A/N: Hi there! This story is To Be Chosens, the fifth story in my fourth OC series, The Time Lady Memoirs, for Doctor Who. I would recommend that new readers look at the first four stories (Losing Hope, Finding Forgiveness, Endeavors in Wooing, and Falling in Love) to understand my OC, Mackenzie (Mac) and the Doctor's relationship :) If interested, my other 3 series are The Academic Series (the Professor), The Lunar Cycle (Evy Daniels), and The Heart of Time Saga (the Angel) ;) This story will focus on my OC/Time Lady, Mac AKA Naery, the official pairing name for her and the Doctor being Thaery :) This story will largely follow the events that Mac is aware of and a part of, but will also include some scenes with the Doctor elsewhere and possibly others when they talk about her. This will a Doctor/OC series :)

This will essentially be a revision of Series 7 to incorporate the existence of another Time Lord, Mac. This story will be updated every day with each chapter being 1 episode, however the Christmas specials and 50th anniversary will be two chapters for each special. There may be a few mini-sodes popping up along the way for a total of about 22 chapters ;)

Quick physical description of Mac: she's a tallish woman with wavy ginger hair that goes to a little past her shoulders, she tends to wear it hanging free with a headband (a cool one ;)). She's pale but has a few freckles splattered across her nose and light green eyes eyes. She tends to wear a strapless or thin-strapped dress that's a little more fitted on the top and loose for the skirt that goes to about her knees. She wears flats and a cardigan with bigger-on-the-inside pockets to it :) For a reference, an actress that I think is similar to Mac is Emma Stone ;) She is currently on her 8th incarnation and, as of the end of Endeavors in Wooing, was 1,113 years old :)

~8~ is a scene break.

"italics" is Gallifreyan.

'italics' is telepathic communication.

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who...or the purple coat would have been the outfit for the entirety of 11's run :)

Enjoy!

~8~

Pond Life

APRIL

Mac laughed as the Doctor tried, yet again, to tickle her as he moved around the console, the phone ringing on speaker as he attempted to call the Ponds. It had been…quite the reunion between them all, revealing they weren't quite dead had lost its surprise when they realized that River had gone to visit her friends and let slip that they were actually alive. They couldn't fault their daughter though, she'd grown up with Amy and considered the woman to be one of her best friends, they couldn't expect her to keep a secret like that from the humans. They'd both gotten a blast of water to the face from Amy's water pistol when they'd gone to see her and Rory on Christmas. Still, after the awkwardness and the processing that two years had gone by for the Ponds, they had a wonderful hug and a delicious Christmas Dinner with their friends.

They were trying though, very hard not to get the Ponds too involved in their adventures. They'd given the humans a house for a reason, they…they wanted the Ponds to settle down, start a new adventure, a human one, a family. She felt so incredibly guilty about everything that Amy had gone through because Kovarian had failed to check whether SHE could carry a child to term. She really wanted to give Amy the chance to really experience pregnancy, to be able to remember it and hold her child and know it was hers and raise it and love it. That wasn't something she or Rory would be able to do if they travelled on the TARDIS.

They did like to check in from time to time, just because they weren't on Earth at the moment, rather more enjoying the wonders of the Universe together, didn't mean that their enemies or new enemies wouldn't target the Earth in their absence. They couldn't really go to UNIT now that they were both officially listed as dead and had to maintain their cover, but they could speak to their companions a bit, see what was going on in the world of Earth. And, since Martha had worked for UNIT and Donna couldn't remember them and Rose was in a parallel world and Jack was slinking about elsewhere…that really only left them the Ponds to speak to to keep informed about the earth.

"Hello Ponds!" the Doctor called as they got the answer phone, "Checking in. How are you?"

"Are you two doing alright?" she asked, "Coping? We know it can be a bit hard to get used to life on Earth and all…"

The Ponds had been doing quite well for the two years they were 'dead' but now that they knew they were alive and that the TARDIS could pop in at any minute, she almost felt like the Ponds were struggling to keep up with their ordinary lives and to let go of their lives in the box. She had gotten the sense from speaking to them that they'd spent a majority of the two years on edge, listening for the TARDIS, not making any extreme commitments to be careful incase they turned up out of the blue. And that wasn't any way to live.

"Not much to report on our end," the Doctor added, thinking about their latest adventures, "Surfed the fire falls of Floridal 9. Not deliberately, just the easiest way out…"

"Hardly," Mac scoffed with a laugh, "We could have easily negotiated with the Sontarans when they cornered us on that bridge, YOU just wanted to surf on magma. Have you any idea how hot that was!? I nearly singed my eyebrows off."

"Not nearly as 'hot' as you are dear," he grinned, pausing behind her to wind his arms around her waist, resting his chin o her shoulder to give her a peck on the cheek, nuzzling his nose to her temple before he looked back at the answerphone, making no move to step away from her.

And why would he? They'd FINALLY reached the point where they could be termed genuine Chosens and, after waiting so long, he was NOT taking anything for granted when it came to her, he just wanted to hold her and kiss her and touch her as much as he could, he still couldn't believe they were there, they were actually each other's Chosen's like they should have been all along. It was like a dream come true.

"We also met Mata Hari in Paris," Mac hummed, "Well, I say met…"

The Doctor chuckled, "That was an entertaining night."

"It was NOT my fault," she turned in his arms, putting her own around his neck, "What sort of woman shows up in a hotel room, wearing nothing but a fur coat, and I mean NOTHING but a fur coat and then drops it in front of a man who checked in with psychic paper saying reservations for the honeymoon suite?!"

He grinned and leaned in, kissing her, Mac had been furious when the woman had entered the room and dropped her coat the moment she saw the Doctor to reveal she wasn't wearing anything at all. Mac had just gone into the next room to get some tea for the crumpet he'd been warming over the fire when Mata Hari had entered…and then she'd promptly thrown the tea pot at the woman's head…well, not quite, more like the wall beside her head. It DID have the desired effect of getting Mata Hari to grab her coat and rush off, but it also meant that Mac was quite angry. She only really threw glass objects like the little china tea pot, when she was furious…

He'd had a VERY pleasant time calming her down, using all his considerable years of experience to help.

"Also got to lay down some backing vocals," the Doctor continued.

"I can't believe you actually remembered all the limericks you sang to Amy and Rory about me when the siren got you," Mac laughed, he'd turned it into a bit of a rap, added new lyrics, just for her.

"Well of course I remembered, I was talking about YOU dear," he tapped her nose and stepped away, heading to the console, "We should be with you any day now," he got back to point, realizing that their time on the answer phone was likely running short, "Literally any day. Helmic Regulator's playing up. Can't get the temporal steering right…"

"Doctor!" Mac gasped, rushing over as alarms started to go off, "You're heading her for Ancient Greece!" she sighed, "Sorry Amy, Rory, got to cut this a bit short, bye!" she put the phone back down on its hook, ending the call and hurrying to focus on the matter at hand, they really couldn't go crashing into one of the ancient eras…again.

MAY

"I'm telling you Doctor we don't need to bother them," Mac rushed after the Doctor as he raced up the stairs of the Pond house one night, needing to get to Amy and Rory, get them off the planet so they could focus on what was happening and work it out. He didn't doubt he and Mac could do it, easily, but he was rather worried for the Ponds and their safety (just as he was for all the rest of his companions).

"The whole planet's in danger," he argued, hurrying down the hall towards their room, "Need to get them to safety!" he burst into the room, quickly covering his eyes when he saw them pop up in bed, whether sleeping or doing other things, he wasn't sure, "Stop everything!" he shouted, just to be safe.

"What's going on?" Rory yawned.

"Doctor!" Amy hissed, "Bedroom!"

"We have a RULE about the bedroom!"

"And when have you ever known him to follow any sort of rule Rory?" Mac sighed as she stepped in after them, "I'm sorry, I tried to stop him but…"

"No one on this planet is safe right now," the Doctor cut in, Mac gesturing to him as though that answered what she was about to say, "We have to solve this before it's too late. Get your clothes on. If we move fast enough we at least stand a chance and…" he trailed off, seeing them looking at him blankly, "You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?"

"No," Amy shook her head, Rory agreeing with a 'no' of his own.

"Oh Helmic Regulator! Again! Too early," he let out a huff and turned to take Mac's hand, leading her back to the door, "Wrong point. As you were!"

"Doctor, you can't just go like that," Amy rolled her eyes, "What's happening? Don't WE need to know?"

"Not at the moment, no," Mac reassured her, "It's one of those tricky foreknowledge issues Amy. We can't tell you too much or risk changing the future for the worse."

"We just popped up in the wrong order, easy mistake to make," the Doctor agreed, "Nohing to alarm you, forget we were ever here. We'll be back soon enough, I would have thought. Everything's FINE. Pretty much. Don't worry about the future," he nodded, backing up towards the door, already sensing that he was starting to ramble now, "The future's really…safe, really, really safe."

"You're not helping Doctor," Mac sighed, seeing the Ponds looking both exasperated and unamused at the same time, "Go," she nodded, "We need to get back to the right versions of you," she turned to nudge the Doctor out.

"Sleep well," he whispered to them, closing the door behind them.

"You know, they probably hate you for doing that to them all the time," Mac gave him a look.

"Force of habit," he took her hand and led her back to the TARDIS. After the Ponds had rejoined them in the TARDIS after Berlin…he'd made a point of randomly popping into their room, trying to keep their shenanigans to a minimum, not wanting to risk another potential time-baby being taken.

JUNE

They lost the Ood.

How did they lose the OOD? The thing followed them around like a puppy and yet, somehow, it managed to either walk out of the TARDIS or get lost within…either one was very possible and Mac was starting to regret not insisting they return the Ood when they'd first rescued him, as soon as they'd gotten out of danger. The Doctor seemed to have forgotten half the rooms in the TARDIS, or just didn't use them so much that he didn't realize they were there. He was rather like a child in a candy shop at Christmas with it also being his birthday given how excited he was to explore each and every room.

…and give her a kiss in each one for luck.

But despite all the kisses, they STILL hadn't found the Ood…

JULY

The Doctor was sitting in the harness under the console, fiddling with the wires, blackened goggles on his head as he tried to give the appearance of actually working on the TARDIS instead of surreptitiously watching Mac as she worked on making a few backup devices out of her odds and ends that she'd found scattered about. He really was trying to work and keep focused…but Mac was very distracting even when she didn't try to be.

He snapped out of it though when he heard Amy bring up the Ood on the phone as Mac spoke with the Ponds, apparently THEY had found the missing Ood, "Ood!" he shouted, nearly startling Mac as he'd been rather quiet that entire time, "Yes! We were wondering where he'd got to."

"I was afraid he'd wandered out into one of the more dangerous places we stopped at," Mac remarked, "Especially when we didn't find him in the TARDIS."

"Must have wandered off when we popped in the other night," the Doctor nodded, "If it was the other night. You know, we rescued him from the middle of the Androvax Conflict. We were taking him back to the Ood Sphere."

"We'll try to get there as soon as we can," Mac called, "Is he being a large bother?"

"He, um, seems to think that he's out butler," Rory's voice carried over the line.

"That's his conditioning," Mac sighed, standing up and brushing off her skirt, "Ood were born and bred for servitude for quite a while. We must have picked that one up from a point before they were freed."

"Let him do just that," the Doctor shook his head from where his gaze had been lingering on Mac's legs, "We'll come and pick him up tonight. Whenever tonight is…"

Mac looked up as warning bells went off, "What did you do this time Doctor?" she grumbled as she headed for the console.

The Doctor winced, getting a better look at one of the wires he'd accidently cut in staring at Mac, "Got to go!" he called to the ponds, "The power drain's threatening to cause the TARDIS to implode," he quickly rushed after Mac, joining her at the console, giving her a quick peck on the cheek as he hurried to help her, "Oh no that's bad," he flinched at the reading on the monitor, "Why's it doing that? No, no, no, no, no, don't do that!"

"This one's on YOU Doctor," Mac blew her sidebang out of her face, grabbing a lever and using her whole body to push it down, sending them flying off into the Vortex in an effort to stabilize and rejuvenate the TARDIS.

AUGUST

Mac laughed to herself as she stood on a ladder that was resting against the side of the TARDIS, glancing down at the Doctor as she changed the bulb. He was at the base of the ladder, a hand over his eyes so he wouldn't see anything as she WAS wearing a dress, and the other holding the ladder itself to help balance her, all the while he had a phone clutched between his ear and shoulder, speaking to Amy and Rory's answer phone.

"Ponds!" he cheered, "Us again. Sorry about the gaps in communications."

"We brought the Ood back to the Ood Sphere," Mac called as she closed the top of the TARDIS and started to climb back down, "And got it all fixed up with the third brain, he won't go wandering off again."

"Helmic Regulator's still not working," the Doctor added, "Got hit by an arrow at Hastings Hill."

"And that was before I had to fly the TARDIS after you while you chased after Lady Godiva," Mac took his hand off his eyes, giving him a playful-scolding look.

"It was chilly!" he defended, "I thought she might like a blanket or a coat or something," he huffed, try and be a gentleman and offer a lady a coat and suddenly everyone's up in arms that he was looking at a woman with not clothes on, "It's not like I saw much on that horse, though 11th century Coventry is quiet lovely."

"You were right behind and then before a naked woman and you're talking about the landscape?" Mac laughed, "Amy's right you really ARE an alien."

"No," he squeezed her hand, "I'm a man in love. Why look at another woman, ANY other woman, clothed or not, when I've got you?' he brushed a hair behind her ear, "I could look at you bundled up like an Eskimo and still think you the most radiant sight I've ever seen."

Mac let out a breath at that, "And…if I were to pull a Lady Godiva then?"

"You'd make my hearts stop…and then I'd be forced to kill all the men who got so much as a glimpse of you, so we should probably avoid that," he laughed.

Mac smiled and gave him a peck, moving to bring the ladder back into the TARDIS, "Don't forget to tell them about the pasta incident."

He nodded, pointing at her as she went in thanks for reminding him, "I think I may have accidently invented pasta," he remarked, thinking back to that event, "Anyway, Kenzie and I popped round but you were out. Which is fine," he looked at Mac as she rejoined him, winding his arm around her waist, "Everything's alright isn't it? With you two?"

"Of course it is," Mac tried to reassure him, tweaking his bowtie, "They're Amy and Rory."

"Yes, yes," he tried to agree, "Just…just worrying unnecessarily. Anyway just call us if you need us, ok? Toodle Pip."

He looked at the phone sadly before he pulled out the sonic and erased the message, "No telling when they'll get the message," he mused, "Which them…shouldn't worry them about something that hasn't happened or reminded them of something that did eh?"

"No," she agreed, giving him a peck before taking his hand and leading him into the TARDIS, though her hearts pinged painfully as well, she hoped everything was alright with their friends too.

A/N: I'm really excited for this series, quite a bit of fluff to come ;)

Also...I've got a bit of an announcement to make that involves the spinoffs. There will be a slight change to their dates as I'll be adding 2 more to my 4 existing ones. Given that I'm doing nearly 2 stories a day for the entire year...I really don't think I can handle doing 6 spinoffs in 1 month (that would be about 1 every 5 days). I'm going to be spacing them out like this:

TAOSAT - 10th of every odd month (May, July, September, November, January, March)
Recollections - 20th of every odd month
An Ancient Observer - 30th of every odd month

Impossibly Yours, Captain - 10th of every even month (June, August, October, December, February, April)
The UNIT Files - 20th of every even month
Dragon's Fire - 30th of every even month (/February 28th)

The UNIT Files will be a spin off for Mac, that will feature her adventure, cases, and missions in UNIT, along with her dealing with the alien threats to Earth in the background of the Doctor's adventures ;) I'm holding off on this one just because I want to get through all of Mac's story first and that won't end till the end of this month.

Dragon's Fire will be a spin off for my Merlin series that will feature snap shots of the lives of the characters after Series 5 but before the (and yes I'm going to do a) sequel! ^-^ I've put that one last even though Merlin is over as I wanted to keep all the DW ones in order, and start the months on the Lunar Cycle spinoffs ;) The sequel to Merlin will tentatively be up next year just to give me time to flesh out an outline and see where the spinoff goes ;)

This is essentially a tentative schedule. At the moment I can't quite see a spinoff for TL7 or TL5 that would be different than the ones we've already got for the first 4 TLs. I DO have a spinoff in mind for Sherlock (rewriting John's Blog to incorporate Leena), but I'm holding off on adding it to the list or posting it till I have an even number of spinoffs just so the dates don't go all wonky ;) So, while the dates might change if I find an 8th spinoff to do, so far that's the set dates ;)

Even though I'm sad to do it (I really wanted to update each story every single month), I feel like it would be best for time management and future writing to not put too much on my plate and to spread it out more :) I can say though, that I am going to try to get each of the spinoffs updated on Christmas as a gift though no matter when they're due to be updated :)

No real notes from the end of Falling in Love ;)