Amy: Why did you make the sign of the cross you numpty?
Rory: Oh, oh, oh, so now I'm being reviewed.
Me: Wha- so wha- so this is the FIRST TIME you've been reviewed? Obviously don't use fanfiction...
Sorry, just saw this quote and thought FANFICTION! XD Enjoy Mrs Doctor Who 11 xx
I reached out and turned the door handle; the door swung open with a creak.
I stepped into the room, Rory and River close behind.
It was an empty room, smaller than the room the children had been in but bigger than the one with the crack in the wall.
It was just big enough to fit three large glass cylinders filled with some kind of fluid and a space between the cylinders and the wall for people to walk through.
In the cylinders floated three small shapes.
I strolled over to the first one.
There was a small notice underneath that read "Human. Male. Taken two months before birth."
In the cyclinder floated a baby, almost perfectly formed but a little too small to be ready for the world just yet.
I moved casually on to the next cylinder; in this was a baby of about five months, it's features still a little distorted and it was quite small.
The notice on this said "Human. Female. Taken three months before birth."
I felt excitment rise up inside me as I turned to the final cylinder - the one that contained my child.
What I saw both fascinated and shocked me at the same time.
For in that cylinder was a baby.
But it was the size of a baby that had been in the mothers womb for nine months, not one and a half like my child had.
However, it had the features and physical attributes of that of a child who had been in the womb for two months at most - its arms and legs hadn't even formed properly yet!
I crouched to read the notice that read: "Species unknown - Some kind of hybrid. Gender - Unknown. Taken ? months before birth."
I pressed a button on the wall beside the cylinders and watched the babies judder, then disappear.
It was then I heard a yell from another room, and a voice, a voice I never thouht I'd hear again that made my heart melt and brought tears to my eyes.
"What am I doing here? Let me go! What have you done to my baby? If you've harmed it-" I interrupted Amy's rant by bursting throuh the door.
"I'm sorry, but I've just been informed you removed a child from this woman, and since you're not in the medical profession, I'm going to have to stop you. But don't worry, I'll take over! After all" I pulled the psychic paper out and held it in front of the guards face "I am a Doctor."
I saw out of the corner of my eye that Amy had a sedation mask over her face and was out cold - the guard must have done that just before I burst in.
Pointing the old sonic I still had from when I'd used it to scan Amy - I still felt sick at the thought - at the guard, I pressed a button and the guard exploded into goop.
"Amy." I whispered as I held her face in my hands, gently removing the mask.
"River, could you-" I began, not looking away from Amy's face.
"Already on it." River finished for me, already disconnecting wires from the circuit panel next to Amy's harness.
Once River had given me the all clear, I flashed the Sonic at the binds holding Amy into the harness and carried her, limp in my arms from the room.
Even if I got the sense of dejavu, watching Amy's chest rise up and down showed me this time I'd won.
I was leaving with Amy, alive, just like I'd hoped.
It was as I reached the room filled with empty harnesses that Rory fell.
"Hey... Get off!" Rory yelled, trying to scramble up but a hand was wrapped tightly round his ankle.
I looked down to see the guard who had exploded into flesh before.
"You thought you'd got rid of me Doctor? Well nice try, but you of all people should know that when there's flesh-" he paused to hold a device into the air. "There's a controller."
He smashed his thumb onto a button on the device.
All around the walls the harnesses started to fizzle and crackle, an orangey mist creeping towards us as we backed towards the TARDIS.
"And that's exactly what you need to escape!" yelled the guard, laughing manically as he ran from the room, leaving Rory to pull himself up and sprint over to us.
"What did he mean Doctor? About us needing a controller to escape?" Rory yells over the crackling and whooshing of the fizzling harnesses.
"We need someone to go into the harness to stop this!" I shouted back.
"Well that's easy then! One of us should just get in a harness!" River joins in.
"Not that simple. As soon as they're in the harness, they're stuck, and pretty soon this whole place will blow sky high - KABOOM!" I roar back.
"The TARDIS?" Rory shouts, eyes on the rapidly approaching mist.
"She's deadlocked! Automatic reaction to stop her getting damaged in a huge explosion - normally she should open for me but the signals coming off the harnesses are scrambling her circuits!" I reply.
"So we just need someone in the harness. Doctor, I'm willing to-" River starts, but I interrupt angrily.
"No! This isn't how you die!"
There's a stunned silence, then River says "Doctor, have you seen-"
"River this really ISN'T the time." I cut in eyes squeezed shut; how could I be so stupid as to blurt it out?
"We're going to do this and no one innocent will pay! River, take Amy." I say calmly.
"What? Doctor no, you can't-"
"River do as I SAY!" I yell, and River reluctantly takes Amy.
"Doctor, you just said no one innocent will pay!" Rory tries to persuade me.
"Who says I'm innocent? I've done bad things Rory, much worse things than getting in between you and Amy. It's time for my penance." I take a step towards the harnesses.
"I'll come with you." River says, thrusting Amy into Rory's arms.
"No! No one else dies today. now Rory, when Amy wakes up, I want you to tell her I left. Tell her I found out I'd made a mistake, that the baby is yours and I thought it best if I left." I say.
"What? Doctor no, I won't lie to her!" he shakes his head staring at me.
"Rory, I have to do this, I have to leave and I want my child to have a father. And I can think of no one better to take up that role." I stare sincerely at him.
"I'll do it." a voice comes from behind the TARDIS.
Around the TARDIS walks... Marcus!
"I'll do it. I'll go in the harness."
"What? No, Marcus, I can't let you do that!" I say.
"Doctor, you have a family. I can't let you lose it."
"So have you! What about Lucy?" I say desperately, grabbing his arm.
He hesitates, and then:
"Doctor, Lucy died in a car crash with my wife three years ago. I know the pain of losing a child and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. So please, take the chance of having a family while you still can." he looks at me and I can see courage in his eyes and also despair; the two things I wish I'd noticed before calling him a coward.
I drop his arm.
He steps into a harness and the clamps snap shut.
The TARDIS doors swing open and River and Rory hurry in.
"Doctor, come on!" River calls as I stand just outside the TARDIS.
"Thanks." I whisper as I watch a man who'd lost so much give so much for people he barely knew all because of a child.
I knew it could have been me in his place, that I could have been there dieing right now.
I know one thing for certain.
I'm going to be the best dad ever known to this baby.
And when they get a little older, I'll tell them of a man who on the inside was sad and scared and lonely... and very, very brave.
I'll tell them of a man who saved their fathers life.
I'll tell them of a man who will never, ever be forgotten.
I step inside the TARDIS.
Amy's POV
Ow, my head.
And my legs.
And my stomach.
Oh my God the baby!
My hands jerk down to my stomach as I try and work out how to tell if my baby's alive.
"Don't worry, the baby's fine. And so are you."
My eyes open wide and I see the Doctor, his face inches from mine as he rests his head on his arms, looking at me with a small smile that could melt butter on his face.
"What happened?" I ask, and he tells me everything, from when the flesh me died to when Marcus put himself into the harness.
"It was her. The little girl was Lucy." I breathe.
"What?"
"There was this girl - we found her in a room, covered in scrapes and with a head wound; we thought she'd escaped from the harness, then Marcus hit her over the head and she wasn't breathing, and he said she never was breathing.
"Ah. They'll have made a flesh version of his daughter to try and make him betray us." the Doctor says.
"So, why did my flesh body die?" I ask.
"Well the Flesh is very unstable. When they made you, they'd copied you but not the baby, so the baby was inside flesh you, and real you, and being taken by the people at the same time. It was so dangerous that your mind and soul automatically boycotted your body, which is why near the end you were managing to tell me that you'd been taken by those people."
"Who were those people anyway?" I question.
"Just humans who'd found the Nestene Consciousness and decided it was great. They took the dead bodies of Timelords and drained them so they could take human form rather than inhabiting plastic."
"Did you destroy it?"
"No."
"What? Why?"
"Because, in the past - well it'll be discovered in the future but used in Earths past - they improve it. It's what they used to make Rory. So I can't destroy it or-"
"Paradox." I say grimly.
He grins at me.
"I taught you well, Pond!"
"So, what about the baby? Why did it... balloon up?" I wonder.
"It's a clever Timelord protection... thing, that I only found out about today, actually. You see, when the baby sensed a threat - that it was going to be taken by the Nestene Consciousness - it started to grow as fast as it could so that it could escape abduction by being born. However, since the baby didn't have enough time to fully develop, it only grew to the size of a baby ready to be born; it didn't have time to develop arms and legs and what-not. By the way, I met our baby." he says with a grin.
"What?" I gasp "How?"
"When it was taken it automatically appeared in a cylinder full of the fluid that's in your stomach, so I went into the room and... there they were."
"What did they look like?" I grin excitedly.
"Kinda like a sea monkey."
"Oh no! They got all your features then?" I say, pretending to be disappointed.
"Oi!" he chuckles and we're both laughing quietly.
After we just look at each other for another minute, he says "Ah, I missed you Pond. Come here!" and pulls me into a hug.
I realise I'm in the medical bay, and it brings back memories of the first scan, and the Doctor freaking out and Rory...
"Wait, you said Rory was there!" I pull back looking at him, alarmed.
"Yeah?"
"Well was he angry?"
"He didn't get a chance, I showed up with what I thought was you dead in my arms! He sensed it wasn't the time to beat me up - not that he could." the Doctor grins slyly.
I giggle, then swing my legs off the bed.
"Woah, woah, woah, where do you think you're going missy?" the Doctor says, skeptically.
"Oh come on, it's not like I die- Ok, forget that... I'm fine now! Anyway, I wanna say goodbye to River and Rory! Please? I PROMISE I'll rest after that!" I plead.
He hesitates, then holds out a hand in defeat.
I grab his hand and hop off the table, almost losing my balance; the Doctor wraps an arm round my waist for support and we make our way slowly to the console room.
Luckily for us, the TARDIS has made the Console Room only a few doors down, so we're there in no time.
River and Rory are stood talking, but they look up as we come in, smiling.
"Amy! How are you?" River says, but I'm shocked as I realise Rory's just enveloped me in a hug.
"Amy Pond, don't you dare die on us again! You scared the living daylights outta me!" he grins, and his eyes look suspiciously wet.
"Are you crying Williams?" I say suspiciously.
"No..." he grins wiping a hand quickly over his eyes.
"Good. 'Cos then I'd have to hit you for bein' a sissy, and I really don't feel up to it at the moment!" I laugh and we hug again.
Amazingly, it wasn't weird at all.
It should have been, I mean, he was my ex-husband who, the last time I'd seen him, was punched and then thrown out by my best friend who incidentally got me pregnant.
But it wasn't.
It was friendship.
I knew then I wanted Rory to be the Godfather.
AWWW! It ended cute! Also, in the next few weeks we will be having some chapters written by some great fanfic authors - RosalieHale1997, DoctorMerliena - Fezzes Are Cool and Siodhna! Its exciting! XD
Mrs Doctor Who 11 xx