Wanted to finish this chapter before I go on vacation or else I might end up updating in like a month like last time (sorry again). Please review! Good or bad, I'd like to hear it!
The two Doctors, River and Rose ran through the corridors. Every where they turned it seemed that there was some explosion nearby. Every corner they turned they found that they'd just have to turn around. Every where they went there was constant danger.
The building was starting to fall in on itself as well. Finally they reached a corridor and at the end, they saw the sun. They saw light. They started running to the door, to their only way out. To the Tenth Doctor's request, Rose was the first one out. River was behind her. The two Doctors only barely made it out before the whole building collapsed. The four of them exchanged glances before laughing.
They nearly died. Two universes were nearly destroyed. The Tenth Doctor nearly became the cyber leader. Billions of people nearly died. But that's just it. Nearly. Despite all odds, four people were able to stop all those horrible things from happening.
The four people made their way to find Rose's family. And sure enough, there they were, safe and sound. The cybermen didn't even touch them.
"Jackie! Pete! Oh, It's been ages hasn't it?" Eleventh Doctor said. Jackie and Pete just stared at him confused. Eleventh Doctor looked at his duplicate and Rose not understanding.
"Mum, this is the Doctor. From the other universe" Rose explained. Eleventh Doctor just smiled. Jackie sighed.
"You've gone and changed your face again" Jackie said.
"Changed his... what?" Pete asked.
"So what happened? With the Cybermen, I mean?" Jackie asked. Rose smiled at her mum.
"The Doctor defeated them. With love" she said.
"Well," Eleventh and Tenth Doctor said at the same time. "technically it was the deeply ingrained hereditary human trait to protect one's own genes-" both Doctors looked at each other and then laughed.
"Doctor, we don't have very long" River said.
"Very long 'til what?" Jackie asked.
"Until my TARDIS dies. We have to get back. But before we do, Rose has something she wants to tell you two" Eleventh Doctor said while looking at Rose. Rose glared at the Eleventh Doctor but knew that eventually she would have to tell them anyways. Might as well get it over with.
"Mum, dad... I'm pregnant" Rose said. She held the Tenth Doctor's hand and smiled. "We're going to have a baby." A huge smile spread across Rose's face and the Tenth Doctor could do nothing but return it. Looking at the two of them, it didn't matter how Jackie felt about being a grandmother. Just to look at her daughter and see that she was happy was enough to make her happy as well.
"Well, we really should be going now. Jackie, Pete. It's been lovely to see you again" Eleventh Doctor said. "River! We've got a TARDIS to catch!" And with that, the two Doctors and their loves ran off to find the TARDIS.
Pete stared at Jackie. "Changed his... what?"
The four of them were standing outside the TARDIS, saying their last goodbyes. After a good twenty minute search for the TARDIS, their journey together was finally coming to an end. However many differences they had at the beginning, they were all gone now.
"River... it's been interesting. As it was last time" Tenth Doctor said to River, still a little intimidated by her.
"Oh, Doctor. You don't need to struggle to find words. I'm no different than any other person, to you. You're a bit too young for my liking anyways" River said with her cheeky smile. Rose approached River.
"I'm sorry" Rose said. "I wasn't the most pleasant person when we started off this whole adventure. It was just so... different. I'm sorry." River walked up to her and hugged her.
"You've still got your Doctor" River said. "Don't you ever let go of him." Rose smiled and nodded.
Rose looked at the Eleventh Doctor who had his arms open, ready to hug her. To his surprise, she ran up to him and hugged him.
"You're not so different, actually" Rose said. "I'm sorry." Eleventh Doctor smiled.
"You have every right to be a little emotional these days" he said while looking at her stomach. "If I were you, I'd use that excuse to your advantage." Rose laughed and nodded. Finally, the two Doctors faced each other.
"Goodbye, me" Eleventh Doctor said to Tenth Doctor.
"Goodbye" Tenth Doctor said. Eleventh Doctor snapped his fingers and the TARDIS door opened. River walked inside and just as the eleventh Doctor was about to follow her in, Tenth Doctor grabbed his arm. "Wait, wait" he said barely above a whisper. "What if... it happens again..."
"What, a cyberman uprising? Oh please. I think after a second failed attempt at conquering this parallel universe they could take a hint that it's not going to happen-"
"Nono. I mean... what if Rose starts to hate me again. What if all this is simply because she's pregnant?"
"I think you're missing the point" Eleventh Doctor said. "She's pregnant. With your baby. Your going to be a father again. You're going to raise a child with her. It won't happen again." Eleventh Doctor pat his duplicate on the back and walked in. "Oh, by the way" Eleventh Doctor said before closing the door. "I have another surprise for you. just stay here" he said with a grin, and then he disappeared in his blue box."
The TARDIS started to make the noise it always made. Rose and the Tenth Doctor waved goodbye to the mad man in the box and then waited for a while. Just as he had instructed. And before they knew it, the sound was happening again. A TARDIS was landing. And before their very eyes, a red phone box appeared.
"It's our TARDIS!" the Tenth Doctor exclaimed. "Our TARDIS!"
"Doctor-"
"We can still have our adventures! Where should we go now?"
"Home" Rose said. The Doctor stared at her. "We have our own adventure now" she said as she grabbed the Doctor's hand and placed it on her stomach. "If we find there's ever another cyberman invasion or... some Dalek is invading... then we can use the TARDIS. But for now... let's start our own adventures."
The Doctor smiled at Rose. Genuinely smiled. At long last, he truly knew where her heart belonged. It belonged to him.
"That was generous of you" River said as she and the Doctor made their way through town.
"Yeah... I figured they'd never really use it anyways. What with the whole 'raising child' situating" the Doctor said.
"And you're sure Amy and Rory weren't in there, right? We don't want them suddenly trapped in a parallel universe..." the Doctor laughed.
"I checked. They're probably out here somewhere, trying to do some good-"
"RORY!"
The Doctor stared at River. They both recognized that voice anywhere. They started running towards Amy and whatever danger she was in. Finally they found her at the site of a building's ruins. But it was just Amy. Rory was nowhere to be found.
"Amy!" the Doctor cried. "Amy, what's wrong?"
"Doctor!" Amy turned around and with tears streaming down her face she hugged the Doctor. "It's Rory! The building was collapsing and Rory was helping others out. The building collapsed, Doctor. Rory was still in there. You have to do something. You have to save him!"
The Doctor stared at the buildings remains and then at Amy. He couldn't save Rory. There was no chance he could have survived that sort of destruction and he was very well aware of what he could go back in time to change and what he couldn't.
"I'm sorry Amy" the Doctor whispered. Amy shook her head as a new wave of tears began to fall.
"You have to do something" she kept saying.
"Amy, there's nothing I can-"
"You've got a time machine, haven't you?!" she screamed. "Save him!"
"You know very well I can't." Amy just stared at him
"What good are you? what good is the TARDIS?! You say you want to help. What good are you if you refuse to use the one thing that would actually make a difference?!"
"Doctor" River whispered in his ear. "you can save him."
"What?"
"Rory's death here... it's not a fixed point in time. It can still be changed!"
"How can you be sure?"
"The cybermen were never meant to invade our universe. If they hadn't, then Rory would have never died. Think about it. You said it yourself when you first saw your duplicate. You said you made very sure that you never crossed timelines. And you never do. this whole event was never meant to happen. Rory can be saved."
The Doctor stared at River and a smile spread across his face as he realized how right she was. He looked at Amy and smiled before he ran back to his TARDIS. He set the coordinates and set the time to seven minutes ago. Once the TARDIS landed he found himself in a room with Rory helping a single woman out the window while the building collapsed. Once the woman was out, the Doctor ran out to drag Rory in the TARDIS. As soon as he opened the door, however, a chunk of ceiling fell and hit Rory on the head. This was the moment Rory would die. If the Doctor didn't act soon, history would repeat itself.
The Doctor picked Rory up and dragged him into the TARDIS. As soon as they were safe in the TARDIS, the Doctor set the time for seven minutes in the future.
Amy watched the Doctor fly away in his blue box. She stared at River with hopeful eyes. She didn't want to lose her Rory. She wouldn't be able to live if she did.
"Rory will be ok" River reassured her.
"You can promise that, can you?" Amy asked. And then, before her eyes the TARDIS appeared. The Doctor opened the door and gestured Amy to enter. Amy ran inside and nearly cried of joy when she saw her husband, passed out but breathing and alive. She knelt net to him and put her head on his chest.
"Oh you stupid idiot!" Amy screamed at him and then kissed him on the lips.
River walked inside and stood next to the Doctor. They both watched Amy hold her Rory and they watched the look on their face when he finally woke up.
River smiled at the Doctor.
"So, what does it feel like? Changing history?"she asked him.
"This is the last time I do it" the Doctor said. "I can't keep saving people that should be dead. I can't."
"You never will stop" River said. The Doctor sighed.
"Everybody knows that everybody dies, River."
"Not all the time" River said. She smiled at her Doctor. "Not today."
The End