Chapter Title: Searching

The Doctor walked down the dirt road, Amy right behind him. There was little to no wind in this town. There was no sound of birds, crickets, not even the sound of water flowing from anywhere. It was a completely silent town. The Doctor mumbled something about finding out what was going on, but Amy wasn't listening. She looked at the little shops as she walked along behind him. Clothing stores, a bakery, a few small houses and a church at the end of the street. Other than that, Amy didn't see anything else that interested her. Though the forest across the street seemed to get her attention every now and then.

Amy looked at her feet, then over to the forest. She caught a glimpse of something; something running, but it was gone too quickly for her to tell if it was just her imagination. Shaking her head, Amy caught up with the Doctor, seeing as she was behind quite a ways. She watched as he bleeped his sonic screwdriver at everything. Again Amy swore she saw something while looking down, but when she looked up again, there was nothing.

"Amy," the Doctor said, "can you go check out the shops and houses? I'm going to go down here." he added, pointing down a thin road leading off the main one.

"Sure," Amy said. She ran off towards one of the houses.

The house had a neon green roof, which was slightly odd, considering the scenery it was inhabiting. The front door was made of steel, the handle of brass, and the windows of thick glass. Amy wondered if this was protection. But protection from what? She opened the door and walked in, glancing around at the main room. There was furniture covered with white sheets, worn out walls from where pictures used to hang, and a small old-fashioned radio sitting on the floor. Amy went to pick it up, but before she could reach her hand down, the wooden floor cracked and broke, making her fall down into the dark basement. She looked around; no stairs were to be seen. "Doctor?" she shouted, but there was no reply...

The Doctor stopped bleeping his sonic screwdriver when he came across a small tree stump, which opened up. There was a computer panel inside. Purple and green buttons flashed, while a series of numbers passed along the small screen the Doctor was looking at. It was a technology he hadn't seen before, so he wondered what was really going on.

He made his way back to the main road, looking around at all times. "Amy?" he said, getting back onto the main road. Amy was nowhere to be found. "Pond?" he shouted, running into the odd house Amy had gone into. "Amy where are you?"

"Doctor?" Amy said, looking up at the hole in the floor that she'd fallen into just minutes previously. "Down here. I need help getting out!"

The Doctor's head appeared over the wooden space; he was grinning like an idiot. "Oh this is just too funny, Pond." He said, laughing more than he'd ever had. "Leave it to you to fall through a floor."

"Shut up." Amy said, raising her hands up to him. "Help me out of here so I can kick you."

The Doctor reached down and pulled her up, all the while still laughing. Amy glared at him, then stepped on his foot on purpose, while walking to get the small radio. She picked it up, turned it on, and dropped it all at once. A loud, piercing tone was coming from the transmitter in the radio. The Doctor pointed his screwdriver at it and it stopped.

"Okay, not what I was expecting," Amy said, raising her eyebrows and putting her hands on her hips lightly. "I was expecting techno or R&B, not Miley Cyrus music."

"Miley's not that ba-" The Doctor started, but Amy clasped her hand onto his mouth and said "Shut up. Just... shut up. Miley sounds like an ear-splitting claw on a chalkboard... so shut up..." The Doctor nodded, smiling, then pulled her hand off of his mouth and looked around the room.

"Looks like it's been abandoned for quite a while, don't you think?" Amy asked while she ran her hand along one of the shelves, which was coated with dust.

"Seems that way.." the Doctor mumbled slightly, looking at the ceiling. "But why would someone just... leave? Abandon their home?"

"That's what we're here to find out, right?" tripping over a stool, Amy groaned and held her foot. "It's what the TARDIS brought us here for."

"True." the Doctor said, looking at the ceiling again. After a moment's silence, he said "What do you think Rory's doing?"

"Probably still sleeping." Amy mumbled while she looked out one of the windows. She saw the TARDIS... but something wasn't right. Did she leave the door open? No... so why was it open? Something walked out of the TARDIS slowly, looking around. A shiver ran down Amy's spine, making her freeze on the spot and not able to talk. It wasn't human, that was for sure... but the thing that shocked Amy was that the thing that had walked out of the TARDIS was carrying something over it's shoulder. Someone.

"DOCTOR!" Amy yelled, regaining access to her voice and movement. "SOMETHING'S GOT RORY!"

The Doctor ran out the door and she followed. The creature saw them and made to run towards the forest, but before it even got near the edge, it disappeared – teleported. Amy froze on the spot again, her eyes wide, tears forming. "Rory.." she whispered, falling to her knees and covering her face with her hands. The Doctor looked at Amy, a worried look on his face. He had to comfort her, to tell her everything was going to be okay. But was it?

"Amy..." the Doctor said quietly, kneeling beside her and putting his arm around her back. "We'll find him. I promise."

"How do you know that?" Amy said through slight gasps. She was full-on crying now. "We don't know where that thing took him!"

"Amy, look at me," turning her to face him, the Doctor looked into her eyes. "Can you trust me?" He asked slowly, watching a tear trickle down her cheek. "Please?"

Sucking in a big gulp of air, Amy nodded quickly, wiping the tear from her face. "Okay.." she said with a sigh. "But what if we can't find him?"

"Amy-"

"No. I'm serious." Amy said sternly, nodding. "Is there a chance that we won't find him at all? Please be honest.."

"There's a small chance." the Doctor said while looking down. "But that chance is so rare! Amy, I will find him!"

Amy stood up, drying the last of her tears, and held her hand down to the Doctor. "Then let's go find him." The Doctor grabbed her hand and got up, making his way to the TARDIS with her. On the ground near the door the note that Amy had written was there. Rory had read it and Amy knew that he was coming to find them.

Something in the pit of Amy's stomach told her something bad was going to happen. Whether it be to Rory, herself, or the Doctor, she didn't know – but it was going to happen. Soon. She clambered into the TARDIS with the Doctor, who was checking the scans that the TARDIS had made two minutes previously. Amy waited, then jumped slightly as the Doctor shouted "Got it!" and ran out the doors. Amy followed, hoping that he'd found out where Rory had been taken.

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