A/N: This story is part of the Something Old and New series and the third in the Trial of a Time Lord series. Please see my profile for the list of the stories in the series and in what order they should be read.
Chapter One
(One…)
"Be careful, Grandfather," Susan said while the Doctor carefully made his way up the hillside and held the top of his cane tightly in his hand.
"I am, my dear," he said with a soft smile and they headed for the large rock with a flat top. She helped him sit down then sat down on the grass and they looked up at the purple sky. Ian and Barbara had gone ahead to explore the temple at the top of the hill and the Doctor looked at the top of the temple sticking up from the top of the hill. "I just hope they don't run into any trouble."
"They'll be fine," she said as he nodded then saw a jagged white light appearing in the air in front of them and stood up.
"What is that, hm?" the Doctor asked when he started walking toward it and Susan stood, walking toward him.
"Grandfather, please, don't go any closer," she said when the Doctor stopped in front of the jagged white light and turned, looking back at her.
"Oh poppycock, it's perfectly…" The Doctor said when a pair of hands shout out of the jagged white light and yanked him inside the jagged white light
"GRANDFATHER!" Susan shouted while the jagged white light faded and tears rolled down her cheeks.
(Two…)
"Doctor, where are you?" Jamie shouted while the Doctor walked along the trail and softly hummed to himself.
"Coming," he said while trying to get by the large fern fronds and rolled his eyes. "Oh, bother, this is getting ridiculous!"
"Do you need any help?" Zoe shouted and he sighed.
"No no, I'm fine," he said when he saw the jagged white light in front of him and blinked. "I say, what is this?" Walking closer, he looked at the jagged white light when a pair of hands shout out of the jagged white light and pulled him inside. After hearing the Doctor shouting, Jamie and Zoe ran to where he was standing as they looked around and Zoe held onto Jamie.
"Where did he go?" she asked as Jamie shrugged and the sounds of the jungle echoed around them.
(Three…)
"So, what is it?" Jo asked as she brushed some blonde hair behind her ear and the Doctor looked at the slid under the microscope.
"I think it is some strain of small pox," he sighed and Jo's eyes went wide.
"But how did those aliens get hold of it?" she asked and the Doctor sat back on the stool, pinching his eyes closed between his finger and thumb.
"That's what I want to know. Where is the Brigadier?"
"He's in his office."
"Will you go get him for me?" the Doctor asked and Jo nodded, leaving the lab. Sighing, the Doctor looked over at the TARDIS sitting in the corner and regretted not being able to travel very far in her. The aliens that brought the strain of small pox came from a galaxy out of his travel range and he gently pounded his fist on the table. He then noticed the jagged white light appearing in front of him when he stood up and walked closer. He didn't have time to call out when a pair of hands pulled him into the jagged white light and the doors opened as Jo and the Brigadier walked into the lab.
"Where is he?" the Brigadier asked as Jo walked to the TARDIS and knocked on the door.
"Doctor, are you in there?" she asked then looked inside and sighed. "He's not near the console."
"Well, he can't have just vanished into thin air," he said as Jo nodded and they went inside the TARDIS, closing the doors behind them.
(Four…)
"Master, my sensors are picking up an anomaly within the control room," K-9 said while they walked inside the control room and walked to the console. Leela sat on the jump seat as she tried to read one of the books the Doctor had given her and tilted the book one side then the other.
"Bah!" she said as she tossed the book behind her and the Doctor caught the book in one hand, glaring at her.
"What did this book ever do to you?" he asked ad she looked at him and sat on the arm of the jump seat.
"I don't think I like reading," she said when the jagged white light appeared and she hopped of the jump seat, crouching down and held her knife in her hand. "Get behind me, Doctor!"
"Rubbish," he said as K-9 scooted in front of him and the Doctor patted its head.
"I would not go any closer, Master," K-9 said but the Doctor stepped over it and headed for the light.
"It's just a light anomaly," the Doctor said when a pair of hands reached out and grabbed him. "Or maybe it's not."
"Doctor!" Leela shouted as the hands pulled the Doctor into the jagged white light and vanished. Leela roared while K-9 scanned the control room and its ears twirled on its head.
"The Master is gone," K-9 said and Leela kicked its side, making it yelp. "Violence will not make the Master return any faster."
"Shut up," she said then limp out of the room and the door closed behind her.
(Five…)
"Come on, Doctor, you can do it!" Adric shouted while he, Nyssa and Tegan watched the Doctor playing cricket with some friends and Tegan sighed, fanning herself with the program in her hand. The Doctor held the cricket bat tightly in his hand as he watched the bowler and wiggled his hips. The bowler pitched the ball as the Doctor swung the bat and the ball bounced off the bat, sailed into the air and headed for the trees behind him.
"I'll get it, Chaps," he said with a smile that made his cheeks plump up a bit and tipped his hat at them. Running toward the trees, he looked around for the cricket ball when he saw the jagged white light and slowly walked closer. Before he could move, a pair of hands grabbed him as he dropped the cricket bat on the ground and the hands pulled him into the jagged white light.
"Oh, this is getting silly," Tegan said as they stood up and ran toward the trees. Adric found the cricket bat as he picked it up and Tegan looked around, trying to see where the Doctor went.
"Where did he go?" Nyssa asked.
"Maybe he went that way," Adric said as he pointed with the cricket bat then ran off and they looked at each other. Shrugging, they went to catch up with him and Adric ran faster, waving the cricket bat over his head.
(Six…)
"I said no and I mean no," the Doctor said while Peri sighed and placed her hands on her hips.
"But you said you'd do some exercises" she said and he folded his arms over his chest.
"Riding a stationary bicycle is not exercising, Peri, it's just pedaling in one spot. If I want to ride a bicycle, I want the open road in front of me."
"Fine, get fat and have a coronary! See if I care!" she said as she stormed out of the room and he blinked his eyes a few times.
"Time Lords do not have coronaries. Even if we did, we still have one heart and would regenerate," he said to himself then sighed and walked to the stationary bicycle. Shrugging, he went to sit on the seat when he saw the jagged white light, stood up and walked toward it. "What are you?" Before he could move, a pair of hands grabbed him and pulled him toward the light. "Why does this feel so familiar?"
The alarm made Peri run back into the control room in time to see the Doctor vanishing in the jagged white light and she ran toward it.
"No, Peri, stand back!" he shouted as she watched him disappear then the jagged white light faded and she sank to the floor, bending her legs up to her chest. The tears rolled down her face as she rocked back and forth and silently prayed that the Doctor would be alright.
(Seven…)
"Come along, Ace," the Doctor said while they walked down the trail and his umbrella thumped against his leg.
"I still don't understand why we need this mystra-whatever it is," Ace said as she walked next to the Doctor and he sighed, pulling his hat back on his head.
"It is a mystraconductor and I need it so the TARDIS can detect mystical energies," he said as they walked toward the temple and she sighed.
"Whatever you say, Professor," she said when the jagged white light appeared and the Doctor looked at it. "What is that?"
"I don't know," he said as he walked closer and she gently placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Maybe you should do that," she said as he took her hand off his shoulder and moved closer to the jagged white light. Suddenly the hands reached out and grabbed the Doctor as he yelped then vanished inside the jagged white light. Ace screamed as the jagged white light vanished and the startled birds flew into the air.
(Eight…)
The Doctor watched while Grace sipped on the coffee she had ordered and he shyly smiled at her. He wasn't sure if falling for a human was a good idea but he had felt something for Sarah Jane once.
"But was that love?" he thought as Grace touched his hand and he looked into her eyes.
"Are you alright, Doctor?" she asked and he nodded.
"Um, isn't it time for your shift?" he asked. They were across the street from the hospital where Grace worked and she looked at her watch.
"Oh, shit, I'm late," she said then got up and gently kissed his cheek, heading for the door. He watched her leave as he sighed then noticed the money she had left for the coffee and tea and he got up, walking to the door. Going outside, he looked up at the dark sky when he thought about the war that was being fought galaxies away and his hearts hurt. He knew that he should be out there, fighting the war, but finding the Master took top priority. Walking down the pavement, he noticed a light in an alleyway when he walked closer and the light grew brighter. Every fiber in his being told him to run as he noticed the jagged edges of the white light and blinked. He stood in front of the jagged white light when a pair of hands grabbed him and pulled him side, leaving only a stray cat as a witness to what happened to him.
(Nine…)
"Come on, Doc, I said I was sorry!" Jack said while the Doctor growled at him and slammed the doors in his face. Rose sat up on the jump seat when she saw that the Doctor was angry and she stood up, walking toward him. The Doctor's hearts slowed to a soft thump while he watched her walking toward her when the doors opened and Jack walked up the ramp.
"What's going on?" Rose asked.
"Oh, we went to talk to that Korgal guy and he wanted the Doc and I to spend the night with his two daughters," Jack said and Rose's eyes went wide.
"Are you serious?" she asked and the Doctor snorted, nodding his head.
"But Mister High and Mighty here didn't want to," Jack said with a grin and rolled his eyes. "Doc, those girls were gorgeous!"
"I know," the Doctor shouted then looked at Rose. "What does he do then? He tells Korgal that my penis doesn't work and bedded the pair of them!"
"You what?" she said as she looked at Jack and he shrugged.
"Well, something must be wrong with it since he hasn't done it with you!" Jack said and Rose blinked, walked to the Doctor and slide an arm around his.
"How do you know that we haven't, Harkness?" she asked as Jack's mouth fell open and the Doctor sighed, removed her arm and walked out of the control room. He turned the corner when a jagged white light appeared in front of him and he blinked. Slowly walking toward it, he titled his head to one side when a pair of hands grabbed him and pulled him into the jagged white light. The alarms sounded as Rose and Jack ran down the hallway then stopped where the jagged white light was and Jack held her in his arms.
"Doctor?" Rose asked then placed her face against Jack's chest and he gently wrapped his arms around her.
(Eleven…)
The Doctor sat on the bed while he looked at the hologram picture of Rain and the triplets and sighed. He had only been in exile for a few days but spending a thousand years away from his family made his hearts ache. Sighing, he plopped down on the bed when he thought about things when he remembered Jenny's vision about the Valeyard and what he had told her in the vision.
"I told her that I was in exile. Is this when it happens?" he whispered when the jagged white light appeared near the bed and he sat up, looking at it. "I guess so."
He slowly stood up when he walked toward the jagged white light and blinked. A pair of hands grabbed him when the hands drew him into the jagged white light and he hoped that he was right or he was in big trouble.
(Twelve…)
"Thete?" Rain asked when she came into the bedroom and saw the light coming from the bathroom. Walking to the doorway, she smiled as she leaned against the doorframe and watched the Doctor preening in front of the mirror. "Oh, will you come off it?"
The Doctor looked much younger than his eleventh life but he was tall and muscular and had bright green eyes. He had gotten his dimples back and had a scattering of freckles on his face. What he was fussing about was trying to get his wild hair to settle on his head.
"Ginger hair," he whispered then looked at Rain. "I have ginger hair!"
"So does Alan, but you don't hear…No, wait, he took out a full page ad in the paper when it happened."
"That's not the point, Latara. The point is I am FINALLY ginger!" he shouted and wiggled his hips.
"And you look adorable. Now, get a move on or we are going to be late for Chas' concert," she said then left the bedroom and the Doctor looked at his reflection. Chaska was having his first solo concert at the concert hall and the Doctor was so proud of him. Walking out of the bathroom, he picked up the tan coat when he saw the jagged white light and placed the coat on.
"Ah, not now," he said when he walked toward the jagged white light and frowned. He yelped when a pair of hands grabbed him then pulled him into the jagged white light and Rain ran into the room.
"NO!" she shouted then sank to the floor and tears rolled down her cheeks.