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Chapter Two Hundred and Eight (In the Doctor's distant future) "Why don't you like heights, Papaw?' Liam asked as Adam smiled and arched the fedora over his eyes. "I guess it has tae do with this," Adam said as he wiggled the fingers of his right hand and the children gave him a confused look. They did know how he became Duer's clone as he wiggled his fingers at Clara and she giggled. "What does your hand have to do with it?" the Doctor asked. "It has tae do with the regenerative energy in my hand. Or should I say my brother's hand? Anyway, I ran some tests an' it turns out that the regenerative energy from his regeneration cycle retained some of his genetic memories an' the sensation of falling remained after this was cut off. I'm amazed that John or Alan never had any weird memories or fear of heights an' falling, seeing that the same thing happened tae them," Adam said when Alan came down the stairs then hopped over the top of the couch and sat next to Adam. "I'm not afraid of anything!" Alan said with pride while Rose rolled her eyes and Adam arched an eyebrow. "Not even a Jackie slap?" he asked and Alan's eyes went wide as he covered his cheeks with his hands. "Don't even joke about Jackie slaps!" he said and they laughed. "Alan, have you ever had odd dreams about being a hand?" Jack asked as Alan gave him a slightly stunned look and blinked. "Not that I know of," he said when Rose remembered something and looked at Alan. "You did have that dream about being in the jar then being born," Rose said and Alan frowned. He thought for a few seconds when he rolled his eyes and set up a privacy block. The TARDIS appeared in their heads as they saw Donna kneeling on the floor while the fire flickered around her and she was looking at the Doctor's hand floating in the jar. *Bubble...bubble...bubble...pop...pop...bubble...* "Aw, don't I look cute?" Alan asked as his head appeared above the jar and he smiled. "Yeah, you look adorable," Donna said as her head appeared next to him and he stuck his tongue out at her. "I'll tell you this. I loved floating around, but I was so bored." "See, that's what I'm talking aboot. How can you be bored if you're just a hand?" Adam asked as his head appeared above the jar and Alan blinked. *Bubble...bubble...bubble...pop...pop...bubble...* "And how could I hear the popping and bubbling noise if I didn't have ears?" Alan asked. "Look, you're all shiny," Clara said as her head appeared about the jar and Alan dropped the privacy block. "Why did you do that for?" Donna asked and Alan glanced at the children and she nodded. "What happened?" Liam asked. "I was born!" Alan said with wide eyes and Liam giggled. "Now I get what you're saying," the Doctor said as he looked at Adam and snuggled closer to Rain. "So, if that's true then you remembering falling from the Sycorax ship would cause you to be afraid of heights." "But I'm not afraid of heights," Alan said. "Yeah, and like I used to tell you, he comes from a different universe, which means what affects him may not affect you," the Doctor said and Adam nodded. "Oh, like his wanting to wear this old, smelly thing?" Alan asked as he removed the fedora from Adam's head and flicked the fedora at Jack, who caught it with one hand. Getting up, Jack walked to Adam when he placed the fedora on Adam's head then walked back to Ianto and sat down. "Hey, I don't want that stinky thing near me!" "Sod off," Adam said as they laughed and Alan flipped Adam off. "Now, where was I? Oh, right..." Captain Jack looked at the map while they headed down the tunnel and Adamana smiled at Rose Coral. They went down the next tunnel when they swam upward and surfaced in a large cavern. The crystals on the walls and on the ceiling sparkled in their own light as they looked around and a large stone platform led to a cave at the back of the large cavern. "Ok, where are we?" Alan of Seaweed asked as his voice echoed around them and he grinned. He placed his head back then howled as the howls roared around the large cavern and Adamana looked at Doctor Merman. "Does he have wave sickness?" he asked and Doctor Merman softly laughed. As the howls died down they heard a low clicking sound as they swam over to the platform when a shadowy figure appeared at the mouth of the cave and Frazerwick's eyes went wide. "We have tae get out of here!" he said as he turned and Captain Jack grabbed onto the back of his robe, making him turn around. "No, really, we have tae go!" "Why?" Captain Jack asked while the clicking sound grew louder and someone walked out of the cave. Standing six feet three inches in height, the figure held a long stick of orange and purple coral in his left hand and he blinked his ice blue eyes. His flawless body was lean with well sculptured muscles and his long, black hair framed his handsome face. "Whoa, is that supposed tae be Hamish?" Frazer asked as he his head appeared overhead and they looked up at him. He yelped when a hand appeared and pulled him away by his ear and Doctor Merman sighed, rolling his eyes. "Who's there?" the figure asked as Doctor Merman jumped onto the stone platform and held himself up by his arms. "We're friends," he said as the figure walked closer then reached out his right hand and felt Doctor Merman's wet hair. "State your name then, Friend." "I am Doctor Merman. Who are you?" "I am Hamfish the Blind," Hamfish said and... "Hold it!" Alan said as he held up his hand and Adam looked at him. "Do you really think it's a good idea to make fun of the War Chief? I mean, come on, "Hamfish"?" "Well, seeing that he's nae here, I dinnae think he'll mind," Adam said when a white light flashed in the room and a soft wheezing sound filled the air. They covered their eyes while Namid appeared next to the couch where Rain and the Doctor were sitting when a white light appeared next to her and the white light morphed into Hamish. The others blinked their eyes a few times when Namid sat down next to the Doctor and he kissed her cheek. "Hello, Mi-mi," Rain said then looked at Hamish and he brushed some hair from his ice blue eyes. He was on his sixth life and stood six feet three inches in height. He was wearing a tight t-shirt, jeans and leather boots and held the stick tightly in his hands. "Welcome, War Chief." Hamish was still uncertain about being called "War Chief" as he gently smiled at her and nodded his head. Only he, Namid and Rain remembered what Namid did as Compassion when they faced the Valeyard and he walked to the couch, sitting on the floor. "What's going on?" Namid asked. "Papaw is telling us a story about Doctor Merman," Clara said and Namid smiled at Adam. "Now there is someone I haven't thought about in a long time. Mind telling us what's going on?" she asked. Setting up a privacy block, Adam gave them a cliff note version of the story when Hamish saw Hamfish and he laughed. "Is that me?" he asked and Adam nodded. "Tell him what his name is," Alan said and Hamish tilted his head to one side. "His name is Hamfish the Blind," Adam said and Hamish's eyes went wide. They knew that Hamish grew a short temper when he became the War Chief and Namid looked at Hamish, gently stroking his hair. "Hey, that's tame compared tae the name of my character," Frazer said and Hamish looked at him. "An' what did he call you?" "Oh, I remember! I called him "Frazerwick"!" Namid said and Hamish laughed then ducked when Frazer tossed a cushion at him. "Wait, you called him that name? I thought this was Uncle's story," Hamish said, looking up at her. "Well, I made the story up a long time ago when we were traveling across the United States," she said as the Doctor snuggled against her and placed his head on her shoulder. "Yep, she made it up to entertain her dear, old daddy," he said then kissed her cheek and Namid blushed. "Can we get back to the story? I want to see what Hamfish is going to do to Doctor Merman," Alan said and Adam nodded, setting up a privacy block.
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