Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:49:55 -0400
From: J
Subject: DOCTOR WHO, JESSE AND JEREMY 88

Jeremy looked down. Sand under his feet seemed to be moving. He heard
rumbling. "What the fuck's happening to us now?"

Jesse gasped and gaped, "Not another sink hole...!"

"I don't think...so...so..." Jeremy yelled, "RUN!"  He slapped the horse he
was near on the back side and it ran. Before running, he did the same to
the other one.

Jeremy followed Jesse up a hillside, "Doctor, run!"

Jesse yelled, "Yeah stop washing your dick and run, man!"

The Doctor turned to see them running, Loosey running after the
horses. "Whaa?"  He calmly picked up a skin and dried himself off.

The dirt where Jesse and Jeremy had been with the horses and Loosey was
moving upward, not downward. A giant worm came up from the sand. It had
human eyes. Jesse and Jeremy trudged up a hillside, for it was slow going
now with loose sand everywhere. From the other side of the hillside, a
giant mound of sand came up and the sand dropped off what was really moving
upward. Jesse stopped running and screamed. Jeremy did the same. On the
other side of them was a huge giant crab creature...it had antenna and eyes
and what looked like a human forehead. It had two huge claws on either side
of it! What really scared them was its evil red eyes that seemed to have
pupils like a human being's bu t it seemed totally evil to both of
them. And it was as large a two apartment buildings. The span of the
creature seemed to the boys to be a half mile. There was no way they could
out run it. They rolled down the hillside as the crab kept on rising over
it. Spider like legs clawed over the hillside they had just been on as the
thing pulled itself toward their puny forms!

The Doctor whirled to look at two giant worms that sprang up behind
him. Slick and wet, dripping with slime, white, with large holes at one
end. A gaping hole of a mouth with a great deal of sharp side spikes on the
mouth and many spiked teeth inside. Each made a slurping sound as the maw
opened. And there was a black tip to one end...and another mouth at that
end, which differed in color and sported sideways teeth. The things flopped
at him but rose up at him, also.  "Hmmmm," the Doctor shrugged and turned
from them and walked toward Jesse and Jeremy. The two boys stood up and ran
toward him as best they could, trying to look back and up, behind
them. Something else rose up behind the crab thing. Something thick and
muscular, red bodied, sectioned with a twelve pack set of abs, a half
segmented body, small claws on both sides of that body, large claws on
thick muscled arms above those, a snake tail and beastly lizard like
legs. It seemed, for a moment to have horns on its head and one large on a
snout, a large smiling mouth with hundreds of fangs. The th ing's head
blotted out both suns.  For the monster thing was so tall, it would have
dwarfed the Empire State Building.

Jesse gasped, "I can't see its top!!!!"

Jeremy fell forward onto his hands, "Do you really want to?"  he asked as
he pulled himself up as fast as possible. Both ran toward the Doctor, who
was strolling causally toward them.  "What's with him?"

Jesse ran side by side with Jeremy. Jesse frowned, "Maybe he's having
another of his fits...or crying sessions..."

They screamed. A wolf-horse-gorilla monster, rose up out of the ground,
moving aside sand, rock, and trees to stand over the them, dwarfing them in
its giant-ness.  The eyes scanned for life and found two tiny
figures---Jesse and Jeremy.  They screamed and found that a crab mantis
caterpillar with a hairy body, all black spindles and pointy spiked hairs
had dug around them, leaving them on top a small sand hill.  Jesse
whispered, clinging to Jeremy, "We are so dead..."

"No, no, no. It's all right, it's all right," the Doctor came up the small
hill and calmly came to the boys, "Just stand behind me..."  He put his
arms out and Jesse went behind the left arm and Jeremy behind the right
arm. But behind them they could feel more entities. Jesse turned and looked
up.  In the blue sky, a giant was p with human lips flew at him. It was as
large as an airplane. Buzzing. A huge point hovered just inches from his
face. He gasped, and then noticed it making a move for his neck.

Jeremy looked down. From the sand...and he knew this couldn't be
good.... Emerged a huge pink flower with some white and some purple on its
end petals edges. A flower emerged but as it shook sand off itself, he
could see that it had eight legs and pulled itself upward, the entire upper
body, a flower... with flesh in the middle and thick legs between the front
three and back three...legs like a rhino. And a face like a beast. Jeremy
found himself facing a beast from the sand. He gripped Jesse, who bent down
to grab a handful of sand. He stood and he and Jeremy switched each other's
positions but each still found themselves facing monsters...Jeremy stared
eye to eye with a hovering needle nosed wasp with a human set of lips and
eyes that just bore into him...like it has a consciousness and intelligence
...and malevolence.  "A giant wasp!"

"What?"  The Doctor didn't turn around. He was concentrating on the first
crab thing and the demon giant snake thing in front of them.

Jesse gasped and exasperated at the Doctor asking what that meant, tried to
control his anger and frustration when he said in measured words, "He
means...a wasp...that's giant!!!! And a spider flower!!!! Right here!!!
Doctor!!!!"  To the side of their improvised hill, an eight foot rock
being, arms, legs, a horn on its head and another on its nose had elephant
ears and a face like a vampire, almost human looking and milk white in
face, red along its rock body. It waved arms like it was clobbering time!
Jesse gasped, "I think it thinks its clobberin time."

A giant butterfly with a giant stinger on its nose landed behind them. All
three, the Doctor included, turned around to face it. Jeremy added, "Yeah
and we're the ones getting clobbered!"

A floating puff ball fish like creature with fins on its sides bounces down
near Jesse---eyes appearing and disappearing--- and Jesse covers his face
with his arms and hands. The thing is pink and puffs out red smoke. From
the dirt a squid octopus rears its tentacles up at them. The Doctor looks
down and steps back as it rises up. A tentacle wraps around his leg. A sand
mud thing slurp up next to that, all brown and liquidly. Jeremy gasped,
"We're surrounded by monsters!"  He looked up as a spear with wings and a
beak like a bird flew down at him! "We're gonna die!"  The thing zoomed at
his face!!!! The spider opened a mouth toward Jesse!!!



Patrick Stewart as the Doctor

Jeremy

and

Jesse in...



DOCTOR WHO, JESSE AND JEREMY....

Episode 88---THE DOCTOR'S BACK UP PLAN





A giant red hand rose. The spear bird averted a flight that would taken it
straight through Jeremy's face. It shot to one side and landed a distance
away. Jeremy opened his eyes, one at a time to see that it was still an
uncomfortable distance away. The spider flower backed off Jesse as did the
puff ball, which bounced but didn't move too far off. Jesse took his arms
and hands away from his head to peer at the things. The Doctor bent his
head down to see the octopus man thing's tentacle leaving his leg. He
smiled and looked up.

The giant demon monster bent down on knees and seemed to actually shrink as
to face the Doctor. "Ahh, the Doctor and the monsters, you cannot have one
without the other..."

"Tell me about it," Jeremy gasped.

The Doctor reached back and smacked Jesse's handful of sand down. "Don't do
that."

"Do you want them to kill us?"  Jesse asked. "C'mon, Doctor, pull something
out of your ass if you have to but..."

"Yeah, this is where you..."  Jeremy began...

Jesse finished, with a wave of his fist in the air, "Kick their asses!!!"
Then he quietly added, "...the ones t hat have asses..."

The Doctor turned to them, briefly and smiled, passively, "Not this time."
He turned and bowed to the giant demon snake thing.  "I beg your
indulgence."

"And we, as you know, Doctor, seek to allow you life if you give us a
sacrifice. In fact, two will do..."

Jesse sweated and with is back to the Doctor and shoulder to shoulder with
Jeremy, both eyeing the multitude of monsters, whispered, "I think he means
us..."

"I will not give you the horses."

The demon thing seemed to say or mind talk, the boys were not sure which,
for they weren't watching it any longer, "They are not far from here, we
can take them and oh, if you throw in the nice fuzzy bear, we will make
sure you are never bothered again."

"I can't give you the roses. They saved our lives."

Jesse whispered, "Do you want to give them us?"

"Just keep quiet and..."  the Doctor snorted a bit. He composed himself and
looked up at the giant face in front of him, seemingly a block of Earth
streets from ear to ear. "Not you, of course, these fools I travel around
with..."

"Ahh, yes, your friend always said you loved the company of fools..."

Jeremy grew angry now. "Look, Doctor and you
 too, you ..."

Jesse joined in, "He's talking to them like they're his friends. Great big
demon creatures from the pit of hell..."

"They're not demons. They're called Ruinionians...."

Jesse snorted, "Yeah, well, they're ruinin' my day..."

"Jesse and I shut up when you told us to but we won't be spoken about like
that, no matter how much smaller we are."

"I like them, Doctor. They have spirit..."

Jeremy smiled and shook himself to stand straighter up.  Jesse noticed and
smiled...

The thing said, "... and I do so love spirit. It will do my appetite
good...and my belly once it's in there..."

The Doctor said, "They will be quiet now..."  he turned quickly and pointed
a finger at Jeremy's face as Jeremy began to open his mouth; then he
pointed the same finger quickly at Jesse and turned back to the
monster. Jeremy nodded to Jesse, who blinked. "And we can continue
negotiations. I know and understand your race in the past had demanded
sacrifices...I cannot let you take the bear. That bear is part of my
childhood and my personal time line..."

"Do you even know WHEN we are from, Doctor. When the bear is from. Do you
even have any idea of what's happening on Gallifrey at the moment, at every
moment...to be precise?"

"No, and I'm sure you won't tell me without a price. However, the bear
cannot be taken. Nor can I let you have the horses..."

Jesse mused to himself, "Actually, him talking to the great big demon
things...and monsters that want to eat our bodies and steal our spirits is
such a Doctor thing to do ..."

"Yeah? And?"  Jeremy whispered.

"It...well, it sorta makes me comfortable, doesn't it? Knowing he's doing
his Doctor thing..."

 "I'd let you eat the boys..."

To Jesse, Jeremy answered, "No, not at all," Jeremy went wide eyed, having
heard the Doctor's acknowledgement to the monster.  He added, quickly,
"Now, I want to kill the Doctor..."

The Doctor went on...."But I declare the peace on the grounds of the Shadow
Proclamation..."  the Doctor said and bowed.

The demon looked thoughtful. It blinked. The wasp buzzed. The worms opened
their maws. The spider flower opened its petals some more. The spear bird
twerped. Jesse and Jeremy moved the pupils in their eyes from side to side,
not daring to move their heads at this point. "Very well, Doctor. Very
well. We don't always recognize them...but today, this time, this age, this
mom ent we shall. We shall not disturb you again. Just know that Gallifrey
is at a crisis..."

"When isn't it?"  The Doctor smiled.

"Never, and right now, it is at all crisis moments."

"The Shadow Proclamation..."  the Doctor reminded.

"Yes, Doctor, good bye...."

"By your leave."  The Doctor said. He turned to the two, "Don't say another
word, just move and move slowly as if you're talking a stroll through a
park..."

Jeremy knew the Doctor meant business. Jesse, for all his sarcasm, also
knew this was the time to obey fully. He longed to say, "You mean it's
not," meaning not a stroll in the park but he didn't.

Jesse and Jeremy moved down the hill slowly...but gravity took them down it
faster than they would have liked. The flower legged thing moved at them
and waited by one side. The bird needle and the wasp moved to the other
side. The rock monster raised arms in front of them. The boys
sweated. Jesse swallowed. Jeremy found no spit in his mouth. The demon
thing nodded a head at them. The monsters all vanished. Jeremy felt his
shoulders relax as the tension left. He turned and looked up. The demon
thing was gone. The crab things were gone. The worms were gone. Jesse
snapped his fingers in the air, "That's what I'm talkin' about!0

The Doctor pushed him, "Don't push it!!!"

"Don't push me," Jesse gasped as he fell forward and turned around to push
the Doctor back but stopped.

"I mean it, don't talk until we're out of this area," the Doctor
snapped. He picked up what he could of their things, sacks, water bags,
tent skin and made a nod for them to do the same. They did and they moved
on.

Later, he talked to them but not for an hour out of that area. "The Shadow
Proclamation. Sometimes...they honor me. Sometimes, they don't. Sometimes
they try to stop me. And work against me."

Jesse shrugged. "Then how did you know that would work?"

"I didn't. And before you both ask, I didn't have any back up plan..."

"Now, I know you're the Doctor," Jesse smiled and stopped walking, took the
bald back of the Doctor's head in one hand and moved it down to him. He put
his lips on the Doctor's and kissed them.

Jeremy took the kiss that lasted a long time and after waiting awhile,
turned their kiss with his hand on the other side of their lips toward
him. He kissed them both with his mouth so that all three lips
mingled. They held that for a time. "What was that for?"C2 The Doctor said
in his deep voice and nodded that they should keep walking.

Jeremy said, "I think you know what that's for...you were...you did have a
back up plan. You were going to give yourself up as a sacrifice to save
us."

The Doctor kept walking as Jeremy's revelation made Jesse stop, stunned.
Jesse asked, from his stationary spot, "Were you?"

Jeremy stopped to prompt Jesse onward again.

The Doctor smiled as he kept walking. "You may never know, will you?"

The boys caught up to him, one on either side.  Jeremy laughed, "C'mon
Doctor, I know the truth..."

Jesse added, "Yeah, you might as well tell us. We know your back up plan
was to...give it all up for me...uh, I mean us..."

The Doctor kept walking, keeping a pace just a few steps ahead of them as
they kept moving up to him. "Me? Sacrifice myself for you two? Two human
boys, who can't even trust me. Who don't really want to have sex with me?
Who don't like my new face let alone my new body. I'd never give up myself
for you two, you two who have each other and who couldn't save the universe
if their lives depended on it. The whole universe, all the universes depend
on me from time to time to save it. If I'm dead, how'd that happen? Pffttt,
what you two are goi ng to defend it? Never happen. You'd both be dead
before one shot is fired..."

As he walked, he smiled but he made both boys stop again.  They were
silent. They were thinking. They were lost in their own thoughts. "He's
right,"

Each was thinking. "We're not worth all those lives."

Jeremy looked downcast. "When you put it that way..."

The Doctor stopped, turned, and looked at them. "Oh, that? I was only
kidding."

Jesse nodded, "No, you weren't. You don't..."  the words stuck in his
throat again. "You don't really remember us, do you?"

"I do. Most of you. Most of our past. It will ALL come one day."

"I want to cum all day," Jesse joked.

The Doctor put a hand up, his arm weighed down by a string of sacks along
it. "That's the Jesse I know..."

"And love?"  Jeremy added.

"What?"

"You..."  Jeremy, suddenly turned serious, put his lips together, as if
facing something he didn't want to. "You don't love us..."

"What?"

Jesse asked, "What?"

"You can't. You're not the same. Not the same guy any longer. And even if
you
 have some of what he had in his mind and even in his two hearts. Things
have changed. We've changed. I can tell. You don't know us, you don't..."
His voice broke and Jesse came over to him. Jeremy shut his eyes and Jesse
put a hand on his chest and one on his back.

Jesse rubbed a bit on his lover, "Don't...Jerem...eee. Aw, come on now."

The Doctor dropped his arm and stood staring at them. Just staring.

Jesse snapped, "Well, say something."

"I...I..."

"Oh, that's it, start with yourself," Jesse snapped again.

"I never realized what loving me does to you. To both of you. It's not
like...like loving one of your own kind."

"We know that," Jeremy raised his head and tears flowed. He rubbed his eyes
with arm. Jesse looked around for something to wipe his lover's eyes
with. He tore what was left of his plant loin cloth and did that. Jeremy
was surprised at how good it felt on his eyes and skin and in his eyes. It
made him see more clear.

"Knowing about me. About my files on the TARDIS isn't the same as...as
really experiencing it for yourselves, is it? I mean you've never even seen
me regenerate. That you might have been okay with. But this...this..."  he
turned, and k ept silent for a long time.  He bent down, "I didn't mean to
hurt you, either of you...."  He stayed bent down but then stood and faced
them again, "Just know one thing though....my lives....I'd give... I'd give
my lives for you boys, all of them."

Jesse nodded a bit. Jeremy put his lips together. "All of them," Jesse
laughed.

"All of em," Jeremy laughed, too.

"All of them," the Doctor said, "And some day I might have to but until
that day comes...I do."  He came up to them both. He put his arms around
both of them and brought them to him. They were both surprised at how he
could bring them both to his body. "I do love you. I love you both. Maybe
it's not the same as it was before. Maybe the love is different or maybe
it's changed, that I do not yet know. I cannot tell you but I do know there
is love there. Maybe it's not as strong and maybe it is. Maybe it will come
back the same way or maybe it's already that way. Until I stabilize and
until I spend more time with you both..."

"I'm sorry," Jeremy spurted, his voice cracking from the sadness. "I didn't
mean to go all to pieces..."

"Yeah, yeah," Jesse said, his arm around Jeremy, parting from the Doctor,
=E 2I'm sorry too."

"For what?"  the Doctor asked.

"I don't know!"  Jesse spouted. "This time I didn't say or do anything
wrong!"

The trio laughed. The Doctor left his arm around Jeremy but parted from
Jesse, "Now, can we move on?"  He pointed north, "If we keep going that
way, we may hit the Capital and find the Citadel within..."  He put his
right hand out and made a motion which started the boys walking again. He
followed.

"Doc?"  Jesse asked as they kept walking.

"Don't call me Doc, I don't like that," the Doctor stated. "But yeah?"

"I thought you said the Cap was on its own continent?"  Jesse recalled.

"I believe it is..."

"How is it we are just gonna walk there? "

"We can build a raft if we have to..."

Jeremy looked around, "But we've seen no signs of any ocean..."

"The planet seems to be in a constant state of change. Or decay, it's hard
to tell. As if time is changing from one terrain to the next...past,
present, and future all at once."

"Was there a time there were no oceans on Gallifrey?"  Jesse inquired as he
looked down
 and kept his legs walking.

"Yes, I think there was a long, long, long, long, long, long..."

"STOP THAT!"  Jeremy yelled good naturedly, turned to him as he walked
backwards now, and laughed at him all at the same time. "Long time ago?"

"Yes, that."  The Doctor slowed his pace.

"It's like I said, time's wonky on this stupid...."  He stopped at saying
Gallifrey was stupid with a "don't do that" glance from
Jeremy. "...planet. I said it was when that sinkhole almost got us and the
horses saved us... "  The Doctor stopped walking again.

"The...the horses..."  The Doctor stammered. The Doctor winced. He began to
sob. This made both boys stop walking, too.

Jeremy looked at Jesse confused. He went to the Doctor and put his hand on
the Doctor's thin back. He was so not used to the Doctor being this
tall. "It's okay now, Doctor. You took care of them. They're gone."

"It..."  the Doctor sobbed, almost uncontrollably. "It's not that."

Jesse leaned in on them, "Then what it is?"

"Why, oh, why?"

"Why what?"  Jesse asked.

"Why wouldn't she let me keep the horse?"  The Doctor let out a sob=2 0and
sobbed some more after that.

Jesse stood in front of him, "She? Who's she? Besides an immortal lady who
has to stand in the water of fire or something. Ursula Andress, wasn't it?"

"Jesse," Jeremy scolded. "Who's she, Doctor?"

"Rose, she wouldn't let me keep the horse."  He cried out and tears came
down from his eyes and dropped to his cheeks.

"Rose is long gone, Doctor," Jeremy said and moved from behind to touch his
arms from around him. "So's the horse, I think. I think you used it..."

"Him..."

"Him...to rescue someone. Reinette...? De? Pompador? Or something..."
Jeremy struggled.

"Oh her," the Doctor stopped crying suddenly. "I thought, would you
believe, I thought once, that I..." he laughed, his former crying
forgotten.

"What?"  the other two both asked.

"I once thought I was in love with her."

Jesse looked at Jeremy and Jeremy looked back at Jesse. They both broke out
laughing uncontrollably. The Doctor joined them. "It...is...isn't that
funny?"  he managed between laughs. "I wasn't. How could I be in love with
her? She's a she..."  he laughed some more. "Trying my experiment of heter
osexuality. Didn't work, did it? Besides that she cheated on her husband
and left a sick daughter to go live the high life. How could I...how ever
could I fall for someone that selfish...?"

"I dunno, maybe...maybe you were just trying to fight your gayness like we
all do at one point or another, it doesn't matter, it's passed..."  Jesse
shrugged, "But can we move on now?"  He started walking again and the
Doctor followed.

"Doctor, maybe..."  Jeremy said with conditioned carefulness and
sensitivity, "...well maybe there were other circumstances you...we didn't
know about. I remember her from the TARDIS data banks now...not that we
studied her in America...and don't forget I was home schooled. She wasn't
that....I mean she was...she was one of the leaders in getting France to
change its mind about helping the common people..."  This got the Doctor to
turn, stop, and look at the boy. Jesse rolled his eyes, for he wanted to
continue walking. But he stopped, too.

"She was common," the Doctor surrendered. "But she really tried to prove
she wasn't, thereby ignoring the commoners, always putting herself out of
their struggles..."  The Doctor started walking again and Jesse smiled, and
followed. He looked back at Jeremy and made a motion with his head for
Jeremy to follow. Jeremy did but wouldn't give up.

"But she was instrumental in getting the Treaty of Versailles..."  Jeremy
glanced at Jesse who wondered which treaty, "No, not the World War One
treaty, Jesse...worked out..."

The Doctor countered with, "Yes, yes, and that lead to the Seven Year's
War."

"But Doctor..."

The Doctor kept going on, not to prove a point, but absent mindedly as if
he knew these things from experience, "And to the loss of New France in
Canada to the British..."

"But it was peace..."  Jeremy fought.

"Not in the long run," the Doctor said, as they walked. "The king had two
mistresses or more..."

Jesse shrugged, not caring, "Gosh, that time and place was like DYNASTY..."

"And she brought that Duke of Choiseul into office and supported him in all
his endeavors, INCLUDING," he put a finger up and realized he was pointing
at the sky and yelling to make his point, so he lowered his voice,
"including...the suppression of the Jesuits..."

"Maybe she replaced someone who was worse?"

"Nooo," the Doctor stated, "Cardinal de Bernis had his faults, however he
was just trying to stop the excesses of her spending..."

=C 2

"Okay, okay, I give," Jeremy put his hands up, "When it comes to history,
you're tops. As for sports, I'd give you a run for your money..."

"Wanna meet Babe Ruth?"

"What?"  Jeremy stopped walking.

"Keep walking, I wanna get to this Time Lord place..."  Jesse said,
impatiently.

"Yeah, of course," Jeremy said.

"Maybe if we survive this mess..."  the Doctor walked past both of them,
"You Americans, you amaze me..."

Jesse stopped walking now. Jeremy stood in front of him and turned to
Jesse. In all the time, the Doctor had known them, he never referred to
them as Americans or criticized them for being. Earthlings, yeah. They
waited and listened.

The Doctor kept walking. "...you stun yourself into believing that your own
historical figures are these grand, great people and then when you uncover
some evidence that they weren't...say, that FDR knew that the Japanese were
going to attack Pearl Harbor WAYYYY before they did...you either deny it,
ignore it, explain it away or try to suppress it and cover it up."

As he spoke, the Doctor walked on and was further and further away from the
two boys, who soon realized this and ran to catch up to him. Jesse puffed,
"I don't whether to thank him for opening my eyes or kick=2 0his ass for
insulting Americans."

"Or both," Jeremy added, "I'd help you..."

"I'm not done. Are you two listening to me?"

Jeremy nodded to Jesse, "Suddenly, I'm not liking this Doctor very much..."

"Oh, you SOOOO are," Jesse smiled.

"I mean..."

"I'm not done!"  The Doctor snarled as if speaking to himself or to an
assembly. "In addition, you vilify the French..."

Jesse shrugged, "Well, they are smelly and do leave their old people to die
in the heat waves..."  The other two turned and looked at him. "Just
kiddin, just kiddin," he said as he put his hands up to his chest to defend
himself and waved.  They kept walking.

"...but now you defend one of the..."

"Doctor, just forget it, all right!!"  Jeremy yelled, the heat and this
conversation getting to him, "You might have feelings for her that you're
trying to put down because it hurts so much that you're gay and-or that
she's dead. I was just trying to make you see that maybe she wasn't as bad
as you seem to think she was."

"Maybe, you're right," the Doctor turned to him and kissed him on the
lips. Jeremy shut his eyes. 9 CMuch better kisser, too."

"Who?"  Jeremy asked as the Doctor broke and moved on. "Her or me?"

"YOU!"  The Doctor turned, ran back to him and kissed him again,
"Lemeemememe, mmmmmm, tasty," he murmured between slurps on the teen.


Jesse sighed. "We're never gonna get there."

Jeremy parted, pushing the Doctor off a bit but smiled. "Doctor, if you
weren't the Doctor, I'd so want to strangle you."

"I know."  The Doctor stated, "I think I want to strangle me."

Jesse just walked away. Jeremy and the Doctor watched him and
laughed. Soon, all three were walking on again. Before a longer silence,
Jeremy had to get in the last word for once, "As for the French, hey, we're
probably beating their arrogant swimming team right now in the 2008
Olympics..."

As they walked and walked, Jesse said from a very dry mouth, "We're out of
water again, Doc..."

"I know. Don't call me Doc. I have a feeling we're almost there...."

"We'd better be, we're out of food, too," Jeremy stated. "I know you can
last longer than us without it but even you need it from time to time..."

They continued on for the day in silence. The sky gre w dark. Jesse looked
up, "Is it night already?"

"No," the Doctor squinted as he looked up. The hazy humidity of the orange
overglow filled the sky now.

"Then?"  Jeremy asked.

"Something else," the Doctor started to run ahead.

"Oh no, no, you don't," Jesse gasped, "Why's he running now?"  He turned to
ask Jeremy.

"I don't..."

In his head, Jeremy thought he heard something akin to the soundtrack to
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and not the majestic parts. The parts that sounded
like a swarm of bugs or some crazy people singing without lyrics. The music
would rise to a crescendo that sounded like screaming and yelling and
thousands of bees or wasps swarming. Jeremy thought he'd had enough of
wasps for now. Jesse listened. "It sounds like...like buzzing
or...underwater disturbances."

"Or static..."  Jeremy said.

The Doctor was looking around when the two boys caught up to him. "What're
you lookin' for, can we help?"  Jesse asked.

The Doctor had dropped what supplies that they had had but pointed to the
supplies now. "Pick those up and hurry."

They obeyed but soon were asking questions again.  The Doctor was calm but
he was moving fast, digging at something in the20ground. "Ahhh, ha, here's
one."

"Here's what?"  Jeremy stood over him.

"That noise..."  The Doctor said, "It's a..."


"SANDSTORM!!!!"  Jesse yelled and pointed. A huge whirl of sand picked up
from the ground.

The Doctor turned from bending over the dirt object he found in the
ground. The object was almost totally buried with just a small stone
archway half out of the ground. The arch was plain white stone and clashed
with the yellow desert floor but it was three inches thick. The Doctor took
the arch in his hands and pulled up with great strength. Jeremy moved to
help him. "No, keep back!"  He saw Jeremy's defeated
look. "It...'s...very...heavy," the Doctor smiled at him, looking fully at
him, having to turn his head.

"That storm!"  Jesse gasped as he moved away from them.  They had to shout
the rest of their conversation as the sound of the storm was so loud it
almost drowned all other sounds out. It was a continuous buzzing, the din
of which rose continuously.

"Stay with us!"  The Doctor warned and Jesse moved backward, moving toward
them again. "It's coming faster than I expected! On my planet, this
planet!...the sand storms are ...the sand is like glass. It will shred us
to pieces!!! A gust front
 passing...the wind force exceeding the threshold value..."

Over the Doctor's back, Jesse stared at Jeremy, who just shrugged. They
didn't understand all of what he said but they listened to the rest of it.

"...where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface!" the Doctor
lifted the doorway out of the arch and it came sliding upward slowly. It
was about two feet thick and two feet long.  "Particles are transported by
saltation and suspension, causing soil erosion from one place and
deposition in another. On your planet the ignoring of the fallows system
and poor management of the Earth's dry lands have made the dust and sand
storms worse."  He heaved the entire "doorway" out of the arch and picked
it up past them.

"Why not just drop it?!"  Jesse asked.

"I need it not to break," the Doctor stated. "As the force of the wind
passing over loosely held particles increases..."  the Doctor put the door
down carefully. "...particles of sand first start to
vibrate...leap...strike the ground repeatedly... over and over...!"

Jesse looked at the storm gathering, the Doctor describing the very event,
"Yes, I do know what repeatedly means...!"

"...they loose smaller particles of dust which then travel in suspension. A
population of dust grains join together
 moving by many methods. Saltation, suspension, and even creep...the
saltation sometimes causes an electric field ...a negative charge which is
relative to the ground and which starts loosening even more sand particles!
It's fascinating...!"

"Yeah, well," Jeremy moved past Jesse and put a hand on Jesse's shoulder as
he did. Jesse took his hand and wouldn't let go. "We're about to be
smothered by the fascinating particles! I mean this is Gallifrey! Surely,
you're people aren't as ignorant as those on Earth! Surely they didn't
ignore the dry lands..."  The Doctor was just staring at them now.  Jesse
looked back from the gathering storm of invisibility. The visibility beyond
the whirling dust funnels and a wall of sand that came rising up from the
horizon was nil. Jeremy started at it and then looked at the Doctor.
Jeremy added, "They did ignore it."

Jesse gasped, "Ahh, these Time Lords are as stupid as human beings...!"

"Yes, sometimes moreso..."  the Doctor said and put the door down. "And the
sand here...it's rougher than on Earth! It's like glass...it'll cut us to
pieces...!"

"Yeah! You have mentioned that already!"  Jeremy yelled.

"It's almost on us!"  Jesse yelled. "Yeow!!!"  He gas ped as the Doctor
grabbed his arm that held Jeremy and flung him into the hole under and into
the archway, dragging Jeremy, who still had his hand held by Jesse, along.
As Jesse felt himself being put in back first, he saw the Doctor removing
two skeletons. "What's this thing then?"  He and Jeremy was laying side by
side but slanted at an angle toward the Doctor.

"It's a Gallifrean burial chamber."  Both boys tried to get up but the
Doctor put a hand on their chests....left hand on Jesse's chest and right
hand on Jeremy's chest and he pushed. "Stay down."

"BUT...ewl."  Jeremy balked.

"People...your people...were buried in here!"  Jesse yelled. "Letmeup!"

"NO!"  The Doctor said, "I've never actually seen one. I used to study them
from in Gallifrean history but frankly the class was boring..."

"Doctor," Jesse tried to hide his face that he was making and the feelings
he was feeling that the Doctor was trivia talking at a time like this.
"Storm."  He nodded to a titanic white flowing mass that lifted up above
the desert floor.

"Oh, what...oh that storm, yes, yes," the Doctor laughed, "Well, in the
desert, before Gallifreans, or rather some of them became Time Lords, they
didn0t live as long and traveling in the desert and being all super silly
religious as they were, they needed some place to bury the dead. They've
only been spoken of as legend for so long but...this is one of them. How
utterly fantastic and nice to see one up close..."  He looked back and saw
the storm.  As the two tried to stand up out of the small chamber, a hollow
affair of stone, that just barely fit them, the Doctor shoved them both
back down again and not too gently.  "Get in there now and stay put!"  The
white sand storm buzzed but began to turn gray.

"Noticed much?"  Jesse rubbed his chest.  "There's only room for two!"

Jeremy gasped now.  "There's not enough room for you!"

Jesse : "I'll stay out!"

Jeremy: "No, I will!"

They tried to get out again but the Doctor shoved them in again, "Get in
there and ...I love you both!"  He rushed to the door, heaved it up, and
saw Jesse bend upward at him. Jeremy held his around the back.  "For the
love of Jupiter's Moons, stay in there! This is my..."  he smiled, his face
over the top of the door slab he held, "...my back up plan."

"Doctor! You know I love you, don't you? "  Jesse asked.

"Y es, of course I do, Jesse. Now goodbye..."

Jeremy asked, "Can't you find another one?"

"There may be more around here. They were rumored to use them often...I'll
try to find one! Good bye...Jeremy, Jesse..."  He put the door back in
place. Jesse looked wide eyed as the door's flat part came at them. He laid
flat back down again and shut his eyes.

Jeremy shut his eyes as blackness enveloped the small chamber.  "He's
sacrificing himself for us. He knows there is no other crypt."  Tears found
a way out of their eyelids.

"Jesus," they both said. "Help him!"

The Doctor looked around but he was not frantic. He knew the likelihood of
finding one was rare. He stood up and turned. The storm was just a few feet
away. Sand shot over his head. Sand rose up as a great wall again and above
and below both vertically and horizontally. It moved and swirled in many
designs. The gray turned nearly black. The Doctor flinched as he
watched. Sand bit at him.


The giant sandstorm seemed to hold back. The Doctor put his hands to his
sides but lifted his arms along his sides and his hands out as if he were
about to be crucified. The giant sand storm hit the Doctor!  He raised his
arms up to block the sand from his face but the storm swirled around him
and covered his whole body, making h im vanish into the dirt and sand!



TO BE CONTINUED...



NEXT TIME...



Jesse and Jeremy were digging. They look in shock. "He's dead, the Doctor's
dead," Jesse said quickly and sadly.

"He really is," Jeremy conceded.

Jesse and Jeremy jerked as something grabbed their penises and jerked but
didn't let go. The hands slid up along their shafts to the starting point
and rubbed back down, moving foreskin aside.  They both gasped.

"We just passed through something, didn't we?"

"Look at that!"

"It looks like a whole bunch of towns brought here from Earth..."

Jesse gasped, "The Death Zone!!!"

"It's an orgy of death!"  Jeremy gasped.

"Who are you?"  Jesse asked an alien but very humanoid man who held a
spear.

"I'm here to kill!"

Jeremy threw an alien man with a sword aside and kicked at another. He rose
up after fighting a few more, "You've got to stop this!"

"It is our way and we know no other."

"Without it, our way of life would perish. Our young will never be born
without this process."

"Notice something?"  Jesse asked, "No women...


"Then they have babies some other way?"  Jeremy asked.

The alien raised his spear at them, "This way!"

Jeremy put up his karate fists and pushed Jesse behind him!