Remembering the Forgotten [2] (The Parallel Series) ✓

Daleks in Manhatten

Rita sat in the jump seat as the Doctor walked around the console thinking how he would tell her everything. Martha had gone to rest and he was worrying a little too much about what she would say to him. What her reaction to what he did would be when she told him, what if she knew?

"Doctor" Rita said shattering the silence and causing him to stop in his tracks and shoot his head in the Time Lady's direction. "Just ask me what you want Doctor. I wouldn't get mad or angry." He then proceeded to raise his brows at her. "I promise"

The Doctor let out a deep breath before he walked over and sat down beside her on the jump seat. "How did you escape?"

Sighing the Time Lady began to talk. "After you warned me about Arcadia I thought long and hard about my family. My mother and father, everyone, I knew even with you not telling me, I knew that you were going to use the moment and I got scared, I did what we did years and years before, I stole my family's TARDIS and ran, but unlucky me got shot, one of the bloody pepper pots found me and shot me, I managed to get into the TARDIS and get out of Gallifrey but then I regenerated and became even more scared and terrified so I took myself to a parallel universe and used a Charmeleon Arch to make myself human."

"I thought you died..." He muttered.

"And I'm sorry." She whispers looking at the ground, the pattern of the grating suddenly becoming interesting to her eyes that were unable to look away, glued to the pattern of the metal desperately trying to avoid looking anywhere near him.

"I heard you disappeared and thought that you died it was meant to be impossible for you to come back." The Doctor muttered. "I only thought it was you when I saw the watch, then the Daleks called you Stone and I hoped it was you."

"I remember how I got that name as well." She laughed. "But Doctor?" She looked at him. "Do you wish that I had told you what I was planning to do before I went?" She then swallowed thickly choosing her words carefully as if they could shatter him into a million pieces. "Even if I told you I would have never been able to come back let alone open the watch on my own.

He looked at her for a moment thinking to himself not even realising that she was not looking right at him. It was like she couldn't face him until asking that question. Giving him that reality. He studied her face and her eyes then gave his answer knowing that after all of this their friendship grew even wider and stronger: "No"

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"Morning Martha!" Rita beamed watching the woman walk into the console room.

"Have you two been here since I went to sleep?" She asked.

"We did some reading for a while" the Doctor shrugged. She eyed them for a moment still trying to figure out where they both stood with one enough, at times she could swear that they were together but at others, she believed that they were just best friends.

"How are you not tired?" She asked them.

"Time Lords don't need much sleep." The Doctor explained. "Anyway off we go." He jumped out of the jump seat and started running around the console turning dials, pressing buttons then pulling a lever. The TARDIS jolted and Rita groaned getting thrown to the floor.

"Sory there Stone" The Doctor held out his hand and helped her up after the TARDIS materialised. She narrowed his eyes at him then grabbed her coat off of the 'Y' beam and threw the Doctors in his face, laughing as it hit him then fell to the floor leaving him looking a little dazed by the sudden action.