A/N - Hihi, I meant to have this posted sooner, not that I'm sure anyone's actually complaining. Just a sort of short little Meanwhile in the TARDIS, but also quite an important one. There wasn't really any good way to put this into a proper episode, so I figured slipping it in between was the best option. REVIEWS PLS?
It had been a few hours since the events in the Space Vatican, and inside the TARDIS, the time rotor was going at a steady pace, but it seemed out of sync with the sounds of the TARDIS engines.
"What's going on with that?" Amy asked, pointing at the rotor.
"The probability vectors have shattered. We're out of sync within our own timestream!"
"Which means?" Callum asked, hopping down the stairs to the console.
"Well, basically, the TARDIS isn't going to respond the way she should."
"So basically, we have a problem?" Amy asked, trying not to smile at the frustrated expression on the Doctor's face.
"Well, yes, if we want to land in Glasgow in one piece," the Doctor cried, throwing his hands up in the air in frustration. "In fact, if we're pretty much lost for landing anywhere at this point!"
"But you can fix it, right?" Callum asked, a little worriedly.
"Oh, well, really it's matter of letting the TARDIS fix itself. I can speed it up a little bit but it'll take me about 10 hours. If you want, you two can head off to bed and I'll wake you up when we're back on course."
"Sounds like a plan," Amy smiled. "I could do with a bit of shut-eye after the whole Weeping Angel thing."
"Hm," Callum murmured in agreement.
Callum slept fretfully for the next several hours, tossing and turning in his bed as his nightmares terrorised him. He was in what seemed to be a Greek pantheon, surrounded at all sides by Weeping Angels. He spun on the spot, desperate to keep his eyes on as many as possible, but to no avail, as they continued to draw closer and closer.
Then a stab of pain ran through his brain and he yelled in agony, clutching his head. He coughed up some blood and felt another stabbing pain, before... a new feeling. Something powerful.
By this point, the Weeping Angels were almost upon him, but then the next thing Callum knew, he was lying face down on the floor of the pantheon, surrounded by a circle of rubble and dust.
"D-did I do that?" he asked to nobody in particular, before crying out in pain as he felt a terrible burning sensation in his left forearm. He rolled up his sleeve and gazed down in horror as the symbol that he had envisioned back in New Hollywood suddenly scorched itself into his arm, like a fiery brand.
"I-I..." his body was screaming out with pain and fear, and his senses went into overdrive. Everything was happening at once, before...
Callum slumped to the ground once again, unconscious.
"The boy has successfully tapped into the Triangle energy, albeit in a dream state!"
"What?!" screamed the shadowy figure in his throne of steel. "This could ruin everything we worked for!"
"It's alright, sir, I can place a perception filter around him, and place a wall in his memory of the dream - it'll be like it never even happened. It may not be long term but it shall certainly be long enough to keep the Doctor from prying before it's too late."
"Yes, let it be done! And, quickly!" screamed the order. "Soon shall be the day that Callum Hendrick comes to me, and on that day the Triangle will fall, and the final victory... shall. Be. Mine!"
Callum woke up with a start, toppling off the side of his bed, naked, and landing rather painfully on the floor.
"Owwww," he groaned, sitting up and rubbing his back, where it had smacked off the ground. He felt like he'd forgotten something, but he assumed it was just because he'd been tired.
His thoughts were interrupted by the Doctor yelling from the console room.
"We're back on course! We'll be in Glasgow in about twenty minutes, so you both better get a move on!"
"It's been a while, Glasgow," Callum smiled as he picked himself off the floor and began to get ready.
A/N - Episode Four (the mid-season finale): The Brimstone Snow, shall begin on December 1st, so don't think I've abandoned you all or anything!
