Ninlil sank to the floor of the tent and let her tears fall...she couldn't do this, not knowing what was to come.
She closed her eyes and called out in her mind.
"Zu, he was here...how could he know I was here?"
"I fear his powers are growing Ninlil. Did he harm you?"
"No, but why choose me Anu...it isn't fair. Now Zu knows where he is."
"I am sorry...but it has to be done my child. We cannot fight both Zu and this human, we are not enough in number. We need Enlil to be fully awoken, the others will not follow another. War is coming child and the army must have its leader."
"But at what cost Anu. I have seen inside the Time Lord's mind, it is fragile and will easily shatter. He does not have the control over his darker side that he had...he is not the same, he has changed. "
"Ninlil, I know you have feelings for this Time Lord and it is right that you should worry for him. But he swore an oath to help if it was needed and now is that time. Stay close to him."
"I do not think his human companions will allow it. They do not trust me as the Time Lord does."
"Then you must win them over. Time is running short and the hordes grow restless."
"Yes, my lord Anu."
She sniffed back her tears and wiped her eyes...time to become the warrior she was trained to be.
Jack kept a tight hold on the Doctor until his sobs ceased and he felt resistance to his embrace.
The Doctor moved away from Jack and drew his legs up and wrapped his arms around them and stared into the fire.
Jack waited for him to speak, knowing that to speak first would make him clam up faster than anything; but he wasn't expecting the Doctor to say...
"You should leave and take Ianto with you."
Jack blinked. "What?"
"Take Ianto and go, get as far away as possible from me."
Jack moved closer to the Doctor but he shifted away.
"Why?"
"Because I have to do something and when I do I may not be able to stop myself from killing you or Ianto."
Jack shook his head. "I'm not that easy to kill."
The Doctor looked up then and Jack flinched when he saw a flicker of that molten light in his eyes.
"There are worse thing than death Jack Harkness."
The tone of the Doctor's voice made Jack shiver but he forced it down. "That's not you talking, that's the thing possessing you."
"You think I'm possessed," the Doctor let out a mirthless laugh. "If only. No Jack, this isn't possession."
"Then what...you can't be an ancient god?"
The Doctor said nothing but stared back into the fire.
Jack knew he wasn't going to be forthcoming so he sat in silence, waiting for the Doctor to respond.
"Oh I'm worse...far worse."
City of Eshnunna- The King's gateway to the Zagros Mountains.
The King's army had pressed Zu's forces back to the Zagros Mountains and were driving them into the mountain passes and the caves.
The Doctor was now riding in one of the Kings own war chariots and he was accompanied by some of the King's bodyguard, who were wearing colours that mimicked the blue of the TARDIS and their body armour was decorated with the swirls of the Doctor's language and the symbols of their own.
The chariot pulled up as a rider approached at full tilt and slewed to a halt in front of the Doctor.
"My Lord, the army has engaged the enemy on the plain of Esh. The King requests your presence."
The battle was not going well when the Doctor appeared over the rise...it was turning into mass slaughter.
The Kings army were trying to hold their own against creatures that were not human and they were losing.
He looked on in helpless horror, what could he do?
Anger began to replace his horror and he felt it building up inside him like a great storm and it began to crackle through him like static.
He looked down at his hands and to his astonishment small sparks were crackling from them...what?
Then his anger overtook him and his world turned electric blue.
Then he knew no more until he heard the roar of thousands of voices calling "Enlil!"
The Doctor blinked and looked down on the battlefield and saw it was devoid of anything that wasn't human.
His bodyguards were prostrating themselves at his feet.
"You are Enlil!"
It was that night that he'd walked the palace in consternation and it was that night that Ninlil had come to him and had called him her Lord and he had given his hearts to her.
Jack watched the Doctor, wondering what was going through his mind. His thoughts were interrupted by the Doctor suddenly standing up.
"It's time to go Jack."
"Go where?"
"The Well of Sorrows."
Author's Note:
Enlil was also the Sumerian god of Weather.