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Chapter Eight Christmas special 2

Catharine was walking around the headquarters by her lonesome while thinking about what had transpired between her and the Doctor under the mistletoe. She personally wanted to forget about it but knowing others they wouldn't let her. When she saw the Doctor walking out of the kitchens she quickly turned the corner down another set of hallways. The Christmas decorations were already up and the remaining soldiers were planning a small party. A white elephant gift giving thing that she really didn't want to partake of but Martha was going to make her.

The Doctor had seen her slip down the hallway and almost thought to himself that she was avoiding him for a reason. But he didn't know what reason that would be. Suddenly it dawned on him, the kiss under the mistletoe. She had been the one to pull him into the kiss but it was a kiss, didn't mean anything did it? He found himself thinking about how soft her lips were and that she had this eerie feeling of loneliness that seemed to pierce into his heart. "Catharine!" He shouted as he ran down the hall to follow her. But he could see that she had slipped away again. He looked around the whole of the headquarters to find that she wasn't there. He ran up to Martha. "Have you seen Catharine?"

"Yeah, she ran into the bathroom." Martha said in a hushed voice. She pointed him in the correct direction. "She looked a little frightened."

The Doctor ran into the girl's lavatory to see Catharine standing next to the sink faucet washing her newly stained t-shirt. She wore only a pair of black pants and a sports bra. Hanging on the cubical door was the dress. "Catharine, I noticed you were avoiding me."

She jumped and held the wet t-shirt up against her chest. "What are you doing in here?" She asked in a shrill and startled voice. The Doctor merely grinned at her.

"I was just checking on you to make sure that you did not harm yourself." He finally replied. Catharine rolled her eyes and went back to washing her t-shirt. She was done wearing the dress, it made her think more about the kiss that she had given him. "Catharine, you sure you're all right?"

Catharine nodded her head while trying not to think of what was going on. Her instinct was to run from what had happened and what was going to happen. "Doctor, what is it like, being a Time Lord?"

"What do you mean?" He walked over and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Do you see things how they are meant to be?"

"Sometimes, Catharine, what's troubling you?" He looked at her quizzically through the mirror. She looked him in the eyes.

"I just wanted to know how you saw things." She slipped the wet shirt over her head. "Happy Christmas Doctor," AS she was walking out he grabbed her left wrist and looked her in the eyes.

"Something is troubling you Catharine, tell me." He pleaded while looking her in the eyes. She shook her head.

"In due time Doctor, in due time." She whispered. Both could hear the drums playing in her mind. He knew that the only reason why he was hearing them was because of the physical contact he had with her at that moment but it was almost as if she were giving them off. He let her go and waited patiently for Catharine to be far enough away. What was happening to her was beginning to frighten him.

Chapter Nine Changing

There was, standing before the young Catharine, a blonde haired woman wearing a red dress. Catharine felt fear rushing through her small body while trying to stretch forth her empathic abilities to sense what the woman was feeling. She couldn't sense anything but total bliss. The man with the business suit and untruthful smile walked up to them, in his hand was a silver chain.

"Catharine, darling, I want you to hold your hand out for me." He said while kneeling in front of her. She didn't do what he told her to until she felt him starting to get angry, she opened her hand and held it out in front of him. He put in her palm the silver necklace, attached was a small blue gem. "This is a smart diamond, I want you to activate it when the memory of this pops up, you'll know what to do when the diamond activates." He smiled as little Catharine slipped the necklace around her neck.

Catharine looked at the Doctor as he pulled away from her mind. He looked indifferent but the emotions he was giving off were those of anger, fear and hatred. She felt at her throat; remember the feel of the necklace but it was no longer there. Panic struck her in the heart and she ran off to search through her clothing. She remembered having the necklace as a child but when it came to where she had left it, she didn't remember. As she rummaged through her belongings her attention was drawn to a blue gem. Slowly she pulled it out and there to her amaze was the necklace from the memory. The Doctor watched in despair as she ran back to the control panel to the Tardis and plugged it in, he wanted to stop her but knew that the programming that had been done to her mind was too deep to stop.

The Tardis suddenly was scanning Catharine. A beam was emitted and she dropped to the ground in pain. The Doctor started to move forward to help her and found that there was a force-field around her while she rolled around inside it. Her screaming stopped after a while and the Doctor could sense it almost immediately, she was at least half Time Lady. "No," He whispered.

She didn't move even with the force-field lowered. He checked her pulse, slow and steady. The Doctor tried to shake her awake but there was nothing. He picked her up, carried her to her room and held her to his chest. Catharine still didn't stir but at least she was resting from the pain.

Martha walked into the Tardis then towards Catharine's room. She had heard the screaming from outside. When she got to Catharine's room she could hear the Doctor sobbing. Slowly she opened the door. "Doctor, is she—"

"No, she's alive…the Master put a sub-conscious programming in her mind to make her put something into the Tardis." He whispered while using his suit sleeve to wipe the tears away. "The smart diamond she put into the Tardis turned her…turned her…" He couldn't bring himself to finish his statement.

Martha pulled out her stethoscope and put it against Catharine's chest. Martha checked both sides then looked at the Doctor wide-eyed. "She was turned into a Time Lord? But why would the Master do something like that?"

"I don't know, I just don't know." He was looking at Catharine in curiosity now.

Catharine looked at her surroundings. It was dark, cold and filled with the smell of burning flesh. Suddenly there was a bright light that moved as Catharine moved. It shinned in her eyes with a burning blazing feeling. It was almost frightening to her as she walked towards where the light was emanating from. Behind the light was the familiar dark shadowy face of the man wearing the red Victorian ere coat? "Hello little one," He said with a grin. "You probably noticed by now that you were changed by my Master, he used my technology to punish me through you."

"Where are you father?" She asked reaching out to him. He didn't move to reach for her at all.

"He has me, in order to make sure that your task will be finished."

"What is my task?" She felt tears stinging her eyes. Catharine feared that the answer was to kill the Doctor.

"To start the end," He walked away and disappeared.

Catharine bolted awake screaming at the top of her lungs. The Doctor looked across from the room to see her holding her chest. He started to stand up to see if she was all right but she looked him in the eyes. She gave off the feeling that she was afraid. "What's happen to me?" She asked.

"Catharine, you must understand—"

"Doctor, what has happened to me?" She asked more forcefully.

"You were changed.

"What was I changed into?"

"A…a Time Lord…or turned at least most of the way into a Time Lord." He sat next to her on the edge of the bed. "Catharine, I'm trying to find a way to change you back to human."

"Why would you want me back to normal?" She asked while looking him in the eyes. "You said yourself that you didn't want to be the last of your kind…maybe this is what God wanted."

He scoffed. To think that she still believed there was a god. After all the things she had been through and seen he would have thought that she would have stopped believing in one a long time ago. "Catharine, I would but…you don't…you need to be yourself."

"How do you not know?" She stood up and faced him in all her wrath. "I was born one fourth Time Lord, my birth father was half, my real name is—" He swiftly clamped a hand over her mouth as he stood up.

"Don't say it…I like the name you have now." He whispered as he pulled his hand away. She stared at him stunned. "I haven't told you my real name so you don't need to tell me yours."

Catharine nodded her head then walked away from the Doctor. She knew why this had happened. It was to punish her real father for not cooperating with his Master but also punishment for herself. She didn't want to go back to her human life; as a Time Lord she found everything more and more intriguing.

"You will do as I command." a familiar frightening voice commanded. The drumming started up again and this time there was no stopping it for Catharine, she knew what her orders were.

A/N: Yes catharine is now clinicaly insane, but only for a while, read and review please.