A/N: Thank you for all the reviews, keep 'em coming.


I sighed, knowing what was coming next. "We better go get her." I said, setting the vortex manipulator and sending us to the TARDIS. "Leave you alone for five minutes and you blow the place up." I called to River as she ran towards the door where I was standing with the Doctor.

"Hi, honey. We're home." He said as she stopped running just a few steps in front of us.

She looked down at her watch. "And what time do you call this?" She asked, looking between us, but giving me a smile.

"Does anyone mind if we get out of here? No? Good." I said, grabbing River's hand and slamming it down on the leather strap around the Doctor's wrist still.

"Amy!" River cried when we appeared back on the roof of the museum. "And the plastic Centurion?" She asked a little cautiously.

"It's okay, he's on our side." I mumbled, holding onto my head and trying so hard not to be sick.

"You okay?" The Doctor whispered to me, helping me to stand up properly. I just nodded at him a little in response.

"I dated a Nestene duplicate once. Swappable heads. It did keep things fresh. Right then, I have questions, but number one is this." River said, turning to face the Doctor. "What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?"

"It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool?" He replied, adjusting it on his head. I glanced over at River and suddenly the fez was flying away from his head. River wasted no time in pulling out her gun and shooting the hat. "Oh." The Doctor moaned.

"EXTERMINATE." The Dalek cried as it began to rise in front of us over the side of the building.

"Oh great." I mumbled, being pulled by the Doctor as we hurried to get inside again.

"Run, run! Move, move. Go!" He shouted, making sure everyone went ahead of him as he blocked the Dalek with the satellite dish.

Once we were back in side the Doctor wasted no time in sonicing the hatch to the roof closed. "It's moving away, finding another way in." He said, listening closely against the closed hatch. "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."

"How do you know?" Rory asked.

"Because that's when it's due to kill us." I told them getting them to move along.

"Kill you?" River cried. "What do you mean, kill you?" She asked as they all followed us down the stairs.

"Oh, shut up. Never mind." I called back to her. I really wasn't in the mood to get into any arguments with anyone right now. We had bigger things to deal with.

"How can that Dalek even exist? It was erased from time and then it came back." The Doctor pondered as we walked back through the museum. "How?"

"You said the light from the Pandorica." Rory pointed out.

"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 Daleks have never existed?" He said, making no sense to anyone but me.

"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 said, turning to Amy, knowing she would understand what I was saying.

"Except inside the Pandorica." She said proudly. I couldn't help but give her a wide smile.

"The perfect prison. And inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was." I finished.

"In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like, like cloning a body from a single cell." The Doctor continued.

"I wish I could have met Jenny." I mumbled, thinking back to how the Doctor had a daughter created from a single cell of his.

The Doctor just kissed the top of my head before carrying on speaking. "And we've got the bumper family pack."

"No, no. Too fast. I'm not getting it." Rory said.

I rolled my eyes at him. "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 told him.

"Do what?" Amy asked, now just as lost as her fiancée was.

"Relight the fire. Reboot the universe." The Doctor told them. "Come on." He grabbed hold of my hand and we started to move again.

"Star, Doctor, you're being completely ridiculous. The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek. If it can't even reboot a single life from properly, how's it reboot the whole of reality?" River asked us, making sure to keep close to us.

"What if we give it a moment of infinite power? What if we can transmit the light form the Pandorica to every particle of space and time simultaneously?" I said, turning back to look at her.

"Well, that would be lovely, dear, but we can't, because it's completely impossible." She replied stubbornly.

"River, remember who you're talking to. It's almost completely impossible. One spark is all we need." I told her.

"For what?" She asked.

I turned to the Doctor and smiled. "Big Bang Two." We both said at the same time. "Now, listen…" The Doctor started before he grabbed hold of my arm and we both turned around. The Doctor was struck by the Dalek's laser, and I instantly felt his pain.

"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" The Dalek cried as it rolled forward.

I gripped hold of the Doctor, finding it harder and harder to breath. I felt like everything was closing in on me, like I was under such a heavy weight that I would be crushed at any moment. I thought I heard River calling our names.

"You have to hold on, Star. Please, hold on, for me." The Doctor called in my head.

"I can't. It hurts too much. I can't bear it." I could feel my skin burning, my energy was trying to protect me, but it wouldn't do any good. If the Doctor died, then so did I.

He hit the vortex manipulator and we both vanished, ending up on the stairs we were earlier, with our younger selves watching. I didn't hear or see anything, I knew what was going on, I remembered it from before, and I was glad I didn't have to go through it all again.

Then I felt someone press their lips against mine. The energy that he been building started to fade, along with the pain and the feeling that I was going to lose everything. When I opened my eyes, the Doctor was looming over me, looking at me with concern.

"You okay?" He whispered, helping me to sit up.

"Not really. Come on, we have work to do." I said, holding onto him tightly as I stumbled on my feet.

Neither of us was really okay, but we both knew what had to be done. There was only one way, and we knew that. "You don't have to do this." He told me as we stopped outside of the Pandorica.

"Yes, I do. You can't expect me to stay here on my own. I'm nothing without you, I wouldn't last a second without you with me." I told him, gripping onto him tightly.

"Once we do it, there is no turning back." He reminded me. I already knew that, but I didn't care.

"Come on, we haven't got time to stand around here chatting." I said, dragging him to the Pandorica and getting him to sit down in it. I sat between his legs on the floor and started pulling out wires.

I felt my head spinning and closed my eyes for a moment. "Hey, come on. You can't go to sleep, not yet." The Doctor told me, gently stroking the side of my face.

"Why not? You want to sleep just as much as I do." I mumbled to him.

"Star, we need to get this finished. Once we are done, you can sleep as much as you like. I promise."

I let out a little groan and forced my eyes open again and started pulling at the wires again. It wasn't exactly comfortable where I was sitting,

"Doctor!" I heard Amy cry, just as I started to close my eyes again.

"Why did he tell us they was dead? Rory asked.

"We were a diversion. As long as the Dalek was chasing us, they could work down here." Amy told him. I wanted to congratulate her on working it out, but I just didn't have the energy. The Doctor and I had almost done what we needed to do.

"Star, Doctor? Can you hear me? What were you doing?" River asked, standing by the open Pandorica and looking at the mess.

I managed to open my eyes and smile at her, just as the Doctor did.

"What's happening?" Rory asked as the room became brighter from the light outside.

"Reality's collapsing. It's speeding up. Look at this room." River said, looking at the now empty room.

"Where'd everything do?" Amy asked curiously.

"History's being erased. Time's running out. Star, Doctor, what were you doing? Tell us. Star! Doctor!" River shouted.

"Big. Bang. Two." The Doctor managed to mumbled, stroking my hair a little.

"The Big Bang. That's the beginning of the universe, right?" Rory commented.

"What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings us back? Is that what you mean?" Amy asked, walking closer to the box.

That was when River finally noticed what we had been doing. "Oh." She breathed, looking at the Doctor and then down at me. "Star…"

I shushed her, knowing what she was going to say. Luckily Amy made sure to move the topic of conversation on by asking River what she had realised. "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…"

"Then what?" Amy asked as River trailed off.

"Then let there by light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like they said." River continued. I was glad she understood so much, and glad that we had finally made peace.

"That would work?" My red haired friend asked. "That would bring everything back?"

"A restoration field powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work. They've wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box." River said, looking down at me.

"It will work. I'm brilliant." I mumbled to her, struggling to find any strength at all.

Amy just looked at River, confusion and worry etched on her face. "Why?"

"So they can take it with them. They're going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion." River told the pair behind her.

"River, help me." I whispered, noticing the Doctor had drifted off again.

She kneeled down in front of me and gave me such a sad look. "Star, are you sure about this?" She asked me.

I nodded at her. "Of course I'm sure, River. I wouldn't survive in a universe with out him, we both know that. I only wished that he would let just me do it. He has so much more to live for still, he shouldn't have to do it."

"He'd never let you do it alone." River told me as she fiddled with a few more wires that I passed to her. "And it would kill him to lose you."

I shook me head at her, it would hurt him, but not kill him. He was stronger than that, he always had been. "No, he'd make it through without me. He done it before, he would do it again."

We carried on working in silence until the Doctor started to come back round again. "Star? How are you feeling?" He managed to mumble.

"I'm on top of the world, the same as you." I replied, knowing he was feeling just as rough and bad as me. "We're ready to go." I told him, reaching up and grasping one of his hands tightly. "It was nice to know you, River Song. I'm sorry for any times I am ever nasty to you."

"It's fine, Star." She said, trying to not tear up.

"Promise me something?" The woman nodded at me. "Do something good with your life. Be brilliant."

"I will, I promise."

"Good, because someone told me exactly how special you are. I always knew there was something different about you, River, I think that was one of the things that made me nervous around you."

River looked at me stunned. "Amy…" The Doctor mumbled, starting to drift off again. "I want Amy…" River nodded to him before walking away from the box and calling to Amy.

"Hi." Amy said, looking between both of us. We looked a right state, dirty, dusty and covered with wires.

"Amy Pond. The girl who waited all night in your garden. Was it worth it?" The Doctor managed to ask her.

"Shut up. Of course it was." She said quickly, looking anywhere but at either of us in the Pandorica.

"You asked me why I was taking you with me and I said, no reason. I was lying." The Doctor told her. I knew all I could do was sit there and stay silent, this was something the Doctor had to do.

"It's not important."

"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 said. I knew where it was leading, even though I had not know Amy until she flew away with the Doctor.

"And Aunt Sharon." Amy reminded him.

There was such a gloomy look on his face as he spoke to her. "Where were your mum and dad? Where was everybody who lived in that big house?"

"I lost my mum and dad."

"How?" I asked her. "What happened to them? Where did they go?" Amy and I had talked about everything, but she could never talk about her parents. When I asked, she would change the subject without even thinking about it.

"I… I don't." Fear was flooding through my red haired friend now.

"It's okay, it's okay. Don't panic, it's not your fault." I told her soothingly.

"I don't even remember."

"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 I resist?" The Doctor asked her, giving my hand a squeeze.

"How could I just forget?" Amy asked, still filled with fear and panic.

"Nothing is ever forgotten. Not really. But you have to try." I told her, glancing over to Rory. She had managed to remember him in the end.

"Star! Doctor! It's speeding up." River called as the room became brighter and brighter. The whole place started to shake as well, there was every chance that it was going to just crumble on top of us all.

"There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there." The Doctor told her as Amy tucked his sonic screwdriver away in his pocket.

"How can I remember them if they never existed?"

"Because you're special." I told her. I knew there was something different about her from the moment I met her, and that was when I was human still. "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 have to remember and they'll be there."

Amy looked at the pair of us. "You won't."

"You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friend any more." The Doctor told her. "Ha, Amy Pond, crying over me, eh? Guess what?" He said with a small smile.

"What?"

"Gotcha." We both said at the same time as the doors to the Pandorica started to close. I grabbed hold of the handheld device that was sitting by my feet and sent one last message back to those we were leaving behind.

"Geronimo."

After that, I blacked out.

"Oh, okay. We escaped then. Brilliant. I love it when we do that. Legs, yes, Bow tie, cool." I heard the Doctor speaking then felt him tugging at my arm. "Hey, come on you, time to wake up now." He said to me softly.

"You promised I could sleep. Let me sleep." I mumbled to him.

"Come on, Star." He started to help me to sit up. He reached his hand for his head after helping me, obviously feeling for something. "I can buy a fez." He decided.

"So, how did we escape then?" My question was answered for me.

"Lyle beach. The beach is the best. Automatic sand." I heard the Doctor call to someone.

"Automatic sand? What does that mean?" Amy answered.

"It's automated. Totally." That was my voice. "Cleans up the lolly sticks all by itself."

"No, hang on. That's last week when we went to Space Florida." The Doctor pointed out. "We're rewinding. Our time stream is unravelling, erasing. Closing."

"Doctor, if we're rewinding, then that means I'm going to leave you." He looked over at me sharply. "By the time you meet Amy, I will have gone. Because that isn't in my time stream."

He didn't answer me, he was too busy staring at the crack that was closing on the large monitor on the wall of the TARDIS. "Hello, universe. Goodbye Doctor and Star." He whispered. "Amy." The Doctor called, spotting her up by the console.

We both noticed her turn around, as if she had heard him, but wasn't quite sure.

Then we were pulled further back through our time streams. We both spotted Amy, fussing a cat sitting on the wall. "Ah, three weeks ago, when she put the card in the window." The Doctor said, noticing that we were where Craig lived.

"Amy!" I shouted. "I need to tell you something." She turned to look at us before heading off in the other direction. "She can hear me. But if she can hear me…" I slowly turned around, gripping the Doctor's hand tightly. We both saw the crack in the middle of the road.

"Ow." I moaned, feeling myself sitting on something awkward.

"You okay?" The Doctor asked, helping me to get up.

"Yeah, I guess. Oh, now we're back on the Byzantium. You better go and talk to Amy." I said, giving him a nudge forward.

"Amy, you need to start trusting me now. It's never been more important." The Doctor said, taking hold of Amy's hands.

"But you don't always tell me the truth."

"If I always told you the truth, I wouldn't need you to trust me."

"Doctor, the crack in my wall. How can it be here?" Amy asked. I remembered just how terrified she was of seeing that crack on the ship.

"I don't know yet, but we're working it out. Now listen. Remember what I told you when you were seven?"

"What did you tell me?"

"No. No, that's not the point. You have to remember." He told her, resting his head against hers.

I watched as he moved away from Amy and over to where I was standing, when I was Summer and still a human. "Summer…" He whispered, before taking hold of my hands. "Summer, I hope that one day you can forgive me."

"Forgive you? What for?" My younger self asked him curiously.

"For all the thing's I have ever done to hurt you. I thought I was protecting you. I'm sorry, Summer. I am so, so sorry." That made me think, I never really found out what he meant by all of that. "And you have every right to be angry and upset with me."

"Doctor, I really don't understand what is going on. You're starting to scare me a little." The Doctor looked over at where I was standing.

"I do believe you are going to kiss me, Theta." I told him, a slight grin on my face.

"Doctor, when did you get your ja…" A let a little smile creep across my face before I turned away. I remembered that kiss, I always would. It had seriously confused me, but now it all made sense.

"Time to go." I whispered to him, tugging him away from my other self. "This is where I leave you, isn't it?" I said to him, trying to hold back the tears. "I know what you're going to do, but she won't be able to bring me back."

"Star, she can and will bring you back." The Doctor insisted, holding me tightly.

"You go and tell little Amelia Pond all about that old, new, borrowed, blue box of yours." I said, no longer able to hold back the tears.

"It's our blue box." He reminded me.

"Not any more it isn't. Now it's just yours. We've had some good times, haven't we?" I was struggling to myself in control. All I wanted to do was break down and cry. This was the last time I was never going to see him. I had every faith that Amy could remember him, but she wouldn't remember me. When she was a child she never met me, she wouldn't know me.

"No." The Doctor said forcefully. "I am not letting you go ever again. And that means, right now, we go together." He demanded.

"Doctor, it doesn't work like that." I tried to tell him, but he just didn't want to listen. I held onto him tightly as everything started changing again.

"Amelia's house. When she was seven. The nigh she waited." The Doctor said, looking around the garden.

"Wait, how am I here? Doctor, how can I be here? This isn't my time stream." To say I was beginning to panic was an understatement.

"I don't care how, I only care that you are here." He said, giving me a gentle kiss.

When we broke apart we walked over to the small figure, lying on a suitcase. "The girl who waited." I whispered, looking at the young Amelia Pond.

"Come here, you." The Doctor said, picking her up and taking her inside. I picked up the suitcase and followed behind him, shutting the door as well.

I watched him as he lay the girl down in her bed. "It's funny. I thought if you could hear us, we could hang on somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor." I gripped his hand a little tighter.

"When you wake up, you'll have a mum and a dad." I told the little girl. "You won't even remember me, because you've never met me." I looked at the Doctor. "You'll remember him a little."

He nodded in agreement. "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." I couldn't help but laugh a little.

"Did he ever tell you that he stole it?" I asked. "Well, he claims he borrowed it."

"I was always going to take it back." The Doctor protested, nudging me in the side a little. "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." I rested my head against the Doctor's shoulder as he spoke. "And the times we had, eh? Would have had. Never had." There was so much sadness in his voice. "In your dreams, they'll still be there. The Doctor, Summer and Amy Pond, the days that never came."

I tugged at his arm and looked at the crack on her wall. "The cracks are closing. But they can't close properly until we're on the other side. We don't belong here anymore." I felt his hand tighten around mine. We knew what we had to do next.

"I think we'll skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats. Live well. Love Rory. Bye bye, Pond." The Doctor said, kissing the little girl on the top of the head.

I bent over her as well. "I'll miss you, Amy." I kissed her head as well and the Doctor and I walked towards the crack. "Well, this is it then." Both our hands were gripped together.

"Star, I love you." The Doctor said, pulling me closer to him.

"I love you too." I choked out. He leaned down and kissed me, before we walked through the crack and watched it closed behind us.

The next thing I knew, the Doctor was banging on my door. "Oi! Come on, it's time to get up now. You've been sleeping long enough." He called through the door.

"What's the point in getting up?" I mumbled.

"Well, if you want to miss Amy and Rory's wedding, then that's up to you." I could hear the smugness in his voice.

I let out a sigh and pulled myself out of bed. I pulled open the door and saw the Doctor standing there in his top hat and tails. "Amelia Pond will remember you, not me. She will bring you and the TARDIS back, not me."

"You made it this far with me, not sure how. Everything will be fine." He assured me.

"Yeah, whatever." The sound of someone knocking on the doors in the console room rang through the whole ship. "You better go and see who it is."

With a sigh the Doctor left me alone and went to see who it was. I went over to the wardrobe and pulled out the first dress that I found. It was deep red and came just past my knees. I took a deep breath and went to get changed, not that I felt the need to.

I heard the TARDIS engines grinding and the Doctor appeared at my door. "Want to go visit the Ponds?" He asked me, a manic grin in his face.

"What?" I asked him in confusion. "Do you mean it actually worked and Amy remembered you?"

He seemed a little shock at my comment. "She didn't just remember me, she remembered you as well."

My eyes went wide when he told me that. I didn't think that it would have been possible for her to remember me when we had never met. It just didn't seem real. As soon as the TARDIS landed I charged through the console room and out of the doors.

The first person I saw was the red haired bride. "Amy!" I cried, rushing towards her hand embracing her in a hug.

"Oh Summer! You're okay." There were tears of joy for both of us. I didn't think she would remember me, I was so sure of it. I was sure I was going to be torn away from everything that I knew again, but I wasn't.

The wedding reception then got into full swing, the Doctor was making himself look a complete idiot. He had his arms high in the air and was wiggling around. "You're terrible. That is embarrassing!" Amy called where she was sitting with her husband.

"That's the Doctor and the drunken giraffe." I told her, getting up and showing the kids that were around him how to really dance.

Eventually the music slowed down, and the newly weds were dancing closely together. "Two thousand years. The boy who waited. Good on you, mate." The Doctor said, wrapping his arm around my waist.

"The boy who waited and the girl who waited. Hey, at least they have each other now." I told him as we headed outside and towards Amy's large house.

"So, my Summer Star, where do you want to go?" The Doctor asked me, holding me as close to him as he possibly could.

"Any time, any place. As long as we are together, I don't care." I told him, smiling away.

"Did you dance?" A woman asked us. "Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?"

We looked up and saw River Song standing in front of us. "You tell us." The Doctor said to her.

She smiled. "Spoilers."

I pulled her diary out of the Doctor's jacket pocket. "The writing's all back, but I didn't peek, and neither did he." I told her, handing it back to her.

"Thank you."

"Are you married, River?" I asked her suddenly. I don't know why I decided to ask, it just came out.

"Are you asking?"

"Yes." I said.

"Yes."

The Doctor looked between River and I, slightly confused. "No, hang on. Did you think she was asking you to marry her or… or asking if you were married?" He said quickly and nervously.

"Yes." River simply replied with a huge grin.

"No, but, was that yes, or yes?" He asked, getting himself even more confused.

"Yes."

I had to hold back my laughter. "River, who are you?" I asked, taking the conversation in another direction.

Suddenly her face turned very grim. "You're going to find out very soon now. And I'm sorry, but that's when everything changes." She said, before hitting her vortex manipulator and disappearing.

"Oh, come on. I want to go home and cuddle up in bed. Since the universe has been saved and all that." I said, pulling the Doctor along with me, not that he even tried to protest.

"Oi!" Amy called, bursting into the TARDIS. "Where are you off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet." She said.

I couldn't help but grin at her. "Actually the Doctor and I have had a snog in the shrubbery, Amy. Go back to your husband." The Doctor just wrapped his arm tighter around my waist.

"Sorry, you two. Shouldn't have slipped away. Bit busy, you know?" He said, grinning at me a little. When we got back to the TARDIS, we did spend a little bit of time just being together.

"You just saved the whole of space and time? Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow." Rory suggested.

"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?" The Doctor asked, starting to get a little stressed. That was when the phone started ringing. "The Silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and I have to… Star, do you mind?"

I picked the phone up and let the Doctor carry on with his thinking. "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. We were at the prayer meeting. Well, no, I get that it's important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express…" I paused and looked over to the Doctor. "In space. Give us a mo." I turned to look at Amy and Rory. "Sorry, something's come up. This will have to be goodbye."

"Yeah, I think it's goodbye." Amy said before turning to Rory. "Do you think it's goodbye?"

"Definitely goodbye." He said, as they both headed to the doors of the TARDIS and shouted goodbye.

I looked over at the Doctor, grinning away. "Don't worry about a thing, your Majesty. We're on our way." I said before putting the phone down. "So, looks like we have a few more adventures to go with the Ponds." I said to the Doctor, leaning against him.

"Yeah, us and the Ponds. It's going to be one great adventure." He said, before leaning down and kissing me.


A/N: And that's the end of series 5! Okay, so I have the Christmas special still to write, and I am going to do the Sarah Jane adventure as well. But it's still sad.

But don't worry, there are more twists to come with the next series. There are still secrets being kept, big secrets. The Doctor is going to let his emotions get the better of him at some point.

Anyway, I hope you all had a good New Year.

Pippa.