Big emotional scene coming up now. Get the tissues ready.

The bright red grass fields flowed before us, we three simple Time Lords. This was our home. This was our childhood. This was Gallifrey.

When we spotted the red hills, we smiled, and ran.

We ran for miles, never tiring, never faltering. There was nothing else in this world; just the three of us, running together on these magnificent fields.

We collapsed on the grass. Our stamina had waned as we grew older. But, even though we were out of breath, we laughed.

"Say Koschei," one of my friends said suddenly. "What was seeing the Schism like for you?"

"Theta," I chided him. "You know we're not supposed to talk about that."

"I know, Alumen. It's just… I guess I'm too curious for my own good."

I laughed at that. So did Koschei. But he didn't mention what his initiation was like. None of us did.

I stood up, dusting myself off, and glanced to my left. My mother was there, in full ceremonial garb, holding my younger sister's hand.

Theta got up too. He smiled when he saw my sister. They were good friends. My father often joked that they'd end up betrothed to one another.

The Citadel was burning. I rushed through it, searching for my parents and sister, screaming their names.

"Alumen!" I heard someone call. I turned. It was Theta, and he had my family with them.

"Theta!" I shouted jubilantly, running towards them. I grabbed Theta in a hug. "Thank you, old friend."

"It's my duty to you as your friend," Theta shrugged it off.

"Alumen," my father said, cutting across the pleasantries. "Take your sister and run. Now."

"But, father…"

"Listen to me, son. This war will bring about the end for us all. I cannot bear you and your sister to go through that. Take a TARDIS and go. Run for your life."

I stared at him for a brief moment, then nodded. I grabbed my sister's hand. "Come on, we have to go."

"But, mother and father…" she protested, tears forming in her eyes.

"I know," I said, hugging her. "I feel the same way."

I was never that good at flying. The Type 40 TARDIS I'd confiscated in our escape from Gallifrey was falling apart. We were also on a crash course with a small planet called Earth.

I turned to my sister. She was crying again. I am so, so sorry, I said to her in her mind.

I fiddled with a few buttons on the controls. Two necklaces popped out of a drawer. I stuck one over my sister's neck, and put the other one on myself.

I grabbed my sister's hand and closed my eyes.

Thus did Alumen the Time Lord die, and David Carter the human was born.

My eyes snapped open. I was still in Professor Yana's lab, clutching his fob watch.

"Are you alright, my boy?" Yana asked me, concern in his voice.

"Uh, y-yeah, I'm fine," I lied.

"Are you sure? Because you're crying."

I looked at him with a start. I dabbed at my eye with my hand. It was wet. I had been crying. Probably because what I had just seen had ended my human life once and for all.

Short and sweet. I'm quite proud of this chapter.

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