Fipp: The first episode of Series 7, "Asylum of the Daleks", is less than a week away! This is so exciting that I can hardly wait!

The Fourth

Hello, my Thief's Fourth.

Well, aren't you excited to leave? You only just recovered from a rather nasty case of death and already you're up for getting back inside and begin traveling? But I think you should stay and rest for a bit, like the Dutiful One and the Prim and Proper One keep saying.

You're acting very strange, much more strange than in any of the other Yous. I wonder, does this have to do with the Hermit helping along with your Regeneration? Or maybe it's something with the Regeneration itself? Either way, you should stay and rest for a bit, though it seems you've made up your mind already, and want to get away as fast as possible.

It's a good thing that there seems to be a problem that needs addressing. That should keep you busy until your head is all sorted out and this strangeness comes to pass.

000

It would seem that I was wrong, and this newfound strangeness seems to be a sort of default setting with you now. I cannot understand why anyone would need a scarf that long, or why you'd carry around all of those jelly-things.

Your mind tends to work in odd ways with this one, even when you knew what you were doing, it would often go in strange directions, making people think that you were just completely insane. Which might not be totally inaccurate. In any case, it always worked out for the tasks at hand.

And there were a lot of tasks with this body. The Time Lords tearing you away from me in order to deal with the creation of the Evil Ones for one. They very fact they would never do something like this only proves how much more evil they were capable of, and when you came back, I saw in your mind what you saw. From their birth, to the fall of the Kaleds, and the vile evil of the Horrid One.

I think seeing them at this point, at their very beginning, has given you new understanding hatred of them.

Your mood didn't improve with the Drumming One's return. How is it that can escape death so often? Even when he's run out of Regenerations?

Then there was everything with the Key. I don't like how that Guardian placed the Nobel One inside me without my permission. Though, I will admit it was funny seeing you two together; it's not often your strays have that kind of affect on you. Instead of you being the clever and impressive one, she actually showed up a few times.

It was sad to see her go, even though I am more than pleased she took the Tin Dog with her. I didn't like it that much, and I will never understand why you brought it along with you in the first place.

But, at least we've made it out of E-Space, along with the Uppity One. Since Nobel One is gone, there's no reason to go back to Gallifrey, that means we're free to go about our own business.

Where to now?

000

Through the key in your pocket, I knew everything that happened. The predictable betrayal of the Drumming One, who had stolen a body for his own, the message to the universe, the removing of the cable, the electric shock that weakened you, the dangling hundreds of feet in the air, and of course, the fall that shattered your spine.

You're not in pain, in fact, you can't feel much of anything below your chest. What you can feel is simply numbness.

Just how long did he follow you around? Back with the spiders, you were impressed with the Hermit's ability to manifest a future incarnation, so you decided to replicate that, but couldn't do it right. This "Watcher" as everyone kept calling him, was mostly unformed, just a white mass.

Despite being you, I never really figured out what he was thinking, such as why he decided to appear only hours before this moment, or why he went to bring the Calming One here. She did help the Uppity One back on Trakken, her home which is now gone because of them Drumming One, and they were fond of each other. If he had to save anyone, was that why?

But, I suppose that doesn't matter now. The reason why he's here has come. The time to fulfill the purpose behind his existence is here.

"It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for," you say to the Uppity One, the Shrill One, and the Calming One. Or, is it more to yourself, just said aloud? Either way, they're all worried about you, but only the Uppity One has any real clue on what is about to happen. Though he doesn't know the full extent to how much you'll change. Its's good your Watcher managed to tell someone something.

You reach your hand out, and beckon the Watcher to come forward, a gesture which he obeys. His body become yours, and the person he is supposed to be becomes you, and you are made whole again.

Goodbye, my Thief's Fourth.

000

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