Lost In Thought

March Of A Warrior

The Doctor:

She would kill me if she knew that I was here. There was a reason that she didn't do well around other psychic races was because half the time they were working on a different frequency to her, but the Ood? The Ood were just on the same, and that meant she could resonate and sing with them, which she didn't like. 

Elizabeth also didn't like that they were summoning me, without her, but I'd had my run around while she did her thing on Earth. I was running out of things to do, and that was saying something, and there was no way she was going to let me come here if she was with me. So, I left her doing whatever she was doing, and decided to go annoy the Ood. And mess with her TARDIS settings, which I had to remember to change back before I picked her up, or forget whoever was knocking, she'd kill me.

"Ah! Now, sorry. There you are." I smiled, walking out the TARDIS, wearing a random stetson and lei I'd found in the wardrobe. I think it might be from when Jack had decided to take Rose and I to a party in Vegas. "So, where were we? I was summoned, wasn't I? An Ood in the snow, calling to me, and only me, my sister not hearing you. Well, I didn't exactly come straight here. Had a bit of fun, you know. Travelled about, did this and that, without supervision for once. Got into trouble. You know me. It was brilliant. I saw the Phosphorous Carousel of the Great Magellan Gestadt, saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw, named a galaxy Alison. Got married. That was a mistake, so maybe the supervision of my sister would have been good. Good Queen Bess. And let me tell you, her nickname is no longer. Ahem. Anyway, what do you want?"

"You should not have delayed."

I'd delay all I want, I didn't want to do any of this. "The last time I was here you said my song would be ending soon, and I'm in no hurry for that."

"You will come with me."

Now to show my own settings for the TARDIS security. "Hold on. Better lock the TARDIS." And pointed a key at it, so it chirped, light flashing. "See? Like a car. I locked it like a car. Like. It's funny. No? Little bit?" He didn't even react. "Blimey, try to make an Ood laugh. So how old are you now, Ood Sigma? Ah." Oh, that, that was amazing. Liz would have loved that, even if she didn't want to be with the Ood themselves. "Magnificent. Oh, come on, that is splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?"

"One hundred years."

Oh. "Then we've got a problem. Because all of this is way too fast. Not just the city, I mean your ability to call me. Reaching all the way back to the twenty first century, without alerting my sister. Something's accelerating your species way beyond normal."

"And the Mind of the Ood is troubled."

"Why, what's happened?"

His head tilted to the side slightly. "Every night, Doctor, every night we have bad dreams."

And he lead me to a circle of Ood in a cave of ice, their Elder sat leading the prayer, or, or ritual. "Returning, returning, returning, it is slowly returning through the dark and the fire and the blood. Always returning, returning to this world. It is returning, and he is returning, and she is returning him, and they are returning, but too late. Too late. Far too late. He has come."

"Sit with the Elder of the Ood and share the dreaming."

Very glad now that I didn't bring my sister, I took a place with them, between two Ood that offered me hands. "So. Right. Hallo."

"You will join. You will join. You will join. You will join. You will join. You will join. You will join."

So I took them, and was pulled into their dreams, seeing a laughing face. Oh, my sister... That was why they spoke to me, and not you. "Bwahahahahahaha!"