Chapter Ninety Seven
I told the Doctor that I was going to take two more trips with him, and then I was retiring.
He simply nodded. I didn't need to explain why. Because it was just two much.
I had places to be, of course. Such as with Loki. But I was Asgardian now; I would live for thousands of years. Two more trips in a time machine weren't going to do any harm.
It's not like I would be late for anything.
Our first stop was answering a signal from a planet. It was sending out a message, across the entire universe, through every moment in time.
"You know what the signal is, don't you?" the Doctor asked as we arrived on the planet.
"Yes," I said. He wasn't surprised.
Nothing seemed to surprise him anymore.
Nothing seemed to do anything for us anymore.
...
"Now it's time for one last bow
Like all your other selves.
Eleven's hour is over now,
The clock is striking Twelve's."
"I don't get it," the Doctor said. "What does it mean?"
"You'll find out," I said quietly.
...
And it was over. And the Doctor retrieved his regenerative powers.
It was time to say goodbye.
"It just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, like breath on a mirror," The Doctor said. "Any moment now, he's coming."
I didn't say anything. I knew who was coming.
Time to meet Twelve.
"The next one. The Doctor is coming," he said.
"It's you, though," I said. "You are the Doctor."
"Yes," he said. And he smiled. "And I always will be."
He was glowing now.
"As times change, so must I," he said, gazing at his glowing hand. "We all change, when you think about it. We're all different people, all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good, you got to keep moving, as long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."
"Goodnight, my Doctor," I said.
And so suddenly, you wouldn't see it if you blinked, his face flashed with golden light, and there was a different, older face looking at her.
"Hello, Doctor," I said. "We have on last trip to make."
And this man who I had yet to know asked, "To where?"
"To discover my secret."
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Hello everyone. Sorry for the short chapter, but I've been super busy lately. My musical is in three weeks and we are very unprepared, so my practices are from 3 - 8. Some of your comments have me worried because it seems like some of you think that this is over. IT IS NOT. When it is over, I will mark it as complete and have a very big 'the end'. We still have a ways to go. You do know that you can follow this story, and if you do, then it will email you whenever I post a new chapter? That way, you don't need to check this website every once in a while, it will actually just tell you when I post a new chapter.
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Everyone check out Forrestib's Midnight Dreary. It's a short 2,000 or so Frozen fanfic that references this story! It's very good, and it made me so happy! Here's the link: s/10208944/1/Midnight-Dreary .
Sweet dreams everyone.