A.N. Thank you for jo13 and Rwy'n-Y-Blaidd-Drwg for reviewing, I hope that the story does not let down your expectations! If you have seen Series 6 Doctor Who, you will be able to tell what I have put in (kind of) but I have left out… If you haven't seen Series 6 yet, you will understand when you see it! I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
The TARDIS entered normal flight, and its occupants could wander around without staggering.
"Alright," said the Doctor, "Could take a while to get there, the TARDIS did just explode after all." The Doctor went round to the side of the consol where Amy and Rory were standing. "You to have had a long day, go to bed off you pop!"
"Doctor, are you trying to act like you're our mother?" Amy asked, exasperated.
"No, but you've had a long day, you've had a wedding, you've got married, now go. Bed!" They shrugged, realising that there was no point arguing.
"Where…?" Rory started to ask something before the Doctor interrupted.
"Go up the stairs, take the first corridor on the left, then go into the room fifth on the right." Nodding, the two went towards their room. This was pretty much Rory's first nights on the TARDIS, due to the fact that he wasn't there, was dead, never existed, or plastic, and it was definitely their first night together on the TARDIS. Amy opened the door the Doctor had told them to go to, and let out a groan.
"What is it?" Rory asked, a little concerned as to what Amy was groaning about.
"Bunk bed's again!" She replied. "I asked him before if we could get rid of the bunk bed's, but he said they were cool."
"Well, what do you expect from an alien who wear's a bow tie all the time, and likes to wear a fez, and thinks they're both cool." Rory pointed out. Amy nodded in agreement.
The two went into their room, closed the door, and got ready for bed. Amy looked around, and then found a place to hang up her wedding dress. She put it in a cupboard, as it was unlikely that while on the TARDIS she would need her wedding dress. Rory did the same with his suit. The bunk bed was rather wide, and as it was their wedding night, the two of them decided to share the bottom bunk. As they got into bed, Rory asked,
"Why does he think that a bunk bed is cool anyway?"
"Something about how they've got a ladder… He thinks that a bed with a ladder is something that cannot be beaten." Rory shrugged at this answer. It sounded like something that the Doctor would say.
The Doctor steered the TARDIS through the time vortex. He was taking the 'long route' for a few reasons. He wanted to make sure of a few things to do with the TARDIS, why it had blown up, before it did trips that would go to far in one jump. Also, it was like he had told Amy and Rory earlier, it was a long day for them, and it was their wedding night after all.
The Doctor got up from his chair, and flipped a few more switches on the consol to speed up their journey. Noticing the change this put the TARDIS into, though he was reluctant, the Doctor quickly flipped the Blue Boringers, or as River liked to call them, the Blue Stabilisers. After a moments pause, he then pressed another button. Soothing music began to play through the room. He sunk back down into his chair and let out a sigh, as much as he wanted the TARDIS to be safe, and Amy and Rory to get some rest, this was very boring. He could get anywhere in Space and Time that he wanted, in a matter of minutes. It was his choice to tack the slow route through the time vortex, but it was getting on his nerves. Glancing round the room, as if hoping no one was watching him, he casually pressed a few more buttons and pulled some more switches. This caused the TARDIS to accelerate, and within a matter of seconds, the TARDIS was materialising on the Orient Express.
Amy and Rory woke up to a loud noise in their room. Tired, and not really thinking, Amy asked in a tired voice,
"What is that?"
"It sounds like the TARDIS landing…"
"Oh… right." Amy tried to wake herself up a bit more. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, and then looked at her watch. "I thought he said we were going to take the long route."
"Did we?" Amy showed Rory her watch.
"Well, if you ask me, we started taking the long route, as we've on the TARDIS for a couple of hours."
"Then?"
"Then the Doctor got bored of waiting, and hurriedly sped up our journey, so we could arrive."
"Now we're here, the Doctor's not going to want to delay long before getting involved is he?" Amy shook her head.
"We might as well get up now and join him." There was no point in arguing with what Amy had said. The Doctor wanted to get involved with this thing, he had been asked for help. If they delayed too long, he would just come in here and get them up.
"It's not like you can sleep through the TARDIS landing."
"Well… you could if River was flying the TARDIS." Rory looked at Amy, curious.
"What's the difference?"
"River doesn't leave the breaks on." Rory looked surprised.
"That noise is the BREAKS? The noise the TARIDS makes when it lands is just the breaks?"
"Yup, it's not supposed to make that noise, and as River doesn't leave them on, and you could say, flies it properly, you get a silent landing. It's more discreet."
"You know the Doctor though…" Knowing what he was thinking, Amy finished his sentence for him.
"He never likes to be discreet."
"Rarely, anyway." The two of them got out of bed, got dressed then went to find the Doctor.
He was in the first place they looked. When he heard them come in, the Doctor looked up sheepishly from where he sat.
"Has a good sleep?" he asked innocently.
"Well, it was fine," Amy started, "But then it was cut short by a very loud noise. Strange noise when you're travelling through the time vortex, not near any planet or train, or anything." She looked at him pointedly.
"Ah, yes, about that…" the Doctor looked at the two of them. "I thought we should get on with what her Majesty asked us, I mean she is the Queen!" He looked at his two friends, and saw their glares. "Anyway, moving on!" The Doctor pulled the scanner round in front of the two, and they looked at the screen. "We are on the Space Orient Express, 3924 AD, and are currently somewhere near the Garn Belt…"
"Isn't that near where the Applan Temple was, you know where the Weeping Angels were waiting?" Amy looked a bit worried.
"Yes, that belt, but we are on a train, no where near a plant. Besides, you can't just say 'We're by this belt, therefore me must be near here!' It would be like being in the Asteroid Belt, and saying, 'Since we're in this belt, we must be near Dwarf Planet, Ceres.' It just isn't necessarily true." Amy stared at the Doctor for a few moments, before asking,
"The planet with the Applan Temple's nearby, isn't it?" It almost wasn't a question.
"FINE!" He replied in an annoyed voice, "Planets down to the right of the train, about 6 miles away, so can be seen quite clearly, and we are currently round the side where the temple is, happy?" He didn't get a reply, but he knew Amy knew that the Angels weren't there any more. "If there aren't any more questions," the Doctor sort of danced down to the door, "Let's go and find what awaits us!" He quickly opened the door, got out the TARDIS and almost closed the door again behind him. Amy and Rory exchanged a quick glance, before hurrying after him.
A.N. I hope you liked the chapter! The next one should take some more planning, so I will try to put it up within the next few days (hopefully). Anyway, thank you for reading!
