I did worse things than you could ever imagine,
A proud, arrogant man stepped out of his ship and confidently strode into the office of the president. Sure, he looked different now, far older than what would have been likely give how little time had seemingly passed, but he was still young enough to have some passing resemblance.
The president greeted the arrogant man warmly, shaking his hands, offering him tea. The arrogant man said nice things in return, repaying the flattery, buttering him up real good. He asked about what had happened recently, making an excuse that he had been away down south, where not many people dare venture.
The President eagerly unveiled his plans to the arrogant man, detailing how they were going to easily conquer those around them, and create a more unified state. That the battles would be swift and brutal, and would crush any resistance that stood in their way. That it wouldn't be long till the flags of the world were just one flag.
The arrogant man said nothing, feeling anger and despair in his hearts. He knew what was going to happen and, had he been a different man, he would have started shouting at the president, pulling forth words yet popularized but nevertheless appropriate from the thesaurus he kept in his mind, drowning the man out with his sharp, bombastic wit. He would have stood up to the injustices before him, boasted how he was willing to do the right thing, and act like the hero the world wanted to be.
But the arrogant man was not that man. He was instead a man who knew that everything had happened just as he had planned it, that he really was so smart that he could predict how stupid people would act, that he really was a genius.
He just wasn't a good man.
As he advised the President on his plans, gently giving him tips about what to do based on hypothetical future scenarios that he surely couldn't have known to be true but nevertheless could happen and should be prepared for, he was disgusted with himself. The Doctor wouldn't have let any of this happen. The Doctor would have stopped this then and there. The Doctor would have done the right thing.
But the Doctor wasn't here.
