Sooooo... our two heroes have resisted temptation, and now they know there's an adventure to be had, will they be able to fight the urge a second time or will they figure out what's afoot?

The doctor and Loria were stood at the end of the hall waiting for the elevator; Loria was becoming impatient with the wait.

"Oh do come on!" she cried as she jabbed the button again and again.

"It IS coming from the 312th floor dear" the doctor chided, as he leaned over he could smell Loria's hair, and she was so warm, he eyes fluttered closed and he shook his head, remembering what was going on.

As the doors closed in front of them, the pair chose to stand as far away from one another as possible, just in case.

"So what's the plan Action man?"

"Ask for information about the planet at the information desk and subtly drop in a question about the air and water content"

"You don't do subtle"

"I can if pushed" on that note Loria suddenly thought about 'pushing him up against the wall of the lift and... No' she started counting the floors as the lift dropped, when they reached the ground floor she rushed out of there as fast as she could. They walked to the info desk where there was a very pretty girl in a light blue uniform that hugged in all the right places, and the doctor couldn't help but give her the eye.

"Good Evening, how can I help you both?" she said looking only at the doctor.

"Hello" the doctor leant on the desk and grinned his cheeky grin at her, 'I may as well not exist' thought Loria as she crossed her arms and took a step back. "I was just wondering if you had any information about the planet?"

"Well there are many leaflets around the lobby about attractions, restaurants and ruins"

"No, I mean things like temperature, air and water mass and content etc."

"Oh, well the temperature today is 34 degrees, our water is a mix of 67 oxygen, 8 carbon dioxide and 26 feltine pirus, the water is 78 H2O and 22 feltine pirus"

"And what is the feltine thingy?"

"It's a catalyser for the carbon dioxide; before the filter systems were introduced it was a very desolate planet"

"Oh right, well thank you, you've been very helpful, bye bye!

"Enjoy your evening sir"



"Well?" Loria seemed unimpressed by the woman's revelation but the doctor looked worried.

"Feltine pirus, I've never heard of it before, she said it's used to help clean the air, but there are plenty of ways to do that without putting gas into the mix"

"Oh well, that's just-"Loria stopped walking and her eyes narrowed

"What?"

"Feltine pirus; no, no it can't be"

"What?" the doctor had drawn a blank, he was quick on the uptake but she was stumping him big time, and she was SO sexy when she did that.

"Freltine Pirus, that's what she meant, Freltine Pirus is a sort of vapour not a gas, and yes it does counter act carbon dioxide but it's also a, well it's a drug, and it induces feelings of amusement, well being and most importantly lust and in strong doses can create love between creatures of that sort of.. Well, nature shall we say"

The doctor looked at his friend in awe, he loved it when she did this, she was a walking encyclopaedia when she wanted to be, but then she had been around a very long time, and apparently dabbled in certain things, not that he was surprised.

"You are FANTASTIC, you know that?"

"I do indeed, and you're welcome"

"But how are they getting into the air supply outside?"

"Notice any big fans anywhere?"

The pair swivelled 360, then the doctor shoved his hands in his pockets and tutted.

"No" he paused and looked again, "but there are a lot of curtains in the place"

Loria sidled up to a rather large pair of golden curtains and twitched them over a fraction and low and behold, a very big fan whirring away.

"Well air con HAS come a long way . . . and god do I feel high now!" she stumbled and the doctor caught her, but now they were both stood right next to the fan, so they were getting a full force of love dust in the face, the doctor was half behind her, arms wrapped around hers around her waist, she looked around and their eyes met, their faces edged closer, when Loria sneezed. Right in the doctor's face.

"Im so sorry!" Loria was giggling out loud now, looking at the doctors screwed up face as he wiped her sneeze off it.

"Probably for the best"

"Well I just saved us from well, you know, I'm apparently allergic to too much of this stuff"

"Well, no more big fans for you"



"Deal" the two walked outside, and sure enough on high buildings there huge stone curtains, but they stuck out from their walls, clearly to let the vapour get through.

"How do you get away with sticking curtains everywhere and people not asking why?"

The doctor was already looking at line of flags opposite the hotel "Look" he pointed to the middle one, it was purple and sure enough, emblazoned on the front was a pair of golden curtains.

"Ok, so the drape is the national symbol, Wales has the dragon, Israel has the star of David, Therilia gets the CURTAIN!" as she finished her sentence she flung her arms out in the way someone would finish a stage dance.

"Yep, and I doubt it's a coincidence, or a sign of patriotism"

"Have you been here before?"
"Yes, but only to repair the TARDIS"

"And you never noticed why you were all randy?!"

"I was alone!"

"Oh, ok you're forgiven. So what're we going to do now we know this? Leave?"

"No! Someone is drugging the people and it's not right, we need to do something"

"But the woman said it was to keep the air clean, it's not exactly a malicious side affect"

"No, but there are other ways of keeping the air clean, and keeping everyone overly docile seems like something more than 'clean living'"

"Fair point, so what you gonna do? March up and say 'I'm the doctor turn these fans off now!"

"Think that'll work?"
"No, no I really don't, you'll get a swift 'sod off' and that'll be somewhere else we get banned from"

The doctor laughed "Hee hee, remember the last time?"

Loria looked into the distance and laughed. "Yeah we were on Gasaran and we blew up one of their temples whilst trying to get that fat hiding Dalek out; and they banished us because the Dalek had been given a god like status and you went mental, bloody funny though"

"I think I should be given a reprieve considering that Dalek destroyed most of the planet"

"I do! So back to my point, what're we doing?"

"Well, I say we find out who the high power is in this place and go hunting"

"I like that plan, especially the hunting part"

"Easy you, no hurting anyone" when he said that Loria pouted and looked at the floor

"Ok, if someone tries to hurt us, then you can retaliate on my part and yours"



She grinned back "Yay! Thanks!"

They locked their fingers on his right hand and her left and strode down the street, looking for anything that may indicate where the 'big men' were, there were many majestic buildings but upon thorough investigation (Loria kicking in the back door and the doctor running in with sonic screwdriver drawn) these buildings turned out to be fan houses and they quickly vacated. This happened seven times and after the last venture it was becoming clear that this tactic was never going to work and they should head back to hotel.

When they returned they noticed the lobby was deserted, and the whirring was louder, they looked at each other and decided to head to their room, when the lift opened and they entered they both noticed how close the air was, the doors shut and lift began its slow ascent.

"You think for such a tall building they'd have fast lifts"

"Well a love drugged planet probably thinks of it as a design feature"

"What sex in a lift, I like it"

"Mmm" the doctor looked at the control panel, there was a pink button with a symbol of a lift with a cross through it, he pushed it and the lift stopped.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing, or something" the doctor walked over to her, she looked at his eyes, they were heavy lidded and sparkly, the drug was clearly taking its toll on him, she'd done this stuff before, it was popular among the space pirate fraternity as it eased stress, but he was a good boy, never filled his body with crap, and he was definitely feeling good right now, and who was she to deny him, or herself for that matter? He wrapped his hands around her waist and nuzzled her hair

"I'm sorry, tell me stop and I will, this isn't me, I just can't control it"

"I know, but don't stop" she whispered in his ear.

He lifted her up onto the bar and she wrapped her legs around him, he stroked her face and looked intently at her.

"You know in a way I've always wanted this"

"Really?"

"Yeah, you haven't?"

"It might just be the drug talking, but maybe once or twice, especially when you get angry" they both giggled, and then he pressed himself against her, and painfully slowly he took her bottom lip between his and kissed her, he then gently nibbled it, and as she open her mouth he slipped his tongue in, and caressed hers, her hands went into his messy hair, and returned kiss, she ran her tongue along his teeth which in turn made him emit a low growl which made her tremble into him, she did want this, but not now, not with her mind not clear, she didn't want to regret this, and she knew he didn't either.



"Stop, come on stop"

He pulled away and looked hurt.

"I'm sorry" he lowered her back to the floor and pressed the pink button, the lift shuddered into life continued its climb.

"Please don't feel bad, I do want you, but I'd rather not do it high as a kite, you know?"

"I know" he kissed her head and grinned, although secretly gutted, he was glad she had kept her wits about her enough to be sensible, 'most unlike her' he thought.

When they got to the hotel room the doctor turned off the air con, the room became cool and the temperature actually dropped, and very quickly the pair felt a little like their old selves again.

The next morning they were woken by the housekeeping staff barging into the main living area, they took this as their cue to leave for breakfast.

"I don't want to eat it" said Loria

"Why not?" the doctor already shovelling what looked like bright orange sausage into his mouth.

"Well how do we now the food isn't drugged too?"

"Umm, I don' fink sho'" the doctor was now swirling his food round with one eye closed trying to see if he felt any different than he had before he started to eat.

"Ok, but if I go all gooey I'm blaming you"

"sh'ok" the doctor was now straining to close his mouth.

"Are you really that hungry?"
"Mmhmm"

"Wow"

After breakfast the two left for round two of their escapades of the night before, this time they decided to ask the pretty information lady (or tart as Loria put it) where buildings of significance were, to which she babbled about old ruins for about 10 minutes, and then she divulged that the 'house of gleer' was where their praetor lived and worked, he was the leader of the people and the man considered to have brought peace and prosperity to Therilia.

"Well, now that is interesting, she said peace and prosperity, does that mean this was once a violent planet?" Asked the doctor.

"To be honest it would make more sense to pump freltine pirus in to the atmosphere to chill everyone out, rather than clean up the air"

"Exactly, so I say we go and meet this 'praetor' of theirs"



"And give him some shit?"

"Well of a sort yeah"

"Awesome, I finally get to do something naughty- in a violent sense, before you go getting all imaginational"

"Thought never crossed my mind" as he said it he smirked and winked at her, which possibly for the first time in a long time, made her blush.

"Come on Casanova"

They hailed down a sort of taxi, which looked more like a space age tram but hey ho, and rode it to the famous 'House of Gleer' aptly named after Praetor Gleer "Well that makes sense" shrugged Loria, the pair walked inside, it was quite a shock at first, the lobby looked somewhat like a government building, stone parapets, polished wooden floors, and a huge crest of a pair of curtains on the floor and flags everywhere, oddly enough the whirring in this building was extremely quiet.

"Why do I get the feeling that the beloved praetor is not feeling as fuzzy wuzzy as the rest of the planet?"
"Probably, because he's the one keeping the world in check and one might need a clear head should something go wrong"

"So now what?"

"Psychic paper time" the doctor led the way to the front desk and flashed the blank piece of paper at the man behind it "Peter Norris of Feltine inc. This is my assistant Mary Miskin, we have an appointment to see the praetor, but were a bit late I'm afraid"

The man puffed out his chest "I will take you sir!"

"Alright, at ease officer" the doctor and Loria stood with their wide eyes as this poser of a soldier strode over to a platform and waved his hand over a screen, a hovering platform came from nowhere and they stepped aboard.

"Praetor Gleer's quarters"

A cool female's voice called out from the screen "Voice recognition Sergeant Wills, command accepted"

Loria and the Doctor looked at one another and then quickly looked away, for fear of bursting out laughing.

After a couple of minutes of riding on this floating surf board they arrived at the praetors quarters, the whirring was non-existent at this level and Sergeant Wills beckoned the doctor and Loria to take a seat on a big squashy couch, as they sat down they sank into it; to a rather uncomfortable level.

"Bugger me, the praetor clearly likes his guests to feel relaxed then eh?"
"Or not be able to feel their spines" added the doctor.



"I think I've punctured my spleen with a rib"

"Do feel like you've been punched in the stomach?"

"No, I feel like I'm in a fat person sandwich, and apparently I'm the filling of choice"

"Then you're spleen in fine, however I'm finding it hard to breathe, and standing sounds good right now"

"I second, motion passed"

When the pair attempted to escape their squashy prison of which they'd been folded in half into, they ended up doing half barrel rolls to get out and ended up in a rather bedraggled heap on the floor, just as the door to the praetor's office opened.

"Good afternoon to you both, I understand you're from the Freltine suppliers, Mr. Norris is it?"

The praetor was a short, tubby man, with thinning white hair with a bald patch at the crown of his head; his eyes were more like big blue orbs protruding from a heavily lined face, he was either very old, or had had a very hard life. He was dressed in a red velvet suit, the buttons of which strained around his middle; he covered this with a heavy golden cloak draped over his shoulders which dragged across the floor behind him. Loria wondered who this berk thought he was, a bleeding king?

"Yes good afternoon" said the doctor as he quickly got to his feet as dusted himself off, "And this is my assistant Miss Miskin, I was just here to ask how your Freltine levels are doing and if I could just have a quick check over of your filter facilities"

"That sounds a bit more like a demand than a request Mr Norris"

"Well, Mr Norris has many facilities to check over and it won't take long Sir" Loria was once again becoming impatient, that was one thing about freltine pirus, once you've been under the influence for a while, once it starts to wear off, you become irritable.

"You'll have to excuse Miss Miskin, she doesn't know when to hold her tongue sometimes" the doctor glared at Loria as he said it.

"Oh not to worry, of course Mr. Norris, it will be no problem, please, come this way, the filter gauges are in my office"

"Thank you!"

Upon entering the office they were greeted by an unpleasant sight of 16 guards all pointing musket like guns in their direction.

"Nice welcome" said Loria, she strode in as if nothing was amiss, however the doctor was clearly not used to having 16 guns pointed at his head this early on and was a little wary.

"Do you welcome all of your guests like this?" asked Loria "If so, I'd say you need a lesson in hospitality and etiquette"



"Not the best time to get cocky pirate" spat Praetor Gleer.

"Ah" she leaned closer to the doctor "I feel we have been rattled"

"Oh you think?" said the doctor in mock surprise "I thought this was perfectly normal"

"I'm sure it is for you, I knew this would bloody happen, I am with you after all"

"WHEN YOU'RE QUITE FINISHED" boomed Gleer, "HOW DARE YOU COME TO MY WORLD AND LIE TO MY PEOPLE AND TRY TO DEFY MY POWER"

"Lie? We haven't lied to anyone!" yelled the doctor.

"Technically we did, you told the matey downstairs we were a couple of suits here to check the freltine levels"

"Well, I couldn't exactly say 'oh hiya Im just here to tell your boss off' could I?"

"Why not?"

The doctor closed his eyes and sighed.

"When you've finished you're lovers tiff would you kindly explain yourselves?"
the praetor had composed himself and seated himself behind a huge black desk that looked more like a bar than a desk, Loria half expected him to start pulling himself a pint.

"Why are you drugging you're people?" the doctor was now back on form, his legs shoulder width apart, hands in pockets and frown in place.

"Drugging? Im simply keeping the air clean!" the praetor now had a sickly smile slapped across his face.

"Hmm course, and Im sure you're unaware of what freltine pirus is actually used for?" asked Loria rather sarcastically.

"It is perfect for chemically balancing out the effects of large amounts of carbon dioxide"

"Oh, and the fact it's also a psychotropic lust inducing drug is just a bonus?" chided the doctor as he circled his head as if he were easing strain on his neck.

"It is a side effect that Im willing to allow, is it such a bad thing that my planet is peaceful, docile and loving?"
"Why would you use the word docile? Docility isn't exactly great if someone decides to invade you!" Loria fired back.

"And WHY would anyone want to invade my planet?"
"Um lets think" sneered the doctor, patronising the praetor now "It's a rich fruitful place, good clean air, easy target as everyone is stoned out of their minds, clean sources of life, and plenty of technology, no, no reason what-so-ever"

"We are protected if needs be"



"Yeah, they all land and get the hots for one another and their plot is foiled oh very clever mate, what a pillock" snorted Loria

"YOU WILL NOT INSULT THE PRAETOR!" screamed one of the guards, this in turn made 16 cock mechanisms click into place.

"Ooh, big scary guns, calm down kids, I'm not going to hurt his feelings that easily – if in fact old wrinkly has got any"

"Loria, please don't get us shot" pleaded the doctor. "So big man" Grinned the doctor, this seemed to catch Gleer unawares "What's the real reason you're keeping everyone all loved up for? Your staff seemed to think you are the saviour of this place bringing PEACE (the doctor made a point of emphasising this word) and TRANQUILITY (and that one) to the planet, and before you came to power the place was desolate, what would she mean?"

The praetor frowned, and looked slowly over the two travellers seeming to take in every detail, paying a lot of attention to Loria's utility belt.

"Wills, remove the girls belt and bring it here" this seemed to amuse Loria, and the doctor became puzzled.

"Sir, It's attached to the shorts"

"And, I aint taking them off mate, look I'll show what's in it"

"SLOWLY" yelled Wills.

"Alright, lord, you're very highly strung aren't you darlin'!" she smirked at Wills who then blushed; she then went through the list.

"This rectangular cell is the key to my old ship, which I keep for sentimental value, I crashed it you see and I've had it for almost 3000 years, a chocolate bar, here you go Wills, and eat it with pride, that's a Mars bar, and I like them. My knuckle duster which is more of a toy than a weapon considering it's from Beliharv and most of their weapons are-"

"Yes, yes alright!" the praetor cut her off swiftly, she found this surprising but shot a wink and a smirk to the doctor, who seemed to twig pretty quickly.

"Ok, then Gleer, how about you tell me what you're really up to and then um, well, I'll let you live"

"HA, HA, HA, HA! You'll let ME live doctor? I feel you're forgetting the situation you're in, I am behind a bullet proof forcefeild and you have 16 highly skilled gun men with Therilian precision Tacax rifles trained to your heads"

"This is true, but I have the two things I need, my sonic screwdriver" he picked it up out of his pocket and spun it in the air and caught it "And her" he pointed to Loria with his thumb "I trust you've heard of 'The Torque Devil'?"



At this all the guards seemed to falter for a split second, before remembering that she was unarmed and there were sixteen of them, and one of her, even the praetor seemed shocked. Loria beamed with pride that her reputation still preceded her, even though she'd been out of the game a while.

"And as for him" she added throwing a pointed glance at the doctor "Have you heard of the Daleks Praetor Gleer?"
"Of course, who hasn't you silly girl" Loria blinked at the praetor's naiveté, she was far from silly in this kind of situation.

"Well, they have a name for him, them ole' Darrrrrleksssssss, they call him 'The Oncoming Storm', and oh what a storm he can kick up, so I suggest you get your ancient looking lips flapping"

At the mention of the doctor's synonym three of the guards dropped their weapons to their sides and not until being shot deadly looks by their leader did they raise them again, Gleer clearly had no tolerance for cowardice.

"Alright, I'll tell you what goes on here, and then, my men will kill you"

"Deal!" Loria yelled, the doctor looked at her with an expression of utter disgust on his face, but was silenced by her eyes, they were glittering with malice, these men had made a fatal mistake, they had threatened to hurt him, her doctor, and the last person to do that was never found, mainly because she'd blown him into untraceable pieces.

"Hmm, giving up young lady?"
"What can I say, Im a sucker for gossip"

"Very well" chuckled Gleer.

"I came to this planet delivering goods and supplies 37 years ago, the air was highly toxic and the inhabitants of this place were just as bad, as I walked through the streets a humble carrier pilot, I walked past week old corpses lining the road sides, people fighting, animal like, no mercy, no feeling; I couldn't take it, I vowed one day to return and make this a better world. I returned to my home planet of Wergonal and spoke to some higher people about the terrible state of things on Therilia, they paid no attention, this place was a liability and the fewer people went there the better, so I did research, first I needed to detoxify the air, I returned three times with different methods, but they were too slow to keep up with density of carbon dioxide."

"So you were trying to clean up the air supply? So what went wrong?" asked the doctor.

"Hold your tongue sir!" snapped Wills, although his voice was a lot more shaky since the revelations of who his two captives were.

"Thank you Wills. Anyway where was I? Oh yes! On my return home I had a signal from an old friend who happened to be a space pirate like yourself dear, he was telling me about this new drug Freltine Pirus, of how it eased stress and I should try it on Therilia, as it also counter acted against high densities of carbon dioxide, perfect for space pirates who spend most of their days scurrying around the most desolate and disgusting places in the universe (I don't know who he's been talking to, I see myself as quite a classy pirate- thought Loria) so, I met with him, and he showed me how to get huge 

amounts of it into the air, the only downside was that it was expensive, and the only reason pirates would have it is if they stole it, or sold enough haul to afford a small amount"

"HANG ON A MINUTE! Sorry to interrupt Gleer, but freltine is cheap as chips (confused looks were given from the guards) don't worry fellas, any who, he blatantly blagged you there!"

"Feltine has gone down in price since my mass production has taken force dear, anyway we'll skip forward, so then I returned for a fourth time, and filtered the vapour through the reversing thrusters of my ship, the air cleared within seconds, and within a day the whole planet seemed to change, colours emerged from the environment, greens of plant life, the blues and purples of the sky, water shimmered, but still the people stayed violent, even though they seemed a little calmer and became interested in their improved surroundings, so I increased the dosage and within a week the fighting stopped, and in 15 painstaking, back breaking years I dragged this place out of the Dark Era, industry became the driving force, buildings popped up everywhere, with fans built in of course, to keep their air circulating with vapour, and soon after that, crops grew, and a generation later I had managed to keep the secret of the docile new nature, and the whole world accepted it, they loved me for it, obviously I had to keep all the fans er 'under wraps' shall we say"

He chuckled at his own weak pun, as the doctor and Loria became more and more irritated with his slow explanation.

"So concrete, steel and even fabric curtains were placed all across our metropolis when the people slept in the nights that followed the planet's resurrection process, and just as life becomes perfect and all the work is finished, the Doctor and his fiend of a companion have to poke their noses in and try to shake everything up-!"

"No offence Gleer" interrupted the Doctor, clearly intending to offend "But you're pretty rubbish at keeping secrets, why do your hotel staff know about the Freltine? Are you that dense yes I said DENSE!" he screamed at the guards who had taken fresh offence at their leader being called thick by a seemingly lower being.

"So yeah, DENSE! Why struggle to keep it a secret when all a tourist or in the 'highly unlikely' event of a secret invasion; a spy! Need do is ask about the structural and environmental outline of the planet and hey presto! They know all about the love dust vapour stuff and your back to square minus one all over again, so yes DENSE is what you are, or a complete lunatic, and Im reaching the second conclusion now that in have already come to the first, and I AM incredibly clever, but that is so simple to do, it was the first thing we thought of!"

"Ah but you did not think to come straight to me did you, you went trawling through my fan houses to find something first"

"Actually dense-boy, we were looking for you, and now we've found you- oh um, your shoe lace is untied there look" she ushered to the doctors left shoe, he bent down and as he did so, within a flash Loria had whipped out the afore mentioned 'key to my ship' and squeezed it, and suddenly she was no longer holding a battery shaped object, but the double ended laser gun that she had packed back on earth, she squeezed again, but this time on two triggers, and as it hit two guards at a time they dispersed into nothing and their weapons dropped to the floor, the praetor had frozen behind his big safe desk as this lunatic child fried his men with a murderous look on her face, as he made to 

break for it, she leapt on to his desk with the lethal grace of a cat on its prey, through his shield and pinned him into his chair, rendering him unable to move.

Please RnR this chapter really buggered me about, so my apologies if it sucks!

xKatix