"Ahh" She fell clutching her stomach, "What...What are you doing?!"
"You need to know who you are!"
"I'm Abi... Abi.. DOCTOR!"
She jumped up lightening fast, she took a few step back from the man, panting heavily, he looked at her with curiosity,
"Salia?"
Abi looked up, "Who?" She was still panting
"Who are you?"
"I told you, I'm Abi! What have you done...what..hel" She collapsed again.
She woke up tied to a platform, vertically, her arms and legs were tied up and she was half naked, she looked down to take in her current situation, when she realised her clothing she hissed,
"Oh again!"
Lights were aimed at her, the man from earlier,
"You're awake"
"Clearly"
She tried resisting her binds, with no success, she sighed in defeat, "Why am I tied up"
"We tried forcing your memory back but it failed so we're doing it another way"
"And that would be..",
"Forcing you to relive your past, it might jog your memory and... it might hurt too, the memories, they'll hurt"
She paused choosing to ignore this past life that had been thrust against her, "Who are you?"
"Rassilon"
"And who am I?"
"Our masterpiece" He grinned at her, with a smirk that caused her to shiver, she spoke with clenched teeth,
"Care to elaborate?"
He yawned, appearing bored, "Not really no, the memory activation will explain everything", he stepped out with the grin still plastered on his face, closing the door he gave her one last remark, "Enjoy"
She cursed him under her breath, a though passed her memory a second to late, "Why did I need to be stripped for this?.."
She couldn't think more on the subject because the blinding pain from earlier returned, "Ahh! No! Ahh!" She screamed as information soared through her mind, she was in too much pain to notice the binds loosening, when they did they fell to the ground, disconnecting her from the memory activation,
"Ugghh..that was not nice"
She noticed her mind with a lot more information, information about her, but it wasn't her, it was like she knew more about someone else, who was her. She felt pain and anger, she felt the pain of losing a planet, she felt hate and anger for the man who killed everyone, but she wasn't there, she didn't feel those things because she wasn't a Time Lady. The alarms, she guessed were indicating that her memory activation was over, the red lights were flashing over, she rushed to the door, opening it and skidding to a stop when she realised she wasn't escaping. Around her was the whole Gallifreyan council, but how could she know that? Rassilon smiled, seeing her,
"Salia?"
She stepped up to him with fresh anger,
"Sorry, still me, who am I?"
"How could you still not know?" He was frustrated, clearly,
"Why am I a masterpiece?!"
He was more than furious, he closed in on her and glared,
"You're a failed experiment" He turned, too angry to look at her, to a man to her side,
"We've got nothing"
"Yes"
"How long till the statis collapses"
"It collapses when the computer alerts the Doctor, it will be soon"
She was beyond furious, she wanted to know what she was,
"No! No don't turn your back on me! TELL ME WHO I AM!
Apparently Rassilon was just as angry, "You were our last hope, you were our way out of the time lock!." He sighed, looking at the woman to his left. She stepped up to Abi, she smiled warmly causing her to relax,
"Uhh we were in a war, the Last Great Time War, between a race called the Daleks and us, the Time Lords. We were losing so we decided to choose the last solution, the collapse the universe, to stop the Daleks., "She seemed to defend that choose but it didn't stop Abi's blood curdling, "Uhh, there was a man, the Doctor, he stopped us committing the ...deed, he used a Moment, the Moment can lock time, so he did it, he locked us, Time Lords and Daleks, he locked us in time. We are trapped for ever, in one deathly moment. We knew what he was planning to do, so we prepared for it, our first experiment failed. Caused the patient to go insane, so then we took a time lord, sent her away, made her human but we programmed her body gradually morph back into Time Lord. Her body was a beacon, to bring us back if we were ever trapped. The body needed to be a specific time lord, a genius. Salia. We couldn't leave her with humanity for long so when she began to change we left her with the Serpa's. We planned for her to grow, realise her nature, and bring us back."
Throughout the explanation, Abi was flying through so many emotions, she was angry at the Doctor, what he did to them, to us, she was upset that she couldn't help them but above everything else she was angry, angry because she wasn't like the time lords, she was human, she knew what she was now. She wasn't what they made. She was a pure blooded human. During her musings Rassilon saw the confusion it her face, he was angry at her incompetence. Nothing could bring her back, the real time lord. He was panicking and in his moment he picked up a gun,
"Nothing will bring us back, because of you and your humanity." He sneered at her, she was surprised that no one stopped him,
"I'm human" She was scared but spoke firmly, only to be shot. She thought she'd collapse but something was keeping her up.
"Well, look at yourself human, look at what you really are"
She looked at her glowing skin,
"I'm not ..."
She wasn't them, she wasn't a selfish, egotistical time lord, that wasn't her,
"I'M NOT YOU, I'M HUMAN, I'M NOT A MONSTER, I AM ABI!" Her ferocity was so strong it startled everyone else, she was so angry, distraugh, so set on being human that her mind believed her, the regeneration energy receded on itself, she absorbed the energy into herself and collapsed for the third time that day. The last thing she remembered was the bright light from before.
The Doctor arrived on Sky faster than before, when he recieved her signal, he dragged Martha and took off, he didn't know what was wrong but Abi was the closest friend he had. He wouldn't let her die. Stumbling out of the Tardis, he looked around,
"Sky?"
"Time Lord, Abi has been taken, transmat traces."
Martha was confused, "Who's Sky?"
"The computer, do you know where she was taken?"
"Negative, ALERT TRANSMAT ACTIVATION"
He spinned to look at the docking platform, Abi materialized, on the floor, shaking violently, having never experience an internal regeneration, Martha's doctor instincts clicked in, she rushed to the girl, turning to see her face, she was beautiful, but there was no time to dwell. "Doctor, is she human?" She needed some background if she was going to examine her.
"Uh I dunno.. "
The girl jolted awake, mumbling incoherently, she had been crying clearly and when the Doctor saw this he came to her side, trying to sooth. Her eye flickered open, she stared at the man who killed her species, no, not her species. She got up, causing Martha to tumble, when she did, Abi noticed her,
"Sorry, who are you?"
"Martha Jones, I travel with him, are you alright?"
"Fine, Sky are you okay?"
"Yes"
"And Dasdre?"
"Fully functioning" She managed to smile, before turning to see the Doctor's concerned face, she glared, but her tears didn't help her angry faze,
"Abi-"
She decided to go straight in for the kill, "You call yourself Doctor, why? All you do is kill!"
He was startled at her anger, "What do you mean?"
"You did, you killed all of them, your whole species, every single time lord! You murdered everyone you loved, or did you just not love anyone? Is that why you committed genocide"
He blinked "How do you-"
"I mean it's not enough to say you did it to stop the Daleks, cos they escaped! And you survived! Why?" She was crying helplessly, "Why does the coward survive?"
He blinked at her, "I don't know" His solemn voice made her blink too, she turned to sit on the sofa chair, not looking at either of them she continued,
"How can you carry on living, when you killed them all?" She blinked back tears, he looked at her, knowing that speaking wasn't going to help, she got up and turned to Sky. Martha who had said nothing during this turned to the Doctor,
"How does she know?"
"I dunno" He was devastated at her reaction, he thought she would've understood, but her anger was enough to stop him caring for her, because he knew that along with anger she was upset. He was pretty brave to approach her when she was like this. He walked up to her, but she was still facing away, he gripped her shoulders gently turned her to face her, she had stopped crying but she was still upset. Without saying anything he hugged her tightly, he knew her strength and he knew she could break free, but all she did was try weakly to push him away.
"Get off, get off me!" She squirmed, but her resisting turned to cuddling,
"Never, I'm not letting you go" He held her tightly, stroking her hair while she buried her face in his shoulder. He was also in distress, so he nuzzled her soft hair, "Martha?" He looked around but she was nowhere to be seen, "Martha?" He now peeled himself of Abi, making sure she was alright. Just then Martha appeared out of the Tardis.
"Doctor, there something wrong with the Tardis, I think she wants to go somewhere."
He turned to Abi, she smiled, as if to say it was fine for him to leave, he nodded and leaned down to kiss her cheek. She leaned back and waved at Martha who waved back.
Jack had just landed on Earth, hoping to get the 21st century but after having a quick look around and asking some weird question he realized he landed in 1869, along with that he had a couple of problems, one being the anger and pain he felt because his friend the Doctor had abandoned him on the Gamestation, he couldn't work out why, nothing seemed to make sense. Another problem was the confusion he was going through after being shot by a Dalek and surviving, he knew full well that a Dalek shot was fatal. And the last problem was, in his eye the most important, was Abi, she couldn't find him, if she went looking for the Doctor what would he say? He didn't know what was going on between them but he wanted it to carry on. But now he was stuck, in the 19th century with a broken vortex manipulator and no property and no money to his name. He managed to bag himself a place for the night but he had no plans for the next day of the day after that. So to sum up he was screwed. Currently he was on the edge of his bed grasping at anything that might indicate that his manipulator still has a chance of surviving.
So far nothing.
Groaning he got up, and went out to the town, he decided to do something to distract himself, and 19th century pubs did seem like a good idea at the time. One pub looked pretty welcoming, he approached a pub "Sweet Abi Inn", he chuckled at the irony before walking in.
"Oh" Her squeak was part amusement part astonishment, she was currently staring at a screen showing 25min counting down. Abi had landed, awkwardly in the Queen Victoria dining room, after negotiating the monarch into not executing her on the spot she had an awkward/hilarious conversation with Victoria. But when she remember what she came for she explained her situation and was allowed to work in the rooms with no interruption. Sky had informed her of some atmospheric distubances near the Houses of Parliament, she was checking it out needed a distraction. She had a suspicion it was a lone Sontaran, the disturbance was the same technology and same technique as the Sontaran used the last time. It annoyed her because they were her least favorite alien, it why she had her simulation include a Sontaran warrior. So after she worked out how to force teleport the warrior out of the warehouse it was in she managed to 'accidentely' activate the preset self destruct and that kind of destruction isn't something normal in 19th England and she had 25 minutes to get on the other side of the Thames and cancel it. She could take a horse.
Or she could run.
Saying her rushed goodbyes she sprinted out of the palace and made for the gate, no long after she was sprinting down London Bridge, the adrenaline was amazing, the wind flew through her hair and her arm moved almost of its own accord. When she could she the warehouse she slowed down, she had about 19 minutes. She was still jogging when she approached an inn, looking through the window she thoughtshe saw Jack. She bust open the door and skidded to a halt when she saw him in the arms of another.
"Huh" was all she could get out at the moment, when he saw her he pushed the lady out of his arm causing her to almost stumble but Abi caught her,
"Watch it she could get hurt, are you alright?" She asked the girl but she was clearly drunk, "Huh" she repeated. Jack was still speechless but Abi continued talking when she realized people were staring after her loud entrance, she slowly retreated to the door, "Uh sorry everyone" she checked her time, "Gotta go uh... wow thats a name 'Sweet Abi Inn', its brilliant I love it" She turned to the landlady, "You should keep it" , Grinning she ran out of the door.
She didn't know what she felt right now, she couldn't comprehend what she had just seem but she was proud at how she handled it, she turned a corner, taking a glance at the building she was working out the best way to enter, making sure it wouldn't set off, but Jack's voice caught her attention, he had apparently chased after her,
"Abi..Abi.." She had found the best entrance during his stuttering, "I'm sorr-"
"Sorry Jack, kinda busy, talk later?" She didn't waste time waiting for an answer.
When he caught up to her, she was busy at the computers
"Abi, stop running off" He bent down to catch his breath,"Look I'm sorry, I really am, there's no excuse, please don't be mad, okay you can be mad, but..you...you..you're not listening to me are you?"
She looked up at him as if noticing he was there for the first time, "No..no...I was..definitely..listening..yeah," she then spoke into her wrist, "Sky can you check that I disabled it, I'm not sure"
"Scanning"
She looked at him and smiled, "You were saying?"
"Whats going on?"
"Sontaran, bomb, explosion" She made an explosion noise along with a graphic demonstration with her hands,
"Scan complete, bomb neutralized" She sighed a relief, "Okay, good...The Queen!"
She bolted out again, he groaned chasing after her but was also confusion, what had the Queen got to do with anything. She turned the same corner but stopped immediately before she collided with the cart. Jack was about to run into the same cart but she caught him too but let go almost instantly, he knew why. She looked at the cart, it had the monarch's emblem on it. The door slid open and Ab looked into it before grinning.
"Your Majesty, I was just coming to find you"
"You needn't fret, my dear, I've brought what you need." She handed her a beautifully decorated box,
"Ohh, can I keep the box"
"Of course, goodday Abigail", she then tapped the roof "Drive on"
Abi laughed to herself "What a woman"
She reached for her manipulator but Jack interrupted "Wait"
Abi looked up in surprise "Oh hi Jack!" She went up to hug him "Long time no see"
He was upset at her fake nonchalance "Abi, please"
"Please what?"
"You know what, I'm sorry about what I did, but please don't act like you don't care."
She paused a moment, "What do you want me to say, Jack?"
"Something"
She groaned, mentally scolding herself for getting into stupid mushy feely mess. "Put your hand on there"
He did as she asked and the two people and the decorated box vanished from sight.