The Time Travelers Son

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

"Tell me Anne-Marie are you afraid of the dark?" The Doctor questioned as he walked slowly around and around Jenny Jones living room. Anne-Marie rolled her eyes at him. She had been around him far to long to be afraid of the dark. Lots of things scared her, but never the dark.

"No." She replied immediately.

"I am." Connor murmured sleepily from where he was lying down in the couch. Anne-Marie pursed her lips. Connor was scared of everything, especially the dark. It was because of the Silence, because of what happened to him. Anne-Marie would never forgive herself for letting him be taken. The Doctor smiled and bent down on his knee next to him.

"That's okay Connor. Scared is good." The Doctor brushed Connor's brown hair back and smiled.

"Doctor, is there a point to your question or are you thinking out loud again." She asked as he stood back up. "And can we please take him to him room?" She said quietly moving towards Connor and picking him up. He groaned a little but dropped his head against Anne-Marie's shoulder.

"He has a room?" The Doctor whispered glancing at the Tardis outside.

"Of course. I'll show you." She said heading outside. Jenny and her husband Rich had left them alone while they were at work and their children were at school. They were free to move about the house and come and go if they wished. They advised them to leave as soon as possible. The Sun didn't like un-welcomed guests. They died the fastest.

Anne-Marie snapped her fingers, opening the Tardis. Walking past the console and down the stairs she entered one of the long hallways. The Doctor was right on her heels. He wondered if she knew that he was a younger version of himself. He wasn't the Doctor she loved and knew. He was somebody else.

Anne-Marie walked with purpose though and when she finally stopped and opened a door, the Doctor was amazed to find it decked out just how a little boy might like it. There were constellations on the ceiling, ones he recognized as those that hung over Gallifrey. There were toys on the floor and dinosaurs on dressers. It was Connor's room.

Anne-Marie placed him in the bed and tucked the covers in around him, though he didn't need it. Connor was already fast asleep. Anne-Marie smiled before taking the Doctor's hand and walking back out the door.

"So, how are we going to kill the sun?" Anne-Marie asked as they walked down the hallway.

"You want to kill the sun?" The Doctor asked, surprised.

"Well how else are we going to get it to stop killing people? Freeze it? Block it out? Come on Doctor throw out some ideas. You're suppose to be the thinking man here."

"I'm not sure the sun is the problem." Anne-Marie stopped walking.

"So is it the Incanedium?" Anne-Marie asked lightly. The Doctor smiled.

"You remember that?"

"Of course I do Doctor!" She said hitting his arm. "It wasn't that long ago and I am not as old as you." She said, poking his chest. The Doctor smiled as they continued down the hallway.

"I don't think it's the Incanedium. They're not blowing up or anything." The Doctor paused. "Or are they." The Doctor rushed past Anne-Marie to the Tardis console. Pulling around the monitor he typed in Planet Daylight and waited for something to pop up.

Planet Daylight
Solar System: Novice
Star Cluster: Gamma

Planet Daylight houses another form of Earth's "humans". Much like the humans on Earth they work, eat, have their own forms of government and have evolved just as fast as those on Earth. Planet Daylight's original name has been lost to time. Back when man first evolved on this planet, he came across a large form of bright hot light, a Balfire.