Bouncing along quite happily, Theta Sigma played with his little brother, Giacomo. Though Theta liked to tease him about being the little brother, they were twins and Giacomo liked to remind Theta of that simple fact. The two were the best of brothers, though, always playing, hardly fighting, never putting a toe out of line—not that it mattered. Their father just didn't seem to like them and it only got worse when their mother had started to fall ill. Was it really their fault that she was aging? That she was human? As far as Giac and Theta could see, their father should have been smarter or at least expected this to come.

Nights are the worst, it seems. They share a bedroom, though there's not much within it. Two beds, two pillows, two thin blankets—bedside cabinets. Everything is white and it simply feels like they're living in a hospital. The light switch is outside of their room and neither of the twins are stupid enough to even try to get up in the night. Leaving the room would leave them with bruises. They both knew that from experience.

Lying curled up in bed one night, Giacomo is awoken by a shining, blue light. Frowning, he tries to think away the blue light, thinking it was his imagination playing with his sight again before then noticing that it was Theta's little hand wrapped around the seeming Torch. "Thete, what the hell?"

"S' a Torch!" Theta whispers, shining the light upwards towards his face so that Giac could see him. Rolling his eyes, Giac nods lightly.

"I can see that, but where the hell did you get it from?"

"Made 'em, didn't I!" Again with the grin.

"Them?" Giacomo has to stop himself from jumping and yelling in surprise as the thin, stick like object bounces off of his forehead. Digging around on his bed, he finds it and switches it on, pointing it up then over to Theta, grinning lightly. "Brilliant..."

"Doc? Doctor? You alright there?"

The Doctor frowns and shakes his head lightly, looking around with a slightly dazed look on his face before then looking towards Jack and Rose and widening his eyes slightly. "Wha'?"

"You've been awfully quiet since we came in from New York, Doctor. Are you ok?" Rose's touch to his arm sends a light shudder through him, and causes him to smile down to her.

"I'm fine, don't worry… just lost in thoughts, that's all." Though, he can't help but wonder where that thought had cropped up from.