CHAPTER 40
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Allison was alone in her room trying to absorb all of the changes that had happened in her life lately. Robin disappearing, Lily getting lost in her own mind; and then the big two happened at once, she found out that Lily was her mother and that she was a Time Lady! No big deal though. That kind of stuff happened all the time in her mum's life.
Allison felt a smile go across her face against her will again. It happened every time that she thought of Lily as her mother now. She had a mother! Not just any mother either. Her mother was the person that she had grown to love more than anyone else before she even knew that they were related. She just couldn't believe it. It was her greatest wish come true.
Then Allison realized with a start that that meant that she also had a sister. She hadn't realized it before. Rose was her sister. She barely knew Rose, but she had always instinctively trusted her for some reason. Whenever there was trouble that even Lily couldn't handle, her first instinct had always been to call upon Rose. Now she knew why that she had felt that way.
Allison suddenly felt a presence approaching the TARDIS from inside of the Vortex, and she somehow knew who it was before seeing them. Her new Time Lord abilities were just so strange to her. She wondered if she would ever get used to them.
Rose appeared next to her in a shower of golden energy, and Allison turned to her and smiled. "I was just thinking about you," she said to her newfound sister.
Rose looked at her oddly as she said, "I detected a new Time Lord suddenly emerging from out of nowhere. I followed it to Mum's ship, and it led me straight to this room. Has anyone here recently been looking at a fob watch or carrying one around?"
"What is it with the fob watch questions? I don't understand what that has to do with anything. Regardless of that, I'm the one that you're looking for. I'm the Time Lord, Rose. Or is that Time Lady?" Allison said with a grin.
"What?" Rose asked in disbelief.
She looked at Allison's timeline and saw how she had changed in the last couple of hours. Then she went backwards and saw her life before she was adopted. She saw Allison's birth and who her parents were. She looked at Allison in complete shock as she now realized just who Allison was to her.
She could see more of a timeline as the Bad Wolf than an ordinary Time Lord could so she could see what Lily couldn't. That was why that she could see the identities of both Allison's mother and father and the circumstances of her birth. She began to smile at what she saw. She couldn't tell the name of the father yet to anyone else because his identity wasn't supposed to be known at this time. She could however properly greet her newly discovered sister.
Rose hugged Allison tightly and said, "Welcome to the family, Ally. I'm sorry that I didn't know sooner."
"There really is no keeping anything a secret from you, is there?" Allison asked.
"No, just like you can't keep Mum's condition from me either. That's the other reason that I came. I felt that something was wrong with her all the way from Earth. Her link with Robin has been severely strained by their separation; but it's still open, and that is what's causing her to experience everything that is currently happening to him in the past," Rose said.
"Their link?! When did that happen? I thought that she was experiencing her memories of it," Allison said in surprise.
"Part of it may be memory, but the rest is coming from her link with Robin. It's a link that was apparently formed in secret sometime in the recent past," Rose explained.
"He was going to propose to her soon," Allison said.
"I thought so. She must have just formed the link when he disappeared. That's why it's so traumatic for her. It's so new that it hasn't had time to properly form yet, and its sudden loss is causing her to have problems," Rose said.
"So we have to bring Robin back, or she might never get better," Allison realized.
"That's right. She might suffer a total mental collapse soon if they aren't reunited," Rose confirmed.
"No. We've got to go back and get him from wherever he is then. We know it's sometime in the past now and that he's with Mum. Could that help us find him do you think?" Allison asked.
"We have to be careful, Allison. We can't pluck him out too early, or the future may be changed," Rose warned.
"What do you mean?" Allison asked.
"I can't tell you yet. All I can say is that he was supposed to go back in time for a very specific reason. There is something that he is supposed to do. Until he does this, we cannot remove him without causing major damage to this timeline," Rose said.
"I'm a Time Lord now, and I'm still out of the loop," Allison complained.
"I'm sorry, Ally. I can't tell you or anyone else. You will just have to discover what happened to Robin when everyone else does," Rose said.
Allison started to look upset as she had a sudden thought that maybe Robin wasn't coming back this time. She didn't want to lose him or Lily. If he didn't return, then Lily would probably be gone forever too.
"The Shadow did this to take Mum away from me. He was the one behind the Monk and the Racnoss. He knew that she would be there to help me through what's to come. He doesn't want anyone to be there at my side. He wants me to fight him and the Black Guardian all alone when the time comes," Rose said.
"You won't be alone if I can help it. I only just found you, and I'm not going to lose you too," Allison promised.
Rose hugged her again in gratitude for several minutes. Then she turned and left to go spend some time with Lily. Allison then sat alone in her room once again with only her thoughts for company. She wasn't going to lose anyone if she could help it. She had just found her family at long last, and no one was going to take them away from her now!
The Monk woke up to find himself right back in the same cell that he had been in before. He groaned in frustration. So much for the Shadow's help! He could only hope now to escape somehow once he left the TARDIS just as he had before when Lily had captured him after he had shot her.
The Monk was taken aback to suddenly find Rose in the cell with him. She was the last person that he was expecting to see here.
"Where is the Shadow holding the Doctor?" Rose asked him point blank.
"I don't know," the Monk said.
"Don't lie to me!" Rose growled at him in a deeply angry voice.
The Monk was taken aback by Rose's sudden burst of anger. He had never seen her like this before.
Rose forced her way into the Monk's mind to search for the information that she wanted. She soon found though that he really didn't know.
"I thought that you didn't do that sort of thing!" the Monk said with his expression frozen in a state of complete surprise.
"Nothing will keep me from him," Rose said coldly.
She then disappeared to go back to talk to the others and left a shaking Monk behind her. He could hear the Shadow's laughter echoing all around him; and he said, "Oh, thanks a lot. Where were you when she was breaking into my mind?"
"She isn't using lethal force, Monk. She hasn't been broken. At least not yet, she hasn't. No, she's becoming more focused and determined in her search for answers, and she's not about to let niceties get in her way this time. She knows that her time grows short!" the Shadow's voice said as it seemed to come from all around him.
Then the Monk could feel that the Shadow was gone, and he was stuck here with no way out. That was what you got for working with the Shadow it seemed. The Monk made a mental note to hunt him down and kill him himself whenever he was free again if someone else didn't beat him to it first.
In her room and lying on her bed as she was carefully watched over by Violet, Lily began to talk to herself once again as she continued to relive the past.
"No, don't go there. Don't. It's not safe. Don't do it!" Lily said as she began to remember what was coming next for Robin.
"It's too late, Lily. It's already happened. You can't change it," Violet said softly to her.
"Please be careful!" Lily said to an unhearing Robin with a heartfelt plea in her voice.
Back in the past, time had seemed to pass quickly for Robin and Sekhmet. Months had gone by for him since he had come here, and he missed Lily more and more with every day. Which was especially ironic since a much younger Lily was standing there right beside him every day.
The two of them had been fighting together all of this time, and they were both now generals in the Gallifreyan forces that were fighting against the Great Vampires. Sekhmet had become better and better the longer that she fought, and she was now an unparalleled warrior on the battlefield. She was not yet the equal of her older self, but she was getting closer to that ideal as time passed.
It was amazing to Robin how quickly that she had improved and matured. The war had changed her greatly. He had noticed that she was becoming colder and darker. She was still warm and friendly to him but to everyone else she was displaying a new ruthless side that seemed to become worse every day. She was heading straight down the road that would lead to her becoming the Sekhmet that he would know in the future.
He would look at her sadly sometimes, and then try to quickly remove that expression from his face because he knew that one day that she would become the happy loving woman that he would meet in the Land of Fiction as her nature shifted back to the way that it had been originally once more. She caught him looking at her with sadness one day before he could cover his expression up and said, "What is it?"
"I just hate to see what this war is doing to you. It's making you into a different person from the one that I met just a few months ago," Robin said truthfully.
"I know. I've been trying not to act that way around you, but even you've noticed it. I don't like what's happening to me if it makes you feel any better. Maybe after this is all over, I'll be myself again," Sekhmet said hopefully.
Her face showed that she didn't believe that for a minute though, and Robin could see such a sense of loss there. She knew that she was losing another piece of herself as each day passed by.
The Gallifreyans had started turning the tide of the war a month ago, and the Great Vampires had finally been driven back. They were currently on the run for their lives. Robin and Sekhmet were leading the main battle fleet now right alongside of Rassilon.
They had recently begun to hear rumors that the King of the Great Vampires himself was now about to enter the war personally in an attempt to turn the fight back in the vampires' favor. They were shortly about to find out that those rumors had been right.
They were on a world named Tenebris Lilium when they accidentally ran across a secret vampire base there. They were immediately besieged by vampires on all sides, and the two of them valiantly led their army into battle against them. It seemed like their much larger and stronger forces were easily winning the day at first. The remaining vampires retreated back into their base, and the Gallifreyans quickly followed them into it to finish them off.
In hindsight, they should have known that it was a trap. Once they all got inside of the base, the doors slammed shut behind them; and no one could open them again no matter what they tried. They were deadlock sealed.
The Gallifreyans then realized just how badly that they had been duped when the largest vampire that any of them had ever seen in their lives suddenly appeared at the head of a vast force of very hungry looking vampire soldiers. They all knew that this was the King of the Great Vampires.
"Destroy them all, my people. Let none of them leave here alive. This war ends here today, and I will be the one to lead you to its final victory!" the King proclaimed.
The other vampires cheered and shouted at his words as they followed him into battle. He led the way as he charged straight into the gathered Gallifreyans before him and began to crush them all left and right. He was slaughtering entire divisions in less than a minute and laughing with boundless joy the entire time. He cared nothing for the countless lives being lost at his feet by the moment. This was but the start of what he had planned for this entire universe. Every living being in it would soon either die or be enslaved by him. Everyone would soon bow down before him and his people.
Robin and Sekhmet were undeterred by this display of brutality, and they continued forward to do battle with the King and his forces. Both sides were now determined to strike the final blow in this war right here right now and end this nightmare once and for all. Robin didn't know what the cost was going to be though. It was here that events would start to occur that would soon change Sekhmet's life forever!
Next: Robin and Sekhmet against the King of the Great Vampires in the final battle of the war. What will be the cost of this battle to Sekhmet?