As the five of them gathered around the round table uncomfortably, each one with a beer except the Tenth Doctor, it was silent. Not one word was spoken and the silence was only broken by the occasional croak from a frog.
Sitting alone on a stool near the kitchen countertop was the woman's neglected son. His hands were calloused by labour intensive work and his forehead was marked with a mixture of grease and dust. The poor boy would have been about 18 years of age, but due to his time out in the sun, he looked older. Drinking the beer that the Tenth Doctor had refused, he stared out the kitchen window in thought.
His mother left to go to bed after showing them a dorm room where they could stay the night. The room was usually reserved for international students who wanted the 'outback experience', but since it was empty it was easily utilised for the four companions.
Instead of turning in for the night as was obviously expected, the four of them returned to the kitchen table. Rose's Doctor made a beeline straight for the window.
"What were you looking at?" He whispered to himself. Looking across the yard he saw flashing lights from inside the smallest barn.
"What do you see?" Rose asked trying to look around him, placing her hands on his arm gently.
"Blue flashy lights." Was the only response she received.
The Eleventh Doctor's head snapped toward them, "blue flashy lights. I like blue flashy lights. The only better thing is if they make noise. Do you think they make noise?" He directed to his younger self.
"I don't know." He answered carefully, but a wide smile grew along his face, "but I'm sure it's about time we found out why we're here. Come on!" He clasped Rose's hand tightly in his own and dragged her along behind him.
"Who was she to you?" Amy asked her Doctor as they ran along behind the others.
"Who? Rose? She was just like you are. She used to travel with me. It was a little while ago now though."
"They're not like us. There's something going on there." She grinned at him "something involving a little more than friendship?" They came to a stop at the door and Amy gave him a quick cheeky nudge which he swatted away laughing.
He was saved an explanation when he heard the Tenth Doctor's voice from inside the building already. As the Eleventh Doctor and Amy entered the building the first thing they noticed was a large satellite dish in the middle of the room. There was a hole in the ceiling directly above. The blue lights were emitting from a semi-circle of control panels around the outside of the room. The Tenth
Doctor had already put his glasses on and was examining the panels carefully. Rose, on the other end of the room, was doing the same.
"Have you seen one of these before?" The Tenth asked the Eleventh.
The Eleventh Doctor began poking and hitting buttons at random, hoping they would do something productive, "no," he answered. He held his sonic screwdriver over the console then flicked it back around and looked at it, "no idea at all...What do you think it does?" Hitting another button the Eleventh Doctor spun around dramatically to face Amy, "what do you reckon…" Before he could finish the ground started shaking beneath them. The magnitude rose as each second passed. And as suddenly as it came, it stopped. They all glanced at each other and smiled nervously. No one had a chance to say anything before a bolt of lightning shot from the satellite to the sky.
The door to the barn flung open, the old woman's son stood in the door way, "what did you do!?"He shouted at the Eleventh Doctor.
Rather sheepishly the Doctor looked up at the boy, "I'm not really sure." He smiled unconvincingly.
The boy ran back outside staring up to the sky. "Please don't rain!" He shouted up to the sky, "please don't let it rain."
The Tenth Doctor pushed past them all to watch the boy, "why isn't it allowed to rain?" He asked quite seriously.
"Because of last time…"The boy trailed off, "last time something happened."
"What?"
"Things…they came up from the ground. I don't know what they are."
"Can you describe them?" The Tenth Doctor removed his glasses from his face.
"Even better than that." The boy suddenly perked up, "come and see."
Striding after him, the Tenth Doctor followed the boy, "Your name? Graham was it?"
Nodding the boy did not turn around.
A short time later at the Pond residence:
Rory finished the fried eggs and bacon on his plate and smiled happily to himself. He'd just had a good breakfast for dinner, Amy and the Doctor would be home soon and he had just had a very successful day. Amy had been right. He had basically just held back skin flaps all day. But at least he had done it right.
Placing his dish in the sink he looked out to the garden. He thought about how his children would enjoy that swing set and how he should really clean up the yard. Rory knew that Amy would want to stay with the Doctor for a few more years yet, but the time would come.
He turned to wipe his hands on the dishcloth when he heard the Tardis. With a smile he ran to the noise. Rory came to a stop as he saw Amy standing quite alone in their room. The Tardis and the Doctor both absent from the picture.
"Rory!" She yelled as she saw him, "Rory! I need to go back."
"Back where?" He asked into the side of her neck as she threw her arms around him.
"Back to The Doctors, back to Rose. I… I think they need me."
Rory grasped her arms and held her away from him, "sorry? Doctors? As in The Doctor only plural? And who's Rose?" He stopped as he stared at the bed, "And what the hell is that?"
The little brown ball tried to run away as Amy scooped it up in her hands. "Good, that's a start only another 399 to go then we can build the Tardis and go back. Put it somewhere safe." She placed the scuttling creature into Rory's hands. Its little green eyes looked up at him innocently. "This is insane." He whispered.
"Put it in a rubbish bag. Come on, help me look." Amy began searching under the bed for the little creatures that had followed her from the Australian ground.