Disclaimer: I don't see why I must but…. I do not own Doctor Who
Amelia Pond watched as the man, the raggedy Doctor pointed a strange silver tube device at her wall and as it opened up more for a second then slamed its self shut and sent some soart of light thing at the man who closed the crack in her wall. But she also saw something else get thrown out of the crack and to the other side of her room, but she stopped looking at it when the raggedy man started to talk again before he ran out of her room into the hall. Amelia looked back at the figure lying on the ground in her room for a moment before running out after the raggedy man, thinking that if he didn't say anything about it then it must not have been anything bad. When she got out into the hall way he started to look around for something but then a strange noise started to come from outside which made him run out to his box.
"I've gotta get back in there!" The Doctor was shouting. "The engines are fazing… it's gonna burn!"
"But… it's just a box. How can a box have engines?" Amelia asked cynically.
"It's not a box. It's a time machine." The Doctor told her, almost defensively.
"A real one?" Amelia asked. "You've got a real time machine?"
"Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised. Five minute hop into the future should do it."
"Can I come?" Amelia asked.
"It's not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes; give me five minutes, I'll be right back." He promised her. He jumped up to sit on the edge looking down into his box.
"People always say that." Amelia said sadly.
The Doctor jumped down from his box and walked over to Amelia. "Am I people? Do I even look like people? Trust me. I'm the Doctor." He told her. Then he was back on top of his box and, with a last look he jumped inside. "Geronimo!"
Amelia stayed where she was for a minute as the box began to disaper then she smiled and ran back inside her house to pack, but when she got back up to her room she remember the thing that had been thrown out of the crack and into her room. She stopped at her door and peered curiously at the figure seeing that it was still on her floor unmoving. Letting her curiousity get the better of her she slowly began to walk towards the figuer. She noticed as she got closer to it that it looked a lot like a little girl around her age maybe older.
When she was about a foot away from the figure it began to stir which made her step back, hesitating slightly before she took the last few steps right next to the figure. She crouched down next to the figure and reached out to touch but retracted when it rolled over and groanded. When it did Amelia saw that she had guessed correctly about the figure being a little girl. She appered to be a year or two older than Amelia was and she had long dark brown hair that cascaded around her. Amelia decided to reach out and shake the girl slightly.
"Hello? Are you ok?" Amelia asked.
The girl groanded and and shook her head slightly. "No. I don't think so." she said meakly her voice slightly horse.
"You came from the crack in my wall. Why were you in the crack?" Amelia asked.
"Cra- Victoria!" the girl shouted and shot up off the floor looking around wildly. Amelia looked at her shocked and looked around her room for a second before looking back at the girl. "Ohh my god Victoria. Victoria. She touched the crack. No wait no, no she didn't I stopped her from touching it… But then what, what happened… Ohh my head. My head hurts so much." The girl said as she held her head. Amelia noticed that the girl's accent seemed American, possibly from the north.
"Are you American?" Amelia asked the girl.
The girl peaked at Amelia from her fingers and nodded slowly. "Yeah." She said and looked up at Amelia slightly.
"Are you from the north?"Amelia persisted.
"North? No. Why does everybody thing I'm from the north? I was born in the south. I grew up in the south. I lived in the south all my life and I somehow gain a northen accent? Absolutly outragous." The girl said before she groand and held her head again. "I need to find Victoria. I… I just need to find her."
Amelia watched the girl for a moment before standing up and walking over next to her. "My friend, he a doctor maybe he can help you find your friend. He said he'll be back in five minutes. He's got a time machine that looks like a blue box."Amelia said to the girl. The girls head perked up at the last part and she looked at Amelia with wied eyes.
"A time machine that looks like a blue box?" She asked curiously. Amelia nodded furiously.
"He said I could come with him when he get's back! He might let you come with us too…"Amelia trailed off when she realized that she didn't know the girls name. "Who are you?' she asked.
"Uhh that's a good question…" the girls said and trailed off as well her face scrunching up slightly in concentration, before she grabbed her head and groaned. "My head. I can't remember. I know it's there but I just… can't…I can't…" she said strugling to remember.
"Well that's ok I'll just call you Jane. Is that ok? Jane?" Amelia said trying to look the girl in the eye.
She laughed slightly and shook her head. "Jane. Yeah that's ok." She said and smiled at Amelia.
Amelia smiled back and heald her hand out to the girl. "Well I'm Amelia Pond. Now we need to pack up and get down to my garden before he get's here!" Amelia said excitedly and the two of them began to pack her clothes, before heading down to the garden to wait for the wonderful man with the blue box.
They waited, and they waited. They waited for the man for so long that the two of them fell asleep together outside only to wake up back in Amelia's bedroom with Amelia's aunt fussing about Jane. She kept asking who Jane was, where she came from, and how she got here. When she heard the story the two girls told her she didn't belive them and just assumed that something happened that made both of them replace what really happened with the story they had told her. And when Jane couldn't seem to tell the woman anything other than her name she went and cheched around to see if Jane was reported missing anywhere, and if anyone wanted her back. When she found that girl wasn't missing from anywhere and that no one wanted the poor girl back she decided to adopt Jane as Amelia's sister taking her into her own care.
The two of them contiued to insist that the raggedy man was real and that Jane had to find her friend Victoria for so long that their aunt sent them to psychiatris to try and make them see that these people they were talking about were not real, but after four psychiatris they eventually gave up and let the two grow up on their own…
~0~
"Amy! I'm home! Amy?" a 22 year old Jane called out as she walked into her home. She was tall, about 5"8 and a half, her hair was a nice medium brown with natural lighter brown, blond and red highlights through out it as it cascaded all the way down her back, her skin was pail making her dark brown eyes very visable on her thin face. "Amy? Amy where are you?" she called out again as she put her jaket up.
"Up staires!" she suddenly hear Amy call down to her, so she walked up the staires to greet her sister when she saw her dressed in her police uniform and a man handcuffed to the radiator.
Jane opened her moth to say something then closed it and looked at Amy bemused. "Amy… Why is there a strange man handcuffed to the radiator?" she asked smiling slightly.
"He's breaking and entering, so I cuffed him." Amy said simply.
"White male, mid-twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some back up, I've got him restrained." Amy finally turned to face him, one hand on her hip. "Oi! You, sit still."
The man cleared his throat. "Cricket bat. We're getting… Cricket. Bat."
"You were breaking and entering." The man stared at Amy curiously, before trying to stand up abruptly. He fell back down again, quickly, realizing that he was handcuffed to the radiator.
"Oh, that's much better. Brand new me, whack on the head. Just what I needed." The man said.
"Do you want to shut up?" Amy asked. "I've got back-up on the way!"
"Hang on, no, wait – you're a policewoman." The man stated the obvious. Jane just shook her head at the man as she leaned against the wall keeping quirt for now.
"And you're breaking and entering." Amy said. "You see how this works?"
"What are you doing here, anyways?" the man said and tried to pear around the rooms. "Where's Amelia?"
Amy and Jane froze and stared at the man. "Amelia Pond?"
"Yeah, Amelia." The man turned back to the Amy and Jane. "Little Scottish girl with ginger hair." Jane and Amy shared a look before the man started talking again."I promised her five minutes, but the engines were phasing, I suppose I might have gone a bit far." The man explained. "Has something happened to her?"
Amy stared at him, warily. "Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time." Jane couldn't help but feel like she had seen this all happen before somewhere but she couldn't place where
"How long?" he asked.
"Six months."
The man looked shocked. "No, no, no, no. I can't be six months late, I said five minutes. I promised." The man sniffed. Amy turned away from him, clicking her fake radio.
"What happened to her?" the man asked, straining to get either of their attentions again. "What happened to Amelia Pond?"
"Sarge," Amy said, talking into her fake radio again. "It's me again. Hurry it up; these people know something about Amelia Pond."
It had been a couple of minutes now, and everyone was still where they were. "We need to speak to whoever lives in this house right now." The man suddenly said.
"We live here." Amy said and pointed at Jane and herself.
"But, you're the police." The man pointed out.
"Yes, and I live here with my sister. You got a problem with that?" The man's eyes moved to something behind Amy, which made Jane look where he was in curiosity. She couldn't see anything at first but she felt like it was because something didn't want her to see what was there… Then her eyes widened as a door she had never seen before was suddenly there.
"How many rooms?" The man asked.
"… I'm sorry, what?" Amy asked.
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor?" The man specified. "Count them for me, now."
"Why?"
"Because the answer could change your life." he said, completely serious.
"Five." She answered. "One, two, three, four, five." She pointed them out.
"Six." Jane whispered shocked.
"What?" Amy snaped at Jane giving her a confused look.
"Six." The man repeated, recapturing Amy's attention.
"I think I'd know if there was six rooms here."Amy said heatedly.
"Look." The man said.
"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 man explained. Amy turned, doing exactly that, and suddenly she could see the door.
"That's… That's not possible. How is that possible?"
"There's a perception filter around the door." he explained,"I should have seen it, last time I was here."
Jane suddenly snaped back into reality looking at the man couriously. If he was who she thought he was then he really missed a lot the last time he was here the he realised.
"But that's a whole room." Amy muttered. "That's a whole room, I've never noticed."
"The filter stops you from noticing." The man explained. "Something came here, a while ago, to hide, and it's still hiding, and you need to un-cuff me now!"
"Don't have the key, I lost it."
"How can you have lost it?" the man asked as Amy started to walk towards the door.
"Amy." Jane said caustiously and grabbed her arm slightly, but Amy shook her off and continued walking. "Amy!" she hissed slightly trying to get her to stop going towards the door, since she got the fealing that whatever was in there wasn't that friendly.
"Stay away from that door!" Amy ignored him, going towards the door. "Do not touch that door!" She ignored him again, reaching out to touch the door handle. "Listen to me, do not open that –!" She ignored him, turning the handle and stepping inside the room. "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I have a face that nobody listens to?" He paused. "Again." He started to feel around his pockets.
"What are you doing?" Jane asked sharply.
"My screwdriver, where is it?" the man asked aloud. "Silver thing, blue at the end, where did it go?"
"There's nothing here." Amy said, still inside the room.
"Well, duh, it's stopped you from seeing the whole room! What makes you think it'll let you see it?" Jane said snarkly.
"Now please, just get out!" The man said.
"Silver, blue at the end?" The two brunettes looked at each other.
"My screwdriver, yeah." The Doctor answered.
"It's here." Amy answered.
"Must've rolled under the door when you hit me with a cricket bat." The man said.
"Yeah. Must've. And then it must've… jumped up on the table." Jane looked over at the man and saw that something was very wrong.
"Get out of there." The man's voice rose to a yell. "Get out of there! Get out! Get out of there!" The man started to strain against his handcuffs to see if he could see anything wich made Jane worry and start to hurry towards the door. "What is it? What are you doing?" Didn't he say to get out of there?
"There's nothing here, but…" It sounded like she could feel something was wrong. The thing was probably near her, but it was using a 'perception filter'.
"Corner of your eye." The man said then added stearnly, "Stay away from that door!" Jane looked at the man her eyes pleading with him to let her go to her sister's aid. The man gave her a look that told her that it was better not to get herself in touble along with Amy.
"What is it?" She asked.
"Don't try and see it, if it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it!" The man called to her. "Do not… Look." There wasn't even a moment of silence after he said when she screamed.
"Amy!" Jane yelled and ignored the man'sprotest and ran towards the door and her sister grabbing her as she ran out the room then slamed the door shut. Amy got out of Jane's grip and ran back over to the man. Jane followed her quickly.
"Gimme that." The Doctor grabbed his thing. He quickly aimed it at the door and it locked. He then turned to himself and aimed it at his handcuffs, but it now spluttered badly. "Oh, what's the nasty alien done to you?" He asked, whipping away the slime on it.
"Will that door hold it?" Amy asked.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, course." The man's voice was dripping with sarcasm. "It's an interdimensional multiform from outer space, they're all terrified of wood." She gave him a scathing look, and the door suddenly flashed yellow from within.
"What the hell is it doing?" Jane asked.
"I don't know." The Doctor peeked up at the door before going back to whipping his 'screwdriver'. "Getting dressed? Run." He told the two of then. "Just go, your backup's coming, we'll be fine."
"Like hell I'm leaving you here alone." Jane said her protective side taking over.
"There is no backup." Amy said.
"What?" the man asked. "I heard you on the radio, you called for backup."
"I was pretending, it's a pretend radio." She answered.
"But you're a policewoman." he said.
"I'm a kiss-o-gram!" She pulled off her hat, and all her tightly done hair falls out loosely. There was no time for staring, though, as the door crashed down at the other end of the corridor. A man and a large black Rottweiler stepped out, staring at the three of them.
"What the?" Jane said counfused.
"… But it's just…" Amy muttered.
"No it isn't. Look at the faces." The dog started to growl before barking. But when Jane looked closer, she saw that the dog's face wasn't moving. However, the man's face was. It was the man that was barking.
"What?" Amy said. "I'm sorry, but what?"
"It's all one creature." Jane saw that both heads moved in unison. "One creature disguised as two. Clever, old multiform. A bit of a rushed job, though, got the voices a bit muddled, did you?" The raggedy man asked and the creature stared at him. "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a physic link, life feed, how'd you fix that?"
The creature didn't answer and the man growled again. He took a step towards them. He opened his mouth and revealed large, pointy teeth. "Ohh." Jane said slightly worried, and without thinking she grabbed Amy's hand, just like she always did. Amy didn't look at her, but squeezed her hand nonetheless.
"Stay away!" He paused. "Apparently, we're safe, wanna know why?" He patted Amy's shoe. "She sent for backup."
"I didn't send for backup!" She repeated.
"I know," The raggedy man said. "That was a clever line to save our lives. Okay, yeah, no backup!" The other man closed his mouth and stopped growling. "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."
"Attention Prisoner Zero." A voice suddenly spoke from outside. Amy recognized it as the same voice that had been in the prisoner on the other side of the crack. "The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."
"What's that?" Jane and Amy asked at the same time.
"Well, that would be backup." The Doctor said. "Okay, one more time. We do have backup, and that's defiantly why we're safe."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Well, safe, apart from incineration." The man said.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice continued that announcement on a loop.
The man and his dog wandered off into another room. The man slammed his 'screwdriver' onto the floor, trying to get it to work. "Work, work, work, work. Come on!" Finally, it did, and the man was quick to use it on the handcuffs. They snapped open.
"Run!" the man grabbed the both women's hand. "Run!" The brunette pushed them down the stairs quickly.
With the deep voice still repeating the message, the three of them ran out of the house, slamming the door behind them. The man used his 'screwdriver' on it and it locked. The Doctor turned back, while doing this. "A kiss-o-gram?"
"Yes, a kiss-o-gram!" Amy responded. They ran towards the a familiar blue box. "What's going on?"
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?" the man asked.
"You broke into our house." Amy responded. "It was this or a French maid. What's going on, tell me! Tell me!"
The man threw his hands up for a moment, frustrated. "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 and Jane said.
The Doctor tried to unlock the box which Jane had the sinking feeling was called something like TARIS or ARDIS or something closes to that. But it wouldn't open. "No, no, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now... It's still rebuilding, not letting us in."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residences, or the human residences will be incinerated."
Amy grabbed the man's hand and tried to pull him away from the box. The Doctor struggled.
"Wait, wait, hang on!" The Doctor broke free and ran to the shed. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, the shed! I destroyed the shed last time we were here, smashed it to pieces."
"So what?" Jane asked. "It's a new one."
"Yeah, but the new one's got old. At least ten years old." He sniffed it and ran a finger down it before licking his finger. "Twelve years. We're not six months late, we're twelve years late." Jane blinked, bewildered. He could tell that just by licking it?
"He's coming." Amy said looking worried
"You said six months." The man walked right up to her. "Why did you say six months?"
"We've gotta go." Jane said trying to save Amy.
"This is important." he insisted. "Why did you say six months?"
Amy snapped, spinning around to face him. "Well, why did you say five minutes?"
There was a beat of silence, and the man stared at the Amy in shock. Her eyes were wide. They knew, now – she was Amelia Pond. "What?" the man whispered.
"Come on." Amy said.
"What?" The man echoed.
"Come on!" Jane grabbed his hands.
"What?" he yelled. Jane pulled him by his hands. They ran by the front door, as the man and the dog stood there, this time both the man and the dog barked at them.
The Doctor, Jane, and Amy ran up the little village road towards the village square, and he stopped, turning to her. "You're Amelia."
"You're late."
"Little Amelia Pond. You're the little girl." he added.
"She's Amelia, and you're late." Jane answered curtly.
"What happened?" The Doctor asked.
"Twelve years."
"You hit me with a cricket bat." The Doctor retorted.
"Twelve years." Jane repeated.
"A cricket bat."
"Twelve years, and four psychiatrists."
"Four?" he asked.
"She kept biting them." Jane answered.
The man looked at them finding it vaguely funny. "Why?" he asked, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"They said you weren't real." Amy answered.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated." The group looked over to see the voice blaring out of the speakers of an ice cream van.
"No, no, no come on." Amy muttered. "What? We're being staked out… By an ice cream van."
"Been stalked by worse." Jane said nonchalontly.
The three of them ran over to the van. "What's that? Why are you playing that?"
"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune." The ice cream vendor said.
The man picked up the radio and held 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."
He poked around the radio and then walked to the side of the van. Jane looked around and saw that everything with a speaker was playing the same message, IPods, cell phones, radios… "What's happening?" They looked around for a few more seconds, and then ran off, apparently in different directions. The Doctor, leaped over someone's garden fence. Jane and Amy followed closely behind.
They got to a lovely elderly lady's home. The man hurried through the unlocked door, skidded on the carpet, and headed into the living room. Jane found a small elderly woman was trying to change the channel. On the screen was a giant eyeball, whizzing around, speaking the same words that was heard everywhere else.
"Hello." The man greeted. "Sorry to burst in, we're doing a special on television faults in this area." Amy burst through the doors and stopped right next to Jane. "Also, crimes. Let's have a look." He walked over and took the remote from the elderly woman.
"I was just about to phone." The woman explained. "It's on every channel." She took notice to Amy and Jane. "Oh, hello Jane, Amy dear." The woman greeted. "Are you a policewoman now?"
It was obviously that Amy was a bit embarrassed. "Well, sometimes…"
"I thought you were a nurse." The two brunettes looked at Amy, one with curiosity the other with amusement.
"I can, be a nurse."
"Or, actually a nun?"
"I dabble." She laughed it off.
The elderly woman decided to ignore it for now. "Amy, who's your friends?"
"Who's Amy?" The man asked. "You're Amelia."
"Yeah, and now I'm Amy."
"Amelia Pond." The man responded. "That was a great name."
"… Bit fairytale." Both of them looked at her. Jane could hear the disappointment in her voice, obviously from him coming so late.
"I know you, don't I?" The elderly woman asked. "I mean I've seen you somewhere before."
"Not me. Brand new face." He stretched his mouth, as wide as he could, to apparently show her how new his face was. "First time on. Changing the subject. What is a kiss-o-gram?"
"I go to parties, and… I kiss people." Amy cleared her throat. "With outfits, it's a laugh."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago." The man said.
Amy made a face. "You're worse than our aunt."
"I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt." Jane looked at him before motioning to the elderly woman next to him. The Doctor turned back to her. "And that is not how I'm introducing myself." She nodded, a little bemused, and he turned and started to use the 'screwdriver' on the radio, tuning it to different languages. The voice of the aliens continued to come out, in different languages, but then he stoped and looked at Jane. "Hold on. You two are sisters? The last time I was here you said it was just you and your aunt." He said to Amy
"It was." Amy said.
"Then how is she your sister?" he asked.
"They adopted me." Jane said like it was the most obvious thing in the world, which it kinda was. So he just went back to the radio messing with it a little more.
"Okay. So it's everywhere. In every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world." The Doctor ran over to the window, opened it, and leaned out, looking to the sky.
"What's up there?" Amy asked. "What are you looking at?"
He pulled himself back in, and wandered around the room. "Okay. Planet this size, two poles? You basic molten core? Uh, they're gonna need a forty percent fission blast." Jeff came through the front door. The Doctor walked up to him and backed him into a wall. The Doctor leaned right up close to him. "But they'll have to power up first. So, assuming a medium sized star ship… That's twenty minutes. What do you think? Twenty minutes?" The Doctor bounced up and down, raising and lowering himself on his tiptoes to equal the man's height, then back to his own height, then up again. "Yeah… Twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes to what?" Jane asked.
"Are you the Doctor?" Jeff asked.
"He is, isn't he? He's the Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor! All those cartoons you did when you were little? The Raggedy Doctor! It's them!"
Amy cleared her throat. "… Shut up."
"Cartoons?" the Doctor muttered.
"Ha! So that's why he looked so familiar!" Jane said with a smile.
The Doctor headed over to the T.V. and slumped onto the sofa. Jeff wandered closer.
"Gran? It's him, isn't it? It's really him!"
"Jeff, shut up." Amy ordered before turning to the Doctor. "Twenty minutes to what?"
"The human residence." The Doctor explained. "They're not talking about your house; they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship. And, it's going to incinerate the planet." He paused. "Twenty minutes to the end of the world."
"Fan-freaking-tastic." Jane said sarcasticly.
They were outside now; the Doctor, Jane, and Amy were walking past the village green. "What is this place? Where are we?"
"Leadworth." Amy answered.
"Where's the rest of it?" The Doctor asked.
"This is it."Jane said
"Is there an airport?" he asked.
"No." they said together.
"A nuclear power station?" The Doctor asked.
"Ha, no." Amy answered.
"Not even a small one?" he questioned.
"Nope."Jane said the 'p'.
"Nearest city?" The Doctor interrogated.
"Half an hour by car." Amy responded.
"We don't have a half an hour. Do we even have a car?" he asked.
Amy thought about that, realizing. "No."
"Oh, that's good!" The sarcasm was back in the Doctor's tone. "Fantastic, that is, twenty minutes to save the world, and I've got a Post Office. And it's shut."
"What is that?" He pointed ahead, and then ran towards it. Amy and Jane followed him.
"It's a duck pond." Amy responded.
The Doctor abruptly turned to face her. "Why aren't there any ducks?"
Amy gave him a weird look. "I don't know, there's never any ducks."
"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?" The Doctor asked.
"Doctor," Jane entered the conversation. "It's a duck pond. How is this important?" They had to save the world in twenty minutes, now was not the time to focus on something like a duck pond.
"I don't know. How would I know?" During this line, he clutched his chest and jerked around slightly, falling to the ground. Jane tried to catch him but only softened his fall slightly. "This is too soon… I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."
Amy stared at him, as Jane gently rubbed his arm, trying in vain to lessen even some of the pain. However, they all looked up when a shadow fell. "What's happening? Why's it going dark?" Amy asked. The dark slowly passed, but whatever caused it left the sun looking strange. "What's wrong with the sun?"
"Nothing." The Doctor answered. "You're looking at it through a force field; they've sealed off your upper atmosphere, now they're getting ready to boil the planet." Lovely, Jane thought sarcastically. Amy stared at him as the Doctor got up, with some help from Jane. He looked around the park, at everyone who had pulled out a mobile phone and was filming the strange-looking sun. "Oh and here they come. The human race. See, the end comes, as it always going to, down a video phone."
"This isn't real," Amy tried to convince herself. "This is some kind of big wind-up…"
"Why would I wind you up?" the Doctor asked as the two brunettes turned around to face her.
"You told me you had a time machine." Amy said.
"And you believed me." The Doctor added.
"Then I grew up."
"Oh, well you never wanna do that." The Doctor said then lookes over at Jane.
"Growing up would be no fun so why would I?" she said with an impish smile.
"No." The Doctor muttered, seeming to realize something. "Hang on, shut up! Wait, I missed it." He slapped himself in the forehead, painfully. Jane winced a slight bit. "I saw it, and I missed it." He slapped himself again, his head looking quite red. "What did I see, I saw, what did I see, I saw, I saw, I saw…" Jane stared at him as he seemed to stare out into space for a second noticeing how good looking he was, but she pushed the tought away quckly with a small blush.
"Twenty minutes!" The Doctor came back to reality. "I can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns, run to your loved ones and say goodbye… Or stay and help me."
"… No." Amy said. Jane blinked, that didn't make sense.
"No?" The Doctor asked.
"No!" She grabbed a hold of the Doctor's messy tie, and dragged him towards a just-parked car in the car park right behind her.
"Amy – no, no!" The Doctor struggled. "What are you doing?"
"Amy! Hey wait what are you!" Jane started and tried to get Amy to let the Doctor go but instead Amy somehow got Jane's hands tied behind her back with the tie before she closed the car door on the tie trapping both Jane and the Doctor. She then took the car keys off an elderly man who owned the car and locked it. The Doctor tried to move, but jerked back, stuck. "Are you out of your mind?" The Doctor asked.
"Who are you?" Amy demanded.
"You know who I am." The Doctor said and squeaked a little when Jane accidently tightend his tie while trying to get lose from it.
"Sorry." She said quickly.
"No really." Amy turned back to the Doctor. "Who are you?"
"Look at the sky." The Doctor said. "End of the world. Twenty minutes."
"Well, better talk quickly then." Amy retorted.
"Stubern little." Jane muttered under her breath.
"Amy," The elderly man finally spoke up. "I am going to need my car back."
Amy closed her eyes, obviously annoyed. "Yes, in a bit. Now go and have coffee."
"Right. Yes…" He left. The Doctor realized something; he reached into his pocket. When he felt something smooth and round he pulled it back out.
"Catch." The Doctor said. He tossed the apple to Amy and she caught it. She stared at it. It was the one she gave to him just before he inspected the crack in her wall. The smiley face still carved into it.
"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said. "I'm a time traveler. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go right now, everything you've ever known is over."
Amy stared at the apple, considering it, the apple, intensely. "... I don't believe you."
"Twenty minutes, Amy." The Doctor put his hand onto her wrist, which held the apple. Jane looked at the two of them hoping Amy would let them go. "Believe me for twenty minutes. Look at it. It's fresh as the day you gave it to me. And, come on, you know, you know, it's the same one." Amy took her second thoughts, looking between the brunettes' earnest faces and the smiling of the apple. "Amy, please, for twenty minutes… Believe in me."
Amy paused for a long moment. Finally, she raised her hand and unlocked the car door. The Doctor was quick to get out and untie Jane from his tie. "What do we do?" Amy asked.
"Stop that nurse." The Doctor ordered. Amy grinned a slightly evil smile, and Jane couldn't figure out right at this moment, but decided to ignore it. The Doctor, freed, took off, jumping over the low chain link fence. Jane was right after him, use to doing things like this. The Doctor ran slightly past the nurse, Rory, nicking his phone swiftly from his hand as he went. He peered at the phone curiously, and then turned to confront Rory.
Jane was easily able to catch up. She looked over the Doctor's shoulder, confused as to why Rory was taking a picture of a man in a dog. He was a human, for God's sake; he should be taking picture of the crazy, strange looking sun. Amy caught up afterwards, having to run slower, after barely bouncing over the low fence and stopping to tug down her short, short skirt. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog, why?" He handed the phone back.
Rory didn't answer the Doctor. Instead, he noticed Amy as she caught up, and was obviously relieved. "Amy!"
"Hi." She greeted and turned to the Doctor. "Oh, uh, this is Rory, he's a… friend."
"Boyfriend." Rory corrected with a proud smile.
"Kind of." Amy said. "Boyfriend." Jane roled her eyes at Amy and smiled at Rory and waved. He waved back distractedly.
"Amy." Rory turned to her again.
"Man and dog. Why?" The Doctor demanded. They didn't have time for this. They needed to save the world in under twenty minutes.
"Oh, my gosh. It's him." Rory said, realizing it was the Doctor he was looking at.
"Just, answer his question, please." Amy said, a little annoyed now. She didn't want to repeat this.
"It's them though!" Rory said, shocked. "The Doctor, the raggedy Doctor."
"Yeah!" Amy said, trying to move past this. "They, they came back."
"But they were a story, they were a game –" Rory was interrupted as the Doctor impatiently grabbed him by the front of his jacket.
"Man and dog. Why. Tell me. Now." The Doctor ordered annoyed. They did not have time for this.
"Sorry." Rory shook his head, finally answering his question. "Because – he can't be there – because, he's –" The Doctor seemed to know the rest of the sentence for he said it in unison with Rory. "In a hospital, in a comma." Rory nodded. "Yeah."
"Knew it." The Doctor nodded to himself. "Multiform, you see?" He let go of Rory and brushed him down. "Disguised itself as anything, but it needs a life feed, a physic link, with al living, but dormant mind." The Doctor poked Rory in the forehead, making his point. They were interrupted by the dog barking from behind them, or was it the man barking? It was both. They all spun around, and the Doctor moved forward to confront him. "Prisoner Zero."
"What?" Rory turned to Amy. "There's a Prisoner Zero too?"
"Yep." Jane answered rocking back and forth on the ball of her heals.
A large, almost star looking ship came over the horizon. A giant eyeball scanned the area. "See, that ship up there is scanning the area for non-terrestrial technology." He took the 'screwdriver' out of his pocket. "And nothing says non-terrestrial like sonic screwdriver." Looking gleeful, he held down the button, and raised the screwdriver into the air. Streetlamps suddenly started exploding, car alarms all went off, and a mobility scooter had a mind of its own. But suddenly the screwdriver itself exploded, the Doctor dropped it on the ground in front of him. The Doctor attempted to pick up the charred mess. "No, no, no! Don't do that!" He threw the screwdriver to the ground.
The ship started to pack up and leave. The Doctor turned around to face it. "It's going! No, come back! He's here! Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is here!" Prisoner Zero, as the man, gave a smug smirk. Then, the entire creature, man and dog, glowed orange and basically melted down the drain. "Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is... Here…"
"Doctor." Amy called, to get the man's attention. "The drain, it just… sort of, melted and went down the drain."
"Well, of course it did." He said bitterly. Jane elbowed him and gave him a look that said not to be rude. He just sighed and turned around.
"It's hiding in human form. We need to drive it to the open." The Doctor explained. "No TARDIS, no screwdriver, seventeen minutes, come on… Think. Think." The Doctor grabbed a confused Jane's hand and he led her over to the drain where Prisoner Zero melted into. He was thinking.
"So that thing." Amy finally spoke up. "That hid in my house for twelve years?"
"Multiforms can live for millennia." The Doctor answered. "Twelve years is a pitstop."
"So how come you show up again on the same day that lot do?" Amy asked, suspicion rising in her voice. "The same minute?"
"They're looking for him, but they followed me." The Doctor explained. "They saw me through the crack, got a fix, they're only late 'cause I am."
"What's he on about?" Rory asked, out of the loop.
"Nurse boy," The Doctor said, holding his hand out. "Gimme your phone."
"How can they be real?" Rory asked. "They were never real!"
"Phone. Now. Gimme." Rory handed him his phone.
"It was just a game, we were – we were kids, you made me dress up as him!" Jane smirked and shook her head. She knew it well but Rory was completely whiped.
"These photos, they're all coma patients." The Doctor said. Jane looked over his sholder off handedly wondering why he didn't seem to care that she was so close to him, but pushed it away. The Doctor slid through all the pictures of each of the forms the 'multiform' had taken.
"Yep." Rory nodded.
"No. They're all the multiform. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor muttered to himself.
"He had a dog though," Amy pointed out. "There's a dog in a coma?"
"Well, the coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog. Laptop!" He looked up from the phone. "Your friend, what was his name, not him," The Doctor pointed at Rory. "The good-looking one!"
"Thanks." Rory said sarcastically.
"Jeff." Amy supplied.
"Ohhh thanks." Jane walked over to Rory and patted him on the back and shook her head slightly.
"He had a laptop in his bag." The Doctor said, remembering when he first met him.
"A laptop." The Doctor nodded. "Big bag, big laptop. I need Jeff's laptop. You two, get to the hospital. Get everyone out of that ward, clear the floor; phone me when you're done. You with me!" The Doctor ran back to the house, dragging Jane behind him. The Doctor ran up the front path of Jeff's house, inside, and was in Jeff's room quickly.
"Wait why am I coming with you?" Jane asked as she ran into Jeff's room.
The Doctor just ignored her and called out to Jeff. "Pretty boy!" Jeff looked up. "Laptop. Now. Give it here!" The Doctor crossed the room and tried to pry the laptop away from Jeff, who was trying to cover the screen, and keep it away from the Doctor.
"No, no, no, no, no –" Both men were speaking over the other.
"No – it's – fine – give – it – here!"
"Hang on!"
The Doctor snatched it from him, finally, and sat down at the edge of the bed. Jane walked over and sat down next to him. The Doctor and Jane looked at the screen, while Jeff looked over the Doctor's shoulder warily, both brunettes' eyes widened. "Dear lord Jeff." Jane mumbled.
"Blimey." The Doctor muttered. "Get a girlfriend, Jeff."
Jeff's grandmother entered. "Gran."
"What are you doing?" She asked the pair.
"Sun's gone wibbly, so right now, somewhere out there, there's gonna be a big old video conference call. All the experts in the world, panicking at once, and d'you know what they need? Me. Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Center, Patrick Moore."
"Oh! I like Patrick Moore." She said with a giggle.
"I'll get you his number," The Doctor said. "But watch him, he's a devil."
"You can't just hack into a call like that." Jeff interrupted.
"As far as you know, Jeff." Throughout this exchange the Doctor had been hurriedly typing; abruptly he stopped, and held up his physic paper up to the webcam on the top of Jeff's computer. One the laptop screen was six different boxes, each with a different person representing a different place. Evidently the physic paper had worked somehow, because it started up a large amount of questions from everyone.
"Who are you?"
"This is a secure call, what are you doing?"
"Hello." The Doctor greeted. "Yeah, I know, you should switch me off, but before you do, watch this." It got a bit complicated, and Jane couldn't keep up with all the voices as the Doctor typing, rapidly, obviously showing them at the same time just what he's doing. "Fermat's Theorem, the proof, and I mean the real one, never before seen, poor Fermat got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault. I slept it." The Doctor added, looking guilty. "Oh, and here's an oldie but a goodie, why electrons have mass, and a personal favorite of mine, faster than light travel with two diagrams and a joke." Jane's eye brows shot up showing how impressed she was with the Doctor as he showed just how brilliant he was. The Doctor stopped typing. "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 was typing something on Rory's phone. "Sir! What are you doing?" A man asked.
"I am writing a computer virus," The Doctor said, not looking away from the phone. "Very clever, super fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on. Andy 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." The Doctor said. Jane smirked and chuckled a little.
"What does this virus do?" Another asked.
"Oh, it's a reset command, that's all, it resets counters, it gets in the wi-fi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default to zero at exactly the same time. But yeah, I could by lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain." There was a pause, as the Doctor waited, Jeff still staring curiously over his shoulder. The Doctor waited, and then slowly turned to Jeff.
"Jeff," Jane whispered smiling. "You're his best man."
"His what?" Jeff asked.
The Doctor closed the laptop screen, and turned to Jeff. The Time Lord put a hand on his shoulder. "Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're gonna be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is gonna 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."
Jeff just looked a bit dumbstruck, thinking carefully before he answered. "… Why me?"
"Because it's your room." The Doctor answered simply."Now, go, go, go." The Doctor and Jane got up, quickly, and left. Jeff took the laptop back, and put his game face on.
"Okay guys. Let's do this." His bedroom door reopened suddenly, and the Doctor was there.
"Oh, and delete your internet history." The Doctor waggled a finger at Jeff, all the while seeming to think the better of it. Jane chuckled again. They then left once more. Running up the garden path, they reached the gate, looking from side to side… The Doctor saw something he liked, and ran off, towards it. Jane ran after him confused.
Then Jane heard a phone ringging and reached into her pocket and pulled out Rory's phone. She didn't trust the Doctor to honestly be able to answer it, so she took it from him. She answered it. "Y'hello?"
"Jane?" Amy's clear voice answered her. "We're at the hospital, but we can't get through."
Jane called to the Doctor. "Oi! Raggedy man!" Said man stopped, right in front of a fire truck. Jane raised an eye brow. He flashed something at a fireman and they got on. "Amy says that they can't get through to the hospital."
"Tell her to look into a mirror." Jane looked at him raising an eye brow but shook her head and did it anyways.
She tucked the phone back into her ear. "Look in a mirror, Amy."
Amy paused. "… Oh."
The brunette girl could just hear Rory in the background. "What did she say?"
"Look in a mirror." Amy responded. "Ha." Jane smirked, knowing Amy had done it. "Uniform. Are you on your way? You're gonna need a car."
"Don't worry about that. The Doctor found something." Jane responded. She grinned at the man shaking her head slightly. she put the phone down, figuring they would probably have to keep the line up and slammed the siren on. The Doctor laughed like he was the little kid he was, and Jane just whooped.
"Amy?" Jane asked when she heard a strange noise on the other end. She figured it was a good thing she kept the phone on. "Amy, what's going on?" There was no answer; Jane could see the Doctor peeking at her, probably starting to get worried. "Amy! Talk to me!"
"We're in the coma ward, but its here, it's getting in." Jane looked worried but relayed the message to the Doctor.
"Ask them which window they're at." The Doctor instructed.
"Which window are you at?" Jane eyed him and asked.
"What, sorry?" Jane rolled her eyes slightly annoyed.
"Which. Window. Are. You. At. Now!"
"Uhh, first floor on the left, fourth from the end." Jane repeated this.
"Tell them to duck." Jane flipped the phone and sent a text to Amy, telling her to duck. Jane looked up and saw they were going straight into the building. But, right before they could, the latter shattered the window. The Doctor tugged her arm gently and they both got out of the vehicle and climbed up the latter. The Doctor leapt into the room, draping his hands across Rory's and Amy's shoulders. Jane jumped into the room, fixing her shirt.
"Hey guys. Miss me?" Jane greeted.
"Right! Hello! Are we late? No." The Doctor looked at the clock. "Three minutes to go. There's still time."
"Time for what, Time Lord?" Prisoner Zero asked.
The Doctor stepped forward and paused. "Take the disguise off, they'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies."
"The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire." She smiled.
"Ha, ha." The Doctor laughed. "Okay. You came to this world by opening a crack in space and time. Do it again. Just leave."
"… I did not open the crack." Prisoner Zero commented.
"Somebody did." The Doctor contradicted.
"The cracks in the skin of the universe – don't' you know where they came from?" The look on the Doctor's face obviously showed he had no idea, and Prisoner Zero picked up on this. "You don't, do you?"Suddenly, one of the little girls' voices started to talk; only this time it was through the mother. "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know." Her voice turned sing-song. "Doesn't know, doesn't know." The mother's voice took over again. "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall."
There was a noise from behind Prisoner Zero, and the Doctor's eyes flicked to it. His expression lightened, and he relaxed slightly. "And, we're off. Look at that. Look, at that." He raised a hand to point, and everyone turned to see… the thud from behind Prisoner Zero was the clock on the wall, which had reset itself, now showing '0:00'. "Yeah, I know, just a clock, whatever, but d'you know what's happening right now?" Prisoner Zero turned to face him, not happy. "In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And d'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 the word is?" Amy and Rory are staring at him, the magnificent Doctor, Amy looking proud. Jane looking impressed. "The word is zero. Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd probably take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet, surrounding the planet, I'd be able to track a simple old computer virus to its source in… what, under a minute? The source, by the way… is right here."
The Doctor pulled Rory's phone out of his pocket and held it out. There was a pause, before a blinding white light flashed through the windows. "That was fast." Jane muttered.
"Oooohhhh, and I think they just found us." Rory, Jane and Amy ran to the window to see. One of the Atraxi ships was flying to hover above the hospital, shining a spotlight directly from the eye's pupil to rest on the windows where they were all grouped.
"The Atraxi are limited." Prisoner Zero wasn't worried. "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 favorite 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." The Doctor scrolled through the options and uploaded the pictures. "And the final score is, no TARDIS, now screwdriver, two minutes to spare… Who da man?" He threw his arms out. Even Prisoner Zero looked unimpressed. Jane shook her head with a small chuckle; putting her hand to her forehead. Amy gave him a sympathetic smile. "… Oh. Well. I'm just, never saying that again. Fine."
"Wonderful." Jane said.
"Then I shall take a new form." Prisoner Zero said.
"Oh, stop it, you know you can't." The Doctor responded. "Takes months to form that kind of physic link."
"And I've had years." The creature, all three of the figures, started to glow orange. The Doctor stared, unnerved, when suddenly Amy collapsed.
"Amy!" Jane cried. The brunette rushed over to her. The Doctor turned and ran over as well, crouching beside her. The Atraxi ship, outside, was scanning all the hospital windows, now, obliviously unsure where to look.
"No! Amy!" He put his hands against her face. "You've gotta hold on!"
"Amy! Please! You've got to stay awake, no time for sleeping right now!" Jane was right next to the Doctor.
Rory looked up and tapped the Doctor's shoulder urgently. "Doctor." He pointed at Prisoner Zero. The Doctor looked up, at… himself and a samll child. The real Doctor sat up beside Rory, somewhat bemused. Jane just blinked a little bewildered recognizign the child to be herself.
"… Well, that's rubbish." The Doctor finally said. "Who's that supposed to be?"
"It's you and Jane." Rory answered.
"Me? Is that what I look like?" The 'Time Lord' looked down at himself then back up at his clone.
"You don't know?" Rory asked.
"Busy day." The Doctor said then looked at Jane then the child beside his clone. "How is that Jane? She's not a child she's all…" he trailed off making odd hand motions at Jane.
"I was a child once you know." Jane said simply, ignoring the odd hand motions that he was using to most likely describe her well porportioned body.
The Doctor got up and she watched him. "Why us, though?" The Doctor asked. "You're linked with her. Why are you copying us?"
"I'm not." Jane looked up, alarmed. She knew that small, Scottish accent anywhere. Suddenly, young Amy Pond was back, wandering around the taller figure of the Doctor, holding his hand. "Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside. Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her and the mysterious girl who came with him. What a disappointment you've been."
There was a long pause. Jane guessed Prisoner Zero was trying to get a rise out of the Doctor. "No, she's dreaming about us 'cause she can hear us." He turned, ran, and crouched down beside Amy once more. "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. You went in the room. You went inside. Amy… Dream about what you saw."
Apparently, Amy had done just that, for little Amy Pond responded. "No. No. No!" Prisoner Zero started to fade orange; the Doctor looked up, and then stood up, walking to face it, as it turned into the shape Amy had seen. Its original form. And then it roared at him, like a lion.
"Well done, Prisoner Zero." The Doctor said. "A perfect impersonation of yourself." The light suddenly intensified on the window beside Prisoner Zero. It started thrashing around, hissing, as the Atraxi spoke.
"Prisoner Zero is located. Prisoner Zero is restrained."
The Doctor stared, his face bathed in the white light, as Prisoner Zero faced him a final time. "Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall." It faded away, into nothing, and the Atraxi ship powered up its engines and left. The Doctor ran to the window to make sure, and is obviously satisfied, but doesn't looked pleased about it. He took out the phone again, and started dialing rapidly.
"What are you doing?" Jane asked him but he ignored her.
"The – the sun, is back to normal, right? That's… That's good, yeah? That means its over." Rory asked, unsure.
The Doctor, brilliantly, ruffled his hair as he walked past him, still dialing. Amy woke up, slowly, as Rory and Jane leaned over her. "Amy? Are you okay? Are you with us?"
"Take it slow sweetie." Jane said softly.
"What happened?" Amy asked.
"He did it. The Doctor did it." Rory answered.
"No I didn't." The Doctor intervened. Jane got up and walked over to the Doctor, watching his face.
"Sorry what?" Jane asked, she looked down at the phone. "What are you doing?"
"Tracking the signal back. Sorry, in advance." He told Rory.
"About what?"
The Doctor made a face. "The bill."
Rory groaned. The Doctor seemed to find the signal for he called it and put the phone into his ear. "Oi! I didn't say you could go! Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established level five planet. And you were gonna burn it? What? Did you think no one was watching? You lot. Back here, now." He hung up the phone, and tossed it back to Rory. "Okay. Now I've done it." He started to wander off. Jane watched his back for a moment with her eyebrows rose before she finally shook her head and walked after him.
"Uh, did he just bring them back?" Rory asked. Amy got up to follow Jane, hurriedly. "Did he just save the world from aliens, and then bring all the aliens back again?"
The Doctor smashed the double doors open, impressively. Jane slightly behind him, with Amy hurrying behind her, and Rory was catching up to her. "Where are we going?" Jane asked with a smile.
"The roof." The Doctor paused a moment. "No. Hang on." He ducked into a cloakroom, and they followed. The Doctor rambled around the cloakroom, picking up the odd piece of clothing and holding onto some, flinging the rest over his shoulder. Rory was following picking up the clothes the Doctor was dropping or throwing.
"What's in here?" Amy asked.
"I'm saving the world, I need a decent shirt!" The Doctor said. "To hell with the raggedy – time to put on a show!" He spun around with a coat before dropping it.
"You've just summoned aliens back to Earth." Rory picked up again. "Actual aliens! Deadly aliens! Aliens… of death, and… now you're… taking your clothes off." Indeed, the Doctor was stripping in a corner of the room, trying on his new clothes. Jane couldn't stop her eye brows from shooting up so fast they looked like they had disappeared from behind her bangs. "Jane, Amy, he's taking his clothes off."
"Turn your back if it embarrasses you." The Doctor responded easily.
"Are you stealing cloths now?" He gave a shifty glance to Amy, which Jane caught – bless him, he was trying to impress her. "Those clothes belong to people, you know." He turned around. "Are you not gonna turn your back?" Rory asked the girls.
Amy hadn't turned around and looked particularly smug. "Nope."
Jane wanted to roll her eyes, but that meant she would have to look away, and right now, that wasn't an option. "Nah. Don't think I will."
After the Doctor was done choosing his clothes, they finally went up to the rooftop. The Doctor stepped out first, wearing half his new costume, and about five different ties, followed by Jane, then Amy, and then Rory. An Atraxi ship was already waiting for them there. "So, this was a good idea, was it?" Amy asked. "They were leaving!"
"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better." The Doctor responded. He paused, before he started to yell up at the Atraxi ship. "Come ooooon, then! The Doctor will see you now!"
The eye in the center of the Atraxi ship was suddenly released, and zoomed down to rest right in front of the Doctor, evidently examining him. A blue light flared out, and started to scan him. The Doctor waited patiently for it to finish before he then pulled up his suspenders. "You are not of this world." The Atraxi commented.
"No, but I've put a lot of work into it." He fiddled about with the new ties, trying to decide which one worked best. "Umm… Uhh… I dunno." He held them up. "What do you think?"
"Is this world important?" The Atraxi asked.
"Important?" The Doctor almost scoffed. "What does that mean, important? Six billion people live here, is that important? Here's a better question: is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" Through this, he was picking off random ties and flinging them backwards – they always managed to hit Jane, Amy or Rory. "Come on, you're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?"
The same blue light streaked outward from the pupil of the eye once more, not scanning him this time, but creating a hologram of a globe. The globe flicked through different images from Earth's transmission history, including nuclear explosions, wars, armies… and religions, praying, caring. "… No." The Atraxi answered.
"Are the people of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?" The Doctor asked.
Flicking through more images, of street carnivals, crowds, and costumes. "…No." He repeated.
"Okay, one more, just one." The Doctor paused. "Is this world protected?" More images – A Cyberman smashing through a window. A group of Cybermen. The Daleks spitting outwards from the Genesis Ark. The Empress of the Racnoss. The Ood. The Sycorax. The Sontarans. The Silurians. The Reapers. The Hath. Jane scared herself slightly when she realized that she knew what all of these were. And all the while over this, the Doctor was speaking. "'Cause you're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is… What happened to them?"
The Doctor stepped away, still fiddling with his tie, as the Atraxi globe flicked through only ten more images. Doctors the First. Second. Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eight. Ninth. Tenth. As it got to the 10th Doctor – which made Jane's heart jump at the sight of him for some odd reason – the 11th Doctor stepped through the hologram, a curious smile on his face and his full costume on, including a bow-tie and jacket, and the hologram abruptly disappeared. "Hello. I'm the Doctor." He paused and gave a small breath of laughter. "Basically." He paused again. "Run."
Jane could see the eye was slight shaking; it was obvious it was terrified. It scooted back up into its ship, and the ship left, hurriedly. Amy laughed, behind him, as he started up, grinning into the sky. Jane rushed next to him and gave him a quick hug out of sheer joy. They turned to grin at each other. Suddenly he jerked, and Jane gave him a look. There was something boiling in his pocket. He looked at each her and pulled it out… It was his TARDIS keys, glowing. He grinned at Jane grabbing her hand and running towards the stairs. "Is that it? Is that them gone for good?" Amy paused. "Who were they?"
No one answered – Amy and Rory looked around. The door back into the building was wide open, and the Doctor and Jane were already gone downstairs, and the Doctor and Jane – hand in hand – were running out of the hospital, out the front door, across the little roundabout. They didn't even remember the fire engine. Jane just laughed wondering what had the Doctor in such a happy mood, as she ran along side him.
They ran back to Amy's garden. The TARDIS was standing upright, looking very blue and particularly snazzy, and no longer pouring with smoke. There was a St. John's Ambulance sticker on the door now. It even changed shape, a tiny bit. The Doctor had a look of excitement. "Okay." The Doctor muttered. "What have you got for me this time?" He pulled out the key, and they rushed to unlock it, and then stood in the doorway, bathed in an orange glow. Jane's mouth dropped. "… Look at you." The Doctor paused as the brunettes took it in. "Oh, you sexy thing. Look at you."
"No way…" Jane laughed. "No way!" They headed inside, and the TARDIS started too dematerialized, just as Amy and Rory rushed into the garden. Amy stood slightly ahead of Rory, and as the wind whipped around her as the TARDIS disappeared she closed her eyes. She let him go again. And this time he had taken her sister.
Jane looked around the control room her eye's wide as she took in what she saw. The Doctor watched her with a grin as she walked around.
"So! This is the TARDIS! It stands for Time And Relative Demesion In Space. Any comments? Questions? I've heard them all before!" he said proudly, his grin spreading across his face as she slowly stopped and looked at the console.
"I... It's..." Jane started at a loose of words for a moment before she shook her head and said, "She's beautiful."
The Doctor looked at Jane slightly shocked. She hadn't said it was bigger on the inside like he had expected her to but commented on how beautiful his TARDIS was. He knew that he liked it when someone said it was bigger on the inside but he liked the fact that she too saw just how beautiful the TARDIS was and that made him smile softly at Jane.
"Yeah she is isn't she?" he said and patted the console lovingly. The thought of how Jane knew that the TARDIS was living not even crossing his mind at the moment before he spun around and faced Jane with a large grin. "So how would you fancy having a look at the moon?"
Jane looked away from the console and and the Doctor for a second before a large grin of her own spread across her face. "I'd love to!"
"Well then open those doors right there and you'll be one of the few people of your time to say that you've been to the moon!" the Doctor said happily.
Jane looked at the doors to the TARDIS and smiled as she ran over to them. Flinging them open a gasp involuntarily escaped her lips because of the sight before her. She had seen all the pictures before but none of that compared to the actual thing. But what was absolutely breath taking was her view of the Earth. It was just so beautiful and vast. She wished that she could just go out and explore it all. She jumped slightly when she suddenly heard the Doctor's voice from right behind her.
"Amazing isn't it? There it is that little or, the thing that holds most of the human race. The little planet that you call home and it's just right there floating in space. And no matter how many times you see it there it's still just as amazing." He said quietly.
"Amazing." She agreed breathlessly as she listened to him.
The two of them just stood there for a little while revaling in the Earth light before The Doctor pulled Jane away for the doors so he could close them and went back to the console to take them back to her home.
Jane heard the door open and turned to see Amy coming out of their house. The Doctor and she were standing in front of their TARDIS. "Sorry about running off earlier!" The Doctor said. "Brand new TARDIS, bit exciting!" Jane chuckled shaking her head. "Just had a quick hop to the Moon and back to run her in." Amy ran slightly closer to them, stopping at the small archway. "She's ready for the big stuff now." He patted the TARDIS.
"… It's you." Amy muttered. "You came back."
"Course I came back." The Doctor said. "I always come back. Something wrong with that?"
"And you kept the clothes?" Amy asked the Doctor. She walked over to them, standing beside the TARDIS as he was. Before looking over Janw as well.
"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 bowtie." Amy teased.
"Yeah. It's cool. Bowties are cool." He fixed said bowtie.
"Are you from another planet?" Amy asked.
"Yeah…" The Doctor admitted quite easily.
"'Kay…" Amy muttered.
"So what do you think?" The Doctor asked.
"What?"
"Other planets," he grinned. "Wanna go see some?"
"What does that even mean?" Amy asked.
"It means, well, it means… come wi' me. The both of you." The Doctor offered.
"Where?"
"Wherever you like." The Doctor said. It was true, with the TARDIS, the next stop was everywhere.
Amy looked at the TARDIS. "All that stuff that happened, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero –"
"Oh, please," He laughed. "That's just the beginning Amy, don't worry. There's loads more stuff out there."
"Yeah, but those things, those… amazing things, all that stuff." The Doctor nodded, happily, like he knew where this was going. Jane grinned, seeming to have the same thoughts. But she suddenly stepped towards him, looking harder. "That was two years ago."
"What!" Jane shrieked and spun on the Doctor. "Two Years!"
"Oohhh…" The Doctor muttered.
"Yeah." Amy nodded.
"So that's…"
"Fourteen years." Amy said.
"Fourteen years since fish custard." Jane raised her eye brows at him again wondering what the referance was to."Amy Pond. The girl who waited, you've waited long enough."
"… When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool. And a library and the swimming pool was in the library."Amy said looking back at the TARDIS.
"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now, it'll turn up. So! Coming?" The Doctor asked.
Amy shook her head. "No."
"You want to come fourteen years ago." The Doctor commented.
"I grew up." Amy contradicted.
"We're going to fix that, Amy Pond. Don't you worry."
The Doctor snapped his fingers, and the TARDIS doors opened. The deep orange glow spilled out, as Amy stared inside. She glanced briefly to the Doctor and jane, who were looking just a little smug, and then laughed, before slowly stepping inside. The Doctor and Jane stepped in behind her, closed the doors, and simply moved around her to head up to the console as she took her time. She stared around, wide-eyed. Jane smiled seeing her sisters reaction was similar to her own. "Well? Anything you wanna say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all."
Amy looked totally lost for words. The Doctor simply ran up to the console and did a little bounce as he reached it, and Jane looked around at the TARDIS in all its glowing glory. "… I'm in my nightie." Amy finally said.
"Oh, don't worry." The Doctor said. "Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe. And, possibly, a swimming pool. So! All of time, and space, everything that ever happened or that ever will. Where do you want to start?"
Amy stopped staring around to look at the Doctor, and stalked up to him. "You are so sure that we're coming."
"Yeah. I am." The Doctor said.
"Why?" Amy demanded.
"'Cause you're the Scottish girls, in the English village, and I know how that feels." The Doctor explained.
"Jane's American." Amy said not knowing what else to say.
"All the more reason." The Doctor smiled.
Amy shook her head, and looked at the Doctor again, back to her original fight - conversation. They both wandered around the console, both prodding things they probably shouldn't. "Oh, do you?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"Well, all these years living here, most of your life and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming." He dinged a little bell on the console. "Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" Amy asked.
"It's a time machine. I can get you back five minutes ago." The Doctor responded. "Why? What's tomorrow?"
"Nothing. Nothing!" Jane shot her sister a look wondering why she wanted to be back before tomorrow. Amy just shook her head at her not giving her a clue as to why. "Just, you know. Stuff."
"Alright, then." The Doctor let it slid. "Back in time for 'stuff'." A new sonic screwdriver suddenly raised itself up out of the console, and the Doctor snatched it up gleefully. "Oh, a new one. Lovely." He leaned down to whisper to his TARDIS. "Thanks, dear." Jane chuckled, hearing that.
He got back to musing around the console, typing away at a typewriter with no paper. Amy pulled on a lever, then turned and stared up at the room, still looking quite disbelieving. Suddenly, she turned to face the Doctor. "Why us?"
"Why not?" He asked.
"No, seriously." Amy insisted. "You are asking us to run away with you two in the middle of the night, it's a fair question. Why us?"
"Dunno! Fun! Do we have to have a reason?" The Doctor asked.
"People always have a reason." Amy said.
"Do we look like people?" The Doctor asked.
"Yes." Amy shot back.
"Been knocking around on my own for a while, my choice, and I wanted to give myself a break from constantly talking to myself." Jane gave him a amused look and shook her head. "It's been giving me an earache."
"You're lonely." Amy summed up. "That's it. Just that."
They wandered around to face each other. "Just that. Promise." Without knowing it, right next to the Doctor was a television screen; on it was a small crack. The same crack as was in Amy's wall, exactly the same shape.
"Okay." The Doctor didn't notice as he switched the television screen off.
"So you're okay then? 'Cause this place. Sometimes it can make people feel a bit… You know." The Doctor said.
"I'm fine. Fine." Amy insisted. "It's just… There's a whole world in here, just like you two said. It's all true. I thought, well, I'd, I'd started to think that maybe you were just a like… a madman with a box." Jane laughed.
"Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important, and one day, you're life may depend on it. I am defiantly a madman with a box." He grinned broadly at her until she did, and then laughed, and she laughed too. He turned and started to dart around the console. "Ha haa, yes! Goodbye, Leadworth! Hello… Everything!"
He jammed down a lever, and he, Jane, and Amy clung to the console as the TARDIS began to dematerialize, laughing all the time. Eventually the TARDIS disappeared, completely, from Amy and Jane Pond's garden.
They were off.
Off to see the universe.