Sorry! This chapter is kinda short (and bad). Please enjoy anyway :)
The TARDIS materialised in Amy's garden. The door opened and the Doctor stuck his head out.
"And see?" He stepped out and pointed to the sky "Now it's night!" He grinned at the short, ginger woman who stepped out after him. She sighed.
"Okay, fine. I believe you now. I'm still slightly paranoid that you've actually just drugged me or something, but for the moment, yes, I believe you. Okay?"
"Doctor."
They looked up to see Amy standing before them, wearing a nightgown and staring at them in disbelief.
"Amy! Sorry about running off earlier. Brand new TARDIS. Bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. This one over here" he motioned to Lila, "didn't believe I could really travel in time. Can you believe it?"
Amy stared at them.
"It's you. You came back. Both of you."
"Course we came back. I always come back. Something wrong with that?"
"And you kept the clothes."
"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."
"Yeah, it's cool." He said, hand reaching up to straighten the tie, "Bow ties are cool."
Lila and Amy exchanged glances. Lila shook her head.
"Yeah, no. Sorry. Pretty much the opposite of cool." She said apologetically. "Unless you're from another planet, maybe."
The Doctor smiled "Well I am, yeah."
Lila raised an eyebrow. "O…kay."
"So what do you think, you two?"
"Of what?" Amy asked.
"Other planets. Want to check some out?"
"What does that mean?"
"It means. Well, it means come with me."
Amy frowned. "Where?"
"Wherever. You. Like."
"All that stuff that happened. The hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero–"
The Doctor smiled. "Oh, don't worry, that's just the beginning. There's loads more."
"Yeah," Amy continued, "but those things, those amazing things, all that stuff. That was TWO years ago."
Lila's eyes widened.
"Wait, what? WHAT!" she exclaimed, turning to the Doctor, "You said we were only going forward a few hours! We've been gone two years?"
The Doctor frowned. "Oops. Sorry."
"TWO YEARS? We've been gone for two fucking years and that's all you have to say to me?"
"Well what do you want me to say?"
Lila glared at him and kicked him in the shin. The Doctor yelped and hopped on one leg, rubbing the other with his hands.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"Take me back!" She exclaimed. "You have a time machine! Take me back to the day we left! Jeff and everyone must have been worried sick!"
"Actually," Amy butted in "They were worried at first, but after they got your letter everything was fine."
Lila frowned. "What letter? I didn't send any letter."
"The one telling them you were going travelling–"
"Ah, Amy." The Doctor interrupted, "She hasn't sent them a letter. At least not yet."
It was Amy's turn to frown. "What do you mean?"
"Time travel" The Doctor explained, waving his hand, "Its all mind boggling and wibbly-wobbly. Basically sometime in the future Lila is going to send a letter to Jeff and Mrs. Angelo telling them that she's travelling and that they don't need to worry about her. Not sure when. Maybe now." He turned to Lila, "Maybe you should send it now."
"Travelling? Where the hell would I be–"
"With me, I hope. Well, us. " The Doctor interrupted, waving a hand towards Amy.
"With you?"
"Yeah. With me." He smiled, looking between them. "Other planets, other worlds. Sound interesting?"
Lila shrugged. "I guess."
"You guess?"
'Well, I have nothing better to do." She said flippantly. "Just promise that if you get sick of me you're not going to accidentally drop me off on Mars."
The Doctor chuckled "You have my word. What about you, Amelia Pond?" He asked, turning to Amy.
Amy looked past him to the TARDIS, thoughtfully.
"When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool. And a library. And the swimming pool was in the library."
The Doctor nodded. "Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So, coming?"
"No."
"You wanted to come fourteen years ago."
"I grew up."
"Don't worry. I'll soon fix that."
He opened the TARDIS door and motioned for them to follow. Lila stepped back inside, followed by Amy.
"Well? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all."
"I'm in my nightie." Amy said suddenly.
Lila rolled her eyes. "Bigger on the inside spaceship and that's really the first thing you think of?"
"Oh, don't worry." The Doctor said, Ignoring Lila. "Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe. And possibly a swimming pool. So, you two, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?"
Lila raised an eyebrow. "You're so sure that we're coming."
"Yeah. I am."
"Why?" Amy asked
The Doctor pointed to her "Cause you're the Scottish girl in the English village, and I know how that feels."
"Oh, do you?"
"All these years living here, most of your life, and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming. And you" He pointed to Lila, "Computer programmer, alone in a strange village with no family. Of course you're coming."
"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?" Amy asked.
"It's a time machine." The Doctor said, "I can get you back five minutes ago."
Lila coughed. "Says the guy who just brought me back to earth two years late."
The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Like I said, brand new TARDIS. Sometimes it takes her a little while to get back into the swing of things. Why, what's tomorrow?" He turned back to Amy.
She shrugged. "Nothing. Nothing. Just you know, stuff."
"All right, then." He nodded. "Back in time for stuff."
Suddenly, a sonic screwdriver rose out of a slot in the TARDIS console.
"Oh! A new one! Lovely. Thanks, dear."
He pressed the button on the end of the screwdriver, causing it to light up. He then pocketed the screwdriver and began pulling leavers on the TARDIS console.
"Why us?" Amy asked.
"Why not?"
"No, seriously. You are asking both of us to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question. Why?"
"I don't know. Fun. Do I have to have a reason?"
"People always have a reason." Lila said.
"Do I look like people?"
"Yes."
"Been knocking around on my own for a while. My choice, but I've started talking to myself all the time. It's giving me earache."
"You're lonely. That's it? Just that?" Amy asked.
"Just that. Promise."
"Okay."
"So, are you okay, then?" He asked Amy, "Because this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit, you know."
"I'm fine. It's just, there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought. Well, I started to think that maybe you were just like a madman with a box."
"Amy Pond, Lila Clarke, there's something you'd better understand about me, because it's important, and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box. Ha ha!" He grinned at them and set the TARDIS into flight.
"Goodbye Leadworth, hello everything."
Thanks for reading! I found this chapter quite weird/awkward to write for some reason, so apologies if it isn't great.