It had been three months that he had been on his own. Three months since he had ruined more lives and more people had died to protect him. He was trying to escape from the hurt and the helplessness that he felt. So, he was running. He was running harder and faster then he ever had before. He couldn't stop and he couldn't get away because he was running from the one thing he hated the most.
Himself.
Three months earlier.
He was alone on the Tardis. He had proposed to Rose several weeks back but all thoughts of the wedding had been placed on the back burner as he continued to chase down leads on River and the Master. He still felt guilty for her being with the Master and it was consuming him. He spent all of his time rushing from one planet to another or running searches in the control room.
Rose had approached him two weeks ago with tears in her eyes and asked if he still loved her and their son. He hadn't taken that question well and due to the stress he had argued with her until she took off the ring and threw it at him. Rose and Kiam were now staying with Captain Jack and Ianto back on Earth. He called and talked to Kiam often but Rose rarely got on the phone.
Jack had promised he would look after them until he got his head on straight and had also promised to knock some sense into him if he didn't do it soon.
He was following a summons that he had received while racing through Umbeka on one of its long winters, and had landed the Tardis in a place he had been once before as he stepped off of it, he saw a group of Ood standing there waiting for him at the lead of the group was Ood Sigma.
"There you are. So, where were we? I was summoned, wasn't I? An Ood in the snow, calling to me. Well, I didn't exactly come straight here. Followed another lead first and saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw and then named a galaxy Alison. Anyway, what do you want?" He asked them.
"You should not have delayed." Ood Sigma told him.
"The last time I was here you said you think my song is ending soon. I was in no hurry to come here."
"You will come with me." He follows Ood Sigma up and over a hill and sees a city down below.
"Magnificent. Oh, come on, that is splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?" He says not being able to contain his happiness.
"One hundred years." Ood Sigma replies.
"Then we've got a problem. Because all of this is way too fast. Not just the city, I mean your ability to call me. Something's accelerating your species way beyond normal."
"And the Mind of the Ood is troubled."
"Why, what's happened?" He asked
"Every night, Doctor, every night we have bad dreams."
He followed the Ood in to an ice cave and sat down at the edge of the circle.
"Returning, returning, returning, it is slowly returning through the dark and the fire and the blood. Always returning, returning to this world. It is returning, and he is returning, and they are returning, but too late. Too late. Far too late. He has come." The Ood Elder announced.
"Sit with the Elder of the Ood and share the dreaming." Ood Sigma told him and offered him his hand. He takes Ood Sigma's hand in one and the Elders in the other. He closes his eyes and as he joins the link he sees the Master's face laughing at him.
"He comes to us every night. I think all the peoples of the universe dream of him now."
"Where is he," He asks.
"There is more. Join us. Events are taking shape. So many years ago, and yet changing the now. There is a man so scared." In his head he sees a familiar older man.
He opens his eyes and looks at the Elder. "Wilfred, is he all right? What about Donna, is she safe."
"You should not have delayed, for the lines of convergence are being drawn across the Earth. Even now, the king is in his Counting house."
He is shown images of a black man and his daughter being photographed.
"I don't know who they are."
"And there is another. The most lonely of all, lost and forgotten."
He sees a woman sitting on a bench in a cage.
"River," he breaths a sigh of relief that she is alive but wonders how he is going to save her.
"We see so much, but understand little. The woman in the cage, who is she?"
"I don't know but it is my fault she was captured by him." He says opening his eyes. "I couldn't stop him, but now I can save her. I have to go!" He says standing up.
"But something more is happening, Doctor. The Master is part of a greater design, because a shadow is falling over creation. Something vast is stirring in the dark. The Ood have gained this power to see through time, because time is bleeding. Shapes of things once lost are moving through the veil, and these events from years ago threaten to destroy this future, and the present, and the past." The Elder tells him.
"What do you mean?" He asks.
"This is what we have seen, Doctor. The darkness heralds only one thing. The end of time itself." The Elder looks up at him. He turns and runs back to the Tardis and sets the Destination to Earth. He had to get back there and stop the Master before it was too late.
I have an idea for the end of these chapters that could go either way so I want an opinion.
Should he regenerate to 11 or continue on as 10. please Review and let me know.