THE BIG BANG
*EDITED*
3RD POV:
It's a 1,894 years later... and one star at least is still burning brightly in the sky. It's night time. The red pinwheel turns in the breeze in the garden. Upstairs, a little red haired girl is saying her prayers. "Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I don't wake you, but, honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know it's not, because at night there's voices. So, please, please, could you send someone to fix it, or a policeman, or…" Young Amelia prays and a strange wind whistles outside. "Back in a moment." She says and runs to the window, but there is nothing there. The moon hangs in a starless sky.
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Downstairs in the living room the nice lady psychiatrist is looking at a painting of the moon and stars. "It's a lovely painting, Amelia. And what are all these?" Christine asks the young girl.
"Stars." Amelia answers.
"Oh, Amelia." Sharon breaths out.
"Tell you what, shall we go outside?" Christine asks.
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They go outside of the house. "What do you see, Amelia?" Christine asks the young girl.
"The moon." Amelia answers.
"And what else?" Christine asks her.
"Just the dark." Amelia answers.
"But no stars. If there were stars up there, we'd be able to see them, wouldn't we? Amelia, look at me. You know this is all just a story, don't you? You know there's no such thing as stars." Christine tells her.
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Amelia sat in her room and listened to the adult voices downstairs. "But there's bound to be a bit of her that feels alone. Amelia's a really good person. It's quite common, actually. Throughout history, people have talked about seeing stars in the sky. God knows where it comes from." Christine tells Sharon.
"I just don't want her growing up and joining one of those Star Cults. I don't trust that Richard Dawkins." Sharon says. Christine and Sharon walk across the hallway from the kitchen to the living room. Two people in a red fez and a long coat put a leaflet through the door. Amelia runs down to get it. It is titled The Anomaly, and features the Pandorica at the National Museum. Someone has written on it in red ink - Come along, Pond.
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The young Amelia and her aunt Sharon are at the National Museum looking around well the young Amelia dragging her poor aunt. "Come on, Aunt Sharon," Amelia says dragging her around.
"Oh, look at that. That's good, isn't it?" Sharon asks.
"Not that. This way." Amelia tells her.
"But we're not looking at anything," Sharon argues.
"This way!" Amelia shouts.
"Amelia!" Sharon shouts after her.
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Amelia stops to look at the exhibit of petrified Daleks, then pushes through the people standing looking at the Pandorica. Someone snatches her Original Cola drink from her. Suddenly there is a post-it note on the Pandorica, saying Stick around, Pond. "Amelia!" Aunt Sharon shouts and Amelia hearing her runs to hide. "Amelia? Amelia?" Sharon asks around. It comes to closing time. "Amelia!" Sharon shouting still.
"Amelia Pond, please go to the reception, please. Your aunt is waiting for you there. Amelia Pond, please go to reception." Tannoy informs and later still, Amelia creeps out from the Penguin display, knocking some over.
"Sorry." Amelia apologizes and she returns to the Pandorica and removes the post-it note. She puts her hand on the Pandorica and starts to open. Amelia backs away. The person inside speaks to her.
"Okay, kid. This is where it gets complicated." Amy tells her.
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It goes back to 1,894 years previously... Rory has the body of Amy lying across his lap, Pieta-style, while Reaper lying on the ground glowing more orange. "So the universe ended. You missed that, in 102 AD. I suppose this means you and I never get born at all. Twice, in my case. You would have laughed at that. Please laugh. The Doctor said the universe was huge and ridiculous, and sometimes there were miracles. I could do with a ridiculous miracle about now." Rory says to Amy's still body. Then The Doctor and Frost pop in from thin air, wearing a red fez and carrying a mop, while Frost is wearing a long red coat.
"Rory! Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world. Well, it is the end of the world. Actually, it's the end of the universe. Oh, no. Hang on." The Doctor rambles and then they vanish again.
"Doctor? Doctor!" Rory shouts and then just the Doctor reappears, without the mop.
"You need to get me and Frost out of the Pandorica." The Doctor tells Rory.
"But you're not in the Pandorica." Rory states.
"Yes, I am. Well, I'm not now, but I was back then. Well, back now from your point of view, which is back then from my point of view. Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head. It's easy to open from the outside. Just point and press." The Doctor rambles again and The Doctor gives Rory his sonic. "Now go." He tells Rory and The Doctor vanishes and returns. "Oh, and when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket. Good luck." The Doctor tells him and vanishes again.
"What do you mean? Done what?" Rory asks without an answer.
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Rory opens the Pandorica with the sonic. The Doctor and Frost are released from their chairs. "How did you do that?" the Doctor asks.
"You gave me this," Rory tells him and Frost races up to the surface and The Doctor takes his screwdriver from his own pocket.
"No, I didn't." the Doctor argues.
"You did. Look at it." Rory says and The Doctor touches his screwdriver to Rory's. They spark.
"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. That's not." The Doctor says seeing the Daleks are fossilized.
"Yeah. What are they?" Rory asks and everyone who was in the chamber when the universe ended has been fossilized.
"History has collapsed. Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after-images. Echoes. Fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were." The Doctor answers.
"Er, what does that mean?" Rory asks.
"Total event collapse. The universe literally never happened." The Doctor tells him.
"So, how can we be here? What's keeping us safe?" Rory asks.
"Nothing. Eye of the storm, that's all. We're just the last light to go out. Amy. Reaper. Where's Amy and Reaper?" the Doctor asks.
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Frost's POV:
I sat with Reaper's head in my lap as I stroked his hair and hoped he's okay after his regeneration. I heard the Doctor and Rory come up here. "I killed them." Rory says.
"Oh, Rory." The Doctor mutters.
"Doctor, what am I?" Rory asks.
"You're a Nestene duplicate. A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity." I tell him and the Doctor comes over to me hugging me close with worry.
"But I'm Rory now. Whatever was happening, it's stopped. I'm Rory." Rory argues.
"That's software talking," I argue getting a little angry.
"Can you help them? Is there anything you can do?" Rory asks.
"Yeah, probably, if I had the time." The Doctor says.
"The time?" Rory asks shocked.
"All of creation has just been wiped from the sky. Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe." The Doctor argues and Rory punches the Doctor.
"She is to me!" Rory shouts at him.
"Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry. Had to be sure. Hell of a gun-arm you're packing there. Right, we need to get her downstairs. And take that look off your plastic face. You're getting married in the morning." The Doctor tells him and Reaper gasps up glowing more orange.
"Well this is gonna be hard." Reaper mutters. He groans more and starts regenerating and I pushed Rory back and he stopped falling to the ground with floppy brown hair and I grab him checking him over. He was okay and the Doctor helped him to stand by having Reaper's arm around his shoulder.
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I gentle places Amy in the Pandorica chair which was once hosted by me. "So you've got a plan, then?" Rory asks him.
"Bit of a plan, yeah. Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl. Grew up with a time crack in her wall. The universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestenes took a memory print of her and got a bit more than they bargained for, like you. Not just your face, but your heart and your soul." The Doctor tells him and I mind-meld with Amy. "She's leaving her a message for when she wakes up, so she knows what's happening." He tells us and I seal Amy inside the Pandorica.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?" Rory asks him.
"He's saving her. This box is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying. It forces you to stay alive." I tell him.
"But she's already dead," Rory argues.
"Well, she's mostly dead. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. Now, all it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her." I tell him.
"Where's it going to get that?" Rory asks us.
"In about two thousand years," I answer.
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3RD POV:
Back at the exhibition, Amy falls out of the Pandorica, gasping. "Are you all right? Who are you?" Amelia asks her older self.
"I'm fine. I'm supposed to rest. Got to rest, Frost says so." Amy answers.
"Who's Frost?" Amelia asks her and Amy taps her head.
"She's in here. Left a message in my head like I'm an answerphone. Where am I? Hang on. National Museum, right? I was here once when I was a little…" Amy says and the penny drops. "Yeah, complicated. Let's see, it's what, 1996?" she asks.
"Who are you?" Amelia asks her.
"It's a long story. Oh. A very long story." Amy tells her and The Pandorica Seen Through Time is on a display board. 118AD taken back to Rome under armed guard. 420AD Raided by the Franks. 1120AD Prized possession of the Knights Templar. 1231 Donated to the Vatican.
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Frost's POV:
The Doctor takes River's vortex manipulator from her bag and straps it to his wrist as he keeps hold of Reaper. "She's going to be in that box for two thousand years?" Rory asks.
"Yeah, but we're taking a shortcut. River's vortex manipulator. Rubbish way to time travel, but the universe is tiny now. We'll be fine." The Doctor tells him and I hold onto the Doctor.
"So hang on. The future's still there, then. Our world." Rory says.
"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." I tell him.
"That's not what I'm worried about," Rory says.
"She'll be fine. Nothing can get into this box." I tell him.
"Well, he got in there," Rory argues.
"Well, there's only one of me. I counted." The Doctor tells him.
"This box needs a guard. I killed the last one." Rory tells us.
"No. Rory, no. Don't even think about it." The Doctor tells him.
"She'll be all alone," Rory says.
"She won't feel it," I tell him.
"You bet she won't," Rory argues.
"Two thousand years, Rory. You won't even sleep. you'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad." I warn him.
"Will she be safer if I stay? Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn't be safer." Rory asks us.
"Rory, you…" the Doctor says.
"Answer me!" Rory argues.
"Yes. Obviously." The Doctor answers.
"Then how could I leave her?" Rory asks us.
"Why do you have to be so human?" I ask him.
"Because right now, I'm not," Rory says.
"Listen to me. This is the last bit of advice you're going to get in a very long time. You're living plastic, but you're not immortal. I have no idea how long you'll last. And you're not indestructible. Stay away from heat and radio signals when they come along. You can't heal, or repair yourself. Any damage is permanent. So, for God's sake, however bored you get, stay out of…" the Doctor rambles and I press the button and we vanish.
3RD POV:
Rory puts on his helmet, draws his sword and settles down to the longest stint of guard duty in history. "According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken, throughout its long history, the Centurion would be there, guarding it." Narrator says.
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There's an audio-visual presentation of the history of the Pandorica on a nearby screen. "He appears as an iconic image in the artwork of many cultures, and there are several documented accounts of his appearances, and his warnings to the many who attempted to open the box before its time. His last recorded appearance was during the London blitz in 1941. The warehouse where the Pandorica was stored was destroyed by incendiary bombs, but the box itself was found the next morning, a safe distance from the blaze. There are eyewitness accounts from the night of the fire of a figure in Roman dress, carrying the box from the flames. Since then, there have been no sightings of the Lone Centurion, and many have speculated that if he ever existed, he perished in the fires of that night, performing one last act of devotion to the box he had pledged to protect for nearly two thousand years." The Narrator says.
"Rory. Oh, Rory." Amy says.
"Exterminate!" Dalek speaks.
"What's that?" Amelia asks.
"Exterminate!" Dalek repeats. The Doctor appears with Frost and holding a still unconscious Reaper.
"Trouble. Oh. Ah, two of you. Complicated." The Doctor says.
"Exterminate! Weapons systems restoring." The Dalek informs.
"Come along, Ponds." The Doctor says dragging Reaper and Frost behind.
"Exterminate!" Dalek repeats and they run to a Middle Eastern montage where the Doctor takes the fez from a dummy.
"What are we doing?" Amy asks.
"Well, we are running into a dead end, where I'll have a brilliant plan, that basically involves not being in one." The Doctor says.
"What's going on?" a man asks.
"Get out of here. Go! Just run!" the Doctor tells him.
"Drop the device!" Dalek orders and the man only has a torch.
"It's not a weapon. Scan it. It's not a weapon, and you don't have the power to waste." The Doctor tells it.
"Scans indicate intruder unarmed." The Dalek informs and the man drops the torch. It is Rory in a museum guard uniform.
"Do you think?" Rory asks and he shoots it with his Auton hand weapon.
"Vision impaired! Vision…" the Dalek says and stops.
"Amy!" Rory shouts.
"Rory," Amy says and they have a joyful reunion.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. It just happened." Rory apologizes.
"Oh, Shut up," Amy tells him and kisses him.
"Yeah, shut up, because we've got to go. Come on." The Doctor says shifting Reaper more.
"I waited. Two thousand years I waited for you." Rory tells her.
"No, still shut up," Amy tells him.
"And break. And breathe. Well, somebody didn't get out much for two thousand years." Reaper says startling everyone. Frost runs over checking him over.
"I'm thirsty. Can I get a drink?" Amelia asks.
"Oh, it's all mouths today, isn't it. The light. The light from the Pandorica, it must have hit the Dalek." The Doctor says and the Dalek's weapon starts to move.
"Out! Out! Out!" the Doctor orders them.
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Frost's POV:
"So, two thousand years. How did you do?" I ask him as I hug my baby boy who seemed weak after his first regeneration.
"Kept out of trouble," Rory says.
"Oh. How?" the Doctor asks as I pulled a whole different outfit of my coat pocket and got changed behind the screen nearby, then Reaper did the same as he looked much better.
"Unsuccessfully. The mop! That's how you two looked all those years ago when you gave me the sonic." I heard Rory answer as I got changed and came back out.
"Ah. Well, no time to lose, then." The Doctor says and we both go back.
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"Rory! Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world." The Doctor says to past Rory.
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We return to the Museum and the Doctor puts the mop through the door handles to the Anomaly exhibition. "Oops, sorry." The Doctor says and goes again without me.
"How can he do that? Is he magic?" Amelia asks. Then the Doctor reappears again.
"Right, let's go then. Wait! Now I don't have the sonic. I just gave it Rory two thousand years ago." The Doctor says and vanishes and comes back. "Right then." He says and the Doctor retrieves his screwdriver from Amy's top pocket. "Off we go! No, hang on. How did you know to come here?" he asks little Amelia and she shows him the leaflet and the post-it note.
"Ah, my handwriting. Okay." I smile and the Doctor grabs a new leaflet and post-it note from the information desk and we vanish. We return with the drink the Doctor took from Amelia earlier.
"There you go. Drink up." The Doctor says.
"What is that? How are you doing that?" Amy asks.
"Vortex manipulator. Cheap and nasty time travel. Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up." The Doctor jokes slightly.
"Where are we going?" Amy asks.
"The roof," Reaper tells her and she looked at him funny then hugged him.
"You look so different." Amy says. A second Doctor and Frost appear further up the stairs, sans fez, and falls down them. Their clothes are smoking.
"Doctor, Frost, it's you two. How can it be you two?" Rory asks us.
"Doctor, Frost is that you two?" Amy asks.
"Yeah, it's us. Us from the future." I mutter and the future Doctor suddenly wakes up and whispers in the Doctor's ear, then falls back again.
"Are you? I mean, are they, are they dead?" Amy asks.
"What? Dead? Yes, yes. Of course they're dead. Right, we've got twelve minutes. That's good." The Doctor says so casually.
"Twelve minutes to live? How is that good?" Amy asks.
"Oh, you can do loads in twelve minutes. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath. Come on, the roof." The Doctor says and I look at Reaper taking his hand in mine for comfort.
"We can't leave you two here dead," Rory says.
"Oh, good. Are you in charge now? So tell me, what are we going to do about Amelia?" the Doctor asks.
"Where did she go?" Amy asks.
"Amelia?" Rory asks.
"There is no Amelia. From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing." I tell them.
"But how can I still be here if she's not?" Amy asks.
"You're an anomaly. We all are. We're all just hanging on at the eye of the storm. But the eye is closing, and if we don't do something fast, reality will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now, come on!" the Doctor tells her.
"He won't die. Time can be rewritten. He'll find a way. I know he will." Amy says and Rory covers the dead Doctor with his jacket.
"Move it! Come on!" the Doctor shouts.
"Restore. Restore!" Dalek repeats.
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"What, it's morning already? How did that happen?" Amy asks as we get to the roof.
"History is shrinking. Is anybody listening to me? The universe is collapsing. We don't have much time left." The Doctor says and he sonicks a satellite receiver dish off its pole.
"What are you doing?" Rory asks.
"Looking for the TARDIS." Reaper answers.
"But the Tardis exploded," Rory argues.
"Okay then, I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS." The Doctor corrects himself.
"I don't understand. So, the TARDIS blew up and took the universe with it. But why would it do that? How?" Amy asks.
"Good question for another day. The question for now is, total event collapse means that every star in the universe never happened. Not one single one of them ever shone. So, if all the stars that ever were are gone, then what is that?" I asks her and we all look to see a large burning ball in the sky.
"Like I said, I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS." The Doctor adds.
"But that's the sun," Rory argues.
"Is it? Well, here's the noise that sun is making right now." The Doctor argues and we hear the TARDIS noise.
"That's our TARDIS burning up. That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." I says.
"Doctor, there's something else." Rory adds. "There's a voice."
"I can't hear anything," Amy argues.
"Trust the plastic," Rory says.
"I'm sorry, my love. I'm sorry, my love. I'm sorry, my love." River says over and over again. I looked at Reaper seeing the sad look on his face.
"Doctor, that's River. How can she be up there?" Amy asks as she had missed out on a lot.
"It must be like a recording or something." Rory argues.
"No, it's not. Of course, the emergency protocols. The TARDIS has sealed off the control room and put her into a time loop to save her. She is right at the heart of the explosion." Reaper rambles worrying for her.
"I'm sorry, my love. I'm sorry, my love. I'm sorry, my love." River keeps repeating.
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Reaper's POV:
I knew I had to do something so I took the vortex manipulator from Dad and set it for River in the TARDIS. I come into to see her running towards me. "Hi, honey. I'm home." I tease her.
"And what sort of time do you call this? And what happened to you?" River teases back.
"Long story short I regenerated." I tell her and I hug her close to me and we vanish before it explodes again.
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We arrive back at the rooftop to the others. "Amy! And the plastic Centurion?" River questions looking at them both and goes to hug Mum and Dad.
"It's okay, he's on our side." I tell her.
"Really?" River asks.
"Yeah." I tell her.
"I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable head. It did keep things fresh. Right then, I have questions, but number one is this. What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?" River asks Dad.
"It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." Dad says and Mum snatches the fez and throws it into the air, where River shoots it into pieces.
"Oh!" Dad says and then the Dalek rises up above the parapet.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek shouts.
"Run, run! Move, move. Go!" Dad shouts.
"Come on!" Rory shouts and Dad uses the satellite dish as a shield and we get back into the museum.
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Frost's POV:
"Doctor, come on." River tells the Doctor.
"Shush. It's moving away, finding another way in. It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity." The Doctor says.
"How do you know?" Rory asks.
"Because that's when it's due to kill me and the Doctor." I tell him.
"Kill you? What do you mean, kill you?" River asks us.
"Oh, shut up. Never mind. How can that Dalek even exist? It was erased from time and then it came back." The Doctor wonders.
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"How?" the Doctor asks.
"You said the light from the Pandorica." Rory offers.
"It's not a light, it's a restoration field. But never mind, call it a light. That light brought Amy back, restored her, but how could it bring back a Dalek when the Daleks have never existed?" I asks looking at the Doctor.
"Okay, tell us." Amy asks us.
"When the TARDIS blew up, it caused a total event collapse. A time explosion. And that explosion blasted every atom in every moment of the universe. Except…" I say.
"Except inside the Pandorica." Amy says.
"The perfect prison. And inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we've got the bumper family pack." The Doctor says.
"No, no. Too fast. I'm not getting it." Amy says.
"The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory, and that's how we're going to do it." I tell her.
"Do what?" Amy asks.
"Relight the fire. Reboot the universe. Come on!" the Doctor says.
"Doctor, you're being completely ridiculous. The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek. If it can't even reboot a single life form properly, how's it reboot the whole of reality?" River asks.
"What if we give it a moment of infinite power? What if we can transmit the light from the Pandorica to every particle of space and time simultaneously?" I asks her.
"Well, that would be lovely, dear, but we can't, because it's completely impossible." River argues.
"Ah no, you see, it's not. It's almost completely impossible. One spark is all we need." The Doctor says.
"For what?" Reaper asks us.
"Big Bang Two! Now listen." The Doctor says and the Dalek shoots the Doctor and I.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" the Dalek repeats.
"Get back. River, get back now!" Rory orders.
"Exterminate!" the Dalek repeats and Rory shoots at the Dalek and it powers down again.
"Doctor? Frost? Doctor, Frost, it's me, River. Can you hear me? What is it? What do you need?" River asks the Doctor and I. The Doctor activates the vortex manipulator and I hold on and we vanish.
Reaper's POV:
"Where did he go? Damn it, he could be anywhere." River asks.
"They went downstairs, twelve minutes ago." Amy answers.
"Show me!" River shouts getting worked up and I just couldn't believe it.
"River, they died." I argue with her and a tear falls, she hugs me and the Dalek awakens again.
"Systems restoring. You will be exterminated." The Dalek says. I don't think so.
"We've got to move. That thing's coming back to life." Rory says.
"You go to the Doctor and Frost. We'll be right with you." I tell them and they leave.
"You will be exterminated!" the Dalek shouts.
"Not yet. Your systems are still restoring, which means your shield density is compromised. One Alpha Mezon burst through your eyestalk would kill you stone dead." I tell it as I take River's gun.
"Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor's." the Dalek informs and as of right now that wasn't going to happen.
"She's River Song and I'm Reaper. Check your records again." I tell it holding the gun to the Dalek.
"Mercy." The Dalek cries out.
"Say it again." I tell it.
"Mercy!" the Dalek cries louder.
"One more time." I tell it.
"Mercy!" the Dalek screams.
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We come back to where I thought I saw my parents die but they weren't there, although Rory's jacket is. "How could he have moved? He was dead. Doctor? Doctor!" Rory shouts.
"But they was dead." Amy says.
"Who told you that?" River asks.
"He did." Amy answers.
"Rule one. The Doctor lies." I tell her.
"Where's the Dalek?" Amy asks.
"It died." River answers holding my hand.
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We run into the exhibition and see my parents back in the Pandorica. "Doctor! Frost!" Amy shouts.
"Mum! Dad!" I shout.
"Why did he tell us they were dead?" Rory asks.
"We were a diversion. As long as the Dalek was chasing us, he could work down here." Amy answers.
"Doctor, can you hear me? What were you doing?" River asks him and the light from the TARDIS is getting brighter.
"What's happening?" Rory asks.
"Reality's collapsing. It's speeding up. Look at this room." I tell them.
"Where'd everything go?" Amy asks.
"History's being erased. Time's running out. Doctor, what were you doing? Tell us. Doctor!" River asks him.
"Big Bang Two." Dad whispers.
"The Big Bang. That's the beginning of the universe, right?" Rory asks.
"What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings us back? Is that what you mean?" Amy asks.
"Oh." River gasps.
"What?" Amy asks.
"The TARDIS is still burning. It's exploding at every point in history. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the heart of the fire." River says.
"Then what?" Amy asks.
"Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like they said." I tell them.
"That would work? That would bring everything back?" Amy asks.
"A restoration field powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work. She's wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box." River says.
"Why?" Amy asks.
"So they can take it with them. They're going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion." I answer and began to cry.
"Are you okay?" Rory asks Amy sometime later as River tried to comfort me.
"Are you?" Amy asks him.
"No." Rory answers.
"Well, shut up then!" Amy snaps.
"Amy, he wants to talk to you." River tells her.
"So, what happens here? Big Bang Two? What happens to us?" Amy asks.
"We all wake up where we ought to be. None of this ever happens and we don't remember it." River answers and I knew I wouldn't.
"River, tell me they come back, too." Amy pleads.
"The Doctor and Frost will be in the heart of the explosion." River reasons with her.
"So?" Amy asks.
"So all the cracks in time will close, but they'll be on the wrong side, trapped in the never-space, the void between the worlds. All memories of them will be purged from the universe. They will never have been born. Now, please. They want to talk to you before they go." River tells her and races over to me as I would be gone as well.
"Not to you?" Amy asks.
"They don't really know me yet. Now they never will neither will Reaper." River says hugging me and Amy goes to the Pandorica.
3RD POV:
The Doctor is very weak with Frost next to him in the same state. "Hi." Amy greets them shyly.
"Amy Pond. The girl who waited all night in your garden. Was it worth it?" the Doctor asks her.
"Shut up. Of course it was." Amy tells them.
"You asked us why I was taking you with us and I said, no reason. I was lying." Frost tells her.
"It's not important." Amy disregards it.
"Yeah, it's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this. Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house, and just you." The Doctor tells her.
"And Aunt Sharon." Amy adds.
"Where were your mum and dad? Where was everybody who lived in that big house?" Frost asks her.
"I lost my Mum and Dad." Amy argues.
"How? What happened to them? Where did they go?" Frost asks her.
"I, I don't…." Amy stutters.
"It's okay, it's okay. Don't panic, it's not your fault." The Doctor tells her.
"I don't even remember." Amy panics.
"There was a crack in time in the wall of your bedroom, and it's been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone. The girl who didn't make sense. How could we resist?" the Doctor asks.
"How could I just forget?" Amy asks.
"Nothing is ever forgotten. Not really. But you have to try." Frost tells her.
"Doctor! It's speeding up!" River tells them and Reaper runs to them hugging them and Amy puts the Doctor's sonic screwdriver in his pocket.
"There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there." The Doctor tells Amy.
"How can I remember them if they never existed?" Amy asks.
"Because you're special. That crack in your wall, all that time, the universe pouring into your head. You brought Rory back. You can bring them back, too. You just remember and they'll be there." Frost tells her.
"You three won't." Amy argues.
"You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friends anymore. Ha! Amy Pond crying over us, eh? Guess what?" the Doctor asks.
"What?" Amy asks.
"Gotcha." The Doctor and Frost say together as River peels Reaper off them and the Pandorica closes.
"Back! Get back!" River orders holding Reaper and the Pandorica takes off and as it takes off River gets a text message. "It's from the Doctor and Frost." She says.
"What does it say?" Amy asks.
"Geronimo." River answers and the Pandorica reaches the TARDIS. There is another explosion then everything reverses back to the start from the beginning.
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Frost's POV:
I wake to see that the Doctor and I are sitting up on the floor of the TARDIS. "Oh! Okay. We escaped, then. Brilliant. I love it when we do that. Legs, yes. Bow tie, cool. I can buy a fez." The Doctor says and I shake my head at him.
"I don't think so." I tell him.
"Lyle beach. The beach is the best. Automatic sand." Reaper says and I remember him saying something similar to this.
"Automatic sand? What does that mean?" Amy asks.
"It's automated. Totally." I say but it wasn't me.
"Oh." The Doctor nods and I look to see us at the controls.
"Cleans up the lolly sticks all by itself." The Doctor says (past Doctor)
"No, hang on. That's last week when we went to Space Florida. We're rewinding. Our, our time stream unravelling, erasing. Closing." The Doctor says and I take his hand in mine and the crack in the scanner slowly closes and disappears.
"Hello, universe. Goodbye, Doctor. Amy. Amy." The Doctor says and we go back again.
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"Ah, three weeks ago, when she put the card in the window. Amy! I need to tell you something. She can hear me. But if she can hear me." The Doctor says and we come up with an idea and there is a crack in the road.
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"I always come back. Good luck, everyone. Behave. Do not let that girl open her eyes. And keep watching the forest. Stop those Angels advancing. Amy, later. River, going to need your computer!" Reaper says.
"Yeah. Later." Amy says lowly.
"Amy, you need to start trusting us. It's never been more important." The Doctor tells her.
"But you don't always tell me the truth." Amy argues.
"If I always told you the truth, I wouldn't need you to trust me." Frost argues back.
"Doctor, Frost, the crack in my wall. How can it be here?" Amy asks.
"I don't know yet, but I'm working it out. Now, listen. Remember what I told you when you were seven?" the Doctor asks.
"What did you tell me?" Amy asks/
"No. No, that's not the point. You have to remember." Frost tells her.
"Remember what? Doctor? Frost?" Amy calls out to us.
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We go back to the beginning of it all. "Amelia's house. When she was seven. The night she waited." I tell him.
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We saw a little Amelia has fallen asleep outside, lying on her suitcase, waiting for us. "The girl who waited. Come here, you." The Doctor says picking her up and I took the suitcase with us.
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The Doctor puts her into her bed gentle and we sit by her bedside. "It's funny. I thought if you could hear us, we could hang on somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor. When you wake up, you'll have a mum and dad, and you won't even remember us. Well, you'll remember us a little. I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away leaving his wonderful wife behind. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Oh, that box. Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient, and the bluest blue ever. And the times we all had, eh? Would have had. Never had. In your dreams, they'll still be there. The Doctor , Frost, Reaper and Amy Pond, and the days that never came. The cracks are closing. But they can't close properly until I'm on the other side. I don't belong here anymore. I think we'll skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats. Live well. Love Rory. Bye, bye, Pond." The Doctor says to her.
"Bye, you wonderful girl." I whisper and kiss her on the forehead and we go through the crack in the wall. It closes.
3RD POV:
Amelia wakes up, looks around and goes back to sleep while the stars twinkle in the sky. A grown up Amy is woken by the bright sunlight. She still has her Doctor, Frost and Reaper dolls on the chest of drawers and her wedding dress hanging on the open wardrobe door. A woman enters with a tray. "Morning!" Tabetha greets.
"You're my mum. Oh, my God. You're my mum." Amy says sounding shocked.
"Well, of course I'm your mum. What's the matter with you? And this is your breakfast, which your father made, so feel free to tip it out of the window if it's an atrocity. Downstairs, ten minutes? Big day!" Tabetha tells her and leaves the room.
"Of course she's my mum. Why is that surprising?" Amy asks herself.
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"Ah, Amelia. I fear I may have been using the same joke book as the best man." Augustus tells her.
"You're my tiny little dad!" Amy shouts.
"Amelia, why are you behaving as if you've never seen us before?" Tabetha asks her daughter.
"I don't know. It's just." Amy says.
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it goes to Rory at his home cleaning his teeth and talking on the phone at the same time. "Hello!" Rory greets.
"Do you feel like you've forgotten something really important?" Amy asks Rory. "Do you feel like there's a great big thing in your head, and you feel like you should remember it, but you can't?" she asks him.
"Yep." Rory agrees with her.
"Are you just saying yes because you're scared of me?" Amy asks him.
"Yep." Rory agrees.
"I love you." Amy tells him.
"Yep." Rory agrees. "Er, I mean, I love you too!" he stutters out.
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It's later on at the wedding reception with everyone there. "Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, the father of the bride, Augustus Pond!" Master of Ceremonies.
"Sorry, everyone. I'll be another two minutes. I'm just reviewing certain aspects." Augustus tells everyone.
"Your father, Amelia, will be the absolute death of me. Unless, of course, I strike pre-emptively." Tabetha says to Amy and she sees River walking past the windows. She stands up.
"Amy? You okay?" Rory asks his now wife.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Amy says.
"Right. Er, you're crying." Rory tells her.
"So I am. Why am I doing that?" Amy asks.
"Because you're happy, probably. Happy Mrs Rory. Happy, happy, happy." Rory suggests.
"No, I'm sad. I'm really, really sad." Amy corrects.
"Great." Rory mutters.
"Why am I sad? What's that?" Amy asks.
"Oh, er, someone left it for you. A woman." Rory tells her.
"But what is it?" Amy asks.
"It's a book." Rory tells her and it's a book with a TARDIS design cover.
"It's blank." Amy states.
"It's a present." Rory tells her.
"But why?" Amy asks him.
"Well, you know the old saying. The old wedding thing. Huh? Amy, what? Hey." Rory asks her.
"Ready now. Sorry about that. Last minute adjustments to certain aspects. Now then, it hardly seems a year since…" Augustus begins his speech but Amy sees one of the guests wearing a bow tie, and another with braces. A tear falls onto the book. "At the age of six and announced that the new head teacher wasn't real because she looked like a cartoon."
"Shut up, Dad!" Amy orders him.
"Amy?" Rory asks her.
"Amelia?" Augustus asks in shock.
"Sorry, but shut up, please. There's someone missing. Someone important. Someone so, so important." Amy tells them.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Rory asks her.
"Sorry. Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid, I had imaginary friends." Amy tells them.
"Oh no, not this again." Tabetha gushes.
"The raggedy Doctor and The Frozen Queen. My raggedy Doctor and My Frosty Queen. But they weren't imaginary, they were real." Amy tells her guests.
"The psychiatrists we sent her to." Tabetha mutters to herself.
"I remember you. I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home, too. Raggedy man and Queen of Frost, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding! You too Reaper." Amy shouts and the glasses start rattling, very gently. "I found you. I found you in words, like you knew I would. That's why you told me the story the brand new, ancient blue box." A strong wind blows the balloons around. "Oh, clever. Very clever." She praises.
"Amy, what is it?" Rory asks her.
"Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue." Amy tells him and the TARDIS materializes in the middle of the room.
"It's the Doctor. How did we forget the Doctor? I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag. Long story." Rory says and Amy knocks on the TARDIS door.
"Okay, Doctor, Frost, Reaper. Did I surprise you guys this time?" Amy asks and The Doctor, Frost and Reaper appear the Doctor in a top hat and tails, Frost in a long beautiful dress and Reaper the same as his dad.
"Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing. Hello, everyone. We're Amy's imaginary friends. But we came anyway." Reaper tells them.
"You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride." Amy says to Reaper.
"Amelia, from now on I shall be leaving the kissing duties to the brand new Mister Pond." Reaper tells her.
"No, I'm not Mister Pond. That's not how it works." Rory argues.
"Yeah, it is." Reaper tells him.
"Yeah, it is." Rory agrees with him.
"Right then, everyone. We'll move our box. You're going to need the space. We only came for the dancing." The Doctor tells everyone. Later, in the disco phase of the party, the Doctor is moving to the rhythm of Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen with Frost laughing at him.
"You're terrible. That is embarrassing!" Amy tells him coming over to the couple.
"That's it. That's good. Keep it loose." The Doctor tells her and the little children love him. And later, when the tempo is slowed for the smooth tunes like You Give Me Something" by James Morrison, the Doctor watches Amy and Rory while dancing with his wife and his son watches the couples on the sidelines.
"Two thousand years. The boy who waited. Good on you, mate." Reaper mutters.
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Reaper's POV:
I was outside Amy's house which is where Dad parked the TARDIS. "Did you dance? Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?" River asks me.
"You tell me." I ask her.
"Spoilers." River teases and I return the book and vortex manipulator to River.
"The writing's all back, but I didn't peek." I tell her.
"Thank you." She tells me.
"Are you married, River?" I ask her.
"Are you asking?" River asks me.
"Yes." I answer her.
"Yes." River answers confusing me.
"No, hang on. Did you think I was asking you to marry me, or, or, or asking if you were married?" I asks her.
"Yes." River answers cryptically.
"No, but was that yes, or yes?" I ask her getting flustered.
"Yes." River answers again.
"River, who are you?" I ask her.
"You're going to find out very soon now. And I'm sorry, but that's when everything changes." River tells me and she vanishes.
"Nah." I say to myself and head into the TARDIS and see my parents back to normal.
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"Oi! Where are you off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet." Amy scolds us.
"Amy!" Rory tells his wife.
"Shut up. It's my wedding." Amy argues.
"Our wedding." Rory corrects her.
"Sorry, you two. Shouldn't have slipped away. Bit busy, you know?" Dad tells them.
"You just saved the whole of space and time? Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow." Rory suggests.
"Space and time isn't safe yet. The TARDIS exploded for a reason. Something drew the TARDIS to this particular date, and blew it up. Why? And why now?" Dad asks wondering and the phone starts ringing. "The Silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and I have to. Excuse me a moment." Dad says as Mum answers the telephone.
"Hello? Oh, hello. I'm sorry, this is a very bad line. No, no, no, but that's not possible. She was sealed into the seventh Obelisk. I was at the prayer meeting. Well, no, I get that it's important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express, in space. Give us a mo. (to Amy and Rory) Sorry, something's come up. This will have to be goodbye." Mum says into the phone.
"Yeah, I think it's goodbye. Do you think it's goodbye?" Amy asks her now husband.
"Definitely goodbye." Rory agrees and Amy goes to the door and shouts to Leadworth.
"Goodbye! Goodbye." Amy shouts.
"Don't worry about a thing, your Majesty. We're on our way." Mum tells her.
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Frost's POV:
I was in our room the Doctor was stressing over it and I knew I had to do something about it. "Doctor come over here and help me calm our daughter she's having a rave in my stomach." I tell him.
"I know I'm sorry, I'm just worried." The Doctor says and puts his head to my stomach and she began to calm down. "Wait how do you know it's a girl?" he asks me.
"I did the scan and I've been trying to find the right time." I tell him.
"So have you thought of names yet?" the Doctor asks me and I nod.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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