Reunion:
I began to go over the question in my head, over and over, sometimes pondering it for days. It would play, in the back of my head, like a recording that won't stop looping… "Doctor Who?"…It didn't completely make since at the time, in the words of an old friend "Spoilers." From the moment I heard Dorium Maldovar speak those words, nearly thirty years ago in the Seventh Transept… "Doctor Who?"… I knew the answer, it was still somewhere in me, in the deepest depths of my consciousness, festering, waiting to come out, as says ancient prophecy.
"On the Fields of Trenzalor , at the fall of the eleventh,when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question will be asked, a question that must never be answered,the first question, the oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight. DOCTOR WHO?"
I knew this would happen, eventually, no secret stays secret forever, I just thought I would die before it happened… But I was young, and naïve, at the young age I was one tends to overlook certain details…and even now, 654 years later, I still don't know when this to happen, for all I know it could happen tomor- BWOOONG, BWOOONG, BWOONG… "The Cloister Bell!" "Oh no! no no no no no no! This can't be happening, WHAT!" I look up, an see a glowing, A very bright, very familiar glowing, I feel light headed, I sit down on the captain's seat of the console room , All goes black.
WHHHEESSHHH, WHHHEESSHHH, WHHHEESSHHH, WHHHEESSHHH… I wake up, not knowing where I am at first,
I look around, I see the picture of Amy and Rory sitting on the nightstand next to the bed that I'm laying on, I soon realize I didn't come in here by myself, and that I'm not piloting the TARDIS.
"RIVER!" I announce, leaving Amy and Rory's old bedroom, hoping to see her, my best friend, my wife, Melody Pond, More commonly called "River Song" a name an old, old friend came up with a very long time ago.
I enter the console room, hopeful to see that curly haired, tall, beautiful, convict standing there piloting my TARDIS, but as I look around, I see nobody, I'm all alone in the TARDIS, so I think... I hear a loud crashing noise below me, I realize there is somebody below working on the TARDIS's temporal stabilizer, Only River Song or myself could
possibly know how to do that, I excitedly rush down the stairs anxious to see my wife. But instead I see something else. Something impossible. Something that could not possibly exist! I see… My daughter….
"Hello, Daddy-o!" Jenny says. "How ya doin'?" "Good I hope!"?
"You know, you really should look more into thi-" I interrupted her. "YOU'RE DEAD!" "I SAW YOU DIE!" "I CHECKED! BOTH OF YOUR HEARTS HAD STOPPED!" I exclaimed. "Well, maybe, you didn't stick around long enough!" Jenny said. "I obviously am not dead! According to some soldiers, I somehow managed to revive myself." "Also, you look different than I remember, did you change your hair?" She asked "I Regenerated." I smugly tell her. "You what?" she asked.
"Regeneration, it's what a Time Lord does when they are about to die, Sort of a way of temporarily cheating death, we change, I changed" I explain. "Hmm, Regeneration eh?" "Might just have to try that myself"
She says. "Absolutely not!" "I don't even know if you can regenerate!"
"You're not even a technical 'Time Lady' you shouldn't even exist" I say. "Not a Time Lady eh, well, she seems to think I am." She remarks "Who?" I ask. "The TARDIS" Jenny replies.
"She told me all I need to know to fly her" She states. "You weren't properly created, you're just a genetic copy of me, not a true child of Gallifrey!"… "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I'm just distraught with adrenaline" "Doctor?" She says quietly. "I've thought you were dead for almost 300 years!" I exclaim "Doctor?" She says in a louder, more worried tone "Do you know the guilt that's built up in my hearts in the past five minutes?, Let alone the past 300 years?" "I feel horrible!" "DOCTOR!" She yells. "WHAT!" I exclaim "Who's piloting the TARDIS?" She
asks me.
Suddenly realizing that I had gotten distracted, I returned to the TARDIS console and started pulling levers and flipping switches until I heard the sound, the most beautiful sound in the universe, the sound of a TARDIS materializing and landing smoothly.
I exit the TARDIS doors, excited to see where and when we are, I open the up, And I see, tree bark... I turn back to the console, and try to turn us around. "Everything alright up there?" I hear from below. "Yes, yes, just fine, just need to adjust our position." "Alright, sounds good." She accepts my answer, and continues to work on the temporal stabilizer.
Again I open the door, look out, and see, a horse! "Why hello there horsy!" "How are you doing today?" I ask, jokingly to the horse. "Let's see here, Where are we" I get out my sonic screwdriver, activate it, and scan my surroundings hoping to be on Earth at least, I extend my sonic and listen to the telepathic readings, "Alright, Kansas, America, Earth"
"2012, hmm, haven't been to 2012 in a while, I love this year, it's such a
nice year!" "Jenny! Come see where we are!" I exclaim 'One second dad, I a bit busy" She yells back.
"I love America! I'm going to take a look around, you stay in the TARDIS" "Okay" She replies. I take in a big breath of fresh country air, and realize, something's wrong, its took loud, but not in the way that
you would imagine, the air had something disgusting in it, something that can only be created on a planet so horrible, so disgusting, that it no longer truly exists…Skaro…The planet that is in a time lock along with my home world of Gallifrey, Looping the final moments of a great war, over and over, never stopping, forever, infinite, but the smell in the air, It has somehow escaped Skaro, It somehow escaped the time lock, truly I know exactly how this has happened, but it is too deadly of a secret to tell. The smell in the air, the worst smell imaginable, the rotting corpse of a dead Dalek…
But where is this dead Dalek? Better yet, how did the Dalek die? Was something here so ferocious that it could have survived the Daleks extermination? No, something had to have happened to the Dalek for it to have been killed, something had to have weakened it, perhaps its weapons systems had been disabled by an explosion of some sort, or perhaps, God, I hope I'm wrong, but perhaps there's a beast out there, in these Kansas woods, so terrible, so powerful, that it could have
destroyed a Dalek, before it was able to attack! That's when you should be scared, that's when all hope is lost. Well, if I'm not there to save you that is…And God help you if I'm not…But, If I know my TARDIS, I
will be.