A/N: Guys, I am so sorry for the lack of updates and the long wait. Back at uni and it really has been taking up too much of my time. I'm sorry. Also, I apologise now for any spelling and grammatical errors.
"Come on, Kari." The Doctor called, as the TARDIS finally appeared in the garden once more. He charged out, not even bothering to wait for her. She had been moaning at him about getting soaking wet again, but the heat from inside the TARDIS soon fixed that problem.
"Amelia!" He shouted, running towards the house. "Amelia, I worked out what it was. I know what I was missing! You've got to get out of there." He continued to shout as he used his sonic screwdriver to unlock the door and get into the house.
"Amelia? Amelia, are you all right? Are you there?" He called, now rushing up the stairs, taking them two at a time.
"Doctor, wait!" Kari called from down stairs, having only just got into the house herself.
"Prisoner Zero's here. Prisoner Zero is here!" He cried as he tried to open the door in the corner that Kari had spotted straight away last time. "Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is…" The Doctor didn't get to say anything else, as he was hit over the head with something and landed on the floor, completely out cold.
That was when Kari appeared at the top of the stairs, and looked at the woman holding the cricket bat in her hand. "Uh, Amy, please don't hit me with that as well. I get headaches often enough as it is." She said, holding her hands up in surrender.
The red haired woman just looked at her with wide eyes, before doing exactly what Kari had asked her not to do. She hit the ground just beside the Doctor.
The Doctor finally began to stir when he heard someone speaking. "White male and female, both mid twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some back up. I've got them restrained." The red haired woman in a police uniform called down her radio. "Oi, you. Sit still." She said, looking at the Doctor.
"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat." The Doctor said, working out what it was that had hit him over the head.
"You were breaking and entering." The woman said, glaring at him.
He tried to get up, only for something to pull him straight back down again. "Well, that's much better. Brand new me. Whack on the head, just what I needed." The Doctor turned his head, and saw Kari there beside him. "Hey, Kari? Come on, wake up." He said, reaching over and shaking her shoulder a little.
Eventually she let out a groan. "God, I'm going to kill Jack." She mumbled, while the Doctor just chuckled at her.
"Kari, are you okay?" He asked, getting her to look over at him.
It took a while for her eyes to focus, but she eventually managed to see him. "Oh, hello. My head hurts." She said, going to reach to rub the back of it, only to find she was handcuffed between the radiator with the Doctor on the other end. "Oh, lovely. Handcuffs. Always bloody handcuffs."
"Do you want to shut up now?" The woman asked them, getting the pair's attention. "I've got back up on the way." Kari smirked a little at the woman, knowing who she was and actually missing her Scottish accent.
"Hang on, no, wait. You're a policewoman." The Doctor said, finally noticing what she was wearing, causing Kari to roll her eyes a little.
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here?" The Doctor asked the woman. "Where's Amelia?"
The expression on the woman's face changed, and only Kari understood why. "Amelia Pond?" She asked.
"Yeah, Amelia. Little Scottish girl. Where is she?" The Doctor asked her. "We promised er five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose we must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?"
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time." The policewoman said, making Kari roll her eyes. She just wanted to be un-cuffed from the radiator. It was bad enough when River handcuffed her to things, but having Amy doing as well, she didn't like that much.
The Doctor just watched the woman, not liking her reaction at all. "How long?" He asked, dreading the answer that was about to come.
"Six months." The woman finally said, at the exact same time Kari did, their eyes locked.
"No. No. No. No, I can't be six months late. I said five minutes. I promised." The Doctor called, starting to get frustrated. "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?" He asked, as the woman turned around.
She started speaking into her radio that was attached to her uniform. "Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up. These two know something about Amelia Pond."
"Amelia is fine, Doctor. She's just… well, she's fine. Let's just leave it at that." Kari whispered to him, hoping that it would ease his mind and calm him down a little. He was going to find out what had happened to her soon enough, but there really was no need for him to get worked up.
"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house right now." The Doctor said, glancing at Kari and wondering why she was being so quiet.
I woman just looked at the pair. "I live here."
"But you're the police." The Doctor didn't seem convinced, neither did he seam to understand that the police had to live somewhere as well.
"Yes, and this is where I live. Have you got a problem with that?" She asked him, taking a step closer, clearly not impressed.
"How many rooms?" Kari said, at the same time as the Doctor. Both of them looked at her and blinked.
"I'm sorry, what?" It was apparent that she hadn't been expecting something like that to be asked.
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor?" The Doctor asked her. "Count them for me now."
"Why?"
All the Doctor could do was look at her. "Because it will change your life."
"Five." The policewoman said confidently. "One, two, three, four, five." She said, pointing to all but one door.
"Six." Kari and the Doctor corrected her.
"Six?"
"Look, look exactly where you don't want to look." Kari told her, wanting to get to the point where he unlocked the handcuffs already. "Where you never want to look, the corner of your eye. Just look behind you."
There was a look for pure shock on her face, as her head slowly turned and out of the corner of her eye, she spotted the room that Kari had seen straight away. "That's… that is not possible." She said, as she continued to stare at it in awe.
"There's a perception filter all round the door. Senses it the last time we were here. Should've seen it." The Doctor said, watching her as she still got over the shock.
"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed."
"The filter stops you noticing. Something came here a while ago to hide. It's still hiding, and you need to uncuff us now." The Doctor warned her, pulling at the cuffs as she started to walk towards the door to the room she had never noticed before.
"I don't have the key. I lost it."
Kari let out a sigh. She had left everything in the TARDIS. She hadn't had a chance to pick anything up, since the Doctor was about to regenerate and then the TARDIS almost exploded. "Sorry, I got nothing on me today." She whispered to the Doctor.
The Doctor just gave her a smile, he wasn't blaming her, before looking back to the woman. "How can you have lost it? Stay away from that door!" He called, watching as she got ever closer to it. "Do not touch that door! Listen to me, do not open that." He said, as she put her hand on the knob and turned it. "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?" The Doctor called in frustration as she went into the room. "Again?"
"Hey, I listen to you. Well, most of the time. But I know you better, I know when not to listen to you." Kari told him. "And anyway, you have a lovely face." She said, reaching over and giving him a quick peck on the lips.
The Doctor blushed, before hunting through his pockets. "My screwdriver, where is it?" He called, hoping the woman in the room could hear him. "Silver thing, blue at the end. Where did it go?"
"There's nothing here." She called from inside of the room.
The Doctor let out a sigh. "Whatever's there stopped you seeing the room. What makes you think you could see it?" He asked her. "Now please, just get out."
"Doctor, just calm down." Kari said, making him look at her. "Everything is going to be fine. It's going to be a really fun day. Full of excitement, running and saving people. Oh, and did I mention running?"
"Silver, blue at the end?" A voice called from the room before the Doctor had a chance to answer her.
"My screwdriver, yeah."
"It's here." The female voice called, making Kari fidget a little. She knew what was coming next, and no matter how much she wanted to stop it, she knew that it had to happen if they were ever going to get passed it all.
The Doctor rubbed his head, trying to work out exactly what to do and how to get out of those handcuffs. "Must have rolled under the door." He said, coming to that conclusion.
"Yeah. Must have." The woman said. "And then it must have jumped up on the table…"
"Oh, just get the hell out of there!" Kari shouted, getting to the end of her tether. She hated being stuck in handcuffs. Again. It reminded her too much of what happened last time she was handcuffed. "Get out of there!"
"There's nothing here, but…"
"Don't try to see it. If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you." The Doctor shouted, pulling on the handcuffs which just hurt Kari's wrist even more. "Don't look at it. Do not…" That was when they both heard her scream. "Look." He said, before rolling his eyes. "Get out!"
The pair watched as she ran out of the room, slamming the door closed and grasping onto the Doctor's screwdriver tightly. "Give me that." The Doctor said, snatching the screwdriver from her hand and locking the door. It was clear to see that she was more than just a little afraid. "Come on. What's the bad alien done to you?" The Doctor asked his beloved screwdriver as he tried to get it to work.
"Will that door hold it?" The woman asked, her eyes not leaving the door.
"Oh yeah, of course. I mean, it's only an interdimensional multiform from outer space." Kari said, rolling her eyes. "They're all terrified of wood." There was a bright light coming from under the door now. "Oh, and now it's getting dressed. Well, off you go, we'll be fine. You've got your back up coming."
"There is no back up."
The Doctor looked up at her while Kari just smirked. "I heard you on the radio. You called for back up."
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio."
This time the Doctor frowned. "You're a policewoman."
"She's a kissogram!" Kari said, at the same time as the woman announced she was, taking of her hat and letting her red hair fall down her shoulders. "Oh look, man and a dog." She said, as the door smashed to the ground.
That was when Amy noticed that there was something slightly wrong with it. "But it's just…"
"No it isn't. Take a good look at the faces." Kari said, watching as the man started snarling and barking.
"What? I'm sorry, but what?"
"It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two. Clever old multiform. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you?" The Doctor asked it, still trying to get her screwdriver to work. "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"
The man started barking again, and Kari remembered what was going to happen next. "Whatever you're about to say Doctor, don't. Please, don't." He looked at her, about to ask her why when a voice boomed through the air.
"Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded." The voice called. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated."
At that point, Kari grabbed the screwdriver from the Doctor, whacking it a few times, getting it to finally work and releasing the handcuffs. "Okay, time to run." She said, as the Doctor helped her up while the multiform was busy looking out of the window from one of the other rooms.
The three of them ran down the stairs and out of the house as quickly as they could, the Doctor not letting go of Kari's hand. He went straight for the TARDIS, which wouldn't let them in, as the poor old girl was still rebuilding and trying to repair the damage that the Doctor's regeneration had caused.
"Now, let's just get right to it. Amelia, I am extremely sorry that we are late." Kari said, as the Doctor looked over at the shed that was sitting in the garden. The same shed that he had destroyed when the TARDIS had crashed into it what had only been five minutes ago for him and Kari.
"How did you…" Amy started, only to be stopped by the Doctor, who clearly had not been listening to a think Kari had said since he was licking the side of the shed.
"No, wait, hang on. The shed, we destroyed that shed the last time we were here." The Doctor pointed out as Kari rolled her eyes at him. "Smashed it to pieces."
"So, there's a new one. Let it go." Amy said, still looking at Kari. Their eyes had been locked since the moment she had called her Amelia.
"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least. Twelve years." He said, licking it once more. "We're not six months late, we're twelve years late." The Doctor concluded, totally oblivious to the fact that Kari was starting to giggle.
"He's coming." The red head told him, noticing that the man and the dog were going to be after them soon enough.
"You said six months. Why did you say six months?" The Doctor asked her, clearly wanting answers and knowing he was not going to get them from Kari as she was trying so hard not to let her giggles take over.
"We've got to go." Amy reminded him, trying to tug at his arm to get him to move.
But he quickly pulled his arm away from her. "This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?" He asked, just needing to get down to the bottom of it all.
Amy finally cracked. "Why did you say five minutes!" She shouted at him, causing Kari to break out in that fit of giggles she had been so desperate to hold, and the Doctor to stare at her with wide eyes.
"What?" He asked her, obviously not yet ready to believe what was going on.
Amy didn't hesitate any more, and just grabbed one of the Doctor's arms as well as one of Kari's. "Come on." She said, dragging them and ignoring the protests coming from the Doctor.
The red haired woman carried on dragging them until they were far enough away from the house and in the little village that Kari had been in once before. Her giggling had finally calmed down and she was able to turn her focus back onto what was going on around her.
"You're Amelia." The Doctor said, still unable to believe what had happened.
"And you're late." Amy retorted.
"Amelia Pond. You're the little girl?" He asked, causing Kari to roll her eyes.
Amy just carried on looking where she was walking. She hadn't even believed they were ever going to come back for her. "I'm Amelia and you're late."
"Twelve years late, no wonder you hit us both with a cricket bat." Kari mumbled, rubbing the back of her head at the reminder of what had happened. "I swear I asked you not to hit me, but you still did any way. I guess that was because of the four psychiatrists."
The Doctor looked at Kari and then to Amy. "Four?"
Finally Amy looked a little embarrassed or maybe even a little ashamed. "I kept biting them."
Kari let a little laugh slip out. "All because they said we weren't real. Honestly, Amy, did you really have to bite then?" She shook her head a little, doing her best to calm down so that the giggles don't return straight away. "Oh, you really are one of a kind, Amelia Pond."
She heard the Doctor let out a groan as he tightened his grip on her hand a little. "I take it you know what's going on and what's going to happen, Kari?" The woman in question simply nodded at him. "Okay, well that makes me feel a little bit better."
"Hey, who wants some ice cream?" Kari suddenly called, dragging her Doctor and Amy towards the ice cream van.
They stopped the moment they heard the same announcement that they had heard back at Amy's house. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat…" Came from the speakers of the ice cream van.
"No, no, no, come on. What? We're being staked out by an ice cream van." Amy moaned, following as the Doctor and Kari rushed over to the man who was fiddling with the wires to the speakers.
"What's that? Why are you playing that?" The Doctor demanded, leaning into the van through the small opened window a little and looking at the radio on the counter.
The man just looked up at the Doctor, his own face full of confusion. "It's suppose to be Claire De Lune." The Doctor picked up the radio and put it right against his ear, listening as much as he could.
That was when Kari started looking around at everyone else, the woman with her mp3 player, the lady on her mobile phone, they were all hearing the same thing. "Okay, time to get this show on the road." She said, grinning away as she yanked on the Doctor's arm, pulling him towards one of the houses.
They made it into a house to find a woman constantly changing the channels on the television, only to have the same thing come up on each one. "Hello!" The Doctor called cheerily, stopping and making Kari almost rush into him. "Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area." He said, before Amy came bursting in as well.
"Also crimes." Kari added, giving Amy a look, knowing that she wasn't going to be impressed. "Best have a look." She said, nudging the Doctor forward a little.
He took the hint and grabbed the television control from the woman. "I was just about to phone." The elderly woman said, as he tried changing the changes before hitting the remote on his hand several times. "It's on every channel." The woman quickly turned to see the red haired woman, looking more than just a little nervous. "Oh, hello, Amy dear. Are you a policewoman now?"
"Well, sometimes." Amy replied, as Kari covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing. She knew that it was going to be a day full of giggles for her, because there was so much that was going to be happening.
The elderly woman frowned at her. "I thought you were a nurse."
"I can be a nurse."
"Or actually, a nun?"
Amy was getting even more anxious now with all the questions that were being thrown at her. "I dabble." She said, hoping that would just shut the woman up.
The woman looked at Kari and gave her a quick smile. "Amy, who are you friends?"
It was then that the Doctor turned back to look at the red haired woman. "Who's Amy? You were Amelia." He pointed out, still trying to find out why there was a huge eyeball on the telly saying the same thing that they had heard everywhere else.
"Yeah? Now I'm Amy." She said defensively.
"Amelia Pond. That was a great name." The Doctor told her.
"Bit fairy tale." Kari said, at the same time as Amy, getting a rather odd look from her. Kari just shrugged, knowing that now was not the time to explain how she knew exactly what had happened and what she was going to say.
"I know you, don't I?" The woman said, looking between the Doctor and Kari. "I've seen you both somewhere before."
"Not me." The Doctor told her. "Brand new face. First time on." He said, pulling a few silly faces, stretching out his jaw. "And what sort of job's a kissogram?" That question was directed to Amy.
"I go to parties and I kiss people. With outfits. It's a laugh." Kari could see the nervousness on her face and just feel the tenseness in the atmosphere. She really wanted to tell the pair of them to just shut up and focus on the problem at hand, but she knew the Doctor would get there soon enough.
"You were a little girl five minutes ago." The Doctor told her, clearly not impressed with her career choice.
Amy huffed a little. "You're worse than my aunt."
"I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt." He told her, before looking at the elderly woman once more. "And that is not how I'm introducing myself." His attention was turned to the radio, where the same message was broadcasting but in other languages as well.
"Right, straight to the point." Kari said, wanting to get to the running. She really did love the running nowdays. "It's broadcasting to the whole world, on every channel and in every language." She announced, making the Doctor run to the window and look up. "So, planet this size with two poles and a basic molten core, they need forty percent fission blast." The Doctor just looked at her with a grin on his face.
That was when a man walked into the room, a laptop case un his arms. The Doctor was quickly over to him, looking completely bonkers as he carried on Kari's little rant. "But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium sized starship, that's twenty minutes." He said, before turning to look at Kari once more. "What do you think, twenty minutes?"
Kari nodded her head at him. "Oh yes, we've got twenty minutes, so you best get to it." She said, a huge smile on her face.
"Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asked, as the new man just looked at the Doctor and Kari.
"Are you the Doctor and Kari?" He finally asked.
"They are, aren't they? He's the Doctor and she's Kari. The Raggedy Doctor and his Golden Angel." The woman said, a little excited. "All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor and his Golden Angel. It's them." She said, looking at Amy for answers.
"Shut up." Amy hissed. Kari felt a bit sorry for Amy, she was had been through so much and had no one believe that they were real. She regretted not telling her when she was a child that they were going to be late. If she was honest, it had completely slipped her mind at the time, which she wasn't happy about.
"Yes, he's the Doctor, I'm Kari, and we have twenty minutes till the whole planet is roasted because an alien convict was living in Amy's spare room for over ten years." Kari told them, getting them all to shut up. "Amy didn't imagine us, we're real. Got the timing a little wrong, came back much later than planned, but here we are. Now, if you will excuse us, we have a planet to save. Again." With that, she grabbed hold of the Doctor's hand and Amy's arm, before pulling the pair out of the house.
The Doctor just beamed at her as they started walking the streets of where they were. "What is this place? Where am I?" He asked, looking around and seeing nothing of any use.
"Leadworth." Amy and Kari replied at the same time. She once again got a very strange look from Amy.
"Where's the rest of it?"
Kari let out a sigh. "This is it. No airport, no nuclear power station, not even a little one. Nearest city is Gloucester which we would need a car to get to." She said, knowing that the Doctor was going to be asking about all of those things.
"Well, that's good. Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and we've got a post office. And it's shut." He moaned, before spotting something. "What is that?" Kari's eyes followed his finger and saw he was pointing at the pond.
"It's a duck pond." Amy told him confidently, but with a frown on her face.
The Doctor just looked up at her. "Why aren't there any ducks?"
"Oh, both of you shut up. Doctor, this is not helping you, you're still regenerating." Kari told him softly, just as he clutched hold of his chest in pain. "You're okay, everything is going to be absolutely fine." She told him, just as the sky began to darken.
"What's happening? Why's it going dark?" Amy asked, looking up at the sky and not noticing the worried look that Kari was giving the Doctor. She knew his regenerations were painful, her one and only regeneration had been agonising. "So what's wrong with the sun?"
Kari let out a sigh. "There's nothing wrong with the sun, Amy. You are now seeing it through a force field because they have seal off the upper atmosphere and are getting ready to boil the planet. Next question?"
"Oh, and here they come." The Doctor said, using Kari to get himself up from where he had ended up sitting on a small wall. "The human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone." He moaned.
"This isn't real, is it? This is some kind of big wind up." It was easy to tell from Amy's voice that she was starting to panic now, that reality was finally starting to set in.
Both the Doctor and Kari looked at her. "Why would we wind you up?" They asked her at the same time, before sharing a small smile.
"You told me you had a time machine."
"Yeah, and you believed him, Amy." Kari reminded her softly. She know it was going to take a lot more than just words to convince the woman.
Amy just looked at her. "Then I grew up."
"Oh, you never want to do that." Kari told her, before turning to the Doctor. "Now shut up. What did you see Doctor? What did you miss?" She asked, gently grabbing his chin and turning his head to a certain nurse that she already knew.
He smiled at her, before kissing the top of her head. "Oh, my brilliant, beautiful Kari. Twenty minutes. We can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help us."
The Doctor looked at her, hopeful as he awaited her answer. But then she spoke a single word. "No."
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor asked her, clearly in shock at her answer.
"No!" She said, before grabbing him by the tie and pulling him over to a car that had just parked behind where they were had been standing.
"Amy, no, no, what are you doing?" The Doctor called, before his tie, along with part of Kari's top, was caught in the door of the car. "Are you out of your mind?" He asked, as she grabbed the key from the owner and locked the doors.
A/N: Once again, I am sorry for the wait for the update, had a lot of other stuff to do. Sometimes real life does get in the way more than I would have liked.
Anyway, yes, this episode is actually split over 3 chapters now. I didn't plan it that way, but I added in the 'Meanwhile In The TARDIS' scene at the end in the next chapter, so it made more sense.
Thank you to everyone who has stuck by my stories, all of you who have favourited/followed. And a massive thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review. It really does mean a lot to me.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The next one is all ready to go for next week. So, until then…
Pippa.