Seo and David Walter Korjensky III get pulled into the Word Lord's reality — Myst Crossover

This is a story involving the Second Seo and David Walter Korjensky III. It's a crossover with Doctor Who and Myst.

Background to this story, from Big Finish cannon:

The Seventh Doctor and the Word Lord known as Nobody No-One wound up battling across time, space, and reality. The Seventh Doctor eventually trapped Nobody inside the Handovale, which was a living text that died with Evelyn Smythe.

The Handovale was actually the Hand of All. "All" was the name of the Word Lord who created the means to control the very ripples of language into a universe, with pocket universes all of which required a Hand of All to control. Since the Handovale was destroyed in a matter universe, it caused a downwards spiral effect in the Word Lords' own, and the Word Lords' grip over their own universe has begun to fail.

Some background about Seo's affair with David Walter Korjensky III:

During Seo's first incarnation, she and Dave had settled into a stable relationship. When Seo regenerated into her second incarnation, Dave had seemed okay with it at the start — so Seo had figured things would continue the way they always had done, before.

But Dave couldn't deal with the change.

The more time he spent with this new Seo, the more he felt like his Seo had died, and he was betraying her memory by dating the person who'd replaced her. He just didn't know if he could love this Seo the same way he had the other Seo — they were so different!

Overwhelmed by the whole thing, Dave broke up with Seo.

Seo was devastated.

Dave, in the meantime, tried to struggle on as best he could. He was now an explorer and adventurer, and always had exciting and death-defying things to do, in order to help save planets or save the galaxy!

On one of these adventures, he ran into a woman named Alonna, who was small and blond and looked a little like Seo had in her first incarnation.

Alonna explained that she was traveling around the universe with a short man with an umbrella, who piloted a time traveling police box. That, Alonna assured Dave, is why she's constantly saving worlds and getting herself into daring adventures.

Well, during this adventure, the two wind up imprisoned together and nearly eaten alive by sentient space slugs. During this time, they get to talking and really hit it off. After the Doctor executes a brilliant plan that causes the space slugs to give up and leave Dave and Alonna alone, Dave asks Alonna to come with him on his next mission.

Alonna agrees, and leaves the Doctor.

Dave and Alonna get very close, and eventually, they get married. For a while, everything between them is very open and honest, and they are both very happy.

Then, one day, Dave runs into Seo, again.

The Second Seo.

Dave starts to realize that he'd been an idiot, believing that Seo was a different person, now, than she'd been, before. He starts to remember all the things he really loved about Seo, and it's clear that she's still very much in love with him.

The first time that Dave cheats on his wife, it's an accident.

Dave swears he just got swept up in the moment and he'll never do it again, and runs away. But… unfortunately… this doesn't wind up being the case.

Seo and Dave begin a long-term affair, behind Alonna's back.

Both of them know it's wrong, but neither of them can actually give it up. Dave feels that he honestly loves both Alonna and Seo, equally. Alonna, because she reminds him of the First Seo. And Seo, because she is still herself.

Enough background. Onto the story!

Introduction

The story starts in Seo's ship.

Seo only noticed that David Walter Korjensky III had leapt into her ship after her when she was half-way to the 19th century. She looked up, met his eyes with her own. And sighed.

"You know we can't keep doing this," Seo said.

Dave took her in his arms, looking down into her beautiful eyes and her perfect face. "Does that mean you don't love me?"

Seo faltered.

And Dave took the opportunity to kiss her.

A long, passionate kiss. Which drew both of them into its spell.

"No!" Seo suddenly said, pushing him away. "Dave. Please. This has to end. You're married."

And considering that Dave's wife was one of her father's close friends, Seo felt like she was in permanent lecture-land, whenever she had family reunions. The Doctor was never going to let her get away with this.

"I don't love her," Dave said, coming over to Seo. He reached out for her, and she let him touch her. "I love you."

Seo's resolve to break off the relationship melted, as he caressed her cheek.

"The marriage was political," Dave insisted. "If I hadn't married Alonna, the whole galaxy would have plunged into a devastating war."

Seo wasn't even listening to his words, anymore.

As she drew herself closer to him.

"My life would have no meaning without you," Dave whispered to her. He kissed her nose. "You know that."

"I'm messing up history," Seo breathed, as he kissed down her neck. "Being with you."

"Do you care?" Dave licked the side of her neck.

Seo groaned.

"No."

"Neither do I," Dave agreed, as he reached around to pull off her shirt.

Oliver buckled, and Seo snapped back to reality. Realized where this was going, and forced herself to stop and shove Dave away.

"We can't," Seo repeated. "We just… can't!" She took a deep breath, trying to convince herself that she believed what she was saying. "This has to end. It's wrong."

"Does it feel wrong?" Dave asked her.

Nothing had ever felt more right.

But Seo didn't acknowledge that.

"I love you, Dave," Seo explained. "Really, I do. And if I could be with you forever… I would!" She shook her head. "But I can't. There's too much working against us."

Dave reached out for her — but this time, Seo didn't let him get too close.

"I'm sorry," Seo said, through tears. "But nobody will be able to change things for us. We just… can't do this. Not anymore."

"Nobody's here," Dave insisted. "Nobody will know."

Seo squeezed her eyes shut even tighter. Her mind and emotions swirling about within her. Things she should do, things she could do, things she wanted…

"No, I can't," Seo tried to insist. But she was already falling back into his arms. "I… can't…"

She found herself kissing him, again. Only dimly aware that she, herself, had instigated the kiss in the first place. Dave's hand drifted up her shirt, as they grew closer and closer…

"Oh, now this is the bad part of being me," a voice interrupted.

Seo and Dave jumped back, spinning around to face the interloper who'd just appeared in the ship. A wiry man, carrying a gun, looking shifty and like he was trying to pull something. Something about him seemed… off, Seo realized. Distinctly different on a dimensional level.

"See, I more like those lover's trysts where the couple proclaims, 'No one can separate us!' or 'Nobody can keep us apart!'" He laughed, then blew off the tip of his gun. "That's a laugh. They never knew what hit them."

"Who…?" Seo asked.

But Dave recognized the man.

He jumped in front of Seo, protectively. "Whatever you have against my wife, it's got nothing to do with Seo. Just… get out. Now!"

The man looked at them, again. Suddenly realizing… the person that Dave had been kissing… wasn't Alonna. At all.

"Ooh!" The man clapped his hands. "Now, this is starting to get good. All those times you played brave little soldier boy around your dainty little lady, and you were doing someone else behind her back the whole time! Just wait until she hears about this!"

"Who are you?!" Seo demanded, pushing Dave out of the way. "And just what are you doing on my ship?!"

"Nobody."

"Don't give me that," Seo snapped.

Dave cringed. "No. Really. He's Nobody No-One. It's his name."

Seo stared at the man. "Your name is Nobody? I think that's taking Emily Dickinson too literally."

"Funny!" said Nobody No-One, taking out a sidearm. "I like your bit of skirt on the side, Dave. Very spunky." He cocked the gun. "Still. Shame it has to come down to this. But I did promise the Doctor that if he didn't stop ruining my plans, I'd kill Alonna and her boy-toy. And since I can't afford any witnesses…"

He aimed the gun squarely at Seo.

Dave yanks Seo out of the way, and they both dive for cover, as the Nobody No-One hunts them down through the ship and tries to execute them.

While they're running, Dave tries to explain to Seo what's going on.

"He's a Word Lord," says Dave, as they run. "He gets power from words. So if you say, 'nobody can open the letter', then Nobody can open the letter."

Seo understands.

"He's from another universe, isn't he?" Seo asks. "With different rules from ours. A universe based on language rather than physical matter."

Dave agrees. Explains that when Alonna had been traveling with the Doctor, it had been while the Doctor was in the midst of following Nobody No-One across universes and dimensions, trying to stop him from causing chaos. As a result, Nobody No-One has been popping up in Alonna's life ever since, to try to harm her or kill her — just to get at the Doctor.

"I love it when you talk about your other woman and my father, when we're alone together," Seo hisses at Dave. "You really know how to ruin a mood!"

Then Nobody No-One traps them in a room with no escape.

"End of the line, hero-boy," says Nobody No-One. "Lover-girl."

"No, wait!" Seo says. "You don't want to kill me. I'm the Key."

Nobody No-One pauses a moment.

"You have five minutes to explain," he says, at last.

"You've been flitting across universes and dimensions," Seo explains, "trying to hunt down one little Time Lord. But even if you can travel between places, you can't manipulate those dimensional and universal walls. You're not God." She steps forwards. "But with the Key, you can be."

This appeals to Nobody No-One.

"Me," says Nobody No-One. "A god!"

He reaches for her.

But she scuttles away.

"It's my power," Seo informs him. "You can't just take it. Nobody can use my Key powers without my say-so!"

Nobody No-One starts to laugh.

Dave slams his hand against his forehead.

"Seo, what did you just say?!" Dave shouts. "Words have power, remember?"

Seo looks back, confused. "What do you mean?"

"He means," says Nobody No-One, as he accesses her Key powers perfectly, "that if you say nobody can do something… I can do it. And that means… I've got access to your powers."

Seo's eyes twinkle.

She already knows this. She's been banking on it.

Because Nobody No-One might have the ability to use her Key powers, but he doesn't know how to make them function correctly. So she can manipulate him.

And the universe.

By the time Nobody No-One realizes he's been tricked, Oliver is already flying across the void and heading outside the universe.

"I've got a bit of a thing about using Keys and going home," Seo explains to Nobody No-One. "Never could work out why. But you've tapped right into that. So right now… we're heading to your home."

Nobody No-One panics.

He knows his own people will kill him for what he's done.

"You win, skirt," Nobody No-One says, retreating. He vanishes. "See you later, lover-boy!"

Seo and Dave run back to the control room, to stop Oliver and turn him back, but can't. The whole thing explodes around them, and they find themselves about to crash into Nobody No One's universe.

A reality formed of words.

"The pathway to our universe has closed up behind us!" Seo realizes. "We're trapped! Not even my Key-powers can get us back!"

"What?!" Dave cries.

Seo looked up at him, across the console. Unable to keep the worry out of her face.

"I always thought no one could stop me from ending my affair with you," Seo told David. "Turns out… I was right. Thanks to Nobody, we're going to be together forever. Trapped in this reality."

Then they crash into the Word Lords' reality.