Doctor Who: Silence and the End of All Things
Chapter 1: The Question
Tick-tock, goes the clock,
A fate that can't be rocked,
Tick-tock, goes the clock,
even for the Doctor...
"So you're going to do this—let them all think you're dead?" Dorium's voice stabbed an accusation at The Doctor, who stood over his dwarfed form. The Doctor nodded, "It's the only way. Then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows." Dorium took interest in this particular statement and continued his questioning.
"And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?"
"Her days, yes. And her nights..." The Doctor paused and let slip a mischievous smirk "…well. That's between her and me, eh?" Dorium ignored the quip.
"So many secrets, Doctor. I'll help you keep them of course." Dorium added the final statement, implying his desire to be taken out of this hellhole. The Doctor smiled, noticing this little request. He briefly glanced at the skulls around the room. "Well you're not exactly going anywhere are you?" Dorium's façade fell as he reveled in revealing the Doctor's fate.
"But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you. The Fields of Trensimore. The Fall of the Eleventh." He smiled as he looked right into the Doctor's eyes. "And the question." The Doctor quickly avoided his taunt and turned away
"Goodbye Dorium." Dorium's eyes filled with spite.
"The first question! The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight!" The Doctor continued down the hallway, Dorium was shouting now.
"The question you've been running from all your life!" The Doctor did not turn back.
"Doctor Who."
The Doctor slowed, but he kept walking.
"Doctor Who."
Dorium continued, letting his query follow the Doctor on his way.
"Doctor Who"!
This question reverberated across the entire spectrum of existence, till it filled the ear of the one who had waited.
He leaned back against his throne and enclosed his fingers. A voice emerged from him, a voice that made every word that emerged from it sound like an ancient secret, filled with thought and menace.
The voice uttered two words, as clear as the stars above.
"Who indeed?"