Amy had returned to her and Rory's room and gone back to sleep besides her husband to be and went back to sleep, so that a few hours later the both of them got up and left their room to head to the console room along the way Amy was trying to persuade Rory of what she'd seen the previous night.
"I'm telling you they were just standing there in each other's arms with massive grins on their faces as the foreheads touched," Amy said still trying to convince her fiancé.
They reach the console room which was empty; Rory took a glance around the room before smiling triumphantly at Amy when the doors into the TARDIS crashed open and the Doctor and Patience came rushing in, a second crystal segment in Patience's hand. They looked at each other grinning as bright as the sun before they burst out laughing, both of them where convulsing before Amy and Rory's eyes as they fell into each other as they tried to stop.
"Morning," Amy called in a harsh tone fixing them both with a glare.
The Doctor and Patience looked up before bursting out in another fit of laughter, after a few minutes they both calmed down, but their happiness was obvious, the Doctor's eyes usually dull and sad were full and bright with joy. It took a few moments for them to calm down and collect themselves.
"What's going on?" Amy tried again pointing her finger at the Doctor and Patience.
"We're on what you could call a treasure hunt," the Doctor started.
"The universe is held in a delicate state of balance," Patience started an explanation.
"that balance is maintained by a device called the Key to Time,"
"which is usually divided into six crystal segments which can be hidden anywhere disguised as anything,"
"or anyone." Amy and Rory's heads kept jerking to look at the two Gallifreyan's as they finished each other's sentences.
"Due to certain events in history the universe has been damaged,"
"this has lead to points in time were an explosion powerful enough could destroy the universe,"
"in order to prevent this the key needs to be reassembled to restore balance,"
"to save the universe,"
"Okay so where next?" Amy asked them before they could start again.
"Lets see shall we," the Doctor said grinning at Patience as she passed him the segment before attaching the tracer to the console, she smiled before turning to the Doctor.
"You're going to like this," the Doctor looked confused before walking behind her wrapping his arms around her waist, resting his head on her right shoulder smiling down at the screen.
Amy looked at the two and felt she was intruding on a very private moment, she cast a glance at Rory who was looking away. She coughed politely causing the Doctor and Patience to look up.
"So, where are we going?" Amy asked.
"Well the next segment is in the Sumaron era dateline 9235.3 at the Jovian fold," the Doctor started.
"The Jovian fold?" Rory asked desperate to stop the romantic moment that made him feel really awkward.
"The Jovians, lovely race of people," the Doctor started.
"Decided to have a party lasting 1000 years inside a very discrete little space time fold," Patience continued glancing a sly grin at the Doctor causing him to blush with the red fading into his cheeks as he bit his lip.
"In other words the millennium mardi-gras," the Doctor added bringing his arm up and around Patience. "Go on dress up for the best party in the universe,"
Amy and Rory started to leave as the Doctor and Patience left another way he turned to her a smiled in an arrogant manner.
"I think I still have our bicentennial anniversary clothes," the Doctor smiled a blush in his cheeks.
Patience herself looked a little shocked and then very happy that the Doctor had kept their clothes, she was also blushing before following the Doctor out of the room.
Amy and Rory just looked incredulous at the Doctor's confidence, he was usually so awkward.
A short while later Amy and Rory were standing in the console room waiting for their two pilots.
"Who is she?" Rory asked Amy twiddling his thumbs while looking at Amy in her new dress from the TARDIS wardrobe.
"How should I know?" Amy replied frustrated.
"You look good," Rory's tone was nervous. "At last!"
As the duo looked up as the Doctor and Patience entered, the Doctor had changed into a white color-less shirt with a green cravat, a golden embroidery waistcoat, a pair of black dress trousers, shiny black shoes, a dark blue frock coat and a cane. Patience was wearing a strapless embroided blue dress again with Gallifreyan symbols, she had a silk blue wrap over her shoulders and her hair was in a neat bun at the back of her head with two curled strands loose on either side of her head. Both of their arms were linked with the others.
"You've been rude again," Patience whispered into the Doctor's ear, he briefly looked confused before she gestured her head at his two companions, the Doctor's eyes widened with realization.
"Ah," the Doctor started looking between his companions and Patience before starting. "Patience this is Amy Pond and her groom to-be Rory Williams."
Patience bowed her head in greetings smiling at the two of them, before turning back at the Doctor and glaring slightly.
"Amy, Rory this is Patience my… lover" the Doctor said beaming at Patience, Patience turned to him a slight smile on her lips before she moved in to peck the Doctor on the lips. Rory again coughed causing the two of them to practically jump of their skin both blushing wildly.
"Shall we start this 'treasure hunt'?" Rory found himself asking.
The Doctor and Patience started to nod before taking each other's hands and walking to the doors followed by the two humans.
One of the acolytes brought a data disc to his superior; the individual took the disk and put it into the device.
"What is this?" the dark robed superior asked his acolyte.
"Apparently a new female of unknown species has joined the Doctor, who also happens to be actively searching for the key to time,"
As the image appeared on the screen showing the Doctor and Patience exiting the TARDIS arm in arm, the superior immediately started to fight, his eyes unconcealed by metal respirators widened in recognition.
"No!" he started to reel back. "It can't be!"
The acolyte looked alarmed and turned to his superior, "who is she?"
"She was a member of the Decca,"
The acolyte looked confused; obviously his superior did not show off his knowledge of the Doctor's personal history often if ever.
"When he was at the academy there was a group of students who called themselves the Decca, the groups' most prominent members were Vansell who became the coordinator of the Celestial Intervention Agency, a Time Lady named Ushas who was exiled for illegal and amoral experiments. A Time Lord who took the name of the Master, whose reputation is almost as well known as the Doctor's himself and most famous was of course the Doctor who rose to prominence when he became the youngest Time Lord to serve on the high council of Gallifrey. After proving to be very popular he became Lord High Chancellor, as well as acquiring many other jobs along the way, by the time of his second term as Chancellor he had more than 95% of Presidential matters delegated to him. He has a reputation of having to deal with the most amount of paperwork in the entire history of the universe. Throughout all of this he had long term support from only two Gallifreyans, a cousin from his house of Lungbarrow called Braxiatel and a Time Lady who took the name Patience. Patience was if I remember correctly from the ancestral house of Everstone, when she and the Doctor first meet at the academy they quickly became excellent friends. Most people thought that they'd meet in previous incarnations and had been reunited. They were married during the Doctor's distinguished political career, but due to a set of circumstances known only to Braxiatel, Patience and the Doctor himself when the Doctor left Gallifrey in order to protect Patience he annulled their marriage."
The Dark acolyte looked thoughtful as he contemplated this new information, he looked up to find his superior looking deep into his eyes, the acolyte knew that look. "So what else?"
"It is said that during the war they attempted to restart their association, but due to the nature of the Time War they couldn't keep it. According to Time Lord communiques her TARDIS was shot down on a reconnaissance mission over Spirodon."
The acolyte processed this information before daring to ask his next question. "Is she a threat?"
"More than you can imagine," the speaker moved back into his chair as he continued. "While the Doctor was at the academy he gained a reputation as the greatest martial artist of his generation, a reputation well earned, he taught me everything I know and even now I doubt I'd be able to defeat him,"
"But I thought the Doctor was a pacifist?"
"In principle yes, but he's no fool,"
"Isn't that hypocritical?"
"He developed his skill before he developed his philosophy, and while he only uses it as a last resort he is quite capable in every form of physical combat,"
"What does this have to do with the threat posed by Patience?"
"She is the only person I know who could fight him as an equal and come close to defeating him,"
"What about mental faculties? Is she smart?"
"She is also the only person to beat the Doctor at chess, and you know how good he is at that particular game I know I've gone on about his skill in that game quite a bit, I believe she was also chief scientist of the advance research corps on Gallifrey. The Doctor had of course acquired the job of the corps director, he practically ran all of Gallifrey, in the end everything came through his office at the end of the day."
"Shall I intercept them at the Jovian fold?" the acolyte was clearly eager to please his master.
"No, I have used our own tracer," the speaker pulled forward a bulkier version of the tracer owned by Patience and the Doctor. "They can locate this segment by themselves, I have located the fourth segment, it is located on the planet of Fellopa 4."
"I've never heard of Fellopa,"
"You wouldn't have, it's about 10 billion years into the future, and it's a very hot planet as it is in a quaternary star system, making the whole planet a desert with a few civilizations huddled together near underground reservoirs of water, I can't get anything more specific and I can't locate the fifth."
"What do you wish of me to do?"
"You need only engage the Doctor in combat and lure the Time Lord to this starship," the speaker pressed a button on his chair causing an image of a sleek advanced looking ship to appear. "The vessel has been sabotaged; when it goes into the space-time vortex the ship will activate a preset program overloading the engines causing the ship to start a collision course into a star."
"And what of the segments?" the acolyte asked suddenly confused. "Will they survive?"
"The Doctor won't risk someone stealing them, he'll leave them inside the TARDIS, and with him and his lover out of the way I'll be able to crack the cipher-indet lock on the TARDIS doors."
"What if the Doctor survives, if Patience is as clever as you say what if the two Time Lords can find a way out?"
"Good thinking, I intend to deploy a flesh duplicate of River Song," the speaker's eyes flitted to his acolyte; he was encouraging him to ask questions.
"Why, the timelines have been shifting and we could already see her failure?" the acolyte was thoroughly confused, they had foreseen that Kovarian's plans would fail as the assassin would fall in love with the Doctor.
"The return of the Doctor's lover may offer a change of outcomes; she will be fitted with temporal shielding on her memories so she notices the changes in the time lines."
So how about that, a bit more information about Patience, and who exactly are the acolytes and who if their master, see if you guess right on reviews.