Doctor Who
Key to Time: Reunited
AU. The timelines are abruptly changed when the intercreationals ask the Doctor to reassemble the key to time to restore equilibrium to the universe. But when they give the Doctor an old flame to assist all bets are off and who is really behind the Silence, who are the dark acolytes and what connection do they have with the Doctor's past. 11/OC, Amy/Rory.
The Doctor was at the console as Amy and Rory went to bed, their latest adventure with the carnivorous fish had tired them out, but not him. His companions were great friends but they would never replace the gaping hole left in his life by the destruction his people and his homeworld. As he sighed a red light began to flash on the console, a systems failure. The Doctor followed the routine he had developed he shunted off the failed system then rerouted them through a secondary relay. The TARDIS shook to the sides before it came to rest. Then all of the lights went out. The Doctor worked briefly at the controls before concluded that all of the power was gone, he cast a glance at the doors before turning to leave the TARDIS
The Doctor stepped out of the darkened TARDIS to find himself in the middle of a dark forest, he closed the doors and stepped out into the forest, he looked around 180 degrees before seeing someone he never thought he'd see again.
"Quences?" the Doctor started disbelievingly. "Quences, is that you?"
"Quences, is that who I am, who I appear to be?" the robbed figure started. He was in black as night Time Lord robes, robed the Doctor recognised as the robe Quences wore in role as the Auld Mortality.
"It is who you seem to be," Doctor backed up and put his hand into his jacket to find his sonic screwdriver. "Who are you?"
"Have you ever heard of the intercreationals, Time Lord?"
"Yes, they're a legend, that they are the most advanced creatures to exist in the entire multiverse, that while the Time Lords maintain balance of the Time lines the intercreationals do it for entire universes.
"Well that's a rather simplified definition but apt enough of our role in creation,"
"So, what exactly do the intercreationals want with me?"
"Pick up that rock,"
Frowning the Doctor turned to pick it up; he held it in his hand for a moment before turning to the intercreational.
"There's something strange about this what is it really?"
"What do you know of the key to time?"
"It's a perfect cube that maintains the equilibrium of our universe, it is usually in six crystal segments which can be disguised as anything and everything in the entire universe, and it was destroyed in my fifth incarnation when I placed it inside the chaos pool saving the universe and ensuring the key could never be reassembled by either the Grace or the guardians."
"Well correct for the most part…" the Quences look-alike started. "We rebuilt the key so it could be able to restore the universe if an eventuality such as this arose."
"Such as what?"
The intercreational raised his hand and the image of one of the cracks in time appeared in the air above it.
"When Gallifrey was destroyed it cracked all of space and time causing fault lines through time, specifically a weak point in the year 2010 AD humanian era. At which point in several months relative time your TARDIS' engines will overload causing the destruction of your universe."
The Doctor looked aghast. "Well what if I avoid those co-ordinates?" his tone hopeful.
"Not good enough it would only deal with the deciding event, not the cause itself," he turned a glace to the Time Lord. "Only reassembling the key to time will save the universe in the long run."
"Okay then, I'll need a tracer to detect the segments," the Doctor conceded.
"You will be given a tracer and an assistant,"
"I don't need an assistant I've got Amy and Ror…" the Doctor trailed off as a woman stepped out of the mist, a woman the Doctor recognised intimately. "Patience?"
The woman Patience was about the Doctor's age with aristocratic features deep emerald green eyes and long following and thick blond hair that flowed from her head over her left shoulder. Downwards she was wearing a long emerald dress the same hew as her eyes, it was criss-crossed with white embroidery of Gallifreyan symbols.
As the doctor watched eerily unaware that he was running towards her and she was running to him as well. When they meet the crashed into a hug tears in both of their eyes before the broke apart and looked each over in the eye.
"Doctor is that really you?" Patience asked disbelievingly, with the beginnings of tears forming in her eyes but never breaking eye contact.
"Yes, it's me," the Doctor smiled tears of joy already streaming from his eyes.
"Prove it," Patience eyes started to break contact but only to wander down to his mouth and back to his eyes, she smirked when she saw the Doctor doing the same.
They both glanced into each other's eyes before moving forward as if the kiss, but as they got closer they angled their heads so their foreheads touched, the both briefly whispered contact before their eyelids fluttered closed. The two Gallifreyan's had entered mutual mental contact a technique only used between Time Lords and Ladies who trusted one another completely. They could enter each overs thoughts change their memories and their priorities and it could be used to absolutely verify a Time Lord's identity if they knew each over intimately.
Amy had not been sleeping well as Rory had been snoring and she was too wired up from her previous adventure, she needed to talk to the Doctor about the fish that had tried to change her.
"Doctor?" Amy called into the darkened console room, she briefly glanced around before walking the external doors, she lightly opened the door and glanced out to see the Doctor and Patience in each other's arms with their foreheads touching. Amy immediately felt as if she was intruding on a deeply personal event. She immediately felt a surge of jealousy as the Doctor was her fist crush as a child and a teenager before she noticed Rory in a romantic sense. To avoid being discovered she turned to return to her room.
The Doctor and Patience pulled back tears of joy falling from both their eyes.
"It's really you," they both said in unison before they reclaimed the distance between them and kissed with a long kept passion before pulling back. Before the two went any further the Doctor started.
"Something about a tracer for the segments?" the Doctor asked in a shaky voice, his eyes still on Patience's lips clearly wanting nothing more than to kiss her again.
Patience brought her head to one side dragging her eyes back to the Doctor's, she smiled. "Just wanted to be sure." She reached up into her hair pulling out the pen sized metal cylinder, she handed it to the Doctor.
Still holding here stare he took the rock Quences had given him earlier and placed the tracer on top of the rock before activating it, he still didn't look as the rock turned into a single crystal segment. Then again in unison they turned to Quences.
"You must work together to reassemble the key and save the universe," Quences bowed his head before motioning his hand to the TARDIS to which all of the lights flashed on and the TARDIS powered up. "And in return for your services saving the universe you will have your reward"
Madame Kovarian entered her office to see a man standing there with black robes flanked by four other robed individuals, although she couldn't see his face she knew who it was, her benefactor.
"Your plan is in jeopardy, there has been a divergence in the time lines, deploy Dr Song to investigate the divergence before they change to much…"
The Doctor and Patience stood before the console as they powered back into the regular universe, they kept stealing glances at each other, the Doctor himself was grinning like an idiot.
"So where to first?" Patience sidled up to the Doctor pecking on his check and the tracer set the TARDIS' destination…
A/N: I don't know any actresses who match how I want Patience to look so if you find someone similar feel free to send suggestions.
As for character interaction between the eleventh Doctor and Patience I see 11s social awkwardness and arm flapping as surprise as it's unexpected like when Amy kissed him and when River did the same the first time, when it's on his terms he isn't so bad, like in the wedding of River Song.