"So the universe ended." Rory said, looking down at a very dead Amy. "You missed that. In 102 AD. I suppose this means you and I never get born at all. Twice, in my case. You would have laughed at that. Please laugh! The Doctor said the universe was huge and ridiculous, and sometimes there were miracles. I could do with a ridiculous miracle about now." He laughed sadly, looking up into the open air when The Doctor appeared in a flash of light, wearing a red fez and carrying a mop.
"Rory!" He exclaimed. "Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world. Well, it is the end of the world. Actually, it's the end of the universe. Oh, no. Hang on!" He pressed a few more coordinates into the vortex manipulator strapped on his wrist before disappearing.
"Doctor? Doctor!" Rory shouted before he reappeared without the mop.
"You need to get me out of the Pandorica." The Doctor said, reaching into his inside pocket and pulling out the sonic screwdriver.
Rory frowned, "You're not in the Pandorica."
"Yes, I am. Well, I'm not now, but I was back then. Well, back now from your point of view, which is back then from my point of view. Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head. It's easy to open from the outside... just point and press. Now go." He chucked Rory the sonic before disappearing again, only to reappear not even a second later. "Oh, when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket. Good luck!" He gave Rory one last look before teleporting off.
"What do you mean? Done what?"
Rory stared at the Pandorica cautiously before sonicing it. It opened up and The Doctor stared back at him, amazed.
"How did you do that?" The Doctor asked.
"You gave me this." Rory said, holding up the sonic.
The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out the sonic, showing it to Rory, "No, I didn't."
"You did. Look at it."
The Doctor frowned and stepped out, holding one sonic to the other and winced as they sparked. "Temporal energy. Same screwdriver, at different points in its own time stream. Which means it was me who gave it to you. Me from the future. I've got a future, that's nice." He gave him a small smile before looking behind Rory at the dusty, petrified remains of the aliens that locked him up. "That's not."
"Yeah." Rory said, glancing back at the remains. "What are they?"
"History has collapsed. Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after-images. Echoes, fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were."
"Er, what does that mean?"
"Total event collapse. The universe literally never happened."
"So, how can we be here? What's keeping us safe?"
"Nothing. Eye of the storm, that's all. We're just the last light to go out." He sighed before his eyes widened and his gaze snapped back to Rory. "Where's my wife?"
Rory frowned, "Wife?"
"Totts, where's Totter?"
"You and Totter got married?"
"No, uh, it's not like that. It's complicated. We're not actually married."
Rory gave the Time Lord a small smile, "You two are together then? That's sweet."
The Doctor gave him a quick nod, "Can we do this later? Where's Amy?"
The Doctor squatted down beside Amy's body and lifted back the blanket covering her.
"I killed her." Rory said regretfully.
"Oh, Rory!" The Doctor soniced.
"Doctor, what am I?"
"You're a Nestene duplicate. A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity." He soniced over Amy's body quickly.
"But I'm Rory now. Whatever was happening, it's stopped. I'm Rory!"
"That's software talking."
"Can you help her? Is there anything you can do?"
"Yeah, probably, if I had the time." The Doctor shrugged, standing up.
"The time?!"
"All of creation has just been wiped from the sky. Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe." Rory whipped The Doctor round and punched him, sending him flying to the ground.
"She is to me!" Rory shouted.
The Doctor burst into laughter and jumped back up, looking back at Rory, "Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry, had to be sure. Hell of a gun-arm you're packing there. Right, we need to get her downstairs. And take that look off your plastic face. You're getting married in the morning!"
"So you've got a plan, then?" Rory asked as The Doctor placed Amy inside of the Pandorica.
"Bit of a plan, yeah." The Doctor nodded. "Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl. Grew up with a time crack in her wall. The universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestenes took a memory print of her and got more than they bargained for. Like you. Not just your face, but your heart and your soul." He placed his hands either side of Amy's face and closed his eyes. "I'm leaving her a message for when she wakes up, so she knows what's happening." He let go with a smile and shut the Pandorica using the sonic.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?" Rory demanded.
"Saving her. This is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying. It forces you to stay alive."
"But she's already dead."
"Mostly dead. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. All it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her."
"Where's it going to get that?"
The Doctor lifted up his wrist, looking at his watch, "In about 2,000 years."
"You gave me this." Rory said, holding up the sonic. The Doctor reached over and picked up River's bag, took out the vortex manipulator and placed the bag on his shoulder. Rory stared at him, raising an eyebrow at him for picking up the bag.
"Totter will kill me if I don't bring it." The Doctor said, rolling his eyes.
"So," Rory said, gesturing desperately at the Pandorica. "She's going to be in that box for 2,000 years?!"
"Yeah, but we're taking a shortcut." The Doctor said, strapping on the vortex manipulator to his wrist. "River's vortex manipulator. Rubbish way to time travel, but the universe is tiny now. We'll be fine."
"So the future's still there, then? Our world?"
"A version of it. Not quite the one you know. Earth alone in the sky. Let's go and have a look." He held out his arm to Rory. "You put your hand there. Don't worry, should be safe."
"That's not what I'm worried about."
"She'll be fine. Nothing can get into this box."
"You got in there."
"Well, there's only one of me. I counted."
"This box needs a guard. I killed the last one." Rory said, glancing back over at the Cyberman with a sword gap in the middle of the armour.
"No. Rory, no. Don't even think about it."
"She'll be all alone."
"She won't feel it."
"You bet she won't!"
"2,000 years, Rory." The Doctor said urgently. "You won't even sleep, you'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad."
"Will she be safer if I stay? Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn't be safer."
The Doctor sighed, "Rory..."
"Answer me!"
"Yes. Obviously." He muttered.
"Then how could I leave her?"
"Why do you have to be so...human?"
"Because right now, I'm not." Rory said sadly before walking round to the other side of the Pandorica whilst The Doctor began to input coordinates into the vortex manipulator.
"Listen to me. This is the last bit of advice you're going to get in a very long time. You're living plastic, but not immortal. I have no idea how long you'll last. And you're not indestructible. Stay away from heat and radio signals when they come along." The Doctor said as Rory put on his helmet. "You can't heal, or repair yourself. Any damage is permanent. So, for God's sake, however bored you get, stay out of-" And then he disappeared.
"...Trouble." The Doctor reappeared in the museum. He glanced back one way to be faced with a Dalek. "Oh!" He said nervously before looking back the other way to see Amy and Amelia in front of the Pandorica. "Two of you? Complicated."
"Exterminate!" The Dalek exclaimed. "Weapons systems restoring."
The Doctor grabbed both Amy and Amelia's hands. "Come along, Ponds." He pulled them off round the Pandorica.
"Exterminate!"
The Doctor stopped at an alcove display representing North Africa, he stumbled into one of the mannequins, taking a fez from it's head and putting it on, turning back around to look at both Ponds.
"What are we doing?" Amy asked.
"Running into a dead end," The Doctor said. "Where I'll have a brilliant plan, that basically involves not being in one." The three of them hid round the side of the Pandorica as a night watchman appeared with a torch behind the Dalek.
"What's going on?" The watchman asked.
"Get out of here." The Doctor said to Amy. "Go! Just run!" She shook her head at him as the Dalek turned to the watchman.
"Drop the device." The Dalek demanded.
"It's not a weapon." The Doctor called over. "Scan it. It's not a weapon, and you don't have the power to waste!"
"Scans indicate intruder unarmed."
"Do you think?" The watchman dropped the torch and his hand opened up to reveal the gun, before he fire at the Dalek's eyestalk.
"Vision impaired! Vision..." The Dalek died down and the watchman moved out of the shadows as Amy, Amelia and The Doctor moved out from round the Pandorica.
"Amy?"
Amy looked over at the watchman, to see it was Rory. "Rory!" She gasped. She ran towards him, hugging him tightly as he half span her round.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. It just happened."
"Oh, Shut up." She said, pulling back and kissing him.
"Yeah, shut up," The Doctor said, popping up in between them. "Cos we've got to go. Come on!"
"I waited." Rory gasped. "2,000 years, I waited for you."
"No, still shut up." Amy said, giving him a long kiss.
"And break!" The Doctor said. "And breathe! Well, somebody didn't get out much for 2,000 years."
Young Amelia, that everyone had seemed to forget about, tugged on The Doctor's sleeve. "I'm thirsty. Can I get a drink?"
"Oh, it's all mouths today, isn't it?!" He took off the fez and put it on her head, only for her to shove it back at him. The Doctor frowned and looked back at the Dalek. "The light! The light from the Pandorica, it must have hit the Dalek." Suddenly, the Dalek laser gun began to shuffle. "Out, out, out!" He rushed Amy and Rory out and grabbed Amelia's hand, pulling her out. Rory slammed the door behind them and The Doctor soniced it locked before turning back to his three companions. "So, 2,000 years. How did you do?"
"Kept out of trouble." Rory shrugged.
"Oh." The Doctor said, glancing at the fez on his head before placing it on his head. "How?"
"Unsuccessfully." The Doctor picked up a mop, about to block the door.
"The mop!" Rory exclaimed. "That's how you looked all those years ago when you gave me the sonic."
"Ah! Well, no time to lose then." He nodded before teleporting off and reappearing again. "Oops, sorry." He quickly placed the mop through the door handles.
"How can he do that?" Amelia asked Amy. "Is he magic?" She frowned before The Doctor teleported away again, just to reappear seconds later. "Right, let's go then." He began to ran up the stairs before turning back to look at Amy, Rory and Amelia. "Wait! Now I don't have the sonic, I just gave it Rory 2,000 years ago." And then he disappeared again, and then was back again moments later. "Right then." He reached forward into Amy's jacket and took out the sonic. "Off we go! No, hang on." He looked down to Amelia. "How did you know to come here?" Amelia reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a pamphlet and a sticky note with The Doctor's handwriting. "Ah, my handwriting. OK!" He bolted back down the stairs to a stand, grabbed a pamphlet and a sticky note before teleporting off. And then moments later, he reappeared and thrusted a drink into Amelia's hand. "There you go, drink up!"
"What is that?" Amy asked. "How are you doing that?"
"Vortex manipulator..." The Doctor said, holding up his wrist to show it to her. "Cheap and nasty time travel. Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up." He nodded at the three of them one last time before heading back up the stairs again.
"Where are we going?"
"The roof."
There was a flash of light at the top of the landing at Totter appeared, burns all of her face, hair, and clothing. She stumbled slightly and fell down the stairs, rolling to a stop. The Doctor pushed Rory roughly as he bolted towards her. He knelt down and gripped her tightly, scanning the sonic over her.
"Doctor, it's Totts. How can it be her?" Rory asked.
"Doctor, is that her?"
"Yeah, it's her. Totter from the future." The Doctor nodded, placing a hand on her face. Totter's eyes flew open and she sat up, grabbing The Doctor's lapels and whispering in his ear before falling back. The Doctor grabbed her lower back quickly and gently lowered her to the floor. He gently placed a kiss on her forehead and sighed, looking back at Rory and Amy.
"Is she dead?" Amy asked.
"What?" The Doctor asked, distractedly, getting up. "Dead? Yes, yes. Of course she's dead." He climbed over her and carried up the stairs. "Right, she's got 12 minutes, that's good."
"12 minutes to live? How is that good?"
"You can do loads in 12 minutes... suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath. Come on, the roof!"
"We can't leave her here, dead." Rory said.
"Oh, good!" The Doctor said, looking back at Rory and Amy. "Are you in charge now? So, tell me, what are we going to do about Amelia?" Rory turned round in shock to find Amelia had gone. He glanced down at the cup she was holding, lying on the floor.
"Where did she go?" Amy asked as she and Rory ran down the steps, looking round for Amelia.
"Amelia?" Rory called.
"There is no Amelia." The Doctor said regretfully. "From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing."
"How can I be here, if she's not?" Amy frowned.
"You're an anomaly. We all are. We're all hanging on at the eye of the storm, but the eye is closing, and if we don't do something, reality will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now, come on!"
"MOVE!" A voice shouted. They looked back to the landing to find a second Doctor walking round the corner and towards Totter.
"But-" The first Doctor began.
"Just go!" The first Doctor nodded before running past his future self.
"She won't die." Amy said, shaking her head as Rory took off his jacket. "Time can be rewritten. He'll find a way to save her. I know he will." Rory sighed and covered Totter over with his jacket.
"Move it. Come on!" The first Doctor shouted back. Amy and Rory nodded at the future Doctor before running past him.
The three of them climbed onto the roof, looking out at the daylight.
"What, it's morning already?" Amy asked as they walked across the roof. "How did that happen?"
"History is shrinking. Is anybody listening to me?" The Doctor asked. "The Universe is collapsing. We don't have much time left." He walked over to a satellite dish and soniced it.
"What are you doing?" Rory asked.
"Looking for the TARDIS."
"But the TARDIS exploded."
"OK, then. I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS." The Doctor said sarcastically, pulling out the satellite dish from its mounting.
"I don't understand." Amy frowned. "So, the TARDIS blew up and took the universe with it. Why would it do that? How?"
The Doctor stood up on the raised section of the roof, looking out across the surface, "Good question for another day. But for now... total event collapse means that every star in the universe never happened. Not one of them ever shone. So, if all the stars that ever were are gone, then what is that?" He pointed up at what Amy and Rory thought was the sun. "Like I said, I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS."
"But that's the sun." Rory said.
"Is it? Here's the noise that sun is making right now." He held up the dish and amplified the sound of The TARDIS with the sonic. "That's my TARDIS burning up. That's what's been keeping the Earth warm."
"Doctor, there's something else. There's a voice." Rory said, listening intently.
"I can't hear anything." Amy said as The Doctor changed the sonic settings.
"Trust the plastic." Rory said, pointing to his ear. The Doctor soniced the satellite and River and Totter's voices came through.
"I'm sorry, my love. River, you have to explain!" River and Totter's voice kept repeating.
"Doctor, that's River and Totter." Amy said. "How can she be up there?"
"It must be like a recording or something." Rory frowned.
"No, it's not a recording." The Doctor said, shaking his head. "Of course, the emergency protocols... The TARDIS has sealed off the control room and put her into a time loop to save her. She is right at the heart of the explosion."
"You have to explain, River!" Totter begged as River ran towards the door. She stopped abruptly as The Doctor appeared in front of the door.
"Hi, honey. I'm home."
"And what sort of time do you call this?" River and Totter asked in unison.
The Doctor reappeared on the roof, Totter and River on each arm.
"Amy!" River exclaimed. "Rory! No longer a plastic centurion?"
"RORY!" Totter shouted, running towards Rory and throwing her arms around him.
"Totts." He laughed, squeezing her back.
"I have missed you." She giggled, pulling back and placing a quick kiss to his cheek before looking back at River.
"I dated a Nestene duplicate once..." River said. "Swappable head, it did keep things fresh." She turned and looked at The Doctor. "Right then, I have questions. But number one is this... What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?"
"It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool." The Doctor shrugged.
"I like it." Totter said with an innocent smile. River glanced over at Amy before the ginger grabbed the fez and threw it into the sky and River shot it.
"Oh!" The Doctor frowned.
"Exterminate!" Suddenly, the Dalek appeared, levitating up the side of the building.
"Run, run, move, move. Go! Come on!" The Doctor pulled Totter back by her waist, protecting both them and River with the satellite before they climbed back down the stairwell.
The Doctor soniced up the seal to the hatch as River stood behind him, gun aimed at it.
"Doctor, come on." River hissed.
"Shh. It's moving away, finding another way in." The two of them climbed down the ladder and turned back to Amy, Totter and Rory. "It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly," He glanced at his watch. "Four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity." He pushed past them and continued down the stairs.
"How do you know?" Rory asked.
"Because that's when it's due to kill Totter." The Doctor looked back at Totter with a smile, "By the way, a Dalek is going to kill you."
"Ok." Totter nodded innocently.
"Kill her? What do you mean, kill her?" River gasped.
"Oh, shut up, never mind." The Doctor said, taking Totter's hand. "How can that Dalek even exist?" He asked as they walked through the hallway. "It was erased from time and then it came back. How?"
"You said the light from the Pandorica..." Rory said.
"It's not a light, it's a restoration field, but never mind. Call it a light. That light brought Amy back, but how could it bring back a Dalek when the Daleks have never existed?"
"OK, tell us." Amy said.
"When the TARDIS blew up, it caused a total event collapse. A time explosion. It blasted every atom in every moment of the universe." Totter said, not sure what was really going on.
The Doctor grinned at her, realising, although Totter had no idea what she had said had made him realise. "Except..." The Doctor said.
"Except inside the Pandorica." Amy said in realisation.
"The perfect prison. Inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we've got the bumper family pack."
"No, too fast, I'm not getting it." Rory said, shaking his head.
"The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory. And that's how we're going to do it."
"Do what?" Amy asked.
"Relight the fire. Reboot the universe." He grinned, gave Totter a quick kiss before pulling her off. "Come on!" He called back to his three companions as he hissed a quick plan to Totter.
"Doctor, you're being completely ridiculous." River shouted as they walked after him. "The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek. If it can't even reboot a single life form properly, how will it reboot the whole of reality?"
"What if we give it a moment of infinite power? Transmit the light from the Pandorica to every particle of space and time simultaneously?"
"Well, that would be lovely, dear, but we can't, because it's completely impossible." River laughed.
"Ah, no, you see, it's not." He gave her a quick tap on the forehead. "It's ALMOST completely impossible. One spark is all we need."
"For what?"
"Big Bang Two!" The Doctor whispered. "Now listen..." Totter looked over shoulder to see the Dalek. She pushed him out of the way, stepping in front of the laser as the Dalek shot at him.
The Doctor and River jumped down to Totter's side as Rory pulled Amy out of the way.
"Get back. Doctor, River, get back now!" Rory shouted.
"Exterminate!" The Dalek screeched before Rory's hand dropped and he fired at the Dalek, draining its energy.
"Totter, it's me, River. Can you hear me? What is it? What do you need?" River asked as The Doctor took Totter's wrist and pressed coordinates into the vortex manipulator, making them both disappear. "Where did they go? Damn it, they could be anywhere."
"He went downstairs." Amy said. "12 minutes ago."
"Show me!"
"River, she died."
"Systems restoring!" The Dale screeched. "You will be exterminated!"
"We've got to move." Rory said. "That thing's coming back to life."
"You go to the Doctor and Totter. I'll be right with you."
The Doctor glanced back at past Amy and Rory, running after his past self before pulling back Rory's jacket and kneeling down next to Totter. He leaned down and kissed her, smiling in the kiss as she felt her kiss him back.
"You alright?" The Doctor asked quietly as he wrapped Totter's arms round his neck and put one arm round her back and the other under her knees, picking her up.
"Weak." She croaked, leaning her head against his chest. "I love your double heartbeat."
"Ssh." He whispered, heading towards the Pandorica room.
"I love you." She mumbled.
"Don't talk, you're weak." He said, running towards the Pandorica and placing her in the chair.
"We're not going to get out of this." She whispered, turning in the chair, curling up as The Doctor took off the vortex manipulator and began to wire it into the Pandorica.
"Hey, of course we are."
"Theta." Totter whispered. The Doctor turned back to her at the mention of his name.
"Totts." He muttered, placing a hand on her cheek. "I can tell the whole universe you're my wife, but you're not. I just assumed it."
"That doesn't matter now, does it?" Totter sighed.
"When we get out of this, you're marrying me, ok?" She stared at him in shock as he smirked at her. "Take that as a yes." He leaned forward and gave her a quick kiss.
"How could she have moved?" Rory asked as he and Amy ran down the staircase to find no sign of The Doctor and Totter. "She was dead!" He exclaimed, running down the stairs. "Doctor? Totter?"
"But she was dead!" Amy said.
"Who told you that?" River asked, walking in.
"The Doctor did."
"Rule one." River said, walking down past them. "The Doctor lies."
"Where's the Dalek?"
"It died."
"Doctor!" Amy shouted as she, River and Rory ran towards the Pandorica.
"Why did he tell us he was dead?" Rory asked as River jumped into the Pandorica to to find The Doctor sitting inside the Pandorica with Totter, now passed out, laying across his lap as he punched coordinates into the vortex manipulator.
"We were a diversion." Amy said as her and Rory watched from outside the Pandorica. "Long as the Dalek was chasing us, he could work down here."
"What are you doing?" River asked.
"What's happening?" Rory asked.
"Reality's collapsing. It's speeding up. Look at this room." River said, pointing out at the empty displays.
"Where did everything go?" Amy frowned.
"History is being erased. Time is running out. Doctor, what are you doing?"
"Big... Bang... Two." The Doctor muttered slowly, making sure the wires were all fixed in.
"The Big Bang. That's the beginning of the universe, right?" Rory asked.
"What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings it back?" Amy asked cautiously. "Is that what you mean?"
"Oh!" River gasped.
"What?"
River span round and looked back at Amy and Rory, "The TARDIS is still burning. It's exploding at every point in history. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the heart of the fire..."
"Then what?"
"Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like he said."
"That would work? That would bring everything back?"
"A restoration field, powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work!" The Doctor shoved the sonic into River's hand and began to check Totter over. "You've wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box." River said, running the sonic over the wires as The Doctor gave her a small nod.
"Why?"
"So they can take it with them."
"I'm going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion." The Doctor said darkly, clutching his grip on Totter tightly.
"Are you OK?" Rory asked as he and Amy looked over at the Pandorica as the sun expanded, turning the whole room orange.
"Are you?"
"No."
"Well, shut up then!" Amy snapped. Rory stared at her sympathetically, taking her into a hug as River stepped out of the Pandorica.
"Amy... He wants to talk to you." River said.
Amy pulled away from the hug, looking over at River, "So, what happens here? Big Bang Two? What happens to us?"
"We all wake up where we ought to be. None of this ever happens and we don't remember it."
"River... tell me they come back, too."
"The Doctor and Totter will be the heart of the explosion." River gulped.
"So?"
"So all the cracks in time will close, but they'll be on the wrong side... Trapped in the never-space, the void between the worlds. All memory of them will be purged from the universe. They will never have been born. Now, please. The Doctor wants to talk to you before they go."
"Not to you?"
"They don't really know me yet. Now they never will." River said sadly, wiping a tear away as Amy approached the Pandorica.
"Hi."
"Amy Pond." The Doctor said sadly, brushing a strand of hair away from Totter's face. "The girl who waited. All night in your garden. Was it worth it?"
"Shut up. Of course it was." Amy said, laughing sadly.
"You asked me why I was taking you with me and I said..."No reason". I was lying."
"It's not important."
"Yeah, it's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this. Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house. And just you."
"And Aunt Sharon."
"Where were your mum and dad? Where was... everybody who lived in that big house? "
"I lost my Mum and Dad."
"How? What happened to them? Where did they go?"
"I... I don't..."
"It's OK. Don't panic. It's not your fault."
"I don't even remember." Amy said, shaking her head.
"There was a crack in time in the wall of your bedroom and it's been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone. The girl who didn't make sense. How could I resist?"
"How could I just forget?"
"Nothing is ever forgotten, not really. But you have to try." Suddenly, the ground began to shake.
"Doctor! It's speeding up!" River shouted.
"There's going to be a very big bang." The Doctor said as Amy took the sonic of the side and placed it in Totter's pocket. "Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there."
"How can I remember them if they never existed?"
"Because... you're special. That crack in your wall, all that time, the universe pouring into your head. You brought Rory back...you can bring them back, too. You just remember, and they'll be there."
"YOU two won't." Amy said, began to back away.
"You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friend any more." He laughed weakly, squeezing tightly onto Totter. "Amy Pond... crying over us, eh? Guess what?"
"What?"
"Gotcha." The Pandorica closed and The Doctor grabbed the spare PDA, typing out Geronimo, and laughing as the Pandorica flew away.
The Doctor walked around the console, wearing the wedding suit he'd fished out of the wardrobe, pulling controls before looking over at the jump seat where Totter sat, still unconscious.
Then she sat up with a gasp. She blinked a few times and looked over at The Doctor with a grin.
"We survived then?" Totter laughed.
The Doctor nodded, "Yep. And I had to deal with all the flashbacks, whilst you got to have a little sleep." He jumped over to her and pulled her up, placing a kiss on her lips. "What do you think of this suit?"
Totter smiled, stroking The Doctor's scarf gently "Only the best for our Ponds."
"Is this ok?" Totter asked, gesturing to her long, silky purple dress that matched her hair.
The Doctor gave a quick nod as she pinned up her hair into a bun and he pulled her hand towards the door and opened it up to be met by Amy and Rory behind her, in the middle of the wedding.
"Did I surprise you?" Amy asked.
"Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing." He stepped out of The TARDIS and walked up to Amy's father. Totter smiled over at Amy and Rory as she shut The TARDIS. "Hello, everyone. I'm Amy's imaginary friend, but I came anyway." The Doctor smiled at Augustus, Amy's father, and shook his hand.
"You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride." Amy sad.
"Amelia!" The Doctor said, placing a fingers on Amy's lips. "From now on, I shall be leaving the... kissing duties to the brand new Mr Pond." He turned and shook Rory's hand as Amy looked back and gave Totter a smile, letting her know she was kidding.
"No, I'm not Mr Pond." Rory said. "That's not how it works."
"Yeah, it is." The Doctor and Totter said in unison.
"Yeah, it is." Rory said in defeat.
"Right then, everyone." The Doctor said to the whole wedding. "I'll move my box. You're going to need the space." He stepped into The TARDIS again, before looking back at Amy, Rory and Totter. "I only came for the dancing."
"2,000 years." The Doctor said as he stood, leant against the door frame with his arms wrapped around Totter's waist. "The boy who waited. Good on you, mate." He placed a kiss on Totter's head before grabbing her hand and pulling her off.
The Doctor and Totter walked through Amy's garden hand in hand towards the TARDIS. The Doctor smiled at the woman he was going to marry before slotting the key into the lock of The TARDIS door.
"Did you dance?" They turned round to see River standing under the archway, smiling at them. "Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?"
"You tell us." The Doctor said.
"Spoilers." River smirked.
The Doctor smiled at her, handing her over her journal and her vortex manipulator. "The writing's all back, but I didn't peek." Totter raised an eyebrow at him. "Ok, Totter made sure I didn't peek."
"Thank you."
"Are you married, River?"
"Are you asking?" River asked as she strapped on the vortex manipulator.
"Yes."
"Yes."
The Doctor frowned, "No, hang on. Did you think I was asking you to marry me, o- o-or asking if you were married?" Totter smiled and shook her head, taking The Doctor's hand.
"Yes."
"No, but was that "yes", or "yes"?"
"Yes." River said, looking over and sharing a smile with Totter.
"River...who are you?" Both River and Totter's face dropped.
"You're going to find out very soon now." River said sadly. "And I'm sorry, but that's when everything changes." She pressed a button on the vortex manipulator and disappeared.
"Nah." The Doctor said, shaking his head and stepping into the TARDIS. Totter stayed where she was, before River reappeared.
"You said I was your sister." Totter said, confused.
"You'll find out soon, I promise." River sighed, placing a kiss on her cheek before teleporting off again. Totter smiled at the thin air before stepping into The TARDIS. She trotted up to the console and placed a kiss on The Doctor's cheek when the door opened and Amy walked in.
"Oi! Where are you off to?" Amy asked as Rory walked in behind her, shutting the door. "We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet."
"Amy!" Rory exclaimed.
"Shut up... it's my wedding." Amy muttered, walking up to the console.
"OUR wedding." Rory pointed out before following her up to the console.
"Sorry, you two..." Totter said. "We shouldn't have slipped away. Bit busy, you know?"
"You just saved the whole of space and time. Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow."
"Space and time isn't safe yet." The Doctor said. "The TARDIS exploded for a reason. Something drew the TARDIS to this particular date, and blew it up." The TARDIS phone began to ring. "Why? And why now? The silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and I have to...Excuse me a moment." He rolled his eyes and answered the phone. "Hello. Oh! Hello. I'm sorry, this is a very bad line. No, but that's not possible. She was sealed into the Seventh Obelisk. I was at the prayer meeting. Well, no, I get that it's important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express…in space! Give us a mo." He took the phone away and turned to Amy and Rory. "Sorry, something's come up. This will have to be goodbye."
"Yeah, I think it's goodbye. Do you think it's goodbye?" Amy asked Rory.
"Definitely goodbye." Rory nodded. Amy gave a smile before walking up to the door and opening it.
"Goodbye! Goodbye." Amy shouted out, waving out before shutting the door.
The Doctor smiled and turned back to the phone. "Don't worry about a thing, Your Majesty. We're on our way." He hung up as Totter ran round the console, sending The TARDIS in motion.
A/N - So there we go! This is the second to last chapter! There's a little explanation to The Doctor and Totter's relationship, although there's going to be more explanation during the Impossible Astronaut/Day Of Moon. The name of the next story will be on the next chapter, the new story for series 6! Please Review! :)