THE DOCTOR'S WIFE

The Doctor and his companions are sitting in the Tardis having a conversation with each-other.

"And then we discovered it wasn't the Robot King after all, it was the real one. Fortunately, I was able to re-attach the head." The Doctor explains the story.

"Do you believe any of this stuff?" Adam asks his husband.

"I was there." Amy tells him.

"Oh, it's the warning lights. I'm getting rid of those. They never stop." The Doctor complains as the Tardis door receives three knocks.

"What was that?" Amy asks.

"The door. It knocked." The Doctor says.

"Right. We are in deep space." Adam describes the location.

"And somebody's knocking in the deepest part of space." The Doctor says as he opens the doors. A small glowing box is outside. "Oh, come here. Come here, you scrumptious little beauty."

The box flies inside and ends up hitting the Doctor on the chest.

"Doctor, what is it?" Amy asks him.

"I've got mail." The Doctor comments as later, he describes what the box is. "Time Lord emergency messaging an emergency, we'd wrap up thoughts in psychic containers and send them through time and space. Anyway, there's a living Time Lord still out there, and it's one of the good ones."

"You said there weren't any other Time Lords left. Apart from the three I know." Adam says.

"There are no Time Lords than you left anywhere in the universe. But the universe isn't where we're going. See that snake?" The Doctor corrects him as he then asks them to look at the Ourobouros, the snake swallowing its own tail.

"That's the mark of the Corsair! He was a fantastic bloke!" Adam comments as Amy gives him a blank look as he then explains. "He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times."

The Tardis bangs about as the Doctor controls it.

"We're leaving the universe."

"How can you leave the universe?" Amy asks him.

"With enormous difficulty. Right now I'm burning up Tardis rooms to give us some welly. Goodbye, swimming pool. Goodbye, scullery. Sayonara, squash court seven." The Doctor describes it to her as then thump, crash, then all is still and silent.

"Okay, okay. Where are we?" Amy asks the Doctor.

"Outside the universe, where we've never, ever been." The Doctor notes.

"The Medusa Cascade and Utopia?" Adam asks him as the lights go out in the Tardis.

"The power, is draining. Everything's draining. But it can't. That's, that's impossible." The Doctor describes about the Tardis.

"What is that?" Amy asks him.

"It's as if the Matrix, the soul of any Tardis, has just vanished. But where would it go?" Adam explains the Matrix.

-DOCTOR WHO-

The Tardis has landed to the rear of a large crashed spaceship.

"So what kind of trouble's your friend in?" Amy asks the two Time Lords.

"He was in a bind. A bit of a pickle. Sort of distressed." The Doctor says.

"Ah, you can't just say you don't know." Amy tells him.

"But what is this place? The scrap yard at the end of the universe? Not a very end of end all." Adam complains.

"Not end of, outside of." The Doctor corrects.

"How we can we be outside the universe? The universe is everything." Amy asks him.

"Imagine a great big soap bubble with one of those tiny little bubbles on the outside." The Doctor explains.

"Okay." Adam agrees with that.

"Well, it's nothing like that. Completely drained. Look at her." The Doctor describes the pain of the Tardis.

"Wait. So we're in a tiny bubble universe, sticking to the side of the bigger bubble universe?" Amy asks him

"Yeah. No. But if it helps, yes. This place is full of rift energy. She'll probably refuel just by being here. Now, this place. What do we think, eh? Gravity's almost Earth normal, air's breathable, but it smells like..." The Doctor describes the planet that have landed on.

"Armpits." Amy says about the smell.

"Armpits." The Doctor repeats her accusation, perhaps to state it being correct.

"What about all this stuff? Where did this come from?" Adam inquires.

"Well, there's a rift. Now and then stuff gets sucked through it. Not a bubble, a plughole. The universe has a plughole and we've just fallen down it." The Doctor explains to him as a woman runs out of a cave to come towards the Doctor.

"Thief! Thief! You're my thief!"

"She's dangerous. Guard yourselves." Another older woman says as the first, younger one runs up to the Doctor.

"Look at you. Goodbye. No, not goodbye, what's the other one?" This woman tells the Time Lord as she then kisses the Doctor.

"Watch out. Careful. Keep back from her. Welcome, strangers. Lovely. Sorry about the mad person." An elder man introduces himself.

"Why am I a thief? What have I stolen?" The Doctor inquires.

"The Tardis. That's the only thing I can think of..." Adam tells him as he rubs the police box's cold outside shell.

"Me. You're going to steal me. No, you have stolen me. You are stealing me. Oh tenses are difficult, aren't they?" The crazy woman answers the question about being stole.

"Oh. Oh, we are sorry, my dove. She's off her head. They call me Auntie." The older woman names herself.

"And I'm Uncle. I'm everybody's Uncle. Just keep back from this one. She bites!" The older male names himself.

"Do I? Excellent." The crazy woman says as she bites the Doctor's ear.

"Ow! Ow!" The Doctor complains.

"Biting's excellent. It's like kissing, only there's a winner." The crazy woman comments.

"So sorry. She's doolally." Uncle describes her personality.

"No, I'm not doolally. I'm, I'm. It's on the tip of my tongue. I've just had a new idea about kissing. Come here, you." The woman says what she is trying to think of.

"No, Idris, no." Auntie warns the crazy woman who is now named Idris.

"Oh, but now you're angry. No, you're not. You will be angry. The little boxes will make you angry." Idris proposes about some boxes.

"Sorry? The little what? Boxes?" The Doctor asks about boxes.

"Oh, ho, no. Your chin is hilarious. It means the smell of dust after rain." Idris yaps some words at him.

"What does?" The Doctor inquires.

"Petrichor." Idris names the smell she explains.

"But we didn't ask." Adam tells her.

"Not yet. But you will." Idris says to him.

"No, no, Idris. I think you should have a rest." Auntie reminds her.

"Rest. Yes, yes. Good idea. I'll just see if there's an off switch." Idris says as she collapses.

"Is that it? She dead now. So sad." Uncle asks if Idris is dead.

"No, she's still breathing." Adam corrects him.

"Nephew, take Idris somewhere she can not bite people." Uncle orders a being called Nephew as it is revealed that Nephew is an Ood.

"Oh, hello!" The Doctor greets the Ood.

"I love these guys! These beings are so awesome." Adam comments on Nephew.

"Doctor, what is that?" Amy inquires what this alien is.

"Oh, no, it's all right. It's an Ood. Oods are good. Love an Ood. Hello, Ood. Can't you talk? Oh, I see. It's damaged. May I? It might just be on the wrong frequency." The Doctor explains about the Ood to Amy.

"Nephew was broken when he came here. Why, he was half dead. House repaired him. House repaired all of us." Auntie recalls about Nephew.

"If you are receiving this message, please help me. Send a signal to the High Council of the Time Lords on Gallifrey. Tell them that I am still alive. I don't know where I am. I'm on some rock-like planet."

"What was that? Was that him being the Corsair? I heard the Corsair's voice there." Adam says.

"No, no. It's picking up something else than him. But that's, that's not possible. That's, that's. Who else is here? Tell me. Show me. Show me." The Doctor corrects him.

"Just what you see. Just the four of us, and the House. Nephew, will you take Idris somewhere safe where she can't hurt nobody?" Auntie tells them how many are there and then commands the Ood.

"The House? What's the House?" The Doctor inquires about this House that Auntie mentions.

"House is all around you, my sweets. You are standing on him. This is the House. This world. Would you like to meet him?" Auntie describes the House.

"Meet him?" Adam asks her. "Yes, we'd love to."

"This way. Come, please. Come." Uncle tells them.

"What's wrong? What were those voices?" Amy asks about the voices.

"Time Lords. It's not just the Corsair. Somewhere close by there is lots and lots of Time Lords." The Doctor explains what's happened.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Come. Come, come. You can see the House and he can look at you, and he..." Uncle says as they lead the Doctor to the device where Idris had her soul drained and replaced. The Doctor looks down the grating on the floor.

"I see. This asteroid is sentient." The Doctor comments.

"We walk on his back, breathe his air, eat his food." Auntie describes what House does.

"Smell its armpits." Amy jokes as then House speaks through Uncle and Auntie as if they are marionettes.

"And do my will. You are most welcome, travellers."

"Doctor, that voice. That's the asteroid talking?" Amy asks the Doctor.

"Yes. So you're like a sea urchin. Hard outer surface, that's the planet we're walking on. Big, squashy, oogly thing inside, that's you." The Doctor describes House.

"That is correct, Time Lord."

"Ah. So you've met Time Lords before?" The Doctor asks the planet.

"Many travellers have come through the rift, like Auntie and Uncle and Nephew. I repair them when they break."

"So there are Time Lords here, then?" Adam asks a question.

"Not any more, but there have been many Tardises on my back in days gone by."

"Well, there won't be any more after us. Last Time Lords. Last Tardis." The Doctor tells him.

"A pity. Your people were so kind. Be here in safety, Doctor. Rest, feed, if you will."

"We're not actually going to stay here, are we?" Adam asks him.

"Well, it seems like a friendly planet. Literally. Mind if we poke around a bit?" The Doctor inquires.

"You can look all you want. Go. Look." Auntie agrees with him as she then says to Amy. "House loves you."

Adam then gives a look of "Don't touch my wife." at them.

"Come on then, gang. We're just going to, er, see the sights." The Doctor tells his companions.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Thief!" Idris shouts throughout the planet.

"Shush, shush, shush." The Doctor says.

"So, as soon as the Tardis is refuelled, we go, yeah?" Adam asks the Doctor. "Don't forget that one adventure that happened in Cardiff thanks to you refuelling."

"No. There are Time Lords here. I heard them and they need me." The Doctor corrects him.

"You two have told me about your people, and you told me what you did." Amy says.

"Yes, yes, but if they're like the Corsair, they're good ones and I can save them." The Doctor tells her.

"And then tell them you destroyed the others?" Amy asks if he's going to do that.

"I can explain. Tell them why I had to." The Doctor says.

"You want to be forgiven." Amy tells him.

"Don't we all?" Adam agrees with the Doctor.

"What do you need from me?" Amy inquires.

"My screwdriver. I left it in the Tardis. It's in my jacket." The Doctor explains to her.

"You're wearing your jacket." Amy reminds him.

"My other jacket." The Doctor corrects her.

"You have two of those, again? Not after last time." Adam says.

"Okay, I'll get it. But Doctor, listen to me. Don't get emotional because that's when you make mistakes." Amy warns him as she throws him her mobile phone.

"Yes, boss." The Doctor follows her order.

"I'll call you from the Tardis. Adam, look after him." Amy says.

"Adam, look after her." The Doctor orders her.

"Yeah." Adam agrees with the Doctor's order as he and his wife go back to the Tardis.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"I told you to look after him." Amy recalls.

"He'll be fine. He's a Time Lord. Like me... just with a bigger echo." Adam tells her.

"It's just what they're called. It doesn't mean he actually knows what he's doing." Amy disregards the comment.

"Wow, thanks!" Her husband complains as they go into the Tardis, which is then surrounded by neon green gas.

-DOCTOR WHO-

Amy phones the Doctor inside.

"Hey, we're here. Screwdriver's in your jacket, yeah?" Amy asks about the screwdriver.

"Yeah, it's around somewhere. Have a good look." The Doctor lies as he has it in his hand, and uses it to lock the Tardis door remotely.

"Did you do that?" Amy asks if Adam locked the door.

"I didn't do anything. Right. Jacket." Adam disagrees.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Come on. Where are you? Now, where are you all? Where are you?" The Doctor asks as he pulls back a curtain to a small alcove. "Well, they can't all be in here."

There are indistinct voices nearby. He opens a small cupboard and finds at least 10 of those message boxes all chattering away.

"Please do you read me."

"Structural integrity failure. Damage to dimensional stabiliser."

"If you can hear, come and help."

Uncle and Auntie come up behind him.

"Just admiring your Time Lord distress signal collection. Nice job. Brilliant job. Really thought I had some friends here, but this is what the Ood translator picked up. Cries for help from the long dead. How many Time Lords have you lured here the way you lured me, and what happened to them all?" The Doctor explains what has happened and inquires what has happened to the Time Lords.

"House, House is kind and he is wise." Auntie comments.

"House repairs you when you break. Yes, I know. But how does he mend you? You've got the eyes of a twenty year old." The Doctor says.

"Thank you." Uncle agrees.

"No. Oh, no, I mean it literally. Your eyes are thirty years younger than the rest of you. Your ears don't match, your right arm is two inches longer than you're left, and how's your dancing? Because you've got two left feet. Patchwork people. You've been repaired and patched up so often, I doubt there's anything left of what used to be you. I had an umbrella like you once." The Doctor explains about what they are really as he looks at Auntie's forearm which has a snake tattoo.

"Oh, now, it's been a great arm for me, this." Auntie comments.

"Corsair." The Doctor notes.

"He was a strapping big bloke, wasn't he, Uncle?" Auntie asks Uncle.

"Big fellow." Uncle comments.

"I got the arm and then Uncle got the spine and the kidneys." Auntie notes.

"Kidneys." Uncle says.

"You gave me hope, and then you took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. God knows what it will do to me. Basically, run!" The Doctor tells them.

"Poor old Time Lord. Too late. House is too clever." Uncle warns him as he and Auntie leave.

The phone rings.

"No sonic screwdriver. Also the doors seemed to have locked behind us. Adam thinks there's a perfectly innocent explanation, but I think you lied to us." Amy explains to him.

"Time Lord stuff. Needed you out of the way." The Doctor reveals it to them.

"What, we're not good enough for your smart new friends?" Amy inquires.

"The boxes will make you angry. How could she know?" He mentions something to her.

"Doctor, what are you talking about?" Amy asks.

"Stay put. Stay exactly where you are." The Doctor orders her.

"We don't have much choice." Amy tells him as he ends the call.

"How did you know about the boxes? You said they'd make me angry. How did you know?" The Doctor keeps asking himself as he talks to Idris.

"Ah, it's my thief." Idris comments.

"Who are you?" The Doctor asks her.

"It's about time." She promises.

-DOCTOR WHO-

The gas is working its way up the side of the Tardis.

"He does not trust us and he's being emotional. This is bad. This is very, very bad." Amy complains.

"Yeah, I think it probably is." Adam agrees with her.

"Sometimes I hate being right." Amy jokes.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"I don't understand. Who are you?" The Doctor asks her.

"Do you not know me? Just because they put me in here?" Idris asks him and then complains about her being in a cell.

"They said you were dangerous." The Doctor recalls.

"Not the cage, stupid. In here. They put me in here. I'm the. Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go..." Idris corrects him as she finishes her sentence with the sound of the Tardis.

"The Tardis?" The Doctor questions her identity.

"Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the Tardis." She points it out to him.

"No, you're not. You're a biter, mad lady. The Tardis is up and downy stuff in a big blue box." The Doctor describes his ship to her.

"Yes, that's me. A Type Forty Tardis. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console you said..." Idris describes what the Doctor did with her.

"I said you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known." The Doctor recalls.

"And then you stole me. And I stole you." Idris says.

"I borrowed you." The Doctor lies.

"Borrowing implies the intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?" Idris explains to him.

"You're the Tardis?" The Doctor inquires.

"Yes." Idris agrees.

"My Tardis?" The Doctor says.

"My Doctor. Oh. We have now reached the point in the conversation where you open the lock." Idris tells him as the Doctor sonicks open the cage. "Are all people like this?"

"Like what?" The Doctor tries to answer her question.

"So much bigger on the inside. I'm, oh, what is that word? It's so big, so complicated. It's so sad." Idris tries to describe people.

"But why? Why pull the living soul from a Tardis and pop it in a tiny human head? What does it want you for?" The Doctor asks about what this plan of Idris's soul means.

"Oh, it doesn't want me." Idris corrects him.

"How do you know?" The Doctor asks.

"House eats Tardises." Idris reveals.

"House what? What do you mean?" The Doctor asks her.

"I don't know. It's something I heard you say." Idris says.

"When?"

"In the future."

"House eats Tardises?"

"There you go. What are fish fingers?" She asks him.

"When do I say that?" He complains.

"Any second." Idris reminds him.

"Of course. House feeds on rift energy and Tardises are bursting with it. And not raw, all lovely and cooked. Processed food. Mmm, fish fingers." The Doctor explains both about House and fish fingers.

"Do fish have fingers?" Idris asks about fish and "fingers".

"But you can't eat a Tardis. it would destroy you. Unless, unless..." The Doctor spots a flaw.

"Unless you deleted the Tardis Matrix first." Idris says.

"So it deleted you." The Doctor realises.

"But House can't just delete a Tardis' consciousness. That would blow a hole in the universe. So he pulls out the Matrix, sticks it in a living receptacle and then it feeds off the remaining Artron energy. Oh. You were about to say all that. I don't suppose you have to now." Idris explains about the Tardis.

"I sent Amy and Adam in there. They'll be eaten. Amy! Amy? Adam? Get the hell out of there." The Doctor says to her as he starts running.

"Doctor, something's wrong." Amy says.

"It's House. He's after the Tardis. Just get out both of you." The Doctor explains.

"We can't. You locked the door, remember?" Amy recalls.

"But I've unlocked it." The Doctor says.

"You stupid well haven't." Amy corrects him as the Cloister Bell starts to toll and a wind blows through. "Doctor, I don't like this."

The Doctor tries the screwdriver again, and snaps his fingers.

"Open!" The Doctor complains.

"Doctor?" Amy asks him.

"Open this door!" The Doctor shouts.

"Adam, hold my hand." Amy says.

"Amy. Adam!" The Doctor says as the Tardis dematerialises. The Doctor tries the phone again. "Amy? Amy, can you hear me?"

"Okay, right. I don't, I really don't know what to do. That's a new feeling."

-DOCTOR WHO-

The Tardis is hurtling towards a Rift.

"Listen, whatever happens, at least we're together. And we're in the Tardis, so we're safe." Adam says to his husband.

"Yeah." Amy tries to agree.

"You're half right. I mean, you are in the Tardis. What a great adventure. I should have done this half a million years ago. So, Amy, Adam, why shouldn't I just kill you now?"

-DOCTOR WHO-

"It's gone." The Doctor says.

"Eaten?" Idris asks him.

"No, it left. Not eaten, hi-jacked. But why?" The Doctor says.

"It's time for us both to go, and keep together." Auntie tells him.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Go? What do you mean, go? Where are you going?" The Doctor asks them.

"Well, we're dying, my love. It's time for Auntie and Uncle to pop off." Auntie says.

"I'm against it." Uncle disagrees.

"It's your fault, isn't it, sweets? Because you told House it was the last Tardis. House can't feed on them if there's none more coming, can he?" Auntie says.

"So now he's off to your universe to find more Tardises." Uncle tells the Doctor.

"It won't." The Doctor disapproves.

"Oh, it'll think of something." Auntie promises as she collapses.

"Actually, I feel fine." Uncle comments as he then drops.

"Not dead. You can't just die!" The Doctor complains.

"We need to go to where I landed, Doctor, quickly." Idris says.

"Why?" The Doctor inquires.

"Because we are there in three minutes. We need to go now. Ow. Roughly how long do these bodies last?" Idris asks him about the bodies.

"You're dying." The Doctor says.

"Yes, of course I'm dying. I don't belong in a flesh body. I could blow the casing in no time. No, stop it. Don't get emotional. Hmm. That's what the orangey girl says. You're the Doctor. Focus." Idris explains.

"On what? How? I'm a madman with a box, without a box. I'm stuck down the plughole at the end of the universe on a stupid old junkyard. Ooo." The Doctor complains about his life.

"Ooo what?" Idris asks about that noise he made.

"I'm not." The Doctor realises.

"Not what?" Idris asks.

"Because it's not a junkyard. Don't you see? It's not a junkyard." The Doctor says.

"What is it then?" Idris inquires.

"It's a Tardis junkyard. Come on! Oh, sorry. Do you have a name?" The Doctor tells her.

"Seven hundred years, finally he asks." Idris complains.

"But what do I call you?" The Doctor asks her.

"I think you call me Sexy." Idris admires.

"Only when we're alone." The Doctor tries to silent her.

"We are alone." Idris comments.

"Oh. Come on then, Sexy." The Doctor jokes around with her "nickname".

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Corridors. I have corridors. So much to learn about my new home. But you haven't answered my question, children."

"Er, a question?" Adam asks it.

"You remember. Tell me why I shouldn't just kill you both now?"

"Well, because. Adam, why?" Amy mumbles.

"Because killing us quickly wouldn't be any fun. And you need fun, don't you? That's what Uncle and Auntie were for, wasn't it? Someone to make suffer. You need to be entertained, and killing us quickly wouldn't be entertainment." Adam lies to give him and Amy more time.

"So entertain me. Run."

-DOCTOR WHO-

"A valley of half eaten Tardises. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" The Doctor asks her.

"I'm thinking that all of my sisters are dead. That they were devoured, and that we are looking at their corpses." Idris ponders on the Doctor's question.

"Ah. Sorry. No, I wasn't thinking that." The Doctor corrects Idris.

"No. You were thinking you could build a working Tardis console out of broken remnants of a hundred different models. And you don't care that it's impossible." Idris explains.

"It's not impossible as long as we're alive. Adam and Amy need me. So yeah, we're going to build a Tardis." The Doctor says.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"So are we having fun yet? I'm rather enjoying the sensation of having you running around inside me."

Amy nearly falls down a perpendicular corridor.

"I've turned off the corridor anti-gravs, so do be careful."

(hey edge their way around the hole and keep running.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Bond the tube directly into the Tachyon Diverter." Idris teaches him.

"Yes, yes, I have actually rebuilt a Tardis before, you know. I know what I'm doing." The Doctor complains to her.

"You're like a nine year old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions." Idris compares him.

"I always read the instructions." The Doctor disagrees with her.

"There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?" Idris asks about a certain sign on her door.

"That's not instructions." The Doctor says.

"There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?" Idris corrects him.

"Pull to open." The Doctor says.

"Yes. And what do you do?" Idris asks him.

"I push." The Doctor tells her.

"Every single time. Seven hundred years. Police Box doors open out the way." Idris complains.

"I think I have earned the right to open my front doors any way I want." The Doctor moans.

"Your front doors? Have you any idea how childish that sounds?" Idris asks him.

"You are not my mother." The Doctor complains.

"And you are not my child." Idris agrees.

"You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable." The Doctor says.

"And you have?" Idris asks.

"You didn't always take me where I wanted to go." The Doctor complains.

"No, but I always took you where you needed to go." Idris tells him.

"You did. Look at us talking. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could always talk, even when you're stuck inside the box?" The Doctor asks him.

"You know I'm not constructed that way. I exist across all space and time, and you talk and run around and bring home strays." Idris says as she buckles at the knees. The Doctor catches her.

"You okay?" The Doctor asks.

"One of the kidneys has already failed. It doesn't matter. We need to finish assembling the console." Idris says.

"Using a console without a proper shell. It's not going to be safe." The Doctor complains.

"This body has about eighteen minutes left to live. The universe we're in will reach Absolute Zero in three hours. Safe is relative." Idris explains.

"Then we need to get a move on. Eh, old girl?" The Doctor says.

A bulkhead slams shut, separating Amy and Rory.

"No! Amy!" Adam shouts.

"No!" Amy says.

"Amy." Adam tells her. "Amy? Amy? Amy?"

Adam is sitting at the other end of the corridor.

"Adam?" Amy asks him.

"Where have you been?" Adam inquires.

"I stepped through that door and it came down here." Amy tells him.

"But you've been there for hours." Adam complains.

"No, I haven't. It's House, and it's messing with the Tardis. Come on, back this way." Amy explains as they run again and a bulkhead slams shut, separating them again.

"No!" Adam shouts.

-DOCTOR WHO-

The console is almost complete.

"You'll need to install the time rotor." Idris tells him as he does.

"How is this going to make it through the rift? How? We're almost done. Thrust diffuser? Er, retroscope. Blue thingy." The Doctor asks her as Idris examines a wire coat hanger.

"Do you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?" Idris inquires.

"I chose you. You were unlocked." The Doctor tells her.

"Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough." Idris reveals.

"Right. Perfect. Look at that. What could possibly go wrong?" The Doctor inquires as a piece falls off the console. "That's fine. That always happens. No, hang on. Wait."

He gets a couple of pieces of red rope with hooks on the ends.

"Right. Okay, let's go. Follow that Tardis." The Doctor says as nothing happens. "Oh no, come on. There's rift energy everywhere. You can do it. Okay, diverting all power to thrust. Let's be having you."

"No, no, no, no." The Doctor says.

"What's wrong?" Idris asks the Doctor.

"It can't hold the charge. It can't even start. There's no power. I've got nothing." The Doctor says.

"Oh, my beautiful idiot. You have what you've always had. You've got me." Idris tells him as she kisses her finger, and transfers golden energy to the console. They dematerialise.

"Whoo hoo!" The Doctor says.

"We've locked on to them. They'll have to lower the shields when I'm close enough to phase inside." Idris tells her.

"Can you get a message to Amy? The telepathic circuits are online." The Doctor says.

"Which one's Amy? The pretty one?" Idris asks.

-DOCTOR WHO-

Adam gets a headache.

"Argh." Adam complains.

"Adam, what's wrong?" Amy asks Adam.

"It's like I'm getting a message." Adam says.

"Hello, Pretty." Idris comments.

"Idris, what are you doing?" Adam inquires.

"Don't worry. Telepathic messaging. No, that's Adam." The Doctor says.

"Hey Doctor, next time please. Speak to me in Gallifreyan..." Adam says.

"You have to go to the old control room. I'm putting the route in your head. When you get there use the purple slider on the nearest panel to lower the shields." Idris explains.

"The pretty one?" The Doctor asks.

"I can be pretty." Adam says.

"You'll have about twelve seconds before the room goes into phase with the invading Matrix. I'll send you the pass key when you get there. Good luck." Idris says.

"What was that?" Amy asks.

"It was that woman. That mad woman and the Doctor." Adam says.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"How's he going to be able to take down the shields anyway? The House is in the control room." The Doctor asks.

"I directed him to one of the old control rooms." Idris tells the Doctor.

"There aren't any old control rooms. They were all deleted or remodelled." The Doctor corrects him.

"I archive them, for neatness. I've got about thirty now." Idris says.

"But I've only changed the desktop, what, a dozen times?" The Doctor asks.

"So far, yes." Idris says.

"You can't archive something that hasn't happened yet." The Doctor complains.

"You can't." Idris corrects him.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"What happened to the lights?" Amy inquires.

"The lights are fine. Oh, it's messing with our heads again. Okay, stay there a second." Adam orders her.

"What is it? What?" Amy asks her husband.

"Just hang on." Adam says.

"Don't leave me. I can hardly see, you idiot." Amy complains as Adam goes round the corner into a bright light.

"Argh."

"Adam? Adam?" Amy asks.

"It's okay, I'm fine. Come towards my voice."

"What happened? Where are you?" Amy inquires.

"I just banged my head. Just keep coming. Reach out your hand." Adam tells her as Amy walks past Adam lying unconscious on the floor and touches the Ood's tentacles. She screams, the lights come up and Adam comes to her. "This way. Come on, run!"

-DOCTOR WHO-

"Keep going. You're doing it, you sexy thing." The Doctor comments.

"See, you do call me that. Is it my name?" Idris asks him.

"You bet it's your name." The Doctor agrees.

"Whoo!" Idris says.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"I can see now, Adam. I can see." Amy tells him.

"It was the Ood thing, the Nephew and it's still coming." Adam says.

"I know. So where is this place?" Amy asks him as they come to a dead end.

"This is where she told me to go. She said she'd send me the passkey. Ow!" Adam says.

"Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor."

"Petrichor?" Amy asks about the last word.

"What do I do? Do I say it? Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor. I said it." Adam says.

"Petrichor. Petrichor." Amy repeats to confirm the word.

"I said it." Adam says.

"Petrichor. She told you what it meant. The smell of wet dust, remember? So, oh, it's the meaning, not the word." Amy explains.

"The meaning of what?" Adam asks Amy.

"The Tardis interface is telepathic. You don't say it, you think it." Amy says as the Ood is at the far end of the corridor.

"It's coming." Adam says.

"Quiet. Crimson. Eleven. Delight. The smell of dust after rain. Crimson, eleven, delight, the smell of dust after rain. Crimson, eleven, delight, the smell of dust after rain." Amy explains as Amy pictures a flat, a birthday cake, her wedding, a raindrop falling into dust. The door opens.

-DOCTOR WHO-

"What is this place? Another control room?"

"Right, shields. Got it." Adam says.

"They did it. Shields down." Idris confirms.

"How did you find this place? It's not on my internal schematics. I had hoped you two could join Nephew as my servants. But you two are nothing but trouble. Nephew, kill them."

Adam gets another painful telepathic message.

"We're coming through. Get out of the way or you'll be atomised." Idris says.

"Where are you coming through?" Adam asks.

"I don't know." Idris says.

"Oh, great. Thanks." Adam complains.

The console is closing on the Tardis.

"It's not going to hold." Idris says.

"Hold on." Adam says as the console materialises in a shower of sparks.

"Doctor." Amy inquires.

"Not good. Not good at all. How do you walk around in these things?" Idris asks the Doctor.

"We're not quite there yet. Just hold on. Amy, this is, well, she's my Tardis. Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's my Tardis." The Doctor introduces Idris.

"She's the Tardis?" Amy inquires.

"And she's a woman. She's a woman and she's the Tardis." The Doctor says.

"Did you wish really hard?" Amy asks him.

"Shut up. Not like that." The Doctor disagrees.

"Hello. I'm Sexy." Idris introduces herself.

"Oh. Still shut up." The Doctor still disagrees.

"The environment has been breached. Nephew, kill them all."

"Where's Nephew?" Adam asks.

"He was standing right where you materialised." Amy notes.

"Ah. Well, he must have been redistributed." The Doctor says.

"Meaning what?" Adam inquires.

"You're breathing him." The Doctor evaluates.

"Oh, come on." Amy complains.

"Another Ood I failed to save." The Doctor notes.

"Doctor. I did not expect you."

"Well, that's me all over, isn't it? Lovely old unexpected me." The Doctor says.

"The big question is; now you're here, how to dispose of you? I could play with gravity."

They get pulled to the floor for a few seconds.

"Or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke."

"You really don't want to do that." The Doctor says.

"Why shouldn't I just kill you now?"

"Because then I won't be able to help you. Listen to your engines. Just listen to them. You don't have the thrust and you know it. Right now I'm your only hope for getting out of your little bubble through the rift, and into my universe. And mine's the one with the food in." The Doctor explains about House.

"Water, water." Idris says.

"You just have to promise not to kill us. That's all, just promise." The Doctor says.

"You can't be serious." Amy complains.

"I'm very serious. I'm sure it's an entity of its word." The Doctor says.

"Doctor, she's burning up. She's asking for water." Adam says.

"Hey. Hang in there, old girl. Not long now. It'll be over soon." The Doctor tells he.

"I always liked it when you call me old girl." Idris admires.

"You want me to give my word? Easy. I promise."

"Fine. Okay. I trust you. Just delete, oh er, thirty percent of the Tardis rooms, you'll free up thrust enough to make it through. Activate subroutine Sigma nine." The Doctor orders House.

"Why would you tell me this?"

"Because we want to get back to our universe as badly as you do. And I'm nice." The Doctor says.

"Yes. I can delete rooms. And I can also rid myself of vermin if I delete this room first. Thank you, Doctor. Very helpful. Goodbye, Time Lord. Goodbye, little humans. Goodbye, Idris."

A bright light covers the room. The Tardis returns to normal space with an empty console room.

-DOCTOR WHO-

Then the four of them appear.

"Yes. I mean, you could do that, but it just won't work. Hardwired fail-safe. Living things from rooms that are deleted are automatically deposited in the main control room. But thanks for the lift." The Doctor explains.

"We are in your universe now, Doctor. Why should it matter to me in which room you die? I can kill you just as easily here as anywhere. Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords."
"Fear me. I've killed all of them." The Doctor says as Idris is still telepathically telling Adam stuff.

"I don't understand. There isn't a forest in here." Adam tells her.

"Yeah, you're right. You've completely won. Oh, you can kill us in oodles of really inventive ways, but before you do kill us allow me and friends Amy and Adam to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent.

"Congratulations." Amy uses sarcasm.

"Yep, you've defeated us. Me and my lovely friends here, and last but definitely not least, the Tardis Matrix herself, a living consciousness you ripped out of this very control room and locked up into a human body. And look at her." The Doctor explains what is happening to do Idris every second.

"Doctor, she's stopped breathing." Adam says.

"Enough. That is enough."

"No. It's never enough. You forced the Tardis into a body so she'd burn out safely a very long way away from this control room. A flesh body can't hold the Tardis Matrix and live. Look at her body, House." The Doctor continues to explain.

"And you think I should mourn her?"

"No. I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room. You took her from her home. But now she's back in the box again, and she's free." The Doctor warns House as the golden energy streams from Idris into the console then out again and through the Tardis.

"No. Doctor, stop this. Argh! Stop this now."

"Oh, look at my girl. Look at her go. Bigger on the inside. You see, House?" The Doctor comments.

"Make her stop."

"That's your problem. Size of a planet, but inside you are just so small." The Doctor says.

"Make it stop."

"Finish him off, girl." The Doctor tells him.

"Ow. Don't do this! Argh!"

Golden Idris is standing on the stairs.

"Doctor, are you there? It's so very dark in here." Idris asks the Doctor.

"I'm here." The Doctor says.

"I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now." Idris says.

"What word?" The Doctor asks.

"Alive. I'm alive." Idris says her word.

"Alive isn't sad." The Doctor disagrees.

"It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here, but this is when we talked, and now even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you." Idris evaluates the word.

"Goodbye?" The Doctor asks.

"No. I just wanted to say hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you." Idris says.

"Please. I don't want you to. Please." The Doctor tells her as Idris dematerialises. "Where?"

Later, the Doctor is doing some work below the console.

"How's it going under there?" Adam inquires.

"Just putting a firewall around the Matrix. Almost done." The Doctor tells him.

"Are you going to make her talk again?" Amy asks.

"I can't." The Doctor says.

"Why not?" Adam inquires.

"Spacey wacey, isn't it?" Amy questions him.

"Well, actually, it's because the Time Lords discovered that if you take an eleventh dimensional matrix and fold it into a mechanical then. Yes, it's spacey wacey." The Doctor tries to explain.

"Sorry. At the end, she was talking. She kept repeating something. I don't know what it meant." Adam says.

"What did she say?" The Doctor asks Adam.

"The only water in the forest is the river. She said we'd need to know that someday. It doesn't make sense, does it?" Adam mentions.

"Not yet. You okay?" The Doctor asks him.

"No. I watched her die. I shouldn't let it get to me, but it still does." Adam says.

"Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now, that's all that counts. Nearly finished. Two more minutes, then we're off. The Eye of Orion's restful, if you like restful. I can never really get the hang of restful. What do you think, dear? Where shall we take the kids this time?" The Doctor explains to his Tardis.

"Look at you pair. It's always you and her, isn't it, long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box, off to see the universe." Amy says.

"Well, you say that as if it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is. The House deleted all the bedrooms. I should probably make you two a new bedroom. You'd like that, wouldn't you?" The Doctor says.

"Okay. Er, Doctor, this time could we lose the bunk beds?" Amy asks the Doctor.

"No. Bunk beds are cool. A bed with a ladder. You can't beat that. It's your room. Out those stairs, keep walking till you find it. Off you pop." The Doctor says.

"Doctor, do you have a room?" Adam inquires as she pulls Adam away. Later, the Doctor's work is finished.

"Are you there? Can you hear me? Oh, I'm a silly old. Okay. The Eye of Orion, or wherever we need to go." The Doctor says as levers move on their own. "Ha ha! Whoo hoo."

Amy is walking to her bathroom and the revelation takes place.

"Doctor! Adam!" Amy screams as both Adam and the Doctor are running to Amy.

"What Amy!" The Doctor and Adam ask her.

"My water's broke!" Amy complains.

"There's a hospital room in the Tardis, two right corners from here." The Doctor tells her as they all run and an hour later, the Doctor comes out with Amy and two babies.

"Oh My God, Is one of them a girl?" Adam asks.

"Yes." The Doctor confirms.

"Let me name the girl, Catherine." Adam tells her.

"What about Matthew for the boy." Amy inquires.

And then started the travels of Catherine and Matthew Pond...