After a couple days without Dad, the group was back together! Dad got stuck on earth and the Tardis refused to land... It was not a very good situation because we didn't know how to fly the Tardis.
I overslept again and woke up to the Tardis landing noises. Dad didn't look all that happy. We walked out and stumbled upon a Roman camp.
One of the soldiers came up and bowed. "All hail Caesar. Welcome to Britain."
Amy and I looked to Dad in confusion. "Hi," he said.
"We are honored by your presence," he said.
"Well, you're only human. Arise..." he said. "Roman... person."
The mans lips had lipstick on them. I had a strange feeling my Mum was behind this... He stood up and said, "Cleopatra will see you now."
"Why does he think your Caesar...?" Amy asked.
"I guess we'll find out, now won't we?" he said.
The soldier led us through the camp and into a big tent. Mum was inside, dressed like Cleopatra. "Hello, Sweetie!" she said to Dad.
"River!" Amy said.
"You carved a message into the oldest cliff face in the universe..." he accused.
"You wouldn't answer your phone," she replied back. She clapped and everyone in the tent went away. She gave something to Dad.
"What is it?" he asked.
"A painting, from your friend Vincent Van Gogh," she said. "I thought you ought to know about this one."
He spread it out on a nearby table. I gasped. The painting was of the Tardis... exploding. "Doctor... Doctor what is this?" Amy asked. "Something bad's gonna happen, yeah?" Amy asked. "The Tardis explodes?"
"It might not be that literal..." Mum pointed out. "There are map and date references on the sign, see?"
Dad sat down and was silent for a while. "Does it have a title?" he asked finally.
"The Pandorica Opens," she said.
"What's that?" I asked.
"A cage, a prison, a weapon... It was built to house the most feared creature in the universe."
"And it's a legend!" Dad said. "It's not real."
"If it is real, that means it's here and it's opening," she said. "It might have something to do with your Tardis." Dad grabbed a bunch of scrolls and spread them out of the table. They were maps. "You won't find it on a map... It's portably been hidden or buried somewhere for centuries."
"But if you buried the most dangerous thing in the universe, you'd want to know where you hid it," he said.
We rode on horseback to a destination that I was unaware of. I was on the back of Dad while Amy and Mum had their own horses. We rode for a while, till I saw what I believed to be our destination, Stone Henge.
We dismounted and looked around for anything. Signs of misplacement of rocks or clues or anything that related to that sort of thing.
"If the Pandorica is here and it has the strongest warrior in the universe, half the galaxy would want a piece of it, or fight over it..." he said. It his ear up to a rock. "We need to get down there..."
They set up lights around the Henge. It was getting pretty late into the afternoon and the shadows became longer and longer until it seemed they stretched for miles beyond ourselves. Mum set four devices on each of the corners of the rock that Dad placed his ear on earlier. When it became dark, she had finally done all the necessary calculations and things.
"Everyone ready?" she asked. We all nodded. She pressed a button and the rock slowly shifted to the left, revealing a creepy looking staircase that lead into the ground. She pulled out a flashlight.
Dad stepped onto the first step and said, "To the Under-Henge we climb..." He pulled put his sonic screwdriver and lead the way. I went after Mum and before Amy. I pulled put my screwdriver just in case.
We walked through the dark and rocky corridor. It lead to a giant door made of wood. Dad and Mum lit flaming torches. He pulled a wooden board off of the door and smirked. He pushed the door open.
The room was very, very big and made of stone. Cobwebs drooped from the ceiling and onto the floor, getting tangled in vines and other forms of vegetarians, like moss.
A giant, metal box stood in the middle of the room. It had a circular design on one side and stood there ominously.
"The Pandorica..." Dad said.
"It's more than just a fairy tale," Mum said.
Dad walked towards the ominous box, eyeing a mechanical arm on the way there. I looked around the room. "It's is the most feared being in the universe..." Dad said. "And nothing can stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."
"But how did it end up in there?" Amy asked, intrigued.
"A good wizard tricked it, as the fairy tales say," he explained.
Mum rolled her eyes. "I always hated the good wizards... They always turned out to be him," she said. I chuckled. She handed the torch to Amy.
"So it's like Pandora's Box, then?" Amy asked. "Almost the same name."
"What?" Dad asked.
"The story of Pandora's Box," she said. "With all the worst things in the world. That was my favorite book when I was a kid."
"Your favorite subject in school and your favorite book... I'd call it a coincidence, but I'm busy," he said.
"Can you open it?" Mum asked.
"That's the easy part," he said. "Anybody can break in, but I'd like to know what I'm going to find."
"Well you don't have long to wait," I said. "It's breaking out. The layers of security are being disarmed as we speak. Sooner or later whatever's in there will come out."
Mum stared at me in disbelief. "That's right... That's what my readings say," she said. "Doctor, who is she and how did she figure it out...?"
Dad smiled. "She's a smart cookie and Amy's little cousin," he said. He turned to me and said, "Mirror?"
"Yeah, but I don't know what's inside," I said. "We have hours at most before it opens completely."
Dad placed his hands on the box. "What could you be... What could be so feared in all the universe?" he asked. "Have we met before...?"
"But why would it start to open now?" Mum asked.
"No idea..." Dad said.
"And how could Vincent have known about it?" Amy asked. "He won't even be born for centuries."
Dad backed away from the box in a hurry and started sonicing the giant stone pillars, one of which I was leaning on. "These stone pillars are broadcasting a warning to everyone in every time zone in the universe. 'The Pandorica is opening'."
"Everyone everywhere?" Mum asked.
"Even poor old Vincent heard it in his dreams!" he said. "But what's in there... Why don't I know?"
"Doctor, everyone everywhere?" Mum asked again. My eyes widened. "If everyone can hear it... Who else is coming?"
He spun around and said, "Oh..."
"Oh?! Oh what?!" Amy asked.
Mum placed a gadget on one of the pillars. "If it's a signal, we should be able to stop it from transmitting," she said. "It's been transmitting for a while... The problem is, who all heard it?"
Dad began sonicing like mad. "River, anything?" he asked urgently.
"Give me a minute..." she said.
"River now!" he said.
I closed my eyes. "Doctor!" I said. "I can count... 1,032,876 starships are the planet of earth right this very second. Some of which contain Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarens."
Mum looked up from her gadget in astonishment. "She's even more accurate than my computer..." she said. "But yes, she's right."
A Dalek voice echoed throughout the room. "Daleks..." Amy said. "Those are the Dalkes. They're here."
"Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok..." Dad said. He was clearly trying not to panic. "Ahh! But we have surprise on our side! They'll never expect three and a half people to attack a million ships. But it will be a fairly short surprise considering we'll probably die..."
"Three and a half...?!" I asked. "I'm not a half a person..."
"Your short and eleven years old, it counts as half," he said quickly.
A Cyberman's voice echoed through the room along with the Daleks.
Mum started listing off races of different aliens that were orbiting the planet as we speak. "They're all here for the Pandorica!" she said.
Dad turned to the box. "What could you possibly be...?" he asked it. Weird noises outside became a cacophony of starship sounds.
He ran over to me and grabbed my hand. We ran up to the Stone Henge, followed by Amy and Mum.
I looked up into the sky and saw all of them. Countless ships flying throughout the skies all here for the same purpose.
"What do we do...?" I whispered.
"Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight," Mum said. "You can't win this one. You can't even fight it! Doctor, this once... Just this once, please, you have to run!"
"Run where?!" he asked. "Why would I run when there's the greatest military right there?" Was he being sarcastic?
"The Dalkes?!" Amy asked.
"No, of course not! They hate me..." he said. "The Romans."
Dad sent Mum to try and coax the Romans into helping us. She rode back on her horse. We all ran back into the room with the Pandorica in it.
Any lit up the groom with more torches while Dad kept on inspecting the box.
"What's this gotta do with the Tardis?" Amy asked.
"Nothing so far..." Dad said.
"But Vinecent painted the Tardis exploding. Is that really gonna happen?" she asked.
"One problem at a time, Amy," he said.
Dad continued working in silence for a while. Amy broke that silence. "So... Are you proposing to someone?" she asked. She held up her engagement ring from Rory. "I found this in your pocket."
I saw Dad's eyes widen. "No... That's for a friend of mine. She left it behind," he said. Dad turned to look at me and held a finger to his lips.
Amy didn't notice. She was looking at the ring. "It's weird..." she said. "Like I've seen it before."
"Nothing's ever completely forgotten, Amy Pond. Not completely," he said. "People leave remnants of themselves... Like rings. When you remember them, then they can come back."
She closed the box and said, "So, is she nice? Your friend..."
Dad took the box back and put it in his pocket. "Remember that night when you flew away with me?" he asked.
"'Course I do, why?" she asked.
"You asked me why I took and I said no reason... Well, I was lying," he said.
"What was the reason, then?" she asked.
"Your house," he said simply. "It's too big. Too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you, Amy, that your life doesn't make any sense?"
The mechanical arm I was standing right next too suddenly moved and started shooting in the direction of Amy and Dad. We three screamed and I jumped out of the way. They hid behind the box while I hid behind a stone pillar. I felt a beam wiz past my ankles.
Dad jumped out from the box and yelled, "Look at me! I'm a target!" He then, jumped behind the box again.
A couple seconds later, Amy ran screaming over to me. The arm barely missed her head. Dad dived for the arm and switched it off.
"You ok, Addy?" she asked.
"Yeah..." I said, taking a deep breath. We started walked towards him.
Dad held up his hand for us to stop. "Stay where you are, Amy and Addy... I turned it off, but it could be bluffing," he said. "Stay."
I felt something wrap around my leg. I looked down and saw a chord. "Dad...?" I asked. It threw me to the ground. "Dad!" I yelled. Dad, who was holding the arm suddenly collapsed.
"What happened?!" Amy asked. "Doctor!"
"Amy!" I yelled. "It's dragging me!"
"What is?!" she asked.
I looked behind me and saw the head of a Cyberman. It looked like an octopus with all of its chords moving about, some of which were trying to get me. "A head!" I said. I picked it up and tried to bang it against the wall, but it was so hard, it didn't even dent it.
I screamed as it got a hold of my wrists. Amy and I tried to fight it off. Suddenly it stopped and it started to open... A skull was inside. Amy and I screamed again. I looked away as it plopped to the ground.
Amy and I tried to hold the head back as it tried to cling to my head. We overpowered it and sent it flying to the ground. I felt a sharp pain fly into my neck. I felt the area and pulled our what looked to be a dart. I showed it to Amy... Our eyes widened.
"You will be assimilated," it said robotically.
"You and what body?" Amy asked the thing.
A heard heavy, clunky footsteps inter the room... There stood a headless Cyberman's body. He also didn't have an arm.
"Addy..." she said. "Get behind me." I did so.
The Cyberman picked up its head and put it back on. It held out its hand and walked towards us. We back away from it.
I started to feel extremely dizzy. I felt like I was going to fall over. Amy led me out of the room and closed the door. We heard a couple of bangs from the Cyberman attempting to break through the door. They suddenly stopped. I dropped to my knees and put my hands on the ground. I tried desperately not to faint or anything.
I heard Amy scream as a sword punctured the door. It opened and a skewered Cyberman hung in place by a sword was stuck to it.
"Who... Who are you?" Amy asked a Roman soldier.
It was a face I couldn't forget. He took off his helmet. I stood up and clung to the wall. "Rory?" I asked.
"Hello Amy and Addy," he said, smiling.
I blacked out.
I woke up and started screaming. Dad, Rory, and Amy all ran to me. "What's wrong?!" they all asked at the same time.
"RORY!" I said. I shot up and hugged him tightly. "I'm soo glad you turned into a Roman!"
"I'm glad too!" he said.
"Sorry about the screaming..." I said. "I was just so happy you're back."
"Do you two know each other?" Amy asked.
"Yeah," we said together.
"Been a while," he said. "But I'm back..."
"Ok, then..." she said. "I'm gonna go get some fresh air. It's really stuffy in here!"
Dad gave her the thumbs up and she walked up the stairs. "Does she not remember you...?" I asked.
"No..." he said sadly.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Because he never existed," Dad said.
Dad then explained all the happened when Amy came in screaming from the Tardis. Apparently, Rory was shot by a homoreptilia and then his body was absorbed into the crack in the wall that led to the end of the universe. It was full of time energy and erased his existence from the world, but because Dad and I are Time Lords, we were the only ones who remembered him.
"Oh..." I said. "That's really unfortunate."
"How did I end up here, then?" Rory asked.
"I don't know... You shouldn't have," Dad said. "What physically happened to you the day you died?"
"Well," he started. "I was in a cave with you and Amy, and I was dying... And then... I was just here! A roman soldier. A proper Roman. Head full of... Roman thoughts. Like I'd woken up from a dream. I actually thought it was a dream, with you all in the Tardis... Then men started talking about visitors, a girl with red hair, a little girl and a man with a bow on his neck. I thought you'd all come back for me! But she can't even remember me!" he said angrily.
"Oh, shut up!" Dad said. He threw the engagement ring at him. "Go get her."
"But I don't understand why I am here..." he said.
"Because you are," he said. "The universe is big, vast, and complicated, hidden, ridiculous and sometimes, very rarely impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. 900 years, never seen one yet, but this was a first for me. Now get up there. She's Amy and she's surrounded by Romans."
He nodded and walked up there with a smile on his face.
"Did you have anything to do with him...?" Dad asked me.
"Nope," I said.
I closed my eyes and rested on one of the stone pillars. I heard Dad talking to Mum on a communicator. A couple minutes into the conversation, his voice turned urgent. A strange noise started sounding throughout. It was high pitched and very annoying. I closed my ears. I opened my eyes.
The Pandorica's doors started opening. "Ready to come out now, are we...?" Dad turned to me and said, "Stay behind the pillar and don't move under any circumstances. I obeyed without hesitation. Whatever's in there is said to be unstoppable.
The Romans in the room turned on Dad and walked robotically. They restrained him and led towards the Pandorica. "Dad!" I yelled, stepping out from behind the pillar.
"What did I say, Adeline?!" he said. "Stay there and don't move!"
"The Pandoirca is ready..." one of the Romans said. More of them entered.
"You have been scanned, assessed, understood, Doctor," said a Dalek's voice. I cowered behind the pillar. I covered my ears and shut my eyes tightly, not wanting to hear anymore of what was going on.
I felt a forceful hand grab my wrists. I continued to keep my eyes shut. I was picked up by both arms and forced into an enclosed space. I was sitting in Dad's lap and my hands and arms couldn't move. I heard Dad's voice whisper in my ear, "You know how parents say everything's going to be ok when it's really not?" I nodded. "Everything's going to be ok..."
The doors of the Pandorica opened minutes after and we both were freed. I looked up and saw Rory. I wiped tears from my eyes. I leaped up and walked out.
"How'd you do that...?" Dad asked.
"You gave me this..." he said. He held up a sonic screwdriver.
Dad and I both got out ours. "No I didn't..." we both said.
"Well, you did, look at it!" he said.
"Same screwdriver at different points in its time stream..." Dad concluded. "That's nice, we have a future!" He looked behind me. "That isn't..."
"A Dalek made out stone?" I asked.
"History has collapsed..." Dad said. "Whole races have been deleted from existence!" I looked around and there were stone Cybermen, more Daleks, and I saw a couple homoreptilia. "They're fossils in time... Footprints of the never-were."
"What does it mean?" Rory asked.
"The universe literally never happened," he said.
"Then how are we here?" he asked.
"Don't know... Still working that out," he said. "Where's Amy?"
Rory led us up the stairs and I saw Amy laying lifeless on the ground. "I killed her..." he said.
"Oh, Rory..." Dad said.
"Doctor, what am I?!" he asked.
"A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity, a doll," he said.
"But I'm Rory!" he said.
"That's software talking..." Dad said.
"Well, can you help her?" Rory asked, changing the subject.
"Yeah, if I had the time," he said.
"The time...?!" Rory asked.
"All of creation has just been wiped out of the sky. Do you know how many people have never lived?" he asked. "Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe." I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"She is to me!" Rory yelled. He punched Dad in the face.
Dad got up and said, "Welcome back, Rory Williams!" He patted Rory on the shoulder. "Had to be sure, sorry." They walked over to Amy. "We need to get her downstairs. Take a look at the plastic face of yours! You're getting married in the morning..."
We all helped to carry Amy downstairs and we set her in the Pandorica.
"So, you've got a plan, then?" Rory asked.
"A bit of a plan, yes," he said. "Memories are more powerful than you think and Amy is no ordinary girl. Grew up with a time-fracture in her room that poured the universe into her dreams at night. I'll leave her a message for when she wakes up so she knows what's happening..." He closed the Pandorica with her inside of it.
"Woah! What are you doing?!" Rory asked.
"Saving her," he said. "This is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying. It forced you to stay alive."
"But she's already dead!" Rory said.
"Mostly... The Pandorica can bring her back to full health," he said. "All it needs is a scan of her living DNA."
"Where it gonna get that?" Rory asked.
"In about 2,000 years..." he said.
"2,000 years?!" I asked.
"Yeah, but we're taking a short cut," he said. He held up a gadget that was much like a watch. "River's vortex manipulator. Put your hands there." I put my hand on the device. Rory hesitated. "Don't worry, it should be safe."
"Not what I'm worried about..." he said.
"She'll be fine. Nothing can get in this box," he said.
"You two got in..." he said.
"There's only one of me and two of her," Dad said. Rory looked confused and turned to me... "Long story. Don't ask."
"The box needs a guard. I killed the last one," he said, turned back to the box.
"Don't even think about it, Rory," he said.
"Oh, I'm thinking about it," he said.
"You won't even be able to sleep! You'd be conscious the whole 2,000 years! It would drive you mad," he said.
"How can I leave her...?" he asked.
"Why do you have to be so... human?" Dad asked.
"Because I'm not," he said.
Dad sighed and started typing things into the vortex manipulator. "Listen up. You're about to hear the last bit of advice in a very long time... Your living plastic, so your not immortal. Any damage is permanent, so stay away from heat and radio signals. And for God's sake, stay out of-" We warped to a different place. "trouble!" I looked around and recognized a museum, also Amy and a little girl that looked a lot like her. "Oh, look... Two of you!"
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" a Dalek said behind me.
Dad grabbed the little Amy's and my hand. "Come along, Ponds and Song!" We ran behind the Pandorica. Dad knocked over a mani queen with a hat and pulled it back up, but held onto the hat.
"What's going on?" asked a male voice.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek said.
I heard to shots and the Dalek stopped talking. Dad ran out to see what had happened. "Rory!" he said.
We all hopped out from behind. I saw Rory in a museum worker's outfit. His face lit up. "Amy!" he said.
"Rory!" she said. They ran to each other and hugged tightly.
"The light from the Pandorica must've hit the Dalek..." Dad concluded. The Dalek started moving again. "Out! Out!" he ordered, pushing everybody out into another exhibit hall.
Dad put on the hat and picked up a mop. "The mop!" Rory said. "That's how you looked when you came to me all those years ago when you gave me the sonic."
"Well... No time to loose then!" he said. He pressed a button on the vortex manipulator and disappeared with a flash of light.
The little Amy looked extremely confused. He came back seconds later and barricaded the door with the mop, but he disappeared right after.
"How can he do that...?" little Amy asked me. "Is he magic?"
"As much as I am..." I said.
He came back and said, "Let's go, everyone!" We started walking up the stairs, but he turned around suddenly and said, "But I just left my sonic with Rory 2,000 years ago..." He disappeared again and came back seconds later. "Right then..." He went over to Amy and got his screwdriver from her pocket. "Let's go." He turned around again and walked over to little Amy. "Wait a second... How do you know to come here?"
She held out a brochure for the museum and opened it. "This," she said.
Dad picked it up and said, "My handwriting..." He ran over and got a brochure and a pad of sticky notes just lying on a table. He disappeared again and came back about a minute later with a cup and gave it to her. "There you go, drink up." She took the cup.
"How're doing that?!" Amy asked.
"Vortex manipulator," he said.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"The roof!" he said.
A second Dad appeared and collapsed. I saw a small figure run away, but it was so fast, it douldve been a trick of the light. He fell down the stairs. I gasped. The other Dad jerked up and whispered something in Dad's ears, then collapsed again.
"Dad...?" I asked. "Is he dead?"
"Dead? Yes..." he said. "Right, I've got twelve minutes and that's good!" He started running up the stairs.
"Twelve minutes to live?" Amy asked. "How is that good?!"
"You can do loads in twelve minutes," he said.
"But we can't leave you here, dead!" Rory said.
Dad raised an eyebrow. "Oh, so you're in charge now? Then what are we going to do about Amelia?" he asked.
I turned around and saw the cup on the floor, spilled. "Where'd she go?!" Amy asked.
"There's no Amelia," Dad said. "From now on, there never was. Time is still collapsing."
"Then how am I here?" Amy asked.
"You're an anomaly. We all are," he said. "We're hanging onto the eye of the storm, but the eye is closing. If we don't do something fast, then all of reality will never have happened! Just dying is a result."
"You won't die..." Amy said. "Time can be rewritten. He'll find a way, I know he will." Rory draped his coat over Dad.
"Come on! We need to move!" Dad yelled.
We all hurried up the stairs and followed Dad to the roof. "Morning already?" Amy asked.
"History is shrinking..." Dad said. He picked up a satellite dish and said, "We don't have much time... I need to find the Tardis."
"But the Tardis exploded!" I said.
"Then I'm looking for an exploding Tardis..." he said. "If every star in the universe exploded... What is that?" He pointed to a big as of flaming light in the sky.
"Dad, I think you found the exploding Tardis," I said. I closed my eyes. "It's in a time loop. It did that to save her... It's hurting my head just looking into the mirror..."
Dad looked at me and said, "I'll go save her." He disappeared with the vortex manipulator.
"Amy!" I heard Mum's voice. They both reappeared. "The little girl! The plastic centurion...?" My hearts dropped... She doesn't even know my name and I am her daughter. But I can't blame her... I'm not even alive yet in her world.
"Don't worry, he's on our side," Dad said.
"Really?" Mum asked. "I have a lot of questions for you all... But the number one thing is: What in the name of sanity is on your head?" She turned to Dad.
"It's a fez!" he said happily. "I wear a fez, now. Fezzes are cool."
Amy ripped it off his head and threw it into the air. Mum exploded it with her gun.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" a Dalek yelled. It appeared, hovering over the roof.
"Move, move, move!" Dad said.
Both Amy and Rory grabbed my hands and we ran away from the Dalek. We went down a ladder and Mum came down after us. Dad sealed it off with his sonic.
"Doctor come on," Mum demanded.
"We have four an a half minutes before it restores power and shoots to kill me," he said. He led the way downstairs.
"Kill you?!" Mum asked. "What do you mean, kill you?!"
"Oh, shut up! Never mind that..." he said. "We're going to reboot the universe using the Pandorica! Come on!"
"Doctor, your being completely ridiculous! The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek! How could it possibly restore the whole universe?!" Mum asked.
"What if we gave it a moment of infinite power? We could transmit the light through all time and space, everywhere in the universe spontaneously," he said.
"That would be great, dear, but we can't," she said. "It's completely impossible."
"No it's not," he said. "It's almost completely impossible. One spark is all we need."
"For what?" Mum asked.
"Big Bang #2," he said. "Listen-"
A shot fired from nowhere. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" a Dalek yelled. The shot hit Dad.
Mum and I collapsed at his feet. "Doctor!" she said.
"River, Addy, get back!" Rory ordered. Mum grabbed my hand and she half-dragged me to safety. I started crying. Rory started shooting at the Dalek. It turned off.
"Doctor!" Mum said, running back to him. "Doctor, it's me!"
"Addy..." he said.
"Yes?!" I asked, running to him. I held onto his arm. Suddenly, we warped to a different place. I saw myself, Amy, Rory, and Dad... We were twelve minutes back in time. I ran behind an exhibit before they noticed me. They all left and Dad motioned me over.
I helped him up. "Omigod... Dad, are you ok?!" I asked.
"Pandorica..." he said weakly. I helped him walk to the Pandorica.
"Doctor!" Amy said. "Addy!"
I wiped away a tear in my eye. "Big Bang #2," I said. "That's what he's doing."
"But that's the start of the universe..." Rory said.
"If you threw the Pandorica into the Tardis that's exploding at every point in the universe, it would restore the whole thing," River said. "It might even work..."
"He's going to fly it into the heart of the explosion," I said, wiping another tear from my eye. They won't stop falling... I fell to the ground on my knees and sobbed.
Amy rushed over to me. "The Doctor's gonna be fine, Addy," she said.
"No... He won't," Mum said. "If he does this, we all wake up where we ought to be and remember none of it."
"River..." she said. "Tell me he comes back, too."
"The Doctor will be at the heart if the explosion..." she said. "There's no way he could survive."
"And if he never existed..." Amy said. "Addy..." I felt her arms around me.
"I don't get it... What happens if he never exists?" Rory asked.
"I won't have ever lived," I said. "And neither will he."
"But..." Rory said.
I stood up and hugged Mum tightly. "You don't know who I am, but I know you," I said. "And I want to let you know that I love you." I let go and saw her eyes tearing up.
"What's your name...?" she asked me.
I smiled and said, "Adeline Song." Her eyes widened and she put her hands over her mouth. "You don't know me yet, but now you never will."
The doors off the Pandorica closed with Dad inside. We all watched as it flew away,towards the exploding Tardis. Rory, Amy and Mum all gave me a giant group hug. There was no way I could hold back the tears.
"I'm so sorry..." Rory said. "Most of the time I've known you, I've been rude..."
"It's ok," I said. "Really, it is."
"Addy... I'll forget you, right?" Amy asked. I nodded. "You're like the sister I never had! I want you to know that..."
"You're like an older sister to me, too," I said.
"I don't want to forget you..." Mum said.
I closed my eyes. "He's almost there... I have seconds at the most," I said. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the first thing I could find, the note Mum gave me after she died. I looked at it and smiled. "I guess this is goodbye, then."
"No! Addy!" Amy screamed.
I felt myself fading away. "You're all safe now. Don't be sad just because I'm going to be gone," I said.
"Addy!" she screamed.
I looked at my hand. The letter had dropped to the ground. My hands were transparent. I wiped a tear from my eye and waved goodbye to what felt like my family: my older sister Amy, my brother Rory, my Mum and the world.
"Goodbye," I said. "I hope you all live happy lives without the Doctor and me..."
Amy sniffed and wiped away a tear. Rory held a hand over his temples with his eyes closed. Mum was holding the note and had tears welling up in her eyes. I gave everyone, one final hug and I disappeared into nothingness.
I suddenly came back and saw Dad. I smiled at him and hugged him. "I missed you, Dad!" I said.
"I missed you, too," he said. "Looks like Amelia Pond's remembered that she forgot to invite the two most lovely aliens to her wedding." He held out his hand and said, "Shall we, Miss Adeline?"
"I think we shall!" I said.
The Tardis appeared and I ran to my room. Everything was the way I left it. I got out a dress Dad had picked out for me when we went to a planet called Milondaris. It was literally all the fashion capitals of the world on one planet! Amy and I had a blast there. The dress was floor length and one shoulder. I could pick any color in the world for it to be, but I chose Tardis blue. I put on black flats and the dress. I pinned my hair back and put on a necklace. I went back to the consul room and saw Dad in a suit and now tie.
"You look absolutely beautiful, Addy!" he said. He picked me up and spun me around. "Like an angel."
I laughed happily and said, "Does this mean we're back?"
"Yes," he said. "We're back from the dead- or we've been born again from Amy's memory. I think fashionably late is late enough, right?"
"Yeah, she'll probably yell at us..." I said. "Typical Amy."
He landed the Tardis and I walked out. We were in a reception room for a wedding, Amy's wedding. She was standing up and crying. Dad followed me out and closed the door behind us. She hopped over the table in her wedding dress and I ran to her and we hugged tightly. "How could I forget my little sister...?" she asked.
"Hello everyone!" Dad said. "My name is the Doctor and this is Addy. We are Amy's imaginary friends! Mr. and Mrs. Pond-"
"Dad, that's not how it works..." I said.
Amy laughed. "Yeah. It is," she said.
Rory nodded. "Yeah..." I couldn't help not to laugh.
"Well, I'll move my box outta the way. I came to dance, and all..." he said. He hopped back into the Tardis and parked it outside.
I hugged Amy again and Rory. "That's for bringing us back," I said.
"No problem," she said. "I like the Tardis blue dress!"
"Thanks..." I said, blushing. "You look absolutely beautiful."
"Thank you," she said. "Doctor's not to shabby, now either."
We all had a blast at the wedding, especially when Dad danced. He was completely horrible and embarrassing, but he made everyone laugh and have an awesome time.
Amy, Rory, Dad and myself were back in business. We all went on another adventure together. While Rory and Amy were away, I finally remembered what I had forgotten. Lucy wanted me to visit her when she was human!
"Hey, Dad...?" I asked awkwardly.
"Yes, Addy? What is it?" he asked. He was preoccupied with something on the monitor of the Tardis, so he didn't look at me.
"Can we visit when you were human?" I asked abruptly.
He stopped dead in whatever he was doing and looked at me. "When I was human...?" he asked. I nodded. "But why?"
"I want to know what Lucy was like, before you shut her up in the mirror and all," I said.
"You have to understand something, Addy. It's very important..." he said. He walked over to and looked me in the eye. "I only made myself human because of the Family of the Blood. They are extremely dangerous and unmerciful. If you get caught by them, it'll be you that gets trapped in the mirror, not Lucy."
"But I was the Family of the Blood. My real me is, so I don't have anything to worry about!" I said.
"There also is the time-paradox... There'll be two of each of us..." he said. "Reality could collapse on itself if I come into contact-"
"Dad," I interrupted. "If time itself could collapse by me wanting to visit my other self when you just saved the universe from never existing, making you and me never born, but only to be brought back by Amy Pond," I took a deep breath. "Do you really think I'd ask you such a ridiculous question if I knew that could happen? Come on... Princess of Knowledge, here!"
He contemplated for a moment. "You're right..." he said. "I'll drop Amy and Rory off in the morning."
"They aren't coming...?" I asked.
"They don't know how dangerous the Family of the Blood can be..." he said. "Plus, keeping track of newlyweds will be a nightmare while making sure you don't die and staying out of contact with my human self."
I nodded. "Life must be very hard for you sometimes..." I said. We laughed. "Goodnight, Dad."
"'Night, Addy!" he said. "Sweet dreams."
Stay alert for the next chapter: Doing It Our Way, where all of Addy's secrets are revealed when they go back to when the Doctor was Ten, not Eleven, and human. The Family of the Blood returns, with a new twist and answers to all of your questions regarding Adeline Song's true identity and her lost memories.
(I don't own any of Doctor Who. This was made for entertainment purposes only.)