CHAPTER 8

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"Persephone?" Cleopatra asked uncertainly as she looked at Lily.

"Yes, it's me," Lily said with a smile as she started to hope that this was her old Cleo.

Then Cleopatra's eyes went wide, and she started to scream at the top of her lungs!

"No! No!" she screamed over and over. She had totally lost all of her self-control!

Lily knew what was happening. She was remembering everything that she had done as a vampire and especially what she had done to her! She was human again!

"It's okay! I forgive you! It wasn't your fault! You didn't do anything wrong! It was the vampirism!" Lily said to her in a soft tone.

Cleopatra grabbed ahold of Lily and started sobbing into her shoulder. The Doctor looked at her warily a minute as if she might attack Lily. Lily shook her head at him. She knew that her friend was safe now.

"I'm so sorry! It wasn't me! I swear! I would never have done those things to you!" Cleopatra said with a tortured expression on her face and pure pain in her eyes.

"It's okay. I know, Cleo! I know!" Lily told her in a low soft voice.

"I'll make it up to you somehow. I'll do anything," Cleopatra said.

"You don't have to do that," Lily insisted.

"Yes, I do. I have to make up for the horrible things I've done. I'm going to start working with you. I can help you in everything that you do. That can begin to make up for what I've done to you," Cleopatra insisted.

"You don't have to do anything for me, but I would like to travel with you. We could be a team. It would be me and you taking on the bad guys just like in the old days. I like it! Do you want to take your TARDIS? Or do you want to travel with me in mine?" Lily asked her with a smile.

Cleopatra seemed to calm down a little when Lily smiled at her. She cried less now, and her self-control seemed to come back a little more as her body shook less.

"I could travel in mine and link mine to yours. It could go wherever yours goes," Cleo said.

"Sounds like a plan," Lily said as she noticed Cleo growing more confident.

She was acting more like her old self now as she calmed down more and moved away from Lily. She knew that it wasn't over that easily for her though. Lily had more work to do with helping her friend recover in the future.

Cleo went off to get her TARDIS and to bring it there.

"So she is human again?" Allison said to Lily.

Lily nodded.

Allison looked a little calmer at that but still a bit unsure.

Robin looked at her worried and asked, "Are you sure that she can be trusted so quickly, my lady? She only recently was talking of how she hated you!"

"I'm sure, Robin! She's my old Cleo again," Lily said confidently.

Robin still looked as wary as Allison though. She knew that he would be watching Cleo carefully for a while. She supposed that she couldn't blame him, but she wished that he would trust her judgment more. Although it was nice that he watched her back like that. She liked that!

"I certainly hope so for your sake, my lady!" Robin said with a smile as he gave her a peck on the lips.

'You'll see that I'm right, Robin. Eventually you'll find out that I'm always right!" Lily said to him as she kissed him back.

"So that's where Rose got it from," the Doctor said cheekily as he walked by.

Lily reached out and slapped him, and he screamed.

"There's your daily slap," Lily said with a grin.

"You've already slapped me today," the Doctor pouted.

"That was different. That was because I was worried and upset. This is just your daily "I'm slapping you just for being you" slap. That's entirely different!" Lily said laughing.

The Doctor started grumbling and walked away mumbling to himself something about crazy people.

Lily just laughed silently to herself. She loved messing with that man!

The Doctor then received a phone call from UNIT.

"Doctor, we're receiving reports from around the world of people starting to change into someone else," Colonel Mace said.

"What?! Who are they changing into?" the Doctor asked concerned.

"They're changing into a young woman. They're all the same unknown young woman. She's not hostile so far but of course we are very concerned. The woman seems to know you, Doctor," Colonel Mace said.

"What?!" the Doctor asked again.

"Yes, all of the duplicate women knew you and asked for you by name," Colonel Mace said.

"What?!" the Doctor asked a third time. I'm starting to sound like Pretty Boy he thought briefly to himself.

"They all say that their name is Lily!" Colonel Mace said.

The Doctor's eyes bugged out, and he looked at the original Lily in a blind panic! Lily knew instantly that something very bad had just happened!

The Doctor then suddenly dropped the phone and stood there in a zombie like state. Lily picked it up when she heard a voice on the other end still talking.

"Hello?" she said into the phone only to hear her own voice greeting her on the other side.

"Hello? This is Lily Wright. Who is this?" the voice on the other end said.

"Uh, I'm Lily Wright too. The original one," Lily said as she too started to panic.

She heard the Doctor scream out in surprise as Allison and Robin changed into clones of herself! Lily wanted to scream too! Poor Robin and Ally! She had to fix this somehow!

Luckily for the Doctor, Time Lords were unaffected by the process. It seemed like that that wasn't much comfort for him now though since he was surrounded by copies of her. He was starting to really get freaked out by it too. He kept messing with his bow tie nervously.

She looked at Ron in relief. At least he would be alright no matter what. He looked plenty upset himself she noticed, but he was standing there saying nothing. She realized that he felt very out of his element here and didn't yet trust her. That saddened her because once he would have been the first one to offer to help her or to talk to her about something. They had been very close once.

She pulled herself away from sorrow about Ron and back to the task at hand. She had really done it this time she thought to herself in fear. She had gotten into big trouble again!

Next: Planet of the Lilies! What will she do now to fix things? Maybe Cleo could help!