Continued from chapter 6
"I want to see her." Amy insisted, the minute she dragged the doctor into the Tardis. "My Aunt Sharon, I want to see her. NOW! so tell this box of yours here to take me there. Take me home, to my house."
"Amy that might not be a good idea right now." the Doctor tried to talk sense into Amy, sense the Tardis didn't seem to be agreeing with seeing it, the minute Amy requested to go home, set a course for there. "I mean don't you want to wait till your not so upset?"
"Actually no I don't." Amy paused for a brief moment then thought, and followed that up with. "I, what I want, and that's what it's about right now is what I want... And I want to NOT wait till I'm NOT upset, because I WANT to do it now."
"Oh you never listen to me." the Doctor frustrated with the Tardis, grabbed onto part of the wall when the box jolted both him and Amy. "Why do you never listen to me?"
"Because you not worth listening to half the time." Amy knew who the Doctor had been speaking to and clarified the by saying. "Even this box here knows that." before grabbing his arm and dragging him out of the Tardis. "Come on spaceman."
"Spaceman. Amy where did you get that? Spaceman..." the Doctor was worried, just a tad bit. He knew there was something not right here, and like the thing he couldn't see out the corner of his eye; well that moved into the back of his head. "Not that I hate it, but it's not.. Well I don't think it's.. Yeah maybe it is you."
"Come on." Amy who had just dragged the Doctors out of the Tardis, pulled him even further into the kitchen of her home. "Aunt Sharon! Get out here now!"
"Amy please I am begging you to not do this. Not now."
"You shut up!" Amy turned to the Doctor and pointed at him. "I'm just about as angry with you as I am with her. AUNT SHARON!"
"Angry with me?" the Doctor paused. "Why me? I didn't do anything."
"Why didn't you tell me you knew Donna?" Amy placed both hands on her hips. "Huh? Why did you hide that from me? You knew her. You met her, and you saved her life but you never thought to tell me that?'
"Hide that from you?"
"Donna! I just said that. Donna why didn't you tell me you knew Donna?" Amy placed both hands on her hips. "Weren't you listening?"
"Yes I was listening, and Amy, I how was I to know that woman I met in the matter of seconds was your cousin?"
"How about she looks just like me? or I look just like her." Amy corrected herself knowing her cousin Donna, daughter of the Aunt Sylvia she never met in person till today, had been older then she was. "What are you hiding spaceman?"
"I'm not hiding anything."
"Yeah that's what you said when we went to museum; just taking you to a couple nice places."
"Amy you're starting to sound a little paranoid." the Doctor leaned against the wall near the opening to the other room, only for a second before Amy's Aunt Sharon came through making him move.
"Amy what's all the yelling about?"
"You knew."
"I knew what?" Amy's Aunt Sharon pulled a bottle of water from her fridge, then turned to Amy. "And what's he doing here? Didn't he make a spectacle of himself enough at your Aunt Sylvia's house? I mean really the way he behaved."
"Why didn't you tell me Donna was seeing the same blue box I was?"
"Pardon?" Amy's Aunt Sharon opened the bottle of water and sipped from it. "Who told you that?"
"Grandpa Wilf, the grandfather I never till now." Amy crossed her arms in front of her. "The same Grandfather that would send me stuff for Christmas and my birthday, yet never managed to come visit me."
"Amy that old man is about as insane as your cousin was." Amy's Aunt Sharon put the cap back on her water. "He and I never got along; Sylvia was always his favorite daughter and Donna was always his favorite granddaughter so why would I even want to subject you to that."
"Maybe because I think what you just said is bull." Amy paused just for a moment. "I mean if he thought so little of me, then why did he send me hem gifts? And then cards? And money?"
"I don't know."
"Amy come on we should go." the Doctor touched Amy's arm, trying to be calm about it. "Come back later when you're calm?"
"Why would I want to do that, when I got my proof here that Donna wasn't insane; I wasn't insane."
"Amelia Jessica Pond what are you going on about?"
"My raggedy Doctor, Donna's mysterious Doctor." Amy began to count on her fingers as she names things off. "Or my blue box, Donna's blue box."
"Donna was insane Amy." Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "You and she had nothing in common when it came to that story you made up. You were seven years old with an over active imagination, she was twenty-eight with a clinical diagnoses of psychosis. The girl was bonkers Amy."
"And I wasn't? Aunt Sharon I went through four psychiatrists."
"You had a fascination with biting people."
"Oh now that's a first." The Doctor spoke paused then followed that up with. "A fascination with biting people, I think I might use that someday. Anyway go on..."
"Amy I was trying to protect you; you were seven years old."
"This year?" Amy asked. "This year I was seven? Or the year before I was seven? Or the year before that? Because if my memory serves me right, and it usually does, the night Aunt Sylvia called to tell you Donna had been found and that she had been sexually assaulted... I WASN'T SEVEN"
"Amy you might want to calm down before you continue with this conversation." the doctor again tried to reason with Amy, something he knew was almost impossible when she was all fired up, but all he got back from her was.
"You spaceman; Oi... I said shut up!"
"Amelia Jessica Pond" Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "I didn't raise you to be rude; now, and even though I didn't invite him into my home, nor like him for that matter... Apologize to that man"
"Oh hell no, and it's Amy." Amy's eyes flared with anger. "Amy. I have been telling you to call me Amy for years now. I hate Amelia, it's.. I hate it."
"Fine Amy..."
"You know I have no idea why I didn't see this till now; right now, standing here." Amy walked over to her fridge and looked over the photographs. "It's not as if it weren't staring me in the face; I've looked through your photograph albums; you've shown me Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Geoffrey and Grandpa and Grandma Mott; even Donna and I never put it together till now."
"Put what together?"
"Why you never took me to see them?" Amy stared at her pictures, just her. Different school years, and a few soccer games. The only other member of the family with the Ginger hair. The only other member of the family with ginger hair, who had no mum and only an Aunt.
"I never took you because I was too busy working." Amy's Aunt Sharon looked from Amy to the Doctor who as soon as they made eye contact, decided he liked the view below him. "Amy please I don't wish to speak of this right now."
"Aunt Sharon, Donna wasn't psychotic, she was telling the truth it's just like with me no one wanted to listen to her." Amy paused. "All they heard was magical box and doctor..."
"Amy don't be daft; there is no Doctor, and there is no blue box." Amy's Aunt Sharon sat down on the dining room table. "Your cousin, Donna, she invented that story because she couldn't deal with what had happened to her. What that man did to her. Amy it was a fairy tale created in the mind of a very disturbed woman. So there was some similar factors involved..."
"Similar? Some similar factors involved?" Amy clenched her teeth. "I supposed the other non similarities would be that this box, the magical box, before it appeared it made this loud whooshing noise? Oh and it had this lite on the top? And when it disappeared it made the same loud whooshing noise it had before it appeared.
"Amy your cousin was sexually assaulted, she was held against her will for twelve years."
"No..."
"We tried to keep it from you." Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "I never wanted you to find out about the attack, but you were listening on the other end of the phone as you always do. I had no choice but to tell you that."
"And leave out the most important fact, that she had been missing for twelve years?" Amy paused and shook her head. "You know sad thing here is if you just trusted me, if you just believe me then Donna would still be alive"
"Amy.." the Doctor shook his head. "No..."
"You... You and Aunt Sylvia and who ever told Donna she was wrong; they were wrong. They were the ones wrong, not Donna." Amy brushed off the doctor and grabbed her aunts arm. "She tried to tell them the truth, but all they did was pump her with medications she didn't need. That is what they do to people with a psychotic disorder right?"
"Yes I assume; yes Donna was probably heavily medicated towards the end."
"That poor woman, spending her last days in a medicated haze knowing what she was saying; what she saw, and who she saw was real but no one would believe her." Amy bit down on her bottom lip. She wanted to scream, and cry and hit something at the same time. "She had no one, everyone she loved; everyone she's trusted to protect her they'd turned on her."
"Amy." the Doctor with the bigger picture; family albums and all, clear in his head touched Amy's arm and suggested they leave. "Come on we should go. Really, deal with this another time when you've a clear head."
"Clear head? Why should I have a clear head to deal with this? Donna didn't. Donna didn't even have an option."
"Amy now is not the best time for this... Amy please let me talk to you; let me.. before you..."
"I bet they gave her that electro-shock therapy they talked about; you know that time you thought I was out of the room." Amy looked out the corner of her eye as she bit not her bottom lip but the inner part of her cheek to prevent her from crying. "So simple. All of this would have been, could have been so simple."
"Amy I don't know what to say. I'm sorry Donna's dead but there was nothing you or I could do to prevent it." Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "It was just after she found out she was pregnant, and the rape she lost touch with reality. Amy Donna killed herself; she took her own life, there's nothing anyone could have done to stop it."
"No? Not anyone?"
"Amy..." the Doctor lowered his tone. "Please do not do this."
"Amy we tried; well your Aunt tried, and the Doctors."
"Maybe she didn't have the right Doctor then?" Amy paced back and forth, between her Aunt Sharon and the Doctor. "I mean maybe if you'd got her the Doctor she asked for, the one with the blue box."
"Amy stop it!" Amy's Aunt Sharon stood up and stopped Amy from pacing. "I will not let you end up like her; do you hear me?"
"No you hear me!" Amy grabbed onto her Aunt Sharon's arm and stared directly into her eyes. "You didn't believe me, and no one believed Donna but the thing is here we were right and I'm going to prove it to you."
"Amy where are you taking me?" Amy's Aunt Sharon tried to protest, but Amy had the upper hand and with the Doctor in tote all three exited the house to the back yard. "Amy stop this. You're hurting me."
"Good I'm glad." Amy answered as she continued to drag her Aunt Sharon to destination smashed shed to the left, Tardis to the right. "See; big blue police box."
"How?"
"Not how? What? What is it?" Amy turned to her aunt Sharon who looked as if the world had just imploded in front of her and all it left was a blue box. "Oh I am so glad you asked, because I'm going to tell you. That is big blue box, a magical box, a police box and it's in your back yard."
"But..."
"Did I say I was finished?" Amy's Aunt Sharon went to speak but stopped. "Good because you see this box can do lots of things, like travel through time hense the whooshing and the whole disappearing and reappearing thing. It can also hold criminals till the police come, but then you'd have to explain the whole bigger on the inside thing."
"Amy!"
"Oi; SHUT UP!" Amy stopped the doctor from speaking further by holding her hand up. "I don't want to hear another word from you spaceman... Now on the other hand Aunt Sharon, I do want to hear something from you, and I'm sure Aunt Sylvia would want to as well seeing as her daughter is dead because of me and you and this box you said never existed."
"I was trying to protect you. What Donna had, or what they said she had was hereditary and..." Aunt Sharon spoke with a sincerity that made Amy want to reach out and slap her, but all she did was reach out and hit the Tardis door.
"Show her!" Amy waited for the doctor to open the Tardis, but when he didn't she hit it again and repeated "I said Show HER!"
"This isn't going to be good." the Doctor pulled the Tardis key out and opened the door. Sure he could have done the whole snap your fingers thing, but at that moment he wasn't worried about looking cool.
"Go.. Go.." Amy stood aside from her Aunt Sharon, moving to the back of her saying "I said go... Inside; don't worry about your claustrophobia believe me it's much bigger on the inside." before pushing the other woman into the Tardis. "So? Now you believe me?"
"Oh my god what is this?"
"It's a Tardis." the Doctor answered, but remained in the background near the door as Amy's Aunt looked around. He knew she wanted to leave, to run out as all who entered did, but he also knew that Amy wouldn't have that. "It's nothing to be afraid of, she won't hurt you. It's just where I live now; my home, a space ship slash time travel box slash home. We get cable."
"Amy why didn't you tell me."
"I did, remember." Amy walked closer to her Aunt Sharon. "I was seven, you found me outside sleeping on my suitcase, said I was lying had a bad dream, ate something bad before bed and then sent me to the first of four shrinks."
"Amy if I.. I didn't..."
"No you didn't, because you were too busy talking at me to listen to me." Amy climbed the stairs to the console. "Spaceship; Tardis.. Time and relative dimension in space so, and if she, my so called cousin were here for you to give it to her; you owe Donna an apology, but guess that's never going to happen seeing as she's dead."
"Time and digitization..."
"No, time and relative dimension in space." the doctor corrected Amy's Aunt Sharon as he scratched the back of his head. "It's what made it possible for me to meet your niece; Donna, your niece Donna, in nineteen ninety-six and then return her twelve years later. All though I do have this funny feeling that wasn't the first time I met her."
"If only I knew that this was real, all of this. The box, and the Doctor. I should have listened to you." Amy's Aunt Sharon took a deep breath then let it out. They were both right. Donna and Amy were right, there was a magical box and a raggedy doctor; although from the looks of him Amy's Aunt Sharon didn't see where the raggedy part came in. "I'm so sorry."
"Yeah well tell that to my Grandfather, and Aunt Sylvia and Donna's son; Andy.. Remember Andy the little boy who has to grow up without a mother... " Amy paused. "And speaking of Mother's, and also changing the subject to correct titles in ones family; Why don't I have one? A Mother? Everyone has a mother. I wasn't born in a cabbage patch now was I? Or did the stork bring me?"
"Oh yes this is not going to get good." the Doctor ran up to Amy and her Aunt. 'Why don't we take this little conversation back into the house, and then once there change it to something about a very nice cup-a-tea. Anyone else here fancy a cup-a-tea? I know I sure do... Amy? Aunt Sha..."
"Shut up!" this time the words came from both Amy and her Aunt Sharon; it was Amy however that kept the conversation going. "You never tried to hide it from me that you were my Aunt and not my mum, but you never spoke of my mum either. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Amy you never asked..." Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "I thought.. I thought you would figure it out; you were always so smart. I thought maybe if you saw the pictures you would be curious and ask me."
"Oh so too chicken to just come out and say, Amelia see this woman she's you're real mother?"
"Amy..."
"I'm sorry Amy I don't know what to say." Amy's Aunt Sharon felt Amy's pain. She had wanted to tell her so many years earlier, but she'd promised Sylvia and Donna that she wouldn't. Which was why she had so many times hoped Amy would just ask. "I was wrong for not telling you, I should have told you."
"Yeah you were wrong and you should have told me..." Amy looked down at her feet. "So was my father another one like Andy's? Is that why you didn't tell me?"
"No, Amy your father was someone who Donna; your mum worked with." Amy's Aunt Sharon paused. "She worked for; she was temping and she fell for his lies. I never met him, or saw him. I'm sorry."
"Doctor; now it's my turn to have to leave." Amy turned and walked away from both. "Please; make her leave and take me away from here. Please..."
"Amy I never wanted to hurt you."
"Give her time; let me talk to her." The Doctor walked Amy's Aunt Sharon to the door of the Tardis, and opened it.
"I did it mean to..."
"I know know you didn't mean to, but right now this isn't about you it's about Amy." The Doctor paused. "Sharon, she just met her mother; her recently deceased mother, she needs the time and the space to think. She can't be near you right now."
"And you can give her that?" Amy's Aunt Sharon looked back to Amy; she did so resemble Donna. "The time and the space away from me?"
"My Tardis can." the Doctor paused sensing the woman's reluctance to leave. "I promise when she's calm enough to understand what happened, and why you did what you did then I will bring her back."
Hearing the Doctor's words, Amy's Aunt Sharon gave in and left the Tardis, which was about the same time Amy fell to he knees crying.