The only ones left were therefore Clara and Danny Pink. Ben walked towards them.
"What was he talking about ?" He asked the young woman.
"Oh !" She said. "Hello. You're his friend, right ? The one who insisted to come."
"Ben." he confirmed.
"Clara Oswald, nice to meet you. And this is my boyfriend Danny Pink."
"What was he talking about, then."
"Well..." she hesitated. "This is a dark story. The Doctor was deeply in love with the first Princess. From what I understood, their love was a secret, and their child's birth quite caused the death of this planet. The Princess decided to stay, and the rest of the family took off. But apparently, one of them, a man who calls himself the Puppeteer, came back and... and gave a child to the Princess. Against her will. Your friend descends from that child."
Ben couldn't find anything to say.
"And that's why he's refusing to help ?" Danny intervened with an obvious disdain.
"How would you react, Danny. The Puppeteer tried to destroy everything that mattered in the Doctor's life. He made him lose his place, fail his mission, he took the only woman he ever loved away from him and he hurt her, and most of all, he made sure his baby was put alive between for walls, without, food, drink or contact. He can't forgive, and through this man he has to help, he sees both his only love he couldn't protect, and his sworn enemy."
Ben, not knowing what to think, let himself fall in an armchair.
