Changes and Discoveries (HEAVY REWRITING)

by Landing

11/OC - with the man Daniel had been travelling with gone after saving humanity from the Master, he must deal with the loss of his friend despite him being a man wearing a bow tie. How will he deal with this change along with not being the only companion in the TARDIS? What will the cracks through time do to affect Daniel? Second in To Own His Hearts.

1. The Eleventh Hour

A/N: Hey what's up you guys! Welcome to Changes and Discoveries! This is the second story in To Own His Hearts which features my OC, Daniel Young, as he travels with the Doctor.

I'd advise you to read Breaking the Rule before this one, but I think you could get the general gist of the relationship between Daniel and the Doctor just by reading this. The story is told from Daniel and the Doctor's joint point of view so they won't know all the facts that we did when we watched the show, so there will be scenes missing from the chapters if they get separated from Amy and Rory.

Important: This will be an M/M Fanfic so if you don't like it then please click out and find something else.

For reference Daniel now stands at head height with the Eleventh Doctor and has light brown hair, blue eyes and doesn't really have a set outfit unlike the Doctor, but he is still wearing his clothes from the End of Time. I image him to look like Grant Gustin.

~DW~ means a scene break

~DW~ means flashback

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, all right go to the BBC, but I do own any and all original characters. If I did then Rory would have been treated better in this series because Amy really doesn't deserve Rory.

Changing and Discoveries – The Eleventh Hour

~DW~

The TARDIS was crashing over London. The console was sparking and certain parts of the box were engulfed in flames, Daniel frantically ran around the console as certain lights began to flash under certain leavers and buttons. While he knew how to pilot the TARDIS but that was usually under less stressful situations but not while they were crashing, so he was thankful the TARDIS was assisting in her own way. "Doctor!" Daniel yelled over the noise of the TARDIS, wincing as a wall behind him began to spark. "I need some help!"

The Doctor, still dressed in his previous incarnation clothes though burnt and raggedy, jumped into action… or he would of if the TARDIS was rocked up an explosion from directly underneath the console and sending him out of the doors! Daniel remained by the console, not noticing that the Doctor had fallen out of the TARDIS.

The Doctor began to pull himself into the TARDIS, the sonic in his mouth, but paused in his action when he heard the sound of a bell… it was Big Ben and he was heading directly for it. Using the sonic on the controls, the console sparked and Daniel winced as the palm of his hand was burnt by the sparks. The TARDIS speed up, lifting itself as the Doctor let out a sigh of relief as the spire of Big Ben missed his new parts.

He pulled himself inside, closing the doors and fell against them. He looked over at Daniel, who continued to run around the console like he did and smiled. The smile faded quickly when the TARDIS lurched to the side and began to spin out of control. Daniel prepared himself to connect with the metal fence behind him but a pair of hands braced his hips, the Doctor pushed him against the TARDIS to allow Daniel to grip the console. "We're crashing!" The Doctor yelled, leaning back so he didn't yell directly into Daniel's eardrum.

The Doctor looked into rotor and immediately caught the unamused look from Daniel in the reflection. "Oh really! What gave you that idea?!" Daniel pulled the leaver in front of him, hoping that would stop the TARDIS from throwing them about… or so he thought.

~DW~

The TARDIS had crashed landed on her back, atop a shed, in the back garden of a small house. Even with the doors shut, the young red haired girl who had gone to investigate, could hear the sound of the Doctor and Daniel squabbling as they climbed up from the library but now they were drenched. It seemed that during the fall the TARDIS had reconfigured rooms to allow them to come to a stop without killing Daniel or the Doctor.

The doors to the TARDIS opened, the steam and smoke leaving the TARDIS and allowing the human to breath without much difficulty, and the young girl watched as a grappling hook was thrown out of it, latching on to something. After a few grunts, Daniel pulled himself up onto the box and swung his legs over so he was sitting. "Do you need a hand?" He asked, peering down the box to help the Doctor.

The Doctor pulled himself up and noticed the girl. "Can I have an apple? All I can think about, apples. I love apples," He grinned over at Daniel, who appeared to be looking down at his, but shrugged it off. "Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new, never had cravings before," He pulled himself up so he could straddle the TARDIS and looked back inside. "Whoa! Get a look at that Daniel."

"I don't have to look, Doctor, I lived it."

"Are you OK?" The girl asked, her Scottish accent sounded strong compared to Daniel and the Doctors accent.

The Doctor put both legs over the side, sitting on the edge and put his arm around Daniel's shoulder. "Just had a fall, all the way down there," He gestured with his free hand to the TARDIS. "Right to the library. Hell of a climb back up."

"You're both soaking wet." The girl frowned, looking between them.

"We were in the swimming pool."

"You said you were in the library."

"So was the swimming pool," Daniel said, stroking the box as the Doctor grinned down at the girl. "Tried to save us from hurting ourselves any more then we were."

The Doctor looked over at him; his grinned had faded into a look of concern as he glanced over Daniel to see if he could see if he was hurt in some form. "Are you two policemen?" The girl asked, confused but also a little hopeful.

"Why? Did you call the police?" Daniel asked, trying to ignore the Doctor as he looked at him, making sure to hide the palm of his hand from the man.

"Did you come about the crack in my wall?"

This caught the Doctor's attention as he looked down at the girl. "What cra…" He began before falling to the ground. "Agh!"

"Doctor!" Daniel exclaimed, dropping down from his seat on the TARDIS and immediately rushed to his side… much like he had only moments ago.

"Are you alright, mister?" The girl asked, concerned for the madman who had just crawled out of the police box.

"No, I'm fine," He pushed himself up so he was kneeling, Daniel was holding him steady. "This is all perfectly norm…" As he spoke, wisps of golden energy were released and they watched as it disappeared into the night air.

"Who are you both?" The girl asked.

Daniel looked down at the Doctor's hands, seeing the energy rising from within them. "I don't know yet, Daniel would call me the Doctor but I'm still unsure," The Doctor squeezed one of Daniel's hands and turned to look at Daniel with a concerned look. "Does it scare you?"

"No, it just looks a bit weird." The girl instead replied, not understanding that he had been asking Daniel.

The Doctor turned to face the girl, letting go of Daniel's hand, as he focused his attention on the girl… there would be a time later to ask Daniel how he was. "The crack in your wall. Does it scare you?"

"Yes."

The Doctor jumped up, pulling Daniel with him. "Well, then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor and this is Daniel Young. Do everything we tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." The Doctor strode away with purpose, leaving Daniel to stand there in sort of shock, before he walked into a tree and fell to the ground.

"You alright?" The girl asked again, moving to stand next to Daniel.

"Early days. Steering's a bit off." The Doctor replied lying on the ground.

The girl then turned to Daniel, who she could see was cradling his hand with the other as he looked down at the Doctor, a look on his face that she couldn't quite understand. "Are you alright?"

Daniel looked down at the girl and didn't reply… he honestly had no idea if he was.

~DW~

The girl had taken Daniel and the Doctor into her house, Daniel had made the effort to stand as far away from the Doctor as he possibly could and it worried the Doctor.

He knew how much regeneration could affect him and those around him. Rose had told him how much the regeneration had affected her after Satellite Five, told him how guilty she had felt by forcing him to take the vortex out of her and how frantic she had been to get him back, and again when he had to regenerate after being shot by the Dalek he'd seen how Donna had reacted when she had no clue as to what was happening. But Daniel knew about regeneration, having asked about the TARDIS about it and the box had abided in showing him all of his regenerations … maybe he didn't like this new body of his. He frowned to himself at that why did he care if Daniel liked this new body, it wasn't up to him how he looked regeneration was always a gamble. These were the questions he'd have to ask once the TARDIS was ready to operate and they could leave.

"If you're a doctor, why does your box say 'Police'?" The girl asked, pulling the Doctor's attention away from Daniel and his thoughts, as she handed him an apple.

Taking a bite of it, he watched as Daniel walked over to the kettle and filled it up, he swore that he saw the palm of one of his hands was red… maybe he imagined it. He spat out the piece of apple and scrunched up his face. "That's disgusting! What is that?"

"An apple." The girl replied with a tone that made Daniel smile slightly, it was the same deadpan tone he often used with him… or used to use with.

"Apples are rubbish. I hate apples."

"You said you loved them."

"No, no, I love yoghurt. Yoghurt's my favourite. Give me a yoghurt! Please." He added at the end upon seeing the familiar look that Daniel gave him when he was being rude.

The girl did as she was asked, reaching into the fridge and handed him a yoghurt and grabbed a bottle of milk which she gave to Daniel. "Thank you." Daniel smiled, though as the girl looked closely it seemed sad. How could a smile seem so sad?

Without a spoon, the Doctor opened the yoghurt and poured it into his mouth it sat in his mouth for a moment before he spat that back out as well. "I hate yoghurt, it's just stuff with bits in." He frowned.

"You said it was your favourite." The girl stressed, rolling her eyes at his behaviour.

"New mouth, new rules," He was about to wipe the back of hand across his mouth when a tea towel was handed to him, he gave Daniel a quick smile as he stood up. "It's like eating after cleaning your teeth, everything wro-agh!" In a sudden and surprising movement to them all, the Doctor's whole body twitched and ended up smacking himself in the forehead. Daniel turned his attention to the Doctor, began to make his way over to the Doctor but he rubbed the spot where he had smacked.

"What is it?" The girl frowned, looking at the Doctor before turning to Daniel. "What's wrong with him?" She had to hope that she was a carer of sorts to the strange raggedy man.

Daniel let out a soft laugh, the Doctor smiled at the sound. The girl seemed more attuned with his emotions and could sense the sadness that the Doctor was obviously missing… why was he missing it though? The girl had so many questions she wanted to ask but knew only when the Doctor wasn't around much like her aunt did.

"What's wrong with me? It's not my fault," He teased, narrowing his eyes at her playfully. "You can't you give me decent food? You're Scottish, fry something."

With his back turned to the Doctor, Daniel shook his head. Something's never changed, he would always be rude no matter what face he wore. He poured out two cups of tea and set it before the Doctor, plastering a fake smile on his face. "You shouldn't be so rude to her, she might be young but she's Scottish which means she just might lob a frying pan at your head." He sent the girl a wink, clearly showing that he was joking but she also took this as a chance to tease the Doctor back by waving a frying pan above her head.

~DW~

The girl stood before a stove and began to fry up the bacon as the Doctor used a towel to dry his hair. Daniel was nowhere to be seen, he assumed he was drying his hair in another room.

"Ah! Bacon!" The Doctor sat himself at the table and eats the bacon from the plate and the girl watched as a laugh. The Doctor made a face and again spits out the food. "Bacon. That's bacon," He glares at the bacon on his plate before looking up at the girl. "Are you trying to poison me?"

~DW~

Standing in the bathroom just across from the young girls' room, who he had learned was named Amelia, he winced and hissed in pain as he ran his scalded hand under a cold tap. After what felt like five minutes, Daniel removed his hand from under the tap and gently dabbed it with a towel.

~DW~

Once again Amelia stood before the stove and cooked some baked beans as the Doctor watched on. "Ah, you see beans," He sat again at the table, taking a forkful of beans and promptly spat them into the sink as poor Amelia made a face. "Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans."

~DW~

Giving up on hot food, Amelia simply spread butter over a slice of bread. "Bread and butter. Now your talking." He grinned, taking a bite of it.

~DW~

When Daniel entered the kitchen it almost looked like a scene from a comedy show. The Doctor was paused at the doorstep that went out into the garden with the plate with his bread and butter on it in a hand that looked like he was about to throw it like a Frisbee and poor Amelia looked like she had just about given up on trying to feed the Doctor. "What have I missed?" Daniel asked, looking between them.

The Doctor turned and hid the plate behind his back while Amelia just gave him an exasperated look. "Nothing." The Doctor quickly replied, his voice squeaked when he lied but he cleared his throat. "Nothing." He repeated.

Daniel just walked over and took the plate but left him with the bread and butter. "Don't throw the plate, I don't think she'd appreciate having to explain why there is a plate missing." Daniel stepped back and watched as the Doctor grinned and threw the bread like it was a Frisbee, they both winced as a cat meowed.

~DW~

With Amelia sat at the table, a glass of orange juice sat before her, she watched as Daniel rifled through the fridge in a desperate attempt to find something that would keep the Doctor calm and quiet. "How do you feel about carrots?" Daniel asked, looking over the door to where the Doctor was pacing.

"Carrots? Are you insane?" The Doctor made a face and Daniel raised an eyebrow as the Doctor brushed him out of the way. "No, wait, hang on. I know what I need, I need…" He looked in both fridge and freezer. "Fish fingers and custard." He took both items, ignoring the disgusted look Daniel gave him.

~DW~

The Doctor sat across from Amelia, dipping a fish finger into a bowl of custard then taking a bite. Amelia was sat eating ice cream from the container and Daniel was cleaning up the mess the Doctor had left behind. Making sure that Daniel wasn't looking, the Doctor lifted the bowl of custard and drank from it. It made Amelia giggle and Daniel shook his head, it was funny until they heard Daniel hiss in pain and drop the frying pan into the sink.

Immediately the Doctor jumped to Daniel, who was cradling his scalded hand to his chest. "Daniel what's wrong?" He asked, deep concern etched into his face.

"The TARDIS scalded my hand when I was working on it," The Doctor closed his eyes, thinking back to when he had caused the console to spark and grow hot. "I ran it under cold water and it seemed to work but it's still tender."

Amelia came over to them, handing the Doctor a tea towel to wipe the moustache of custard he had on his upper lip. "I can go and see if we have any cream for burns, if you'd like." Amelia offered, catching a glimpse of the red and tender looking skin.

The Doctor shook his head, knowing the cream would cause Daniel more pain to apply it, when an idea came to mind. "Daniel, do you trust me?" He asked, looking his companion in the eyes.

It hurt to see the flash of hesitation in Daniel's eyes but pushed down those unfamiliar feelings which he would have to deal with later. Without thinking, he brought the hand to his lips and gently placed a kiss on the center of his palm. Amelia glanced between them in this tender moment and could only watch in awe as the golden energy she had seen the Doctor glow with seemed to heal the scalded skin on Daniel's palm. Daniel and the Doctor caught each others eyes and the Doctor had to look away and hoped that his cheeks weren't as red as they felt.

"Beautiful." Amelia whispered, drawing the two back into reality.

"Is it?" the Doctor asked. "Good. Beautiful is good. What's your name?"

"Amelia Pond."

"Ah, that's a brilliant name. Amelia Pond, like a name in fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"

"No. We had to move to England. It's rubbish."

The Doctor laughed while Daniel frowned as he looked around. "So what about your mum and dad, then?" Daniel asked. "Are they upstairs? Thought we'd have woken them by now."

"I don't have a mum and dad," Daniel looked down at the girl with a sad smile. "Just an aunt."

"I don't even have an aunt." The Doctor chimed in, smiling down at the girl.

"You're lucky."

"I know. So, your aunt," the Doctor looked around, ready for Amelia's aunt to come storming in. "Where is she?"

"She's out."

"And she left you all alone?" Daniel asked, surprised.

"I'm not scared."

"'Course you're not. You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, men falling out of a box, man eats fish custard while another one is burnt," the Doctor stated. "And look at you, just sitting there. So know what I think?"

"What?"

"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall."

~DW~

Amelia had taken them into her bedroom to show them the crack in the wall. The Doctor jumped ahead and stood at the wall, staring at it. "You've had some cowboys in here," he muttered to himself. "Not actual cowboys, though that can happen."

Amelia stood in the doorway, apple in her hand. "I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them." She handed Daniel an apple with a smiley face carved into it.

"Sounds like a wonderful mum," Daniel smiled down at her, tossing the apple into the air and catching it, placing it in his pocket. "I'll keep this for later, Doctor? Any ideas on the crack?"

"The wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through," Daniel and Amelia stepped towards the crack. "So here's the thing, where's the draught coming from?" they watched as the Doctor ran the sonic screwdriver along the crack then checked the readings. "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what the crack is?"

"No." They both answered.

"It's a crack," the Doctor ran a finger along the crack. "I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."

"What is it, then?" Amelia asked.

"Everywhere. In everything, it's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together… right here in the wall of your bedroom," the Doctor took Daniel's hand and placed it against the crack. "Sometimes, you can hear…."

"A voice? Yes."

Daniel frowned, closing his eyes as he focused on the wall. He still felt the migraine from where the Master had been trying to open his mind by force, so he did struggle to hear something… then he heard it. Although it was muffled, he could hear something speaking. "Prisoner Zero has escaped." Daniel repeated the message.

"Prisoner Zero?" the Doctor asked, frowning.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped," Amelia repeated. "That what I heard. What does it mean?"

Daniel stepped back from the wall, his hand falling to his side. "It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison and they've lost a prisoner," Daniel informed them, offering Amelia a smile. "Do you know what that means?"

"What?" She asked.

"You need a better wall," the Doctor joked as he moved her desk out of the way. "The only way to the breach is to open it all the way, the forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or.."

"What?" Amelia asked, looking at the Doctor?

"You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?"

"Yes."

"Everything's going to be fine." Daniel stated.

Daniel stood behind Amelia and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, making sure she could easily escape if what ever was beyond the wall was dangerous, while the Doctor reached out and took Daniel's hand. With his free hand, the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver on the crack. A bright light began to shine through the crack as it widened. The Doctor and Daniel squinted, seeing what looked like jail cells on the other wall.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped," the Doctor took a step closer to the crack, squeezing Daniel's hand gently as he did. "Prisoner Zero has escaped." The same voice they had heard repeated.

"Hello? Hello?" the Doctor called out.

A giant blue eye peered at them through the crack.

"What's that?" Amelia gasped.

Two small balls of light shot out from the crack, one striking the Doctor's pocket while the other struck Daniel in the forehead. The Doctor fell against the bed while Daniel wobbled slightly and held his head.

"There. You see, told you it would close," the Doctor stepped to Daniel's side, a hand on his shoulder. "Good as new."

"What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?"

"No. I think that was Prisoner Zero's guard," Daniel instead answered. "Whatever it was, sent us a message. Scanned us for anyway to send us a message and slapped it in my head," he rubbed his forehead as the voice spoke in his head."'Prisoner Zero has escaped.'"

"But why tell us?" The Doctor frowned. "Unless…"

"Unless what?" Amelia asked.

"Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here," the Doctor looked around the room. "But he couldn't have. We'd know."

The Doctor ran out of the room and into the hallway outside her bedroom. "It's difficult. Brand-new me, nothing works yet but there's something I'm missing… in the corner… of my eye." He turned to face one of the doors at the other end of the hall.

Daniel stepped out into the hallway when an echoing sound of machinery reached his ears followed by a deep bell. The TARDIS!

"Doctor! The TARDIS!" Daniel called, rushing down the stairs with Amelia and the Doctor following.

They ran outside. "We've got to get back in there! The engines are phasing, it's going to burn!" the Doctor shouted.

"But… it's just a box! How can a box have engines?" Amelia questioned.

"It's not a box," Daniel freed the grappling hook and gathered the rope. "It's a time machine."

"What, a real one? You've got a real time machine?"

"Not for much longer if we can't get her stabilised," the Doctor took the rope from Daniel and looped it through the door handles. "Five minute hop into the future should do it."

"Can I come?"

"Not safe in here, not yet," the Doctor linked his fingers together and Daniel used them as a booster to get him onto the box. "Five minutes. Give us five minutes, I'll be right back."

Daniel had dropped down into the TARDIS. "People always say that."

"Am I people? DO I even look like people?" The Doctor questioned with a grin. "Trust me, I'm the Doctor."

Amelia smiled and the Doctor climbed onto the TARDIS. Holding onto the rope, he gave her a last look before jumping. "Geronimo!"

The TARDIS doors slammed shut and the TARDIS dematerialised into the night sky.

~DW~

The TARDIS materialised in Amelia's back garden, this time up right, as the Doctor and Daniel stumbled out of the TARDIS, clothes held to their noses and mouths as smoke poured out of the box.

"Find Amelia," Daniel coughed, waving smoke out of his face. "I'll see if I can stop the smoke."

With a nod the Doctor ran back to the house. "Amelia! Amelia! I worked out what it was. I know what we were missing! You've got to get out of there!" he used the sonic on the door lock and it opened after a few tries. "Amelia?" he ran up the stairs. "Amelia, are you all right? Are you there?" he went to the door that had caught his eye before and tried to open it with the sonic. "Prisoner Zero is here. Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is…" he turned and was hit in the head with a cricket bat.

~DW~

Back outside, Daniel had managed to stop some of the smoke but in an effort to get some fresh air, the TARDIS doors slammed shut and he heard the sound of the doors locking. "Hey! Open the doors!"

~DW~

The Doctor slowly came to and as his vision cleared he saw a red haired police officer wearing a very short skirt speaking into her radio. "White male, mid-20s, breaking and entering," she reported. "Send me some back-up, I've got him restrained," she ended the conversation and saw the Doctor was awake. "Oi, you! Sit still."

"Cricket bat," the Doctor groaned. "I'm getting cricket bat."

"You were breaking and entering."

The Doctor tried to stand and found himself handcuffed to a radiator. "Well, that's much better. Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed."

"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back-up on the way!"

"Hang on, no, wait – you're a policewoman."

"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"

"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia?"

"Amelia Pond?"

"Yeah. Little Scottish girl. Where is she? We promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far, has something happened to her?"

"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time."

"How long?"

"Six months."

His eyes widened. "No, no, no! I can't be six months late! I said five minutes. I promised," the officer walked away, reaching for her radio. "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?"

She lifted the radio to her lips. "Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up, this guy knows something about Amelia Pond."

~DW~

Daniel frowned as he stepped away from the TARDIS as he looked around the area. They had defiantly over shot since it had been quite late at night when they had met Amelia now it looked to be middle of the day.

What surprised him was that there was a shed stood where they had originally landed. He frowned as he smelt the fresh wood lacquer, how far had they overshot?

~DW~

"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house now." the Doctor stated.

"I live here." The officer replied.

"But you're the police."

"Yes, and this is where I live," she rolled her eyes. "You got a problem with that?!"

"How many rooms?"

"I'm sorry, what?"

"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now."

"Why?"

"Because it will change your life."

"Five," she pointed to each door. "One, two, three, four, five."

"Six."

"Six?"

"Look."

"Look where?"

"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look, the corner of your eye. Look behind you."

The officer frowned but slowly turned to look at the door the Doctor had been eying. "That's… that is not possible. How's that possible?"

"There's a perception filter round the door. Sensed it the last time I was here. Should've seen it."

"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never noticed."

"The filter stops now. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding. You need to uncuff me now!"

The officer slowly began to walk down the hall towards the room. "I don't have the key. I lost it." She shrugged.

"How can you lost it?! Stay away from the door!" she kept walking. "Do not touch that door!" she put her hand on the doorknob. "Listen to me! Do not open that," she turned the knob and he groaned. "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I have a face that nobody listens to?" she entered the room. "Again…" he frantically searched his pockets. "My screwdriver, where is it? Silver thing, blue on the end. Where did it go?"

"There's nothing here." The officer called back.

"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the whole room. What makes you think you could se it? Now, please, just get out!"

"Silver, blue at the end?"

"My screwdriver, yeah."

"It's here."

"Must of rolled under the door."

"Yeah. Must have and then it must have jumped up on the table…"

"Get out of there! Get out of there! Get out! Get out of there!" he stretched as far as he could with the handcuffs as he tried to peer into the room. "What is it? What are you doing?"

"There's nothing here, but…"

"Corner of your eye."

"What is it?"

"Don't try to see it. If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it! Do not… look."

~DW~

Daniel jumped slightly and turned to face the house, having heard a woman scream. "Doctor!" He ran into the house through the door the Doctor had left open.

"Get out!" Daniel heard the Doctor shout as he reached the stairs, he caught a glimpse of the officer running down the hall. "Give me that!" the Doctor took the sonic from her and used it on the door's lock before turning to the handcuffs… it wasn't working. "What's the bad alien done to you?"

"Doctor?!" Daniel gasped as he came up the stairs, looking at his handcuffed hand and then to the officer.

The officer looked at him with wide eyes but before she could say anything there was large bang on the locked door. "Will that door hold it?"

"Oh, yeah, yeah, course!" the Doctor rolled his eyes. "It's an inter-dimensional multi-form from outer-space, they're all terrified of wood."

A bright light flashed around the edges of the door. "What's that? What's it doing?"

"I don't know, getting dressed? Run. Just go. Your back-up's coming, I'll be fine." The Doctor wiped the sonic with his finger, Daniel pulled a face as goo dripped from his finger.

"There is no back-up."

"I heard you on the radio," he looked up at her, surprised. "It's a pretend radio."

"You're a policewoman."

"I'm a kissogram!" she exclaimed, removing her hat as her ginger hair fell free.

The door to the room fell into the hallway as a man in blue coveralls holding the lead to a large Rottweiler, stood in the doorway, glaring at them. Daniel stepped to the officer's side, eying them.

"But it's just…" she breathed.

"No, it isn't," Daniel nodded at them. "Look closer."

Her eyes widened as she saw the man growled while the dog remained impassive. "What? I'm sorry, but what?" She looked between the Doctor and Daniel, hoping for an answer.

"It's all one creature, one creature disguised as two," the Doctor explained, watching at the man and the dog turned their heads in unison. "Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though, got the voice muddled, did you?" they looked straight at them. "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"

The multi-form advanced on them and opened his mouth to show a mouth full of sharp teeth. "I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Daniel shouted, the creature stopping. "The three of us, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back-up."

"I didn't send for back-up!" the woman reminded.

"Well you know how to play along don't you," he rolled his eyes before focusing on the creature. "Okay, fine, NO back-up! And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we HAD back-up, then you'd have to kill us!"

"Attention, Prisoner Zero, the human residence is surrounded," the voice from the crack sounded. "Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."

"What was that?" She asked Daniel, who groaned in response.

The Doctor snickered behind him. "Well I'm glad you're finding this funny!" he glared down at the Doctor before turning back to the creature ONCE more. "Okay, for the last time. We DO have back-up and that's definitely why we're safe."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice threatened.

"Goddamn it!"

The creature turned into one of the other rooms off the hall. As the voice repeated itself the Doctor started to bang the sonic on the floor in an attempt to get it to work. "Work, work, work. C'mon," He continued to bang the sonic until it worked, using it on the handcuffs as it finally unlocked.

Taking Daniel's hand, the Doctor turned to the woman. "Run!" he took the lead, the woman following close behind.

They ran outside and the Doctor used the sonic on the door. "Kissogram?" the Doctor asked.

"Yes!" she replied, rolling her eyes.

"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"

"You broke into my house! It was this or a French maid!" she followed the Doctor and Daniel as they walked to the TARDIS. "What's going on? Tell me! Tell me!"

"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house. Any questions?"

"Yes?" she deadpanned.

The Doctor was about to put the key into the door of the TARDIS when Daniel stopped him. "The TARDIS won't open," he shook his head. "I think you destroyed it when you d…"

Daniel stopped himself and the Doctor frowned. They both knew what was to be said but Daniel couldn't bring himself to say it. It wasn't dying, he knew that, but to him to it looked like he had died and a new man came in to take over. In the 9 months he had been travelling with the Doctor… he had never considered the man dying.

The woman turned around to look up at a window looking out over the garden to see the creature barking at them. "Come on." She grabbed the Doctor.

"No, wait, hang on," the Doctor let go of Daniel's hand and out of her grip. "Wait, wait, wait. The shed," he ran to the shed. "We destroyed that shed last time I was here, smashed it to pieces."

"So there's a new one," the woman shrugged. "Let's go."

"But the new one's got old, it's ten years old at least." He sniffed the wood before rubbing his finger along the wood and tasting it.

"Oh please don't lick it!" Daniel groaned.

"12 years, we're not six months late, we're 12 years late." Daniel's eyes widened and the Doctor walked towards the woman.

"He's coming." She tried to change the subject.

"You said six months," he accused. "Why did you say six months?"

"We've got to go."

"This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?"

"Why did you say five minutes?!" she yelled, hurt, as her Scottish accent bled through the British accent she had been using moments ago.

"What?" the Doctor's eyes widened.

"Oh Amelia." Daniel breathed.

"Come on." Amelia turned away from them.

"What?" the Doctor repeated.

"Come on!" she pulled him by his arm, Daniel following behind.

"What?"

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

They ran out of the back garden past the creature who stood at the door.

~DW~

Amelia had been leading them away from her house and were on their way down a village road, when the Doctor stopped. "You're Amelia."

"You're late." She kept walking.

"Amelia Pond, you're the little girl."

"I'm Amelia and you're both late."

"What happened?" Daniel asked, feeling guilty.

"12 years."

"You hit me with a cricket bat." The Doctor huffed.

"12 years."

"A cricket bat."

"12 years and four psychiatrists."

"Four?" Daniel almost laughed.

"I kept biting them."

"Why?"

"They said you weren't real."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice came through the speakers of an ice cream van.

"No, no, no, come on! What? We're being staked out by an ice cream van?"

The Doctor and Daniel headed for the van followed by Amelia. "What's that?" the Doctor frowned. "Why are you playing that?"

"It's supposed to be Clair De Lune." The vendor shrugged.

The Doctor picked up a radio and put it to his ear. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice repeated.

The Doctor stepped away from the van and they looked around, spotting a jogger with an MP3 player frowning at the device in confusion, then to a woman pulling her mobile away from ear.

"What's happening?" Amelia asked.

The Doctor turned and leapt over a low white fence into a pretty front garden while Daniel and Amelia stepped around to the front. They ran through the front door where an woman was stood before the television, flicking through the channels as they all displayed the same image; a large blue eye they had seen in the crack in Amelia's wall.

"Hello!" the Doctor grinned. "Sorry to burst in, we're doing a special on television faults in this area," he glanced to Amelia's costume. "Also, crimes. Let's have a look." He took the remove from her.

"I was just about to phone," she smiled. "It's on every channel," she looked at Amelia. "Hello, Amy, dear. Are you a policewoman now?"

"Well, sometimes." She nodded.

"I thought you were a nurse."

"I can be a nurse."

"Or, actually, a nun."

"I dabble."

"Amy, who are your friends?"

"Who's Amy?" the Doctor frowned. "You were Amelia."

"Yeah, now I'm Amy." Amy replied.

"Amelia Pond," Daniel smiled at her. "That was a great name."

"Bit fairy tale."

The woman frowned as she looked between Daniel and the Doctor. "I know you two, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before."

"Not me. Brand-new face," he pulled his face but pointed to Daniel. "But you might know him, though he's from London so maybe not," he turned to Amy. "And what sort of job's a kissogram?"

"I go to parties and I kiss people," she cleared her throat when Daniel snorted. "With outfits. It's a laugh."

"You were a little girl five minutes ago."

"You're worse than my aunt."

"I'm the Doctor and he's Daniel Young, we're worse than everybody's aunt… but Daniel is worse," Daniel smacked him on the arm and he turned to the woman. "And that is not how we're introducing ourselves," he picked up a radio and used the sonic on it, the room hearing the voice in both French and German before turning it off. "Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world."

The Doctor opened a window and looked up at the sky. "What's up there?" Amy frowned as Daniel was pulled to the window. "What are you looking for?"

Daniel frowned as he looked up at the clear blue sky unsure what he was looking at until he realised he was looking at the sky without his eyes burning up. That wasn't good.

"Okay, planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core," the Doctor stepped away from the window as he began to ramble. "They're going to need a 40 percent fission blast."

"But they'll have to power it up first, won't they?" Daniel questioned as a young man entered the room.

Daniel couldn't help but eye the man up, the Doctor frowned as he caught Daniel eying him up. "So assuming a medium-sized starship, that's 20 minutes," the man was taller then the Doctor and he stood on his tip toes to look into his eyes, puffing his chest out slightly. "What do you think, 20 minutes? Yeah, 20 minutes. We've got 20 minutes."

Amy frowned as she looked between the Doctor and the man. "20 minutes to what?"

"Are you the Doctor?" the man looked over to Daniel. "Are you the… oh what did she call you."

"They are, aren't they?" The woman's eyes widened in recognition. "He's the Doctor and that's Daniel Young! The Raggedy Doctor and his Smiling Daniel," Daniel gave Amy an amused look. "All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor and his Smiling Daniel, it's them."

"I know." Amy whispered.

"Cartoons?" the Doctor asked, bemused, as he looked over to Daniel who gave him a small smile, lifting his eyebrows as if he agreed with his bemusement.

"Gran, it's them, isn't it?" the man asked his grandmother. "It's really him!"

"Jeff, shut up!" Amy turned to the Doctor. "20 minutes to what?"

"The human residence," Daniel instead answered, crossing his arms. "They weren't talking about your house, they're talking about the planet," the Doctor nodded, showing him that he was on the right tracks. "Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship and it's going to incinerate the planet… 20 minutes to the end of the world."

~DW~

A young boy ran down the road with a toy helicopter in hand. The Doctor, Daniel and Amy were walking fast in the opposite direction. "What is this place? Where are we?" the Doctor asked.

"Leadworth." Amy replied.

"Where's the rest of it?"

"This is it."

"Is there an airport?"

"No."

"A nuclear power station?"

"No." Daniel answered this time, giving the Doctor a bemused look.

"Even a little one?"

"No." Amy stressed.

"Nearest city?"

"Gloucester, half an hour by car."

"We don't have half an hour."

"Do you have a car?" Daniel asked.

"No." Amy replied.

"Well, that's good! Fantastic, that, 20 minutes to save the world," the Doctor complained. "And we've got a post office. And it's shut! WHAT is that?"

"It's a duck pond," Amy and Daniel followed the Doctor to the small pond. "Is he always this weird?" she asked Daniel.

"Don't know," he shrugged. "I've only met him… but his past self was strange."

"Why aren't there any ducks?" The Doctor asked, not hearing them.

"I don't know, there's never any ducks." Amy shrugged.

"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"

"It just is. Is it important, the duck pond?"

"I don't know," The Doctor groaned, feeling another tremor from his regeneration. "Why would I know?" he sat himself on the ground, Daniel crouching beside him with a concerned look on his face. "I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."

He placed Daniel's hand on his chest, allowing him to feel his hearts beating as if he had been running. The Doctor watched as Daniel placed his hand onto the other side of his chest, feeling the same thing, Daniel hadn't noticed that he was almost within inches of the Doctor's face. He smiled sadly as he remembered that they had been like this only hours ago, they had just watched the Master stop the Time Lords and they had been so close to kissing and winning until Wilfred had knocked.

Maybe they should talk about it. Once they stopped the planet from burning and the TARDIS was rebuilt, they'd sit down in the kitchen talk about what was going to happen in that very moment and he hoped that they might be able to actually do it this time.

The sky darkened and they looked up.

"What's happening?" Amy gasped. "Why's it going dark?" the sun appeared grey and flickering before retuning to its somewhat normal self. "So what's wrong with the sun?"

"Nothing, you're looking at it through a force-field," the Doctor told her. "They've sealed off your upper atmosphere, now they're getting ready to boil the planet," he stood up from the ground, pulling Daniel with him, as they watched as the villagers were taking photos of the sun. "Oh, and here they come, the human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone!"

"This isn't real, is it?" Amy frowned. "This is some kind of big wind-up."

"Why would we wind you up?" Daniel asked with a frown of his own.

"He told me you had a time machine."

"And you believed him."

"Then I grew up."

"Oh, you never want to do that." Daniel grinned.

He opened his mouth to say something else when a hand was pressed to his mouth. "No, hang on, wait!" The Doctor yelled, Daniel just stared at him. "I missed it. I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw," he closed his eyes as he focused. "What did I see?"

He replayed everything he had seen. Looking back a the people taking photos, a woman in a phone box and then to a man dressed in scrubs, who was facing away from the sun but instead at the Multi-Form….

… he then yelped and shook his hand, sending Daniel an annoyed look. "You bit my hand!"

"You covered my mouth!" Daniel shot back.

The Doctor rolled his eyes but turned to Amy. "20 minutes. We can do it. 20 minute, the planet burns," he grinned. "Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help us."

"No." Was all she said.

"I'm sorry?"

"No!" she grabbed him by the tie and pulled him away.

"Amy! No! Daniel help! What are you doing?" she pushed him against a car as the driver stepped out, slamming his tie into the door and locked the door with a key she had taken from the driver. "Are you out of your mind?"

"Who are you?" She demanded as Daniel ran over.

"You know who we are."

"No, really, who are you?"

"As much as you deserve an answer," Daniel cut in gently. "We have 20 minutes to save the world and this isn't going to help anyone."

"You'd better talk quickly, then!"

"Amy, I am going to need my car back." The owner of the car said, looking between the three of them in confusion.

"Yes, in a bit," she waved him off. "Now go and have a coffee."

"Right… yes." The driver walked off.

Daniel reached into his pocket and tossed it to her. "Catch."

Amy turned the apple in her hand, looking at the smiley face carved into it.

"He's Daniel Young and I'm the Doctor," the Doctor began. "We're time travellers. Everything we told you 12 years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go now, everything you've ever known is over."

"I don't believe you."

The Doctor grabbed her wrist. "Just 20 minutes. Don't believe me that's fine but believe him," he nodded to Daniel. "Fresh as the day you gave it to him and you know it's the same one," she glanced down at the apple then back to him. "Amy, believe for 20 minutes."

Amy hesitated before unlocking the car. "What do we do?"

"Stop that nurse!" he shouted, running across the green with Daniel and Amy in tow, and took the phone from the nurse. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?"

"Amy?" He turned to her.

"Hi!" She smiled. "Oh, this is Rory, he's a… friend."

"Boyfriend."

"Kind of boyfriend."

"Amy!"

"Man and dog, why?" The Doctor cut in, looking between them.

"Oh, my god, it's them!" Rory's eyes widened as he looked between Daniel and the Doctor.

"Just answer his questions, please." Amy pleaded, seeing Daniel giving her an amused look.

"It's them, though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor and his Smiling Daniel…"

"Yeah, they came back."

"But they were a story. They were a game."

"Man and dog," the Doctor grabbed Rory by the shirt, frustrated. "Why? Tell me now."

"Sorry," Rory stuttered. "Because he can't be there. Because he's…"

"In a hospital, in a coma." Rory and the Doctor finished at the same time.

"Yeah." Rory eyed him.

"Knew it. Multi-form, you see?" the Doctor let go of Rory's shirt and smoothed it out. "Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a live feed, a psychic link with a living but dormant mind."

The Multi-form snapped and snarled as Daniel stepped towards the creature, the Doctor following close behind. "Prisoner Zero." Daniel called to the creature.

"What, there's a Prisoner Zero too?" Rory gawked.

"Yes." Amy nodded.

There was an electrical buzzing and they looked up to see a spaceship fly over the green, an eye sticking out of it as it swivelled back and forth.

"See, that ship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology," the Doctor slipped the sonic out of his pocket. "And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver," he lifted it above his head and turned it on. It was chaos as streetlights shattered, car alarms going off, sirens wailing as everyone began to shout. "I think someone's going to notice, don't you?"

Prisoner Zero barked at them. The Doctor lowered the sonic, aiming it at a phone box, which exploded. The sonic itself then sparked and fizzled, causing the Doctor to drop it on the ground. "No, no, no, don't do that!" the Doctor smacked the sonic against the palm of his hand.

The ship headed away from them.

"Look, it's going." Rory frowned.

"No, come back, he's here!" the Doctor called up at the ship, Daniel shaking his head. "Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is here. Come back, he's here! Prisoner Zero…"

Prisoner Zero turned into a mist and escaped down a drain.

"Doctor!" Amy called to them. "The drain. It just sort of melted and went down the drain."

"Well, of course it did." He sighed.

"What do we do now?"

"It's hiding in human form. We need to drive it into the open." Daniel offered, crossing his arms.

"No TARDIS, no screwdriver," the Doctor ran a hand through his face. "17 minutes. Come on, think. Think!"

"So that thing," Amy glanced to the drain. "THAT hid in my house for 12 years?"

"Multi-forms can live for millennia," the Doctor explained. "12 years is a pit-stop."

"So how come you two show up again on the same day you lot do? The same minute?"

"They're looking for him, but followed us. They saw us through the crack, got a fix. They're only late cos I am."

"What's he on about?" Rory frowned.

"Now, sport, give me your phone." The Doctor turned to him, holding his hand out.

"How can they be real? They were never real."

"Phone, now, give me!"

Rory handed the Doctor the phone. "They were just a game. We were kids. You made me dress up as the Doctor."

"These are all coma patients?" Daniel asked, watching as the Doctor swiped through the pictures.

"Yeah."

"No, they're all the multi-form. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor corrected.

"He had a dog, though," Amy frowned. "There's a dog in a coma?"

"The coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog," the Doctor looked up suddenly. "Laptop! Your friend, what was his name? Not him, the good-looking one."

"Thanks." Rory rolled his eyes.

"Jeff." Amy said.

"Oh, thanks."

"He had a laptop in his bag, a laptop. Big bag, big laptop, I need Jeff's laptop. You two, get to the hospital, get everyone out, clear the whole floor. Phone us when you're done."

The Doctor took Daniel by the hand and began to head off, only for Daniel to stop. "You go to Jeff's."

"What? Why?" the Doctor frowned.

"Prisoner Zero is a criminal for a reason, I can't let Amy and Rory deal with it alone," he turned to look at Amy and Rory. "You can handle Jeff and I'll help clear the hospital."

The Doctor hesitated, his mind racing for any reason for him to have Daniel come with him. He had caught him eying Jeff so he could suggest that Jeff had eyed him in return, but he wouldn't want to do that, he could just drag Daniel with to the house and deal with the consequences later… but he looked over to Amy and Rory as they walked over to a car then to Daniel, who just gave the Doctor a smile. Damn that smile!

"Fine," the Doctor huffed. "But you call me if there's any trouble."

And with that, Daniel turned and ran to join Amy and Rory.

~DW~

The Doctor ran into Jeff's bedroom, the man lying on the bed with his laptop on his lap. "Hello. Laptop, give me!" he grabbed the laptop.

"No, no, no, no, wait, hang on!" Jeff refused, holding onto the laptop.

"It's fine, give it here," the Doctor took the laptop and sat at the bottom of the bed, pulling a face as he saw what was on the screen. "Blimey! Get a girlfriend, Jeff."

Jeff looked away, embarrassed, as the door to his bedroom opened and his grandmother stepped in. "Gran!" he cried, wondering if anyone else could walk in.

"What are you doing?" She asked the Doctor.

"The sun's gone wibbly," the Doctor began. "So right now, somewhere out there, there's going to be a big conference call," he began to type. "All the experts in the world panicking at once, and do you know what they need? Me. Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore."

"Oh, I like Patrick Moore." Jeff's gran cut in with a smile.

"I'll get you his number, but watch him, he's a devil."

"You can't just hack in on a call like that!" Jeff exclaimed.

"Can't I?" he smirked as he held up the psychic paper to the webcam.

"Who are you?" One of the experts asked. "This is a secure call. What are you doing?"

"Hello. I know, you should switch me off," the Doctor began to type again. "But before you do, watch this."

"I'm here too," Another expert said, watching as a string of equations appeared on a monitor before them. "I'm getting it."

"Fermat's Theorem, the proof, and I mean the real one, never seen before. Poor old Fermat, got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault, I slept in. Oh, here's an oldie but a goodie, why electrons have mass. And a personal favourite of mine, faster-than-light travel with two diagrams and a joke. Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get… fellas, pay attention."

The Doctor leant back from the laptop and looked around the room, as if looking for someone, before pouting slightly. All that showing off had been for nothing.

~DW~

Daniel, Amy and Rory quickly got out the car and ran into the hospital. Daniel pulling the fire alarm.

~DW~

The Doctor was typing something on Rory's mobile. "Sir, what are you doing?" An expert asked.

"I'm writing a computer virus. Very clever, super fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on," the Doctor explained. "Why am I writing it on a phone? Never mind, you'll find out. Okay, I'm sending this to all your computers. Get everyone who works for you sending this everywhere. Email, text, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, radar dish, whatever you've got. Any questions?"

"Who was your lady friend?" Patrick Moore asked.

"Patrick, behave!"

"What does the virus do?" An expert asked.

"It's a reset command, that's all," the Doctor assured them. "It resets counters, it gets in the wifi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default at zero ay exactly the same time. But, yeah, I could be lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain," the room was silent and the Doctor turned to look at Jeff. "Jeff, you're my best man."

"Your what?" Jeff asked, wide eyed.

The Doctor closed the laptop part way. "Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're going to be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is going to be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff. Right here, right now. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world."

"Why me?"

"It's your bedroom," the Doctor shrugged. "Now go, go, go."

The Doctor left the room and Jeff opened the laptop. "Okay, guys, let's do this."

"Oh," the Doctor stepped back into the room. "And delete your internet history."

And with that, he left.

~DW~

Rory had stepped away from Amy and Daniel as he spoke to the other nurses, Daniel was adding Rory's number to his phone while Amy watched him closely. "Is there something on my face?" Daniel asked, not looking up from the phone.

Amy looked away for a moment, embarrassed that she had been caught, but sighed. "12 years ago, you looked so sad," Daniel looked over at her in surprise. "I never got to ask, why?"

It was Daniel's turn to sigh. "We had been through a lot before we met you, Amy and I can't tell you everything," Amy gave him a questioning look. "But before we crashed in your garden, the Doctor I knew was gone… sacrificed himself to save one person… I suppose that why I…"

Rory stepped over to them, unknowingly cutting off Daniel. "Something's happened up there," he informed them. "We can't get through."

Daniel let out a sigh of relief, thankful for Rory cutting him off.

"Yes, but what happened." Amy turned to him.

"I don't know, no one knows," Rory turned to Daniel. "Have you phoned him yet?"

"I'm phoning him," Daniel held the phone to his ear. "Doctor? We're at the hospital, but we can't get through, what?"

"What did he say?"

"Look in the mirror."

They frowned but looked in the mirror, Amy's eyes widened. "Ha-ha! Uniform!" She began to put her hair back up into a bun.

"Couldn't you have just said tell Amy to look in the mirror?" Daniel rolled his eyes. "Are you on your way? You're going to need a car."

~DW~

"Don't worry," the Doctor replied as he drove towards the hospital. "I've commandeered a vehicle."

He hung up the phone, turning on the sirens to the fire engine he was driving.

~DW~

They stepped out of a lift and saw the corridors were a mess; gurneys and tables overturned, scrubs and utensils litter the floor. Daniel quickly pulled a fire extinguisher off the wall, Amy and Rory giving him a questioning look. "What? Prisoner Zero is a prisoner for something and I'm sure its not for dodging his taxes."

A woman holding the hands of two young girls, presumably her daughters, appeared around the corner. "Officer." The woman breathed.

"What happened?" Amy asked.

"There was a man. A man with a dog. I think Dr Ramsden's dead. And the nurses."

Daniel handed Amy the phone and she called the Doctor.

"Are you in?" the Doctor asked into the phone.

"Yep," Amy replied. "But so's Prisoner Zero."

"You need to get out of there."

Daniel turned from Amy to the woman and his eyes widened, watching as the woman's voice spoke but the woman's mouth never moved, but instead out of one of the daughters. "He was so angry, he kept shouting. And that dog, the size of that dog, I swear it was rabid," Daniel pulled the pin out of the extinguisher and pulled Amy and Rory behind him. "And he just went mad, attacking everyone. Where did he go, did you see him? Has he gone? We hid in the ladies."

"Oh, I'm getting it wrong again, aren't I?" the woman asked, smirking. "I'm always doing that. So many mouths." They opened their mouths to reveal the teeth of Prisoner Zero.

"Oh, my god!" Rory gasped.

Prisoner Zero advanced but Daniel sprayed the extinguisher in their face. "Run!"

"Daniel!" the Doctor yelled. "Daniel, what's happening?" They ran down the corridor and into one of the wards, closing the doors and sliding a broom through the handles. "Daniel! Amy, talk to me!"

They backed away from the doors and into the centre of the ward, Daniel aiming the extinguisher at the doors, Amy held the phone up. "We're in the coma ward, but it's here, it's getting in."

"Which window are you?"

"What, sorry?"

"Which window?"

"First floor on the left, fourth from the end."

The broom snapped and Prisoner Zero, still using the women as a form, entered the room, glaring at Daniel, but turned their attention to Amy. "Oh, dear, little Amelia Pond. I've watched you grow up," the woman smirked. "12 years, and you never knew I was there, little Amelia Pond, waiting for her magic Doctor to return, but not this time, Amelia."

The woman opened her mouth once more and Daniel fired the extinguisher at her again. "Oh do yourself a favour and stop making yourself such an easy target."

Daniel's phone beeped and Amy looked down at it, seeing a text from the Doctor saying 'duck'. Daniel stopped the extinguisher and they all could hear the wail of a siren getting closer, Amy pushed Rory down just as a ladder from the fire engine broke through the window. The Doctor climbed up the ladder and joined Amy and Rory. "Right! Hello! Am I late?" He asked, smiling at them. "No, three minutes to go. So still time."

"Time for what, Time Lord?" The woman asked, glaring at Daniel when he held up the extinguisher again.

"Have you been spraying her?"

Daniel smiled. "Only when the mouth is open, which is a lot." He sent a pointed look to the woman.

"You're brilliant, you know that."

"Well, I do try," they turned back to the woman. "Take off the disguise, they'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies."

"The Atraxi will kill me this time," the woman rolled her eyes. "If I am to die, let there be fire."

The Doctor frowned. "Okay, you came to this world by opening a crack in space and time," he tried to suggest. "Do it again, just leave."

"I did not open the crack."

"Well somebody did." Daniel remarked.

"The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they came from?" She smirked upon seeing their confused looks. "You don't, do you?" the woman's voice changed into that of a little girl. "The Doctor and the Phoenix in the TARDIS don't know. Don't know, don't know," the woman's voice changed to normal. "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. The Phoenix will fall and Silence will fall."

Daniel tensed and the Doctor reached out and took his hand, squeezing it in comfort. There it was again, Phoenix, he was being called Phoenix once again by someone other then Carmen or the Ood… he had brushed it off, almost laughing at the prophecy they had said about him, but now with the fact they had both correctly predicted that the Doctor would regenerate for someone who knocked four times… did it mean his prophecy would come true?

There was a clicking sound that drew Daniel away from his fear and he looked up at the wall behind prisoner Zero. "And we're off! Look at that," the Doctor pointed. "Look at that!" the clock on the wall now read 0. "Yeah, I know, just a clock, whatever. But you do know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out… and do you know what that word is?"

"Zero." Daniel breathed.

"Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able track a simple old computer virus to its source, in, what, under a minute?" he took Rory's phone out of his pocket. "The source, by the way, is right here," a bright light shined through the window. "Oh! And I think they just found us!"

"The Atraxi are limited," the woman shrugged. "While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me."

"Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favourite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Oh, and being uploaded about now," he scrolled through the images and sent them through the virus. "And the final score is, no TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare," the Doctor held is arms out, successful. "Who da man?" he was greeted by silence, he turned to Daniel.

"Never say that again." Was all he said, smiling.

"Then I shall take a new form." The woman interrupted.

"Oh, stop it, you know you can't. Takes months to form that kind of psychic link."

"And I've had years." The woman and her children began to glow.

Daniel's eyes widened as he turned to look at Amy, who collapsed to the floor. "Amy!" Daniel yelled.

The Doctor and Daniel rushed to her side. "You've got to hold on, Amy!" the Doctor begged, putting his hands on Amy's. "Don't sleep! You've got to stay awake, please."

"Guys?" Rory cut in, looking at something behind them.

They turned their attention to where Prisoner Zero stood, now taking the form of the Doctor. "Well, that's rubbish," the Doctor huffed. "Who's that supposed to be?"

"That's you." Daniel and Rory informed him.

"Me? Is that what I look like?"

"You don't know?" Rory frowned.

"Busy day, why me, though?" the Doctor stood, facing Prisoner Zero. "You're linked with her. Why are you copying me?"

"I'm not," a familiar Scottish accent spoke from behind the copy of the Doctor, as Amelia stepped out. "Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside," Amelia rolled her eyes. "Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been."

"No, she's dreaming about me cos she can hear me," the Doctor realised, rushing back to Amy. "Amy, don't just hear me, listen. Remember the room, the room in your house you couldn't see? Remember you went inside, I tried to stop you, but you did," he said to her. "You went in the room. You went inside. Amy… dream about what you saw."

"No… no… No!" Amelia began to glow and transform into a eel like creature covered in goo, its original form.

"Well done, Prisoner Zero," Daniel called to the creature, smirking. "A perfect impersonation of yourself."

Prisoner Zero was then caught in a light and began to writhe. "Prisoner Zero is located," the Atraxi called. "Prisoner Zero is restrained."

"Silence, Doctor," Prisoner Zero began to fade away. "Silence and your Phoenix will fall."

There was a whoosh of air as the ship began to leave. The Doctor ran to the window and dialled something into the phone.

"The sun, it's back to normal, right?" Rory questioned. "That's… that's good, yeah? That means it's over," Amy began to wake. "Amy? Are you okay? Are you with us?"

"What happened?" Amy pushed herself up, holding her head.

"They did it. The Doctor and Daniel did it."

"No, we didn't." Daniel said to them, getting off the floor and walking over to the Doctor. "What are you doing?"

"Tracking the signal back," the Doctor smiled at him, before looking at Rory. "Sorry in advance."

"About what?" Rory asked.

"The bill," the Doctor lifted the phone to his ear. "Oi, I didn't say you could go! Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established, level 5 planet, and you were going to burn it? Did you think no one was watching? You lot, back here. Now!" he tossed the phone to Rory. "Okay, now I've done it."

They turned and left, leaving Amy and Rory staring at them in shock.

"Did he just bring them back?" Rory gaped. "Did he just save the world from aliens and then bring the aliens back again?"

The Doctor strode down the corridor, determined, while Daniel followed closely behind. Amy and Rory followed close behind. "Where are you going?" Amy asked them.

"The roof, no," the Doctor turned and entered a room. "Hang on."

The Doctor began to sift through clothes, holding up clothes to his chest before throwing them away. Daniel just shook his head. "What's in here?" Amy frowned at the Doctor.

"I've saved the world," the Doctor shrugged. "I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show!"

"You just summoned aliens back to Earth. Actual aliens," Rory questioned him. "Deadly aliens, aliens of death," the Doctor began to strip off his tattered clothes. "And now you're taking your clothes off… Amy, he's taking his clothes off."

"Turn your back if it embarrasses you."

"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know," Rory turned his back and looked at Amy. "Are you not going to turn your back?"

"Nope." Amy replied, smirking slightly as she began to watch him strip…

… until she felt hands on her shoulders, spinning her so she too was looking away. "Need I remind you Amy," Daniel whispered into her ear, as he faced away too. "That your boyfriend is beside you, so I'd advice that if you want to watch someone strip… it'd be him."

Amy just rolled her eyes, crossing her arms with a huff. They missed the Doctor turning back to look at Daniel with a smile before he returned to changing.

~DW~

They stood on the roof of the hospital, the Doctor now wearing a pink long sleeved shirt, black trousers with braces, boots and a number of ties draped around his neck. Daniel stood close behind, holding a tweed jacket in his arms… he had given the Doctor an odd look for the choice of clothing.

Together they strode across the roof to where the Atraxi ship was waiting for the Doctor. Amy and Rory stood back a bit.

"So this was a good idea, was it?" Amy called to them. "They were leaving."

"Leaving is good," Daniel agreed. "But never coming back is better."

"Come on, then!" the Doctor shouted up at the ship. "The Doctor will see you now."

The eye disconnected from the ship and scanned the Doctor. "You are not of this world."

"No, but I've put a lot of work into it," he turned to Daniel and held up a tie. "I don't know. What do you think?"

Daniel titled his head to the side and eyed it and then the outfit, shaking his head. The Doctor tossed the tie over his shoulder, Rory leant down to pick it up.

"Is this world important?" the Atraxi asked.

Daniel scoffed. "Important? What is that suppose to mean?" Daniel gave the eye and unimpressed look. "6 billion people live here, is that important?"

"Here's better question," the Doctor also gave the eye an unimpressed look. "Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" He held up another tie for Daniel to inspect, tossing it over his shoulder when Daniel shook his head. "Well, come on, you're monitoring the whole planet. IS this world a threat?"

The Atraxi projected a hologram of Earth's history, showing them scenes of peace and of war. "No."

"Is the human race guilty of any crimes that would give you the right to incinerate the planet?" Daniel questioned.

More images of war and peace were projected. "No."

"Okay, one more. Just one," the Doctor nodded. "Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here," projections of many of the aliens the Doctor has faced over his years protecting the Earth appeared before them, the Doctor reached out and squeezed Daniel's hand at the sight of the Cybermen. "Oh, there have been so many! And what you've got to ask it… what happened to them?" Daniel turned to face the Doctor, pulling off a red bowtie from his neck and held it for the man to take, before they turned to look at the many regenerations of the Doctor appeared before them.

Daniel smiled sadly as the tenth Doctor appeared, Amy and Rory frowned when they saw that Daniel stood beside the tenth Doctor, it seemed as though the Atraxi had caught them when they had been in New York. "Hello," the Doctor stepped through the projection. "I'm the Doctor. Basically… run!"

The Atraxi ship quickly departed, Amy laughed. The Doctor smiled at Daniel, who returned it, before they felt something in their pockets growing hot. The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out the TARDIS key and saw it was glowing.

The Doctor took Daniel by the hand and together they ran off.

~DW~

They ran into Amy's back garden where the TARDIS stood, the dull blue colour had been repainted with a much brighter blue and Daniel laughed when he saw a Saint John's Ambulance sticker on the door. "Okay! What have you got for us this time?" The Doctor unlocked the door and they stood there, amazed. "Look at you! Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you!"

Daniel stepped into the TARDIS with wide eyes as he stood in the doorway. Unlike before where the console was on one layer, this one was multi-levelled. The coral columns had been replaced and the entire console looked like an actual space ship, he looked to see a familiar long brown coat hanging on a coat stand and he smiled slightly.

With a click of the Doctor's fingers, the doors to the TARDIS closed, neither of them noticing Amy and Rory running into the garden.

~DW~

Amy stepped out of her house in a robe and slippers to find the Doctor and Daniel leaning against the TARDIS. "Sorry about running off earlier," the Doctor called to her. "Brand new TARDIS, bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. She's ready for the big stuff now."

"It's you," Amy breathed, looking between them. "You both came back."

"Course we came back," Daniel smiled. "We always come back… something wrong with that?"

"And he kept the clothes."

Daniel snorted and the Doctor scoffed. "Well, I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes."

"Including the bow tie."

"Yeah, it's cool," he tweaked the bow tie. "Bow ties are cool."

"Are you from another planet?"

"I am but Daniel isn't."

"What? Really?"

Daniel nodded. "Londoner."

"Okay…" Amy muttered.

"So, what do you think?" the Doctor asked.

"Of what?"

"Other planets. Want to check some out?"

"What does that mean?"

"It means that we want you to come with us." Daniel smiled at the girl.

"Where?"

"Wherever you like." The Doctor grinned.

"All that stuff, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero…" Amy trailed off.

"Oh, don't worry. That's just the beginning. There's loads more."

"Yeah, but those things, amazing things, all that stuff," then her tone turned angry. "That was two years ago!"

"Oh-oh! Oops."

"Doctor!" Daniel cried, smacking him on the arm.

"Yeah." Amy frowned at them.

"So that's..." the Doctor trailed off.

"14 years!"

"14 years since fish custard. Amy Pond, the girl who waited, you've waited long enough."

Amy hesitated. "When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was IN the library."

"Yeah," the Doctor rubbed the back of his neck as he tried to remember if he had scanned for the library. "Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So… coming?"

"No!"

"You wanted to come 14 years ago." Daniel reminded her.

"I grew up."

"Don't worry. We'll soon fix that," the Doctor snapped his fingers and the door to the TARDIS opened, bathing Amy in an orange glow as she entered. "Well? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all."

The Doctor stepped in first, Daniel closing the door behind him as they watched Amy stare at the ship in awe. "I'm in my nightie..."

"Don't worry," Daniel laughed. "Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe."

"AND possibly a swimming pool," the Doctor pointed out. "So… all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will… where do you want to start?"

"You two are so sure that I'm coming." Amy looked at them.

"Yeah, we are."

"Why?"

"Cos you're the Scottish girl in the English village." Daniel joked.

"And I know how that feels." The Doctor smiled.

"Oh, do you?" Amy asked.

"All these years living here most of your life… and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming."

"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?"

"It's a time machine," the Doctor rolled his eyes. "I can get you back in five minutes."

"Why, what's tomorrow?" Daniel asked her.

"Nothing, nothing," they gave her a strange look. "Just… you know, stuff."

"Alright, then. Back in time for stuff," a new sonic extended from the console's surface. "Oh! A new one!" he aimed the sonic at Daniel, flashing it. "Lovely," he patted the console. "Thanks, dear."

"Why me?"

"Why not?"

"I mean you've got Daniel with you and you're asking me to run away with you two in the middle of the night," Amy shrugged. "It's a fair question. Why me?"

"I don't know," the Doctor shrugged. "Fun. Do we have to have a reason?"

"People always have a reason."

"Does he look like people?" Daniel asked.

"Yes."

"Been knocking around with Daniel for 9 months now, we've run into some issues together."

"He keeps talking to me, like constantly, it's giving me a headache." Daniel joked.

"Oi!" the Doctor cried, poking Daniel in the side.

"So you need another person to save you from a headache?" Amy asked with a frown. "There's nothing else, nothing else at all?"

"Just that," the Doctor nodded. "Promise." Daniel frowned as he looked on the monitor, seeing that on a small screen there was a flickering line that seemed to mimic the crack from Amy's bedroom.

"Okay."

Daniel switched off the monitor. "So, are you okay, then?" Daniel asked. "Cos this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit… you know."

"I'm fine, it's just…" Amy looked at the TARDIS with wide eyes. "There's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought… well, I started to think that maybe he was just like a madman with a box."

"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand," the Doctor cut in, serious. "It's important, and one day your life may depend on it," he then smiled. "I am definitely a madman with a box," Daniel rolled his eyes but laughed. "Ha ha! Yeah," Amy laughed. "Goodbye, Leadworth."

"Hello, everything." Daniel grinned.

And with that, Daniel pressed a switch on the console and they held onto the console as the TARDIS began to dematerialise into the night sky.

A/N: And so the adventure begins once again with Amy joining the Doctor and Daniel. Will things change between Amy and the Doctor with Daniel in the mix?

A Note on Reviews (From Breaking the Rule):

I know, its one of the few moments I remembered off the top of my head when thinking back to this episode, its such a sweet moment and I wish that Wilf had appeared more often then he had.

Thank you! I think it became a recurring theme for the Doctor's female companions for them to fall for the Doctor after just one adventure, so as much as I wanted there to be a romance between 10 and Daniel it just wouldn't have seemed real. I'll say I'm glad it came off as genuine. When writing a male!oc I was a bit worried it would be treated quite badly but I'm glad you thought it was a breath of fresh air.

Up next is The Beast Below. Will Amy or Daniel be forced to forget? How will Amy react to the Doctor's outburst at the end of the episode? Better yet, how will Daniel react? Find out next week. I've been Landing and this is Changes and Discoveries.