I know I'm a terrible writer, it's been almost a year. Technically I finished this particular set a while ago but never got around to editing it, so as a reward for everyone who waited I am editing and posting both chapters to finish this fic, the first chapter for the start of season 3 is almost complete. I'm not going to say ill do better and post more cause we all know that's a lie, and burn out is a bitch
I hope you guys enjoy.
What I will promise is I'm finally going to go back and re-edit the first part of the omniverse I was rereading over it and saw a lot of mistakes. So that shall be fixed shortly.
I step forwards at the Doctors retreat, "If it were justified you would be able to look me in the eye. You would be able to think how proud your father would have been. But you can't can you, Kate?"
"My lady." She whispers, forcing herself to meet the goddess's eye.
"You tell yourself it's justified, it's a lie. Because what I did that day was wrong. Just wrong." The 10th says softly, looking down at his hand.
The warrior turns to look at me. He understands now why I'm here, why am I here? Why is this time lord so important? Why do these people matter? So many questions run through my head but still I have very few answers.
"Any second now, you're going to stop that countdown. Both of you, together." I smile, I may not know why I'm here but that I am certain off. She won't destroy this planet.
"Then you're going to negotiate the most perfect treaty of all time." The 11th adds grinning at me.
"I doubt that even you lady goddess are capable of making me do that." Kate says ignoring the doctor.
"Safeguards all round, completely fair on both sides." The tenth joins in catching on.
"And the key to perfect negotiation? Not knowing what side you're on."
"So, for the next few hours, until we decide to let you out." Clara claps her hands together with a flourish she could have only learn from her father.
"No one in this room will be able to remember if they're human or Zygon." I finish as all three Doctors jump up onto the table. Three screwdrivers point at the memory filters in the ceiling. As the countdown reaches 7 the humans look around the room confused, their memory erased.
"Cancel the detonation!" Both Kate's shout in sync.
"Peace in our time." The 11th grins clapping his hands together spinning on his heels, ignoring the looks her receives from his younger selves.
I wanders across the room looking at the boards filling the back wall, they are covered in pictures of the Doctors and his companions, Clara walks over to join me, asking if I recognises anyone in the photos. "I recognise her."
Clara laughs, as I point at the photographs of myself.
"The Doctor has been keeping you away from me." I point out nodding towards him across the room.
"Why do you think I'm over here talking to you, he worries too much." She smiles at me completely unafraid. This girl is unlike anyone I have ever met, a whole species entombed me in a vault because they were afraid of the powers I possessed but this little slip of a hybrid looks at me with nothing but warmth, it's slightly unnerving.
"He is too kind. Far too kind for a Timelord."
"You're kind."
"No not anymore, not since." I shake my head; how can I explain to this girl who has scarcely lived what had been stolen from me. "I am the last of my kind."
"No, you're not alone I," She stops to peer over her shoulder making sure the 11th Doctor isn't close enough to hear. "You could never be alone; the world would crumble. I'm your daughter, Celesia. Mum I'm alive, you saved us."
"Not possible." I whisper my fingers brushing her cheek. "Who is your father?"
"A timelord."
"Never." I whisper as the pieces start to fall into place.
"Clara what are you doing over here." The 11th Doctor comes charging over, worry written across his face, he's still scared that I will hurt her. My own flesh and blood. How could I?
"Doctor we were just talking."
"The Warrior needs your words of guidance right now Celesia." I cut in, startling the Timelord so much his head whips around to look at me.
The Doctor gasps, "You remember?"
I look at him sadly, "I'm sorry to give you false hope."
"She told you." He guesses guiding me across the room to give us some privacy.
"I have a family. Children, a husband."
"I wish I wasn't the one to tell you this but Rose, your family is dead. The high council didn't just come for you that day, they killed your grandchildren first they were playing in the yard. Your son fell next, sacrificed himself so his daughter and sister could escape. And they did Celesia, and your granddaughter got away, but she," He nods in Celesia's direction. "She fell right as we reached the TARDIS, I thought she would live, she takes after you, doesn't regenerate like a timelord, she disappeared in front of us. I didn't realise she had woven herself into my timeline as she died. She has spent hundreds of years saving my life, dying for me." He chokes on the word's eyes clenched shut, hands fisted at the thought of her dying again and again. "Every time I got close enough to save her, she would slip through my fingers. The day I managed to pull her into my Tardis I never wanted her to leave again terrified I'd have to watch her die again."
"It's not your fault."
"Nor your Rose."
"Tell me something happy from my life. Please."
"The Raini and the monk ran from Gallifrey they are living a happy life, refused to come back for the war." He stops her before she can ask. "We are members of your chosen, your Timelord Renegades. Raini had been in love with him for years he was so oblivious, the only person worse was the Timelord you were in love with he was completely hopeless, didn't understand why you would want to spend time with him."
"Did he love me."
"With both of his hearts." He replies taking her hands in his.
"Thank you." I whisper, cupping his cheek, "But I think you are needed."
I flash over to the warrior's side "Did you have a nice chat with Clara?"
"I've seen all I needed. The moment has come."
"The moment is me."
"I'm ready."
"I know you are." I agree as I move us back to the shed.
A red, rose-like button stands on a stalk above the Moment box.
"One big bang, no more Time Lords. No more Daleks. Are you sure?" I ask perching on a crate, crossing my legs.
"I was sure when I came in here. There is no other way."
"You've seen the men you will become."
"Those men. Extraordinary."
"They were you."
"No. They are the Doctor."
"You're the Doctor, too."
"No. Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame, whatever the cost." His hand hesitates over the button as he recalls the sound of children's laughter.
I look at him hopelessly, they aren't here yet I need to give them more time. "You know the sound the Tardis makes? That wheezing, groaning. That sound brings hope wherever it goes."
"I like to think it does." He answers not looking away from the red button.
"To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone, however lost." I press as the sound shakes the shed. As two Tardis's park in the barn.
"Told you he hasn't done it yet." Clara says walking out confidently a cup in hand. "I figured you could do with a drink." She hands me the cup glaring at the box I had been trapped in for years.
"These events should be time locked. We shouldn't even be here." The 10th argues looking around the barn haunted. "So, something let us through."
I smile at him over the rim of my cup. "Clever boy."
The Warrior tries to argue, but the 11th ignores him walking over to me. "Welcome back Rose."
(if anyone is confused, it is back in 3rd person as rose remembers who she is.
"Doctor." The words fall from her mouth, "My head hurts."
"I know." He whispers catching her face in both of his hands, kissing her forehead. "I know."
"All three of you shut up." He shouts to stop the bickering behind him. "Rose, do you remember the promise we made?"
"That promise included Jack shall I bring him here too."
"Gods no. But Rose we cannot."
"I know, Bad wolf, the immortal man and the Oncoming storm cannot stand together. One of us needs to be the voice of reason. One of us needs to keep their heads." She trails off.
"Rose." He repeats, her eye still ringed golden.
"I was Bad wolf first." She pouts.
"I need you to be Rose, I need you to be the woman who begged me to save a dalek's life."
"What if I'm not that girl anymore."
"You are Rose, you just can't see it. But I'll show you." The Doctors puts his hands on either side of her temple. Showing her their life together. Showing her his memories of the woman, she was the woman she will be." Tears slip down her cheeks as each memory passes. What a live she has had, what a life she will have. But still.
"I wanted to see them burn for what they did to me."
"Rose think about the children."
"Children die every day." Clara gasps at her heartless words.
"That's the bad wolf speaking."
"After this you are taking me to see my grandchild." She demands as the gold leaves her eyes.
"Done." He whispers pressing his forehead to her, an intimate act for a timelord.
Pulling away from his embrace, she waves the timelords away, "Well get on with it I'm a very busy woman." The 11th Doctor laughs kissing her forehead.
"Dearest we don't need this anymore." He waves at the red button. Rose waves a hand, it's gone.
The Warrior and 10th Doctor stand confused. The 11th moves standing in front of the Warrior taking him by the shoulders.
"You're not going to kiss me too."
"I'll have you know I'm an excellent kisser. But that's not the point. I have spent years burying you in my memories. Pretending you didn't exist. Keeping you a secret, even from myself. Pretending you weren't the Doctor, when you were the Doctor more than anybody else. You were the Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right. Clara." He shouts the last word turning to his daughter. "What is it you always say when I'm struggling to make a choice."
Clara looks over from Roses side, tears in her eyes, "We've got enough warriors. Any old idiot can be a hero. Be a doctor. You told me the name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?"
"Well Doctors what was the promise you made long ago in that classroom before I fell on your lap and interrupted your final week." Rose laughs with a cheeky smile.
"Never cruel or cowardly. Never give up, never give in." The three recite.
"You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?" The tenth asks looking across the faces in the barn.
"We change history all the time. I'm suggesting far worse Gentlemen, I have had four hundred years to think about this. I've changed my mind."
"We can't just change our minds there is a billion billion Daleks up there, attacking." The warrior argues.
"But there's something those billion billion Daleks don't know." The 10th argues back realising what his older self is planning to do.
"What? What don't they know?" Clara asks excitedly, as the warrior catches up. The 11th Doctor points between each person in the room. "So, what are we doing? What's the plan?"
"What if the whole planet just disappeared?" The 10th Doctor asks. Clara raises an eyebrow, even with all of them making a whole planet disappear is a bit of an ask.
"The Daleks would be firing on each other. They'd destroy themselves in their own crossfire." 10 continues as if he hadn't been interrupted.
"Gallifrey would be gone, the Daleks would be destroyed, and it would look to the rest of the universe as if they'd annihilated each other." The warrior concludes, clapping his hands together.
"But where would Gallifrey be?" Clara asks looking around the room.
"cuppa soup, Celesia, cuppa soup."
"So," Rose says standing "Who would like me to hack into the war rooms mainframe to speed this along?"
It didn't take Rose long to send the message standing in the console room of elevens Tardis.
"Gallifrey stand." The Doctor reads over her shoulder, "I think that will get their attention."
"I think them seeing my face will have them all shitting themselves."
"They will definitely forget about the Dalek threat." The Doctor laughs, taking over on the screen.
"Hello, hello, Gallifrey High Command, this is the Doctor speaking." The 11th laughs. Waving at the screen. With a quick twist of her wrist the screen is split, and all three doctors are talking to the high council.
"Dear God, three of them. All my worst nightmares at once."
"General don't be rude you haven't even noticed me yet." Rose mocks. The room falls silent in an instant. "You should be lucky I don't kill you before the Daleks do. But I have been asked to show you mercy an option you did not offer my family." Her eyes glow golden for a second as the Doctor rest a hand on her arm. "You shall listen to them, they will save Gallifrey, your only other option is me, and I can assure you I will kill you before the Daleks break through your shields."
"Rose your helping."
"That wasn't part of the agreement."
"Rose."
"Doctor."
"Rose we need you to freeze Gallifrey."
"Excuse me freeze."
"Shut up." Rose and the Doctor shout at the screen.
The warrior and 10th Doctor explain that they are going to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time, like a stasis cube held in a parallel pocket universe, as Rose and the 11th bicker.
"What? Even if that were possible. Which it isn't, why would you do such a thing?" The General snaps about to hang up.
"Because the alternative is burning." Rose snaps.
"And I've seen that. And I never want to see it again." The 11ths words cause Rose to pause.
"It'll never work the calculations alone."
"That's why you have me." Rose replies, sounding very much like the ancient being she is. "You don't need calculations you have me." She finishes as she places the statis cube on the console.
one more chapter left, before we return to season 3
let me know what you think. and again sorry for the long wait.