Salutations! Yes, I'm a horrible person and yes, it's been a while but never fear; the story continues!

I never really wrote this to be a full blown chapter-by-chapter account of events, more like bits and pieces of the story that you can piece together yourself. The rest of the story will continue like that, with tiny mouthfuls of words that barely count as chapters at all, but, if I continue writing how I am, I should be able to get up one or two chapters a week for an undetermined amount of time.

Apologies aside, here's a snippet for you.


"Hunter Kazran Song?"

"Indeed."

"Are you saying that the Hunter we've been adventuring with is your son?"

"Yes, my son from the future. How exciting!"

"But how did you know it was him?"

The Doctor looked up from the newspaper in front of him, smiling at Nebula over his cup of tea. Maybe it was the weather or the date or the residual joy of gaining a child, but everything seemed so much brighter that day. The sun was shining through the window with golden warmth, covering everything with a sepia glow and setting Nebula's regeneration yellow eyes sparkling.

"Lucky guess?"

She raised a disbelieving eyebrow.

"Alright then," he huffed. "It was probably the date of his birth."

"Christmas Eve?"

"Yes! He said a long while ago - well, in my past and his future - that that was his birthday."

"Coincidences do exist."

"Not in my experience."

"And you've a lot of it."

"Exactly!"

Nebula's face finally gave in and broke into a grin and the room seemed to rise several increments in brightness.

They sat together in companionable silence for a long while, him studying the glittering snow outside the window and her turning her eyes back to the heavy book on her lap. It was a lazy sort of day, the kind where you find yourself staring at dust motes dancing in a sun ray for hours, and the Timelords seemed to be content in sitting in front of the fire, blankets covering their laps and talking in low tones. Maybe when River came down from putting the baby to sleep they'd hop in the TARDIS and go somewhere warm or eat pastries at a cafe in France, but that would be all. No outer space adventures today.

Today they were happy to just lounge around and bask in the sepia glow of a new future.


Told you it was short. Please review if you have the time, your kind words make me explode with joy.