"Die?" Lucas said quietly, but calmly. "Don't worry, I've got lots of experience with death… if that's the worst case scenario, I'd beg to differ. For me at least, the worst part of all is staying alive while everyone you care about dies. If I die, I'll be back with my family again."
"Lucas, I will do everything in my power to keep you, me, the Doctor, and everyone else from dying. But we need to prepare for the worst."
Lucas nodded, making brief eye contact with Susan before looking away. Great, now she's going to think that you're about to go off and kill yourself or something.
"Lucas, listen. We might be in danger, we might not. But whatever you do, don't give up, don't give in, and most importantly, don't get scared, get angry. Fear is soggy, wilting, of no use. Anger keeps you fast, motivated, and most importantly of all, will keep you alive." she said.
"Yes, ma'am…" I don't do angry well… I don't really remember the last time I was truly angry. Lucas wasn't a hotheaded person in general. He was quiet, and he was timid. However, he would try his best to do as he was told. Just… think about how unjust it is that they were killed and taken from you so soon and you'll do fine.
"Either way, it's probably nothing. Sometimes the Doctor just has these mood swings or something, ignoring this might be best."
"Yes, Susan. Should we check on him?" Lucas looked back up at Susan, glancing over at the place that the Doctor had vanished.
"No, let him come back and talk to us. Disturbing him would be unwise."
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"True… how long do you think it'll take him to come back? I know he's pretty stubborn."
"At most a few days, but probably only an hour or two, don't worry."
"Okay. What should we do while we wait? Pit should probably be left alone for a bit. He seemed to be getting quite frustrated with himself and will need time to cool off."
"I don't know. Normally I would just find a quiet place to read a book and wait for the Doctor to come around and talk again. Is there anything you would like to do?" she asked.
Lucas shrugged. "I would say explore, but I don't think I want to know what the Doctor's got behind locked doors… the Master's still in the library I think, and he kinda scares me. I dunno, is there anything that you want to do?"
"I don't think that Harry would bother us much, if you really do wish to visit the library." Susan said. "However, there isn't anything I would like to do at the moment."
"Hmm… we could just talk, if you want? I mean… I-I dunno, it's probably stupid…" Lucas looked away awkwardly.
"Sounds good to me. Anything you'd like to talk about?" she asked.
"Um… I… I have a dog? He's an old chocolate lab and his name's Boney. I've had him as long as I can remember."
"Dogs are nice. My grandfather prefers cats, there was this one time where he had adopted pretty much the equivalent of an animal shelter full of them, attempted to learn the violin, and impersonated the Hogfather." she couldn't help but laugh. "Then I decided to find out what was going on, and I ended up saving the Disc essentially. There was this assassin named Teatime, pronounced Teh-Ah-Tim-Eh, mind you, who ended up trying to destroy all belief, thus destroying humanity. He had been employed by these creatures called Auditors…. but you wouldn't be interested in that story, it's not the most interesting." she said.
"No! That sounds like a very interesting story. Much more interesting than me talking about some old dog for any amount of time, anyways. Go on." Lucas looked up at Susan, listening attentively.
"Well, it began on a frosty Hogswatch Eve. Grandfather had found out that the Auditors were trying to destroy the Disc again, by trying to rid the world of belief. I ended up taking Grandfather's sword and borrowed Binky, his horse, and travelled to the Castle Of Bones. I met the Oh God if Hangovers there, but then the castle started to fall apart. We got out just in time, and travelled to the Unseen University For Wizards and temporarily cured the Oh God of the massive hangover he had, but then went to the Tooth Fairy's land and found an assassin named Teatime, the one I mentioned earlier. In a nutshell, I dueled him, ended up winning at the time, found out that the Tooth Fairy was actually The Bogeyman, rode a gigantic hog that was actually the Hogfather, fought off a couple of wolves disguised as Auditors, saved the Hogfather, met Teatime again when at the Gaiter's house with Grandfather, impaled him with a fireplace poker, and shazam! World saved, for the time being of course." she said. "Sorry…. you probably didn't need to hear that last bit with the poker and whatnot…." she looked away.
Lucas was quiet for a moment. "…Wow! You did all that? What's this 'disc' you're talking about? If you believe in this God of hangovers, why don't you believe in angels? What's Hogswatch?" He covered his mouth with his hands. "Am I asking too many questions?" You're going to annoy her and then you'll get kicked out. They'll take your key and never let you come back.
"Oh, the Disc is short for Discworld, which is flat and round and rides on the back of four elephants on top of Great A'Tuin, the Star Turtle. And though that may seem like an obscure myth, it's real. I've seen it. I do believe in angels, just not the ones like Pit. And Hogswatch is essentially a holiday very similar to your Christmas." she explained.
"What do you mean, 'not ones like Pit'? What other kind of angel is there?" Stop asking so many questions! God, you're so stupid!
"Many, trust me. And a lot of them are rather annoying."