THE LAST TIME LORDS OF GALLIFREY

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"Braxiatel." Donna finally broke the silence among them. The Doctor looked at her with a side glance.

"What about him?"

"Maybe we should check up on him and Aleena. It's obviously a bad day for him, too."

"Brax is fine." The Doctor said a little stiffly. "They have Benny."

"Even so," Donna chose her words carefully. "He's your family, they both are."

The Doctor merely shrugged. They had never really been that for a variety of reasons and those reasons had occurred long before Romana even existed, so even if he had wanted to blame her, he knew it was much deeper than that.

"Promise me you will look out for Brax," Romana's sweet voice echoed in his , of course, had promised her, but he didn't really want to, but he owed it to her to keep the promise.

"Brax doesn't know that I went back for her. She told me she loved me but she was so out of it I doubted she even knew who I was." The Doctor confessed.

"Were you in love with her?" Donna inquired.

"Very much. She had moved on from me when I returned to Gallifrey, though. She had Brax and a baby on the way, she belonged to my brother and not me. He made her happy, after all she went through she deserved some happiness."

He remembered after her twenty year capture how scared she had looked. The haunting look in her eyes, how deadly thin she was and how she had clung desperately to Braxiatel as her body wrecked into sobs. He should have seen it then, the way Brax looked at Romana as he held her but she was so very young and broken the Doctor would never had guessed Brax would use that terrible situation to get what he wanted. He thought leaving her on Gallifrey was for the best. It was the worse mistake he had ever made. How could he of expected her to spend years waiting for him?

He remembered the last time he saw her, fighting on the battle ground . She wasn't meek or gentle she was hard and ruthless, and then he saw her fall. All their fights and her choices were instantly forgotten as he started running towards her immediately.

It felt like many spans before he finally reached her. She looked terrible she was pale and thin far too weak for her to be fighting.

"Romana! " He shouted .

"This is the way it was supposed to end." She whispered between ragged breathing. He simply held her in his arms as the blood began to stain his own clothes.

"Take care of Aleena," she placed a tender kiss on his lips. "I love you, Brax" she whispered before her body went limp. He remembered screaming her name over and over again; the horror of holding the one he had always loved was unbearable.

It was one thing losing her to Brax, but losing her to war cut through his soul. He knew she had thought he was Brax which told him her state of mind had not been good. Not good at all.

"I love you too," he mumbled into her hair as he rocked her against his chest. He knew she would never wake up; it was a darker lonelier universe without her.

Romana had always been something quite special and unique. He laid her down on the ground kissing, her forehead.

"Nobody will ever hurt you again." That was the only thing that could console him that nothing could ever harm her again. He walked away from her broken body, never looking back.

The door to Brax's office swung open harshly and pulled him out of his thoughts. It was Bernice, and she looked frazzled.

"Irving," Bernice was out of breath. "She's gone, Aleena. I left her for a moment and now she's gone! I was with a student, I am so sorry, Brax."

Brax couldn't respond to Benny, he was too shocked. All he could think of was Romana at the moment. The pain was getting worse, he felt so crushingly alone, and he was tired of it watching everything turn to dust and seeing how dark the universe truly was.

Sometimes, when he looked at the universe, he was convinced the stars didn't shine as brightly as they once did when Romana was alive, and that something dark and evil was coming from across the stars.

Bernice slowly approached him, taking his hand gently into hers. "Irving, you are not alone. I know how much you loved her. "

He looked away. "I would like to be alone now," he whispered.

"Aleena has been taken, Brax,"

Brax looked up at her, a haunting expression in his eyes lingered before rage filled him. He tore out of his office shouting her name

No, he couldn't lose her too; the last thing he had left of Romana was their little girl.

He sank to his knees, the tears ripping down his face as he rocked himself back and forth wailing. He let out an anguishing scream, and as the years went past he sat in his office detached from his staff, his friends slowly going mad despite everyone's best efforts there were no trace of Aleena across the whole of time and space.

He should be glad; a child would not fit into his life. He had ambitions a child can never be part of it, but it was his promise to Romana that made him feel guilty.

The Doctor and Donna had come as soon as Benny had called. He immediately went to his brother, who was lying on the bed staring up at the ceiling.

"Brax," The Doctor started to no response. He quickly scanned him with the sonic before sighing.

"Will he be okay?" Donna asked warily.

"Aleena," whispered Brax.

"Brax, I promise to find her." The Doctor looked at him grimly. "I will save your daughter."

It was a promise he knew he may not be able to keep.

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