Chapter 3

The Doctor is stressed. In fact, he is beyond stressed. There is an angel inside of poor Amelia's mind, he has to work with River, whom he doesn't trust in the slightest, less so now that he knows she has killed a good man, Bob and Octavian both died, and there is a crack in the wall, a crack that is the end of the universe, which is generally not good at all. This crack seems to be unwriting time. Before today he would have thought that to be impossible, but evidently it is not quite as impossible as he had thought. So yeah, the Doctor is quite stressed.

Still, on top of all this, he still is trying to figure out who this mysterious woman is. His "greatest weapon against the universe," according to Prisoner Zero. It can't be Amy because he didn't know her before this regeneration and this "prophecy" is about some woman returning. It's possible that it is River, but for some reason his gut just knows it isn't her. There are no other women other than River and Amy here, though. He knows, he absolutely knows, today is the day Ood Sigma was talking about before he regenerated unless, that is, he is supposed to have another run in with the Weeping Angels which he certainly hopes not.

All of a sudden he hears Amy on the communicator. "Hello?" She repeats this a word a few times, each time becoming for frantic. "Please say you're there. Hello? Hello!"

"Amy? Amy, is that you?" He says into the communicator.

"Doctor?"

"Where are you? Are the clerics with you?"

"They've gone," Amy tells him. "There was a light and they walked into the light. Doctor, they didn't even remember each other."

The Doctor sighs. "No, they wouldn't."

"What is that light?" River asks.

"Time running out," he says with a quick glance behind his shoulder towards her. "Amy, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I should have never left you there."

"Well, what do I do now?" Amy questions.

"You come to us. Primary Flight Deck," he tells her, "the other end of the forest."

"I can't see! I can't open my eyes."

"Turn on the spot," the Doctor instructs.

"Sorry, what?"

"Just do it, turn on the spot." He points his sonic screwdriver at the communicator. "When the communicator sounds like my screwdriver, that means you are facing the right way. Follow the sound." He waits a bit for her to turn and then says, "You have to start turning now. There's time energy spilling out of that crack and you have to stay ahead of it."

"But the Angels, they're everywhere," Amy says with fear in her voice.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, I really am, but the Angels can only kill you."

"What does the time energy do?"

"Just keep moving!" He yells into the communicator. He cannot, will not let her disappear like the clerics did. He won't let that happen to her.

"Tell me," Amy says.

"If the time energy catches up with you, you'll never have been born. It will erase every moment of your existence. You will never have lived at all." He says this in practically one breath. The sooner he tells her, the sooner she will move, he presumes. "Now," he says in a much calmer voice, albeit forcely calm. "Keep your eyes shut and keep moving."

"It's never going to work," River says, unhelpfully might he add, behind him.

This makes the Doctor lose it a bit. "What else have you got?" He practically screams making River jump a little and get a fearful look in her eyes. "River, tell me!" This is all getting to be too much. He and Amy were supposed to be here for only five minutes, that's all.

Amy walks for a bit in silence then suddenly says, "Doctor, I'm scared. It's- it's like I'm the prey that a bad wolf is stalking." The Doctor freezes and behind him River gasps a little. It can't be. It's not possible. This woman, this mysterious woman who is supposed to return here, today, it cannot be her.

"Amy," the Doctor says slowly. "Say that again. Say those exact words again."

"It's like I'm the prey that a bad wolf is stalking?" She quietly says, confused.

"Why? Why those words specifically." When Amy doesn't answer right away he says more insistently, "Amy! Why did you say those words?"
"I- I don't know. I just did." It's not possible. Is it? Before today he thought time being unwritten was impossible yet here they are. Maybe, just maybe this impossible crack can cause another impossible thing to happen. It can't have been a coincidence that Amy said those words

"Doctor, what's going on? Did I say something wrong or something?" She asks with both confusion and fear in her voice.

"N- no. In fact, what you said may be the best thing I've heard all day." he replies in a dazed wonder. "The best thing I've heard in many days, actually.

"What does it mean?"

"I think she's coming back."

"She? She who?"

"My Rose. Rose Tyler."

Notes:

Heya! It's been a long time, I know. I sorta just lost inspiration for a long, long time and when Doctor Who got taken off of Netflix, well, it was next to impossible for me to get inspired again. Though thanks to a random Doctor Who post I saw on tumblr (an Eleven/Rose post at that), I got inspired once more and decided to write more to this!

Don't worry about the next update taking too long; I've already got it all written out (it's about 2,600 words!), I just have to finish editing it up a bit and then it should be up within the next week if all goes right. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry it was mostly just following the script, but that was the only way I was able to go about it. Chapter 4 strays from the original script quite a bit because, you guessed it, Rose finally comes in!