CHAPTER 9
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Back on Gallifrey, all of the Doctors met together for the last time before they were supposed to go back to their respective places in the Causal Nexus. All of them were surprised when Idris suddenly appeared out of nowhere and started up a conversation with them out of the blue!
"Hello, all of you! My thieves! No, that's not the right word. It's good bye, isn't it? You're leaving so it's good bye. Yes! I'll have to remember that. I get those two words confused!" Idris said as she looked at all of her Doctors with a huge grin.
"Exactly who are you, madam?" the Third Doctor said with a perturbed look on his face.
"Madam? I'm no madam! I'm the –" Idris said, and then she made the dematerialization sound with her mouth.
The Doctors all looked at her in astonishment!
"You're the TARDIS, my dear?" the First Doctor said with a wide grin on his face.
"Yes, that's right. That's me!" Idris said with a crazy grin.
All of the Doctors smiled at her fondly, and they all got closer to her. They were all dying to get a chance to speak to her.
"It's so nice to finally meet you, my dear! I'm very sorry to have stolen you, but needs had to be met at the time you know," the First Doctor said as he looked at her with a fond grin.
"Oh, yes. I understand but you don't. You see I stole you. You didn't steal me. You met my needs not the other way around. I wanted to see the universe, and so did you. We were made for each other. Two mad people out to see eternity together! It was meant to be!" Idris said with a wicked grin.
"Nonsense, my dear! I stole you. It's quite clear. I broke into the museum where they were keeping you and made off with you," the First Doctor said with a huff.
"My door was open, wasn't it?" Idris said with a giggle.
"Yes," the First Doctor admitted with a grimace.
"Well there you go then! Silly thief!" Idris said as she gave a playful swat to the First Doctor's shoulder.
The First Doctor looked angry and muttered something under his breath.
"Oh, language! You must learn to speak politely in front of a lady! Well, you will learn how to do so eventually. Have learned how to. Are learning how to. I'm not sure which is right. Oh, I get my tenses all mixed up!" Idris babbled.
"Oh, pay no attention to him, my dear. He's always been so tetchy!" the Second Doctor said with a grin.
"At least I'm not a clown that goes around looking like a hobo," the First Doctor replied with a snort.
"At least I'm not a grumpy old man who yells a lot, and who nobody wants to be around once you get in one of your foul moods," the Second Doctor shot back.
"Please! Please! Don't fight, my boys! I love you all!" Idris said as she wagged her finger in their faces.
"We're not children!" the First Doctor said with an angry glare.
"I agree so stop acting like one! I do have to watch over you all of the time though just like a child. You get into so much trouble, all of you!" Idris said with a snicker.
The various Doctors all pouted or sniffed at her in derision over that statement.
"You know it's true. My silly, silly boys!" Idris said with a small laugh.
She looked at the Second Doctor and said, "You were always my happy wanderer but with a sorrowful heart because you could never go home. You were always on the run but don't worry one day you will get to stop running. One day, you will go home. You may not like what you find there but everything will be alright in the end though."
The Second Doctor looked at her with a small grin on his face.
"You make my future sound both hopeful and full of despair at the same time," he told her.
"Do I? I suppose it is, and yet it isn't. Words are so confusing, aren't they? I'm never sure if I'm using them right!" Idris said with a large smile as the Second Doctor just shook his head at her confusing method of speech.
Idris then looked at the Third Doctor and said, "You didn't get to use me that much, did you? I hated it that we spent so much time apart. Stupid Time Lords! They couldn't understand what good work we both do together."
"Exactly! They're mean, petty, and vindictive! I'm so glad that someone else sees it!" the Third Doctor said with a vindicated look on his face.
"Well of course I understand. I was there. I know what you did even if they didn't. It was unfair what they did to you. At least you got me back later though. I was so happy when that day came," Idris said as she walked over to him and gave him a quick hug.
The Third Doctor looked a little embarrassed and quietly backed away from her as Idris gave him a little chuckle over his actions.
She walked over to the Fourth Doctor who simply smiled his wide grin at her and waved.
"You were always my funny one! Always ready with a quip and a quick pun! You were so much fun to travel with! Oh, I had so many wonderful adventures with you!" Idris said as she stared at him fondly.
"I think we make a good team, you and I. We really do have a great deal of fun together, don't we? I've enjoyed each and every minute of it," the Fourth Doctor responded back to her with a large smile on his face.
Idris gave him a large smile in response.
Idris looked at the Fifth Doctor and said, "You let me be torn apart that time by the Tractators! I should be angry at you, but I just can't stay mad at you! I never could! I always got a chuckle out of the decorative vegetable too!"
"It's for checking for certain kinds of radiation," the Fifth Doctor defended himself.
"Of course it is," Idris said to him as she gave him a knowing wink.
She turned to the Sixth Doctor and said, "You always amused me with your ever changing personality and that funny coat! I believe that you were the most fun for me in a way. Even I wasn't always sure what you were going to do!"
"I believe that was a thinly veiled insult!" the Sixth Doctor said with a frown.
"Oh, no! It wasn't veiled at all! I still love you all the same though. I always loved all your particular tawdry quirks! You really were fun!" Idris said with a grin.
The Sixth Doctor smiled back at her, pleased with that.
"It's good that someone recognizes my brilliance!" he said with a smug look on his face.
Idris shook her head at him and moved over to the Seventh Doctor.
"You were my little Chess Master. You were always playing games with the universe. I still liked you though. You always seemed to get me involved in the most fantastic adventures! I'm still surprised that that girl who liked to blow things up that you insisted on bringing with you didn't kill us all though with all of those bottles of explosives that she kept making in her room! She was crazier than me!" Idris said with a big laugh.
"Oh, yes. You've got to love Ace! She got me out of a lot of bad scrapes with that Nitro-9!" the Seventh Doctor said with a fond smile.
"I know. That's why I let you keep her!" Idris said with a wink at him as he frowned at that last statement.
She turned to the Eighth Doctor now.
"You and I had the worst times of all of them! We had to clean up the Time Lords' mess once and for all together! I still wouldn't have missed helping you for the world though. I always stand by my thief no matter what unless you make my Wolf mad. Then I'll just have to hurt you!" Idris said with a big smile.
"I would never make Rose mad. Unfortunately, I haven't really gotten a chance to know her. I think that we would have gotten along very well together. I could have taken her to meet some of the romantic poets. Arkytior always loved Byron, Keats, and Shelley!" the Eighth Doctor said with a grin.
"I know that you wouldn't have make Rose mad. You were the dashing romantic, and you would have wasted no time in kissing her either. You always seemed to love going around kissing strangers! The next you though always seemed to get mad about everything. Didn't you? You were always my angry one, weren't you?" Idris said as she turned from the Eighth Doctor to the Ninth.
"Rose made me better though. It was hard to stay angry around her for too long," Nine said with a grin.
"Yes, I loved it that she could help calm you down. I always hated the shouting! You were always so noisy!" Idris said with a giggle.
Nine frowned at that, and that made her laugh even more.
She turned to the Tenth Doctor and looked at him with a wide smile.
"There's my pretty boy! He was always lucky with the ladies. They were throwing themselves at him in some cases, and he didn't even notice. That poor little doctor girl! You didn't have too good a time of it at the end, did you? Still I think that you did pretty well all in all. I always liked you! You were fun! I never had a dull time with you around!" Idris said to the Tenth Doctor.
"Welll! I'm glad I could keep you entertained! I think that we're brilliant together!" the Tenth Doctor said with a smug but happy grin on his face.
"Molto bene! I'm always brilliant by the way!" Idris said with a cheeky grin.
The Tenth Doctor laughed at her as she made her way to the Eleventh.
"We've already talked, but I must say that I'm glad that you've finally found her. I've never seen you as happy as you are now. I'm so happy for you, thief! Hurt my Wolf though, and I'll crush you!" Idris said with a very crazy grin on her face.
"Not a chance. That's not going to happen on my watch," the Eleventh Doctor said with a sincere look on his face.
"I know but I just thought that I'd let you know anyway. Sometimes I have to show you just who the real boss is here! I could stop taking you places at any time you know. I'm not your taxi service. You travel at my convenience, thief!" Idris said with an ever widening grin on her face.
The Eleventh Doctor quickly assumed a pouting look and didn't say a word. He just glared at her.
Idris just laughed and said," Well, I've said what I came here to say. Hello thieves! No that's wrong! Well, you know what I mean! Will mean! Do mean! Tenses are so hard! I'll see you later, thieves! Or is it earlier? I'm never quite sure. Hello!"
Idris disappeared in a burst of golden light. The Doctor wondered where she would pop up next and where she was going back to. Was she still in the TARDIS somewhere? The TARDIS still seemed to be working normally so he suspected that she was still around somewhere inside of it guiding things. He hadn't come across her yet though but that didn't mean anything. The TARDIS was so huge inside that he could search for centuries and still not find her if she didn't want him to.
"Well, I guess it's time for us all to be going now! Farewell, young chap!" the Fourth Doctor said with a toothy smile.
"I'm older than you!" Eleven said between gritted teeth.
The Fourth Doctor just laughed and waved good bye to him. All of the others Doctors said their good byes, and they all started to leave. Eleven noticed as they went into their TARDISes that they assumed a blank look on their faces for a minute. He knew that this was when they blocked their memories of this whole incident. They would remember nothing about it until they were him.
The First Doctor was the last to go.
"I'm so glad that I finally get Arkytior back in the future. Do all of us a favor, young man, and don't blow it!" the First Doctor said to the Eleventh.
"I won't! I think if I lost her this time that my hearts would just shatter into pieces! A world without Rose scarcely bears thinking about!" the Eleventh Doctor said.
Good! Good! Then I'll take my leave of you! Farewell, my boy! Farewell!" the First Doctor said as he too entered his TARDIS and left.
"I'm so glad that I'm gone!" Eleven said to himself with a sigh.
Inside the TARDIS, Cassandra in Cassie's body was wandering through the corridors of the huge time ship as she tried to learn more about it. She was quickly learning much about the Doctor's ship. She already knew where the library and the swimming pool were. She still thought that a swimming pool in the library was odd even for the Doctor! She also knew about the locations and contents of several storage rooms. Some of them were full of shopping bags full of women's clothes and purses from Barcelona. She still didn't understand that one!
She was slowly learning all of the TARDIS' secrets. Soon she would learn how to fly her, and then she would be able to go anyway in time and space. That and the Bad Wolf powers that Cassie had would make her a force to be dealt with. She could have a very good life as Cassie indeed. Cassie wasn't bad looking either. She just needed to lose a little weight, and she'd be perfect.
Cassie's mind, buried deep inside of her brain thanks to Cassandra, was just a silent witness to all of Cassandra's actions. She was trying to regain control but so far had had no luck. She had hoped that Jenny might have noticed, and she had seen Jenny give Cassandra suspicious looks but so far nothing had come of them.
She remembered back to her childhood. She could do nothing else now but remember the past. She recalled how Jenny had always looked out for her and took care of her. Whenever she had gotten into trouble, Jenny always seemed to know about it no matter how far away she was. She always would come and help her somehow. She could always count on her to pull her fat out of the fire. She wished that she would do that now. She knew though that this Jenny was very young and wasn't yet the person that she would someday know. Still she could hope, right? Maybe Jenny would come through for her one more time!
As Cassandra moved silently through the TARDIS, Jenny followed her and was always a few feet behind her the whole time. She was using her skills as a soldier along with her Bad Wolf powers to avoid detection by her sister. Or whatever was controlling her! She knew that something was wrong. She didn't know how or why but she knew that her sister was in danger, and she was going to help her! That was her job! She swore she wouldn't rest until she was safe!
Next: Cassandra vs. Jenny! Cassie remembers more about her life, and Idris comes to a decision about her future role in the Doctor's life!
