*Author's note*

Hey fam well here we go with yet ANOTHER Doctor who fic (most of these updates will be Doctor who based since those are most of the requests I've still got on my tumblr) so yeah expect some more DW fics in the next few months or so along with one Maevel fic. Anyways I hope you all enjoy this fic and I hope I didn't make anyone OOC cause I felt like I did toward the end with the climax part with the antagonist.

Warnings: Child neglect, manourishment, captivity of human life, some angst but also fluff.  

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I've been in this prison for—what feels like forever. In fact I think it has been forever. For as long as I can remember, I've been the possession of a man known as The Collector due to me being the last of the Timelords. At first I didn't know myself what I was, all I knew was that every now and then right at the point of death from malnourishment, my body grew warm and my appearance would change.

When the Collector first saw my change firsthand, he moved me from one cell to another where I had nothing but needles shoved into my arms and every now and then he not only took my blood but there was also this glowing gold light that would also go up into a canister and once it got full after a month of draining, he'd take it away and replace it with a new one.

On and on this went on and I began to think that this was to be my life for the rest of my days. I couldn't die because all I would do was regenerate into a different person. I was beginning to think that I would never get out of this horrible place, that the Collector would continue to misuse and neglect me.

That was until.......she came into my life.

I was trying to sleep in my 4x4 cell (it is not comfortable let me just tell you that) when I heard a knock at the solid glass of my prison. There I saw the Collector standing there, his eyes full of obsession as usual. His mouth gaped in awe as he said.

"Today is the day my little one." Oh yeah that's right. I'm dying today. The Collector has even gone far as to make a schedule for when I'm to be expecting to regenerate. My current 12 year old body had been put through countless hours of testing, blood draining, neglect, and aura extraction. And now the time has come for me to regenerate once again.

"I can't believe it's been your 9th change and you've given me more money and immortality than I could ever hope for." Oh yeah I forgot to mention this one little detail.

Sometimes when the Collector is in his greatest moods, when the Tourist season arrives, hell have his greatest displays out for the public for all the gawk, point and take pictures of. I was displayed when I was in the process of my 3rd change so everyone got to see me transform from a small 4 year old white child, to an 11yr. old brown skinned girl.

Now that it was time for me to regenerate once more and it was the day tourists from around the galaxy, and across space and time for them to come see his fantastic collection of mistreated, abandoned and unwanted things.

"Now then remember to make this your grandest metamorphosis yet. And also try not to burn any of the clients. Always bad for business if someone gets hurt." I didn't respond to him. I never respond to him, no matter what torture he does whenever he tries to make me answer, I don't give him the satisfaction of being broken before him.

He can continue to drain me dry but he'll never break me.

*3rd Person POV*

Meanwhile just in the outskirts of the Collector's shop, the familiar wheeze of the TARDIS soon echoed out. The TARDIS went from a faint image to a full solid picture.

"And here we are gang. As promised, welcome to the Bermuda Tri—" soon stepping out of the TARDIS was the Doctor herself, and her little fam, Yaz, Ryan and Graham.

"Uhh Doc, this isn't what I pictured the Bermuda Triangle to look like." Graham said.

"What? Ahhh no you stubborn ol girl you do this again!? Every. Time I want to go somewhere I tell you to go, you do a 180!" She snapped as she slapped the side of the TARDIS.

"So......where exactly are we?" asked Ryan as he stepped out along with Yaz.

"It kinda looks like a combination of London and Los Angeles." Yaz said.

"Honestly I'm not quite so sure myself of where we are. Stay close everybody. Never know what could be lurking around here." The Doctor said to them.

"Should we—have a look around?" asked Graham skeptically.

"I mean it's the only way, right Doctor?" Ryan said to the Doctor.

"Well normally I would say no when I don't know of a certain location but the TARDIS always has a habit of sending me where I'm needed. Alright listen up gang," she turned to her three human companions and explained to them in a firm tone. "We're gonna have a little look around. But again I have no idea who or what lives here. So there is to be no going off on your own, no touching anything, don't even speak to anyone. You are to stay where I can keep an eye on you. Is that understood?"

"Yes Doctor." The three of them answered. The Doctor nodded and soon the three of them walked on ahead.

They walk up a hill till they finally arrive at the borders of the city. All around so many different species of creatures and people across space and time were gathered around just going about their day.

"It—looks like an ordinary in London. People going about their day, nothing really out of the ordinary." Graham said.

"I wouldn't go that far yet Graham. Let's go, blend in well with the crowd. There's—something doesn't feel right for some reason." The Doctor said. As they walked they soon heard a few voices say.

"Have you heard about the Collector's new showcase?" a young woman with albino skin and purple eyes said.

"I go there every year. I'm told he's got her on display once again." Said a mechanical green woman.

"Wait you don't mean....."

"Yes. It could be another transformation."

"Then let's go." The two women raced on. Yaz leaned towards the Doctor and whispered.

"Did you catch any of that?"

"I don't know who exactly they're talking about, but that's our best clue as to why the TARDIS might've brought us here. Cause out here in the streets there's clearly no danger. No fights, no war, not even an invasion."

"Couldn't hurt to take a look inside and follow those girls." Ryan said. So they secretly followed the two women.

Soon the two women turned into a crowd as hundreds upon hundreds of people walked right towards a tower-like building. As our gang of time travelers went inside, they found that this tower was almost like a warehouse. It's darkened hallways lit only by the hollowed lanterns above. As they continued walking, they noticed that it soon began to remind them of some kind of art show.

"Hang on, I know that thing." The Doctor said as she suddenly stopped.

"Know what?" asked Graham.

"Over there." She pointed to a very large cube like cell with an intricate design on each side. It was a circle with what looked like a maze-like pattern decorated along the inside of it.

"What is it?" asked Ryan.

"My old prison in a past life." The Doctor answered grimly. Yaz and Ryan walked up to it and they saw on the plaque the words.

PANDORICA BOX.

Ryan and Yaz looked at each other and Ryan shrugged.

"And that, I recognize that weapon over there." She and Graham walked to it and Graham asked her.

"Is—is that what I think it is Doc?"

"Yes Graham. A cyberman head."

"So.....what is this like some sort of art gallery of everything you know?"

"Possibly. But none of this is Timelord technology. However this place does seem to have almost everything I've encountered in my many lives."

'Ladies and gentlemen. Creatures and species far and in between. Please make your way to the back room for a show like no other. For the first time in decades, the changeling child has returned.' The voice of a women came on the intercoms from above.

"The changeling child?" Ryan repeated confused.

"So changelings actually exist?" asked Yaz.

"After all we've seen, I wouldn't be surprised." Graham shrugged.

"I'm not so sure about that guys. C'mon. Stay close and keep to the back." Soon everyone started heading towards the back room where a giant arena-like stadium stood. At the very center, the Doctor and her friends saw a young girl laying there at the center of the stadium in a clear box like cage.

"Oh my god." Yaz gasped as she covered her mouth in horror.

"That poor girl is she—she's completely malnourished. She's practically skin and bones." Graham said.

"Doctor. Who would do something like this?" Ryan sneered softly. The Doctor looked closer and that's when she saw the glowing hands on the young girl. That familiar orange, yellowish glow.

"Oh my......"

"What is it Doc?" Graham asked. But before she could say a word, an elderly man with spiked white hair and wearing a leather attire with a fur coat with multiple colorations came right to the cage and he said to the audience.

"Greetings my dearly beloved guests. As you have ventured into the far outreaches of space and time to see all of my beloved collections. I am proud to announce and reveal to you all for the first time in a very long time, my most prized possession. The changeling child."

"Calling a child their possession. Boy I'd like to give that crazy git a punch across the face." Graham hissed lowly.

"Easy Graham. Just watch."

"Watch what exactly? Doctor what's going on?"

"Just want to prepare you guys for what you'll see one day with me." Soon the young girl began to glow brighter and brighter till her whole face and hands were starting to glow like the sun.

Then with a burst of Timelord energy, a powerful fiery blast exploded from her and the crowd was just in awe of what they were witnessing. The Doctor shook her head and muttered.

"She can't be contained when a regeneration happens. It can cause significant damage to the next body."

"What's happening Doctor? Is she going to explode?" asked Ryan worriedly.

"No Ryan, just keep watching." A cry was soon heard and the next thing everyone saw was that the young 12 year old white girl now transformed herself into a young 7 year old brown skinned child. Her once blonde hair was now pure black and cut into pixie style haircut.

"Wait did she just—" Yaz started off.

"Fam. I'd like to introduce you all to a Timelord child." The Doctor said in a stoic manner.

"Wait but—I thought you and the Master were the last of your people?" Ryan said.

"So did I. But that there was a regeneration. Known only to the Timelords themselves. No other creature or species in the Universe can do a transformation like that."

"And it seems that freak's using her as a main attraction for his Collection around the world." Graham hissed angrily.

"Well what do we do? I mean we can't just leave her here. Maybe this is what the TARDIS wants us to do." Yaz said.

"But how can we rescue her? I mean we don't even know the layout of this place." Ryan said.

"Leave that to me. For now I want you guys to play out the roles of interested travelers. If any security goes snooping around, just play them off in any way you can. Trust me gang, right now that little girl down there could use someone whose been through this. And believe me I've been through it many, many, many times."

"Alright Doc. But just know should you need us, we're just a shout away." Graham said. She nodded to them and as the crowd began to leave the stadium, Ryan, Yaz and Graham joined the crowd while the Doctor stayed behind in the shadows and watched as some of the Collector's helpers moved the child out of her display case and moved her back down to her proper cell.

*My POV*

After being put back in my cell I finally got the chance to look at my new form. My once white skin was now brown and my hands were smaller. I must've de-aged again. I felt around my face and it was now more rounder than it was previously. My hair was also shorter, way shorter actually. So short that I couldn't even see what color it was. But I had fingers, lots of fingers, 2 legs, two feet, eyes, nose, mouth, ears. New body, new rules.

"Magnificent. This is almost like your 4th form but—lighter skin. And your hair, don't really like it that short but it is what it is." The Collector said as he pressed his hands up against my glass cage. "After I count the profits for today, we'll proceed with the Timelord aura drain." With a flick of his animal skin cape, he turned and left the room.

I lowered my head exhaustedly and let out a deep breath and soon saw the familiar glowing fog coming out of my mouth. Then out of nowhere, my cage began to unlock itself but the Collector was nowhere in sight. As the glass walls lowered back down, I sat up in shock and looked around fearfully only to see a woman with short blonde hair wearing a greyish-blue trench coat.

She also wore a dark blue shirt with multiple colored stripes around the front, the color yellow was the main color that really struck out cause it was just piled up on both top and bottom of the other colors. She also wore what looked like suspenders and brown boots.

But what really caught my attention were her eyes. Her deep brown eyes. Unlike the Collector whose eyes were always filled with crazed obsession, this woman's eyes were filled with kindness, curiosity, and—astonishment.

"It's alright. I'm not here to hurt you."

"How can I—trust you?" wow new voice. It was lighter—almost like the sound of a bell.

"I know this must seem strange to you. Having a stranger open up your prison but tell me this. If I wanted to hurt you, don't you think I would've done it by now?" she asked me. I pondered the thought and realized she was right.

The Collector's workers who would transfer me from my cell to my display case, they always took a shot using their electro-whips on me just for the sport of it.

"Who are you?" I asked her.

"Well believe it or not. I'm just like you. A Gallifreyian Timelord." I looked at her shocked.

She was a Timelord as well? But—the Collector said that I was the last of my kind. When he found me as a baby, he told me that I was the only sole survivor.

"You're lying."

"Actually I'm not. How do I know I'm not lying you might be thinking? Well I can tell you that seven months ago, I was a white haired Scotsman."

"Prove it." I asked her. "That you're a Timelord. How do I know you're not lying?" she looked around before finding a stethoscope from a nearby stand. She grabbed it and came up to me and placed the earpieces in my ears.

"Have a listen." She placed the metal part against her chest and soon enough I heard the 4 heartbeats of the Timelord. I looked up at her and she looked right at me with those soft eyes of hers and she said, "Well, what's your verdict?"

"But—it's impossible. I thought I was......I thought I was the only one."

"So did I." she said solemnly. Her eyes now appeared to have a hint of sadness to them. "What's your name?" she asked me.

"I—I was never given one." I said sadly as I looked down. I heard her hum softly and that's when she said.

"Well we can't just call you nothing. Hmm let me think......I'm not good with coming up with names but I'll give it a go." She said before she began muttering to herself as she paced around me. I looked at her intrigued and she would look right at me before getting right up into my face.

It was a little awkward having this strange woman get right up in my face but it didn't make me feel intimidated (not like how the Collector makes me feel whenever he gets up in my face).

"Ah-ha! I think I came up with the perfect name!" she exclaimed happily. I tilted my head. "Lyra!" I looked at her in disgust. "What? Oh c'mon that's a brilliant name. You'd be named after a constellation. And Lyra is a Greek name Lyre, a Greek instrument. And a marvelous one at that."

"I'm sorry it's just that with......this current form I don't know if Lyra is a good name for me."

"Yeah I suppose so. Most beings usually pick a name that fits their look. Well like I told you I'm not really good at coming up with names. I don't think I ever was."

"I....." I started off before trailing off.

"What? What is it?"

"It's nothing I....I can't say it."

"Course you can. Hey you listen to me now love, you can say whatever you want. I'm not like that—monster whose treated you like his possession. So if you've got something to say, you can tell me."

"I—I once did come up with a name during my 3rd transformation. But I don't know if it's any good." She looked at me with encouragement telling me through her eyes that I could freely speak it out. "(Y/n)."

"(Y/n). Hmm......I like it. Yeah it suits you. Alright, (Y/n) I'm the Doctor and I'm busting you out of here."

"Busting me out?"

"Yeah. You know setting you free, freeing you from your cage, all those other freedom metaphors and sayings. Bottom line is, is that you're coming with me and my friends."

"But—the Collector. He'll know that I've escaped. He won't let me leave."

"That's why I've got a plan. Now c'mon let's at least get you out of this storage room and into some real light." She extended her hand to me and I looked at it conflicted. "I promise (Y/n), as long as you're with me. I won't let him or anyone else harm you. I can help you, but you have to trust me first."

I looked up at her warm brown eyes once more and they gave me a fluttery feeling in my stomach. Was—was this what it feels like when someone's kind to you? Finally I lifted my hand and I placed my hand in hers.

"Brilliant. Now can you stand and walk? I know that regeneration still takes time to cook but we kinda are on the clock."

"I think so."

"Okay, let's get you off this thing and then we run." She picked me up and set me down on the floor before taking my hand again and we took off.

We came to the main door which the Collector always kept lock and only he or his workers knew the combination.

"It's no use, we'll never get out of this room. He has it locked 24/7."

"Good thing I've always got this." She then pulled out a long silver or iron like thing with a crystal point at the end. She pressed a button and aimed it right at the door's control panels and a loud hum came out of it as the crystal point became a bright yellow color.

Soon enough I heard the locks being unlocked and the doors opened up.

"There that's better." She tossed her magic stick in the air before catching it back into her hand and putting it away into her coat. "Now come on, we'll rendezvous with the others in the main lobby." As we left the room I asked her.

"What was that thing?"

"What was what?"

"That thing you used to open the door?"

"Oh right! That was my sonic screwdriver. A handy device of my own invention. It can basically be used for anything. Bio readings, translation analysis, but most of all it can unlock any door. The one thing it isn't used for is for killing. Because killing is senseless and fighting never solves anything. I hate weapons of any kind especially guns." Her voice started to trail off into anger which made me a little scared seeing this bubbly, whacky woman now become an ice cold queen. "Sorry. I—tend to get a little dark whenever it comes to hate for violence. Now c'mon let's keep moving."

After going up several more levels and her using her sonic screwdriver to get the doors unlocked, we finally arrived at the main level.

"Alright, now my friends are in the lobby like I've said. So it's just a straight forwards to—hang on." She suddenly said urgently. She stopped and looked around. "Something isn't right. There were hundreds of people here just now and now it's—it's completely empty."

"The shop isn't closed cause it's still light out. So—where is everyone?" suddenly the alarm sounded off and every entrance, window and door, were sealed off. The red light of the alarm was the only source of light we had for awhile before it went completely dark.

"You thought I'd let you escape that easily?" then a bright light shined down just a few feet in front of us and there stood The Collector. Behind him were three people, two men and one a girl around the Doctor's age.

All three of them were not only being held by the Collector's guards but from their feet to their hips were trapped in the crystal prison that I was familiar with. In some of his collections, the Collector loves to showcase his 'prizes' in crystal form with specially designed rings that encases whatever he wants in a crystal prison.

Trapping them alive.

"We're sorry Doc. They caught us just before we could meet up." Said the elderly white man.

"Let them go." the Doctor stated firmly.

"Or what? See I've got basically almost everything across Time and Space but pure humans—well imagine the attractions they'll bring us."

"We're not your property you crazy old bastard!" the young black man spoke up. Which resulted in him being shocked by the Collector's guards and the crystal formation went higher up his body from his hips now to his ribs. He groaned in agony after his shock treatment and the Collector said to him in that low voice of his.

"On the contrary. All those that trespass on my home are my property. No payment in, you serve as a part of my Collection." He turned back towards us and he continued, "Who would've thought that I would get the chance to not have one Timelord, but two. Such a rarity indeed."

"Yeah bet you didn't think this was going to happen when you woke up this morning." The Doctor said sarcastically. The Collector chuckled softly and that's when I noticed the Doctor's sonic screwdriver in her back pocket. I looked around to make sure that no one was looking at me and I quickly took her sonic and stalked away towards one of the cells.

This was the only option I could think of that could give us enough time to get all of us out of here. And finally put an end to the Collector once and for all so that no one else could be captured and experimented on again. I arrived at cell 722 and pointed the screwdriver at the keypad which soon activated.

"This is madness. But you're our only hope." I walked inside and went right to work.

*3rd Person POV*

The Collector stared at the Doctor with obsessed eyes and he said to her.

"Who would've thought that there were two Timelords left in the entire galaxy. If only you were a male, then once my female one would take a mature form, I could've had you both make more Gallifreyian children."

"Believe it or not I was a man. Actually many times before I've been a man." The Doctor said.

"Interesting. So you can choose which gender you want to be."

"I don't really have control over my regenerations. They just happen and I stick with the form I get."

"Pity. But no matter, you will soon join the child and you both will become my ultimate supply source and tourist attraction. While your friends become one of the many other displays I will showcase in my museum."

"That won't happen."

"You're so confident about that?"

"Yeah. See, I've been in rougher scrapes than this. Now this here, sure it's a bit of a pickle but it's way low on the amount of danger I've been in on a regular basis." The Collector stroked his chin as he continued to stare at the Doctor with interest.

"So you've been everywhere and seen everything?"

"More than you can imagine pal. Now unless you'd like to be overloaded with the knowledge I've got, which trust me you don't want to know, I suggest you free my friends, let me take the girl, and allow us to walk out of here quietly without another word." The Collector chuckled icily and lowly and he said.

"And allow you to take my immortality away from me? Do you have any idea how powerful the essences of your kind is?"

"And that's what makes people like you sick to my stomach. What you've been doing to that poor girl is inhumane! No one should ever be put through the hell you put her through! Extracting her Gallifreyian aura, draining her blood. Yeah I've seen the needle injections on her arms."

"What you see as inhumane. I see as an opportunity. The essence of a timelord can give the bearer an immortal life. Even at the point of death, you can just regenerate yourself and start off fresh again. And now that I have too, I'll forever be immortalized as the famed Collector of the last two Timelords!"

Suddenly the alarm began blaring out loudly. Everyone looked around in confusion, the Collector had both confusion and anger.

"What is going on?" it was then they heard screaming from down the hall as some more of the Collector's worker's were fleeing for their lives.

"Sir! Sir! Prisoner 722 has been reactivated! It's going on a rampage!" one of the workers said before it was suddenly shot at and he fell to the ground dead.

"No." The Doctor softly enunciated. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Why did you have it here!? What makes you think you could contain such a monster!?" she sneered.

"Doctor what's going on? What are you talking about?" then they heard it. That haunting raspy, mechanical voice proclaiming.

'WE ARE THE DALEKS! WE WILL REIGN SUPREME AND YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!' Soon coming down the hallway was the Doctor's most feared and hatred rival, a Dalek.

It was an older generation Dalek but it still had it's program to search and destroy everything that isn't Dalek based.

'SURRENDER NOW OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!!' the Dalek proceeded to fire all over any everyone and everything. While the Dalek was literally destroying everything in sight and bodies kept dropping like flies, over by Graham, Ryan and Yaz, they suddenly felt themselves getting free of their crystal prisons.

They looked down and there stood (Y/n) holding their three rings. She slammed them on the ground and stepped on them.

"C'mon let's go!" she whispered as the four of them raced over to the Doctor. They dodged and nearly got blasted by the explosions of the Dalek's gun. Once they came up to the Doctor she turned to (Y/n) and said.

"Were you responsible for this?"

"I didn't have a choice. This was the one thing they never went to. All of them were too afraid to go near it when it reactivated itself years ago."

'IDENDITY DETECTED. THE DOCTOR IS HERE!! THE DOCTOR IS THE ENEMY OF THE DALEKS! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!' The Dalek suddenly screamed out.

"RUN!!!" The Doctor cried out as we ran out of the lobby and towards the side exit (that had no just been created thanks to our Dalek).

*My POV*

We quickly raced out but I was suddenly grabbed and I was pinned against the Collector's chest.

"You're not going anywhere! If I die then you're coming with me!" I squirmed and tried to free myself from the Collector's grip when suddenly he was shot in the head and he dropped down to the ground. The Dalek rolled up to me and it's scope-like eye stared right at me.

'TIMELORD ENERGY DETECTED! TIMELORD ENERGY DETECTED! EXTERMINATE!' I quickly jumped out of the way and just barely managed to escape the death beam.

"(Y/N)!! RUN!! GET AWAY FROM IT!!!" As quick as I could I raced out of the building.

It wasn't easy to escape the Dalek cause it kept coming right after us firing shot after shot, explosions coming up around us. Finally we came up into a blue box that said POLICE BOX written on top.

"In here quick! The forcefield's up now, but it won't last for long!" the Doctor cried out. One by one we each piled into the TARDIS before she shut the doors. As we all ran inside my first reaction was that it was bigger on the inside. Could this be more of my people's technology or is this some kind of magic?

The Doctor quickly flipped a few of the controls and soon a wheezing sound came from the center of this room and a large light shined from the center console that stood in the middle of the controls.

"There. Daleks alone can't navigate through space and time without a ship. We're safe. Are you all alright fam?"

"I'm good." Said the woman.

"I'm thankful that I won't end up as a display case." Said the elderly man.

"He'll survive. And I'm okay too Doctor." The young man said. The Doctor sighed with relief and pressed her hand up against her chest over her two hearts. She then turned to me and asked me as she knelt down in front of me.

"Are you alright (Y/n)?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about that—thing. It was the only thing I could think of as a distraction that I knew they would be too afraid to fight back against." I looked down sadly but she lifted my chin up and she said as she stroked the back of my head, burying her fingers into my short hair.

"The most important thing is that you're okay. And that you're free now."

Free. I—I couldn't believe it. For the first time in my life, I was finally free of the Collector, I would no longer be his lab rat or neglected ever again. He was dead and he couldn't hurt me or anyone else again.

"But I must ask you one important question first?" she said in a serious manner. I tilted my head to the side in confusion and said.

"What?"

"How do you feel about going to Barcelona with me and the fam?" I looked around and these three people who had no idea who I was, all nodded with warm smiles on their faces. I turned to the Doctor and immediately hugged her.

There was soft laughter all around as she hugged me back. I nuzzled into her shoulder and I whispered to her.

"Thank you, thank you."

"You don't need to thank me. Now then, let me introduce you to the gang." The Doctor then took me over to the three people and introduced me to Ryan, Yaz, and Graham. And she introduced them to me as the second to last Timelord from Gallifrey.

From then on, I stayed with the Doctor and her friends. We traveled throughout the entire galaxy and back and forth through time. Eventually there came a time when I went from calling her Doctor to mum. She was my savior, my protector, my mother. And I will always be grateful to the day when she and her friends came to save me.