Hello guys sorry for the long wait anyway her is Chapter 6 of the Eternity Clock as always don't forget to leave a review at the end.

Chapter 6: Our Own Demons

There's an old saying, "we create our own demons" I never understood that sentence until a few months ago. As I watched Alex carefully contemplating his next move, I thought about the phrase and realised something, Akex faces his demons every day. I wondered how long he could manage it for.

Curiously I thought about how Alex had handled the conversation with the Illusive Man, when he had first faced him, Alex had almost snapped, but in that comm room, I could tell something had changed about him.

"Ahsoka?" Alex said breaking me from my train of thought "did you hear what I said?"

"No" I said, I was still reeling from the shock of the Comm meeting, so I wasn't at all paying attention to what Alex was saying, more to the fact doing. "Sorry what were you saying?"

He sighed as if bored and continued "I was figuring out a way to deliver the element of surprise in the best possible way. Any ideas?"

With a sudden realization a thought clicked into my head. It was a small chance however, but it gave us the advantage we desperately needed.

"I might have one idea" I said breaking the awkward silence "it involves the TARDIS" at that suggestion Alex smiled at me, realizing what I had in store, "the TARDIS is telepathic, yes?"

"Yes" Ashley said with a hint of distaste "though I don't see how a telepathic machine can..." she broke off mid sentence as she realized what I was planning "oh, that was a thought that hadn't crossed my mind"

"Cause you don't know anything about Time Lord science" Alex muttered under his breath, Ashley glared at him and Alex said "go on Ahsoka" ignoring the look Ashley was giving him.

"What if we used the telepathic circuits, to locate the Illusive Man, and stop this war before it even starts?"

"That's a great idea" Alex said smiling however he looked dejected "but the Illusive Man is likely to have his base TARDIS proofed, meaning we won't be able to get inside the base"

"Can you actually do that?" Ashley asked smiling "wow and I thought you said the TARDIS could get into almost anywhere"

"Almost anywhere" Alex said mimicking Ashley's tone, he spoke in his normal voice "except if the place we're going to is completely TARDIS proofed"

"Well then" I sighed, well that was disappointing, our main advantage gone, just like that. "I guess we're back to square 1"

"If I know the Illusive Man" said Alex looking worried as ever "he's already planned this far ahead, we're stuck, we don't know where he is or how he's going to initiate the first strike. We're completely screwed"

And with that happy thought we departed from the console room and into a separate area, me completely stunned at Alex having absolutely no plan at all, he usually had a plan, in fact he was full of plans. It surprised me that he had none for what was probably going to be the battle of his life.

Without knowing it I almost bumped into Ashley walking down one of the TARDIS corridors.

"Hey, I might not know who you are or why my brother is so infatuated with you, but that doesn't give you the right to bump into me at every given moment" I stared at her shocked, her reaction was almost instant, she had been calm in the console room but now, she was angry, very angry.

"Why?" I asked, she stared at me like I was something she didn't like the look of very much.

"Why what?" she asked

"Why are you so angry all the time?" I asked "it's like one minute you're calm the next you're angry. I just want to know"

She sighed looking down at her feet, she looked up at me dejectedly "It's not you I'm angry at, it's this universe, for taking something away from me when I didn't deserve it" she looked back and forth from the room "when my fiance died, something snapped in me, all my emotions just disappeared, I don't know how it happened, I guess I'm just one of those cold hearted people you keep hearing about, those who still have demon's to face"

"Demons?"

"Yeah demon's" she confirmed "I've got a lot of demon's to face, working with my brother has helped me see that" she walked down the hallway and turned her head "oh and Ahsoka, I wouldn't be too surprised at my brother, don't hate him if he snaps and looses you" and with that she walked off down the hallway, leaving me to wonder what she could possibly mean by that