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Chapter 8: The Year 2010
I can't remember what I had been dreaming about, all I remembered was Amy calling my name. It was getting louder and louder until it was so loud that it woke me from my sleep. I sat up, and Amy was sitting at my feet. We were in the TARDIS, and she was safe.
"Did you have to wake me like that?" I asked, realizing that the Amy from my dreams was actually just real Amy calling for me to wake up. But there was no reason for her to be scared here. She'd seemed much more terrified in the dream.
"What? Did you want me to wake you up gently?" Amy smiled.
"That would be nice."
The TARDIS began to move.
"Where are we going? I thought we were staying to investigate," I asked.
"We are, but if Moriarty went through all the work to send the signal to the TARDIS then he knows who I am and wants me to come to him. So we have to go to a time where he has no idea who I am," The Doctor explained.
Amy placed a slip of paper into her book and closed it, "Sounds good. So what time are we going to exactly?" she asked, getting up and standing beside the Doctor.
"I'm thinking the year 2010. Great year. He shouldn't have any idea who I am as long as we remember not to go any earlier than that," The Doctor said.
"Why so late?" I asked. I'd expected it to be something like 2000 when there was no reason for us to need to go any earlier.
"If we go in January 2010, that was just before he began to go after Sherlock. He'll have everything planned out by then, but he'll have done just enough as well," he explained.
"What else did I miss?" I asked.
"Well, we went to tomorrow morning and Amy read her boring book and I fixed the projector!" The Doctor said excitedly.
"The TARDIS has a projector?" The Doctor ignored me.
"When you step out those doors it will be 2010!" The Doctor said excitedly.
"The year you came back for me," Amy smiled.
"It also happened to be our wedding year," I added.
"I was about to say that."
Amy and I followed the Doctor out of the TARDIS. We were on a long street with huge houses. Some rich people must've lived here.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Slater Road," The Doctor said, "The richest street in London. I used have mates who lived here."
"So what are we looking for?" Amy asked.
"There was rumors going around that Moriarty was working with a Sebastian Moran and this is where Sebastian Moran lived in 2010," The Doctor explained.
"Alright, let's get on with this," Amy said.
"Geronimo."
The Doctor led us to house number 26 and he knocked politely on the door. Minutes later a short, chubby man answered the door.
"Hello, we're here to see Mr. Sebastian Moran. We have and appointment," the Doctor said, pulling out his psychic paper.
"Alright, but make it quick. Mr. Moran is very busy," the short man said and led us inside. We let him get a little ways ahead of us so we could talk in private.
"How are we going to find Moriarty through Moran?" I whispered to the Doctor.
"I planted a hypnosis thingy in the psychic paper so that when he looked at it he would by hypnotized. He'll be wandering around this house aimlessly for hours," The Doctor explained.
"So why are we following him?" Amy asked.
"We need to get an idea of the house don't we. We need to know our way around."
So we wandered and when the Doctor got bored of wandering, we started looking for Sebastian Moran's office. The Doctor wanted to do it in an orderly fashion so he made us start on the first floor. There was a massive kitchen and an even more massive dining room, followed by a bedroom, a room with a 60' TV, another bedroom, a room full of chairs (beautifully boring as the Doctor called it), and two bathrooms. 3 if you counted the one in the bedroom.
When we were about to give up on the first floor, we found a door that led underneath the staircase.
The Doctor put his ear up to it and knocked, "A door to the basement," he said. He backed away and scanned the door, "6 different kinds of locks, all locked. There's something very big down there."
"Should we go down?" Amy asked.
"No. No, not until we learn more. Could be dangerous," he said and walked away. Since when wasn't he interested in danger?
We followed him up the staircase. Again, there were way to many pointless rooms. But we walked into one, it was a big bedroom, with a small bed in the corner, but lots of electronics scattered across the room. Mostly laptops, computers and cameras of all different kinds. There was a projector hanging from the ceiling and the man in the room was sitting, watching what the projector was projecting onto the small white screen on the wall. I wanted to stay put and watch it, but the Doctor had a different plan.
"Hello there!" He yelled as he strolled into the room. The Doctor told us to come in and then sonic locked the door behind us.
The man in the chair shut down the projection and turned to us. It was the same man from the "did you miss me?" clip, "Who are you?" he asked in what must have been his real voice. It was much deeper than the clip let on.
"I'm the Doctor, this is Amy and Rory," The Doctor introduced us.
"What do you want?" he demanded.
"You're just the guy we wanted to see⦠Moriarty," The Doctor said.
"I don't know what you're going on about," Moriarty said.
"You are James Moriarty and we're from the future!" The Doctor yelled. That last bit probably wasn't the smartest thing to tell him.
"How did you get in?" Moriarty asked.
"I am not going to tell you that bit, I'm afraid I've told you too much already," The Doctor said. "But basically, sit back, relax and watch the show."
So now I was really confused, but apparently the Doctor had a plan. He jumped over to Moriarty and cuffed his right hand. I don't even know where he'd gotten the hand cuffs from but in seconds, Moriarty's hand was cuffed to the leg of the chair.
"That should keep you in place," The Doctor said, sounding pleased with himself. Then he came over to us and whispered, "We're going to give this a shot, I'm going to set up one of these cameras somewhere where he did something that changed history, and we're going to undo it."
"How are we going to do that?" Amy asked.
"There's a pile of empty CDs over there, we're going to put one in the computer so it will project onto the screen, then we're going to go back in time a day or so and take that exact CD and we'll use a couple cameras to record what we're changing then we'll edit it together, and plant it back where we took it from and he'll be watching it all as we do it. I've done it before, works like a charm," The Doctor explained.
The Doctor bounded over to the shelf where the CDs were sitting, then he put it into the computer and it came up on the projector. All the while Moriarty was demanding us to tell him what we were doing.
"Now, I've only done this once, so I'm hoping it will work as well as it did last time, but I guess we'll find out won't we," The Doctor smiled.
"Do what?!" Moriarty screamed.
"Watch and learn. Amy, Rory, I'm going to go grab the TARDIS see you in a mo," Then he un-soniced the door and left, making sure to sonic it back up again behind him.
Amy slowly walked over to Moriarty and started pacing in circles around him. I wondered what she could be doing. Why would she want to be near anyone so dangerous? She was spending way to much time around the Doctor. I guessed I probably was too but at least I knew how to keep my sanity.
"So, you're the great James Moriarty? I hear you've done some pretty awful stuff and you've got even more planned," She said.
"Hasn't your little know-it-all friend told you?" He asked.
"He never really tells anyone anything," She said. That was very true.
"But you trust him?"
"And I always will."
"Did he meant it when he said you were from the future?"
"You're about to find out."
"Good. I love learning things."
"You know it was hard to find you," Amy said, "Where have you been the past year or so?"
"Why would I tell a time-traveller?" He said, smiling at her with a smile that made me feel uncomfortable.
"Because we're about to find out anyways," She said as I saw the TARDIS appearing behind her. I couldn't see Moriarty's face but I imagined the shock and fear on his face. The same reaction I'd had to the TARDIS at first.
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS, "Amy, start the show!" He said with a large video-camera in his hand. She pressed play on the computer that the projector was hooked up to and we appeared on the giant screen. Then the Doctor turned the camera around so it was facing himself.
"Hello!" He said to the camera and it echoed across the room. "Alright, come along Ponds we're going to the past!" He walked into the TARDIS, the camera on his smiling face at all times.
"Destroying things is much easier than making them."
-Suzanne Collins
