The Big Bang
Rory sat outside Stonehenge with Amy's body lying in his lap, still unable to believe that he'd shot her, unable to believe that behind his fingers was a gun of some sort.
"So the Universe ended," he was saying, glancing up at the starless sky, "You missed that. In 102 A.D. I suppose this means you and I never get born at all. Twice, in my case. You would have laughed at that…" he looked down at her prone from, tears in his eyes, "Please laugh!" he begged, before sniffling, "The Doctor said the Universe was huge and ridiculous, and sometimes there were miracles. I could do with a ridiculous miracle about now."
Suddenly the Doctor appeared in a crackle of energy, wearing a fez and carrying mop, "Rory!" the Doctor shouted, "Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world. Well, it is the end of the world. Actually, it's the end of the Universe…"
"Oi!" Evy appeared in a crackle of energy beside him, "Give me that!" she grabbed the mop and slapped her wrist, disappearing in a crackle again.
"What?" Rory shook his head.
"Right…" the Doctor nodded, turning back to him, "You need to get us out of the Pandorica," he reached into his pocket and pulled his sonic out.
"You're not in the Pandorica."
"Yes, we are. Well, we're not now, but we were back then. Well, back now from your point of view, which is back then from our point of view. Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head. It's like a big ball of wib…"
Evy appeared again, mid-eye roll, and slapped her hand over the Doctor's mouth, "You can open it from the outside with this," she plucked the sonic from the Doctor's hands, "Just point and press. Now go," she tossed the screwdriver to Rory, disappearing with the Doctor.
Rory looked around, flabbergasted, when the Doctor appeared one more time, "Oh, when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket. Good luck!"
And then he disappeared once more.
"What do you mean?" Rory called after him, "Done what?"
~8~
The Pandorica opened, sliding apart to reveal the Doctor sitting on the inside, the top of Evy's head visible behind him. The Doctor looked over, amazed, to see Rory standing there, holding up a sonic, "How did you do that?" he asked as the restraints popped open, freeing them.
"You gave me this," Rory said, holding up the sonic. Evy stood up, rubbing her wrists as she looked over at them.
"No, I didn't," the Doctor pulled out his own sonic.
"You did. Look at it."
Evy stepped out of the box and over to Rory, taking the sonic from him and fiddling with it in her hands, she held it up to the Doctor's and it sparked, "Temporal energy."
"Same screwdriver, at different points in its own time stream," the Doctor nodded, "Which means it was me who gave it to you. Me from the future."
"The both of you, actually," Rory added.
"We've got a future," he turned to grin at Evy, "That's nice."
"Ooh but that's not…" Evy nodded over to the petrified remains of their enemies behind Rory.
Rory spun around to see a Dalek looking as though it'd been turned to stone, "Yeah. What are they?"
"With the collapse of history whole races were deleted from existence."
"These are just like afterimages," the Doctor added, "Echoes, fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were."
"Er, what does that mean?" Rory frowned.
"Total event collapse," Evy sighed, "The Universe literally never happened."
"So, how can we be here? What's keeping us safe?"
"Nothing," the Doctor replied, "Eye of the storm, that's all. We're just the last light to go out."
"Rory…" Evy looked around, "Where's Amy?"
~8~
The Doctor squatted down by Amy's body, Evy kneeling beside him as he lifted a blanket that was covering her back.
"I killed her," Rory breathed.
"Oh, Rory!" Evy shook her head.
"What am I?"
"You're a Nestene Duplicate," the Doctor answered, "A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity."
Evy flashed Amy with her sonic, scanning her.
"But I'm Rory now. Whatever was happening, it's stopped. I'm Rory!"
"That's software talking," the Doctor said. Evy looked up at him from her scans, giving him a small nod.
"Can you help her? Is there anything you can do?"
"Yeah, probably, if we had the time," the Doctor shrugged, standing.
"The time?"
"All of creation has just been wiped from the sky," the Doctor walked a few feet away, "Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole Universe."
Rory suddenly whipped the Doctor around and threw a sound punch, knocking him to the ground. Evy flinched, tilting her head a bit as she clenched her jaw, feeling the stinging pain there.
"She is to me!" Rory roared.
The Doctor popped up, laughing as he straightened, spinning back to Rory, "Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry, had to be sure. Hell of a gun arm you're packing there."
"Speaking of which…" Evy called, the two men turned to see her rubbing her jaw, "Please refrain from punching my Link in the future…it's not a pleasant experience for me."
Rory frowned, "What?"
The Doctor moved to Evy's side, rubbing his hand along her jaw where the pain had already lessened to a tingle, "The Link means we can feel each other," the Doctor explained, "Not just emotions. It's powerful enough that we can physically feel each other's pain as well."
Rory's eyes widened at the realization that, "I punched you too?"
"Not exactly…" Evy began.
"I punched a girl…" Rory looked a bit green, feeling quite sick at the notion that, by punching the Doctor, he'd cause Evy the same hurt as well.
Evy just laughed, "Forget that for now, we need to get Amy downstairs."
"And take that look off your plastic face," the Doctor called, helping Evy pick up Amy, "You're getting married in the morning!"
They brought her down to the Pandorica, sitting her in the Doctor's chair and locking her arms in as Rory stood behind them, watching, concerned, "So you've got a plan, then?"
"Oh never!" Evy laughed.
"Bit of a plan, yeah," the Doctor countered, "Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl, grew up with a time crack in her wall. The Universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestenes took a memory print of her and got more than they bargained for. Like you."
"Not just what you look like," Evy added, moving to kneel in front of Amy as the Doctor stepped out of the box, "But your heart, your soul," she placed her hands on Amy's shoulders and rested her forehead on Amy's head, "I'm projecting a message to her so that when she wakes up she'll know what's happening."
The Doctor smiled, watching her work, Evy was always better at projecting her thoughts to others. She nodded, stepping out of the box as the Doctor soniced it shut.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Rory ran forward, but he box had closed, "What are you doing?"
"Saving her," the Doctor said, "This is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying."
"It'll force her to stay alive, Rory," Evy added.
"But she's already dead," Rory frowned.
"Not exactly," Evy smiled.
"She was mostly dead," the Doctor said, "The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. All it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her."
"Where's it going to get that?" Rory asked.
The Doctor looked at his watch, "In about 2,000 years."
Evy walked over to River's bag, pulling out the Vortex Manipulator she'd seen before and handing it to the Doctor who began putting it on his wrist.
"She's going to be in that box for 2,000 years?" Rory exclaimed.
"Yeah, but we're taking a shortcut," the Doctor smiled, "River's Vortex Manipulator. Rubbish way to time travel, but the Universe is tiny now. We'll be fine."
"So the future's still there, then? Our world?"
"A version of it at least," Evy said, "Not exactly how you remember it though."
"Earth alone in the sky," the Doctor nodded, grinning, "Let's go and have a look," he held out his arm, "You put your hand there. Don't worry, should be safe."
"That's not what I'm worried about," Rory shook his head, glancing at the box.
"She'll be fine. Nothing can get into this box."
"You got in there."
"Well, there's only one of us. I counted."
"This box needs a guard. I killed the last one."
"No," the Doctor shook his head, "Rory, no. Don't even think about it."
"She'll be all alone."
"She won't feel it."
"You bet she won't!"
"2,000 years, Rory. You won't even sleep, you'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad."
"Will she be safer, if I stay? Look me in the eye and tell me she wouldn't be safer."
The Doctor sighed, "Rory…"
"Answer me!"
"Yes," Evy cut in, "Of course she would."
"Then how could I leave her?" Rory shook his head.
The Doctor frowned, "Why do you have to be so...human?"
"Because right now, I'm not," Rory turned to walk over to the Pandorica.
"It's not really about humanity," Evy remarked, the Doctor looked down at her to see her looking at him, "Amy is to Rory, what I am to you," she took the Doctor's hand, "Could you ever leave me to skip ahead in time?"
The Doctor smiled softly, brushing a strand of hair away from her face, "Never."
"Well there you have it then," she smiled as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a second Manipulator.
"Where did you get that?" he asked, staring at it.
"I made it. Remember Mars?"
He winced, recalling that event, but then thinking of the crude Manipulator she had strapped on before she left him to deal with the mess he'd made of Adelaide and her remaining crew, "Why didn't you use it before?"
She shrugged, "I didn't think of it, we didn't really need it, and besides…I prefer the TARDIS."
The Doctor shook his head at her before pressing some buttons on his Manipulator as she did the same, setting the coordinates, "Listen to us," he called over to Rory, "This is the last bit of advice you're going to get in a very long time. You're living plastic, but not immortal. We have no idea how long you'll last. And you're not indestructible."
"Watch out for heat and radio signals once they're discovered," Evy added as Rory put his helmet on.
"You can't heal, or repair yourself. Any damage is permanent. So, for God's sake, however bored you get, stay out of..."
And then they disappeared, reappearing in the Pandorica Room in the National Museum, 1996.
"Trouble…" he finished. Evy grabbed his hand, seeing a Dalek behind them. He turned to see it as well, before spotting both Amy and her younger self standing before them, apparently their plan worked, "Two of you? Complicated!"
"Exterminate!" the Dalek cried, "Weapons systems restoring."
The Doctor ran forward, taking Amelia's hand while Evy grabbed Amy's, pulling them away, "Come along, Ponds!" he called as they ran across the room and behind the Pandorica.
"Exterminate!"
They ran into an alcove display of North Africa, the Doctor stumbling into one of the mannequins, grabbing the fez it was wearing before it fell, and placing it on his own head to free his hands.
"What are we doing?" Amy asked him.
"Running into a dead end, where either Evy or I will have a brilliant plan, that basically involves not being in one," the Doctor replied quickly.
"What's going on?" someone shouted.
The Doctor and Evy ran over to the side of the Pandorica, looking around the corner of it to see a night watchman enter the room, pointing a torch at the Dalek.
"Get out!" Evy shouted.
"Go!" the Doctor agreed, "Just run!"
"Drop the device," the Dalek ordered, turning on the watchman.
"That's not a weapon," Evy shouted, "Scan it."
"It's not a weapon, and you don't have the power to waste!" the Doctor tried to reason.
"Scans indicate intruder unarmed," the Dalek said.
"Do you think?" the watchman asked, dropping his torch. His hand fell open to reveal a gun sticking out where his fingers would be. He fired at the Dalek's eyestalk.
"Vision impaired! Vision..."
The watchman stepped forward out of the shadow to reveal Rory! He watched as the Dalek drained of energy and powered down. The Doctor ran from around the Pandorica with Evy, heading over to the Dalek, scanning it with their sonics as Amy stepped out as well.
"Amy?" Rory gasped.
"Rory!" Amy shouted, running over to him. She lunged at him, hugging him fiercely.
"I'm sorry," he pulled back, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. It just happened."
"Oh, shut up!"
And with that, Amy kissed him.
The Doctor ran over to them as Evy smiled at them, "Yeah, shut up, 'cos we've got to go. Come on!"
"I waited," Rory told Amy, ignoring the Doctor, "2,000 years, I waited for you."
"No, still shut up," and then Amy pulled him into a longer kiss.
"And break!" the Doctor shouted, trying to get them to stop as Evy just laughed and walked over, "And breathe!" he glanced over at Evy, "Well, somebody didn't get out much for 2,000 years."
Amelia walked over and tugged on the Doctor's sleeve, "I'm thirsty. Can I get a drink?" her own drink had been ripped out of her hand earlier.
"Oh, it's all mouths today, isn't it?" he asked, putting his fez over her head. Amelia smiled and shoved it back at him. He glanced behind Evy at the Dalek, "The light! The light from the Pandorica, it must have hit the Dalek."
Evy turned around to see the Dalek's weapon start to move, "Out!" she shouted, pushing Amelia towards Amy and Rory while she and the Doctor rushed them along, "Out, out!" they ran out of the room, Rory shutting the doors behind them as she soniced the lock.
"So, 2,000 years," the Doctor asked when Rory turned around, "How did you do?"
"Kept out of trouble," Rory shrugged.
"Oh…" he nodded, before realizing he still had the fez in his hands and put it back on his head.
"How?" Evy asked.
"Unsuccessfully," Rory replied with a slight grin. The Doctor picked up a mop, moving towards the door to use it as a block, "The mop! That's how you looked all those years ago when you gave me the sonic."
"Ah!" he nodded, typing something in on the Manipulator, "Well, no time to lose then…" he slammed it and disappeared in a crackle of energy.
"How are we going to block the door now?" Amy asked.
Evy sighed, typing in something on her own Manipulator and disappearing, only to reappear moments later with the mop in her hand.
"How did you do that?" Amelia asked, "Are you magic?"
"Close enough," Evy smiled down at her before turning to Rory, "What did he tell you after I left?"
"Um...he tried to explain how you were both in the Pandorica, and just sort of…" he trailed.
"Rambled a bit about time?" Evy supplied. Rory nodded. Evy rolled her eyes and hit the button again, disappearing.
A moment later she and the Doctor reappeared, "Right, let's go then," he called, leading them up the stairs, "Wait! Now I don't have a sonic, I just gave it Rory 2,000 years ago…"
"I've still got my sonic," Evy held hers up.
He pouted, "But I like mine…" he tapped the Manipulator and disappeared.
Evy sighed, "Boys and their toys…"
"Right then," he appeared once more, stepping over to Amy and pulling the sonic out of her top pocket, "Off we go!"
"Wait," Evy called, turning to Amelia, "How did you know to come here?"
Amelia reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a pamphlet for the Pandorica, circled in red with a little note, 'Come Along Pond,' and a sticky note, 'Stick Around Pond.'
"Your handwriting," Evy said, looking at the notes, and handing them over to the Doctor.
"Ok then!" he grinned, walking over to a small desk and pulling out a pamphlet and note from it, writing down the messages. He tapped his Manipulator and was off, dropping the pamphlet into Amelia's letterbox, and sticking the note to the Pandorica as Amelia stared at it, grabbing her drink from her hand. He appeared in the foyer again, handing Amelia back her drink, still cold from that morning, "There you go, drink up!"
"What is that?" Amy asked, nodding at his wrist, "How are you doing that?
"Vortex Manipulator..." Evy held up her own wrist.
"Cheap and nasty time travel," the Doctor continued, walking past her, "Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up."
"Where are we going?" Amy frowned.
"The roof!"
They turned to head up the stairs, stopping short when a crackle of energy shot in front of them and another Doctor appeared, standing at the top of the steps, his jacket smoking and torn, him bruised, he fell to his knees, an unconscious Evy held tightly in his arms.
The Doctor and Evy's hearts stopped at the sight, before they ran over to the other thems. The Doctor ran to himself as he fell to the floor, his arms still wound around Evy as she checked herself.
"It's you!" Rory gasped, looking between the two of them and their doubles, "How can it be you?"
"Evy…Doctor…" Amy began, growing concerned, "Is that you?"
"Yeah," Evy nodded slowly. She flashed herself with the sonic…nearly breathing a sigh of relief till she heard a whisper in her mind…her own voice…
"Us from the future," the Doctor agreed. He looked down as his double suddenly grabbed him and whispered something in his ear before falling down, his arms around the other Evy, eyes closed. The present Doctor looked over at Evy.
"Are you...I mean, are they..." Amy swallowed, "Are they dead?"
"What?" the Doctor stood up, pulling Evy up as well, "Dead? Yes, yes. Of course they're dead," he helped Evy climb over their bodies and continued up the stairs, "Right, we've got 12 minutes, that's good."
"12 minutes to live? How is that good?"
"There's lots you can do in 12 minutes..." Evy muttered, glancing back at the bodies.
"Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a fast bath," the Doctor listed, "Come on, the roof!"
"We can't leave you two here dead," Rory argued.
The Doctor spun around, not in the best of moods as they needed to get away from there and fast, "Oh, good! Are you in charge now? So, tell me, what are we going to do about Amelia?"
They turned around to see Amelia gone, her cup lying on the floor.
"Where did she go?" Amy asked as she and Rory ran down the steps to look for her.
"Amelia?" Rory called.
"There is no Amelia," Evy called gently, "From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing."
"How can I be here, if she's not?" Amy shook her head, confused.
"You're an anomaly," the Doctor told her, "We all are. We're all hanging on at the eye of the storm, but the eye is closing, and if we don't do something, reality will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now, come on!"
He and Evy took off down the hall.
Amy shook her head at Rory, "He won't die. Neither of them will. Time can be rewritten. They'll find a way. I know they will. He won't let her die, and she won't let him die…"
Rory covered the future Doctor and Evy with his coat.
"Move it!" the Doctor shouted.
"Come on!" Evy called.
Amy and Rory ran up the stairs after them, catching up at a stairwell as they ran up and out onto the roof.
"What, it's morning already?" Amy looked round at the orange daylight, "How did that happen?"
"History is collapsing," Evy said.
"Is anybody listening to us?" the Doctor sighed, turning to Amy and Rory, "The Universe is collapsing. We don't have much time left."
Evy walked over to a satellite dish and flashed her sonic across it.
"What are you doing?" Rory asked.
"Trying to find the TARDIS," she replied.
"But the TARDIS exploded."
"Ok," the Doctor nodded, "Then we're looking for an exploding TARDIS," he yanked the dish off the pole it was on, holding it as Evy finished sonicing it.
"I don't understand," Amy frowned, "So, the TARDIS blew up and took the Universe with it. Why would it do that? How?"
The Doctor jumped onto a raised section of the roof, "Good question for another day. But for now…total event collapse means that every star in the Universe never happened. Not one of them ever shone."
"And if all the stars that ever existed are gone now, what's that?" Evy pointed to a large ball of fire in the sky. Amy and Rory looked stunned as Evy glanced back over at them, "We did say, we're looking for an exploding TARDIS."
"But that's the sun," Rory argued.
"Is it?" the Doctor asked, "Here's the noise that sun is making right now," he nodded at Evy who soniced the dish as he held it up high, amplifying the sound, making the noise of the TARDIS audible.
"That's not the sun, it's the TARDIS burning up," Evy told them, "It's been keeping the Earth warm for nearly 2,000 years."
"There's something else," Rory frowned, listening closely, "There's a voice."
Evy and the Doctor looked at each other as Evy adjusted the settings of the screwdriver, flashing the dish again.
"I can't hear anything," Amy shook her head.
"Trust the plastic," Rory pointed to his ear.
Then, another voice reached them, "I'm sorry, my loves," playing over and over.
"That's River!" Amy gasped, "How can she be up there?"
"It must be like a recording or something," Rory said.
"No, it's not a recording," the Doctor shook his head, lowering the dish, "Of course, the emergency protocols..."
"The TARDIS sealed off the control room, putting her into a time loop in order to save her," Evy agreed, "She's right at the heart of the explosion."
~8~
In the TARDIS River connected two wires as the console sparked and exploded around her. She turned a crank, sparking the doors. She ran towards them and threw them open, only to be met by a stone wall. She let out a defeated breath, "I'm sorry, my loves," before she looked over her shoulder as the room exploded with a bright light…
In the TARDIS River connected two wires as the console sparked and exploded around her. She turned a crank, sparking the doors. She ran towards them and threw them open, only to be met by a stone wall. She let out a defeated breath, "I'm sorry, my loves," before she looked over her shoulder as the room exploded with a bright light…
In the TARDIS River connected two wires as the console sparked and exploded around her. She turned a crank, sparking the doors. She ran towards them...stopping short when she saw Evy and the Doctor leaning against them, tapping something into Vortex Manipulators on their wrists.
"Hello, dear," Evy smirked.
"We're home," the Doctor grinned.
River looked at her watch, "And what sort of time do you call this?"
Evy just laughed, walking forward with the Doctor, taking River's arms and disappearing.
They all reappeared on the roof with Amy and Rory
"Amy!" River smiled, happy to see the girl alive and well, but frowned when she saw Rory, "And the...plastic Centurion?"
"Rory," Evy told her, "He's on our side."
"Really?" River nodded slowly, "I dated a Nestene duplicate once...swappable head, it did keep things fresh. You wouldn't believe how much flak I got about it from..." she cut off suddenly, glancing at the Doctor and Evy, before clearing her throat, "Right then, I have questions. But number one is this...what in the name of sanity have you got on your head?" she turned to the Doctor as Evy laughed.
"It's a fez," he answered smoothly, "I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."
Amy glanced at River before reaching out and grabbing the fez, throwing it into the sky where River shot it.
"Oh!" he pouted.
"And there's the pouty face," Evy smiled, kissing him on the cheek, "I'll buy you another fez when this is all over."
They all laughed at that when…
"Exterminate!" the Dalek appeared, levitating up the side of the building.
"Run, run, move, move!" the Doctor shouted, grabbing Evy's hand and pulling her away as they all ran across the roof, "Go! Come on!"
He held up the satellite dish, using it as a shield while the Dalek fired at them. Evy flashed her sonic on the roof access hatch and they all clambered down, back into the stairwell. He slammed the hatch down, using his sonic to seal it while River had her gun aimed at it just in case.
"Doctor, come on," River urged.
"Shh," he hissed, "It's moving away, finding another way in," he climbed down the ladder and over to Evy, taking her hand in reassurance that she was fine.
"It'll need time to restore power before it can attack us again," Evy sighed.
"Now, that means we've got exactly…" he checked his watch, "Four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity."
They continued down the stairs when River asked, "How do you know?"
"Because that's when it's due to kill us," Evy sighed, squeezing the Doctor's hand.
"Kill you?" her eyes widened, "What do you mean, kill you?"
"Oh, shut up, never mind," the Doctor waved her off, "How can that Dalek even exist?"
They stepped into the hallway.
"It should have been erased from time, yet somehow it managed to come back," Evy nodded, "But how?"
"You said the light from the Pandorica..." Rory began.
"It's not a light, it's a restoration field, but never mind," the Doctor sighed, "Call it a light. That light brought Amy back, but how could it bring back a Dalek when the Daleks have never existed?"
"Ok, tell us," Amy said.
The Doctor looked at Evy, knowing she was better at explaining this sort of thing to humans. She sighed and turned to them, "The explosion of the TARDIS caused total event collapse. It's a time explosion which destroyed every atom in every moment of the Universe. Except..."
"Except inside the Pandorica…"
"The perfect prison," the Doctor nodded, "Inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the Universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole Universe from a single one of them, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we've got the bumper family pack."
"No, too fast, I'm not getting it," Rory shook his head.
"Inside that box is a memory of the Universe," Evy explained, "The 'light' transmits the memory. It's how we'll do it."
"Do what?" Amy frowned.
"Relight the fire," the Doctor stated, "Reboot the Universe. Come on!"
They turned and walked on as Amy and Rory exchanged a look, River running after them, "Doctor, Evy, you're being completely ridiculous," she told them, "The Pandorica partially restored one Dalek. If it can't even reboot a single life form properly, how will it reboot the whole of reality?"
"We need to give it a moment of infinite power," Evy countered, her mind already racing to figure out how to do just that, but the only problem…it was currently exploding, "That way it can transmit the light from the Pandorica to every particle of space and time simultaneously."
"Well, that's lovely, dear, but we can't do that, because it's completely impossible."
"Impossible?" the Doctor asked, nearly scoffing, "Really?" then he turned and pulled Evy in front of him, "Hello River Song, have you met my Link Evy?" he asked, being dead serious, "Mrs. Im-impossible?"
"Im-Impossible?" Evy raised an eyebrow at him.
"Right…" he nodded, realizing that made no sense at all.
"Of all the things…un-impossible, anti-impossible, or just plain possible, you pick im-impossible?" she continued, smiling fondly at him, "Really?"
"Yeah…" he rubbed the back of his neck, "Not the best was it?" but then he shook his head, getting back to point, "It's ALMOST completely impossible. One spark is all we need."
"For what?" River asked.
The Doctor leaned forward, whispering, "Big Bang Two! Now listen..."
"Doctor!" Evy shouted, moving behind him suddenly.
He turned just in time to see Evy shot, just skimming her chest, by a Dalek. He grabbed her as she started to crumble, getting shot in the shoulder by another Dalek beam in the process. He fell to the floor, Evy gathered in his arms, his jacket smoking as the Dalek trundled down the hall towards them.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"Evy…" he rasped, trying to hold her despite the pain in his body, but Evy made no move.
River knelt at their side as Rory pushed Amy out of the way and aimed his gun hand, "Get back. River, get back now!"
"Exterminate!"
Rory fired at the Dalek, draining it of its energy again.
"Evy?" River tried to shake the girl and wake her, "Evy, it's me, River and the Doctor. Can you hear us?" the Doctor suddenly winced, doubling over Evy, "What is it?" River turned to him, "What do you need?"
The Doctor turned his head away from River to look at Evy, feeling tendrils of her mind waking. He reached over and activated his Manipulator, disappearing along with Evy…
~8~
As Amy and Rory ran off up the stairs after the past Doctor and Evy, the Doctor sat up stiffly, pulling the coat off their faces, smiling as he saw Evy's eyes open. She winced, sitting up as well, rubbing her chest, "That Amy…" she smiled, "She's good…"
He took her hand, "She's right."
Evy nodded, struggling to her feet as she and the Doctor made their way towards the Pandorica, leaning on each other as their bodies tried to recover.
~8~
"Where did they go?" River looked around after the Time Lords disappeared, "Damn it, they could be anywhere."
"They went downstairs," Amy answered, "12 minutes ago."
"Show me!" River demanded, getting up.
"River, they died," Amy replied quietly.
River was stunned.
"Systems restoring!" the Dalek shouted, "You will be exterminated!"
"We've got to move," Rory ran to Amy's side, "That thing's coming back to life."
"You go to the Doctor and Evy," River said, turning to the Dalek, "I'll be right with you."
Amy and Rory gave her one more look before leaving.
"You will be exterminated!"
"Not yet, your systems are still restoring," she replied, "Which means your shield density is compromised," she pulled out her gun and adjusted the settings, "One Alpha Mezon burst through your eyestalk would kill you stone dead."
"Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor and Evy's."
"I'm River Song…" she aimed her gun, "Check your records again."
"Mercy!"
"Say it again."
"Mercy!"
"One more time."
"Mercy!"
~8~
Amy and Rory stood around the stairs where they'd left the Doctor and Evy's bodies, only to see Rory's coat but no one else there.
"How could they have moved?" Rory asked, "They were dead!" he ran down the stairs, looking around and shouting, "Doctor? Evy!"
"But they were dead!" Amy exclaimed.
"Who told you that?" River asked, striding down the stairs.
"They did."
"Rule one. They lie."
"Where's the Dalek?" Amy looked behind her as though expecting it to pop up.
"It died," she replied, leading them back to the Pandorica room.
They broke into a run, seeing the Doctor sitting inside the Pandorica's front chair, slumped over in his seat, his head resting against the side of the yoke. Evy was kneeling on the floor, leaning against the Doctor's legs, her sonic clenched in her one hand, her other holding the Doctor's.
Both looked very nearly dead.
"Doctor!" Amy shouted, "Evy!"
She and Rory stopped short while River ran into the box to check on them.
"Why did they tell us they were dead?" Rory asked.
"We were a diversion," Amy realized, "As long as the Dalek was chasing us, they could work down here."
"Doctor, can you hear me?" River tapped his face, before kneeling to look at Evy, seeing her sonic in hand, "What were you doing?" she looked over to see a mess of wires connecting the Doctor's Manipulator to the Pandorica.
"What's happening?" Rory asked, seeing the sun was larger than before.
"Reality's collapsing. It's speeding up. Look at this room."
The displays were empty.
"Where did everything go?" Amy asked.
"History is being erased. Time is running out. Doctor, what were you doing? Tell us! Evy please wake up..."
The Doctor slowly came around, unable to muster the strength to move his head much or fully open his eyes, "Big...Bang...Two..." he breathed.
"The Big Bang?" Rory asked, "That's the beginning of the Universe, right?"
The Doctor looked down at Evy, squeezing her hand with as much strength as he could, which wasn't much, but she stirred.
"What, and Big Bang Two is the bang that brings it back?" Amy shook her head, "Is that what you mean?"
"…TARDIS…" Evy breathed, squeezing the Doctor's hand back.
River's eyes widened, "Oh!"
"What?" Amy asked.
"The TARDIS is still burning. It's exploding at every point in history. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the heart of the fire..."
"Then what?"
"Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like they said."
"That would work? That would bring everything back?"
"A restoration field, powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work!" she knelt down and took Evy's sonic, "And, knowing Evy, it definitely will…" she flashed the sonic against the wires, "They've wired the Vortex Manipulator to the rest of the box."
"Why?"
River frowned, "So they can take it with them. They're going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion."
~8~
The sky was now a brilliant orange as Amy and Rory stood together, watching as River spoke quietly with Evy and the Doctor, who both seemed more awake and stronger.
"Are you ok?" Rory asked her.
"Are you?" Amy countered.
"No."
"Well, shut up then!" she snapped. Rory just pulled her into a hug.
"Amy..." River walked over, "They want to talk to you."
"So, what happens here?" Amy asked, pulling away from the hug, "Big Bang Two? What happens to us?"
"We all wake up where we ought to be. None of this ever happened and we don't remember it."
"River...tell me they come back too."
"The Doctor and Evy will be the heart of the explosion."
"So…"
"So all the cracks in time will close, but they'll be on the wrong side..." she swallowed hard, "Trapped in the never-space, the Void, between the worlds. All memory of them will be purged from the Universe. They will never have been born."
"Couldn't one of them stay behind?" Rory frowned, "Try and find some way to pull the other out?"
River shook her head, "The hearts of a Time Lord are as powerful as their mind. They would have a hole in them forever, it would be like living their entire life with the knowledge their Link is dead but unable to remember them," she shook her head, "They have to go together. Now, please. They want to talk to you before they go."
"Not to you?" Amy frowned.
"They don't really know me yet," she tried to smile but frowned, "Now they never will."
Amy walked slowly over to the Pandorica, hesitating at the sight of the Doctor and Evy, battered and bruised, looking like death warmed over, "Hi…" she breathed.
"Amy Pond," the Doctor said weakly, "The girl who waited. All night in your garden. Was it worth it?"
"Shut up. Of course it was."
"You asked why we wanted to take you with us, we said..." Evy winced, the Doctor squeezing her hand, "No reason. We were lying you know."
"It's not important," she tried to wave it off.
"Yeah, it's the most important thing left in the Universe," the Doctor countered.
"It's the reason why we're doing this," Evy added.
"Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house. And just you."
"And Aunt Sharon," Amy reminded.
"Where were your mum and dad? Where was...everybody who lived in that big house?"
"I lost my mum and dad."
"How?" Evy asked softly, "What happened? Where did they go?"
Amy blinked, "I...I don't..."
"It's ok," the Doctor soothed, "Don't panic. It's not your fault."
"I don't even remember."
"That crack in your bedroom wall has been eating away at your life longer than you think," Evy tried to smile at her.
"Amy Pond, all alone," the Doctor nodded, "The girl who didn't make sense. How could we resist?"
"How could I just forget?" she asked them.
"Nothing is ever forgotten, not really," Evy reminded her, "But you have to try."
The ground shook.
"Doctor!" River shouted, "Evy! It's speeding up!"
Amy knelt down and placed Evy's sonic in her pocket where she always kept it.
"There's going to be a very big bang," the Doctor told her, "Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there."
"How can I remember them if they never existed?" Amy frowned.
"Because...you're special," Evy swallowed, "The Universe was pouring into your head through that crack in your wall."
"You brought Rory back..." the Doctor reminded her, "You can bring them back, too. You just remember, and they'll be there."
Amy backed away, "YOU won't."
"Oh but you'll have your family back," Evy smiled, "You won't need imaginary friends," she winced, struggling to stand and make her way back to the second seat.
The Doctor laughed weakly, seeing the tears in Amy's eyes, "Amy Pond...crying over us, eh? Guess what?"
"What?" she asked.
"Gotcha," he grinned.
The Pandorica closed.
Amy walked slowly backwards, not taking her eyes off it as it began to glow.
"Back!" River shouted, "Get back!" she pushed Amy out of the way as it launched into the sky.
~8~
The Doctor quickly typed a message into the communicator Evy had placed in his lap before dropping it to the floor in pain.
~8~
River, Rory, and Amy sat huddled on the floor, against the wall, when River's comm. beeped, "It's from the Doctor and Evy!" she gasped, looking up.
"What does it say?" Amy looked over.
River laughed, "'Geronimo.'"
~8~
The Doctor's Manipulator clad hand clenched into a fist as the Pandorica flew through the air, heading straight for the TARDIS. He looked over at his left arm, left free from the restrains and reached to the side, taking Evy's free hand as well, both holding tight as the Pandorica collided with the exploding TARDIS.
~8~
They could practically feel time reverse as they were pulled back…waking up on the floor of the TARDIS. The Doctor's eyes popped open and he sat up, looking beside him to see Evy's eyes fluttering open as well, slowly pushing herself to sit up, their hands held as they had been in the Pandorica.
"We escaped, then," he nodded slowly, looking at her, "Brilliant! Love it when we do that."
Evy let out a little laugh as he looked down to examine himself, much like when they'd first regenerated.
"Legs, yes. Bow-tie, cool," he tapped his head and looked over at Evy, "You owe me a fez."
She started to really laugh, when they heard someone talking in the TARDIS that sounded a lot like them and Amy, "The beach!" the Doctor was saying, "The beach is the best. Automatic sand."
"Automatic sand?" Amy asked, "What does that mean?"
"That it's totally automated," Evy explained.
They peeked around the wall to see themselves fiddling around the console with Amy standing there, dressed for the beach.
"Oh…" the present Evy breathed, realizing they hadn't escaped at all.
"Cleans up the lolly sticks..." the past Doctor continued to explain as he worked on the bottom panel of the console.
"That's last week when we went to Space Florida," the present Doctor said, squeezing Evy's hand, "We're rewinding. Our…our time stream...unraveling, erasing."
"Closing," Evy swallowed hard, looking back to see a crack closing behind them.
"Hello, Universe, goodbye, Doctor and Evy huh?" he looked over at her.
Evy smiled at him before looking over at Amy, smiling softly at her, "Amy..."
Past Amy turned around, frowning as she looked over her sunglasses.
Evy frowned as well, "Amy?"
~8~
They were on the street outside of Craig's flat, watching as Amy crossed the road in front of them, "Ah, three weeks ago," the Doctor nodded, "When she put the card in the window."
"Amy!" Evy suddenly called.
Amy looked up.
The Doctor's eyes widened in surprise, seeing hope, "We need to tell you something!" he shouted. But Amy just frowned and turned around, walking off, "She can hear us!"
"But...if she can hear us…" Evy trailed.
They turned around to see the crack in the road sealing.
~8~
They were in the forest of the Byzantium, watching as the soldiers positioned themselves around Past Evy, ready to protect her from the Angels. The Doctor's grip on Evy's hand tightened as he recalled this event.
The Past Doctor took a breath before standing, "Good luck everyone. Behave. And keep watching the forest. Stop those Angels advancing. And take care of her."
"With our lives sir," Marco swore.
"You need to do this one yourself," Evy told him quietly as they watched the Past Doctor nod and walk off, striding past Amy who had waited for him, "She knows I can't be standing there with my eyes open in a different outfit."
He nodded as they watched Amy look after the disappearing Past Doctor, and back over at Past Evy who was sitting there, on a rock. Amy sighed, looking down as she turned to follow after the Past Doctor. She had only stepped past a tree or two when she nearly ran into the present Doctor as he stepped in front of her, Evy hiding a small ways away.
"Doctor!" she gasped, stumbling back in shock.
"Amy," he shook his head, tugging at the cuff of his coat, "You need to let go. You need to move on. You need to start trusting Evy, trusting me, trusting us, the two of us, it's never been more important."
Amy swallowed and looked away, not wanting to talk about it, "Doctor, the crack in my wall, how can it be here?"
He frowned, seeing the change in topic, but let it go, "We don't know yet, but we're working it out. Now, listen. Remember what we told you when you were seven?"
"What did you tell me?"
"No, no...that's not the point. You have to remember."
And with that, he turned and walked off through the bushes, Evy pulling him to the side as Amy called, "Remember what?" and tried to walk after him, "Doctor? Doctor!"
"Over here Amy!" they heard River shout in the distance.
~8~
They were in Amy's house.
"Amelia's house," the Doctor checked his watch, "When she was seven."
"The night she waited for us," Evy turned and opened the door, stepping outside. They walked through the back yard to see little Amelia curled up, asleep atop of her suitcase.
"The girl who waited," the Doctor muttered, before walking over to her, picking her up, "Come here, you."
Evy picked up the suitcase, opening the doors for the Doctor as he carried the girl inside and up to her bedroom where they tucked her into bed. The Doctor pulled up a little chair and sat down next to the bed, pulling Evy to sit on his lap.
"It's funny," he said after a moment of silence, looking down at Amelia, "I thought, if you could hear us, we could hang on somehow," he squeezed Evy tightly around the middle, soon she would never be born, "Silly me. Silly old Doctor."
Evy turned in his arms and gave him a kiss, "Sometimes silly can be brilliant," she reminded him, smiling softly. She leaned over, resting a hand on Amelia's little hand, poking out beneath her blankets, "When you wake up, your mum and dad will be there..."
"And you won't even remember us. Well, you'll remember us a little. We'll be a story in your head," he continued, smiling at the thought.
"And that's just fine," Evy nodded, squeezing the Doctor's arm around her, "Aren't we all just stories in the end?"
He nearly laughed, "Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cos it was, you know."
"It was the best," she agreed, smiling.
"A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away from home, only to meet a woman who kept his home in her hearts," he laughed, looking over at Amelia, "Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back."
"So he says," she cut in, nudging him.
"Oh, that box, Amy," he nuzzled Evy's head with his own, closing his eyes and thinking about it, "You'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient."
"The bluest blue ever," Evy closed her eyes as well.
"And the times we had, eh?" he shook his head, "Woulda had...never had."
"They'll still be there in your dreams."
"The Doctor, Evy Daniels, and Amy Pond," he pulled away, content, "And the days that never came. The cracks are closing. But they can't close properly until we're on the other side. We don't belong here anymore."
Evy stood up, pulling the Doctor up as well, seeing the tears in his eyes, "I think we'd best skip the rest," she hugged him, "I know how you hate repeats."
"That I do," he agreed, smiling down at her. He turned to Amy, the two of them kneeling at her bedside, "Live well."
"Love Rory," Evy added, kissing her head.
"Bye bye, Pond," the Doctor kissed her head as well, before taking Evy's hand, the two of them walking towards the crack on her wall, content in the knowledge that they were going together.
~8~
Amy Pond woke up in her bedroom, sitting up in her bed, looking at her room. She glanced at a small collection of crafts she had kept from childhood, dolls of two characters, the Raggedy Doctor and the Impossible Evy, before looking at the wedding dress hanging up.
"Morning!" a woman entered her room with a breakfast tray.
"You're my mum!" Amy gasped, "Oh, my God, you're my mum."
"Well, of course I'm your mum," her mother replied, eyeing her, "What's the matter with you? And this is your breakfast, which your father made, so feel free to tip it out of the window if it's an atrocity. Downstairs, 10 minutes? Big day!"
She turned and walked out of the room, leaving Amy to her thoughts, "Of course she's my mum. Why is that surprising?" she shook her head and got out of bed, heading down the stairs to the sitting room to see a short man there.
"Ah, Amelia," he turned to her, "I fear I may have been using the same joke book as the best man."
"You're my tiny little dad!" Amy shouted, running over and hugging him.
"Amelia, why are you behaving as if you've never seen us before?" her mother asked, walking into the room.
"I don't know," Amy shook her head, "It's just..." she turned and ran out of the room, back to her bedroom to call the one person who might understand.
"Hello!" the voice of her fiancé, Rory, answered.
"Do you feel like you've forgotten something really important?" she asked him seriously, "Do you feel like there's a great big thing in your head, and you feel like you should remember it, but you can't?"
"Yep," Rory answered after a moment.
"Are you just saying yes 'cos you're scared of me?"
"Yep."
Amy smiled softly to herself, "I love you."
"Yep," he repeated, before catching himself, "I mean, I love you too!"
Amy turned her phone off and sat there, thinking for a moment, before rushing over and grabbing her dress.
~8~
The wedding had been beautiful and the reception was moving along perfectly. The best man had just finished his speech, earning applause from the guests, "Ladies and gentlemen, the father of the bride, Augustus Pond!" the best man passed it over to Amy's father.
Augustus stood, "Sorry, everyone. I'll be another two minutes. I'm just reviewing certain aspects," he sat back down to the laugher of the guests.
"Your father, Amelia, will be the absolute death of me," her mother leaned over to tell her, "Unless, of course, I strike preemptively."
Amy laughed, but stopped short when she saw a woman with curly, sandy colored hair in black walk past the window. She stood, trying to catch a better glimpse of the woman she swore she knew.
"Amy?" Rory frowned, concerned, "You ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm..." she sat back down, "Fine."
"Right," he nodded, before noticing, "You're crying."
"So I am," she reached up to wipe away a tear, turning to him, confused, "Why am I doing that?"
"Because you're happy? Probably. Happy Mrs. Rory. Happy, happy, happy."
"No," she shook her head slowly, "I'm sad. I'm really, really sad."
"Great…" he breathed, a bit hurt.
"Why am I sad?" she asked, looking down at the table in front of Rory, "What's that?"
"Oh, er, someone left it for you," Rory handed her a old, blue journal that almost looked like an old telephone box, "A woman."
"But what is it?"
"It's a book."
Amy flipped through the journal, "It's blank."
"It's a present."
"But why?"
"Well, you know the old saying," he shrugged, "The old...wedding...thing. Huh?" Amy looked down, starting to remember something, "Amy?"
Augustus stood again, "Ready now. Sorry about that. Last minute adjustments to certain aspects. Now then, it hardly seems a year..."
Amy looked around the room, ignoring the speech her father was giving. She caught sight of one guest wearing a red bowtie, another wearing blue braces, a woman wearing a tan jacket and another with blonde hair up in a ponytail…a tear fell from her eye.
"...at the age of six and announced that the new head teacher wasn't real because she looked like a cartoon," Augustus continued.
Amy stood suddenly, "Shut up dad!"
"Amy?" Rory frowned.
"Amelia?" Augustus gaped at her.
"Sorry, but shut up, please!" she begged, looking around frantically, "There're people missing...important people. Two people so, SO important."
"Amy, what's wrong?" Rory asked, taking her hand.
"Sorry," she glanced at him before looking at the guests, "Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid, I had two imaginary friends."
Her mother sighed, "Oh no, not this again."
"The Raggedy Doctor and the Impossible Evy," she smiled, "My Doctor and Evy. But they weren't imaginary. They were real!"
"The psychiatrists we sent her to!" her mother continued to lament.
"I remember you!" Amy shouted at no one in particular, "I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you home too. Raggedy man and Impossible girl, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!"
It was silent, when Rory heard the glasses start to tinkle against each other and felt the ground start to shake, the chandelier swayed.
"I found you," she cried, "I found you in words, like you knew I would. That's why you told me the story...the brand new, ancient, blue box. Oh, clever. Very clever."
The wind began to pick up and blow, a wheezing noise filled the room.
"Amy, what is it?" Rory stared at the center of the dance floor as though expecting something to appear.
"Something old," Amy said seriously, "Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue."
A bright blue police phone box materialized in the middle of the floor.
"It's the Doctor and Evy!" Rory cried, standing up, completely stunned. The TARDIS solidified and Amy literally climbed over the table to get to it, "How did we forget the Doctor and Evy?" Rory shook his head, memories returning, "I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag. Evy kissed me! Long story..."
Amy ran over to the TARDIS, knocking on the doors, "Ok, Doctor, Evy. Did I surprise you this time?"
The TARDIS door opened and the Doctor appeared, wearing a top hat and a suit with a white tie and tails, a white scarf loosely draped over his shoulders. The second door opened to reveal Evy grinning, her hair down, wearing a thin-strapped, light red, floor length dress that bunched in the front and fell in waves to the floor.
"Er, yeah," the Doctor nodded, "Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing," he stepped out of the TARDIS, holding a hand out to Evy, pulling her out as well.
Evy looked around a moment, "How fortunate I noticed you prefer red," she winked at Amy, glad she'd guessed this as the color scheme for the wedding. Of all the colors Amy colored her nails, she seemed to wear red more often than any other color.
"Hello, everyone!" the Doctor called, pulling Evy to his side.
"We're Amy's imaginary friends!" Evy laughed at their stunned faces.
"But we came anyway," the Doctor walked over to Augustus, shaking his hand as Evy gave Amy's very shocked mother a kiss on the cheek.
"You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride," Amy strode towards him, very nearly kissing him, when he was pulled away from her.
Evy had pulled him from the side just before Amy reached him, and kissed him herself, turning to Amy, "Tut tut, my boy, you've got your own."
"Quite right!" the Doctor smiled as Rory walked over, "What say we leave the kissing duties to the brand new Mr. Pond!"
"No, I'm not Mr. Pond," Rory shook his head, "That's not how it works."
Evy and the Doctor exchanged a look, "Yeah, it is," they said.
Rory nodded, "Yeah, it is."
"Right then, everyone," the Doctor clapped, "We'll move our box. You're going to need the space…" Evy laughed walking back into the TARDIS with him as the Doctor poked his head out once more, "We only came for the dancing."
~8~
The Doctor was dancing crazily to Queen's 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' as Amy laughed at him. Evy and Rory were watching from the side of the room. The Doctor had tried to pull Evy in to dance with him…but the last time that happened they'd been chased across a planet because the locals believed they'd called down a swarm of intergalactic locusts.
She wasn't about to take that chance again, especially not at Amy and Rory's wedding, that would be the last thing the couple needed.
"You're terrible!" Amy laughed, "That is embarrassing!"
~8~
One crazy dance that Evy did participate in was when the children all ran up to dance with the not-imaginary imaginary friends, "That's it!" she laughed, standing behind the kids helping them dance like the Doctor, "That's good!"
"Keep it loose," the Doctor called, spinning around and wiggling his arms in the air.
Amy and Rory looked on and laughed, just watching.
~8~
A slow dance was playing, James Morrison's 'You Give Me Something,' the Doctor and Evy dancing alongside Amy and Rory, "I'm glad to see you can still dance a waltz," Evy remarked as she laid her head on the Doctor's chest, "Your last incarnation was quiet a good dancer…what happened?"
"Oi!" he nudged her lightly, a smile on his face though, "Watch it Miss I-Can-Only-Draw-Stick-Figures!"
She laughed, shaking her head as she pulled back to look up at him, the two of them just staring into each other's eyes as they danced on.
"You know," he commented lightly, "Amy was right about the Pandorica being just like Pandora's Box."
"How so?"
He just smiled at her, "Well, right in the beginning…it was a container for the Universe's greatest fear…" he brushed a strand of hair from her face, "And its greatest hope."
She just leaned forward and gave him a long, sweet kiss, both to tell him she didn't think he represented the evils of the Universe in the least and to thank him for believing she was the hope at the bottom of the box.
He pulled away, all the love he felt for her shining in his eyes, mirrored by Evy's as she looked at him. He took her hand and led her off the dance floor, pausing at the door to look back at Mr. and Mrs. Pond.
"2,000 years," Evy smiled softly, watching them, "The boy who waited."
The Doctor pulled her back against him, "Good on you, mate," he whispered for Rory.
They turned and walked out, heading back to the TARDIS, the Doctor just getting his key in the lock when someone spoke behind them, "Did you dance?" River asked as they turned to face her, "Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?"
"You tell us," the Doctor smiled, holding Evy's hand.
"Spoilers," River smirked.
Evy held out the blue TARDIS journal, handing it back to her, "Everything's back and I made sure he didn't peek," she nudged the Doctor.
River laughed, "Thank you."
The Doctor handed her the Manipulator as well, "Are you married, River?" he asked, thinking about the wedding.
"Are you asking?" River grinned, slipping the Manipulator on.
"Yes."
River glanced at Evy, smirking, "Yes."
"No, hang on," he cut in, getting flustered, "Did you think I was asking you to marry me, o-o-or asking if you were married?"
"Yes."
"No, but was that 'yes,' or 'yes?'" the Doctor shook his head, he'd just confused himself.
"Yes."
Evy laughed, putting a reassuring hand on the Doctor's arm, "Who are you River Song?"
The smile on River's face became a bit more sad, "You're going to find out very soon now. And I'm sorry, but that's when everything changes," she pushed a button and disappeared.
The Doctor turned to Evy, frantic now, "You do know I wasn't asking her to marry me right? Because I wasn't. I love you, and…and just you and…"
Evy cut him off with a kiss, laughing at his stunned expression, before turning to finish unlocking the TARDIS and walked in. He followed after her, a grin now on his face, before he pulled her arm, spinning her to face him as they danced their way over to the console. Evy laughed more, spinning away a final time to start working the controls with him.
"Oi!" Amy shouted, opening the door and walking in, "Where are you off to?"
Rory followed her in, shutting the door behind him, "Amy!"
"What? It's my wedding."
"OUR wedding."
"Sorry, you two...shouldn't have slipped away," the Doctor apologized, "Bit busy, you know?"
"You just saved the whole of space and time. Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow."
"Space and time isn't safe just yet," Evy told them sadly, "The TARDIS exploded for a reason. Something pulled the TARDIS to this day and blew it up."
The phone began to ring.
"Why?" the Doctor asked, "And why now? The silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and we have to..."
"Get the phone love," Evy said.
"Excuse me a moment," the Doctor turned and answered the phone, not seeing Amy smirk or make a whipping motion to Rory who chuckled, "Hello. Oh! Hello. I'm sorry, this is a very bad line. No, but that's not possible. She was sealed into the Seventh Obelisk. We were at the prayer meeting. Well, no, we get that it's important. An Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express…in space! Give us a mo," he turned to Amy and Rory, "Sorry, something's come up. This will have to be goodbye."
"Yeah, I think it's goodbye," Amy looked at Rory, "Do you think it's goodbye?"
"Definitely goodbye," Rory smiled.
Amy strode over to the door, opening it and waving out, "Goodbye! Goodbye," she closed the door, turning back to them with a smile.
The Doctor turned back to the phone, his hand absently playing with Evy's fingers held in his own, "Don't worry about a thing, Your Majesty. We're on our way."
Amy and Rory grabbed a hold of the console as Evy flipped a switch and they were off!
A/N: I have to say, this wedding made me think of The Wedding of River Song episode, I will say this, it will not be a 'wedding,' but we will see something come out of it for River. I also hope it was believable to stick both the Doctor and Evy in the Pandorica, I figure here, the Daleks and the other enemies are now aware that the Doctor has his Link with him and they would want both of them locked away. In the Academic Series, it was more about locking the Doctor away while restraining the Professor and making her powerless to stop them/save him, a far worse prison.
And, wow, there's only 4 chapters left of this series! We've just got two parts of A Christmas Carol (which I loved writing), then the SJA The Death of the Doctor (the dynamic-changer), and an original chapter before Series 5 is over and we get Series 6 and the Silence! I've got big things planned for Series 6, lots of emotion, fears, struggles, and lots of love too :)
Next chapter...someone is outdone by a paper clip. Evy turns into a cackling madwoman. Are the fish really biting the Doctor?