Hello everyone! I feel terrible for not updating for so long but I had serious writers block. I would like to thank all of you for being so patient (and slip in a guilty hint that if I had more reviews it would be less likely to happen in the future).

I would also like to point out that I feel writing all the dialogue that happened in the episode that I am not changing and is already known to the readers seems redundant so, I will only show the parts that I know and want to show. Critiques on this chapter would be really appreciated to know if you want the other chps. written in the same way. Thanks again all!

Chapter 3: Handcuffs and Prisoners

When the Doctor came around he first became aware of his new head pounding like a Valtrix was doing a Jagrod (a form of dance that involved the 200 tons of Valtrix attempted to crush one another) to his head. Trying to come up with what happened the Doctor all of a sudden remembered a cricket bat while he was looking for Amelia and Rose…who he had left with an escaped prisoner! Jerking to complete wakefulness the Doctor determined two things. One he had been handcuffed, two there was a ginger (jealousy ran through him quickly, even this new regeneration wasn't ginger) woman in a cop outfit who had likely hit him with the bat calling on a radio for back up. The Doctor found he often ran a foul with law enforcement. Not that he didn't believe laws should be upheld but police always seemed to enforce the wrong ones.

The ginger woman looked at him with a look that he placed as hatred, which definitely confused him. Yes he broke in but it wasn't like he had killed someone, he didn't even know her (but she did look a bit familiar). It appeared this regeneration had maintained one trait with its previous one and that was as Rose had once put it "his gift for gab". He began to talk rather fast.

Amy wasn't sure what she wanted to do. Amy had never really thought that the Doctor would return. Yes, it had always been a possibility but so was snow in July or being struck be a meteor. All Amy knew was she was angry at the man in front of her. It had been so long she had never thought he would return. And now on a perfectly normal day he ran in like he wasn't twelve years late yelling for her and her Rose.

What was Amy to do? Upon seeing him for the first time she had acted on the long impulse she had always had and to whack the Doctor upside the head. It had been quite satisfying but he had fainted and Amy couldn't continue wailing on him in good conscious until he had awoken again. As he lay there she had thought about what to do. A part of her realized that she should probably call Rose's cell and tell her what was going on, but her belief of the failures and unworthiness of the Doctor held her back. Rose was on a date with a nice man, and she was damned if she would let this Alien who had just skipped out of her life come barging back in to ruin everything. She knew in her heart of hearts that she wouldn't be able to keep the Doctor and Rose apart for long, but some part of her wanted the Doctor to suffer a little bit for leaving, so she had come up with a plan. As he babbled she told him that it was only a few months, and that Amelia Pond had vanished along with her guardian Rose Tyler and her fiancé Alexander Burke. The Doctor had frozen with a look of absolute horror on his face that Amy had felt guilty for a few seconds, before remembering Rose's tears and firming her resolve.

The Doctor, meanwhile had felt like he had both his hearts ripped from his chest. Some part of him acknowledged that he should be happy for Rose. When he had first met her he had realized just how bright she was. Not just intellectually, but just personality wise. She was someone who made others want to be better people. She often reminding him of a star or sun blazing bright and beautiful scaring away the darkness of people's hearts, and with as many ghosts as he had, her light had been a saving grace.

After the time war he thought he would never take another companion or truly even smile or laugh again. His first few hours with Rose had changed all that. All of his fears, guilt, hatred had slowly but surely been erased, gently burned away by her brilliance. Remembering people's names, telling her secrets about who he was and what had happened, and even preventing him from becoming his enemies when faced with the Daleks. But with the diminishing of all of those horrible feelings came the worry of another. What if Rose one day realized that she was with a lesser when she could be out there doing so much more? What if she found someone better suited for her. One who didn't carry so much past, who wasn't over 900 years her senior, with more to offer. How could he live if she wasn't there?

And now it seemed like she had. Found someone who was deserving of her love. Some horrible part of him immediately thought that it would only be short lived before she came back to him. After all she was like him now, practically immortal. But then his mind caught up with him. He had foolishly forgotten that he didn't get forevers not even from someone as amazing as Rose, or maybe because it was someone as amazing as Rose.

This internal battle of thoughts and feelings would have taken about a few hours had he been human but with his superior Time Lord mind it happened in a few seconds, then the Doctor came back to the point he decided to focus on. Three people were missing, including Rose. They had last been seen in the place that prisoner zero had escaped to.

As the Doctor tried to explain what he theorized with prisoner zero and the room that you could only see out of the corner of her eye, Amy was just getting more and more annoyed. It was almost like the Doctor to move on quickly from Rose to the problem at hand. To spite him, she went into the room.

A few minutes later, she and the Doctor were running for their lives, only to find him stopping at the shed. Giving her away, she continued walking as he followed her.

"Why did you say a few months?" The Doctor cried, looking sharply at Amy.

"Why'd you say five minutes then?" Amy cried back. Recognition shone through the Doctors eyes. Amy just didn't want to see that look. Just didn't want anything to do with him. She wanted Rose. So she took off running.

Amy was ahead of the Doctor around a corner but both of them heard a familiar voice. "Amelia!" Rose was running toward Amy with a new man she had never seen before but guessed was one Alexander Burke. Running up to her, Rose was at a position where it was impossible to see the Doctor but he could see her.

"What are you doing here?" Amy asked.

Rose dragged Amy toward an ice cream truck, ignored the man inside and began playing the recording they had heard in the house. "It's everywhere. TV, radio, everything is playing that message, at least all over town." Rose said. "Prisoner zero, as in prisoner zero has escaped. Amelia, things are about to get crazy."

The Doctor had been watching with fondness. He didn't know what was going on, who the man with her was (jealousy stabbed through him at that), but Rose was still the same clever little ape she always was, in the middle of crisis. There was only one thing missing from this picture so he finished it by saying, "Brilliant Rose. Still haven't lost any of your cleverness."

They all turned, Alexander confused, Amelia like she had forgotten him, and Rose looked like she had the day he had burned up a sun to say goodbye at Bad Wolf Bay. Like she wanted him to be there but wasn't quite sure he was. It nearly broke his hearts.

There was nothing said except the continual background noise of 'prisoner zero will vacate the human residence' message. Broken by Rose who said just one word, "Doctor."

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