Koschei paced around the Tardis consol, "This is bad…" he muttered, "He could be anywhere. The Tardis might be angry and trapped him inside itself." He dragged his fingers through his black hair, leaving a untidy trail behind.

"Angry? How can a Tardis be angry?" Ushas frowned, Koschei looked up, his black hair messy.

This was the first time Ushas ever seen the Deca leader so stressed. "An Tardis is living thing. If a new time lord come across one, they tend to dislike them." he stopped his pacing and ducked beneath the consol. He rummaged through a few things and finally found a rope.

"I'm going after him." He tied the rope around his waist, "A Tardis is like a maze, hopefully Theta hasn't gone too deep in the maze yet." He held the end of the rope to Ushas, "I want you to keep hold of this end, when I yank the rope it means-"

"Hold on, why save that blond kid? It's his own fault he got himself stuck in there. Lets leave before the teachers come. They'll save him." Ushas pushed the rope away. Koschei sent her a chilling look.

"He's my friend, and I won't leave him when he needs me." He walked past her and tied the rope to a column, it was rather long, hopefully long enough to reach Theta.

"I'm going back, then." She sighed, turning her heal, Koschei nodded in response. Ushas paused half way out the door, "Just… be careful." Koschei grunted, checking the tightness of the rope, before entering the corridor.

"Theta?" Koschei called, he was in a red corridor. He opened the nearest door. Mirrors, millions of mirrors in one room, he closed it and worked on the next one.


Theta sat in the golden corridor, hugging his knees. He was doomed, forever trapped in a Tardis.

They left, they gone without you. A voice hissed in his head, the thought of being abandoned by Koschei stung Theta. He had cousins that teased and beaten him, his family practically hated him. But if Koschei were to abandon him too, Theta would truly have nothing. Koschei was the kind older brother he always wanted, what could Theta do if he left him? He pushed his face into his knees and sobbed.


Koschei had opened thirty-seven doors with no hope of finding Theta. The faint beat of the drums began to build up again, onetwothreefour, onetwothreefour, onetwothreefour. Koschei slumped against the wall, he known that he only had roughly five minutes left before the teachers found out. Five minutes before he get excluded from the academy. He punched the wall angrily, causing more damage to himself. "Argh!" he hissed. He held his throbbing fist as he stared at the vivid red walls and listening to the horrible beat of the drums.


Thump.

Theta raised his head, there was a noise. He heard a noise! He jumped to his feet and knocked on the wall.

"Koschei? Is that you? Koschei?"

Koschei heard Theta's knocks loud and clear, the Tardis made them think they were far apart. Except there was only a wall separating them. Koschei closed his eyes, he had been practicing physic links in his spare time, but this was the first time he tried to use it with someone.

Theta. Koschei thought, sending out the message. The reply was weak, a faint terrified whisper.

Koschei! I can't find my way out! Koschei felt Theta's panic leak into their link, Koschei sent a small wave of reassurance.

Calm down, follow the knocking, I'll lead it to a door, after I say three, open it. It should break the loop.

Will it work?

I don't know.

He led the knocking to the nearest door, on the other side Theta followed.

Okay, 1...2...3

The two boys opened their doors at once. There was a smashing noise, as Koschei's mirrors shattered, and Theta's garden went up in flames. After that there was just a white room. From opposite sides stood Koshcei and Theta. Staring at each other in disbelieve for a minute. Finally, realisation kicked in, and they ran to embrace one another.

Koschei pushed Theta away, an outraged flare in his blue eyes, "Why in the name of Gallifrey didn't you listen to me? I TOLD you to stay in the console room! Rassilon! I thought I will never see you again! I thought you were trapped here forever! You are stupid, really, really stupid!" Koschei shook Theta by the shoulders. Theta's eyes widened, shocked to see his anger turn to fear. The headstrong leader was crumbling before him, his confident and sometimes arrogant Koschei was a child. A frightened child again.

When Koschei realised, Theta could see it, he let up his barrier again, "I only came because you would tell on me."

"We have to get out of here, Kos." Theta smiled, Koschei snapped back into leader-mode.

"We won't have enough time," he frowned, checking that the rope was still tied around his waist.

"We'll just have to run, then." Theta smirked, Koschei returned the grin.

The two yong time lords ran as fast as they possibly could, tracing back the rope towards the control room. Koschei untied the rope and thrown it back underneath the consol. They were close to leaving the Tardis until footsteps came into earshot, Koschei grabbed Theta by the collar of his robe and dragged him behind the consol. A second later an middle-aged time lord stepped through, gliding his eyes around the control room. Koschei had to cover Theta's mouth so the older time lord couldn't hear his heavy breathing. They sat tightly tucked behind the consol. Koschei prayed that he wouldn't walk round the control room. Except the time lord did exactly that. His footsteps slowly moved around the consol as the two boy's horror slowly grew.