Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me. I merely borrow them to torture them every now and then. Also warnings: Mentions of child murder and murder witnessing…but with this game you have to expect it.

Chapter One

The Doctor stood by the TARDIS, leaning one hand against the door and breathing rather heavily due to his fright and frustration. His companion Peri Brown wasn't much better off, after slamming the large metal door behind them her knees had let out and she was left kneeling on the floor, eyes wide in terror and drawing in gasping breaths. Slowly though, the Doctor's fear abated, giving free reign to his frustration as he turned to Peri.

"They've murdered five children Peri. Five! And no, it wasn't the animatronics, someone else did it," he explained as she gave him curious a look, she nodded and he continued. "Then, they stuffed them into the suits we just saw, rather ingenious really, if it weren't horribly sadistic."

At that his companion looked confused, hadn't they just seen that there was nothing inside the suits? "But Doctor, you, you said that the suits were empty, and we both looked inside them, so how…how do you know that the kids were in there?"

"Well, I can't know for certain yet," he admitted, unlocking the TARDIS door "but the evidence so far supports that theory." He pushed the door open with a grim smile and gestured to Peri, wordlessly telling her to go in.

'Evidence? What evidence?' Peri thought as she watched him from her position on the floor 'Oh, never mind, he probably wouldn't tell me anyway.' Out loud though she simply asked, "So what are we gonna do now? Admit defeat and go off in the TARDIS to somewhere less scary?" She was more than hoping that that would be what was going to happen. Her glimmer of hope was sadly crushed as the Doctor shook his head. She sighed, picking herself off the floor and making her way on shaky legs to the TARDIS.

When she finally arrived in the console room the Doctor was already there, focusing on the little buttons and screens that adorned the console. Perhaps a little too focused as he seemed to be purposely avoiding Peri's gaze as he slowly said, "We have to go back, just one more time. Just once Peri. To monitor, to observe…" his voice trailed off.

Peri laughed teasingly. "Oh come on Doc! I've heard that one before; you know we'll only get involved in things. You can't help yourself."

"Peri, we cannot interfere," The Doctor said sternly, dreading his next words but not letting it show on his face. "What we're about to see is a fixed point in time, there would be disastrous consequences if either of us did anything. We have to observe…" He closed his eyes, unable to finish his sentence.

All trace of joking left the girl's face as she prompted tentatively, "We have to observe…" Peri was fairly sure she already knew what he was going to say, but she prayed that he wouldn't confirm her fears.

Apparently her prayers went unanswered as his next words froze her to the spot; they were the confirmation of her worst nightmare.

"We have to watch the murders take place."

She stared at him in horror. "Oh Doctor we can't."

"I have to know the truth Peri" he answered looking at her sadly, feeling very unhappy with himself. He shouldn't even be suggesting something like this, let alone expose his companion to it. He was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of her voice.

"And you expect me to just stand there and watch five kids, who haven't done anything to anyone, get murdered? That's Doctor." Peri sounded utterly disgusted, as if she couldn't believe that he of all people would suggest such a thing.

The Doctor's lip curled, naturally she didn't understand, he didn't expect her to either. He leant on the console, gripping the edges tightly, turning his head away from her so as not to see the accusation in her eyes as he said calmly. "I need to know."

"Fine," Peri spat, not believing he could be so calm about this, this was witnessing murder he was talking about, not visiting some old friend! "Go watch some innocent kids get killed, just don't expect me to do the same thing." She too turned away, unable to bring herself to look at him.

The Doctor glanced over his shoulder briefly, noting that she wasn't looking at him and sighed. "I wouldn't exactly be watching it happening but I do need to know the end result."

Peri rolled her eyes exasperatedly. "Why? Need to check exactly how they died or something, you unfeeling jerk," she said bitterly.

He started at that, Peri had never insulted him before, at least nothing beyond a few light teases, but he shook his head, that didn't matter right now, what mattered was the mystery. "I need…to see if they are in the suits, so that I can prevent it from happening anymore and save the old night guard," he said in a forcibly calm voice.

"You and your damn suits. You already know they get shoved in there, what more do you want?" She asked, her temper finally getting the better of her. How could one person be so damn cold when they supposedly had two hearts? Didn't he realise just how sick what he was asking her to help him do was or something?

He gripped the console even tighter, picking up on her thoughts. "But that's exactly it Peri" he insisted. "I don't know that, not precisely at least."

"Well you sure seemed sure of it before, or were you just saying that so we could go back to when they were killed?"

The Doctor glared and focused on breathing, reminding himself that she couldn't possibly understand and that it wouldn't do to argue with her. He slammed down a lever and watched Peri out of the corner of his eye. She still had her back turned to him but he could tell that she was very upset about all of this and quite possibly more frightened than she'd ever been in her entire life. He also knew that she didn't want to go with him and that the thought of potentially viewing murder made her physically ill. 'Perhaps,' he thought, as the TARDIS began to rematerialize 'Perhaps I should let her go home now, maybe it would be for the best.'