I wrote this a long time ago, not intending to actually post it, but I was going through some older things and thought I would see what you guys thought. It's just a short one shot about the Eleventh Doctor's views on truth and monsters, but I kinda like it and wanted to share. From what I hear the next episode is supposed to deal with things like this. I can't wait.

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Of all the strange and alien things that humans do, the most unbelievable of them all is that they tell their children that monsters are figments of the imagination. He's been around; there's no getting out of that. He's seen terrible things. He's done terrible things. And after all that, to go back to his surrogate planet and watch the natives telling their offspring that there's nothing under their beds, nothing in their closets, nothing in the darkest corners of their basements, that can frighten or hurt them.

The Doctor knows the truth. The Doctor likes to tell the truth. He has a policy. It takes him a while sometimes, and sometimes he softens it, but when worst comes to worst and the stakes are piled chest-deep against there is nothing more valuable than knowing what one is up against.

So to tell children that there was nothing to fear? This is not only a severe understatement, but also a disadvantage. Because there are things under the bed and in the closet and in the deepest darkest corners of the basement. There are Vashta Nerada and Wall Spiders and Silence and Weeping Angels and whole planets of terrible and terrifying things that live in the darkness and feed on the fear of children.

So maybe in fifteen or twenty years when he returns to see the Ponds again he will tell their children the real reason the hall light stays on at night. Maybe he'll tell them what could live under there, in there and behind there. Maybe he'll tell them that he was the one who invented the playground game Grandmother's Footsteps; maybe he'll even tell them why.

Because after such a time, even the most unnerving things in the universe may have settled down and had children of their own.

But he doubts it.