Unexpected, pt I (Doctor Who, prompt 14; Whisper)

Nov 17, 2013 22:09

Title: Unexpected, pt I
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Prompt: 14: Whisper
Friendship: Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot.
Summary: In which something has Jamie very concerned. Part 1 of 2.
Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine, and the story is!

There was a part of Jamie that was concerned about whether or not the Celestial Intervention Agency would catch on that the Doctor had sabotaged the navigational tracked for the sole purpose of eluding them when possible.

When they next returned to Gallifrey, and the Time Lords quickly separated the two of them, despite the Doctor’s protests, Jamie was worried that the moment had come. He struggled to get back to the Doctor as the Time Lords led him to a room, ushering him inside.

Before the Scot could turn around and snarl at them, he was struck dumb at the sight of the two women in the room.

“Zoe!? Victoria!?”

“Jamie!?” they chorused. They looked older, as Jamie surely looked to them, but, besides that, they looked exactly the same.

The Scot didn’t even notice the door behind him closing and locking; he immediately ran over to them.

“Are ye both alright?” he asked. “They di’n hurt ye, did they?”

“No,” Victoria said. “But who are they? Where are we?”

“We’re on the Doctor’s home planet,” Zoe said. “Gallifrey.”

“Aye, that’s…” Jamie trailed off. “Ye remember!?”

“Yes!” Zoe said, grinning. “I was starting to remember on my own-but then those… things turned up on the Wheel, and as we were fighting them off, the Time Lords appeared. They did… something, to chase them off, and then they brought me here and restored the rest of my memories.”

“Things? What things?” Jamie asked.

“The faceless men,” Victoria said, shuddering. “They dressed liked the gentlemen did from my time-I almost thought they were visitors. But then the came closer, and I saw they had no faces-just mouths with fangs! They attacked me and the Harrises, too-and then these people showed up, saved us, and brought me here, as well.”

“And that’s what puzzles me,” Zoe said. “The Doctor got into trouble because of his interfering with things. Why would his people go and do the same thing-and then restore my memories?”

“I don’ know,” Jamie said. “But I don’t trust those crocodiles!”

“Oh, don’t call them that!” Victoria scolded him. “They did save us, after all.”

“They are crocodiles,” Jamie said.

“I knew it…” Zoe muttered. “It was the Doctor’s poikilothermy that convinced me…”

“And they ne’er do things without some underhanded reason,” Jamie added. “The Doctor is nae but a criminal to them; they order him aboot, and they threaten to take me away if he does nae listen to them.”

“I know,” Victoria said, softly. “It’s sad, really. After you and Zoe were taken away from him, the Doctor would visit me. He was so different from the Doctor I knew-absolutely lost and sad. And so lonely. I actually offered to travel with him again, in the hopes that might help, but… he said he wasn’t allowed.”

Jamie looked to Zoe, and then they both looked to Victoria.

“Thank ye for trying,” Jamie said. “But that does nae explain why we were all brought here-or why those faceless men attacked ye.”

“They were saying odd things,” Zoe said. “Well, whispering, actually. I couldn’t really understand what they were saying; it didn’t make any sense!”

Victoria looked to Jamie and shrugged.

“I didn’t understand it, either,” she said.

Jamie bit his lip, glancing back at the locked door.

“I don’ know any more than ye do,” he said. “But I’ve got a horrible feeling that the Doctor is in some sort of danger.”

“What do we do?” Zoe asked.

“I don’ know aboot ye,” Jamie said. “But I’m ready to do whate’er it takes.”

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