"Alright then, shall we do this the easy way or the hard way?" It asked gesturing to the door where two bulky aliens stood with buzzing metal pitchforks.

"I'll go willingly." The Doctor answered and turned to Clara as the creature walked over to the door. "Clara don't offend them and no snarky comments." He told her quietly.

"That might be difficult." She said trying to lighten the mood. The Doctor smiled.

"Be careful."

"You too."

The Doctor followed 'Jack' out of the room and gave Clara one last look before the door slid shut...

Two hours later (three in human time)...

He really hadn't expected it to escalate so quickly but then should he really be surprised? Whatever was inside Jack had the temper of a two year old and that would have been fine if it wasn't that he had the upper hand. He almost laughed at the thought that had came to mind because at the moment it was sort of a joke.

About an hour and a half through there 'chat' the Doctor had said a few things that offended the thing inhabiting his friend and the conversation got out of hand. Literally out of hand. He'd had a slash to his palm which was still bleeding profoundly and didn't look like it was going to stop bleeding anytime soon. Good thing he had a dual-bypass system.

Now as he had thought earlier, he ALMOST laughed.

"Not feeling so sassy now are we chin boy?" It teased with an underlying anger in its voice. "Are we?!" A hard black boot was pressed into his face which was currently being squeezed to the floor. The Doctor gritted his teeth and it brought its foot back down to the grey floor with a grunt of failure.

"Defiance isn't a good practice here Doctor." It told him and then laughed. "By the rate your going I think you'll need a Doctor by the end of our chat." Using Jack's body it lifted the boot again and swung it roughly at the Doctor's stomach...

Somewhere else in the prison (two or three hours earlier, depending on how you look at it)...

"Hellooo." Clara said knocking on the metal door. "Can I get something to eat. Maybe a souffle?" She received no answer. "At least some water." A sudden slam on the other side of the door made her jump back. "Alright, alright don't have to get so huffy."

Clara tilted back on her heels looking around the bleak room as her mind wandered to the Doctor. She wondered where he was, what he was doing. Maybe he had already escaped and was finishing up his 'thing in progress'?

"Prisoner 2460107 you will come with guards 1091 and 1493." A mechanic voice commanded from apparently no where. the same two guards from earlier stepped into the room.

"You will come with us." They told her in eerie symmetry.

Clara took a step foreword. Oh how she hoped they were bringing her to the Doctor, no wait she wanted the opposite of that right now. She wanted the Doctor to come to her with his raggedy old TARDIS and whisk her off on another adventure because so far this one hadn't been very impressive. "You will come with us."

The buzz off electrocution started up and Clara gulped.

"I'll go willingly." She said tilting her head and giving them an unnerved smile. They both turned in identical formation and she followed in the hops she would see her Doctor soon...

back to the 'chat'...

The Doctor coughed as the air entered his lungs again. The kicks he'd gotten to his midsection had caught him off guard but he wasn't out of the game yet. He couldn't get out of the game, he had to figure out just what was going on here and how to get that thing out of Jack.

"So tell me Doctor now that we've got through the recent background and most of the willy-nilly old stuff lets talk about a few bodies ago." It said with a malicious smile.

"Anything... anything in particular?" He answer propping himself up onto his knees.

"Hmm let me think, I'll skip talking about Rose. It seems like she was a cutey might be fun to talk about but I have priorities at the moment." It said stroking its chin. Jack's chin. "How about the Time War."

The Doctor inwardly flinched. He would talk about everything in his life besides his name and that one incident with pear juice and the Time War was no exception. That was the darkest moment in his life and thanks to his super memory not a thing was forgotten.

"I'll talk about many things. But I don't talk about that, Jack knows that." He said searching into Jacks eyes. They were still clouded and cold.

"Well you're going to learn to." A hand flew straight across his face and passed with the unmistakable slap of flesh. There was a sting and he felt his skin swell instantly. It seemed for good measure it added a few more and by the end of it the Doctor guessed the right side of his face looked like someone had smeared grape jelly on it. It was unpleasant but he'd felt worse, much, much worse.

"Violence isn't a good tactic for teaching." The Doctor told it and it narrowed its eyes at him.

For his smart remark it grabbed him roughly by the shoulders and brought him to his feet before he even knew it. Moments later his head hit solid wall and swung foreword at a sickening speed. The Doctor groaned as a headache sprouted in his head. "Yeah well I have a special form of teaching, you've never heard of it. I'm surprised."

"Known lots of people who've known 'your special form of teaching'." The Doctor answered. It narrowed its eyes and brought back its arm again.

"Now are you going to tell me about the Time War or do you want a few broken ribs to wake up to?" It asked.

"I've been tortured more times than you could count on a centipedes legs. You're going to need to persuade me more than that." The Doctor said rolling his eyes. A look of furry passed over the face the creature was bearing and then a sickening smile.

"I think I have the perfect thing." He said calmly before sending his fist at the Doctors temple.

Everything went suddenly dark for the Time Lord.

~To be continued.~