The Master of Tides

Chapter 3

A/N: I did skip the whaling ship. I have never read Moby Dick, so bear with me. If you noticed that I mention Captain Jack Harkness last chapter, good for you. I don't know why I like Captain Jack, maybe because you can kill him over and over again and not worry about guilt. I don't own Doctor Who nor Moby Dick. I like River Song because she is awesome.


After we passed the whaling ship with confused expressions on all our faces. After a while, I broke the silence and said, "That man was searching for a WHALE!? THAT BIT OFF HIS LEG!? A madman..."

"That...was...weird." Lindsey simply said, still staring at the ship, "Why did you break the silence, Hannah?" Turning to me.

"I don't like the silence." I said meaning two different things at the same time, "The Silence brings back bad memories that I wish I could forget. No ducks in a duck pond, no geese squawking in Venice, just...silence. Silence, Doctor, Silence will fall." With a far away look in my eyes, glazed over.

"Crap, not again." Lindsey said, noticing the look on my face. She went up to me to break my trance. "HANNAH, SNAP OUT OF IT!" Right in my face.

"AHHHHH!" I shrieked, "DON'T DO THAT! YOU KNOW I HATE THAT!" Snapping out of my daze.

"Well at least you're back here, not lost in memories." She said matter-of-factly.

"Oh I hate you." I quoted my mother saying to my father sometimes.

"No, you don't." She said right back.

"You're right." I shot back, smiling, then loudly said, "Ok, what are we going to do now. Anything?"

"Get back to what you were doing before." Lindsey ordered everyone, then turned to me and said, "You, with me. Erich, take point." Grabbing my arm and dragging me away from the wheel. She half-dragged, half-pulled me into her office. "What is wrong with you?" After she closed the doors.

"They hurt me when I was 10. They hit me in the back of the head while we were docked. Woke up with a splitting headache. They tortured me to get to my parents." I quietly said, shuttering at the memory. Lindsey realized that I was talking about the notorious pirates The Silence. "And they're still out there." I somberly said.

"Thank you for sharing that but could you focus on other things, please, like be on lookout again?" She said.

"Anything to get my mind off the Silence." I agreed as I walked out the door.

The captain just shook her head, and said to no one in particular, "Today's not her day." And looked at the spot I previously occupied.


"My turn, Stevo." I said, motioning that I came up to take over the lookout, "And really, 'Rare Breed' of violinist? Have you been sneaking looks at her or something?"

"What, no, no! I meant that in good way!" He stammered, embarrassed that I actually overheard it.

"I didn't tell her, so you're lucky that she didn't spot you. Don't try again because she might see you. Though I think that is a good compliment." I said, giving him my opinion.

"It was a joke." He stammered again.

"Oh, Stop it. Just get back to work. And not a word!" I playfully said, pushing down his head.

"Aye, aye, captain's apprentice." He said, using a term for my position.

"Don't call me that!" I yelled at him, and he scrambled down in fear of me. After he got down, I said to myself, "Well then, time to go to work." I looked around the open seas for ships or land, for when you see seagulls, you know there's land. You always hope that it is a proper port and harbor. Being raised on land for 4 years really makes an impression on you, even if you are barely on land for the rest of your life. You can always look forward to being on land. Even now I miss my grandparents, because grandma waited for my dad for a long time to find her first born daughter, my mother, while granddad is a medical doctor (A/N: There are no nurses in the high seas. I got that from Pirates of the Caribbean). I was up there in the crow's nest for about 2 more hours when Pete Styles came up and relive me of the duty. I then went to find the captain.


I was walking in the hall of the ship where the sleeping quarters were when I heard the laughing. I was confused, so I followed the sound. When I found the source of the laughter, it was coming from Audrey's room. The door was open a crack, so I looked in. Audrey was showing Lindsey the story I acted out for her in the game we played earlier.

"And Donna was like, 'We are not married!' and the Doctor stuttered 'What? We're not married.'" Audrey telling her mother the story.

"And which Doctor is that?" Lindsey asked her.

"The 10th Doctor." I said, drawing attention to myself, "He was cheeky, slim, and a bit foxy, and rude-and-not-ginger, while Donna was rude-and-ginger. Those two were best friends." I sat myself down on a chair. "It was fine and dandy, until the day the Earth was stolen, then Donna had to forget. But that's another story for another time, little one."

"Why so sad, Hannah?" Audrey asked me, seeing the look on my face.

"Because the Doctor was reminded of what he did to his own people that day. And was named the Destroyer of Worlds by Davros, Creator of the Daleks. All in all, a very bad day for the Lonely God, the last of his kind. He was reminded of what he lost so very long ago. He basically went mad afterwards, did some things very bad to time, tried to rewrite a fixed point in time. No ones meant to do that." I solemnly said, summarizing that day and afterwards.

"Audrey, don't push it. She might not want to talk about it." Lindsey said, trying to avoid me yelling at Audrey from pushing my buttons, "She was reminded of something she doesn't want to remember today."

"Thank you for that. Now, Donna. Stubborn, rude redhead, says what's on her mind. Doesn't mind talking back to the Doctor, though she can be blunt." I said. Audrey just looked at me and then back to Lindsey confused. "Three year olds. Knows that something is wrong but doesn't know what it is. You, Audrey, are just like my sister Abbigail when she was your age, though had less supervision than you. She got away with a lot more things than you back then. No one has found out who hid my mother's favorite gun to this day, though I have my ideas who did it."

"You completely changed the subject again." Lindsey sighed.

"Oi! Rude..." I cried at the comment.

"You're rude!" Lindsey shot back.

"Well I'm rude-and-not-ginger!" I shot back, "And I'm acting like my dad again, am I?"

"Yes." Audrey and Lindsey said together, then looked at each other and laughed at my reaction.

"Audrey, you never met my dad!" I cried at the little girl.

"Well mother says you do act your father, so there!" Audrey said, crossing her arms in a very River way.

I gave her a look and said, "You are a little, adorable, clever monster. I wonder why I have so much fun with you."

"'Cause you do." Audrey shot back.

"Ok, that's it! Tickle Fight!" I proclaimed and I got up from the chair dived down at Audrey, grabbing her before she could run and started tickling her.

"S-s-stop, it t-t-tickles!?" Audrey gasped out, trying to constrain her laughter and failing miserably. Lindsey just rolled on the floor laughing at our antics.

"NEVER!" I cried out, laughing for the fun of it. It went on for about a few minutes more when Lindsey decided that Audrey had enough.

"Hah!" She said, tackling me to make me stop. I looked at her, smiling.

"Well that's one way to make me stop. Didn't expect that, but it is effective." I said, then bursting into laughter. They both joined with me. Then the ship took a hard right turn, making all three of us tumble into each other. "Who's driving this thing!" I cried out in bluntness, pissed at the driver who made our fun end.

"Erich." Lindsey simply said, scrambling to get up. Both of us followed her out to the deck. "Why did we turn hard right, and who allowed this!" She shouted, fuming. I looked out to sea and tapped Lindsey on the shoulder, to get her attention.

"Uh, Captain? They had a pretty good reason why they did so." I said, my voice going a bit higher than normal. I pointed to a ship in the distance," They didn't spot us. We're coming in behind. Lindsey, they're pirates. The worst ones. The Silence." Recognizing the flag that flew above the ship, "Run." The captain nodded, scared, and ordered the crew to work.

"Why are we running, Hannah?" Audrey asked me.

"Because we can't fight them. We can only run. It's me they want. River Song's daughter. The Doctor's daughter. The Daughter of Time." I solemnly said, dreading them, "We can only run. We'll never survive them. They'll kill us and brainwash you to kill my father. To prevent him ever reaching Trenzalore."


A/N: I'm very bad at cliffhangers. But here's the good part: they never catch us, because they never noticed us. Next chapter will involve going into a harbor with a past involving River Song and the Doctor. Please review!