1996
Home of Amelia Pond's Aunt Sharon
"Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish" Seven year old Amelia Pond knelt near her bed; praying to Santa. "It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you. But honest, it is an emergency." the ginger-haired girl paused and then turned to a crack in her wall. "There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but... I know it's not, because, at night, there's voices. So please, please, could you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman. Or..."
A noise outside Amelia's aunt's home caused her to stop then say; to pause her conversation with Santa... "Be back in a moment" before she went to the window, to peek outside.
No she didn't think she'd be seeing Santa and his rain-deers, although that probably would have made more sense then the giant box that materialized and trashed her aunt's shed.
"Thank you, Santa."
December 2010
London
Home of Donna Temple-Noble and Shaun Temple
"Okay so I've locked up the back; let Muffins do his business before I did." Shaun, content with Donna drinking her tea was re-entered the living room holding one of Donna's presents; a purebred Maltese puppy by the name of Muffins. When he didn't get a response from Donna, he went onto ask...
"Are you sure you want him to sleep with us? His paws are a little muddy?" before he saw the tea cup she had been drinking out of hanging; the liquid that was in it spilled on the blanket, and Donna's blank stare.
"Donna.." Quickly and gently he placed the puppy down before he pulled the cup from Donna's hand. "Donna you spilled your tea."
"Huh?" Donna tilted her head, a little confused till she felt Shaun take hold of her arm where it was a bright red. "Oh I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry..." Shaun paused. "Sit here I'll go get cold water for that."
"No..." Donna looked at him a little funnier then usual. "An apple."
"And apple?" Shaun asked with a confused expression. "What do you need an apple for a burn?"
"No I want to eat the apple; I'm craving an apple."
1996
Home of Amelia Pond's Aunt Sharon
"Can I have an apple? All I can think about – apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new - never had cravings before." the mad man, or as Amelia had discovered him; the very same one who had been carrying on about an apple and cravings came to climb to seated on the bottom now side of the Tardis then looked back in. "Whoa! Look at that!"
"Are you OK?"
"Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library." the Doctor paused. "Hell of a climb back up."
"You're soaking wet." Amelia paused...
"I was in the swimming pool."
"You said you were in the library." Amelia frowned and narrowed her eyes; a blue box, on it's side with a mad man who claimed to be in a box and the library at the same time. She waited for him to answer then got a simple...
"So was the swimming pool."
"Are you a policeman?"
"Why? Did you call a policeman?"
"Did you come about the crack in my wall?"
"What cra...?" the madman asked then fell from where he sat to the ground then jerked about a bit before saying... "Agh!"
Are you all right, mister?
"No, I'm fine, it's OK." the madman knelt when he spoke, and then went onto say "This is all perfectly norm..." before he let a small amount of gold stardust leave his mouth.
"Who are you?
"I don't know yet. I'm still cooking." the madman answered then looked at his hands. They were glowing the same color that had come from his mouth. "Does it scare you?"
"No, it just looks a bit weird."
"No, no, no." the madman shook his head the explained himself with. "The crack in your wall. Does it scare you?
"Yes." Amy answered which caused the madman to stand up; no jump up and say. "Well, then, no time to lose." plus "I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." before walking straight into a tree.
December 2010
London
Home of Donna Temple-Noble and Shaun Temple
After the Regeneration
"Alright; one apple and one paper towel containing one ice cube." Shaun handed Donna the apple, and then began to care for the slight burn on her arm. "How did you not feel this?"
"I guess I was too busy thinking..." Donna bit into the Apple and then made a face. "It's a bit sour."
"It's a granny-smith Donna it's supposed to be sour." Shaun held one hand under Donna's arm, while the other pressed the ice pack against the burn. "So what were you thinking about? Was it Scotland?"
"Yeah.. No, not really... Just; um." Donna paused then stated the obvious when the phone rang by saying. "The telephone's ringing."
"Yes I know that." Shaun answered as he looked over Donna's minor burn.
"Are you going to answer it?"
"Nope." Shaun looked up at Donna with a smile. "I'm not."
"But it could be your mum?" Donna paused then added. "Do you really want her to think I'm keeping you from answering the phone?... After you told her I'd picked another name; Amy for the baby and not Jessica?"
"Right." Shaun half stood, and waited for Donna to take over care of her arm. "I'll be right back."
1996
Home of Amelia Pond's Aunt Sharon
"What's your name?" The Doctor, who and only after trying various foods to which he didn't like, asked Amelia her name while biting into a custard covered fish finger.
"Amelia Pond." Amelia answered; she wasn't really into the whole idea of fish fingers, and custard but she did very much like the bucket of ice cream in front of her.
"Ah, that's a brilliant name." the Doctor Paused. "Amelia Pond, like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"
"No." Amy answered with a tone of disgust, and then added. "We had to move to England. It's rubbish."
"So what about your mum and dad, then?" The Doctor; oh yes from now on, if you had not already caught on; the madman in a blue box or otherwise referred to as the doctor asked. Then added.."Are they upstairs? Thought we'd have woken them by now."
"I don't have a mum and dad. Just an aunt."
"I don't even have an aunt."
"You're lucky."
"I know. So, your aunt. Where is she?"
"She's out."
"And she left you all alone?"
"I'm not scared."
'Course you're not. You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of box, man eats fish custard, and look at you, just sitting there. So you know what I think?
"What?"
"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall."
December 2010
London
Home of Donna Temple-Noble and Shaun Temple
After the Regeneration
"Alrighty then.. That's all set." Shaun rubbed both his hands together when he approached Donna, who stood up dropping the apple to the couch near her.. "Yes it was my mum, and yes she's still a little upset about the name but no worries."
"No worries." Donna smiled then covered her eyes and leaned against him.
"Hey?" Shaun let her lean against him, then brushed his hand against her cheek. "You okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine... Just a little dizzy." Donna paused. "Stood up too fast is all; got a little nauseous too."
"If you want I can make you another cup-a-tea..." Shaun paused. "I promise this time I won't let you spill it."
"No that's okay, I think it best I just go lie down." Donna smiled about the spilling part, as the burn on her arm began to faintly sting.. "besides my back's starting to hurt again."
"What's wrong with your back?"
"I don't know." Donna smiled and shook her head. "I was working in the baby's room; last night, while you were out... Trying to blend in that crack, and I think I might of overdone it."
"Donna I told you to leave that crack alone; I would get the painted to come after the new year."
"I know you did; but I was bored and..."
"And you decided to un bored yourself by patching up a wall?" Shaun could only stay mad for the briefest of times with Donna before he had to give in. "Where does it hurt?"
"It's my lower back; started this morning but it's going away."
"Alright then; here's the deal." Shaun smiled then kissed Donna. "You go upstairs and get into bed; I'll lock up, and when I get upstairs I'll give you a massage. How'd you like that?"
"I'd like that a lot." Donna walked to the stairs, then paused. "But could you bring something with you." "Anything for you my love." Shaun paused. "You name it, and I'll get it."
"An apple? I've been having this craving for apples all day, you know the ones in the kitchen." Donna smiled with a blush; Shaun dare not say he had already given her one which she didn't like. Especially with how pale she looked.
"It's already done." Shaun paused. "And Muffin's?"
"Bring him upstairs as well." Donna paused, took a step and then turned back. "Oh and can you carve that little smiley face into it; I just love when you do that."
"One smiley faced apple for the apple craving pregnant lady, and one very muddy pawed puppy coming up." Shaun smiled, then waited for Donna to reach the top of the stairs before he began to lock up.
1996
Home of Amelia Pond's Aunt Sharon
Amelia stood with the Doctor in her room. She had already come to like him; the madman with a blue box who hated almost everything she had cooked for him. Even the apple he first asked about; he hated that.
He hate yoghurt, bacon and beans. Beans to him were evil, and not to mention very bad. And then there was bread and butter; that he tossed out the house. Plate and all. How she was about to explain that to her Aunt Sharon was something that put Amelia at a loss. Of course not as big of a loss as she was with how to explain the crack in her wall.
"I used to hate apples." Amelia stood in the doorway to her bedroom as the Doctor looked over her wall; in her hand was an apple she turned over to the Doctor after saying. "So my mum put faces on them."
"She sounds good, your mum." the Doctor said then tossed the apple in the air, immediately catching it before going onto examine the crack. "I'll keep it for later. This wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it. So here's a thing - where's the draft coming from?"
The doctor steppped back and pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver to Examine the wall. "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what the crack is?"
"What?"
"It's a crack." The Doctor answered then ran his finger along the crack. " I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."
"Where is it, then?"
"Everywhere. In everything. It's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together...right here in the wall of your bedroom."
"A voice? Yes." The Doctor hear an echo, then took the water glass from Amy's night stand and poured the water out before he pressed it and his ear against the wall.
"Prisoner Zero?" The Doctor repeated the name of the prisoner the voice on the other side had said escaped.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped. That's what I heard. What does it mean?"
"It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison and they've lost a prisoner." the Doctor had stepped back before he spoke then went onto ask "Do you know what that means?"
"What?"
"You need a better wall." the doctor paused and then moved her desk away from the wall. " The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way. The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or...
"What?"
"You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?"
"Yes."
"Everything's going to be fine."