THE LAST TIME LORD

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Author note Chapter 4 is now up. thank yolu to XTimeGirlX for beta reading this chapter,x-Stage-STARR-x for reviewing and all those who added my story on alert.

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Kate was sat in her brightly coloured art studio when the Doctor and Sally came rushing in after her. The walls were brightly painted with the beautiful twin suns, surrounded by a large glass dome. And on the wall were pictures of various places on Gallifrey, but the most chilling of all the pictures was what you could never really see. The thing that you could only see in the corner of your eye; she had no idea what it was but it made her feel uneasy. The art studio was very comfortable; it had a red sofa in the far end of the room then in the middle of the room was where she did her actual paintings.

She was lost in thoughts of that beautiful city: that lush red grass she used to run across, but no more. It was gone and she was angry with the Doctor, but more than that, she was angry about being forced off of Gallifrey in the first place.

"Kate," the Doctor said her name but she ignored him. She wasn't Kate. Kate had never, ever existed.

"It's Everquest," she snapped.

"Everquest," he said, looking into her sparkling blue eyes. He should have realised at the start; she was his little, brilliant sister.

"Everquest, I'm so sorry for whatever was done to force you to be here. Please let me help." His eyes pleaded with her, wanting desperately to be able to fix his sister. Otherwise, what was the point of him? If he couldn't fix his sister, he might as well find a new name because he wouldn't be the Doctor anymore.

"Help," she hissed, "How in the name of Rassilon can you possibly help me?"

He sat beside her. "Please, Everquest, let me help..." he paused. "Tell me what happened to you."

"I stole a key," she said with a shy smile upon her face. "And while you were travelling through time and space, I was doing something so important," she hissed.

Ignoring her display, he asked her: "A key?"

"Well it was his key," she told him as she looked really pleased with herself. She paused slightly. "The key of Rassilon."

"He exiled you because of a key?" The Doctor shook his head. No, there had to be more to it than that, thought the Doctor to himself. Every gut feeling was telling him that there was so much more to it than just a key. "You stole a key, you should have recieved a suitable punishment. Being exiled wasn't a suitable punishment."

"Rassilon was planning on using the key to take whole planets and people out of space and time. So when I found out what that could mean for the universe, I had to stop them. They were trying to crack the basic building blocks of the universe. Time and space and matter, theirs to control, and for Gallifrey to be the only planet in the solar system. The other planets would either be lost or taken out of the universe." She took a deep breath as she tried to voice all the memories that were rushing back to her.

"He told me that I was no longer a Time Lord. No longer one of them and no longer part of their planet. He said that I betrayed them because of the Key; I buried it where they could never find it."

A tear fell down her face as she recalled all Rassilon had inflected on her.

"Where is it? "Rassilon hissed at her.

"I don't know what you are talking about," she said.

"Your games don't work here, not in the Academy," he shouted, "My Academy!"

"It's not your Academy; it's not called the Academy of Rassilon."The words tumbled out of her mouth without meaning to as he struck her in the face. All the students in the Academy had been shocked. It had been known that Rassilon was a vicious man but they never thought that he'd lash out at a student. She grabbed her bag and ran from the Academy in floods of tears - the first time anyone had ever seen her cry.

"In later years he exiled me to earth as a human and forced a regeneration on me," Everquest said.

"I'm so sorry; I should have being there to stop them..."

She let out a half hearted laugh. "Yeah, because you've always been able to stop the Time Lords." She rested her head on his shoulder. Sally, not wanting to intrude, went back to the TARDIS.

"Why did you leave me there?" Everquest finally asked.

"It was your home."

It hadn't felt like home to her.

She was just eight years old and she was his little sister. "Can I come?" she asked, her blue sparkling innocent eyes staring into his.

"No, you're too young, maybe when you're older," came the familiar reply.

And as she got older, it was always the same response. She had lived in awe of her brother, wanted to be just like him and throughout the years, he'd returned with a new companion each time. She didn't like most of them, although she had liked Leela.

She didn't understand why he always left her, always promising to return. Yet each time he returned, he wasn't the same as when he left, he went through regenerations so fast.

It was many hours afterwards that the Doctor returned to the TARDIS with Everquest but instantly her mind was filled with thoughts of returning to Gallifrey.

Even if Gallifrey was time locked, she could maybe go back to an earlier time on Gallifrey. She knew the Doctor wouldn't allow it, but she was better at working the TARDIS than him. I just want see it again, she thought to herself.

She felt it calling to her. As the famous nursery rhyme danced in her head, off to Rassilon's tower we go.

Her brother hadn't seen how bad Gallifrey had become: how corrupted, how tainted the Time Lords had become and she desperately wanted to escape. But then one day, he did take her with her, just the once. He took her to Earth.

Everquest spun round on Earth. "It's another planet!" she gasped in excitement.

The Doctor grinned; he loved seeing the excitement when he took a new companion in the TARDIS.

"Oh it's weird because standing here, it feels like the ground beneath my feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 thousand miles an hour and I can feel it! We're falling through space and time!" she exclaimed excitedly.

She loved this planet; it was so brilliant and a million, billion miles from home. She wanted to travel forever across the stars, but then he took her home. She didn't understand why after seeing all that, he had just dumped her back home, expecting her to live on Gallifrey for the rest of her life. Didn't he care about how much she wanted to travel with him? To get away from her boring life?

"Why did you take me to Earth then take me home? Why show me there was more out there and then make me return to a planet even you wouldn't stay on."

"Because... if anything ever happened to you, I would never forgive myself. You're my little sister, it's my job to make sure you are safe."

"You took Romana, Breanna and even Erisa," she argued.

"That was different."

"No, it wasn't different. It wasn't fair, you ruined my life."

"Oh don't be so melodramatic," snapped the Doctor.

"Do you know how many times he hurt- " she stopped mid sentence.

"What?" The Doctor spun around to face her fully, eyes alert again.

"Rassilon - he used the cane on me so many times," she told him as the tears fell down her face

The Doctor was really angry now. "And you didn't think that was important enough to tell me?" he shouted, thinking of Rassilon, harming his precious sister.

"Why would you even care, you abandoned me! Besides, what difference would it have made?" she screamed at him as the tears fell down her face. She ran from the room.

The Doctor was full of anger and he blamed himself for what his little sister had gone through; they had been close so why couldn't she have told him? He walked into her bed room. She was lying on her bed with her face buried in her pillows as she silently cried so no-one could hear her.

How many times had he ever seen his sister cry? Never, but silent crying - he'd seen that a lot. The first time he saw it was back on Gallifrey; she was about twelve years old and was sitting on the wall in the city of Gallifrey. Her head had been bowed down, her shoulders hunched. He thought back to that day. Was she crying? There were no tears falling from her face and that's when it came to him. She was crying but silently, yet other Time lords were walking past blindly. Even Flavia did too and she would always try to help a hurting child.

When was the last time he saw a child crying on Gallifrey? Never, but a child crying silently, he had seen many times. But why hadn't anyone asked what was wrong? And that's when it came to him. They already knew why his sister had been crying and they never spoke about it. How could he had being so blind? That had been the start and he hadn't or didn't want to see it. He was no better than any of the other Time lords.

The Doctor sat on the edge of the bed stroking his sister's hair "Everquest," he said softly.

She sat up and looked at him."Can we go to Gallifrey?"

"No, it's Time locked for a very good reason."

"I just want to see it," whimpered Everquest.

"Well you can't and I can't cross my own Time line."

"I wouldn't be crossing it, seeing as I wasn't there. Since when were you a stickler for rules anyway? What about all those times you broke the non-interfering rule, changing history or fixed points in history?" She stopped, knowing she had gone too far.

"You are out of order," stated the Doctor, his eyes hard.

Everquest clutched her head as the nursery rhyme sung the loudest in her mind.

"Everquest, what is it?" The Doctor took her hand with a concerned look on his face.

"The noise in my head: the constant nursery rhyme. It never stops, listen," she whispered.

The Doctor shook his head. "There's no noise, no song."

"You think I'm crazy," she said as she pulled away from him angrily "I'm not crazy!" she shouted. "I'm not," she whispered as she ran out of the bed room towards the console room.

"Everquest!" he called out after her, but she ignored him.

No, he thought to himself. He wasn't going to let this continue as he chased down the corridor towards the console room. After finally catching up with her, he grabbed her arm as she collapsed onto ground. He scooped her up in his arms. "Why does it hurt?" she whimpered.

As he opened her mind, he heard it. "Off to Rassilons tower we go..." Why was it in her head? Was it the Time lords who did it to try make her go mad? He didn't know the answer to his questions.

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