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[Log for Vasilia Aliena]

The Doctor was busily working in the TARDIS, ignoring the furry shape slinking along the floor behind him and trying to pull away a pair of pliers with all its might, when the strange urge overcame him that was hitting so many others simultaneously.

At first, dread hit with it. The last time he felt this way, the Time Lord flu struck him. It was the beginning of the couple of the worst two weeks in memory (yes, he hated it more than the death tolls for the simple fact that he hadn't known what was going on), but still he straightened himself out and staggered to the TARDIS door.

He left the Mongoose to slink around the console room, and headed out in the halls. He went in the direction that made him feel less like retching all over the floor, stopping occasionally to hold on his hat and catch his breath. He was nigh on exhausted when he reached Vasilia's door, knocking earnestly as he pulled out his fobwatch.

"What is this nonsense?" he muttered to himself.

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It seems that I'm going to be indisposed for the next few days. But if you need anything, I'll still find a way to be there.

How are you feeling now about what happened with David? [He saw that unfortunate start of a conversation in David's journal.

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No, the flood has me bound to someone at the moment. I'm compromised slightly. I may need assistance with my mongoose, if you and your young friend are available.

[Oh he hopes he can talk him out of it. Or he can get in contact with David's warden if there's a changeover.] I would at least like to know what your hoping the end result will be. Not that he'll learn some sort of a lesson from it, certainly. He'll just gain sympathy despite all the terrible things he did, and he doesn't deserve that.

Yeah, Johnny'd probably dig that. I think I shook him up a bit by dyin' again.

It ain't about an end result. It's about gettin' even. He started it by goin' after Johnny and I've gotta end it. And who gives a hang if he gets sympathy or not? That's how it always works and how it's always gonna work, even here.

Yes, but I don't believe he's going to see it as being even. He'll see it as an excuse to get even himself, and that puts people in harm's way. Obviously he goes to unhealthy lengths to do so.

I'll work out your punishment, though. Let me know what Johnny says about the mongoose and I'll leave some instructions.

Then it'll happen over and over again til one of us is outta here. If Johnny's gotta be here, I'm not takin' any chances with this David guy. The kid's been through enough.

Yeah, you do that, Doc. I'll give you plenty of time to come up with a good one.

What happened with Johnny before you came here?

Man. [A bitter chuckle] What didn't happen? Had his old man beatin' on him at home and the Socs beatin' up on him everywhere else. He got jumped pretty bad awhile back. That's where he got the scar.

He seems like such a good lad too. I can say that no man fit to be called father should treat his boy that way.

When he got the scar- were you able to save him? Or was it something you didn't find out until later?

He's a good kid. Deserved better than that and he should've been put somewhere better than the Barge.

Glory, Doc. How am I supposed to know? Goin' by how jumpy he's gotten, he was probably waitin' for one of us to come along for awhile.

It's a big responsibility. The Barge is a difficult place and sometimes almost unbearable. I'm one of those people that it's a last place for... at least how I am now. I feel for your friend.

In the meantime, vengeance aside, is there anything you'd like to do for him?

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