Heart of Gold

The Fury of a Time Lord

"In these times of doing what you're told. 
Keep these feelings, no one knows.
Whatever happened to the young man's heart?
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart."
– Shinedown: '45' (Leave a Whisper [2003]).

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Stable Block

Once the very last boy was safely evacuated from the school, Smith immediately turns and looks firmly at both Katy and Martha, looking extremely determined to get them to cooperate with him.

"Now, I insist. The pair of you, just go." Smith requests, insistently. "If there are any more boys inside, I'll find them." But before either Katy or Martha could protest, Smith opens the door; revealing that there are scarecrows waiting for them on the other side. So, their objections died on their lips. Especially when Smith simply slams the door shut and locks it, before turning and looking sheepishly at them. "I think, retreat." All three of them turn and run as fast as they could out into the school grounds.

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School grounds

Managing to sneak out of the dormitory window, Latimer escapes into the woods seconds before Baines and Jenny make it to the dormitory. Smith, Katy, and Martha were sneaking around, keeping to the shadows to avoid being spotted when they suddenly hear Clark shouting off in the distance.

"Doctor! Doctor!" Clark calls out in a sing-song tone. The three of them follow Clark's voice and hide in some bushes. Cautiously looking past the foliage, both Katy and Martha panic when they see that Clark had managed to find the Tardis. Flanking him either side are a couple of scarecrows. "Come back, Doctor. There's a good boy," Clark taunts Smith whose eyes widen when he sees the blue box from his dreams right in front of him. "Come and claim your prize."

"Out you come, Doctor." Baines, Lucy and Jenny show up, and flank Clark; all four of them looking very triumphant. "There's a good boy. Come to the Family." Baines wheedles, cheerfully.

"Time to end it now." Jenny calls out.

Martha glances over and sees the deer-in-headlights expression on Smith's face as he stares at the Tardis with shock. She nudges Katy with her elbow to gain the other girl's attention, and points towards Smith when Katy looks over questioningly. Seeing the obvious distress on her boyfriend's face, Katy reaches over and places a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"John? Are you okay?" Katy asks him, worriedly.

He doesn't respond, but tears do well up in his eyes when he realises that everything he had documented in his 'dream journal' and everything that Martha had told him was 100% true. Martha looks at him with sympathy but knows that she and Katy had a job to accomplish in order to stop the Family from taking and consuming the Doctor, then laying destruction to everything in their paths.

"You recognise it, don't you?" Martha states, knowingly.

"Come out, Doctor. Come to us!" Jenny shouts out, impatiently.

"I've never seen it in my life." He responded, very much in denial that the mysterious blue box in fact existed.

"Do you remember its name?" Martha encourages him. Smith immediately shuts down and refuses to answer.

"I'm sorry, John, but you wrote it." Katy reminds him, very reluctantly. "The blue box. You dreamt of a blue box—"

"I'm not!" Smith snapped, tearfully. "I'm John Smith. That's all I want to be. John Smith, with his life, and his job, and his love." He glances at Katy with large, vulnerable, pleading eyes, and all Katy wanted to do was break down and cry as well. "Why can't I be John Smith? Isn't he a good man?"