CHAPTER 2

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THE DOCTOR GETS THE SHOCK OF HIS LIFE

The Doctor scanned the crack in Amy's wall and frowned as he suddenly heard several voices coming from many different realities at the same time.

"Attention! Prisoner Zero has escaped!" One voice said.

"Say something nice!" A voice that sounded oddly familiar to the Doctor said.

"I am Nightshade now and I will be your final destruction! You will soon regret the day that I died because of you!" A voice filled with anger shouted causing the Doctor to shudder even though he had no idea who was speaking.

"Run you clever boy and remember me," Another voice said that also sounded familiar to the Doctor somehow as if he had only just heard it recently.

"Oh! You've had some cowboys in here!" A voice that he knew was his but from his future said.

"Those are the voices that I hear all of the time. Sometimes I hear others too, but those are the ones that repeat over and over again. It's always them and sooner or later the sweet girl who keeps calling for the Doctor. Some nights she's the only one who keeps me from going completely mad because I imagine that she might come out of the wall and help me to make the other voices go away," Amelia said in a sad voice.

The Doctor felt so sorry for her in that moment and he gave her a small hug as he said, "Yes, if she could come to help you that would be exactly what she would do. That's what she does, Amelia. She helps to comfort everyone like a light in the darkness especially those who are so lost that they think that they'll never find their way back again. Those are the people that she helps the most of all."

"Is she your girlfriend?" Amelia asked.

"No, but she should have been. I should have told her how I felt about her before it was too late. I'm still going to tell her that. Somehow someway I'm going to find my way back to her, and this is the way that I'm going to do it. This crack leads to Rose somehow, and it's going to be my way back to her," The Doctor said.

"Then will you close it?" Amelia asked.

"If I can, yes," The Doctor said.

"Thank you, Pinstripe Man," Amelia said as she hugged him back.

The Doctor smiled at her and said, "It's the Doctor actually."

"Who calls themselves the Doctor? What's your real name?" Amelia asked with a frown.

"That is my real name. I'm the Doctor," The Doctor protested.

"That's a stupid name. You need a real name. A great name like Arthur or Rory," Amelia said.

"It's not a stupid name!" The Doctor protested.

"Doctor, quit arguing with a six your old girl. You're acting like a child," Christina said.

"I'm not six. I'm seven," Amelia corrected her.

"Sorry, my mistake. One day you're going to want people to think that you're younger than you really are though. Trust me," Christina said with a smile as she playfully ruffled Amelia's hair making the little girl smile.

The Doctor smiled at Christina liking this new softer side of her that he was seeing here. He loved that she was kind to children. That was always a point in the favor of anyone who he . . . picked to be a companion. Yes, a companion. They had to like children.

"I'm Christina. It's nice to meet you, Amelia. Don't pay any attention to him. I sometimes think that he's even more of a child than you are," Christina said as she shook Amelia's hand.

Amelia laughed again which made the Doctor smile as well even as he continued to pretend to pout and said, "I am not a child."

"Stop whining, Theta," Penelope said.

"Yes, Mother," The Doctor said making both Christina and Amelia laugh.

"You're right about him," Amelia said with a giggle.

"I'm always right, Amelia. Well, most of the time anyway, and even when I'm not I'll never admit it," Christina said as she winked at her.

The Doctor smiled at Christina yet again without realizing it as he said to Amelia, "The TARDIS is going to take a while to fix itself so we're all going to need a place to stay for a few hours. Could you ask your parents if we could stay here for a while? It'll just be until the morning at the most, and we'll stay out of their way I promise."

"I don't have any parents only an aunt, and she's not here right now," Amelia said.

"Wait a minute. It's the middle of the night. Do you mean that you're here alone all by yourself? She just left you here?" The Doctor asked outraged.

"Yeah, she does that a lot. I don't really care. I like being alone," Amelia said.

"Somehow I doubt that. I don't think anyone really likes being alone," The Doctor said as he looked at Amelia sadly once again.

"You sound like you speak from experience, Doctor," Christina said in a sympathetic tone.

The Doctor said nothing but Christina caught both Penelope and the Master both giving him brief meaningful looks when he wasn't watching them. Apparently little Amelia had struck a nerve here without even realizing it.

"Are you okay?" Christina asked as she grabbed the Doctor's hand and gave it a light squeeze.

The Doctor briefly smiled at her as he said, "Yeah, I'm fine."

Christina noticed that he continued to hold her hand though and wondered if he even realized it. She decided not to tell him in order to see how long that it would be before he noticed it himself.

"We'll just stay with you until daylight then, Amelia. If your aunt comes back before then, well we'll just have to have a little talk with her then won't we?" Penelope said with an angry look in her eyes.

"I'd hate to be her if she comes back. If she knows what's good for her, she'll stay gone until we leave," Susan said.

"I'd definitely rather face the Daleks again any day," The Master said with a shiver as several unpleasant childhood memories came flooding back to him.

"I don't know what the two of you are talking about. She's such a sweet, lovely person," Wilf said as he smiled at Penelope.

"Maybe to you she is, Granddad. To everyone else, she's a holy terror when they cross her," The Master said.

Wilf laughed as he said, "She sounds just like my Donna. I bet they'd get along like two peas in a pod."

Then a sudden realization hit him as he ran up to Penelope and asked, "Could you help Donna?"

Penelope looked at him with a smile as she said, "Not yet but I'm working on a possible solution in my head. I'll let you know if I come up with anything, alright?"

"Thank you, Penelope. I . . . I really appreciate it. She means the world to me," Wilf said as his eyes began to tear up.

Penelope smiled once again and gave him a tender kiss as she said, "She does to me too. She's carrying a part of the Doctor with her now. In a way that makes her my child too, and I'm not about to let her stay in her current state forever without at least trying to come up with some way to help her first."

"Oh, this is just all kinds of disgusting. Now it looks like the Doctor is getting a new human Dad and sister. He really is turning into the ultimate human lover. Does this torment ever end?" The Master asked in an irritated tone.

"What's the matter? Are you jealous?" Susan asked in a mocking tone.

"Of him? Ha! I'm not jealous of anyone, you little brat, and especially not him. Other people are jealous of me not the other way around," The Master said with a smirk.

"Says the man who's currently tied up and helpless," Susan said.

"I won't be that way forever, little girl," The Master said with an evil grin.

"Shut it," Penelope suddenly said as she shot him a dirty look causing his smile to immediately fade away.

"I don't like him," Amelia said to Christina as she now held Christina's other hand.

"That's okay, Ames. No one else does either," Christina assured her.

"Ames?" Amelia asked.

"Sorry. I guess I was just trying to give you a little nickname there," Christina apologized.

"No, it's alright. I kind of like it. Only I think maybe I'll shorten it even more. How about I call myself Amy instead?" Amelia asked.

"Amy. I like it. Amy Pond. Yes, that sounds pretty good actually. Hello, Amy," Christina said with a warm smile as she lightly ruffled Amy's hair some more.

"Hello," Amy said in a happy tone.

"What was wrong with Amelia?" The Doctor asked in surprise.

"Amy's better. What's wrong with Amy? Christina likes it," Amy said defensively.

The Doctor smiled at Christina once again as he now noticed that Amy was holding her hand. Apparently Amy had taken an instant liking to her.

He still hadn't noticed that he was holding Christina's other hand yet.

Then his thoughts where instantly interrupted as he heard a very familiar voice coming through the crack in Amy's wall.

"Doctor, are you there? It's me, Rose. Please answer. Please!" Rose said in an urgent tone.

The Doctor immediately let go of Christina's hand and began to mess around with the settings on his sonic screwdriver while Christina sighed. At least she had held his hand for a little while anyway.

"It's okay, Christina. He'll come around eventually. You're too nice and pretty for him not to notice you for long," Amy whispered to her making her smile.

"I'm not so sure about that, Amy. Rose is the woman that he loves not me," Christina said.

"Well, you've still got me anyway. I'm not too stupid to appreciate you like some people," Amy promised.

"Thank you, sweetheart," Christina said as she kissed Amy's cheek making the little girl smile and cling to her side even more.

Penelope couldn't help but notice even as she watched them that Christina and Amy's timelines were starting to wind around each other. She began to smile as she realized what that meant.

She wondered how long it would take for them to realize it too.

The Doctor finally smiled in triumph and then pointed the sonic at the crack as he shouted, "Allons-y!"

"Doctor? Doctor, is that you?" Rose's voice suddenly asked with renewed hope.

"Rose! Yes, it's me! Rose, there's a crack in time and space here on Earth, and I'm speaking to you through it. I have no idea where it came from, but I'm hoping that maybe I can use it to get back to you somehow. Once the TARDIS fixes herself of course," The Doctor said in a voice filled with a joy that he hadn't felt in a long time.

Penelope knew that tone. She hadn't heard it since the Doctor had been around Susan's grandmother. He was madly in love with this Rose whoever she was.

"Why am I not surprised that the TARDIS needs to fix herself again? What have you done to her this time?" Rose admonished him.

Penelope couldn't help but laugh at that. She liked Rose already for knowing how to put him in his place almost as well as she did.

Even Christina smiled. She couldn't find it in herself to hate Rose after reading about her and how she had helped the Doctor even if she was the main competition for him.

"It wasn't me. It was the temporal disturbance that we ran into in the Vortex. I think it had something to do with whatever created this crack. I assume that you have one too in Pete's World?" The Doctor asked.

"Yeah, I do. It's been here in a little girl named Amelia's house for a long time now. I was called out to investigate along with the rest of Torchwood. I thought that maybe I could use it to talk to you, and now it's finally worked at last," Rose said in a voice filled with happiness.

"That's weird. My crack is in the bedroom wall of an Amelia Pond too. I can't help but wonder if every Amelia has a crack in every universe right now. Why them though? What's so important about them I wonder?" The Doctor asked himself more than Rose.

"Can we worry about that later, Doctor? I need you to try to get over here as soon as possible if you can. John, the Metacrisis you, is dying. I need you to help him," Rose said.

Then she hesitated before finally saying, "I also have someone that you should meet over here. There's someone that I should have told you about a long time ago."

"You and Handy have a child," The Doctor said feeling a blow to the gut at the mere thought of it.

"No, Doctor. You and I have a child," Rose said.

"What?" The Doctor said in a shocked voice.

"Do you remember back when I was first stranded here, and you asked me if I was pregnant? I was, Doctor. That's one reason why I wanted to get back to you so badly. I wanted you to get to meet your daughter. She looks like me but acts just like you. She's already a certified genius, and she's only seven years old. She also has two hearts, Doctor. She's a Time Lord just like you," Rose said.

"What?" The Doctor said again.

"I'm so sorry, Doctor. I should have told you before after I came back, but you sent me back here so quickly that I didn't have time to do anything. I thought that you were going to stay much longer than you did. I was just kissing John good bye and getting ready to try to reject him gently when I heard you leaving. I was going to tell you then so that we could travel through the universe together with our little girl, but you had already left. It all turned out alright in the end though. John and I eventually fell in love and got married. He's been raising little Jenny as his own ever since then. That's her name, Jenny Tyler-Smith. John told me all about the original Jenny, and I thought that naming her after her would be a great tribute. We gave her both of our last names because I just didn't like the name Jennifer Smith all that much. Jennifer Tyler-Smith has a snazzy ring to it though, doesn't it?" Rose said.

"What?!" The Doctor said in absolute disbelief.

"Now he has a daughter too! I didn't know when I was well off. I really am going to be sick this time," The Master said in absolute disgust.

"Please, Doctor. Please get here quickly or Jenny's going to lose the only father that she's ever known," Rose pleaded.

The Doctor just stood there and stared at the crack numbly as he tried to process it all. He had a daughter – with Rose!

Then his jawline became firmly set and with a determined look on his face he said, "I'm coming, Rose. I'm coming and this time nothing in the universe is going to stop me!"

Christina's heart fell listening to this even as Amy squeezed her hand and clung to her waist tightly to let her know that she still cared about her no matter what. She would always be there for her as long as she needed her. She swore it.

Next: The Doctor is determined that he is going to get back to Pete's World no matter what and nothing is going to stand in his way. Next time the Doctor goes all out to get back to Rose. Will he succeed? What will he find waiting for him there if he does?