I hope that you all enjoyed the last chapter. I had fun digging into the psyche of each of the companions and guessing what their greatest fears might be. Some were afraid of monsters, some were just plagued with insecurities. If you were confused as to what happened there, all will be explained here in this chapter.

Nope. Doctor Who still isn't mine. Though I wish it was!

CHAPTER 11

"The planet Phobifantasma" Eleven informed his companions, failing his arms about as he spoke. "One of the most interesting planets in the universe."

Twelve continued. "It is rumored that at the center of the planet is a temple filled with cosmic energy that can make all your fantasies, dreams and wishes come true."

"But to get to the temple, you first have to pass through your worst nightmares. Basically, you'll believe that your greatest fears have come true." Eleven finished.

"Well..." Rory started. "That certainly explains a lot."

"How'd we end up in the infirmary, Doc?" Jack asked.

"We carried you back inside" Nine responded with just a touch of annoyance in his voice.

"Then why weren't you four in the infirmary with us?" Martha asked the time lords.

"Oh!" Ten sang out. "Superior time lord biology. We're immune!"

"That might explain why my nightmare wasn't very detailed" Tentoo thought aloud. "I'm too human to be immune, but too time lord to have a full blown dream." Other than the fact that he arrived on the TARDIS after several companions did, this was the first time since the reunion began that he felt that he was no longer the Doctor anymore. The thought was unsettling to him.

"So, it wasn't real, then?" Clara asked, trying and failing to suppress the shivers that were still traveling up and down her spine.

"Nope! None of it! Isn't that fantastic?" Nine asked, grinning from ear to ear.

"So, basically, don't go outside right now unless you want to go through that again." Ten grinned as well.

"Well, if the bloody TARDIS hadn't crashed, we wouldn't have run outside!" Donna pointed out.

"That is bloody beside the point!" Twelve responded, his eyebrows furrowing.

"Doctor?" Rose asked, her eyes full of hope. "Does this mean that the temple really exists? That our greatest dreams may actually come true?"

"Absolutely!" All four time lords responded in unison, grins spreading across their faces.

"Won't you space men be immune?!" Tentoo replied, sarcastically. The Donna in him really came out when he was annoyed.

Four grins disappeared. "Oh. Right. Maybe." Ten agreed.

The temple itself was actually a bit of a disappointment. You'd expect that such a famous temple that holds such a precious treasure might be inlaid in gold and jewels or something. Instead, it was just dull rock.

The TARDIS crew gathered in the entrance and held their breath, waiting for something to happen. Suddenly, a bright light appeared and a kindly female voice spoke. "I am the guardian of this temple. You must truly be brave to have made it this far. You have faced your worst fears. Now, in order to proceed, you must share those fears with the rest of your group. This is always the final test. Admitting your fears can be worse than facing them."

Donna volunteered to go first. "Vashta Nerada" she said, almost proudly.

"That is what you dreamed, but what is the source of that fear?"

Now Donna's eyes went wide. She knew what the guardian wanted her to say, but could she say it out loud? She cleared her throat. "When the shadow got me, I was aware that it devoured me like I was nothing. When we encountered the Vashta Nerada before, the victims were warned with a double shadow. I was so insignificant that I didn't even get a warning shadow. It just took me. I'm afraid of being insignificant."

Everyone went silent. No one realized that Donna was so deep. Rose, who was standing beside her gave her a hug and said "I promise you that no one here thinks that you're insignificant, Donna." The others murmured similar words of comfort.

River was next. "My dream was about my early childhood and my captors, but I know that my greatest fear is that I really am the monster that they trained me to be."

"Sweetheart." Amy was crying for her daughter. "You're not a monster." Rory gave her a hug. The others murmured words of encouragement.

Amy was next. "I was attacked by Weeping Angels in the dream. I truly am terrified of them, by the way. But my greatest fear is a force that I cannot control. If I can control it, it can't hurt me."

Rory continued. "Sounds like my dream piggybacked on yours, Amy. Only the angels didn't take me. Just you. And losing you terrifies me. But deep down, I'm just so afraid of being alone." The Ponds hugged each other as everyone gave words of comfort.

Martha was next. "I dreamed about the Master. But, I'm afraid of something controlling me. It's like Amy's fear, but different. I don't want to control things, but I need my independence." Mickey held Martha close.

Jack swallowed his pride. "Everyone I knew was dead in my dream, and I was all alone. It's my immortality. It scares me. I am more powerful than death itself. What is the point of living forever if you have no one to share it with?" To everyone's surprise, River have him a hug.

Mickey was very embarrassed to share his fear. "In my dream... uh... Martha, we got a divorce, and um... You kinda... marriedtheDoctor." The last phrase just rushed out altogether. Martha was appalled. The Doctor, every face, just laughed at the idea. It wasn't that they didn't like Martha, but it wasn't in that way. "I am just very aware of my faults and shortcomings, and I guess I'm just insecure and don't like myself very much." Martha held her husband tightly and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

"I turned into a Dalek again." Clara admitted. "Which is a horrible thought. But I'm just really afraid of changing, period. Like one day I'll wake up, and I'll wonder where Clara Oswald has gone and who is that stranger in the mirror?"

"Yeah, I know that feeling..." Twelve muttered. The other Doctors nodded in agreement. The companions also seemed to understand. All had changed.

"I was abandoned on Bad Wolf Bay again, and my heart was broken." Rose avoided eye contact with all of the Doctors when she spoke. "But I suppose that deep down, there a part of me that feels unworthy of love, like if the Doctor ever knew me for who I truly was, he'd not only leave me, but run away without warning." The Doctors were dumbfounded with that statement and told her so.

Tentoo was last. "Well, I dreamed that Rose died. I don't know how or why, but she was dead in my arms. It was horrible! But it was an incomplete dream and I'm unable to interpret it on a deeper level."

"You do not pass. Nor do the four who had no dreams. The rest of you do. Those of you who failed, return to your ship. The rest of you, follow me." The light began to move deeper into the temple.

Five Doctors, grumpy because they were forbidden to enter, and worried about the fate of their friends, boarded the TARDIS together.