Chapter 2

Harry and Neville were outside the Longbottom Manor, swimming and playing in the pool when a strange sound filled the area.

Slowly a blue police box materialized and a man with buzzed cut hair, big ears and a long nose with a dark leather bomber jacket, exited from the strange device.

His eyes fell on Harry and his eyes softened. "Harry? Is that really you?"

The young eleven year old- almost twelve- boy raised himself from the pool, ignoring his best friend's warning for him to stay back and calling for help. Deep emerald green eyes stared at the stranger and even though Harry had never seen the man before in his life he could have sworn that there was something familiar about him.

Wrapping a towel around himself, the young boy picked up the fob watch that had been discarded in the patio by the pool. "Can you explain this to me?" The young wizard stuck out his hand, showing the watch to the stranger. "Explain to me why I suddenly have two hearts? Why I now hear of events and see the multiple outcomes that can happen in my mind? Why do I now dream of a planet in red with two burning suns around it? Can you?" His eyes were narrowed, a serious tone that made him sound far more older than he appeared took over his voice.

"Yes," the man responded in a soft voice, eyes softening as he took a step closer and closed his hand over the watch. "You are a child of time, a Time Lord."

"How… what?" Harry narrowed his eyes, confused. "No, you're wrong. I'm a wizard. I'm-"

"You're both," the stranger interrupted quietly. There was a strange yearning look in his blue eyes. Why?

"It's a long story."

"I have all of summer." Harry adjusted the glasses on his head, noting a small smirk on the man's face.

"And I have all of time."

They were sitting in Harry's room, a room given to him by the Longbottom family while he was living with them. Harry was sitting on the bed, legs crossed and eyes attentive on the other's face, a trait that Neville had noticed Harry had started to do ever since he had opened the watch, one among many odd things about Harry now.

The stranger who introduced himself as the Doctor sat at the desk that was in the room. Straddling it backwards as he rested his head on folded arms that were supported by the back of the chair.

The man was a strange one. How was he able to get through the Longbottom's protective shields as if they weren't there? And the concept of magic to him was that of amusement, as if he had seen something even greater and more amazing than that. His appearance was one of a middle-aged man but when you looked into his eyes, you could see a soul that looked far older than that, a man that had seen whole civilizations raise and fall. A man who looked like he could control time itself.

Harry picked up the fob watch and threw it at the man who easily caught it. "Explain that watch to me? What is it?"

The man touched the watch, wondering for a bit before looking up and meeting Harry's eyes. "This fob watch can contain the life of a Time Lord. It's often used when a Time Lord is in trouble and needs to hide for a while and will disguise him or herself as another form of life. This watch," he turned the watch to face Harry and pointed at it. "Will contain that life as long as it stays closed, once open, that life comes back and rejoins in the body."

"So you're saying that I'm a Time Lord?"

"Yes."

"What does that mean? Does that mean that I'm not a Potter? That I'm not James and Lily son?" A strange stinging attacked his eyes. He might not have ever known them but in the lonely nights under the control of the Dursley's he would often sit and wonder about his parents. Were they good people? Would they hold him tight when he needed comfort? Would they kiss his forehead and whisper sweet appreciations into his ear for being a good boy?

Now he was starting to second-guess everything.

Were Lily and James even his real parents? Was the beautiful ginger haired woman and dark messy haired man that waved and smiled at him from the pictures in the photo album Hagrid gave him even legitimate people?

He was lied to about his parents' death and now he was being told he wasn't even human! What else in his life was a lie?

"Harry." The man started, leaning forward a bit, his eyes boring straight into Harry's emerald green eyes. "You are a Potter. Never doubt that. You're parents we're good people and you should be proud of them and all they did to end the war and give you a chance to live."

"Were they Time Lords?" Harry's eyes closed and the Doctor's eyes softened.

"No."

"Then explain to me how I can be their son-"

"There was a war." The man cut in, his eyes closing briefly before opening them again. "It was a vicious, deadly war. Your Time Lord parents probably saw the danger in you staying with them and gave you to Lily and James to raise as a human. You were never meant to find that watch and open it."

Harry didn't respond right away but when he did it was soft and quiet, barely above a whisper.

"If Time Lords control time and can see into the future then why didn't my parents look ahead to see and make sure they were still alive at the end of this?"

"Harry," the Doctor paused, eyes closed for a moment before opening and once again meeting Harry's gaze. "You will soon learn that where time is concerned there are only two options, one is that an event is fixed. You cannot change it no matter how hard you try. The second event and more common one is that an event is in flux. The outcome can change. Your parents were probably in flux and so your biological parents could only guess at the outcome, not really knowing what was going to happen."

"Then why didn't they ever come for me?"

Another pause. "Because they're dead."

A/N Gosh you guys make me feel so happy and special. : ) This has to be one of my most popular story ever, thank you all so much. That really warms my heart you have no idea.

Well this story is coming towards an end I'm afraid. One more chapter to go I believe and then the end. : ( But who knows maybe I'll write a story with Harry in one of the Doctor's adventures. I don't know what do you think? I was thinking of some sort of Human Nature/ A Family of Blood thing. What do you guys think?

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