Reading TARDIS would be a good idea! As this is the sequal it explains almost everything and any questions should be directed to me through reviews or messages! Thank you!
A small mention of rape, nothing graphic just the word and the Doctors reaction to it but if you find this offensive in anyway or think I have not put forward your beliefs in the matter please feel free to contact me so I can change the offending words or paragraph, thanks.
Disclaimer: I own nothing accept Tory.
Anything underlined in a conversation between Tory and me, anything in italics is telepathic communication.
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Tory: What kind of ending was that?
Me: a sad one.
Tory: thanks that cleared everything right up!
Me: I know I'm good like that!
Tory: just hurry up and write the next bit!
Me: Yes boss!
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It was cold and dark when I woke up even with the bed. I sat up slowly it had being 2 years since I last saw the Doctor. 14 years since I had last seen 11, Amy and Rory.
I was in prison, I didn't know where or when all I knew was that I was stuck. I couldn't escape my silver light refused to work. Everything refused to work. I had given up all hope of rescue. I lay back down as the guards led someone to my cell.
"This is her milord."
"Leave us."
"But milord."
"I said leave." The guards moved away, "What have they done to you?" the man asked, I heard a strange buzzing and a green light shone under the door but I still didn't move.
"Doctor!" a woman cried. Then door flew open and three people rushed inside. The woman was a redhead and she looked like Amy.
"Hallucination." I muttered and turned my back.
"Oh well thanks!" the 11th Doctor exclaimed, "Call the people who just broke into a maximum security prison fake! That really helps!"
The third person came towards me.
"Hello pretty." I muttered as he bent over me.
"What hurts?"
"Nothing." He frowned, "I can't feel anything." I explained.
"But that's not possible.
"You're a hallucination let's not have a fight about what's possible and what isn't shall we." I muttered and he chuckled.
"You sent us." Amy sat on the edge of my bed.
"How could I send you, I'm here!"
"It was a future you, you told the Doctor not to 'screw this up like you do almost every time I let you out of my sight'."
"That sounds like something I would say." I agreed.
"Hey!" the Doctor exclaimed still keeping his distance from the bed.
"It's true though!" Amy laughed. I looked at the Doctor.
"You appeared in the TARDIS a few seconds after you'd left in a new body." He explained.
"I regenerate, interesting." Rory checked my eyes.
"Doctor I can't find anything wrong with her."
"Let me look." Rory backed away and the Doctor took his place. He scanned me with the sonic screwdriver, "She's being completely cut off from the higher part of her brain, that's the part that lets her control her abilities."
"So says the hallucination." I muttered. He sighed angrily.
"Pond's give us a moment." Amy and Rory shared a glance before doing as he asked and walking back out of my cell.
"I am not a hallucination." He told me firmly, grasping hold of my shoulders.
"Yes you are." He looked around the room frustrated.
"How can I prove it?" he asked. I stared at him and he stared right back, "Please tell me how!" he begged. I just stared into his eyes coldly, "Please…" he pulled me up and buried his face in my hair.
I pushed him back and stood, lightning fast.
"Let's go." I tried to walk out the door but my legs collapsed under me. The Doctor caught me before I hit the ground and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"I've got you." He whispered in my ear, "I've got you."
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Tory: god can't you write anything happy anymore?
Me: huh?
Tory: they just got reunited after years….
Me: only from Your point of view for the Doctor it's being minutes since he dropped you off at the Powell Estate.
Tory: I don't care! For me it's being years!
Me: *sigh*
Tory: What's that look for?
Me: are you going to be like this the whole time?
Tory: Yes!
Me: Oh joy!
Tory: Was that sarcasm?
Me: what do you think?
Tory: I think it was!
Me: really! Well I had no idea! *rolls eyes *
Tory: *huffs* I still say there should have being kissing!
Me: she…you… makers breath that's confusing….anyway she thought he was a hallucination! Why would she kiss a figment of her over active and possibly crazy imagination?
Tory: because she…i…you're right that is confusing! Could!
Me: so you'd kiss him just 'cos you could?
Tory: Yep!
Me: Oh lord what have I created?*slams head on desk repeatedly*
Tory: *smiles smugly*
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I limped out of the cell with the Doctors help and fell into the waiting arms of Rory and Amy, the Doctor handed me to them reluctantly and turned back to the cell pulling out the sonic as he did so. He waved it over the room and a holographic projection of me appeared in the room lying on the bed.
"It will last for about two hours as long as no one tampers with it, plenty of time to escape!" he told us proudly putting the sonic back into his jacket pocket, "Let's move on." He brushed passed us and strutted up the corridor.
Amy rolled her eyes at her husband and lifted one of my arms around her neck while her own wrapped around my waist, Rory copied her motions on my other side and then lead me down the corridor following the Doctors shadow.
I winced in pain with every movement as I got further away from the cell and, what my now active brain knew to be, a dampening field that surrounded it.
"Rory!" I gasped, using his real name because of the pain, "Remember when you asked 'what hurts' and I said nothing?" he nodded, "Well I can feel it now!" I bit back a shriek and fainted in their arms.
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Tory: *glares*
Me: what?
Tory: *points at the computer screen wordlessly*
Me: What?
Tory: *continues to glare while pointing at the computer screen*
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"Should we wake her up?" I heard Rory ask. I left my eyes close enjoying the blankness of my eyelids.
"I don't know." The Doctor responded, if I could see him I would have bet he would have run his hand through his hair.
"It's probably best to leave her to rest," Rory decided, "after what she's being through I really don't blame her for wanting to retreat."
"What do you mean 'what she's being through'?" the Doctor demanded. Rory hesitated to answer.
"Doctor she's the victim of rape and several other abuses." Rory spoke in a rush. The Doctor remained silent.
"She's fine physically but mentally might be another thing but she's not pregnant so that's fine… right Doctor?" the Doctor didn't answer verbally so I assumed he nodded because Rory continued, "Good." I felt someone brush some of my stray hairs off my face.
I heard a sliding door open and another set of footsteps entered the room.
"Doctor," Amy started, "River's here." I heard the Doctors sharp intake of breath, "She wants to talk to you." Amy added quietly before leaving the room again.
"I can stay with her Doctor." Rory offered. The Doctor must have nodded again because a few seconds later I heard the sliding doors open and the Doctor left the room. As the doors closed I heard Rory drag a chair to the side of my bed. He sat down with a sigh and then the room fell silent.
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"Tory," the TARDIS brushed against my mind, "Tory!"
"What?"
"The Doctor needs you."
"When doesn't he?"
"He might die."
"He'll regenerate."
"I'm stuck in a pool of acid."
"Huh?"
"I'm stuck in a pool of.."
"I heard you the first time!"
"Help us."
"Oh the things I do for that man!"
"Thank you."
"Yeah, yeah."
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I transported myself out of the TARDIS using my now fully functional silver light, really had to name that at some point. I watched the TARDIS sink in the acid for a moment before she gave me the equivalent of a mental slap.
"Alright, alright!" I muttered at her, "Keep your hair on!" I turned around and saw the remainders of the Doctors shoes on the ground, "Oh it would be him wouldn't it." I muttered darkly. I looked up at the church like building and saw the cockerel weather vane, "A cockerel and, underneath, a monastery, 13th-century." I studied the stonework, "It might have being built in the 13th century but no way in hell are those acid pipes from that time frame as well which means ohhh 22nd century? Yep defiantly the 22nd." I nodded to myself and walked toward the tunnel which would lead into the monastery and towards the Doctor.
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I entered the dining hall quietly, keeping to the shadows. I saw the Doctor sitting on the edge of the table wearing brown boots as a replacement for the ones that I had seen melted outside. Amy was standing beside him. Rory was standing next to a harmless looking black haired woman on one side of the room with a group of men and another woman while on the opposite side of the hall a collection of the same men stood staring in obvious horror at their doubles on the other side of the room.
"The flesh was never merely moss. These are not copies. The storm has hardwired them. They are becoming people." The Doctor was frowning
"With souls?" one of the men asked.
"Rubbish." Another one exclaimed before sneezing.
"Bless you." His copy answered.
"We were all jelly, once. Little jelly eggs, sitting in goop." The Doctor argued.
"Yeah, thanks. Too much information." Amy rolled her eyes.
"We are not talking about an accident that needs to be mopped up. We are talking about sacred life. Do you understand?" he glared at the human side of the room, the side without Rory, "Good. Now, the TARDIS is trapped in an acid pool. Once I can reach her, I can get you all off this island, humans and gangers, eh, how does that sound?"
"Can we get home for Adam's birthday?" the first man asked from the human side.
"What about me? He's my son, too." His Ganger objected.
"You? You really think that?" the original asked.
"I feel it."
"Oh, so you were there when he was born, were you?" the human scoffed.
"Yeah. I drank about 8 pints of tea and they told me I had a wee boy and I just burst out laughing." He laughed as he remembered, "No idea why. I miss home. As much as you." The human and the Ganger stared in shock at one another.
"Look, I'm not going to lie to you. It's a right odd mess, this. But, as you might say up north, "oh, well, I'll just go to t' foot of the stairs." Ha ha ha. Eh, bye-bye, gone. Or not. Good. Right. The first step is we get everyone together, then get everyone safe, then get everyone out of here." The Doctor started planning.
"But we're still missing Jennifer and Cleaves." Amy pointed out.
"I'll go and look for them." The human offered and headed for the door.
"I'll give you a hand, if you like." His Ganger joined him, "Cover more ground."
"Yeah. Okay. Thanks." The human accepted. Everyone was too busy watching this scene to spot the human Cleaves enter the room.
"This circus has gone on long enough!" she announced holding out her hand where she hold a device that was shooting out electricity.
"Oh, great." He Ganger sighed, "You see, that is just so typically me."
"Oh I like you!" I exclaimed stepping out of the shadows and walking to her side, "My names Tory I came with the red-head, the roman and the bow-tie wearing maniac." I held out my hand and she took it.
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Me: I think I may have to get that printed on a t-shirt or something…..
Tory: get what?
Me: 'I came with the red-head, the roman and the bow-tie wearing maniac.
Tory: get me one to!*bounces up and down on the spot* please!
Me:*laughing* I'll try.
Tory: Promise?
Me: Promise.
Tory: YEY!
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"Cleaves, well, Ganger Cleaves."
"Doctor, tell it to shut up." Ordered the human Cleaves.
"I am not an it!" I snapped at her.
"She didn't mean you." Ganger Cleaves laughed.
"I know," I smirked at her, "and neither is she!" I added.
"Please, no. No! No!" the Doctor begged staring in horror at the device in her hand.
"Circuit probe. Fires about, oh, 40,000 volts." Human Cleaves bragged, "It would kill any one of us, so I guess she'll work on gangers, just the same."
"It's interesting you refer to them as "it," but you call a glorified cattle prod a "she."" The Doctor growled and I agreed.
"When the real people are safely off this island, then I'll happily talk philosophy over a pint with you, Doctor."
"They are real people!" I spat.
"Sorry, they're monsters, mistakes. They have to be destroyed."
"Give me the probe, Cleaves." The Doctor demanded.
"We always have to take charge, don't we, Miranda?" Ganger Cleaves scoffed, "Even when we don't really know what the hell is going on."
Suddenly one of the male Gangers charged at the human Cleaves. She fired on him three times. The Ganger fell to the floor as the others all froze in shock. The Doctor ran to his side and fell to his knees.
"Stop! Oh! Ah! He's dead!"
"We call it "decommissioned."" Human Cleaves waved the probe around and the female Ganger gasped as it was pointed in her direction.
"You stopped his heart. He had a heart! Aorta, valves — a real, human heart! And you stopped it." The Doctor tried to show Cleaves.
"Jen?" Rory was speaking to the Ganger behind him, the female.
"What happened to Buzz will happen to us all, if we trust you!" she began backing away slowly. The Doctor stood.
"Wait, wait. Just wait."
"No!" Rory rushed at human Cleaves and knocked her to the ground, he grabbed the probe but it was too late all the Gangers rushed from the room.
"You idiot!" Cleaves yelled at Rory.
"Wait!" the Doctor and I begged but we were ignored. Rory let Cleaves up slowly.
"Look at what you've done, Cleaves." The Doctor glared at her.
"If it's war, then it's war. You don't get it, Doctor. How can you? It's us and them now." She turned to the remaining humans in the room, "Us... And them."
"Us and them."
"Us and them."
The Doctor sighed, unhappily at the turn things had taken. I stepped up beside him and took his hand.
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I watched Amy and Rory covering up the dead Ganger and sighed to myself sometimes I could hate the human part of me.
"The most fortified and defendable room in the monastery? Cleaves! The most fortified and defendable room in the monastery?" the Doctor demanded.
"The chapel." She answered standing in front of her men.
"Thank you."
"Only one way in, stone walls, 2 feet thick." She explained.
"You've crossed one hell of a line, Cleaves. You've killed one of them. They're coming back. In a big way."
"So what are we waiting for?" I asked. I grabbed the Doctors hand and dragged him out of the room.
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We were outside the chaple and I held the door open for the humans to pass through. Rory was still at the mouth of the tunnel.
"Rory Pond." The Doctor watched him carefully. Suddenly a woman's scream ripped up the corridor and Rory stopped moving.
"Rory? Come on." Amy held out her hand.
"Jen's out there. She's out there and she's on her own." He turned and ran back down the tunnel.
"Well, if she's got any sense, then she's hiding." The Doctor, who had being looking at Amy worriedly turned back to see Rory half way down the hall, "Rory!"
"I can't leave her out there!"
"Rory!" I called out to him.
"I know you understand that." he looked straight at me and I nodded in understanding.
"Get in here. Get in here!" Amy ordered but the Gangers had arrived at the other end of the hallway. Rory dashed off into a side corridor and I pulled Amy into the chapel. The Doctor came in behind me and slammed the door shut. The humans rushed forward and began shoving everything they could against the door.
"Amy, Amy, they are not after him, they're after us." The Doctor tried to comfort her.
"Why? Why?" a voice asked from one of the darker corners.
"Show yourself. Show yourself!" the Doctor demanded.
"Ah!"
I looked around wildly for the source of the voice.
The humans continued to build a blockade against the door. The Doctor cautiously approached the corner with me following closely behind."Doctor!" Amy watched us.
"Pass me the barrel." Cleaves demanded.
"We need something heavy. Anything you can find." A man a now knew as Dicken ordered
"This is insane." Jimmy laughed, "We're fighting ourselves."
"Yes, it's insane," the Doctor agreed still staring into the shadows, "and it's about to get even more insanerer. Is that a word?" he asked me and I shook my head, "Show yourself!" he yelled at the shadows again, "Right now!"
"Doctor! We are trapped in here and Rory is out there, with them. Hello! We can't get to the TARDIS and we can't even leave the island." Amy panicked.
"Two of those aren't true." I muttered under my breath. Suddenly the Doctors voice came out of the shadows but the Doctor standing beside me wasn't moving his mouth.
"Correct, Pond. It's frightening, unexpected, frankly, a total, utter, splattering mess on the carpet, but I'm certain, 100% certain, that we can work this out." From the shadows a ganger of the Doctor emerged with a half formed face, "Trust me. I'm the Doctor."
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Also a competition on what we (that's me and Tory) should call the silver light thingy she does so feel free to leave any ideas you have as a message or review!
So do you like Tory giving her input on the story? She won't shut up in my head as I write so I thought I'd put some of the things she says in the fiction, if you don't like it or think I could improve it tell me or if you want tell me what you think about a chapter and comment and if you want I'll put in with what Tory and I say at the beginning of each chapter! It'll be fun! Like a conversation or something! So either PM me or set it up as a review I'll get it either way! Looking forward to it!
-Madd Madds