Uncovering The Past
"How are you a Time Lord?" The Doctor asked as he pulled Dereck into another room of the TARDIS.
"I don't know," Dereck answered, "but I know that I am. I've been having dreams about these monsterious creatures with one eye and a suction cup for a hand and a lazer for the other and ear-like things that light up everytime they talk and they roll around saying 'exterminate' in a robotic like voice and they keep saying something about the destroyer of their kind-"
"They're not dreams," The Doctor says in a small voice, "they are memories. You're dreaming about the Time War, but how? You weren't there."
"The last memory I have is seeing this burning red planet being taken away from me," Dereck said as The Doctor tried to comprehend the entire situation. "I remember looking out a window of our TARDIS and seeing the red planet just burn and I could hear screams and pleas and those things just killing us."
"The Daleks and the Time Lords killed each other," The Doctor lied.
"The Dalek things kept saying you destroyed your race and theirs," Dereck said as he caught The Doctor in his lie. "Did you really kill our race?"
"I had to," he confessed, "I didn't have a choice. The Time War would ahve gone on forever if I didn't do something."
Suddenly Dereck became enraged, "So your bright idea is to kill everyone?!"
"If I didn't Daleks would've conquered everything," he yelled, "They would've killed all of us, including you so be thankful I killed them off so that you could have sort of a normal life."
"I didn't have a goddamn normal life," Dereck yelled, "Everytime I went to sleep I heard those bastard drums and I couldn't do anything to get rid of them. I still hear them."
"All Time Lords hear the drums, the real challenge is if you can handle hearing it for the rest of your long long life," The Doctor said just in time to hear screams coming form the main control room. They both ran into the control and saw the two girls standing back to back encircled by five angels.
"What the hell?" Dereck asked running over to them, but suddenly realizing that the girls weren't in any immediate danger. "Guys, just duck and move out of the way."
"Won't they move?" Jessica asked.
"No," The Doctor said, "they are time-locked. If Angels look into each other's eyes they become time-locked until an outside force unfreezes them. Just duck and crawl through between them." Jessica and Bianca crouched down and scooted through the Angel's arms and ran to Dereck and The Doctor. The TARDIS was silent for a few hours until Bianca and Jessica went up to bed and The Doctor and Dereck were left alone.
"Have you told her yet?" The Doctor asked.
Dereck lowerd his head, "No, she doesn't know."
The Doctor nodded and continued to fly his TARDIS. They sat there in awkward silence until Dereck broke the silence with, "How did you aquire your TARDIS?"
"I borrowed her from a guy," The Doctor said as several buttons beeped and levers threw themselves down. "Ok, I stole her. Happy now?" The TARDIS made a high chipper noise and then went silent. Dereck laughed and slumped in his chair. "What about you? How did you lose your TARDIS?"
"When I was around seven hundred, I came upon a dead TARDIS and I revived her and called her my own," Dereck said recalling the event, "We were traveling when suddenly something went wrong; she started to stall and then we were freefalling from sky. We crashed and when I topened the door we were on this strange island with a castle. I tried to revive her, but she just didn't have any life in her. So I said goodbye to her and made my home at the castle until I came across materials to fix her, but that never happened and I had to abandon her." His eyes filled with tears, but he quickly wiped them away before The Doctor saw.
"Are you going to tell Jessica who you really are?" The Doctor asked Dereck.
"I don't know if she would see me as the same person," Dereck said looking at the Doctor's expression, "Do you have a companion?"
The Doctor remained silent as he remebered one in particular, "Not anymore. There were several companions, but only one I ever cared about."
"Where is she?" Dereck asked as The Doctor's eyes started to tear.
"She is in a parallel universe living her life," The Doctor said as he walked down the steps and started to work on the wires below the main control panel of the TARDIS. Feeling the tension, Dereck said goodnight and left the room. The Doctor said goodnight and continued working; when he watched Dereck leave he turned around and saw a hallogram of a single red rose; he smiled with tears in his eyes as he uttered one name. "Rose Tyler."
