THE LAST TIME LORD

Author note Chapter 3 is up. Thanks to XTimeGirlX for beta reading this chapter

Disclaimer I still don't own Doctor who.

Chapter 3

Kate groaned as she lay on the floor; the Doctor gently touched her face. "Let me help, Kate," he said quietly as he cradled her in his arms. It was strange; almost like there was some kind of connection between them, the action of holding her in his arms felt oddly familiar. But then again, he'd cradled a lot of people in his arms during his time. The sensation was nothing new.

Suddenly, something fell out of her pocket. She scrambled onto floor for it. She couldn't lose it, she just couldn't. Ever since she'd found the beautiful stone embedded between some tree roots in a forest, she had felt drawn to it, as though it held something so precious like a memory or something she couldn't quite get hold of. Sometimes Kate believed her life really didn't make any sense. There were too many things in her life that didn't add up; almost like there was a huge part of her life she couldn't explain.

"Doctor, help me," she whispered.

"Wait," he said, catching a glimpse of the small shinning object Kate had in her hand. It was without doubt a diamond, but much more than any ordinary diamond. It was a white point star. He knew a white point star could only be found on one planet. Gallifrey.

So how did Kate have it in her possession?

Frowning, he tore his gaze away from the star and looked at Kate. "There's a lot here that doesn't make sense..." he paused for a moment, reaching up to cradle her face between his hands. "You said you thought there was something missing from your life, something just out of reach. Well...I think I might know what it is. Will you let me see into your mind?"

She nodded, eyes widening.

He put his fingertips over her temples. Instantly, lots of images were seen in her head, the dark tower, Gallifrey, the city, but none of them related to Kate, or so it seemed. It didn't make sense.

"I am so stupid!" he exclaimed, jumping up. The memories, the fob watch, the white point star... "Stupid, stupid, stupid! I should have realised before!"

"Doctor, what is it?" Sally asked.

He turned to her, face deadly serious. "She's from Gallifrey." The statement hung in the air for a moment before he continued. "She has to be, but how? I haven't figured that out yet." He knew there was something familiar about her; he had definitely seen her eyes before. He had a thought but brushed it off. No, it couldn't be.

Kate sat up; the song was slightly faded in her mind.

"You remind me of someone," he said out loud, his mind wandering. Could it be? He shook the feelings away. No, it was impossible. But then again, he had never actually seen her on Gallifrey around the time that the Time War had started.

"Who?" Kate asked, frowning slightly as something twitched at the back of her mind.

"Someone very close to me, but she's gone now. All my people have."

"What happened?" The niggling twitch in the back of her mind was refusing to go away; she felt like she just needed something...Something to trigger it, and then maybe, the memories might come back.

"There was a war, the last great time war between my people and a race called the Daleks. And we lost; I lost everyone: my family, my people, my planet... It's gone now. It's just dust and ashes, long before its time."

'A race called the Daleks'... the words echoed in her mind. Why was the word 'Daleks' familiar to her? Had she seen them before? No, she was sure she hadn't. She was just a normal human being...right? But then, what was all this the Doctor was going on about – her being from Gallifrey?

All of a sudden, she had a moment of a memory and the niggling thing at the back of her mind seemed to settle again. Was it her memory or someone else's?

'Gallifrey must fall to the Daleks.'

Was that what happened? She thought. It fell?

She was lost in her thoughts, oblivious to what the Doctor and Sally were saying.

"Kate, Kate," the Doctors voice called her name. She glanced up at the Doctor who was kneeling beside her.

"Kate, what is it?"

"The Daleks... it seems familiar, but I don't know how."

The Doctor frowned, wondering why she hadn't remembered everything yet. She was a Timelord, she had to be. "Kate, the Daleks should be familiar to you."

"I don't understand..."

"They invaded your world two years ago," he told her gently, trying to make her remember.

"That's not possible," she said, "How can-" the question remained on her lips.

"I don't know, but I'm trying to work it out," the Doctor replied, reaching out a hand for her arm.

She paused for a long moment, then something she said shocked the Doctor.

"Gallifrey must fall to the Daleks..." the words tumbled from her mouth; she barely understood where she remembered it from, or maybe it wasn't her memory at all.

Then a thought came to the Doctor. He had thought so long ago he had been the last of the Time Lords, but the Master had escaped the Time War by using the Chameleon. If Kate had done the same, then that was why she was showing as human to him. And apart from her dreams, she obviously had no memory of a life on Gallifrey.

The Doctor couldn't recall even seeing his sister on Gallifrey before the Time War had wiped out the planet, but that wasn't to say she wasn't still alive. He knew he was clutching at straws, but he so badly wanted not just another Time lord to be alive, but for it to be someone from his family. Because throughout years on Earth he'd come to realise that family was very important. During the Time War he'd lost his entire family: his parents, his sister, his brother... Even his own Daughters had perished in the War. He hadn't been able to save any of them.

The Doctor stood up. "Kate, there's something I want to show you. "

She followed Sally and the Doctor towards the TARDIS. As he pushed the door open, Kate walked in, followed by Sally and the Doctor. She walked around the console; she had seen the TARDIS before, she was sure she had, at least in her dreams. She ran her hand around the console, willing herself to remember who she had been, but then she ran out. As she ran all the way round then walked back in, she said: "It's umm bigger on the- " Before she could finish, she felt herself fall. The Doctor caught her. "It's okay, I got you."

"I know it may be lot to take in, but I believe like me you are from Gallifrey."

"No, you're wrong. I'm not from another world; I'm from Earth, I'm human." She pulled away from the Doctor angrily.

Then she remembered something for a brief moment 'You were one of us. You were a part of this planet.' The voice in her head was frightening, commanding...it scared her, for some reason.

"I was a part of this planet," she repeated, almost like the words were very familiar to her but how and what did it mean?

"Kate, I believe the answer is in your fob watch," the Doctor told her, eyeing the watch.

"But it's just a watch," she insisted.

The Doctor shook his head, still looking at it gravely. "It has Gallifreyan writing on it; all Time Lords have a fob watch."

"I'm not a Time Lord; I'm human," she protested again as a flashback hit her.

'I'm not human; I'm one of you, a part of this planet.'

"Not human..." she whispered, " How could that be?"

"Kate, what is it?" he asked, turning her to face him.

"She said that, this girl but- " she stopped mid sentence, then it was almost like the memory hadn't occurred. Shaking her head, she frowned, not quite able to recall what she was saying. "Um...doesn't matter."

"Are you ready?"

"Yes."

She flicked the fob watch open as all the memories flooded into her mind. Gallifrey, the Tower, the Gallifreyan children singing the famous nursery rhyme. "The Time Lords," she gasped. As she fell, she heard someone screaming, then the comforting voice of the Doctor. "Shhh, you're safe." He stroked her hair, just like he did when she was merely a kid.

"Rassilon, he..." but she fell into deep sleep before she could finish.

"Who is she?" Sally asked, looking down at the sleeping woman.

"She's a Time Lord; I just don't know how she ended up on the Earth."

"Is she going to be okay?"

"I honestly don't know," he replied.

He placed Kate onto the bed in the TARDIS, watching her sleep. Suddenly, she stirred in her sleep as she thrust about on the bed, clearly having a nightmare. The Doctor was instantly at her side. "Shhh, Kate, I'm here; everything's going to be fine. "

Her eyes flicked open. "Doctor," she whispered.

"I'm here."

"They- " she stuttered, struggling to get the words out.

"Tell me," he said softly, reaching out for her arm.

"But the Time Lords... are they all really gone?" she asked.

"Yes." It pained him to say it, but the truth always did hurt.

She let out a sob as a tear fell down her face. "What about the Daleks?"

"Pretty much, they burnt with the Time Lords. I was the only one who could end it and I tried. I really did; I tried everything."

"How did you?" she said, sitting up.

"I used the moment."

"Why?" She knew what that mean; it meant he had placed a time-lock on it and she couldn't ever go back. More tears streamed down her face as she thought of the unknown home she had lost, the identity that had been stolen from her. It was like she had lost herself, and couldn't ever get it back.

Without warning, she turned on him. "Oh it must of been like you were God. Two whole planets and you decided who lived and who died," she spat.

It wasn't like that, was it? Thought the Doctor to himself. There hadn't been a choice, or maybe there had and he hadn't seen it?

"Kate," he started.

"You should've left me alone!" she shouted. "Leave me alone!" She jumped off the bed, ran down the stairs and through the TARDIS door...

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