So on the surface, this may look like filler, but I wrote this chapter for a number of reasons. One, this entire story is setup for a future series I want to write, so I feel like any good pilot, it's main characters need to get to know each other better. Two, I can hear David Tennant say 'Allonsy Amy Pond' in my head and picture his face when Amy tells him who she is in regards to his future. Three, there are clues sprinkled about so pay attention! Four, the Doctors meet Daisy and I don't know about you but the thought of the Doctor interacting with a kid makes me smile, be he Capaldi, Tennant or Smith. Granted…my maternal instinct kicks in whenever I see a picture of Matt Smith holding a baby or little kid and I turn into a pile of puddy…but I digress.
On a side note, I know it's been a few years since Eureka was on TV and I know not everyone has seen the show, but don't let that stop you from reading this story or recommending this story. I hope I've done a good job at providing background for the Eureka characters so that as the Doctors learn about the Smartest Small Town in the World, the audience will too. I also hope I've done a good job keeping everyone in character. I just read an article today that interviewed Stephan Moffat and he describes Clara as being a female version of the Doctor in regards to her ego and her desire to run off in the TARDIS versus maintaining relationships. So I'm going to try to incorporate more of that side of Clara in my story. But I need more input. I need to know how I could write the Companions and the Doctors better. So I need more reviews! REVIEW!
flames and kisses,
Mlle. Phoenix Fox
"What is this place?" Rose asked as they walked down the tunnels. Eleven led the way, holding the Timey Wimey device.
"Heating and cooling systems for all of Eureka. Water pipes, waste management, optic cables for the wifi. These tunnels must run under the whole town. Oh the citizens of Eureka are very good!" Ten said shining his torch up over head.
"If this is suppose to be a city of the future then why is it so small? Why isn't it like a buzzing metropolis?" Amy asked.
"Well there is something to be said for small town life, Pond. A sense of community that could get lost in a big city." Eleven said, whacking the side of the device.
"Remember the little village we grew up in Doctor? On the side of the mountains?" Ten asked his fellow Doctor.
"Yeah. Best climbing trees...to fall from." Eleven grinned.
"And how we'd knick that old woman's cakes from her window?" Ten laughed.
"And play in the that valley of red grassy plains below our house?" Eleven said. Then they both sighed nostalgically.
"Wow. I never heard you talk like that before Doctor." Clara said.
"Yeah. Almost domestic." Amy said.
"Seriously? After all that making fun of Leadworth? It sounds like you had the same kind of childhood." Rory said.
"We did. Until we got sent to the academy when we were seven." Eleven said.
"What was wrong with the academy?" Rose asked.
"What wasn't?" Ten scoffed. Sensing they were wanting to change the subject, Rose gave Ten's hand a squeeze and a gentle smile.
Then the Timey Wimey device went off and Eleven cried,
"Ah ha! Gotcha! The Bed and Breakfast is over our heads."
"Right. Here we go." Ten said climbing the ladder up to the street. With a grunt he pushed back the manhole cover and stuck his head out. The Bed and Breakfast was tucked into a quiet little cul-de-sac.
"Come on up." He called down. Nearby, Little Daisy Foster was in her treehouse again. Her Daddy had been called back to GD. Her Mommy was getting dinner ready. When she heard a familiar voice, she shifted her binoculars from the old Barlowe house to the street and gasped. It was the Doctor! The Tenth Doctor! She giggled when the Eleventh Doctor's head popped out of the manhole like a curious meercat. She put her binoculars down and climbed down her treehouse ladder and ran across the yard and to the street where the Doctors helped, Clara, then Rose, the Amy and Rory out of the hole.
"Okay. So how do you want to do this?" Ten asked Eleven.
"Well..."
He stopped when he felt a tug on his tweed jacket. He looked behind him, then down. Seeing a cute little blond girl looking up at him from the vicinity of his knees.
"Hello Doctor. Are you here to fight the monsters?" Daisy asked. The Eleventh Doctor kneeled before her, an interested twinkle in his eye.
"What monsters would that be?" He asked.
"The monsters at the Old Barlowe House. I've been running surveillance on them. Come and see!" Daisy said grabbing Ten's hand and pulling him towards her treehouse. Eleven got up and followed, the companions on his tail. Ten and Eleven followed Daisy up the treehouse.
"Oh wow! This is great. Bit cramped." Ten said siting cross legged on the floor.
"Yeah, you might want to wait down there you lot!" Eleven called over his shoulder as he pulled himself up.
"Ten quid says he falls out of the tree." Amy said aside to Rose.
"You're on." Rose said. Clara looked over her shoulder to see the kid's Mum look at them out the back door.
"Better talk to the Mum." Clara said approaching the woman.
Up in the treehouse, the Eleventh Doctor was looking through Daisy's binoculars as Daisy showed the Tenth Doctor her IPad videos.
"See? The lights are coming from the old Barlowe house." Daisy said as the Tenth Doctor swiped through the videos.
"And you recorded the times these flashes of lights occurred?" Ten asked looking over the rim of his brainy specks at her as Daisy nodded.
"Do they match up with the times of the Autron energy fluxes?" Eleven asked.
"Yup." Ten said in consideration at the notebook.
"Interesting. That's why the Autron energy levels are so high here. This must be where the missing experiments are going to." Eleven said.
"Are you going to send the monsters away?" Daisy asked. Eleven heard the little tremor in her voice and gave her a soft smile, meeting Ten's eye.
"Are you afraid of the monsters Daisy Foster?" Ten asked. Daisy nodded meekly.
Eleven said the only thing he could,
"Don't worry. We'll fight them off for you."
"Yeah. Didn't anyone ever tell you fear is a superpower? Makes you stronger, faster, more clever." Ten said.
"You mean it's okay to be scared?" Daisy asked.
"Of course it is! To not be scared of something scary means you're an idiot, not that you're aren't brave." Ten said.
"Like Daleks?" Daisy whispered.
"Especially Daleks. Why do you think we've always beaten them?" Eleven said giving her a nose boop to make her giggle.
"I thought Daisy was watching too much of the show, you know? Playing a game? But if there is something over there I wouldn't be surprised." Mrs. Foster told Clara on the back porch, Rory having joined them.
"Why's that then?" Clara asked.
"The woman who used to run the B and B? Beverly Barlowe? She was posing as the town therapist. Turns out it was all a front. To learn all of our secrets." Mrs. Foster explained.
"Why?" Clara asked.
"There's this rogue group of scientists. The Consortium. They believing in controlling scientific discovery and using it to their advantage. Through any means necessary." Mrs. Foster said.
"They want to prevent World War Three by controlling all the bombs." Rory guessed.
Mrs. Foster nodded,
"They say one of our town's founders, Dr. Trevor Grant? That he helped start the Consortium to do just that. Since he had worked on the Manhattan Project. Then he disappeared the day Eureka became a town."
"What happened to Beverly Barlowe?" Clara asked.
"She disappeared once she was discovered. A year ago she showed up again to kidnap the Titan crew and steal their secrets. But she escaped." Mrs. Foster explained.
"Titan?" Rory asked.
"The name of the planet we were going to send a crew into space to with the Faster Than Light device. The FTL would have allowed space travel to distant planets within seconds, not hundreds of years. But the Consortium stopped that." Mrs. Foster sighed.
"I wonder if this FTL device is missing too?" Rory asked Clara.
"Whoa! Oof!" Cried the Eleventh Doctor falling out of the treehouse behind them. Rose paid Amy off before they started to help him up.
"Thank you for your time." Clara told Mrs. Foster.
"Thanks." Rory said as they walked over. Clara had to smile, ignoring how her heart skipped a beat when Daisy climbed out of the treehouse and immediately rushed over to give the Eleventh Doctor's hand a kiss to make him all better. She loved how good he was with kids. Rose felt the same way. Especially when her Tenth Doctor picked Daisy up and swung her around, making her giggle.
"Okay Daisy. You head inside with your Mum and keep her safe." Ten said setting her down.
"Yeah. We'll handle this. Come along Ponds." Eleven said turning towards the Bed and Breakfast.
"Be careful Doctor!" Daisy waved before running inside her house. She and her Mom watched as the Doctors and their companions approached the house.
"You think there's a security alarm?" Rose asked.
"If there was, doubt it would work. Autron energy would short out the system." Ten said stepping up onto the front porch.
"Mrs. Foster said the woman who used to own this place,Beverly Barlowe, was the head of this group of mad scientists." Clara told them.
"Oh great. Super. Love mad scientists. So glad they have a club now." Eleven said sarcastically.
"Well doubt she's ever come back. This place had been abandoned for years." Amy said looking through the front window.
"Oh my kingdom for a sonic screwdriver. Excuse me Clara." Ten said plucking a bobby pin from her brown locks. He then used it to pick the lock, pushing open the door carefully. They wandered into the front hall, finding dusty rooms of abandoned furniture and personal items. Cobwebs hung from the rafters and sunlight was filtered through dirty windows.
Amy jumped when she felt a pair of hands tickle her sides.
"Muwhaha!" Rory laughed in jest.
"Rory!" Amy smacked him on the chest as they all laughed.
"Alright, let's spread out. Search floor by floor." The Eleventh Doctor suggested. This was the perfect opportunity for Amy.
She stepped up beside the Tenth Doctor and suggested,
"You know...while we're here, we should mix things up a bit. I'll go with the Tenth Doctor."
Seeing her pointed look, Rory added,
"Yeah! And...I could go with Clara?"
"Okay. Then I'll go with the Eleventh Doctor. We've got some catching up to do anyway." Rose said giving Eleven a smile.
"Good. Alright then. Allonsy Amy Pond!" Ten declared offering her his arm. She took it with a giggle as he lead her off.
"Race you upstairs Rose Tyler." Eleven dared her.
"Geronimo!" Rose said rushing up the steps past him.
"Oi! No fair!" Eleven protested chasing after her.
"After you." Rory said said to Clara who merely shook her head at their friends antics.
Meanwhile, on a road just outside of town, a woman in a tattered blue dress appeared in a flash of light. She instantly began to head into town, past the Welcome to Eureka sign.
Clara wandered into the living room and told Rory,
"You know, you and Amy weren't exactly being subtle."
"I'm sorry?" Rory asked checked a closed cabinet.
"You two are trying to get the dirt on us and the Doctors." Clara looking through a bookcase.
"That obvious huh?" Rory asked.
"Not to the Doctors. Bless." Clara said thumbing through a book.
"Oh." Rory nodded.
"So what do you want to know?" Clara asked.
"Well. Amy and I noticed that you and the Eleventh Doctor are close. Very close." Rory said.
"Tends to happen when one jumps into his time stream." Clara said.
"True. But we were just curious if...well we were wondering..." Rory started and started again.
"Wondering if you're going to actually ask something..." Clara sighed.
"How much do you remember from your past lives?" Rory asked.
"My echoes you mean?" Clara asked.
"Yeah." Rory nodded.
Suspecting he meant to ask something else, Clara let it go and replied,
"Bits and pieces. Why?" She asked.
"It's just I remember how Oswin flirted with me. To put me at ease. But she flirted with the Doctor even more. So I'm just wondering. Did the flirting come from you? And if so, why would you flirt with him at all?" Rory asked.
Clara looked at him like a deer caught in the headlights.
"Well..." She finally said biting her lip. "I suppose...I have flirted with the Doctor. To get him to loosen up."
"Just that? You don't...fancy him?" Rory asked.
Clara looked at her shoes, then set the book back,
"A week ago, well...in my timeline anyway...A week ago I would have told you I can't fancy the Doctor. That I knew it would never work so why hope it could?"
"And now?" Rory asked.
Clara looked at him,
"Now I'm trying not to think of how it's not impossible anymore."
Rory was about to comment that maybe she should tell the Doctor that, when Clara reached for another book. But one tug on it revealed it was a type of lever and the bookcase pulled away to reveal a dusty old lab.
"Rory. Look at this." Clara said beckoning him over.
"Wow. Now that is cool." Rory said peering within. He fished out a small torch from his pocket and turned it on.
"Yeah, just like Scooby Doo." Clara said. They went inside the room to see a table full of drawings and plans. Chalkboards full of equations. Surveillance photos on the citizens of Eureka.
"Huh." Rory said looking the plans over.
"What is it?" Clara asked.
"After I met the Doctor, I did some reading to try to understand time travel and aliens and all that. These are schematics for what appear to be a crude time machine called 'a bridge device'." Rory explained.
"Bridge device! Like what the Tenth Doctor said Jack mentioned." Clara said.
"Right. So how did this Beverly Barlowe get her hands on these?" Rory asked.
"Better question. If they're so important, why leave them behind?" Clara asked. Rory furrowed his brow when he noticed some writing on the plans.
"And why did Dr. Deacon make a note that he had altered these?" He asked as Clara's eyes went wide.
"Look at this. This picture was in the drawer. The back says this solider was Private First Class Adam Barlowe. Must have been Beverly Barlowe's dad. The bloke next to him is suppose to be Dr. Trevor Grant. Whoever he is." Rose said looking at a picture she had found in the nightstand. She sat on the bed crossing her legs. They had searched all the bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs and found nothing until they reached Beverly's old room. Rose had noted that everything was exactly as it was left. As if Beverly had just gone next door to borrow a cup of sugar from Mrs. Foster. And never came back.
"The files at GD said he was one of the town founders." Eleven mumbled from under the bed.
"So...what happened after you left me?" Rose asked. She had to giggle when the Eleventh Doctor stuck his head out from under the bed, a dust bunny in his hair.
"Oh you know. Same old TARDIS life. Fighting monsters. Saving planets. Dying of radiation poisoning no thanks to my old frienemy the Master. And I'm never going to use the phrase 'frienemy' again." He replied with a cough from the dust.
"And then you regenerated and crashed the TARDIS into Amy Pond's garden." Rose said.
"Right. Then I ended up rebooting the universe. Survived an assassination plot of a religious order known as the Silence by faking my death. Met multiple echoes of one Impossible Girl. Saved Gallifrey...Fought a thousand year battle on Trensalore...Killed a Dalek fleet with regeneration energy...regenerated...woke up in Eureka...found my previous incarnation..." Eleven rambled as he crawled out from under the bed.
"Wait...hang on. Did you say that you saved Gallifrey?" Rose asked.
"That I did Rose Tyler." Eleven grinned sitting next to her.
"Oh my gawd, Doctor! That's huge! How did you do it?" Rose asked.
"The device I used to destroy Gallifrey. It was called the Moment. Over the centuries it had developed sentience." Eleven explained.
"What? Like the TARDIS?" Rose asked.
"A bit yeah. Anyway it allowed my past self to go forward in time to meet my future selves. Me and Sandshoes. To see what kind of men that choice would make him. He choose to do it anyway. Said that great men are forged by fire." Eleven said.
"Sounds right to me." Rose said with a soft smile.
"But when me and Sandshoes realized the Moment was allowing us back in our own timeline, we figured out we could save Gallifrey by freezing it in a moment of time. Make it look like the Moment had destroyed Gallifrey and the Daleks but it was only the Dalek's shooting each other in the crossfire." Eleven said.
"You Clever Boys..." Rose smiled.
"I think you played a part come to think of it." Eleven said.
"Me? How?" Rose asked.
"Didn't remember until after the fact, but the Moment took on your likeness to appear to my old self. Even called itself 'Bad Wolf'. Have to wonder. If we never met, would the Moment have convinced me to change my timeline?" Eleven theorized.
"Blimey...does the Tenth Doctor remember?" Rose asked.
"Probably not. Which is another thing to fill him in on." Eleven sighed.
"First being the fact that River Song was your wife?" Rose guessed.
"Right...wait. How did you...?" Eleven paled.
"Girl talk with Amy. She told us." Rose said.
"Ah..."
"When did you meet River?" Rose asked.
"According to which timeline?" The Doctor asked.
"Yours." Rose said fixing him a look.
"While I was with Donna." Eleven confessed folding his hands and leaning forward on his knees.
"Before we found each other again?" Rose asked as he nodded. "Is that part of the reason you left me with your clone?" She added.
He sighed,
"Not the main reason. Like the Doctor said, we only wanted you to be happy. Knowing River was our future just made it easier. But not by much."
Rose hugged him from the side and said,
"Thank you. And I so happy for you both. I know how much losing Gallifrey hurt." Rose told him.
"Yeah. Only we lost it again. It doesn't exist in this universe except as a part of a TV show." Eleven said.
"Says the fictional character in a universe where he's just a show on the Telly." Rose pointed out.
"Point. Does it bother you that I married River?" The Doctor asked.
"Not really. I mean you know how I feel about the Tenth Doctor. Maybe it would have bothered me if he had married her." Rose shrugged.
"Did...Clara ever mention Elizabeth the First?" The Doctor asked.
"No. Why?"
"No reason." The Doctor lied.
"Anyway since it was you, and now that you're two different people, it's like your my brother or something. I don't have the same feelings for you as I do for the Tenth Doctor. Is that weird?" Rose asked pulling back to look at him.
"Nah. Happens with regeneration. How we feel about people change. Whether you're a human or a Time Lord." Eleven shook his head.
"Yeah. I'm just glad you're still fun." Rose said.
"Like the hair?" Eleven asked.
"I like the hair." Rose nodded.
"Like the bow tie?"
"LOVE the bow tie." Rose giggled.
"Of course you do. It's cool." Eleven said fixing it.
"How do you feel about me?" Rose asked.
"Now? You're a dear friend I've got back. But I remember how I felt when I was the Tenth Doctor. How I felt so deeply for you that I burned up a star just to say goodbye. Don't waste a moment with him Rose. He needs you like he needs air." The Doctor told her. Rose gave him a brilliant smile.
"I won't." She promised.
"Good." He nodded.
"You know...Amy is probably spilling the beans about River, right?" She asked raising a brow.
He paled with dread,
"Not good."
"Well. Nothing in here." The Tenth Doctor asked as he opened kitchen cabinets.
"Or here." Amy reported turning on the light in a small pantry.
"We need to find a basement or something. Doubt she'd keep top secret devices in the cupboard." Ten said.
"Unless she's kinky. So...you dropped Rose a year after you took her onboard the TARDIS?" Amy asked turning to him and leaning on the counter.
"That was our Ninth Incarnation. And it was only one time." Ten said raising his finger.
"Until the Eleventh Doctor met me anyway." Amy said.
"Really?" Ten asked.
"He told me five minutes, came back twelve years later. Took off without saying anything, came back two years later. Waited two thousand years for the Doctor and my younger self to reanimate me after my boyfriend turned plastic Roman shot me. Waited for the Doctor to show up after he faked his death. Waited fifty years in an alternative timeline when I got stuck on a deserted planet that had been quarantined. And I guess the finale is waiting about seventy years to be reunited with the Doctor after getting sent back in time by Weeping Angels." Amy said.
"Blimey! That is a lot of waiting. Really. A lot. I could never wait that much. I can barely wait for a microwave. And I'm nine hundred years old. I have no tolerance for waiting whatsoever. Honestly how could you even forgive him for making you wait?" Ten said.
Amy giggled, shaking her head,
"You are so different. And yet it's easy to see how you were both the same person. You both babble constantly. It's a wonder River ever married you." Amy said.
"So she was my future wife. Well that explains how she knew my name when we met." Ten said.
"And you had no idea who she was?" Amy asked.
"No. She sent me a message on the psychic paper to meet her at the Library. Planet of books overrun with Vastah Nerada, living shadows, piranhas of the air, you get the gist. I guess she was expecting Chinney. Got me instead. She said she had never seen my eyes so young before. She died saving my life, and I didn't know why." Ten said. He look up from his shoes to see tears glistening in Amy's eyes. His brow furrowed. The ginger was usually so strong. He should have known. Gingers had the biggest hearts. If Donna was any indication.
"She died? She died the first time you met her?" Amy asked, voice breaking.
"I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. I didn't know you two were that close." Ten said giving her a comforting hug.
"Closer than you think." Amy said with a laugh. She pulled back and wiped away her stubborn tears and continued, "She was my daughter."
"What?! Your daughter?" Ten asked.
"I had been kidnapped while pregnant. And they took her as a baby. Brainwashed her to kill the Doctor. She somehow found me and Rory in Leadworth and grew up as our wild childhood friend. Then she went to school in the fifty first century and time traveled. Never meeting the Doctor in the proper order." Amy explained.
"Now that's Timey-Wimey-Wibbley-Wobbley...wait...if River was my wife...then that makes you..." Ten said.
"Your mother in law." Amy interrupted with a smirk.
Ten winced,
"It's been a while since I had a mother in law..."
"Well now you have one again." Amy said straightening his tie.
"If it makes you feel better, I did save her consciousness to the Library database. So part of her lived on. I'm so sorry Amelia." Ten said.
"It's fine. River always suspected the first time you two would meet would be her last time." Amy said.
"But you were robbed of raising her." Ten said.
"Well we kinda did." Amy shrugged.
"No Amy. Think about it. How could they have found out that you were pregnant? That you would have a girl? The only way they could have known...is if they changed the timeline." Ten sighed.
"What?" Amy asked.
"Amy there was a timeline, one you can't even remember now it's so different. But there was a timeline where you got to raise River as your daughter in the proper order. One where she probably never married the Doctor. But they changed it. Changed it so much that when I saw her die at the Library, it became a fixed timeline." Ten explained.
"You mean...there was a timeline where River got to be my Melody?" Amy asked.
"I'm so sorry Amy." Ten said giving her another hug. And while she didn't find out about Rose like she wanted, Amy felt better telling the Tenth Doctor about River, and was looking forward to telling him more. But before either of them could speak again, they heard a noise coming from a door. Ten shushed Amy and then led the way to the door, revealing a set of stairs.
They cautiously crept down the stairs to a basement. Sounds of a drill filled the air and sparks were flying. The basement was filled with spare parts of various devices. And in the center was a large tarp covered object.
"Hullo?" Ten called out cautiously. A person stepped out from under the tarp wearing a welder's mask. He lifted it up to reveal,
"Andy?" Amy asked.
"Oh wow! Great costumes guys! Is that some kind of formula to alter your appearance?" Andy asked.
Amy exchanged a look of confusion with the Doctor then said,
"Andy it's us. Amy and the Tenth Doctor."
"Well I can see that. So is that you Dr. Fargo? Dr. Martin? Huh. That's funny. The formula seemed to completely alter your DNA. I think you even have a binary cardiovascular system Doctor." Andy said, no hint of recognition in his eyes.
"Doctor? What's wrong with him?" Amy asked Ten.
"Andy what day is this?" Ten asked.
"Monday November 18th, 2013, 11:59pm. Golly! That's strange. I could have sworn it was 11:59pm an hour ago. Time sure flies when you're having fun!" Andy said.
"Or stands still." Ten said in thought.
"That was five days ago. The night before we appeared in Eureka." Amy said to the Doctor.
"So why are you here Andy?" Ten asked.
"I'm helping her. She needs to be finished." Andy said cryptically as he removed his mask from his head.
"Her? Who's her? Beverly Barlowe?" Ten asked.
"She needs to be finished so she can be free. Uh oh." Andy said.
"What's wrong?" Amy asked.
"She says you're not suppose to figure out who she is. But you must help the Peacekeeper discover the truth. To save us all." Andy said.
"Andy who is she? Who is the Peacekeeper?" Ten asked.
"She says my task is done. I'll see you later Doctor." Andy said. Then in a flash of light he disappeared.
"What? Where did he go?" Amy asked beginning to freak out.
"Back to the moment and place from where he was taken. His memory wiped. It's why he didn't recognize us. Let's take a peek behind the curtain shall we?" Ten said pacing the spot where Andy was before pulling back the tarp. His face went blank and Amy gasped.
"Doctor! Doctor get down here!" Ten called. Footsteps thundered overhead as the Eleventh Doctor and companions headed for the basement.
"What's wrong?" Rory asked.
"Oh my stars..." Clara gasped seeing what was in the middle of the room. The Eleventh Doctor froze at the sight.
"It's the TARDIS." Rose said in a small voice seeing the familiar sight of the blue police public call box.