CHAPTER 4

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The Doctor was scanning the man who they had saved from the crack with his sonic screwdriver when he discovered something very important about him.

"This man is full of artron energy. He's traveled in time before," the Doctor said in amazement.

The man in question looked at him like he was crazy.

"You must have me confused with someone else. My name is Ron Hardy, and I've never done anything remotely weird or fantastic in my life until today. I've never traveled in time. Until today, I never even thought that it was possible," Ron said.

"Oh, Ron Hardy. You are so naïve. Of course, time travel is possible. My people have been doing it for a billion years! Get with it!" the Doctor said to him as he thumped him on the back good naturedly.

"He's full of artron energy? How? Could his memory have been erased, and he's forgotten that he traveled in time?" Lily asked him deep in thought.

"Artron energy?" Allison asked her confused.

"It's the background radiation that all time travelers soak up as they travel in time. It's harmless, but it stays in the body for the rest of that person's life. It marks them as a traveler in time," Lily answered.

"I haven't traveled in time! I've never done anything remotely interesting before," Ron protested.

"My sonic screwdriver says differently, Ron Hardy! Tell me, do you have a fob watch with you by any chance? Say one that doesn't work, and you've never been able to open it?" the Doctor prodded him.

Ron looked at him confused and just shook his head.

"I've never owned a fob watch in my life!" he said.

"Maybe you do own one, and you just forgot about it?" the Doctor tried again.

"Nope. I don't think so. I think that I'd remember that," Ron said, still with a confused expression on his face.

"Doctor, this is pointless. He's not a Time Lord. He has traveled with one though," Lily said with a fond smile.

"What?" Both Ron and the Doctor said at once.

"I didn't recognize you at first but now I do. You've changed a lot but you were only a child when you came with me. Of course you look different now," Lily said.

"What are you talking about? This is crazy!" Ron said in a huff. He had gotten tired of this insanity.

"You traveled with me for a year when you were a little boy, Ron. You had a different name then though. I knew you as Charlie. When did your name change?" Lily asked him curiously.

Ron looked at her in surprise.

"I did used to be called Charlie. That was when I lived at the orphanage. My parents renamed me Ron though when they adopted me. I liked Ron better really. It was my adopted dad's name, and I wanted to be named after him," Ron admitted.

"I knew you before you were adopted. Your orphanage was attacked by Weeping Angels, and they sent you back in time. Luckily for you, I came across you or you would have been stuck in the past forever! That was before my daughter was born when I used to travel through time by myself. I took you with me on my travels, and you became like my own child! Then, it was decreed that Time Lords could not have adopted human children and that humans weren't allowed on Gallifrey. The Time Lords they . . ." Lily stopped as she started to break down.

"You never told me about this! This was before Rose?" the Doctor said as he showed a rare moment of tenderness for his mother-in-law by putting his arms around her.

It was a testament to how upset that she was that Lily let him do it without insulting him.

"Yes, it was when I was very young. I was still just a young teenager. I found Charlie, and I took care of him. We looked out for each other, and I felt like he was my own son! Then he had his memory taken away from him, and he was sent back to Earth. I was forbidden from finding him, and I never did get to see him again! Now I've found him at last, and he doesn't even remember me!" Lily said as she started to cry out of control.

Robin came over to her now and took the Doctor's place by her side. He kissed her on the cheek and held her.

"I'm so sorry, Lily! I wish that we could restore his memories for you," Robin said to her softly.

"It's no use. Once the memories are erased, they can never be returned. The Celestial Intervention Agency are very good at what they do," the Doctor said with a angry frown on his face.

Ron looked at the crying Time Lady and felt sorry for her. He still thought that she had him confused with someone else, but he couldn't help but feel badly for her. He started to try to comfort her in some way but he decided against it for now because he didn't want to encourage her idea that he was someone that she used to know. Surely he would remember having had a mother before his adopted parents!

Lily became very angry after another moment of crying.

"Someone is doing this deliberately! Someone found Ron and made sure that I found him by sticking a crack in front of him because they knew that I would recognize him and that it would hurt me! They tried to suck Allison into the past because of her connection to me. The victims are being targeted because of their connection to me! This is all a message to me for some reason. Someone wanted to draw me out. What I don't understand is who and why?!" Lily said as she shook with fury.

"My connection with you?" Allison said silently to herself as she thought over what Lily had unintentionally let out of the bag.

Lily was too angry to notice the mistake that she had just made though. She was fuming.

"I just love torturing you Persephone! You're always so easy to manipulate and so predictable! I started sucking random victims into time cracks at first just to get your attention, and then once you came onto the scene I took Allison just to play with you. Now, I've revealed poor old Charlie boy here to you. I did that just for the fun! You certainly enjoyed sticking it to me when you were a constant thorn in my side back in the old days! Now it's my turn, old friend!" said a woman who looked very familiar to Allison.

She suddenly realized that she had seen her with the men who had tried to kill her back in the past!

"Who the -?!" Allison said in surprise.

"Ally, meet Cleopatra. The former Queen of Egypt. She didn't, unfortunately, die as history says though. You see Cleopatra survived the Romans, and she became immortal by being bitten by one of the Great Vampires after she was bitten by the asp. Then, she became a time traveler by stealing a TARDIS from a traveling Time Lord who I rescued. She's gone through time and space wreaking havoc ever since. She's an old enemy of mine who loves trying to establish a new empire for herself wherever he goes. She just can't quite get the idea out of her head that she isn't a queen anymore!" Lily said with extreme fury in her eyes.

A time traveling blood sucking Cleopatra?! This just keeps getting better and better! Allison thought to herself with a huge grin on her face.

Next: Time traveling vampire Cleopatra! Enough for you?