TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE VALEYARD

Chapter Nine

In the far future, Marion lifted Adam's head as she helped him take a sip of water then placed his head down on the pillow and he sighed, opening one blue eye.

"Dinnae cry, Sunshine, I'm alright," he said softly and she brushed the hair from his eyes.

"Hush, now, just try tae rest," she said as she moved the blanket up to his chest and he half smiled at her.

"Where's my fedora?" he asked softly and she looked over at the coffee table. She had brought his Indiana Jones felt fedora with them as she picked it off the coffee table and placed it over his eyes, the end resting on the tip of his nose. Their son, David, had given it back to him years ago and Adam softly sighed, adjusting the fedora on his head. He placed his hands on his chest then cracked his knuckled, like he did before going to sleep. She saw his chest softly rising and falling as she kissed his cheek then felt like someone was watching them. Looking up, she saw Rose standing next to him and she stood up, keeping the tips of her fingers on his chest.

"He's asleep," Marion said while Rose nodded and looked down at the floor.

"Alan's blaming himself for what's going on with Adam," Rose said when Marion placed her hands on Rose's shoulders and sighed.

"Then he's being silly. Adam knows full well that it's nae his fault. They were both rude to that shaman, nae that I blame him either."

"He thinks he's killing his best friend," Rose said when the fedora fell to the floor and they looked at the couch. Adam has his eyes opened when he took hold of the top of the couch and tried to get up.

"No, Adam, dinnae get up!" Marion said but he shook his head and sat up. He nearly fell over when he picked the fedora off the floor then pushed off the couch and closed his eyes. His hearts thumped inside his chest as he looked up at the stairs and clenched his jaw. He remembered how he teased Jamie about being stubborn and Jamie told him that he would be just as stubborn now that he was a Scott.

"Please, Adam, lay down," Rose pleaded but Adam slowly walked to the stairs and placed his hand on the railing. He placed the other hand on the bottom step when he coughed then looked up at the stairs.

"Oi, Old Smelly Socks, can you hear me?" he shouted in the voice of his first life and felt his knees buckling.

"Shut up, you old fart, I'm trying to sleep!" Alan shouted back and Adam laughed.

"Fine, but I need to tell you something!"

"Then come up here and tell me!"

"No, you come down here!"

"NO!" Alan shouted when Adam placed his hands on the stairs and started to crawl up the stairs, one step at a time.

"If I die, Mate, I am so going to haunt you!" he shouted when they heard a soft thud and Rose looked at the ceiling.

"He didn't?" she whispered while Adam stopped half way up the stairs and placed his chin on the back of his arms. They heard a soft shuffling sound then ran to the bottom of the stairs and Adam smiled. Crawling mostly on his stomach, Alan appeared at the top of the stairs and looked down at him.

"You can't come up here unless you pay the toll," Alan said placing his chin on his arms.

"How much is the toll?" Adam asked.

"One million credits."

"A bit steep for me tae come up tae see your wrinkled arse," Adam said and Adam's eyes went wide.

"My arse is not wrinkled!"

"Aye, it is! If I could find an iron, I'd have Marion press it for you," he said then grinned and Alan coughed a laugh. "You ok?"

"Yeah, but I feel like shit," Alan said with a sigh.

"I hear you," Adam said as he arched the fedora up and his red hair hung in his face.

"You are both insane!" Rose said when she ran up to Adam and knelt next to him.

"Well, I know that you don't want us in the same room, Starlight, but maybe it would be easier," Alan said as she turned to look back at Marion and she nodded.

"Ok, we'll do that, but only if you two behave yourself," she said and they looked at her with smiles on their sweaty faces.

"Aye, we'll be good," Adam said then shivered and she stroked his back.

"Adam?" she asked and he breathed hard through his nose then blinked.

"John," he whispered and she lifted his chin up, looking into his eyes.

"Do you want me to get John?" she asked and he shook his head, the fedora wiggling side to side.

"No, I was remembering what John an' I found out aboot the Valeyard."

"You mean...?" she asked and he nodded. "Well, we can talk about that later. Let's get you two back to bed."

Marion ran passed them when she picked Alan up then looked at Rose and she nodded. She helped Adam stand up as they slowly walked up the stairs and she held him to her side. They headed for the guest room with two double beds when Rose leaned Adam against the dresser then ran to the bed on the left. She moved the bedding back while Marion slid Alan onto the bed and Rose covered him up to his waist. Adam had started slipping down the dresser when they caught him and led him to the bed. Marion moved the bedding back then helped put him on the bed and covered him up to his waist. Carefully crawled onto the beds, they snuggled against their husbands and Alan looked at Adam.

"I am so..." he started to say when Adam took his fedora off and flung it at him. The fedora only made it half away to the other bed as he smiled and shook his head.

"There's no need tae be sorry, Old Toe Jam," he said, looking at him. "Besides, we're nae going tae die. You want tae ken why?"

"Yep," Alan said, popping the "p".

"It's because I have faith in Namid an'...in you," he said, half closing his eyes.

"You have faith in me?" he asked and Adam opened one eye.

"Yep, back then, nothing stood in the way of Alonzo Arthur Timelord. I bet you're kicking the Valeyard's arse even as we speak!" he said then closed his eyes and went to sleep. Alan sniffed as the tears trickled down his cheeks and Rose wiped his eyes.

"We have faith in you, too," Marion said as Rose nodded and Alan smiled, rolled onto his side and snuggled against Rose. She held him as she sent love into his mind and he slowly drifted off to sleep.

"For the last time, take your hands off of me!" a voice said while Alan paced back and forth and looked down the passageway from behind the force shield.

"That's six," he said as the Doctor nodded and looked up at the ceiling.

"The next voice we'll hear will be my eighth life," the Doctor said as he sat up and ran his fingers through his hair, making it stick up in wild clumps on the top of his head.

"Then the ninth then...you," Alan said and the Doctor nodded.

"Alan, I want you to do something for me," he said as Alan walked to the bed and sat next to him.

"And that would be?"

"If you make it out of here, I want you to marry Rain."

"You already asked me to do that, Brother, and I said that I would. But, if anything happens to me..."

"I'll do that same with Rose," the Doctor said as he looked at the picture of Rose on the wall.

"Let go of me!" a voice shouted when they looked at each other and ran to the force field.

"Was that...?" Alan asked and the Doctor slowly nodded.

"That was my seventh life," the Doctor said softly.

"But that's not right! Jenny's vision said that he got away."

"Yes, but she also said that my eleventh life was still in exile."

"Do you think, seeing how Kin revoked the exile, that things have gone all wibbly wobbly, timey wimey?" Alan asked with a confused look on his face.

"If it has, how are we going to get out of here?" the Doctor asked then started pacing back and forth and Alan frowned, leaning against the wall. The Doctor stopped pacing when he walked to Alan and gently patted his shoulder. "Have faith, Te'lesau, Rain will think of something."

"Oh, great, my fate rest in Rainy Painy's hands!" he said as he looked at the ceiling then went to the bed and flopped down on the bed. "Someone shoot me!"

"Don't tempt me," the Doctor said with a grin then started pacing again and the force field hummed softly in his ears.

"So, if this thing comes from YOUR universe, then how the bloody hell did the Doctor's Valeyard get a hold of it?" John asked while Adam flipped the small metal disc in his hand and sighed.

"He couldn't have," Adam said softly then looked up at the ceiling. The engines had been whimpering and shuttering around them as he felt sadness creeping into his mind and he sighed. "Daisy, was it you that called me to the garage?"

"Yes, I only wanted to take you with me," Daisy said when a light began to shimmer in the room and they watched it growing brighter. Suddenly Nigel appeared as he fell to his knees onto the grating and panted.

"Dad's right. Using this thing is killer," he said then stood up and looked at them. "Hello, Gents, how's it going?"

"How did you...?" John asked and Nigel smiled, brushing the fringe from his eyes.

"I tracked Daisy's energy signature then borrowed this," he said then held his wrist up to show them the vortex manipulator on his left wrist. "I never used it before though. Anyone know where the loo is? I feel like I'm about to hurl."

"It's that way," Adam said as he pointed to the hallway and Nigel nodded, running down the hallway. A few minutes later he came back then walked to the console and looked at the rotor moving behind the glass.

"Right, let's see what I can do in getting this little lost lamb back to the flock," he said then looked at them. "Um, Dad told me to tell you that Rain and Hamish have gone missing, too."

"What?" they both said and he sighed, looking at the screen.

"No one knows how but we think the Valeyard took them."

"I can see why he took Rain but why did he take Hamish?" John asked and Nigel shrugged.

"Maybe he has a thing for blind guys," he said with a grin then ducked when Adam went to smack the back of his head and glared at him. "Anyway, it looks like I'm a bit too late."

"Why?" Adam said as he looked at the screen and Nigel pointed to readings.

"We've landed," he said and leaned against the console.

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