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"So what was his plan?"
"He was going to blackmail Jade into marrying him."
"Yeah he sounds well up for interbreeding." Phil shuddered and jumped from the ladder, the two of them managed to find a manhole and shimmy down and were now looking around the underground system. Doctor looked at her and then pulled out the screwdriver, scanning the area in front of them he nodded and started walking forward.
Phil walked after him her boots kicking up the odd pieces of rubble which laid on the ground. "It's a little more than that," he said while stopping walking when they came to an intersection. "Sure he clearly wants to...well...you know..." He said awkwardly while rolling a hand in her direction.
"Birds and the bees Doctor," Phil laughed and patted him on the shoulder, "I know whatcha getting at." She winked and turned the corner and looked down the passage way. "There's a light."
"Nice observational skills Phil!" Doctor cheered quietly and walked in front of her towards the light source. "But if he marries her then he and his kind are set for life."
"What a sneaky Moomin."
"Moonkin." Doctor corrected with a serious expression but then ended up laughing, Phil laughed too and nodded her head. "Seriously...he is anything but a happy little hippo isn't he?"
"I agree completely." Phil said once she calmed her laughter, the two of them stopped at the end of the walkway and looked out at a dingy dark city. "An underground city? How come Jade never mentioned this?"
"Maybe she didn't know?" Doctor looked at her and then took to looking for a way to get down, eventually he found another ladder and waved a hand at her when she too was looking around for a way to get down. Phil looked and waited for him to get to the ground before sliding down it, Doctor looked from her to the ladder then to her again. "How did you do that?"
"It's a skill."
"I would love to know how to do that."
"You need to slide down ladders often?"
"Not really."
"It would be a wasted talent then," Phil said while looking around the underground city. It looked like it had been long abandoned. "How long do you think this has been abandoned for?"
"A long long long long long time."
"That's a lot of longs."
"Indeed," Doctor took off walking towards where the light was coming from, he still gripped onto the screwdriver though. When the two of them got to the edge of a building they looked around it, surrounding a fire was Marcus and the few members of his species. "What do we do?"
"Walk up and say hi?" Doctor answered Phil who looked from them to him and then to them again.
"Wonder if they have marshmallows?"
"Phil! Now is not the time to think of your stomach." Doctor waved the screwdriver at her and then turned from the building and approached them. Phil blinked and shrugged and watched him walk up to them. "Hello there! Isn't this a cosy little place you've got going down here?"
Marcus immediately jumped and looked at him, Doctor stood grinning and looked behind him as Phil walked slowly towards them. Marcus gave her a rather creepy smile and then looked back at Doctor.
"You two don't give up do you?"
"We are very persistent aren't we Phil?"
"Indeed Doctor we are, we're not ones for giving up."
"No no not at all, we're not ones for giving up, you just can't get rid of us."
"But you two are clearly ones for rambling, tell me why are you down here?"
"Because of you! Why else would we come down here? We didn't even know down here existed." Doctor looked around, the underground city looked exactly like the city above ground. Marcus nodded and looked around too, "How long has this been here for?"
"A few hundred years."
"How long have you been down here for?" Phil asked, it seemed like an obvious question, clearly when they weren't hanging from ceilings and trying to overthrow a monarchy they called this place home.
"Months."
"Why?" Doctor asked while taking to walking up to a building and opening the door, peering around he then walked back to them. "I mean...what exactly bought you here? You clearly didn't just wonder across this place and be like; 'Oh! Look here! What a brilliant home that would be!' know what I'm getting at?" Doctor asked while nodding slowly, Marcus shrugged and nodded slightly before walking over to a collapsed wall and sitting down.
"Our home destroyed itself." Marcus explained, "There's not many of us left and this was the nearest planet."
"So you literally move in and take over?" Doctor questioned while putting his hands in his pockets, Phil waited beside him for an answer. Eventually Marcus let out a heavy sigh and nodded, "Not really a good thing to do was it?"
"Well I didn't actually expect anyone to stop us."
"There'll always be people to stop you."
"Mainly you two?"
"Yes mainly us two." Doctor grinned childishly yet happily, Phil smiled and nodded just choosing to agree with him. Marcus creeped her out to much to actually butt into the conversation and have a say. "Can't you and the people coincide?" She said eventually finding her voice again. "Is there a reason why you need to take over the leading authority?"
"Not really, I mainly did it out of boredom and in a space of a week." Marcus said somewhat proud of himself, Doctor and Phil looked at him seriously, "Tough crowd. Ok what do you want me to say? Yes we will coincide with the idiots upstairs? They are weak and stupid, we're none of them things."
"But that doesn't mean you can just over take their monarchy because of two typical things which humans are." Doctor said simply while clapping his hands together, "Build an alliance. For the sake of my sanity, come to an agreement."
"They won't listen," Marcus sung and jumped from the wall, "They will agree to your face but when you leave they will kill us."
"No they won't."
"You sound so sure. Why won't they?"
"Because I am here."
"Before you contradict him," Phil said while looking up at the buildings around them. "He is amazing with words, and even better; sticks to them." She winked and received a happy smile from the tall man beside her.