They were running through a long dark hallway, lights flickering, when he suddenly pushed her into the wall. "Oi!" she yelled, before being shushed. He pressed her firmer against the wall with his body covering hers, his lips only and inch from her ear. She swallowed hard, feeling his warm breath, but at the same time knew she had to do what as she was told if they wanted to survive this. 'Don't make a sound, don't move a muscle.. They only detect movement and..' he stopped. At first, she was still focused on the metal clashing that came from further down the hallway of the spaceship. Part of her was terrified, knowing that these creatures of metal and flesh would not hesitate and kill on sight. Well, on movement as the doctor claimed, but part of her wasn't sure of that. And clearly, being killed was not on top of her wish list now. But as they stood there, almost holding their breaths to stay as motionless as possible, her thoughts started wandering.

She stood pressed against the somewhat cold aluminium wall, facing it, with the Doctor pressed up against her. Shielding her, but at the same time making sure she would not move or do anything stupid ('-again' she could almost hear him say). And he succeeded well at that, as she could not move an inch. He even held her hands with his, making sure not a finger could betray their presence. As if I can't stand still when told to. She thought to herself, a little offended. Actually, I'm quite sure you can't. And since neither of us want to end up in a pile of corpses, we'll have to make some sacrifices like personal space and good manners. Wait.. What? Are you.. reading my mind?

She could hear him laughing in her mind. Something like that yes, only mind reading is a cheap trick for carnival imposters and I simply create a mental link.

She roller her eyes. You know, that could count as a movement. And if they should discover us now "I will blame you." He sat there in the tall grass, staring over the fields in front of them and took a deep breath. "I keep forgetting how refreshing a free moment in one's head can be." He turned slightly and gestured her to come sit with him.

"So, now what do we do?" She asked as she sat down beside him. He smirked and laid back into the grass, staring at the clouds. 'We wait.' She thought it would be something like that. 'Then why do you ask?'
"Could you stop doing that?" 'I could.. but rather having you cross with me than both of us dead, eh?' He had a point. 'And it's a bloody good one I'll tell you. And NO- no slapping, thank you very much. You know-' He sat up again and turned towards her, pointing his finger at her. '-I 'am saving your life here!'

In what seemed a flash, she felt the cold wall again and heard the metal clashing and screams from down the corridor. They were so close, but he was closer. As she smelled him and felt his warmth, she realised just how much closer he was. 'I could just run away now and leave you, you know.' He hissed in her ear, a tad amused at her reaction. She nearly jumped, feeling caught, but couldn't as he was still holding her. 'Now, please try to move one finger if you want me to run and leave, or two if you want to love.' She immediately tried to move two fingers.

-*- inside the mind link again -*-

'To love?' When he looked at her, she sat down on a stone bench, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow. "To love? I didn't say that, don't be ridiculous! To live, you freudian orientated earth female thing you." 'Oh, look who's talking, alien boy!' His pace sped up as he walked away past the roses in this old Victorian garden they had landed in. "Technically, we're not talking! You see, our minds are now fully connected and you are-" '-Inside your head. I know. I can read your thoughts as well.'
The doctor now started pacing as he did more often when he was about to figure something out. "But what I don't get is- Wait, what was that thought?" He stopped and his head shot up at her. He then came rushing towards her, grabbing her arm as she was trying to shield him off. She stepped back in surprise wondering what she had thought about and whether she wanted him to know or not. "No, no, no, no, you're not blocking this one, this was quite- interesting. And what do you earthlings have with smells? When I smell nice, that's a good thing, right?" Her eyes widened and she held her breath as he was standing right in front of her, holding her wrist tightly and his gaze searching her for a reaction or explanation.

'Your hurting me!' Her reaction broke the moment and he quickly let go of her. "Sorry, I was just- nevermind." He turned away from her and started pacing up and down again, this time in the Tardis. 'Wait- are we in the Tardis, did your mind create the Tardis or are you also connected to it?' "To her. And yes." He snapped. "Yes, I am connected to her and if you wouldn't mind, I am trying to figure out how to save us and not blow up a spaceship for once.." Shaking her head, she turned away from him and looked around the control room of the Tardis. He was muttering things and theories under his breath again, obviously distracted. Slowly she walked up to the control panel and tried to make sence of the levers. Much to her surprise, she actually understood some of the writing that was on the panel. She frowned and looked up to find some more writing. And there it was, on one of the walls. More writing. She remembered it, but not readable. More like circles and lines and dots, and more circles. 'Did you write all this..?' She whispered as she proceeded to walk to the writing. With her hand, she tried to touch the words, trying to make sence of what it was and who- "Stop. Now."

It wasn't a question, but a demand. Her heart nearly stopped as she was being pulled away from the word written wall. Now facing him, his nose almost touching her nose. His arm wrapped around her waist tightly as if he was afraid she would run away. His expression was a mixture of anger and fear. Had she discovered something?

After what seemed like forever, he continued in an almost deathly whisper. "You are in a Time Lords mind. You have no idea how dangerous it is to go wandering off on your own. There are secrets here that are best kept secret, unless you were aiming to get the world blown apart or something." He ended on a lighter note. Then let go of her. She felt light-headed and had to keep herself from falling over, both from a near heart attack as from- well him being him, basically. "Right, now, if we wait for them to leave, we can sneak back up to the main engine room and shut the power of! That way, their communication aaaand movement-sensors are down and we should be able to rescue the crew!" Not waiting for her to answer, he turned and continued. "Alright then, Alonsy!"

And walked of towards the door. The Tardis softly hummed and buzzed. 'No, I do not fancy him. What would you know, you're just-' Before she could finish, a trap door opened underneath her, making her stumble forwards and falling down the stairs. The doctor popped his head around the door with a smile and a wink. "She heard that, you know. Mental. Link. Me too by the way.." And he was gone again.