Watching in horror from the safety of the TARDIS, they saw the freighter plunging towards the planet, their friend trapped aboard. The explosion ripped through the ship and all he could feel was shock, shock that it had happened. His young friend was… gone.
It couldn’t be true! It couldn’t be…
“Stop, stop, STOP!”
She stopped the memory clip and yanked out her ear cable, her eyes were wide and watery. As she tried to bite it back the Doctor came in.
“I told you there was a reason why I never let you access that memory.” He said, “It still haunts me, and I didn’t want you to see it.”
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Twinkle twinkle guiding star,
I think you travelled much too far.
Died on Earth so long ago,
Into the TARDIS and off we go.
Twinkle twinkle guiding star,
Now I know just where you are.
As he stumbled away he could hear the girls laughing at him, at what they’d just done to him. He sniffed, wiping away tears that had they forced from his eyes by the repeated attacks on him and the tickling of his feet. As he ran to the bathroom to clean his face again his young mind whirred with thoughts, his brain’s processes powered by a deep embarrassment and lubricated by anger. How dare they? How DARE they do that to him? He was only a teenager, and there were two of them to his one. It just wasn’t fair; he was always treated as a child…
He’d have his revenge; he swore it…
***
After the Doctor had gone to bed too he breathed a sigh of relief. Well, breathed wasn’t the right word, not in his state. Whatever, he was glad tonight was one of those nights when the old Time Lord did sleep. He felt like doing what he did best, and now no one would interrupt him.
He floated down and materialised in the form that was the same as his body. Technically, being nothing more than soul and memory, he could choose any form he wanted, and indeed during the day he could be anything. An LED flashing on the console, a roundel covering, a chess piece. Anything that kept him hidden as he watched the Doctor go about his business wi
