Terrified Tyrannasaurus
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The Doctor looked through the bars with open disgust. His lips curved into a sneer when his eyes landed on a group of people in a gold spectators' box. At his elbow, Donna wondered if he was telepathic or empathic. Beneath his angry surface she could see pain, but he knew how to channel his emotions.
"Do you know what they're doing?" he asked coldly, rhetorically. "They're not even justifying it, Donna, it's just sport. It might as well be mechanical, for all they care."
The people laughed and cheered when the dinosaur, a giant tyrannosaurus, roared, throwing its head back and baring its teeth. Those that were in the basket on its back screamed, but the dinosaur was silenced with several shocks to its exposed neck. There were already burns on it, and this time the dinosaur screamed in pain.
"They don't care, though, Donna," the Doctor walked away from the bars and aimed his Sonic Screwdriver at the gate. "Humans. Grown so confident that you play with a displaced beast, and where is your humanity and conscience and compassion now?"
He had walked into the arena, and though the heavily armed guards advanced, the dinosaur stood its ground, even where it was spurred to attack.
"Lead it to the TARDIS," the Doctor Soniced the basket off the T-rex's back and cleared the way for it and Donna. "The doors'll expand. I'll be along shortly, I just need to talk to our hosts, but the TARDIS can show you where to take it. And now you . . ."
Donna was almost out of earshot when he said it, but she never heard the end of the speech. She only hoped that the people had.
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