Fipp: After some procrastinating I've decided to finish this one after watching The Three Doctors.
It was nice seeing Hartnell one last time.
See you when I see the Third Doctor's last story.
The Second
Hello, my Thief's Second.
Just try and keep calm, I know it's difficult to try and adjust to your new, well, everything after the first one, but just clear your mind and focus on one thing.
Good, now with that part done with, let's see who are now…
Yes, I know you don't look like yourself anymore. I can see it in your head; you're tying to see a wrinkled old face and white hair in the mirror, but you see something younger, and a mess of black atop your head. Rest assure, you are still you.
They're both not sure though, the Thick One and the Yellow One, but the Yellow One seems to believe you more than the Thick One. Well of course the ring won't fit anymore, it wasn't made for these new hands.
What? No, my Thief, you are not a different person, you're still my Thief, so stop referring to yourself as another person.
What's this? Some new clothes? Oh yes, you will spend a lot of time with those, though you still have trouble trusting yourself.
Ah! I've got it! I know where you should go right now, and it should help you realize just who you are.
000
You're, what's the word, fun? Yes, you're much more fun this time. You became much less serious in the last years of your last life, but with this it's almost like you're a child. You find everything more excitable now, and you look at everything with a less critical eye than before.
Another thing that I noticed is that you are now trying to save people. Yes, you did that before, but mostly because you had no alternatives, but now, you are going out of your way to make sure that these evils are stopped.
You've even been taking in your strays with much more vigor; not because they just stumble through my doors, but because they want to come, and you want their company.
And I must admit, I like it. It's nice to do these things. I stole you because I wanted to see the universe, and really that's all I was interested in, but going out and helping all those people, stopping the crimes that would have otherwise went unanswered…
I hope we can do this for a very long time.
000
Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this to us?
I am sorry, my Thief, I tried to run, I honestly did, but I just couldn't run far enough. Neither of us could.
Even your last attempt at freedom failed, just outside my doors.
"They'll forget me, won't they?" you asked your fellow Time Lord as the Skirted One and the Logical One enter into one of my sisters. Their memories will be erased, the people they became will be no more as everything they've done and learnt is locked away.
And this is only the start…
Exile? On Earth? In one century in time? A forced regeneration?
That is murder! They are killing you for stopping all that evil! How is this fair? How is this justice?
"No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! NO! NO! NO!"
I… I'm having trouble reaching out to you. I can feel you slipping away as your body becomes New.
Everything is becoming black… and…
Goodbye, my Thief's Second.
000
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