A/N - if it's in italic then it's a thought conversation and bold it's in Gallifreyan

"HE DID WHAT?"

"Tell me about it Sarah-Jane." Clyde muttered.

"WHEN I SEE HIM!" She screeched, pacing up and down.

"Does The Doctor know?"

"He said he was going to go see Amy and Rory before seeing her, so you lot could have some time with me. Guess he's about to find out..."

...

"OOOOOOOOOOOH PONDS!" The Doctor called, walking through the back door into the kitchen. Amy smiled at him as she put away the last plate she was cleaning before he said hello to her and Rory, not noticing Melody sitting in a high chair at the end of the table.

"How's our Mels?" Rory asked.

"I haven't had a chance to see her since everything happened." He said, looking curiously at them. "And what do you mean, our Mels?" Amy sighed, nodding over to a cooing Melody, sitting in her high chair.

"Oh your kidding me." The Doctor groaned, knocking his head back. "MAI POND!" He shouted, walking round into the hallway and standing at the bottom of the stairs. "POND GET YOUR ARSE DOWN HERE NOW!" He shouted up, walking into the kitchen and sitting down at the table, Amy and Rory cringing in their heads waiting for the confrontation to unfold. The Doctor waited for his young, confident and sassy daughter to come down, say some cocky come backs and show him that everything was ok, but she didn't. Mai traipsed round the corner, hair screwed up tightly, no make up, her wooly cardigan wrapped round her tightly with her trackie bottoms on. She stared at her father with no emotion, her eyes that were once full of life and joy and the colours of the universe painted into them had gone dull. To put it simply, the River in her had gone, and that terrified The Doctor to the bone. What had happened to the girl who took charge that day? The girl who took his screwdriver, saving all her school and friends. The girl who went out, didn't cry or panic, and collected all those experienced time travelling friends of his from across the galaxy, just to save him. She'd had to deal with so much, when she should have had little instead. "Mai?" He said softly. "Oh my god what happened to you?" He whispered, rushing forward onto his knees and pulling her into a hug, as she shut her eyes, snuggling into his neck. She didn't cry, or sob, or scream, and that's what scared them all, the silence of a time lord. He pulled out of the hug, smiling softly at her and turning her into the living room, she sat on the sofa, tucking her feet up and silently hugging her knees, staring into space. The Doctor turned back into the kitchen, staring at Amy and Rory in disbelief. They all turned and looked at Melody as she started crying softly, not making much noise, but getting uncomfortable. Mai just sat, completely ignoring her, not even walking back out into the kitchen to see if she was ok. "What do I do? I don't have a clue." He whispered.

"You take your daughter, and you get out of here." Amy said.

"We'll look after Melody, but now what she needs is the good old days, adventures and fun, before she found out we were her family." Rory said.

"She wouldn't leave her."

"You think?" Amy said, glancing at Mai. "She'd be out here in a shot, looking after her daughter, but everything that's happened to her since she met us is finally catching up on her. Saving you and River, you leaving her, having Melody and especially the war."

"She's not alone. I watched everything she saw too."

"It's still fresher in her mind though." She sighed. "Go. See River, Jenny, take her to see Sadie and Charlie. Just go."

"Mai." The Doctor said in Gallifreyan. "Go start her up will you love? She's missed you." Mai turned and looked at him, only reacting to her home lanuguage being spoken to her.

"I can't cope." She whispered.

"I know love."

...

"What happened?"

"She turned up in the middle of the night, slept, made herself at home. We found Melody asleep and she knicked the car for half a hour the next morning. She came back and told us what happened and then said she had to go out. When she came back 20 minutes later, and she was like that. She went upstairs and hadn't come down since."

"When was that?"

"3 days ago."

"Your kidding." He groaned, rubbing his eyes.

"She didn't eat."

"Just what I need." He muttered. "And she didn't say anything about where she went or?"

"Nothing."

...

"Hello old girl."

Your back.

Don't be blunt.

Why are you thinking in Gallifreyan?

I don't know. I've got quite used to speaking in it.

I didn't know you could speak it anyway.

Neither did I. I just picked it up I suppose.

Sorry about Luke.

Of course you'd know.

Don't act surprised, you know I do.

I can't cope.

I know.

Great help you are.

Mai, I've watched you grow up, I knew about you from day one, but I couldn't tell your father. Literally.

What am I gonna do?

Do you want to know?

No. I'm not that stupid I know what happens when you know these things.

A hole the size of Belguim... Oh god, sorry.

Mai pushed away, closing her mind from The TARDIS and shaking her head in anger. She walked away and sat down on the captain chair as The Doctor walked in.

"So." He said quietly, leaning against the console and looking at her.

"So."

"You don't always have to speak in Gallifreyan you know."

"I like it."

"Well, don't make a habit of it. You've lived as a human all your life, don't start throwing yourself into all this now."

"Bit late for that don't you think?" She chuckled. "I only speak it to you anyway."

"So, here we are again, just like the old days used to be."

"We didn't lose them." She said quietly, slipping her hand into his, smiling. "They just went away for a while, and now their back. It's not gonna be like before, I'm not gonna run away and look at my future. It's gonna be us, saving planets and civilisations, meeting people in the past and the future, beings of the universe, us. Me and you."

"Me and you." He said, walking around the console. "Where to?"

"Oh I know." She said, finding the right button. "Let's go random." She grinned and they flew across the control room, chuckling as The TARDIS materialized away from The Pond's house, going anywhere in the universe. Funnily enough, where they ended up wasn't the most creative of places, but it was exciting.

"Right outside those doors, we could be anywhere-"

"I know, I know. I've done this before, remember?" She threw open the doors and looked out on the London street, frowning in confusion. "Dad? Where the hell are we-" She shouted back, stopping suddenly when a man with black curly hair and a black jacket stood infront of the doors, casually staring at her. "Um. Hi?"

"So let me guess some sort of time machine? Some sort of disguise device so it doesn't look so big? If I leaned against the sides I'd end up at the end of the street?"

"It's another dimension technically? And it's a perception filter, I suppose you could muster one up if you reverse to polarity of the neutron flow?" She muttered on, just like The Doctor would before snapping round and looking at him.

"Oh so your a proper genius then!" He said.

"S'pose." She said. "You wanna meet my Dad! Takes genius to a new level. Mai Pond-Song." She said, sticking her hand out.

"Sherlock Holmes." He said with a wink, shaking her hand. "John, why are you walking with that again?" He asked as another man appeared next to him with a walking stick.

"You don't need that, it's psychosomatic." She said plainly, glancing at him.

"Oh crap, a proper genius as you calm them." He sighed, glancing at Sherlock. "Doctor John Watson."

"Hmph." She chuckled. "Think your a doctor, you haven't met my dad. Can I ask why your talking to me? Is there something I can help you with?"

"I notice things, you appeared out of nowhere."

"DAD!" She called back and The Doctor appeared behind her, looking at the men.

"You don't need that it's pyschosomatic." The Doctor commented, glancing at John.

"I was just admiring your police box, time machine yes?" Sherlock asked.

"Ah, a proper genius!" The Doctor said as they walked out of the door and shut it behind them. "Coffee? We'll discuss some more?" He asked, nodding behind at the coffee shop. They walked into the coffee shop and sat down, ordering drinks for themselves. After Sherlock, The Doctor and Mai discussed being genius' for a while when their drinks came. Mai knocked her's back with a swig, before falling down to the floor and blacking out. "MAI!" The Doctor shouted, holding her head and chest up, shaking her to wake up. "MAI WAKE UP!"

"The drink..." She whispered. "It must have been something in the drink!"

"NO MAI!"

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