Daniel's POV (Still, be patient)
As soon as we got a booth River and the Doctor pulled out a pair of matching journals and began to flip through them and shout out seemingly random people and places Leaving me very confused. "Why...?" "They're both time travelers so they never meet in the right order. They're syncing their diaries." I rubbed my temples, trying to keep down the headache that was obviously coming "See there's that word again. 'Time Travel' now I believe in a lot of things, in fact I know that a lot of things EXIST, but time travel? that's stretching things a little-" I was going to go on a while longer but Amy interrupted me "So what's happening, then? Because you've been up to something. " I gave her a look that said this wasn't over. " I've been running...faster than I've ever run, and I've been running my whole life. Now it's time for me to stop. And tonight I'm going to need you all with me." That got my attention. "Ok, we're here, what's up?"
"Does this have anything to do with no.1? " I asked, Dad did say that no.1 probably went after their allies after he'd killed them (oh yeah, I forgot to mention, My Dad, and my Mom are dead, but I can sort of summon their ghosts when I need advice or adult supervision) maybe the prayer had been chasing this guy a little longer than the others. "No, well yes, more on that later but first a picnic! And then a trip. Somewhere different, somewhere brand-new." "Where?" Amy and I asked. "Space...1969."
After we'd picked up the goodies we had ordered, I pulled him aside. "Alright, so you know about the list, and it's not hard to assume that I had parents at some point, but I need a little more evidence that you knew them than that." The Doctor looked a little hurt at my skepticism but began digging through his pockets. "You know I knew Graff and Atrelda when they were still in the academy, I was my planet's ambassador to Alpar Nok for a few years before they had me replaced when they said I was getting 'too attached'. I was even at their wedding, I was your father's best man you know! On the day they were deployed he gave me a token of our friendship, I've kept it on me ever since, now if I could just find it- " he riffled through his pockets for another ten minutes until he found what he was looking for. He held his hand out to me and sitting in his palm was a small charm. the craftsmen ship was unmistakable, it was diffinitely from Alpar Nok, from what I'd learned it was common to give a elephant charm to a trusted friend, and so either he'd killed someone who owned it, or he was telling the truth. "See, they weren't the only aliens looking out for earth." I was sort of stunned. "alright, I believe you, but I still don't believe in time travel." His eyes lit up a little "Not for long!" he quipped.
About half way to the lake I remembered the reason why I came here in the first place, and I poofed up Emma, Joe, Willy, and Dana. Rory and Amy were startled by their appearance, but River didn't seem phased. Once we got to the lake, Emma grabbed started pointing out all of the various wildlife and plant species. She got distracted by a Bald eagle, worried that she'd get into trouble, Willy ran after her. Dana chuckled and gave me a kiss on the cheek, "I'll go find them, I'll be right back." she whispered in my ear. I watched her as she followed at a calmer pace.
Amy saw me watching her and giggled a little, I stuck my tongue out at her and walked over to where Rory and the Doctor were setting a picnic cloth with an obviously hungry Joe Joe eyeing the picnic basket. I gave him a look, and he backed off, a little. It was windy, so I grabbed a couple of small rocks to weigh it down with. Then I sat down with the rest of the group while the Doctor started pouring wine. They'd (unwisely) let Joe Joe hold the picnic basket, he was rifling through it while I filtered the alcohol out of my glass. "It's bigger on the INSIDE!" he shouted, I gave him a warning look. We toasted and I scanned the landscape to see if Dana had found Emma and Willy yet, and I noticed a silhouette of a man in the distance.
"Hey were you expecting someone else?" I asked, keeping my eyes on the figure, ready to fight back if needed. "Yeah I'm expecting one more person, why did you see someone" I turned to the rest of the group, and shook my head. What was I talking about? Oh right, Why did I say that again? "Umm you look like you're waiting for someone" Rory came to my rescue again and changed the subject. "So when are we going to 1969?" Amy started a monologue about wine and I lost interest in the conversation and went back to scanning the landscape for signs of my friends. "Who's that?" that drew my attention back into the conversation "Who's who?" Rory asked, looking at Amy with concern. Amy looked at him and shook her head a little, like she was trying to make sense of something "Sorry, what?" "What did you see? You said you saw someone." I remarked, instantly on high alert. I drew up my mental barriers faster than a bullet, there was obviously something amiss. "No I didn't" my mouth was literally forming the words "yes you did" when the Doctor cut in "Ah! The moon, look at it! Of course, you lot did more than look, didn't you? Big silvery thing in the sky, you couldn't resist it. Quite right." I smiled a little, I had to admit, on my list of reasons why the human race should be protected that was pretty high up there,maybe even higher than snow cones and shakespeare. "The moon landing was in '69 is that where we're going?" I winced at yet another mention of time travel. "Oh, a lot more happens in '69 than anyone remembers. Human beings... I thought I'd never get done saving you." I glanced at him and saw a sad expression flicker across his face, Then I heard a pickup truck's engine rev." I turned and saw an older man waving at us, the Doctor waved back, the cocky grin I'd seen on his face ever since I got here was gone though. We all got up. "I guess that's who you were waiting for, right?" The Doctor was about to open his mouth to reply when we heard River say something, "oh, My God!" we turned and I had to do a double take there was an astronaut, or at least someone or something in an astronaut suit coming out of the lake like a frogman from WW2.
"You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now, you do not interfere. Clear?" He gave me a meaningful look "and Daniel... remember what I told you"
there was something in the way he walked to that astronaut that makes me think that he knew, that he knew what was going to happen next, and he welcomed it.
Something in the way he walked on the beach that day told me that this was a man who was ready to die.
just so that we are clear here, I know that Daniel never refers to what he does as poofing something. This is a slight reference to the Fairy Odd Parents (the good episodes I mean) and it sounds a little less awkward than uncreating something. From now on when he makes something it's creating, if it's uncreating something it's dismissing it or poofing it (dependent on whether it's sentient or not)