I can hear Puccini

Jack reeled as he looked at the crucified figure; he could hear music, the tortured Doctor was humming.

"Doctor, what is that?"

"Puccini, Madam Butterfly," the eighth Doctor said as he paced up and down. "Where is he? My future, where would he be Jack? Any memories that he'd seek refuge in? Any people this version of me would feel safe with?"

"Well… erm Rose?" Jack thought scraping his memory trying to think of where his Doctor would take refuge. "What are you doing?"

Jack watched in shock as the eighth Doctor freed his doppelganger from the base of the tree.

"I'm not leaving him here, help me!" the Doctor pulled his other self away, Jack looked around before begrudgingly helping.

"How do we find your future self?" Jack asked as he took some of the crucified Doctor's weight.

"Just think of this Rose, focus on her to draw us in, I'll be able to find the Doctor inside,"


"Ruathadvorophrenaltid!" Thete called after the Gallifreyan woman, she turned back and took hold of his hand and pulled him forwards into the venting.

The two Gallifreyans were cramped into the cylindrical cupboard space, Ruatha looked at Thete mischief shimmered in her eyes.

"Ruatha we'll get caught!" Thete said aghast at her lack of respect for the rules. "We're not allowed in the TARDIS cradles Tutor Borusa said so!"

"Oh Thete, you're such a teachers pet!" Ruatha leaned closer to Thete as she opened a panel in a recess of the venting. "We're not going anywhere we're just going to generate a Time Interference Field."

"But the higher years are using Temporal Vector Generators, the interference would ruin the results, it could ruin their coursework." Thete was terrified, but Ruatha turned back to him and pushed him into the wall and leant against him, Thete nervously swallowed as she entered his mind. Mutual mental contact was one of the most intimate things Gallifreyan's could engage in, the only people who'd ever been inside Thete's head were Quences, Brax and Innocet. As Ruatha slide further into his psyche he felt the rules Borusa had pounded into him become fuzzy, Ruatha's voice echoed in his mind.

'Just do it, it's fun. You're not Braxiatel…'

As she retreated she smiled at him before planting a kiss on his lips and pressing the transmat control, taking hold of his hand she dragged the lead footed Thete into the darkened TARDIS cradle built into the Basement of the Academy inside of Mount Cadon. Only one TARDIS was in front of them, Ruatha ran to it and turned to face Thete she gave him a brilliant smile.

"So how do we get in?" she asked testing him.

"Well, it's an antique," Thete passed around the TARDIS before ending up face to face with Ruatha. "It's a type forty, they used a trimonic lock, we just need the right cypher indet key."

Ruatha smiled back as she brushed past him and picked up a purple crystal and inserted the crystal end into the door control, and then the two classmates entered the capsule.


The two Doctor's and Jack arrived in the memory, the tenth Doctor and Rose were on New Earth, the city of New New York spread out between them.

"No," the eighth Doctor said looking at the memory. "That's not him, it's just a memory."

"I know where he is…"

The eighth Doctor spun to see his crucified persona stand up, instead of the velvet frock coat he wore at present his future self was wearing a black frock coat.

"I can tell you how to find the latest version of me," he looked to the eighth Doctor. "You will have to trust me…"


Thete and Ruatha sprang into the console room to find a wreck.

"Well whoever owned this TARDIS wasn't a very good pilot," Thete thought out loud as he read the flight log.

"What do you mean?" Ruatha came up behind him, placing her head on his shoulder Thete became distracted by the layers of hair cascading from over his shoulder.

"Well… erm… it's obvious this ship has been damaged, I would say it took a hit from some sort of temporal energy beam before hitting an asteroid." Thete swallowed as he got down to his knees and pulled open a panel, to find himself faced with the glowing golden light of the exposed space-time booster element."The most beautiful thing I've ever seen…"

"To this day I don't know if I meant Ruatha, the TARDIS or the vortex," Thete spun round to find a man wearing a blue greatcoat and two other identical men in frockcoats.

"Why did you let him out?" Thete roared up and turned into the tenth Doctor.

"Why not?" the eight Doctor said back quietly. "I should have known I'd take refuge here, the first time I broke any of the academy rules."

"Yes, but that's not the point," the tenth Doctor stepped forward to challenge his two previous selves. "You destroyed Gallifrey!"

"Yes but I rebuilt it!" the eighth Doctor roared back in defence.

The tenth Doctor glared at him, the first Law of Time the only thing preventing an explosion of rage and hatred.


Sarah, Martha and Mickey raced away when the two Doctor's and Jack started to scream, Jack came around first as he crashed back.

The two Doctor's then rose up and strode away from each other, then they leant on the walls glaring at each other, after a while of silence the eighth Doctor spoke.

"Now that I've released my persona from your subconscious can you remember?"

"No, and for what it's worth I'm sorry, you haven't done anything yet…" the tenth Doctor spoke quietly, that small apology was all the eighth Doctor would get.