Chapter 20. Saving Gallifrey

Leyna's POV

"So, here we are, abandoned by the Doctor, left alone in the art gallery", I said.

"'I'll be back in a minute'", Clara quoted the Doctor right before he jumped in his TARDIS and flew off after dropping us off in the gallery.

"Well, we should trust him. He is wise. Most of the time. I mean, whats a great piece of advice that he's given you?" I asked Clara.

"I just want a little evidence to tell me that he isn't just a madman with a box", I added, earning a laugh.

"Well, one thing is 'never let time be the boss of you', which is pretty smart. It's also just an excuse for being late, but put in a different in a different context and that gives you a whole new reason to trust him."

"Well, he also got mad at me once for not bringing a banana to a party", she laughed. Man, it was great to have another person to talk to about the Doctor.

"Yeah, why do we trust this man?" she said in between laughs. It seems like she knows him better than I do, even though she got a different incarnation of him.

"How do you know him so well? It's like you know every different incarnation of his."

"Well, I do. I'm the impossible girl. Born to save the Doctor, saving him through every regeneration because I jumped into his time stream to save him, so he wouldn't die. He thinks it's so amazing, how I'm the impossible girl. Like I'm the last mystery in the universe worth solving."

"Oh Clara, if only you knew."

"Knew what?" her eye brows furrowed and she put on a smug, but questioning, smile.

"How much you mean to him."

The sound of the TARDIS pops up, and three TARDISes land in front of us in a row. Clara was about to ask me what I meant, but the Doctor's all stepped out and I knew that I had to change the subject.

"So, what have you been up to?" I asked them.

War Room On Gallifrey: Third person

All the people in the Gallifreyan War Room looked up at the screens around them as three incarnations of the Doctor popped up.

"Hello, hello, Gallifrey high command, this is the Doctor speaking", the Eleventh Doctor said while fiddling with the screen to make sure he got a clear signal across.

"Hello! Also the Doctor. Can you hear me?" the tenth Doctor said while checking out his screen.

"Also the Doctor, standing ready", the War Doctor said.

"Dear God, all three of them. All my worst nightmares at once", the General said while frantically looking at the rest of the people in the room.

"General, we have a plan", the tenth Doctor informed them.

"We should point at this moment, it is a fairly terrible plan", the eleventh Doctor said while flailing his arms around.

"And almost certainly won't work", the tenth Doctor added.

"I was happy with fairly terrible", the eleventh Doctor said to the tenth Doctor.

"Sorry, just thinking aloud", the tenth Doctor said while fixing his tie.

"We're flying our three TARDISes into your lower atmosphere", the eleventh Doctor said while pulling some levers on the console.

"We're positioned at the equidistant intervals around the globe. Equidistant. So grown up", the tenth Doctor said while admiring his new vocabulary.

"We're just about ready to do it", the War Doctor mentioned.

"Ready to do what?" the General asked while the others looked at the table in front of them, checking the war status.

"We're going to freeze Gallifrey", the eleventh Doctor said while looking at the screen with a hopeful tint in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, what?" the general asked as the others stopped what they were doing to listen in on the conversation.

"Using our TARDISes, we're going to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time", the tenth Doctor started to explain.

The War Doctor was back on the monitor now, finishing the tenth Doctor's explanation. "You know, like those stasis cubes? A single moment in time, held in a parallel pocket universe."

"Except we're going to do it with a whole planet", the eleventh Doctor added while the mad man smile of his appeared again.

"And all the people on it", ten recalled.

"What? Even if that were possible, which it isn't, why would you do such a thing?" the General asked, confusion clearly was in that whole sentence.

"Because the alternative is burning," eleven stated.

"And I've seen that", ten said very seriously.

"And I never want to see it again", eleven finished while wringing his hands, a terrible habit of his.

"We'd be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing", the General tried reasoning with them.

"You would have hope. And right now, that is exactly what you don't have", eleven stated.

"It's delusional", the General started," the calculations alone would take hundred of years."

On the monitors, you could see that every TARDIS console had a stasis cube on it.

"Oh, hundreds and hundreds", eleven started.

"But don't worry, I started a very long time ago", ten said.

"Calling the War Council of Gallifrey. This is the Doctor", the first Doctor said as he popped up on the monitor.

"You might say I've been doing this all my lives", eleven said as his mad man smile returned.

The Doctor's all started popping up on the monitors.

"Good luck", the second Doctor said.

"Standing by", the third Doctor.

"Ready", said the fourth.

The eighth Doctor popped on the monitor, "Commencing calculations."

"Soon be there", the fifth said.

"Across the boundaries that divide one universe from another", the seventh Doctor said as he popped on the monitor.

"Just got to lock on to his coordinates", the sixth Doctor said as you could see him fiddling with the console controls.

"And for my next trick", the ninth Doctor said.

"I didn't know when I was well off. All twelve of them!" the General said, scared or amazed, you couldn't really tell.

Androgar went beside him, "No, sir. All thirteen!"

A pair of grey eyebrows were seen in the monitors.

"Sir! The Daleks know that something is happening. They're increasing fire power", Androgar added.

"Do it, Doctor. Just do it", the General said.

"Okay. Gentlemen, we're ready. Geronimo!" the eleventh Doctor said.

The tenth Doctor straightened his tie again, "Allons-y!"

"Oh, for God's sake!" the War Doctor said, lifting his hands in frustration, "Gallifrey stands!"

All the TARDISes surrounded the planet, circling it over and over again. They all surround the planet, the a whiteout happens! No one knows whether they succeeded or not.

Gallery: Leyna's POV

We were all sitting around the Gallifrey Falls painting, sipping tea that Kate was generous enough to get for us. To the left of us were the TARDISes, and to the right was a wall decorated with those cool circle things.

"I don't suppose we'll know if we actually succeeded. But at worst, we failed doing the right thing, as opposed to succeeding in doing the wrong" the War Doctor said while admiring the painting.

"Life and soul, you are", Clara joked in between sips.

"What is it actually called?" I asked no one and everyone.

"Well, there's some debate. Either No More or Gallifrey Falls", eleven said wile placing his tea cup down.

"Not very encouraging", the War Doctor pointed out.

"How did it get here?" the Doctor asked.

"No idea", bowtie answered.

"There's always something we don't know, isn't there?" the Doctor asked/stated.

"One should certainly hope so. Well, gentlemen, it has been an honour and a privilege", the War Doctor said while standing up.

"Likewise", the Doctor said.

"Doctor", bowtie said.

"And if I grow to be the man that you are, Clara Oswald, I shall be happy indeed."

"That's right. Aim high" Clara responded.

"And Leyna, thank you. If it wasn't for you, I never would have given it a second thought. Now, I won't remember this will I?"

"The time streams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no", bowtie said.

"So I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey rather than burn it. I'll have to live with that. But for now, for this moment, I am the Doctor again. Thank you. Which one is mine? Ha!"

We all watched as he walked into the shabbiest TARDIS and listened to it as it dematerialized.

"I won't remember either, so you might as well tell me", the Doctor said as he sat down beside Bowtie.

"Tell you what?"

"Where it is we're going that you don't want to talk about."

"I saw Trenzalore, where we're buried. We die in battle among millions", bowtie said.

"That's not how it's supposed to be."

"That's how the story ends. Nothing we can do about it. Trenzalore is where you're going."

"Oh, never say nothing. Anyway, good to know my future is in safe hands. Keep a tight hold on it, Clara."

"On it," she responded.

I walked towards the TARDIS, knowing that we would be leaving soon.

"Trenzalore. We need a new destination, because I don't want to go."

The Doctor walked into the TARDIS and I was just about to follow him when I heard Bowtie faintly tell Clara, "He always says that."

But he never says that. He's never said that before. I closed the door and walked back over to Bowtie.

"What do you mean he always says that?" I asked him. Clara looked at me with a shocked and awkward face, "I'll be in the TARDIS", she quickly said as an excuse to leave.

"Well, might as well tell me. I won't remember", I reminded Bowtie.

"I'm not telling you, just because I don't want to see the look on your face. You won't remember, Leyna, but I will. And if this is the last moment I get to see you, I don't want it to be me telling you what has happened."

"What do you mean last moment you get to see me? I mean, I know you're with Clara now, but that must be because I moved on, right? Not because you killed me?" I was holding back tears now.

Bowtie tensed. "Well, let's just say you'll find out soon."

This is too sad and emotional. I have to change the subject.

"Doctor, tell Clara."

"Tell Clara what?"

"What you think about her. Because if you don't and you regenerate with her there without her knowing you love her, she will be heartbroken. And it will turn out to be your regrets and mistakes in the end."

"Leyna! Coming?" The Doctor called to me from the TARDIS.

I started walking away, but there was one thing I needed to tell him.

"The name of the painting. Figured it out. Gallifrey Falls No More. And Doctor? I only told you the advice about Clara because if what you said is true, that I don't have much time left, I probably didn't have enough time to work up the guts to tell you that I love.."

"Leyna!" the Doctor called me again.

"Sorry, have to go." I told him as I ran towards the TARDIS. We were out of there as soon as I stepped foot in the TARDIS.

Eleventh Doctor's POV

"So, what did she say?" Clara asked me after I told her what happened and the name of the painting.

"Well, she was cut off. She was saying how she probably didn't have enough time to work up the courage to tell me that she loves..." I trailed off.

"Loves what? Who?" Clara asked intently.

"I told you, she was cut off."

"But what do you think it means?"

"That doesn't matter. It's just the fact that she never got to say what she wanted to tell me. The fact that she was always cut off."

I started to cry as my mind went back to the images on my worst day. The day I called 'The End of Time'. And the last words that escaped Leyna's mouth before she died in my arms.



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