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Time Leap
Chapter Eleven
Walking down the streets of London once again, I had my arm hooked through the Doctor's as we laughed about our pervious escapade. Those walking by us either ignored us or shot us wary looks that we ignored.
"But did you see that Ryoxians' face!" I waved my hands about, "besides from the horns everywhere, he looked constipated!"
We laughed again while the Doctor shook his head, "nu-uh, that was only because you sat there scoffing his food! It wasn't even dead!"
I shrugged, "it looked edible, therefore it was," I waved a finger in his face, "galactic dinner rules."
He rolled his eyes but couldn't stop grinning.
"So," I looked up at the big building for Adipose industries, "what are we here for?"
He gave me a shocked look, "were you even listening to me?"
I mimed cleaning my ears, "what? I wasn't listening."
He elbowed me in the side, "you know, this new you is very cheeky."
I blinked and looked up, "didn't Jack say the same thing about you?" I smirked and stuck my tongue out at him.
Sneaking into the building, the Doctor used his psychic paper to get us past people and we looked round the offices, talking to several people. One of the female workers flirted outrageously with the Doctor and he shot me a look, pleadingly. I put my hands on his shoulder and purred almost.
"Sorry hunny, this one's mine."
Was it my imagination or did the Doctor just blush? Shrugging mentally, we moved on, collecting printouts of the people who were taking the Adipose weight loss pills.
"Did you have to do that?" he asked as we left, night moving in.
"You wanted help, you failed to specify," I whistled merrily as we walked before I looked round, "oh! I forgot my vortex manipulator!"
The Doctor rolled his eyes, "just leave that thing, the TARDIS is far better."
"Boys and their toys," I shook my head with a grin, "I don't care, I need it! You'll be back after you see this man anyway, see ya soon!"
Running back to the TARDIS, I dove through the doors and started rooting around for my vortex manipulator. You never know when one comes in handy. Failing to find it in half an hour, I sat down with a frown.
"Lend a girl some help!" I called to the TARDIS.
The TARDIS hummed in reply and I jumped onto the couch. Digging behind its cushions, I pulled out the vortex manipulator.
"Thank you!"
The Doctor walked in with a sigh, "there's definitely something strange going on....I had a signal but someone drove off with it!"
"The signal?" I asked.
He gave me a look saying he was not amused, "no, whatever was causing the signal."
I snickered and put the watch contraption on my wrist once again. He sat down beside me with a sigh, rubbing the back of his neck. Rolling my eyes, I moved his hands and instead moved my hands over his back and shoulders, massaging the tense muscles.
"Relax," I ordered him.
"How can I relax?" he asked.
I pressed down on a specific part and he yelped. Snickering once again, I carried on the massage without further disobedience.
"You are a curse," he finally mumbled.
I chuckled, "ah, you love me really."
He tensed under my hands and I almost froze myself, deciding to correct my stupidity I laughed, "after all, who can resist these freckles?"
It did the trick as he relaxed again - albeit not as much as before - and joined my laughter.
With the massage finished, I sat back and stretched when he suddenly looked at me. For a moment I wondered if I had something on my face.
"You said before that you knew what the drums are."
I blinked and clicked, "oh yeah I did....why? Want me to explain my idea?"
He nodded intrigued.
"Well," I looked thoughtful for a moment before looking back at him, "I believe that when my father looked into the Time Vortex, he became in tune with the hearts of all those of Gallifrey. That's why the drum beat is a mix of four, two for each heart," I tapped the drum beat unconsciously on my leg, "it was passed onto me when I was born but it was more subtle because I sort of had this idea when I was younger. It never stops because while there is one Gallifreyan person alive, the sound of their hearts will always ring in my head," I sighed quietly, "even if my father was the last Time Lord in the Universe, the drums would never have stopped because he would have still heard his own hearts. The drums aren't the drums of war, but the life of the Time Lords."
His hand fell on mine, stopping the tapping as he looked into my eyes, "can I....hear it?"
I nodded silently as his hands raised and touched my temples, our eyes closed. The steady, almost mute drum beat in the back of my mind rose louder.
Duh. Duh. Duh. Dum.
Duh. Duh. Duh. Dum.
The Doctor moved back, our eyes opened once again.
"How could you both live with that?" he asked sadly.
"I like to think I'm strong enough to," I shrugged, "something that makes human's so human, the ability to keep on going, to keep on surviving, and I believe we should all take a leaf out of their books," I hit his shoulder lightly when my vortex manipulator beeped.
Looking at the message I had got, I rolled my eyes, "seems Jack needs a bit of Time Lord help," I stood up, "should I call you a babysitter?"
The Doctor gave a fake glare before motioning for me to hop it, "go on you idiot, but I want you back by night!" he warned but the grin made his seriousness fail.
Smirking, I saluted and used my vortex manipulator to travel to Torchwood. I also secretly wished to see Captain Jack Harkness again. It had been a while since the incident on the Valient and she was still catching up on things she had missed with him and Torchwood.
Walking into the TARDIS during the night, I whistled happily and raised an eyebrow at the Doctor and a ginger haired woman beside him. She gave me a raised eyebrow also.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked in a cockney accent I had learned to love.
I grinned, "Loki! Pleasure to meet ya," I said in my cockney accent that came with my new regeneration, "time traveller extraordinaire! Welcome to the merry band!"
"Is she always like this?" she asked the Doctor who nodded furiously.
"Yep."
"I'm Donna," she smiled slightly wary.
I laughed and bounced over, "don't worry about me; I'm just happy after having some quality time with ol' Jack."
The Doctor gawped at me, "You did not...."
I coughed, blushing lightly, "no! I didn't do that!....We did something else," I cracked up at the Doctor's flustered face.
Starting the TARDIS finally, we flew off through space once again, jolting here and there. I staggered over to the Captain's seat and sat down quickly, laughing as the Doctor and Donna went flying everywhere. When the TARDIS finally stopped, both were glaring at me while I whistled innocently. Exiting, we found ourselves in 'Rome' supposedly. I giggled as I realised it was actually Pompeii. Nonetheless, Donna was happy until they saw Mt Vesuvius and realized it was Pompeii.
"And it's volcano day," the Doctor looked worried, clearly not liking the idea that the first place Donna would see would be a town about to be wiped out by a volcano.
Racing back to the TARDIS, Donna asked why we couldn't tell everyone to evacuate.
"We just can't," I helped the Doctor, "Pompeii is a fixed point in history that we can't mess with."
The Doctor sent me a thanking look before we stopped at where the TARDIS was supposed to be. Emphasis on supposed to be. The Doctor started to panic and ran round trying to find out where it had been taken. I rolled my eyes and knelt down, touching the ground to see marks left from where they had dragged the TARDIS.
"My genius friend," I called to the Doctor who turned back, "we have a heading!" I pointed at the marks before running after them, the two quickly following.
"I think Loki should drive the TARDIS!" Donna exclaimed as we ran.
I laughed while the Doctor mumbled that we were out to get him.
Finding the place it had been taken to, the Doctor showed his psychic papers.
"I'm...err...Spartacus, and this is..."
Donna quickly added, "also Spartacus!"
"And I'm Lokius," I grinned.
The man looked between us, "so you two are married?" he asked Donna and the Doctor as I started laughing.
"No!" they both shouted at the startled man.
"Oh! Brother and sister! I see the resemblance."
I stood behind him and looked at the two, "so do I! Now," I put my hand on his shoulder, "we're from the marble inspectors, I hope you don't mind if we have a look around, thank you!"
Walking around with him, the Doctor pointed to the TARDIS, "we'll have to take this away with us unfortunately."
Donna started dropping hints that they should get out of Pompeii, "you know, take a family trip out."
The Doctor sent her a warning look before steering her away, "they haven't even invented a word for volcano yet."
"Oh good!" Donna seethed, "they can make up a new word as they die!"
"Donna, stop it!"
Just then a soothsayer walked in with several guards and started spouting riddle like phrases to the confused owners of the Marble trade.
"The birds are flying north, and the wind is in the west."
Caecilius smiled confusedly, "quite, absolutely!"
"Only the grain of wheat knows where it will grow."
Caecilius' wife joined the confusion but pretended to know what his words meant, "it is an honour."
The marble maker turned to us suddenly, "pardon me, our guests, Spartacus and Spartacus and Lokius."
"A name is but a cloud upon a summer's wind," Lucius announced.
The Doctor scratched his neck, "but the wind is felt most keenest in the dark."
"Ah, but what is the dark, but an omen of the sun."
Then I decided to butt in, "I concede that every sun must set," he looked at me now, "and yet the son of the father must always rise!"
"Damn. Very clever of you both, evidently people of learning."
The Doctor smiled, "Oh yes, but don't mind us."
Suddenly the daughter of Caecilius appeared looking very ill, "Is that your opinion..as a Doctor?"
The Doctor looked shocked, "I beg your pardon?"
"Doctor, that's your name."
The Doctor looked her up and down, "How did you know that?"
Evelina then turned to Donna, "And you, you call yourself a Noble."
I looked at her curiously as she looked at me, "and you...owner of so many names, Loki the trickster."
Her mother quickly interjected, "Now then Evelina, don't be rude..."
The Doctor stopped her, "No, no, no, no not at all."
"You three come from so far away," Evelina carried on.
Lucius suddenly spoke, "The female soothsayer is inclined to all sorts of fake illusions."
The Doctor glanced at him, "Oh no, not this time Lucius, I reckon you've been out-soothsayed."
"Is that so, man from Gallifrey?"
The Doctor whipped round and looked at him shocked, "What?"
Lucius carried on, "Strangest of images. Your home is lost in fire is it not?"
Donna started to sound panicked as the ground shook from another earthquake, "Doctor what are they doing?"
"And you, daughter of... London..."
Donna's eyes widened, "How does he know that?"
His cold eyes fixed on me and I fought against the shiver, "you watched your home burn, listened to the screams, daughter of Gallifrey."
" This is the gift of Pompeii. Every single Oracle tells the truth."
"That's impossible," Donna practically whispered.
Lucius looked at the Doctor, "Doctor, she is returning."
"Who is? Who's she?"
Lucius ignored the question to look at Donna, "And you, daughter of London, there is something on your back."
Donna looked round quickly but saw nothing, "What's happening?"
Evelina looked about ready to collapse, "Even the name Doctor is false, your real name is hidden, it burns in the stars, in the cascade of Medusa herself. You are a Lord, sir. A Lord of Time," once again I was looked at and didn't know if I wanted to run away or shrink behind the Doctor, "Little Loki, lost in her own darkness, the death of millions drip from your hands like blood, the ever growing tempest, Lady of Time," before she fainted and the earthquake halted.
I stood with wide eyes, looking at the now unconcious Evelina as the Doctor checked her over. It was unnatural how both of them had been completely true. In this era, they were all confused by superstitions; soothsayers never told the future correctly. Evelina was helped to her room where Donna went to keep an eye on her. Lucius left without another word and the Doctor looked at me, his hands falling onto my shoulders.
"Loki," I jumped and looked at him, "ignore what they said, they don't know you," he smiled reassuringly before leaving.
"No," I looked at my hands, "they know me perfectly."
Ooooooh! I forgot to add to my Disclaimer, I own Loki's theory of the Drum Beat, ALL MINE!! Mwahahaha. Anywho, thank you for reading and please, please REVIEW!!! XD I think the 4th series has to be my favourite so far, I loved writing these chapters! Those soothsayers scare me......