She'd just returned from the wardrobe finally confident in her choices this time when the TARDIS decided it was time for another adventure.
Laser fire and shouting was what greeted her when her stolen ship finally landed.
"Rory can you please just get your stupid face out of here." An angry Scottish tone yelled "Mels lets g…. MELS!"
The Doctor didn't know her new body could run so fast from one side of the bigger on the inside box to the doors than she had at the sound of her wife's cursed scream. Before she could even think about the possible paradox she was creating her arms were already cradled around her oh so young-looking wife before she became the wild-haired blonde that will forever rule the Doctor's hearts.
"Who the hell are…." A young Amy Pond growls but the Doctor ignores her already pulling Melody into her arms "No time for introductions just get moving." The Doctor commanded ducking another round of ion pulse gunfire while shoving Amy forward with her shoulder. Rather than argue like she wanted to Amy complied dragging Rory along with her as they followed the Doctor back to the waiting (yet invisible) time ship.
Thankfully the old girl had been expecting this having closed the doors behind them and already taken off before her thief couldn't remember they needed to.
"We need to get her hearts beating again." the Doctor concluded in a panic once a check told her that unlike normal her wife wasn't holding her breath just to get the Doctor to touch her. "Stethoscope." The Doctor pleaded when her frantic gaze fell on the medical tool guessing the TARDIS was trying her best to help them.
"Yes, that Rory now hand it over." Amy nodded once Rory had gotten over his shock of a box that was bigger than it was smaller in the inside to pick the thing up from the floor. "You get used to it." Was all Amy says taking the medical tool forcefully from her maybe boyfriends' hand only to have the Doctor yank it from hers knowing it was a bit too early in their timeline for the Ponds to know about their friend being their daughter just yet.
"How about we use this?" Rory questioned pulling the defibrillator seemingly from thin air while the Doctor checked her wife's hearts.
"I could kiss you right now." The Doctor grins earning a death glare from Amy while the paddles charge up. "So sorry about this sweetie." The Doctor whispers brushing a stray lock of Mels's hair back out of her closed eyes.
The hissed curse that follows isn't translated for the other two as it was for the Doctor bringing a pleased smile back to her lips at her wife's word choice while the woman herself sat up with another pained curse. "I've got you love." The Doctor promised wrapping her arms around the shaking woman inwardly grinning when Mels chose to muffle the rest of her curses against her shoulder rather than Amy's who was kneeling on her other side.
"Honestly, how does anyone function with only one of these?" Mels complains her fingers digging painfully into the Doctor's arm not that she would ever think of complaining about it. Mercifully the question confused the other two, but it only made the Doctor's hearts tighten in more worry when she remembered the time she or rather when her 10th and 11th selves had to handle only one of his hearts beating.
"Rory, I need you to hit her on the back as hard as you can." The Doctor instructed, "Today please." She pressed when the younger Santerían just gaped at her like she was mental. "She has some kind of air blockage and if we don't clear it…."
Amy took charge before the Doctor could think of a believable enough finish slamming her fist against her daughter's back earning a painfully snarled "Other side." From Melody and a scoffed "Maybe now you'll listen to me when I said we needed to go." From her mother when the hit came again this time to the correct side.
"No, she won't…."
"No, I won't."
Mels and the Doctor say at the same time while Melody Pond is cradled against her wife's chest as her breathing evened out and the Doctor presses more than a few kisses against the top of her head while she's at it.
"Now who the hell are you?" Amy inquired obviously not liking how possessive the Doctor was being toward her own wife. "I'm a friend of the Doctor's." the time woman tells them while she absently strokes Melody's braided hair along her pulse point mostly to calm herself that her wife is alive under her hands.
"How much of a friend?" Amy pushes making the Doctor smile at the flash of anger in her eyes. Oh, how she misses her 'Girl Who Waited'.
"Spoilers Pond." The Doctor answers before she can stop herself meeting her old companion's eyes for the first time. Amy's mouth falls open in a little 'o' of shock as they look at one another, but she shakes her head in disbelief dropping her eyes back to her daughter still resting against the Doctor's chest.
"That's not really and answer." Rory piped up pulling Amy back to her feet while the Doctor helped Mels. "Don't need to know her name Ror." Melody laughed making the Doctor smile while she stared down the barrel of the gun her young wife was now pointing at her.
"Mels what? What are you doing?" Amy asked fighting against Rory's hold as he pulled her back away from the possible threat while Melody backed up towards them her eyes unfocused but the gun steady in her hand "Don't worry she gets like this sometimes." The Doctor says quietly knowing that at least some part of her wife knows her secret by the hard edge in her eyes. "Don't you Mels but it's not your fault is it." She coos her hands sliding into her pockets "You just get headaches don't you love." She says without taking her eyes from her wife's as they start to circle one another just they will in Hitler's office in there not so distant future. "All those voices in your head telling you what to do." She asks knowing from her talks with River that she was right.
Mels winced the hand not holding the gun slides up into her hair pulling at it slightly. "There you are my soldier." The Doctor smiles seeing past the mix of pain and rage in Melody's eyes as they glared into her own. "Just starting her fight really aren't you sweetie." The Doctor whispers her hand closing around the barrel of the gun still pressed against her chest.
She ignores Amy's worried warning for her safety as she takes the gun from Melody's trembling fingers. Mels let out a shaking breath peeking up at the Doctor's face with a guilty look. Her guilt turns to a mix of confusion and surprise when the Doctor pulls her in pressing their lips together in a kiss much like the one River had given her 11th self that night at Stormcage.
"I just tried to shoot you and you kiss me?" Mels laughs pushing the Doctor away far too soon for the blonde time woman's liking. "Are all time boy's companions this weird?" she asks turning away from her wife to Rory shrugging his shoulders and Amy looking like she was about to lose her grip on her temper. "Dammit will someone answer me already what is all of this?" Alright, so she was more annoyed than the Doctor had originally thought as she tugged her daughter away from the Doctor's hold "Where's the Doctor? How are you in the TARDIS right now and he's not?"
The Doctor just smiles for what feels like the thousandth time since running out the doors into her past. Now she knows how Rives feels interacting with her young parents. "I guess we really are all hard work young." The blonde giggles "But unfortunately I can't answer your questions."
"Why the bloody….." Amy starts to ask but the Doctor just shakes her head "Spoilers Pond." She says again her arms now crossed against her chest "Stop being so cryptic and answer me already." The taller woman demands. "Amelia I ca…." the blonde says holding the bridge of her nose between her fingers only to have Amy's hand slapping against her cheek "Cut the crap Raggyman." She growls but ends up throwing her arms around the Doctor's shoulders tugging her in for a strong-armed hug before the blonde woman could do more than let out a weak gasp at her old nickname.
"Rory get over here." Amy barked without dropping her arms from around the Doctor's shoulders no doubt guessing that in her timeline at least that it's been a long while since the Doctor had seen them.
"Hang on is this it?" Mels asks breaking the tenderness of the moment with her question as if she's just now realizing where they were all standing. "The box you keep telling me about?" she clarifies meeting Amy's eyes as her hands rest against the console. The TARDIS seemed to hum softer around them under Mels's touch bringing a shy smile to her 'daughter's' lips.
"The coast should be clear now." The Doctor says knowing that this moment can't last much longer no matter how much she wants it to. "Whoever was shooting at you has to be gone now but just to be sure um…." The Doctor says her hands shaking as she turns to the console bringing a low almost pained whining sound from the ship. "and you think I don't want them back as, well do you?" the blonde growls her northern accent deepening from her annoyance "No she's saying not that switch it's that one there." Mels steps in her hand resting over the Doctor's to move her hand to what the Doctor guessed was the lever she was looking for.
"Thanks." The blonde woman whispers her voice breaking when the box hits solid ground once again.
"Doctor." Amy says as if she's approaching a panicked animal "You all have to go….the timelines." The Doctor stammers without turning around to see the worried look she knew Amy was giving her. "Doctor." Its Rory this time his tone mirroring Amy's and the Doctor knowing without needing to see that he had his arm wrapped around the Scottish woman's waist to steady her.
"Heard work young." The Doctor says her voice louder in the quiet of her time ship. "So, we can't remember this later on, so the universe won't implode but what's to say that we can't have one last adventure together?"
"Or a first adventure?" Mels chimed in throwing a rather cheeky wink to the Doctor reminding the blonde of who she would become. "First and last in one go?" she asks resting her hip against the TARDIS controls.
"How about we go pay Hitler a visit?" Mels suggests making the Doctor laugh "Not just yet how about we go start gazing or something less likely to bring people with guns chasing after us?" she offers up earning a smile from Amy and Rory and a board eye roll from Melody.
"What about a trip to someplace we haven't been to yet like the biggest library in the universe or something?" Rory offered "I mean how much trouble could we get into at one to those?" he laughed earning a pained look from the Doctor. "Or we can do something normal for a change like all of us go out for a bite." Amy says wrapping a comforting arm around the Doctor's shoulders "Just don't tell River yeah?" she whispers while Mels takes hold of her hand reassuringly on her other side.
"Come on then. Let's go out." The Doctor agrees "I don't actually know what this new face likes yet food wise." She confesses.
"We'll help." Amy smiles taking Rory's other hand in her free one pulling her boyfriend along with them toward the door while Mels swings her leather jacket over her shoulder letting her hand slid back into the Doctor's on the way out the double doors.