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(Missing Scene: S6 E7)

The Doctor and Rory seeking help in rescuring Amy and her baby. Lady Storyteller as something to say on that matter.

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The oncoming Storm. What a fitting name. The atmosphere in the TARDIS truly seemed to crackle with electricy, just like before an enormous thunderstorm. The Landing-Drum signalized their materialization and the Doctor straightened his bowtie before he stepped out of the door. "Come along, Rory." The first few words since they had dropped of Jenny and that Sillurian woman.
The place looked surprisingly normal, exactly like he always had imagined southern Wales or Ireland with his green hills, high cliffs and blue sea, if it weren't for the two suns in the sky. They've landed next to a low long wall of old stones with a wooden gate in it. From the gate a small path lead up to the hillside. A small cottage with a white painted door and windows crouched itself on the top of it. It was old and skew from the wind and seemed very cozy with that tree at one side. He was sure Amy would like it.
Why couldn't the Doctor bring them to a Plantet like this one for once?
Peaceful and quiet. Maybe after all this, they could come back, search themselves an little cottage like this and just enjoy the peace. Just he, Amy and their baby. Because he is going save them, there is was no other possibility.

„Where are we?"
The Doctor turned with widespread arms. „This is the home of the most dangerous creature in the Universe. And we're going to ask her for help."
"Her? The most dangerous creature in the Universe is a woman?"
The Doctor shot him a glare bevore straightening his bowtie and started walking again. "Of course."
Rory thought about the women in his life, Professor River Song, the Head M.D at the Hospital, Lady Storyteller, Amy… and the Doctor was right. "Of course."

Wait. The most dangerous creature lives in a cottage. On a planet with twin suns. And is a Woman.
"We are visiting Tella, are we?"
The Timelord stopped and turned his head. "Yes. Yes we do." Then he started walking again.

Rory nodded. Good. This was perfect. With Tella's help there was absolutely no change for them to lose. Together, the two Timelords were unstoppable after all. Then he suddenly blinked. That tree…

"Doctor? Is this tree silver?"
"Of cause it is not. There's nothing such as silver trees. Not anymore."
"Not anymore?"
He cleared his throat. " The…. The Trees of Gallifrey. They had been silver. Once."
Rory gulped. "Well, it's Tella's tree. And it really seems to be silver."
It actually was. Well the leaves, the trunk was more a dark chopper-brownish.
With two long steps the Doctor strided carefully under the tree. His hand lingered over the bark not daring to touch it. "That's impossible."

"That is a strong word coming from a Timelord." They both turned at the sound of the familiar voice.
"Tella!"
The short but graceful Timelady smiled as she bowed, her hands crossed at the wrists, palms up, as if she's presenting something , but her gaze never left them. "Luck and precious Times, Doctor. Roderick." She straightened her back . "And the Name is Lady Storyteller. It is beautiful, is it not? I needed 25 Decades to get it this strong."
The Doctor stroked carefully the delicate Leaves above him. "It's amazing!" Suddenly he froze. "Wait, 250 Years? Ehem, I didn't…."
"We have just met each other last week, deary. And you have never made an appointment when you going to visit me. So please calm down and come inside, I am sure the Tea is ready until now."
Rory raised his Eyebrows. "You have prepared Tea. For us."
"Of course. It would be very impropriate, if not. You have of course take it for yourself. What would poor Amelia think, another woman serving her husband? Please, come inside, there are so many things in my collection I have to show you!"
The Doctor fiddled with his hands and clapped them together. "Right…. And I really love to see them. But not today."

The only sign of her disappointment was the vanishing of that spark in her eyes, her smile was as polite as always. "Of course. You never visit."
The Doctor ignored it. "We need your help finding Amy."
She raised her eyebrow. "You've lost her? I told you that's going to happen if you're always wandering off, leaving them on their own on some strange planet."
Rory scoffed. They had no time for that. "We didn't lost her. She was abducted, with our baby!"
Now they had her attention.
"How I may be of assistance."
Those deep old eyes, knowing and seeing… she shrank back and closed them. Rory gulped. The most dangerous creature in the Universe, indeed.
"We… we're gathering some friends for a team to save her," he carefully tried.

"You mean you're collecting an army."
Her voice was cold and empty, and Rory knew this exact moment that they'd lost. She opened her eyes. "You are expecting me to fight."
The Doctor shook his head. "It's not exactly an army, it's a rescue team. Look, we're going in, taking her and the child and are off and out. We just need you for backup, if something goes wrong."
There was a bitter sparkle in her eyes. "Everything is going to go wrong. It is Demons Run after all. I am sorry Roderick, I caught a glimpse of your timeline again. I have no excuse for being so rude."
Huh? She saw … his timeline? Can you actually do that? "No… problem?"

Then he registered what she had said before. "What do you mean, everything is going to go wrong?"
She steepled her hands over her belly in her tyical pose when explainig something. "Demons Run is a fixed Point in Time. You cannot change what is going to happen. You canot change who is gone be there. And I never was and never will be there."

The Doctor's gaze intensified. "That's the exact point, Tella. Because we are going to change this, and I need you to help me to keep the Time together."
"You do not get it. There is nothing to change. It is a fix point because it is the start of a paradox which had already ended. If you change this Doctor, you will die."
Rory wasn't even angry, just disgusted by this person. After all they've been through? " Those stupid ime rules, again? This is Amy, Tella! Your friend! She needs you. We need you! You've broken the rules before, dammit! Please!"

"Rory," she said with this disgusting reasoning voice, "this is not about the Rules, it is about the Doctors life. I cannot change a self fulfilling paradox."
"Oh, you can, you just don't want to," growled the Doctor.
"Fine. I do not want to. It would alter time itself too much."

"Why, because you have vowed it ages ago on an old dusty planet full of old dusty Bureaucrats, whose time is long over? I need you. Amy needs you, her child needs you!"
"It has already happened, Doctor. You can not change your own past."
"Oh! So the oh so great and mighty and genius Timelady is afraid of the Reapers!"
Tellas lips went thin. "Stop being so emotional, Doctor."

The Doctor laughed and rose one finger. "Why. So I'll become a cold monstrous creature sitting like a good up there in the old, long forgotten throne rooms, while my friends and allies die like flies, crying for my help which never will come? Until no one's left and I'm dying alone like them? I don't think so!"
For a second Tella's mouth twitched. "I am not a monster. I am choosing simply the most logical decision. And you have confused something, after all you deemed yourself god-like enough to decide over the life of billions as you burned Gallifrey. So do not dare to call me cold."
"Oh, Tella. Tella, Tella, Tella! I did exactly the same back then, the most logical decision. In the name of peace and sanity."

Rory froze. He never quite trusted the Doctor. He always suspected he had such a dark side since the Dreamlord, sicne hearing about Tellas gudge against him. But now? Now this ugly little man stood before him and taunted the old Timelady, just like it had taunted the three of them in that dreamworld. This was not the Doctor.

Tellas face was dignified as ever, but her hand wandered to her golden necklace. "In the name of peace, you said that before. You were right, of course, it was the only way to finish it all. But was it equitable, was it just?"
"I was the only one able to do it."
"Because you were able to do it. And so you have also the right to save Amy, to break time in pieces, because you are able to do it. You have the right to punish all those people for their wrongdoings, because you are able t do it? Doctor, you will die!"

"They kidnapped Amy! They stole a child! Tella, that's the cruelest crime possibly! They must be Punished!"
"Oh, it is indeed. The most terrible crime committable, I agree. And you are the one punishing them, because you are able to do it. And if you are finished with them, whose next? Because there is a whole universe full off dirt and scrum, and you are the one able to do it. To find them, to punish them. There is no one to stop you, after all! And one day, you will find the darkest, most unstoppable creature in the universe and there is only you to stop him. And so you will step into your TARDIS and you will breaking the last law of time, because you are able to do it. And then you will confront this terrible creature, the thing you hate the most. Because who could be able to stop the great Prosecutor of the Universe."
The Doctor froze. Tella took a step closer. "It is a long, dark road before you. You should turn, or you will burn with Gallifrey as the keeper of the Matrix after your lost trial."

She turned to Rory. "You need to go. You have to save Amy."
Rory frowned. "But you just said that everything goes wrong!"
"I never said you cannot save Amy." She smiled. "I am sorry Rory, truly sorry. But there is nothing I can and will do, or the Doctor is going to die. Dying a long time ago. Aparently he is too stupid or ignorant to realize his impact, or that one of his death. Which will Happen when I come with you. Time is going to fall apart, if I take one step onto Demons Run. I am so sorry, Rory. You think I am this useless of a... of a friend. I am not and you will understand in time. I help you by staying here. There is nothing I can do, beside this."

"Of course there isn't ," the Doctor scoffed, "she's a true Timelady after all. We're finished."
"So it seems. Good luck, Rory. Lord Regent Doctor." She nodded, but the Doctor had already turned and was walking down the small path. "Rory!"
Rory nodded awkward before he ran down the hill to follow the Timelord.
He wasn't even angry anymore at her. Not after this fight, even if he wasn't able to understand the half of it.

"I hope for the sake of the universe that Demons Run teaches you your lesson. The Valeyard is not welcome in this house!"
The Doctor flinched but continued. For a second Rory was tempted to ask was this strange Valeyard-thing was, but then he saw the Doctors face and decided against it. They had more important things to do.


AN: So here we have a missing scene from A good man goes to war. It is actually Tellas birth-piece. It's one of my favorite Episodes and after rewatching The trials of a Timelord with the sixth this just blew my mind. The eleventh is so dark, especially in A good man goes to war, I just had to write a piece were somebody other than River showing him in what/whom he's actually turning into. And the only ones knowing about the Valeyard were Six's companions or the Timelords. So Tella was born. And then of cause there was the Dreamlord which just send me dancing through the room after I was able to ignore the shivers of fear.

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