Chapter 2

The Great Intelligence returns.

He opened the door to the TARDIS and stepped out, Clara holding his hand tightly. The TARDIS had landed in a large darkened room with a solitary spotlight in the centre where the TARDIS had landed, the spotlight circled it about 5 metres in radius from the TARDIS itself. The Doctor took a small step forward and away from the safety of the TARDIS to allow Vastra, Strax and Jenny ("everyone's favourite Victorian Chambermaid" as the Doctor called her) to join them.

"Where are we?" Jenny asked as the TARDIS doors shut behind her.

"Welcome to my home, Doctor and Friends." Came the disembodied voice of Doctor Simeon.

"Simeon." The Doctor said through clenched teeth, a scowl on his face. "How are you not dust?"

"I am simply the Great Intelligence now, not physical form. Your time stream did that to me but it did not destroy me as you believed it would, Doctor."

"I wasn't sure what was going to happen when you entered my time stream!" The Doctor roared at the disembodied voice of the Great Intelligence.

"Since it would appear that I can't hurt you yourself. I can hurt you through another means. Another means even more precious to you than your own life." The Great Intelligence sneered.

"What means?" Simeon laughed at the Doctor. "WHAT MEANS?" The Doctor roared again at Simeon.

"Your family, Doctor," Simeon said as another spotlight flashed on ahead of them to reveal River Song and a few others gathered together, including his daughter Jenny who he believed had died. "And your friends."

Now the Doctor was stunned as Sarah Jane and her son and his friends, Rose and the Metacrisis Doctor, Donna, Martha and Mickey and Captain Jack Harkness who glared angrily and reached out for a woman who was stood with River.

"Hello, Sweetie." River said nervously, her arms on the shoulders of two boys of about 16 years old. The woman who had been reached for by Jack, pushed a small child, a little girl, behind her beside River.

"Are you okay, River? Where are we?" The Doctor asked referring to their personal timeline.

"We've just lost Amy and Rory. I'm an archeologist in the 51st Century. You?" She asked nervously once more, her gun holstered at her hip.

"Trenzalore. Sorry spoilers. You don't know that part yet." The Doctor explained quickly.

"I'll leave you to say your goodbyes Doctor, before I begin my path of pain." Simeon said as he flooded the room with light- merging the spotlights.