A/N: Surprise! I told you that it was going to be a big week! Here is the final part of this episode for all you lovely people! Enjoy!
The Doctor was still cleaning Kari's head when Clara finally calmed down. Sort of. "What do you keep in here?" The woman shouted at him angrily. "Why have you got zombie creatures? Good guys do not have zombie creatures. Rule one, basic story telling." She said, making sure to whack the Doctor on the arm again just for good measure.
"Not in front of the guests." He replied, pointing to the two men who were standing there watching the whole fiasco.
Clara stopped and looked at them. "Who are they?"
"Friends." The Doctor said, not very convincingly as he carefully wrapped an arm around Kari. "Well, people who aren't trying to kill us, so I don't need punching again." He said, before looking at Kari. "Or a whack around the head." She simply raised her eyebrow at him, knowing that she would hit him if she wanted to.
"All right, all right. Look, a deal's a deal." Gregor said, clearly not wanting to get involved in the little domestic that was brewing between the Doctor and Clara. "You got the girls back. Now cancel the self-destruct."
Kari wanted to laugh, she really wanted to laugh, because she knew what was coming. "Ah… Ah, you know, I've got to tell you, I won't be needing you in my quiz team." The Doctor told him, causing Gregor to look at him in confusion. "There is no self-destruct. Hey? Hey? Hey? Had you going though, boys, didn't it? I just wiggled a few buttons. Yeah, the old wiggly button trick. And the face. You've got to do the face." The Doctor said, while Kari just rolled her eyes. "'Save them or we all die'. I thought I rushed it a bit, but…"
"So you're telling us we're safe?" Tricky asked, cutting the Doctor off.
The Doctor quickly glanced over at Kari, who was checking that Clara was all right now that he had let her go. There was a grim look on her face, and he knew it was bad. "Ish. Apart from the monsters and the TARDIS reinventing the architecture every five minuets." He admitted, causing both the lads to let out a sigh. "Guys, don't worry. The countdown's a fake. Look, just give me a second. I'll turn it off." He told them, before rushing to a different panel on the console. "I only made it look as though the engine was actually exploding."
"Did you, Doctor? Did you really?" Kari asked him, now standing next to him as he looked at the screen.
After a few more flicks of several switches, the engine status appeared on the screen, telling him that it really was overloading, and that something was seriously wrong with the Eye of Harmony. "Ah. That's not good. Okay, don't panic. Or maybe panic." He told them, picking the broken monitor up and looking at it before dropping it back down.
Now that Clara had managed to calm down, thanks to a few promises from Kari to make the Doctor's life a living hell for a while, she was ready to get involved. "Something you want to share with the rest of us?" She asked him after clearing her throat a little.
"It appears the engine is damaged. We're in trouble. Proper trouble." The Doctor told her, wrapping his arm around Kari once more and pulling her back up against his chest. "It needs fixing or we're toast." He kissed Kari's hair, before rushing down the metal stairs where he stopped in front of the panelled wall.
"So now would be a good time to use that big friendly button, right?" Clara asked, as everyone, including herself, charged after the Doctor.
Kari couldn't help but take a quick look at her hand, the letters on her palm getting clearer. "Yes. Sorry, I should have one built in." He told them, before using his sonic screwdriver on one of the hexagonal panels on the wall.
"Where are we going?" Tricky asked, knowing that there was no way they were going to get out until they had managed to fix the engines. He knew that the machine was alive, that there was more to it than what you could see.
"Detour." The Doctor and Kari said at the same time, causing them both to smile. "The centre of the TARDIS." Gregor seemed a little freaked out that they had both spoken the same thing at the same time, but Clara couldn't help but smile at them herself.
The Doctor was the first to go through, before helping Kari down into another corridor, one that had nothing but an eerie green glow around it. Once she was safely in the corridor, and the Doctor had gently placed a kiss on her head near to where the cut was, he helped Clara, who was followed by Gregor and Tricky.
Kari was sticking close to the Doctor, because there was no way that she wanted to get lost down there, and she wasn't going to let him out of her sight. She followed him as he led everyone through the corridors, his sonic screwdriver out in front of him, scanning away as they went.
That was when she saw something flash past at the end of the corridor. It seemed like she wasn't the only one who had seen it. "Shush. Something's in here." Clara told them all, causing them to stop.
"Those things, they've followed us." Tricky was curious, and he was asking all of the tight questions.
"Doctor, what are they? What aren't you telling me?" Clara asked him seriously. She already knew that Kari knew exactly what was going on and what those things were, but no one was telling her anything. She hated being out of the loop, she just wanted to know the truth.
The Doctor swallowed nervously. "Trust me, some things you don't want to know."
"He's right, Clara. Just leave it for now, yeah? Let's focus on getting that engine sorted and getting the hell out of here." Kari added, before something made a noise behind them.
"They're on the move again." Gregor said, before brushing past the Doctor.
The Doctor turned on his sonic and followed behind them, grabbing Kari's hand and taking her with him. "Run. Move, move!" He shouted, not realising that they had left Clara behind and that she had run in a different direction to them.
"Doctor! Doctor, wait!" Kari cried, tugging at his arm, getting him to stop. "We've lost Clara, and this whole place is flooded with time." The Doctor's face turned into worry. "Yeah, you should worry." Kari told him, before dragging him back with her to go and find the missing woman.
They moved as quickly as they could, until they could hear Clara's voice. "Doctor, what's going on? Say something." She said, just as they came around the corner.
"Clara, stop. Don't touch it." The Doctor told her, as Kari reached out her hand to pull the woman back. "There's a rupture in time somewhere on board the ship. A small tear in the fabric of the continuum. It must have happened when the TARDIS was pulled in by the salvage vessel. The TARDIS is leaking." He explained to her, hoping that she would understand.
"Leaking what?" Clara asked, as she let Kari lead her away from the image of the Doctor that she had been speaking to.
"The past. You and Kari and me. Everything we've done, everything we've said. Recent history. It's not real It's a memory." The Doctor explained to her.
"Which isn't a great thing for me, because I haven't been there yet." Kari grumbled as they came down another corridor, only to find one of the creatures before them, its eyes glowing an angry red.
"What about this?" Clara asked them both, not knowing if it was real or not.
The Doctor quickly grabbed a hold of Kari's free hand once more. "If you're giving me the option, I'd say this one's real." Without warning, the red eyed monster was barrelling towards them, causing them to run as quickly as they could. "She's right onto us." He said, the thing right behind them.
"Doctor!" Kari shouted, wishing that he hadn't said that.
"She?" Clara asked, wondering how the Doctor knew it was a she.
Kari couldn't help but let out a groan, she just knew things were going to go from bad to worse. "Clara, seriously, now really is not the time. Come on, we have to move." She called, before the Doctor tugged on her hand, making her run, which meant she pulled on Clara's hand and forced her to run as well.
They managed to find somewhere to hide at a crossway, the Doctor making sure that Kari was safely behind him and pressed against the wall. "You're like one of those guys who can't go out with a girl unless his mother approves." An image of Clara said, walking past them at the end of the corridor.
"It's important to me you get along." The voice of the Doctor echoed through the place. "I can leave you two alone together."
Lucky for them, the creature had decided to follow the echo instead, meaning that they were safe, for the moment. It was completely silent, until they heard a clanging noise followed by a few bangs and some creaking. "What's that noise?" Clara asked, asked they all looked up at the ceiling of the corridor.
"We're right under the primary fuel cells." The Doctor told her, trying his best not to sound as worried as he really was.
However, Clara was now pretty good at picking up when the Doctor was trying to hide something. "So… so… so what?"
"So… so… Well the fuels spilled out, so the rods will be exposed. Means they'll cool…"
"Start to warp." Kari and Clara both said at the same time, all of their gazes still fixed on the ceiling.
The Doctor nodded a little. "Start to warp. Maybe even…"
"No, you don't say it. Don't you dare say it." Clara ordered, having a very good idea of what the Doctor was going to say next.
Instead, it was Kari who answered her. "Maybe even break apart. In fact…" A second later and a rod shot out of the wall, taking them all by surprise, and causing the Doctor to yank Kari far behind him. "Uh, run?" She suggested, knowing that it was their only option.
"I'm liking how you're thinking." The Doctor said, before they all turned and ran back, just as more rods started flying out of one side of the wall, embedding into the other side. They had to duck a few times, and Clara let out a few screams at some of the close calls they had.
Suddenly, one sprung out right in front of them, and then they heard a man screaming in agony. Kari's eyes widened as she remembered what had just happened. "I'm an android. Cut me." They heard Tricky call as they made it to where he was pinned to the wall, one of the rods through his shoulder and stopping him from moving.
Clara seemed pleased to see that they were both there, and both alive. "You made it through." She exclaimed, before spotting the trouble that Tricky was in.
"What's the matter with you?" Tricky asked Gregor, who had his laser cutter out, but was doing nothing with it. "Why won't you cut me?"
The Doctor and Kari both looked at Gregor, before the Doctor tried to help get the rod out. "Tell him." The Doctor ordered, knowing that it was time for Tricky to know the truth.
"Tell me what?" Tricky asked through all his pain.
Kari just glared at Gregor while the Doctor spoke to him. "You can't, can you. You're a coward. You won't save him, but you're scared to tell him why." The Doctor said,
Tricky was just getting more and more confused now. "What's he going on about?"
"Robots don't need blast suits." Kari told the man gently, knowing that he was scared and actually in some form of pain, he just didn't know it. "They don't need respirators. They don't get frightened of monsters in the dark."
"What are they going on about?"
The Doctor whipped out his screwdriver and scanned the man's eyes, before looking at the results on it. "Two bionic eyes and a synthetic voice box. But you, my friend, are human. Flesh and blood." The Doctor assured the man, causing a shock to him.
"It was a joke." Gregor said calmly, making Kari hate the man even more. He still had the circuit in his bag, he hadn't cared when Bram had been killed, and he really didn't seem to care about what he had done to Tricky.
"What?"
Gregor knew he had to come clean and tell the truth now. "It was just a stupid joke. We did it to relieve the boredom."
Even the Doctor was utterly disgusted now. "Well, it was very funny." He spat at Gregor, before turning to Tricky. "They lied to you. Changed your identity just to provide some in-flight entertainment." Kari quickly put a hand on the Doctor's arm, hoping to calm him down a little. He was getting angry, and an angry Doctor was never good.
"I'm sorry. You're human, Tricky."
"Cut the metal." The Doctor ordered. "Cut the metal! Go!" He shouted, before Kari pulled him away a little.
"Hey, come on, calm down." She said to him, while Gregor finally began to cut at the metal rod. "I was ready to throttle him for what he has done, not just to Tricky, but to Bram as well. He still has that circuit in his bag, and our Sexy really isn't happy with that." She reminded him.
The Doctor looked at her, and he could see that she wasn't happy either, there was still a hint of that golden glow in her eyes. "How can he do that to someone, for fun?" He asked her, his rage not entirely gone just yet.
"I know, Doctor. And do you know what, it gets even worse." Kari informed him, knowing that soon enough, Gregor was going to confess even more than Tricky just being an android. "But right now, we have other things to worry about. Right now, we have an exploding engine. You know exactly what those creatures are, we both do. We have to do something about that, we have to get to the Eye of Harmony."
He nodded at her, trusting that she had every confidence in him, and that she was ready to follow him, knowing what was to come. The Doctor quickly pulled her towards him and hugged her tightly. She was always able to calm him down.
"Right, we going then?" Gregor asked, having finally freed Tricky from the pole that had impaled him.
The Doctor was still stewing, so they made their way to the Eye of Harmony in utter silence. Tricky was angry with Gregor, as was the Doctor and Kari, while Clara was still annoyed with the Doctor and Kari for keeping things from her.
"Where are we?" Gregor finally asked, as the Doctor looked through a round window. All that could be seen inside was an orange glow.
"Power source." He replied, before turning around and looking at the group. "Right, you lot, wait here." He basically ordered them. "I'll check it's safe. We can only survive for a minute or two in there."
"Er, what happens if we stay longer?" Clara asked, making Kari let out a sigh and put her head in her hands.
The Doctor had noticed Kari's reaction, and didn't really want to tell Clara what would happen, but he also knew that the woman wouldn't let him go until he had told her. "Our cells will liquefy and our skin will start to burn."
Clearly that wasn't the answer that Clara wanted to hear. "I always feel so good after we've spoke."
"Marvellous. Keep this door shut." The Doctor told Kari and Clara, before going to open it.
But he was stopped, when Kari put her hand on his arm, getting his attention. "Be careful, okay?" She whispered to him. "Don't hang around in there, just go check the other side and then come back. No stopping to look at the scene. Go it?" She knew what he was like, she knew he could easily get distracted, even during a crisis.
He smiled at her a little, before reaching down and lightly pressing his lips against hers. "I promise. I'll be quick." He told her, before opening the door and rushing through, leaving her to shut it behind him.
"Yeah, you better, mister. Or I swear, you will regret it." She mumbled, watching as he along the floating walkway.
"Time's angel. Protector." The device Gregor was holding said as he pointed it at Kari. "Lancashire. Sass." It added when it was pointed at Clara.
"Intelligent sensor." Gregor said, answering the question that was clearly in Clara's head from the way she was looking at him.
That was when something Kari had been waiting for happened, Tricky finally began to break. "Ever pointed that thing at yourself, Gregor? What would it see? What sort of person does this to another human? Made them believe they're made of metal. Who am I?" He asked, spinning Gregor around so that he was facing him.
The man didn't answer him straight away, he just ripped the name patch off his suit and handed it to him. There was silence for a few minutes as Tricky tried to work it out, to figure out what he was saying. "My mouthy little kid brother." Gregor finally told him.
That just seemed to confuse Tricky even more. "Why… why can't I remember?"
"It was a salvage accident. There was a big explosion. You lost your sight, voice, and your memory." Gregor told his kid brother.
But it didn't help with Tricky's anger. "And you… you thought of a way you could have some fun with me? I just wanted a brother beside me!"
"You were always the smart one, Tricky." Gregor admitted, finally starting to get to the truth of everything. "He wanted you to take over. He made you captain." But Tricky didn't know who his brother was referring to. "Dad."
That was the final straw for Tricky. "I don't… I don't remember him. You did this to me just to be captain of a… of a heap of junk." He spat, before attacking Gregor.
Clara went to jump in, but the Doctor was back and made it there first. "Tricky, listen to me. Ask yourself why he couldn't cut you up. He has just one tiny scrap of decency left in him, and you helped him find that, okay?" The Doctor said, keeping the two men apart before turning to face Gregor. "Now you, don't ever forget this."
After that, he grabbed Kari's hand tightly and pulled her towards the door, but not yet opening. "You knew, didn't you? That Tricky was human, that he was the third brother." All Kari could do was nod at him, she had known all of that, and she knew even more. "It's okay. If we get out of this, they can sort it out themselves."
Kari just looked up at him, the expression on her face just showing that she wasn't impressed. "If we get out of this? If?" She asked him, letting him know she was not impressed. "Come on, Doctor, I know way more than you do. Of course we will get out of this."
The Doctor couldn't help but chuckle as he hugged her tightly. "Right, we need to move quickly once we get in there." He said, finally letting her go. "Straight across, no stopping." Everyone nodded at him, and they all prepared themselves for the run through the burning room. He yanked the door open, and they all darted in. "Okay, move, move, move." He called, making sure that Kari was right behind him. "The Eye of Harmony. Exploding star in the act of becoming a black hole." The Doctor explained, stopping on the catwalk.
"Really? You're going to give a history lesson right now?" Kari moaned, squinting from the bright light that was surrounding them. There really was a star in the room, and that was causing the heat and the bright orange glow that was around them.
"Oh, hush you." The Doctor called back to her, but with a slight smile on his face. "Time Lord engineering. You rip the star from its orbit, suspend it in a permanent state of decay." Luckily, that was the end of the history lesson. "This way, quickly."
The Doctor led to way over to the other door, the two brothers right behind him, and Kari hanging back a little to stay with Clara. She knew things were about to go from bad to worse, and then just get that little bit more unbearable. And she was right, when the Doctor pulled the door open only to be faced with one of the red eyed creatures.
The door was quickly shut, and the men all charged back to the other door, hoping to find an escape that way. But they were finally out of luck, and they were faced with another of the creatures. "There's no way out." Gregor shouted. "We're trapped."
"You're going to tell me right now." Clara called, chasing after the Doctor as he passed her, then grabbing his arm and stopping him. "If we're going to die here, you're going to tell me what they are." She demanded.
The Doctor looked at her, and saw Kari standing behind her, tears brimming in her eyes. "I can't."
Clara realised he had been looking behind him, and turned to see Kari. "Tell me." She ordered, looking between Kari and the Doctor. "What's the use in secrets now?"
"Clara, please…" Kari whispered, before the Doctor jumped in.
"Secrets protect us. Secrets make us safe." He told her, hoping that she would listen to him and now keep questioning things.
But Clara was not listening to him, not at all. "We're not safe!" She shouted at him.
Kari had really had enough now. "Clara, listen to me, and listen well. The Doctor has lied to me countless times." She said, causing the Doctor to let out a sigh. "And I've lied to him. You know why we have secrets? To protect the ones we love, the people we care about. I know why he lies to me, why he keeps secrets, to keep me safe. And I have to do the same, I have so many secrets, Clara, and I have no one that I can tell. You say that we're not safe, if we told you, would it make you any safer?"
Before Clara could answer, there was a computerised voice speaking. "Sensor detects animal DNA." Gregor's computer announced. He was pointing it at the creature that was trying to break through the door. "Human core element. Calculating data… Calculating data…"
Both the Doctor and Kari's eyes widened. "No! No, turn it off!" The Doctor shouted, rushing over to him, hoping that he could get there in time.
"Lancashire. Sass. Identifiable substance. Clara." The computer announced, resulting in everyone turning and looking at the woman in question. The looks only lasted for a few seconds, before Gregor and Tricky ran to the other door, leaving the Doctor, Kari, and Clara, alone.
"That's me." Clara managed to whisper.
There was only one thing that the Doctor could think of to say. "I'm so sorry."
Clara didn't really listen to him, as she walked right up to the door and looked through the small round glass window and looked at the creature that was hammering on the door. "That's me. I burn in here."
"It isn't just the past leaking out through the time rift. It's the future." The Doctor explained, ready to tell Clara the truth. "Listen, we brought you here to keep you safe, but it happened again. You died again." He told her, holding onto her shoulders.
But Kari was not impressed with him telling her that. "Doctor, stop. Do not say another word, do you hear me? Not a thing." Kari warned him.
Only the Doctor and Clara were both ignoring her. "What do you mean, again?"
Kari grabbed the Doctor, and pulled him away from where Clara was standing. "Doctor, stop, just stop." She told him softly, trying to get him to focus. "There are a lot of things that you don't know, but I do. Don't tell her any more, please, I am begging you, Doctor, don't tell her any more." She was speaking to him as quietly as she could. She didn't want Clara to over hear what she was saying, and she wanted the Doctor to calm down.
"Why… why did it happen again?" He asked her, resting his forehead against hers, trying to figure it all out.
"It hasn't happened yet." Kari told him, getting his attention. "Time can be rewritten." It took a few moments, but the Doctor finally caught on to what she was saying and kissed her forehead before looking at Gregor and Tricky.
They were standing at the other door, leaning against it, trying to stop the creatures for getting. And then he remembered, the conjoined monster, and they were they were standing resembled it far too well. "Hang on… as long as we can interrupt the timeline, this can't happen." The Doctor said, starting to run towards the two men, Kari right behind him. "Don't touch each other, otherwise the future will reassert itself." He pulled Tricky away form his brother, just as one of the creatures broke in.
While the Doctor had a hold of Tricky, trying to keep them apart, the monster was tugging at Gregor's backpack. "Let go of the circuit." Kari shouted to the man. "You have to let it go. Is this really worth it? Is all of this really worth that circuit?" She asked him, hoping that he would listen to reason and finally give it up.
Eventually he did, and he managed to untangle himself from the backpack, freeing himself. Tricky was quick to act, and he knocked the red eyed beast over the side of the metal walkway. They charged to the other door, only for the conjoined the beast to come wandering through. All of them were trapped, one of them walking towards them, the other having smashed through the window and reaching through it with its arm.
"Okay. Er… er…" The Doctor really didn't know what to do. They were stuck on the walkway, with nowhere to run to.
Before the Doctor could think of a plan, Tricky was attacking the conjoined monster, hitting it with a pole and trying his best to kick it off the walkway. Kari held her breath, as Tricky kicked the twinned creature off the walking, except he had been dragged down, and was now dangling, and hanging on for dear life.
"Tricky!" Gregor shouted, going to help his little brother.
The Doctor pulled Kari and Clara behind him, his eyes widening a little with fear. "No! Don't touch him or time will reassert itself!" He called to them, but his warning came too late. Gregor managed to get Tricky up, and back on the walkway, as he did, they both began to cry in pain, as they started to fuse together. The trio stood there and watched as the pair transformed into the conjoined creature that had been running from.
Kari knew that there was nothing more that could be done for Gregor and Tricky, and she had to keep the Doctor and Clara safe now. "Come on, let's move!" She called, dragging them both out of the door, closing it just in time.
A look was shared between the Doctor and Kari, they both knew where to head now. "The engine room. The heart of the TARDIS." He called, as they charged out of a corridor and through a door that slid closed behind them.
The Doctor held onto Kari tightly, as the three of them came to a sudden halt when they almost ran off the edge of a cliff. "We're outside." Clara said, sounding a little relieved, even if they were standing on the edge of a cliff with a misty riven down below them.
"No, we're still in the TARDIS." Kari told her, looking over to the other side. She really wanted to get out of there now, because her head was seriously spinning. She was starting to think that the little bump to the head was a little worse than she first anticipated, as her head kept pounding and her vision kept blurring.
"There's no way across." Clara muttered, before looking at Kari and the Doctor. There was hope in her eyes, hope that one of them knew what to do.
But the Doctor was still racking his brains, trying to fit the puzzle together and think of something without having to ask Kari for help. "No, okay, your right."
"So, what do we do? Time for a plan. Do you have a plan?" Clara asked them both. "Please tell me one of you has a plan."
While Kari shook her head, the Doctor got himself in a little bit of a fluster. "Well… no. No plan. Sorry." He told her, running his hand through his messy hair.
"If neither of you have a plan, we're dead." Kari couldn't help but let out a sigh at Clara's words. This was the part that she had been dreading the most.
All of a sudden, the Doctor turned very serious, his arm wrapping tightly around Kari's waist as he pulled her closer towards him. "Yes, we are. So just tell us."
Clara looked at the pair in utter confusion. "Tell you what?"
"Well, there's no point now. We're about to die. Just tell us who you are." The Doctor said, and not in a very polite way either, which resulted in a slight elbow in the ribs from Kari.
"You know who I am."
"No, I don't. I look at you every single day and I don't understand a thing about you. Why do we keep running into you?" He was getting frustrated, and Kari would do anything to help him calm down, but she couldn't.
Kari was having a lot of trouble focusing on what was going on. Her vision seemed to be getting worse, and no matter how many times she blinked, it didn't clear. She knew there wasn't really three Clara's standing in front of her, but she could still see three.
Clara had actually noticed that something was wrong with Kari, and she gave her a worried look before answering the Doctor. "Doctor, you invited me. You said…"
"Before that. We met you in the Dalek Asylum. There was a girl in a shipwreck and she died saving our lives, and she was you." The Doctor explained to her, pressing to get some answers, he needed to get answers, because none of it made any sense.
"It wasn't her." Kari told him, feeling a little unsteady on her legs now. "Please, don't do this, Doctor."
But the Doctor either didn't hear her, or just wasn't listening, as he carried on speaking. "Victorian London. There was a governess who was really a barmaid, and we fought the Great Intelligence together. She died and it was my fault, and she was you." Clara backed away a little, getting scared now. But the Doctor advanced on her, anger growing in his eyes. "What are you, eh? Are you a trick? A trap?"
"Doctor! She doesn't know what you're talking about!" Kari shouted, as she reached out and grabbed a hold of Clara, just as her foot slipped on the edge of the cliff. "She's Clara, just Clara." She said, holding onto her friend tightly, and pulling her back away from the edge. Kari ended up pulling Clara into a hug, knowing that she was scared out of her mind now, and not just from the monsters.
The Doctor just looked down at the two women. "You really don't, do you?"
Clara pulled back a little and looked up at the man. "I think I'm more scared of you right now than anything else on that TARDIS."
"You're just Clara, aren't you?" He said, chuckling a little while Kari rolled her eyes. She had been telling him that, but he just hadn't been able to listen to her. After a few more light laughs, the Doctor hugged both Kari and Clara, rather happy that he had worked it out.
"Okay, I don't know what the hell this is about, but the hug is really nice." Clara admitted, causing the Doctor to chuckle a little more.
By now, Kari really just wanted her bed. Her head was getting worse by the second. "Good, now, just to let you all know, we're not going to die here." She told them, ending the hug that Clara was enjoying so much.
That was when it twigged for the Doctor as well. "Kari's right, we're not going to die here. This isn't real. It's a snarl." He said, picking up a rock and tossing it up in the air, before it fell down the chasm.
Clara looked at both of them in confusion. "What?"
"What does a wounded animal do? It tries to scare everyone away." He explained to her. "We're close to the engine. The TARDIS is snarling at us, trying to frighten us off. We need to jump." The Doctor told her, before noticing Kari rubbing her head. "Kari? Kari, what's wrong?" There was a hint of panic in his voice.
"Uh, my head is really hurting." She told him, closing her eyes and letting out a sigh. "And spinning. Do you mind telling Clara to stand still? All three of them would be helpful."
The Doctor whipped out his screwdriver and quickly scanned Kari with it. He hadn't really had the time to check that she was completely okay, he had only been able to clean up the nasty cut she had on her head. "Okay… okay." He said, looking down at his screwdriver. "Uh, okay. Bang to the head, concussion. Not too serious." The mad man with a box said, but not very convincingly.
"Lying." Kari said, knowing that it wasn't just concussion, and that it was probably more serious but he just didn't want to worry her.
"Yes. One problem at a time. We need to jump." He told her, having no intention of telling her anything else. "Everything will be fine, I promise. Okay, so we ready?" He asked, taking a hold of Kari's hand tightly and then grabbing Clara's as well. He walked them back towards he door, giving them some space to do a run up for their jump. "Geronimo…"
The three of them all ran, and jumped at the last minute, the Doctor letting go of Clara's hand as she swung her arms around. Instead, he grabbed onto Kari tightly, knowing that she was not going to be able to land on her feet on her own.
And he had been right. Her knees buckled and he held her even tighter, stopping her from falling to the ground. "The heart of the TARDIS." He said, pulling Kari upright. She was actually holding onto him rather tightly, because her head was just getting worse. "The engine, it's already exploded. It must have been the collision with the salvage ship." He said, looking at the frozen pieces of time that was surrounding them in the white space.
"We're not dead." Clara pointed out as they slowly started walking between the exploding pieces.
"She wrapped her hands around the force. Froze it."
"Yeah, but it's only a temporary fix." Kari told them, taking deep breaths to try and keep the pain at bay. "This whole place will erupt, eventually."
The Doctor knew that she was right. "There's no way I can save her now. She's just always been there for us, taken care of us, and now it's my turn and I don't know what to do. I think it just…" Kari opened up her hand, and showed her palm to the Doctor.
There was a small smile creeping onto her face. "Doctor, you always know what to do." She said, as he read the words that had been burned into the palm of her hand.
Even the Doctor couldn't help but smile. "Oh, Kari. Oh… You are beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Oh, you are brilliant. Thank you." He said, before lightly kissing the palm of her hand. "The rift in time. All the memories leaking out. I need to find the moment we crashed. I need to find…" He said, getting his sonic out and turning it on, buzzing a little before it was replaced with another sound. "The music."
Holding onto Kari's hand tightly, they ran through the explosion, and somehow ended up back in the console room. His sonic screwdriver was still in his hand, guiding him. But really, all he needed to do was follow Kari's gaze, because she had already seen it.
"The time rift." He said, looking at the tear in the side of the TARDIS, a crack similar to the one that had been in Amy's bedroom wall. "Recent past, possible future." The Doctor added, before pulling something out of his pocket. It was the device that he had picked out of Gregor's pocket when he had first met him.
"Big friendly button, right?" Kari asked him, knowing that was what he was engraving on the device with his screwdriver. "Going to rewrite the whole day. Oh, that would be nice." She added, rubbing her head some more.
He couldn't help but smile at her. "I've thrown this through the rift before. I need to make sure this time. Going to take it in there myself. There might be a certain amount of yelling."
"Is it going to hurt?" Clara asked him, having no idea that he had shoved his arm in a crack through the whole of time and space before.
"Things that end your life often do that." He told her, before heading over to the crack, ready to give himself the big friendly button.
But Clara still had things to say, like she always did. "Wait! All those things you said… how we've met before, how I died…"
The Doctor had a feeling that she was going to mention that. "Clara, don't worry. You'll forget. Time mends us. It can mend anything." He told her, looking at Kari before kissing the top of her head, knowing that it would heal her wound and stop the headaches.
"I don't want to forget. Not all of it." She told him, making him curious. Kari knew there was trouble now. "The library. I saw it. You were mentioned in a book."
He glanced at Kari, and he noticed that she couldn't meet his gaze, meaning she knew it was bad. "I'm mentioned in a lot of books." He told her, really hoping he was wrong and that it hadn't been the book that he was thinking about.
"You call yourself Doctor. Why do you do that? You have a name. I've seen it. In one corner of that tiny…"
"If I rewrite today, you won't remember." The Doctor interrupted. "You won't go looking for my name."
There was a sad look on Clara's face now. "You'll still have secrets."
"It's better that way." Kari said at the same time as the Doctor, before he forced his way through the crack and screamed. Kari ended up closing her eyes as tightly as she could, praying that it would all be over soon, praying for the headache to go away. She knew the Doctor would get the reset button, and everything would work out fine, and she couldn't wait, she wanted her bed.
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