CHAPTER 15

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This story takes place right after the events of the Reunion of the Daleks storyline in It's Better With Two and during the current storyline in Jenny Tyler, Time's Angel starting in Chapter 35.

Oswin was so tired after that whole affair with the Dalek Emperor having come back to life that all that she wanted to do was lay down for a week. She was planning on doing exactly that too. She was the only one on Marissa's TARDIS at the moment, and this meant that she might actually get some peace and quiet for a while in which to sleep in.

She still felt terrible that Rose had lost her powers because of the Emperor. She hoped that they might return to her someday. The universe needed Rose just the way that she had been before as far as Oswin was concerned.

She didn't realize until afterwards that this was what Idris had been trying to tell her about before. She had been telling her that the Dalek Emperor was going to come back to kill her. Why Idris just couldn't have come out and said that outright though was behind her. She still wondered what she had meant by the names of Lissa and Shehzadi. She would soon find out.

Oswin quickly feel asleep in her room on Marissa's TARDIS and had a strange dream. She had been having several of them lately, and this was the weirdest one yet. A woman that was her and yet wasn't her was telling a white haired old man that she somehow knew was the Doctor to steal a different TT Capsule than the one he had intended to steal.

He was leaving Gallifrey after the death of his wife. He wanted to steal his wife's old capsule that the museum she had donated it to had fully inherited after she had died. They had just had it put in the shop for repairs immediately after her death. Arkytior had prevented them from touching it while she was still alive because she had liked the old machine just the way that it was.

He had wanted to take hers in particular because he hadn't wanted them to have it since it had belonged to her, but he had picked the wrong one by mistake. Somehow Oswin or whoever the woman in the dream was had known that he was stealing the wrong one and had told him so. She knew that his wife would have wanted him to have it.

Oswin was suddenly woken out of this weird dream when she heard the front doors of the TARDIS open with a loud noise as if they had been slammed back. She immediately rushed to the Console Room to discover a strange young woman that she had never seen before standing in the doorway with an extremely angry expression on her face.

"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" Oswin asked her.

"I don't have time to play twenty questions, Aunt Oswin. I've come here all of the way from Florana while Jenny was busy to see my mother. I want to know where she is. She has some explaining to do," the woman said with a tone of incredible anger in her voice.

"I don't know who your mother is. I don't even know who you are," Oswin said.

"What are you talking about? You've seen me about a billion times throughout my life," the woman said in confusion.

Then she looked at Oswin closely and said, "You look different. You look so young."

Both of them then came to an epiphany about each other at around the same time.

"I forgot that I'm in the past. I just came straight here because I was so angry. My mother doesn't know me, and neither do you," the woman said sounding sad now instead of angry.

"Your name is Lissa, isn't it?" Oswin asked a second later.

"You do know me?" Lissa asked.

"No. I was told that you were coming though by a woman named Idris. I had no idea what she was talking about until now," Oswin explained.

"Oh, I know what you're saying now. Idris told you the future but not the exact details. She's done that to me before. It's very annoying," Lissa said with a smile as she began to calm down.

"Tell me about it. So who are you exactly, and why are you here?" Oswin asked.

"Like I said, my name's Lissa. I'm Marissa and Koschei's daughter from the future. I really shouldn't be here though. I haven't even been born yet. Just forget that I was ever here, okay?" Lissa said nervously.

Lissa turned to leave, but Oswin stopped her. She gently grabbed her arm to prevent her from leaving as she asked, "What did you come here about? You're very upset about something. I can tell that. Is it about your sister, Shehzadi?"

Lissa became visibly enraged at that name, and Oswin backed away from her in fear.

"What do you know about her?" Lissa asked in a hate-filled voice.

"Nothing. Idris just mentioned her name and that she was your sister," Oswin said as her body shook with nervous tension.

Lissa realized what she was doing to Oswin and quickly put on a warm smile as she said, "I'm so sorry. That is what I came here for, and it's why I'm so angry. It has nothing to do with you though. I didn't mean to show my dark side to you like that. I know that I can be pretty scary when I'm angry. I am my father's daughter after all. You would never have anything to fear from me though, Aunt Oswin. I promise."

"I'm glad about that. I'll just let you go then. Whatever is making you so angry is none of my business," Oswin said still nervous around her.

Oswin was surprised when Lissa hugged her tightly then and said in a worried tone, "Don't be afraid of me. I'm usually very friendly and cheerful. You're going to love me in the future I promise. I don't want this to be your first impression of me. You're my favorite of all of my mother's friends, and I don't want this to change that by mistake and rewrite history."

Oswin could feel that what she was saying was genuine, and it calmed her down. She said, "It's okay. I'll look over it. I've had bad days when I didn't act like myself either."

"Thank you. I'll just leave now before my mother comes back. Things might get ugly very quickly if I don't," Lissa said as she released her from the hug.

As she said that, the doors to the TARDIS opened; and Marissa entered by herself. She looked from Lissa to Oswin with a question on her face.

"Don't pay attention to me. I'm not supposed to be here. Just forget about me," Lissa quickly said.

"Who is Shehzadi, Marissa?" Oswin asked quickly before Lissa could leave.

"No! Why did you say that?" Lissa hissed at her.

Marissa turned pale white at the mention of that name, and she began to shake all over. She started to fall forward as she tried to pass out.

Lissa forgot all of her anger immediately as she rushed forward to catch her mother before she hit the floor of the TARDIS. Oswin quickly joined her, and the two women held Marissa up together.

"Mum! Are you okay?" Lissa asked in concern, forgetting that she wasn't supposed to be here.

"Shehzadi?" Marissa asked in confusion.

"No. I'm not her. Never mind me. I'm not supposed to be. You're not supposed to meet me yet," Lissa said.

She checked her mother's vital signs to make sure that she was alright, and then got up to leave. Marissa's hand shot out and grabbed her wrist firmly though and kept her from leaving.

"You're not Shehzadi. I can see that now. Who are you, and how do you know that name?" Marissa asked her.

"I can't tell you that. I have to leave. I shouldn't have come here. I'm sorry to have upset you," Lissa said in tears. Her anger at her mother was completely gone now, and she felt terrible for provoking such a reaction from her.

Oswin, unfortunately for Lissa, would not let things go so easily. She didn't feel so great about what mentioning that name had done to Marissa either, but she felt that she had to press on. If Idris had mentioned it, then it must have been important.

"Idris said that this woman's name was Lissa and that her sister was Shehzadi," Oswin said.

"Why can't you just leave it alone? You're going to make her sick again!" Lissa shouted at her with worry in her voice.

"You're my daughter?" Marissa asked in a voice filled with joy.

"Not yet. I will be though," Lissa admitted reluctantly.

Marissa embraced her tightly and began to laugh.

"I'm going to have another little girl!" she said to herself with a huge smile on her face as she hugged Lissa tightly.

Lissa felt lower than dirt right now at having come here to chew her mother out. She really just wanted to leave before she made things worse.

"I should leave. You really shouldn't know any more than you already do," Lissa said.

"Nonsense. Rose's future kids visit her all of the time," Marissa said dismissively.

"Yeah but she's the Bad Wolf. She can fix paradoxes and make sure that they don't accidentally erase themselves from history when they come to see her," Lissa said.

"It's okay I'm sure. All I know is your name. It's a name that I probably would have picked anyway. I like it. It's a nice name," Marissa said as she refused to let Lissa go.

"Who is Shehzadi, Mum? I have to know," Lissa finally asked her since it looked like she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon anyway.

"She was my daughter a long time ago back when I was still the Rani. She was just like I was back then. She was too much like me in fact. That's what got her . . . killed. She died. She was performing some kind of experiments on the DNA of the inhabitants of a planet named Cestus. Her experiments went out of control though, and the resulting hideous mutations that she created turned on her. They . . . tore her to pieces!" Marissa said as she shook with emotion.

"No, that can't be right. I've seen her recently, and she looks alright to me," Lissa said.

"What?" Marissa asked in disbelief.

"I've just seen someone who claims to be her. That's what I came here to ask you about. You never told me that I had a sister, and I wanted to know why," Lissa explained.

"No, that can't be right. Where is this person?" Marissa asked.

"She's being held prisoner back in Jenny Tyler's TARDIS on the planet Florana. She had killed some people on Earth, and Jenny was taking her back to Gallifrey when she stopped to find Leela on Florana," Lissa explained.

"I'm going with you to find out just who this person calling herself my daughter is once and for all. She's going to regret impersonating her!" Marissa said furiously.

"How do you know that she's a phony?" Oswin asked her curiously.

"I found her body, Oswin. It was torn to shreds, but I scanned it to make sure. It was her. It was the same genes. She's dead, Oswin. Someone is going around posing as my daughter, and I want to know why!" Marissa shouted.

Oswin wondered if maybe Marissa was blinding herself to the possibility that Shehzadi could be real. Idris had said that she was Lissa's sister after all, and she had no reason to lie about it. Everything else that she had said had turned out to be true so she didn't doubt her at all anymore at this point.

As Marissa started to take her TARDIS to Florana, Oswin knew that they were shortly about to find out. She just hoped for Marissa's sake that the answers that she would find there wouldn't prove to be too much for her.

Next: Marissa travels to Florana and comes face to face with Shehzadi as she finds out the truth about her. Oswin meanwhile continues to have strange visions and dreams that she can't explain that all seem to involve a woman named Clara. She may just have to go see a Doctor about them.