☆ Alone In this World ☆

☆ Hell Bent ☆

A pickup truck drives along a lonely dirt road and pulls up at a snacks and gas stop at Jackson - No matter where you go, there you are. The Doctor gets out from the passenger's side, wearing his sonic sunglasses. His guitar is slung over his shoulder. He enters a diner where the sole employee has her back turned. She's wearing a royal blue mini-dress uniform.

"Don't stop me now, I'm having a good time, I'm having a ball" The woman turns at the sound of him entering.

"Hi. What can I get you?" The Doctor sits down at the counter.

"I don't have any money. But i play," the Doctor says.

"Ok. Don't you need to plug thay thing in?"

"Yeah," the Doctor replies, taking off his sunglasses and placing them by the transistor radio, activating them.

"You're English,"

"You're not,"

"How did you get out here?"

"Magic. Or maybe I went to an airport and caught a plane,"

"Ah,"

"You?"

"Magic," the Doctor says as he plays a slightly melancholy tune on his guitar.

"Is it a a sad song?"

"Nothing's sad till it's over. Then everything is,"

"What's it called?"

"I think that it's called...Clara,"

"Tell me about her,"

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On Gallifrey, the Doctor walks away from the city towards an old barn. The wind whistles across the barren landscape. In the city, the Lord President is in full regalia and holding his staff, as bells toll within the Citadel.

"Lord President?"

"Are all the bells ringing? The whole cloister?" The General uses his wrist communicator.

"What's going on down there?"

"On my way down the Matrix now, sir,"

"Keep the perimeter. It's ok to be afraid down there, soldier,"

"Sliders are everywhere, sir. Loads of the things,"

"Language, please. I'm with the President,"

"Sorry, sir. The Cloister Wraiths are active,"

"Do not approach them. Don't even enter the Cloister. Just tell me are all the bells ringing?"

"Yes, sir,"

"Then we are facing great danger," the Lord President says.

"The Cloister Wraiths seems to think so,"

"So, where is he? Where has the Doctor gone?" Ohila, the leader of the Sisterhood of Karn enters with two bodyguards.

"Back to the beginning, I should think,"

"The Sisterhood of Karn has no business in the chamber, or on this planet,"

"I heard the Doctor had come home. One so loves fireworks,"

"Bah" the Lord President turns his back on her. The Cloister Bells can be heard way out at the barn. The Doctor climbs the short ladder to the bed. An old woman enters, fussing.

"Why are they ringing all the bells? Never heard so many. What's gone wrong this time? All the fuss they're always making" she notices the Doctor "you, up there! You're not supposed to be there! I've just put all that back. It's for the boys, if any of them ever want to come" she sees his face and realises who it is "they'll kill you,"