warning: what is to come might just be CREEPY, DISTURBING, or just plain WRONG

also, in case you're wondering, Edd is a character of my own, main antagonist of another (non fanfic) book i'm writing.

"Why the heck are you doing this anyways?" Alice asked, pulling back from another mental attack of Edd's. He shook his head, apparently more damaged than she was. (Alice scoffed at this idea.)

"Well considering this knowledge won't affect the process; I'll tell you. The mind is a complex thing, filled with many pressure points. Certain people, like me, have the ability to invade the mind and hit these pressure points, causing it to weaken. A weaker mind is easier to control." He explained this all like it was kindergarten knowledge. And maybe, for him, it was.

"Speaking of which, do you know about the uproar you caused back home?"

Alice did her best to ignore him. It was easier now that he had taken the freezing spell off of her and resorted to chaining her wrists to the ceiling and feet to the ground. Apparently magic just didn't work on her. Edd blamed it on the fact that she was Hylian.

"You left, no note, no goodbyes, no nothing" he continued. "They've sent search parties looking for you. Accused many of kidnapping, and your sister misses you oh so much."

Alice bit her lip. Show no reaction. It will only make it worse, she reminded herself.

Edd smiled. He began pacing, staring at the floor, deep in concentration.

Alice wanted to smack herself in the forehead for forgetting that he could read minds.

"Maybe she doesn't miss you a ton. She seems caught up quite a bit in running Hyrule. A job that, if I remember correctly, you were supposed to get? You just ran off, leaving the duty to your poor younger sister." He looked up at Alice, but she gave him no emotion.

"I see," Edd said, "she would have gotten it anyways. You two had a plan. But still, that leaves one thing. If there's anything that your sister hated; it was the fact that you missed her coronation. You promised, no matter what happened, that you'd be there."

Alice couldn't help the guilt that ran through her. Edd smiled.

"You know," Edd said thoughtfully. "It's been a while since I've had to use this tactic on anyone. Especially not with anyone who had such a pretty face." He put a finger under her chin, and she immediately grimaced.

"Are you flirting with me?" she asked, disgusted. "If you are, then, well, ew! I'm like four years older than you!"

"And the Doctor's how many years older than you?"

Alice frowned. He had a point. "There's a species difference" she muttered.

Edd laughed. But it didn't sound like he was laughing at her, but at something else. "I get what you mean. I fell in love with a girl who was 1,700 years old." His expression turned sour, and tone turned bitter. "She hated me though. Despised my guts."

Despite her position, Alice couldn't help feel sorry for the kid.

But Edd didn't take to that nicely. "I don't need sympathy!" he said angrily. But then a smile lit up his face. A sick, cruel, disgusting, smile.

"But that's the answer isn't it?" he asked to no one. "The perfect plan! Perfect in so many ways, and so simple!"

Alice immediately started to fear for her life.

"Here we are," Tabitha said, pulling a book off the shelf. "Good thing the Daleks didn't manage to destroy this section of the library. It's a pity about those other books though." She looked sadly at the rest of the library, that was either on the ground or up in flames.

The Doctor took the book from her and inspected the cover. In clear letters it said: "The Characters of the Imagination Chronicles". He frowned.

"Try under antagonists" Tabitha said.

The Doctor raised his eyebrows in interest and did so. To his surprise, Edd was one of the first people listed. He looked up at Tabitha. "He's a character from a book?"

"He's in about three, actually. He's the main antagonist of only one though, with the exception of short stories."

"But that's not possible!" the Doctor said defiantly.

"He's got teleport and time travel under his belt, it's fair possible."

"No, but- he can't-"

Tabitha sighed. "If you want an explanation, you're going to have to read the books. But right now we need ignore how he got here, and focus on the fact that he is here. Because he's either extremely dangerous at the moment or he can be forced to leave if you offer him something simple."

The Doctor made a face and looked at the book.

name: Edd Dice
gender: male
species: wizard

traits: brown hair, brown eyes in earlier books, electric green eyes in the rest
powers: basic magic, as you would expect from a wizard, usually based around simple energy control. His energy color is electric green. He also has the ability to read minds and later (around the time his eyes turn electric green) attains the ability to control minds. His ability to control minds is much stronger than any other in existence (that we know of) considering he knows not only how to control people, like most mind controllers, but also how to control their thoughts and emotions.

The Doctor stopped reading there. That information alone was enough to get by. He handed the book back to Tabitha, and she put it back on the shelf. "I know why Alice was so keen to know the color of eyes. Jack, what color did you say they were?"

"Green" he replied

"I could have sworn you said brown" Tabitha said.

"I thought I said green" Jack looked at the two of them, eyes wide in shock.

"If his eyes are green, that means he's extremely dangerous, unless he only acquired the ability recently" Tabitha said solemnly. "But he sure looked like he knew what he was doing to me. I hate to say it, but that would mean he's most likely at the peak of his power."

Jack and Tabitha realized that the Doctor hadn't said a word.

"Doctor, she'll be alright" Tabitha told him. "We can reverse whatever he does to her. Trust me. These books were childhood favorites of mine; I've got a million plans of what to do if I were ever to face Edd."

Slowly, the Doctor swallowed. "What exactly goes under the category of 'thoughts and emotions'?" he asked quietly.

Tabitha took a second to think about that. "Well, there's-" she paused, and a worried look grew on her face. "Oh no…" she whispered. "He wouldn't, he wouldn't."

"He wouldn't what, Tabitha?" the Doctor asked her urgently.

She shook her head and stared at the ground, refusing to look the Doctor in the eye.

"It's scary, what he can do" she whispered, not looking up. "I tried not to think about it in my childhood, because as soon as I did I wish I hadn't. You think about it, and you realize what scary power he has, and realize what he's willing to do with it.

"He can reshape people's thoughts, he can block memories, he can force you to do things you would never want to do. Once he's in your head, you don't walk away untouched. You can escape his control, sure, of course you can. But your mind will still be tainted with his presence. I'm sorry Doctor, but you might have lost her."

The Doctor closed his eyes, trying to stop the tears that fell. He lost her, before he even had her. "I should have just killed him!" he said angrily.

"Doctor, we'll get her back" Jack told him, and looked at Tabitha. "We can get her back, right?"

"It may not be too late," Tabitha offered. "There's still a small chance."

"There better be," the Doctor said.