The Doctor had an adopted brother, Reikon, who was married to a woman called Celestia. The two of them had a son together - Caleb.
When the Doctor was young, during his 1st incarnation, he had always promised to take Caleb to explore the universe should he ever get the chance.
As Caleb grew older he enrolled at the academy and began dabbling in his own experiments. One such experiment was to determine the location of a mythical pocket dimension where the echoes of Time Lord incarnations were said to go when a Time Lord regenerates.
In a catastrophic accident Caleb and his father were lost in the pocket dimension, presumed dead.
Celestia had no choice but to move on with her life, and many, many years later, when the Doctor was much older, he escaped Gallifrey and took his granddaughter, Susan, with him.
In the intervening years the Time War happened.
Gallifrey was lost.
And then Gallifrey was found again.
And more time passed…
A long time later the Doctor was drawn to Mount Cassius, where Celestia had been living in seclusion. The Master had claimed to have found the location of the pocket dimension and enlisted the Doctor and his friends to help him find it.
Although the Master had told the truth, he also had an ulterior motive. The Doctor found Reikon and a badly injured Caleb and rescued them, but not before the Master absorbed the power of the dimension in order to regenerate his own, dying body.
The Doctor, too, absorbed the energy of his former incarnations’ echoes to trigger off a new regeneration for him.
The Master escaped and Reikon and Caleb were reunited with Celestia at last.
But before the Doctor finished his regeneration, Celestia told him something. Something that guaranteed that the Master had hold over her…
Then…
She looked back towards the hall and then back at the Doctor.
And then she leaned in and whispered something in his ear…
“He said my daughter is alive. He said she’s out there somewhere, and if I went up against him…if I defied him…he’d kill her.”
“You have a daughter?”
“I thought she had died when she was born. The surgeons told me she had died.”
“How can you be so sure he’s telling you the truth?”
“Because…he was the father. The Master was - and is - her father.”
And then Gallifrey was found again.
And more time passed…
A long time later the Doctor was drawn to Mount Cassius, where Celestia had been living in seclusion. The Master had claimed to have found the location of the pocket dimension and enlisted the Doctor and his friends to help him find it.
Although the Master had told the truth, he also had an ulterior motive. The Doctor found Reikon and a badly injured Caleb and rescued them, but not before the Master absorbed the power of the dimension in order to regenerate his own, dying body.
The Doctor, too, absorbed the energy of his former incarnations’ echoes to trigger off a new regeneration for him.
The Master escaped and Reikon and Caleb were reunited with Celestia at last.
But before the Doctor finished his regeneration, Celestia told him something. Something that guaranteed that the Master had hold over her…
Then…
She looked back towards the hall and then back at the Doctor.
And then she leaned in and whispered something in his ear…
“He said my daughter is alive. He said she’s out there somewhere, and if I went up against him…if I defied him…he’d kill her.”
“You have a daughter?”
“I thought she had died when she was born. The surgeons told me she had died.”
“How can you be so sure he’s telling you the truth?”
“Because…he was the father. The Master was - and is - her father.”
To be continued...
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