Did you miss me? Oops, wrong fandom :P. I apologise for the ginormous delay but I have mentioned on my bio that I am on an indefinite fic-writing hiatus and if you're lucky/if I'm in the mood to write, there will be an occasional Whovian Prompts update. Anyway, this prompt is from Rosyravens: Rose and Tentoo meet Amy and Eleven during the time when Amy forgot Rory.
They needed a distraction. Well, if he was being honest, he needed it more than Amy. He was used to lying but it was becoming exceedingly tiresome. It probably didn't help that he was simultaneously trying to work out why Amy could not remember her fiancé at all and also having to constantly remind himself not to bring up the subject of Rory because it only made Amy confused. So, it was off to Tanium for a day of adventure.
The Doctor landed the Tardis with its usual bump and he and Amy stepped out the door. They took a moment to take in the sights and then the Doctor started to explain what he knew about Tanium. He paused in his explanation as he overheard the exact same explanation being given in a very familiar voice, his last voice in fact. He racked his brains for a moment. Surely he can't have forgotten about being here before, it was only a few years ago. Then he heard another voice which completely startled him. He put a hand to his chest and felt the pounding of his hearts. After all this time, her voice still affected him strongly.
Amy looked at him askance. She was dying to know what was up with the Doctor. He gestured wildly for Amy to keep quiet. He wasn't ready to reveal his turbulent feelings until he had got them clear in his own mind. But there was no chance of that happening. Her voice, her whole being in fact, was pervading all of his senses.
He tried to calm himself. You're over 900 years old and have dealt with so many alien invasions that meeting a former companion shouldn't be that hard. The other part of his mind, however, rationalised. But it's her. Of course, it's going to be difficult. She shouldn't even be here. She should be in the parallel universe with him.
And in a flash, the Doctor understood. It wasn't him who had been to Tanium before; rather it was his half-human counterpart, the metacrisis Doctor. He took a deep breath as he rounded the corner to come face to face with the people he'd tried so hard to forget because it broke his hearts.
"Rose Tyler," he said wistfully.
Amy gasped. She recognised the woman standing in front of them because she had seen her picture after finding out she wasn't the first companion. She also recognised the man standing next to Rose. It was a previous body of the Doctor. Amy didn't quite understand how the Doctor could change his look but she'd been intrigued when she spotted that information in a Tardis file.
The man in question had a perturbed look on his face which quickly turned to jealousy. Who was this man? How did he know Rose's name? And why was her name said with such longing?
"Hello?" Rose questioned the Doctor warily. "Do I know you?"
"Yes. No. I mean, not exactly." He was rambling as he realised he was being cryptic. "I do know you and you know me but just not in this form."
There was another gasp. This time it came from the metacrisis Doctor. "You're him?" He checked in a quiet voice.
From the corner of his eye, the Doctor could see that Amy wanted to say something so he stopped her by speaking himself. "I am. And this shouldn't be happening. We're from parallel universes. Your universe in particular is supposed to be inpenetrable otherwise both would implode."
"Ah, but Tanium is on the omnifarious plain," the metacrisis Doctor explained as he put his hands in his pinstripe pockets, "which means that everyone can visit this place without there being any detrimental effect on universes."
The Doctor was flustered, not least because he was suddenly reunited with his pink and yellow human who technically wasn't his anymore. He had forgotten that particular fact about Tanium. "Well, that's alright then. I'll leave you to it. You two probably want to explore this place alone. Come along, Pond."
Amy was confused and it took her a couple of seconds to realise the Doctor was walking away rather quickly. She looked apologetically at Rose and the metacrisis Doctor who were equally baffled.
After an abrupt goodbye in which the Doctor could be heard to mumble something like "it's just too painful", the two pairs of time travellers went their separate ways. Both Doctors had some explaining to do with their respective companions.
