Adult content warning, though... that hadn't been the original plan for this chapter. Dammit Savannah...I thought we weren't going to do this. -Ruinous79

"Desire is the kind of thing that eats you

and leaves you starving."

-Nayyirah Waheed

Temple of Pythia, Gallifrey, Long Ago

Maren was furious. She'd always had a reputation for her temper. Anteros himself had seen it more times than he cared to count. But now she was actually being destructive, destroying her own possessions in a fit of rage. They were in her private quarters in the underground temple of Pythia. It was a realm from which he was forbidden. But then, their very relationship was forbidden.

He sat upon her bed, watching helplessly as the only woman he'd ever loved smashed mirrors and threw lamps. Broke vases and ornaments. It took him a moment to realize that she was actually crying. That this was anger borne of grief. It was the first time he had ever known her to cry and that she was only served to solidify in his mind that everything was over. Everything he'd ever wanted. Life as he knew it. His father had made sure of that.

"Maren... please." he ventured, sounding every bit as beaten as he felt. "There's nothing else we can do."

His words surprisingly reached her. She stopped her path of destruction all at once. She turned toward him, tears streaming down her beautiful face. "You expect me to just leave Gallifrey behind. To leave you? And you're okay with that?"

At her words, Anteros felt his hearts seize within him. He stood and walked to her. "Of course I'm not okay with any of this. But there is nowhere in the cosmos we can possibly run where my father couldn't find us. As long as you are with me, you are in danger." He grabbed her face between his hands gently. "He will do as he says Maren. He will erase you from time. From my life."

Maren's brow furrowed and for the first time ever, she looked vulnerable to him. "But our child, Anteros." Her hands covered her stomach and she shook her head. "You expect me to do this alone? To be a mother... to carry on as if everything is perfectly alright. I tell you, I can't. I can't do it." She pulled away from him and collapsed onto a chair near her vanity table, the surface of which was now littered with mirror shards and remnants of broken bottles.

He sighed and knelt before her. "You won't be alone. This is why I insist you go with the rest of Pythia's disciples to Karn. Can't you see? This is a chance for you to be safe, for all of you to be safe and practice your beliefs without judgment. Where Rassilon has no hold over any of you. Where he cannot touch you. Where my father cannot either."

Maren scoffed and wiped her face with the edge of her sacred robe. "Your father can do as he pleases. No amount of distance can stop him if he wishes to upend anyone's timeline. Even Rassilon's powers are no match for him."

Anteros set his jaw and reached into his pocket. With a shaking hand he withdrew an object, wrapped in a silken cloth. He took Maren's hand and turned it over, set the object in it and closed her fingers around it. "My father has no such power without this. You take this to Karn and tell no one of it. It is your protection. Perhaps the only thing that can protect you from the wrath of a Time Lord."

Maren looked confused. She unwrapped the silk handkerchief and studied the sacred relic. "Serpents?" she murmured. "A pendant of serpents." Recognition seemed to dawn on her all at once. Her eyes went wide. "The Pendant of Eternity. The Pendant of Apeiron?" She shook her head and quickly handed the item back to Anteros, as if she feared it might explode. "This is Time Lord magic." she sputtered, frightened.

Anteros sighed and turned the pendant over in his hand. "It is science that gives this object its power, not magic. And it will keep you and our child safe." He looked her in her eye and placed it back in her hand, closed his hand over hers and held tight.

"Go to Karn Maren. Be the leader you are foretold to become. And protect our child." His ancient brown eyes peered into her blue eyes, imploring. "You are all my lives. All that matters at all. And if I accomplish nothing else in my existence, I will make certain of your safety." Tears spilled unbidden from his eyes but he did not break eye contact.

She swallowed. "Could not its power protect the three of us?" she asked without much hope in her tone.

Anteros smiled a sad smile. "It is no good to me as protection against my father. His hold on me is absolute." he shrugged.

"But he will know it is missing." she insisted, shaking her head. "Will he not suspect it has gone with me to Karn?"

A strange look came to his eyes. "I promise you, he will never know." He had never lied to her before and he didn't mean to start now.

Maren still looked slightly frightened but she nodded, almost imperceptibly. When he took his hand away from hers, she silently placed the relic into a pocket of her robe.

She grabbed his hands and pulled herself to stand before him."There's one more thing I need from you." she requested solemnly.

Anteros squinted down at her curiously, clasping her hands in his own. "What is it?"

At last she smiled. "Kiss me." she whispered.

Home of Dayle Moss, Universe A, Present Day

Savannah came awake slowly, lying on her stomach, her arms wrapped around her pillow. As she stirred, her hand touched a flat metallic object underneath her. She turned over onto her side and pulled the object out to examine it. It must have slipped from her pocket while she slept and wound up beneath her.

She studied the pendant that Ohila had given her the night before, really looking at it for the first time. Her dream had helped her to understand its significance if not its purpose. The High Priestess had told her nothing other than to keep it a secret, and that she'd know what to do when the time came.

The pendant looked ancient and apparently, it truly was. It was made from some metal she'd never seen. It was comprised of two snakes intertwined, eating their own tails. Where they tangled together in the center formed a figure 8... or perhaps an infinity symbol.

"Ouroboros." said a sleepy voice from over her shoulder.

She startled and nearly moved to hide the pendant but Silas must have already seen it. Hiding it at this point would only make him suspicious.

"What?" she asked him, trying to keep her voice normal.

"That symbol." he clarified from his position laying behind her. He scooted so that he was spooning her once more and took the pendant from her hand. "It's called the ouroboros. It symbolizes eternity or infinity. Usually it's just one serpent in a circle eating its own tail." He turned it over, checking it out. "That's pretty fuckin tight though."

Savannah felt her whole body catch fire at the feeling of his body pressed against her from behind. His guy bits pressed against her ass. His arm thrown over her casually. His head hovering just over her shoulder, his chin resting on her. It was like, instant horny, just add Silas. She must have been out of her mind with exhaustion the night before not to have attacked him where he lay.

Well she was wide awake now.

She rolled over to face him and took his face in her hands and started to kiss him hungrily before he even knew what was happening. Who cared about the goddamn pendant or her creepy alien ancestry? She was about to take this motherfucker's soul.

After a few seconds of kissing him at the awkward angle, she threw him onto his back and rolled on top of him. Silas seemed taken aback for a moment by the surprise assault but he recovered quickly. She was pleased to find that he was every bit as aroused as she was when she pressed her body down against him. His hands were wandering her body and his mouth was all over her neck. Now if only they weren't wearing so many clothes...

He had slipped his hand beneath her t shirt and she decided to make things easier for him by removing it altogether. He sat up and pulled his off as well while she unhooked her bra and tossed it to the floor. When he lay back down, he laid directly on top of her and she ran his hands down his chest appreciatively. His chest, upper arms and abs were nicely defined and his smooth skin was the color of caramel. Holy hell, but he was fine.

When her hands reached his lower abs, she unbuttoned his jeans, still kissing him fervently. He followed her lead and started to help her off with her own jeans. Soon they were completely naked and it was at that exact moment that dude decided to grow a conscious.

"Vannah, are you sure you want to do this?" he asked, his breathing quite uneven as they got closer and closer to the main event.

Seriously?

She sighed and ran her hand back down his abdomen. She groped him none too gently and looked him right in the eye. "What do you think?"

It seemed he couldn't argue with that logic. He grabbed her hands and pinned her down to the bed, nudging her legs apart with his own. "I tried to be a gentleman." he reminded her.

She giggled and nodded. "Duly noted."

When Silas had told Savannah the night before that nothing would happen unless she instigated it, he hadn't meant it as a challenge. One second he was examining the cool old ouroboros pendant she had, the next she was all over him. And she was not playing around.

He had never had a woman come onto him so strongly before. It was like she couldn't help herself. Like she was desperate for him. And it was unbelievably hot.

He didn't know a whole lot about pregnant girls but he suspected her pregnancy hormones might have played a role in her sudden enthusiasm for him. Silas could certainly think of worse things than being one of Savannah's cravings. Definitely not a hardship. He was more than happy to oblige.

When it was over, he rolled off of her, trying to catch his breath. It would take him a minute. He felt like he had just run ten miles.

It had been earth shattering. The best, by far, that Silas had ever had.

He suspected that it had been pretty good for her as well but didn't want to ruin the moment by asking.

Savannah turned on her side to face him and propped her head up with an elbow on the mattress. "Well then." she remarked, a satisfied smile on her beautiful face. Silas felt pretty damn good to be the cause of that smile.

"Yep." he replied, still flat on his back catching his breath. "Well then."

"You do realize, of course, that the moment the afterglow wears off, I'm going to tell you how stupid this was and that it's only going to complicate things." she warned him.

"Yep. Kinda figured." He rolled to his side to face her, a half smile on his face.

She narrowed her eyes at him playfully. "You're looking awfully proud of yourself, sir."

He chuckled and leaned over to kiss her on the forehead. "Just glad I seem to have made you happy."

She sighed and a small smile played at the corners of her mouth. "That you did. Three times actually."

Win he thought to himself, his smile growing wider.

"Oh quit looking so-" Savannah was interrupted by a knock at her bedroom door. She closed her eyes as if she only just realized that an outside world existed.

"Yeah?" she called, quickly jumping up and retrieving his jeans from the end of the bed. She threw them and they hit him in the face.

"Vannah, I'm going to drop Ember at school. She's going to Dahlia's house tonight."

"Okay mom." she yelled back.

Silas quickly got dressed and couldn't help but watch Savannah do the same. Good lord but her body was unreal. She was fairly slender but curvy in all the right places. Silas had always liked a big ass. Hers wasn't huge but there was certainly junk in that trunk.

Savannah was ready before he was and she rushed out to say goodbye to Ember.

When he knelt to pick up his shoes, he noticed the serpent pendant on the floor. His eyes narrowed as he picked it up. It was an unusual necklace. That morning, Savannah had been looking at it like she'd never seen it before...

"Silas, are you gonna say good bye to Ember?" Savannah called suddenly from the other room. He stuck the pendant in his back pocket without another thought.

"Coming!" he called back and finished putting his shoes on.

By the time they got to the TARDIS, the Doctor was at the console examining his computer thoughtfully. He didn't bother greeting them.

"We good to go today?" Savannah wondered, glancing over at Silas.

"We leave as soon as your mother gets back." the Doctor replied, not looking up from the computer.

"So how exactly does one go about bouncing from one universe to the next? I take it that it's not a routine trip for you." Silas guessed, joining the Time Lord at the console.

The Doctor looked up and seemed to study him for a moment before answering. "There's a wormhole that exists in time between this universe and your own. Dayle and I created it the day we met."

Silas raised his eyebrows. "Impressive. I've heard of people attending cooking classes or pottery classes as first dates. Making chicken. Making ceramics. Never heard of anyone making a wormhole on a first date." He grinned.

The Doctor's eyes narrowed. "I don't do witty banter." he declared. "And stop smiling like that. Unless you want Savannah's mother to know what you've done."

The smile disappeared from his face immediately and he cleared his throat. He looked over at Savannah anxiously to find she was silently cracking up laughing. Oh hilarious. He'd seen Dayle get angrily protective over her daughter. He didn't wish to be on the receiving end of that.

"So what's the game plan?" Savannah asked once she'd stopped cackling at his expense. She approached the console and looked at the Doctor curiously. "Or are you just gonna do a thing?" This last part was dripping with sarcasm.

The Doctor threw her a little side eye. "We head directly to Karn. To an old friend's house"

"Well what about Sienna and the other Doctor?" Silas wondered. "Shouldn't we be looking for them?"

The Doctor sighed. "Once the Tertiary Console Room separated from the rest of the TARDIS, it would have lost all communications, all instrumentation. That's both good and bad. Good because there would be nothing for the Master to home in on. Bad because there would be nothing for us to home in on either."

"So they just ended up in a dead escape pod, possibly in the middle of nowhere?" Savannah asked. "Doesn't sound like they have much going for them."

Silas silently agreed, his mouth set in a grim line.

"No. Not much." The Doctor agreed, tapping a few keys on the control panel. "But they have one very important thing going for them."

Silas and Savannah shared a confused look. "What?" they asked in unison.

"Me." the Doctor replied simply.

It was then that Dayle entered the TARDIS. She let out a big sigh. "Alight folks. Are we doin this then?" She looked at each of them.

"Wait a minute." Savannah sputtered incredulously, not to be put off by the new arrival. "Just what is that supposed to mean?" she asked the Doctor.

"I was just telling them that the one thing the others have going for them is me." The Doctor informed Dayle with a small smile.

Silas saw a curious mix of emotions cross Dayle's face. Amusement, exasperation, curiosity and somewhere in there, adoration. She walked up to join them on the flight deck and crossed her arms. "Care to elaborate?" she wondered.

"Well, if I were me, and I am, I know just where I would take Sienna to keep her safe." He raised his eyebrows and his smile grew wider. "There's only one place on Karn where the Sisterhood's collective telepathy can not touch her."

Silas let out a sigh of relief. "So you do actually have a plan." Savannah looked relieved as well.

The Doctor began to prepare the TARDIS to dematerialize. Dayle had wandered over closer and Silas was surprised to see him reach down and take her hand, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. He glanced at Savannah and knew she saw it too. She shrugged.

"So what is the amazingly safe location we're headed to?" Dayle questioned.

"It's a deserted castle. A lunatic by the name of Solon used to live there. I'd tell you about all the terrible things he did there, but I don't want to frighten Silas."

Silas sighed in exasperation. "Seriously? Why the... wait a minute." Silas stopped short, blinking in confusion. "You called me Silas."

The Doctor looked back at him and smirked. "It seems you're out of the friendzone now."

Savannah snorted laughter and Dayle's brow furrowed with confusion. "Have I missed something?" she asked.

Silas just put his face in his hand and shook his head.