"Are you Aunty Eris' friend?" Mickey asked a brunette woman who had been keeping him company after Jackie had stormed off.
"You could say that," the woman replied as she looked to Aries and the Doctor, just as Luka reached them. A small, sad smile appeared on her face as Luka hugged Aries, though it was gone when Mickey spoke up again.
"Are you sad?" he asked, looking to the brunette with a worried expression.
"Why would I be sad?" she asked the boy.
"You look sad," Mickey stated and the brunette chuckled, unable to help herself, though it only confused Mickey.
"You, Mickey Smith, are very observant," the brunette told the boy as she ruffled his hair, a genuine smile on her face.
"What's that?" Mickey asked, pointing to a mark on the brunettes forearm, "Is it a tattoo?"
The brunette raised an eyebrow at the boy, "And how do you know what a tattoo is?" she asked him.
"Aunty Eris has one on her arm, but hers is different," Mickey informed her.
"Well, then. I guess you can call it a tattoo," the brunette said as she ran a finger over the faded crystal-like mark on her forearm.
"The inside of my ship was thrown out of a wound but we can use this to bring it back. And once I've got my ship back, then I can mend everything," the Doctor's voice cut through the air and Mickey and the brunette looked to the man as he stood before the remaining guests. "Now, I just need a bit of power. Has anybody got a battery?"
"Does that mean my mummy will come back?" Mickey asked, looking back to the brunette with wide, hopeful eyes.
"This one big enough?" Stuart asked the Doctor, showing the man his father's phone.
The brunette nodded, "Your mother will be safe, I promise," she told Mickey, though she barely glanced at the boy as she watched the Doctor rush forwards to Stuart as he exclaimed, "Fantastic."
"How do you know?" Mickey asked curiously, his head tilting a little to the side as he watched the brunette.
The brunette managed to tear her gaze away from the Time Lord and back to Mickey as she smiled. "You know those stories your Aunty spoke of?" she asked the boy who was quick to nod, "Well, that man there," she pointed to the Doctor, "Is the same one who saved Luka's father and Nana."
Mickey looked to the Doctor as the Time Lord was using his sonic to charge the battery from Stuart's father's phone. His eyebrows creased as he tried to understand what the brunette had said.
The brunette shook her head at the boy before pulling something out of her pocket. "Here, this is for you," she said, holding a small, silver armband out to Mickey.
"What is it?" Mickey asked, looking back to the woman and the item she was holding.
"A token of friendship," she told Mickey with a warm smile as the boy accepted the item. When Mickey had put the band on, the brunette stood up, "Now, why don't we go and find Jackie, hmm?" she asked, holding her hand out to Mickey.
The boy nodded as he grabbed her hand, not even noticing the armband readjusting itself so it wouldn't fall off.
"Luka, I want you to wait here with Uncle Pete, okay," Aries told the boy, glancing at Pete and smiling slightly as the man nodded, letting her know that he was fine with watching Luka.
"Okay, Aunty," Luka replied before rushing around the pews to sit beside Pete.
When Aries was certain the boy wouldn't follow, she moved off towards one of the windows of the church and looked outside, unable to quell the uneasy feeling that was slowly growing inside her as she watched the beige car continuously reappear and disappear.
Something was telling her that whatever the Doctor was planning to do with his ship was very risky, and although she really didn't have a clue to exactly what the Doctor planned to do, a part of her was worried it wasn't going to work.
Tearing her gaze away from the car as it disappeared once again, Aries looked to Pete, Rose and Luka as the two adults talked. She was never one to believe in a coincidence or chance and was starting to realise that maybe, and how wrong she hoped she was, that the only way to fix what had been done was to let what originally was supposed to happen...happen.
The red head knew the risks behind time travel, knowing how dangerous it would be to meet herself while she had been turning her days and had always been meticulous with using her time turner. But she had never experienced anything like this before. Even when Granger had saved not only Buckbeak's life, but Sirius Black's as well had not led to this and it made her wonder why. Why had Rose saving her father's life caused such a mess?
Her gaze was drawn to the Doctor as he put the glowing key into nothing but thin air, her eyebrows raising in surprise when a blue police box started to materialise around it, the head of the key sticking out of the lock on the door. The Doctor pulled his jacket back on with a grin as he watched his ship slowly start to appear before he ran back up the steps to the pulpit.
"Right, no one touches that key," he told everyone, "Have you got that? Don't touch it. Anyone touches that key, it'll be, well, zap. Just leave it be and everything will be fine. We'll get out of here. All of us. Stuart, Sarah, you're gonna get married, just like I said," he finished, grinning encouragingly towards the couple.
Aries wanted to smile at the thought of having this mess all sorted out, but the sound of tyres screeching as the beige car once again disappeared around a corner had her frowning.
"Penny for your thoughts?" someone asked from behind Aries, causing the red head to turn on the spot, only to see a brunette standing there.
"Do I know you?" Aries questioned as she looked the woman up and down.
"No, I highly doubt so," the brunette replied, clasping her hands behind her back, "But I know you, Rieka Lestari."
Aries immediately stiffened at the name, her eyes narrowing on the brunette. "Who are you?" she demanded.
The brunette didn't react to Aries' question, and the red head took a step towards her.
"How do you know that name?" Aries hissed, her heart beating quickly in her chest as dread filled her. She had buried that name, her past the moment she realised where she was, but for this woman to know it, it had to be impossible.
The brunette still didn't say anything, but instead, like a viper, one of her hands shot out and grasped the red heads hand and Aries gasped at the contact. The brunette leant forwards and whispered something into Aries' ear, causing the red head's eyes to go wide before they glazed over and the brunette let her hand go.
The moment she did so, Aries shook her head and frowned at the brunette, unsure what had happened. "Sorry, what did you say?" she asked, a little confused.
"I think the Doctor is looking for you," the brunette replied, pointing to the Time Lord when he glanced in their direction.
"Oh," Aries remarked, turning to look at the Doctor and finding him watching her. "Wait, I didn't catch your..." she started to say, turning back to the brunette, but the woman was gone. "Name," she finished lamely, wondering what had just happened.
Shaking her head, Aries turned back to the Doctor and headed towards him and the others, though she was still rather lost as to who the brunette was.
The Doctor grinned at Aries as she approached, though he was curious to know who the brunette was that she had been speaking to. It seemed, to him at least, that most of the people here knew Aries, however he was still rather confused as to why they kept calling her Eris.
There was something about the name that was naggingly familiar to the Doctor, but he just couldn't pinpoint exactly what. Anytime he tried to remember where he had heard the name before, it was as if his own mind refused to remember.
Aries paused in her approach, noticing the expressions that were on both Rose and Pete's faces and wondered if the man knew about what had happened. "Luka," she called, causing the boy to look at her before rushing to her when she motioned him over. "I want you to go make sure Mickey is okay," she told him, glancing to the others, "And why don't you make sure that he doesn't tell everyone about your ice-cream," she added.
Luka nodded eagerly before rushing off to find his friend and Aries sighed as she watched him go, wondering how she was going to explain all this to the boys parents. She really didn't know how she would explain it to Jamie, feeling as though history was repeating itself.
Luka was only a few months older than Jamie had been when he had been affected by the nanogenes and she had tried her best to keep him and his family away from what was out there. But as the Reapers continued to try and find a weak point to enter the church, Aries couldn't help but feel like she had failed them.
"So, you're an aunty?" the Doctor's voice broke Aries from her thoughts and she looked to him. The Doctor frowned, seeing Aries expression. "Is everything alright?" he asked her, glancing the way Luka had gone and wondered what was troubling her.
"Yeah," Aries sighed before shaking her head, "No...I don't know," she muttered as she ran a hand tiredly over her face.
The Doctor's frown only deepened at the movement, remembering her doing the same thing in Downing Street and knew that something was deeply troubling her. But the Time Lord also understood that it was better to let Aries tell him when she was ready instead of trying to question her about it.
It was hard for him sometimes, wanting to know more about his Nesdra, to question her until she finally gave him answers, but he wouldn't do that. He couldn't. There was something about Aries that reminded the Doctor of himself, something he saw every time he looked into her eyes.
"Come on," the Time Lord said quietly, placing a hand on Aries' lower back and leading her over to the pews.
Aries didn't say anything as she sat down, though the troubled look didn't leave her face. She couldn't help but wonder if her having stayed in Jamie and his families life had been such a good idea as her gaze wandered around the church, seeing the scared wedding guests as the Reapers continued to try and make their way inside.
"When time gets sorted out..." Rose's voice cut through Aries' musings and the red head glanced behind her and towards the woman who was sitting beside Pete.
"Everyone forgets what happened," the Doctor said, tearing his gaze away from Aries, "And don't worry, the thing you changed will stay changed," he added, causing Aries to look at him in both alarm and confusion.
"You mean I'll still be alive," Pete stated, having realised what the Doctor and Rose had not been telling him. When Rose just stared at him, not saying anything, he nodded slightly, "Though I'm meant to be dead. That's why I haven't done anything with my life. Why I didn't mean anything."
"It doesn't work like that," the Doctor stated.
"Rubbish," Pete scoffed, "I'm so useless I couldn't even die properly. Now it's my fault all of this has happened."
Rose grasped her fathers arm and Aries looked away with a frown as the blonde told Pete, "This is my fault." Aries couldn't help but think it was Rose's fault for what had happened, but she understood the younger woman's desire to have wanted to see her father again. Aries would have given anything to have seen her father once more, but knew that it was both impossible and highly dangerous.
"No, love," Pete shook his head, "I'm your dad. It's my job for it to be my fault," he told her.
"Her dad?" Jackie said, appearing beside them with baby Rose in her arms, "How are you her dad? How old were you, twelve?" she asked, disgusted at the thought.
Aries stood up, the Doctor standing up with her having no desire to hear Jackie arguing with her husband.
"Oh, that's disgusting," Jackie continued as she glared at Pete.
Pete also stood, "Jacks, listen. This is Rose," he said, trying to get his wife to see the truth in his words.
It had the opposite effect however as Jackie spoke, her voice both angry and upset, though Aries was quiet glad she kept her voice low, knowing that the older blonde had a set of lungs. "Rose? How sick is that? You give my daughter a second hand name? How many are there? Do you call them all Rose?"
"Oh, for God's sake, look!" Pete exclaimed as he grabbed baby Rose from Jackie, "It's the same Rose!" he continued.
Aries eyes widened and the Doctor took a step towards them when Pete placed the baby in her older self's arms.
"Rose! No!" the Doctor shouted, but it was too late and as he took the baby from Rose's arms and gave her back to Jackie, a Reaper appeared in the middle of the church.
The guests screamed and leapt to their feet as the Doctor grabbed Aries hand as he shouted, "Everyone! Behind me!" He tried to get Aries to move behind him and with the guests that had gathered there, but the red head didn't move as she stared at the Reaper, her eyes narrowing.
"I'm the oldest thing here," the Doctor declared, taking a step towards the Reaper as it chirped menacingly and spread its wings.
"Hey!" someone shouted from behind the Doctor, though the Time Lord took no notice as he stared down the creature.
The Reaper dived towards the Doctor and Aries. Rose shouted the Time Lord's name, only for it to seem as time stopped when the Reaper stopped its attack, almost as if it was frozen in mid-air.
"I told you that you won't have them," Aries voice cut through the stunned silence as she stepped towards the Reaper, her eyes swirling red as her magic crackled around her, whipping up a breeze.
"Move it!" someone snapped.
The Reaper tried to move, to do anything to get to the red head, but found it couldn't move and it screeched angrily.
"I don't care who you are or where you come from," Aries continued as she took another step forwards, "But you won't harm another person here."
"Ari..." the Doctor trailed off when something flashed across his mind and his eyes widened. "Eris," the Doctor breathed as a memory that had once been lost to him returned. How could he had forgotten that she had saved his life? Better yet, how did Aries take that memory from him?
Suddenly he was pulled back away from Aries and stumbled, just managing to see the brunette who had been talking with Aries earlier rush towards his Nesdra before everything went dark as she pulled something from her coat.
The Doctor gasped, feeling the air in his lungs being ripped from him as the room was doused in darkness and it felt as though there was hurricane blowing through the church. Moments later however, there was a flash of gold and blue energy before the light started to return, though the Doctor's eyes only widened when he saw the brunette in front of Aries. Red tendrils of energy lined her skin and her eyes the blackest black he had ever seen as she stood before what looked to be a gold and black vortex of some kind.
"I'm sorry," the brunette told Aries, her black gaze meeting Aries red before just like earlier, her hand shot out and latched onto Aries' arm.
"No!" the Doctor shouted, seeing the tendrils of energy start to be transferred from the brunette to his Nesdra and he tried to take a step forwards, but once again found he couldn't move. "Aries!" he shouted, but his Nesdra didn't even seem to hear him.
He watched on hopelessly as Aries glanced at the brunette before stepping through the vortex that closed the moment she did so.
"Eris!" the Doctor heard Luka shout from somewhere behind him, but he didn't take his eyes off the brunette as she turned to look at him.
"What did you do?!" he demanded, wanting to know what the woman had done to his Nesdra, "Where is she?"
The brunette's eyes softened as the red tendrils faded from her skin, her black eyes returning to their much warmer brown. "You know where she went, Doctor," she told him before she disappeared when the Reaper reached her, the spell holding it back having been broken the moment Aries had stepped through the vortex.
"No!" the Doctor shouted once again as the only person who knew what had happened to Aries disappeared before his eyes. He barely even noticed when the Reaper collided with his ship, causing them both to vanish and the once glowing key fell to the floor as he stared helplessly at the spot that his Nesdra had once been.