When We Travel Book 2 | Whouffaldi

Chapter 20: Breaking and Entering

The Doctor's POV

"Who would ever want to help you?" Ollie questioned.

Zok shrugged, "Well..." he paused, "If you don't want to see Oswin again... then I guess you don't need to help me."

"O-Oswin?!" Clara asked in shock.

"You better be lying about having Oswin, Zok." I said.

"Oh no no no." Zok began, "I kidnap her in the future and I will give her back to you if you help me now."

"Why couldn't you have just asked for our help in the future?!" Leo wondered.

"Are you crazy?" he replied, "The Doctor and Clara here would never listen to me in the future."

"Zok! Just tell us what you want!" I exclaimed.

With a groan, Zok explained, "My friend... has been taken by the Time Lords back on Gallifrey." he said, "My human friend."

"You? You have a friend?" Clara asked as she raised her eyebrow.

"Don't push me, darling. Otherwise I'll hurt you aswell as Oswin." Zok winked.

I glared at him, "Zok." I warned, "You are already on my bad side... but you don't want to make things worse with me. Any anyways, why can't you just go and save this friend of yours on your own?"

"You are definitely mad if you think that I am going to try and break one of my friends out of a Gallifreyan prison alone!" Zok stated.

"What do the Time Lords want with them?" Ollie questioned.

"Hush, son. The grown ups are talking." Zok replied.

Ollie just groaned, "You are not my dad, Zok."

"Technically I am." he replied.

"You may be my birth parent, but my real father is actually married to Oswin." Ollie explained to him.

"Wait, what?" Clara asked.

Ollie smiled at her, "Don't worry about it. The future will soon come."

"Who does she marry?" Clara asked in suspense.

"You haven't met him yet." Ollie began, "She ends up marrying a mutant human though. You know like er... oh who was it... Saibra. When you did that time heist."

Clara bit her lip, "We erm- we end up telling you about that?"

Ollie nodded, "You tell me LOTS of stories, Clara."

I groaned, now was not the time to be talking about this. "Back to what Ollie asked." I started, "What do the Time Lords want with a human?"

Zok just shrugged, "I don't know." he paused before looking at Clara, "And please stop talking about your family... it disgusts me."

Leo then spoke, "What if this is a trap?" he looked at me.

"No trap." Zok assured, "Time Lord's honour."

"Oh trust me, Time Lords rarely have any honour whatsoever." I replied.

"Look, I cross my hearts!" he exclaimed, "I just really need some help from a fellow Time Lord!" Zok then looked at the rest of us, "And... your weird little gang. You can bring that Missy along aswell if you want! Need all the help we can get!"

"I haven't even agreed to helping you, Zok." I told him.

"Oh, you will help me, Doctor." Zok threatened, "Or you will never see Oswin again."