A/N- Okay peeps back to the Doctor, just to warn you had to borrow greatly from Waters of Mars for this, so if you haven't watched it this may not make a lot of sense... keep reading and reviewing... reviews make me happy... on a side note we have SNOW!!! AHHHH!!!
It had started as a simple wish to see Mars, just a little fun trip just something to fill time; but nothing is ever simple - not for him. He'd been delighted when he'd found himself later in Bowie Base One where he met the first human pioneers on Mars but then delight turned to horror as he realised the date and realised that all of these people were going to die very shortly. Their deaths were a pivotal point in history and he couldn't change that and he'd tried to leave, he really had tried…
As minutes sped by and the humans' death raced closer he' walked outside making his way back to the Tardis whilst the humans fought for their lives in vane. He could see it all happening in his minds eye he could hear their screams beating him down till his on the ground. And it hits him there, amongst the dirt, he's the last Time Lord - the only one, and he can save them and there is no one stop him. He strode back into the base to save the day thrilled to be breaking the rules and he'd saved three of them – three lives saved. He happily took them home to Earth and as he dropped off Adelaide he waited for the thanks, the praise, the hero worship but it never comes. Instead she stands there staring at him puzzled, "you saved us?"
He strides towards her and grins, "Just think though. Your daughter and your daughter's daughter – you can see them again," he gives Adelaide a small smile as she shakes her head, "Family reunion."
"But I'm supposed to be dead" she cries
and he's so smug, "Not anymore."
"But – Susie, my granddaughter – the person she's supposed to become might never exist now"
He sighs, "Nah. Captain Adelaide can inspire her face-to-face. Different details, but the story's the same" he shrugs as if that's all there is to it.
"You can't know that!" She angrily interrupts, "And if my family changes the whole of history could change! The future of the human race – no one should have that much power!"
His smile has gone, he really doesn't care, "Tough!" He's the last of the Time Lords, he doesn't have to answer to her. He watches as Adelaide steps away from him afraid
"You should have left us there."
and suddenly he's trying to justify it, cocky in his reasoning, "Adelaide," he rushes out, "I've done this sort of thing before, in small waves, saved some little people. But never someone as important as you." He chuckles proud of himself, "Ooh, I'm good"
"Little people?! " Adelaide shouts, "What, like Mia and Yuri?" she glares at him furiously, "Who decides they're so unimportant – you?"
Ungrateful ape, he thinks feeling absolutely no shame for what he's done, "For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. Time Lord Victorious" he finishes with a shout, daring anyone to dispute it.
Adelaide recoils slightly, fear and understanding clear on her face, "And there's no one to stop you."
"No"
Adelaide points to the ground, confidant in her words, "This is wrong, Doctor. I don't care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong"
He doesn't care, he answers to no one, "That's for me to decide," he replies coldly running out of enthusiasm for the whole thing, "Now, you'd better get home," he looks over to her front door, "Oh, it's all locked up," he reaches into his pocket for his sonic screwdriver, "you've been away. Still, that's easy." He points his screwdriver at the door so it unlocks, his face grim, almost childishly unhappy at having been contradicted, "All yours," he says as he puts his screwdriver away. Adelaide walks past him, still frightened by the power he holds, "Is there nothing you can't do?"
"Not anymore"
He watches as Adelaide walks towards her front door, then he turns to walk back to his TARDIS. He hears her door shut, another life saved and he's basking in his newfound power. But then he suddenly hears a low electric crackle and he turns back and he's shocked to realise that after all he'd done for her she's taken her own life. And he doesn't know what to think, or do at that moment but then he feels someone watching him and he turns slowly to look down the street. "I've gone too far," he says breathlessly panic causing its way through his blood as he spies Ood Sigma staring back at him. The Doctor drops to his knees frightened, "Is this it?" he cries, "My death?"
But the Ood doesn't reply
"Is it time?" he tries again, but the Ood disappears and suddenly he realises he can't escape what is coming. He looks back at Adelaids house. He'd thought that if he'd cheated her death he could cheat his own but now... Quickly stopping the thought there he grabs the key to the Tardis from his pocket, too afraid to stay any longer, and quickly enters his ship.
He rushes up to the control panel and quickly picks a destination far from this place, it doesn't matter where as long as it isn't here.
