For rodlox who requested * Toshiko is the Doctor's travel companion (any Doctor) and then the Tosh as Romana theory intervened and...

Well, this was the result.



It was odd how the drums had pounded at the most important moments of her life, she seemed to remember them for as long as she had been alive…

As long as she had been alive… both over a century and just over a quarter of one.

She had memories of stars, of wars and blood and of a soft flicker of fingertips over her jaw.

She even recalled details… names… faces at points.

Not that it mattered to one Toshiko Sato right at that moment, there was a bullet through her stomach and Owen was dead.

She was dying.

And as the darkness closed in the drums began to throb.

---TR---

There was a floor.

It was a nice floor, metal, grating, strangely familiar… and being stood on by a pair of trainers.

Tosh raised her head cautiously and realised that she was alive.

“What?”

“What!”

“What?!”

---TR---

She explained herself, an honest explanation and one without any embellishments.

She thought she explained quite well considering the whole death thing.

But The Doctor was nice, The Doctor understood her.

The Doctor offered her just one trip in the TARDIS.

Really she was only being polite when she accepted.

And in the darkness the drums throbbed.