Chapter Twenty Seven - Where's Kate?
In the number months that followed since Kate's escape to the past. The Trickster had surfaced and had almost erased the existence of Sarah Jane replacing her with her high school friend Andrea. Maria and eventually Alan who came to learn of what had been going on in his daughters life fixed the present and saved the lives of millions. Then came the master under the disguise of Harold Saxon. A time lord driven mad by his home planet and escaped to then end of the universe.
That had been the threat that the Doctor had sent the signal for, he protected his daughter from one of their own. It had worked, because by the time The Master had connected Katelyn to him, but saw no value in taking her immediately, by the time had come where he would have, she had disappeared.
"So tell me Doctor." The Master whispered kneeing in front of his old former friend. "Where is she?"
"Martha...." The master cut him off
"No not Martha Jones. I have people looking for her. I'm talking about the infamous chip of the old block. Miss Katelyn Demetria Langer, your daughter, your pride and joy. I've watched her, since I returned. I kept tabs, had her followed. She impresses me, which is saying something. She stayed where she was because at that time she was of no use, i had better things to do, when she did become of use. She's gone. How did you do it? You had no Tardis, no way of getting back to her before me. How?" The master rambled
"You really think I would...tell you. I have only one thing to say." The Master shushed him.
"No you don't. No" The Master left him and The Doctor sat alone in his tent left of the thoughts of his daughter.
-Ancient Egypt-
Handmaiden's helped Kate prepare herself for another day trapped in history. The Doctor had sent his daughter to her mother the Queen Cleopatra. What history didn't know is that the doctor for a brief period was quite a close favourite of the Queen between Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. During their brief time together, Kate had been born. It was time frowned upon and Cleopatra sent both of them away, though the doctor made her promise that should the need ever arise, she would protect her.
Which is what she was doing. Time was a funny thing, the future doctor traveled back to warn her former...fling that Kate would be arriving soon. That she was in danger but she was not to know of him being there. He would return her back to the future when it was safe.
Cleopatra now married to Mark Anthony and had more children younger siblings to Kate and her older brother yet younger looking Caesarian.
"Mother." Kate greeted, in this time she went by her middle name. Katelyn was hardly and ancient name, Demetria was assumed to be a twist on Greek Mythology.
"Demetria, the gods have shined down on you. You have recovered from your illness." Cleopatra smiled happily, a common day cold which Kate had to ride out without paracetamol or ibuprofen.
"Yes, my health is returned." Kate nodded her head to Mark Anthony, who returned the gesture. Then bag to eat the fruit and meets that were placed in front of her.
"That is happy news, now we can discuss the matter of your betrothal." Kate's head shot up. "To your brother." Cleopatra smiled affectionately at her son.
"What? I'm not getting married, let alone to my brother. That's incest." Kate was disgusted but her mother seemed unfazed.
"It is custom as royalty..." Kate cut her off
"I'm more time lord than Egyptian Royalty, I refuse to be used as some pawn." she stood up and ran off
"Guards!" Kate ran to her room and scrambled getting the vortex manipulator.
"Sorry Dad." she muttered just as the guards grabbed her stopping her and she was dragged back to Cleopatra. "Seriously!" Kate grunted
"I was not asking, we need to stand united. You are apart of that." Kate head butted one guard and kicked another "Demetria that is enough!"
"Bite me!" Kate sneered and hit her wrist disappearing.
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Present Day
Luke was watching Kate's message again, he was sat on the steps as the recording ended. Clyde came in watching the image of his sister fading. He sighed and sat down next to his mate.
"How many times have you watched this now?" Clyde wondered
"You've watched it more than me." Luke replied back "Something has been...bugging me?" he though of the right phrase.
"How?"
"Well she gives a brief explanation all of it seems like what you would do thinking ahead should anything happen. But the last bit, where she speaks to me, it feels something more." Luke huffed in frustration "Like I should know something."
"She made a Star Tek reference lightening the mood. So what?" Clyde shrugged which made Luke think. Frustrated at not understanding he stormed off to his room. Clyde left him to calm down while he talked with Sarah Jane and Maria. Meanwhile Luke stared up at the ceiling repeating the message in his mind, his head lolled to the side and caught something familiar. It was a figurine of Spock that Kate had given him.
She loved Star Trek and Star Wars, she had given this to him because Kate jokes that Lukes intelliagce matched Spock. Luke got up and lifted up the figurine.
"What are you trying to tell me." he shook the stand with the vulcan figure on top. There was a rattle, Lukes eyebrows furrowed he opened the bottom and out fell two things one was a bracelet with a gem in the middle, he recognised that it was similar to what Kate work the other was a puck like device. He picked both up.
"Biometrics recognised." came a programmed voice. Another hologram of Kate posed up.
"Well done Luke you found my failsafe. I'm talking about you. Now I don't know if you've found this straight away or it's taken you a while. Honestly it doesn't matter. This is plan of my back up plan. The bracelet attached is a rare galifreyan gemstone, there are now only two in existence. I have one and you have the other.
The Gem stones connects there wearers through time and space, you can use it to find me. Another reason I have given this to you is because we're alike, our instincts are the same, we bounce of each other so well. I trust you know if something wrong, that feeling that you can explain, that you just have to act on but don't know how. This allows you to do so. Only use it when necessary. Good Luck." the message ended. He had been having that feeling for months.
"Mom!" Luke called.
-Katelyn-
I woke up to dim lighting and potents smells, I hated using a Vortex manipulator, but it was better than being forced into a marriage by my birth mother. moving I felt that I was on something comfortable and soft, My eyes opened and scanned where I was, oh crap the vortex manipulator didn't work. It must have backfired and I had been taken to my room.
"She awakens." I shot up and backed away, there sat at the end of my bed was a older man, probably in his thirties, with blonde hair.
"Who are you? How did you get in here?" I questioned
"I brought you here after you descended from the gods and fell into my arms into your slumber. With this fascinating contraption blowing a pungent smoke from your wrist." he held up my transportation. I went to grab it but he stepped away. "Tell me Young Goddess, why are you here? Why have you descended from the heavens?"
"I was told not to trust or talk to strangers." I glared at him and he laughed.
"My name is Alexander, you are in one of my tents, or our excursion through Asia and other lands." That's when it clicked, my tripped had backed fired but not in the way I had thought, I had gone further back in time.
"I'm lost." I moved off the bed and looked around the room, Lost in time
"What do you speak of?" I held my grown out hair and dropped to the ground
"Lost in time, how will I ever be found, I shouldn't have done it." I shake my head. Alexander kneels before me
"What is your name." I look up at him "How can I help you if I don't even have a name."
"Kate, you can call me Kate." I breathed he nodded and offered me his hand. I took it and stood back up.
"And what is this?" he held up the vortex manipulator. "I have never seen such a contraption." I sighed moving way.
"That is beyond your understanding. I am beyond your understanding. I shouldn't even be here I should be back home, but he never came." i rubbed my face in frustration.
"Kate, you fell from the sky to my presence for a reason, what better reason is there to help. Make me understand, have faith that I am good and I can help you. Who else do you have on side." he remained where he was and I thought it over. I would probably break a thousand rules but I was desperate.
"I am a traveller of the stars and time itself." I began and told him what I could. That I am from the future sent back for my own safety, only to escape a marriage I wanted no part in but it did not work and that is how I ended here. He sat and listened, I had his unwavering a loyal attention.
-Present Day-
Maria, Clyde and Sarah Jane finished watching Kates second message. It disappeared back into it's hub.
"What the hell, first she says don't do anything stupid, now she's saying, find me?" Clyde questioned his sister.
"No that's not what she's saying at all." Sarah Jane defended "Actually she's is realistic and smart. The Doctor told her she was unsafe, she does as she's told and leaves. But what is the threat? The trickster? Or someone or something else. She doesn't know if The Doctor survives the threat to bring her back. So as a failsafe, she trusts us to make the decision. Is she safe to return?"
"So what do we do?" Maria wonders
"We find her, we find her and we protect her." Luke stated " She's our friend, she's your sister. Kate kept her promise and her secret until she couldn't." He slipped on the bracelet and it glowed but nothing happened.
"Luke?" Sarah Jane questioned, he held his wrist up.
"Is something supposed to be happening? Maybe we should play the message again." Clyde suggested
"I've watched that message five times, there is no hidden meaning. At least I don't think." Luke sighed defeated "I don't understand."
"The Time Lords are a complicated people, their designs are never what you think of. Kate spoke of a connection that would find her in time and space. That could mean anything. Look we're all tired, and worried. Go home get some sleep and we'll find her in the morning." they all split off and Luke ready himself for bed, he felt back and into a deep slumber. He tossed and turned all night.
Luke wandered through halls of grand designs, a time not of his own. He turned back and forth to find signs of life.
"Luke...." came the whisper "Find me, Luke." he saw a figure move down the hall and he took of running
"Katelyn!" He yelled
"Luke." he turned and came face to face with his friend "I'm lost Luke, find me."
"Where, where are you?" he questioned
"Everywhere....nowhere...lost in the pages of history. I made a mistake an now I am lost with no way back. I am sorry Luke, tell all of them, I am so sorry." she glanced around "Memories are different here, the answers are on the tip of my tongue with no way out."
"How can I find you? How can we get you back?" he wondered and she grabbed a hold of him
"Steps Luke, focus. It is why I chose you, you are logic first, remember. Use your knowledge of everything you know about me, what Clyde knows, Sarah Jane, Maria. Unite them. Find me Luke."
Luke shot up panting and glanced around. He grabbed a pen and paper and ran upstairs calling out for Mr Smith. He sat there all night thinking, remembering, in the morning the others found him asleep on the floor.
"Luke, oh my goodness." Sarah Jane exclaimed and he woke up.
"Have you been here all night, mate?" Clyde helped him up.
"It worked, I saw her." he groaned and was moved to sit on the couch "She's lost in time, something happened and now she can't get back."
"I'll get you something to eat and drink." Maria stated leaving them.
"Honestly I'm fine." he brushed them off and looked around
"You were asleep on the floor, Luke. That's not healthy." Sarah Jane shook her head
"I've found her. I found Kate. Mr Smith, show them." Mr Smith brought images up on screen "326 bc 3 years before the death of Alexander the great. A mysterious woman falls from the sky and is named the Goddess Demetria."
"Katie's second name." Clyde breathed.
"Alexander declares her a seer and his most beloved traveler of the stars. He says his most trusted are the protectors of the Goddess and swear on their life to protect her until the Lord of time brings her home to the heavens." Maria came back up.
"Lords of Time...Time Lords." Luke nodded
"Mr Smith also found this." a picture of a bracelet came up. It was in a fragile state with a gemstone in the middle "Found in Egypt. It's the same."
"So Katelyn's stuck in Ancient Times with no way back. How to we get her back?" Maria wondered
"Put together we all know Kate. But Mum you know the doctor, you've traveled with him."
"That doesn't mean I know how to contact him, we don't know, where she is, or even if..." she trailed off. For a moment she thought the worse
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