What Did Rassilon Do? Part 1

Yep, it's another story in the "What?" series and it's following Elijah and every one. Sadly there's no Susan, you'll have to wait for the last story for that. I've got big plans for Susan though. So the first part of this chapter is a kind of intro, while the second part carries on from What Happened to Susan?. Also some of this information was taken from the book, Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell while the rest is either from The Five Doctors or from my imagination. Divided Loyalties is a great book and if you can get your hands on it then read it!

When the Time Lords were still new and Rassilon ruled, he created a hidden parallel world in which there were no Daleks, but a planet Gallifrey. This Gallifrey couldn't be detected by the other because it was so far out.

This universe prospered, being in peace and the Time Lords grew exactly as this universe's did. The only exception in this universe was the Doctor. The Doctor had nothing to fight against because there was no Daleks, so he fled Gallifrey and found DarkHeart, which filled him with hate towards one of his closest friends, Koschei. He became obsessed with destroying him and disrupting the delicate balance this universe had.

Koschei, known as The Master of the Vortex or the Master for short, was a good being, working as best as he could as a field correspondent and helping other planets the smaller evils on their planet. He was content in the fact that he could help the universe and travel, his two favorite things to do. And although he couldn't hold down a steady assistant, he was the best at what he did, always with a cheerful disposition and an extreme passion for truth.

Rassilon was proud of this universe and let no other Time Lords know about it, fearing that they would try to tamper with it or that the information would leak out to the Daleks and they would try to conquer it. Thus the knowledge of the perfect universe died with him and was put in the Dark Tower with him, deep in the heart of the Death Zone.

"WH-WHAT?!" asked the Doctor once more watching the young Time Lord's face drop.

"Please Doctor, let me stay. I just want to travel like you do, my mom kept telling me that she saw a lot of you in me," Elijah said in a pleading tone.

"But what about Susan?" asked Jack in a harsh, accusing tone.

"She doesn't need me," said Elijah.

"Yes she does!" yelled Jack, "more than you know." He muttered as an after thought. Thankfully, no one heard this statement and was passed off as Jack being Jack.

"Okay," conceded the Doctor, secretly happy that there was another Time Lord on board, "But we're going some where safe." As he changed the direction of the TARDIS to an old favorite spot of his, the Eye of Orion.

As the Doctor walked out of the TARDIS, the crew followed behind he stated, "The Eye of Orion. For some, the Eye of Orion is the most tranquil place in the universe."

"Why?" Rose asked turning toward the Doctor.

"Well…" the Doctor started, but he never got to finish as he was interrupted.

"It's because of the high bombardment of positive ions," Elijah said, and when faced with the questioning look the Doctor gave him he shrugged and said, "Mom talked about it a lot, said it was your favorite planet, aside Earth that is."

"I'm not questioning where you knew it, although that's true and it is. It's the way you said it," he explained, " But I bet you didn't know it's also the only planet, aside from Gallifrey, that's outside of time. That means that it's the only one in existence."

"Huh," Elijah said, "How did I say it?"

"Well then off to your own devices," the Doctor said, effectively ignoring Elijah, "but remember, buddy system." the Doctor said in a patronizing tone.

"Are you sure?" questioned Rose, "No 'don't wander off' or anything?"

"This is probably the safest place in the universe," the Doctor said, "There's no one here to get you into trouble. So! Off ya go!" he prodded, then said, "I need to make a few repairs on the TARDIS. Jack, give me a hand, will ya?"

"Yes, Sir!" Jack called and trotted into the TARDIS, leaving Elijah and Rose to explore. Elijah, ever the gentleman, offered Rose his arm. Rose looked at him for a moment like she saw a ghost, then took it and they walked off in the direction of the ruins, getting to know each other along the way.

So that's it chapter 1 done! It's just setting up everything and not quite 'let's jump into trouble' yet. Hope you like it and I'll probably be finished with this story by the end of the week or the end of next week tops.

LYL,

Christine