Hi everyone ! This is Chapter 3, which I had a lot of fun to write. Enjoy :)

CHAPTER 3 – DEEP PURPLE

The Tardis groaned and brutally stopped, sending the Doctor backwards, but the Time Lord had just enough time to grab the rail and make a back flip, landing on his feet. "Oï, Sex y ! What the hell do you think you're doing ?"

The Tardis obviously didn't answer but began to fly again, and this time the Doctor fell, brutally landing on his back. He immediately got up and ran to the console. He pushed a few buttons, pulled on a lever, pumped with his right feet and finally gave a great hammer bump.

The time-travelling machine seemed to calm down, because now the Doctor could stand without constantly tumbling.

"I. Just. Want. To. Go. To. Sinapacialla !" he said, punctuating each word with his hammer on the console. "Planet of hot chocolates !" he finished. The Tardis resumed her mighty shaking, and again the Doctor fell. He rubbed his back, but now the machine was out of his controle. They landed a few seconds later.

"I hate you," the Doctor mumbled like a five-year-old.

A few lights slighlty flickered. Was it a grin. The Doctor tensed, but nothing else happend.

While heading to the doors, he sighed. He had dropped Clara two hours ago, and he already felt alone. Tomorrow, he would travel to the next wednesday he had dropped her, and again they would visit some mysterious and wonderful new planet.

But for now, he just wanted to know what was on the other side of the doors.

Snow. There was snow everywhere. (And this time, it wasn't ashes.) He was in London, that was certain, and it was about six p.m. Why had the Tardis taken him here ?

He observed his environement. He was in a little street, the time-travelling machine parked between bags of crap, but nothing seemed too weird, except maybe for a big white cat.

The Doctor headed to the entry of the street, and that's when he saw her. A little girl, collapsed against the wall. Her eyes were shut, and she seemed way too still.

The Gallifreyan approached her, while grabbing his sonic screwdriver. He didn't need to scan her to know that she was dead. The scan was still useful : it learned him she had bled to death through a hole in the neck. The Doctor kneeled in the snow, not caring of his deep purple pants getting cold and wet, to get a better view. There was a bite mark just under her left ear..

He bend a little more, and that's when he felt a cold hand grab his shoulder and throw him on the wall like a puppet. He collapsed in a little purple pile, but soon got up and tried to focus.

A tall, blonde man was facing him, his chin soaked in some reddish liquid. The Doctor briefly hoped it wasn't blood, but the way the man was looking at him made him feel like he was some sort of hamburger. The man let out a sort of rageous scream and charged on the Gallifreyan, who quietly got out of the way. But the creature extended one of his long arms and grabbed him anyway, slamming him again on the wall. Then, he dug his teeth in the Doctor's neck.

The Time Lord kicked and tried to scream, but nothing went out of his raw throat. He suddenly felt really tired, and gave up fighting. He was about to close is eyes, exhausted from blood loss, when a gunshot ran to the creature who flinched. Then it let go of the Doctor and ran away. The Gallifreyan tried to get up to pursue the thing but his shaky legs wouldn't allow him to run so he stayed there, again in the form of a pile of jumbled limbs.

Two men ran after the creature. They jumped from a roof and continued to follow the thing to the exit of the street, not even noticing the Doctor's limp form. One of them was tall, like really tall, with nice hair, notice the Doctor. The other one seemed shorter in comparison and carried at least half a dozen of weapons, judging by the noises he produced while running. The disappeared as quick as the had arrived.

The zone where the Time Lord had been bitten hurt like hell, so he decided to go back to the Tardis to take care of it before investigating further. He got up and headed back to his well-loved time machine, still shaking.

He pushed the Tardis doors and went to the medical bay, where he sonicked his injury. Happily enough it was clean, so he just had to put a band aid on it. He had only Mickey's ones left. He also added a Cindarella's one, for a better effect. Now that it was taken care of, he could concentrate on more exciting things. Like, first things first, choose a new bow tie since the one he wore was completely soaked in his own blood.

He went to his wardrobe, and to his horror, discovered he hadn't any purple bow ties left to match with his purple jacket and his purple pants. His purple dream was over. Desperate, he searched everywhere, but the fact was there ; all he could find was his old green greatcoat the one he wore when Amy and Rory were sti... He shook his head. Those memories were still too painful to be disturbed without any good reason. He quickly found a red bow tie, a shirt and his favorite bracers, and declared himself ready for the next part of his plan ; the Stormcage Containment Facility, where he was certain he could find River.

Owin had erased every kind of data containing any information about the Doctor, but before the events of the Asylum happened, River was still in prison. It was the easiest place to find her, even if their respective timelines got messed up.

The Tardis landed with her asthmatic sound, and the Doctor ran to the doors, pretty excited. The prison was still the same ; unsafe, with a lot of shadows, no guards in the horizon and only a few lights.

River too seemed the same. She was wearing a military uniform, and her usually rebel hair were strictly tied on the back of her head. Her face seemed a bit preoccupied, but it lightened up when she saw the Doctor.

"Hello, Sweetie."

"Hi honey," the Doctor replid, using every bit of flirt technics he had ever learned.

"So, where are we ?"

"I don't know... Have you already done Demon's run ?"

"Yeah. I'm heading to the Byzantium right now, the reverend is waiting for me just two corridors away..."

"Oh, the Byzantium. Yes, I remember."

"What ?" River seemed happy. "Are you going to be there ?"

"I can't tell you, but I had a lot of fun that day..." Something else hit the Gallifreyan in the face. She couldn't come with him. "Can I ask you something ?"

"It depends on what it is," she replied, now frankly grinning.

"Your vortex manipulator."

"It's broken."

"I'll take care of that."

"You could do the same for me."

The Doctor blushed, getting a bit later what she had said, and what she meant.

"You, you... Why... would you like to..."

River's smile just got larger. She put the device in his hands and while he was trying to think of something classy to say, she kissed him right on the mouth.

The Doctor didn't think any further ; he put the vortex manipulator in his jacket pocket and kissed her back. The slammed brutally on the wall, the Time Lord's hands in River's hair, hers in his neck. Suddenly, she backed away.

"What happened to you ?"

Apparently, she had felt the Doctor's injury.

"That's nothing, I got bitten by a... thing, I suopose."

"A thing?"

Just as the Doctor was about to reply, an alarm rand, and River gave him a sorry glance. "I've got to go, sorry, my love. Don't forget to bring me my vortex manipulator back..."

"I won't", he promised, kissing her one last time.

River got away and disappeared into the shadowy corridors. The Doctor sighed and headed back to the Tardis.

Confortably sitting in the Tardis, the Doctor launched a search for what he called "anything interesting", but the parameers contained, in fact, everything weird in a zone of 3km round the time machine.

Among other things, like a talking cow and a never emptying fridge, the Doctor found a strange signal ; it seemed like metal, but not from Earth. He sighed again. He didn't have time to bother with things like this, but according to the fifth law of the Shadow Proclamation, no alien weapon of any kind could be brought on Earth, which was a level five planet.

The Doctor quicly typed a few numbers on the vortex manipulator, everything went black and he disappeared. The he remembered what River had said about the device being broken.

The next thing saw was a green door, just before he crashed right on it, face first.

I hope River's okay, I found her not easy to write. Please Review :)