The Doctor burst out of the TARDIS first, looking around him slightly disorientated. It was dark; obviously he'd got the coordinates a little off again. Evie had warned him to double check, but would he listen to her? Sighing and shaking her head, the teenager walked out behind him and saw Amy emerging from her house wearing a nightdress, a dressing gown and slippers. Evie groaned but the Time Lord didn't appear to notice the red-head's clothes.

"Sorry for running off earlier." The Doctor apologised. "Brand new TARDIS… bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in." He lied, sending Evie a meaningful glance. Apparently their trip to visit little Amelia was a secret although, surely, Amy would know about it. "She's ready for the big stuff now."

"It's you." Amy breathed in disbelief. "You came back?"

"Course I came back. I always come back." He told her quickly. "So does Evie… although that's because she's with me and doesn't really have a choice."

Evie rolled her eyes. "I had a choice and I chose to come back." She assured Amy, making sure the red-head didn't think she hadn't wanted to.

"Something wrong with that?" The Doctor asked, slightly bemused.

"And you kept the clothes." The time travellers were both mystified by this comment, looking at each other to make sure that neither of them had understood her meaning.

"Well I just saved the world; the whole planet for about the millionth time. No charge. Yeah, shoot me, I kept the clothes."

"Don't tempt me, Sweetie." Evie muttered under her breath putting a hand on her laser blaster comfortingly. This new Doctor really was incredibly smug.

"Including the bowtie." Amy pointed out. Evie smirked and the Doctor looked defensive.

"Yeah, it's cool. Bowties are cool." Neither female looked convinced by his words.

"Are you from another planet?" Amy asked pointedly, making Evie snort with laughter. The Doctor shot her a look and she quickly changed her giggles to a cough.

"Yeah." He said quickly, still frowning at her.

"OK…"

"So what do you think?"

"What?"

"Other planets; want to check some out?" He asked.

"What does that mean?" Amy asked suspiciously, glancing between the two strangers in front of her. They had dropped out of the sky into her garden in a blue police box more than once and she had no idea who they were. They talked in riddles most of the time; saying things she couldn't understand. And the girl… it was almost as though most people looked straight through her. Even Rory hadn't noticed her presence for a while.

"It means… well… it means come with me." He said hopefully. Evie coughed, reminding them that she was still there. "Come with us."

"Where?"

"Wherever you like." He told her. The teenager bit her tongue. She didn't think pointing out that, to date, he hadn't had much success with that destination was the best idea at the moment. Amy looked freaked out enough.

"All that stuff that happened… the hospital, the spaceships… Prisoner Zero…"

"Oh, don't worry that's just the beginning; there's loads more." The Time Lord assured her. Amy glanced at Evie who just raised her eyebrows and smirked.

"Yeah… but those things. Those amazing things. All that stuff…" Her expression changed and she stepped towards the Doctor angrily. "That was two years ago!"

Evie couldn't help herself snorting with laughter again at those words, Amy rounded on her and the teenager held up her hands by way of an apology. The Doctor looked at her, begging for help in talking his way out of this one, but Evie just smirked and shook her head, folding her arms across her chest.

"Ohhh… oops." He said.

"Yeah."

"So that's…"

"Fourteen years!"

"Fourteen years since fish custard." The Doctor clarified. To her it had only been… a day?... and Evie felt her stomach churning over at the thought of the disgusting meal he had eaten. "Amy Pond… the girl who waited… you've waited long enough."

"When I was a kid you said there was a swimming pool and a library. And the swimming pool was in the library."

"Yeah… not sure where it's got to now, it'll turn up." He said glancing at Evie. She shrugged, not knowing where it was at the moment either. "So, coming?"

"No."

"You wanted to come fourteen years ago."

"I grew up." Amy told him.

"He didn't." Evie said. The Doctor glared at her.

"You… shut up." He told Evie, the ghost of a smirk on his lips. She grinned and winked. "Don't worry. I'll soon fix that."

With a click of his fingers, the Doctor opened the TARDIS doors. Evie moved aside, letting Amy see inside properly. The woman was staring, her mouth open and her eyes wide as she tried to understand what she was seeing. Laughing nervously, she went inside. The Doctor looked at Evie, raising his eyebrows. The teenager smirked back and followed Amy into the box with the Time Lord just behind her.

Evie remembered exactly how Amy had felt – she'd been just as awestruck when she'd walked into the time machine for the first time. Understanding that she wasn't needed at the moment, the teenager slipped over to the console, checking the scanner and setting up extensive searches to locate the missing swimming pool. She did, however, keep sneaking glances at the pair as she worked, listening in to their conversation.

"Well?" The Doctor asked Amy. "Anything you wanna say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all. Evie's was good… what was it? Oh yes, 'you're asleep, Evie, that's all' closely followed by something that sounded remarkably like holy Harry Potter."

"Haha." She said sarcastically, looking over from the scanner. "You're so funny. I've never said the words 'holy Harry Potter' in my life."

"You just said them then." He argued grinning inanely at her.

"Damn…" She muttered, annoyed that he'd tricked her. Then she smirked. "But am I actually alive?"

The Doctor stopped, thinking hard, one finger pointing at her as he did so. "Fair point. I'm not sure." He agreed. "But… for the purposes of timey wimey, etc., you are very much alive. So therefore, ergo and the rest, you said it."

"You're impossible, spaceman." The teenager laughed, returning her attention back to the scanner and tapping in more codes.

"You know it, cupcake." He replied. Evie's eyebrows almost shot off the top of her head she raised them so high.

"Cupcake?"

"Yeah… I'm trying out new nicknames for you seeing as you don't like the standard 'Jones'. But that one didn't sound right." He agreed, shaking his head. Evie sighed and smiled faintly. She went to work as the Doctor returned to his conversation, which sounded more like an argument to the teenager, with Amy. She barely registered what they were saying as she tried to locate the pool. It would be just her luck if it had relocated to her bedroom.

"Ooh! A new one." The Doctor said excitedly, pulling something from the console. "Thanks, dear."

Evie glanced up and saw him playing with a new sonic screwdriver for a moment, before moving to the typewriter on the controls and typing in coordinates. Amy moved to her side and Evie shot her a fleeting smile before she moved away and began raising levers and pressing buttons. The console was new, but it was still the same old TARDIS.

Amy pulled a lever out and gasped as it made a strange sound. At her side in a split second, Evie just grinned and pushed it back in, twisting a dial beside it. Then she was away again, carrying on with what she had been doing before.

"Why me?" Amy asked, echoing the question that Evie had asked the Doctor all those months ago. The teenager glanced up, wondering whether the red-head would get a more useful answer than she had.

"Why not?" Nope, apparently she wasn't getting any more information than Evie had.

"No, seriously, you're asking me to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question? Why me?"

"Dunno. You're fun… do I have to have a reason?"

"People always have a reason."

"Do I look like people?"

"Yes." Amy said as Evie shook her head slightly in answer to the question. Normal people didn't wear bowties; not anymore.

"Don't even bother." The teenager called from her position at the console. "He never gives reasons. Not ones that make any sense, anyway."

"OK." Amy said simply, staring the Time Lord out. Then she walked away, leaving him staring at a monitor beside his head. He glanced at it and then switched it off, something that Evie found odd. As he walked over to the red-head, the teenager moved to his recently vacated spot and turned the monitor back on.

Fluctuating waves were moving on the screen and an odd crackling noise was being emitted – almost as though the waves were picking up speech. Evie narrowed her eyes, staring at the monitor.

"Evie Jones." A voice said. The waves mirrored the sound perfectly and the teenager almost screamed. She glanced over to where the Doctor and Amy were talking, before retuning her attention to the monitor. "Evie Jones… it's almost time for you to find out."

"Find out what?" She whispered urgently, her eyes fixed on the waves fluctuating on the screen.

"It's almost time."

"Evie!" The Doctor shouted. "Turn that off."

She spun round to face him, her hands on her hips. "Why, what does it mean?"

"Nothing… it just affects the directional positioning." He said with a shrug. Then he moved to the controls, Amy at his side. "Goodbye, Leadworth! Hello… everything!"

He pulled the engines into life and the three of them held on tightly. Perhaps for the first time ever the sound of the TARDIS didn't fill Evie with a rush of excitement and anticipation. If anything she felt empty.


Uh-Oh! The weirdness for Evie is starting! o_O

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