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Age of Steel: Part Five

The Doctor walked around the room, and I turned around to see a small little camera aimed directly at us from the corner, a little red light winking at me, "Of course all that an idiot would have to do is, say, find the right numbers, say the right codes," he continued on, "Say, for example, he found the code behind the emotional inhibitor, the codes that are right in front of him," he smiled, "Because even an idiot knows his computers these days," he waved a hand, "Knows how to get past the firewalls and passwords. Knows how to find something encrypted in the Lumic Family Database under..." he frowned and waved at hand at Pete, "What was it, Pete? Binary what?"

"Binary Nine," Pete answered, his voice loud enough to probably register through on the camera. I just knew that Mickey was typing furiously on the computer behind us, probably accessing the database right at this very second.

"An idiot could find that code, the cancellation code," the Doctor was clearly getting more excited, talking faster and faster, "And he'd keep on typing, keep on fighting. Just to save his friends,"

"Your words are irrelevant," the Cyber Controller stated.

"Yes, talk too much, that's my problem," the Doctor grinned, "Been called rude as well, but that's another story," he looked over at my sister, pretending he was holding a mobile phone, "Lucky I got you that cheap tariff, Rose, so you and Mary Anne can have all those long chats. On your phone,"

"You will be deleted,"

The Doctor grinned, "Yes, delete, control, hash, all those lovely buttons," he replied, "Then, of course, my particular favourite," he stretched his arm up, pretending to push a button, "Send," I smiled wider knowing that there was going to be a text message anytime soon, "And let us not forget how you seduced all those ordinary people in the first place," a beeping filled the air and I looked at Rose as she pulled out her mobile, "By making every bit of technology compatible with everything else,"

Rose opened up the new message that she had just received and I caught a glimpse of a few numbers, before she turned to the Doctor, "It's for you," she said, throwing the phone to him where he caught it.

"Just like this," the Doctor slammed the phone down into a port where he was standing and immediately the whole desktop exploded in a mass of sparks, the computers all showed the same code on the screens and all the Cybermen around us clutched their heads, shaking with pain. I stared at them seeing as one was looking in a reflective piece of metal, making a horror stricken noise as it realised what it had become, "I am so sorry," the Doctor looked at them, before turning to Lumic, "Look what I've done," he told the man, "I've given them back their souls. They have seen what you've done to them, and it's killing them," he grabbed the phone, "Out!"

I ran after Rose, Pete and Mary Anne, knowing the Doctor was behind me. I could see Cybermen on their knees, some screaming with pain, other's with their heads exploded. None trying to kill us for once. Another explosion rocked the whole building and I leapt back as a scorching heat erupted near us, "This whole place is about to go up in flames!" Annamarie shouted back at the Doctor, "There's no way out,"

I turned to look at Rose but saw that she was suddenly on the phone, "Mickey says to head for the roof," she said to us and Pete dashed for the stairs, all of us following him, "I hope you know what you're doing," she called down the phone but Mickey was too far away for me to hear his reply. We all burst out onto the roof to see a ladder drop down from the zeppelin.

"You've got to be kidding," Pete remarked.

I rolled my eyes, "We don't have time to argue," I snapped at him, "Rose, you get up there first," my sister started to climb, "Annamarie," she went up and the Doctor helped me get up the ladder, swiftly following me, "I never knew that Mickey could drive a zeppelin," I mused to the Doctor as we started moving slowly over London, "I don't suppose he could land us-" my head nearly snapped as the ladder suddenly was yanked down several feet and I would have lost my grip if the Doctor hadn't caught my forearm.

I looked at him silently as he pulled me towards him, "You always get into trouble," he informed me and I looked down to see Lumic climbing up the ladder, "Hold on," he reached into his pocket to take out his screwdriver, "Pete! Take this," the man looked up at us, catching the screwdriver as the Doctor dropped it down, "Hold the button down, press it against the rope," Pete looked puzzled, "Just do it!"

The man did what the Doctor told him, shouting, "Jackie Tyler...this is for you!" I heard the crack of splitting rope and suddenly there was a roar as Lumic was detached from the ladder falling back into Battersea just as an explosion spewed out. I leant against the Doctor as he steadied me against the ladder. This adventure had taken a lot out of me, I would be glad to return to the TARDIS after this.

"Don't worry," the Doctor murmured to me, "The power cell will have charged right up," I looked up at him, "As soon as I plug it into the console then we can go back to our universe," I nodded, "We couldn't have reverted them back to what they were,"

"I know," I told him, "I know," I smiled sadly at him, "Just makes me glad that we don't have any left in our universe," I looked over the whole of London, "However, it is a very good view," he chuckled nodding as we looked out, "Minus the various fires," I added, "I suppose this is what Rose saw when she decided to travel by zeppelin in World War Two,"

"At least there's no planes heading towards us!" Rose called down where she was hanging on, "And I'm not wearing the Union Jack!" I smiled at her and she grinned back at me. Something eased within me at her smile and I knew that we were going to be all right.

We were going to be all right.

"So you're saying that in fact, you're an alternate me from another universe that fell through a crack in time and space in your time machine," Annamarie was saying to me as we walked once again along the Thames towards the TARDIS, "And so you lot decided to come and spy on your alternate self leading to where we are right now?"

"No," I shook my head, "You're an alternate of me from another universe and we fell through a crack in time and space in the Doctor's time machine," we stopped outside of it and I faintly saw Rose and Pete talking together behind us. The Doctor was already back in the TARDIS setting the power cell to refuel us. Mickey had landed us in some zeppelin parking space only a few minutes from the TARDIS. And it was time to go, "It's called the TARDIS," I added, "Time and Relative Dimension in Space," she raised an eyebrow, "Bigger on the inside,"

"You're making this up," she accused me.

I shook my head, raising my hands, "No...I wouldn't do that, not to myself," I shrugged, "I worked in a shop before I met the Doctor and now I'm travelling the universe, all the way out to the stars and planets and forward and backwards in time. Never stopping and it's always like this. Never ending, not for me,"

She studied me, "I couldn't do that," she admitted, "Leave everything behind," I only nodded, "Suppose one of us has to stay on Earth, two of us in space might be a bit much and there's so many things that I'm interested in now. I actually have something to do with my life, and I can do it with my Dad," she smiled slightly, "I might get a job with Torchwood, you never know,"

I frowned at her, "What do you mean?" I inquired, watching her carefully, "What's Torchwood?"

She shrugged, "Nothing really," she shook her head, "Doesn't matter," I stared at her, uncomfortable, but I cleared my throat when Rose and Pete joined us, "You all right?" she asked her father who nodded sharply. I looked at Rose who looked even more uncomfortable than I was feeling, "What's going to happen now?" she asked him.

"We're going to close down the Lumic factories, all those Cybermen in storage," he answered her, "We're going to tell the authorities what happened and carry on the fight. Together," he held her hand tightly, "I'll be going...I need to make a couple of phone calls," he turned to go and Rose visibly choked back her words as she watched him leave. I knew then that she had told him what she was to him.

Annamarie looked at us both, "You're sisters," she remarked, and I nodded, "I think I understand," she studied Rose, "I would have liked a sister," she shook my sister's hand, "Watch this one..." she pointed at me, "Knowing myself, I can tell you, she asks too many questions and will do anything for family,"

"Mary Anne!" I looked over at the Doctor who was walking towards us, "We've only got five minutes of power, we have to go soon,"

"Doctor!" we all turned to look at Mickey who was walking over to us holding a large bundle, "Found your clothes," he told us, *Not a single crease on it," the Doctor grinned as he was handed his suit and I smiled when I saw that he had my boots as well.

"My suit!" the Doctor laughed slightly, "Good man," he looked at the blond haired man standing next to Mickey, "Now then, Jake, we've got to run but there's one more thing, Mrs Moore. Her real name is Angela Price. She's got a husband out there, and children. Find them, and tell them how she died saving the world," Jake nodded, understanding the request made of him and I knew that he would do that as soon as he could. "Off we go then,"

Mickey suddenly very uncomfortable, "You see...the thing is I'm staying," he announced to us, and we all stared, "You see it all balances out, because this world lost it's Rickey but there's me," he took a deep breath, "And there's still work to be done with all of those Cybermen still out there," I looked at the Doctor and I saw a faint recognition in his eyes, and I knew that the Doctor had known about what Mickey was going to do.

"But you can't stay," Rose argued.

"Rose, my nan's here, she's still alive," Mickey looked at her, "My old nan, do you remember her?" Rose only nodded, "She needs me,"

"And what about me, what if I need you?" she protested.

Mickey looked away over the water, "Yeah but the thing is Rose, you don't," he told her and I could see tears forming in her eyes, "We had something a long time ago but not anymore. You've got Alice and the Doctor, and you need them. You don't need me anymore,"

I could see that she was struggling to accept this, "But we can come back and see you, yeah?" she looked at the Doctor, "We can travel anywhere, we'll come back and visit,"

"We can't," the Doctor broke it to her gently, "I told you, travel between parallel worlds is impossible," he glanced at the TARDIS, "We only got here by accident, falling through a crack in time, when we leave, I've got to close it. We won't ever be able to come back to this universe. The walls will have closed," Mickey nodded, clearly accepting the inevitable outcome of the action that he was going to take. The Doctor held out his hand, and Mickey shook it, "Take Rose's phone, it has the code on it, get it out there, stop the factories," he grinned suddenly, "And good luck, Mickey the idiot,"

"Watch it," Mickey warned, smiling a little. The Doctor nodded before heading back inside the TARDIS. I turned to look at Mickey, "I know we've not gotten along for most of the time we've known each other, but I'm going to miss you," he said to me, before looking back at where Rose was standing by the TARDIS, her face streaming with tears, "Look after her, all right?"

"You don't have to do this," I told him, "Not if you don't want to," he looked at me silently, "I'll tell Mum about you, and about where you've gone. She'll make sure that the estate gets some story...just so there isn't anyone that calls the police or something like what happened last time," he nodded, "You're a good man," I held out my hand, "And I am so glad to have known you,"

He shook it, "Yeah, you too," he said and I smiled at him, "I suppose I'll always see you," he gestured to Annamarie, who was watching this all unfold, "I'll tell them everything as well, everything that we've seen and where we're from,"

"And remember us," I told him, "And I'll remember you in turn. It takes a special person to turn down the life that the Doctor offers. It's an even better person who can walk away with no regrets," I placed a hand on his shoulder, "Farewell Mickey Smith, maybe we'll catch you around one day," he nodded. I looked at Annamarie that gave a mock salute. I smiled before turning away to walk into the TARDIS, not looking back at the parallel world. I looked at the Doctor who was standing by the controls, "How long have we got?"

"Two minutes," he answered me, watching the screen, "And then I close the gap," I nodded, pulling out my diary and started to scribble inside the pages, "Rose will come back?" he asked.

"Of course she will," I sat down on the seats, "She won't leave, that's why she's so upset about everything," I watched as my sister ran into the TARDIS before heading into the long corridor, "Time to go, I think," he nodded, slamming the lever down and setting the blue box in flight, "Set a course for the Powell Estate," I told him quietly, "I think Rose will need to see Mum,"

"Of course," he agreed, "Are you all right?"

"Hmm," I nodded, distracted, "Braver than me...Mickey," I clarified, "He can leave all this behind, he can leave our universe, and he can remove himself completely from everything he knows," I tried to smile, "I don't think I could ever do that. Leave everything behind. I'm not really that type of person,"

"He did what was right for himself," he said calmly, "He made the decision, no one else could make it for him," I could only nod at that and felt the TARDIS settle down a little, "Home sweet home," I walked to the door, and saw that Mum was standing there, a smile on her face.

I walked towards her, hugging her as tight as I could, "This is a change," she remarked and I sighed, softly, "What happened to bring this along?"

"You're alive," Rose stepped out of the TARDIS, staring at Mum, "Oh, you're alive," Rose joined in on the hug and I smiled softly.

"Last time I checked," Mum replied to her, "What's the matter, what happened sweetheart?" she looked at the Doctor, "What's wrong, where did you go?"

"Far away," the Doctor reminisced, "That was...far away,"

"And Mickey?" she inquired, "Where did he go?"

"Home," was his only answer.

Later during the evening, I knocked lightly on the door of Rose's room in the TARDIS. "Come in," I heard the faint words of my sister, and I opened the door to see her curled up on her bed, staring at the picture of her and Mickey before we all went away in the blue box, "Ahh, it's you," she said to me, looking at me through slightly red eyes, "I wondered whether you were going to come and see me,"

"You're not doing well," I answered, sitting down at the other end of her bed, "I know that Mum's worried about you, you hardly said anything when we were round hers," I stared at her, "We're all worried about you," she scoffed slightly, "We are...I know it's going to be tough, and I'm so sorry for that. I'm sorry about Mickey, I never thought he would want to stay behind in the other world. I never thought he'd do that,"

"I didn't deserve him," she swallowed audibly, "I didn't deserve him or the time that we spent together," her shoulders visibly slumped, "I was...I mean, he said at the end that he knew that he was going to stay when we went our separate ways. Said that we had something a long time ago, but not anymore. That I would never leave this life...and I hate myself that he was right," she swiped at the tear that rolled down her face, "This life sticks to you, it lives you, you don't live it. It's like a drug that once you taste it, you can't ever pull yourself away from it. And I've lost Mickey because of it,"

"That's not your fault, he wanted to come with us," I told her, "And he made the choice to leave as well. That's his decision and he made it. You wouldn't have been able to change it, that wouldn't have been fair...not to him or anyone else. He wanted to leave,"

"I feel like I pushed him away," she admitted, "I thought that I had changed so much and he had remained the boy that he always was. But I was wrong...he changed as well, and I didn't notice until it was too late," she sniffed, "I suppose that I have to apologise to you as well," I frowned, "I haven't exactly been...friendly,"

"I hadn't noticed," I replied sarcastically, "But no...it was my fault to behind with," I placed my hand over hers, "I shouldn't have rode off to save Reinette," I told her, "And I shouldn't have been difficult with you. It's not your fault that things turned out the way that they are now. Everything happens for a reason, we can't change it now that it's happened. We can only move on,"

She placed her other hand on my cheek, "I am sorry though," she said, "I thought that I could...forget about it, you would be what you were...my little annoying sister. But we're not children anymore and we have been through so much now. You've grown and changed, and so have I, and we are not the people we once were. The universe has molded us into new people,"

"I think that's the price that we pay," I answered, "To see everything...to go further than anyone else, a thousand year before our birth and the same after our deaths. We can see everything, and so we offer our innocence and faith and belief up to the universe. And it takes it and changes us," she hugged me tightly, "As long as I've got you, then I am what I am, even if I have changed. And I always will be,"

"Friends again," she said and I nodded softly, "Thank you,"

"Having trouble?" I turned around to see a man sitting in a tree, lazily reading a book, "You do seem to have an awful lot of that going on, don't you?"

I frowned at him before realising that I was once again in that barren wasteland of a planet, rocks and dust exactly the same...apart from the tree that I was was now right next to. So I was trapped inside another dream then...how brilliantly unenthusiastic I felt at the moment, "You're not the same as the men before," I told him.

"Oh dear, they must have gotten lost," he didn't sound particularly upset about it and he scaled down the tree without much care before landing softly on the ground. He made it seem like it was a simple trick, "Good to meet you, Mary Anne," He was dressed in the clothes of the other two men, same Victorian attire, but he was dark haired, so dark that it looked almost blue.

"It's Alice to you," I retorted.

"Oh, you've chosen then," he opened his book, "Fantastic, it means that I'm not needed at all," I frowned at him confused, "Perhaps not then," he walked forward, everything that he seemed to do was lazy, but the bright grin that shone across his face seemed more mischievous than anything else, "Mary Anne is your name," I narrowed my eyes at him, "But if you want to be Alice then I am not going to stop you," he tilted his head, "Tick tock,"

I stepped back at that, "Care to..." I waved my hands, "Who are you? Where is this place?"

"You don't recognise it?" he inquired, "Fair enough, it hasn't happened to you yet," I frowned, "Oh...future events are so difficult to explain but you'll come here one day, and you'll regret that you ever did decide to come here," I stared at him, "Just might be that fatal mistake that you make, but of course there's the choice that you will make,"

"The other two said that to me as well," I murmured, "What choice, I don't know what you mean by that? I'm just a girl..."

"Travelling through time and space with the Last of the Time Lords and the girl who looked into the Time Vortex," he informed me, and I stiffened, "Except of course, she can't remember doing so...but you can," I breathed out, trying to force myself to relax at his words, "You can remember the burning that swarmed into your head, it's just a memory for you. A memory that you'll live with for the rest of your life,"

"How do I get out of here?" I bit out slowly, "Would you kindly tell me which way I ought to go from here?"

He grinned madly, "That depends, dearie, on where you want to get to," he said, "If you don't care very much where you will end up then it doesn't really matter which way you go. But you're not that type of person, are you? So very...determined,"

"Clearly not if I'm having these dreams," I snapped at him, "Except it doesn't really seem like a dream, does it? Who are you?"

"More or less," he sighed, "Mad...that is true. Clever and charming," I rolled my eyes, "I'm just in your head...fancy that. Little Mary Anne is going mad,"

"I am not mad,"

He frowned, "Didn't you tell your sister that you had to be mad to even entertain the thought of the Doctor?" he inquired, "So you are mad, and I'm mad, and all of us will always be mad. Otherwise..." He grinned catlike at me "We wouldn't be here," he then stepped forward and pushing me backwards.

I fell back into the darkness, falling, falling all around me. It felt like an age but then it could have only been five minutes for all I knew. And then it stopped so suddenly and so very quickly that I felt like I had no breath left in me. I stared up around me, recognising this as being back in the dark space where I had been months ago. I stared at my hands, pale against the darkness. Did that mean I was dead? Or was I just remembering it? There was a low growl behind me and I turned to see a bestial face, red and terrible rushing towards me with a roar in its throat and hatred in its eyes. I turned to run but felt myself fall over my feet. I looked back just as the face was going to reach me and-

I gasped violently as I bolted up in my bed, my heart thudding hard inside my ribcage and a faint scream ripping out of my throat. I was sweating terribly and I could feel the remnants of the fear that I had felt still coursing through me. I shuddered hard, placing my head in my hands, wanting the images of the nightmare to leave my mind and never return. The face that had looked out at me from the darkness had impressed itself behind my eyes. I would never forget a face like that again. It was unlike anything I had seen before. So full of anger and envy. Just thinking of it made me feel like I wanted to hide underneath the bed or in the wardrobe.

Groaning painfully as I looked at the clock, I found the once familiar leather jacket that was slung over the end of my bed, and shrugged it on, still smelling the rain of the storm on it. It was quarter to four in the morning but the one thing that I really had no desire to do was to try and go back to sleep. I would feel a lot better trying to do something, trying to distract myself. And that usually meant a cup to tea to try and warm myself up at the very least. The Doctor would probably be off doing something and actually just sitting in the console room felt like a very good idea. I left my room behind as swiftly as I could, making a swift detour to the kitchen for a cup of tea before heading into the main console room, the gentle humming relaxing me.

"Hello," I whispered lightly to the console, placing my tea down and turning the screen towards me, "Haven't really had time to talk to you on my own recently...it's not exactly been quiet around here all things considering," the symbols seemed to sparkle at me, the Gallifreyan language speeding past me, "I had a nightmare of something..." I swallowed hard, thinking of the face and those two men just twisting and confusing everything, "It was something that I hardly thought my mind could conjure up," there was a low hum, "Scared me awake, and I haven't been getting enough sleep anyway," I sighed, pressing the heel of my palm into my forehead, "The Doctor's out then, just us girls,"

The TARDIS gave a slight hum and I chuckled slightly, before sitting back in the seat by the console. I closed my eyes, breathing out slowly, allowing myself to unwind. I had to stop pondering over everything, I had to get past this, I had to try and start to live properly. There was no reason as to why I just couldn't do that. I allowed the world to still around me, to feel only the hum under my feet, the steady thrum of my heart deep in my chest, reminding me that I was still human, that I wasn't like the Cybermen and cut off from all emotions. I was still me.

I pressed a hand to the centre of my chest where there was that residual ache that was always there. But I was alive and breathing, not been dead for months...the only glimpses of the dark was in my dreams and even that was slowly receding, although, I faintly admitted, not tonight. Perhaps tonight had just been a leftover from leaving Mickey behind? Or even just purely because I had seen Mrs Moore electrocuted in front of me. I had to try and force my way past this. It really was no fun at all.

I looked up at the central column of the TARDIS, "I don't suppose you have any thoughts?" I put to the machine, "Why everything seems to happen like this," the hum only grew louder, "I see," I sipped at my tea which had now cooled to a decent temperature which I could drink easily, "I suppose you've been rattling around with the Doctor for seven hundred years, you must have seen it all," I tilted my head, "Any more of us resurrected humans around lately?" I tilted my head back, "I would guess not but then all this seems to be rather farfetched. I remember..." I sighed deeply, drinking more of the tea, "When you were in my head, all those months ago, you created yourself across the universe and everything beyond that. And then the Doctor regenerated," I waved a hand, "Into my man in the mirror...always wondered how he managed to get into the mirror to begin with. Who put him in there for me to see,"

The box remained silent and I rolled my eyes, I was speaking to a box that couldn't talk back to me. I was probably crazy to even consider the whole thing, but then since Satellite Five and the Bad Wolf, I knew that it was far more than a simple machine, she could think and feel and see. Just not answering back was not particularly constructive for her. Still it felt a lot better to vent my feeling to the box. Just listening really helped without anyone answering about and to be fair, I didn't want to trouble the Doctor about everything, especially when he was clearly thinking about something else, and the relationship I had with Rose at the moment was fragile. I didn't need to trouble her really. Not at the moment.

"Everyone seems to expect me to fall apart at the merest thing," I choked out to the box, "I know Rose does and I see it in my mother as well," I pressed my free hand to my eyes, "People aren't supposed to be returned from the dead but I am here. The Doctor seems to think that I am fine...I've got problems but ultimately...I'll be fine," I leaned forward, "Or does he really think that? I don't seem to know really. Couldn't tell with him before he changed, can't tell even now. He could be extremely worried and I wouldn't be able to tell...that's boys for you. Or whatever we are to each other," boyfriend was far too weird to contemplate, "Those two men in the dream told me that I would lose more than I thought...and I have the horrible feeling that it's going to happen soon," I tried to smile but failed, "The universe is not kind...and it will extract a price for what happened to me. But I bet you already knew that,"

There was a scratch at the front door and I looked over to see the Doctor walk into the room with plastic tubing around his neck. He stopped when he saw me, before smiling, "Just popped out to get a few things from a market in Marrakesh, thirtieth century. Massive market, just what I need for fixing the rotor," he eyed the tubing, "Might need a bit more, woman on the stall was telling me that it shrank quite a bit," he looked at me with a frown on his face, "You sure you're all right, because you can always tell me, you know?"

I opened my mouth, the things flooding through my mind about the different things that I was worried about, about myself, about the world, and the face in my dreams. Everything that I was and could be and wasn't all seeking to come together in such confusion and possibility. I could tell him everything that was on my mind and it could all be all right and everything could go back to the way that they could be. And maybe that hollow ache inside my chest could dissipate and finally leave me alone. It would be all right.

But my mouth moved before I had time to think, "No...everything's fine," I said to him, the thoughts sticking in my throat, "Just fine,"

So do tell me what you think? About the chapter, about my writing and what you think might happen to our characters. Because clearly something is not exactly tip top about everything at the moment. Smiley face people...it's going to get deeper than that.

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skidney: Oh good. Thank you so much :D

NicoleR85: I'm glad you do like the last chapter. Age of Steel happens to be one of my favourite episodes. Thanks for the review! :D

sailormajinmoon: I'd love to hear your theory on why she was incompatible, see if yours matches up to mine. Or if it's a lot better then I might change my idea, because that seems to happen quite a bit with me. Thank you for reviewing though! :D

Aka-Baka Hoshi: Wow! What a long review. Thank you for that. I loved reading it all through. I loved hearing about your thoughts about Rose and Mickey and I do sort of agree with them. Series One Rose had a lovely progression as a person from shop girl to saviour of the universe and I really liked that. I did feel when she got to the end of Series 4 that her story had finished. And (if I do Series 4) I do try and hope to change that around a bit in this series. I'm glad you like the story though, I never really thought people would read it. Or send lovely reviews like yours. :D

Next Time: The Idiot's Lantern.

"You have got to do something," I said to the Doctor impatiently, and he looked around the console with an affected confused look on his face, "You have got to do something to make Rose happier,"

"Are you happy?" He suddenly asked and I tilted my head at him, not really understanding what he was asking of me. It was such a sudden shift in the conversation, "You could be having a life...a simple normal human life. Something that I could never be able to give you,"

"No...who are you?" He said and I frowned, "Everything that you are...what are you? You've got to make the decision, everything hinges on it, everything depends upon it,"

"It's just a dream," I said to him, "Nothing to worry about...nothing at all,"

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