Narvin often wondered how his sister talked him into things. Rose talked him into coming which he knew was probably a good idea. What was a minor annoyance is he had to leave his TARDIS at the bar in case something drastic happened while they were away and Braxiatel needed it. So he ended up with both his sister and the Doctor in the Doctor's TARDIS who decided before they ran headlong into danger actually do need to sleep sometimes after all. They just wanted to get out of phase with Brax first in case Benny took a turn for the worse and needed the medicine she claims she could make with this element. Narvin knew that Rose was putting on a brave face. It had to be bad if she actually needed the amount of lindos she'd collected.

He ideally wondered as he lay back on the bed in the room the TARDIS had made him if he could talk them into swinging around to the fifty first century where Leela was watching over Romana. Probably not. Besides, Romana would insist on getting back to Braxiatel to initiate phase two of the plan. He was in perfect agreement with Rose that they really should wait for Bernice before putting any kind of pressure on Brax. He needed to be with his mate right now. Besides the Doctor would be anxious, even if he would never admit to it, to find his youngest son.

He tried to get some sleep but Narvin was having no luck getting any. Besides he didn't really need to sleep. But he really, really didn't want to go anywhere outside of this room because this TARDIS has decided to be nice to him and put extra shielding in this room so he didn't have to concentrate very hard on not knowing what those two were getting up to together. He loved his sister. She was very much like all twins, a part of him, but he really really didn't want to think about the Doctor and Rose doing anything alone together other than playing a very bland and boring game of chess. Alas the down sides of the twin bond. It also made him act like an overzealous chaperone who would react if someone so much as looked at his sister funny.

Narvin really didn't want to act that way towards the Doctor. He knew how bad his sister had always had it for him and it didn't go away with time apart, dating other people, nor distance between them. He was actually glad they were finally together.

It was just a visceral reaction he had. He guessed it was the lingering abandonment he felt from when they were children. The Doctor wasn't just Rose's friend, he was his too. Then they entered different academies, and they heard nothing from him. That had hurt a lot because they may have been time lords but they were also gallifreyan wolves and gallifreyan wolves are all about the pack and family just like earth wolves are. The Doctor had very much been a part of his pack, and a littermate to him. That's not a wound to get over lightly.

Even Braxitel was pack to him, one of the older siblings of a pack that looked after the foolish cubs while playing and getting into trouble. They had their differences over the years, but in a lot of ways he still was one of his pack and had continued to watch over him and Rose as foolish cubs.

It was one of the things he liked about Leela. Leela may not have been a dahrama, but she understood hunting and pack in ways he never believed a human could. She even got the complex relationship between the members of his pack, and how Braxiatel fits in. That was something that Romana as a species of savanna cat shifter, never actually got. She was under the impression they hated each other when nothing could be farther from the truth. It was just completed. Narvin and Brax just didn't always agree on everything is all, and well dahramas tend to sort out their differences through fights, which to the outside eye can seem brutal but in reality the wolves in question rarely get seriously hurt over. Narvin as a younger male of the pack is also expected to test the authority and boundaries of the older and more experienced males of a pack to establish pecking order anyway. He supposed that's another reason why him and the Doctor keeps getting into fights right now. The Doctor is only just rejoining their pack so it's also natural they would test each other to establish who went were in the hierarchy. With yet another joining their pack he was kind of glad it was something the females would rarely bother with unless they where after the same male, so hopefully Bernice would slot right in without much confusion.

Narvin was actually starting to think he could drift off to sleep when suddenly his bed turned into a giant pillow monster that was trying to eat him. "Not again!" He was in the maw of the 'beast' and smacking its mouth from the inside to no avail. "I am going to kill Braxitel next time I see him!"

He made a perfect imitation of Brax's voice and cadence, "What harm could it possibly do to tell the children scary stories before bed."

Narvin yelled normally this time, "Only give my sister nightmares for the rest of her life about her brother being eaten by a giant pillow! That's what! And she always does accidental magic when she has nightmares!"

There was nothing for it but to wait. Any moment now. Suddenly the monster's jaws were prised open by the giant furry arms of a teddy, but not just any teddy; it was Rose's childhood teddy. The teddy was grey in colour but was not a bear but a wolf, but otherwise looked like a typical teddy bear. Just with a few sewn up patches and missing an eye. The biggest difference though, this one was eight feet tall and wielded a sword.

Knowing the drill Narvin dived out of the pillow monster's mouth and managed to execute a perfect duck and roll landing, then managed to spring to his feet behind the teddy wolf. Just as he did it swung it's sword and cut the giant pillow in two. He was about to sigh in relief because this is normally when it ends only for a projectile bean bag to hit the giant plushie wolf and it lit up showing stuffing rather than the typical skeleton shown when hit by a Dalek ray.

It was then that Narvin realised the room had changed, it looked like he was in a Lego version of Arcadia. There were Lego people running around frantically and Dalek action figures that shot miniature bean bags instead of death rays. Not knowing what else to do he grabbed the giant sword that belonged to his fallen comrade and yelled, "You killed Pookie! Now you die!" and ran at the Dalek who shot the teddy wolf and swung the sword at it, cleaving it in two.

He could see the exit to his room still there in the Lego Arcadian landscape. Narvin tried turning invisible to get past the toy Daleks but like most of his sisters accidental creations they could still sense him. One shot actually hit him and he was relieved that it really wasn't anything other than a beanbag. Deadly to toys, but not him apparently. So he took the most fun course of action and made a run for the door and swung the sword at all the Daleks he could find along the way, his sword singing as he went.

No really, it was actually singing, "I'm gonna hit you, I'm gonna stab you, and soon you will be cut in two!" Over and over again.

Eventually Narvin made it out of the door and slammed it shut, grateful the rest of the TARDIS appeared to be normal. Grumbling he made his way to the Doctor and Rose's room, and glad to find them with at least enough clothes on to cover the parts he didn't want to see. He jabbed the still singing sword down between the pair of them, waking the two of them up. "You two need to stop sharing nightmares because they morph into the really, really absurd."

Rose looked at the sword that had it's singing muffled as it stuck out of the mattress and groaned. "You just had to live out that nightmare didn't you?"

"Lego gallifreyan city, bean bag firing Dalek action figures, singing swords and all," Narvin confirmed.

"At least having nightmares from the end of the time war is reasonable," the Doctor protested then added in a teasing tone to Rose, "I can't believe you still have nightmares about the pillow monster."

"Who said nightmares had to be reasonable!" she shot back.

Narvin saw something on the nightstand and picked it up, "Well hello Pookie my fallen friend! It's good to see you actually made it through the time war!"

"Oh shut up. You obviously left him with me as a human baby on Earth," Rose protested.

"I'm not complaining. I'm just glad Braxiatel decided to solve his mistake by giving him to you in the first place and saying how he will always protect from nightmares. Although probably not in the way that manifested, I'm at least grateful to have a rescuer from your nightmares."

Rose groaned into her pillow, then threw it at her brother. "Shut up."

Instead the normally serious to a fault time lord lay down on the floor and mock wrestled with the pillow. "Oh no! It's going to eat me! Pookie help! Rescue me!"

The forgotten sword started singing a muffled rendition of the song 'Rescue Me' and the Doctor couldn't help it, the dam broke and he couldn't stop laughing. He'd missed this. The way the two twins would tease each other. He'd met Narvin a handful of times as a CIA agent since, but he was always so much more serious without his sister around getting him to relax. The silly side of Narvin was a rarity to see and was glad he was relaxing around him enough to show it.

Rose however shifted and her fur bristled from the embarrassed anger. She leaped at Narvin who in turn shifted in record time and the two dahrama wolves rolled around on the floor in a play fight. Rose eventually pinned her brother, her teeth lightly grazing his throat to signify victory. He pushed her off with a whimper and lay down in a huff on the floor. To show there were no hard feelings Rose affectionately nuzzled the side of his face then lay down beside him. Figuring if you can't beat them join them, the Doctor also transformed into his dahrama form and lay down beside the two. The three of them fell asleep in a huddle like they were still cubs but didn't have any more nightmares for the rest of the night.

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Just a silly little interlude chapter because it really don't fit with the next one. The next chapter should be a long one so may take a while.

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