CHOPrologue
Jon, Rose, and Jack had gone back in time in Lourdes, the young TARDIS, and had slipped through one of the cracks between the universes at the time of the Dalek Crucible. Their mission was to procure technology needed to create Looms, return Jack to his proper universe, and of course to visit the Doctor. Once through the crack, they traveled forward in time and found his TARDIS was in a huge vault on a Dalek ship, with an injured companion aboard. Lourdes materialized next to her mother, appearing as a support pillar in the huge vault.
"How are there still Daleks?" The three of them were gobsmacked.
"No matter, we've got to get into the Doctor's TARDIS and talk to that companion!" Jon bounded down the ramp and out the doors, Jack and Rose hot on his heels. Running up to his old TARDIS, Jon snapped his fingers. Nothing happened. He tried the doors, but they remained locked shut.
"She's a little suspicious of you. Let me try," Rose suggested. She took the key she always kept with her, and tried the lock. It opened. They gasped as they looked in.
"Done some redecorating I see," breathed Jon. Jack let out a low whistle, while Rose stroked the door affectionately.
"You're beautiful!"
"Right then. Let's get in there and help." They walked quickly up to the console and looked about.
"Hello, we're here to help! Hello!" Jon called. They heard a groan below them. Running around the console, looking through the floor, they found a man curled up in one of the round holes in the floor. Jumping down, Jack and Jon pulled the injured man out of the hole as gently as they could, but unfortunately not without eliciting screams of pain from him. They saw a charred hole in his shirt. Looking under it, there was a gaping hole in his side, but it was not bleeding. Jon took charge.
"He's been hit with a Dalek weapon, good thing for him it was just a glancing hit, it looks like it cauterized the wound. Let's get him to the med bay. Where is it now, old girl?" A light above a short set of steps started blinking, they carried him up the steps and into a corridor and found the med bay doors immediately to the right and opened as if waiting for them.
As Jon and Jack laid the man down on the examining table, Rose grabbed a pair of scissors from a tray of instruments and started cutting his clothing away while Jon opened a cupboard and found a sprayer full of local anesthetic. Jack helped Rose roll the man onto his good side and Jon carefully sprayed the anesthetic onto the wound. This elicited a groan of relief from the man.
"There now, that's a little bit better I should expect." Jon said to the man, putting the sprayer down and hunching down to look the man in the eye. "Yeah?" He asked. The man nodded mutely and licked his lips. "Rose, please get our friend a drink of water." Rose turned around and opened what looked to be a cooler and was rewarded with a bottle of water. Opening it, she handed it to Jon who gently cradled the man's head and helped him take a drink. "Easy there, that's it, slowly. Don't want to choke now, do we?" Jon soothed. The man shook his head, indicating he wanted no more, and Jon laid the man's head back on the pillow and set the bottle down on the counter. "Can you talk?"
"Yes," the man croaked, "Who are you?"
"I'm the Doctor."