"You can't escape them, Doctor. You can't run forever." Those words echoed through my head, as my feet pounded the earth. My chest felt like it was about to burst and my feet were beginning to ache. It felt as if all my years of running had been channelled into today. I wanted to stop, but I knew that if I did, He'd get me. Which shouldn't happen. Remorse filled the air, as I remembered my companions. Amy and Rory. I mentally cursed as I continued running. What had happened to them? My amnesia was getting slowly worse, I realised, as I managed a couple of painful breaths, not knowing where my friends were. I ran my hand through my now wet hair, trying to remember...

"Come on, Amy, Rory, where do you want to go?" I asked looking at them, as I worked the TARDIS, it's typical soft wheezing sound filling the control room. I stopped suddenly. I had to do it.
"Doctor, what's the matter? It looks like you've just seen a ghost," Amy smiled joyously, coming up behind me
"N-no" I breathed "Ghosts don't scare me, it'd be something else."
"What *does* scare you, Doctor? You don't tend to get scared very easily. Your room at that hotel is the first time I've properly seen you scared," Rory said, looking at me worriedly. I turned to him
"Permission?"
He looked confused, but nodded "Yes, alright, why?" I gave him the 'obvious' look "Oh, yes. Sorry. I'll leave then." He nodded again curtly and walked off, whilst I turned to Amy and gave her a sudden embrace
"I'm really sorry, Amy... I've already told Rory this..."
"Told Rory what, Doctor?" She asked, pushing me away
I sighed "That I'm scared about what will happen to you two if you stay with me. You know what I can be like. When we were in Mercy..."
"Doctor..." Amy put her hands on my shoulders "I know what you're like, and have known for a long time now. For God's sake, Doctor, your impact on our lives has been colossal, you got us, singlehandedly, back together when we thought that we couldn't go on. I've known your darkness, and what you're capable of, despite how I don't like it. Everyone has their darkness, and obviously yours would be higher..."
"Amelia. I can't deal with this anymore," I opened the door, revealing their house, and Rory's car. "You need to leave... For your own safety, really." I could barely believe that I was uttering those words.
"Are you finished?" Rory asked, entering the control room again. I sighed, nodded, and pushed them out of the TARDIS, muttering about how necessary this was.


Ah, so that was it. I'd left them. But why? I continued thinking, my hearts beginning to hurt. Ah, it was all coming back now.
(This must be a side effect, the coming and going of your memory.)
I shook the thought away. A side effect of what?
(Reminisce. Reminiscing helps you forget the harsh reality and current situation.)
I nodded, breathlessly, agreeing with the deep thought, seemingly placed there by an unknown source. What was it? I ignored the doubt, and continued trying to remember.

'He has actually decided! The Time Lord has agreed to succumb to the darkness! We will have him in our power!' I rubbed my head, hearing dark, gloating voices inside it 'He will come to us, now!'
Listening to the voices, I breathed in deeply, closed my eyes, and let my subconscious control my movements, and show me where to go. The TARDIS make a grating noise as I neared The Place. I patted the central column lightly.
"Nearly there, old girl. Then you'll never have to do this again. This silly old man's had enough, he's going to give in to the temptation." She clearly stuttered, as she tried to navigate away, but I gritted my teeth and held the switches in place, so that she wouldn't flick them back again. "Come *on*, this *has* to be done." I was plummeted into darkness, as the TARDIS landed.
"Come on, dear. *Please*, I need, to do this."
The TARDIS' lights flickered on for a second, and then back off
"TARDIS! I *know* you don't want me to do this, but I *have* to." The doors locked themselves from the outside. I stroked them, genuinely upset with what I had to do "I- I can't control it anymore. That's why Amy and Rory are at their house. You *know* what happened before." I looked sadly around what I'd done to her earlier, and, using the sonic, unlocked the doors and pulled myself out, before she registered what I'd done.