"You will help us. There's nothing left for you. Your child is dead. The Doctor is dead. Join us and we will remove all memories of them. All of your pain will cease to exist."

"I'll never aid you! He was just a child… only 167 and you murdered him! So tell me, Rassilon, what does that make you?"

"A hero. I've destroyed another abomination."

"He was NOT an abomination. But, if that is the case, why am I still alive?"

"We know of your abilities. They will help us win the war."

"I won't do it."

"I will break you. You will become the Destroyer."

"I refuse so just kill me."

"Death would be too easy." He turned from me. "Take her to the radiation chamber. Give her the highest dosage. Let us see if it kills her."

"You're a monster Rassilon!" I screamed as I was dragged away, only to be thrown into the room. I stood in the centre of the room defiant as they turned on the machine. They knew nothing of my biology, that I could withstand even the deadliest of radiation, and they were about to figure it out. Watching as they flipped a switch, I felt the room flood with radiation, a yelp escaping me as it hit my body. I saw a satisfied grin cross Rassilon's face and decided not to give into his means, not to show any pain.

Sitting up in my bed, I saw the Doctor lying next to me. I couldn't help but smile at how peaceful he looked, even after my nightmare. Although we didn't need much sleep, he had been getting less of it. I wasn't entirely sure as to why but I was content just to see him sleeping. Inching out of bed, I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist and pull me back. I giggled as I laid onto him. "You should be sleeping."

"How can I when my wife's sneaking out of bed."

"I didn't want to wake you."

"I sleep better with you beside me." I smiled at him. "Won't you reconsider?"

"Theta…"

"I know."

"Oh, do you?"

"You're smirking. Why?"

"I just like this, waking up beside you. We didn't get to do much of it on Gallifrey, with you always travelling and Kiere usually sleeping between us. This is nice."

"He wanted to be with his mum."

"And I wanted to be with his dad," I chuckled before turning serious. "Am I- Is this a better version of me?" I felt him sit up and turn me to face him.

"What do you mean?"

"Am I better than I was on Gallifrey?"

"You're still you Ceryssida. This incarnation of you is… happier than your first, yes. But there was never anything wrong with you. It was just how you were treated. If I remember correctly, you were always a bit shy and quiet. After centuries of being beat down and bullied, of course you'd end up as you did."

"I don't really think I'm very quiet or shy anymore."

"That's all right with me. I tried so hard to get you out of that when we were children and look at you now. You've changed so much but remained the same. You'll always be my beautiful Ceryssida."

"I'm pretty sure Rose had a bit to do with it."

"But I started the whole thing."

"Yes, you did. I never thanked you for that, you know."

"You agreed to marry me. That was enough of a thank you."

I smiled and kissed him. "That was for yesterday." I then gave him two more. "And for just now." I then jumped out of the bed and pointed to the door. "Out please."

"Not this time. I could use a shower myself."

"Theta…"

"It's been ages." He stood, putting an arm around my shoulder. "Come on then."

"I can't believe I'm doing this. I really like my showers."

"It can be our shower this time." He began to strip, quickly pulling off his shirt and facing me. My eyes slowly took in his appearance before I brought they met his. "You aren't going in clothed, are you?" I rolled my eyes and also took off my clothes, contemplating whether or not I should grab my towel. "If it makes you more comfortable, I'll go in first."

"Shut up, Theta," I said, forgetting the towel and walking past him and into the already hot shower. A moment later, he stepped in.

"That was, um, nice." I chuckled as I dried myself off, working the towel from around my body and to my hair.

"Was it?"

"We should do that more often."

"I'll think about it."

"Oh, no. We are doing that more often."

"I don't mind it. Showering alone isn't quite as fun as with you, I'll admit that." I turned and faced him, seeing him beam. Then I noticed his pants. "Where did you get the clothes?"

"Huh?"

"Those are different pants. Have you been leaving clothes in here?"

"Maybe."

"You're unbelievable, you know that, right?"

"I do," he replied, grabbing my hips and pulling me to him, hungrily attacking my lips. When we pulled apart, I went and put on a green lace tank top, black jeans, brown combat boots and his old leather jacket. Facing him, I saw he was dressed as well and just staring at me. I raised my eyebrow in question as I tied up my hair. "I do love you in that jacket."

"I know."

"I mean, really, I do."

"I know. I can see just how much. Oh, and how much you want to rip it off me." I saw his cheeks flush as I chuckled, watching him try to control his thoughts. "It's alright. I want to do the same with you." I smiled, reaching for an extremely familiar sea shell necklace and placing it around my neck.

"Is that…" I nodded, not giving him a chance to answer. I hadn't worn the necklace since I'd changed back and it felt wonderful to have it on, to feel that I deserved to wear it again. Seeing him reach for me, I moved out of his grasp, giggling as I left the room. I knew exactly what he had on his mind and if I had let him, we would have never left my room. I knocked on Martha's door as I made my way to the console room, the Doctor grumbling behind me. Smiling, I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and walked off, thinking of the perfect place to go.

Five minutes later Martha had joined us and the Doctor was using his sonic on her mobile. I sat in the jump seat, watching them after I had put in the coordinates. We were still in the Time Vortex, the Doctor, not entirely sure whether or not he wanted to go where I had planned; it was more that he didn't want to bring Martha with us as it was more of a private place for us. I smiled, knowing that he wanted to go but wanted it to be just him and me, no companion tagging along. "Ah, there we go- universal roaming. Never have to worry about a signal again." He tossed the phone at her and she expertly caught it.

"No way. This is too mad! You're telling me I can phone anyone, anywhere in space and time on my mobile?"

"Sure, just as long as you know the area code."

"Frequent flier's privilege. Go on, try it." As she went to do so, the Tardis shuddered. I jumped up and ran to the console, hearing a beeping coming from the monitor. "Distress signal. Locking on!" He grabbed hold of a lever and propped his foot onto the console. I was on the opposite side, pressing buttons, doing my best to aid the situation. "Might be a bit of-" we were knocked to the floor. "Turbulence. Sorry. Come on, Martha. Let's take a look!" I stood, brushing myself off and walked outside with the two where we were hit a glowing red room and steam.

'You alright?'

'It takes more than your flying to hurt me, Theta.'

'Oi! My piloting is just fine.'

I chose to ignore that comment. 'You're okay though, right?'

'Never better with you by my side.'

'You're so cheesy.'

"Automated distress signal transmitted."

"Whoa! Now, that is hot."

"Automated distress signal transmitted."

"Whuff! It's like a sauna in here."

"Venting systems. Working at full pelt, trying to cool down, uh, wherever it is we are. Well, if you can't stand the heat-" the Doctor opened a bulkhead and Martha followed. I looked between the Tardis and the door uneasily before stepping out myself, seeing three people, two men and a woman, rushing to us.

"Oi, you three!"

"Get out of there!"

"Seal that door now!"

"Who are you? What are you doing on my ship?"

"Are you police?"

"Why would we be the police?"

"We got your distress signal."

"If this is a ship, why can't I hear any engines?"

"It went dead four minutes ago."

"So maybe we should stop chatting and get to engineering, Captain."

An alarm began to sound. "Secure closure active."

"What?"

"The ship's gone mad."

Another woman ran to us, the bulkheads shutting behind her. "Who activated secure closure? I nearly got locked in to area twenty-seven." The final bulkhead shut. "Who are you?"

"He's the Doctor, she's Rys, and I'm Martha. Hello."

"Impact projection forty two minutes twenty-seven seconds."

"We'll get out of this, I promise."

"Doctor. Rys." I looked at Martha, to see her looking out a porthole.

"Forty two minutes until what?"

"Doctor! Look." He continued to ignore her. Rolling my eyes, I made my way over to the woman, and looked out the window, seeing a bright red sun.

'Theta, you might want to see this.'

'Two ticks.'

"Forty two minutes until we crash into the sun."

'Now!' He looked at me, coming over to look out the porthole as well, seeing a massive yellow fusion reactor.

I turned away from the transom and brought my attention to the captain. "How many crew members?" I asked.

"Seven, including us."

"We transport cargo across the galaxy. Everything's automated. We just keep the ship space-worthy."

"Call the others. I'll get you out!" the Doctor exclaimed as he ran to the door we'd come through.

"What's he doing?"

"Doctor, don't!"

The Doctor opened the door and was knocked down by a blast of heat. The girl who had recently joined us put on a welder's mask and closed the door. I went and helped the Doctor up. "But our ship's in there!"

"In the vent chamber?"

"It's our lifeboat."

"It's lava."

"No. The ship's fine, Doctor. She can survive anything." He nodded holding me to him.

"The temperature's going mad in there. Up three thousand degrees in ten seconds, and still rising."

"Channelling the air. The closer we get to the sun, the hotter that room's going to get."

"We're stuck here."

"So, we fix the engines, we steer the ship away from the sun. Simple. Engineering down here, is it?" He took off running down the corridor, leaving the rest of us to follow.

"Yes."

"Impact in forty twenty six."

When we reached Engineering, we saw the state it was in. it seemed as if it were done deliberately. From the moment we landed, I had a bad feeling about the place, like something was going to happen to us. Whatever was going on around this ship, it was purposefully done and it wasn't finished. "Blimey! Do you always leave things in such a mess?"

"Oh my God."

"What the hell happened?" The engine was practically destroyed, with bits and pieces scattered around the place.

"Ah, it's wrecked."

"Quite efficiently, if I might say. Whoever did this knew what they were doing."

"Where's Korwin? Has anyone seen him or Ashton?"

"No."

"Do you mean someone did this on purpose?" I nodded at Martha's question as I watched the captain, McDonnell, go to the intercom.

"Korwin, Ashton? Where are you? Korwin, can you answer? Where the hell is he? He should be up here."

The Doctor, who had made his way to a monitor, turned to Martha and me, smiling. "Oh, we're in the Torajii system. Lovely. You're a long way from home, Martha- half a universe away."

"Yeah. Feels it."

"Sorry, but why are you using energy scoops for fusion? They were banned."

McDonnell glanced at one of the crew members before answering my question. "We're due to upgrade next docking," she replied before returning to her work. "Scannell, engine report." I watched her suspiciously, not sure whether I believed her or not.

Scannell, the man she'd shared a gaze with went over to the monitor, trying to get the report. "No response."

"What?"

He ran towards the back of the room. "They're burnt out. The controls are wrecked. I can't get them back online."

"Oh, come on! Auxiliary engines. Every craft's got auxiliaries."

"We don't have access from here. The auxiliary controls are in the front of the ship."

"Yeah, with twenty nine password-sealed doors between us and them, you'll never get there on time."

"Can't you override the doors?"

"No. 'Sealed closure' means what it says. They're all dead-lock sealed."

"So a sonic screwdriver's no use."

"Nothing's any use. We've got no engines, no time, and no chance."

"Oh, listen to you. Defeated before you've even started. Where's your Dunkirk spirit? Who's got the door passwords?"

"They're randomly generated. Reckon I know most of them. Sorry. Riley Vashti."

"Then what are you waiting form Riley Vashti? Get on it."

He turned and began to retrieve the equipment. "Well, it's a two person job- one, to take this for the questions, and the other to carry this. The oldest and cheapest security system around, eh, Captain?"

"Reliable and simple, just like you, eh, Riley?"

Riley put on a massive backpack. "Try and be helpful, get abuse. Nice."

"I'll help you. Make myself useful."

"It's remotely controlled by the computer panel. That's why it needs two."

"Oi. Be careful."

"You too. The both of you." I nodded.

As they walked off, the comm. came to life. "McDonnell. It's Ashton."

"Where are you? Is Korwin with you?"

"Get to the med-centre now!" The Doctor, McDonnell, and I raced to med bay, rushing past Martha and Riley.

"Impact in thirty four thirty one."

Reaching the med centre, we saw a man and woman trying to hold down who I assumed to be Korwin, trying to put him in a stasis chamber. I stopped at the door and the Doctor and McDonnell walked in, feeling almost a heat radiating from the man. Tentatively, I stepped inside, taking the Doctor's hand for a bit of comfort.

"Korwin! What's happened? Is he okay?"

"Ah, Kath, help me! It's burning me!"

"How long has he been like this?"

"Ashton just brought him in." The Doctor nodded and scanned the man with the sonic. "What are you doing?"

"Don't get too close."

"Don't be so stupid! That's my husband."

"And he's just sabotaged our ship."

"What?"

"He went mad. He put the ship onto secure closure, then he set the heat pulse to melt the controls."

"No way! He wouldn't do that."

"I saw it happen, Captain."

"Korwin? Korwin, open your eyes for me a second."

"I can't!"

"Yeah, course you can. Go on."

"Don't make me look at you! Please!"

The Doctor picked up a hypogun from the medical tray. "All right, all right, all right. Just relax." He turned to the woman. "Sedative?"

"Yes." The Doctor then sedated Korwin.

"What's wrong with him?"

"Rising body temperature, unusual energy readings. Stasis chamber! I do love a good stasis chamber. Keep him sedated in there, regulate the body temperature." Abi nodded and went to work. "And, just for fun, run a bio-scan, a tissue profile, and a metabolic detail."

"Just doing them now."

"Oh, you're good. Anyone else presenting these symptoms?"

"Not so far."

"Well, that's something."

"Will someone tell me what is the matter with him?"

"Some sort of infection. We'll know more after the test results. Now, allons-y. Back downstairs, eh? Hey. See about those engines. Go. Hey. Go." McDonnell followed Ashton out of the room. "Call us if there's news. Any questions?"

"Yeah. Who are you?"

"I'm the Doctor. Coming Rys?"

"No. I'm staying with Abi."

"I don't know what's infecting him and I don't want you to catch it. Come with me."

"No. Look, I can be of more help here."

"Call me if anything."

"I know. Don't worry about me right now, all right? Just go help them." He nodded, giving me a quick kiss and ran off.

"Hear shields failing. At twenty five percent. Impact in thirty two fifty."

"Are you two together?" Abi whispered to me. I nodded and looked through the data she'd already collected, looking up as I saw his hand twitch.

"Rys, Abi, how's Korwin doing? Any results from the bio-scan?"

Abi took to results, looking them over. "He's under heavy sedation. I'm just trying to make sense of this data. Give me a couple of minutes and I'll let you know." As she spoke to the Doctor, I watched as Korwin moved a bit more. Abi moved towards the desk, confused as she continued looking at the calculations. She glanced at me, worried. "Doctor, these readings are starting to scare me."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Korwin's body's changing. His whole biological make up- it's impossible." I jumped up, seeing Korwin on his feet with his eyes shut. "This is Med-centre. Urgent assistance requested. Urgent assistance!"

I grabbed the woman's arm and pulled her behind me, trying to keep her as far from Korwin as possible. "Abi, run."

She shook her head. "Urgent assistance!"

"Abi, they're on their way."

"Please, Abi. I can take care of him but you have to leave."

"What's happening to you?"

"Burn with me," the man said in a voice MUCH deeper than his own. "Burn with me."

"Abi, get the hell out of here!" I yelled. The girl finally listened and raced out of the room, avoiding him as she did so.

"Burn with me."

"Stop. I know you aren't Korwin. I can help you."

"Burn… with… me!"

"What happened? What have they done?" I frantically questioned as he opened his eyes, only to shut them to my relief. "Let me help you. You want to be understood. I can feel that. Please, let me help!" Korwin stood still as I inched forward, my hands outstretched. When I was close enough, I gently placed my hands on his temples and took it in whatever had overwhelmed the man, healing him and learning of what they'd done at the same time. Seeing Korwin start to collapse, I grabbed him and placed him onto the bed. I suddenly felt the rage of the entity inside me and I opened my eyes, a feral scream escaping from me as I left a scorch mark on the wall before collapsing to the floor, exhausted and feeling as if I'd been run over by a truck.

"Korwin!"

I felt someone grab me and hold me close. "Rys! Rys, wake up!" I blinked, pushing the being back so that I wouldn't harm anyone. I saw the Doctor gazing at me, both fearful and angry. "I'm so glad you're alright."

I chuckled, wincing as I did so. "Can't get rid of me."

"What the hell were you thinking?"

"I saved his life and Abi's. That's all I did. I'm fine for now. Go, look at the results and scan him again." The Doctor stood, taking me with him as he walked over to the desk, looking at the papers forgotten in Abi and my terror.

"His bioscan results. Internal temperature- one hundred degrees? Body oxygen replaced by hydrogen. Your husband hasn't been infected. He's been overwhelmed."

McDonnell snatched the paper from him. "The test results are wrong!"

"But what is it, though- a parasite, a mutagenic virus? Something that needs a host body, but how did it get inside him?"

McDonnell opened her mouth to say something but I but in. "Scan him with the sonic." The Doctor nodded and did so.

"How did that happen? He should be dead."

"What do you mean?"

"It's gone. He's fine. Not even a trace of it in him. Just unconscious."

"I told you they were wrong."

"No, they weren't. Rys, what have you done?"

I shook my head, looking away from him. I knew he wouldn't be happy with me and I didn't want to see that in his eyes. Not liking that, he took my chin in his hand and made me meet his eyes. "I just wanted to help."

"What did you do?"

"I took it in."

"She took what it in?"

The Doctor scanned me. "Why?"

"I needed to help."

"It's killing you!"

"I'll be fine. I wanted to understand." The Doctor removed his gaze from me, returning his attention to McDonnell.

"Where's the ship been? Have you made planet-fall recently? Docked with any other vessels? Any sort of external contact at all?"

"What is this, an interrogation?"

"My wife's risking her life because of whatever infected your husband. Now answer me!" I placed a hand on his, trying to calm him the best I could after seeing the woman step back a bit.

"We're just a cargo ship," McDonnell breathed before turning away.

"Doctor, if you give her a minute."

"Give her a minute? She just got her husband back and I don't know how long Rys has so no, she does NOT get a minute."

"Impact in twenty four fifty one."

"Is the infection permanent?"

"I don't know. I just got her back. She's everything to me and I might lose her again. The parasite's too aggressive. She'll be able to hold it back for a while, but not for long."

"I'll be fine. You aren't losing me any time soon. Promise."

"Are you certain nothing happened to provoke this? Nobody's working on anything secret? 'Cause it's vital that you tell me."

"I know every inch of this ship. I know every detail of my crew's lives. There is nothing."

"Why is it interested in you? It wants you, McDonnell, I can feel it. The crew's just in the way."

"I wish I knew."

"Liar." The two looked at me but I said no more.

17/11/2014

Super sorry for not updating in the past two weeks. As you can see from the above date, I planned on updating sooner but I've been going through some personal stuff and while I'm not completely good yet, I wanted to at least post this chapter since it has been a bit of time. Hopefully when I'm all sorted, I'll be posting chapters more frequently.

On the brighter side of things, hope you enjoyed the chapter. I wanted to give a bit more insight into the Doctor and Rys relationship in their first incarnation. There'll be a lot more of it to come as the story progresses. How many of you loved Oncoming Storm Doctor? I sure did, even if I wrote it.

Rys was able to save Abi and Korwin, yay. I've always felt bad for the woman since she was only doing her job and in the end was trying to figure out what happened to her friend. The next chapter tells of what happens now that Korwin is safe.

Thanks to everyone who read, followed, and reviewed the chapter and the story overall. I freakin love you all. Getting the e-mails literally make my day. With that said, onto the reviews.

Squidtastik: Glad that you're happy. Here's another chapter. Hope you like.

Takara Matusdaira: Haha, I kind of loved Missy. I really can't wait to write out that episode. I could already picture her and Rys together and I would definitely add my own little bit in with my favourite character. No spoilers as to who. I was the same way about Danny as well. I was literally cursing out Moffat so much I ended up being checked on by my dad. Haha, I ended up waiting for it to finish so I could watch the Graham Norton show since Catherine Tate was a guest. But after that, I couldn't rewatch the episode because I knew I wouldn't really be able to process it too well. Awesome. Can't wait. :)

NicoleR85: Yay. Love that you loved it.

margie-me: Definitely. I do as well. I wanted some other people in the show but bringing back the Brigadier and the Master as Missy was great. Kate actually didn't die. She's more or so just hurt and in the hospital if the Doctor hadn't already healed her. I was more or so distraught by Osgood's death. She didn't deserve that and she had ample time to get out. The way the Cybermen were able to upgrade into the dead was a bit creepy. I ended up thinking just how bad it would be if that actually happened. The Hive-mind and Missy didn't anticipate Danny's love for Clara. But that's something the Master's always done, underestimate people. He went on rage mode because it wasn't there. He realised Missy was just lying since he put in the coordinates for Gallifrey and it was just nothing. Oh, and Missy is 'dead', unless she can escape disintegration thanks to Moffat. But the conversation was them and it was great. Thanks. I want her to seem real, as if she's actually in the show.

Jasmine-The True Believer: So glad to hear you loved it. Hopefully you've caught up so you can read these upcoming ones. Thanks. I tried hard to make their relationship as real as possible while fitting it into the Whoniverse. She does enjoy teasing him, but there will definitely be times when she's on the other end. Wow, your review really brought a stupid grin to my face when I read it. So glad that you can see her in the actual episode. That was one of the things I was aiming for. Hope you liked this chapter.

I'm-a-Klaus-addict: Not a problem. This is a late update so we're even. Hopefully your question was already answered at the beginning. I did actually say who he was during one of the Rose era chapters (Idiot's Lantern bits) but it that was so long ago that it's fine that you don't remember. There will definitely be more fluffiness to come. There's always fluff lolz.

P.S.

I'm thinking of starting another DW fic pertaining to an OC who jumps around the Doctor's timeline. I love reading those stories and have found a few great ones and wanted to try my hand at it. What do you guys think? Should I? I have a name for her and everything as well as the first few episodes I wanted to use. But let me know if that would be a good idea or not.