Chapter Seventeen (Derpy`s Point of View)
"Hey, Derptor," The Doctor smiled once I walked into the TARDIS. He had a goofy grin on his face and it said he had an idea.
"Where are we going today?" I asked, walking over to him and pecking his cheek.
"Where do you want to go?"
"You ask me that every time, and you should know I never have an answer," I said, making us both laugh.
"Well, what if we go-"
"Oh, Sweetie, how about we visit the moon? I remember when you took me to see the moon, it was absolutely beautiful! Well, I remember, but you don`t. It was in the future." A mare`s voice called out.
The Doctor`s eyes went wide and he looked around.
"Who is that?"
"Oh, but who are you?" The mare began to ask again, stepping into view: a curly red headed earth pony with a red question mark for a cutie mark. "Sweetie, I thought you said there wouldn`t be any companions anymore! You`re such a liar... but you`re a cute liar," She laughed.
"Doctor, WHO IS THAT...?" My voice was loud and raspy, and tears threatened to spill.
"Um..." His eyes darted between us. His eyes were humongous, almost the size of a planet if I were exaggerating.
He was hiding something from me, and he knew I knew.
"I`m his wife," The grey bodied mare happily said. "Well, soon I will be."
"Doctor...?" I began to back away.
"Ditzy, I can explain-" His hoof reached out for me but I turned around.
"Don`t bother!" I cried, running out of the TARDIS and back into my house.
I sat up quickly, tears drying on my face. It was a dream; it was all a dream... The mare`s voice still rattled in my head: "Sweetie..." She called him "Sweetie".
I groaned as I got out of bed. "6:00 in the morning... at least it is a Sunday and I don`t have to go to work."
"Good morning, Mommy!" Dinky smiled, but stopped dead in her tracks. "Why are you crying?"
"Oh, I just... had a bad dream, that`s all," I returned a weaker smile.
"I had a fantastic dream!" She laughed. "I dreamt I was a Pegasus and I could fly around, almost like the TARDIS! Speaking of, how is the Doctor?"
"Oh, oh, um, he`s... good," I smiled.
"You guys go anywhere else?"
I recalled the events that had occurred back in London. "We visited Earth yesterday, if that counts for anything. It was absolutely breath-taking, and he was really, really funny..."
"Oh, Earth? Do you think I can travel with him one day, too?"
"Perhaps when you`re older, my little muffin," I hugged her. "Now, you`re friend`s gonna come to our house in an hour, you better get ready." Her friend was Sweetie Belle, and Rarity always lets Sweetie Belle come over and spend the entire day and night on Sundays so she can work in peace and quiet.
"Okay, Mom!"
"I`ll be back before she gets here!" I called out as I cleaned up my face from the dried tears and went out to the TARDIS.
I knocked on the door and it swung open. The Doctor`s sonic screwdriver was pulsing loudly so I knew he was here.
"Hey, Doctor!" I smiled.
"Ditzy – oh, you`re up early, huh...?" He was standing in front of his bed and he tried to cover something up from vision.
"Yeah, I guess so." I shrugged. "Whatchya got there?"
"Oh, this old thing...? Nothing, absolutely nothing," He stammered, grabbing his screwdriver and locking the bedroom door. He walked me over to the controls.
"Is there something you`re hiding from me?"
"Nope," He smiled.
"Well... okay then."
"You look distressed, are you alright?" He asked.
"I`m just tired, okay?"
The mare`s voice rang in my head again... "Sweetie..." "Married soon..."
"No, you aren`t tired. Something happened."
"Something alright," I muttered under my breath.
"What was that?"
"Just a bad dream," I frowned. He stared at me for a moment before coming closer.
"You`ve been crying, Ditzy... What happened in your dream?"
"It`s... Nothing, just a bad dream, it`s no big deal..."
"If you cry it is a big deal! So what happened?" His voice sounded desperate and he was being sincere. It pained me, a horrifyingly strong explosion in my heart.
"It was just... I forget."
"Ditzy...?"
"Please, Doctor, I really, really forget. Can we drop this now?"
"Sorry," He muttered. He kissed the top of my forehead as an apology and I felt my cheeks warmed. He smiled when he saw that, which only made it deepen.
"Just... is there anyone else?" I asked.
"What do you mean?"
"Like... any other people you`ve loved. Were there any others?"
"Well, obviously, my wife from back on Gallifrey, but she`s... she`s already long gone. She was on her last regeneration... And then there were my kids," He frowned.
"I`m sorry to hear that," I sighed. "But did they give you any nicknames? What did they call you?"
"My wife called me by my name, but in public she called me 'the Doctor', like everyone else, including Jenny, obviously. And no, I had no nicknames." His expression turned worried as he seemed to have it pieced together. "You don`t... You don`t think I have been... cheating, have you?"
"NO, no, no, no!" I reassured him. "I would never!"
"Okay, good," He sighed. "But... do you ever have a suspicion?"
"The more you ask me if I have been having suspicions, the more I`m getting," I admitted.
"Well don`t, alright? I would never do anything behind your back." He held my hoof in his and we both leaned in for a kiss.
Not even three seconds after we kissed I heard somepony gasp. "Sweetie," The mare said, "I didn`t know I would see you here!"
Author`s Note:
Well, well, well... look who showed up to the party.