I've written some about my time with Gwen already
here. She knew me then as Derryth Duru, and she always called me Derryth. When she was about 15, Gwen saw me come out of my TARDIS, which looked like a wardrobe in my chamber, and she was able to then somehow get into it and stowaway on my next trip.
(picture of SALLY and Gwen)
After that, she would beg me to take her on journeys, and we would travel to relatively safe places. Once, when she was 22, she stole the TARDIS and took it to New York city, where she settled down as a waitress and dancer for almost 7 months in that time. I had to get the timelords to help me communicate with my original timestream self to go find her and bring back both her and SALLY, whom I still blame a little bit for letting her get away in the first place. SALLY always did like Gwen better than any of my other companions, at least as far as "taking her to get into trouble without me" means "to like."
(picture of SALLY, Gwen, and original C)
I got her back to Arthur's side within a month of her having left, but it made me see that she was terribly unhappy with both Arthur and Lancelot, and with life at court generally. We struck up a deal where I would take her to an alternative timestream where she could live for a few years, if she would return and live out the life that history had planned for her. I bought, together with Gabor, a home in Mieville, and there she lived happily for almost 4 years, falling in love with Julieta (see below), and changing her name to Jean.
(picture of Mieville, Jean and Julieta)
She finally agreed to come back to her own time when Julieta agreed to come back with her, and then Julieta became her Chamber Maid, sleeping with her most nights and spending all day with her. Julieta retired with us to the nunnery, when it was time to go, and the two of them continued to have their clandestine love affair up until Julieta's death. It was shortly after that when Gwenhwyfar died as well, which freed me to leave the Arthurian timestream and to regenerate for the second time. Gwen died at 72 years of age, making me 77 in that timestream when I left it.
(picture of Jean and Julieta in medieval clothes)
I spent so many years with Gwen that it's sometimes hard not to return back to her lifetime to see her again, but it would be too easy to slip into the wrong timestream and create paradoxes that would undo all of the work I spent a human lifetime to complete. She had a wonderful laugh and a love of life. She was an amazing dancer who easily could have made her living from it in New York, had I left her there. She was curious and inquisitive even though not very well educated. She knew she was the Queen, and it was only natural for her to fall in love with Julieta, who happily and devotedly tried to placate her every whim.
(picture of Gwen)
I miss Gwen and Julieta very much, and I'm happy for the opportunity to talk about them again. Someday, I will tell Julieta's story as well.
