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**RedDragon30000** · October 24th, 2014, 10:03 PM

The Doctor closed his eyes, as he fully realized how Harley had been suffering from the cruel and barbed words from his family, he had suspected that Harley's recklessness and cockiness was a cover for something, a front, but he wished with all his hearts that it hadn't been this. He knew very well that the only way he would get through to Harley was by dropping his own cover, what he concealed behind the veil of superiority and indifference. Although he hated exposing his own shortcomings, he knew he had no choice.

Getting to his feet in a single, graceful movement, he moved up behind Harley, tentatively laying a hand on his shoulder. With such light pressure, it enabled Harley to shake him off if he really wanted to, and that was what he needed right now, to now that his destiny was his own.

"What makes ye say that I don't need ye? If I have ever acted like I don't want ye, or said something that made ye think so, tell me now. I swear on all of my lives that I never wanted ye to think something like that. Where do ye get the idea that I prefer ....Lance...to ye? I have known ye for two years, yet we only met him a few hours ago. Enlighten me. "

**KingCrowley** · October 24th, 2014, 10:10 PM

Harley sighed when The Doctor asked him what made him say that he didn't need him and think that he preferred Lance to him. "Because...you showed him affection that you've never once shown me...you speak kindly to him and talk to me like I'm some dog that follows you around..." he explained and sighed, looking down and shaking his head. "I don't want to be the one who you just keep around because you feel like you have to, because you wanted a companion...."

"Well...now you have Lance...and you don't need me...just...drop me off on some deserted planet..."

**RedDragon30000** · October 24th, 2014, 10:28 PM

At this the Doctor visibly winced, remembering very well that he had acted that way. He had not really known how to act around Harley, who insisted that the Doctor not treat him like a child, and had reacted by barely speaking to him. When he had, it had mostly been to give him orders or warn him not to do certain things.

He always found it so much easier to communicate with children, who connected with him on a level that adults often could not, mainly because they were still so full of innocent wonder, and often thought in the way way the Doctor did. Also, they were far more accepting of him, not finding him a threat, but merely fascinated that he was a real, live alien. There was another reason the Doctor had acted the way that he had, the biggest reason really. He decided to share this with Harley, as he needed to know, now matter how much he rightly condemned him for his attitude afterwards.

"Ye want to know the biggest reason I acted that way towards ye? I was afraid. Afraid to show how much I wanted ye here, how much I still want ye here. Simply because I was so terribly afraid of losing ye. It seems no matter what I do, now matter how much I try to keep those I love safe, the universe conspires against me, and I am left devastated and alone because another person whom I love is taken from me. It has happened so much now, too much, and it would break me if it happened again. Call me selfish if ye want, but 2000 years of grief is hard to bear."

**KingCrowley** · October 24th, 2014, 10:35 PM

Harley looked at The Doctor when he started to explain that he was afraid to show him how much he wanted him there, and still wanted him there. That he was afraid of losing him and mentioned how hard It was to keep those he loved safe. He shook his head and frowned, "You don't love me, you hardly know me." he answered, "I get you've lost companions...and I'm sorry about that but...you really don't have to pretend that you want me around, or just keep me here because you get lonely from time to time...."

He shook his head and pushed his hand off of his shoulder. "I thought I'd finally found someone who would love me...protect me and think the world of me...but I'm never going to have that and I just need to accept it." he sighed, some tears glistening in his eyes.

"I'm not the companion you want or need..."

**RedDragon30000** · October 24th, 2014, 10:54 PM

The Doctor was at a loss on what he could do to prove to Harley that he did love him. He wasn't sure that anything he said would get through to him, he was so utterly convinced that he wasn't wanted. Perhaps there might be a way he could do this. He feared that warning Harley what he was about to do would cause him to distrust what he would see and feel and hoped it did not drive him further away.

"Ye believe that I don't love ye, that my words are empty. Well I can show ye that ye are wrong, without words that can be twisted in their meaning and empty. Let me show ye."

Before Harley could react, he had placed his fingers either side of his head and slipped effortlessly into his mind. Opening a link between his mind and Harley's, he took him back to when the Doctor had first set eyes on him, to when he had silently vowed to take care of him, to give him the loving family that had been denied to him. Only he had ruined the bond he had wanted to create between them. He only hoped that by showing Harley the love he really felt, he would believe that he was wanted at last.

**KingCrowley** · October 24th, 2014, 11:03 PM

Harley looked up at the Doctor when he asked if he believed he didn't love him, that his words were empty. "Yeah...that's what I believe ..." he answered and frowned when he said he was wrong and then put his fingers at either side of his head. He suddenly seemed to be with the Doctor's mind and his eyes widened when he took him back to that day, "No! No Doctor please!" he begged, seeing himself a bruised, bloody, beaten mess was too much for him.

He heard the words spoken to him, he felt the Doctor's anger for those who had done harm to him, and then he felt the love in his two hearts, love that was for him as he vowed to protect him and give him the love and stability he needed.

Eventually Harley pulled back, tears slipping down his face, it was both a horrible and beautiful memory. "Doctor.." he whimpered. "I'm sorry...."

**RedDragon30000** · October 24th, 2014, 11:14 PM

((Im off to bed

night night))

The Doctor broke the connection between their minds, awkwardly wrapping his long arms around Harley, and pulling him back against his chest. He could tell how much this was truly needed, no matter his own personal aversion to such an action. His preferences did not matter now. Resting his chin against the top of Harley's head, the Doctor answered Harley in a quiet, exhausted voice, stripped of all the pomposity it usually carried.

"No my boy, I am the one who should be saying sorry. All this time I have been acting just as badly as your family, pushing ye away, making ye feel unwanted, all because of my own selfishness. It was unforgivable, but I hope ye understand why I did so. I offer no more excuses, no justifications. If ye hate me for this it would be no less than I deserve. But I swear to ye that it will never happen again."

**KingCrowley** · October 24th, 2014, 11:25 PM

(( night ^^ ))

Harley wrapped his arms around the Doctor when he was pulled to his chest, a little reluctant but he did hold onto him, sniffling into his chest and whimpering some as he tried to calm down. He listened to him as he explained that he was the one who should be saying sorry and then mentioned how he had been like his family. "No...you could never be like them..." he answered firmly and shook his head, "I couldn't ever hate you Doctor...and I don't...I should have understood it wasn't your way...to be like that." he said and looked up at him.

"It's okay...we can...start new, right?"

**RedDragon30000** · October 25th, 2014, 10:26 PM

The Doctor smiled, his eyes closing in relief. Smiling wearily, he responded quietly to Harley's question.

"Yes, yes we can. but I want ye to promise me something. If ye see that I am acting that way towards ye again, if ye think that what I say or do is wrong, promise me that ye will call me out on it, stop me. Because I don't think I know when to stop."

Harley's naive suggestion that they could start anew had the Doctor badly shaken. While he agreed with the boy that they could, he knew that he would be cursing himself for acting that way in the first place, and knew that if any of his other incarnations were able to, they would do so as well.

**KingCrowley** · October 25th, 2014, 10:51 PM

Finally, the day the Doctor decided to take his boys out to look around Victorian London had come about. Harley held onto Lance's hand and looked around slightly, staying quiet for the most part to give the Doctor free reign to babble on about History and the likes. Harley didn't much care about the history, he was just happy to be spending time with his family and not being in trouble for once.