Hello guys! We meet again for a new chapter!
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So, this is Chapter 24, the last one I think before the big end of The Wedding of River Song! Again not many modifications, I'm sorry but I promise you won't regret it. Well I hope. ^_^
I think it'll take me a bit more time to write it though, so you'll might have to wait for two or three days for it. I want it to be as good as possible and as good as the show.
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Chapter 24
The Doctor slowly opened his eyes, his vision completely blurred. He could hear a background noise the whistling of a steam train and a newsreader on a radio, judging by the quality of the sound. He blinked a few times, trying to clear up his vision as he tried to take his gaze off the ceiling fan to try and collect some information of his surroundings.
His eyes fixed on two red blurry spots that soon became more clear.
"Amy? Melody?"
"Those stun guns aren't fun, I'm sorry." Amy said. "We wanted to avoid a long conversation."
The Doctor realised he was lying on a couch, on a train and that his two best friends had shot him with a stun gun.
"You need to get up though, we'll be in Cairo shortly." said Melody.
"Amy Pond from Leadworth and Melody Williams from God-knows-where! Please, listen to me!" he started, trying to get up, still in his Soothsayer clothes and with the tally marks on his arms. "I know it seems impossible, but you two know me. In another version of reality you and I were best friends, w-we-we travelled together, we had adventures." he continued, trying to get up, not quite managing to stand on his feet yet. "Amelia Pond, Melody Williams, one of you grew up with a time rift in the wall of her bedroom the other comes from a parallel universe and has foreknowledge and is Human plus Time Lord, both of you can remember things others can't, a-and…" he spoke, searching by all means to convince them they are not enemies. He grabbed a model TARDIS on the coffee table and held it out. "And if you try, if you really really try, you'll be able to-" he stopped, looking at the tiny TARDIS he was holding and then at the girls who were giving him a knowing look.
"Oh." he let out. He turned around and finally saw all the drawings pinned on the walls, relating all the adventures the three of them had had.. "Oh… Ooh…"
"You look rubbish." said Melody, teasing him.
"You look wonderful." he answered with his charming look.
"So do you." she admitted with a smile.
Amy caught the model TARDIS he threw at her and said, grabbing something from a cupboard:
"Don't worry, we'll soon fix that."
She showed him his usual outfit with his tweed jacket and his bow tie.
"Aaaw! Geronimo!" he said, obviously happy as if it was Christmas.
A few moments later, after a shave and a final check in the mirror he said:
"Okay, you can turn around now, how do I look?"
Both of the girls who had already turned around a long time ago looked at him.
"Cool."
"Really?" he asked, excited.
"No." Amy said.
Melody mouthed a "yes" and gave him a wink.
The Doctor walked up to them, looking at the desk:
"Cool office though! Why do you have an office? Are you guys like special agent boss ladies? What does that mean? Not sure about the eyepatch, though." he started rambling.
"It's not an eyepatch!" said Amy. "Time has gone wrong, some of us noticed. There's a whole team of us working on it, you'll see."
"And you've got an office on a train, that is so cool!" exclaimed the child Doctor. "Can I have an office? Never had an office before. Or a train. Or a train slash office."
Amy and Melody shared a look and a smile, they both ran to the Time Lord, hugging him.
"God we've missed you!"
"Wo-ho okay! Hugging and missing now!" he answered, holding them tight. "Oh where's the Roman?"
"You mean Rory. My husband Rory, yeah? uh…" Amy said, searching through the drawings she had made. "That's him, isn't it? I've no idea. I can't find him, but I love him very much, don't I?"
The Doctor looked at Melody and back at the drawing of a very handsome man.
"Apparently."
"I have to keep doing this, writing and drawing things." she explained. "It's just it's so hard to keep remembering."
"We're working on her memory." Melody added.
"Well it's not your fault, Time has gone wrong, do you remember why?" asked the Doctor.
"The lakeside."
"Lake Silencio, Utah, I died."
"But then you didn't die, see I remember it twice different ways. One there was River, the other there was Melody." she said quickly.
"Two different versions of the same event, both happening at the same moment. Time split wide open. Now look at it." he said, showing the world outside the train. "All of history happening at once."
"But does it matter? I mean, can't we just stay like this?"
"No Amy." said Melody. "Time is not just frozen, it's dying, disintegrating until at one moment it'll fall apart."
Her friend nodded in answer, understanding. At this moment they heard a knock at the door and a soldier entered: it was Rory. The Doctor looked excited at Melody, both sharing a knowing look, just waiting for the both of them to realise they were meant to be together.
"Ma'am? We're about to arrive. Eye drives need to be activated as soon as we disembark."
"Good point, thank you Captain Williams" said Amy.
"Hello!" said the Doctor.
"Hello sir, pleased to meet you."
"Captain Williams, best of the bests, couldn't live without him." Amy said proudly as the Doctor was holding the drawing she had made before him, laughing. "What is wrong?"
The Doctor faced her after looking briefly at Melody and put his hands on her shoulders:
"Amy, you'll find your Rory. You always do. But you really have to look."
"I am looking."
"Oooh my Amelia Pond, you don't always look hard enough."
"Why are you older?" she whispered. "If time isn't really passing, then how can you be ageing?"
"Time is still passing for me." he said, getting away from her. "Every explosion has an epicentre. I'm it. I'm what's wrong."
"What's wrong with you?"
Though he was not facing them, Melody could see his head bow a little. She knew he was closing his eyes, in pain. He turned around:
"I'm still alive."
The steam train Amy, Melody, Rory and the Doctor were in was going forward, launched at high speed on the railway above the Sahara desert, the metal shining in the orange sunset as they were arriving at the Great Pyramids, marked by the American Stars and Stripes and "Area 52" on the side.
Disembarking, they climbed down the stairs to get under the pyramid.
"You have to put it on sir." Rory said, handing an eyepatch to the Doctor.
"An eyepatch? What for?"
"It's not an eyepatch, Doctor, it's an eyedrive." said Melody. "As no living creature can remember those things, this acts as an external storage and communicates directly with the memory centres of the brain to make us remember them."
"Only thing that works on them." added Amy.
They walked further down into dark rooms filled with Silence creatures in blue tanks.
"The Silence." Captain Williams spoke up. "We've captured over a hundred of them now, all held in this pyramid."
"Yeah, I've encountered them before. Always wondered what they looked like." said the Doctor, observing closely one of them.
"Well put your eyedrive on and you'll retain the information." said Amy. "But only for as long as you're wearing it."
"The Silence have human servants, they all wear these."
"They'd have to." shrugged Amy.
"This way." indicated Rory the Captain.
The Doctor looked at the little black piece, unsure, but put it on his right eye, just like the others and followed his friends.
"They seem to be noticing you" the Captain spoke up again.
"Yeah… They would. What are the tanks for?" he asked.
"They can draw electricity from anything, it's how they attack. The fluid insulates them." Rory explained. "And I really don't like the way they're looking at you."
"Me neither…"
"Ma'am, I'm sure it's nothing but I should really check this out. They haven't been this active in a while." he said, turning to his men. "You two, upstairs. Check all the tank seals, then the floors above. Get everyone checking. You go ahead Ma'am."
Melody, Amy and the Doctor went onwards when the Time Lord said:
"Captain Williams, nice fella. What's his first name?"
"Captain." answered Amy, not even realising that the Doctor was trying to push them into each other's arms. "Just through here."
"Believe me I tried before you came Doctor, but you know her, she can be so… Scottish." whispered Melody in his ear, making him smile and grab her hand and squeeze it before asking to go back and talk to Rory to try - Melody knew it - and set something up between the two of them, and eventually being ridiculous while trying. When he got back to the two women, Amy spoke up:
"Come on Doctor, time for you to meet some old friends."
And the three of them walked into a wide room filled with scientific equipment. Escorted by the two women, he walked up behind a woman with crazy curled hair as a woman was talking to her.
"You were right, just his presence in the building caused the loop to extend by five chronons."
"Hi honey, I'm home!" said the Doctor.
Turning around, River took the annoyed look of a wife.
"And what sort of time do you call this?"
Walking to a desk she revealed Madam Kovarian tied up to a chair.
"The death of Time. The end of Time. The end of us all." the malevolent woman said. "Oh why couldn't you just die?" she asked with disgust.
"Did my best dear. Showed up. You just can't get the psychopaths these days. Love what you did with the pyramids, how did you score all this?" said the Doctor, walking around the room.
"Hallucinogenic lipstick." answered River with a smile. "Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover."
"I always thought so."
"She mentioned you."
"What did she say?" asked the Doctor, obviously starting the flirting game with River.
"Put down that gun!"
"Did you?"
"Eventually." she shrugged.
"Err they're flirting, do I have to watch this?" asked Kovarian with that disgusted look again.
Melody would have liked it to go on forever just to annoy the woman to death, but she kept quiet.
"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madam Kovarian?" started River, still holding the Doctor's gaze. "Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Doctor… Who else was I going to fall in love with?"
"This is not funny River." the Time Lord answered. "Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that."
"Dinner?"
"I don't have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long as I'm alive, Time is dying. Because of you, River." he said, his only eye not hidden by the eyedrive getting darker and his voice starting to growl with anger.
"Because I refused to kill the man I love."
"Oh you love me, do you? Oh that's sweet of you, isn't that sweet? Come here you."
"Get him!" ordered Amy.
Two soldiers seized the Doctor as he tried to touch River. Melody looked briefly at Amy. As the girl knew what had to happen, she was not agreeing with Amy and River on the fact they did not want him to touch her.
"I'm not a fool, sweetie. I know what happens if we touch." said River.
But as soon as she finished, he managed to grab her wrist, making time move onwards as they started to glow. River managed, with the help of the guards to get away from him and asked them to cuff him.
"Oh why do you always have handcuffs?" he asked in a sigh. "It's the only way! We're the opposite poles of the disruption, if we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again!"
"And I'll be by a lakeside killing you!"
"And time won't fall apart, the clocks will tick, reality will continue. There isn't another way!" he said quickly, looking straight at her, knowing full well that she could understand but she just wouldn't.
"I didn't say there was sweetie…" she said in a whisper. "There are so many theories about you and I, you know."
"Idle gossip!" he exclaimed.
"Archeology."
"Same thing."
"Am I the woman who marries you, or the woman who murders you?" she asked, regaining her self-control.
"Oh, I don't want to marry you." the Doctor said, ice-cold angry.
"And I don't want to murder you."
"This is no fun at all."
"It isn't, is it?" River said, letting him see how hurt she is again.
Suddenly, Melody felt something cold and little falling on her head. She touched it and looked at Amy who was doing the same. Water. Oh.
They all looked up to see drops falling from the ceiling.
"The Pyramid above us, how many Silence have you got trapped inside it?" the Time Lord asked, looking down at Madam Kovarian who was smiling.
"None." she answered. "They're not trapped, they never have been. They've been waiting, for this, Doctor. For you."
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