CHAPTER 43
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For the first week after Robin was put in the room next to Sekhmet's, he heard her scream constantly all day and night for a week. It tore his heart out even though he knew that she would ultimately be alright. Then the screaming finally stopped, and there was total silence in the room for another week. That only made Robin worry about her even more somehow.
Finally two weeks after he had been put next to Sekhmet's room, he heard her say something for the first time. He was woken up by her talking, and he smiled as he could finally hear her voice once again.
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Sekhmet asked through the wall in a fearful voice.
"Yes. It's John. I'm here in the room next to you. Are you okay?" Robin asked back through the wall.
"John? Oh, I'm glad that you're here, and yet I wish that you weren't at the same time. I know that they're going to do something to you too. They've done something to me, and it's making it harder and harder for me to think. My memory seems to be going too. I'm having trouble remembering my past. I can still remember you and the war clearly so far, but I know that will go too someday. I'm so afraid of that day. I won't be me anymore. I'll just be some horrible thing that will do whatever Rassilon tells it to do," Sekhmet said in a defeated voice.
"One day you'll be free, Sekhmet. You'll be your own person and will do whatever you want. You won't be stuck here forever, and you'll be a new person. A good one not a mindless monster," Robin said.
"How do you know all of this? Surely I'm too far in your past for you to know what happens to me," Sekhmet said.
"I can't tell you too much. You may remember whatever I say. I will say that I know for sure that what I just told you is true," Robin said.
"I don't know if you're just lying to make me feel better or not, but thank you for telling me that. It does help to reassure me somewhat," Sekhmet said.
"I would never lie to you, my lady," Robin said.
"I know. I've always known that about you since the day that we met. You called me 'my lady' again. I need to know something. I'm probably going to forget whatever you tell me soon anyway so please tell me now while I can still appreciate it. Am I the woman that you were separated from in the future? Am I Lily?" Sekhmet asked.
"I'm not sure if I should tell you this or not, but I want to. The two of us are together in the future, Sekhmet. The woman that I told you about that I was separated from was you. You are Lily. I want you to remember that no matter what happens, Sekhmet. Someday we will be together, and you will be my Lily," Robin said.
Robin knew that Sekhmet would probably forget everything about him soon so there was no danger of her remembering what he was saying. After all, she didn't remember him being here in her past when they met in the future. He did hope that on some instinctual level that she did remember though. Maybe that was why she was instinctively drawn to him when they met for the first time in the Land of Fiction.
"Thank you, John. Thank you for telling me the truth. Well, most of it anyway. Your name isn't John, is it? That's the one thing that you did lie about, isn't it? You did it to preserve the future I know. There are no secrets now though. Tell me your real name," Sekhmet demanded.
"Robin," Robin said.
"Robin. I like that name. It suits you. Well, Robin, we need to break out of here as soon as possible. They're planning on using our genetic material to make some kind of monster to conquer the galaxy with. I heard them talking about it when I was waking up earlier this morning," Sekhmet warned.
"I know. Rassilon himself told me about it. I don't know why they have taken it already," Robin admitted.
"They were waiting to see if I was affected by the vampire's bite or not. I don't think that I am. I feel fine. I don't feel any bloodlust or any other bad effects. I feel fine except for whatever they've done to me that's clouded my brain," Sekhmet said.
Suddenly Robin heard Sekhmet's door opening, and he knew that someone was coming in to see her. He silently listened as whoever had entered tested her and checked her blood. He knew that they wanted to see for themselves that Sekhmet was fine now.
The two of them talked off and on for the rest of the night as he tried to console Sekhmet and make her time here easier. Then both of them slipped off to sleep at around the same time.
He was awakened by the sound of Sekhmet screaming yet again, and at first he wondered if the pain that she had had before had returned. This time it seemed to be different though. These were screams of fear not pain.
"Sekhmet? What is it? Sekhmet?!" Robin screamed with concern.
He heard the sounds of a struggle and then a loud thud. After that, there was silence. He heard nothing but heavy breathing for a while.
"Sekhmet?" Robin asked.
"I was bit. They let a vampire into my room. They must have. It attacked me in my sleep and bit me. I killed it, but I'm afraid that I'm going to change now," Sekhmet said.
"You won't. You're going to be fine," Robin assured her.
"I hope that you're right. I feel okay so far, but I did before also for the first few minutes; and then I started to change," Sekhmet said.
After an hour had passed and there were no ill effects, Sekhmet began to believe that Robin was right. It wasn't that she didn't believe him. She did without question. She just feared that his being here would make the future change somehow. Luckily, it hadn't so far.
More people came in to check Sekhmet now, and Robin knew that they would find that she was unaffected by the vampire's bite. Then he knew that she would finally have her genetic material taken at last and so would he. Then they would start their terrible experiment.
It was only a matter of time now, and they had to get out of here before that happened. Suddenly it hit him though that maybe it was supposed to happen. Robin wasn't sure what he should do now. Should he try to leave and free Sekhmet in the process, or were they supposed to stay?
They took samples of Lily's genetic material and his the next day. He tried to fight them and escape, but there were too many of them. He had no chance against them no matter what he did. He tried anyway, but they quickly subdued him and took what they wanted from him. That seemed to answer his earlier question. Apparently, he was supposed to be here.
Several months later, Sekhmet and Robin were taken out of their rooms; and they were brought to a laboratory. They both knew without talking to one another that this must be about Rassilon's experiment. It must have been fully developed by now, and he wanted to show it to them in order to gloat about it.
It turned out that they were right. That was exactly what he had brought them here for.
"The child that has been created from the combining of your genetic material has just been born. It has been brought to term in an artificial womb specially created for it. It is my ultimate achievement. Once I see what it can do, then I will clone it and make an entire army of beings just like it. It will be marvelous. They will be unstoppable killing machines with an immunity to vampirism and with the reflexes, strength, and agility of Sekhmet. They will be truly an unstoppable force to be reckoned with," Rassilon boasted.
The newly born child was brought into the room then, and Robin could see that it was a girl. She seemed so innocent and harmless. He couldn't believe that she could be some kind of deadly killing machine in the future. In fact, he began to doubt that more and more the more that he saw of her.
"Run the tests on her," Rassilon ordered his technicians with a huge smirk on his face.
He was so confident of what he would find that he never expected the answer that he received next.
"The child is human, my Lord. It is not even a Time Lord. It has no special abilities whatsoever," a technician reported.
"What?!" Rassilon screamed.
"There are traces of Time Lord genetic material in her cells that may potentially make her into a Time Lord someday, but she is mostly human at the moment. There is nothing special at all about her," the technician finished.
"No! This isn't possible!" Rassilon screamed.
"Oh, but it is. You see I'm not a Time Lord. I'm human, Rassilon. The child is human because I am," Robin finally admitted.
"Robin, no!" Sekhmet shouted.
"So you have lied about not only your name but your very species as well. Put the human to death and his daughter too. We don't need their genetically inferior filth corrupting us. Kill them both!" Rassilon commanded.
"No!" Sekhmet said as she began to glow with regenerative energy. She wasn't even aware of what she was doing at first. She was acting instinctively to protect the man that she loved and their child. Regenerative energy poured off of her in waves and knocked out all of the guards and technicians in the room.
Robin grabbed the baby and ran from the room while dragging Sekhmet along with him. The three of them made it all the way to the front entrance of the building while battling and knocking out several guards sent against them along the way, and then Sekhmet for the first time consciously used her new abilities to destroy the door and make an exit to the outside for them.
The three of them quickly escaped then, and they were long gone before anyone could mobilize a big enough force to go after them. They hid far out in the Wilderness outside of the Capitol. Robin knew how to survive in a hostile environment such as this from his days in the Crusades so he was able to take care of Sekhmet and the baby quite easily.
Robin kept looking at the baby more and more as their first day in hiding went by, and he knew that he had seen her somewhere before. He recognized her somehow even as an infant. He didn't know who she was, but he was certain that she was someone that he had come to know in the future.
"We have to give a name to the baby, Robin. What do you want to call her?" Sekhmet asked.
"Why don't you name her? You were always so good with names or at least you will be," Robin said.
"I'll call her . . . Freya," Sekhmet said as she smiled at the little girl.
Robin knew her under a different name though. He knew who she was at last. It was Allison. Allison was his and Lily's daughter!
Next: Sekhmet, Robin, and Freya are on the run yet again as Rassilon sends a group of deadly assassins to kill them all after he discovers the secret of the inoculation that he gave to Sekhmet. What happens next leads to a series of events that will see Robin start on his journey back to the present day. Plus we return to the present where Romana has a meeting on Lily's TARDIS with Amy and Jenny as they seek to find the whereabouts of Leela, the only one who can tell them what happens to a human who links with a Time Lord.