Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:08:37 EDT From: J Subject: DOCTOR WHO, JESSE, AND JEREMY 44 The pull was amazing. Wind seemed to rip at their hair, a giant vacuum cleaner-like pull sucking them toward it...out toward the open time and space area called the vortex. It seemed like a tornado of titanic proportions was inside the TARDIS's huge control room... "Hang on for your life, Jeremy!" The Doctor yelled! Wind threatened to suck his breath away, ram down his throat and prevent further talk. The TARDIS doors were wide open. The vortex outside was white, red, black and green. Jesse was on the side of the console nearest the inner doors. "Does this have anything to do with what just happened to us?" He yelled to be heard. The sounds of the hurricane like vortex roared over them. He had to repeat himself, "Does this have anything to do with what happened to us just then on that last adventure???" "Maybe! I don't know!" The Doctor yelled, holding onto the console and turning controls, "Just hold on!" Jeremy was holding onto the right sided door but both doors were wide open. His feet were dangling out the door, his clothes were slowly being ripped off him, torn outside by the pull. Jeremy looked as his feet had been slipped from the inner console room, so that his body was thrown from one way to the other, now feet first outside the doors. He managed to hold onto the door with both hands, the roundels helping support his grip...but not for long. " Doctor!!!!" "Doctor, do something!" Jesse yelled, "He'll be sucked..." "Don't even start with jokes!" "I didn't!" Jesse looked as Jeremy's left hand was slipping off the roundel he held on the door. "Jeremy!" He let go of the console and began to run at Jeremy. The Doctor let go too but only to run bodily into Jesse, grab him with both hands around both arms, and thrust him back toward that inner door toward the inner TARDIS. "What are you doing!!???!!! Get back!!!" Jesse struggled in the Doctor's grip but the time winds coming in were making him weak. "Let me go!" "Get back into the TARDIS!" The Doctor thrust Jesse toward the door leading into the TARDIS depths. Hair being blown about, Jesse struggled and managed to get both arms free, smack the Doctor in the face with both backhands and race, once again, toward Jeremy. "Jeremy!!!!" The Doctor ignored the smacks, reached his hand out, grabbed Jesse's arm, faster than the boy could move. He pulled Jesse back to him. Jesse's face was a mere half inch from his. Jesse's breath hit the Doctor's. The Doctor's breath hit Jesse's lips. Jesse started to open his mouth. The Doctor didn't wait, he backed up his fist and punched the boy full in the face, just to the right side, encompassing the cheek, higher cheek bone, under the right eye. Jesse passed out immediately. The Doctor grabbed the boy's sides and thrust him again toward the inner exit door toward the inner TARDIS. He heaved the boy bodily in there, slammed the door shut to keep him safe and turned toward the console itself...again. He threw himself at it and moved around it as fast as he could. Jeremy's left hand dangled uselessly. His other hand let go and he was dragged along the door. The Doctor yelled, "Jeremy!!!" Jeremy clawed at the door and managed to hold on. He looked the Doctor in the eye. "Doctor!!!" "Jeremy! I don't know what it is! But it is not the usual vortex! Others have gone out that way, myself included when I had to get to Professor Chronotis 's TARDIS...Salamander was sucked out!!! It wasn't like this...you won't die! This is something else entirely!!!!" "DOCTOR! I don't have time for a history lesson!" His clothes, by this time, were completely ripped down his body, off his body, and out into the vortex storm behind his bare feet. "I'm going. Might just die! Doctor, I love you and Jesse!" "Don't give up!" The Doctor moved around the console hitting buttons but it was clear to them both that nothing he did made any difference. "The doors were stuck, the time coordinates wrong, something was done to it!" "Doctor!" Jeremy's face looked calm now. His face relaxed totally. "Doctor ...don't forget me." "Never. Cause you're not going anywhere!" "Doctor. Believe." And with that, the face moved backward. Far, far, far, from the Doctor. The Doctor wondered why the face moved that far. The face of an angel. The bright blond hair, not phased by the cascading lights of the time and space vortex, that funneled around outside, churning, turning, turbulence, storming. Then he knew. The body of the boy he loved was moving outside the doors. Jeremy either let go or was thrust off the door, or his hands just could not hold on any more. The now totally naked boy was torpedoed out the TARDIS doors, passing the inner dimensional airway and out the TARDIS completely. "Believe." Jesse punched open the doors. "Get in there!" K9 flew in, he was round, he was white, and he was updated. He had the same head of the dog we all knew and he was red eyed. His nose laser was out and his eyebrows looked down in a serious confrontational mode. The laser hit one door. The laser hit the other door. Both shut. Jesse, having barged in, was thrown over the console and toward the doors, too. The Doctor reached for him, his arms up in the air, "NOOOO!" Jesse did a full flip, feet up near the ceiling, feet down by the doors, which by the time he landed, were closed shut thanks to K9's lasers. "Thanks, K9." The winds had stopped. The roaring sounds lowered to a nothingness. The silence was almost deafening. The Doctor ran over to him, "Jesse, are you..." "Pissed? Yeah!" Jesse punched the Doctor full in the face with a double fist, both hands clenched tight. The Doctor fell onto the floor with a major thud. Jesse stood over him and pointed, "Don't ever punch me again!" "Saved you," K9 said. Jesse pointed up at the hovering Robot Dog, "You weren't there." "What you told me." K9 put his head down. The Doctor rubbed his face. He shook his head to clear his thoughts. "Damn." He jumped up and turned his back to Jesse, working on the console. "Damn. " "Don't fucking ignore me!" "I'm not, Jesse. And I'm sorry. I'm trying to find the fault..faults. I'm trying to track Jeremy." "Then he's still alive? There's still hope?" "There's always hope!" The Doctor worked furiously. Jesse looked over his shoulder, "One day, you have to teach me, us, Jeremy and I, how to work this crate!" "Done!" The Doctor said, "Right after we find him!" "We will," Jesse added, "We will." "We will!" The Doctor paused with one arm only to put it around Jesse and bring the boy from behind him to the console to hold him side by side. "We will!" Blackness. Whiteness. Both black and white. Fading rain. Acid rain. Snow. White snow. Black clouds. Black snow. Yellow snow. "Please help me." "Who are you?" Jeremy woke up. He looked around. There was nothing. Blackness. He was naked. He hugged himself. He blinked. Then a world appeared under him. His feet touched the ground. He saw cobblestones. He walked and walked and walked. And got no where. "Where are you? Are you still in need of help?" "I need help." "I do too." "Two of you?" Jeremy looked around and realized he was on a cobble stone bridge. In the middle of a black nothingness. Then he blinked again and the bridge seemed to appear in a world or perhaps the world appeared around the bridge. "What the fuck?" "Fuck? Is that a word?" "I don't want to meet him." "I want to leave here." Jeremy smiled, "Me, too, kid." At least to him, whatever or whoever this was, sounded like a kid." "You can see our world now." Jeremy looked. The world was strange. There were shadowy figures. "Like a Salvador Dali painting, dude, like a Dali painting." The trees had clocks that dripped. The clocks had trees instead of hands. Leaves grew from the trees. There was cartoon like buildings with drawn on windows. "It looks like Gotham City in Batman...Batman Colorforms." The sky came into focus and it was red, black, blue, purple, and yellow. He walked and found that the air around him became rippling. It was like water. Fish flew by him, some fast, some slow. A giant shark passed by. An octopus flew by. "Guys, I need help, if anyone does. I don't know where I am." "I don't want to know where he is. I'm afraid." "They want me." "I want you, too," Jeremy smiled, "Can you lead me to you? Either of you?" "I can." "Who are you?" "Can't you use your eyes? I'm a turtle." "But you're polka dotted and with different colored polkas," Jeremy leaned down, bent his knees to see the turtle. On purple grass to the side of the bridge ending. "Follow that yellow brick road. Come to the moat. Castle. One of the voices you hear will be in that." "Thanks. Do you have a name?" "Gamera." "Thanks, uh Gamera." "Watch out for their disciples." "Disciples? Religion types?" "More like constituents." "They vote for the voices?" "More like subjects." "They're kings?" Jeremy said, raising his eyebrows in an almost delight. "Princes. They are princes." "Oh." Jeremy said. "Now go, before they find you." "Thanks," Jeremy said. With that Gamera flew up, spiraling, turning, his shell turning fully around, his head and arms going back into his shell. Fire shot out the holes he had, a little burst at first, then more. "You really are Gamera." Jeremy laughed more than said. "Yes and thanks to you, meeting you...I, for the first time, can fly. You've given me the fire that I need." "Good." Jeremy said and crossed the bridge, "Yellow brick road. Is this Oz? " "Prison." The chant was said over and over and over. Jeremy looked and saw a crowd of hundreds of people. Shuffling more than walking. They repeated this over and over. "Prison." They wore white. He moved away from them and as he moved off the road, he bumped into another race of people. They were black, white, all nationalities it seemed. They wore all different colors and they inhabited an area off the yellow brick road. There were black leaves on white trees. These people chanted, "Prejudice" over and over and over. Jeremy turned to face them and saw them reaching their hands out to him. Not menacing, almost as a sign of helplessness. That they wanted his help. They repeated " Prejudice" over and over. He swallowed. He backed away from them and found himself sideways from the road. "Now I'm further from it than ever before." He looked up and saw giant white birds with black beaks and black eyes. They glided past the giant fish and huge space whales that sort of dangled there. Then they were gone. He ran. Another group of people. Drained. Old, Young, Muscled, Fat...and these did scare him more. "Sex without love," they chanted over and over and over. These surrounded him on all sides and they seemed to outnumber the others by several hundred. Their hands seemed more like they were clawed and their hands reached up over him, more menacing. Jeremy backed into one. "Leave me alone!" He yelled and shut his eyes. Then he opened them and looked down. He found, to his embarrassment, that he was hard and his penis was growing ever more so. His nakedness didn't help his embarrassment to diminish. He also found he could just duck between bodies of these people. They were also naked and he rubbed against all sorts of bodies to escape them. Wrinkled ones. Muscled ones. Tight ones. Soft ones. Smooth ones. Hairy ones. He screamed. They took no notice. Another group. Of one. "Isolation," the old man said, "Isolation." What was strange about this old man was that he had his hair parted in the middle and one side of his hair was totally white, the other totally black. Jeremy regarded him with examination. He ran down the yellow brick road, having found it again and moved away from all the chanting crowds. In the distance he spotted a giant all white castle. He passed a Tin Man on the road, and thought it might be what Jesse and the Doctor called a Cyberman. It was stiff and still and looked like it needed oil. It scared him some more and he found that he was still stiff around the dick. He uncurled his foreskin. White trees lined up in rows to greet him and they were on either side of the yellow brick road. He passed two scarecrow patches which were also on either side. They had living eyes. Black eyes, white around the black centers. Their eyes followed him. One spoke. "Can we have your heart? We, so, need a human heart." "No," Jeremy said, "And that's final. And...I'm so sorry." Jeremy moved on. He saw a huge lion figure. It seemed nude too. It had no genitals, he noticed, not without some sympathy. It looked regal and yet frightened. "Are...are you going inside?" "Yes, if I can pass." "You can pass. I won't hurt you. Do you know Romana?" "No but I've heard her name. She used to be a friend of the Doctor." Which might spell trouble if she was no longer. "I'm looking for her. She freed my people in the future." "Oh, oh. Yes, I'm sure. Well, I wish I could help you but I must see the princes." "Be careful of the king and queen. They suck, you know." "Yeah," Jeremy said, and not sure how he said it. He really didn't know but he just figured. Most kings and queens do suck. "Good luck with finding Romana." "She's my courage. I think she off saving some fool boy." "Boys are good." Jeremy said. "Yes," the lion Tharill said, "So are girls." "So I've heard," Jeremy smiled and moved to the strange rectangular structure ahead. "What's this now?" "I'm a draw bridge." A rather fem voice told him. "But you're supposed to be on the castle side." "I'm supposed to what?" It sounded British. Like most of the beings here. "Yeah you're supposed to cover the moat so that no one can get across it. But the king and queen and presumable the princes can make you come down and they can cross to come to this side. This way no one from this side can go there." "I'm...I'm supposed to be over there?" "Yes." "Oh damn!" "Well, no matter. I need you. The princes or at least one of them, need you. Can you...you know?" "Oh glad to be of service. On the other side?" The draw bridge had a face on it. A not uncold face. It had moustache and looked white in the eyes and hair. The thing came down. "Step easy. I've had a hard night." Jeremy smiled. He walked on it. The bridge smiled back, "Dainty boy feet. How nice." "Yeah," Jeremy said and walked all the way across. TARDIS ploughed through some veil in time and space. Inside, the rooms shook. Then it all stopped. The scanner shutters opened, seemingly of their own accord. "Doctor, where are we?" Jesse said, "...now?" "I...further than we've ever gone before. The TARDIS had...we're further back in time than the TARDIS has ever gone before." "Do you have a date?" "Yes, you. Later, we'll have some tea and biscuits, dinner first." The Doctor looked over the console. "Doc, in case you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly in the mood for jokes or fun and games," Jesse rubbed his cheek. "Jeremy's been sucked...and not in a good way...right out of the TARDIS. You don't know if he's alive or dead..." "HE'S ALIVE!" The Doctor yelled and turned to look at him. "So you say," Jesse added, "But then you tell me others like this double of yours, Salamander, fitting name for YOU I might add, slimy toad like lizard ..." "I know you're not happy with me right now..." "Oh that's the understatement of the century..any century!" "We are in the year..." he looked back at the reading. "Oh yeah. Further. It 's like 256.. I think my grandparents use to live at that address..." "On Earth? Never mind," Jesse shut his eyes, "Just tell me, 2 hundred and fifty six...what? BC?" "No. 256 zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero..." "OKAY STOP THAT!" Jesse yelled. "That's like...sextillion..." "How fitting. Sex.." Jesse laughed. "Thought you weren't in the mood for jokes..." Jesse shrugged, "Sex jokes ease the tension...always in the mood for sex..." "BC." The Doctor stopped his hypnotic zero-ing. "Sextilloin BC. That's, oh, so long ago. Like before the known universe. In the spot where your universe used to be or will be rather. We're in a kind of no where. No place." "But there's there," Jesse nodded, "That land out there. It's strange but it's there. Can we breath air out there? Is there air out there?" "No. But we can breath. It seemed there are strange laws and rules out there but it is supportable to human life. Okay, you stay..." "No fucking way." Jesse put up his fists, "I'm going." "Okay," the Doctor said, "I'm not going to argue..." He moved to the door control knob. "Here's hoping.." He moved it down and the doors opened. Parted. "Come on." Jesse strode outside. Into a giant sheet. "Doctor!" He turned. The Doctor was next to him. The sheets wrapped around both of them. Pressed their bodies together. They felt each other's members grow hard as they were shoved together. It was like some giant had wrapped them up and was now carrying them. They felt the swaying, swinging motion as if there was no ground beneath them suddenly. The sheets were white. The Doctor held Jesse close to him. Jesse wrapped his arms around the Doctor's body and the Doctor did the same. "Doctor! " "Just hold onto me." The swinging motion made their stomachs jump. "Doctor, what kind of a place is this?" "I don't know. I've never been here before or had anything like this happen before to me." He sounded ecstatic that this was. "And I'm so happy it is!!!" Jesse rolled his eyes as his stomach rolled. "Me too. Overjoyed." "At least it's not over the moon." "That's not funny. I haven't forgotten that. How I was left on the Moon myself...how everyone who tried to help me died..." "Jesse, it's over. You survived." Jesse thought about this. "Thanks to you." He put his head on the Doctor' s shoulder. Jeremy walked to the open rounded entrance to the castle. It was so like an old fashioned brick castle...only it was all white. He stepped inside. He wanted to call out but knew it might alert guards or the King or Queen. He walked about for a bit. "I'm the one you seek." Jeremy saw an exceptionally handsome looking young teenager. He had his hair slicked back. It was totally white. His eyes stood out...they were emerald green. His regal robes were all white, too. "How can..." Jeremy came up to the boy. "How can I help you?" "My parents. I want to leave them. Leave here. I don't want to be who I am to be." "Forcing you to be something you are not. Or not accepting something you are?" "Both I think." Jeremy looked back, "I...the way is clear. You can just walk out any time you want to..." "Is that what you think?" Suddenly, large pelican birds were there. Out of no place. Their giant legs were longer than half the sides of the walls. In the vestibule, the giant pelicans formed a circle around the boy and Jeremy. Their legs formed a jail cell, the bars were the legs. Jeremy held onto two of them. "What the hell?" One leaned all the way over and tried to peck his hands off. Jeremy moved back, into the circle. "You may never leave here. This is your cell forever..." To be continued... Doctor Who is copyright to the BBC. No infringement is meant. Oh you all know this already!