A/N: I know that it's been a long time, but here it is, the next chapter. I am working on making a schedule so that I can work on certain fics on certain days. Two Worlds will be every Tuesday or every other Tuesday since I'm close to finishing it.

Enjoy!

The Doctor sat in the brig cell, his head hung and hands clasped behind him as he paced around the small perimeter.

"Doctor, you can't get emotional, you don't think right when you do." Jack affirmed, "What is our next move?"

The Doctor lifted his head and Jack could see the devastation on his face, "She use to say that."

"The TARDIS is a sentient being, right? Maybe she protected River at the last minute." Jack offered, hoping to pull his friend out of the gloom so as to focus on the task at hand.

The Doctor just shook his head, "Whatever happened, the TARDIS was tampered with, with the damage that it sustained earlier..." He trailed off, "But it's not entirely impossible."

"Good, she may be alive then. Now think, what will we do?" Jack inquired.

"I don't know." The Doctor said finally, shaking his head, "The crew is afraid to go against their prince. If we can't get them behind us..."

"Doctor..." a voice called softly from the corridor. Kotens appeared, wary of the security cameras, and made his way to the holding cell.

"Kotens," The Time Lord noted the clouded look on the officer, "What's happened?"

The officer drew breath before he spoke, "The crew have opted to take part in the mutiny. You were right, we can't let him hurt anyone else. Tell us what we have to do."

"We can't let anyone else get in his way, that is the main thing. This ship cannot make it back to the planet..." The Doctor explained.

"Rory," Amy called softly to her husband, who was sitting next to their daughter's hospital bed, watching her slow steady breaths. She had not been badly hurt, save for the broken ribs and shoulders. The nurses had sedated her and determined that she would be fine with a few days rest. Amy was holding Alex on her lap, running her hand through his hair as he slept as well. "Do you think the Doctor's alright?"

Rory didn't look at her, "I don't know Amy. I know he'll talk he way out of everything, it's his M.O." At this, both of them chuckled.

"I don't want to loose him, Rory, not again, not ever." Amy said solemnly, "Do you think we made the right decision?"

"Amy, you were so adamant about adopting Alex, and now you don't know? You said yourself that he doesn't have any family." Rory stammered.

"I'm not saying he's not worth saving. Even the Doctor wouldn't ignore a crying child. But, I don't want anyone else to get killed on our behalf." She finished the last sentence with a whisper.

"If we have to put everyone in this hospital into the TARDIS to protect them, then that's what we'll do. And I'll go rescue the Doctor, if it even comes to that."

Amy smiled, "Rory..."

"Hmmm?" Her husband seemed not to be paying attention.

"It's kinda sexy."

Rory let a sly smile over take him.

"I think I have a plan." The Doctor said, after a few moments. "I can use the sonic screwdriver to block Samor's psychic powers for a moment-"

"You can do that?" Jack interrupted looking gobsmacked, "Then why the hell didn't you do it earlier and let it go that far?"

"I had to see-" The Doctor ran a hand through his fringe, "I had to see how powerful Samor's power was, and if my sonic could handle it."

"And?" Kotens prompted somewhat eagerly, "Can it?"

The Doctor nodded, "I can get him to try to attack me, and when he starts to-"

"But he's quite strong, how are you going to keep him from stopping his attack?" Koten gulped, as a slight tremor ran through the officer.

"I'll have to take that chance," The Doctor returned, digging the sonic screwdriver and an actual screwdriver from two separate pockets. He looked up at both seriously. "You'll only have maybe 36 seconds to take him down."

Now it was Jack's turn to look flabbergasted, "Doctor, did you just hear yourself? Since when did killing people become an option? That's not you, that's never you!" He seethed.

"People change, Jack! Every time I try to understand, there are more victims. Samor is not going to reason with me, and you know that." The Doctor seethed.

Jack straightened up a little and gave the Doctor an intense stare, "When did you become such a cruel person, Doctor?" He inquired in a quiet but dark tone.

The Doctor snorted without looking up, "I've had about 700 plus years, Jack."

"I've had over a thousand, nearly three hundred years of which I was left behind by you and had to wait for you to appear again." Jack sniffed. "

"Enough!" Kotens cut in, "Look Doctor, Jack has a point. There has got to be a better way." He seemed to think for a moment. "Couldn't we...capture him and take him back to the King and Queen?"

The Doctor paused for a moment, "Do you really think they will punish their own son, the prince of their planet?"

"Anything is better than the alternative," Kotens muttered.

"Afraid, Kotens?" Sneered the Doctor, still working on the sonic screwdriver.

"No, but I don't want to become a hypocrite like you, Doctor." Kotens grunted.

This statement caught the Doctor's attention; the Time Lord's head snapped up, a mixture of anger and determination reflected in hazel eyes. It was a look that would have made anyone fearful, but the officer held his ground.

"You've never had to destroy your own planet to stop a intergalactic war." growled the Doctor.

"And yet, you've decided to employ the same tactics that Samor has, the same ones you were against from the beginning!" Exclaimed the officer.

"Gentlemen, if we could tone down the argument?" Jack interceded calmly, "We don't want to be overheard." He jerked his thumb towards the empty corridor.

The two men stopped fighting, but the tension remained.

"What do you suggest we do then, Kotens?" The Doctor asked smoothly, "Because even as we speak, this ship is headed back to the planet to finish off my friends."

"We'll take your plan of action, but only to capture him, not kill him. You cannot be judge, jury and executioner." Kotens affirmed.

Jack stood, "Agreed. Where would the captain be now?"

"Wait, we the crew have a planned signal that I will communicate out to tell them that we've begun."

Slinking to the control panel, the officer had entered a code that they heard in chimes, before turning back to the prisoners.

"Now...it's time."

TBC...