Happy New Year! This story is almost finished. In fact this is the last completed chapter I've got…heh heh…It's the science man. It's the science that's stumping me. In the meantime, keep favoring me, keep following me, but most of all...REVIEW!
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Mlle. Phoenix Fox
"They've got Dreckmeyer."
"Do they have the Eye of Harmony?" A man asked the woman on the other end of the line. The woman in question being Beverly Barlowe.
"More than likely. We have to move fast." She replied.
"Get it done." The man ordered before hanging up.
"This is crazy. Why make Idris real?" Allison asked watching Rory try to sit Idris down. But she was too busy curiously wandering the lab and examining all the machines.
"Why make me and the Doctor real?" The Tenth Doctor asked.
"Where is the Eleventh Doctor anyway?" Grace asked.
"Apparently they found not only Dr. Dreckmeyer but the missing particle collider. Andy got damaged so the Eleventh Doctor is bringing him back to GD." Allison said.
"Think he knows Idris is here?" Grace asked. Only their attention was turned to shouts from the hall. The glass windows of the med lab showed the comical sight of people getting pushed, shoved and sent crashing to the floor, papers flying as the blur that was the Eleventh Doctor raced into the med lab. He skidded to a stop in front of Idris, tears in his eyes as he smiled in wonder.
"Yup. I'd say he knows." Ten nodded, tugging on his ear.
"You came back..." Eleven whispered to her.
"I'd never abandon you Doctor. Any one of you." Idris said glancing at her Skinny Thief. He had been acting so cold towards her on the ride over. But that was alright. She knew he was just trying to protect his fragile hearts. That's what she loved about her Skinny Thief. Ever the hopeless romantic.
"You're here...here and alive again!" Eleven said squeezing her shoulders as if afraid she would disappear again. Amy and Clara came into the lab and Clara instantly frowned seeing the look of adoration in her Doctor's eyes. Her Doctor.
Folding her arms, Clara asked,
"So. She's the old snog box eh?"
"Clara! Don't be rude!" Rose admonished her.
"It's alright Pink and Yellow Girl." the Tardis told her.
"Why do you keep calling me Pink and Yellow Girl?" Rose asked.
"Apparently Idris has trouble with names. She calls me the Orangey Girl." Amy explained.
"And she calls me and the Doctor 'Thief'. What does she call you Rory?" Ten asked.
"The...Pretty One..." Rory blushed.
"Hullo Pretty!" Idris beamed.
"The Pretty One?! With that nose?" Ten cried using his fingers to illustrate Rory's most prominent feature.
"Shut up Sideburns. He's gorgeous." Amy smacked him on the shoulder.
"What do you call me?" Clara asked Idris curiously.
"The Little Mouthy One. Little for short. Pun intended." Idris smirked.
"Little!? Short?! Why you..."Clara began in a huff as she started to charge the taller woman. Only to be intercepted by Eleven who easily picked up the petite woman to distance her as far from his beloved ship in human form as possible.
"Wow. This is just like watching an episode of Doctor Who." Grace laughed.
"I'd feel better about this if we weren't facing impeding disaster." Allison said.
"Can't we evacuate the town?" Amy asked.
"The EM shield won't let anyone out. And it won't let anyone in. And now communication has been shut off from the outside world." Allison told them.
"Eh. We've dealt with worst." Eleven shrugged.
"Idris you need to tell us exactly what you remember before you ended up in Eureka." Rose asked.
"Well...I remember growing in a field of red mountains alongside my sisters by a stream..." Idris began.
"Uh...not that far back Dear..." Eleven told her.
"Idris was there anyone you remember seeing when you appeared in Eureka? The Peacekeeper maybe?" Ten tried.
"The Peacekeeper shall figure out the truth and set her free." Idris said cryptically.
"Her who?" Grace asked.
"I don't know...The Peacekeeper knows. Or the Peacekeeper will know. Shall we go get him?" Idris asked.
"This isn't getting us anywhere..." Ten sighed.
"Maybe we can try hypnotherapy." Amy suggested.
"Hypnotherapy?" Clara asked.
"One of my psychologists tried it once." Amy shrugged.
"I'm sorry...One...of your psychologists?" Ten asked.
"They kept saying you weren't real!" Amy defended herself.
"And then she kept biting them." Rory added.
"Oh! Biting! That sounds like fun!" Idris suddenly cried, grabbing Ten by the tie and playfully biting his neck.
"Ow...ow...OW!" Ten cried in pain before pulling back.
"I like biting. It's like kissing only there's a winner." Idris said going around the room to inspect the equipment again.
"Sorry...Should have mentioned she tends to bite..." Eleven winced.
"Well it's a bit late now isn't it!?" Ten hissed. Then he frowned as Rose began to laugh.
"Your ship gave you a hickey! Hahaha!"
"Gives new meaning to the phrase 'Snog Box'." Clara smirked. Idris frowned and stuck out her tongue at Clara, to which Clara returned the gesture.
"Can we please be serious? Eureka is about to be frozen in time and we need to figure out how to stop that from happening." Allison said.
"Sorry. It's just...running with the Doctor...it's so much fun you forget about the danger involved." Rose explained.
"We know. We watch the show, remember?" Allison sighed.
"But it's a little different when your family and friends are the ones in danger." Grace added.
"We promise you. We'll stop this." Eleven told them.
"We know." Allison nodded, giving him a brave smile.
"You'll know we'll stop this?" Eleven asked, hearing the tone in her voice.
"I know you'll promise to stop this. And do whatever you can to keep that promise. But this is the real world Doctor. I've only met one man that ever saved the world like you do. Who keeps his promise to keep his friends and family safe. Week after week. Day after day. Year after year. He doesn't need to fly off in a blue box to do it either. He's traveled in time again and again, more than anyone in Eureka. Fought monsters and villains bent on destroying the world. And he's the one I trust can save us. And I should know. Because I married him." Allison smiled.
"So the Consortium kidnapped your wife?" Jack Carter gently asked the distraught scientist he was interrogating in the GD holding cell.
Dreckmeyer groaned from behind the safety of the force field, pacing and running his hands through his hair furiously,
"This wasn't suppose to happen. We've been seeing a therapist. Working towards reconciliation. I even moved back home last month. Then one day I came home and saw Beverly Barlowe sitting in my living room. Mary Beth was gone. Beverly told me that she was working with Dr. Peabody on a particle collider for the Consortium. But they needed temporal coral to create the Eye of Harmony. And it would look too suspicious if a nuclear physicist teamed up with Parrish to grow the coral. But a parapsychologist known for his nutty theories on psychic energy and ghosts and the paranormal? Who'd even think to look twice? So they took Mary Beth as collateral. So that I wouldn't come to you."
"Me?" Jack asked.
"The Consortium is gunning for you Sheriff." Dreckmeyer said.
"Please don't make this the Wild Wild West." Jack asked dryly.
"But they do Sheriff! They know that if you caught wind of this you'd stop them!" Dreckmeyer said.
"Damn right! Where are they? Where's Beverly Barlowe, Dr. Dreckmeyer?" Jack demanded.
"If I knew, I'd try to save Mary Beth myself." Dreckmeyer sighed.
"Right...maybe that's what we have to do." Jack said in thought.
"Huh?" Dreckmeyer asked. Jack ignored him and left the holding cell. He found his way back to the med lab where he saw Taggart and the girl from the street being gently deposited next to his daughter and his friends.
"Dreckmeyer say anything?" The Tenth Doctor asked.
"Only that he was forced to help the Consortium and he doesn't know where they are." Jack said.
"Great. That's helpful!" Fargo cried.
"BUT! What if Dreckmeyer gave them what he wanted? What if he gave them the Eye of Harmony?" Jack asked.
"What?" Ten asked.
"I think I'm catching on...Nope not getting it..."Eleven shook his head.
"Beverly Barlowe has to be in Eureka. Near the Eye of Harmony and near Dreckmeyer to make sure he does her dirty work. They only way we're going to draw her and the Consortium out is if we make them think we gave them what they want." Jack explained.
"Oh...and then we follow Dreckmeyer to where they are!" Eleven beamed.
"Oh...that is brilliant! Allison was right about you." Ten exclaimed.
"What did she say?" Jack asked with a smile towards his wife. They didn't notice Idris look to the frozen people of Eureka, her head cocked in wonder.
"Only that you are indeed brilliant Jack Carter!" Eleven said giving Jack a kiss on the mouth.
Jack grimaced, wiping his mouth,
"Seriously?! Come on!"
"Human males. Honestly...you're so...male..." Ten shrugged.
"Guess there was hope for Captain Jack Harkness after all." Rose mused.
"Stop it..." Ten told her.
Only the happy mood was interrupted when monitors suddenly went wild. Grace checked her computer and said,
"Zoe's heartbeat is slowing down! It's failing!"
"No! Zoe!" Jack cried. But before any of them could move to the young woman's side, a force field blocked them off.
"ZOE!" Jack cried trying to break through.
"Jack be careful!" Allison warned him. The Doctors tried their sonic screwdrivers on the forcefield.
"Grr! Deadlocked!" Eleven growled smacking his sonic.
"Smash it then!" Amy roared picking up a chair to knock it against the forcefield. Jack and Rory followed her example.
"What is she doing?" Fargo asked looking beyond the force field. Seeing Idris step away from a computer keyboard, Ten realized she was the only one on the right side of the force field.
"Idris! Idris what are you doing!?" he asked.
"I'm sorry Doctor. But I need to do this. I need to make this right. And the force field is to stop you from stopping me." Idris said.
"Do what? Idris we have to get in there to save Zoe's life!" Rose pleaded.
"With what? Only something affected by temporal particles can reverse the effects." Idris said.
"If that's true then you need to let me and the Doctor in! We can reverse it!" Ten said.
"It's not enough." Idris shook her head.
Realization dawned on the Eleventh Doctor,
"No..."
"What? What is enough? What? What?" Ten asked.
"Oh my beautiful Idiot. You'll always have me." Idris gave a bittersweet smile. Then to their wonder, her eyes glowed gold and golden energy began to flow from her mouth. She touched her fingers to her lips and then touched Zoe's. They watched one by one as Idris touched each person, the glow spreading over them.
"What's happening?" Clara asked.
Finally, the glow subsided and Zoe took a deep breath and blinked.
"Zoe!" Jack called.
"Dad?" Zoe asked confused. Then she saw a woman that looked like Idris collapse at her feet.
"No! Idris no!" Ten cried. Zane went to the computer and typed a few commands to remove the force field. Taggart and Zoe kneeled by Idris to examine her while the Doctors raced to her side.
"Carter, the Artifact! It's alive again!" Jo told Jack.
"We know." Jack told her.
"Idris! Idris! Why did you do that?!" Eleven pleaded.
"To set her free..." Idris mumbled before losing consciousness.
An hour later, Idris was resting comfortably in a bed. Henry looked up from his scanner to see the Doctors staring at him in expectation. He wished he had good news.
"One of her kidneys failed. She's dying." Henry said.
"Just like the show?" Fargo asked.
"Just like before." Eleven corrected solemnly.
"No. She can't be dying. She's the TARDIS!" Rose exclaimed.
"In human form. A human brain can't handle the consciousness of a TARDIS. All of time and space in her head. Past, Present and future all at once." Ten explained sadly.
"She's gonna burn..." Rose mumbled, on the brink of remembering something.
"Can't we save her? I mean we're human plus. Someone created us. Someone created her. Why create us healthy and alive and create her...to not be so?" Rory asked.
"Another list of questions to add to the pile." Jack commented.
"There is a small chance we might be able to take what we've learned from you all to at least give it a try." Allison said.
"Please. He can't...he can't lose her again." Amy said looking at her Raggedy Doctor.
"Come on. Let's crunch some numbers." Henry said.
"We'll help." Eleven said.
"Go. I'll just be a minute." Ten told him. They left to give the Tenth Doctor some privacy. All but Clara. She lingered behind to listen.
"Doctor?" Idris asked softly.
"I'm sorry Idris. I'm so so sorry." Ten said.
"My Skinny Thief. Always blaming yourself." Idris said gently.
"Shouldn't I? If it wasn't for me none of this would have happened." Ten said.
"And a million billion stars in the sky wouldn't burn in the sky." Idris said.
"In our old universe. Here anything we did was just a story in people's heads." Ten said.
"A story that made people brave. That gave them hope. That made them better." Idris asserted. The Tenth Doctor gave her a small smile.
"Look at us. Talking! Well I always talked to you but you never talked back. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could talk like this all the time?" The Doctor asked.
"You always say that." Idris said. The Tenth Doctor's smile faded as he looked at his fellow Doctor.
"Idris you have to hang on. You have to hang on so that we can talk all the time okay? So you can tell me why half the time you took me to where I didn't want to go." Ten told her taking her hand.
"But I always took you to wherever you needed to go." Idris said.
"Yeah. Guess you did." He said kissing the back of her hand.
"Are all people like what?" Ten asked.
"So much bigger on the inside?" Idris asked.
"Oh yes!" The Tenth Doctor chuckled.
"Doctor. We need you." Fargo called him over.
"I'll be right there." The Doctor said.
"Go. I'll stay with her." Clara told him.
"You sure? You two don't seem to get along." Ten said.
"I said 'go'. Off you pop." Clara ordered him with a nod of her head.
"He was right. You are the Boss." Ten said tucking his hands in his pockets and stepping away to join the others. Clara turned back to Idris who had her eyes closed, as if she was asleep.
"Stop it. I know you're faking." Clara said.
"Am not." Idris said.
"Are too." Clara argued.
"Not."
"Are."
"Not."
"Are!"
"Not!"
"Oh stop it! Why do you do this? Why don't you like me? Now that we're speaking, with mouths, I'd like to know!" Clara hissed.
"He was going to stop." Idris said with a huff upon opening her eyes.
"What?" Clara asked.
"The Doctor. He was going to stop running. I saw the future. I saw a future where he stopped running and I wasn't there. But you were. With your head in MY Doctor's lap." Idris told her. Then she furrowed her brow and added,
"Of course in perspective, I may have been seeing the Doctor stuck on Trensalore before he regenerated..."
"So you were jealous? This whole time you were jealous of a future that wasn't what you thought it was?" Clara asked.
"And I was jealous of the way he looked at you." Idris admitted.
"Like I was the only mystery worth solving. Yeah. But we all know why he met me before so there you go." Clara said folding her arms.
"But he still looked at you that way after you jumped into his time stream. He still does. And when I saw that future I thought I had been replaced." Idris said. Clara looked over at her Chin Boy, deep in discussion with Henry and Allison.
Clara smiled and shook her head,
"Now why would he do that? You know how barmy he gets staying in one place. The Doctor may need his companions, but he'll always need his old Snog Box."
"And there's another thing. You have no respect for how magnificent of a machine I am. Was? Will be? Anyway I am not a Cow, an appliance nor a Snog box. No matter how many times Pretty kisses Orangey or my Thieves kiss you and Pink and Yellow Girl." Idris ranted.
Knowing the Eleventh Doctor had never kissed her, (not counting all the times she kissed him) Clara furrowed her brow and went,
"What?"
Watching Clara talk with Idris, Rose asked Fargo,
"Do you really think we can save her?"
"I hope so. I mean we do have the TARDIS shell if all else fails." Fargo said.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked.
"Well on the show, Idris became the TARDIS consciousness again. This time I guess we're trying to see if we can save the human Idris and the TARDIS consciousness." Fargo shrugged.
"But the TARDIS was okay?" Rose asked.
"Oh yeah. Actually, I think we're doing this more for the Doctors." Fargo said.
"Was it hard on the Doctor to lose her?" Rose asked.
"Of course. He even cried. The show wasn't called the Doctor's Wife for nothing." Fargo said.
Rose smiled as she looked at her Doctor,
"Story of his life. Stuck between a girl and a box."
"Personally, I hope we can save Idris." Fargo said.
"Really?" Rose asked.
"Of course! She's awesome! She's the TARDIS! Every Whovian loves the TARDIS, ergo, they love Idris!" Fargo exclaimed.
"Including the Doctor." Rose nodded.
"Rose? Can you go check with Zane and Trent and see how fixing the Autron fluxes are going? The EM shield is messing with our cell phone reception." Henry asked her.
"Sure Dr. Deacon." Rose nodded. She left the med lab to walk down the hall when she heard,
"Rose!"
Rose turned, her gaze directed towards an empty hallway.
"Hullo? Hullo, is anyone there?" Rose called.
"Rose!"
"Hullo?" Rose called going down the hall.
"Rose!"
Rose stilled in recognition.
"Mum?" She asked softly. Sure enough, Jackie Tyler turned the corner.
"Rose! Oh sweetheart! I finally found you!" Jackie exclaimed.
"Mum! Oh my gawd! What are you doing here?" Rose exclaimed running up to embrace her mother.
The older blond huffed over her shoulder,
"Well how the hell should I know?! One minute I'm on that bloody beach watching you snog the Doctor's twin. The next I'm here! What's happening Sweetheart?"
"It's a long story. But the Doctor is here and he'll figure everything out, you'll see." Rose assured her.
"The Doctor? Oh thank heavens!" Jackie sighed in relief. Rose pulled back abruptly.
"Since when are you grateful for the Doctor? You slap him first and ask questions later." Rose asked, stepping back.
"Will you stop being barmy? You know I love the Doctor." Jackie said.
"No! You don't. And you are not my mother." Rose shook her head.
The fake Jackie Tyler sighed,
"Oh well..."
She touched a device on her wrist and a holographic disguise fell away to reveal a tall middle aged auburn woman. Rose gasped.
"Can't blame a girl for trying. I never really got into the show anyway. Dated this guy that was obsessed with it, he broke my heart, and I haven't been able to watch it since." she said in an American accent.
"You're Beverly Barlowe..." Rose pointed a finger at her.
"Right. And you're smarter than you look on TV." Beverly smirked.
"Jack! Doctor! In here!" Rose began to yell. Only she stopped when she felt a painful pulse that knocked her out.
Beverly put away the device she had used to knock out Rose and said,
"Not that smart though."
She typed on her device again and this time she took on the appearance of a male lab tech. Beverly in disguise lifted Rose up and deposited her on a nearby gurney and covered her up with a sheet. Then Beverly walked out down the hall, whistling as if nothing was wrong.
Idris gasped as she sat up,
"BAD WOLF!"