AN: Thank you all for your reviews, follows, and favorites. It really means a lot to me that you all take the time to read my story. Thank you Godric'sGrl01 for betaing for me. The whole story has now been betaed and my stupid spelling fixed. Can honestly say I can't spell to save my life, I'm a bit dyslexic and my fibromyaliga stops me form being able to concentrate so I pick the wrong word from the spell check sometimes. OK enough rambling and on with the fic.
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Chapter 10
Rassilon had done many things in his long and eventful life, but painting a wall was not one of them. He had settled young Melody into her new room after her regeneration. She slept for the rest of the day, all night and a good portion of the next day too; but not before she had told him she wanted her room to be bright and colourful because the Silence had mostly kept her in clean sterile surroundings, white being the favoured colour to use. That is how he ended up painting her room with bright pink paint that seemed to like sticking to him more than the wall, where as Brax didn't have a spot on him as he painted the ceiling sky blue instead of the traditional white. They didn't want their little girl having nightmares when she woke up staring at a white ceiling.
Rose was in the basement setting up her equipment so she could start growing two TARDISes, which with all the modifications should take about six years to finish instead of thousands. It was certainly much easier than trying to find a pocket universe where time moves slower so that they could grow them. Ross was also in the basement but he was setting up a perception filter on the door to stop people noticing the house even had a basement, along with complicated locking mechanisms as backup because they didn't want anyone to stumble in on all the advanced technology in here, or anyone detecting it so there was shielding as well.
Mels was out playing with the local kids her age, including her parents. Ross had finished what he was doing when Mels came rushing in the kitchen with a young Amy and Rory behind her. "Ross, guess what?"
"What?" He asked indulgently.
"A blue box fell out of the sky last night and demolished Amy's shed, then a man crawled out all wet saying he had fallen into the swimming pool in the library."
"What's the swimming pool doing in the library?" Brax asked as he came in laughing, and started washing the paint roller in the sink.
"That's what I asked," Amy informed him. "He didn't seem to know, he just started asking for foods he said he liked then kept spitting them out."
"Let me guess, new taste buds?" Brax asked knowingly. He really was trying very hard not to laugh he could just imagine the state his little brother was in.
"That's what he said," Amy confirmed. "How'd you know?"
"Well why else would you spit out stuff you said you liked," he replied as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
"He said his name was The Doctor, and he fixed the crack in her wall," Mels informed him. "Said it was actually a crack in the skin of the world."
"Then he left, he said he was only going to be five minutes but he never came back."
Brax took a look round as if to check no one was nearby before whispering in a conspiratory manner "Oh I'm sure he will be back eventually, he's a really, really bad driver,"
That's how things started with life in Leadworth. They all continued to be the only ones in the small town who didn't say Amy was nuts or making up stuff for attention (well other than Rory of course). Amy however just thought they were all humouring her.
Rassilon ended up being the local science teacher, and fond of blowing stuff up in front of the kids and he did practical experiments whenever possible getting everyone involved. Mels was a handful to say the least, she was always telling the teachers the answer was The Doctor did it, or wanted it to happen, etc. At home though the four of them made sure Mels learned everything they could teach her, her real problem was that she was too smart and gets bored very easy.
Both TARDISes matured after six years and much to Rose's delight and Rassilon's annoyance Fred and George moved into them. The newest feature in these TARDISes is that they have the ability to talk to their pilots/passengers using the holographic interface and send text messages on screen. Rassilon hated this, sighting the reasons it wasn't done in the first place is because they give too much forewarning of events to come and it's never a good thing to know too much about your own future. Rose was in charge though so he didn't get his way, and she plainly told him this was a matter for Time Lords from this universe, and that left it up to Brax and The Doctor, and maybe her and Mels if you squint.
Brax was given George because his temperament matched him best of the two, and Rose claimed Fred as her own not just by default but because she loved his cheeky mischievous nature; he was far more of a prankster than George.
When it came time to take them for their first test flights it was Mels birthday so they decided for a treat they would, take her to the giant carnival on Fun World, that's the name of the planet, not the most imaginative name but apt for a pleasure planet.
Mels went with Ross and Brax in George, and that left her and Rassilon to meet up with them in Fred. Rose was checking everything was in order, the architectural reconfiguration machine was up and running with all the basic elements it needs and the start of a good growth of living metal, which is the longest part of growing a TARDIS. The engines are running well on rift energy; Leadworth for some reason seems to be full of it, and even more active than Cardiff which is strange because Cardiff is supposed to be the most active rift on Earth which is why there is a Torchwood base there.
"Why is there two libraries?" Rassilon asked in way of greeting as he entered the control room after a brief look around the ship.
"It's an idea from Sexy. She came up with it ages ago. Basically you have curious companions who will look around and find it strange there is no library because she has to hide it to stop them from reading things that could be potentially damaging to the time lines. So to stop them from looking too hard there is two libraries, the main archive with every book in existence in there, and the cosy little one that only stores books companions are allowed to see. She let me see the main library on his TARDIS once, have to say I was impressed by the sheer size of it."
He rolled his eyes, "no sense at all the lot of you. The more unnecessary rooms the more power, and no eye of harmony here to have limitless power." He stood and looked contemplatively into thin air, then his eyes lit up, "found one!"
"Found what?"
"Was searching timelines for a star that is the same size and chemically the same consistency as the original Eye of Harmony in a part of space that is irrelevant to major time lines since there is no planets orbiting the star."
"You can do that? Just search timelines like that?"
"So can you, you've just never tried it. Anyway do you know what this means!?"
"You get to do one of your favourite activities and blow something up?"
"Technically implode, but that's not the point, we can have a working Eye here."
"Is it worth it for only three TARDISes?"
"It's more than worth it, because that's not all we're going to do with it. I've got the start of a plan, and we need a working Eye to have enough power indefinitely to pull it off."
"What?"
"We're going to use it to lock The Silence back into their own dimension, and while we're at it use it to keep the Time Lock closed on the Time War. However, we're going to need to make it first, and I'll need specialised equipment from Gallifrey; think we can send Rossadelaser on his annual trip home to see his wife early with a requisition order? After all Romana did say anything we need."
"George and I can make everything you need but if it's going to use most of our living metal then it will take a very long time to grow more, so we'd prefer it if you can get what you can from them," Fred said using the image of James Phelps at age 14 who had played Fred Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, where he started the first film at that age.
Rassilon near jumped out of his skin at the sudden appearance of the holographic image, "it's going to take some getting used to them being able to do that. I'm used to them talking in my head not out loud beside me."
Rose laughed and added, "never mind him Fred he's just jealous that you're ginger. Nice image by the way."
"Thank you, it seemed appropriate. My brother and I extrapolated the images from the first ever Harry Potter movie. The thirty sixth century holographic version would have been easier but this is more familiar to you."
"Got to love the classics. Now Fred we have a little girl's twelfth birthday to attend. Lets test the auto pilot and take us to meet George at Fun World."
The carnival was a lot of fun. They arrived in a section dedicated to Harry Potter thanks to Fred and George's sense of humour, and camouflaged themselves as giant statues of the Weasley twins and came out of a hidden door in their backsides. At least Mels found that hilariously funny. All the shops in the area were from the books, there was Honeydukes, The Leaky Cauldron, and of course they landed outside of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. There were rides themed after it as well like a roller coaster shaped like a giant broomstick which took them on a journey to get the golden egg and avoid the dragon; and since they are in they were in the fifty-first century a lot of the rides were antigravity, so it was actually possible to play a tamed down version of quidditch. That's where Mels met a boy her age named John who seemed familiar to Rose.
John was here on holiday or vacation as he called it in an American accent. He, his parents and little brother Grey were from a colony called the Boeshane Peninsula and this was their first big trip off world.
There was more than just Harry Potter stuff, there was Superman, Spider Man, and about every other cartoon imaginable themed areas, as well as normal carnival themed stuff.
They arrived at one ride and Rose's face split into a wide grin, "anti-gravity motorcycle races. I've not ridden one in years."
"Right through a twelfth storey window if I remember your wrap sheet correctly," Ross replied.
"How else was I supposed to get in the building? They wouldn't let me in through the door," Rose said as if it was the most natural thing in the world to do. "But before that, the guy who taught me how to ride also taught me stunts, and he had the most amazing obstacle course."
"Well your in luck, looks like they are running qualifier rounds for the Fun World Antigravity Olympics," Brax pointed out.
"Be right back," Rose said and used the teleport on her vortex manipulator to go back to her TARDIS. She came back on a converted TARDIS blue Norton motorbike. The button to turn on the antigravity was shaped and looked like the light on top of The Doctor's TARDIS, and Rose was wearing her TARDIS blue leather jacket she always travelled in but now had matching leather boots and trousers, with a helmet that matched that had a dark visor obscuring the face of the rider. "What do you think?"
"You're feeling a little blue?" Rassilon smirked.
"Where'd you get that?" John asked in awe as he examined the bike along with Mels.
"Had it in the garage of our ship," Rose replied nonchalantly. In truth Fred had just made it for her and she couldn't wait to try it out.
'He made it to look like me to try and impress me,' Sexy told Rose as she put on the helmet so they wouldn't see her trying not to laugh. 'Still won't beat the one I made for my Thief.'
'That's completely in flux, you can't tell that,' Fred argued.
'Wait The Doctor's here?!'
'Just keep the helmet on; he won't recognize you with it. Increasing the setting on the perception filters you all wear just in case,' George added.
Rose felt like living on the wild side for once. Besides it would be nice to beat The Doctor in a race, even if she can't rub it in until later. She discreetly warned the others that he was around here somewhere and entered herself into the qualifiers as 'The Wolf'.
She was lucky during the qualifying rounds she didn't run into The Doctor, but once the actual race was to start he ended up beside her in the starting area. She prayed he wouldn't notice the rose on her fuel tank with 'Bad Wolf' in Gallifreyan written inside it. He came over to her and she nearly stopped breathing the urge to reach out and touch him was so great. Looking at those beautiful green eyes she remembered the kiss in the lake and how they smouldered when looking at her, and she flushed.
"That's a really beautiful bike," he said to her and started to examine it. "Classic twentieth century Earth, Norton. Not many of those around now."
Rose was glad he couldn't see her ogling him from behind her visor, it was just like him to enter a race like this one wearing tweed and a bow tie. His Time Lord physiology would mean he would heal really quick from potential accidents, she would do the same now, but all the same best not to invite trouble, although lord knows trouble finds them often enough anyway. She saw him getting his sonic screwdriver out of an inside pocket, and came out of her trance. "Oi! No sonic devices near my bike."
"But I was only scanning-"
"Don't care mate, point that thing near me or my bike and I'll cry foul to the officials."
That had him scampering back to his own bike, just in time too because the race was about to start. During the entire race she was neck and neck with The Doctor and they were in the lead but at the last moment they crashed into each other, everyone else made it across the finish line before them and she finally made it across the finish line pushing the bike and running with the Doctor hot on her heals leaving him to come in last. She was glad she had an inertia-cancelling device on her bike in case of an accident; it stopped them from getting hurt.
The Doctor disappeared not long after the race and she was both glad and sad to see him go. She missed him with an intense ferocity but she had to stay out of the events of his life until his death as much as possible if she's to find a way to save him, she can't afford to become a fixed point in those events if she is to change them. It wasn't until sometime later it dawned on her she'd yelled at him about sabotage in Gallifreyan.
They ended up spending two weeks there and John and Mels were inseparable the entire time. It was actually really cute to see the young puppy love. Mels was a little heartbroken when they both had to leave but not before John managed to win her a stuffed animal and a locket on a golden necklace at the games using the tickets he'd collected. Mels has never taken the locket off ever since. There was also a small incident with a Slitheen who were trying to sabotage the park's safety rating so the family could buy it cheaply. Rassilon was morbidly curious about the miniaturisation device on the skin suit.
But all in all it was a good trip.
A/N: Anyone who can tell me who John is can have another virtual cookie... although still need to make those images :) Lord knows it took me long enough just to make the simple manip for my fic's cover image.
