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Chapter 2

"Doctor explain now," said Amy with a tone of anger that helped to hide her fear of the situation.

"Yeah, I don't really understand either" said Rory with a tone of genuine confusion.

The Doctor turned to look at his companions, but when he tried to speak he was for once speechless. He had no idea what to say or how to explain the situation they were currently in. For one of the first times since meeting Amy and Rory he was truly helpless to the situation they were in.

"Doctor," Amy shouted, "Who is this man?"

The ashen and tattered soldier stepped forward and said, "I think I can explain better than your Doctor."

"Oh really now," said Amy, "Well why don't you?"

"Amy maybe you shouldn't be so rude to the guy who teleported into the TARDIS who probably can kill us," suggested Rory.

The older laughed his hollow laugh again as the Doctor sunk into his chair with his head in his hands. The man said, "I like this one, a companion who actually has common sense. They were so tough to come by during my tenure. What's your name boy?"

Rory looked around frantically and saw his wife who was terrified putting on a brave face and the Doctor sulking in his chair before responding, "I am Rory Williams, The Last Centurion, the guardian of the Pandorica, and I will not allow you to do any damage to this ship or my wife."

"Brilliant speech Roman," said the man, "but I didn't come here to cause any damage. I came here to fix something your Doctor broke." The timeworn ragged and threadbare soldier looked at the Doctor before saying, "I'm going to tell them who I am, who we are and you're not going to interrupt me are you?"

The Doctor barely moved and was silent. With his head still in his hands he said, "Go ahead tell them whatever you like."

"Thank you Doctor," the scruffy man said. "To start with, you know that the Doctor is a Time Lord and that he can regenerate or has he not even told you that yet?"

"We know," said Rory.

"Well in that case I don't have to explain much," responded the man. "I am the Doctor's tenth incarnation in a sense. I was born from the residual energy in his detached hand. The only difference between us is that I am almost human. I still have Time Lord DNA, but I have only one heart and no regenerations. I'm mortal. The Doctor banished me to another universe with a woman he loved, that I loved, because I was the man who never should have been. I've already told you a bit about the Dalek invasion, but you don't understand how bad it really was." The former Doctor paused before continuing. "Roman I sense you have seen much but you have not seen the Dalek war machine in action. On the first day entire cities were destroyed. Not just blown up but completely obliterated. There was nothing left, not even ash. In the weeks that followed, the survivors were led by myself and Rose Tyler, the Bad Wolf. We fought hard for years, we never knew if there were other pockets of resistance still fighting or if we were the only ones left, but we fought. I wasn't about to let the human race go down without a fight, you're a strong group and you would fight to the very last man. Unfortunately it was a war we could not win. We didn't even have the slightest chance. In the final hours we were pinned down in the remnants of Torchwood Base 6, which was located out in the country side beyond Leeds. We had little food and less ammo, but Rose she gave us hope. She told reminded me that I had beaten the Daleks before and I could do it again. For a minute I believe her and then she was hit by a Dalek blast."

"Wow, I can't even begin to understand what you've been through," said Rory, "But you still haven't explained how you got here."

Tears began to stream down the face of The Man Who Never Was, the Doctor's shadow. He looked at Rory and said, "Do you know why Rose Tyler was called the Bad Wolf? She looked into the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed her energy. She became an immensely powerful being for a few short minutes, but not all of that energy left her body. When she died the remaining TARDIS energy ripped a temporary hole in the universes, it allowed me to return home to my TARDIS."