A GOOD FAMILY GOES TO WAR
*EDITED*
3rd POV:
On Demon's Run, an asteroid modified into a habitation, a baby has been born. Her name is Melody Pond. "I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved, that you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't a time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody is very, very brave." Amy tells her and The Eye Patch Lady steps forward from the line of armed guards.
"Two minutes," Kovarian tells her.
"But not as brave as they'll have to be. Because there's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way." Amy tells her daughter.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Twenty thousand light years away, non-Cybus Industries logoed but otherwise identical Cybermen stomps through the corridors. "Intruder level nine." Cyberman reports.
"Seal level nine." Cyberleader orders.
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"There's a man who's never going to let us down, and not even an army can get in the way." Amy continues. Madame Kovarian comes to take the baby. "Leave her. Just you leave her. Please leave her! Please, leave her!" she shouts.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
The ship is shaking. "Intruder level eleven." Cyberman reports.
"Seal levels twelve, thirteen and fourteen." Cyberleader orders.
"Intruder, level fifteen." Cyberman reports.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Melody is in a high-tec Moses basket. "He's the last of his kind. He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone. Because this man is your father." Amy tells her.
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"Prepare to engage." Cyberleader orders.
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"He has a name, but the people of our world know him better…" Amy says.
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"As the Last Centurion." Amy finishes.
"I have a message and a question. A message from Reaper and a question from me. Where is my wife? Oh, don't give me those blank looks. The Twelfth Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So you tell me what I need to know. You tell me now, and I'll be on my way." Rory asks them.
"What is Reaper's message?" Cyberleader asks and outside, all the other ships in the Legion explode.
"Would you like me to repeat the question?" Rory asks.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Two Cleric soldiers are walking along. "A whole Cyber Legion though. They just blew them all up to make a point." Lucas gossips.
"We're being paid to fight them, not praise them. Praising costs way more." Dominicus argues and they get into a lift.
"Level Minus Twenty Three Transept," Lucas says.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Digger says they once chased the Atraxi off a planet, then called them back for a scolding." Lucas keeps on gossiping.
"Fight them, not praise them." Dominicus scolds him.
"Reminder. This base is on Yellow Alert. This base is on Yellow Alert." Tannoy announces and they pass a young woman doing some sewing.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
The two Clerics have her on CCTV. "Is she sewing?" Lucas asks.
"She's on a break. She can do what she likes. Now try again." Dominicus tells him. He holds up two pieces of paper.
"That one," Lucas says.
"No, that's the psychic. You've got to look for the fractals. Don't look bored, we're on Yellow Alert." Dominicus tells him.
"We've been on Yellow Alert for three weeks," Lucas argues.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Reminder. Do not interact with Headless Monks without divine permission. Do not interact with Headless Monks without divine permission." Tannoy announces.
"You're not supposed to stare at them. And if they think you're trying to see under their hoods, they'll kill you on the spot." Fat One tells him.
"But why are they called the Headless Monks? They can't really be headless?" Thin One asks.
"They believe the domain of faith is the heart, and the domain of doubt is the head. They follow their hearts, that's all." Lorna tells them.
"You're Lorna Bucket, aren't you?" Thin One asks her.
"Yeah." Lorna answers.
"Hello. I'm the Thin One. This is my husband. He's the Fat One." Thin One tells her.
"Don't you have names?" Lorna asks them.
"We're the thin fat gay married Anglican marines. Why would we need names as well?" Fat One asks her and three Headless Monks are 'looking' at them. "Oh, looks like I'm off. Time for my conversion tutorial. See you in a bit. Do you lot have Lent? Because I'm not good at giving things up." He says and leaves with the Monks.
"Lorna Bucket. You've had an Encounter, haven't you? You've met them." Thin One asks her.
"I was just a kid," Lorna tells him.
"But what were they like? The Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel." Thin One asks her.
"Reaper said run," Lorna tells him.
"Just run?" Thin One asks her.
"He said it a lot," Lorna tells him.
"And this was in the Gamma Forests, yeah? Because you're a Gamma girl, aren't you? What are you doing here? The Forests are heaven neutral." Thin One says.
"Yeah, and thirty seconds of the Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel is the only thing that ever happened there." Lorna says to him.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Oh, this is nice, I like this. I mean, quite a lot of red. I hope it's not to hide the stains. What's in the little boxes?" Fat One asks.
"Welcome, applicant, to the order of the Headless. It is traditional for visiting armies of other faiths to offer individuals for conversion to our order. You have been selected. Are you ready to make a donation?" A voice asks him and a Monk brings forward an empty box.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"So, what do you think? If the Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel are really coming here, where are they?" Thin One asks her.
"They're the Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel. They could be anywhere in time and space." Lorna tells him.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
It was London, 1888 A.D. A horse-drawn cab pulls up and a woman gets out. She references Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds. "Whoa!" Parker gasps.
"Thank you, Parker. I won't be needing you again tonight." Vastra tells him.
"Yus, my lady," Parker replies.
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The lady goes into her house and is greeted by her maid. "You're back early, ma'am. Another case cracked, I assume?" Jenny asks her. The mysterious lady puts a Samurai sword back on its stand.
"Send a telegram to Inspector Abberline of the yard. Jack the Ripper has claimed his last victim." Vastra tells her.
"How did you find him?" Jenny asks her. The lady throws back her hood to reveal that she is a Silurian.
"Stringy, but tasty all the same. I shan't be needing dinner." Vastra tells her.
"Congratulations, ma'am. However, a matter has arisen in the drawing room." Jenny tells her.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"It just appeared. What does it mean?" Jenny asks her.
"It means a very old debt is to be repaid," Vastra tells her and it appears to be the TARDIS. "Pack the cases, Jenny. And we're going to need the swords." She tells Jenny.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
The Battle of Zaruthstra, 4037 A.D. "Nurse! Nurse! Damn it, where's the nurse!" Harcourt shouts.
"He needs help," Eleanor says.
"Madame President, I'm sorry, but we have to go now! Those things could be here any second." Harcourt informs her. A little boy is lying on a bed in the tent. He is very still. A Sontaran warrior enters.
"Did somebody call for a nurse?" Strax asks them and he tends to the boy.
"Will I be okay?" Arthur asks him.
"Of course you will, my boy. You'll be up and around in no time. And perhaps one day, you and I shall meet on the field of battle, and I will destroy you for the glory of the Sontaran Empire." Strax tells him.
"Thanks, Nurse," Arthur says to him and Strax leaves, and Harcourt follows him.
"Commander Strax. I just have to ask. A Sontaran nurse?" Harcourt asks him.
"I serve a penance to restore the honour of my clone batch. It is the greatest punishment a Sontaran can endure, to help the weak and sick." Strax explains to him.
"Who came up with that one?" Harcourt asks him and the sound of the TARDIS materializing.
"Tonight, though, perhaps my penance is over. Captain Harcourt, I hope someday to meet you in the glory of battle, when I shall crush the life from your worthless human form. Try and get some rest." Strax tells him.
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River Song is returning from a Regency era Frost Fair, by the looks of her clothes. The alarms are blaring. She picks up the guard's phone. "Oh, turn it off. I'm breaking in, not out. This is River Song, back in her cell. Oh, and I'll take breakfast at the usual time. Thank you." River tells them and she sees a figure standing in the corridor. "Oh, are you boys dressing up as Romans now? I thought nobody read my memos." She teases.
"Doctor Song. It's Rory. Sorry, have we met yet? Time streams. I'm not quite sure where we are." Rory tells her.
"Yes. Yes, we've met. Hello, Rory." River says.
"What's wrong?" Rory asks her.
"It's my birthday. Reaper took me ice skating on the River Thames in 1814, the last of the great Frost Fairs. He got Stevie Wonder to sing for me under London Bridge." River tells him.
"Stevie Wonder sang in 1814?" Rory asks her.
"Yes, he did. But you must never tell him." River jokes.
"I've come from Reaper too," Rory tells her.
"Yes, but at a different point in time." River says.
"Unless there's two of them." Rory comments.
"Now, that's a whole different birthday." River laughs.
"He needs you," Rory tells her as River checks her diary.
"Demon's Run." River says looking at him.
"How, how did you know?" Rory asks her.
"I'm from his future. I always know. Why on Earth are you wearing that?" River asks him.
"The Doctor's idea," Rory tells her.
"Of course. His rules of engagement. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." River says.
"Look ridiculous," Rory adds.
"Have you considered heels?" River teases him.
"They've taken Amy. And our baby. The Doctor and Frost are getting some people together. We're going after her, but they need you, too." Rory tells her.
"I can't. Not yet, anyway." River tells him.
"I'm sorry?" Rory asks her.
"This is the Battle of Demon's Run. The Time Lord's darkest hour. They'll rise higher than ever before and then fall so much further, and I can't be with them till the very end." River tells him.
"Why not?" Rory asks her.
"Because this is it. This is the day he finds out who I am." River says thinking of Reaper.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
A large blue skinned alien is packing a small case. "Goodbye," Dorium says.
"You appear to be closing down, Dorium. What have you heard?" Kovarian asks.
"That you pricked the side of a mighty beast, Madame Kovarian, and entirely failed to run. I admire your courage. I should like to admire it from afar." Dorium tells her.
"We've been waiting a month. They've done nothing." Kovarian replies.
"Do you really think so? There are people all over this galaxy that owe that family a debt. By now, a few of them will have found a blue box waiting for them on their doorstep, poor devils." Dorium says to them.
"You think they're raising an army?" Manton asks him.
"You think they aren't? If that family is finally collecting on their debts, God help you, and God help their debtors" Dorium tells them.
"Why?" Manton asks him.
"Colonel Manton, all those stories you've heard about them, they're not stories, they're true. Really. You're not telling me you don't know what's coming?" Dorium asks him.
"We're wasting our time here," Manton says.
"Agreed," Kovarian says.
"The asteroid, where you've made your base. Do you know why they call it Demon's Run?" Dorium asks them.
"How do you know the location of our base?" Manton asks him.
"You're with the Headless Monks. They're old customers of mine." Dorium tells him.
"It's just some old saying." Kovarian dismisses.
"A very old saying. The oldest. Demons run when a good family goes to war." Dorium says and Kovarian and Manton leave. Dorium is about to leave when the TARDIS sound is heard. "No. No, no, please. Not me. You don't need me. Why would you need me? I'm old, I'm fat, I'm blue. You can't need me!" he starts shouting.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Colonel Manton addresses his assembled troops. "They are not the devil. They are not gods. They are not goblins, or phantoms or tricksters. The Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel are living, breathing men and women, and as I look around this room I know one thing. We're sure as hell going to fix that." Manton speaks and the troops cheer.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Amy is watching the rally from her window. Lorna enters. "Sorry. I shouldn't be here. I'm meant to be at the thing. I brought you something. Your child's name in the language of my people. It's a prayer leaf and we believe, if you keep this with you, your child will always come home to you." Lorna informs.
"Can I borrow your gun?" Amy asks her.
"Why?" She asks.
"Because I've got a feeling you're going to keep talking." Amy snaps turning back to the window. "They're talking like there famous. The Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel aren't famous." She says.
"They meet a lot of people. Some of them remember. They're sort of like a, I don't know, a dark legend." Lorna says.
"Dark? Have you met them?" Amy asks her.
"Yeah. But I was just a little girl." Lorna tells her.
"So was I," Amy says.
"You've been with them a long time, then," Lorna says.
"No. They came back for me." Amy tells her.
"You must be very special," Lorna says.
"Hey. You can wait a long time for them, but they're worth it, okay? The thing is, they're coming. No question about it. Just you make sure you're on the right side when they get here. Not for my sake, for yours." Amy tells her and takes the prayer leaf. "Thank you."
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"On this day, in this place, the Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel will fall." Manton shouts.
"Hoo-Rah!" the troops cheer.
"The men and women who talk, the men and women who reason, the men and women who lie, will meet the perfect answer." Manton shouts.
"Hoo-Rah!" the troops cheer.
"Some of you have wondered why have we have allied ourselves with the Headless Monks. Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them Headless. It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith. As you all know, it is a Level One Heresy, punishable by death, to lower the hood of a Headless Monk. But by the divine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself, on this one and only occasion, I can show you the truth. Because these guys never can be persuaded." Manton says and he lowers one Monk's hood. It has no head, just the skin of the neck tied off. "They never can be afraid." A second hood lowered. "And they can never, ever be…" The third hood reveals…
"Surprised! Ha, ha! Hello, everyone. Guess who. Please, point a gun at me if it helps you relax." Reaper exclaims and the army takes aim, except for Lorna. The Monks get their flaming swords ready. "You're only human."
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Lucas and Dominicus have very sharp swords at their throats. "Go on, resist. I am ever so hungry." Vastra sneers.
"Now, dear. Which button controls the lights?" Jenny asks.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Reaper's POV:
"Reaper, you will come with me right now." Manton orders me.
"Three minutes forty seconds. Amelia Pond! Get your coat!" I shout at her and the lights go out for a few seconds. "We are not phantoms," I tell them.
"Reaper?" Manton asks for me.
"We are not tricks," Dad says from somewhere else.
"Doctor?" Manton calls.
"I'm a monk." I laugh.
"Doctor and Reaper, show yourselves," Manton orders us.
"It's them! They're here! It's them!" a man shouts, The army faces off against the Monks. A shot is fired.
"Weapons down! Do not fire!" Manton orders and a Monk kills a soldier. "No!" he shouts.
"Follow me." Kovarian orders.
"Doctor! Reaper!" Manton shouts.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
3rd POV:
Lucas and Dominicus are tied up and sitting on the floor. "Clever, aren't they?" Jenny asks.
"And rather attractive," Vastra comments thinking of the younger Time Lord.
"You do realize he's a man, don't you, ma'am?" Jenny asks.
"Mammals. They all look alike." Vastra argues.
"Oh, thank you." Jenny replies.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Do not fire. Nobody discharge their weapon in this room. Nobody! Do not fire!" Manton shouts and a sonic screwdriver is in use.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Lucas is eyeing the door lock control. "Was I being insensitive again, dear? I don't know why you put up with me." Vastra says and turns and lashes Lucas with her extendible tongue.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Stop. Wait. Listen to me. I am disarming my weapon pack. Monks, I do this in good faith. I am now unarmed. All of you, discharge your weapon packs. The Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel are trying to make fools of us. We are soldiers of God. We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools." Manton tells his soldiers.
"We are not fools!" a soldier chants.
"We are not fools." Manton chants.
"We are not fools." More soldiers chants.
"We are not fools." Manton chants.
"We are not fools." The soldiers chant.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Colonel Manton is regaining control." Vastra states.
"Where's the Doctor and Reaper gone?" Jenny asks.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Lorna has left the assembly and found a discarded habit in a corridor. She runs on. "We are not fools. We are not fools. We are not fools." They chant. Silurians beam into the galleries around the assembly. Some Judoons appear, too.
"This base is now under our command," Strax announces.
"I have a fleet out there. If Demon's Run goes down, there's an automatic distress call." Manton argues.
"Not if we knock out your communications array. And you've got incoming." Frost informs him.
"Danny Boy to the Doctor. Danny Boy to the Doctor." Piolet repeats.
"Give 'em hell, Danny Boy." The Doctor says and the Spitfires strafe the asteroid's communications array.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"I need to get off this station now. Bring me the child!" Kovarian shouts.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
"Target destroyed," Piolet informs.
"Don't slump. It's bad for your spine." Strax says.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Madame Kovarian's guard have brought Melody in her sealed up Moses basket. "Get back in there with the rest of them. Remember, the Time Lords must think they're winning, right until the trap closes. I'll take my ship from here." Kovarian tells them and Lorna has overheard her.
"Airlock engaged. Shuttle ready for boarding." Computer announces.
"No," Rory says.
"I have a crew of twenty. How do you expect to gain control of my ship?" Kovarian asks him and the airlock opens. A pirate captain and his young son step out.
"This ship is ours, milady." Captain Avery tells her.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Strax marches Manton in at gunpoint. "All airlocks sealed. Resistance neutralised." Strax informs them.
"Sorry, Colonel Manton. I lied. Three minutes forty-two seconds." Reaper teases him.
"Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw." Strax orders him.
"No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away." Frost says coming over with Angel who looks about 18 years old.
"You what?" Manton asks her.
"Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Run Away. I want children laughing outside your door, because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away. And, when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to us through the people we love is in any way a good idea, I want you to tell them your name. Oh, look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now." Frost tells him.
"The anger of a good woman is not a problem. Good women have too many rules." Kovarian says.
"Good women don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many." Frost tells her.
"Give the order. Give the order, Colonel Run Away." Kovarian orders him.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Someone is hammering at the door. Amy rummages in a drawer and finds what might be an electric toothbrush. "Who's that? Who's there? You watch it, because I'm armed and really dangerous, and cross." Amy says.
"Yeah, like I don't know that." Rory says on the other side of the door.
"Rory? Rory, is that you." Amy asks.
"Yeah, it's me. Look, hang on a minute." Rory says and it sounds like Rory is trying to sonic his way in.
"They took her. Rory, they took our baby away." Amy says and the door opens. Rory is carrying Melody.
"Now, Mrs Williams, that is never, ever going to happen." Rory tells her.
"Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Where's she been? What have they done to her?" Amy asks.
"She's fine. Amy, she's fine. I checked. She's beautiful. Oh God, I was going to be cool. I wanted to be cool. Look at me." Rory tells her.
"You're okay. Crying Roman with a baby. Definitely cool. Come here, you." Amy says.
"Urgh. Kissing and crying. I'll, I'll be back in a bit." Reaper jokes.
"Oi, you. Get in here, now. My daughter. What do you think?" Amy asks him.
"Hello. Hello, baby." Reaper says.
"Melody." Amy tells him.
"Melody? Hello, Melody Pond." Reaper says.
"Melody Williams." Rory corrects him.
"Is a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a superhero." Amy says.
"Well yes, I suppose she does smell nice. Never really sniffed her. Maybe I should give it a go. Amelia Pond, come here." Reaper says.
"Reaper." Amy says.
"I'm sorry we were so long." Reaper apologises.
"It's okay. I knew you were coming. Both of you. My boys." Amy says.
"It's okay. She's still all yours. And really, you should call her mummy, not big milk thing." Reaper says to Melody.
"Okay, what are you doing?" Amy asks him.
"I speak Baby." Reaper tells her.
"No, you don't." Amy argues.
"I speak everything, don't I, Melody Pond. No, it's not. it's cool. Anyway I had to look after Angel when she was a baby." Reaper argues back.
"Reaper? Take a look. They're leaving. Demon's Run is ours without a drop of blood spilled. My friend, you and your family have never risen higher." Vastra tells her.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Amy carried Melody out of the TARDIS. "Hey, what's wrong?" Rory asks her.
"She doesn't like the TARDIS noise. I asked him to turn something off, but it was all, but I don't want to punch a hole in the space-time continuum. Shush." Amy says angrily.
"Rory! The Judoon have escorted the Clerics out of the quadrant. Spitfires have returned to their own time. Captain Avery and his men are going. Is she all right?" Jenny asks.
"Yes, she's just crying." Amy replies.
"Give her to me, human fool. She needs changing." Strax orders her.
"I just changed her. I think she might need a feed." Amy says.
"A feed, of course. I'll take care of everything." Strax says.
"Er, I really don't think you will, actually." Rory tells him.
"I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties. I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid." Strax informs him and The Doctor comes out of the TARDIS with a wooden cot that has an rosary dangling over it.
"She's not hungry, she's tired. Sorry, Melody, they're just not listening." Frost says coming over out of the TARDIS.
"What's this?" Amy asks.
"Very pretty, according to your daughter." The Doctor says.
"It's a, it's a cot." Rory says.
"No flies on the Roman. Give her here." Frost says.
"Hey, there we go." Amy says.
"But where would you get a cot?" Rory asks them and Reaper and Angel look at each other.
"No, it's real. It's my hair." The Doctor says to Melody.
"Doctor, Frost and Reaper we need you in the main control room." Vastra shouts.
"Be right there! Things to do. I've still got to work out what this base is for. We can't leave till we know." The Doctor says.
"But this is where I was? The whole time I thought I was on the TARDIS, I was really here?" Amy asks him.
"Er, Centurian, permission to hug?" Reaper asks Rory.
"Be aware, I do have a sword." Rory warns him.
"At all times. You were on the TARDIS, too. Your heart, your mind, your soul. But physically, yes, you were still in this place." Reaper tells her.
"And when I saw that face looking through the hatch, that woman looking at me." Amy tells him.
"Reality bleeding through. They must have taken you quite a while back. Just before America." Reaper tells her.
"That's probably enough hugging now. So her Flesh avatar was with us all that time. But that means they were projecting a control signal right into the TARDIS wherever we were in time and space." Rory says.
"Yeah, they're very clever." Reaper says.
"Who are?" Amy asks.
"Whoever wants our baby." Rory says.
"But why do they want her?" Amy asks.
"Exactly." Reaper says.
"Is there anything you're not telling us? You knew Amy wasn't real. You never said." Rory says.
"Well, we couldn't be sure they weren't listening." Reaper tells them.
"But you always hold out on us. Please, not this time. Reaper, it's our baby. Tell us something. One little thing." Amy asks him.
"It's mine." The Doctor adds into the conversation.
"What is?" Rory asks.
"The cot. It's my cot. I slept in there. Before Reaper and Angel." The Doctor tells them.
"Oh, my God. It's the Doctor's first stars." Amy says.
"She's…" Rory tries saying while Amy wipes Melody's dribble with the prayer leaf.
"Drop your weapons. State your rank and intent. I found it listening at the door." Strax orders and it is Lorna.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Frost's POV:
"You've hacked into their software, then?" I asks Dorium.
"I believe I sold it to them." Dorium answers.
"Ooo. So what have we learned?" the Doctor asks.
"That anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake." Vastra tells him.
"I'm sorry?" the Doctor asks her.
"The words of an old friend who once found me in the London Underground, attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers." Vastra says to him.
"Well, you were very cross at the time." I add.
"As you were today, old friend. Point taken, I hope. Now, I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?" Vastra asks.
"Sorry, what? Of course she is. Completely human. What are you talking about?" I ask her.
"They've been scanning her since she was born, and I think they found what they were looking for." Vastra says.
"Human DNA." The Doctor says.
"Look closer. Human plus. Specifically, human plus Time Lord." Vastra tells us.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
3rd POV:
"I heard her talking. This is a trap. Why would I lie to you?" Lorna asks.
"Well, you might want to take a look at your uniform." Rory argues.
"The only reason I joined the Clerics was so I could meet them again." Lorna tells them.
"You wanted to meet them, so you joined an army to fight him?" Jenny asks her.
"Well, how else do you meet great warriors?" Lorna asks.
"They're not a warrior." Amy argues.
"Then why is he called the Doctor, or Frost or Reaper and Angel?" Lorna asks her. The lights go out. "It's starting. Please, listen to me." She tells them.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Frost's POV:
"But she's human. She's Amy and Rory's daughter." The Doctor argues.
"You've told me about your people. They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The Untempered Schism." Vastra argues.
"Over billions of years. It didn't just happen." I tell her.
"So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?" Vastra asks.
"No, no. I don't think so." I tell her.
"You don't sound so sure." Vastra says to me.
"Because I don't understand how this happened." I tell her.
"Which leads me to ask when did it happen?" Vastra asks us.
"When?" the Doctor asks.
"I am trying to be delicate. I know how you can blush. When did this baby begin?" Vastra asks us.
"Oh, you mean…" Reaper says.
"Quite." Vastra says looking at my blushing son.
"Well, how would I know? That's all human-y, private stuff. It just sort of goes on. They don't put up a balloon, or anything." Reaper argues trying to hide his blush.
"But could the child have begun on the TARDIS in flight, in the vortex." Vastra asks.
"No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. So, technically the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality, was on their w…" the Doctor explains well tries to.
"On their what?" Vastra asks.
"On their wedding night." I finish.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
3rd POV:
"Confirmed. No life forms registering on this base, except us and the Silurians." Strax announces.
"The Headless Monks aren't alive. They don't register as life forms." Lorna says and one is creeping up on a Silurian warrior.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Reaper's POV:
"It doesn't make sense. You can't just cook yourself a Time Lord." Dad argues.
"Of course not. But you gave them one hell of a start, and they've been working very hard ever since." Vastra tells him.
"And yet they gave in so easily. Does this not that bother anyone else?" Dorium asks.
"Amy. She worried the baby would have a time head. She said that." I comment.
"Only you would ignore the instincts of a mother." Vastra says looking at me.
"Or the instincts of a coward. This is too easy. There's something wrong." Dorium comments.
"Why even do it? Even if you could get your hands on a brand new Time Lord, what for?" Mum asks.
"A weapon?" Vastra asks.
"Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?" I ask her.
"Well, they've seen you." Vastra says looking at all of us.
"Us?" Mum asks.
"Mister Maldovar, you're right. This was too easy. We should get back to the others." Vastra says and leave with Dorium.
"Us?" Dad repeats and I think back to the warehouse in 1969.
"I'd say she's human, going by the life-support software. She climbed out of the suit, like she forced her way out. She must be incredibly strong." River had said.
"I see you accessed our files. Do you understand yet? Oh, don't worry, I'm a long way away. But I like to keep tabs on you. The child, then. What do you think?" Kovarian asks us from the screen.
"What is she?" I ask her.
"Hope. Hope in this endless, bitter war." Kovarian tells us.
"What war? Against who?" Dad asks her.
"Against you, Doctor and your family." Kovarian answers.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
3rd POV:
The Monks are on the move. A white light cone appears around the TARDIS. "What's that?" Amy asks.
"A force field." Vastra answers.
"And those are the doors locking." Lorna says.
"Apparently we're not leaving." Vastra comments.
"Is that the Monks?" Rory asks.
"Oh, dear God. That's the attack prayer." Dorium informs them.
"Quick, come with me." Rory says.
"Commander Strax!" Vastra shouts.
"I'm trying to seal off this area of the lighting grid." Strax replies.
"This is where we'll make our stand. Clear lines of sight on all approaches." Vastra says and Rory hides Amy and Melody behind some boxes.
"Rory, no offence to the others, but you let them all die first, okay?" Amy asks him.
"You're so Scottish." Rory comments.
"Centurian, you're needed!" Vastra shouts.
"There should be some plasma pistols somewhere. They left everything." Lorna says.
"Then find them, boy!" Strax orders.
"She's definitely a girl." Vastra comments.
"Oh, stop it!" Jenny snaps at her.
"We don't have to fight them. I'm friends to the Monks. They know me." Dorium says.
"Yeah, and they know you just sold them out to the Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel." Rory tells him.
"Oh, they'll understand it's only me. Only silly old me. You understand, don't you?" Dorium asks.
"Mister Maldovar, get back here!" Vastra orders him.
"Arm yourself, fool!" Strax orders him.
"Dorium!" Rory shouts and Dorium walks into the darkness, arms outstretched. There is a swish of metal, and something falls to the floor.
"Mister Maldovar?" Vastra asks.
"Dorium?" Rory asks and two Monks escort the headless Dorium back into view.
"The child. At all costs, protect the child!" Vastra orders everyone.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
Reaper's POV:
"A child is not a weapon!" Dad shouts.
"Oh, give us time. She can be. She will be." Kovarian argues.
"Except you've already lost her, and I swear I will never let you anywhere near her again." I tell her.
"Oh, Reaper. Fooling you once was a joy, but fooling you twice the same way? It's a privilege." Kovarian teases me.
"Amy. Amy." I shout running with my parents behind me.
~FAMILY MOMENTS~
3rd POV:
The fight is on as the Doctor, Frost and Reaper run. Madame Kovarian appears through a hatch behind Amy. "Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good family goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good family goes to war." River says.
"Amy!" the Doctor shouts.
"Demons run but count the cost. The battle's won, but the child is lost." River says.
"Amy!" Reaper shouts.
"Wakey, wakey." Kovarian says.
"Amy!" Frost shouts and Melody suddenly goes splat in Amy's arms.
"Rory? Rory! Rory!" Amy shouts and The Doctor, Reaper and Frost are behind a locked door.
"Amy, she's not real! Melody, she's a Flesh avatar. Amy!" Frost shouts and they run in. Everything is quiet.
"Amy! Amy." Reaper says.
"Yeah, we know." Rory mutters and the Monks are dead, and Strax is wounded.
"It's strange. I have often dreamed of dying in combat. I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped." Strax says.
"Come on, Strax. Don't give up." Rory says.
"It's all right. I've had a good life. I'm nearly twelve." Strax says.
"Listen to me. You'll be back on your feet in no time. You're a warrior." Rory tells him.
"Rory, I'm a nurse." Strax argues and The Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel goes to where Jenny is comforting Amy.
"So they took her anyway. All this was for nothing." Amy cries.
"I am so sorry." Reaper apologises.
"Amy, it's not his fault." Jenny says.
"I know. I know." Amy cries.
"Doctor, Frost, Reaper and Angel, there's someone who wants to speak to you. Her name is Lorna. She came to warn us." Vastra tells them. Lorna is also dying.
"Hey. Hello." Frost says.
"Frost, Doctor, Reaper and Angel." Lorna mutters.
"You helped my friends. Thank you." Angel says smiling softly.
"I met you once, in the Gamma Forests. You don't remember me." Lorna says.
"Hey, of course I remember. I remember everyone. Hey, we ran, you and me. Didn't we run, Lorna?" Reaper asks her and she dies.
"Who was she?" the Doctor asks.
"I don't know, but she was very brave." Vastra says.
"They're always brave. They're always brave." The Doctor mutters.
"So, what now? They'd almost certainly have taken her to Earth. Raise her in the correct environment." Vastra says.
"Yes, they did. And it's already too late." Frost says.
"You're giving up? You never do that." Vastra says.
"Yeah, and don't you sometimes wish we did?" Reaper asks her and there is a flash of lightning.
"Well then, soldier. How goes the day?" River asks.
"Where the hell have you been? Every time you've asked, I have been there. Where the hell were you today?" Reaper asks her.
"I couldn't have prevented this." River argues.
"You could have tried!" Reaper shouts at her.
"And so, my love, could you. I know you're not all right. But hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be." River says.
"You think we wanted this? We didn't do this. This, this wasn't us!" Reaper shouts.
"This was exactly you four. All this. All of it. You four make them so afraid. When you Doctor began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to turn her into a weapon just to bring you and your family down. And all this, my love, in fear of you four." River explains to them.
"Who are you?" Reaper asks her.
"Oh look, your cot. Haven't seen that in a very long while." River says looking at the Doctor.
"No, no, you tell me. Tell me who you are." Reaper demands.
"I am telling you. Can't you read?" River asks and the Old High Gallifreyan on the cot.
"Hello." Reaper says looking dumbfounded.
"Hello." River says back.
"But, but that means." Reaper tries saying.
"I'm afraid it does." River says.
"Ooo. But you and I, we, we, we, er…" Reaper stutters.
"Yes." River answers and Reaper is getting all excited with anticipation.
"How do I look?" Reaper asks her.
"Amazing." River answers.
"I'd better be." Reaper jokes.
"Yes, you'd better be." Reaper flirts.
"Vastra and Jenny, till the next time. Rory and Amy, I know where to find your daughter, and on my life, she will be safe. River, get them all home." Reaper tells them.
"Let's get going." Frost smiles.
"Doctor! Frost! Reaper! Angel!" Rory shouts after them.
"No! Where are you going?" Amy asks them and The Doctor takes down the forcefield around the TARDIS and the Time Lords go inside. "No!" she shouts and the TARDIS dematerialises. "Where are they going and what did you tell him?" she asks River.
"Amy, you have stay calm." River tells her and Amy picks up a gun.
"Tell me what you told Reaper." Amy demands.
"Amy, no. Stop it!" Rory tells her.
"It's okay, Rory. She's fine. She's good. It's the TARDIS translation matrix. It takes a while to kick in with the written word. You have to concentrate." River tells him.
"I still can't read it." Amy says.
"It's because it's Gallifreyan and doesn't translate. But this will." River says and hands over the prayer leaf. "It's your daughter's name in the language of the Forest." She tells them.
"I know my daughter's name." Amy snaps.
"Except they don't have a word for Pond, because the only water in the forest is the River. They will find your daughter, and he will care for her whatever it takes. And I know that. It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter." River tells them.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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