The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Doctor, Doctor Pt. 3

Sitting in silence, the trio looked at Mr. Pratchett as he stared back, his eyes reflecting them, and eventually Lila spoke up, asking him what he meant.

However, he refused to say anything more about it, only for them to leave their duties while they're still alive, it's not worth dying for, and it drew Theodore to ask him about his belief.

His eyes filled with emotions; Mr. Pratchett turned his head to face Theodore.

"You don't know what you've gotten yourselves into, even if you adventured countless times, you still don't know," Mr. Pratchett wearily looked at him as he tells Theodore while the aloof giant sat quietly.

David leaned forward as he wanted answers about why Mr. Pratchett felt the way he did and he didn't want Mr. Pratchett trying to talk them out of their duties as the Doctor or only giving vague answers, he wants the truth and nothing but the truth.

The elusive Mr. Pratchett shifted in his spot as his eyes reflected David, as David looked back at him, before he finally told him, "I knew your father."

His chocolate eyes widened, David sputtered as he asked Mr. Pratchett how he knew his father and as he took off his hat to put over his chest, Mr. Pratchett told him with a look in his eyes.

"He came to me for help, only I couldn't go with him, I had Jenny. He begged for my help, but I hesitated. I worried that if anything happened to me, Jenny'd be alone. He countered, saying he had a family, too, but he couldn't overlook it if he wanted. Only when he told me, I had to pull favours for someone so they'd watch Jenny for me until I came back," Mr. Pratchett told David how his father visited him one evening, a little after Mr. Pratchett's wife passed.

The retired Mr. Pratchett hesitated helping him as he had Jenny to consider, but David's father convinced him and he went with him through the familiar doorway into the TARDIS.

Lila inquired what David's father said that made Mr. Pratchett change his mind, but the man looked wearily about talking about it, saying he never uttered it after that day and he never will.

"Please, if you knew my father, then you'd know what happened to him, surely?" David shifted topics, wanting to know more about his father, he begged Mr. Pratchett to tell him.

There's a silence looming at the table as a waitress refilled their drinks, Mr. Pratchett exhaled quietly as he pondered quietly, before he wearily told David, "I'll tell you, but not here."

He'll tell David, but not in the cafe, they'll have to go somewhere else, somewhere private, and David agreed.

As promised, he paid for the drinks, and all four departed, Mr. Pratchett taking them somewhere private where he'd easily answer David's question.

To David's TARDIS, no less, despite him having given up his old life, Mr. Pratchett knew where to find it without even asking David.

David let them inside and the changed interior's enough for Theodore to wrinkle his nose displeasingly at the sight.

There's a look in Mr. Pratchett's eyes as he looked around the TARDIS' console room, his hand gliding on the railings as memories flooded back to the old days.

Somehow, winding up inside the TARDIS many years ago, taken to different places, fighting against the Daleks and all sorts of aliens, meeting his then-wife, and having to walk away from all that once she died, the agony of it all.

His hand on the silver railing, Mr. Pratchett let out a deep sigh as he tells David, "I promised him that when he died, to keep his secret, and I did. I never uttered it to anyone, not even Jenny, for over thirty something years."