doctor said. "Who are you to me?"

"One day you will trust me like you've never trusted anyone," the Shaman said. "I will be your among your closest friends, but for now you have to just have faith." The Doctor didn't like all these people that knew him so well, when he didn't know them at all. First Ai now this man. But something about this man seemed familiar somehow, and for some reason not knowing him hurt. "When you're calm go to her, because she needs you." With that the Shaman left. The Doctor felt calmer.

"Let's go inside," Martha said.

"Yes," he said. "Yes, Allons-y!" They went to the service desk. "I'm here to see my bondmate. Her name is Lady and she is pregnant "

"Ah, you must the Doctor," the receptionist said. "We were told to expect you." She motioned a nearby nurse. "Please, take the Doctor to his bondmate in room 47303." The nurse bowed to the receptionist.

"Right this way sir," the nurse said as she led them to the elevator. After the elevator reached the fourth floor, all three of them got off the elevator. She led them to the 73rd ward which was the pregnancy ward, and then to room three in the ward. When they got into the room, Lady was sleeping. The Doctor smiled at her sleeping form. Martha sat in a nearby chair. Before he could get comfortable, the ward's doctor stepped in.

"Sir," the ward's doctor said. "I am Doctor Cardogan. I'm your wife's doctor." He looked over the chart. "I'm sorry to inform you but she is going to have to stay here until the twins are born."

"Is she alright?" the Doctor asked.

"Your wife and the twins are fine," Doctor Cardon said. "But she has been pushing herself too hard. I'm not an expert on her physiology but when she was brought in she was barely breathing and one of her hearts had stopped." The Doctor looked at Doctor Cardogan in fear. The Doctor didn't know that Lady was that bad. He knew she had been walking every morning but didn't think anything of it.

"She has been walking every morning," the Doctor said. "But she's always done that so I didn't think it was a big deal."

"Is that all she's been doing?" Doctor Cardogan asked.

"She's been cleaning too," Martha said.

"What?!" the Doctor exclaimed.

"She didn't want me to tell you," she said. "I would find her cleaning a lot." He sighed and rubbed his head in frustration.

"She needs you to be calm, sir," Doctor Cardogan said. "If she gets too excited or upset in anyway shape or form, she could lose the twins or even die." The Doctor frowned, he didn't want either of those things to happen. So for Lady's sake he would try to calm himself. He heard shuffling coming from the bed, and a groan. He was at the side of the bed faster than anyone believed he could move.

"How are you feeling?" he asked in a gentle voice.

"Like a whale," she grumbled as she rubbed her eyes. "Let's get back to the TARDIS." She sat up and started to get out of bed but he stopped her.

"You have to stay here," he said in the same voice. "You're so close to giving birth, I agree with the doctor. You need to stay put."

"If you think that is best," she said sounding so defeated, it pulled at his heart. But it filled his heart with pride that the only place she wanted to be was the TARDIS, their TARDIS. She laid back and sighed. "Though you'll have to bring me something to do. I'll get bored if I just sit her." He smiled and dashed off to the TARDIS. She gave him a weird look. Martha shrugged and Doctor Cardogan gave both women a confused look. Minutes later the Doctor returned to Lady's hospital room, by then Doctor Cardogan had left and Martha was chatting with Lady about random things.

"I found it!" the Doctor exclaimed as he entered the room waving her 2DS around.

"But it was broken," Lady said.

"I fixed it," he proclaimed proudly as he gave her the 2DS. "And gave it an upgrade!"

"Uh oh," she said. "The last game system I had that you gave an upgrade to died the next day."

"That was a miscalculation," he said with a pout.

"Ahh, don't pout," she said with a smile. "I still love you."

"I'm a Time Lord," he said. "Time Lords don't pout."

"Yeah, you kinda do," Martha teased. He huffed and threw himself into the chair like a scolded child. Days passed slowly for the three of them. Lady told Martha and the Doctor that they could go on an adventure, but he told her that would never leave her again. Not even to take Martha home.

After being there for five days, the trio had become as comfortable as you can be in a hospital. He finally decided that Lady was safe enough, so he slept in a chair while she slept, and Martha went to get herself some coffee. The alarm on the monitor blared, waking the Doctor. He shot up and saw a man, in Victorian style dress, run out of the room. As the Doctor got up to find out what the man did to Lady, Doctor Cardogan and a ton of nurses were rushing into the room. The Doctor decided that they could take care of Lady, he need to find the man responsible for this. The Doctor ran out of the room and down the hall. He asked the nurses as he went if they had seen a man run past them but they all couldn't remember. He sighed when he found the man, dead. The man had taken his own life. The Doctor rushed back to the room but a guard was standing there.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you can't go in," the guard said.

"But that's my bondmate's room," the Doctor said.

"I'm sorry, sir," the guard said again. "They told me not to let anyone in."

"Can you at least tell me what's going on?!" the Doctor exclaimed, worry thick in his voice.

"I'm sorry, sir," the guard started.

"Yeah!" the Doctor shouted. "You keep saying that!" The Doctor was about to go off on the poor guard, but Martha put her hand on the Doctor's shoulder.

"Doctor," she said calmly. "He doesn't know, we need to be strong for Lady." The Doctor hung his head in defeat because he knew she was right, but that didn't make him feel any better. She pulled his arm gently, trying to get him to the nearby waiting area. Reluctantly he complied and walked to the waiting room. He sat down, but he wasn't sitting very long. He got up and paced the waiting room, cursing in Gallifreian, at slow doctors and incompetent nurses. "Doctor, if you keep that up you're leave a rut in the floor." She offered him a smile. He tried to smile at her joke and kindness, but his heart just wasn't in it.

"Thank you," he said.

"I haven't done anything," she said.

"For trying," he said.

"Mr. Smith," Doctor Cardogan said as he entered the room.

"What's going on? Is she alright? How are the twins?" the Doctor shot off the questions one after the other, not giving the other man the chance to answer.

"Sir, please calm down," Doctor Cardogan said. "Your bondmate was poisoned." The Doctor's eyes shot open, he shallowed a lump in his throat, and in the back of his mind he prayed that the assailant didn't know about Time Lord physiology. "The twins are beautiful." He sighed. "However we had to take the twins early." He heart sank like the Titanic. "Your wife is stable but it isn't looking good." He tried to push past Doctor Cardogan, but the Doctor was stopped by a thick arm. "Let me finish. We managed to remove the poison. However she only has one heart working." The Doctor tried to push again but was stopped. "I'm not done. It's like the poison wasn't designed to kill her. I have analyzed it, and it was designed to change her TNA not to kill her." The Doctor gave Doctor Cardogan a shocked look.

"What do you mean change her TNA?" The Doctor asked. "Into what?"

"I'm not sure," Doctor Cardogan said as he finally let go of the Doctor. "I have analyzed it three times now but I can't wrap my head around it."

"I need to see it," the Doctor said.

"Very well this way," Doctor Cardogan said as he led the Doctor to the lab. Doctor Cardogan grabbed the sample out of the cabinet. "I have tested it against DNA, RNA, her TNA, and every other form of life I have on file. I did the test three times, it only ever affected her TNA." The Doctor looked at the sample under a microscope, he didn't like what he saw. It was a mix of enzymes that are dangerous to anyone with TNA.

"I want to run some tests," he said.

"How can I help?" Doctor Cardogan asked.

"Why?" the Doctor asked. It had just accurded to him that Doctor Cardogan was being a little too helpful. The Doctor didn't know this man.

"I know how you saved this city," Doctor Cardogan said. "Twice. I'm the grandson of Bran." As the Doctor looked at Doctor Cardogan, the Doctor could see that Doctor Cardogan was telling the truth.

"I need full access to your labs," the Doctor said.

"You have it," Doctor Cardogan said. The Doctor took off his coat, and suit jacket, then put on his glasses.

"Take some of my blood," he said as he rolled up a shirt sleeve.

"Why?" Doctor Cardogan asked.

"I need to see if it's only her TNA that is affected or if it's all Time Lord TNA," the Doctor said. Doctor Cardogan nodded and did as he was asked. He took two vials of the Doctor's blood. After he was bandaged up, he took his blood and looked at the reaction when he added it to part of the sample of the poison. It did just as he thought, nothing. This was designed for Lady. That thought unnerved him. Someone was trying to hurt her. He needed to know more. He tested the poison, for hours.

"She is worse," Doctor Cardogan said. "The last heart is weak." The Doctor shook with fear and anger.

"We need to hurry," he said firmly.

"I think we need a fresh set of eyes," Doctor Cardogan said. "But I don't trust anyone at this hospital."

"I assume you have someone in mind," the Doctor said.

"There is a Professor I know, in the New New York University," Doctor Cardogan said.

"What makes you think this Professor would help us?" the Doctor asked. "And how long will it take him to get here?"

"She's my wife," Doctor Cardogan said. "My house is nearby." The Doctor nodded. Doctor Cardogan dialed up his wife and left the room. While the Doctor was waiting, he continued his work. Minutes later Doctor Cardogan came in with a woman. This woman was in a fancy dress, with a lab coat over it, and a pair of thick rimmed black glasses. She wore her hair in a high pony tail, but what stood out to the Doctor was her eyes. They looked so familiar. "Doctor, this is my beautiful wife, Professor Roselia Cardogan."

"It's an honor to meet you, Doctor," Roselia said. "I have been hearing stories of you my whole life."

"Your whole life?" he asked.

"My maiden name is Harkness," she said.

"You don't look anything like Jack," he said.

"That's because I look more like my mother," she said. "Now, Paul told me that you need my help coming up with a cure to a poison that affects only your bondmate." He nodded. "Alright, let me see the poison." He moved out of the way so she could see the sample and test it. She didn't speak to either of them, unless it was to ask for something to do with the sample. It took her ten minutes. "I did it!"

"What?" the Doctor asked.

"They used a formula that I had seen only once before," she said. "Please hurry this to her." Doctor Cardogan nodded and took the vial from her. He ran out of the room, the Doctor followed him. They both rushed into the room right as Lady's heart stopped. The Doctor felt that his was going to stop with hers. Doctor Cardogan gave her the antidote then restarted her heart. The Doctor looked on in horror. Could he raise the twins on his own? Could he go on without her? Would he want to? Then the best sound he had heard all day greeted his ears, both her hearts began to beat again at a regular pace. He felt like crying tears of joy.

"Now that your wife is fine, do you want to see your children?" Doctor Cardogan asked.

"In a minute," the Doctor voice cracked as he spoke. He moved closer to her and held her hand. "I'm so sorry." Doctor Cardogan and Martha left while the Doctor wasn't paying attention. "I really don't think I could have went on without you. Not even for the twins." As the words left his lips, tears flowed freely from his eyes. "I love you so much!"

"And I love you," Lady said weakly.

"Rhee!" he cried as he hugged her.

"Careful," she said. "I'm still sore." She looked down at her stomach and frowned. "Where are the twins?"

"Safe," he said. "They're in the nursery."

"Now I know what my mum was talking about," she said.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"It's weird to go to sleep pregnant and wake up not pregnant," she said sadly. "I feel empty."

"I'll have them bring in the twins as soon as Doctor Cardogan clears you to hold them," he said with a smile. "Until then rest." She nodded weakly. He kissed her forehead and stood up. "I'm going to go see the twins."

"Mele Jane and James Theta," she said. Then she pointed at him. "And don't you dare argue with me."

"I wouldn't dream of it," he said with a smile. "Mele after you. And James after your father?"

"Yeah," she said sheepishly. "Even if he is a bit of a dick, he's still my dad and I love him."

"A bit?" he asked with a smirk.

"Oh, you!" she exclaimed playfully then winced.

"You, rest," he said in a commanding voice. She smiled and saluted him. "Oh, you know how much I hate that."

"I know," she said. "Oh, go see them so I can try and sleep." She closed her eyes and he smiled at her one more time before leaving the room. He found Martha in the nursery looking at the twins.

"They're so beautiful," she said with a giant smile. "Did you decide on names yet?"

"Um, she's Mele Jane Smith, and he's James Theta Smith," he said.

"Mellie?" she asked.

"Close, Mele," he corrected. "It means song."

"Song?" she asked. "Then why not name her Melody?"

"Lady picked the names," he said. "Not big on Theta."

"Why?" she asked.

"It was my nickname," he said. "From my days at the academy."

"Wait," she said. "You told me that your last name isn't really Smith."

"No," he said. "But Lady would insist that they use the Smith last name."

"Mr. Smith," a nurse said. "Would you like to hold them?"

"Yes, yes, I would," he said. The nurse smiled and led him into a room near the nursery. Not too much later the twins were brought into the room. When he saw them up close his hearts melted at their tiny feet. "Hello, I'm the Doctor." Every time he has every said those words didn't compare to the feeling he got from saying them to these two bundles of joy. "And I'm your father." He picked up Mele first. He had held babies in the past including his own children but something felt different. He didn't feel like he had to force himself to love them, because he already did. He knew the difference, his children from Gallifrey were all loomed. "Welcome to the universe."

After holding both children an equal amount of time they were taken back to the nursery and he retired to Lady's hospital room. She was asleep. He saw Martha curled up in the chair beside Lady's bed asleep. He smiled at them both. Then the smile quickly faded as he remembered that someone wanted to hurt Lady. He had to find out who and why. She wasn't a bad person, he was far worse then she could ever be. Maybe it was to get at him, but if that was the case then why pick now to interfere? If they knew about her then they could have just made sure they never met. He heard the clack of high heals behind him, so he turned to see Roselia. "I need to talk to you, Doctor," she whispered. "Come with me to the lab." She turned and walked to the lab. He followed her.

"What's wrong?" he asked as they entered the lab, because the look on Doctor Cardogan's face didn't look good. "Is Lady going to be alright?"

"She'll be fine," he said.

"But," she said. "The reason I had seen the formula before-" She sallowed hard before continuing. "It's my formula." The Doctor felt anger begin to weld up in him. "Before you get too angry with me, let me explain." He visibly relaxed. "My formula was never meant to be used like this." She sighed. "My twin sister can't regenerate. My husband can't regenerate. I can." The a realization came over him.

"Your formula is to stop regeneration," he said.

"Yes," she nodded. "I was trying to stop regeneration in myself, but I can't get it right. Every time I try, I fail." She laughed lightly. "The last try made my cells regenerate."

"Who has access to your lab?" he asked.

"My husband," she said. "But the formula that was used was more advanced than the one I have."

"How so?" he asked.

"It's like someone took my formula and made it their own," she explained. "My basic formula is there but they tweaked it so it would only affect Lady, and so it would make her human again."

"Human?!" Doctor Cardogan exclaimed.

"Yes," she said. "Luck for us there was a flaw in the formula."

"A flaw?" the Doctor asked.

"Yes," she said. "It would have made her human but it would have only made her Time Lord genes dormant."

"So the antidote just awoken the dormant genes?" he asked.

"Yes," she said. "I think whoever is behind this is from my personal future."

"But who would want Lady died?" Doctor Cardogan asked.

"I have been wondering the same," the Doctor said.

"Maybe Lady will know," she said. "She always seemed to know what was going on even if everyone else didn't."

"But she is too weak to answer any questions right now," Doctor Cardogan said.

"I didn't mean right now," she said. "Doctor, you should go see the twins. They don't understand what their mother is going through so they need you."

"But Lady needs me too," the Doctor protested.

"Yes," she said. "However, the twins don't understand. Lady will." He nodded and rushed out to see the twins again.

It took two weeks for Lady to fully recover from the poison, but once she did, she was hot fired to leave. The Doctor couldn't blame her, he was just as ready to leave. Three days after she was fully recovered Doctor Cardogan cleared her to leave. The Doctor, Lady, and Martha took the twins back to the TARDIS. Once the twins were settled and asleep in their room the Doctor and Lady retired to theirs. "I think we should take Martha back to her time," he said.

"I don't know," she said.

"I don't plan on going many places while the twins are babies," he said.

"I agree," she said. "Knowing our luck we would end up running for our lives and getting separated from the twins."

"So until the twins are old enough to take care of themselves we'll come back for her," he said as they got into bed and he curled up beside her. "But after a nice long rest." His last word trailed off, as he drifted off to sleep. She wasn't too far behind him.

The next day, they landed the TARDIS in Martha's apartment after breakfast. "There we go," he said. "Perfect landing. Which isn't easy in such a tight spot."

"You should be used to tight spots by now," she teased and winked at Lady. "Where are we?"

"The end of the line," he said. "No place like it." Martha got excited and ran out the door, straight into her apartment.

"Home," she said sounding disappointed. "You took me home?" He and Lady entered the apartment.

"In fact, the morning after we left, so you've only been gone about twelve hours," he said. "No time at all, really."

"But all the stuff we've done," she said. "Shakespeare, New New York, old New York? What about the twins?"

"Yep, all in one night, relatively speaking," he said. "Everything should be just as it was. Books, CDs, laundry." he picked up a bra that was on a lamp.

"So, back where you were, as promised. And don't worry about the twins, they have us."

"This is it?" she asked.

"Just until-" Lady started but was cut off by Martha's house phone ringing.

"Hi, I'm out. Leave a message," her messaging machine said in her voice.

"I'm sorry," she said.

"Martha, are you there?" Francine said. "Pick it up, will you?"

"It's Mum," Martha said. "It'll wait."

"All right then, pretend that you're out if you like," Francine said. "I was only calling to say that your sister's on TV. On the news of all things. Just thought you might be interested." Martha picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

"The details are top secret-" Lazarus said. Lady frowned at the TV.

"How could Tish end up on the news?" Martha asked. Tish is stood next to Lazarus.

"Tonight, I will demonstrate a device which will redefine our world." he said.

"She's got a new job. PR for some research lab," Martha explained.

"With the push of a single button, I will change what it means to be human," he said.

"Professor! Professor!" the reporters shouted. She muted the TV.

"Sorry," she said. "You were saying?"

"It's just until the twins are old enough to adventure with us," Lady said with a smile.

"We'll be back," the Doctor said with a smile. "Until then."

"Thank you." Martha said. "For everything.

"It was my pleasure," he and Lady said at the same time. They go back into the TARDIS and take off leaving Martha alone. But shortly after they leave they come back and the Doctor popped his head out the window.

"No, I'm sorry," he said. "Did he say he was going to change what it means to be human?"

Notes: Sorry for the wait it took me a bit but I did it! After much advise here it is! Tell me what'ca think! Thank you my loyal readers and reviewers! Also if you read Broken Hearts and Lost Souls chapter 3 you get a glimpse at another regeneration of Lady.