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An Unlikely Pairing

Dalek Sec was happy, an unfamiliar feeling to him, he had found the Doctor after he had been abandoned by the Cult right before they fled the Time War. He had searched the Doctor out, and had somehow gotten the Doctor to give him emotions again. It was an odd feeling, one he hoped to feel more of in the future.

Turning his eyepiece to face the Doctor Sec spoke. "I want... to see the universe..."

Rose skipped into the control room; catching sight of Dalek Sec. "Hello!" she greeted him happily, patting the top of his rounded metal body as she passed by.

It was odd for the Doctor... to be teamed with a Dalek. Everything about it felt wrong, like he wanted to push the thing straight out of the doors into a burning supernova or similar, but new knew he was about second-chances, despite what he has said soon after regenerating into this body and that was exactly what he was doing to Dalek Sec: giving him the second-change he deserved. In a way it felt right; to have at least one Dalek defying its nature, to feel emotions again and one day... who knew? A new future for the entire race. No, a second chance was what was needed and that was what he was giving Sec now.

"The universe..." the Doctor muttered, leaning on the railing that lead down to the doors, Sec just some distance from him, the blue glow of his eye-stalk making the Doctor feel he was looking into some terribly bright blue iris."Where first?" he asked brightly, pushing himself off the railing just as Rose came in from the depths of the TARDIS corridors. "Ah, Rose! Can you think of where the first place Sec could see to understand the vast intensity of the true universe?"

Hmmm..." Rose bit her lip, pretending to concentrate. "Well, there's the third bountiful human empire, or Clom if you want to see really rotund green aliens but don't want to encounter Raxacoricofallapatorians, and of course there's always the past on Earth. Shakespeare, Knights of the Round table-say, that might be fun!" she loves the tales of King Arthur. Imagine meeting him! "What'd you say, Sec? Knights and honor and mead?"

Dalek Sec moved his eyestalk to look at Rose as she walked away after patting his travel unit. He didn't know Rose very well, but he knew she was a very nice person.

Sec's eye widened in curiosity within his travel unit, "What is a Knight?" he asked.

"Knights of the round table eh? I suppose a trip back to see my old mate Arthur is well needed. Well, he needs his Merlin from time-to-time I suppose" the Doctor walked up to the control, dialing in a few dates before adding: "To 6th Century Earth we go!" before slamming down the starting lever, causing the TARDIS to shake and wobble as they rented through the Time Vortex.

Sec quickly went through his database of earth. "But that mean-!" He started to say before the shaking if the TARDIS threw him to the ground.

"Knights!" the Doctor stated over the noise of the TARDIS, "They, my Secky friend, are human warriors of old - fighting battle with sword and shield, killing and maiming their own kind for victory over land, King and Country. Sort of brutal but very human and in fact rather fascinating..."

"Oh, poor thing!" Rose tried to aid him, attempting to lift his huge metal frame upright. "Lend me a hand, will you, Doctor?"

"Dalek down!" the Doctor cried as the TARDIS gave a resolute thumping land. He ran over and together he and Rose managed to get Sec back the right way up. He patted it on the top of the dome as he commented, "Yeah seems the ride's a little more bumpier than I thought sometimes... Don't worry, though, Secky boy, I'll sort something out later. Come on the pair of you" he was already at the doors; "A whole medieval word awaits!"

Sec struggled to find words for what he was feeling, it was different and it felt like blasphemy to him. Putting it off to the side he moved his travel unit to the doors where the Doctor stood ready to open them.

Rose grasped Sec's gun, as though she was holding his hand. She didn't want him to wander off-who knows what a knight might to do a Dalek. She shuddered at the very thought.

"Where exactly are we?" she asked the Doctor. "What part of the town?" Their surroundings were grassy, woods flanking their left side.

Sec moved his eye as he felt Rose grab his Gunstick with her hand, although he didn't know the purpose of this human gesture he decided to just go along with it.

The Doctor stuck a finger in his mouth before replacing it into the air. He then took a great whiff of the air around him before turning around and facing his two companions; "We've arrived on the Fifteenth of October 513, on the edge of a village, seems to be called..." he picked a blade of grass and ate it, "Lochmore" he concluded, "about fifteen miles from Camelot - fun isn't it?" he asked with glee to Rose, looking with momentary concern to Sec.

"Why did you look at me like that?" Sec asked genuinely confused.

"Sec; this world wasn't designed for flat surfaces, its all stones and cobbles and cracked pavements - I suggest you hover, but in a way that it can't be noticeable" the Doctor stated, keeping lighthearted.

"Yeah, because being in a big metal suit isn't already really obvious..." Rose teased lightly. 'Though I suppose we could say he was a knight."

Sec looked at Rose for a second, "As you wish." he replied.

She doubled back at once, feeling terrible. "No, no, I won't if you don't want me to. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it in a bad way!" she had no idea what might hurt Sec's feelings, since he'd only just gotten them.

"Why are you doing that? I do not understand?" Sec said, feeling as though she didn't like him.

The Doctor wondered whether, with his new emotions, Sec would be able to identify his feelings realized that the process of giving him emotions once more was going to be longer than anticipated, but he liked a challenge! Patting Rose on the shoulder so as to calm her, the Doctor gave Sec a grin before motioning for them both to follow. He knew what he was going to say should anyone question to big metal pot 'rolling' down the street...

I thought I hurt your feelings." Rose explained. She gave Sec a hug-rather awkward, considering her arms barely fit around him-but a hug nonetheless. "I wouldn't want to do that, I like you too much."

"I am not offended" he replied bluntly, tapping her sides with his Gunstick and his Manipulator arm as she did what humans called a hug.

Rose giggled, his motions tickling her. "Well, all right, then. Onwards we go. Say, Doctor, is those hoofbeats?" it was a very quite drumming, almost unidentifiable because of the soft hum of Sec's elevators, keeping him hovering above the ground.

"Hoofbeats?" Sec inquired, not knowing what she meant.

"They're the sound a horse makes when it's galloping." Rose said. "And a horse... it's this, um, four-legged animal, with very short hair all over its body, a long-ish neck, and very strong legs. People use them to get around; well, we used to. Where I'm from we have cars instead."

Sec stored the information in his database, feeling a drop of something hit his travel unit he said: "a drop of Liquid Oxygen Hydrogen has hit my travel unit! Where is it coming from?"

"Hey, it's alright, it's just rain." Rose explained bemusedly, wiping the drop off his dome-shaped head. "It won't hurt you, I promise."

"Ok." Sec said, moving closer to her as he to heard the 'hoofbeats'.

The Doctor had heard the hoof-beats and saw, in the distance, a band of men riding across the plain in parallel to them. Whether they noticed the odd threesome he didn't know; instead the Doctor listened to Sec and Rose's conversation in the background and smirked. It seemed odd hearing the monotonous chatter of a Dalek speaking with independent thought.

As they went by a few wooden shack houses, the sounds of the horses became closer and the Doctor stopped, turning back to his companions as he said, "Be prepared to get a visual of a horse, Sec."

Rose squinted, trying to see exactly who the men were. "Just traveler, yeah?" she asked hopefully. Knowing their luck it would probably be a band of thieves, or the royal police going after a criminal.

Sec's eye narrowed as he zoomed in on the men riding atop the strange creature, "Is that a horse?" he asked.

In a secluded area of space thousands of years in the future a lonely ship shaped like a saucer sent out a continues distress signal, the being inside's rage could be felt from hundreds of miles away, it gave off an eerie feeling, so everybody stayed away from it...

Fin