Wow, two chapters in one day. Someone's lucky aren't they! haha ok this chapter contains massive spoilers for Amy and Rory and River so... READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR MIND BEING DESTROYED FROM TOO MUCH INFORMATION!
I didn't mean to write most of that in caps but since I'm lazy. I'm not going to change it.
"Elena! Elena!" the Doctor shouts, bashing on the TARIDS's closed and locked doors.
After the TARDIS had locked her doors behind Elena, the Doctor had sprinted toward them and tried desperately to open them. Failing to open the doors he started bashing on them, yelling frantically like he was now.
"Elena! Elena! If you can hear me, stay where you are! Do you hear me! Don't move!" the Doctor bashed on the door once more and tried again to turn the handle.
"No! Why won't you open!?" The Doctor growls in frustration and runs back to the console, pressing buttons in an attempt to locate Elena.
"Come on, come on. I put a tracking device in her phone. Come on!" the Doctor says, hitting the top of the TV screen in impatience.
Finally, a list of information appears on the screen, basic stuff such as her name, birthday and home town. But the piece that caught his eye was;
Current location: Unknown
The 'Current Location: Unknown' was slowly blinking, the TARDIS recognising that something was wrong.
"Unknown?!" exclaimed the Doctor, "How can it be 'unknown'?! That's impossible! I've been everywhere!"
The Doctor sighed and put his head in his hands. He was trapped inside his own TARDIS, locked out of the universe, under house arrest, grounded. No matter how he thought of it. He was in here, while Elena was out there. Wherever 'there' was, the Doctor was certain it was not safe at all.
The Doctor started to mutter to himself, head still in his hands and his brain trying to come up with a way to get Elena back.
"Doors won't open, I could try and trip the locking system…. No, that'll take too long. I could pick the lock? Nah, the old girl knows how to stop me… how am I going to get out?!"
"You could try asking nicely"
The Doctor spun around in surprise at the new voice
"River…? River Song?" he said questioningly, hardly daring to believe that the daughter of his past companions was here in his TARDIS.
River grinned, "Hello sweetie"
The Doctor grinned back, trust River to appear just when he was starting to give up. River had travelled with the Doctor a while back, after Amy and Rory had… left, River came with him and they had gotten to know each other better, soon becoming best friends. River had, after a few trips to ancient and exotic places, left to have what she called 'a normal life'. The Doctor hadn't seen her in a few years, but she hadn't changed one bit.
"How'd you get here River?" the Doctor asks, breaking out of his trip down memory lane
River smiled secretly, "spoilers"
The Doctor laughed; trust River to not give away her secrets, "Ok, why are you here?"
River's face grew serious, "the TARDIS called to me, she said you were in trouble"
The Doctor paled, "I'm… I'm fine, but it's Elena, she's gone outside and the TARDIS locked her out and me in"
River tilted her head in thought then shook her head, "no, the TARDIS didn't do this, someone else has control of her and locked Elena out"
"But who?" the Doctor said, growing more worried as more time passed.
River shrugged and walked over to the console, putting her hand on the centre column. The TARDIS emitted a soft, warm hum in greeting to River and River smiled back.
"Good to be back" she said softly, speaking to the TARDIS
The Doctor cleared his throat, "sorry to interrupt the warm welcome party but, Elena is still out there and I'm still in here!"
River looks over with a serious expression and nods, "right, down to business. I can rewire the mainframe of the TARDIS's central core systems to exclude the safety protocols for the front air lock seals, which in turn means that those locks you installed in the dark ages would be easily unlocked now without any effort on your part"
The Doctor nods, understanding River's 100 mile an hour speech. One of the things he loved about River was that they could both talk at 100 miles an hour, use big, complicated words and no one would interrupt them and ask stupid questions.
"One problem though, rewiring the mainframe would take ages! I've tried to do it once before, and it took me several years" the Doctor said, leaning back against the railing.
River shakes her head, walking down the stairs and under the console while still talking,
"You've been doing it wrong; you've been trying to rewire the mainframe from the secondary mainframe. You have to go straight to the primary mainframe if you want any hope of reprogramming or rewiring the old girl. She's grown a bit picky in her old age, the poor girl"
The Doctor looks offended, "I haven't been doing it wrong! She's just too picky!"
River laughs, "whatever you say sweetie"
River opens a hatch and starts pulling out wires, buttons, motherboards, and even a feather boa. Smiling at the feather boa, she takes out an old fashioned lock-pick tool and starts working.
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