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Chapter Ten: At The End of All Things

The Pandorica slammed shut and Amy felt as though her whole world was crashing down around her. "Doctor!" she cried out, struggling against her captors. "Doctor!" And then suddenly Amy was free. She fell to the ground and turned around to see that all the enemies of the Doctor had turned to stone. "Oh my god," she muttered, suddenly wondering what had happened to Rory.

Amy ran as quickly as she could from the underhendge just in time to see the last of the stars go super nova. "Rory?" she cried out, tearing her eyes away from the starless sky. "Rory where are you?" Amy scanned the dark horizon looking for him but Rory was no where to be seen. Doesn't matter, she thought forlornly to herself. He wasn't real. He wasn't really here in the first place.

"The Doctor," Amy muttered aloud, racing back down into the underhenge. The Pandorica was still there, glowing it's eerie light. "Doctor!" Amy cried out hitting her fists against it. "Doctor! Can you hear me? Doctor, the stars are gone. What do I do? What can I do? Doctor...?" her voice trailed off as her emotions began to over take her. "Doctor I need you," she whispered, resting her head against the side of the Pandorica. "I can't do this without you."

"Course you can't," Came the Doctor's voice. "Which is why I'm here."

Amy turned to see the Doctor, alive and well outside of the Pandorica wearing a red Fez and carrying a mop. "Oh jeez, though I'd never see this bloody thing again," the Doctor murmured looking at the Pandorica.

"Doctor?" Amy breathed, not quite believing what she was seeing especially when he dissapeared again, reappearing without the mop.

The Doctor turned to her. "You need to get me out of the Pandorica," he stated as he pulled out his sonic screwdriver.

"But you're not in it anymore."

"Yes I am," the Doctor began. "Well, I'm not now but I was back then. Well back now from your point of view which is back then from mine. Time travel," he paused and grinned. "You can't keep it straight in in your head. It's easy to open from this side, just point and press. When you're done tell the other me, well the past me that you get to keep it for the Dalek."

"What?"

The Doctor's wild expression softened and he took Amy's hands. "You'll be fine. Good luck."

And with that said that Doctor was gone again.

"Wait!" Amy cried out to the now empty room. "What do you mean?"

She looked at the screwdriver in her hand and figured that she was to use it to get the Doctor out of the Pandorica. Doing as she had been told, Amy stood back, pointed and pressed. The doors to the Pandorica opened and the Doctor was released from his restraints.

"Amelia Pond," he murmured in amazement. "How did you manage this?"

"You gave me this," she answered holding out the screwdriver.

The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver from his pocket. "No I didn't."

"Then why are they the same?"

The Doctor stepped out of the Pandorica and held out his sonic to Amy's. When they touched, they sparked and Amy gave a little shriek. "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." The Doctor paused and looked behind Amy. "That's not."

"I don't understand it," she stated. "One minute they were there, the next...that."

"History has collapsed," the Doctor explained. "Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after-images. Echoes, fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were."

"Meaning?"

"Total event collapse. The universe literally never happened."

"And River?"

"Back in your time," the Doctor answered. "At the heart of the explosion."

Tears sprang to Amy's eyes. "I'm sorry."

"Yeah," the Doctor whispered. "Me too."

"So what about us?" she asked, changing the subject. "What's keeping us safe?"

"Nothing," the Doctor answered. "We're the eye of the storm, last light to go out."

"So do you have a plan?" asked Amy.

The Doctor nodded. "Bit of a plan yeah, and it all revolves around you."

"Me?" asked Amy. "Why me?"

"You are not an ordinary girl,"

"No?"

"No," he assured as he closed the Pandorica up. "You grew up with a time crack in your wall. The universe pouring through your dreams every night."

"And what does that mean?"

The Doctor looked at Amy sadly before casting his eyes down to the ground, spotting River's bag. "Don't know yet," he lied. "But I'm working on it."

"What are you looking for now?"

"A short cut," he answered. "We're taking one. River's vortex manipulator. Rubbish way to time travel but the universe is tiny now. We''ll be fine."

"So the future is still there then yeah?" Amy asked.

"A version of it. Not quite the one you know. Earth alone in the sky. Let's go and have a look. You put your hand there. Don't worry, should be safe."

Amy nodded and took a deep breath. "Geronimo then,"

.

The Doctor and Amy reappeared far into the future. The Doctor was hoping to find somewhere in the early 2000s but when he looked down at the vortex manipulator she saw that it was 1996. "Right," he stated as he looked up, noticing right away that several things in the museum were wrong like the Dinosaurs on Ice and the Nile Penguins. "Need to find the Pandorica. Where in the world could it be?"

"Doctor," Amy stated from behind him.

"Yes Amy?" he asked as he turned around to see the Pandorica looming over her. "Ah."

"So what now?"

"Now we open it."

The Doctor pointed his sonic at the Pandorica and opened it up much like Amy had. The light from the Pandorica spilled forth almost blinding them both. "Right now," Amy stated. "It's open. What do we do now?"

"Now I see if I can do what it is that I need to do to—"

"Exterminate!"

The Doctor and Amy turned around to see a Dalek moving towards them.

"On no..." he murmured.

"Exterminate!" the Dalek cried. "Weapons systems restoring. Exterminate."

"Run!" the Doctor cried as he took Amy's hand. They raced away from the Pandorica and past the Dalek. The Doctor stopped briefly at an alcove display showing North Africa and bumbled into a mannequin, taking a fez from it's head

"Doctor?" asked Amy. "What are we doing?"

"Don't know yet," he admitted as he turned to see that the Dalek was right there.

"Wait!" Amy exclaimed as she realized that she was holding the future screwdriver still. "You told me that I'd need this for the Dalek."

"Excellent!" he exclaimed holding out his own. "Setting four-eighty-nine-kay on my mark."

Amy made the necessary adjustments to her sonic. "Ready."

"And mark!"

The Doctor and Amy pointed their sonic's at the Dalek temporarily blinding it so that they could get out of the gallery and into the foyer.

"I don't understand," Amy asked. "How did the Dalek wake up?"

The Doctor shrugged. "My best guess would be that it was the light from the Pandorica," he explained as he picked up a mop, preparing to use it to block the door.

"Hey!" Amy exclaimed. "That's how you appeared to me when you gave me the sonic."

The Doctor nodded. "Right."

He tapped the vortex manipulator and disappeared.

When he reappeared he apologized and blocked the door before vanishing once more.

"Right then," he stated when he reappeared. "Paradox complete."

"And now?"

"Now I take my sonic back," the Doctor said as he took the screwdriver back from Amy.

"And?" she asked as he walked up the stairs.

"And now we go to the roof."

"What's on the roof?"

The Doctor was about to answer when the sound of someone using a vortex manipulator sounded and they saw another Doctor appear at the top landing. His jacket was smoking and Amy could see the look in his eye as he fell down the stairs, rolling to a stop. The actual Doctor rushed over and used the now one and only sonic on him.

"Oh god," Amy muttered. "What happened? Is that you?"

"Yeah it me," the Doctor stated quietly. "Me from the future."

Amy watched as the future Doctor opened his eyes. Without warning the duplicate sat up, grabbed the Doctor and whispered something into his ear before falling back onto the floor, seeminly dead. "Are you dead?" she asked. "I mean...is he dead?"

"What?" the Doctor asked as he stood. "Dead? Course he's dead," he muttered as he stepped over the body. "Right I've got twelve minutes, that's good."

"Twelve minutes to live?" Amy exclaimed, feeling her heart construct. "How is that good?"

"You can do loads in twelve minutes...suck a mint, buy a sledge, save all of creation."

"How?"

"Don't know yet," the Doctor admitted. "Working on it. Now, the roof."

"But we just can't leave you hear dead," Amy protested.

"Amy we don't have time to argue," the Doctor stated sternly. "We're alright right now but that's only because we're at the eye of the storm, but the eye is closing. If we don't do something soon, reality will have never happened. Today, it looks like just dying is a result, now come on."

You won't die, Amy told herself silently as she followed the Doctor. Time can be rewritten. You'll find a way. I know you will. Amy followed the Doctor to the roof where it was daylight. The Doctor pointed a satellite at what Amy first thought was the sun but then learned that it was the exploding TARDIS. "Now," the Doctor murmured as he adjusted the settings on his sonic. "If I'm right,"

Suddenly Amy could hear a faint voice, coming through the sound of the explosion. "That's—"

"River," the Doctor answered. "Caught at the heart of the explosion." After explaining that the TARDIS kept River in a time loop to save her, the Doctor vanished and reappeared with her. Together, the trio made their way back downstairs to escape the Dalek was chasing them. Along the way the Doctor explained to them what he was planning, but twelve minutes after they had escaped the Dalek the first time, the Doctor was shot.

River fired at the Dalek, through it's eye stalk, killing it completely before she turned back to the Doctor. Amy watched as she saw that pain in River's face. She was heart broken that the Doctor was dying but Amy knew that he couldn't die because they had all those adventures left to experience. And then, before both their eyes the Doctor vanished.

"Where'd he go?" River asked, staring at the empty place where the Doctor had been.

"He went downstairs," Amy answered heavily. "Twelve minutes ago."

"Show me,"

"River," Amy began, her voice breaking. "He died."

"Show me!" River insisted and together the two made their way back downstairs.

When the got to where the Doctor's body had been left, Amy was surprised to see nothing.

"But he was dead," Amy muttered as she looked around. "Doctor?" she called out before turning to River. "But he died."

"Who told you that?" River asked with an amused smile on her face.

"Well, he did."

River shook her head. "Rule one, the Doctor lies."

Author's Note: Yes I know that I've muddled with a perfectly good episode (I loved 'The Big Bang') but seeing how I've written Rory out I had to make some changes :) And yes, I know that this little story isn't over yet but I figured that it would be best to split it into two chapters seeing how much I'm transposing and adding. Hope you enjoyed it, not long till the actual thing now. While you're waiting, please leave a review!