Oh, I won't have to try. I'll do it, and I'll have the help to make sure that it works too. You won't hurt Newt now, and you won't hurt him again.
[ Now that he's forced the things that have been puppeteering his friend all of these months out from the shadows — and now that he remembers having seen them in some way before — he can rely on those of their crew with magic and psychic abilities to coax these things out (or push them out as it were, depending on their level of stubbornness). They'll have far more effective methods to guarantee a success, and the Doctor will be by Newt's side every step of the way. He won't leave him.
But still: their words do cut at some part of him despite the steeliness of his expression, and the way he keeps his spine straight, his hands from wavering in the slightest. To see Newt still succumbing to their whims while they maintain their power over him ... to witness Newt being hurt now just to get at him ... ]
Trust me. [ He looks into Newt's eyes, past the sneer and the darkness of the precursors, to find his friend in them as though he's speaking directly to him. Hear me, Newt, he thinks. Don't give up. I will save you. ] I'm the Doctor.
And I will see you lot again.
[ He takes a step back now, catching the eye of Kovacs who (along with Peter) have been standing guard nearby in case things get a little out of hand. ]
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[ Now that he's forced the things that have been puppeteering his friend all of these months out from the shadows — and now that he remembers having seen them in some way before — he can rely on those of their crew with magic and psychic abilities to coax these things out (or push them out as it were, depending on their level of stubbornness). They'll have far more effective methods to guarantee a success, and the Doctor will be by Newt's side every step of the way. He won't leave him.
But still: their words do cut at some part of him despite the steeliness of his expression, and the way he keeps his spine straight, his hands from wavering in the slightest. To see Newt still succumbing to their whims while they maintain their power over him ... to witness Newt being hurt now just to get at him ... ]
Trust me. [ He looks into Newt's eyes, past the sneer and the darkness of the precursors, to find his friend in them as though he's speaking directly to him. Hear me, Newt, he thinks. Don't give up. I will save you. ] I'm the Doctor.
And I will see you lot again.
[ He takes a step back now, catching the eye of Kovacs who (along with Peter) have been standing guard nearby in case things get a little out of hand. ]