The doctor stood almost alone in the control room of his TARDIS, almost because he could feel the consciousness of his ship. The last time lord and the last TARDIS the only remnants of the once proud and near godlike civilisation known as the time lords. He stroked the panel with affection above the plack that identified this ship as a type 40 TARDIS and detailing the penalties for steeling it. Witch is why he only borrowed this one. He was reminiscing about the first time he acquired his beloved TARDIS when a rarely used and almost forgotten system activated, a flashing red light and claxon grabbing the doctors attention. He stared in shock
"No that's, that's not possible that's impossible there gone all gone" he said in a hushed whisper he could feel the TARDIS resonating with the same shock he razed his hand slowly shaking slightly he pressed the button to the corresponding light. There it was something impossible something that should never have occurred.
At the sound of the claxon Amy Pond and her husband Rory came barrelling into the control room like the Vashta Nerada was chasing them not that they know what a Vashta Nerada was that was another Doctor and another adventure and decidedly in his past, and so was this, this impossible thing the doctor turned knobs twisted dials and pressed buttons he grabbed the moving screen and looked at the information present.
Taking a step back he looked as is he was back as an academy graduate staring into the time vortex again, and again he wanted to run again, he wanted to never look at this information again but his eyes could not leave the screen. His hearts began to fill with terror all because it was not possible. He was there all of the horrors he had seen during his time that was the worst and he had committed it.
"doctor, doctor are you alright" asked Amy as she looked at the terrified Doctor.
Now, now it was coming back to haunt him. He was the doctor a runner since his youth when he stole the TARDIS he ran further. Only being called back about five or six times, but now, but now his past was catching up to him and calling him home, home to gallifrey.
A home he destroyed, a home that had gone mad in a war that he could have stopped. Long ago but didn't, couldn't he couldn't.
"Doctor what is it?" still he said nothing he didn't move just looked on blankly. She grabbed the screen and looked not understanding what was happening. The righting was in a language she couldn't understand but was flashing curiously, she reached her hand out and touched the screen. Immediately the righting changed to green and the TARDIS began to travel faster and more roughly than normal.
The doctor snapped out of this stupor. He began to run around the console, pressing things switching switches not saying a word. In his mind he allowed hope to fester, hope was a very dangerous thing when the doctor was involved to many times the hope he felt had bin shattered. To many times he had allowed to hope for it to be taken from him. To be constantly be reminded of what he had lost and what he had done.
The familiar sound of the TARDIS rematerialising echoed around the control room. Then stopped, the control room was silent only the ambient sound of the TARDIS's heartbeat. Slowly he turned around and walked to the door like a man walking to his own execution he stopped his companions with a movement of his hand. He moved to pull the door open the TARDIS not even berating him for opening the door this way. He opened then walked outside in what was once the greatest city on gallifrey.
As he closed the door he herd a click then a whirring sound like a camera flash being charged. A voice came from behind him with a heavy welsh valley twang a voice that could have only belonged to one person
"Hello Major" said the doctor
"hello Doctor" said the now identified voice "or should I say hello dad"