Chapter III
The Time Lord Elders and Gallifrey

I pushed the doctor and jack in to the T.A.R. , "why do I have to come?"

"It's a fixed point in time jack, and you were there. So you kind of have to be here, or I could be killed by a paradox, if that's what you want?"

"No coming is fine, what does the location say?" he walked over to the screen.

"They say Gallifrey, great jack you get to meet my family." I sighed. I walked in to the wardrobe, "Jack, can you come help me?"

"Yes, what do you need?" I turned to him.

"Can you please tighten my corset strings?" I put my back to him.

"Is this made of diamonds?" He touched the soft silk like fabric.

"Gallifreyan diamonds, the lightest ever, made in the fires of our two golden suns."

"I've heard rumors of such gems. They say if you stare long enough into their core you can see the wonders of the solar system. But that's just myth. Isn't it?"

I turned to him. I smiled, but my distant eyes clearly showed the sadness I tried to hide. "There was a time when there were many rumors regarding Gallifrey and all of them justified. But not anymore, Jack. Not anymore."

"Then what was Gallifrey like if it's wasn't all that the rumors and they were told to be the heroes of the word. Every time agent looked up to you guys!"

"It was beautiful, yes but the time lord heart is the one thing that is a time lord greatest weakness, my younger brother, you would know him as the President. He loved war, he almost went crazy. That's why I hate coming here jack. This is my life." I couldn't breathe, "Jack tight enough."

"Oh right sorry, but the way the doctor talked about it was wonderful," Jack was curious.

"Talked about what?" He walked in, "Man I haven't seen that one in a while."

"Nothing dear." I grabbed his hand, I looked back at jack. What was stopping me from turning around and running over to him and kiss him.

The Doctor softly stroked my hair and smiled warmly. "If you say so"

I wondered if he knew. Wondered if he truly understood the ways in which I loved him. But surely it was not to be? There was so much he had kept secret that even after all that had past there were times I thought I did not know him. But the same was true for me. To be a Time lord came with responsibility that could not be taken lightly. So though I wished to tell him everything, to trust in him completely I knew that I could not. To ask him to share a life with someone who could not share their secrets was selfish and to risk betrayal from him would be to risk more than my two hearts could bear. And so I gazed at him. This utterly fantastic man whom I loved so very dearly. I gazed, and smiled and knew that to love this man was folly.

"Doctor, Do you remember when we first met?" I stared into the ring the bond me to the doctor, but did it really?

"I remember it as if it was just yesterday" he spoke softly and his voice was smooth like aged rum. He glanced down at the ring and then into my eyes.

"My brother told you to stay away from me, and I cried for days until you returned to my side." I softly shed a tear, "I am sorry, why am I crying I am here with you, and Jack."

He wiped me tear away and silenced me with a soft kiss. The Doctor's lips were warm and smooth. "Shh, no need to be sorry about crying."

My tears were no longer only about The Doctor, they were about Jack too. I loved The Doctor, but part of me wanted Jack. I felt like I was fighting a battle inside of myself. My chest began to tighten up and my breathing shallow. The corset wasn't helping my current state.

"Are you alright?" Jack asked concurringly. "You don't look so good. You're white as a ghost". His eyes were filled with concern.

"I... It's nothing. Just the corset strings. I forgot how to breathe for a moment. Strange, isn't it? Forgetting how to breathe..." The Doctor looked at me warily. He knew it wasn't just that. He knew me. So well... Even so, the Doctor obliged my lies, and walked around behind me, gently brushing my hair aside with his right hand.

"Well, we can't have that, can we? I think forgetting how to breathe might be a bit troublesome." He loosened the laces a few inches. I knew it wouldn't fix the problem, but it helped me think. Perhaps too well. I struggled not to think of it as a metaphor: the man who tightens every nerve in my body with excitement...and the man whose presence gives me the air I breathe. Breathing a sigh of relief, I turned back to the Doctor and smiled, but I could tell it didn't reach my eyes. I always thought that one day he would get tired of my constant lying. He has never left so I guess he still loves me.

I flinched as jack touched the tattoo that I had been born with, but he wasn't touching the tattoo he was touching the scar on my back. "What are you doing jack?" I asked, more like I was growling.

"Sorry, are we here?" he looked at the doctor, still angry at Jack for shooting me.

"Yea we are here. Doctor," I wigged my fingers looking for his hand. It was not there, there was a hand just not his. My brother stood in his place, "Ley what a pleasant surprise."

"The president, my lord." I snickered at the Doctor. I pulled my hand away from Ashley.

"Doctor no need to be formal with your brother in law." I looked at jack. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I promise. You sure he is your brother?" I laughed.

"Yes I am sure; I had to live with him for some time. I think I know my brother Jack." I playfully pushed Jack. I ran out the door expecting jack to chase me. I heard the door lock, "what do you want Ley?"

"I just want to have a nice little chat with my sister." I flashed my eyes black. "I wouldn't try that sister. I had moon go to earth and get me some vervain, oh and wolf's bane I got myself." I let my eyes return to normal.

"What is it that you wanted to talk about?" I growled but I walked trying to avoid the puddles of mud.

"Well first we could talk about your daughter." He sighed.

"Which one?" I glanced an angry look at him.

"Well I was thinking we talk about, Allie?"

"She is dead; we don't want to talk about her. Let's talk about your son. Oh right I killed him, what's did you summon the T.A.R.D.I.S for?"

"Nothing important," He was angry, but at what.

"Why, did you call me here then?" I growled, I was hungry and angry not a good combination.

"Can I not see my older sister anymore?" He was trying to make me angry.

"No, I have way better thing to do now than sit here waiting for the Daleks to kill me, you understand that. I am done being the princess, now let me go home!" I growled.

"I am sorry, but I need you angry. You can't go home, you can never see your Doctor again, or that Jack person." He pushed me against the wall coming up.

"You wouldn't dare." I snapped at him. He took a needle jamming in to my neck, pushing the vervain and wolf's bane into my system. Everything went black.

I woke up in the hall. I stood up, and went to look for the T.A.R.D.I.S. "where is it?" I whispered to myself. I saw my room, same as I left it, except with a small little blue box in it. "Doctor are you in there, Jack is anyone here?"

"Yea we are here, can you get in?" I tried to unlock the door.

"No I can't it's locked from the inside." I slammed the door, trying to slide the lock loose.

"Why didn't you say so," Jack twisted the knob.

"Take me back Doctor!" I wanted to go home the home I knew.

"Where?" I was crying I wanted to go back to Elijah.

"Take me back to Mystic falls; I want to go back to Elijah." Jack was holding me, I was hitting his chest "Let me go jack."

"Just do it jack I am tired of her lying to my face maybe she belongs with Elijah." The doctor stood with his back to me. I ran out to the T.A.R.D.I.S.