ALRIGHT GUYS, with Assassin's Creed 3 release SOON, here's how the updates of this will work. I'll be updating now, and later today. The sixth and final phase of this chapter will go up tomorrow evening, as I'm flying home from Greece back to the UK. I'm well aware that USA readers will have their copies of the game by then, and I hate you all for it. 31st and a couple of days afterwards its likely that there won't be many updates. ANND I think you can guess you guys know why :P I'm seriously excited for this game: its the most I've ever spent on one thing, and I can't wait to play it. Until then, the internet is my worst enemy - spoilers are going up left right and center and I LITERALLY CAN'T with it. Anyway, that's the updating situation. ON WITH THE SHOW! :D

There was a moment of unspeakably tense silence, the tension heightening as the Doctor's anger grew and grew into something powerful and mad: his fists clenched at his sides and his mouth was drawn into a tight light line. And when he spoke, his words were forced into something calm and controlled, and they fought against his tone.

'I came when you called,' he stated. 'I come tearing across the universe when I hear a thousand screams of people dying, I come to the aid of revolutionaries when it comes to take the power back from the man and give it to the people, and I come to stop wars and make peace. What gives you the right to tell me what I already know?'

Altaïr's expression was neutral and peaceful. 'Because when I saw my father executed by the Templar enemies, all the screaming I did was silent, locked inside me to turn into bitter resentment and ignorance. And Doctor, you did not hear me then. Nor did you hear the unspoken pain of the children cut down by Assassin and Templar alike, the crying that they did inside when they witnessed their family cut down in front of them, their mothers and sisters raped and their fathers and brothers killed if they refused to hand over what they had. For all your power, you did not hear every scream, and you didn't know.' Altaïr still looked placid as he said it. 'You knew nothing.'

The Doctor was stubborn. 'I can't fix everything, things like wars are fixed points in the space time continuum, I can't stop everything and I can't save everyone – '

'For a man of your power, I find that hard to believe.' Altaïr said, cutting the Doctor short. The Apple in his hand hummed slightly, and Sef glanced up at it nervously. 'From all the things that I have heard and seen, Doctor, I doubt the intentions of a man who uses your kind of power for good.'

The silence that fell between the Doctor and Altaïr, the kind of silence that falls between two people of immense power and the resulting energy isn't sure where to place itself – so it floats, brimming with tension and ready to snap. The silence continued before Altaïr called the power to himself.

'Come,' he stated, and turned and walked back up the stairs. After a glance that was hard to read at the Doctor, Malik was the first to follow him. The Doctor and River remained, River watching the Doctor anxiously as he fixed his gaze to the floor, brimming with anger that was hard to expel. She knew better to talk before he did, and so was silent until he said anything.

'What has he seen?'

River thought about the question before answering. 'Too much,' she said after a while.

The Doctor lifted his head so his eyes fixed on the spot where Altaïr and his son had just been standing. His look darkened, and he said:

'I've seen more.'

Short, I know, but there's an update later as I say. See you then! :D