Parallel Silence

Parallel Universe Series

Bluebox345

A/N: This is my 5th story in my Parallel Universe Series. I would highly recommend reading the four stories before this (Parallel Universe, Parallel Earth, Parallel Future and Parallel Passion). I would definitely recommend you read Parallel Future to understand some of the IMPORTANT relationships she has with some of the villains for this part of the story.

Susan is now 24 years old and her second body's theme song is Sparks by Mattia Cupelli. I imagine Susan to look a bit like the actress Felicia Day (with glasses).

This story will have 40 chapters total. This story will be updated every other day. This will ONLY happen in the summertime, when I am off from college. The next story will go back to be updated Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

To get update information on my stories (delays or trouble posting) and spoilers, see my profile page for a link to my Tumblr account. Also my Polyvore account has Susan's outfits on it from Parallel Universe through Parallel Passion. After Parallel Silence is finished being posted, Susan's outfits for this story will be posted. You can see my profile page for that link as well.

~0~ is a flashback

'Italics' are telepathic communication

Disclaimers:

#1: I don't own Doctor Who or Torchwood, or any of their characters. I however, do own my OC's that I made up.

#2: I do not own any of the images I have used for the covers.

Impossible Astronaut Pt. 1

Jack pulled the rental car up to the dinner where we were supposed to meet everyone. Jack still had no idea on what was happening and I hoped to keep it that way. I put my hand on my stomach and made a circular motion. The baby still hadn't started kicking yet, which I was thankful for. I didn't want to get beat up by my baby who was still in the womb.

"Susan, we are here." Jack said, turning off the car.

I rolled my eyes. "Don't you think I noticed?" I asked.

"I wish the baby would come soon." Jack mumbled.

I snapped my head and glared at Jack. "What did you say?" I asked.

"Nothing!" Jack said quickly.

I smirked. "Smart move, husband."

Jack and I walked into the diner and saw the Doctor sitting at the very last table looking at a blue envelope. I walked over to the Doctor, who still hadn't noticed Jack and I were there yet. "Hey Doctor." I said.

The Doctor jumped, startled, hitting his knees against the table and dropping the card. "Susan Jane Harkness. Don't ever leave me alone, that long, again!"

The both of us at each other before laughing and I pulled the Doctor into a hug. "Hey, you left us." I sighed. "Just don't squeeze too hard." I mumbled.

The Doctor broke away. "Sorry. Wow, just look at you. You've got a baby bump." The Doctor said, placing a hand on my stomach.

I laughed. "Baby bump, cute. I have Seven more months. I'm going to get way bigger than this, Doctor. Wait, where are Susan and Jenny?"

"Still at Messaline. Susan is now a council member, so leaving to come aboard the TARDIS will be more difficult for her and Jenny is head of Messaline's science program. Jenny can't leave often either. So, why are you here? I'm assuming that you are not here for socializing."

"We got a envelope. With a date, time and coordinates." Jack said.

"So did I." The Doctor said. "I noticed the envelope said number 1."

"Ours said 2." I told the Doctor.

"Yeah. Susan made us drop everything and book a flight out here." Jack told the Doctor.

"Really?" The Doctor asked, resting his chin on the palm of his hand while his elbow was on the table. "Why Susan?"

I sighed. "I've told you before, no spoilers."

"So this has something to do with the T.V. show." The Doctor concluded.

I hit the Doctor on the arm. "Doctor!" I groaned. Then I really groaned and put my hand over my mouth. "Does this diner have a restroom?"

The Doctor's eyes widened with fright. "Back there." The Doctor pointed. As soon as the Doctor pointed, I was up and running to the bathroom to throw up.

As I came out of the bathroom I saw a very upset Amy, Rory and River talking to a very clueless Jack and Doctor.

"Susan?" Amy asked, walking forward and reaching her hand out to touch me. To see if I was real.

It felt as if the room dropped ten degrees. I grabbed Amy's hand tightly. "Come on, Amy. Lets go outside and talk." Amy looked at Rory who looked at River. River nodded and I lead Amy out of the diner. I lead Amy over to a bench which was in front of the diner, thankfully the blinds were down so everyone inside wouldn't see us. "Yes, Amy. I am real. I am alive and I am fine." I said as soon as Amy was seated.

Amy looked at me, tears forming in her eyes. "But you-"

I put my hand over her mouth. "Shh, Amy. Don't say anything. I know." I brought my hand down.

"But you're pregnant." Amy said. "I thought you said you already had the baby."

"I did. I mean, I will have her, yes. Everything that you, Rory and River saw at the lake, that's in my future. It hasn't happened for me yet. You meet my future self."

"How do you know?" Amy asked, shocked. "How do you know what happened at that lake?"

I sighed. I was hoping not to have this conversation. "Amy, I'm not from this universe."

"Well you're a Time Lady. Of course you aren't." Amy said.

"Watch my wording, Amy. I said Universe, not world or planet. I'm from a parallel universe."

"Those exist?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, they do." I told her. "In my universe, this whole thing about Aliens, time travel. It doesn't exist. But it does."

"I'm confused." Amy said, rubbing her temple.

"It exists, only not in reality. In my world, all this," I waved my hands around. "All these things about time travel, aliens, UNIT, Torchwood, you, Rory, River, the Doctor. Jack. It's all in a television show."

"What?" Amy asked, her eyes almost popping out of her head. Then Amy shook her head. "That's not possible."

"Then how come I know that you had four psychologists as a kid and you kept on biting them because you thought they weren't real."

Amy crossed her arms. "The Doctor could have told you that. I told him that."

"Fine. When you first meet the Doctor, first you were upstairs in your bedroom, praying to Santa to send you someone. Exact quote 'Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you, but honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know it's not, because at night there's voices, so please, please, could you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman.' Believe me now?"

Amy stared at me. "So, you're saying… that you come from a universe where all this is a television show."

"Yes."

"I'm on a TELEVISION SHOW?"

"A very popular British television show dating back to the 1960's."

"A television show." Amy repeated.

"Yes Amy, a television show. I know what's going to happen, to an extent."

"You know?"

"Yeah." I winced.

Amy was silent for a moment. Then, "So all of those adventures we went on, all those times you pretended not to know, you could have stopped the problem from happening in the first place."

"Amy, I couldn't have. For all I know, I could have made the problems worse."

"But you could have tried."

"I have. I've saved people that were not meant to be alive today. But if I go around saving everyone, I'm practically playing God."

"And that's a bad thing?" Amy yelled at me.

"Yes Amy, it's a really bad idea! The universe has decided that those people die for a reason, even if we don't know it at the time."

"Sorry." Amy mumbled, crying. "Sorry."

I leaned in and hugged her. "It's okay, Amy. It's okay."

"But you still... you know." Amy mumbled.

"You said that I said my baby will have been born by that point, for me?"

"Yes."

"Then It's okay. Besides, I wouldn't go into that situation without having plan."

Amy sat up fast. "You have a plan?"

I laughed. "Of course I have a plan, silly Amy. I just can't tell it to you. They still might be watching or listening."

"So you know who did it?"

"I do, Amy." I stood up, Amy following my lead. "But I can't do anything about it right now. Let's get back inside. I think they have started to worry about us by now. Oh, the Doctor and my Husband cannot know a thing about this, about what happened at the lake." Amy nodded. "Amy you have to swear to me that you won't tell them, no matter what."

Amy nodded and said, "Of course."

I smiled and hugged her. "Come on. Let's head back inside."

Inside the Tardis, the Doctor was walking around the council talking to himself while Jack and I sat next to each other on the couch, snuggling up against one another. "1969, that's an easy one! Funny, how some years are easy. Now, 1482, full of glitches. Now then, Canton Everett Delaware the third. That was his name, yeah? How many of those can there be? Well, three, I suppose. Rory, is everybody cross with me for some reason?" The Doctor asked.

"I'll find out." Rory said and walked down to the Tardis's lower level, leaving the Doctor, Jack and I up all alone.

"Why are they cross with me, Susan?" The Doctor asked.

"I can't tell you. You know that." I said, placing my hand on my stomach.

"But you do know."

"Yes."

"Will I find out?" the Doctor asked, getting closer and more serious.

"Yes." I said.

"Will I like the answer?"

I didn't answer for a couple seconds. Then I whispered, "No."

"Are they being harmed or threatened?"

"No."

"Good." the Doctor said then walked back to the Tardis council and started pressing buttons. Everyone came back up on the main floor of the Tardis and the Doctor started talking, "Time isn't a straight line. It's all bumpy wumpy. There's loads of boring stuff like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's possible. The Tardis can't resist them, like a moth to a flame. She loves a party, so I give her 1969 and NASA, because that's space in the sixties, and Canton Everett Delaware the third, and this is where she's pointing."

"Washington D.C., April the eighth, 1969. So why haven't we landed?" Amy asked.

"Because that's not where we're going." The Doctor said and I sighed, snuggling closer into Jack.

"Oh. Where are we going?"

"Home." The Doctor said. "Well, you five are. Off you pop, make babies and Susan to give birth. And you, Doctor Song, back to prison. And me? I'm late for a biplane lesson in 1911. Or it could be knitting. Knitting or biplanes. One or the other. What? A mysterious summons. You think I'm just going to go? Who sent those messages? I know you know. I can see it in your faces. Don't play games with me. Don't ever, ever think you're capable of that."

"You're going to have to trust us this time."

"Trust you? Sure. But, first of all, Doctor Song, just one thing. Who are you? You're someone from my future. Getting that. But who? Okay. Why are you in prison? Who did you kill, hmm? Now, I love a bad girl, me, but trust you? Seriously."

"Trust me." Amy said, breaking the tension between River and the doctor.

The Doctor turned to face Amy. "Okay."

"You have to do this, and you can't ask why." Amy said.

The Doctor glanced at me then said, "Are you being threatened? Is someone making you say that?"

"No."

"You're lying."

"I'm not lying."

"Swear to me. Swear to me on something that matters."

Amy paused then blurted out, "Fish fingers and custard."

"My life in your hands, Amelia Pond." The Doctor said and he went back to the Tardis council and started pressing buttons and pulling levers.

"Thank you." I heard River whisper to Amy.

"So! Canton Everett Delaware the third. Who's he?"

"Ex FBI. Got kicked out." River said, pacing around the TARDIS, not able to stay still for long.

"Why?" The Doctor asked.

"It doesn't say." River said, frowning at the devil in her hands. "Six weeks after he left the Bureau, the President contacted him for a private meeting."

"Yeah, 1969. Who's President?" The Doctor asked.

"Richard Milhous Nixon. Vietnam, Watergate. There's some good stuff, too."

"Not enough."