Fourth instalment of The Broken Girl series. (First: The Broken Girl, Second: Battle Plans and Wedding Days, Third: The Impossible Time Stream)
The Doctor and Rory need to find Amy with a little help from Aderyn and friends. Will they get there in time? And will River, Amy and Rory survive when Oswin makes a surprise visit?
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Doctor Who.
The Doctor sonicked the lock from a distance and burst through the door without knocking. This was important, there wasn't time for such politeness. His insistence on charging in was rewarded with a furious shout.
"Doctor! What are you doing? You could have knocked. And what kind of time do you call this?" Aderyn was stood in the kitchen, piece of toast in one hand and a mug in the other. The Doctor looked at her and instantly turned away. Rory caught up with him quickly and mimicked the Doctor as he saw Aderyn stood in the kitchen in her underwear.
"Sorry no time. This is important." The Doctor said sheepishly.
"So important that you couldn't have waited until I wasn't stood in my underwear trying to eat breakfast and get ready to go out?" Aderyn snapped.
"We need to find Amy. Someone has taken her and our baby. We need to get her back but we need your help." Rory said quickly.
"Well, why didn't you say?" Aderyn said "Make yourself comfortable, I'm going to get some clothes on." They heard a rush of movement and the Doctor peered apprehensively over his shoulder. He established Aderyn was gone and marched over to the kettle.
"Tea," he said absently "tea makes everything better."
When Aderyn returned the Doctor gave her fresh mug of tea and ushered her to the kitchen table before she had a chance to fully pull her jumper over her head. With some help from Rory she was able to untangle her jumper sleeves and sit down without spilling her tea.
"So what is going on?" She asked.
"Someone has taken Amy and our baby. We need to get her back." Rory said.
"Yes you said that. What else do you know?"
The Doctor shook his head sadly "Nothing else unfortunately. Whoever took her was clever. They replaced her with a flesh avatar."
"When? How? Where is she?" Aderyn asked.
"We don't really know where she is or how. We know that it was sometime before we went to American and that was a couple of weeks ago." Rory said.
The Doctor, who had been flipping through a manuscript that had been left on the table, didn't notice. But Rory had been watching her. He saw the moment of uncertainty and confusion as she paused, her cup inches from table top.
"America?" she asked.
She hadn't been able to hide the confusion from her voice. This caught the Doctor's attention and he looked up at her. "Yes, we had some investigating to do. Is that important?" He said.
Aderyn shook her head. "No it's not. What is important is Amy. If we don't know where she is then we better find out. I say we rally the troops."
