The Characters

November 23 , 2013

As the last of the credits from the Doctor Who 50th anniversary rolled away, the 11th Doctor turned to look at the rest of the group gathered in an otherwise deserted hotel lounge.
"Well, what did you think? Wasn't it amazing?" he said, grinning at them.
"It was wonderful, sweetheart." Said River Song, "But there was something missing…"
"Yeah, I think you'll find that that was us." Said Donna, looking over at Martha, who nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, why didn't we get called in? I mean, I'm even a part of UNIT. They could've snuck me in."
"And I'm always showing up in the Doctor's timestream, it wouldn't have been hard for me to show up." Said River, sounding a bit hurt.
"And I wasn't even mentioned!" wailed Donna, glaring at the Doctors lounging on one of the hotel's couches, as if this was completely their faults.
"You lost your memory, Donna, if you'd have shown up your mind would have exploded. Otherwise it would have made massive plot holes. I mean, nobody knows you were healed…" said the Tenth Doctor, trying to placate his former companion.
"I think they're right." Clara spoke up, "It was very unfair to have only one companion there- even if it was me. Fifty years is too long a time for only one of us to make an appearance."
"See? Even she agrees!" insisted Donna, "It was unfair! I ought to have a talk with these people…"
"Now, Donna, calm down, it's not that bad- it was still a good movie! I mean, Gallifrey showed up! And all our lives past! That's got to be worth something." Ten argued.
"Well it's no good about worrying what's past." Said Eleven, "It's time to look to the future!"
"It really was a superb movie." Said Martha, "I just wish we could have been a part of it."
"Maybe we can." Said River, musingly.
"We're not going back and changing time! We did far too much of that already!" said Ten sternly.
"That wasn't what I was suggesting at all." Said River, "I meant that we could make our own movie for the 50th anniversary- one with all of us companions in it."
"That's a great idea!" said Martha, "I could get Mickey to be in it too!"
"Say, where is Mickey?" asked Ten, trying to side track them as he was beginning to fear where this conversation was headed.
"He had to work, some sort of thing UNIT needed him for." Said Martha.
"But they were in the 50th, you'd think they'd take a day off to watch it." Said Eleven.
"Well somebody's got to keep an eye on things while you two are being lazy." Said Donna reproachfully.
"Anyway," said River, steering the subject back on track. "A movie for us would be a lovely idea. You two would be in it as well, of course," she said, waving briefly at the two Doctors, "But we would be the ones who saved the day."
"That's perfect!" said Clara, "But we'd need a villain."

At that moment there was a crash from outside. Ten and Eleven both jumped up as a figure shoved open the door and came striding across towards them.
"Count me in!" said the Master as he reached them, "I wasn't in the 50th either you know. Not so much as mentioned. The greatest villain in Timelord history…"
"Why should we let you be in a movie?" demanded Ten, "You'd probably sabotage the whole thing!"
"Of course I wouldn't!" the Master said in an injured tone, "You should know by now Doctor that I love being the center of attention- and besides it's not like you'd ever give me real weapons."
"I think its fine." Said River, "Wouldn't you girls agree?" the other companions nodded, though Martha a bit more reluctantly than the others. "It's our movie anyway," she pointed out, "We can have whoever we want be in it."
"How did you even get here?" Eleven demanded of the Master, "You're supposed to be stuck somewhere with Gallifrey and the rest of the Timelords!"
The Master shrugged, "There's also a girl here who supposedly became part Timelord and lost all her memories of you and then somehow has got them back without her mind blowing up as well as a woman who was saved to a giant computer library and shouldn't be here at all. You two Doctors shouldn't be able to meet without the universe exploding anyway! Just add me to the list of impossible people here."

"He has a point." Muttered Ten.
"But this is ridiculous! We can't make a movie! We don't have anything to even make a movie!" said Eleven, still trying to talk them out of it.
"You mean to say that you don't have props, costumes, and enough hardware to make special effects in the TARDIS?" said Clara in sarcastic disbelief.
"You see? It's meant to be!" said River, smiling at the two Doctors.

Eleven took Ten's arm and turned them away from the others. "Are we going to let them do this?" he whispered.
"I don't see how we can stop them." Said Ten, "They're a bunch of insane women and a psychopath. However, I suppose the rest of them are psychopaths too…"
"Shh! One of them is our wife!" hissed Eleven.
"Your wife." Said Ten, "And she's the worst of the lot! She tried to kill you, more than once!"
"Anyway," said Eleven, glaring at himself, "This could very quickly turn into something that we cannot control. As you said they are all a bit crazy… okay, a lot crazy." He added when Ten looked at him skeptically. "And I'm not sure that letting the Master in on this is a good idea."
"Oh let them have their fun. It's already turned into something we can't control anyway." Said Ten, "And as for the Master, as long as we don't leave him alone in the TARDIS, or alone at all, we should be okay."

The two Doctors turned back to the group, resigned looks on their faces.

"Alright," said Ten, "We'll help. But don't do anything too crazy!" he warned.

As one, the girls and the Master grinned at the two of them, and both Doctors got a sinking feeling in their stomachs that they had just set loose the worst terror that the Earth has ever known.