Alice tried fruitlessly to wake the Doctor up for what could have been hours. Finally, close to tears, she whispered in his ear: "if you won't wake up, at least tell me what you're seeing."

"Alice," the Doctor replied wistfully, "you should see it. It's beautiful…"

"What is?" she asked, glad she was getting a response from him.

"Home" he croaked

"But I thought it was destroyed…"

"Not this time. No one's dead. No one's gone. Everything's fine"

"Who's there?" Alice asked. She instantly wished she hadn't though. But she couldn't stand the silence any longer.

"Everyone, everyone I ever lost!"

"Even the Time Lords?"

"Yes. Even the Time Lords"

"But that's not right!" Alice said angrily. "What about the war! I thought if they came back so did it!"

"But we won the war"

Alice bit back tears. It broke her heart to see the Doctor so happy over something that wasn't real. "It isn't right though!" she told him.

"Why? What's wrong with a world without pain? Without loss?" He sounded angry now, as if he couldn't believe that Alice was being such a jerk. Couldn't believe she would destroy his hopes so easily.

"But isn't that what life is!" she asked

"Then life isn't worth living!"

Alice was both angry and slightly heartbroken. "So it isn't worth me?" she asked. The Doctor didn't respond.

Alice sighed and tried to calm herself down. "You know what comes with pain and loss? Love, and isn't that worth it?"

The Doctor didn't respond again, causing Alice to believe he was ignoring her.

"Please Doctor," she whispered, looking at him sadly. "Answer me."

He's never going to wake up, she realized, it would take a HUGE shock to wake anyone up from that…

Suddenly an idea popped into her head. It was fool-proof too, and as big of a shock she could managed. She let out a breath and then hesitantly, very hesitantly, leaned over to kiss him…

The two of them blundered into the console room about the same time, and said simultaneously: "I just had the oddest dream."

They both exchanged looks of shock before continuing to say things at the same time, such as: "Really?" "What did you dream about?" "You go first" "No, you!"

After a while, Alice took a deep breath and said: "Well, I dreamed that we had gone to this prison planet thing and-"

"You were dragged off…" the Doctor finished for her.

"Yeah…" Alice replied slowly. "And there were those virtual cell things…"

"Yes!" the Doctor said "and you were in one!"

"And then you got stuck in one!"

They both paused, remembering how the dream had ended. A bit of awkward silence passed.

"So, now where?" the Doctor asked a bit quickly

kay, end of the episode, whoohoo! anyways, I'm nearly positive I owe the people reading The Master Sword issue two chapters, so the next update might be a while