A/N: Sorry this took so long, and is so short! It's definitely me shortest chapter yet, which I do apologize for. I've been so swamped this week, I just haven't gotten a chance to write. I fought off sleep long enough tonight (well, this morning. It's 5AM here) to write this, but I can't continue any further and I kind of like the stopping point. I promise, I'll have the next up as soon as I physically can. Promise Promise.

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Amy rolled over in bed, but when she slung her arm over the Doctor, it simply fell flat on the blankets. She opened her bleary eyes, noticing that for once in quite a while, she was alone in the bed.

She padded out to the TARDIS console room, finding that one of the walls had sprouted a large table. The Doctor and Jack were huddled around it, shuffling through a huge amount of papers. She shuffled up behind the Doctor and put her arms around him, pressing her cheek to his back. She felt his amusement through their link.

'Sleepy,' she thought to him, toning down her mental voice to acceptable levels, 'but you aren't there. Do you have it figured out?'

The Doctor laughed and rotated in her embrace, folding her into his arms. "Almost, my dear. Jack and I know what we have to do, we just have to figure out when and where."

"And how, Doctor. That's pretty important."

"And how, of course. That's going to be the tricky part. Amy has a point though, let's take a break. We're sitting outside of time, a break won't change anything."

"Doctor, this is still progressing on the base timeline..."

The Doctor sighed and pulled Jack away from the table. "Jack, Jack. You only know your silly Manipulator. The TARDIS pulls us halfway into the Void. Even the base timeline isn't moving from our perspectives."

Jack looked surprised, but he nodded. "Alright, Doctor, if you say so. I'll relax for a bit in my room. Don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

Amy slapped him on the shoulder, laughing. "That leaves us with plenty to do, doesn't it?"

The Doctor blushed as some of what she was thinking leaked across the link, and then the pair meandered down the corridors of the TARDIS hand in hand. When they arrived at the Doctor's bedroom, Amy pushed him towards the bathroom.

"A shower will relax you, and then we'll cuddle. Deal?"

"Deal," he said, walking towards the bathroom. She heard the water turn on shortly thereafter. Amy relaxed on their bed, drifing in and out of a contented sleep until the Doctor came out of the bathroom and tucked her in. He slid under the covers next to her and held her close to him.

He and Jack had been working hard for hours, and even his Time Lord physiology was starting to feel the strain. He pulled Amy close, feeling her single heartbeat matching his own double cadence. He slowly drifted off, holding her tight to his chest.

=x=

Some time later, the Doctor was jolted from his sleep by the feeling of something... wrong. He wasn't sure what, but something was wrong with the TARDIS. Amy woke too, feeling his discomfort through their link.

She rolled over in his arms and looked at his face, tight with concentration. She raised her hand up, snaking it through his embrace, and gently cupped his cheek. When he looked into her eyes, she asked him. "Doctor? Thete? What's wrong?"

"I don't know, sweet Amelia. The TARDIS is trying to tell me something, but I can't quite understand. Time to check the console, I think."

The pair relucantly got out of bed, the Doctor dressing while Amy stayed in her pajamas. They made their way hand in hand to the console room, but when the Doctor noticed that the Time Rotor was glowing an angry red, he quickly dropped her hand and ran to the console.

Jack was already there. "Doctor! I heard some strange sounds, and when I came out to investigate, the console was freaking out! What's happening?"

The Doctor checked some screens and flipped some switches, but nothing he did seemed to help.

"I don't know! It seems like something is pulling us, but what could pull the TARDIS through the Vortex?"

Amy was worried, but she wasn't sure how she could help. She contented herself by watching the main viewscreen and sending comforting thoughts to the Doctor.

The Doctor barked some instructions to Jack, and the pair jumped around the console, checking screens and pressing buttons. After a short while, the Time Rotor lost its red glow and everything seemed to settle back to normal.

Jack looked around the console at the Doctor. "Well? Did you stop it?"

"No, Jack. Whatever was pulling us... stopped. I'd say that it got us to where it wanted us. I just don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing."

Jack was quiet, and Amy started to get worried.

"Well, Doctor, shall we find out?"

The Doctor smiled and agreed. The trio returned to their individual rooms to dress, and then met back up in the console room, ready to travel out the doors.

"Apparently, the environment will sustain us, it's Earthlike enough. We're somewhere in Tesseractal Cell Six, but I have no clue where. Even the TARDIS isn't sure, since we didn't land here on purpose."

Jack thought for a minute, before speaking out. "Cell Six... I know the cells are large portions of space/time, but that would be somewhere around 51st century Boeshane."

"We could be all the way across time and space from there, Jack, but yes. We could be right around the plantation at Villengard. For all we know, it could be a version of you with that damned Vortex Manipulator, so please Jack, be careful who you touch."

"Of course, Doctor. I'm not stupid."

The Doctor smiled at Jack, taking some of the sting out of his words. Then he reached for the doors of the TARDIS and opened them.

They were apparently in a futuristic hospital, next to a convalescence bed. In the bed was a graying old man, obviously nearing his last hours. When the old man looked up to see them, he only spoke one word.

"Jack?"

A/N: Okay, again, sorry it's so short. I will have another one up ASAP. And, since nobody got the last quiz question right, here's another. Who is the old man? Again, first one right gets either a shoutout in next chapter's A/N or a cameo in a future story. The answer to the last quiz question will be revealed in the fullness of time, promise. This one will be answered next chapter, so guess by the time I write it! As always, thanks for reading, and please Review!