Kari was at the Doctor's side the moment it was safe. "Hey, come on. It's okay, yeah? You're going to be fine, right?" She told him, her eyes welling up with tears. "I'll see you soon, okay?" She told him, just as a single tear rolled down her face.

He smiled at her, before hitting the vortex manipulator and disappearing. "Where did he go? Damn it, he could be anywhere." River called in frustration.

"He went downstairs, twelve minutes ago." Kari said, getting up from where she had been kneeling on the floor.

"Show me!" The woman shouted, not seeing the upset state Kari was in.

"River, he died." Amy told her. She had noticed the tears on her cheeks.

"SYSTEMS RESTORING. YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED." The Dalek cried as it started to come back to life.

"We've got to move. That thing's coming back to life." Rory told them, taking hold of Kari's hand.

"You go to the Doctor. I'll be right with you." River called over her shoulder, not taking her eyes off the Dalek.

"Kari, are you okay?" Rory asked, as they made their way to the stairs where they had seen the Doctor fall down before dying.

She tried her best to contain herself, and she nodded at him. But Rory knew her better, he knew that she was upset but was doing everything she could not to show it.

"How could he have moved? He was dead." Rory asked, seeing his jacket that he had put over the Doctor lying there, with no body underneath it. "Doctor? Doctor!" He shouted.

"But he was dead." Amy clarified.

"Who told you that?" River asked, coming down the stairs behind them.

"He did." Amy said, looking at the woman.

"Rule one. The Doctor lies." Kari and River said at the same time.

"Where's the Dalek?"

"It died." River told Amy, heading over to Kari and taking her by the hand as they rushed to the room the Pandorica was in. "Hey, you okay, darling?"

"I know what he's going to do, River. And… I'm scared. I don't know what's going to happen to me." She admitted, letting a few more tears rolled down her already wet face.

"Everything will be fine, Kari. I'm here, I won't let anything bad happen to you. The Doctor would never forgive me if something happened to you." River told her.

"But he can't stop this from happening. He doesn't know what will happen, and neither do I. I don't know everything, River, I only know some details. The time lines are becoming more and more distorted to what I know."

"I promise you, you will be fine." River assured her, just as they reached the room with the Pandorica in it.

"Doctor!" Amy cried, seeing him passed out in the box.

"Why did he tell us he was dead?" Rory wondered.

"We were a diversion. As long as the Dalek was chasing us, he could work down here." Kari told them, stepping up to the box with River.

"Doctor, can you hear me? What were you doing?" River asked him.

Suddenly, the room became much brighter, getting Rory's attention. "What's happening?"

"Reality's collapsing, have you really not been listening?" Kari shouted in anger, her eyes burning slightly. "It's speeding up. Look at this room."

Amy and Rory both looked around, noticing it was almost empty. "Where'd everything go?" Amy asked.

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

"Big Bang Two." The Doctor mumbled, along with Kari.

"The Big Bang. That's the beginning of the universe, right?" Rory asked, earning a slight nod from Kari.

"What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings us back? Is that what you mean?" Amy asked. Again Kari just nodded.

That was when River finally worked out what the Doctor had been trying to do. "Oh."

Kari turned around and looked at the couple watched her. "The TARDIS is still burning, Amy. It's exploding at every point in history. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the hard of the fire…"

"Then what?"

"Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like he said." Kari told her.

"That would work?" Amy wondered. "That would bring everything back?" There was a little hint of hope in her voice.

"A restoration field powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history." River clarified, looking at all the wires around the Doctor. "Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work. He's wired the vortex manipulator to the rest of the box."

"Why?"

"So he can take it with him." Kari said quietly. "He's going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion." She pulled out her own sonic screwdriver and started fiddling with some of the wires. "There's still a bit of work that needs doing. I'll… get started with it." She mumbled.

River took a step back, giving Kari some space. "Kari…" The Doctor called to her softly.

"It's okay, I'm here. Just tidying up and little and making sure everything is perfect." She told him, not taking her eyes off the wires that were in her hands.

"I'm sorry." He whispered to her.

"You've got nothing to be sorry for, Doctor. None of this was your fault, it wasn't you who caused the TARDIS to explode. You didn't create those cracks." She replied, still focusing on what she was doing.

"Kari, look at me." She ignored him and carried on still. "Kari, please. Look at me." She turned off her screwdriver and slowly lifted her head up, the tears were flowing down her cheeks now, and she wasn't even trying to stop them. "I'm sorry, Kari."

"Like I said, Doctor, you have nothing to be sorry for." She told him, finally letting their eyes meet. She could see so much sadness in those old eyes of his. So much pain and regret.

"My beautiful, brilliant Kari." He said, reaching out a hand and touching the side of her face. Kari leaned into his hand, feeling the warmth coming from him. "There is so much I want to tell you."

"Then the next time you see me, you can tell me." She said, trying to stay strong. She knew he would make it out of this perfectly fine, as would Amy, Rory and River. But she didn't know if she would.

"Kari, there won't be a next time."

"Yeah there will, course there will." She said, trying to give him a smile. "You forget, I've met you in the future. You have a future, Doctor. And I'll see you there."

"Time can be rewritten." He reminded her.

"Yup, and sofa's can read. It's a big universe." That managed to get a smile from the Doctor. "Nothing is impossible, just a bit unlikely. Remember that."

"Kari…"

"It's speeding up, we haven't got much time left." River said, interrupting whatever the Doctor was going to say.

"Better get Amy, you need to say goodbye to her, Doctor." Kari said, getting up from where she was and walking over to the woman who was standing with her fiancée. "Amy, he wants to talk to you."

"So, what happens here? Big Bang Two? What happens to us?" The woman asked her.

"You all wake up where you ought to be. None of this ever happens and you don't remember it." Kari told her sadly.

"Kari, tell me he comes back, too." She didn't answer her. "River?"

River let out a sigh and saw that Kari wasn't going to answer her. "The Doctor will be at the heart of the explosion."

"So?"

"So all the cracks in time will close, but he'll be on the wrong side, trapped in the never-space, the void between the worlds. All memory of him will be purged from the universe. He will never have been born. Now, please. He wants to talk to you before he goes." River told her.

"Not to you?"

"He doesn't really know me yet. Now he never will." River said sadly. Kari took hold of River's hand and gave it a quick squeeze before going to the Pandorica with Amy.

"Hi." Amy said meekly.

"Amy Pond. The girl who waiting all night in your garden. Was it worth it?" The Doctor was struggling to speak.

"Shut up. Of course it was."

"You asked me why we were taking you with us, and I said, no reason. We were lying." The Doctor admitted.

"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." He told her.

"And Aunt Sharon." Amy reminded him of the woman she had lived with.

"Where were your mum and dad? Where was everybody else who lived in that big house?" The Doctor asked her.

"I… I don't…"

"It's okay, it's okay. Don't panic, it's not your fault." Kari said, wrapping an arm around her friends shoulder.

"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 we resist?" The Doctor asked her, giving her a small smile.

"How could I just forget?" Amy asked him, still feeling rather scared that she couldn't remember what actually happened to her mother and father.

"Nothing is ever forgotten. Not really. But you have to try." Kari told her softly, knowing that she could and would be able to do it.

"Doctor! Kari! It's speeding up!" River shouted.

Kari took the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and placed it in his jacket pocket. He couldn't help but smile at her, even though she was close to tears again. "There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there." He told Amy.

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

"Because you're special." Kari told her, not taking her eyes off the Doctor.

"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." The Doctor told her.

"You won't." Even Amy was close to tears now, but for different reasons to Kari.

"You'll have your family back. You won't need your imaginary friends any more. Ha! Amy Pond, crying over me, eh? Guess what?"

"What?"

"Gotcha." He said, getting the tiniest hint of a smile from Amy. "Kari…"

Kari let out a sigh and took a step closer to the Doctor as Amy backed away, leaving them alone. "Doctor, let me come with you, please." She begged.

"No, Kari. I have to do this, alone."

"But… but what about me? What's going to happen to me? I don't belong here. Everyone will wake up where they should be, but what about me? Where am I going to end up?" She asked in a panic. This was what had been bothering her the most. Everyone would have somewhere to be, but what about her? Would she end up back in her garden?

"Oh, Kari. I'm sorry. You'll get to have a normal life." He told her, watching the tears fall once again.

"No I won't. How can I have a normal life? I'm not even human." She told him. "I don't have a home, I have no where to wake up. Please, you have to let me come with you."

"People will remember you. Find them, start a new life."

"Who? Who will remember me? If you never existed, then we never met, I never travelled with you. No one will remember me."

The Doctor just smiled at her. "Jack. Find him. I know he will look after you."

"Please, Doctor. You can't leave me, you can't do this." She didn't know what else to do now. She was petrified, and nothing the Doctor, nor anyone else, could say would help her.

"Go. Live your life, Kari." He said, before the box started to close.

"Doctor! Doctor you can't do this! Please!" She shouted.

"Kari! Get back!" River cried, pulling the woman to the floor as the Pandorica smashed through the wall and headed in the direction of the burning TARDIS.

Kari was huddled up on the floor in tears when River received a message on her handheld computer. "It's from the Doctor." River told the group.

"What does it say?" Amy asked, looking at the state Kari was in.

"Geronimo." Kari and River said at the same time.

In her head, Kari could see exactly what was happening with the Doctor. The trip to space Florida, moving in with Craig, and on the Byzantium. Then he would be a little Amelia's house, telling her a story, the one about the old, new, borrowed, blue box of his.

Then everything went dark. The moment Kari had been fearing the most had arrived. The most likely thing to happen now was for her to wake up in her back garden, on the night that she saw that strange light in the sky. The night the Doctor came. But that was in his future, that would never happen. He would never come for her now.

"Kari! Wake up!" Someone shouted at her, trying to shake her awake.

"Ugh, go away." She mumbled into her pillow.

"Kari, I'm getting married today. You're meant to be my maid of honour. You're not allowed to sleep longer than me. So wake up!" The woman called at her.

Kari rolled over in her bed and finally opened her eyes. She didn't know what to think when she saw the woman standing over her. "Amy?"

"Yes, I'm Amy. Glad you remember my name. Come on, you're meant to be helping me get ready." She cried, grabbing Kari's hand and pulling her out of bed.

"I… I don't understand. This isn't right. I shouldn't be here." She whispered to herself as she followed Amy.

"I'm just going to call Rory. I have this… feeling…" Amy told her. Kari just nodded and she set about getting the things ready to Amy.

"Do you feel like you've forgotten something really important?" Amy asked Rory on the other end of the phone. "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 asked.

"Yep." Rory answered, while brushing his teeth.

"Are you just saying that because you're scared of me?"

"Yep."

"I love you."

"Yep. Er, I mean, I love you too!" He called back, before Amy ended the call.

"Kari, do you feel like something is missing?" Amy asked her seriously.

"Yes. I know something is missing. Or rather, someone." She told Amy, looking out the window and down into the garden. The shed was sitting there, in perfectly good condition.

"Hey, are you okay?" Amy asked her softly, noticing the distant look on her friends face.

Kari turned and smiled at the red head. "Course I am. I'm always okay."

"You're crying." Amy pointed out.

"Yes."

"Why?"

Kari let out a sigh. "Because there is this man, that the universe forgot. No one in the universe remembers him, except for me. And I miss him, a lot more than I should."

"Oh, come on, Kari. I'm getting married today, you're my maid of honour and one of my very best friends." Amy said, putting an arm around her. "This is not a day to be sad."

Kari turned to face her and smiled. "No, you're right. I can't sit here moaning and thinking about things that never happened when I have to get you prepared to marry Rory Williams."

"I'm so glad you're here." Amy told her. "I'm glad you decided to stay in Leadworth."

"Me too." Kari said, not having any clue as to what Amy was talking about.

Kari was sat at the table with the rest of Amy and Rory's family. The ceremony had gone without a hitch, and the whole time she couldn't stop thinking about the Doctor. She really was the only one that remembered him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen. The father of the bride, Augustus Pond!" Someone announced, as Amy's father stood up.

"Sorry, everyone. I'll be another two minutes. I'm just reviewing certain aspects." He said, holding his speech and a pen in his hands before sitting back down.

"Your father, Amelia, will be the absolute death of me." Amy's mother, Tabitha said. "Unless, of course, I strike pre-emptively."

Kari and Amy both noticed River walking past the window outside. Amy quickly stood up and watched the woman walking past.

"Amy? You okay?" Rory asked her, giving her a concerned look.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She told him before sitting back down again.

"Right. Er, you're crying." He pointed out to her, watching her closely.

She reached up and touched her face. "So I am. Why am I doing that?"

"Because you're happy, probably. Happy Mrs Rory. Happy, happy, happy." Rory said, a little too enthusiastically.

"No, I'm sad. I'm really, really sad." Amy said, glancing at Kari and noticing that she was close to tears.

"Great." Rory said, feeling a little bit annoyed that his new wife was crying, and not seemingly happy to be his wife.

"Why am I sad?" She asked, before noticing a blue book sitting on the table in front of them. "What's that?"

"Oh, er, someone left it for you. A woman." Rory told her, passing the book to her.

Amy quickly flipped through the book. "It's blank."

"It's a present."

"But why?" Amy questioned, not unable to understand what she was feeling.

"Well, you know the only saying. The old wedding thing, huh?" Amy just looked at him blankly. "Amy, what…" Rory noticed her gaze at Kari, both of them seemed in their own little worlds.

"Ready now." Amy's father said, standing up. "Sorry about that. Last minute adjustments to certain aspects. Now then, it hardly seems a year since…" Amy looked around the room at the guests, and certain things drew her attention.

"Bow ties, bracers." Kari whispered to herself, knowing what Amy was thinking now.

"At the age of six and announced that the new head teacher wasn't real because she looked like a cartoon." Amy's father said.

"Shut up, dad!" Amy shouted, standing up and surprising everyone.

"Amy?"

"Amelia?"

"Sorry, but shut up, please. There's someone missing. Someone important. Someone so, so important." Amy said, looking at Kari. She noticed that her maid of honour looked just about ready to have a complete break down.

"Amy, what's wrong?" Rory asked her softly.

"Sorry. Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid. I had imaginary friends. They were real." She looked at Kari and gave her a smile, she was one of those friends, and she was there at her wedding.

"Oh no, not this again." Her mother moaned.

"The raggedy Doctor and his golden Angel. My raggedy Doctor and golden Angel. But they weren't imaginary. They were real." Amy said, seeing a slight smile form on Kari's face.

"The psychiatrists we sent her to…" Her mother continued.

"I remember you. I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home too. Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!" Amy shouted.

The glasses and tables started to shake, just like Kari knew they would. "I found you. I found you in words, like you knew I would. Like Kari knew I would. That's why you told me the story of the brand new, ancient blue box." Amy said, just as a strong wind appeared from nowhere. "Oh, clever. Very clever." She said, looking over at Kari, who just had the biggest grin on her face.

"Amy, what is it?" Rory asked, not understanding what was going on.

"Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue." Amy said, watching at the TARDIS materialised in the middle of the room.

"It's the Doctor. How did we forget the Doctor?" Rory asked, looking over at Kari. He had never seen her so happy, but now he remembered why. "I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag. Long story."

Kari was overcome with nerves. She knew what was going to happen next, and she just couldn't explain why she was feeling the way she was.

Amy climbed over the table and knocked on the door of the TARDIS. "Okay, Doctor. Did I surprise you this time?"

The Doctor opened the door, revealing himself and the top hat and tails he was wearing. "Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing." He said, before stepping out of the box. "Hello, everyone. I'm Amy's imaginary friend. But I came anyway." He said, making everyone gasp and talk in hushed whispers.

"You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride." Amy said, grinning away.

"Amelia, from now on I shall be leaving the kissing duties to the brand new Mr Pond." The Doctor told her, scanning the room with his eyes.

"No, I'm not Mr Pond. That's not how it works." Rory informed him.

"Yeah, it is."

Rory relented. "Yeah, it is."

"Right then, everyone. I'll move my box. You're going to need the space. I only came form the dancing." The Doctor told them, before heading back into the box.

Kari took this as her moment and hitched up her red dress, before charging out of the room. Amy and Rory both called after her, but she didn't stop, and she didn't look back. She couldn't. She had so many questions running through her mind, and they just wouldn't stop. Everything that had happened since she had met the Doctor, the way he had kissed her. That would have been the last time he saw her, on the Byzantium, kissing her. She didn't know if she was ready to face him yet.

She managed to get outside, and that was where she stayed, hidden away in the shadows as the wedding continued into the evening. Kari knew the Doctor would be dancing with the kids now. His silly dance that Amy would call embarrassing.

"You should be in there, you know." River told her, sitting down beside her.

"No, I really shouldn't. I shouldn't be here at all. I don't even know how I ended up here, River." Kari told her, still staring off into space.

"You're the maid of honour. Shouldn't you be dancing with the best man or something?" River asked her, a smirk on her face.

"I don't do weddings, River. Just like you really."

"Oh, you definitely do weddings, darling. I should know." The woman told her, the smirk growing ever wider.

"All weddings I go to are complete disasters. Always some bloody alien showing up." Kari moaned.

"Just like the alien that showed up here?" River asked her. "Why don't you want to see him?"

Kari let out a sigh. "I don't know. Maybe I'm just scared. Neither of us knew what was going to happen to me, and even I don't know still. All I know was I woke up this morning, in Amy's house, with her shouting at me and shaking me."

"Go talk to him. I'll see you in a while." River said, getting up and walking off.

Kari sat there for a little while longer before deciding she needed to face the Doctor. What was the worse that could happen?

She crept back into the building and snuck up behind the Doctor. "Two thousand years. The boy who waited. Good on you, mate." The Doctor said to himself as he leaned against the doorway, watching the newly weds slow dance.

Kari just stood there, she didn't have a plan, she didn't know what to say. Her feet were telling her to turn right back around and run. "It only took the end of the universe for them to finally get married." Kari whispered from the shadows.

The Doctor quickly spun around, his eyes wide and filled with joy. "Kari!" He cried, rushing up to her and grabbing her tightly. He ended up picked her off the ground and swinging her around a little. "Where have you been? Amy said you ran off, why did you run off? Are you okay?" He asked her all in one breath.

"Yeah… I'm… I'm fine. I just needed some time. You know, to think and… stuff." She mumbled, keeping her gaze on her feet when the Doctor finally put her back down and let her go.

"You look beautiful." The Doctor said, his cheeks flushing a little, just like Kari's were.

"Thanks." She mumbled, shifting a little.

"So, how've you been?" He asked her, feeling a little nervous now.

"Oh, you know, same old. No idea how I ended up living with Amy and her family. I just woke up this morning, and there she was, shouting at me." She told him, still not looking up. "I didn't forget you. I was the only person in the whole universe who remembered you. But I couldn't bring you back."

"Well, I'm here now." He told her, wishing that she would just look at him. "Come on, let's go back to the TARDIS." He said, holding a hand out towards her.

Kari shook her head and took a step back. "No. Not yet. I'm not leaving yet."

The Doctor frowned at her. "Kari, what's wrong?"

"River's waiting for you." Kari told him quietly.

"River can wait. Kari, talk to me." He pleaded. But Kari just shook her head at him. "Kari, please…"

"No. I'm not doing this anymore. I am sick of not know who I am anymore. I am sick of just accepting everything without questioning it. I am sick of… of…" A small sob came out from her mouth as she tried to speak.

"Oh, Kari. I'm so sorry." The Doctor told her softly as he wrapped his arms around her tightly. She didn't try to get away from him, she just let a few more sobs out. "You know, Rory and Amy aren't the only ones who have waited." He told her, kissing the top of her head. "You've waited long enough. I've waited long enough."

"Doctor, what are you blabbering on about this time?" Kari asked, her voice muffled a little by his shirt.

"There is this… amazing woman, who has always been in my life. Since the very beginning on Gallifrey. And the one thing I never told her, was how much she meant to me." The Doctor said, still holding her tightly. Kari had no idea where any of this was leading, but she was listening. "I should have told her a long time ago, just how important she is to me."

"Very sentimental, Doctor. And here I was, thinking you were useless at weddings." Kari mumbled, making him laugh a little. "Can you get to the point please?"

The Doctor let out a sigh. "I love you, Kari."

She instantly froze. That was certainly not what she was expecting to hear form him. "I'm sorry, what?" She asked, pushing herself away from him a little.

"I should have told you long ago, Kari. I love you." She could see, in his eyes, that he meant it. Now things started to make sense to her. The way he wasn't interested in Rose, what River had told her. The way he was always so comfortable around her, even after losing Rose. Everything just fell into place, like the last piece of a jigsaw.

"No, you don't mean that. You can't mean that." She said, backing away from him a little. "That's really not funny, Doctor."

"Kari, it's the truth. Why do you think I hated you being around Jack? Why do you think I didn't want to save him?" The Doctor asked her.

"I… I don't know. But this is wrong. This can't be happening." She cried, running out of the building again.

She made her way to the TARDIS, where she knew it was parked at Amy's house. "Kari? Kari, what's wrong?" River asked as she spotted her.

"Nothing. I just… I have to go. I have to get out of here." She said in a blind panic.

"Calm down, and tell me what's going on." River said, holding her hands tightly.

"The Doctor. He… he said…" Kari didn't want to say it, because she just couldn't believe it.

River just smiled at her. "He told you didn't he?" She asked.

"Of course, you knew. You always knew. You would have known from the future. How could I have been so damn stupid?" Kari shouted, getting more and more frustrated with herself.

"Hey, come on, darling, calm down. Why is it so bad?" River asked her, not completely understanding the problem.

"Because this, this was never meant to happen. I was never meant to be here. The Doctor was never meant to be with me. He… he was… there was someone else." She told her, not finding the strength to tell her that she was the one he was meant to be with.

"Kari, time can be rewritten. We both know that. And what you see isn't always the truth. Please, just accept what he said. I can't stand to see the pair of you apart." River pleaded with her.

"No, River. I'm sorry. I… I need to get away form here. I need to go somewhere, anywhere. I just need to get away and clear my head." Kari told her.

"Well, you're going to have to wait, the Doctor's here." River whispered to her, stepping up to the Doctor. "Did you dance? Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?" She asked him.

"You tell me." The Doctor said, looking over at Kari.

"Spoilers."

The Doctor handed River back her blue diary and her vortex manipulator. "The writing's all back, but I didn't peek."

"Thank you."

"Are you married, River?" The Doctor asked, still looking at Kari.

"Are you asking?"

"Yes."

A smile took over River's face. "Yes."

"No, hang on. Did you think I was asking you to marry me, or…or… or asking if you were married?" The Doctor rambled. Usually, Kari would have begun laughing by now, but her mind was in turmoil.

"Yes."

"River, who are you?" The Doctor asked her seriously, finally taking his eyes of Kari.

"You're going to find out very soon now. And I'm sorry, but that's when everything changes." She said to him, before turning to Kari. "You know where to find me, darling." And with that, she vanished in a flash of light.

"Kari, I think we need to talk." The Doctor told her, walking towards her.

"Doctor, I can't. I… I need some time to clear my head." She told him. "Just… leave me here for a few days. Please."

"Kari, please talk to me." He begged. Only for her to shake her head. He knew she was stubborn, and he knew he was not going to win this. "Okay, if you want to stay for a few days, that's fine. But at least take this." He pulled a small blue box out from inside his jacket pocket. "It's about time I gave it to you."

Kari took the box from him and gave him a small smile. "Thanks. I'll call you, when I'm ready okay?" The Doctor nodded at her. She could see just how sad he was, and how much he didn't want her to go, but she needed to do this. She needed some time away to sort her head out.

"Make sure you do. I love you, Kari. Remember that." He said, before she nodded at him and turned away, making her way back inside the house.

She charged up to her room and pulled a bag out from under her bed. It was the same bag she had grabbed in the TARDIS when it had been exploding, the same bag River had given her with the perception filter on it. She didn't know why, but something was telling her to take it with her. And now she was glad she did.

She put the blue box in the bag, which already had her laptop, psychic paper, sonic screwdriver and vortex manipulator in it, along with plenty of spare clothes. She pulled out her vortex manipulator and began to do up the straps.

"Where's Kari?" Amy asked as she saw the Doctor standing by the TARDIS, looking up at her house.

"She's not coming."

"You finally told her, didn't you, Doctor?" Rory asked him. The Doctor nodded, which only sent Amy into a state of confusion.

"Told her? Told her what?" She asked, looking between her husband and the Time Lord.

"That he loves her." Rory said, taking a hold of his wife.

"Oh, Doctor. What took you so long? All the times we've all been together, why did you never tell her? Why did you wait till now?" Amy asked. Of course, she and Rory had always known as well, just like River had. They knew a Kari from the future, they knew from that.

Rory laughed a little. "Amy, this is the Doctor. He was too scared. Vampire fish, no problem. An escaped alien convict, easy. Telling a women he loves her, it's the end of the universe."

Kari could take anymore, she hit the buttons on her vortex manipulator and walked away from the window. "I'll see you later, Doctor, Ponds." She hit the last button and was overwhelmed by a bright, white light.

A/N: And there you have it. One less secret being kept from Kari. Things are certainly going to change for her and the Doctor now. but will it be in a good way or a bad way? Isn't it lucky that River gave her that vortex manipulator.

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