I've tried more than once to put this up, but my computer crashed. GRAAH.
Anyway, hold on to your fezzes, time for a shock. Or two.
We dropped River off at Stormcage. Judging by the Doctor's face when he stepped back into the TARDIS, she'd kissed him.
I laughed at him. "That came out of nowhere, didn't it?"
He glared at me. All that did was make me laugh even harder.
Ruby grimaced in pain. She was still recovering from a bout of the chest cramps we both had on a semi-regular basis.
The Doctor gave us a sympathetic look. "Amy, Rory, you should head to bed. I need to talk to the Carters alone."
"Okay…" Amy said, confused.
When they left, Ruby and I walked over to the Doctor. "What's up?" I asked.
He said nothing. Instead of speaking, he showed us the TARDIS scanner.
Our info was on it. But three things came up as 'unknown': Age, species and planet of origin.
"What the…?" I murmured, shocked.
"That's not all," the Doctor said then, a morose look on his face. He fiddled with a dial on the scanner. What came up was a picture of a ribcage, with lungs behind it. There was a strong, healthy heart on the left side. There was also a malformed, shrivelled second heart on the right.
It had my name on it.
"What?"
"This is a bio-scan of you, David. You have two hearts." He twisted the dial again. A similar picture came up to the one that was meant to have been my bio-scan. This time, it had Ruby's name on it.
"No…" Ruby breathed.
"The two of you…" the Doctor murmured. "You're Time Lords."
"No. This isn't happening!" I shouted.
"It's the truth."
"No it's not!" I roared. "I am human! My name is David Carter, I am 18 years old, and I am a human being!"
Ruby was staring at me. "What?" I demanded of her.
"You're…glowing…"
I glanced at my hand. Sure enough, it was glowing with a golden light.
My chest started to burn. I gripped my right side, grimacing in pain. Something was throbbing, interrupting what I had believed to be normal. I screamed.
The Doctor had grabbed Ruby's arm, holding her back.
My head felt like it was about to explode. It burned, a dreadful pain that made me feel like I was dying.
The gold energy flowed around my body as I writhed and screamed. It left one part of my body, only to return to another.
One last scream, and the pain was gone. My eyes closed reflexively. There was a dull sound in my ears. My heartbeat.
I should probably say 'heartbeats'.
Thump-thump-thump-thump. Thump-thump-thump-thump.
"Whoa!" I shouted, snapping my eyes open. I took in my surroundings. "Oh! I'm in a TARDIS, that's right!" Not knowing why, I dashed to the controls.
"Whoop, been a while since I used one of these. Wait…" I started thumping the heels of my hands against my head. "No, no, NO! This isn't happening! I… I… I…" I howled suddenly. When I stopped, I slumped forward, a defeated look on my face.
"So…" I turned to the Doctor. "My entire life… My life on Earth… It was all a lie?"
"Yes," the Doctor said quietly. "And I am so, so sorry."
"We're in Cardiff," the Doctor informed us, no longer his bubbly self. "We need to fuel up."
I glanced at Ruby. She'd gone through the change not long after I had. Our human lives were gone, never to return. I'm sorry, I thought.
Why? Ruby's thought came to me. I was shocked for only a moment. Time Lords were telepaths. I'd almost forgotten that.
If I hadn't noticed that letter, back home, we'd still be there, I replied. We'd still be human.
No. This had to happen. But, look at it this way. The Doctor's spent most of his life as the last of the Time Lords. He's not the last anymore. He's got us.
Yeah. You're right.
"Hey, Doctor?" I asked out loud. "Can we go take a look around?"
"Sure, sure. Just come back soon! I'm not gonna leave without you."
"You'd better not!" I quipped, walking to the door.
I took in the sights of Cardiff at a distance. Regardless of what anyone said, it was a great-looking place.
"David," a distinctly American voice called. I turned. Walking straight towards me was Captain Jack Harkness.
"Uh, hi?" I replied, puzzled.
"You haven't met me yet, have you? Captain Jack Harkness."
"Yeah, I know who you are. The Doctor's told me about you," I added quickly.
"Probably nothing good, huh?"
"Not really."
"I just came to give you this." He dug into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a wristwatch. It wasn't, though.
"Your Vortex Manipulator?"
"I've got a feeling you'll need it. See ya." He suddenly started to run off.
"Jack?" I stopped him.
He turned back. "Yeah?"
"How are things with Alonso?"
"Who?"
"Long story."
"But I am with somebody, if you really wanna know. A girl by the name of River Song." I choked on that a bit. Before I could reply, Jack ran off, leaving me in shock.
"Okay," I said to myself. "I should probably get used to that. I'm a Time Lord now, after all." I stepped back into the TARDIS.
"That was quick," the Doctor marvelled.
"Saw all I wanted to see," I said in an off-hand manner.
"Uh, David?" Rory asked me.
"Yes, Mr Pond?"
"Your…watch…thing is glowing."
"What?" I glanced at it. It was shining. I flipped over the cover and started tapping the screen frantically.
"What are you doing? Stop that!" I shouted at it. "I don't need to go anywhere, so what the hell are you doing?"
"Doctor?" a woman's voice asked.
I looked up. I was in the TARDIS, right enough, but it wasn't the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS.
I looked at where the voice had come from. When I saw the woman in the room, I knew it was Martha Jones. Standing next to her was a lanky man in a brown suit.
"What?" the Tenth Doctor said incredulously.
"What?" I stammered, shocked. We stepped towards each other.
"What?" we said together.
The TARDIS started shuddering. It was in flight.
"What did you do?" the Doctor asked me.
"I didn't do anything!" I protested.
The Doctor had managed to reach his display. "We've reached the year one billion… Three billion… Five billion? What?"
"Doctor, what does that mean?" Martha asked.
"We're going to the end of the universe."
Cliffhanger! Hahahaha!
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