The Doctor felt naked without his layers of clothing. He shifted his hips to look at the white fabric now covering his hips and lower body. It didn't look bad, it just simply left his upper half more exposed than he would prefer.

"Does this perhaps come in a longer size?" He asked as he walked along side the two guards that had taken him out of Jamia's room, "I understand the customs of the time period may not allow it, but it can't hurt to ask, right?"

The guards said nothing as they continued to walk down the extravagant hall. The Doctor sighed, just continuing along side the guards. At least he wasn't too uncomfortable in this. It was better than nothing, after all.

"The pharaoh will see you now." The guard to the left of the Doctor spoke, pointing to a set of tall decorative doors.

The Doctor nodded, stepping towards the door. It wasn't like this was his first time meeting a ruler. Hadn't he even been hitched to one before? The details of the Queen's hatred for him were always a bit strange and fuzzy in reasoning whenever the time lord attempted to make sense of it.

The doors began to open, seemingly by themselves, revealing a large throne room. The Doctor looked around the area curiously before muttering to himself, "That's rather peculiar, isn't it?.."

He took a step into the room, jumping when the doors moved impossibly fast to close behind him.

"Rather peculiar indeed, Doctor..." A jet black haired figure sneered as he stepped into the room, playing with a round pendant hanging from his neck. "What are you doing here?"

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"He is your Doctor." Jamia spoke from where she sat on her bed, legs crossed as she flattened her dress skirt. She looked up at Frank as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

"How can you be so sure?" Frank asked from where he was leaning against the tardis, "You don't even know him."

"I know what you have told me, Frank Iero." She replied, "Your relationship with him is your biggest concern, is it not?"

"I-well-I guess, I mean..."

"Frank Iero, have you considered your Doctor's side of the story?" Jamia asked, pushing herself up off the bed and to her feet. "You said he has had past companions. Have you ever considered what happened to them?"

Frank looked down. "He never talks about it..."

Jamia shook her head, "Have you bothered to ask?"

Frank looked back up at the princess before him. He couldn't directly think of a time he had asked about that part of the Doctor. He asked about things he observed of the time lord, but never that, for some reason? Such a simple thing, yet Frank seemed to have over looked it...

"Have you told him about yourself?" She added, walking past Frank to look out a large window not too far away. "If you do not share between each other, you'll never have the relationship of the stars and darkness."

"You sure do love the stars." Frank spoke lowly as he took in her words. Why did this feel like marriage counseling?

Why did he compare it to marriage counseling?

"I love the sky..." Jamia replied, absently, reaching up to hold the scarab necklace resting on her chest. "The night especially..." She seemed to be somewhere else entirely in her mind as she spoke. Her gaze was focused on the stars above her.

Frank stepped towards her. He tilted his head at her but, before he could speak, the door to Jamia's room opened. Jamia spun, suddenly, her hand dropping from the necklace pendant and the absent look in her eye vanishing.

A man stood in the doorway. He had chocolate brown hair that he was pushing his fingers through as he looked around the room. He was dressed similarly to Frank, except for the fact that he had the same scarab necklace pendant that Jamia had in a brown color. The man finally caught sight of Jamia and smiled widely.

"Alex!" Jamia cried out, bringing her hands close to her chest before stretching them out and starting to run across the room. He ran the distance between them as well, only slowing down when they were about to collide.

She wrapped her arms around him, burying her face in his bare chest with joyous giggles. He hid his face in her hair as he lifted her, slightly, off the floor to spin her from side to side.

"I tried to come sooner, but the guards stopped me." He began to explain himself, but Jamia pulled away from him to grab his cheeks and pull his lips to hers.

Frank awkwardly looked down. Or anywhere away from the scene. He felt like a third wheel to a couple he didn't even know existed.

Jamia was the one to pull away from the kiss first. "I'm sorry. I angered them by talking back, again..." She explained, breathlessly, staring at Alex's bare chest. "I'm sorry, but something happened..."

"Never apologize for speaking for yourself, my love." Alex replied, bringing his finger under her chin to tilt her head up. He smiled at her, to which she smiled back. "What happened?"

She turned to Frank, who was standing awkwardly near the tardis, and gestured to him. "Frank Iero and his gift from the gods. My love, the gods have sent us a gift!" She retracted her arm from around him, grabbing hold of his wrists and pulling him to the blue box.

Alex turned to Frank with a puzzled look. "Frank Iero?"

"That's me." Frank waved, nervously.

Alex bowed. "Alexander, future pharaoh. However, Alex is suitable as well."

"Nice to meet you." Frank said, giving a small bow in return. He wasn't really sure how greetings worked here when the first one he experienced was spears ready to kill.

Alex pressed his hand against the outside of the tardis. "What gift of the gods is this?" He asked, bringing his face close to examine the patterns in the wood.

"It was to bring the Doctor and I." Frank said, immediately regretting it. That was a great expliation, Frank, he thought. How was he supposed to explain this?

"Doctor?" Alex turned to Frank with a confused look on his face, "Doctor who?"

"Just Doctor, really..." Frank scratched the back of his head with a nervous chuckle.

Jamia shook her head, placing her hand on Alex's shoulder. "It matters not, my love. But we only have tonight until the sun rises."

It was Frank's turn for confusion. "Am I... Will I be interrupting?" He asked, feeling even more awkward than before, if possible.

Jamia turned to Frank, keeping her hand on Alex's shoulder. "I apologize. It was rude of me to assume you to know of our love affair." Her hand slipped down Alex's arm, stopping only when she could wrap her hand around his. "With the oncoming day, Alexander must leave me until the next wave of darkness."

"Why?" Frank asked, looking between them.

Uncertainty seemed to cross over both Jamia and Alex's faces, but passed before Frank could fully register if it happened or not. "It is simply as it must be." Alex replied, squeezing Jamia's hand.

"Says who?"

"It is how it's always been." Jamia replied, quickly. Her eyes shifted to the window before looking back at Alex. "Has it not?" Her question sounded so unsure, which was strange to Frank after her earlier confidence in her words.

"The guards will come to take me soon." Alex said, looking down at her. "We haven't much time."

"Should... Should I go before..." He made a small gesture with his hands that only earned looks of confusion. "I mean..."

"No, Frank Iero." Jamia reached out to him, grabbing his wrist with her free hand. "You are still my guest. Let us both show you around."

"Are you sure? 'Cuz I can stay back or go just outside if you two need the time-"

Jamia shook her head. "Nonsense. Now, come." She released his wrist and walked hand in hand with Alex to the door. She turned back to Frank, waving him over. "While the night is young, Frank Iero."

"Frank is fine, your majesty." Frank said as he hurried across the room.

Jamia smiled, leaning a bit against Alex as he pushed the door open. "It is. However, Frank Iero is the name you gave to me. I find it more suiting of your character."

Frank raised am eyebrow, but didn't reply. She was so strange... Frank liked that about her, though. She was like a human Doctor, in a way.

The group exited the room and began walking down the hall. As they went, Frank couldn't help but notice Jamia and Alex's closeness. They were always touching and refusing to break contact. It was as if they needed the connection from the moment Alex came into the room.

"Where are all the guards?" Frank asked as they walked, suddenly realizing the lack of armed men compared to when he and the Doctor first landed. The halls they walked down were empty, except for the echoing sounds of their footsteps.

"They are here." Jamia said, trailing her eyes along every opening in the wall that revealed the stars outside.

"Are they invisible?" Frank asked, feeling uneasy.

"They are here." Jamia repeated, resting her head on Alex's arm.

Frank continued to follow, nervously. Her responses were odd. This situation felt strange. Although, most situations felt strange on these travels with the Doctor...

"Is your father seeing someone?" Alex asked as they came upon a large set of doors that seemed to reach to the ceiling.

"His Doctor." Jamia replied, absently, pulling Alex towards the window across from the doors. Frank instead turned towards the doors. His Doctor was in there?

Frank walked up to the door. He reached out, pressing his palm against the smooth stone surface of the door. It was cold, but comforting compared to the heated air around him. He could hear the soft speaking of Jamia and Alex behind him, but he wanted to see if he could hear the time lord through the stone.

He pressed his ear against it, letting his eyes close as he just listened. At first, all he heard was silence. After a moment, however, he could hear voices. His eyes shot open at a familiar voice's exclamation.

"Doctor?" Frank called out, pushing himself away from the wall. He tapped it with his hands, although it wouldn't do any good. "Doctor!"

"He is in conference with my father." Jamia said, turning to face Frank. "Please, he is not one to be angered." Her hand moved up to her scarab, necklace, as if it was a natural reflex.

"This is supposed to be ancient Egypt! How do you have this technology?!"

Frank looked back at the doors with the snap of his head at the sound of the time lord's voice. He turned back to Jamia and Alex almost equally as fast. "How do we get it open?"

Jamia shook her head, "He has to allow you to enter."

Frank turned back to the door, trying to figure out how he could make that work. "Doctor!" Frank yelled, hoping the alien could hear him through the door. Maybe, if he faked it well enough, the Doctor could convince the pharaoh to let Frank in as well.

"The guards will come." Alex warned, looking up and down the halls. "They will punish us for disturbing him."

"Who? There's no one!" Frank exclaimed, balling up his hand to hit the door. "Doctor!"

"Frankie?"

Frank continued to hit the door. Jamia pulled Alex across the hall, stopping only when she had a hand on Frank's shoulder.

"You do not know the power the pharaoh holds! Please, Frank Ier-oh!"

The presence of her hand on his shoulder was gone. Frank turned around to be met by nothingness. He looked up and down the halls, perplexed. They were just here; there wasn't nearly enough time for them to run out of his eyesight.

He was turning his head back to his right when he felt a stabbing pain to his side. Frank looked down, seeing a spear sticking out of his side. He began to feel dizzy as he felt himself stumble.

"Doctor?.." Frank asked weakly as he fell over into waiting arms.

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"That is not your technology." The Doctor said, looking at the man before him. "How do you have it and what species are you?"

The man laughed, pushing his slicked black hair away from his face. "Simple, Doctor. A gift from the gods that helped imprison them." He smirked at the time lord. "The small time piece fell from the sky, revealing onto me secrets of the universe. Also giving me a plan for what I've always, truly wanted!" He walked around his throne before sitting along it, sideways. "Pharaoh Andrew Black but, please, call me Andy."

"You can't just trap people unwillingly." The Doctor said, shaking his head. "That's not the purpose of this technology!"

"What? Only use it to hide?" Andy scoffed, adjusting himself so that he was sitting proper in his chair. "That's boring! I used it to create this illusion. If it makes you feel better, the sky goddess came willing after I lured in the earth god, Geb."

"You can't do this. You'll disrupt the natural order of things!"

"Like you don't, Doctor? The time piece told me all about you. Stole a ship to escape a doomed planet? Constantly meddling where you shouldn't meddle?" Andy rolled his eyes. He propped his arm on his throne and leaned his chin against it. "I know this technology works, so how should I reconfigure your life? Maybe just a guard, so they'll be more than very convincing hologram technology."

The Doctor was trying to think of some kind of snappy response, when he heard his name through the door. He turned with the raise of an eyebrow. "Frankie?"

"Frankie?" Andy questioned, sitting up straight in his chair. "What's that? Did you bring someone with you, Doctor? Was I not informed by the goddess that found you!?" He sounded angry, with his voice rising with his last words.

"No, no!" The Doctor spun back to face the man on the throne, "It's nobody! We're talking here, pharaoh Andrew Black, it's rude to abandon a conversation right in the middle of it."

Andy shot the Doctor a look of daggers. "It's rude to invite guests without first speaking to the host." He grabbed at the round pendant around his neck and glared at the door.

The Doctor took that moment to run towards the false pharaoh. The technology he held was only corrupting him. Although, from their conversation, he sounded corrupted to begin with.

The time lord pulled his sonic out of a pocket he had ripped in the fabric around his waist. He pointed it at the pendant in Andy's hand, causing it to start smoke. Andy yelled in agony, releasing it and allowing the Doctor to grab it up.

"This technology doesn't belong to you." He said, stepping back from the throne. He looked at the pendant in his hand, immediately feeling a lonely twinge at the gallifreyan that looked back at him. How could it have fallen into hands of this human? Of any humans, why one with a corrupted view as his?..

"You'll have this technology no more!" The Doctor yelled, closing his eyes before throwing the pendant down to the floor. He cringed at the noise of it shattering against the stone floor.

"NO!" Andy yelled, "WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

The Doctor opened his eyes to find the room around him glitching. He turned to the door, watching it glitch in and out and revealing Frank on the other side.

"YOU IDIOT!" Andy yelled from behind the Doctor, "Ammit will throw my soul into the lake of fire for this!"

"It seems deserved, for the misuse of a technology that wasn't yours to abuse." The Doctor said, lowly, turning his head to look at Andy. "Gift from the gods, or not."

Andy shook his head. "You are just as horrid as the time piece said you were. A DESTROYER!" He stood up and stumbled, trying to step away from the Doctor. "THE GODS WILL HAVE MY HEAD!"

"All great pharaohs must meet them someday." The Doctor allowed a small grin to cross over his face as he looked down at the smashed time piece. A small words was still visible in its broken pieces, which the Doctor bent down to pick up. "I thought that is what you wished for. You are mortal, did you think you could escape it forever?"

Andy only stepped back again as the room shook around them. The Doctor looked around, noticing instability in the parts of the room that weren't being manipulated.

"Andy, come here." He said, firmly. "This structure is unsafe."

Andy shook his head. "I won't have you destroy what's left of me!" He yelled, continuing to back track even as bits of the ceiling fell around him. "I won't let the gods take me alive!"

With that, he turned to run. The Doctor reached out, but there was nothing he could do. As Andy ran into the shadows he had first appeared from, the ceiling decided to choose that spot to fall.

The Doctor shrunk back as the chunks of roof material hit the human. The glitching around him faded into a ruined building.

"Looks like you were right." The Doctor sighed, standing upright. "You didn't let the gods didn't take you alive..."

"Doctor?.."

The time lord turned to see Frank stumbling on his feet through the now crumbled door. He rushed across the room and past the rubble to catch Frank, holding him tightly.

"Hello, Frankie! Oh, look at that, you're just as half naked as me! Makes it easier to check for wounds as well, you seem alright. Are you alright?"

Frank blinked up at the Doctor in confusion. The Doctor rolled his eyes, helping Frank steady himself on his feet.

"Do I need to break out the sonic for a scan?" The Doctor threatened, "I've done it to you before, Frankie, don't think I won't again."

"I-I'm fine, Doctor." Frank shook his head, trying to respond quickly.

The Doctor smiled. "Good." He reached out and ruffled Frank's already messy hair, "Stop doing that."

"Doing what?"

"Worrying me. When one of my hearts goes into cardiac arrest, I'm blaming you."

Frank looked down. Partially to avoid responding to the Doctor, but also to check his side. He had seen the weapon sticking out of his side, hadn't he?

"What happened?" Frank asked, looking back up at the time lord.

The Doctor frowned as he looked around. "Corrupted ideals, Frankie." He smiled sadly, "Good technology used in a way that only helped the wrong person... But it's not unfixable." He turned to Frank. "Do you remember where Jamia's room is?"

Frank nodded. "Yes, Doctor."

"Lead on then." The Doctor gestured for Frank to go ahead. He followed closely after the human, keeping an eye out for anything.

When the two finally did make it to Jamia's room, the door was ajar. Frank stepped cautiously forward.

"Your majesty?" He called out.

The sound of bare feet across the stone floor echoed for a moment before Jamia stood before him. "Frank Iero." She said, looking at him sadly. Her hand was running nervously up and down her arm, as well.

"What's wrong?" Frank asked, his eyebrows furrowing.

She shook her head. "My punishment for my misdeeds. Alexander has been taken away from me..." She shut her eyes tightly as she spoke, as if she didn't want to truly face it.

"There is a solution." The Doctor said, stepping forward.

Jamia opened her eyes and looked at the Doctor. Frank could see galaxies hidden behind her curious gaze as the Doctor stepped closer.

"How?" She asked, almost silently.

"Does your scarab open?" He asked.

Her hand shot to it, immediately. "Father said not-"

"Your father was not him." The Doctor cut her off, reaching out to grab her free hand. "Have you ever heard whispers when you touch it? Does something ever feel off when you think about it?"

Jamia tilted her head, processing his words. "Where would I even begin?.." She whispered, looking unsure of herself.

"Open it." The Doctor whispered in response, releasing her hand and stepping back.

Jamia looked down at the scarab pendant. She turned it in her hand, slowly, as if considering what she should do. Hesitantly, her fingers moved along it. After a moment, a soft clicking could be heard.

"Hide your eyes, Frankie." The Doctor warned the human, shielding his eyes.

Even through the Doctor's fingers, Frank could feel the intensity of the light before him. He reached up and held tightly to the hand in front of his eyes, almost afraid of them moving.

"I... I am free."

The voice that filled Frank's ears sounded like Jamia, but there was an echo to it. It was as if it had gained something with it.

"May I ask, forgive me if I'm rude, but what species are you?" The Doctor asked in a low, yet hopeful tone. Frank almost swore there was borderline desperation in his voice.

"A celestial being of this galaxy... I am the sky goddess of this period, Nut."

"The other, Alexander, is he Geb?" The Doctor asked, his tone far less hopeful than before. It had been replaced by defeat.

"Yes... I must find him, we must combine before the morning light... I know where to go. Thank you, Frank Iero. Thank you, Doctor."

Frank felt the intensity of the light fade, until the Doctor finally lowered his hand. Where Jamia had stood, there was a large scortch mark spread across the floor. Frank's eyes grew wide as he turned to the Doctor.

"What-"

"Long story." The Doctor sighed, beginning to walk towards the tardis. "That woman you had spent all this time with, was indeed a goddess of this era of Egyptian history. A guardian of the sky and night, while her counterpart guards over the Earth."

"Wait, What?" Frank asked as the Doctor unlocked the tardis doors, "What... What about the combine thing?"

"When the night comes, The goddess Nut and the god Geb combine into one being, until the time that the sunrises and they must separate until the next moon."

"That... That's wow..." Frank let out a breath of air as the tardis door closed behind him. He was really wishing his school had taught him more about these sorts of things. Although, learning them through his Doctor was probably ten times as fun. "What all happened in there? We have the time to pass."

The Doctor had been halfway up the steps, but stopped at Frank's words. He turned to face the human. "You'd like to know?"

Frank smiled, remembering what Jamia had told him. "There's a few things I'd like to talk about."

The Doctor grinned. "Once I get us in orbit, by all means, let's do it." Frank nodded as the time lord ran up the last steps, hurriedly starting up the ship to get her moving and on her way to wherever they would wind up next.

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A/N~ almost 4000 words whoops longest chapter in the book haha

Okay but, fun fact time! I switched up the mythology surrounding Nut ((the actual goddesses name, no joke)) & Geb for this. The actual mythology, which I've seen two versions of, is honestly a bit trippy & weird.

So, one version is that every night, Nut eats Geb, & every morning she gives birth to him again? Repeating cycle every day

Another is that they are married/siblings/there was a lot of incest in the gods wowza

Any who, if you want a more in depth thing, you guys should look it up cuz Egyptian shit is cool, okay? I used to be an uber nerd for it & I even sent a letter to the embassy when we had to choose a country & do that for school ((or was that just me?))

Alright, yes, good talk, good fun facts, hope this wasn't shit it took so long to try and transfer right & I'm still not 100% but...

Just hope it was alright, y'all.
<3
see you in 2016 ;)

~Skittles Out~