A/N: So this chapter is really just memory and episode convo but it helps lay the foundation for my story! Thank you so much for stanleydoodles and LaylaPendragon for being beta readers you guys are awesome!
He sat in the control room of his marvelous blue box as it hurtled through the vortex his long fingers touching levers and prodding buttons. A gentle hum came from the TARDIS and the rumble of the vortex outside could be heard. The coral pillars surrounded him in a protective circle and the wall lighting casting comforting shadows across the room. The Doctor stared at his reflection in the viewing screen scrutinizing his appearance. He ran his hands through messy, spiky, brown hair helping it defy gravity, he was quite fond of his Romanesque nose and his russet eyes held the pain of his 900 years; he sighed heavily. The Doctor contemplated his past, he kept promising himself he would not do as a rule, and it was a good rule, simply because it hurt to do so. He remembered the last time all of his dear companions were with him. The One he lost, the One who left, the One who forgot, the One who lives and the One who moved on. 'Not to mention Micky and Jackie.' He thought bitterly. Just as he was moving on to other thoughts, the TARDIS psychically steered him back to that fateful day.
"What is it old girl? What are you trying to make me remember?" the TARDIS hummed and the Doctor continued to think about the hour of his loss.
The Supreme Dalek's eyestalk swiveled to the Doctor. " Nevertheless: the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed." The Doctor stared at the now closed trapdoor.
His mouth gaped in horror "What're you doing?! Bring it back!" He grasped his hair in despair while the Supreme Dalek looked on.
"The Crucible has a heart of Z-Neutrino Energy. The TARDIS will be deposited into the core." Supreme Dalek's mechanical voice cranked out.
His horrified voice tore through the room and slowly gained volume "But you can't, you've taken the defenses down. It'll be torn apart! "
Rose came to the Doctor's side. "But Donna's still in there." She gestured violently to the trap door.
"Let her go!" Jack yelled while trying to struggle. Suddenly a holographic screen appeared and showed the poor TARDIS bobbing in the core of energy. The Doctor took a few steps toward the image.
"The female and the TARDIS will perish together!" the voice of the Supreme Dalek came; he continued "The last child of Gallifrey is powerless."
The Doctor decided to humble himself in front of his greatest enemy. "Please. I'm begging you, I'll do anything!" agitation rang in his voice. "Put me in her place!" his face started to redden with anger and he continued to beg, "You can do anything to me, I don't care, just get her out of there!" he gritted his trembling and breathed heavily through his nostrils.
It watched as the Doctor broke out into a sweat, "You are connected to the TARDIS. Now, feel it die."
A Dalek beside the Supreme Dalek's platform lit up "Total TARDIS destruction in ten rels!"it continued as Rose came over to hold the Doctor's hand "Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!" the TARDIS faded away.
Atop his platform Supreme Dalek watched and spoke, "The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now, tell me, Doctor... what do you feel? Anger? Sorrow? Despair?" the Doctor's face was dark and somber.
"Yea" was all he said
A disturbed hum came from the TARDIS, "I didn't like that bit either." But he understood that was not what she was trying to tell him so he went back further to when he heard Darvos' voice for the first time in years.
"Your voice is different, and yet, its arrogance is unchanged." The Dalek creator wheezed his chest rising and falling raggedly. The Doctor recognized that voice, froze and stared at what was left of Darvos. "Welcome... to my new Empire, Doctor." He continued. In the TARDIS, Donna stepped back in revulsion, back on the screen Darvos gloated to his still frozen enemy, "It is only fitting that you should bear witness to the resurrection and the triumph of Davros, Lord and Creator of the Dalek Race. Have you nothing to say?"
"Doctor?" Donna stared at him worried; she put a hand on his arm trying to comfort her best friend. "Doctor, it's all right. We're... we're in the TARDIS. We're safe."
When he finally spoke the Doctor's voice was shaking and full of fear. "But you were destroyed." His face looked as numb as his voice sounded. Finally, he took a deep breath to stop his voice from wavering. "I saw your command ship flying into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. I tried to save you..."
On the screen, Davros grinned enjoying the Doctors obvious confusion gladly explaining his glorious escape from death "But it took one stronger than you. Dalek Caan himself.Emergency temporal shift took him back into the Time War itself. "
In the background in the melted casing Dalek Caan cackled in a sing-song voice "I flew into the wild and fire. I danced and died a thousand times!"
Shudders of dread spread through the Doctor, the TARDIS sent comforting waves in to his psyche. "This? This is what you want me to remember?" an affirming hum came from the TARDIS, "Why do you want me to remember the Nightmare Child?"
Just as he finished that sentence, the TARDIS careened and sent the Doctor into the sparking console; flames from beneath the grating licked and singed the bottoms of his suit pants. "What's wrong?" he yelled at the time rotor. As if to answer, the viewing screen whips around almost bashing him in the skull. "Oi!" he yelled, barely grabbing it in time, and stared at the screen. "What?" he mumbled; the screen showed the TARDIS locked on to a particular sound wave and plotting a course to meet it.
"Oh no you don't!" he roared at his machine as he jostled around the console stopping the erratic and unplanned trip. "Why would you lock on to a sound 20 years in the past?" caressing the console, as the TARDIS hummed furiously at the impediment of her voyage.
"Well let's just take a listen to what has got you all riled up." Donning his smart glasses, he squinted at the screen. The sound wave flickered and he struck the screen three times; while the visual of the sound wave stabilized the actual audio was faint and corrupted. He glared at the screen while pulling out his sonic screwdriver; as the devise whirred and flashed the Doctor twisted knobs on the screen. After a couple of minutes the sound bursts through the speakers abruptly and loudly. He had to cover his ears because his eardrums threatened to burst. The TARDIS physically shuddered as he identified the noise, it was a crying newborn and it was in pain, so much pain. Unable to bare it anymore so, he soniced the screen and all fell silent. "WHAT?!" the Doctor says his face scrunching up and lip curling in confusion.
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