Thanks for the reviews! I'm glad you're all excited by this new development.

So classes have started up again, so I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to continue posting everyday like I have been. :( But...I am going to try. So we'll see how it goes. But my education had to come first. I mean think about it. How much better of writer could I be if I paid attention to my English professor. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Anyway...class dismissed. You may read. :D

Rose Tyler stands with the Doctor by the TARIS as their friend, Jane Ryder, watches the waves with her back to them. She turns and looks at them. She's pale and feverish and her eyes have a suspicious sheen to them. "It's a beautiful day don't ya think?" She asks.

Rose forces out a laugh at her friend's attempt to distract them. Always the one to comfort everyone else. "Yeah."

"You're strong Jane Ryder. You have a will to live. The radiation should have killed you by now." Then again she was always strong.

"You hooked me up to machines."

"Doesn't matter. You should have been dead before I even had a chance to carry You back." She's something more than human at times. She is in this universe. But not enough to survive. Not even a time lord could survive this.

"Another mystery then. Another impossibility. Then again, I stopped believing in impossible along time ago so...right. Well." She turns and looks down the beach but Rose sees nothing.

She looks back at them before bending over in obvious pain. Rose wants to go I her aid but she holds the both back. "Stay back. It's impossible and mad, absolute bonkers really. But I don't think you're quite done with me yet. This song is ending. But the story never ends. So time to turn the page I guess. I started out as an ordinary girl. Then I fell into the void. I lived a life in Pete's World and became Jane Ryder. And I was remade again in this universe. Well, I'm done now."

What is she saying? What could she mean? The questions are too many and there isn't any time to answer. By she asks anyway. "What are you talking about?"

"I don't know either. But seeing as how I don't want to have terrible last words, I'm going to change something." Rose holds back a sob and her husband wraps an arm around her. "No regrets. It's time for me to go.

She grins and throws them a wink. "Catch ya later." And then she explodes with light. Her regeneration is violent and painful looking. Her scream is loud in their ears but they can do nothing but stand there as it happens. But she was human. How is this possible?

When the light fades, a new woman is standing there. She's taller, more lythe. Her body looks like it's built for athletics. Her hair is dark and her eyes are piercing as she looks at them with confusion. "What's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost." Rose stares in shock, mouth agape.

The new woman startles at the sound of her own voice. "Who said that?" Her eyes widen. "Oh I did!" She slaps a hand over her mouth. She looks at them again.

And then she falls to her knees and gasps. A burst of leftover regeneration energy escapes her open mouth. "Whoa. That's new." And with that, her eyes roll into the back of her head and she falls onto the sand, unconscious.

DW DW DW DW DW DW DW DW DW DW

My eyes flutter open and settle on my midnight ceiling. I feel disorientated and dizzy. I close my eyes as my memories slowly fall back into place like a faded dream. When I get to the part where I...wait. Regenerated? No. That had to have been a dream. Freaky.

I groan as I slowly sit up on my bed. I rub the sleep from my eyes with the heel of my hand as I move to sit on the edge of my bed. I look up to come face to face with an unfamiliar woman. I jump as she jumps with me. All breath leaves me. My brain logically offers that I'm looking in a mirror and that the woman is my reflection.

I slowly stand on new and wobbly legs. I stumble forward to get a closer look. Slowly, I place my hand to the cool glass. I raise my other hand to run it over my forehead, eyes, nose and mouth. My nose is sharper and my lips are fuller. But the most striking feature of this face has to be the eyes. Intense and blue and near transparent as they stare back at me.

I run my fingers through thick black hair that cascades all the way down to my lower back. I turn my face to see the profile and something strikes me as familiar. I begin to braid my hair back away from my face. I didn't braid much before but these hands are nimble and easily find the right pattern.

I feel the TARDIS hum in my mind and I turn to see that she laid clothes out on the bed for me. It takes a minute but I manage to get into the dark skinny jeans. I shrug the deep purple sleeveless shirt over my head and look toward my reflection. The effect is startling.

I stand before the full length mirror to take it all in. The long legs, the toned arms, and the fierce braid running down my back is all too familiar to me. I let out a breathless laugh at the absurdity of it. I was the woman from before. The one who told me to remember. But why did I cross my own time line? I suppose I'll find out another day.

"You're beautiful." I jump as my eyes meet familiar ones in the mirror. "Not that you weren't before."

I turn toward the bed but the man is not there. "Meta?"

"In a way." I turn back to mirror. I can see him the reflection but he isn't behind me like he appears to be. I back up to the bed and sit heavily onto it. It appears that he's right next to me. But if I turn to look, there's nothing.

"How?"

He smiles sadly. "You're going to have to be a bit more specific than that."

I feel anger well inside me. "You want specific? Fine. How are you here? Why can I only see you in the mirror? How do I have two hearts? How am I even alive?"

He holds his hand up to stop me. "That's a lot of questions but if you want to get to the core of the answer then there is only one." He pauses and I look at him impatiently. "I gave you my heart."

I furrow my brow. "I don't understand."

"I gave my life to you. A piece of me is part of you. That's what allows you to talk to me right now. In times of distress I'm called up from your subconscious."

"Oh so you're a delusion. That's nice. I thought I was going crazy."

He smiles warmly. "Haven't lost your sarcasm then. If fact, I thinks it's even heavier." I give him my 'not amused' face. He sighs. "That's all the answers Ryder. I gave you my heart."

My hand runs over the place my human heart once beat alone. I slowly drag it to the origin of that second pulse. My second heart. His heart. "You meant it literally?"

He looks down. "I meant it both ways. You held my heart long before that, but saying it in that moment was my only way to warn you."

"Why did you do it? Why did the Karn make you do that?"

"You had to live."

"Why?!"

"Spoilers," he whispers. "It's time for me to go now. You're accepting it."

"Will I see you again."

His reflection kisses my forehead but I feel nothing. "When you need me I'll be there."

"Where do you go if you're not with me?" Tears stain my face. His imaginary fingers brush them away as they evaporate into the air.

"Stay strong love." And then he's gone.

I sit there motionless for a long time, staring at nothing. And then I sit longer still staring at the face that's suppose to be mine. I figure I'll get used to wearing it but at the moment? I feel uncomfortable in my own skin. It doesn't look like me. It doesn't feel like me. But the longer I look at her the more I see me. A stronger me. A harder me. Even my voice is harder this time around. It has the edge of a soldier. Not just the tone or the way I speak like I had learned before. But now it sounds like it belongs to someone who is use to giving orders.

I know that I can't sulk forever. So I find myself shoes. Combat boots seem to be more my style now then converse. I head into the library where Rose and the Doctor are having tea. Rose is immediately asking how I feel and if I'm hungry. She's trying to make me feel normal. It takes a minute to see how I take my tea. I used to take sugar in it but seems now that my tastes are more for lemon.

The Doctor is unfazed. He treats me exactly the same as before. Looks at me exactly like he always has. At least after he got to know me anyway. I figure this has to be because he is a time lord. He has to be use to this sort of thing. But maybe he's trying too hard. But I don't think about that. His being the same is making my change easier.

I already know a lot about what to expect. Rose and I had many conversations in the past about it. Of course, she only changed biologically and I changed physiology as well. I tell them both about my visit from Meta's ghost. The Doctor has his realizations and it all makes perfect sense to him.

Meta gave me his life force, and with it, I received a dose of part time lord TNA, which when mixed with the Karn elixir and the chemicals my brain produced upon death, led my body into a regeneration. Rose didn't change faces because there was no superset DNA pool to take from. I changed because Meta's life blood introduced the potential to unlock my deeper gene pool.

So life goes on. Surprisingly or not. I don't really know any more. And it's not long before the Doctor gets us all back into the swing of things. We're in the process of capturing a carnivorous alien plant on Earth in the early 22nd century when the unthinkable happens.

The trap is set and the buzzing sound of the plant is getting closer when I hear a splash. The Doctor and I look toward Rose, who's standing out of harm's way but refusing to miss anything else. She looks at the floor and then back at us. "I think my water just broke."

The Doctor gapes like a fish out of water and I roll my eyes. "Perfect timing. He's definitely your son."

"Oh shut up Janey." I scowl at that. I hate it when he calls me Janey.

"Hello? Pregnant woman going into labor over here." Right. Okay. New new Ryder? New new TARDIS crew member on the way? Meat eating plant making it's way toward us? I grin to myself like a lunatic. This should be fun.