Chapter 1: 12 Years Later
I don't own Doctor Who whatsoever, and just a fan with an idea.
Avery's POV
I just finished the night shift at the building I worked at. I hung out at the hub. I couldn't get over the Doctor leaving us 12 years ago, never returning in the 5 minutes he said he would. We ended up waking up in our beds, after falling asleep outside in the yard. I looked at the horizon through the monitor showing outside, the sun was just rising. It was dawn; Amy wouldn't be up for a few hours. I hung out at the hub with Ianto and Jack. Jack never left this place, and Ianto had decided to help me. We made Gwen go home to her husband. It was a few hours later when I left the reception area. Ianto decided to stay, he told me of his dreams. Dreams that made it hard to sleep at night.
I walked to the train station, where I waited for the train. The train from Cardiff to Leadworth, it was tiring taking the train back and forth, and it took almost half hour and then I had to walk home. But that was the base of Torchwood 3, and it had to be in Cardiff where the time rift was, where all of the weird stuff fell out of. It was a group that was there to protect Earth from the supernatural, out of world stuff when the Doctor couldn't besides UNIT. We were outside of the Government, outside the Police. Our motto was literally "If it's alien, it's our's."
I sighed as I got out a file that I had to read for work. It was only 8:30am, and it would be an hour before the train arrived at 9:36am. And I would arrive home just before 10. By the time I finished 2 out of 6 files that I had to read, the train arrived and I got on. I showed the conductor my pass, and just sat back for the 18 minute ride and then I had to walk home from there..
18 minutes later…
I finally arrived in front of our home, our home for a long time. Our aunt left a long time ago, and we inherited this house. I unlocked the door before locking it again behind me; I jumped the steps to Amy's room upstairs. I poked my head into her room and saw that she was still sleeping. I whistled loudly, to which she rolled out of bed spooked. I laughed, and she got up yelling "I'M GONNA KILL YOU AVERY!" I ran off to my room to change out of my work clothes. I slammed my door in her face as she was about to get me. I leaned against my door, as she ran into the door trying to get in. I yelled at her "Go get ready Amy! There's a guy asking for a policewoman kissogram, remember?"
I heard her make a sound of agreement and walk off. I changed into a t-shirt and sweats, along with Uggs. I threw my hair into a ponytail, and walked into the bathroom while Amy was showering. I took a washcloth, and washed my makeup off. Thankfully yesterday was my last night shift. I left the bathroom to go get myself a snack. I went back upstairs, and Amy walked out of her room fixing her hat.
Then I heard a familiar sound, the sound I had waited for, for 12 years. The TARDIS! I smiled, but couldn't be sure. I heard yelling downstairs as it headed up stairs, "Amelia! Avery! Are you all right?! Are you there? Prisoner Zero's here. Prisoner Zero is here!" He held this weird silver thing that made this high-pitch noise to the door in the corner. He added "Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero's here, do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is..." As Amy hit him with a cricket bat, I gave her an odd look wondering why in the world she hit the Doctor. I knelt down beside him and checked him to see if he was alright, with the little medical knowledge I had from knowing Rory. I helped Amy then drag him to the radiator, she handcuffed him to it and I sat him up against it.
I crouched down beside him, and we waited for him to wake up. He soon shows signs of waking. I let out a quiet breath of relief that he was okay. Amy began talking into her fake radio "White male, mid-twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some backup, I've got him restrained." She turned to face him, with her hand on her hip. As he began to move a bit, she said "Oi! You, sit still."
He cleared his throat and said "Cricket bat. I'm getting... Cricket. Bat."
"You were breaking and entering." She said, and he abruptly tried to stand up, he fell back down again fast. He finally realized that he was handcuffed to the radiator. I caught him slightly, and he looked at me curiously.
He spoke "Oh that's much better. Brand new me. Whack on the head, just what I needed."
Amy replied "Do you want to shut up now? I've got backup on the way." I quietly laughed, but not noticeably.
He replied "Hang on, no, wait. You're a policewoman."
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"No, what are you doing here? Where are Amelia and Avery?" Amy stared at him, as did I before I looked up at Amy. He remembered us.
"...Amelia Pond?" she carefully asked, and I added "And Avery Pond?"
"Yeah. Amelia and Avery. Little Scottish girls, twins. Where are they? I promised them five minutes, but the engines were phasing, I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to them?" He asked Amy and I kept staring at him warily.
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time. Nor has Avery Pond." I said, clearly he didn't notice we looked alike.
"How long?" He asked
"...Six months." Amy replied, and he looked defeated and says as he sniffed.
"No. No! No. Noo. I can't be six months late, I said five minutes. I promised." Amy turned away as I looked down at the ground. "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond and Avery Pond?"
"Sarge, it's me again, hurry it up. This guy knows something about Amelia Pond." Amy said into her radio.
"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house right now." He said, I looked up at Amy and said to him "We live here."
"But she's the police!" he exclaimed, I sniffed rolling my eyes. Police have homes too.
"Yes, and this is where I live! You got a problem with that?" Amy snapped, I watch him as I straighten up, I watch as his eyes flick to the door down the hall and back to Amy.
"How many rooms?" He asked, I was confused
"...I'm sorry, what?" I asked, and I looked at Amy, she looked confused as well.
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me, now."
"Why?" Amy asked
"Because it will change your life." He replied, I quietly counted them out as Amy did so.
"...Five. One, two, three, four, five." Amy said as she counted them out loud, pointing them out as she did so.
"Six." He replied, I looked right at him, he was crazy. Amy started laughing
"Six?" she asked, and he pointed at the corner of the hall.
"Look."
"Look where?" Amy asked
"Exactly where you don't wanna look. Where you never wanna look. The corner of your eye. Look behind you." The Doctor said, and Amy turned finally seeing the door. The door I had noticed a week after I first started working at the special ops place in London.
"That's... that is not possible. How is that possible?" Amy said shocked. I let him explain, no one would think that Avery Alecia Pond would know about perception filters.
"There's a perception filter all round the door. Sensed it last time I was here. Should've seen it." The Doctor said, and I put my hand on his arm.
"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed." Amy said, staring at the door.
"The filter stops you noticing. Something came here, a while ago, to hide, and it's still hiding, and you need to uncuff me now!" The Doctor shouted.
"Don't have the key, I lost it." Amy said, I rolled my eyes. It sounded so typical of Amy. To lose the key to party handcuffs. Amy started heading towards the door, and I was about to warn her to not go towards the door.
"How can you have lost it?! ...Stay away from that door! Do not touch that door! Listen to me, do not open that!" the Doctor shouted frantically at her, she ignored him the entire time. She turned the handle to the door and stepped inside of the room that had remained hidden for a good number of years. He looks at me, and says "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?!" He paused, and added quietly "...Again." He then started feeling in his pockets, and asked "My screwdriver, where is it? Silver thing, blue at the end, where did it go?!" I gave him an odd look and was about to reply when we heard Amy say
"There's nothing here."
"Whatever's in there stopped you seeing the whole room. What makes you think you could see it? Now please, just get out!" He shouted at her, I crouched back down looking at the handcuffs; I looked to see if I could find a way to get him out or unlock it. Where's a bobby-pin when you need one?
"Silver, blue at the end?" Amy said from inside that room.
"My screwdriver, yeah."
"It's here."
"Must've rolled under the door."
"Yeah. Must've. And then it must've... jumped up on the table." She replied, and I looked at the Doctor. I knew something wasn't right, he knew something was wrong. Prisoner Zero clearly was still there.
"Get out of there. Get out of there! Get out! Get out of there!" The Doctor yelled at Amy, frantically. She needed to get out now. I straightened up and started towards the door. She was my sister after all. The Doctor then said when she hadn't left yet "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." Amy screamed and the Doctor yelled "Get out!" finally Amy listened and ran out of the room, slamming the door behind her, running over to us.
"Gimme that." He said, as he took his screwdriver thing, he aimed it at the door. The door locked, that was a sound of a door locking. This was definitely different, but it wasn't like I wasn't used to it with my work. He then aimed it at the cuffs, trying to free himself. He looked at his screwdriver sadly asking it like it could talk "Oh, what's the bad alien done to you?"
"Will that door hold it?" Amy asked
"Oh, yeah, yeah, course. It's an inter-dimensional multiform from outer space, they're all terrified of wood." The Doctor replied Amy gave him a scathing look. I stared at him with hard eyes; it was the wrong time for sarcasm. The door suddenly flashed yellow from within, clearly that door would soon not exist and it would get out.
"What's that? What's it doing?" I asked I've never really seen anything like this before. This would be an interesting thing to tell Jack and Ianto when I got back.
"I don't know. Getting dressed? Run. Just go, your backup's coming, I'll be fine." The Doctor said as he looked up from rubbing his screwdriver. Clearly he loved that thing.
"There is no backup." I said giving Amy a look, telling her to basically tell the truth now.
"...I heard her on the radio, you called for backup." He said to me, and then to Amy.
"I was pretending, it's a pretend radio." Amy said, finally coming out.
"But you're a policewoman." He said, pretty sure he believed that part.
"I'm a kissogram!" Amy said loudly, she took her police hat off and her hair fell out. Though we had no time to think about this, the door crashed down where it once was glowing yellow. A man and his very large black dog step out, staring at us. "...But it's just..." Amy sputtered
"No it isn't. Look at the faces." The Doctor said, and the dog started to grow and then bark. We looked, the dog's face wasn't moving at all. The man's was, it was barking.
Amy paused and said "...What? I'm sorry, but - What?!" not being able to comprehend it. I gave Amy a look, shoving her over and standing in front of her, protecting her best I can.
"It's all one creature, one creature disguised as two. Clever, old, multi-form. A bit of a rushed job, though, got the voices a bit muddled, did you? Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, life feed, how'd you fix that?" The Doctor said, as the man growls again. He took a step towards us and opened his mouth. He had large pointy teeth! The Doctor then said to the creature man thing, "Stay away! Apparently we're safe, wanna know why? She sent for backup."
"I didn't send for backup!" Amy proclaimed
"...I know, that was a clever line to save our lives. Okay, yeah, no backup!" The Doctor said to us, then the man. The man closed his mouth, stopped growling too. The Doctor added "And that's why we're safe. Alone we're not a threat to you. If we HAD backup then you'd have to kill us." Suddenly there was a voice, a voice that sounded kind of familiar. It was foggy memory. The voice said "Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."
"What's that?" Amy asked, as I looked out the window for whatever it was.
"Well, that would be backup. Okay, one more time. We do have backup, and that's definitely why we're safe." The Doctor said.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice said, and repeats over and over. The man-dog-creature-thing wandered off into another room to look out of the other window. The Doctor was slamming his screwdriver thing on the floor, trying to get it to work. "Work, work, work, work. Come on!" He yelled at it, and finally it does. The handcuffs snapped open freeing him. "Run!" He grabbed my hand, and I grabbed Amy's. I pushed her in front of me and the Doctor pushed me in front of him. We ran down the stairs, and the Doctor yelled again "Run!" Clearly that was one of his favorite words or commands. We ran out of the house, slamming the door behind us. The Doctor did his thing to the lock. We continued to run towards the TARDIS. I squealed a bit, and sped up.
"A kissogram?!" The Doctor asked Amy.
"Yes, a kissogram! What's going on?!"
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"
"You broke into my house! It was this or a French maid! 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!"
"Me too." The Doctor said, and tried to unlock the TARDIS. But no such luck, I smirked at him as I stroke the TARDIS. Maybe this time, I would finally get my dream of travelling with the Doctor. I mean, we get what he promised 12 years ago. The Doctor then said "No, no, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now.. It's still rebuilding, not letting us in."
"Come on!" Amy yelled as she grabbed the Doctor's arm, pulling him away from where he was pressed up against the TARDIS, rubbing it gently. He was clearly in love with this box. He tried to pull away, and said "Wait, wait, hang on! Wait wait wait wait wait, the shed! I destroyed that shed last time I was here, smashed it to pieces!" He ran over to our new shed. I followed reluctantly, or I'd start getting weird looks from them.
"So, there's a new one! Let's go!" Amy said
"Yeah, but the new one's got old! It's ten years old at least!" He started sniffing it, then rubbing it, and then licked his finger... And I waited for THIS MAN! I gave him a strange look as he then said after deliberating "Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late." He turned to Amy, and I said "Penny in the air..."
"He's coming." Amy said, trying to distract him.
"You said six months! Why did you say six months?"
"We've gotta go."
"This matters. This is important! Why did you say six months?" The Doctor said insistently.
I looked at the ground, tears somewhat starting to form as memories came back. Memories of being teased by my classmates, Amy and I having to go to the Psychiatrists. Amy and I both snapped at him, shouting "Well why did you say five minutes?!" He stared at us, finally realizing what he had been missing. He was in shock, and Amy's eyes were wide. I covered my face, he now knew. We were the little Scottish twin girls, he had promised 5 minutes, and returned 12 years later. He whispered loudly "...What..."
