It's another day for the intrepid aloof giant, spending his hard-earned day-off from adventuring in the TARDIS and working for his brother.
In his lazies, he's sitting in his recliner with the leg part outright, his feet almost hanging off the edge, with a bowl of cereal on his end table, watching whatever he found on that wasn't stupid, which wasn't a whole lot, but he managed.
His fur friends nestled on his lap, watching the telly with him, content with life, after having their baths, and now smell of fresh strawberries.
Yawning loudly, Theodore rubbed the side of his face, before reaching over to grab another bite of cereal.
Didn't feel like cooking, didn't feel like ordering, what better way to spend a day-off, than eating something that only needs two components and nothing more.
As he rested the spoon in the bowl, Theodore hears a knock on the door.
The ferrets moved away, allowing him to stand up, stretching his legs, popping his joints, before heading towards the door.
His icy blue eyes looking through the peephole, Theodore sees Dom standing in front of the door, a look on his face, and when Theodore opened the door, Dom entered quickly.
He's stressed, his disguised eyes couldn't hide it if he tried, and as he closed the door behind him, Theodore asked what happened.
"It's Shale," Dom told him in his gravelly voice resonating his inner emotions as he paced around the flat with a worried look on his face. "Something happened to her, had to."
Seeing the Ko'gan going back and forth, Theodore asked him why he thought that, and Dom said in a worried tone that she hadn't come back to their home.
She wasn't supposed to be anywhere else and if she was, she would've told him, always told him, even if it wasn't something he cared for, it's his interest to know, anyhow.
"Are you sure she didn't just go somewhere and forget?" Theodore brought up a chance that Shale simply ended up busied and forgot to tell her father that she's going somewhere.
Shaking his head, Dom responded that he doesn't think so, he knows his daughter, and something happened to her.
He revealed to Theodore that he and Jasper got into a business venture together, something unexpected, but with their keen senses of smell, they figured it's worth trying.
They look for missing people, just something to do when there's no work, and with their senses of smell, they figured they have a chance at making a little side money.
Anyhow, he and Jasper found plenty of people enough for him to know something's wrong.
He wouldn't come to this conclusion if he didn't expend everything else beforehand and the old Ko'gan didn't survive wars just to make himself foolish.
"What proof do you have that a person took her?" Theodore inquired how the old Ko'gan's sure of it.
Snorting loudly, Dom stated that Shale had no problems dealing with humans.
When she was young, an elderly woman kidnapped her, guess she had the itch for raising a grandchild she never had, Dom didn't know or care, at all.
She ought to be lucky he didn't come after her and finish the job, himself, had thoughts about doing it until he finally let go of the old slight.
Happened when Dom worked as a construction worker, his rugged exterior made him perfect for unloading materials from the trucks without breaking down in the heat.
Humans had this thing about school, they got on him more than once about sending Shale to one, so he sent Shale to a school on a suggestion from someone he trusted (which of itself's rare) that'd handle her well. Someplace that isn't green about aliens, good neighbourhood too.
Well, all's fine until Dom got a call from the school, that someone came and took Shale.
It wasn't him, obviously, but they had footage of the perpetrator.
It was an elderly woman, spotted her hanging around the jungle gym, before grabbing Shale sometime after recess started.
Initially Dom's temper rose about a couple of degrees, but the moment he heard that the kidnapper's human, he mellowed, and waited with the school officials who panicked about Shale missing.
Couldn't make it publicly known, since, well, they're aliens disguised as humans, but it worked out in the end, maybe not for the elderly woman, she survived, not well, but survived.
Apparently, the elderly woman tried to give Shale something to make her sleep, so she wouldn't cause a scene, and make it easier to transport wherever they're going.
Didn't go over well, the stuff she used didn't work on Ko'gan.
Only made them angrier.
Once Shale chewed through the restraints the woman put on her and around her mouth. The one thing the old hag didn't think about's that young Ko'gan start teething around two years old. They chew through cinder blocks to dull the pain of their permanent incisors and fangs coming through.
The old hag didn't know that, obviously, nor did she know what bit her, until the fifth bite, and that was that.
"All I had to do's wait for her to wander back to me, took a little while for me to clean her up. Had to take her home afterwards. Stopped by for some, whatcha call it, ice cream," Dom summed what happened when the young Shale wandered back to the schoolyard, bloodied. The teachers weren't amused, but it made Dom proud that she chewed up the old hag like gum.
She ended up in a hospital somewhere, told the nurses that she was attacked by an animal, couldn't exactly tell them what'd happened, but regardless, she learnt her lesson well.
"Point is, if a human took her, she'd be back by now," Dom summed that if a human tried anything with Shale, they'll find out quick how wrong they were trying, assuming Shale let them walk away with chewed up arms.
Couldn't be a human who knew about them, someone knew how to subdue Shale, and that's impossible unless they're not human.
Seeing how Dom's sure Shale's been kidnapped by an alien, Theodore asked him what reasons there'd be kidnapping her.
Stopping by the recliner, Dom shook his head as he said that he can't think of any, that's what bothered him.
"Could be another Ko'gan," Theodore gave his thought on the perpetrator, but Dom snorts as he said he doesn't think so, as there's none left.
Confused, Theodore asks how he's sure and the weary Ko'gan exhaled sharply as he started pacing around the flat again, as he explained that his people used to dream.
They dreamt of a society, but old wounds never healed. Opinions never changed. Nobody could hold clans together when there's even a rumour about uniting.
The inability of uniting ended up their undoing, resulting in a massive war where every clan was for themselves, the stakes of whatever clan's left ruled the rubble.
That didn't work out well, either, not when Dom's clan tried using nuclear bombs to gain the upper hand in the war.
It not only decimated the other clans, but also Dom's, leaving only straggler still fighting for what's left, and Dom deciding he had enough war.
When he left with Shale and Theodore's father, all he saw were pillars of smoke and fire, whatever's left of his people, they're not clawing their way out of the rubble.
"Our people used to be strong, kid, prideful, too. At one point, we had cities overlooking the jungle, but we destroyed them, destroyed everything in our path," the old Ko'gan's low voice rattled as he remembered how his planet used to look like before it fell into chaos.
They used to live in tribes, controlling sections of the planet, but eventually, the warlords managed to put aside differences long enough for them to get somewhere.
With their own claws, they made their own mark, temples, cities, the pinnacles of society, but old wounds festered despite the progress they made united and slowly it all came crashing down on everyone's heads, figuratively and literary.
Bitter about old slights, small wars started breaking out, before it devolved further, until chaos reigned.
"Trust me, nobody's alive, if they're even moving, they won't for long," Dom explained that if anyone managed to survive everything that happened, radioactive wasteland and all, they're at the mercy at the ire of what came out of the rubble since the fighting started.
Sure, that nobody from their planet survived, Dom didn't believe another Ko'gan could've kidnapped his daughter.
Pondering as he held his large hand under his chin, Theodore wondered quietly to himself as he's trying to come up with an answer for the desperate Ko'gan.
"Do you know where she was last, at least?" Theodore asks if he'd known where Shale's last location was prior to her disappearance.
Stopping in his spot, Dom replied that he remembered his daughter mentioning something about a food festival. She wanted to try some of the things' humans considered edible that she hadn't tried before.
"Okay, and you went over there and investigated it, correct?" Theodore went down the list as Dom replied he did immediately the moment that gut feeling came about.
He even went far as asking around, politely he added, but nobody saw where she went afterwards. Couldn't even smell his own daughter and he checked every corner of the festival for a whiff.
As he pondered, Theodore asked if there's any enemies of the Ko'gan people that might've discovered Shale.
Dom replied that his people's reputation kept aliens off their planet.
After what happened to the last 'visitors' that came to the planet, nobody foolish enough stepped foot on it.
"But we're on Earth, Dom, different rules apply here," Theodore reminded him that Earth didn't follow the same rules and a different landscape compared to the landscape Dom's from.
A low growl as Dom admitted that he knew this, but he hoped that nobody tried anything like it here, everyone wanted to live their own lives without breaking out into another war.
Theodore inquired about potential enemies, trying to jumble ideas with the Ko'gan as he paced around the flat, and Dom responded that at the top of the list, Silurian and Sontaran.
"But it can't be them, I never seen them around here, if I did, we wouldn't be talking," Dom stated that the two races weren't in good graces with the Ko'gan and he hadn't seen either around here.
If he did, he'd show them why Ko'gan were feared for thousands of years.
Hearing about the two races, gave Theodore pause, as he agreed with Dom's point, there weren't any on Earth, he'd know about it instantly, the last Sontarans he dealt with haven't found their way back from where he and Hammond sent them.
"This is odd. Of course, I'll help you, Dom, but uh, if you don't mind, I'm not in my best," Theodore agreed helping Dom find his daughter, but he's not exactly dressed for that sort, and Dom made a joke that Theodore could've intimidated someone with his lazy trousers depicting random comic book characters.
Hurrying into his bedroom and closing the door, Theodore dressed himself for the peculiar case of Dom's missing daughter, and he wore his father's Stetson and his mother's multicoloured scarf that he wrapped around his neck multiple times.
Stepping out of the bedroom as he made himself look presentable, Theodore rejoined Dom's side as he's readied to walk with the Ko'gan towards the hidden TARDIS in the kitchen.
"I'll see if I can't figure out where she's gone, Dom," Theodore pulled on his stitched coat and Dom snorts as he said that he knows he can, he's got his father's stubbornness.
It's as good as a compliment he'll get, so Theodore's taking it, and as he's prepared to lead Dom, there's another knock at the door.
"Who's that?" Dom's confused as Theodore's surprised at the sudden knocking on the door.
Couldn't be Lila, he hadn't even contacted her yet, she's still working, and Hammond couldn't let her sneak out early, they're swamped at the moment.
"I… don't know," Theodore raised his brow as he went over to the door, looking through the peephole, and he sees a woman clad in black and a black veil covering her face.
Clearly not his landlady, Theodore opened the door, and put on his pearly whites as he greeted the stranger in front of him.
She asked him, "Are you the Doctor?"