Disclaimer: I don't, my mind maybe be as crazy as the doctor's, but not crazy enough to come up with him.
Summary: 144 Chapters, somewhat follows a plot, the first two are drabbles to establish the beginning. A bit AU, starts after Amy and Rory get married.
"Talk" is Gallifreyan
:...talk...: The TARDIS words electronic voice or on monitor.
One
TARDIS+Auto-Pilot=Big Problem
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Amy lounged in one of the yellow chairs while the Doctor fumbled with wires connecting something to something else beneath the console. Rory had gone searching for something to snack on ten minutes ago, and had yet to find the kitchen, the TARDIS must have moved it again.
Speaking of the "bigger on the inside" phone box, it had been humming steadily for several moments, and had yet to hiss or anything like it usually did when the Doctor was messing with something.
Then the lights went out.
"Oi! Doctor! I can't see!"
The time lord chuckled as he came back from underneath the console to beside, flipping a couple switches to get the lights back on and finding Rory stumbling down the stairs.
"Sorry, old girl hates when I tweak the belts..."
Amy laughed at Rory's face, motioning for him to sit near her as the Doctor went back to connecting wires.
Then the TARDIS burst into life.
"Uh...Doctor? Why is the TARDIS coordinating it-herself?"
That got his attention, Amy had seen the Doctor move fast before, but when he just about reappeared next to her in a second she squeaked.
The Doctor rushed around the console, sliding to a stop directly opposite the monitor and beginning to rapidly move over the controls.
"C'mon girl! Stop this and give me back control!"
The TARDIS apparently wasn't liking that idea, and began to move faster, making it hard to stand as Amy struggled to the type writer when the Doctor yelled for her help.
"Type stop-cease-shut down-no more-enough...anything to get this thing to stop!"
While the scot began to type, the TARDIS lurched to one side, sending Rory flying to the monitor and the Doctor sliding into the railing.
"Where are we going?"
The time lord growled faintly as he slowly stood up, leaning against the console as he tried to apply the brakes, "I...don't...know...Rory, what's the coordinates?"
The Nurse had to fiddle with the monitor to show the coordinates, the location rapidly approaching.
"Uh...six...no...seven hundred years before our time...coordinates 10-0-11-0-0 by 0-2, ETA uh...three minutes and counting."
"No!"
The Doctor rushed over to the monitor, yelling in another language at the readings and the TARDIS, he must have been swearing since his face was getting red as his actions grew frantic to get the ship to stop moving.
"No! No! No-No-No! Stop! Please! No!"
The TARDIS didn't seem to hear, the noise only died down after the phone box landed smoothly, the humming ceasing within a few seconds of the Doctor screaming in rage and punching the monitor, only earning himself a sore fist.
Amy quickly moved away from him as he sat in one of the chairs, head to his knees as he moaned, muttering under his breath with his hands tangled in his hair.
"Amy? Where are we?"
The red head went to the window, eyes widening as she saw the silver trees and fire lit sky.
"Gallifrey."
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It was two hours before someone on the outside the ship had come to investigate, the entire time the Doctor hadn't moved from the chair, not even when someone began picking the lock on the door.
"Uh Doctor? A little help?"
The time lord didn't move, not even when the door creaked open and a head cautiously peeked in.
"Hello?"
The speaker was female, dark brown hair pulled back with tiny braids laced between her hair and pulled back into a bun. Her dress reminded the Ponds of a kimono with shoulder sleeves over an under dress, dark blue and green.
Her skin was light tan as she stepped inside slowly, eyes never leaving the Ponds.
"Hello? Oh...Hello!"
Amy smiled, "Hi, I'm Amy. And this is my husband Rory."
The lady smiled, "I'm Salla, I'm sorry for intruding, but the family here grew concerned when you landed and did not exit, is the lock not functioning?"
"Uh...no but...uh..."
Salla quickly glanced around the TARDIS with what looked like careful precision, and then her eyes fell on the Doctor."
"Hello? Are you alright?"
The humans let her step closer, her actions almost hesitant until she gently placed a hand on the Doctor's shoulder, making him jump to his feet and lunge away from her."
"Sir? What is wrong?"
"Inmo...Inmo...Vos, non potestis...non ego...egrediar!"
Salla flinched but glared back heatedly as the Doctor backed away from her around the console until he stood in front of the Ponds, Salla only a few steps away.
"Quid est iniuriam? Tu...est...You are a Time Lord! You are just in time! Haha! 'on time' You've arrived for the festival! Well don't wait in here, come! To the city! Cadon Astu is only a short rail away! Come!"
The Doctor was shaking his head, constantly saying 'No' over and over in an attempt to get the lady to stop speaking.
Salla quit her rambling as the Doctor pressed his hands over his ears, a faint whine coming from his throat.
"Time Lord? What is wrong? Why will you not look at me?"
The Doctor shuddered as Salla rested her hands on his shoulders, gently guiding him to straighten and look at her.
"You have no idea how I did not want to come back here..." He murmured, eyes downcast as Salla frowned.
"You are a Time Lord, yet not the original...or even close are you? You have come back to Gallifrey...what you must have seen to keep you from your home..." Salla sighed before taking one of the Doctor's hand, clasping his wrist while her other fist rested over the center of her chest in between her two hearts, the Doctor mimicked her after a moment, bowing his head slightly to her.
"My home is in the vortex in my time...Gallifrey was only a memory..." The Doctor replied, and Salla nodded grimly before smiling when the Doctor relaxed his stance.
"I'm sorry for what you must have seen, but you will not be able to leave until after the festival, the skies have been locked and the time has stopped."
The Doctor sighed heavily but nodded, glaring at the TARDIS console before turning to the Ponds, "Okay I promised a planet and here's one...knock yourselves out..."
Amy was already following Salla, her endless questions amusing the Gallifreyan, Rory turned to stop the Doctor from heading deeper into the phone box.
"Aren't you coming Doctor?"
Salla froze, turning and locking her storm gray eyes with the Doctor's bright blue ones, "Please come, the year of the Madevninia Aridosa is nigh, the festival starts in mere hours."
At the date the Doctor's slight welcoming mood vanished, Salla didn't see it, she had already turned to lead them away, to give the Doctor a moment, Rory followed her asking about the festival while Amy looped her arm with quickly becoming distraught Doctor.
"Hey...what's wrong?"
"This festival is last one Gallifrey will ever see...There is going to be an attack on the last day at each mountain and the Citadel, and there is nothing I can do about it." The Time Lord replied softly, leaning a little more on Amy than he normally would have if explaining something serious.
Amy sighed, gently squeezing the man's upper arm in support, "Will we run into...another you...while we're here."
"No, every time I somehow end up back here, it's in a different location...never see the same city burn twice..."
The red head could only hum slightly as they exited the TARDIS, locking the door tight before following Salla. Amy gasped as she looked around, smiling at the red grass beneath her feet and the silver trees lining the station for the rails.
Bright blue and purple flutterwings were floating over the foliage, suddenly skittering into the air and whistling softly whenever someone drew too close.
Salla had walked further ahead, not noticing the humans had stopped to look around until Amy squealed when a trunkike fluttered from the grass and startled her, the bird beginning to chirp rapidly as if laughing at the lady.
The native Gallifreyan laughed, leaning against a tree as the green bird stole a hair pin from Amy's hair, releasing the red locks down her back in a mess.
"Oi! Give that back!"
Her husband began to help her chase the bird, the trunkike luckily only staying just a foot of so out of their reach and moving in rapid circles within the immediate area, the birds were known to take off and disappear.
The Time Lord merely stood with his hands in his pockets watched the humans and refusing to let his eyes look around at his home, this is what drew Salla to hum slightly to the tree she leaned against.
A sleek tabby cat leapt from the upper branches, mewing softly before hearing the chattering of the wayward trunkike.
And off she went...
With a short sprint and a leap the cat had caught the bird, causing it to drop the hair pin before freeing itself with a screech, scolding the cat before flying away.
The cat merely began to yowl as she paced back to Salla, rubbing against her legs.
Amy couldn't stop giggling as the Doctor took her arm again, "Salla, might want to walk faster, the rail arrives in two minutes."
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The rail was like a train, only it went much faster but still allowed you to watch out the windows, Amy had grabbed a window seat, the Doctor sitting next to her while Rory and Salla sat across from them.
"Oh my god...Rory! Look-look! Oh wow!"
Salla was smiling, pleased she'd been able to make Amy's day, the Doctor was avoiding the window if he could, only glancing up from his hands when Amy asked a question.
The ride only lasted a few minutes, and then the city loomed up suddenly before surrounding them. That made Amy quiet as she stared at the sky reaching buildings on their super thin columns that supported hundreds of feet of buildings.
"Amy, Rory." For once the Doctor was truly addressing them.
He sighed a little before standing and shoving the window open, letting music and the smell of food in, faint laughs and chattering drifting in as well.
"Welcome to Gallifrey."
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