Here's a revelation...not a revelation too far I hope
The sound was incredible and frightening; the beat myriad wings as the swarm flowed over the dune.
"What the hell are they!" Doctor Stoneleigh yelled as they raced down the dune.
"Scarab beetles!" the Doctor yelled back. "When they swarm they eat anything in their path!"
The camp was in turmoil as they reached it and the Doctor scooped up a small child.
"Everybody get inside, what they don't see they won't eat!" he yelled.
He pushed the screaming child into Doctor Stoneleigh's arms and ran back towards the advancing swarm but he already knew it was too late.
There was only one thing he could and for that he had to make himself a tastier morsel.
Wasting no time he ripped open the sleeve of his jacket and placed the sonic against the skin and drew it across. Blood flowed and spilled onto the sand and the mass of death paused.
The Doctor turned and ran, blood leaving an unresistable trail and the beetles moved as one.
Jack had been watching the Doctor but had gone back into the tent when Doctor Stoneleigh said he would take over.
He'd just closed his eyes when he heard it and it was something he heard only once before and it was the sound of death.
He dashed from the tent yelling at Ianto to move his ass.
They both skidded to a halt when they saw a mass of moving darkness swerve away from the camp and towards a fleeing figure.
He couldn't see who it was in the confusion and the dark, but whoever it was; they were sacrificing themselves to save the rest of the camp.
He scanned the still panicking camp for the Doctor and couldn't see him and it dawned on him who that fleeing figure was.
"Ianto!" he yelled and began running in the direction of the mass of beetles. He could hear Ianto behind him and pushed harder...the Doctor and the beetles had a too large a head start on them.
He could no longer see either the Doctor or the swarm of beetles and that was not a good thing and the thought of the Doctor being devoured made his insides curdle.
As he approached a large dune he heard it and it wasn't the sound of someone being eaten...it sounded like something vibrating.
He began clambering up the dune but only got halfway when a wall of sound hit him and he tumbled to the bottom and joined Ianto at the bottom.
The Doctor knew where he wanted to lead the beetles but he was out of time.
He was standing on top of a large dune and the beetles were advancing at speed; he was going to be eaten and it would be painful and not quick.
He closed his eyes and waited and then the ground began to vibrate under his feet and the sand began shifting under his feet; the dune, it was collapsing...the beetles they were collapsing the dune to get to him.
He began to slip and slide uncontrollably and would have fallen into the mass of jaws if a hand had not caught him.
He had no time to see the owner of the hand as his head exploded with a wall of sound and the mass of beetles exploded.
"You know," a female voice said. "I should get paid for the amount of times I've saved your skinny behind."
The Doctor looked up in surprise and saw a face that he had seen briefly back at Torchwood.
"Hello," she said and pulled the Doctor to his feet and before he could say anything kissed him.
The camp was still in disarray when the Doctor and his companion walked into it. They only got a few yards when one angry Jack Harkness confronted them, gun in hand.
"Get the hell away from him!" he snarled and pointed the gun at the woman.
The Doctor stepped in front of her.
"What are you doing Doctor?" Jack said. "She attacked you."
The Doctor shook his head. "No Jack, she made me remember, remember who I was."
Jack frowned but didn't lower his weapon.
The woman moved from behind the Doctor and stepped forward. "You should not fear me. I mean him or you no harm."
She went to move forward again when a shot rang out and she collapsed to the sand.
"No!" the Doctor cried and fell to the floor next to the woman, who was bleeding from the shoulder.
Jack whirled and saw Ianto, gun still smoking, face set in a grim mask.
The Doctor lay the woman on the bed and cut away her bloody tunic and scowled at the injury.
The tent-flap opened but the Doctor didn't turn to see who it was, but when the person spoke he turned then.
"Stay away from me!" he snarled at Ianto, who saw sense and retreated.
The Doctor turned back to treating the woman who was beginning to stir and opened her eyes.
The Doctor smiled and put a hand on her face.
"Don't move, I have to remove the bullet and it will hurt."
The woman nodded.
She only let out a soft cry and he cut through flesh and she trembled but was silent as he dug the bullet from her shoulder and pulled it free.
He quickly cleaned and bandaged the wound and then sat down beside her. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be," she said. "He was doing what a loyal friend should and do not blame him. I know your temper, be kind."
"Ssh now, get some rest," the Doctor said and kissed her gently on the lips. "My beautiful lady of the sky."
She smiled at that. "My lord of the stars," she replied and closed her eyes.
The Doctor left her then and picked up the bowl of bloody water and stepped out of the tent.
Jack had been waiting for the Doctor to come out of the tent. He'd seen Ianto almost but not quite run from it almost thirty minutes ago.
He was itching to confront the Doctor about what he was doing protecting someone who Jack thought was attacking him and what he meant by her making him remember.
He moved when he saw the Doctor emerge from the tent and throw away a bowl of water and walk towards the edge of the camp.
Jack ran after him and caught him by his arm.
"We have to talk."
The Doctor wrenched free of his grip. "We have nothing to talk about," he said and continued walking.
Jack grabbed his arm again and this time it earned him a look reserved for criminals and tyrants.
"Yes, we do!" he spat.
The Doctor rounded on him. "I have nothing to say to you, your pet shot her!"
Jack was taken aback...the Doctor had never spoken about any of his team like that...ever.
"I would have if you hadn't got in my way. She tried to kill you back in the Hub!"
"No, she made me remember, remember who she was...is to me!"
"Then who the hell is she!"
"She was, is the most important person in my lives...she's my lover."
