A/N: Hello beautiful people! I come bearing good news; I got the all-clear from the Hospital and I've just finished my University year! And with four months off, expect regular updates to this story and a few other random Amy/Doctor stories ;)

Hope you're all well! Have to say, this weather is amazing. Really makes me feel inspired :D

This chapter is action-packed, and it's an important one, so read carefully! :)

The moment the TARDIS had landed, the Doctor shot off with River and Jack flanking him, and he charged straight into the Roman camp, bellowing Amy's name.

Unfortunately, he'd forgotten that they weren't alone in the camp, and soon they were surrounded by a group of Romans, their spears pressed up against their necks.

Fortunately, River swooped in to save the day by grabbing the shoulders of the Roman leader and yanking him towards her to kiss him. Dazed, the leader staggered backwards, and quickly announced that the three of them were royalty and that they had the permission to walk around the camp freely.

Once the Romans had left them alone, the Doctor gave River an admiring smile. "Good trick you did there. What is that, mind control lipstick or something?"

"Pretty much." River replied, reapplying the lipstick. "Amy gave it to me a couple of years ago."

The Doctor's eyes instantly narrowed. "And where did she get that from?" He demanded, knowing that his future self wouldn't buy his wife a tool that involved her having to kiss other men.

"Jack bought it for her."

Jack nodded his head, knowing that it was the kind of gift that he liked to buy his friends, and the Doctor sighed. "Of course he did."

"You made Amy give it to me when you yelled, and I quote, 'I don't want you ever touching your lips to any other's man's, apart from mine!'" River told him, pocketing the lipstick. "You can get very jealous...it amuses me greatly."

Rolling his eyes, the Doctor turned away from her, his jealousy issues nowhere near as significant as his search for his wife. "Amy?" He yelled, running ahead again. "Amy?"

After a while, the Doctor's voice grew hoarse, and he stopped running to lean against a tent - forgetting momentarily that they weren't very stable - and one of the tent poles clattered to the floor.

"Careful!" River hissed, quickly putting the pole in place again. "You can't afford to rewrite history!"

"I'll do anything to find Amy." The Doctor muttered, scanning their surroundings, when he suddenly saw a familiar figure walking towards him.

He froze, stunned.

It couldn't be...

"Rory?" The Doctor whispered, still bewildered, as his old friend approached him.

When Rory's face lit up with a delighted grin, and cried the Doctor's name, the Doctor almost collapsed.

"Rory!" He bellowed excitedly, stumbling forward into his friend's embrace. As Rory's arms wrapped around him, the Doctor had to hold back tears. Seeing that Rory was alive, and in existence, delighted and comforted him. There was still hope.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've missed you!" Rory exclaimed, pulling back to beam at his friend. "What are you doing here? Hell, what am I doing here? You would not believe what's happened to me, Doctor. It's crazy!"

"I can tell." The Doctor remarked, examining his friend's Roman armour. "Rory the Roman. Never thought I'd be saying that."

"You're telling me." Rory muttered, shifting uncomfortably in his gear. "Listen, I think we should go to my tent and talk. Something's going on, and I don't think it's safe to talk with so many people around."

"Agreed." The Doctor said, giving their surroundings a quick glance.

And then he remembered River and Jack were standing a couple of metres away from them, watching them curiously. Jack, by the looks of it, didn't remember Rory at all, which was to be expected, but there was a glint in River's eyes, and she gave the Doctor a slight nod when he caught her gaze. He knew then that River knew who Rory was, but wasn't going to introduce herself as someone from his future. Their situation was complicated enough.

After excusing himself from Rory for a minute, the Doctor rejoined River and Jack.

"Who's that guy?" Jack asked suspiciously, jerking his head in Rory's direction.

"Old friend of mine." The Doctor said quickly. "Listen, I think he might be able to help us. In the meantime, could you two scour more of the campsite? Search for alien signals being transmitted, or something."

"Sure thing." Jack gave the Doctor a mock-salute, before turning away and heading off in the opposite direction. Giving the Doctor a small smile, River squeezed his arm reassuringly before following after Jack.

"Who's the blonde?" Rory asked the Doctor curiously when he rejoined him.

"I'm not completely sure yet." The Doctor admitted, casting a look back at River's departing form. "Someone from my future, I know that. My future self apparently sent her here to save Amy."

Rory immediately halted, and stared at the Doctor in horror. "Amy was taken?"

The Doctor swallowed, and lowered his gaze to the floor, knowing that he'd broken Rory's dying wish. "Yes...I'm so sorry Rory, I really am. I tried, I tried so hard to keep her safe. But I couldn't."

He felt Rory rest his hand on his shoulder, and he looked up to see him giving him a reassuring smile. "S'okay Doctor. I kinda guessed already, when I noticed that Jack didn't recognise me. I remember everything you told me about..." He suddenly trailed off, and after quickly looking around their surroundings, he lowered his voice. "...the cracks in time. I told Hannah and Alonzo, and I know you said not to, but-"

"-Hannah and Alonzo are alive too!" The Doctor hissed, his eyes widening.

"Yep, and so are Amy's parents. Oh, and most of the population of Leadworth are here too." Rory told him, grinning slightly.

"I'm glad you're all alive, but I don't understand why." The Doctor muttered, as they came to a stop outside of one of the tents. "I managed to locate Amy's sonic to this location, but I never imagined that I'd find you all here. Not that I'm complaining!"

"Don't ask us why we're here either. I woke up right here, my head full of Roman-y stuff." Rory said as they entered the tent. "But when I bumped into Hannah, I remembered my other life; my real life. And then I located Alonzo...and since then, we've all been waiting around for you. I never gave up hope, you know."

The Doctor couldn't help but beam at that, touched by his friend's faith in him, but Rory wasn't finished. "None of us did. We knew you'd come back. You always come back, to quote Amy." He said, grinning. "And we'll help you find her. So add three more members to Team Doctor."

"That's a total of six then, including myself." The Doctor muttered, taking a seat on the floor beside the campfire.

"Six?" Rory echoed in disbelief. "But you're...you're the Doctor! Surely you have more support than that!"

"Unfortunately, the aliens that would have supported me have all been killed, or have been forced to join my enemies." The Doctor replied glumly, stoking the fire.

"Ah well, doesn't matter too much. You're the equivalent of thousands of soldiers anyway." Rory remarked, attempting to lighten the Doctor's mood.

It didn't work, and the Doctor continued to stare sullenly into the fire.

So Rory decided to try another tactic. "Here, I think you should take a look at this." He said, taking a piece of parchment out of his armour and handing it to the Doctor.

The Doctor opened it up, and was surprised when he realised that it was a map of the campsite. "We're by Stonehenge?"

"Yep. The Romans are saying that there's been some odd activity down there, but I haven't had the chance to look over there yet." Rory told him. "I tried investigating here in the camp, but Romans are very secretive. Wouldn't tell me a thing."

"How far away is Stonehenge from here?"

"About twenty minutes on horseback. I have access to the stables so I can get enough horses for us all...do you want to check it out now?"

"As soon as possible." The Doctor replied, tucking the map into his tweed jacket. "We'll gather River and Jack, and then the four of us can ride over there."

"Unfortunately Doctor, we can't leave just yet." Rory said regretfully, and the Doctor looked at him in bewilderment.

"Why not?"

"Because you need to meet Augustus and Tabetha first." Rory said, grinning when the Doctor frowned.

"As interesting as they sound - lovely names by the way - we really don't have time."

"We'll make time, seeing as you're about to meet Amy's parents."

The Doctor would have fallen over if he was standing. "What? Oh Rory, no! I can't meet them, not yet! Absolutely not!"

"Why not?"

"How am I supposed to converse with them?" The Doctor demanded. "Oh yes, hi Mr and Mrs Pond!. I'm your daughter's alien husband who knocked her up. She doesn't know you exist so the chances of you meeting your granddaughter are rather low. Oh, and I also got your daughter kidnapped."

Once the Doctor had finished with his rant, Rory started to laugh, which frustrated the Doctor. "Rory, this isn't funny!"

"Oh but it is!" Rory chortled. "Doctor, I've already told them about you. I've told them everything, and they still want to meet you. Hannah and Alonzo should be back with them shortly."

"Good grief." The Doctor sighed, running his hand through his hair. "The things you make me do Williams."

"You're one to talk! Remember the Bizzicles? Most terrifying alien encounter ever. And I had to clean yours and Amy's mess afterwards. Actually...scratch that. The Leadworth mansion was worse, with those human flesh aliens. Disgusting!"

The Doctor couldn't but laugh as he recalled the memories. "I promise you, once all this is over, we'll have many more adventures like that."

Rory's face lit up. "God I hope so! What do you have in mind?"

Before the Doctor could reply, the tent door suddenly opened, and Hannah walked inside. Grinning, the Doctor leapt to his feet and threw his arms around her. "Good to see you, Mrs Williams!" He told her with a laugh, embracing her warmly.

"Oh how I've missed you, spaceman!" Hannah chuckled, pulling back to beam at him. "Has Rory told you about Amy's parents?"

"Yep." The Doctor said, nervously running his hand through his hair again. "Are they outside?"

"Yes, they're waiting for you. Listen, don't be nervous. They love you already. We all do."

The Doctor shot her a crooked smile, grateful for her words. "Thank you Hannah. How do I look? Good, I hope."

"You look like a dope. But then, you always have." Rory remarked, joining them, and the Doctor laughed.

"No, but seriously. Do I look...suitable? Like a good husband? Well, clearly I'm not that good 'cause I got their daughter kidnapped, but-"

"Shut up." Hannah interrupted, sounding so much like Amy that the Doctor couldn't help but smile. "You look fine."

"Good thing I shaved the last time I was in the TARDIS." The Doctor muttered, as Hannah and Rory opened up the tent door for him.

"Good luck!" Rory said, before giving the Doctor a small shove out of the tent.

Straightening up, the Doctor came face to face with two people, that both resembled Amy so much that the Doctor froze. Tabetha had his Amy's long, red hair, and Augustus had her freckles, and hazel eyes.

"Doctor." Augustus said warmly, holding out his hand to shake, which the Doctor quickly grasped. "You have no idea how much we've wanted to meet you."

Before the Doctor could react, Augustus pulled him into an embrace, and the Doctor returned it, albeit still in shock.

Once he'd released the Doctor, Tabetha then hugged him warmly, and she kissed his cheek. "Thank you for keeping our little girl safe for so many years." She whispered, pulling back to beam at him. "We've done nothing but worry for so many years, wondering what happened to our daughter, and then when we met Rory, he gave us the information we'd been longing to hear. And we can never thank you enough."

The Doctor blinked, still unable to speak. He'd never expected to be so accepted by Amy's parents. He didn't deserve their kind words.

"Thank you." He finally managed, smiling at them sheepishly. "But...I didn't manage to save her completely, and I'm sorry for that."

"We know you are." Augustus said, smiling sadly. "But we know you'll try your damned hardest to find her. You're the greatest man in the Universe, after all. I don't know what would have happened to Amy if it hadn't been for you. I can't wait till we're all together again, back in Leadworth, where we can all be a proper family."

The Doctor could only nod in reply, his smile tight. He didn't want to promise them anything, and he certainly didn't want to live in Leadworth with Amy to raise their daughter. But he couldn't risk upsetting them already.

Luckily, he didn't have to think of anything to say, because he saw River and Jack approaching them.

"Doctor, we've managed to locate a faint signal at Stonehenge, although we don't know what's there." Jack said as they joined them. "Are you ready to go?"

"Of course. My friends Rory and Hannah will be joining us too." The Doctor told them, nodding at the tent. "Go in and make sure they're prepared."

Jack nodded, and River followed him inside.

"Anything we can do to help?" Tabetha asked, and the Doctor gave them a small smile.

"I don't want to put you in danger, so I think it's best if you stay here." He told them. "Keep an eye on things, and look out for suspicious behaviour. Here, take this." Pausing, he withdrew a communicator, that looked like a walkie-talkie, and gave it to Augustus. "I have one too, so if you notice anything, call me."

"Will do." Augustus said firmly. "Stay safe, young man. Look after yourself. We want our son-in-law and daughter back in one piece, okay?"

Now that was one promise that the Doctor could keep, at least, half of it. "I promise you that Amy will be fine." He replied furtively. "I will return her to you, I swear."

His eyes filling up with tears, Augustus embraced the Doctor again, before pulling away to wipe his face. "Thank you, Doctor. May Heaven be on your side."

"Amen." Tabetha murmured, and then the two of them walked away.

The Doctor smiled at their retreating forms, and then jumped out of his skin when his friends suddenly darted out of the tent.

"To the stables!" Rory exclaimed, and the Doctor couldn't help but laugh at his enthusiasm as he hurried after them, all of them frantic to get to Stonehenge.

~I~

On the way to the stables, they ran into Alonzo, who hid his emotion well when Jack failed to acknowledge him. He offered to join them at Stonehenge, but the Doctor asked him to watch over Amy's parents. He didn't want anything to happen to them, and he knew Alonzo would look after them and keep them safe if anything were to happen.

After acquiring their horses, the five of them set off, Rory and the Doctor in the lead as they rode to Stonehenge. It didn't take them long to get there, and the moment they arrived, the Doctor immediately began scanning the stones with his sonic screwdriver, looking for a transmission of some kind. He soon found something, but it wasn't a signal. It was a staircase leading underground.

"So, who wants to go first?" Jack asked playfully, but the Doctor could sense his apprehension. None of them knew what was down there.

The only light they had was the Doctor's sonic, so he headed down the staircase first, River and Jack right behind him, and Rory and Hannah bringing up the rear.

Luckily, when they got underground, the Doctor spotted two torches, and he managed to light them with his sonic screwdriver, keeping one and giving the other to Jack.

The new light illuminated an enormous, iron door in front of them, and all of them exchanged hesitant looks.

"Any guesses on what's inside, Doctor?" Rory asked nervously, as the Doctor approached the door.

"Hopefully a way to get to Amy." The Doctor replied, removing the wooden bar so that they'd be able to open the door. "Jack, give me a hand."

Nodding, Jack stood at the other side, and together, they pushed the iron doors open, to reveal a dark chamber. But what captured their attention immediately was the large cube in the centre. The walls of it were carved intricately, and when River realised that the pattern was familiar to her, she took out the papers that had the sketches of the Pandorica on them.

They were an exact match.

"The Pandorica." River whispered, staring at it in awe. "More than just a fairytale."

"I can't believe that it's real." The Doctor murmured, edging towards it, Jack and River slowly following him.

"What's the Pandorica?" Hannah asked them, glancing at Rory, who shrugged, not understanding what it was either.

"A prison." The Doctor answered, hanging his torch up so that he could touch the Pandorica. "There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior, a nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all of the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."

"And it's in there?" Rory whispered, taking a step away from it. "How did it end up inside?"

The Doctor turned his head, and gave him a small smile. "Oh, you know fairytales. A good wizard tricked it."

"The good wizard was probably you." Jack remarked as he examined the pattern on the Pandorica, and the Doctor smiled, but shook his head.

"You know, it's a bit like Pandora's box, and it almost has the same name too." Rory commented. "That was Amy's favourite book when we were kids."

At the mention of Amy's name, the Doctor froze. "The Roman era is her favourite too." He murmured, frowning. "Never ignore a coincidence."

River tilted her head to the side slightly, and gave the Doctor a calculating look. "What are you thinking, Doctor?"

"Not much." He responded. "Just that everything seems to be connected to Amy." And then he thought of something. "You don't think Amy's...inside...there?"

All four of his friends gave him a strange look, and the Doctor quickly looked away. "Sorry. Stupid thought. Desperate man, desperate times."

Jack patted his shoulder sympathetically, before moving away so that River could examine the Pandorica with her scanner.

"So, shall we open it?" She asked them, though her question was directed at the Doctor, who shook his head.

"I'd rather know what we're going to let out first." The Doctor muttered, tapping the Pandorica.

"Well, we don't have long to wait. It's already opening." River told him, examining her scanner. "There seems to be layers and layers of security protocols inside, but they're being disabled, one by one. Maybe whatever is in there is unlocking the prison from the inside."

This worried the Doctor, but he couldn't help but be intrigued by what was inside. "How long do we have?" He asked, pressing his ear to the Pandorica to see if he could hear any movement from inside the prison.

"Hours. It won't take the thing inside long to unlock the deadlocks, the timestops and the matterlines." River replied, placing the scanner back on the Pandorica.

"What's powerful enough to break out of something like that, Doctor?" Rory asked nervously, approaching the Pandorica slowly again.

"No idea. Must be something great though. I mean, the level of fear that went into making this prison...remarkable." The Doctor murmured, straightening up from the Pandorica.

"But why is the Pandorica here? Why are Hannah and I here? Where's Amy?" Rory demanded, slightly panicked.

"Questions I can't answer Rory." The Doctor said tiredly, placing his hand on his friend's shoulder. "Sorry. But we should have answers soon. Hopefully."

"What I don't get is why Vincent Van Gogh drew sketches of the Pandorica." River spoke up, taking the sketches of the Pandorica out of her pocket again. "He won't be alive for centuries."

"Maybe the fairytale of the Pandorica reached him somehow, and he drew what he thought the Pandorica looked like." Jack answered distractedly as he hung his torch up.

"Yes, but the drawings are the Pandorica. You can't draw something exactly unless you've seen it." River said, and the Doctor took the drawings out of her hand to look at them.

"So maybe the image was transmitted to him instead." Jack guessed. "But the real concern is this, if Vincent could see the Pandorica, who else could? What else is coming?"

Suddenly, the Doctor's head snapped up. "We've been tricked!" He realised, beginning to tremble with anger, and everyone looked at him in shock. "Listen, we've been brought here to be distracted by the Pandorica! Amy's probably above us in a spaceship right now, but my enemies want me to face the threat of the Pandorica. But that's not going to happen. We need to get out of here, now!"

As he began to race to the doors, something curled around his leg and yanked him down to the floor, and he came face to face with a moving Cyberman head.

"Doctor!" Jack bellowed, darting forward to help him, when he was shot to the floor.

"Quick! Behind the Pandorica!" River yelled to Hannah and Rory, who quickly followed her advice, moving out of the line of fire.

"River, run!" The Doctor cried, as he struggled to reach his sonic due to the wires wrapping around his body.

"Fat chance!" She snapped over the roar of the gunfire coming from what looked like the Cyberman's arm, that was laying on the floor.

Diving for it, she restrained the arm easily, and quickly deactivated it with a deadlock disc, stopping the gunfire, and the Doctor managed to use his sonic to break the Cyberman cables that were holding him captive.

"Deactivate it! Now!" He yelled, latching onto the head and keeping it still, and River quickly sprinted over and placed a deadlock disc on it.

Throwing the head aside, the Doctor rose slowly to his feet, and smiled weakly. "See? They're distracting me."

"Well, that distraction bloody hurt." Jack muttered, opening his eyes, already healed, and the Doctor helped him up.

"Well, it'll take a much better distraction than that to keep-"

The Doctor was immediately cut off by the sound of more Cyberman gunfire.

~I~

Watching her husband struggle in battle was crushing Amy's heart, and her unborn daughter was restless in her movement in her womb, almost sensing that something was wrong.

"Leave them alone!" Amy cried, scared for the Doctor and his friends, but her command was ignored by the Doctor's enemies, who were with her in the control room of the Spaceship, watching the action by the Pandorica unfold on a giant screen.

"The Doctor will be okay." Antonium murmured, in an attempt to console her. "The Daleks won't let him be killed."

But at that moment, the Doctor dove for a cyberman arm so that River could deactivate it, when it suddenly self-destructed, and the Doctor was thrown backwards from the force.

"Son of a bitch!" Amy heard Jack roar, and he appeared in the video's frame as he yanked the Doctor to his feet. "Go and help River, I'll cover you."

The Doctor gave him a swift nod, before bolting towards River, who was now wrestling with two Cybermen heads. One was wrapping it's wires around her legs, and the other one's wires were crawling up to her neck. The Doctor immediately used his sonic screwdriver to destroy the wires, and then River managed to grab her gun and shoot the heads dead, with Jack's help.

"Help me!" The female Roman cried, and Amy watched as the Doctor flew over to her, dodging the bullets as he went to disconnect Cyberman wires from around her arms and chest. When she was unbound, the male Roman, who had been wrestling with a Cyberman arm but had gotten free, ran over to them, and the Doctor yelled, "Go to my TARDIS and fly here, she will show you how to do it! Hurry! The three of us will keep the Cybermen distracted!"

The male Roman looked horrified at the Doctor's request, and he shook his head. "No Doctor! You're the one that needs to leave and get Amy!"

"I need to stay here and wait for the Pandorica to open! Whatever's inside will be my weapon to retrieving Amy and I'm the only one who can talk to it! So hurry!"

At his words, Amy's world shattered. Antonium had been right. The Doctor's love for her was blind. He was going to stay right next to his prison, directly in the centre of the Dalek's trap, because he believed it contained a way of getting her back to him.

Amy couldn't even cry. She'd shed too many tears already. She could only watch, numb, as the Romans began to make their way out of the chamber, and the Doctor ran back to the middle of the fight.

She didn't even react when the Doctor was shot in the shoulder moments later. And as he began to bleed through his ruined tweed jacket, but continued to fight, she still couldn't feel anything. She'd already accepted that it was over.

The Doctor had lost.

~I~

Running behind the Pandorica, the Doctor quickly took a breather from the fight to examine the wound in his shoulder. Fortunately, it was already starting to heal.

After quickly readjusting the settings on his sonic screwdriver, he dove out from his hiding place, prepared to fight again.

But all of the Cybermen parts had disappeared, and the Doctor glanced at River and Jack, bewildered, but they could only return his shocked gaze.

"They just...melted into the ground." Jack whispered, answering the Doctor's silent question. "At least they're gone, right?"

"Gone, but gone where?" The Doctor said quietly, frowning.

Before either River or Jack could answer, there was a loud click behind them, and all three of them turned around to face the Pandorica.

"Has it unlocked all of the way already?" Jack exclaimed, keeping his voice low as he eyed the prison wearily. "I thought it would take hours!"

"I don't know, but I don't want to get too close to find out." River whispered back, and then she quickly yanked the Doctor back when he began to make his way towards it.

"Don't go near it until it shows itself!" She hissed at him.

The Doctor sighed, but nodded reluctantly, and together, the three of them gazed at the Pandorica, waiting for the most powerful being in the Universe to emerge.

~I~

When Antonium had agreed to join the Daleks and their fight against the Doctor, he'd only done it to save his own life. But he'd never, ever believed in the cause they were fighting for.

Yes, the Doctor had done many terrible, unthinkable things. He'd killed Antonium's father, but he'd forgiven him for that. He'd forgiven him immediately after joining the Doctor's enemies in their fight against him.

He'd hoped that he'd be able to be of some help for the Doctor by finding out the Dalek's plans, and he'd hoped to warn him in time. But the threat of the Doctor's enemies was so great and so terrorizing that Antonium didn't dare defy them.

The only way he could help the Doctor it seemed, was to ensure that Amy was looked after. Of course, she hated him, but that was to be expected. They both knew that Antonium had the power to teleport them out of there, but he chose not to. Because then they'd kill Amy, because of their connection with her. They owned her soul, and even if Antonium had returned Amy to the Doctor, it wouldn't have done any good. They would have just killed her, which would enrage the Doctor, and when he would come looking for them, they'd trap him in the Pandorica.

Antonium knew, just like Amy now did, that it was over. The moment they watched the Doctor step into the chamber where the Pandorica was, there was no hope.

But seeing Amy in the state she was currently in was killing Antonium. He'd seen her hysterical. He'd seen her angry. He'd seen her depressed. But he'd never seen her as broken as she was now.

And she wouldn't even see her husband before the end.

Antonium owed her that opportunity. He owed the Doctor that too. It might be the last thing that all three of them experienced, but at least for Amy and the Doctor, they'd be reunited before the end came.

And Antonium believed that was worth more than his own life.

Before he could change his mind, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Amy, placing his fingers on her forehead and teleporting them both to the Pandorica chamber.

"What the hell?" Amy snapped when they'd landed, wrenching her arm out of his grip, only to see a bewildered Doctor staring back at her over Antonium's shoulder.

And...CUT. Teehee. What will happen next? I'd love to hear your guesses!

Hayley xo