Sorry, this has taken SO long to get out. Due to the new revelations in the Doctor who series I have had to tweak quite a few things in my plot and therefore it has taken a lot longer to get this chapter out. Also I have started 6th Form and it's taken a while to get back into the routine and increased homework load I hope you enjoy this chapter if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask me
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor.
A little girl was strapped into a machine hooked up to a huge computer console with wires attached to and in her skin. Four giant half spider half human being had there sword like pincers pointed at her in case she managed to break free.
But the girl wasn't just anyone, she was Joanna looking exactly the same as she had a few seconds ago she now wore a strange dark grey suit that had more wires coming out of it.
"Mummy, save me please!" She wept her head lolled as if she could finally fall asleep. The dark circles under her eyes suggested it had been a while since she had slept. That however seemed to be the only visible wound they had inflicted on her apart from the punctures where the wires where.
Before anyone else could react River had her gun out and one of the spiders was down, not dead, but from the navy coloured blood like substance pooling out of it, it was obviously wounded.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you," A voice laughed as another spider-human creature appeared holding a strange device. This pone however had strange scale like skin that was grey, attached to its dark black spider body.
One of his scaled fingers pressed a button and the TARDIS crew could only look on in horror as a wordless scream ripped through the little girl. Her whole body convulsed fighting against the straps that help her.
"Drop the gun Miss Song," The stranger commanded an evil smile fixed on his face.
Three guns hit the floor as River's eyes stayed fixed on the convulsing girls face. A spider being scuttled over picking up the weapons then depositing them into a shaft that they could guess lead to space, the only place River wouldn't be able to retrieve.
Finally he took his finger of the button that had brought pain to the little girls. He then pressed another couple of buttons and she fell to the floor. The wires pulled out of her skin by one of her spider guards.
She was left there ignored by the spider creatures as if the last minute had never happened.
"Doctor, I've been looking forward to this day for a while. I must say it took longer than I expected." The evil voice talked like it was the weather they were discussing on the way to the shops.
River who was closest, having stepped forward to shoot, was the first to reach the little girls crumpled body cradling her in her arms.
"A wonderful child that, brought me my fame and now you!" The cruel voice laughed as he watched River bring her to Amy so she could retrieve the gun that was in a pouch attached to her thigh.
"What have you done with her?" The Doctor demanded he was angry, how could anybody hurt such a defenceless child.
"She'll be fine probably wake up in a couple of minutes." The spider lizard told them shrugging it off not caring about her any longer.
"And my TARDIS?" The Doctor asked watching as River nodded out if the corner of his eye to say she had scanned Joanna and he wasn't lying.
"Just behind that wall, which I will gladly let you go through and then disappear off on more adventures as long as I can have one of your hairs. I promise look I even gave you back the girl free of charge." His scaled face had a smug smile fixed to it a permanent sneer seemed to curl his upper lip at the same time.
"He's lying," A voice croaked from the body cradled in Amy's arms. The girl's eyes blinked away the fogginess only twice before she leapt out of the fiery haired woman's arms.
"Run!" She ordered grabbing Amy's hand and shoving past Rory as she climbed through the hole they had entered through back into the corridor.
Without looking to see if the others were following she sprinted down the corridor, no longer dragging Amy who ran along beside her easily keeping up with her longer legs. That wasn't to stay Joanna wasn't fast.
Amy gasped as she was yanked sideways through a door into another corridor. "Jojo where are we going?" Amy cried as she was yanked round another abrupt corner, the others had now caught up.
The little girl screeched to a halt at Amy's words, "To the TARDIS, I have the floor plan to this whole ship burned into my memory." She explained as if everyone knew that. "Talk more when we're safe come on mum!"
And they were running again till they started getting spots in front of their eyes as they hurtled through door the occasional gun firing in their direction, usually missing them by millimetres.
Finally they all tumbled panting through a door with the words 'Box Bay' which had the Doctor ranting through deep breaths that the TARDIS was no ordinary 'box'.
There she was the TARDIS surrounded by a holding field, which was quite easily fended off with a quick flick and dance of the Doctor's sonic, before they all collapsed on the glass floor of the console room.
River was the one who flew them away the Doctor lay panting on the stairs his chest heaving. Amy and Rory where leaning against the console and each other.
"Funny how the eye misses things, isn't it?" Joanna commented as they stopped rocking about, her breathing starting to regulate.
"Very," Another voice mimicked the same amused voice perfectly. The 4 adults gasped as they found the source of the voice, it was... Joanna.
"Your mistaken, mummy or should I call you Amy? My name is Calanthia, not Jojo." The first girl commented moving to join her mirror image.
"Y-yo-your Twins?" River spluttered out at the same time as Joanna started talking as well.
"No, Amy's not our Mother!" Joanna cried turning to face her Twin the only thing different about them where there outfits, it seemed while she was away Joanna had had her hair dyed, or un-dyed to the same auburn red hair Calanthia had.
Amy just stood with her mouth open as Rory went very pale, and almost fainted, not quite being able to take the fact that, one there where two Joanna's and two that they where possibly his children.
Calanthia sighed at her Twins declaration, the two mirror images glared dagger at each other as they seemed to have a battle with each other through occasional twitches as their eyes twitched between emotions. As the silent battle commenced the other members of the crew were given time to process though they all stood frozen in their current states.
River stood with one hand on her gun the other tangled in her hair as she tried to grasp what they had said.
Suddenly a loud smacking noise broke the silence as two hands simultaneously hit cheeks. After mirrored look of shock on both girls faces they seemed to reach some sort of truce, that or they decided to put off the argument for a little while.
The Doctor meanwhile had climbed the stairs and was holding out his hands to the two girls, "Welcome aboard One and Two," He grinned at them as they both took a hand each and shook it.
"I'm one because I was born first," Jojo claimed and Calanthia happy agreed, letting her elder sibling take control.
"Hi, by the way, we haven't met yet have we?" Calanthia said turning to her twin with a little laugh, as if the past 5 minutes of fierce glaring hadn't happened.
"Nope we haven't, hello Cally," Joanna replied as they grinned at each other and then they embrace as lost sisters would.
"What do you mean you haven't met each other yet! How do you know your Twins?" The Doctor asked, glancing at the two girls who glared back at him.
"Only that first question deserves answering. We, our older selves take care of our younger selves, in a mixed up... way." Joanna explained knowing more details than Cally as she had just spent the past 2 weeks chilling out with Cally's older self who explained everything to her.
"That is very timey wimey, isn't it!" The Doctor exclaimed gleefully, "Well then I officially welcome you to my TARDIS One and Two you can either share a bedroom, I will just give you One's but add an extra one for you Two or you can have your very own room. Never used one so many times in a sentence before, except this time when I went to a planet where the most sacred name was One derived from an Alien who fell in love with the queen while he was king of his planet and so he named his daughter One, and it just sort of carried on from there. She's queen now but anyway, I so I was teaching a class and they were doing a project on the origins of the name One and half the kids in the class are called One and they all kept asking questions and answering them. It all got very muddled but it's the easiest school to teach in for learning names because they're all called One or Tullioh, but that's a whole other story for a different day." The Doctor rambled, giving the rest of the crew time to recover from the revelation of who these two little girls are.
"Doctor, not the time!" Amy exclaims amusement and frustration in her voice.
"We'll share a..." Joanna started, "bedroom please." Calanthia finished and they smiled at each other. People always said Twins where closer and it was definitely true with these two, even twins that had been separated at birth. Or had they...
"But my friend Alice is your mother, I babysat you and we went on day trips. I threw your mother her baby shower?" River told them confused looking at the Twins like she had imagined them up and they couldn't be real.
"Alice Stevens miscarried a little baby girl that they named Joanna, meaning God is gracious. The next evening my mother came to the door cradling a little baby girl who was about 3 months old named Joanna. It wasn't meant to happen like that I was supposed to be dropped off on their doorstep about 10 years into their future when they had moved on a little, however things went wrong. I was dropped off the night after they lost their own Joanna as if I was there replacement, they had really only named me out of respect and they didn't know. But I was always the replacement." Joanna explained although she looked no different physically to any other nine year old she was so much older in the eyes. And Calanthia seemed to make Joanna look young.
"So, who are your real parents?" River asked as she realised all the strange conversations she had had with her friend, about her child. She had put it down to an accidental overshot where she had landed in the future but she had been right with her calculations.
"We don't know, where not allowed to know. Temporary mind wipe." Joanna replied tapping her brain slightly.
"I was staying with Amy and Rory for about a year before the creepy Spidermen got me, which is a record for me. Haven't stayed in one place for more than 3 months for awhile. We became really close and I called you mum and dad. You took me to the park, pushed me on the swings and we ate ice cream." Calanthia told them her voice just above a whisper a smile of pure innocent joy danced on her face.
The TARDIS went silent as all the new information crashed over the inhabitants. Twins... One with a fake mother and past as a replacement of their own child. The other with a past so dark living with a pair of fake parent for 1 year seemed to be the happiest moment in her young life.
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