Sorry this took so long. Real life somewhat exploded in a flurry of activity leaving me with less time to write. I hope that you enjoy this chapter. Like the last chapter it is told completely from Amy's perspective. The Almost people episode is shown as a flashback (in italics)while she'd being held Demon's run. So you won't see the Sabrina and Jenny's interactions with the Ganger Jennifer Lucas, but those scenes would have been so similar to the episode it wouldn't be worth showing.

Enough rambling. Enjoy the chapter.

Heavy boots paced up and down the hall outside her door. Amy knew that the increased presence of guards outside meant that they would be bringing Melody to nurse soon. As much as that thought thrilled her, it also filled her with angst. She was only given a few scarce minutes with her precious baby a few times per day. Of course since they were both being held prisoner, she should be thankful to have at least that.

Now that she was fully awake, she stared out of the giant window in her cell. There were only a few soldiers roaming around since morning drills hadn't started yet. She had their schedule memorized, information lying in wait just in case there was an opportunity for her to escape with the baby.

Tears stung her eyes but she refused to let them fall. Never would she show the monsters that took her the slightest weakness. Amy laid a head against the cool glass of the window and forced her mind back to the acid factory and the Gangers, searching for some clue as to what Rory, Mum and Dad might want her to do next.

Dad's Ganger was having trouble adjusting to his past regenerations. He had doubled over in pain as he rambled on about jelly babies, neutron flows and going back.

"Doctor, are you alright?" Mum called out to him, ready to rush to his side, but the fully Time Lord Doctor held her back.

"Give him a moment, Rose," Dad said quietly.

Amy looked between her parents and the new Ganger and thought about how difficult pronouns would be with two Doctors around. On the spot she had decided to call the Ganger version 'the Doctor' and the Time Lord one 'Dad'.

"Why? Why!" The Doctor screamed.

Mum took another step forward, trying to shake off Dad. "Why, why what? Doctor, look at me. It's going to be alright."

The Doctor looked up at her and smiled. "Rose!" he called delightedly. "Hello, I'm the Doctor." His voice sounded very much like his tenth self. "No! Let it go, we've moved on!"

Dad stepped forward and held out a free hand towards his doppelganger. "Hold on! Hold on! You can stabilize!"

"They've reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow!" the Doctor rambled almost incoherently. "I'm the, would you like a... Doctor... I'm the... I'm the..." And then the man collapsed.

Wrenching free from Dad, Mum was at his side in a moment. She gently patted his cheek. "Wake up, Doctor. Come on, you can do it."

A moment later he shot to his feet, pulling Mum along with him. His face was now completely identical to Dad's. In fact, everything about him was identical, except for the shoes. The Doctor was wearing his normal shoes, but Dad had on a pair of borrowed boots. Dad had melted his original pair in an acid pool when he lost the TARDIS.

"Hello." The Doctor bounded up to Rory and Amy, hugging them both in turn.

Rory was quiet but Amy looked at him quizzically and then smiled. "Doctor?"

His face fell. "So not Dad then?"

Amy shrugged. "I made him earn it, same goes for you."

"Amelia Tyler-Pond, I am exactly the same man."

"First word I said to Rose," Dad cried from across the room.

Turning back to him, the Doctor rolled his eyes. "Do we have time for this?"

"We make time." Dad walked over and took Mum's hand. "I'd like more proof that you're me. First words."

Sighing, the Doctor came over and took Mum's other hand. "You want me to say 'Run' because those are the first words that we said to her. But that wasn't the first time Rose spoke to us. That was New Year's 2005 and I told you, Rose Tyler, that you were going to have a really great year."

"And I did," Mum chuckled and grinned. "Both times I lived through it."

After that Mum, Dad, Rory and even Amy herself had accepted that the Doctor was another Dad. Because what makes a person a person but the sum of their memories? And Mum and Dad rarely talked about the incidents surrounding his regeneration.

Of course with two Doctors around, both of them had been competing for Mum's attention. That meant that the intolerable flirting had been ratcheted up a few thousand notches.

"You know that anyone outside the family may not trust both of us," the Doctor said, rocking on his heels.

"Rose would. She trusts us implicitly. Don't you, my dear?" Dad replied.

The Doctor shook his head. "Don't start that. It's not a contest." He winked at Mum, who blushed furiously. "Because if it was, we both know she'd pick me."

Mum's eyes narrowed, and Dad huffed and just about lost his cool. "Oi, past behavior does not necessarily determine her future choices…Besides, Rose would pick me, no contest."

"Right now, I'm not picking either of you if you keep fighting over me like I'm some sort of prize." Mum scowled. Rory bit back a laugh and both Doctors looked apologetic.

"Rose, Sweetheart, we are both very sorry." The Doctor came over and kissed her on the cheek before turning back towards Dad. "Right then, back on task."

"You're thinking what I'm thinking—" Dad countered.

"Inevitably," the Doctor retorted.

"See, I'm glad we're on the same—"

"Wavelength. See. Great minds!" The Doctor turned towards Rory and Amy. "See, one man, same thoughts."

"What are you two nattering on about?" Mum asked.

"Just setting up some ground rules," Dad said with a nod towards his double.

"Deciding who's in charge," the Doctor added.

"I can save you two the trouble," Mum smirked. "I'm in charge."

The corners of both Doctor's mouths twitched. Dad spoke first. "And that's the conclusion that we came up with."

"We figured that Rose is in fact the boss of us and decided to make it official. We can make you a badge later." The Doctor bopped Rose on the nose and then both he and Dad told Amy to breathe.

"Why do you all keep saying that?" Amy hissed.

Mum shook her head. "Never mind that. Just please breathe, Amelia."

Clapping his hands together, Dad said, "Now we need to get out of here."

"Get the humans and Gangers together…That won't be easy," the Doctor retorted.

Amy snorted and said softly to her husband, "Can you imagine if bow tie Dad and pin striped Dad had met like this. Poor Mum, she'd never had a moment's peace."

Rory's hand gripped her even tighter. "If he stays, it won't be easy but if anyone could make it work, Mum could. But it wouldn't be the same if it was a Ganger that would still attached to the original because Mum or anyone else would find the non-Ganger. Not that the metacrisis or a free-willed Ganger or an attached Ganger are the same. It's not and I love you."

"Are you alright? Because that made absolutely no sense." Amy placed a hand on his forehead, feeling for fever.

Now of course, Amy knew that his rambling explanation had nothing to do with Mum and Dad at all. It was Rory telling his wife that he would find her no matter where she was, bumbling idiot that he was. But he was her bumbling idiot and she couldn't imagine never seeing him again. He had never been good at hiding the big stuff from her, at least not since he'd told her the truth about the family.

These past few years Rory had been an open book to her, therefore Amy knew that he couldn't have known about her kidnapping for very long or she would have figured it out. Well, sometimes he could keep suspicions from her but never anything concrete.

It now seemed evident to her that he must have found out about her kidnapping right before this adventure because his entire attitude had shifted the morning after the family argument. He had avoided talking to her about anything of consequence, blocking her mentally but also clinging to her physically. She would have thought it should have been the other way around, but maybe he thought that her captors were somehow reading her thoughts.

They weren't by the way. She'd probed just enough to ascertain that Madame Kovarian and her minions didn't know anything that went through her head.

Rory'd make a rubbish spy, she thought ruefully, Always ruled by his emotions, her husband, and that was one of the things she loved most about him. Her chest ached with how much she wanted to get back to him. She drug her thoughts away from Rory and back to analyzing their adventure.

After Mum had taken control over the two Doctors situation, Dad had found an escape route and they had just made it out before the Gangers forced their way into the room. In the passageway, the choking gas created by the reaction of the acid and the stone had forced the group up to the evacuation tower. The Doctors worked together to restore the power.

Cleaves and Buzzer made snide comments amongst themselves. Amy bit down hard on her own tongue to avoid making snide comments of her own. With a great effort she managed to pull herself free from Rory and came to stand next to Mum.

She was watching the two Doctors with bemusement. Linking arms with her, Amy asked, "Do you have any idea what's wrong with your son?"

Mum spared Rory a look over her shoulder. "Do you mean in general...or just today?"

"Just today. He seems so not himself, and he's hiding something from me. I can feel it." Amy sighed. "He's shielding heavily. It's so unlike him. Something's about to happen and he can feel it, can't he?"

One of the Doctors, Amy couldn't tell which on since they were behind the control panel, looked up and gave Mum a very small nod. "Yes, Sweetheart, something's about to happen. Rory's felt it for a while, Dad and I have too, but we just discovered what that something is."

"And you can't tell me," Amy said, exasperated. "You know, you shouldn't tell him things that he's supposed to keep from me. Since he promised me there would be no more secrets, he can't keep his mouth shut."

Mum hugged her. "I promise, when we get out of here, we'll let you know what's going on...and I promise you that we will fix it."

A cryptic message, par for the course with this family but if Mum told her it would be okay, she had no reason to doubt her. "Speaking of getting out of here, what happens when we leave here and there are two of them? How are you going to handle that? I mean, you can't choose between them, not again."

"It would be insufferable for a bit, until they figured out a way to share, but in the end everything would be alright." Before Mum could say anything else, the Doctors got the power back on.

"Yes! Communication-a-go-go!" one of the Doctors exclaimed and both of them rushed around the console.

"Great. Now let's find the girls," Mum said, pushing a few buttons.

Rory was by her side in a second. "They're not registering, damn it." His fist collided with the metal.

"I just fixed that," Dad moaned. "Don't break it now. Here." He pointed his sonic at the machine to boost the signal.

Meanwhile, Cleaves had called the mainland and ordered an evacuation. When she had called for the Gangers to be wiped out, Amy could feel the tension in the room ratchet up a few notches. The Gangers could be listening in and that would make everything worse.

Cleaves gave a few final instructions to the mainland. "You'll need to airlift us off of the evac tower. And Captain, any further transmissions sent by me must come with the following code word. I'm typing it in case they're listening in."

A crackling voice confirmed over the communications relay. "Got it. We'll swing in, get you out and decommission the Flesh."

"Right, so while you all wait here for the rescue, I'm going to find my daughters," Mum said, clapping Cleaves on the back.

"We can't let you go out there. It's far too dangerous," Jimmy said, moving to stand in front of the door.

"If you think that we are leaving them, you are sadly mistaken," Mum retorted tersely.

Buzzer snorted. "I want them and Jennifer found, too, but it's about casualties, innit? Can't be helped."

"My children are not casualties." Mum made for the door, but the Doctor stopped her.

"They'll be fine," he said, pulling her into his arms and kissing her forehead.

Amy marveled at the fact that Mum could have such affection for two men at the same time. Granted, they were the same man, and she had done it before. But the whole situation must be heartbreaking for her.

A noise outside of her cell caught her attention, and Amy held her breath, waiting to see if they were bringing in Melody. Her heart sank when a harsh-looking young soldier walked in carrying her breakfast tray. A large part of her wanted to protest and refuse to eat, but she was nursing. Well, when she was allowed to nurse her daughter, she was nursing.

The guard grunted 'eat' at her before leaving. Cautiously, Amy walked over to the tray and tore apart the bread roll. Poking a bit of it into her mouth, she chewed thoughtfully.

At the Monastery, the events of the next few minutes had been a blur. She remembered Dad saying something to Rory about making a phone call on delay. Then she had seen Madam Kovarian again. For the first time she had told Rory about it. Panic had filled his eyes as her told her it was a time-memory, sort of like a mirage, and 'it's nothing to worry about'.

Git, it had been something to worry about, her being captive held by that mad woman. Just not anything they could do anything about yet. Her mind traced back to when they had caught a glimpse of Jenny and Sabrina on the view screen.

"We've got a visual on the girls," Rory yelled, looking at the computer screen. He took his wife's hand, and Amy knew his mental shields slipped for a moment because she could feel his relief... Until that moment, she hadn't realized she'd missed that comforting feeling since he'd shut her out.

"They're heading for the thermostatic room," Cleaves observed.

The Doctor stood and Dad threw him his sonic screwdriver.

Cleaves looked indignant. "You can't let him go! Are you crazy?"

Laughing, the Doctor asked, "Am I crazy, Doctor?"

Mum grinned. "Well, you did once challenge a dictator to a game of hacky-sack for the fate of three billion people."

Dad snorted. "I won, didn't I?"

"Only because I bent over and he was distracted by my bum," Mum retorted with a giggle and Rory groaned in disgust.

Leaning back, the Doctor raked his gaze up and down Mum's backside. "Well, it is a very nice bum."

"This is a serious situation," Cleaves ground out. "So stop flirting so we can go and find your daughters." The woman turned and pointed at the Ganger Doctor. "And just to be clear, this isn't going anywhere."

Standing up, Dad stepped right up next to the severe woman's face. The look he gave was cold and full of absolute authority. "Do you know what? I want him to go. And I'm rather adamant."

(I added the word what to the third sentence to make it sound right.)

Amy had known the Doctor, in one shape or another, almost her entire life and knew deep down that he would always look out for her. So sometimes she forgot just how powerful and even frightening he could be. However, Cleaves and the rest of them now knew that her Dad was not a man to be trifled with. Cleaves agreed to let the Ganger Doctor and Buzzer go out and search for Jennifer, Sabrina and Jenny.

Now all there was to do was wait. Rory stood behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "You know everything is going to work out in the end, right?"

Leaning back, she rested her head on his shoulder. "It always is. No matter how bleak things seem at the time, we always solve it. Together."

"I love you, Amelia Tyler, never forget that." His voice trembled just slightly. "And after this is over and everything is sorted, we'll be together."

At the time, she had felt both comforted and confused at his words. She believed him, of course she did but she hadn't been able to mull over the deeper meanings behind his words at the time.

All hell had broken loose a few minutes after the search and rescue party had been dispatched. Alarm bells started going off, signaling a rise in temperature in the acid pools. Then the communications relay exploded, forcing the group to leave the evac tower. They made their way to the thermostatic room to turn the regulators back on, but it was too late.

"It's a chemical chain reaction now. I can't stop it. This place is going to blow sky high," Dad declared, throwing his hands up in resignation.

"How much time do we have?" Rory questioned.

"Minutes, hours, seconds, I don't know. We just need to get to the TARDIS and get everyone out of here." Dad's shoulders slumped slightly. He began to lead everyone out of the room and they ran straight into Jenny and Sabrina.

"Dad, Mum," both girls exclaimed at once. After a round of hugs, Sabrina explained that Jennifer had found a way out. There was secret tunnel beneath the crypt, one that wasn't on any of the maps, but it should run right under the TARDIS.

A voice from within her room pulled Amy out of her memories. "Excuse me, ma'am." A young, dark haired woman in a standard soldier's uniform spoke from just inside the door. "I was sent to let you know they will be bringing in the baby for her feeding soon. Is there anything I can get you?"

Turning to face her, Amy frowned. "Not unless you want to call my family and tell them where they can collect me and my daughter."

The solider bristled. "I'm very sorry, but I can't do that."

"Didn't think so." Amy crossed her arms and hugged herself. "Please leave now."

"Yes, ma'am." The woman turned on her heel and left.

Amy sat down on the edge of the bed and bit her lip to hold back the smile. They were bringing in Melody soon. Her heart ached again because she knew the time would pass way too quickly. And she'd be so wrapped up in her daughter's beautiful face, tiny hands and little baby fingers to try and mount an effective rescue.

Desperately she pushed her thoughts back to that last adventure before she woke up here. Her mind skittered over the details. The Ganger Jennifer tricked them into the acid room and locked all the non-Gangers save Sabrina and Jenny inside with acid about to boil over. Eventually, they had been rescued but it was too little too late for Jimmy. There was an escape through catacombs, Dicken giving his life to save them, finding the TARDIS, then... then Dad in Ganger form saving them.

The Doctor grabbed Amy by the arm and pulled her into a tight hug. "Push, Amy. But only when she tells you to."

"What?" She was completely confused and tired of everyone saying cryptic things to her all day.

"You'll understand soon enough." The Doctor pressed a kiss on her forehead and let her go, gently pushing her back towards Rory. Then he turned towards Mum and Dad. "Well. My death arrives, I suppose."

Mum threw her arms around the Doctor's neck. "Please, come with us. You don't have to do this."

He leaned down and kissed her. It was quick but meaningful. "You have bigger things to worry about than me."

Softly, Dad laid a hand on the Doctor's shoulder. "Your molecular memory can survive this, you know. It may not be the end."

"Yeah, well, if I turn up to nick Rose away from you, then you'll know you were right, won't you?" the Doctor joked.

Mum took a step back and squeezed his hand. "Always, Doctor. I love you always, in any way shape or form."

"I love you, too." He pressed another kiss onto her forehead and pushed her backwards towards Dad. "Now, all of you, go."

Mum and Dad pushed Amy and Rory into the TARDIS where Sabrina, Jenny, Cleaves and the Gangers of Jimmy and Dicken were waiting. Jenny flipped the controls and soon landed the ship near Jimmy's house, he had a birthday party to make. Cleaves and Dicken were left to deal with the cleanup. They were charged with convincing the government that the Gangers deserved life just as much as humans did.

Seeing the new conviction in Cleaves countenance and the determination in Dicken's face, Amy was convinced that they could do it. Suddenly, her stomach felt like someone was squeezing it in a vice, and Amy doubled over in pain.

Rory, Mum, Dad and Jenny all yelled 'breathe' at the same time.

"Why? It's just a stomach cramp," Amy yelled back just before screaming in pain again.

Raising a hand to her face, Rory's thumb stroked her cheek. "No, love, it's not."

"What the hell is going on here?" Sabrina insisted.

A muscle in Dad's jaw twitched. "Everyone inside the TARDIS right now."

Holding tightly to her husband's arm, Amy made it into the TARDIS.

Sabrina looked confused. "Rory, what is happening to her?"

"Contractions," Jenny said with a sad expression on her face

"Contractions?" Amy barely heard Sabrina's voice over her gasp of pain.

"She's going into labor," Mum said as if that explained everything.

Amy shook her head. "What did she say? No, no, no. Of course she didn't. Rory, um, I don't like this. I'm not in labor, I'm not even pregnant."

"Will someone please explain what the hell is going on? Everyone seems to know what's going on here except me and Amy. So start talking." Sabrina was trying to remain calm but Amy heard that edge of fear in her voice.

"Amy's having a baby." Dad's voice hitched. "We needed to see the Flesh in its early days. That's why I scanned it, that's why we were there in the first place. I needed enough information to block the signal to the Flesh."

"What signal?" Amy panted because of the pain.

"The signal to you," Rory whispered.

"I don't understand, Rory, and I'm frightened. I'm properly, properly scared." Amy was crying now.

"Don't be scared. We are coming for you and for our baby." Rory clutched her tightly. "I swear that we will find you."

"I'm right here, Rory. I'm right here," Amy cried.

"No, you're not. You haven't been here for a long, long time," Mum said softly and Dad told Rory to stand back.

Before Rory let go of her completely, he dropped his mental shields and pushed the words, 'Flesh Avatar' into her head.

"I love you to the ends of the Universe," Rory said, holding back his own tears.

"And back again," she replied earnestly. Behind her she heard the sound of a sonic and everything went black for a moment.

Then Amy had woken up in a tube, in the final stages of labor. That had been weeks ago, but she knew they were coming for her. It was only a matter of time.

"Good morning, Mummy," the shrill voice of her captor said from the door. "I think our little one is ready for breakfast."

Amy turned and sobbed as her daughter's cot was wheeled into the room.