Hold On

[owenharper]

“Okay!” he said, grabbing Leo’s hand and forcing an umbrella in Leo’s other. “It’s hidden so that people don’t find it very easily,” he explained, hurrying out of his apartment and down the stairs to the exit. He turned sharply, heading down an alley and glancing over his shoulder to make sure Leo was still behind him.

The Time Lord gasped when Aixa suddenly took off and ran after him, well it was safe to say it was not out of fear that the man ran off. He followed him out into the rain, he yelped when he slipped on the wet pavement and fell over. Sighing he got to his feet and followed him down the alley.

He grinned, dropping to his knees after several more minutes of running. “It’s here,” he said, drawing a circle in the mud. “Just keep digging until you find it. It’s in the shape of a ring.” Aixa brushed his hair out of his face, shivering as his hands sunk deeper into the mud. But soon he would be with a Master who likes him, who called him gorgeous, and maybe he didn’t have a chance with Leo, but the Time Lord still knew what to say to make Aixa feel like something than other a means to an end.

The Nomad, dropped to his knees as well and looked at the dirt that was now mud thanks to the rain, so he will have to get dirty. He removed his tie and stuffed it into his pocket and removed his jacket and handed it to Aixa, "I will have it up in a jippy." He said as he put his hand into the ice cold mud and started digging. Then he felt something colder than the mud and pulled the object up, "Tada." He showed Aixa it.

“Thank you,” he said quietly, his pale blue eyes locking on to Leo’s. “I can’t thank you enough.”

Leo smiled, "Not a problem at all."

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Aixa hugged the jacket to his chest, careful not to get it dirty. He had never aided someone in retrieving his Lamp before. He had always avoided telling anyone and tried to hide the Lamp where no one would find it. Some Jinn left theirs out in the open – albeit in obscure places – but not Aixa. His first owner was his worst, and he was hesitant to try another. But Leo was different. He could tell it. He stood, watching as Leo dug through the ground. He felt a little guilty – he wished now that he had hidden it indoors. It would at least save Leo from discomfort.

He was about to suggest that he take all the water from out of the earth and move it elsewhere, when he felt it. The sharp tugging at his energy that made his body try to simultaneously contract and expand. Aixa nearly dropped the jacket, forgetting how painful it was to be summoned. He cleared his throat, determined not to let Leo see his discomfort. His form flickered as the energy tried to determine what to do about being so close in proximity. Finally, he reassembled, solid again. He grinned and flashed a thumbs up at Leo.

“Not a problem at all.”

Aixa smiled, and kissed Leo’s cheek. There. With that gesture of gratitude out of the way, Aixa lowered his eyes, his cheeks still a burnt shade of red, and took a step back.

“You’re my Master now. You can rename me, if you like. You’re in charge of my form. If you want me to be a dog, I could,” Aixa said, smiling. “I can’t lead you to other another Djinn’s Lamp – but I don’t know where any are, anyway. I’ve never met another one. Just my Caretaker. And I’m not allowed to wish another person out of existence. But those are the only rules.”

Aixa stepped closer to the Nomad again, concentrating on the water’s energy and using it to wash Leo’s hands. He grinned and put the jacket on his new owner, thrilled. “I’ll do anything for you,” Aixa said, trying to make it sound nonchalant but there was underlying edge of protection the Djinn had by instinct. Aixa busied himself with taking the tie from Leo’s pocket and tying it neatly around him and straightening out his clothes. He was doing anything to avoid eye contact. “I won’t let anything hurt you. And I’ll be with you until you don’t want me anymore,” he promised, biting his lip because this was much too serious for him.

He took his Lamp gently from Leo’s hand and slid it on the Time Lord’s finger. “I’m ready if you are,” Aixa said shyly, holding out his hand.

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You’re my Master now. You can rename me, if you like. You’re in charge of my form. If you want me to be a dog, I could,” Aixa said, smiling. “I can’t lead you to other another Djinn’s Lamp – but I don’t know where any are, anyway. I’ve never met another one. Just my Caretaker. And I’m not allowed to wish another person out of existence. But those are the only rules.”

The Time Lord nodded, "I see.." He did not like the idea of being another's master, "I like you the way you are Aixa so I am not going to change that at all." He answered with a smile then the Djinn cleaned his hands. He felt relieved that his hands were now clean, "Thank you."

“I won’t let anything hurt you. And I’ll be with you until you don’t want me anymore,” he promised, biting his lip because this was much too serious for him.

"Or until you no longer want to be with me.." He said, that was going to be the more likely outcome than anything else, "I am ready to go." He said as he did up his coat and put the tie back on, "So about this Djinn thing.. is it possible to wish for your freedom?" He asked. He grabbed Aixa's hand, "Come on! Tell me on the way!" He yelled as he led Aixa in the direction of his TARDIS.

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He liked him just the way he was? Aixa grinned and stuck his hands in his pockets, a small blush on his face. He noted that the Time Lord hadn’t really taken to being called ‘Master’. He merely shrugged and nodded as Leo thanked him. It was all part of being a Djinn; you did things to help and please your owner. “Thank you,” he said, still glowing from the comment about liking him the way he was. How many masters said that to their Djinn? Charlemagne had given him his own name – Karl – and kept him in the form of a dog.

“Or until you no longer want to be with me.”

Aixa froze, a flash of guilt passing quickly over his face. Certainly Time Lords couldn’t read minds? But how else could he explain thinking of Charlemagne and then Leo mentioning that Aixa could ‘terminate’ the contract? He swallowed thickly, prepared to explain that he hadn’t meant to kill the man, but he was young and a promise had been broken. Instead, he remained silent, watching as the man buttoned his coat.

“So about this Djinn thing… is it possible to wish for your freedom?”

The Djinn stared at him, dumbfounded. His hand began to wobble mid-air, because he really wasn’t sure what Leo was implying. Did he want Aixa to be free of the burden, or did he want a guilt-free way to get rid of him? But Leo’s hand clasped his, and Aixa looked back up to him, pale blue eyes nervous and scared. But he didn’t have a chance, because then the Nomad was running. Aixa stumbled after him until his legs kicked in and he caught up, giggling as he ran through the rain with the adorable Time Lord.

“I don’t know. I don’t think anyone’s tried it,” Aixa explained, still running through the streets with him. “And even if you could, why would you? I won’t cause you any trouble.” Aixa frowned, then continued. “I know it’s possible for a Marid to be separated from its Lamp, so I guess it would be possible for me,” Aixa pondered. “It could work, or I could die. Perhaps it should be saved for a day when we’re really at each other’s throats,” Aixa joked nervously.

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“I don’t know. I don’t think anyone’s tried it,” Aixa explained, still running through the streets with him. “And even if you could, why would you? I won’t cause you any trouble.” Aixa frowned, then continued. “I know it’s possible for a Marid to be separated from its Lamp, so I guess it would be possible for me,” Aixa pondered. “It could work, or I could die. Perhaps it should be saved for a day when we’re really at each other’s throats,” Aixa joked nervously.

The Time Lord stopped and looked at Aixa, "Who said that I am going to kill you?" He has to admit that he kind of invaded Aixa's mind and saw what he did, "As long as you do not try killing me I won't kill you." He clasped his hands together eagerly, "Now.. where is my ship.. she should be.. around...Oof!" He turned and rammed into something invisible and fell backwards, "Found it.." He mumbled as he got back onto his feet.

He snapped his fingers and the ship reappeared, "How many times do I have to tell you to not turn invisible or into a wall?" He said as he searched his pockets for the key, "Now where did I put the key?" He glanced to Aixa and grinned before looking back to his pockets, objects appeared and vanished as he looked.

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The Djinn looked down at his feet guiltily, trying to avoid letting go of Leo’s hand for as long as possible. “It’s fair enough you looked at my memories,” he mumbled sullenly, “since I saw yours,” Aixa clarified. Still, why couldn’t he have looked at something like his memories of Chaucer? Or even Oliver, his werewolf not-boyfriend-who-hasn’t-called-since-dinner-the-other-day. “I didn’t want to kill him. I don’t like knowing that I’m a murderer,” Aixa told him, frowning. “And why would I try to kill you? You haven’t done anything to me. You’ve been nice and you make me…” Aixa trailed off, because if he didn’t he was going to say something he regretted. He cleared his throat, taking his hand away from Leo’s awkwardly.

Immediately the Time Lord clasped his hands together, which made Aixa jump a little. An invisible ship? How intriguing. Aixa’s lips curled into a wide smile as the man walked into it. Still, he didn’t understand. He assumed it was like his Lamp – it changed based on the surroundings. Most of the time. But his Lamp had never been invisible, and he honestly wasn’t sure if it could be invisible. Aixa watched him dig for the keys in his multi-dimensional pockets.

“That’s amazing,” Aixa said in regards to the camoflauging on the ship. “Your species must be very advanced to be this far ahead of us.”

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The Time Lord found the key and pulled it out of his pocket, "Come to the light you stupid key you.." He said and opened his palm, "Ha!" He then put the key into the lock and with a turn the door was unlocked. Not wanting to looks the key again he stuck it in an unused pocket and opened the door. He looked to Aixa, "You first." He said with a smile.


Once Aixa was inside Leo walked in and closed the door.

"Now! Where would you like to go Aixa? This here ship can go to any time and any place in the universe, now I cannot make any guarantees because she has a mind of her own. To be honest I think she also has mood swings because some days I get the results I want and on others she will do the total opposite and take me in the total opposite direction. I do not know when she is having one of those days because she is that good at hiding her current mood." He said as he tossed his coat onto the couch while approaching the central control console.

The Time Lord clasped his hands together as he looked at all the buttons and switches before turning to his new companion that he has had in years, "Now I would say that I would take you to the moon to meet the people there but they are beyond dull so I am not going to take you there for your own sake." He took a deep breath and continued, "Now I can take you to the people that live under ground on the planet Venus though, lively bunch there but I must tell you to not get them angry... Oh and no black holes, the last one that I fell in took me weeks to get out of."

With an excited look he looked to his companion, "Now do you have any questions or concerns? Now I must say any questions may not be answered because my attention span is that of a two year old and will be taking you to your new destination before I answer one."

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Aixa watched silently as the Time Lord tried to fish out the key from his ‘multi-dimensional pocket’. He let a smile ease over his face. Leo seemed like a genuinely sweet guy, even if some of the flashes of memories he had seen were dark. People could change, and nobody would be interesting if they were nice all the time. It was the mystery that intrigued him, and Aixa hoped that he didn’t get bored soon. Wouldn’t it be awful? Because he did care about Leo’s feelings now. Aixa snapped back to his thoughts as Leo opened the door to the ship. “You first,” the Time Lord said, with a smile as though to encourage the skittish Djinn into the ship.

And, with a deep breath and the hope that he was doing the right thing, Aixa went in. His eyes were tightly closed, and maybe his hands were trembling a little. But he had passed the boundary and he was still alive. He opened one pale blue eye, then another, and looked around, bewildered. The ship hadn’t exactly looked like much from the outside, but on the inside? It was huge. Non-Euclidean geometry? No, transcendental dimensions. He could recognize it. His Lamp was dimensionally transcendental – a ring on the outside, but he could live comfortably on the inside. Maybe it wasn’t as huge as the Nomad’s TARDIS, but…

“This is amazing,” Aixa breathed, afraid that if he spoke too loudly it would ruin the moment. He seen all sorts of beauty before, but his words were stolen by this beautiful piece of machinery. It seemed, almost, to have a personality. As though the ship weren’t just an it, but a someone, and that was something he could understand.

But Leo didn’t seem to think talking loudly would ruin the moment, and soon the man was engaged in a full-blown ramble. Occasionally Aixa would nod, or open his mouth to answer, but then the other would begin speaking. Any time? Any place? All the universe at the touch of his fingertips? He wanted to say it was impossible – that time travel to the past couldn’t be done, but what did he know? His own knowledge was limited to the Earthling knowledge. He listened, vaguely, as the Nomad tried to explain his ship’s mood swings.

“So, she’s alive? A sentient being?” Aixa asked curiously, watching as the man flung his coat around and walked to the consoles. “This is fascinating. This is as excellent as going somewhere,” he declared, because how many Djinn could say that they had a master who could travel through time and space? Not many, he’d reckon.

As Leo clasped his hands and turned to look at Aixa, the Djinn widened his eyes. “Oh, wow. The moon? There are creatures on the moon?” he asked, ignoring the fact that they were ‘dull’. He had thought humans were boring, too, before he’d recognized the beauty of them. “And on Venus? Those creatures must be very adapted. I would be angry, too, if I lived somewhere like Venus,” Aixa mused, pondering on where he would first like to visit. Various galaxies and star formations popped into his mind, and he had always wanted a close view of them. But for his first trip?

“I’d like to take you to dinner,” Aixa said, smiling through the warnings of Leo’s short attention span. He’d already seen it. When they had met, Leo had flirted back. Now he was just friendly – which made Aixa wondered if he read the signs wrong. Brushing that thought away, he continued. “Or I’d like to visit your most favorite place. I should know more about you,” Aixa pointed out, putting his hand on Leo’s shoulders. “Willingly, I mean. I don’t want to accidentally see you again…”

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“So, she’s alive? A sentient being?” Aixa asked curiously, watching as the man flung his coat around and walked to the consoles. “This is fascinating. This is as excellent as going somewhere,” he declared, because how many Djinn could say that they had a master who could travel through time and space? Not many, he’d reckon.

"Yes she is very much alive and has a mind of her own.. and boy she knows how to express her mood." He said with a laugh, "But she is a wonder she is.. I would never trade her for another TARDIS ever. She will be mine for as long as I live."

As Leo clasped his hands and turned to look at Aixa, the Djinn widened his eyes. “Oh, wow. The moon? There are creatures on the moon?” he asked, ignoring the fact that they were ‘dull’. He had thought humans were boring, too, before he’d recognized the beauty of them. “And on Venus? Those creatures must be very adapted. I would be angry, too, if I lived somewhere like Venus,” Aixa mused, pondering on where he would first like to visit. Various galaxies and star formations popped into his mind, and he had always wanted a close view of them. But for his first trip?

"Yeah but the people on the moon are dull. So dull I fall asleep where ever I am standing." He said as he turned around and went to messing with the controls, running around with a child like grin, "I think I know where to take you now. How would you like to see people that live on one of Jupiter's moons under the water?" He asked and looked to Aixa, "Then after that you can name a constellation of your choice, there are tons of planets out there." He said and vanished behind the control console.

“I’d like to take you to dinner,” Aixa said, smiling through the warnings of Leo’s short attention span. He’d already seen it. When they had met, Leo had flirted back. Now he was just friendly – which made Aixa wondered if he read the signs wrong. Brushing that thought away, he continued. “Or I’d like to visit your most favorite place. I should know more about you,” Aixa pointed out, putting his hand on Leo’s shoulders. “Willingly, I mean. I don’t want to accidentally see you again…”

The Nomad laughed, "Just tell me a place and time and I will be there." He said with a grin, then nodded, "Well my favorite place in the universe does not exist anymore I'm afraid." He said with a sad tone, it is true it died with his fiance when his home planet was lost during the war, "I will tell you a bit about me every now and then." The reason for that is he wants no one to take advantage of his past.

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Aixa looked around the TARDIS again. It was hard to take in the machine as a sentient being. His Lamp was just a place for him to escape and the mark of his contract. It didn’t live, and it didn’t have a personality. Just a perception filter that mocked him. The Djinn nodded, listening to the sentimental speech that Leo spoke. He felt a flicker of jealousy, but only because he wished that he was attached to something that deeply. He would gladly shed his Lamp without a second thought if there was a chance of humanity. She will be mine for as long as I live.

“And you’ll be hers,” Aixa said. And perhaps Aixa would belong to Leo, but Leo wouldn’t belong to Aixa. It was the same old mindset that he had fallen in with other masters. “Must be nice,” he mused blandly. Forming bonds… surely he was capable of becoming attached? But he wasn’t, because he had seen too much without having the ability to skip around. He’d witnessed the beginnings and ends, and maybe it affected him more deeply than he cared to admit.

Aixa chuckled at Leo’s explanation about the moon people. “Maybe they aren’t boring,” he suggested. “Or maybe you’re the boring one. Seems to me it’s all about the way you perceive it.”

“I think I know where to take you now. How would you like to see people that live on one of Jupiter’s moons under the water?”

“Sounds interesting,” he replied. He stepped around the control console to watch his master carefully. Leo mentioned something about mentioning a constellation – there were planets all around. Aixa’s eyes lit up and he began listing all the galaxies and nebulas had read and viewed through the telescope. And now he could view them? It was Christmas and Leo was Santa Claus.

“Just tell me a place and time and I will be there.”

Aixa swallowed the sigh that pressed at his lips. Perhaps that sentence would have given him hope if he had said it thirty minutes earlier, but who the hell was he kidding? This guy was either straight or completely uninterested. “I’ll be sure to print out my best invitation,” Aixa returned.

“Well my favorite place in the universe does not exist anymore I’m afraid.” Aixa mentally kicked himself. Yeah, because bringing up painful memories of home worlds being utterly destroyed was such a good way of starting a friendship. Aixa opened his mouth to apologize, but Leo continued. “I will tell you a bit about me every now and then.”

That sentence laid heavy in the air. Aixa ground his teeth, but remained silent. I am a loyal Jinn, I am a loyal Jinn. Aixa nodded, finally, muttering out a ‘sure’. He had given his freedom willingly to the stranger. He figured the least Leo could do was tell him more than ‘a bit about me every now and then.’

But Leo was the master and Aixa was just Aixa.

“The moons sound fun,” he said, crossing his arms. “Needless to say, I’ve never been. Which moon? Europa?”

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Aixa chuckled at Leo’s explanation about the moon people. “Maybe they aren’t boring,” he suggested. “Or maybe you’re the boring one. Seems to me it’s all about the way you perceive it.”

"Me boring? Nahhh!" The Nomad said, "I am not boring at all, I am so much fun you would not know what to do with me." He said with a laugh and wide grin. And started messing with controls, running around like a child with a new toy, "Now off too.." He looked at the computer screen and realized he did not put in any coordinates.... how would he forget about that? He stopped messing with the controls and started putting in the coordinates.

He then ran around to the other side, "Now we can get going.. umm it turns out that I got a message from people that live under the ice of Titan so we are going there first, and then.. after that I will take you where ever you want." The Nomad was about to turn the brakes off when he looked at the computer screen and saw the coordinates were not there, letting out a sigh he put the coordinates in again. He took a step back, he turned around then jumped back around. He raised an eyebrow when the Time Lord saw that the coordinates were gone again, "Alright this is not the time to be playing games!" He exclaimed as he typed in the coordinates and quickly ran over to the breaks and turned them off with a dive at the lever and the ship was off.

Getting up he looked to the computer and grinned, "Ha! Looks like I win this time." The Nomad said as he started messing with the controls. The ship shuddered, the Time Lord made sure he had a tight grip on the control console and held Aixa in place," Oh.. welcome aboard and hold on tight, she likes to throw her passengers around." He said warningly.

He made his way to a lever and pushed it up, then the shuddering stopped. The Nomad straightened himself and adjusted his tie and then his hat, "Much better." He then went back to piloting his ship, with a grin he pushed the breaks to on and looked to Aixa, "Ready to meet the people on Triton? Oh and do not panic if I get chased." He said as The Nomad led the way to the door.

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Aixa raised his eyebrows at Leo’s adamant insisting that the Time Lord was not boring at all. “I am not boring at all, I am so much fun you would not know what do with me,” Leo laughed. A grin of Aixa’s own pulled at his lips, but for a decisively different reason than Leo’s rather innocent one. Aixa himself could think of a thing or two he’d like to do that would be fun, but he kept his mouth shut, his eyes still following the Nomad. But the Nomad was certainly energetic. He shook his head gently, laughing at the Time Lord’s antics.

“Now we can get going… umm it turns out that I got a message from the people that live under the ice of Titan so we are going there first, and then… after that I will take you wherever you want,” Leo told him. Aixa opened his mouth to point something out, but it seemed as though the TARDIS was in one of her ‘moods’ as Leo had put it previously, and erased the coordinates. The Djinn giggled, watching as the Time Lord fumbled with the coordinates and then turned around after the coordinates were erased.

“My, but it would appear that she has others ideas for us,” Aixa said, grinning. However, the Nomad seemed prepared to take on the challenge of the stubborn TARDIS. He watched, amused, as the Time Lord dove and tumbled in an effort to get the machine moving before she decided otherwise. “Perhaps she didn’t want you going there for a reason?” he asked, looking at the console warily. He didn’t know the extent of the machine – or creature’s, as Leo had told him that she was sentient – and he had mentioned that she led him places where she needed him to go.

Wasn’t he speaking before the TARDIS had been erasing the coordinates? “Titan is on Saturn,” he said, frowning. Hadn’t Leo mentioned going to Jupiter? He didn’t have time to press the issue any further, because the ground underneath him starting shaking rather violently. The Djinn stumbled, but Aixa caught him.

Automatically, the Djinn shifted forms into a sloth, wrapping his arms around the Time Lord’s neck and burying its face into his shoulders. No, Aixa wasn’t frightened. Him? Frightened? No. Pfft. “She does this often?” he asked, frowning.

The Time Lord pushed a lever up and the shaking stopped. The sloth continued to cling to him, before finally dropping to the floor and resuming its humanoid form. “Much better,” he echoed, lifting himself off the ground and shaking himself off irritably.

“—oh, and do not panic if I get chased.”
“—do not panic—”
“—panic—”

Aixa leapt to his feet, a growl in his throat and his fists clenched. He didn’t quite think the Nomad understood that a Djinn is sworn to protect its master, and that a Djinn doesn’t panic when its master is being chased, it attacks. He took the form of a hyena and stared at the Nomad. “If they try to harm you, it will not be most beneficial for them,” Aixa told him, flexing the hyena’s powerful jaws and stretching as he followed the Nomad out of the TARDIS.

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The Nomad looked at Aixa, he knew about their ability to change form, "That will not be necessary.. I meant chased in a good way. Not a bad." He told the Djinn. Stepping it out he put his hands on his hips as he looked around, "Not getting mobbed yet.. I do not know if that is a good thing or a bad thing..."

He looked to his left, then to his right, "Ok.. this is not right at all.." The Time Lord looked to Aixa, "Come on.. let's find out what is going on." Nomad said as he started heading down one of the icy cavern tunnels, "Oh in case you are curious, we are under the oceans of Triton." He said.

Stopping at the intersection of three other tunnels The Nomad looked down each one, seeing no one was starting to make him worried, he loved these people that lived on this moon, "Where are they?" He whispered, then seeing a shadow he pressed himself to the wall and watched the shadow, "What? A..... no.. not them." He gasped when he finally saw it, "A Dalek? I thought they were destroyed during the Time War..." He watched as the Time Lord's enemy went down another corridor, when it was gone The Nomad walked out into the clearing, "How.. Did they survive?" He remembered sending an entire fleet of Daleks to the void. These cannot possibly be the same ones.. The Nomad told himself.

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The hyena looked up at the Nomad and tilted its head. Nonetheless, his master told him that it wouldn’t necessary, so the Djinn shifted to his humanoid form. “I wasn’t aware that there was a good kind of chase,” he apologized, standing up beside the Nomad. He looked slightly worried when the Time Lord mentioned that they weren’t getting mobbed ‘yet’. Aixa glanced over at him suspiciously, wondering if perhaps he should be more worried than what the Time Lord was letting on. After all, they were on a strange planet. Aixa shrugged off his concerns and looked at Leo patiently.

Every bone in his body was telling him that it was a bad idea, but Aixa decided to ignore it. After all, if everyone listened to that tiny voice inside their head, where would they be? How often would he get to explore a moon of another planet anyway? It was likely that his next owner would just be human. A boring, boring human.

The Djinn’s ears perked up when the Nomad mentioned the silence being not right at all. “Well, you did say that they sent you a message, yes?” the Djinn asked, following Leo into the caverns. He ran his fingers across the ice, looking up around him. It was beautiful – he had lived a long time, and he had never seen anything like it. He nearly stopped to drink in the scenery around him, but Leo kept moving forwards, so Aixa forced his feet to continue moving forwards. “It is possible that the message was from distress.”

Aixa watched with a frown as Leo pressed himself against a wall. The color seemed to have drained from the poor Time Lord’s face, and if Aixa didn’t know better, he would say that his master was scared. He looked at the creature with a puzzled frown. What could it be that had his master worked up into such a fuss? Aixa took a step closer to the tunnel the shadow was casted from. “A Dalek?” Aixa repeated, glancing over his shoulder to Leo. “They are… those creatures that I saw in your memories?” he asked, frowning and looking down the corridor.

“We should follow it,” Aixa suggested lightly, returning to Leo’s side obediently. “It is the only lead we have… yes?”

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The Djinn’s ears perked up when the Nomad mentioned the silence being not right at all. “Well, you did say that they sent you a message, yes?” the Djinn asked, following Leo into the caverns. He ran his fingers across the ice, looking up around him. It was beautiful – he had lived a long time, and he had never seen anything like it. He nearly stopped to drink in the scenery around him, but Leo kept moving forwards, so Aixa forced his feet to continue moving forwards. “It is possible that the message was from distress.

"Yeah they sent me a message saying that they found something that I must see.. I am guessing it was the Daleks or something.. but how is that possible? If they are the same ones I encountered years ago.. then they were destroyed." He looked at Aixa, still pressed against the icy wall, "If.. it was of distress then.." He was not wanting to say it, "The Daleks might have killed them all.." He said with a quiet tone. If they did, and how the Time Lord saw these people, as his precious children, then the Daleks will be facing his wrath once again.


Aixa watched with a frown as Leo pressed himself against a wall. The color seemed to have drained from the poor Time Lord’s face, and if Aixa didn’t know better, he would say that his master was scared. He looked at the creature with a puzzled frown. What could it be that had his master worked up into such a fuss? Aixa took a step closer to the tunnel the shadow was casted from. “A Dalek?” Aixa repeated, glancing over his shoulder to Leo. “They are… those creatures that I saw in your memories?” he asked, frowning and looking down the corridor.

“We should follow it,” Aixa suggested lightly, returning to Leo’s side obediently. “It is the only lead we have… yes?”

Leo nodded, "Yes they are the same creatures that you saw in my memory.. Basically they are the worst creature that you can run into, they have no mercy, they kill everything in the belief they are the ultimate race and that everyone else is inferior..." He looked down the corridor, then reaching into his pocket The Nomad produced two TARDIS keys and handed one to Aixa, "Slip this on.. when it is on not even a Dalek can see you.. when it is on, do not run or yell." He said before slipping his on and waited for Aixa to do the same.