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"The Government is again apologising for extensive radio interference caused by solar flare and sunspot activity," the Doctor and Rose both heard a man on a radio say as they both regained consciousness as they looked up and saw a ceiling fan lazily spinning above them with them resting on two separate couches within a room on a train before their eyes moved from the ceiling as they focused on Amy, their daughter and Jack as they were leaning in the doorway with Amy and Jenny having their arms crossed.
"Amy," the Doctor muttered as he stared at their ginger companion.
"Sweetheart, Jack," Rose said as she stared at their daughter and her best friend.
"Those stun guns aren't fun, we're sorry," Amy apologised, "We wanted to avoid a long conversation. You both need to get up though, we'll be in Cairo shortly."
"Yeah, we're sorry, Mum and Dad," Jenny said, agreeing with Amy.
"I'm also truly sorry, Doc, you too, Rosie," Jack told them, agreeing with Amy and Jenny.
"Amy Pond. Amelia Pond from Leadworth, please, listen to us," the Doctor said as he and Rose both pulled themselves into a sitting position, "I know it seems impossible, but you know us. In another version of reality you and us were best friends. We… We travelled together, we had adventures…" He then tried to stand but needed the wall for support as Rose did the same, while unbeknownst to them, there were drawings of their adventures, "Amelia Pond. You grew up with a time rift in the wall of your bedroom. You can see what others can't, you can remember things that never happened like Time Lords, Time Ladies and a few other Time-Sensitive beings can." He then picked up a small crafted TARDIS without realising what it was from a table next to the couch that he was laying on before he regained consciousness, "And if you try, if you really, really try, you'll be able to…"
"Doctor, she remembers!" Rose stated as she looked at the small crafted TARDIS that her husband was holding as Amy, Jack and Jenny looked at the TARDIS in his hand as well as the Doctor finally saw what Rose was talking about..
"Oh. Oh!" The Doctor muttered as he and Rose looked around the room as they both saw the drawings, "Oh…"
"You both look rubbish," Amy told both Gallifreyans.
"Sorry, but we were locked away in the Tower of London," Rose apologised, "On the orders of Winston Churchill who claimed that we were soothsayers."
"So we've heard," Jack muttered.
"How did you regenerate, Mum?" Jenny asked her mother.
"Cybermen," Rose answered, "We were investigating them underneath the town of Colchester with your father's friend, Craig, when they were stealing power from a department store with one of the Cybermen electrocuting me with enough volts to trigger my regeneration."
"Amy, you look wonderful," the Doctor told their companion as he tossed the small wooden replica of the TARDIS at her.
"So do the two of you," Amy replied as she put down the replica of the TARDIS, "But don't worry. We'll soon fix that." She then held up his tweed jacket with shirt and bowtie as Jenny held up a pink zip-up jacket, dark blue shirt and jeans.
"Oh!" The Doctor muttered as Amy and Jenny both laughed as they gave the Doctor and Rose the clothes that they were holding, "Geronimo!"
"Allons-y!" Rose said at the same time as she smiled at her daughter.
The Doctor had now changed into his familiar outfit and had shaved his beard, while Rose had changed into her clothes of her current incarnation as Amy was sitting at her desk with Jack and Jenny.
"OK, you three can turn around now," the Doctor told Amy, Jack and Jenny, "How do we look?"
"Cool," Amy told him.
"Really?!" The Doctor asked her with surprise.
"No," Amy answered, "But Rose still has a better dress sense than you do."
"Oi!" The Doctor protested.
"I think you look brilliant, Doctor," Jack told the Time Lord, "So do you, Rose."
"Yeah, Mum and Dad, you both look wonderful," Jenny said as she looked at her parents.
"Thanks, sweetheart," Rose told her daughter, "But what about if I put these on?" She then pulled out a pair of thick black-rimmed women's glasses from one of her jacket's pockets and put them on, "How do I look?"
"Rose, you look even more beautiful than before," the Doctor told his wife, causing her to blush, "And I can tell that is one of the other quirks that you picked up from my previous incarnation besides the catchphrase that I used to say."
"I just thought you looked hot in them, Theta," Rose explained.
"Anyway, Amy, cool office though," the Doctor told Amy as Rose took off her glasses and placed them back in her jacket's pocket, "Why do you have an office?! Are you a special agent boss lady with Jack and Jenny as your lieutenants? Not sure about the eye patch."
"It's not an eye patch," Amy told him, "Time's gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There's a whole team of us working on it... You'll see."
"I'm one of the first ones who noticed," Jenny told her parents.
"So was I," Jack added.
"And you've got an office on a train, Amy, that is so cool," the Doctor stated, "Can I have an office? Never had an office before! Or a train. Or a train/office."
"You're rambling, Doctor," Rose told her husband.
"He always rambles," Jack stated.
"Yeah, in all the time that I've known Dad, he has rambled," Jenny said, agreeing with the ex-Time Agent.
"God, I've missed you and Rose!" Amy said, happily as she ran over to the Doctor and hugged him.
"OK, hugging and missing now," the Doctor muttered before he broke the hug, "Where's the Roman?"
"Yeah, where is he?" Rose asked her, agreeing with her husband.
"You mean both Rory?" Amy asked them.
"Mmm," the Doctor hummed as Rose nodded a response.
"My husband Rory, yeah?" Amy said as she picked up a sketch of a man, "That's him, isn't it?" As Amy showed both Gallifreyans the sketch, Rose tried her best to not laugh as it didn't resemble Rory one bit, "I've no idea, I can't find him. I love him very much, don't I?"
"Apparently," the Doctor muttered as he looked at the sketch.
"I have to keep doing this. I have to keep writing and drawing things. It's just so hard to keep remembering…" Amy said as she leaned against her desk, "But Jack and Jenny here both immediately remembered. How'd they both remember instantly, while it took me a while to?"
"Because I'm Time-Sensitive, Amy," Jenny answered.
"And I'm a Fixed-point," Jack added.
"Anyway, it's not your fault, Amy, time's gone wrong," the Doctor assured her, "Do you remember why?"
"The lakeside," Amy answered.
"Lake Silencio, Utah. We died," Rose added.
"But then you both didn't," Amy stated, "I remember it twice, different ways."
"Two different versions of the same event, both happening in the same moment," the Doctor added, "Time split wide open. Now look at it." He then pointed out the window, "All of history happening at once."
"Does it matter? I mean can't we just stay like this?" Amy asked them
"I wish it could, but it can't, Amy," Jack told her.
"Jack's right, it can't stay like this," Jenny said, agreeing with Jack.
"They're right, because time isn't just frozen. It's disintegrating," the Doctor added, "It will spread and spread and all of reality will simply fall apart."
"And it's because our deaths is a Fixed-point," Rose stated before they heard a knock on the door as a soldier leaned in and was also wearing an eye patch and the Doctor and Rose saw that it was Rory, causing them to grin as they saw him.
"Ma'am, we're about to arrive," Rory told Amy, "Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark."
"Good point," Amy replied as she looked at him, "Thank you, Captain Williams."
"Hello," the Doctor and Rose both greeted Rory as Jenny and Jack chuckled.
"Hello, sir, ma'am. Pleased to meet the two of you," Rory replied.
"Captain Williams, best of the best, couldn't live without him," Amy said, introducing Rory to the Doctor and Rose before Rory turned around and walked away as the Doctor held up the sketch of him and laughed.
"No," the Doctor muttered as he made a face at the likeness of the sketch and Rory.
"What is wrong?" Amy asked him.
"The sketch of yours doesn't even look anything remotely like Rory," Rose answered.
"Amy... You'll find your Rory, you always do," the Doctor added as he put the sketch down, "But you have to really look."
"I am looking," Amy argued.
"Not hard enough," Jack muttered.
"My thoughts exactly, Jack," Jenny said, agreeing with the ex-Time Agent, "Captain Williams is clearly Rory."
"Oh, my Amelia Pond," the Doctor said as he took her head into his hands as she chuckled, "You don't always look hard enough."
"Why are you both older? If time isn't really passing, then how can you both be ageing?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans.
"Time's still passing for us," the Doctor explained as he walked away with Rose, "Every explosion has an epicentre. We're it... We're what's wrong."
"What's wrong with the two of you?" Amy asked him and Rose.
"Because we're still alive, Amy," Rose explained as the Doctor closed his eyes and shook his head as she turned around towards her.
The train rode a trestle bridge that takes it directly into the great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt with one side of the pyramid being painted with a large American flag with the words 'Area 52' underneath it and on top of it was a spire.
Rory led the Doctor and Rose the way down narrow stairs in the pyramid as the Doctor and Rose were both holding eye patches in their hands with distaste with Amy, Jack and Jenny following behind them as there were soldiers waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
"You both have to put it on, sir, ma'am," Rory told the Doctor and Rose as the soldiers began following them.
"Eye patches? What for?" The Doctor asked him.
"Yeah, why do we have to wear those eye patches?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"They're not eye patches," Amy told them.
"It's an eye drive, sir, ma'am," Rory stated, "It communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain, acts as external storage."
"Only thing that works on them," Amy added, "Because no living mind can remember these things."
"They even work for telepathic beings like us," Jenny told her parents.
"And we got them after we captured Madame Kovarian," Jack stated as they entered a room that had containment chambers where there were Silents inside of and were suspended in fluid.
"The Silents, we've captured over a hundred of them now, all held in this Pyramid," Rory told the Doctor and Rose.
"Yeah, we've encountered them before," the Doctor said as he and Rose walked up to one of the Silents' chambers, "Always wondered what they looked like."
"Me too," Rose muttered, agreeing with her husband as the Silent in the chamber tilted its head at her and the Doctor.
"Put your eye drives on and you both will retain the information," Amy told them, "But only as long as you're wearing them."
"The Silents have human servants," the Doctor said as he looked at Amy, "They all wear these."
"We found that out when we went to Demons Run to rescue you," Rose added.
"They'd have to," Amy stated.
"Because if they didn't the memory of the Silents would have been wiped from their minds as they were genetically engineered by the Papal Mainframe," Jenny explained.
"And are usually priests," Jack added, "But these ones are rogue for some reason."
"This way," Rory told the Doctor and Rose as the put on their eye drives before they walked through the room with the Silents watching the Time Lord and Time Lady, "They seem to be noticing the two of you."
"Yeah. They would," the Doctor muttered.
"That's because they're determined to end our lives," Rose explained.
"So why aren't the human race killing them on sight any more?" Amy asked them.
"Because that was another timeline, Amy," Rose answered.
"Rose is right, that was a whole other reality," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rose, "What are the tanks for?"
"They can draw electricity from anything, it's how they attack. The fluid insulates them," Rory answered.
"It was the only way to imprison them," Jack stated.
"And I was the one who found out how to stop them from attacking, Dad," Jenny added.
"That's brilliant, sweetheart!" Rose told her daughter, happily.
"Thanks, Mum," Jenny replied.
"Anyway, I don't like the way they're looking at the two of you," Rory told the Doctor and Rose.
"I don't either," Rose said, agreeing with Rory.
"Me neither," the Doctor told them.
"Ma'am, sir, I'm sure it's nothing, but I should check it out," Rory informed Amy, Jack and Jenny, "They haven't been this active in a while." He then turned to two of the soldiers, "You two, upstairs, check all the tank seals. Then the floors above, get everyone checking."
"Sir!" The two soldiers said as they left them as they went to do what Rory ordered them to do.
"You go ahead, Ma'am, sir," Rory told Amy, Jack and Jenny.
"Thank you, Captain Williams. Doctor, Rose, this way," Amy said as Rory went to check the tank as Amy, Jack, Jenny, the Doctor and Rose continued on.
"Captain Williams, nice fella," the Doctor muttered, "What's his first name?"
"Captain," Amy answered, "Just through here."
"She still can't see that he is clearly Rory," Jack stated.
"Yeah, she still hasn't noticed that he and Rory are the same person," Jenny said, agreeing with the ex-Time Agent.
"So, you both noticed as well?" Rose asked them.
"Well, yeah, I thought it was obvious," Jack answered.
"Yeah, me too, Mum," Jenny said, agreeing with Jack.
"Just give us a moment, just need to... check something... Ma'am," the Doctor told Amy as he gave her a light salute.
"We're in. They're on their way," Amy said, speaking into a comms unit on her lapel as the Doctor turned away from her, Jenny, Jack and Rose.
"The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed, always the pattern, why is that?" The Doctor muttered as he walked up to Rory, who was checking the seals on one of the tanks.
"Sorry, sir?" Rory asked him.
"Your boss, you should just ask her out, she likes you," the Doctor told him, "She said so."
"Really, sir," Rory said with disbelief, "What did she say?"
"Ah, she just sort of generally indicated," the Doctor answered.
"What exactly what did she say?" Rory asked him.
"She said that you were a Mr Hottie... ness. And that she would like to go out with you for... texting and scones," the Doctor said, trying his best to tell a convincing lie.
"You really haven't done this before, have you?" Rory asked him.
"No, I haven't," the Doctor answered.
"See you and your wife in a moment, sir," Rory told him.
"Yes," the Doctor said as he patted him on the shoulder, "Yes." He then walked away from him as he rejoined Amy, Jack, Jenny and Rose.
"Come on, Doctor. Time for you and Rose to meet some old friends," Amy told the Doctor.
"Attention, all personnel. Please check all assigned containment units," Rory said throughout the pyramid's intercom as the Doctor, Rose, Amy, Jack and Jenny walked into a large open chamber that was acting as a nerve centre for a project, while a woman wearing a labcoat with light skin, light brown hair and an eye drive over their right eye named Kent was talking to a woman dressed in black and had blonde curly hair.
"You were right. Just their presence in the building caused the loop to extend by nearly four chronons," Kent told the woman as a digital clock nearby was reading the time as 5:02:57 with it kept going from 5:02:57 and 5:02:58.
"Hi, River," the Doctor said, greeting the woman dressed in black, "We're here." The woman then turned around to reveal that it was River.
"And what sort of time do you both call this?" River asked the Doctor and Rose as she walked away to reveal Kovarian bound to a chair.
"The death of time. The end of time. The end of us all," Kovarian stated, "Oh, why couldn't you both just die?"
"Did our best, Kovarian. We showed up," the Doctor assured her as he walked around the chamber, "You just can't get the psychopaths these days. Love what you've done with the pyramids. How did you swing all this?"
"Hallucinogenic lipstick," River answered, "Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover."
"You do realise that is illegal in most galaxies, River," Jack told her.
"He's right, River," Rose said, agreeing with the ex-Time Agent, "And we thought it was that."
"She mentioned you three," River told the Doctor, Rose and Jack.
"What did she say?" Jack asked her, "Something nice I hope."
"Put down that gun," River answered.
"Did you?" Jack asked her.
"Eventually," River answered as they began flirting with each other.
"They're flirting!" Kovarian muttered with distaste, "Do I have to watch this?"
"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian?" River asked her, "Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor, Rose Smith and their best friend Captain Jack Harkness. It's your fault that I was going to fall in love with the Immortal ex-Time Agent?"
"It's not funny, River. Reality is fatally compromised," the Doctor told her, "Tell us you understand that."
"Talk about it later?" River suggested.
"We don't have the time, River. Nobody has the time, because as long as we're alive, time is dying," the Doctor told her, "Because of you, River."
"And time will disintegrate into nothingness," Rose added, agreeing with her husband.
"Because I refused to kill my best friends," River explained.
"Oh, you are friends with us, are you?" The Doctor asked her, rhetorically as he and Rose both exchanged a look as he started walking towards River, "Come on, Rose!"
"Get them!" Amy ordered the soldiers as she saw what the Doctor and Rose were both attempting.
"They have to, Amy," Jenny argued.
"Yeah, Jenny's right, Amy," Jack said, agreeing with Jenny.
"We have to touch you, River!" Rose told River as the soldiers pulled her and the Doctor away from River.
"I'm not a fool. I know what happens if we touch," River told them before the Doctor and Rose both exchanged looks as they smiled and lunged at River as they grabbed her wrists, "Get off me, get them off me!"
"Doctor, Rose no, let go! Please Doctor, Rose, let go!" Amy ordered both Time Lords as Kent noticed that the clock was now moving as it was now 5:03.
"It's moving. Time's moving!" Kent announced.
"Get them off me!" River ordered the soldiers.
"River, let them do what they have to do," Jenny pleaded with her.
"Jenny's right, River, let the Doctor and Rose do what they have to do," Jack said, agreeing with Jenny.
"Doctor! Rose!" Amy called out to the Doctor and Rose.
"We're sorry, River, it's the only way!" The Doctor told River.
"Yeah, River, I'm so, so sorry," Rose said, agreeing with her husband before for a brief moment, they were back at Lake Silencio before the soldiers pulled the Doctor and Rose away as River rubbed her wrists.
"Cuff them," River ordered the soldiers.
"Oh, why do you always have handcuffs?" The Doctor asked the soldiers as they handcuffed him and Rose with their hands behind their backs.
"Yeah, most military places where we go do handcuff us like when we went to the Ood Sphere with Donna," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"It's the only way. We're the opposite poles of the disruption," the Doctor told River, "If the three of us touch, we short out the differential, time can begin."
"And I'll be by a lakeside, killing the two of you," River stated.
"We have to, River, if time is to begin again and stop it from falling apart," Rose told her.
"And time won't fall apart," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rose, "Reality will continue. There isn't another way."
"I didn't say there was," River told them.
In the pyramid's containment room, one of the Silents waited for the soldiers to pass by before it pressed its hand to the glass, causing it to crack at its fingertips before Rory came by to check the seals as he saw water dripping from the ceiling, but what he didn't see was water coming down the stairs.
"There are so many theories about the two of you, Jack and I, you know," River told the Doctor and Rose.
"Idle gossip," the Doctor muttered.
"Archaeology," River stated.
"It's the same thing, River," Rose argued.
"Am I the woman who marries Jack Harkness, or the woman who murders the two of you?" River asked the Doctor and Rose.
"We wish we could tell you but we can't," Rose told her.
"I don't want to murder either of you," River said as Amy felt something dripping onto her head.
"This is no fun at all," the Doctor told her.
"It isn't, is it?" River said as she looked at the Time Lord and Time Lady.
"You have to let them die, River," Jack told her, "Otherwise the whole universe would collapse."
"He's right, you have to let Mum and Dad die," Jenny said, agreeing with the ex-Time Agent.
"Doctor, Rose... What's that?" Amy asked the Doctor and Rose as she looked up at the ceiling before everyone else did the same and saw a line of water dripping down.
Back in the containment room, Rory watched as another Silent pressed its hand against the glass as it cracked as a Silent that had escaped their prison creeped down the stairs behind him.
"The pyramid above us. How many Silents do you have trapped inside it?" The Doctor asked Kovarian.
"Yeah, how many of them do you have trapped?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"None. They're not trapped, they never have been," Kovarian answered, "They've been waiting for this, Doctor and Rose... For the two of you."
"They're out! All of them," Rory announced as he suddenly burst into the room.
Back in the containment room, the soldiers tried to hold back the Silents with their guns but the Silents began electrocuting them as their guns had no effect on them.
"No one gets in here!" A soldier said as a thick plank of wood was placed horizontally across the doors.
"Ma'am, sir, my men out there, should be able to lock this down," Rory told Amy, Jack and Jenny, "We have them outnumbered."
"And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops!" Kovarian stated.
"What do you mean?" The Doctor asked her.
"Yeah, what do you mean, Kovarian?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband before Kent screamed as her eye drive became electrified, causing her to fall to the floor.
"Help her! Help her!" The Doctor ordered everyone before Amy ran over to Kent as Rory helped a soldier, whose eye drive had malfunctioned as well.
"She's dead," Amy announced.
Back in the containment room, between the Silents and the electrified eye drives, the soldiers were falling quickly.
"Eye drives off, now, remove them!" The Doctor ordered as he groaned as his eye drive suddenly went live before Amy pulled the Doctor's eye drive off just before hers went haywire.
"Jenny, sweetheart, help your Mum!" Rose pleaded with her daughter as her eye drive suddenly went live before Jenny rushed over to her mother and pulled Rose's eye drive off of her eye as she sighed in relief, "Thank you, Jenny."
"No problem, Mum," Jenny replied when her eye drive suddenly went live as well, causing Jack to pull it off of her eye before his eye drive went live as well, causing him to groan before Jenny pulled his eye drive off of his eye.
"The Silence would never allow an advantage, without taking one themselves," Kovarian stated, "The effects will vary from person to person... either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one." River then went over to Amy to help take her eye drive off when Kovarian's eye drive buzzed as it went live, "What are you doing? No, it's me... Don't be stupid, you need me. Stop it, stop that!"
"We could stop this right now, you, me and Rose," the Doctor told River.
"He's right, River, we could end all of this right now if the three of us touched," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Get it off me!" Kovarian pleaded with everyone.
"Amy, Jack, Jenny, tell her!" The Doctor ordered Amy.
"Yeah, tell her!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"We've been working on something," Amy told them, "Just let us show the two of you."
"That's our point," the Doctor muttered, "There's nothing you can do. Our time is up."
"We're doing this for the two of you!" Amy told them.
"Then people are dying for us," the Doctor muttered, "I won't thank you for that, Amelia Pond."
"Neither would I, Amy," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Get it…" Kovarian began to say with her voice straining from the pain from her eye drive's electricity.
"Just let us show the two of you," River begged the Doctor and Rose.
"Yeah, let us show you, Mum and Dad," Jenny said, agreeing with River.
"Please!" Amy begged them.
"Fine," Rose relented as the Doctor shook his head.
"Captain Williams, how long do we have?" Amy asked Rory as she turned to him.
"Yeah, how long do we have?" Rory said, agreeing with Amy.
"A couple of minutes," Rory answered as the Silents rammed the door.
"That's enough," River stated, "We're going to the receptor room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope the two of you are ready for a climb." River and Jenny then began leading the Doctor and Rose out of the room as Amy and Jack began to follow them.
"I'll wait down here, ma'am, sir buy you two as much time as I can," Rory told Amy and Jack.
"You have to take your eye drive off," Amy stated.
"Can't do that, Ma'am. Might forget what's coming," Rory argued.
"But it could activate any second," Amy protested as Rory aimed his gun at the door.
"It has activated, Ma'am," Rory stated as Amy saw Rory clenching his fist and was shaking at his side, "But I'm no use to you if I can't remember." He then used his left hand to steady his right hand, "You have to go now, Ma'am."
"Yes. Yes, thank you, Captain Williams," Rory said before she walked away.
As Rory fought off the effects of the eye drive, Amy stopped and looked back at him before continuing out of the room before the door burst open with the bar of wood shattering in half before Rory gave in to the pain of his eye drive as the Silents entered the room as Rory shouted in pain as he was now on his knees.
"Rory Williams, the man who dies and dies again," one of the Silents told him as the electricity built up in his eye drive, "Die one last time and know she will never come back for you."
Amy then suddenly returned with a machine gun and opened fire upon the Silents, killing them as Rory continued to groan in pain.
"Come on, you... up you get! You all right?" Amy said as she helped Rory up before pulling his eye drive off.
"Amy... help me," Kovarian called out to Amy with a quiet, soft voice as her eye drive was now halfway off, causing Amy and Rory to stop walking as Amy turned around towards her.
"You took my baby from me. And hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine, but I'll never see my baby again," Amy told Kovarian as she walked over to her.
"But you'll still save me though," Kovarian stated, "Because they would, and you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor and Rose."
"Ma'am, we have to go... now!" Rory told Amy.
"The Doctor and Rose are both very precious to me, you're right. But do you know what else they are, Madame Kovarian? Not here," Amy informed Kovarian as she put Kovarian's eye drive back over her eye, "River Song didn't get it all from you... sweetie." Amy then looped her arm through that of a puzzled Rory as she led him out of the room as Kovarian screamed to her death, "So, you and me, we should get a drink some time."
"OK," Rory muttered.
"I'm married," she added.
"Fine," Rory told her.
The Silents continued to battle the soldiers in the corridors of the pyramid as they shot electricity out from their hands.
"What's this?" The Doctor asked River and Jenny as they arrived at the top of the pyramid with Rose and Jack, "Oh, it's a timey-wimey distress beacon. Who built this?"
"River did, Doc," Jack answered.
"And it's because I'm the child of the TARDIS, I understand the physics," River added.
"With me helping a bit," Jenny told them.
"Is that a distress beacon?" Rose asked them.
"You're right, Rose," the Doctor said, confirming his wife's suspicions as he examined the device as he looked at River, "And that's all you've got - a distress beacon!"
"I've been sending out a message, a distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe is still turning, and I've sent a message everywhere, to the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything," River told them, "'The Doctor and Rose Smith are both dying, please, please help.'"
"River! River, this is ridiculous! That would mean nothing to anyone, it's insane!" The Doctor snapped at her, "Worse, it's stupid! You embarrass us."
"Yeah, this is just silly, River!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Just let us die!"
"She does make an excellent point, Doc," Jack told the Doctor, agreeing with River.
"Yeah, she does," Jenny said, agreeing with Jack and River, "And besides, if either of you die, who will defend Earth against invasions?"
"We barricaded the door, we've got a few minutes," Amy stated as she and Rory arrived, "Just tell them. Just tell them, River."
"Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares. They're wrong, there aren't any. It's not the sun, it's the two of you, the sky is full of a million, million voices, saying, 'yes, of course we'll help.' You've touched so many lives, Doctor saved so many people. So have you, Rose, after you opened your fob watch back when you were 220 and in your second incarnation," River explained, "Did either of you think, when your time came, you both would really have to do more than just ask? You both have decided that the universe is better off without the two of you, but the universe doesn't agree."
"River, no one can help us," the Doctor argued, "A fixed point has been altered, time is disintegrating."
"He's right, River, no one can help us," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"I can't let either of you die," River protested.
"But we have to die," the Doctor and Rose both told her at the same time.
"Shut up!" River snapped at them, "I can't let you both die without knowing that you both are loved by so many, and so much. And by no one more than your friends and daughter."
"River, you, me and Rose, we know what this means. We are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality," the Doctor told her, "Billions on billions will suffer and die."
"I'll suffer if I have to kill you," River told them, "And I really don't know when I'm supposed to marry Jack."
"We could make it right now, River," Rose suggested, "And me and my husband could renew our vows as well."
"More than every living thing in the universe?!" The Doctor asked her.
"Yes," River answered.
"Then let's get married, River," Jack told her before turning to Amy and Rory, "I hope your daughter will be a nice wife for me."
"I'm not sure I completely understand…" Rory admitted with confusion.
"We got married, and had a kid, that's her," Amy explained.
"OK," Rory muttered.
"Amy, uncuff us, now," the Doctor ordered Amy, "I'm gonna be Jack's best man and Rose will be River's maid of honour."
"And Jenny, sweetheart, you'll be their officiant," Rose added before with a look at River, Amy went over and uncuffed the Doctor before doing the same with Rose as the Doctor took a deep breath and turned around, rubbing his hands before he walked next to Jack as Rose walked next to River.
"Does anyone have a ring so I could pronounce them married?" Jenny asked them.
"I do," Rose answered her daughter as she grabbed a ring box from one of her pockets and handed it to Jack.
"Captain Jack Harkness, do you take Dr River Song as your lawful wedded wife?" Jenny asked Jack as he opened the ring box before he placed the ring over River's left hand's ring finger.
"I do," Jack answered.
"And Dr River Song, do you take Captain Jack Harkness as your lawful wedded husband," Jenny asked River.
"I do," River answered.
"Then you may kiss the bride," Jenny said as Jack and River began kissing each other passionately for a minute.
"Now it is time for us to renew our vows," the Doctor announced.
"Do you already have your vows already thought of?" Jenny asked her parents.
"We did the day we decided to renew them back when we were 909," Rose answered.
"Our vows have our nicknames from when we went to the Academy on it, this will be the only time either of you will be able to hear them," the Doctor told everyone.
"Mum, you go first," Jenny said as she looked at her mother.
"Theta Sigma of the House of Lungbarrow of the Prydonian Chapter, for all the 953 years that we've been married and that we've known each other since we both were a few months old back on Gallifrey, I have loved you," Rose told her husband as she began to say her vows, "Will you take care of me for my remaining regenerations?"
"I will," the Doctor answered.
"Now, your turn, Dad," Jenny told her father as she looked at him.
"Arkytior of the House of Lungbarrow of the Prydonian Chapter, I have loved you since the moment my mother, Celestia and your mother, Persephone introduced us to each other. And even more so when Koschei named himself the Master as well as when you and Martha travelled the Earth to tell the people of Earth about me to undo everyone he did to me and revert time back to 2008 from an alternate 2009 during the Year that Never Was when me and Jack were trapped on the Valiant with him," the Doctor said as he began to tell her his vows, "Will you take care of me for my final regeneration?"
"I will, Doctor," Rose answered before they whispered each other's real names in each other's ear before they kissed each other passionately for a minute.
"Now, River, as friends we have a request. This world is dying, and it's our fault, and we can't bear it another day," the Doctor told River as he and Rose stopped kissing and turned around towards her, "Please, help us. There isn't another way."
"Yeah, please let us touch your hands to fix time," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Yes, I'll allow the two of you to grab my hands," River told them before the Doctor and Rose touched both of River's hands, causing time to begin to move once more.
Back on the shore of Lake Silencio, Utah, River cried as she shoots the Doctor and Rose before Amy and Jenny ran towards them, only for Rory, Jack and River from the future to stop them before Amy cried over the Doctor's body before They burnt the Doctor and Rose's bodies on the two funeral boats.
"And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven," the Doctor told River.
Back in London, the steam trains, the hot air balloons and the pterodactyls disappeared from existence.
In Amy and Rory's back garden, Amy was sitting at a table with a blanket wrapped about her shoulders and on the table was a bottle of wine and two glasses when suddenly there were a couple flashes of light and crackles of electricity but Amy didn't even blink as she knew that the flashes of light were River, Jack and Jenny arriving.
"Heard there was a freak meteor shower two miles away," Amy told the three of them, "So I got us a bottle."
"Thank you, dear," River said as she picked up the bottle and poured a glass for her, Jack and Jenny.
"Yeah, thanks, Amy," Jenny said, agreeing with River.
"I also agree, thanks, Amy," Jack told Amy, agreeing with River and Jenny.
"So where are we?" Amy asked them.
"I just climbed out of the Byzantium," River answered as she sat down at the table with Jack and Jenny as Amy saw that River was wearing her camouflage uniform from when she met her, "You were there. So young, didn't have a clue who I was... You're funny like that."
"And from where I'm from, we just saved the universe with the Pandorica," Jack told her.
"I just finished university and applied to be a Scientific Advisor at UNIT," Jenny stated, "I'll be working under someone named Kate Stewart."
"Where are you?" River asked Amy.
"The Doctor and Rose are dead," Amy answered as she took a sip from her wine.
"How are you doing?" River asked her.
"How do you three think?" Amy asked, rhetorically.
"Well, neither of us will know unless you tell us," River told her.
"I killed someone. Madame Kovarian, in cold blood," Amy stated.
"And how does that make you feel, Amy?" Jenny asked her.
"Is it similar to me when I think about when I was a conman before I met the Doctor and Rose in London, 1941?" Jack asked her.
"I don't know? Regret?" Amy answered.
"And it was in an aborted time-line, in a world that never was…" River added.
"Yeah, well, I can remember it, so it happened, so I did it," Amy told her, "What does that make me now? I need to talk to the Doctor and Rose, but I can't now, can I?"
"If you could talk to them, would it make a difference?" River asked her as she placed her glass of wine back down on the table.
"But they're dead, so I can't," Amy told her.
"That's what you think, Amy, but they're still alive," Jenny assured her with a smile, "Mum and Dad are both still alive."
"Oh, mother...Jenny is right, of course they aren't," River said, agreeing with the Gallifreyan as she put hand on Amy's leg.
"Yeah, they're right, Doc and Rosie are both still alive," Jack stated, agreeing with his wife and Jenny.
"Not for the three of you, I suppose, you're seeing the younger versions of them, running around, having adventures," Amy told them.
"That's not what we mean, Amy," Jenny stated.
"Jenny's right, but yeah, we are," River said, agreeing with her.
"They are both right, Amy, we are still having adventures with them from the past, but they are both still definitely alive," Jack told Amy, agreeing with River and Jenny.
"Then what do you three mean?" Amy asked them.
"OK. I'm going to tell you what I probably shouldn't. The Doctor and Rose's last secret," River told her, "Don't you want to know what they whispered to me after they renewed their vows and before they grabbed my hands?"
"Their secrets," Amy answered.
"No, they told me their secrets just before I used up my remaining regenerations to save them in Berlin," River told her, "But not all of them were true."
"Yes, they were," Amy argued, "They told me soon after I met you."
"Rule One?" River asked her.
"The Doctor lies," Amy answered.
"So do I... all the time, I have to, spoilers," River answered, "Pretending I don't know you're my mother. Pretending I didn't recognize the space suit in Florida."
"What did they whisper to you?" Amy asked her.
"Oh, the Doctor and Rose, they're always one step ahead of everyone besides each other," River told them, "Always a plan."
"River, what did they tell you?" Amy asked her daughter, "River!" River then began laughing as Rory came home and removed a messenger bag from his shoulders before he looked outside as he heard Amy squeal with Jenny and Jack chuckling and saw Amy and River hugging.
"Hey?" Rory called out to them as he went outside.
"They're not dead, they're not dead!" Amy told her husband as she stopped hugging River and hugged her husband.
"Yeah, They're alive, Rory," Jenny said, agreeing with Amy.
"They are definitely alive," Jack stated, agreeing with Amy and Jenny.
"Are you three sure? Are you three really, properly sure?" Rory asked River, Jack and Jenny.
Yeah, I can still feel them in my head through telepathy," Jenny answered.
"Yeah, I'm definitely sure, Rory," Jack assured the nurse.
"Of course I'm sure," River told him, "I'm the wife of their best friend!"
"Yes! And that means that I'm your... mother-in-law, Jack," Amy assured her husband as she looked at Jack.
"Father dear, I think Mummy might need another drink," River told her father.
"Yes. Yes," Rory muttered as he went back inside their house for another bottle of wine.
In the Seventh Transept, two hooded figures were walking down the tunnel with one of them carrying Dorium's box solemnly back to its pedestal.
"Who's carrying me?" Dorium asked the hooded figure that was carrying his head inside of with his voice being muffled, "I demand to know...I'm a head, I have rights! I want my doors open this time." The hooded figure that was carrying his box then placed his box gently back in its spot, "I demand that my doors are open." The hooded figure that was carrying his box then slid the box open before he grabbed the hand of the other hooded figure as they began to walk away, "Is it the two of you?! It is, aren't you?" Both hooded figures then suddenly stopped and slowly turned around, "It is the two of you, I can sense it. But how did you both do it? How could you both possibly have escaped?!"
"Is there nothing else we can do?" Carter asked the Doctor and Rose as they lowered their heads as they left the bar on Calisto B.
"Actually, thinking about it…" the Doctor said as he and Rose darted back in the bar.
"Yeah, we have a request," Rose told him.
Back on the Great Pyramid of Giza in the aborted timeline created by River, the Doctor and Rose both looked at River.
"Before we touch your hands, please look into our eyes, River," the Doctor whispered to River.
"Yeah, do as he says, River," Rose said, whispering to River as well, agreeing with her husband before River looked into the Doctor's eye only to see the Doctor and the TARDIS within his eye wearing his Stetson before the Doctor inside his eye removed his Stetson for a second as he put it back on and shushed her as she looked at Rose's eye, only to see Rose inside of her eye as well with a Vortex Manipulator on her wrist as she tilted her head a little and stuck her tongue between her teeth before shushing her as well.
Back in the Seventh Transept, the Doctor and Rose both dropped their hooded cloaks to the floor, surprising Dorium.
"Teselectas. A Doctor in a Doctor-Suit," the Doctor explained.
"And a Rose in a Rose Smith-suit," Rose added as she and the Doctor walked back to Dorium.
"Time said we both had to be on that beach so we dressed for the occasion. Barely got singed in those boats," the Doctor told him.
"So you both are going to do this, let them all think you both are dead?" Dorium asked both Gallifreyans.
"We have to, Dorium," Rose told the Crespellion.
"She's right, and besides it's the only way. Then they can all forget us," the Doctor said, agreeing with Rose, "We both got too big, Dorium, too noisy...time to step back into the shadows."
"We'll try to remove any mention of us from every databank in recorded history," Rose added.
"And Dr Song? In prison all her days?" Dorium asked them.
"Her days, yes. Her nights... Well, that's between her, Captain Jack Harkness and us, eh?" The Doctor answered.
"So many secrets, Doctor and Rose," Dorium told them before chuckling for a second, "I'll help you both keep them, of course…"
"Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?" The Doctor stated.
"Yeah, not to be mean, but you're just a head now, Dorium," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"But you both are fools nonetheless. It's all still waiting for the two of you... the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh or Twelfth if you prefer. And the question!" Dorium told them.
"Goodbye, Dorium," the Doctor and Rose both said as they gave the Crespellion a mock salute.
"The first question," Dorium said as the Doctor and Rose turned around as they began to walk back down the tunnel, "The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight! The question you both have been running from all your lives!" The Doctor and Rose then stopped walking as they approached the TARDIS, "Doctor who? Doctor who? Doc... tor... WHO?!"
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