Epilogue: Inside Out and Upside Down

Inside the TARDIS, The Doctor was pressing buttons, twisting knobs, and twirling cranks as fast as he could so that they could leave before anything else could happen to disrupt the timeline.

"Why didn't we tell them what was inside that other TARDIS, Doctor?" Amy asked The Doctor.

The Doctor kept twisting knobs as he looked up and said, "Because, if they knew what was inside her TARDIS, then this whole planet would unravel into millions of tiny 'who-knows' and 'what-would-happens' instead of the current course it was on."

Amy walked up towards the console and just looked at the center for a few minutes before turning and walking up toward her room. The Doctor kept pushing buttons on the TARDIS console until he was sure that Amy was safe in her quarters.

'Of ALL the Time Lords to survive...why did it have to be HER!' The Doctor thought as he set his destination for as far away as possible from this part of time.

Flashback

The Doctor and Amy entered the rosebush, the second TARDIS having recognized the key in The Doctor's hand, and the outside of The Gauntlet Chamber turned into an older TARDIS control room. The walls were decorated in a hexagon style with silver and bronze colors. At the center was an older TARDIS console, waiting to be used. Once The Doctor and Amy walked in, the lights came on and the console started to come online.

"What is this place?" Amy asked as she started looking around the older style control room.

"Just another TARDIS control room, only a little older. Sometime I'll show you the one's I have stored in mine." The Doctor said as he walked up to the console and started pressing buttons.

After a few seconds, a hologram of Romana's second regenerated form appeared in front of the console.

"If you are receiving this message, Doctor, than what I have feared happened has taken place. The Time Lords have fallen as a civilization and as a species. The madness of bringing Rassilon into our present timestream had, to my utter lack of disbelief, driven the Panoptica to not only make him the new Lord President...but to approve plans to create a final solution to the end of the Time War. In response, I told a few of our friends hints to give to you. I thought that the long curly hair and the green coat suited you.

But now, I had to run...just like you did all of those years ago. I landed here on Earth in their 'post empire building/pre death of the planet' phase. I've also take measures to hide what I need to hide from these people. To them, I'm their leader...their Prophet. I know it sounds like Rassilon and The Master, but I feel that it is required for some of the events that I was told will happen. She called herself Flemeth, but I knew that there was something more. I also know that someone will betray me soon, so I have a pair of measures ready: a transmat back here to my TARDIS and another chosen regeneration. I know that it will be some time before we see each other, but we will in the end.

Good bye, my friend." Romana's image said before it shut down.

A noise sounded, like a death rattle from a dying animal. The Doctor looked up at the ceiling before he grabbed Amy and started for the door.

"What happened?" Amy asked as she was being dragged.

"Romana's TARDIS is dying, it's been unused for centuries before someone walked inside her." The Doctor said as he and Amy exited the TARDIS/Rose Bush.

The Doctor and Amy walked out just as Tamara and her group walked out of The Gauntlet Chamber.

End Flashback

The Doctor looked around once more before setting course for The Eye of Orion in the Second Age of Tranquility, his second favorite age on the planet. After setting course, he stepped back from the console and looked around in thought.

'Romana...I'm sorry...I should have done something more...even taken up that damned position of Lord President...If only to keep the madness of the Time War in check.' The Doctor thought before walking towards the library.

'Now, however, I have to stop The Reapers from destroying the universe again. And this time, I have to do this alone instead of with help from the Time Lords.' The Doctor thought as he entered the library and searched for a specific section.

As soon as he started, he found what he was looking for: Reapers and Their Artifacts by Professor River Song.

"Always knew that she would do great things...didn't know that I was married to her, but there you go." The Doctor thought as he put the book on the end table next to his favorite chair.

NEXT TIME...

The darkness of cavern gave way to the glowing of the Lyrium in the stones around them.

"Just who are you, stranger?" Varric asked as he looked around the cavern in surprise.

The shadows in the darkness of the cavern whisper with madness and hunger

"What was that...blood magic?" Carver asked as the stones that made The Profane had collapsed.

The chamber that contains the artifact glows as the whispers get louder and an evil glow emanates from the artifact.

"Can you save my brother? Hawke asked as she looked on with worry.

The Doctor turned around from looking at the vastness of the darkness, "Trust me...I'm The Doctor."

The Doctor will return in...'Rest Stop: Primeval Thaig'

And that's the end of this story.

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