Two hours later, the Doctor stood awkwardly on Westminster Bridge, a sick feeling in the bottom of his stomach. He shoved his hands into his trouser pockets, shifting his light brown rain coat behind him as he did and looked up; a serious look had moulded onto his face as he waited, his jaw stiff and his eyes almost deep in concentration. The bridge and a lot of the area around it was empty. Good. No one else could get hurt, even though many people - the exact number unknown - and Ellie had been abducted so far; he could not afford any more mistakes.

Then he saw them, two Avidjinn guards swooping down straight towards him; he wanted to close his eyes of wince, but he stood perfectly still, barely blinking. The landed briefly, grabbed the Doctor roughly by the shoulders and hoisted him up and away. He gritted his teeth and shut his eyes tight, he could not help but thin they were going to drop him, let him fall to his death. It had happen before, as his fourth incarnation; he had fallen, regenerated and had kept going like there was no tomorrow. That was just him, keep going, meet people, and leave people, a very lonely life.

Finally, they had found their way inside the Avidjinn's craft and the two guards were now frog-marching the brunette down the boiling and humid corridors of the ship. He was melting underneath his long coat, but did his best to ignore it and kept walking; he noticed door as he walked down the corridors, large steel ones on either sides of the walls. Light sobbing could be heard from some of them and the male guessed they were all cells, cells holding countless humans, afraid, confused and being half-suffocated by the heat.

With a small grunt, he was pushed through a door that was opened by one of the guards into a cell, the door then slammed behind him. He stumbled forward, hearing a quiet gasp, a scuffle followed by the clink of metal against the floor; the voice stifled a sob a female voice. The Doctor groped in front of him with both hands, bending over slightly. He spoke out.

"Ellie?" he asked, firm, but uncertain.

"Doctor!" Ellie's voice called out, a hand grabbing one of his and pulling him down.

He fell onto his knees and shuffled closer to the cowering female in front of him, pulling the female's body close to his, the clink of metal sounding again, but this time it sounded slightly muffled. Ellie buried her head against his chest and suppressed another sob, tears spilling from her eyes, she felt so glad for this comfort, and she could find words to describe it. Their brief embrace ended as the Doctor, inspected her face, his eyes looking guiltily into hers.

"They haven't hurt you have they?" he asked her.

She shook her head, no. Looking down, she mumbled something.

"I'm sorry about the robotic message; it's was rather...forced,"

The Doctor chuckled half-heartedly and shook his head, he looked down at the female's wrists and ankles and saw; chains that clinked with every slight movement Ellie made. Pausing, he reached into his pocket bringing out a small silver stick, his eyes catching the female's curiosity of the object.

"It's called a Sonic Screwdriver...its Sonic and we'll leave it at that, eh?"

He took one of the female's wrists and held the Sonic Screwdriver at the female's chains then pressed a button, the blue light shone down onto the chains and in an instant, broke free and fell to the floor, one end still being held by Ellie's other wrist. He repeated this action with the brunette's second wrist and two ankles, before replacing the gadget back into his pocket once more. Ellie remained seating, rubbing at her wrists, nodding her head.

"Thanks," she mumbled again.

"No problem," he replied and reached into his coat pocket again, bringing out a small plastic water gun. He pushed the gun into Ellie's hand and closed her fingers around it; her thoughts drew themselves to the Avidjinn Queen, the stone in her pendant that had suddenly gleamed at her only a short time ago. The brunette's mind flickered, something made sense, but she couldn't find the words.

"Listen Ellie, I'm not sure how much time we have left. Can you trust me?" the male asked.

Ellie nodded, though slightly uncertain; her eyes fell down to the dinky little water gun in her enclosed hand.

"...Yes," she replied.

"Avidjinn can be killed with water; I'm giving you this to help. I-"

"Doctor!" Ellie cut in with a low hiss "It's the Queen! Something's up with the Queen!"

The Doctor blinked and nodded his head, urging her to go on.

"The Queen wears this pendant thingy with a red stone in it; when she gave an order to these two guards, the stone gleamed. It was weird, like she--"

"--was controlling them..." The Doctor finished, his face brightening. "That's it! That's why the Avidjinn aren't acting like normal. They're being controlled. God, it's like a--"

"--Dictatorship..." Ellie finished, her 'History Mind' turning on. "This whole thing is going on because the race is under a Dictatorship or some-sort of mind controlling one at that..."

The Doctor clicked his finger, nodding more enthusiastically.

"We have to get rid of this pendant, and maybe, just maybe...we can beat the bad guys, save the world and be home in time for tea!"

Ellie laughed, her fears somehow slipping away from her. Her new formed smile suddenly fell as the door to their cell opened loudly, the threatening shadows of two guards forming out of the haze. The Doctor lightly pushed Ellie's hand that contained the water gun close to her, hissing the words 'Hide it.' to her as he did; he turned his head to the door and got up. Ellie quickly shoved the water gun inside her jacket pocket, praying it wouldn't be seen so easily and looked in dismay as a guard seized the Doctor by the shoulders and was pushed outside the room.

The second guard marched up to her and grabbed her hair, pulling her up violently; Ellie began to shout and scream, she was so high she could kick her legs about easily. The brunette reached her hands up and began to try and pull herself up to ease some of the pain. Her face was screwed up with the pain from her head.

"Gerroff me!!" she pleaded between shouts.

The Doctor had turned round now and was trying to reach out to Ellie as she kicked about.

"Oi! Leave her alone, stop that! She has nothing to do with this" he shouted.

The guard holding Ellie by the hair laughed its voice screechy and irritating.

"This little runt has quite the fight in her; her screams are music to my ears...unlike that fowl obscenity I heard before from that cowering mother and child..."

Two pair grew silent as the guards cackled; a look of dread was shared followed by a quick glance of sorrow from the Doctor. The guard holding onto Ellie lowered the brunette onto the floor, so she could walk, but the guard still held onto her hair, giving it sharp yanks when she didn't walk fast enough or walked too fast. The female winced, holding one hand up against her hair, still trying in vain to soften the pulls on her limp locks and squinted forward to the Doctor, who would look behind him slightly, as if he were checking on her.