The Pond Twins
Chapter 2: The Eleventh Hour Part 2
A/N: Okay, here's the second chapter. I know some people might be wondering about how River might fit into this later on, and how that might affect The Doctor and Alexis's (soon to be Lexi's) relationship. Well don't worry. I have ideas and plans for everyone. :)
The girls had waited all night. Aunt Sharon was confused when she came home and found them asleep on their suitcases in the garden. When they woke up the next morning back in their beds, they cried. The Doctor did say that he would be back in five minutes, right? Well, little did they know, it would be a long time until they ever saw him again.
11 years and 6 months later...
Alexis was at home after a long day working at the local bookstore. She loved reading, so that's why she chose to work there. She also loved to write, and was in the process of getting one of her short stories published in Leadworth's literary magazine. She had called it 'Madman With A Blue Box'. Yes, that was what she actually called it. She still hadn't quite given up on her dreams of The Doctor and neither had her sister Amelia. It was quite upsetting that no one believed them.
The Pond twins grew up going to school with no friends, except for Rory and Mels of course, but they didn't really even believe in The Doctor that much. They just thought he was a story dreamt up by Amelia and Alexis. The twins were very supportive of each other whenever it came to having a good cry. It seemed as though their lives were doomed to be this mundane, boring routine that they would never be able to escape. It got so bad, that their aunt started sending them to a psychiatrist, Of course, the psychiatrist didn't believe them either. I mean, why would she? It was her job to cure people of their problems.
Anyway, Alexis was at home after a long day working at the bookstore. She was waiting for Amelia to come home. She really did love her sister more then anything, but she really didn't approve of her job as a kissogram. But hey, she was an adult. She could handle herself. Alexis decided to go into the back garden and sit on the swing. It felt like such a long time ago since she and her sister had met that strange man right there. Yet it still felt like yesterday. The shed had been replaced over 11 years ago and was starting to show age. Alexis started to tear up . She just wanted so badly to change the direction her life seemed to be heading in.
"What's wrong Alexis?" Amelia asked coming up and sitting next to Alexis. She had a concerned look on her face. Alexis hadn't heard her walk outside.
"I don't think I can take this anymore Amelia. It's like my life has become this thing that's suffocating me. I mean, don't get me wrong. I like my job. I love reading and writing, but I just wish I could live a life that's really worth living." Alexis told her sister while staring off into space.
"Yeah. It does get a bit boring doesn't it?"
"Yeah it really does. I just don't really feel like the same person I was eleven years ago... I don't really feel like an Alexis."
"You know, I feel the same way. We aren't really little Amelia and Alexis Pond anymore... So I'll tell you what. I have an idea." Amelia said grinning at her sister.
"What is it?"
"How about I go by Amy and you can go by... Lexi?" Amy asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Amy and Lexi Pond... I think I like the sound of that." Lexi said with a small grin.
"Well then Lexi, let's go inside and watch a movie... How about 'Casino Royale'?"
"You know I love that movie huh?"
"Of course I do." Amy said smiling sweetly at Lexi before they walked inside to enjoy a night of sisterly bonding time.
6 months later...
Again, life was still boring, but not completely unbearable. The girls were going about their normal day. Lexi was getting ready to leave the bookstore. it was Saturday afternoon, so it wasn't really busy. She knew that Amy was probably home by then. She had had a party earlier in the day 'to go to'. Aunt Sharon still didn't like Amy's job, but Lexi had made her peace with it. She would even try to defend Amy when Aunt Sharon would try and say something about it.
Lexi walked out of the bookstore and into town. She then felt her phone vibrate in her back pocket. She took it out to see who was calling. It was Amy. "Hello?"
"Lexi, don't come home just yet. Some man just broke in. I knocked him out with a cricket bat and handcuffed him to the radiator."
'Oh no! Are you alright?! Is Aunt Sharon there?" Lexi asked in a panicked tone.
"Just don't come home yet. Go and grab a pizza and wait a little while. Yeah?... Oh crap, he's waking up. Gotta go." Amy hung up the phone.
Lexi thought it was probably best to listen to her sister. She would take care of it. She made her way to the pizza parlor. She walked inside to be greeted with a smiling Mrs. Lassiter.
"Alexis!' Of course everyone in town knew her. Everyone knows everyone here since this village is so small. Lexi just smiled uncomfortably. She just didn't have the heart to correct Mrs. Lassiter and tell her that she went by Lexi. I mean, she had told her before, but she insisted on calling her Alexis. She ordered a large pepperoni pizza with extra cheese.
Lexi just sat on a bar stool staring out the front window of the pizza place. She tried to occupy her time while waiting for the pizza to bake. She started to mess with her phone. She opened an app and started to play 'Fruit Ninja'. She was slashing fruit left and right when all of a sudden she heard the tv on the wall make a noise. A weird robot like vioce started coming out of it. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
Chills ran up Lexi's spine. She remembered hearing "Prisoner Zero" when she was a kid. It used to terrify her to the point of insomnia. It still did seem that it scared her quite a lot. She quickly turned her head back. Maybe she thought she would see Prisoner Zero running down the street. She saw something even worse. Him, or at least what she thought was him. The Doctor! The raggedy Doctorr! How could he be here?! Was she seeing things?
Before she knew it, she ran out the door and across the road. She saw Amy shut The Doctor's tie in Mr. Hendrick's car door.
"Amy!" Lexi shouted as she was running. Amy seemed to hear her and whirled her head around. She tried to hide The Doctor from view, but Lexi just stepped around her and looked at The Doctor right in the face. He was bent down at a weird angle seeing that his tie was shut in the door. He looked up at her with a sense of wonderment.
"Alexis?"
Lexi's eyes drifted downward and she had a small frown on her face. "It's Lexi now."
"Oh come on! Not you too! Alexis Pond was a brilliant name!" The Doctor said in protest. Lexi just gave him a look that said, 'Really'.
"Yeah well, I didn't feel like the same little girl I was... TWELVE YEARS AGO!' Lexi shouted with a huff. A looked of guilt spread across his face. He shook his head.
"Look, we don't have much time! We have less than twenty minutes to save the planet from being incinerated." He said with pleading eyes.
"Come on. You didn't have time for us for the past twelve years!' Lexi said crossing her arms.
"For me it's only been 5 minutes Alexis." The Doctor said truthfully. "Everything I told the both of you all those years ago is true. I'm a time traveler. I'm real. Everything you see up in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go, everything you've ever known is over." With that, Lexi looked straight up to the sky and noticed how weird it looked.
"What the hell..." Lexi said in a whisper.
"I don't believe him." Amy said with an angry tone.
"Look, catch!" The Doctor threw an apple at Lexi. She raised one hand up and caught it instinctively. "Do either of you remember? Before the both of you took me up to your room to show me the crack in the wall, you gave me this Alexis. Turn it over." Lexi did as she was told and flipped the apple over in her hand. It had a smiley face on it. Now that she thought about it, she vaguely remembered carving the smiley face. "See? Fresh as the day you gave it to me, and you two both know it's the same one... Just believe for twenty minutes." Amy and Lexi both looked at the apple for a moment. Amy raised the car door remote and pressed the button to unlock it.
The Doctor gleefully opened the door and released his tie. He twirled around and clapped his hands together. It looked like his steering might still be a bit 'off'.
"What do we do?" The twins asked together.
"Ah, you still do that thing..., with the voices. Anyway, never mind that. Stop that nurse!" He said pointing over at someone on the other side of the park who was snapping some pictures of a man walking his dog. They started running and ran past a little duck pond. Lexi almost fell in running past it, but was able to catch herself. As they got closer, Lexi started to recognize the nurse. When they reached the nurse, The Doctor promptly snatched the phone out of his hand. "The sun's going out and you're taking pictures of a man and dog. Why?" The Doctor asked instantly. Rory had a confused look on his face, but smiled when he saw Amy.
"Amy!" He said happily while giving her a quick side hug. "And Lexi!" Rory said giving Lexi a quick side hug too.
"Hi!" Amy said sweetly. "Oh sorry, this is Rory. He's a friend."
"Boyfriend." Rory interjected.
"Kind of boyfriend."
"Man and dog. Why?" The Doctor demanded more intently. No time for domestics right now. He was trying to pull the conversation back to the matter at hand. Rory's mouth fell open in recognition.
"Oh my God, it's him." Rory said almost in disbelief. He looked over to Amy and Lexi for some sort of an explanation.
"Just answer the question Rory. Please?" Lexi said pressing on.
"It's him though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor." Rory went on pointing at The Doctor.
"Yeah. He came back." Lexi and Amy said in unison.
"But he was a story! A game!" Rory kept insisting.
"Man and dog, why? Tell me right now!" The Doctor said more firmly this time.
"Sorry." Rory said shaking his head. "Because he can't be there. Because he's-"
"In a hospital, in a coma." The Doctor and Rory said together. Rory nodded in agreement. The Doctor looked excited. Like he had just been given the greatest present ever.
"I knew it! I knew it! Multi-form, you see? It disguises itself as anything. It needs a live feed though, a psychic link with a living but dormant mind." The Doctor looked at the the three of them, but turned his attention away when he heard the man bark. It wasn't the man's dog that was barking, but the man himself. Lexi just tilted her head and looked at the man in confusion. Her expression quickly changed from confused to understanding. A wide grin spread across her face.
"Okay, well that's clever."
"Prisoner Zero." The Doctor said stepping a couple steps towards the man.
"Wait, what? That's Prisoner Zero? He's here?" Amy asked shocked. He didn't look anything like what she had dreamt about. In her dreams, he was always this snakelike creature. Maybe she wasn't really putting two and two together quite just yet like her sister seemed to be doing.
"Okay, I think I'm getting this. If he can change from form to form, then that is not what he actually looks like. In the dreams he was always some sort of snake like creature." Lexi said trying to make sense of it in her head.
"Yes. That's exactly right. Now-" The Doctor then started to argue with Prisoner Zero. Lexi then saw The Doctor pull out what looked like some type of screwdriver thing. He pointed it straight in the air and sparks flew from it and it started to melt.
"No, no, no!" The Doctor started cradling the screwdriver like it was something he couldn't live without. In truth, maybe he couldn't. He wasn't looking at Prisoner Zero anymore. He didn't see how Prisoner Zero just sort of dissipated into the drain.
"Doctor!" Amy yelled. "He sort of just melted down the drain." The Doctor let out a groan of annoyance.
"Okay, okay... We need to drive Prisoner Zero out into the open. No TARDIS, no screwdriver, and seventeen minutes. Think, think, think!" He hit his forehead with each 'think'. "Okay! First Amy, I need your friend's laptop. What was his name?" Amy gestured to Rory. "No not him."
"Thanks." Rory said a little sarcastically.
"The good looking one."
"Jeff." Amy replied.
"Oh thanks." Rory said even more sarcastically than before.
"Now... You two." He pointed to Amy and Rory. "Go to the hospital. Get everyone out of the ward. Clear the whole floor. Phone me when you're done." The Doctor looked at Lexi. "You and I are going to find Jeff's laptop." He grabbed Lexi's hand and began dragging her in the direction of where Jeff lived.
They quickly made it to Jeff's house. The Doctor just walked in without even knocking and Lexi just followed closely behind. They walked right past Jeff's gran. Lexi gave a slight wave, but was being pulled along with The Doctor towards the back bedroom. Jeff was sitting on his bed using his laptop.
"Hello. Laptop. Give me." The Doctor grabbed the laptop and sat down on the end of the bed. Lexi sat down next to him while Jeff tried to protest it. He tried to take the laptop back. "It's okay, just let me use it!" The Doctor was able to wrangle it from Jeff's grip. He then place it on his lap. He angled to where he and Lexi could both see. Lexi quickly put a hand in front of her eyes. The Doctor's eyes grew wide. "Blimey. Get a girlfriend Jeff."
"What are you doing?" Jeff's gran walked in the room and sat down next to Lexi. The Doctor was just type type typing away on the computer.
"The sun's gone all wibbly wobbly, so right now, somewhere out there, there's going going to be a big video conference call." The Doctor said as he was still typing. "All the experts in the world panicking at once, and do you know what they need? Me." He pressed one final button and grinned. "Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Center, Patrick Moore."
"I like Patrick Moore." Jeff's gran told all of them.
"You can't just hack in on a call like that!" Lexi said disbelievingly.
"Can't I?"
"First floor, on the left, fourth from the end." Amy reported from the hospital. Lexi repeated everything that was being told to her back to The Doctor. He was driving a fire truck at the moment. Lexi was having to hold on to a pole inside. She wasn't that confident in The Doctor's ability to drive a vehicle like that. She was proven to be correct, as she was almost knocked off her feet when The Doctor almost hit an oncoming car.
"Tell them to duck!" The Doctor shouted as he came up to the hospital and prepared to ram into a front window. Lexi texted Amy and was relieved when she saw their figures through the window drop to the ground.
"Hello! Am I late?" The Doctor asked as he climbed up the ladder into the hospital with Lexi following behind him. "No, three minutes. There's still time."
Prisoner Zero was disguised as a woman holding the hands of her two daughters. She sneered at The Doctor.
"Time for what? Time Lord." She asked. Lexi felt curious as to what I Time Lord was, but she thought it was probably best not to ask right then. She was to terrified at Prisoner Zero. She managed to make a kind looking mother very terrifying. It felt just as bad as the nightmares she and Amy used to have when they were younger.
"Take the disguise off. They'll find you in an instant. Nobody dies." The Doctor reasoned. Prisoner Zero laughed.
"The Atraxi will kill me this time... If I am to die, let there be fire."
Lexi and Amy shared a look with each other, they weren't going to let Prizoner Zero scare them anymore. They nodded and then spoke in unison. "You came to this world by opening a crack in our wall. Do it again and just leave." Prisoner Zero looked at them with a menacing smile.
"I did not open the crack."
The Doctor got into a heated discussion with Prisoner Zero about where the crack came from, about how Prisoner Zero used what was already there.
There was some childish taunting on Prisoner Zero's part, which seemed weird in Amy and Lexi's minds.
Then, the clock on the walled turned to 0:00. A wide grin grew across The Doctor's face. Lexi was pretty sure that The Doctor was being clever and that what was going on probably had something to do with Rory's phone and Jeff's laptop. He had created some kind of virus for the space experts to use.
"The Atraxi are limited. While in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me."
The Doctor didn't seem at all bothered by that statement. "Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favorite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of?" He paused for a moment. "Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Ooh, and being uploaded right about... now! And the final score is, no TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare. Who da man?!" Rory, Amy and Lexi all shared a look with eyebrows raised. They could barely contain their laughter. "Oh, I'm never saying that again."
Prisoner Zero scoffed. "Them I shall take a new form." The Doctor laughed.
"Oh stop it. You know you can't. It takes months to form that kind of psychic link." A maniacal grin spread across the woman's face, which made Lexi and Amy's stomachs have that sinking feeling.
"And I've had years." As if on cue, Amy and Lexi's bodies went limp and their vision blackened as they hit the ground. Rory was over at their sides in a second.
It was one of the worst nightmares the twins ever had. Prisoner zero had taken the form of The Doctor. He was holding 'Amelia's' and 'Alexis's' hands. Prisoner Zero was taunting them about how they were just the weird outcasts and how no one wanted to be their friend.
"Poor little Amelia and Alexis Pond. Still such children inside, waiting for their magic Doctor to come and whisk them away." Tears were streaming down Lexi's face.
The Doctor was over at Lexi's side and Rory was over with Amy. The Doctor brushed Lexi's red hair back behind one of her ears. He was speaking to both twins.
From what they could tell, The Doctor's voice seemed to float through the dark abiss of their minds. "Lexi?... Amy?... If you both can hear me, listen good... Hear me! You both have been dreaming about Prisoner Zero all your lives. You know what it looks like. Both of you have to work together and concentrate on that. Think of all those nightmares that would keep you two up at night, the ones so bad that you would be too afraid to leave your bed. Concentrate!"
It was difficult, but Amy and Lexi seemed to manage together and did what they were told. They thought of how Prisoner Zero really looked. It started to screech out, but was reluctant to change shape.
"Alexis and Amelia Pond, still trying to cling to the magic Doctor., even though he didn't care enough to come back for twelve long years." It screeched some more and and started to change to its real and true form, the snakelike creature it really was. "He won't rescue you from the boring lives you so desperately want to leave."
Amy and Lexi's eyes flew open and they sat straight up. The Doctor smiled and turned back around to see Prisoner Zero start to disappear.
"Silence, Doctor. Silence will fall." And with that it disappeared completely.
"What happened?" Lexi seemed to ask holding her head in pain.
The Doctor and Rory gave them a run down of how Prisoner Zero had taken the form of them as little girls holding The Doctor's hands. They told them, that by remembering all that, it helped The Atraxi catch Prisoner Zero.
"And he's brought the aliens back!" Rory said frustratedly. He helped Amy up and The Doctor help Lexi up. She didn't feel all that great. The room seemed to be spinning a bit. She held onto The Doctor for some support. The dizziness seemed to pass in an instant. The Doctor then started walking fastly and out of the ward.
"Where are you going?" Amy asked as they all followed him.
"The roof. No, hang on." The Doctor said as he veered off into a side changing room.
"What's in here?" Lexi asked.
"I'm saving the world. I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show." He then proceeded to take off all of his clothes.
"You just summoned aliens back to Earth. Actual aliens... Deadly aliens, aliens of death, and now you're taking your clothes off. Amy, Lexi, he's taking his clothes off." The women were looking on appreciatively.
"Turn your back if it embarrasses you." The Doctor said continuing to change.
"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know." Rory said as he turned his back. "Are either of you going to turn your back?"
"Nope." Lexi and Amy said, not taking their eyes off The Doctor.
They all made their way up to the roof, where the giant Atraxi eye was waiting for them. The Doctor had a bunch of ties hanging around his neck. He was having trouble deciding.
"So this was a good idea, was it? They were leaving." Rory interjected.
"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better. Come on then! The Doctor will see you now!" The giant eye scanned The Doctor.
"You are not of this world." The eye seemed to say.
"No, but I've put a lot of work into it." The Doctor examined a tie. "I don't know. What do you think?"
"Is this world important?"
"Important? What's that mean, important?" He tossed the tie and Rory caught it. "Six billion people live here. Is that important? Here's a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" He threw another another tie and landed on Lexi's shoulder. She handed it to Rory. "We'll come on. You're monitoring the whole planet. IS this world a threat?"
The Atraxi projected a hologram of the Earth with scenes from it's history.
"Are the people of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?"
"No."
"Ok. One more thing. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here." As The Doctor is speaking, the hologram shows Cybermen, Daleks, the Queen of the Racnoss, Ood, Sycorax, a Sontaran, a Sea Devil, Reapers, the Hath and the Vashta Nerada in the spacesuit. "Oh there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is... what happened to them?" The hologram then projected a bunch of the incarnations of The Doctor, from the first one all the way through the tenth before he stepped through it. "Hello. I'm The Doctor. Basically... run."
The Atraxi ship flew off before anyone could even blink. The Doctor felt something in his pocket. He held in his hand a glowing key.
"Is that it? Is that them gone for good? Who were they?" Amy asked while looking up at the sky with Rory and Lexi. They all looked back down to see that The Doctor was gone. They barely even saw him run back inside.
Lexi thanked her stars that Leadworth was so small. They made it back to their house in no time flat. She was sure that Amy got the same sinking feeling when they heard that wheezing noise that came from The Doctor's blue box/time machine. She remembered it from when he had left her and Amy twelve years ago. When they finally made it into their back garden, The Doctor and his box were gone...
2 years later...
Lexi was at the kitchen table in a black and pink Victoria's Secret hoodie that Amy had given her for her birthday, some long fuzzy black and white zebra pajama bottoms and a pair of a black slippers shaped like black panthers. Suffice to say, she was comfortable. She was working on final flower arrangements for Amy's wedding the next day. Amy had already gone to bed. She had asked her to be the maid of honor, so she was trying to make everything as perfect as possible. All of a sudden, Lexi thought she felt a breeze coming in from the open kitchen window. Then, she wasn't sure, but then she thought she heard that familiar wheezing noise. She quickly ran into the entry way to see Amy running down the stairs wearing slippers and putting on a robe.
"So I'm guessing you heard it too?" Lexi asked coming up to Amy at the bottom of the stairs.
"Yeah, I did." Amy said. If they both heard it, it has to be real. Right?
They ran out into the back garden to be met with that glorious blue box. The Doctor was leaning against it with a shy grin on his face.
"Sorry about running off earlier. Brand new TARDIS, bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. She's ready for the big stuff now.' Amy and Lexi stared at him with wide eyes.
"It's you. You came back." They both said disbelievingly.
"Course I came back. I always come back. Something wrong with that?" The Doctor said taking a step forward.
"And you kept the clothes." Amy said looking The Doctor up and down.
"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 bow tie?' Amy asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool." The Doctor said straightening his bow tie.
"Are you from another planet?" Lexi asked finally chiming in.
"Yeah.' The Doctor replied with a smile.
"Ok..." Lexi said almost in a whisper.
"So what do you think?"
"Of what?" The women asked in unison.
"Other planets. Want to check some out?"
"What does that even mean?' Lexi asked in a confused and irritated tone.
"It means... Well, it means... come with me."
"Where?" Amy asked in the same tone her sister had.
"Wherever you like." The Doctor said putting one hand on the side of the TARDIS.
"All that stuff, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero..." Amy started.
"Oh, don't worry. That's just the beginning. There's loads more."
"Yeah, but all those things, amazing things, all that stuff..." Amy was angry. Then she looked over at Lexi who was angry as well. Lexi looked at Amy and it was as if they were thinking the same thing. They gave each other a nod.
"THAT WAS TWO YEARS AGO!" The Pond twins shouted together. They were furious.
"Oh-oh! Oops." The Doctor was looking pretty guilty and was rubbing the back of his neck.
"Yeah." Lexi replied.
"So that's..."
"FOURTEEN YEARS!" Amy yelled.
"Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy and Lexi Pond, the girls who waited, you've waited long enough."Lexi and Amy took a step forward, but Lexi was the one who spoke.
"When we were kids, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was in the library."
"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So... coming?" Amy and Lexi had looks on their faces that would pretty easy to read for anyone else, but The Doctor wasn't just anyone.
"No!' They shouted at the same time.
"You wanted to come fourteen years ago."
"We grew up." They said together.
"Oh don't worry. I'll soon fix that." The Doctor snapped his fingers making the TARDIS doors open and bathing them in a warm orange glow. The twins eyes grew wide. They were so overwhelmed, that they walked inside it. The Doctor followed behind them and closed the doors. He then ran up to the console and twirled back around to face them.
"Well...? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all." They looked around at the big and vast room. It was metallic looking. There was a center column above a large floor that was made a glass so you could see through it. There were also some other stairs that led to other levels and doors.
"I'm in my nighty." Amy said quickly.
"I'm wearing panther slippers." Lexi said while still looking all around her.
"Oh, don't worry. Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe. AND possibly a swimming pool! So... all of time space, everything that ever happened or ever will... Where do you want to start?" The Doctor asked while walking around the console pressing buttons.
"You're so sure that we're coming." Amy said walking up beside him.
"Yeah, I am."
"Why?" Lexi asked coming up to other side of him.
"Cos you're the Scottish girls in the English village, and I know how that feels."
"Oh, do you?" Lexi asked leaning in.
"All these years living here most of your lives... and you've still got those accents. Yeah, you're coming."
"Can you get us back for tomorrow morning?" Amy asked hesitantly. Lexi mentally kicked herself for almost forgetting about the wedding.
"Why, what's tomorrow." The Doctor asked.
"Nothing. Nothing. Just... you know, stuff." Amy said stroking her hand on the edge of the console.
"All right then. Back in time for stuff." A brand new screwdriver popped up from the console. The Doctor grabbed it. "Oh, a new one! " He pointed it in the air and pressed the button to test it. "Lovely... Thanks dear." The Doctor said in a whisper. He then started setting the controls.
"Why us?" Lexi asked coming up beside him again.
"Why not?"
"No seriously. You are asking us to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question. Why us?"
"I don't know. Fun. Do I have to have a reason?"
"People always have a reason." Amy said in her sister's defense.
"Do I look like people?"
"Yes." Amy and Lexi replied together.
"Been knocking around on my own for a while. My choice, but I've started talking to myself. It's giving me an earache."
"You're lonely. That's it? Just that?" Lexi asked now standing by Amy.
"Just that. Promise." The Doctor said looking at the screen. He was lying of course. He wouldn't tell them that though. He was looking at a crack on the screen that was mimicking the crack from their bedroom wall.
The twins looked at each other and then back at The Doctor. "Okay." Lexi and Amy said in unison.
The Doctor then switched off the monitor. "So, are you okay, then? Cos this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit... you know."
"We're fine. It's just... There's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. We thought... well, we started to think that maybe you were just..." Amy sttopped and let Lexi finish.
"A madman with a box." The Doctor looked between the two women.
"Amy and Lexi Pond, there's something you better understand. It's important, and one day your lives may depend on it." He had a wide grin across his face. "I am definitely a madman with a box. Ha-ha! Yeah." Amy and Lexi giggled. "Goodbye Leadworth. Hello, everything!" The Doctor grabbed a gavel and started smacking the console with it.
The whole room shook, as they felt the time machine disappear out of their garden. Who knows where they would go?!
A/N: I hope you liked it as much as I loved writing it! Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favorited and followed. I'm in the middle of my mid-terms, so I probably won't post anything for the rest of the week. Next chapter will be "The Beast Below" ! Until then my lovelies... :)