"GERONIMO!" The Doctor yelled as we fell. The feeling was both exhilarating, and terrifying. Within seconds, the TARDIS had made an impact with the ground. There was so much smoke emitting from the TARDIS the Doctor and I came choking our way out.
"Oh this is just ROTTEN! My poor TARDIS!" The Doctor complained.
"Um, Doctor?" I asked.
He waved me off, "This is going to take forever to repair! Everything's going to be so different."
"Doctor!" I insisted.
Again, he ignored me. He stroked the side of the steaming TARDIS, "You poor girl."
"DOCTOR!" I yelled.
He quickly turned around, "What do you want Parks!" I nodded towards the small red headed girl, "Oh, who do we have here?" He wandered over to the girl.
"Sorry sweetheart, he's a bit wound up right now." I told her, "What's your name?"
"Amelia Pond." She replied.
"That is a brilliant name! Amelia." The Doctor muttered and smiled.
"Are you here about the crack in my wall?" Amelia asked us.
"What crack?" I asked, now curious. The Doctor fell to the ground and started making weird sounds, "Doctor what's wrong?" I rushed over to him.
He jumped right up, "Just, getting over my regeneration!" He breathed out some of the regenerational energy.
Amelia looked concerned so I told her with a wink, "Don't worry. This is normal for us." That made her smile.
"So Amelia, what is with this crack in your wall? Must be one hell of a crack." The Doctor asked.
Amelia walked over and grabbed one hand of the Doctor's and one of my hands and led us into her house, "I'll show you." We soon were in what I assumed was her room. She pointed to a large crack in the wall, "Right there. It talks to me when I'm asleep sometimes."
The Doctor wasn't paying attention though, "Leah, give me your screwdriver." I tossed him my sonic, and he stared sonicing her whole room.
"It's not an actual screwdriver." I told her. She just nodded it off. I picked up an apple from her desk, it had a smile cut into it, "Did you do this? Creative idea." I asked her.
She shook her head, "I used to hate apples. But then my mum put faces on them."
I smiled, "I like the sound of your mum then. Speaking of which, where are your parents? Heavy sleepers they must be." I mumbled looking around.
"I only have an aunt. She went out."
The Doctor jumped in the middle of the conversation, "So, this crack then! It doesn't go all the way through your wall, the wall is perfectly solid. So the question is: Why is there a draft?"
I grabbed my sonic and examined the crack, "Wibbly wobbly timey wimey."
Amelia looked confused, "What?"
The Doctor and I said at the same time, "It's a crack." The Doctor continued, "Here's the thing though! If we were to demolish this wall, the crack would stay put. The crack isn't in the wall."
"Where is the crack then?" Amelia asked.
"This crack is everywhere. In everything! Two parts of time and space that should never of touched, pressed together. This is all right in your room! Do you ever hear voices Amelia?" He asked.
"That's what I said earlier while you were off jumpin around the room!" She snapped at him. That made me laugh, a nine year old telling off the Doctor. The Doctor glared at me.
We all pressed our ears against the wall, "Prisoner Zero has escaped." I jumped back.
"What does that mean, and who was talking?" I asked.
"That prisoner zero has escaped. Keep up will you Parks?" I rolled my eyes, "There is a prison on the other side of this wall. And they've lost a prisoner. Well Amelia, you need a better wall. Leah help me move this desk."
I helped the Doctor push the desk to the other side of the room. I pulled out my sonic screwdriver and soniced the crack wide open.
"Hello? Anybody home?" The Doctor yelled into the dark, damp room. Just then, an enormous eye came rushing to the crack. A blue light started to fill up the eye, and it zapped the Doctor and immediately closed the crack.
"Doctor are you alright?" I asked him where he fell back on a bed. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the physic paper.
"It just says prisoner zero has escaped. Why only tell us that?" He wondered out loud.
"Unless..." I trailed off.
"Unless what?" Amelia persuaded.
"Unless prisoner zero escaped through your room." I finished. The Doctor ran out of the room and was pacing through the hall. Amelia and I rushed out after him, "What now?" I asked.
"I keep thinking that there is something that I'm not quite getting! I'm in a totally new body Parks, it takes a bit to get used to my new senses."
"Well obviously." I retorted, "But I get the feeling too. It's like we are totally missing something. Something completely obvious."
"Right out of the corner of our eyes." The Doctor muttered. BONG! BONG! The cloister bell rang out from the TARDIS.
"NOT NOW!" The Doctor yelled, and ran down the stairs.
Amelia immediately turned to me, "What was that?" She asked.
"Well, our spaceship. It's- repairing itself and that sound was not good." I said while we ran down the stairs.
"You two must do an awful lot of running." She said while taking my hand.
I laughed, "You get used to it." We came crashing into the backyard. The Doctor nowhere in sight. He must be back in the TARDIS.
"So where's your spaceship?" Amelia asked.
I pointed to the TARDIS, "Right there."
I looked confused, "That's a police box."
"Well, not really. That's the TARDIS's disguise. But it got stuck disguising itself as a old police box a long time ago."
"TARDIS?" She asked.
"Time And Relative Dimension In Space." There was a loud crash from inside the TARDIS, and I sighed shoving a piece of hair out of my face, "Listen. I need to go help the Doctor. We have to go! I'm sorry!" I ran to the TARDIS.
She followed after me, "Can I come with you?"
"It's not safe right now. Give us five minutes and we will be back for you." I promised.
"Everyone says that. They never come back." Amelia sighed and kicked some dirt on the ground.
I walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "If I make a promise, I don't break it. I PROMISE we will be back. Five minutes. Time us." I walked back to the TARDIS and looked back at Amelia. I gave her a reassuring smile, which she returned.
I jumped down into the TARDIS, trying to find the Doctor. He yelled from behind what was left of the console, "Leah over here!"
I ran to help him, "This thing isn't going to hold for much longer you know!"
"Of course I know that!" He pulled a lever and the TARDIS dematerialized. We battled the fire like professionals. Well in a sense, we were professionals. I tended to the fire while the Doctor tried to stabilize the TARDIS. Finally, the fire was out.
I pulled up the monitor, "Well, it took us all the way to the end of the universe to put her thing out!" I laughed half heartily.
"She'll definitely need time to repair herself. We've done as much as we can to help right now." He said and flopped down on the couch. Which I was surprised was unscathed.
I sat down next to him and put my head on his shoulder, "Welcome back Leah." I mumbled.
He affectionately rubbed my arm, "Got your mind off of it didn't it?"
"Yeah it did. But honestly? I don't care about him. What is done, is done, and we can't go back to change it."
"I'm sorry." He said.
I took my head off his shoulder and looked him right in the eyes, "Don't. Don't you ever be sorry. Besides, this was a big day for you mister!" I changed to a happier subject.
His eyes lit up, "I quite like this new body! It's-" He paused, looking for the right word, "brilliant."
"Oh yes, I think that word suits you very nice." I smiled. A thought dashed across my mind as the Doctor rambled on. This was the Doctor that I ended up with, according to events at the Shadow Proclamation. Honestly, I couldn't wait.
