The Doctor II

The Doctor's mind was working on overload. This must be a dream. Or a trap. It's probably a trap. The Doctor thought as Vivian, a time lady, TIME LADY, walked next to him, following Kate and Clara. His hearts beat fast as he tried to come to terms with what was happening. He wasn't alone!

But the small voice in the back of his head whispered 'yes, but she's a member of The Gifted.' That made The Doctor almost stop in his tracks. He made a sideway glance at Vivian, just checking to make sure she was there. He almost asked Clara to pinch him as they waited outside of the room Vivian was changing in, but restrained himself.

Now, they were walking in the direction of the disturbance, the main reason why Kate called him in. Well, lifted in. The Doctor glanced at Vivian again. She didn't look like she would be in The Gifted, but from experience, he knew that appearances meant nothing. He would always be on guard around her. He had no idea why Vivian had volunteered to help him when it was clear that Vivian didn't like him from how pale she got when she realized he was The Doctor.

The Doctor let out a soft sigh. At the sigh, he noticed Vivian's eyes sharply glanced at him, looked him over, then focused on the back of Kate, who was leading us down a white hallway. Kate stopped at a painting that was of his tenth reincarnation and Queen Elizabeth. The Doctor raised his eyebrows.

Vivian took one glanced, snickered and shook her head. Clara snorted loudly, not bothering to try to cover it up.

"This way." Kate said after typing in a code and the painting swung open.

The Doctor watched as Clara stepped through the door followed by Vivian and then he followed.

"Welcome to the Under Gallery. This is where Elizabeth the First kept all art deemed too dangerous for public consumption." Kate explained. There were paintings on the wall, evenly spaced out.

The Doctor's eyes narrowed as he spotted... was that sand? He squatted down and scooped up a handful of the sand on the floor in between two rows of statues covered with dust sheets, "Stone dust." He concluded as the sand fell from his hand back onto the floor.

"Is it important?" Kate asked him.

He stood up and looked at Kate and stated seriously, "In twelve hundred years I've never stepped in anything that wasn't." The human female that was following Kate made a noise that sounded like a combination of a snort and a cough.

"Oi, you. Are you sciency?" He asked the girl. She blinked, as if not believing he was really speaking to her.

"Oh, er, well, er, yes." She stammered.

"Got a name?"

"Yes."

The Doctor smiled, "Good. I've always wanted to meet someone called Yes." Before the girl could protest about being called Yes, The Doctor went on talking at rapid speed, "Now, I want this stone dust analysed. And I want a report in triplicate, with lots of graphs and diagrams and complicated sums on my desk, tomorrow morning, ASAP, pronto, L O L. See? Job." The Doctor remarked to Clara, glaring at her playfully then he switched gazes to Kate, "Do I have a desk?"

"No."

"And I want a desk." He declared.

Kate turned to the girl, "Get a team. Analyse the stone dust." Kate said as she motioned for The Doctor to follow her. The Doctor nodded at Vivian who eyed him, rolled her eyes and followed next to Clara. He brought up the rear, "Inhaler!" Kate commanded the girl who quickly took it out and used it. The Doctor glanced around, made eye contact with the girl and winked before turning around a corner and she vanished from his view.

"So… I take it you know The Doctor." Clara looked at Vivian, trying to make small-talk.

"No. I've never met The Doctor before now." Vivian replied in a short tone and Vivian stuck her thumbs into the front pockets of her borrowed jeans. The Doctor could tell that Kate was also listing into their conversation due to Kate's slower pace than before.

Clara didn't seem to notice Vivian's discomfort with questions. If she did, she didn't seem to care, "What did you do on Gallifrey. You know, for a job."

Vivian gave Clara a sideways glance, "I worked as a long-range communications technician at Gallifreyan High Command."

The Doctor knew that was a complete lie but Clara and Kate seemed to buy it when Clara asked, "Gallifreyan High Command?"

"The War Council, or the Gallifreyan High Command was a branch of the High Council that lead the war effort against the Daleks during The Last Great Time War. The War Council split from the High Command once they realized what exactly the Supreme Council, the High Commands, had in plan for the War wasn't going to work. The High Command believed it was and The War Council had strong opposition. They split. Unfortunately this was near the end of the war." The Doctor explained quickly, not wanting to let Vivian explain.

By now they had stopped in the hallway. Clara and Kate were staring at him and Vivian was glaring at him.

"Um, Doctor?" Clara asked.

The Doctor blinked, "Yes?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine. Why?"

Clara swallowed, "Because this is the most I've heard you talk about Gallifrey. Ever."

"No it isn't." The Doctor said quickly. What the hell just happened? He never spoke of Gallifrey. It only re-opened old wounds that didn't need to be re-opened. His eyes narrowed. Vivian was the only explanation. She was the only new addition.

"Yes, it is." Clara quietly replied.

"Okay, let's move on." Kate cut in quickly.

We walked further into the under gallery. Now Vivian was next to The Doctor while Clara walked a bit to the side and behind Kate. The Doctor glanced around the hallway with display cases. His eyes widened with excitement as he laid eyes on a fez that was held up in a display case.

Giddily The Doctor takes it out and put it on top of his head. He held out his arms and looked at his companion with a huge smile on his face.

Clara sighed, "Someday, you could just walk past a fez." Clara said, using her right arm to make a sweeping motion to the right were there was a couple steps going up to a doorway, which was open. Kate was already passing through the doorway.

"Never gonna happen." The Doctor vowed and Vivian snorted. "What?" Vivian shook her head.

They walked into another room with broken glass on the floor and alien paintings along the wall. A scientist was already there, wearing a white labcoat. "As you instructed, nothing has been touched."

Kate turned to face them, her back to the paintings, "This is why we called you in."

"3D again." Clara pointed out.

The Doctor saw Vivian's eyes narrow. She stepped forward, hand out to the paintings. She touched the frame and then pulled her hand back, "How do you have Time Lord art?" She eyed Kate accusingly.

Before Kate could answer and give an answer that Vivian might not like, The Doctor stated, "Interesting."

"The broken glass?" Clara asked. Crisis adverted, The Doctor thought. For now.

"No, where it's broken from." The Doctor started but then Vivian cut in, staring at the paintings.

"Look at the shatter pattern. The glass on all these paintings has been broken from the inside." Vivian said, staring at the paintings.

"As you can see, all the paintings are landscapes. No figures of any kind." Kate started.

"So?" The Doctor asked, still focused on looking at the paintings.

"There used to be." The Doctor turned his head slowly around to stare at Kate as she handed him a pad with the original image of the painting on it.

"Something's got out the paintings." Clara remarked.

"Lots of somethings. Dangerous." The Doctor agreed.

"This whole place has been searched. There's nothing here that shouldn't be, and nothing's got out." Kate stated just as a series of bright white light swirled in the room.

"That's a time fissure." Vivian stated, stepping back. "Don't get close to it. We don't know where the other side is and if it's safe or not."

The Doctor dropped his hands to his sides and exaggerated his sigh, "Oh no, not now." He glared at the time fissure.

"Doctor, what is it?" Clara asked.

"No, not now. I'm busy." The Doctor yelled.

"Is it to do with the paintings?" Kate asked.

The Doctor shook his head, "No, no. This is different." His eyes widened as some memories, that he didn't know were there, resurfaced, "I remember this." He winced, "Almost remember. Oh, of course. This is where I come in."

"What do you mean, this is where you come in?" Vivian asked him.

The Doctor ignored Vivian once again, took of his fez and threw it into the fissure. "Geronimo!" He yelled and he lept into it after the fez.

"Doctor!" He heard Clara yell and then he was falling, falling until he hit something solid. Something that felt like ground and soil. He was outside.

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