Dalgo woke up several hours later.

By the Doctor's request Martha went to make tea.

She was going through one of the many rooms in the TARDIS looking through all the different teas he had.

'What is this? Rancollian Parfa?'

The Doctor who was sitting with the sore Sevi in the main room called out, 'Don't smell it! That stuff smells stronger than twelve thousand rotten cabbages! It could literally destroy your sense of taste and smell permanently'

Martha dropped the tin of tea. She wouldn't have opened it anyway because who knew what weird alien flavours would be in there.

Dalgo groaned as his massive headache was too much to bear.

'You're a…?'

'A Time lord.'

'You two time lords can fix things I bet. I mean you must be able to control time in some way.'

Martha came out with a strong green tea from a planet which was similar to Feudal Japan but never evolved. And everybody on the entire planet was Japanese.

The Doctor seeing the tea grinned, 'Ahh… that tea. It was given to me as a present for slaying a two-headed wolf dragon. They said I would have free tea for life but one hundred years later. Poof… they didn't remember me and went back on their deal. I only have the one tin.

Martha went into the Doctor's tearoom and made three cups.

Coming back out Dalgo said something odd.

'B-link. That's the name of the thing my vision said would help me. I'm assuming that's you.'

Martha mused that over. 'Doctor? Were you ever called B-link?'

'No. I was called many things… Seventy million, Five thousand and eighty two things to be exact. I had many names on many different planets. Most of them were just alien for Doctor. Did you know on Talla 9 my name translates into Handyman Nurse?'

Dalgo wasn't listening saying something out loud.

'B-link. Tears you can't see… covered at all times. Doctor do you cry?'

'I never cry.' Said the Doctor.

'Of course you cry!' Martha said annoyed. 'Everyone cries! Everyone has feelings!'

'But I don't show it in front of others. I grew past the point of showing weakness to my enemies. I bet you someday even if I was a prisoner for a whole year I would never cry. Because I believe in my friends to help if there's no other option. I never stopped believing, and they never stopped believing in me. It's a bond my companions and I always shared. And no she is not a time lord she is a human. We just look similar.'

'Like how you look like raccoons.' Added Martha.

'Ra…what?'

The Doctor ended the conversation abruptly. 'Never mind. After this is over I really should take you Martha to meet a friend of mine. His name is Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Otherwise known as the Brigadier. I doubt he'll recognize me it's been a while…'

Dalgo felt a little insulted that the conversation was steered away from his problem like it was nothing.

'My curse? Really Doctor! You have no idea what this could mean?'

The Doctor leaned back on his chair. 'Why should I? It's not like Tears, and Coverings and B-link wo…..'

He froze.

Martha tried to get his attention but the Doctor wasn't listening.

He slowly went over to the young Sevi and looked hard into his eyes.

'TELL ME WHAT YOUR VISION SAID' He told him very sternly.

'It said what I told you. If I find this thing that those words are supposed to represent then it will break the curse.'

The doctor was terrified and not sure what to say.

'You don't want to meet it.' He said abruptly.

'Of course I do. It'll help me.'

The doctor slammed his hand on the console. 'It'll help itself! It must have been on this planet for… what? Several million years if not longer. I don't doubt more than twice that length. Waiting… for the right moment for something to come. It knew the TARDIS was going to do this. It's been waiting all this time.'

'For what?' Dalgo asked.

'The TARDIS.'

'Why does it want your TARDIS and what is a TARDIS and what is IT?'

The Doctor said at an incredible speed never losing his breath. 'It wants my TARDIS to devour it's energy but doing that will no doubt destroy your sun killing all of you though you are immortal yet I assumed if my TARDIS is destroyed it may cause a second reaction curing you before you all fry to death in a supernova and the TARDIS is short for Time And Relative Dimension In Space it can travel anywhere in the known universe and anywhere in past, future, and in some rare cases different universes altogether and IT is a living statue known as a Weeping Angel otherwise known as the lonely assassins for only if you turn your back on it will it chase, stalk, and kill you but also if you look into it's eyes and blink then you'll get sent back in time I believe it's trying to bargain with you that if you lead it to the TARDIS and it'll send you to a point where you can undo what had happened to your people. Are those good enough answers?'

Martha had trouble breathing after listening to all that. 'Doctor… pauses…'

'Ah yes… two more paragraphs and I might have suffocated myself wouldn't I?'

Dalgo couldn't comprehend all of that.

'Well. You sound like you've dealt with them before.' he said.

The Doctor mused this over. 'I've met one or two. Not very pleasant creatures I try to avoid them. Martha hasn't seen one yet.'

Martha shuddered. 'I don't want to know about them. They sound… creepy from what I could gather.'

The Doctor remembered something. Something he hadn't told Martha.

The papers a young girl had given him on an earlier adventure which chronicled events in the future. Martha would indeed meet them there was no way they could prevent that. He wasn't going to tell her, better just let her find out for herself.

'Ohhhhh Sally… from what you had to go through. Let's just hope this guy comes out okay.' He said quietly to himself.

The TARDIS was quiet and echoed. They both heard that. 'Who's Sally? Another companion?' Asked Martha.

The Doctor shook his head. 'Just a girl I met once. A very important girl. You'll know about her eventually now let's deal with the matter at hand. The TARDIS can sense the energy of the weeping angel from a ways to the north. We'll just teleport there and I'll speak to it myself.'

'Doctor it'll kill you or send you back in time!' His companion told him urgently.

The doctor sighed, 'Martha, these creatures are very evil… deceitful, terrifying, but there was never an enemy I that I never tried not to reason with. Once we get there I will personally meet with it and get all the information I can from it. I have my ways of making it talk.'

He went into a different room and came out pulling a large mirror on wheels.

'Once it looks into this it'll be quantum locked meaning it'll never move again because it can't move as long as something is looking at it. Thus itself… if I leave it looking in the mirror it'll be stuck there for eternity. Unless I move it away it'll be free again but then it'll be on my terms.

The Sevi stood up. 'It was nice knowing you Doctor but I think this journey is one I should take myself.'

The Doctor grinned, 'Why take the long road when you can take the short road. I admit the long road you see more things except this is kind of an emergency. The Angel is deep within a mine which leads into caverns leading down dozens of miles under the earth, I mean Mapache. The mine ends a ways so and it's spelunking from there.'

He pressed some buttons and pushed some levers but the TARDIS wasn't doing anything.

'Come'on girl… why aren't you moving…'

It refused to budge. 'Okay be that way. Ohh… you're afraid to get too close to the Angel aren't you?'

Dalgo whispered to Martha. 'He's talking to this thing? Is it alive?'

'I don't know… he treats it like it's his wife or something.'

The TARDIS still refused to move no matter what the Doctor said to it.

'Well you got your wish Dalgo, we're going the long road.'

Martha was curious. 'Are we using the Chameleon Arch again? you know so they don't stare?'

'I'd like to but it's a part of the TARDIS's system and it refuses to let anything work at the moment. I can't carry the mirror all the way there so we'll have to leave it. But if I know my theory. If we can convince the Angel by force to send Dalgo back in time to before the TARDIS was sabotaged the whole entire tragedy will be averted meaning whether Sevi stare at our weird bodies or not we were never here in the first place. But just in case we have to leave I'll bring a hand mirror which I'll hold out so it can't follow us.'

'But whether we fix the curse of not the Angel will still be there!' Martha complained.

The Doctor had an answer for that too.

'The only reason the Angel was there in the first place was to expect the TARDIS to mutate these people, if that never happened then it would have no reason to be on this planet.'

They walked outside into the cold night air and Dalgo took them to spend night at his house before they began their journey.

-Somewhere in the west a tall Sevi wearing a long rusty coloured gown and very large copper earrings addressed a group of people. He spoke in a calming voice that his fellowship had always respected.

'We of the enlightened. We the seers of the past, the creators of the future… the all knowing of the world. I have gotten a pigeon from Pelile the all-seeing two nights ago she will be arriving within the next five minutes as she predicted to tell us about a travesty.'

The enlightened Sevi of the order waited and soon an elderly Sevi who could barely walk and was considered by many as a "Hag" entered and slowly made her way in front of the leader.

'Milord. I would kneel but I cannot for my legs are bad and it would be too much pain.'

'Just tell me the news.'

'I have foreseen, the traitor who refused to join us has a quest. He with two strange creatures will be going to find a cure for the affliction we all have.'

The leader swore and slammed his fist into the wall.

'OUR AFFLICTION MAKES US GODS! MAKES US BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE FOR WE ARE ALLSEEING! ALLKNOWING! WE KNOW MORE ABOUT PEOPLE THEN THEY COULD POSSIBLY!'

The "hag" smiled a toothless grin. 'You were such a good leader of the fellowship no wonder you were made leader for every life for all eternity. I support you all the way.'

The leader smiled back. 'Yes I know, Dalgo being the first to see the incident seems to have gotten cocky. But we have to stop him at all costs. He cannot reverse this ever.'

He pulled out a sword. 'I will personally slice his head off. Though when he regresses it'll grow back as do all missing limbs but with him as a baby we shall imprison him and never release him. Keep him in a dungeon to rot for all eternity. What is this cure?' he asked the seer.

She tried hard to see but she had gotten an image of a stone face with teeth wide open about to bite her.

It scared her so much the old one couldn't take it and she fell over dead.

The leader pointed to a female member at random, 'You adult female on the left. You are responsible for her now. Feed her, nurse her and raise her as your own.'

Soon enough a baby was crying and the female wrapped the baby up in her clothes and carried her upstairs.

'We leave at dawn.' The leader said.

It is said that when someone meets the Doctor even for one second their lives eventually become intertwined. The Doctor wondered as he slept in a makeshift bed in Dalgo's cheap one room home.

'I was brought to him because he was connected to what I did in the past. I hope this little guy has a happy ending. Many had never gotten that chance.'

Dalgo slept snuffling in his sleep with his tail curled up over his face. He was shaking.

Martha put a second blanket over him, 'It's okay. You'll be cured eventually if the Doctor knows what he's doing. You do don't you?'

'Improvising never stopped me before.' The Doctor said with a grin.

Martha went to bed herself hoping that this adventure would be over with soon. She hated seeing the poor thing suffer.