Bad Night

*Ring Ring, Ring Ring, Ring Ring*

"I lifted my head up from my pillow. Would someone please go and answer that bloody telephone" I tried to shout without waking up Macy. I was surprised I could even hear it because the rooms in the TARDIS were sound proof. I bet you the Doctor made the phone able for us to hear it anywhere I thought a bit annoyed now.

*Ring Ring, Ring Ring, Ring Ring*

I groaned and got out of bed and went down to the console room also finding Amy there in her nightgown looking just as annoyed. We both rolled our eyes at the phone as it kept ringing.

"The Doctor needs to get himself an answering machine" I snapped. Amy nodded and then answered the phone.

"Hello" she said through gritted teeth.

"I'm sorry he's not here who is this?" she asked whoever was on the phone.

"Tell them that they need to learn better timing when calling people" I said. Amy smiled at me thankfully covering the mouth piece of the phone when I said that. I started to swat at an annoying fly as it flew around my head.

"The prince? Which one? No not which whales, which prince?" Amy said. I grabbed for a nearby rolled up newspaper to try and kill the fly that was still buzzing around my head.

"What year is this?" Amy asked the person. I then finally killed the bug.
"That's for me" the Doctor said barging into the TARDIS in a full out tuxedo with a fish bowl in his hand with a gold fish in it.

"Hold this" he said thrusting the fish into my hands.

"Doctor if this is your way of getting us a pet a dog would've been better" I said looking at the little fishy swimming around.

"Hello, yes everything is fine. You should not be worrying. She's fine, really your mother is doing fine" the Doctor ignored me walking back and forth so Amy and I had to duck under the phone wire each time he passed by us.

"Don't answer this phone only Darcy and I get to answer this phone" the Doctor told Amy looking nervous.
"What's going on?" Amy asked.

"Where have you been?" I asked with her.
"Who are you two my mother? It was just a party" he snapped at us.

"That you didn't take me to" I said putting my hands on my hips.
"You were sleeping" he said and then he went back to his phone conversation "Now don't worry your mother is fine, but she can't come to the phone at the moment. Well she's busy" the Doctor lied.

"It's your son, mum he wants to talk to you. But we can't let him see you like this, well hear you actually not that he could though especially since you're a fish" the Doctor said talking to the fish. Amy and I looked at each other confused. The phone rang again.

"Sorry I've got another call coming in. Hello, there is not a bit of use yelling ambassador. Your warrior chief is trapped in my TARDIS and until you've turned her majesty back into a human being he'll be staying in here don't worry he's perfectly safe" the Doctor said and then he looked at the wrapped up newspaper in my hand that had the dead fly still on it.

"Oh no" I muttered realizing what I had done even though I was still a bit confused at what was going on.

"So much for the slaughterer of ten million souls" the Doctor sighed.
"What is going on?" Amy asked.

"I was at a party there was a slight incident"

"Which I probably could've handled had I been there" I retorted.
"Was River there?" Amy asked.
"Possibly" the Doctor said.
"Oh so you go and party with River but you won't bother to wake me up to come with you" I snapped at him.
"Would you two quit shouting at me the baby's sleeping" the Doctor said.
"The rooms are sound proof" I snapped back. The Doctor was now pinned to the TARDIS console while Amy and I looked at him angrily.

"Wait hang on. Noooooooo" he shouted and then he grabbed the fish out of my hand and went back to the TARDIS doors.

"I grabbed the wrong fish, River we've got the wrong fish" he said opening the doors.
"Um sorry I've got three hours to save the common wealth" he told us.
"What happens in three hours?" Amy asked.
"The pet shops open" he said.
"Alright I'm coming with you Amy can I borrow your robe for a second?" I asked. She handed it to me.
"What are you doing?" the Doctor asked as I started to walk out of the TARDIS.

"I am going to help you find the right fish so that I can go back to sleep" I told him flourishing Amy's robe behind me.

Good night

"Thank you, it was a pleasure really" I heard the Doctor say out the TARDIS door as he started to come back in to the TARDIS.

"Also thank you for this trumpet thing" he said closing the door now. He walked up to the console and inspected it to make sure it wasn't anything dangerous.
"Where were you?" I asked the Doctor. I saw him jump at the sound of my voice apparently he hadn't noticed me sitting on the stairs in my nightie.

"Just got a distress call, had to answer it" he told me.
"You're not sleeping that much anymore" I said.
"Remember what I told you when you moved into the room I don't usually sleep" he reminded me.

"Right" I remembered.
"Why are you up?" he asked me.
"I couldn't sleep" I admitted.
"That's unusual" he said I nodded my head and walked over to him and leaned against the console with him.

(A.N.: I suggest listening to Amy in the TARDIS by Murray Gold while reading this it will make this scene I think seem more sweeter)

"I've been thinking lately about my life. It's never been normal at all" I told him. He smiled at me.
"I mean River was the doctor who helped my mom give birth to me, my school got attacked by Cybermen and I had to stay at Sherlock's place while future me, you, Jack, and your tenth regeneration saved my school and I was only 3 at the time, then my dad would tell me these amazing stories about you that made me wish I knew you even better as a little girl, and then when my parents got divorced I stopped believing for awhile in the fairytales my dad would tell me it made my life sad like I was never truly happy, 10 years later though you popped out of nowhere and came into my life changing it practically forever it was the best year of my whole life. Then it all went bad when I left. Those 4 years of being all by myself were horrible and I can't help but think if I had stayed with you what would have happened" I said feeling a pain in my chest of those 4 years of feeling so alone.

"The thing is Darcy everyone's memory is a mess life is a mess. Everyone's got memories of a holiday they could've went on or a party they never went to or that moment when they meet someone for the first time and felt like they've known them all their lives" The Doctor then looked at me and it made me remember how I felt the first time I saw him when I was just fifteen and the minute I did see him I immediately knew who he was. "Time's being rewritten all around us every day. People think their memories are bad but their memories are fine. That's the past for you" he continued.
"That's insanely confusing so you're saying if I think really hard about it I could have memories of what would've happened had I not left you?" I asked.

"Now you're starting to get it" he smiled at me and then he put our foreheads together. I looked at him questionably "For instance, close your eyes and try and remember going to London, Kings Cross, Platform 9 ¾, September 1st 2017" he told me.
"But that never happened" I said.

" Really?" he asked. I closed my eyes and saw a train station full of people.

"Tell me what you see" he told me. I smiled as this new memory unfolded before me.

"I see a scarlet colored train, a bunch of people holding their kids hands telling them goodbye. Hang on I see me and I'm…I'm 17 and your there to your wearing that long coat and your hairs all spiked up. No wait we're watching someone. It's a man and a boy. It's Harry and Albus, we're hearing him talk to his son about how getting sorted into Slytherin isn't a bad thing. The train whistles blowing now and all the kids are running onto the train. We're standing behind Harry as we watch him say goodbye to his kids" I suddenly felt a tear fall down my cheek from where this memory is going.

"I'm crying and you're hugging me. I was thinking about how this was the end of my childhood and even though I can go back to it in my books there will never be anything more than just this ending right here" I whispered. I opened my eyes now and saw the Doctor staring at me.
"And that is how the past works" he told me watching me wipe my tears away.

"It felt so real" I said a thought suddenly popped into my head. "Can we stop myself from ever leaving you?" I asked wondering why we hadn't done it in the first place.
"No" he told me.
"But why?" I asked.
"It's a fixed point in time. If you hadn't left you would have probably made me prolong my regeneration even longer and who knows what else would've happened" he said not looking at me. I got a feeling in the back of my mind that the Doctor was probably thinking of how if I had stayed with him during that whole period where he was trying to prolong his regeneration the Master might have done something to me when he returned. The Doctor then quickly perked up.
"However, I do know one thing about the past we could change" he said starting to run around the TARDIS.

"Do you remember what happened on February 14th 1995?" he asked me.
"I don't know" I said.
"You should it's one of your earliest saddest memories" he said. I strained my memory and then remembered hearing these words coming out of my mom's mouth. Darcy quit talking about the Doctor he is not real everything Daddy has told you about him is a lie and you need to move on to other fairytales because I do not want to hear you talk about the Doctor ever again. I flinched at having to remember that and told the Doctor what happened.
"Do you remember what you did after that?" he asked me punching in coordinates.
"Did I run away to a park and sit on the swings and cry?" I asked. He nodded.

"But do you remember anything else happening?" he prodded.
"Um?" I closed my eyes having to think hard about this and then remembered.
"This lady came up to me and cheered me up, it was weird she was wearing a nightie" I said and then I looked down at what I was wearing.
"You want me to go and cheer myself up" I realized.
"Why not? If I'm correct you bought yourself ice cream didn't you" he said.
"Yes" I said.

"Good so you get ice cream out of it and while you're at it could you get me an orange creamsicle also" he said opening the door to the TARDIS. I rolled my eyes at him and walked out. I saw the moon was bright out tonight and that little 5 year old me was still on the swings crying. There was a gas station across the street which is where I bought five year old me, the doctor, and myself ice cream. I went back to the park to see little me still there. I sat down on the swing next to myself.
"Hi" I said. Little me looked at me a bit nervous remembering the rule my mom had told her about not talking to strangers.

"What's the matter?" I asked her. She stayed silent.
"Don't worry you can tell me. Look I've got ice cream" I said trying to hand her a Neopolitan ice cream sandwich.
"Are you nice?" she asked me.
"Very" I told her. She hesitantly grabbed the ice cream.
"I ran away from home and I'm lost and scared and my mommy says the Doctor doesn't exist" she said starting to cry again.

"Hey listen to me. Your mommy loves you very much and I'm sure she is scared about you being gone right now. As for the Doctor well you wanna know a little secret?" I said to her.
"What?" she asked.

"He is real, very real" I told her.
"You know him?" she asked brightening up.

"Know him? I'm married to him" I said.
"So he really does exist" she said.
"Yes and someday I think he's going to come for you and you and him are going to go on so many adventures" I said to her.
"Are you gonna be there to?" she asked.
"Oh most definitely" I nodded.
"Thank you for everything" she said hugging me around the neck.

I walked back into the TARDIS.
"Here is your creamsicle" I said giving the Doctor his ice cream.

"You did a lovely job cheering yourself up" the Doctor told me.

"Well who else could be better at that than me" I said.
"Me" he said poking me in the nose with his ice cream getting my nose all cold and making me laugh I did the same to him with mine and we ended up smearing ice cream all over each other.

Ok so the winner of the you decide contest is the grandfather paradox one. Also I hope you enjoyed this chapter review if you did.