We all like a bit of Doctor in the small hours of the morning. ;D

Time is Relative.

As the dial tone rang out in the TARDIS, the two humans, along with the wisest being in the universe, stood still. They were at a loss of what to do.

Well, the humans were.

'Doctor...' Amy said in a voice that suggested only the darkest things. 'What are you doing - !'

She was interrupted by the TARDIS lurching into action at the pull of a lever, and toppled into Rory as the Doctor began his dance around the console. Side step pull, side step twirl, hop kick tweak, a flourish of a smack of a button, and repeat.

'What're we doing, Pond! We're going on a rescue mission, that's what!'

'Do you even know this Lucy girl!' Amy demanded as she pulled herself away from Rory, who she'd knocked to the floor in the sudden lurch – and he whimpered as he realised that the chance for a quick grope slipped him by.

'Yes! Well, no. Maybe! Possibly. Probably. Technically,' The Doctor rambled, seizing hold of the handles on the screen and swinging himself round the console as its middle pounded away furiously. Rory, only having just managed to find his feet again was thrown into the railings around the console as the whole TARDIS swung to the left. Amy followed after at a dangerous speed. 'I knew what was going to happen, and I knew that Lucy's important! But all that regeneration energy's scrambled my memories and time's going kablooy. If I knew what's going on in the future, then its probably best if we unkablooy it before we all die!' The console sparked. 'Stop that!' The Doctor shouted, and hit it with a hammer. Something dinged in response.

'So what're we going to do?' Rory shouted back.

'We're going to pay a visit to TORCHWOOD and Abstergo!'

'You what! That – that Vidic man seemed pretty dangerous! And what the hell is Abstergo?'

'You heard of the Templars?'

'...No?'

'I'll explain later then!' Something went fizzbang, and the TARDIS seemed to revert to the attitude a salt pot might have and shook its passengers from side to side. Amy screamed and smashed into Rory again, who both fell into the floor while the Doctor barely hung on to the edge of the console by his fingertips and then and then and then –

Everything went calm.

'Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?' The Doctor asked as the two humans picked themselves up and glared at him. He ran around the console and stared at them, bringing up his hands. 'Right – five minute crash course. Abstergo are the front for the big meanie Templars who want to control the world with some kind of peace brought about by enslaving people, 'coz that's human logic and humans are stupid, right? Vidic's their leader, and he's been dabbling with technologies he doesn't understand for too long now, and something's gone wrong in the future because I know about it. My past self found Lucy and told her about it. Now why would I do that?'

'Because you're a nutter.'

'Not now, Pond. And we've got nothing to go on and no clue about anything so I say we give it a shot, go to Abstergo and see what happens.'

There was a pause. 'So we get a vote?' Rory asked.

'No, we're doing it 'cause I say so.'

'Wait a sec, who're these Assassins?' Amy asked. 'How do they come into it?'

'Ah, interesting question,' The Doctor said. 'They – '

Somewhere on the console, something began to beep. It wasn't a hey! everything's just fine here! kind of beep, it was an urhm, you might like to come check this out... kind of beep.

Thoroughly distracted, the Doctor approached the console like a worried owner approaches a dog that's making painful noises and holding up a paw.

'Doctor, what is it?' Amy demanded.

'Something's...weird,' The Doctor replied in a murmur, and approached the source of the noise. An orange light blinked on and off with the painful sounding beeps. He cupped his hands over it and pressed his ear to his fingers, as though he could listen to the TARDIS' worry. 'What's the matter old girl?' He murmured.

And then, quite suddenly, there was the horrible noise of something electrical turning itself off with no physical prompting whatsoever. Slowly but surely, the lights all cut out, and the hum of the TARDIS wound down until all the noise that was left was the sound of silence.

The only thing that gave any sign of life was the light that blinked on and off through the Doctor's fingers. It made his hands glow, and his face was lit up eerily.

'Something tells me we've just found TORCHWOOD,' Rory said quietly.

'Or rather, Abstergo just found us,' The Doctor replied.

The orange light went on blinking.

Chapter ten will be up one day soon! :D *LOVE*