A/N: Hey! This story is Falling in Love, the fourth story in my fourth OC series, The Time Lady Memoirs, for Doctor Who. I would recommend that new readers look at the first three stories (Losing Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Endeavors in Wooing) to understand my OC, Mackenzie (Mac) and the Doctor's relationship :) If interested, my other 3 series are The Academic Series (the Professor), The Lunar Cycle (Evy Daniels), and The Heart of Time Saga (the Angel) ;) This story will focus on my OC/Time Lady, Mac AKA Naery, the official pairing name for her and the Doctor being Thaery :) This story will largely follow the events that Mac is aware of and a part of, but will also include some scenes with the Doctor elsewhere and possibly others when they talk about her. This will a Doctor/OC series :)

This will essentially be a revision of Series 6 to incorporate the existence of another Time Lord, Mac. This story will be updated every day with each chapter being 1 episode, however the Christmas special will be two chapters. There may be a few mini-sodes popping up along the way for a total of about 18 chapters ;)

Quick physical description of Mac: she's a tallish woman with wavy ginger hair that goes to a little past her shoulders, she tends to wear it hanging free with a headband (a cool one ;)). She's pale but has a few freckles splattered across her nose and light green eyes eyes. She tends to wear a strapless or thin-strapped dress that's a little more fitted on the top and loose for the skirt that goes to about her knees. She wears flats and a cardigan with bigger-on-the-inside pockets to it :) For a reference, an actress that I think is similar to Mac is Emma Stone ;) She is currently on her 8th incarnation and, as of the end of Endeavors in Wooing, was 917 :)

~8~ is a scene break.

"italics" is Gallifreyan.

'italics' is telepathic communication.

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who...or we'd have seen the Master pop back up again during 11's run :)

Enjoy!

~8~

Space & Time

The Doctor was leaning against the railing of the TARDIS, watching as Mac worked beneath the console, on her back, on a sort of rolling dolley, Rory below the glass floor helping, the boy with blackened goggles over his eyes. HE had been the one working under the console, but after he'd accidently set the console on fire by crossing the wrong wire, Mac had pulled him out from the dolley, tugged him up, and taken his place while he put the fire out. He was rather content to allow her to do it though, she was lying there with her ankles crossed, just working away and…

"Eyes off her legs Doctor," Amy called as she walked past him to lean on the railing next to him.

"Not a chance, Pond," he smiled.

Amy shook her head at him, eyeing him a moment, seeing the softness of his smile as he gazed at Mac working on. She and Rory had no idea what had happened but something certainly had. They'd gone off on their honeymoon and returned to see there was a new closeness between the Doctor and Mac. It was touching to witness it, them together, she was well aware of the Doctor's attempts at flirting with the girl that seemed to go right over her head but Mac had actually appeared to have caught on now to the Doctor's efforts. She noticed the Time Lady blushing at times, nudging the Doctor playfully, linking her arm with his and squeezing it in affection. She really couldn't wait to see what happened between them…

And she was rather relieved that Mac had noticed and seemed nearly reciprocating of the flirting. She would never admit it out loud but…what Mac had said and implied in Venice had really shaken her and, for a short while, she'd actually thought Mac might have really been attracted to Rory. She realized now it was just a ploy to get her to sort of have a 'taste of her own medicine' so to speak, to see her guy with another girl hanging off him, much like Rory was forced to see her hanging off the Doctor at times. And the Dream Lady event had really shaken her up. She knew that the Doctor, if the pollen had gotten him would have been a bit more subtle in why he was doing it all, but she knew Mac was always more honest than the Doctor was, she'd really let her have it about how she'd treated Rory. And she deserved it.

Now though, she was more at ease to see Mac starting to lean more towards the Doctor.

And, speaking of the Doctor, there was something bothering her that she really did have to talk to HIM about. She would have tried Mac first but, given how confused the woman had appeared at her wedding, Mac had NO idea what had happened between the Pandorica and appearing there, what the Doctor had done and said to her over the years. She was sure the Doctor had told the Time Lady, but she wasn't sure if Mac could really explain what was going on as she hadn't lived it.

"Listen…" she began, glancing at the Doctor, "Can we talk?"

Instantly the Doctor's happy smile froze and his eyes widened, his face morphing into an expression of horror as he started backing away, "RORY!"

Amy quickly pulled him forward by the lapels, "No, shut up," she quickly put a hand over his mouth, though his eyes were still rather wide, "I just got a question that's all."

"Amy?" Mac called, wheeling out from under the console to look at her, sitting up on the small dolley, "Everything alright?"

"You ok up there?" Rory asked as well from below.

The Doctor tried to speak, but with Amy's hand over his mouth still it came out rather muffled though Mac thought it sounded like he was trying to say, 'Yeah, fine, no problem' or something similar.

"What are you doing?" Amy leaned to the side to look through the glass floor at Rory.

"Helping Mac," Rory shrugged, "Um…" he pointed at the beam running down from the console, "It's humming, is that ok?"

"Mmmzzzfnrry," the Doctor spoke.

"Um, Amy?" Mac called with a small laugh, nodding at the Doctor's mouth that was still covered.

"Oh, sorry," Amy pulled her hand away.

"Yeah, it's fine Rory," the Doctor repeated, "We're just entering conceptual space. Imagine a banana or anything curved! Actually don't, since it's not curved or like a banana…forget the banana."

"It's like static," Mac explained, "Like a sort of area of space where scanners and other things start to get jammed a bit. The TARDIS is just trying to compensate for it."

"Hold on, is he helping you fly the TARDIS?" Amy looked between them.

"Just attach thermo-couplings 2, 7, and 11," Mac told him, "NOT like the Doctor showed you."

"Oi!" the Doctor pouted, walking over to her and holding out his hands to help her up, "I showed him how to attach them just fine, thank you."

"Yes, you did," she nodded, "You showed him how to attach them upside down though. Literally, you were hanging upside down from the harness, not exactly helpful when he's right side up."

"How come he gets a go?" Amy frowned, "You two never let me have a go."

"Don't," Rory knocked on the glass floor, "Seriously. I let her drive my car once."

"Yeah. To the end of the road."

"Yeah where, according to Amy, there was an unexpected house."

"Oh, he's jealous because I passed my test first time."

"You cheated. You wore a skirt."

"I didn't wear a skirt."

"Luck would have worked too."

The Doctor, who was hunched over at the console, looked over at that, only to see that Mac had come to lean on the console beside him, watching the humans, amused, and realized that he was on direct eyelevel with the hem of her skirt and found himself looking more downward, blushing, only to realize, yet again, that he was now looking at the rest of her legs.

"My eyes are up here Doctor," Mac joked, pointing to her eyes.

His head snapped up to look at her eyes this time, seeing her rising her eyebrow at his blatant staring, "I know," he smirked at her, not starting to stutter. Now that she knew he was flirting with her, he felt more confident in doing so, he was going to win her hearts if it was the last thing he did, "Believe me, I know where those sparkling stars are, I was just distracted by the um…" he glanced at her legs and back at her, "Milky Way."

Mac looked away at that, shaking her head and blushing. She knew that before, if she hadn't realized he was flirting, she would have probably asked him if he just thought that she needed a tan or something, she was a bit pale, so it made sense her legs looked 'milky' in color or something. She'd tried, she actually had, when she and Amy and the Doctor had gone to Space Florida, she'd tried to tan…and gotten burned. It appeared her skin was rather sensitive, luckily, being a Time Lord, the burn had gone away quickly enough but it hadn't even left her with a tan as a result, she still looked just as pale.

"Using star metaphors Doctor?" she glanced at him, "Bit old fashioned isn't it?" but she was smiling still.

He shrugged, "Worked for the great poets of old, didn't it?"

"You ever see Amy drive?" Rory called up to them, interrupting their little moment, though, instead of feeling irritated as the Doctor had in the past, he just winked at Mac and turned back to the console.

"No!" he replied.

"I haven't either," Mac agreed, moving to her own designated area of the console.

"Yeah well neither did her driving examiner," Rory muttered.

"Actually, it was this one," Amy pointed at her current miniskirt, "It was this skirt..." and then the TARDIS went dark, "What was that?"

"Rory?" Mac called, leaning over to give him a look through the floor on an angle as he was standing closer to where Amy was than her.

"Sorry," he winced, "I um…dropped a thermo-coupling…"

"Oh how did you do that?!" the Doctor cried as Amy looked down at her husband and closed her eyes, working out what the Doctor hadn't by Rory's firm refusal to look up again, "I told you don't drop them! KENZIE told you not to drop them too so it wasn't just me! We specifically mentioned not dropping them."

"It was my fault," Amy sighed.

"Of course it wasn't your fault."

"It kinda was her fault," Rory told them.

"How do you figure that?" Mac blinked.

Amy glanced down at Rory and back to the aliens, "Because it was my skirt, and my husband, and your glass floor."

Mac blinked again before grimacing, "Rory!"

The Doctor, realizing what they were saying as well, just moved over to Mac and slowly backed her away from Rory to sit on the jump seat, pointing at her warningly NOT to get up with her skirt and her dress and a glass floor and a human with less restraint than HIM down there. Honestly! He had been beneath the console plenty of times when Mac was above him and he NEVER looked up because of that. It was just rude!

"Sorry," Rory muttered.

"Well we've landed," the Doctor moved back to the console, "Emergency materialization, we should be fine. Should have locked on to the safest space available," he pulled a lever and the lights came back on.

"Safe is relative," Mac remarked and he turned to look back at her, only to see her looking at a small space down the little steps that led to the console, nearer to the doors…where another TARDIS was sitting.

"What's happened?" Amy frowned, looking back and forth between the miniature TARDIS and the Time Lords.

"Safest spot available," the Doctor breathed, "The TARDIS has materialized inside of itself."

"Is that supposed to happen?" Rory made his way up to the console to join them, allowing Mac to get up as the Doctor slowly approached it.

"Take a guess."

"No?"

"Well done," Mac patted Rory's shoulder, "Oi!" she called to the Doctor as he touched the smaller TARDIS's door, "Be careful!"

"What are you doing?" Amy asked, before turning to Mac, "What's he doing?"

"Absolutely no idea," the Doctor answered as Mac shrugged, only to step into the smaller TARDIS…and step back out of the main TARDIS doors beside them.

"Uh, ok that is a bit weird…"

Mac made her way down the steps and over to the smaller TARDIS, opening the door, making the larger doors open as well, and stuck her hand through, waving it out the larger doors till the Doctor grabbed it gently and placed a kiss onto it before she pulled her arm back.

"That is actually pretty cool," Rory chuckled softly.

"Oh, I'm glad you're entertained Rory," the Doctor turned and headed back up towards the console as Mac made her way around the smaller TARDIS, examining it, "Now that were stuck here for all eternity. At least you won't be bored."

"Wait, what, we're stuck?" Amy gaped at that.

"It looks like the inside of the TARDIS fused with the outside," Mac called as she made her way back around to the front.

"Ooh that's worse than a time loop, a space loop," the Doctor sighed, "Nothing can enter or leave this ship ever again!"

Of course, because the Doctor said it with such certainty…the larger doors opened without the smaller ones doing so first and MAC stepped into the TARDIS.

"There are some sentences you should just stay away from Doctor," the Second Mac laughed.

"Who the hell are you?!" Amy blinked at the woman.

"She's me," Mac moved over to look at herself, "From the future."

"Tell me exactly what's happened!" the Doctor called, "And/Or when do we get married."

The Second Mac blinked, "Not THAT far in the future Doctor, barely 1 minute," she laughed, "I can tell you that the exterior shell of the TARDIS seems to have drifted forwards in time. So, stepping into that box," she nodded at the smaller TARDIS, "Let's you step into this one," she gestured around, "A short while in the past."

"Really?" Mac eyed her, "How'd we work that one out?"

The Second Mac shrugged, "Just repeating what I, er…YOU heard me say."

"Ok, when does my Kenzie step inside the box?" the Doctor asked, "And does she HAVE to? I rather like having two of you here," he smiled at her, "I FINALLY get to see double."

Mac shook her head at that, recalling how she'd thought his first efforts at flirting with her, saying that he wished he'd smacked his head on a tree hard enough to see double of her was just brain trauma, "I have to Doctor, the timelines have to be maintained."

"As soon as I, er you," the Second Mac continued to Mac, "Kiss the Doctor."

"Ok," Mac nodded, turning to make her way up to the Doctor, "Come on then," but the Doctor just pouted and shook his head, "What?" she eyed him oddly, "Doctor we have to maintain the established chain of events or the timeline collapses."

"I know," he nodded, "I just…" he sighed, "Kissing you means you go away. And I don't ever want that to happen. I want you with me always Kenzie," he looked at her, "Things are better when you're here."

Mac smiled softly at that and reached out to touch his face, "That's very sweet," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him for it, "But I'm not going away, just…going to the past so that I can get you to say that to the other me, maybe earn you a kiss from her for it too," she offered him a wink and turned to go towards the smaller TARDIS, stepping into it.

"So, is that it?" Rory asked as the Second Mac, now the only Mac, moved to join them by the console, giving the Doctor's arm a soft squeeze for his efforts.

"Yeah, are we ok now?" Amy looked at the Doctor.

"No," he sighed, gesturing at how the smaller TARDIS was still there, "We're still trapped…" he trailed off as the larger doors opened and another Amy and Rory stepped in this time, "What are you doing?"

"You told us to get into the police box," the Second Rory explained, "Well, from your point of view, you're about to tell us to get into the police box. From our point of view, you just told us to get into the police box. Which is why we got into the police box. Which is why we're here…"

"Do I have to remember all of that?" Rory frowned.

"It sort of just happens."

"Ooh," Amy grinned at herself, eyeing the woman, "Do I really look like that?"

"Yeah, yeah you do," the Second Amy winked.

"Mmm, I'd give you a driving license."

"Oh I bet you would."

"Hey!" the Doctor cut in, not about to have the world end because Pond 1 and Pond 1.2 decided to flirt with herself. There would be no world ending due to flirting…unless it was him flirting with Mac, what a way to go! "Stop that! You two," he turned, pushing Amy towards the box as Mac helped nudge Rory along, "Into the police box, now, run."

"So what now?" the Second Amy started to move forward.

"You two stay where you are," the Doctor pointed at the Second Amy and Second Rory, now the only ones, before he rushed back to the console.

"What are you doing?" Rory asked.

"Just stay here," Mac joined them, "He's got to set up a controlled temporal implosion. It's the only way to reset the TARDIS."

"But," the Doctor added, "Unless I find exactly the right lever to control the implosion…we're all going to die."

"You don't know which lever?" Amy nearly ground out at that, sensing the answer in his words.

"No," the Doctor merely turned to them, smiling, "But I'm about to find out."

Mac pulled the Ponds aside as the larger doors opened and a Second Doctor ran in, "The wibbly lever!"

The Doctor pointed at himself with a laugh, "The wibbly lever!" he turned and pulled it, "Thank you!" before he ran to the smaller TARDIS, "Kenzie," he paused, pointing at her and winking, "See you in a mo," before he rushed into the box, the smaller TARDIS dematerializing moments later.

"Ok!" the Second and now Only Doctor grinned, "We're back in normal flight!" he draped his arms over the Ponds' shoulders, "The TARDIS is no longer inside itself, the localized time field is no longer about to implode and rip a hole in all causality. But, just in case…" he glanced at Amy, "Pond put some trousers on."

"Oi," Amy frowned as the Doctor pulled his arms away and took Mac's hand to walk with her back to the console, "Mac's wearing a skirt too."

"Yes, but I would NEVER do that to her," the Doctor turned, "And, if Rory ever tried to, he knows I'd throw him into a supernova like the manual," he pointed at Rory, a playful smile on his face, a laugh in his voice, but the Ponds knew he was dead serious despite that.

Mac shook her head, "Come on Doctor, I need your help fixing the thermo-couplings now."

The Doctor just nodded and turned to follow her down under the console.

A/N: Urg, power didn't come back on at my house till 10:12pm :( Good thing my mom and I prepared and got lots of ice for the perishables lol :) I went to my town's library and used their computers to get this and Merlin edited. I'm just glad that the power's back and I can post on time ;)

I am SO excited for this series :) I really can't wait for TIA, AGMGTW, and TW(?)ORS ;)

Some notes on reviews...(from the end of Endeavors in Wooing)...

I bet your wedding will be lovely :) I won't ever have one :( My parents have sort of ruined the idea of marriage for me and my siblings the notion of relationships (fidelity issues, verbal abuse, anger issues, etc) so I'm pretty damaged when it comes to relationships, makes me think I won't ever find someone who could put up with me. I think that's why I try to make the relationships for the OCs as sweet (but realistic) as possible, at least they can be happy :) I'm not sure if I'd write one where I met all the OCs. I can say that if, in the future, I ever stop writing, I would want to go out with a bang and do a giant crossover where ALL the OCs meet each other, I might slip myself in at the end to say goodbye to them, but that would probably (hopefully) be a very FAR time in the future. I think I have enough story ideas to last till 2020 lol :)

I'm not sure if I'd write a Spiderman story. I couldn't really get into the 2002-2007 series and I haven't seen the movies in entirety yet, so I can't say. I do think, if I did one, I'd write one where the OC would have some sort of superhero quality to them though (whether it was powers of their own or something like Batman where it's just a skill they have and no power). I feel like only someone with powers and a secret identity of their own would truly be able to understand what it's like to live that life with all the lies and danger and strain :)

Yup, Thaery :) I try to make the next story come out the very next day :) I can say that for Merlin, Once Upon a Time, and the Big Bang Theory, I would be posting the next story the same day though ;)

I'm not sure if I'd do a Walking Dead story, I've seen a few episodes, but I couldn't really get into it, so I can't say. There's always a chance that, once I see the whole series, I'll change my mind :)