The Littlest Timelord: The Fall of the Eleventh

Chapter 48

A/N - Every chapter brings us closer to Twelve and Elise. You are not ready. I can't wait to play with two Scottish hot-heads.

"It was Tasha who shielded the planet. But you could sneak me down there, couldn't you, Tash?" the Doctor told them.

"I have confidential matters to discuss with the Doctor," Tasha said. She turned to Elise and Clara. "Would you excuse us?"

"Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of Clara and Elise. Well, quite a lot of it. Probably about half. Maybe a smidge under. Actually, Elise, Clara, would you mind waiting out here, please?" the Doctor asked them.

"No worries. You two get yourselves a room," Clara said.

"Yes, quite. No, stop it."

"Boss of the psycho space nuns. So you."

The Doctor pushed past Elise's mental barriers. Keep an eye on Clara.

Elise rolled her eyes, but gave him a mini-salute.

Tasha and the Doctor went into her chapel.

Elise and Clara turned around and saw a Silence at the end of the corridor.

"Doctor?" Clara asked.

Elise took out a marker and put a mark on her arm. "I see you," she told the creature.

"What is it?" Clara asked.

"It's called a Silence."

The Silence disappeared behind a screen and then reappeared.

Clara blinked. "I saw you and then I forgot you. How does that work?"

"It tells your brain to forget it. That's how they work."

"Confess," the Silence rasped.

It appeared behind Clara and Elise.

"Confess." A group of them descended on the girls. "Confess. Confess."

They backed up against the chapel door.

"Can't you sonic them?" Clara asked.

"Sonic a Silence? Are you insane! I can't sonic a Silence!" Elise snapped.

Clara grabbed the door handle and opened the chapel door.

"You two okay?" the Doctor asked.

"Fine. Yeah, fine. Sorry," Clara said.

Tasha walked over to what look like a confessional. "Right. This is my personal teleport. I can put you down just outside the town. Find the source of the message and report back to me in one hour. And on your life, Doctor, you will cause no trouble down there."

"When do I?" he quipped, shutting the curtain. He pulled it back. "Don't answer that." He shut the curtain again, but Tasha walked over to it and pulled it back.

She held out her hand.

"What?" the Doctor asked.

"I'm not an idiot. Everyone in this church is trained to see straight through holograms."

"Ah. Great," Clara groaned.

"Give now. You are taking no technology of any kind down there," Tasha said.

"What can I do with a key?" the Doctor asked, "You two, in, now."

Clara and Elise walked over to the teleport.