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"So...the Master is nuts why?" Jack asked as he and Andy watched the show in the station. Having done all they could at Trudy's Tresses, Jack decided it was time to figure out how someone could bring a Time Lord to life.
"I kinda hate to give it away, Boss. It's explained in the next episode, but basically, all his lives the Master has heard a drumming in his head." Andy said munching on popcorn.
"Really? Huh. That'd drive me nuts too. So from what I can tell, the person who created the Doctor's and companions used the bioprinter and the actor's DNA. But if they're going off this episode as a model, then they also used the life force of other people. Right?" Jack theorized.
"Or at least their psychic energy." Andy said.
"Psychic energy?" Jack asked.
"A plot device the show uses. Sort of like a mix between telepathy and telekinesis. An energy source produced by the power of thought."
"Anyone in Eureka interested in that?" Jack asked.
"It's parapsychology. There's no scientific basis of proof for it." Andy shook his head.
"Oh come on. No one is interested in it?" Jack said.
"Well...there is Dr. Dreckmeyer..." Andy said reluctantly.
"Dreckmeyer? No!" Jack groaned.
"He is Eureka's only parapsychologist Boss. Dr. Deacon even let him continue his research at GD." Andy said.
"Research that involves looking for ghosts and nearly trapping me in the fifth dimension." Jack complained as the phone rang.
Andy got up and answered the phone with a hearty,
"Good afternoon! This is the Eureka Sheriff station. Deputy Andy speaking. How may I help you?"
Seeing the concerned nod of his head, Jack asked his deputy quietly,
"What's up?"
Andy excused himself and covered the receiver with his hand, putting the caller on hold,
"It's Dr. Henkel on Newton Drive. He said he saw a pair of trespassers on his neighbors property."
"Tell him I'm on my way. Stay close to the radio in case I need backup." Jack told him, grabbing his jacket and rushing out to his jeep.
"It's the old Peabody farm Boss!" Andy called after him.
Jack immediately went into cop mode. He got in his jeep and raced off for the back roads of Eureka, his siren blaring. Within minutes he turned onto a dirt road that led to a small farm with a creme house and a rickety old barn next to it. Jack climbed out of his jeep, hand on his sidearm, ready for action. At least he was until he heard two familiar British accents...
"Hold still!"
"Why couldn't I climb up to the window again?"
"Because you're the taller one!"
"By three inches! Besides I'm a stone lighter than you."
Jack sighed tucking his hands in his jacket pockets. He moseyed over to the barn where sure enough he saw the Eleventh Doctor's legs dangling from a hay loft, the Tenth Doctor struggling to hoist him up.
"Problem fellas?" Jack interrupted.
Ten looked at Jack and smiled,
"Oh. Hullo Sheriff Carter."
"Hullo Sheriff!" Eleven said over his shoulder, dangerously close to losing his grip.
"Dare I ask why you're trying to break another law?" Jack asked.
"Well if you mean breaking and entering...we...um...huh. I'm blocked. I literally cannot come up with a good lie right now. It's all just...blank. How about you Doctor?" Ten asked.
"We heard a baby crying!" Eleven grunted as Ten snapped his fingers and pointed at him as if that was acceptable.
"Yeah right. And you knocked but no one was answering the door." Jack said.
"We did actually knock. Then we heard the poor child crying, saw the open window in the attic, saw the roof of the barn was next to the window and we came in here to look for a ladder. No ladder. Not even one for the hay loft." Ten rambled.
"Which is when the Eleventh Doctor told you to give him a boost." Jack said.
"Precisely! Simple enough isn't it?" Eleven asked cheerfully before grimacing at the sensation of losing his grip and falling from the loft.
"Oof!"
"Uh huh. Come on. I saw their truck here so I know they're inside. Let's knock again." Jack said walking away as the Tenth Doctor helped the Eleventh Doctor up. Eleven brushed off his tweed coat as they followed Jack back outside and up the front porch to the door.
Jack rang the bell and knocked on the door for a good five minutes,
"Dr. Peabody? Margo?"
"See? They're not answering." Eleven said.
"Shall we try the barn again?" Ten asked as Jack checked the front windows. It was dark inside, and no one seemed to be home. Until Jack saw a foot shift into view from behind the couch.
"Something's wrong." Jack said stepping back to kick the front door in. The lock broke off, sending the door flying. They rushed in, seeing the Peabodys on the floor. Jack got out his gun and told them,
"Check them. I'm going to clear the house."
He left the room, his weapon raised to clear each room. Ten checked the elder man on the floor for a pulse while Eleven checked on his wife.
Ten shook his head solemnly,
"He's gone."
"She's not! She's just barely has a pulse!" Eleven said starting to perform CPR. Ten scooted over to help him, he clearing her airway and breathing into her mouth while Eleven performed chest compressions.
Jack returned to declare while pulling out his cellphone,
"House is clear. I'm calling an ambulance."
"Tell them she's not breathing and her heart's nearly stopped!" Ten said.
"And hurry!" Eleven said starting to do a heart thump.
A half hour later, the ambulance loaded up Margo Peabody who was currently hooked up to oxygen. A second ambulance was loading up the corpse of Dr. Peabody. A team of CSI techs from GD were examining the house under Jack's direction. Dressed in his county coroner windbreaker, Henry sighed as he approached the Doctors who were watching the scene.
"The good news is you saved Margo Peabody's life." Henry told them.
"And the bad news is we made her a widow." The Eleventh Doctor said solemnly.
"It's not your fault. Dr. Peabody was dead way before you two even arrived to the farm. If you hadn't come here at all, Margo would be dead too." Henry asserted.
"What was the cause of death?" The Tenth Doctor asked.
"I won't know for sure until I do the autopsy." Henry shook his head.
"We came here because we detected Timey Wimey stuff and Dr. Peabody was an astrophysicist who studied black holes. Do the math. It'll equal Ten and Eleven. Come on Doctor." Ten said heading inside, Eleven falling into step beside him. Henry watched them go, shaking his head. He should have known it would be in character for the Doctors to blame themselves. Which was why he was determined to find the true cause of death.
Inside, the Doctors found Jack in a cluttered workshop, trying to decipher the scribblings on the digital chalkboard.
"I swear they make up half of these math symbols to confuse me." Jack said.
"Well technically if you go by the rules of this universe, these symbols are made up. Made up by the same people who made us. At least the people on the show who made us the character, not made us as in actual people." The Eleventh Doctor explained.
"Huh?" Jack asked.
"It's Gallifreyian. The language of the Time Lords." Ten said.
"You have your own language now?" Jack asked.
"Of course we have our own language! Don't be daft!" Eleven exclaimed.
"Says the alien with a British accent." Jack quipped.
"Time Lord accent...We came first." Eleven corrected.
"Not in this universe." Jack said, unable to wipe the smirk on his face when he realized he had a point over the Doctor.
"Oh...Shut up." Eleven told him.
"So what's its say?" Jack asked amused.
"Well...it's seems Dr. Peabody was using Gallifreyian as a sort of short hand and a way to keep his notes private. Quite clever really. You see each word in our written language tries to convey a moment in time. An idea if you will." The Tenth Doctor spoke up having pulled his brainy specks out to put them on.
"So what was Peabody's idea? His entry for the Ultimate Whovian Contest?" Jack asked.
"It looks like it started as that, but Peabody was on to something. An actual scientific discovery. He was working on a theory to see if controlling the radiation levels of a black hole would create an Eye of Harmony. Which is fairly close to how the Time Lords created one." Ten explained leaning in to the board.
"Except for the addition of one of our founding fathers of course." Eleven said.
"An Eye of Harmony?" Jack asked.
"It's how the Time Lords controlled the time vortex. You see a black hole allows one to jump from one end of time and space to another like a straight tunnel. The Eye of Harmony allows us to harness the radiation of an imploding black hole and connect it to our TARDIS's so we can create an opening anywhere in time and space to slip through." Eleven added.
"The Bridge device..." Jack muttered to himself.
"The what device?" Ten asked.
"Nothing. So how close was he to making an Eye of Harmony?" Jack asked.
"See that's the thing. It was just a theory! There are notes here from this experiment done at GD a few years back that he was using to develop a test for his theory, but it was just in the planning stages." Ten shook his head.
"What experiment?" Jack asked.
"Um...ooh! They replicated the Big Bang on a small scale! Brilliant!" Eleven said impressed with the scientists of Eureka more and more. Only to his confusion, Jack rolled his eyes.
"Oh yeah. An unstable bunch of gases set to blow up the town just around the time a scientist experimenting with chickens and stem cell research made almost the whole town go dumb after a barbecue. I remember it well." Jack said dryly.
"Chickens?" Ten asked cocking his head rather like a chicken.
"Long story. Short version is all the astrophysicists were too busy playing hopscotch while the world was about to end." Jack said.
"What's wrong with that?" Eleven asked.
Jack sighed pulling out his ringing cellphone,
"Forgot who I was talking to. Carter?"
The Doctors grew concerned seeing the look of panic and worry spread to his face.
"Ally...Allison calm down. I'm on my way." Jack assured his wife before hanging up.
"What's wrong?" Eleven asked following the distraught Sheriff out of the house.
"It's our son Kevin. Something happened to him at school today." Jack said rushing for his jeep.
"We're coming with you." Ten told him.
"This is a family matter." Jack said climbing into the driver's side.
"Is that why your hands are shaking?" Ten said.
"What?" Jack asked. He looked down at his hands and saw that they were trembling fiercely.
Eleven covered his hand with his own and said gently,
"Your family needs you, Jack. They need you to be strong. The Doctor will drive. You just focus on controlling your fears, alright?"
Jack nodded, knowing they were right.
Having memorized a map of Eureka, the Tenth Doctor got to Tesla High in record time. Of course it helped that Jack let them turn on the siren, to the Doctors delight. Getting out of the jeep, Jack raced inside where he found Allison pacing outside the school office.
"Allison!"
"Oh Jack! It's Kevin. The teacher said he zoned out during class. He wouldn't respond! And he was writing equations all over his notebook! Just like he did when..." Allison wept rushing into his arms.
"Where is he?" Jack interrupted. The Doctors exchanged a look.
"He's getting his stuff from his locker." Allison sniffed.
"So he's okay?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, now. But Jack what's happening?" Allison asked.
"I don't know. But we'll figure it out." Jack assured her.
"Of course we will! So! This is an American high school ey? Love it. When do the kids start breaking out into song and dance?" The Eleventh Doctor interrupted with a clap of his hands.
"And is it going to be more like 'Grease' or 'High School Musical'? Or 'Glee' maybe? Is 'Glee' still on the air?" The Tenth Doctor added.
"No way!" Kevin interrupted upon joining them.
"Hey Buddy. You okay?" Jack asked.
"I'm fine. But you are officially the best Dad in the world. You brought the Doctors to my school? Dre is going to trip over this." Kevin said pulling out his cell phone and texting his friend.
"Hey! You scared your mother and me half to death! What happened in class?" Jack asked sternly.
"I don't know. I just...spaced out. One minute I was laughing at Mr. Reece's Doctor Who jokes, the next I was in the nurses office." Kevin shrugged.
"Interesting. If you'll allow me to take a peek under the bonnet Allison, I could read Kevin's mind to see what happened today." Eleven asked.
"You can read people's minds?" Jack asked.
"Only with their permission." Ten replied.
"Great...that's comforting." Jack said.
"Uh, thanks Doctor. But it's fine. I'll check Kevin out at GD myself." Allison said.
"With what equipment?" Eleven asked raising a brow.
"I'll meet you there after I drive the Doctor's back home. The companions are waiting for them." Jack told her.
"Wait a minute! We're not going to sit on the sidelines now! We have to find out who killed Dr. Peabody!" Ten protested.
"Old Man Peabody was murdered? Seriously?" Kevin asked.
"We don't know if he was murdered. And I don't want half the town thinking he was until we're sure okay?" Jack told him.
"Okay...uh oh." Kevin nodded before checking his phone.
"Honey? What's wrong?" Allison asked.
"Well when I texted Dre, he told the whole class about the Doctors being here. And they texted their friends and now the whole school knows." Kevin explained.
"Ah twenty first century teenagers...with your hashtags and your Twitter..." The Eleventh Doctor said making a face.
"Why is that a cause for concern?" Ten asked.
"Because class is about to be let out?" Kevin winced.
"What?" Ten blanched. Just then the bell rang and students poured into the halls.
"There they are!" One girl exclaimed pointing them out as the girls began to scream.
"Uh...hullo...ah...um..." Eleven stuttered nervously.
"Run!" Kevin cried. The Doctors didn't have to be told twice. They took off down the hall as a stampede of girls (and a few boys) started to chase them. Kevin pushed his mother out to the side, leaving Jack out in the middle.
"No! No! No! Stop! I am so calling your parents!" Jack said trying to hold off the girls.
"Jack! Get out of there!" Allison cried.
"Gah!" Jack cried getting knocked to the ground.
"Jack!" Allison cried.
Thankfully once the dust had settled, Jack groaned from the floor, battered and bruised,
"I hate Eureka Con!"
Meanwhile, the Doctors were tearing down the street as the girls continued to chase them. They were trying desperately to think of something, anything from their combined three thousand years to elude their hormonal pursuers. But it was all they could do to run.
"Aaahhhh!" They screamed.