I had a spate of the cursed 'writer's block but I'm back on track now :D I think you deserve more than this for being so patient but it goes right up to the end of the ep and a little beyond so it'll have to stop where it is but for an added bonus I'll gift you this picture which I have been staring at on and off for the last 30 mins :) http:/27(dot)media(dot)tumblr(dot)com/tumblr_ln7dzuMdZS1qkujpxo1_500(dot)gif (replace the (dot) with a . obviously :D)

'total-animal-lover': Poor old Rory, I love him really and I try to stick him in wherever I can but a lot of the time his bits aren't pertanant and they get left out. The lone centurion should get his own show :)

'Rachy Babes': Hmm regular updates worked out well. I'm currently talking to you on Twitter I'm sure if we have anything to say we'll say it there :D

'sashaxh': Poor Rory. He always gets the worst of it.

Your lips are nettles
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter's liquid
But your body's pine

And now you`re setting
Upon your chair
You`ve got me tangled up
Inside your beautiful black hair

In the dark you tell me of a flower
that only blooms in the violet hour

The Violet Hour – Sea Wolf

The discovery of the TARDIS in the ground did nothing to help Winter's nervousness. The Doctor had ask her about the missing hour and seemed to be concentrating on the disappearance of Rory, the escaped Gangers and his lack of shoes due to the acid. He took her hand and began to lead her back into the monastery. The dark of the night made it an awful lot more frightening than this afternoon, he squeezed her hand, noting her apprehension and they continued into a side room. A massive vat stood in the centre of the room and the acid suits from earlier lay on the floor. Winter examined one but looked up when she heard the Doctor's voice. 'AH! Hello, how are we all getting on?' she took in the pale, rubbery forms of the flesh and forced herself to hold her ground.

'Why don't you tell us?' Cleaves' ganger asked.

'Well we have two choices, the first is to tear each other apart, not my favourite. The second is to knuckle down and work together. Try to work out how best we can help you.' They didn't seem to be taking it.

'We're not here to hurt you.' Winter assured them, 'We want to help, to be honest all I want is to go home and do some reading' The gangers studied the pair of them but Cleaves' ganger eventually nodded.

'Lead the way.' She ordered warily. Winter hopped up the flight of stairs followed by the Doctor and the pair began to lead the group back to the main hall.

'Are you sure you know what you're doing?' Winter asked quietly. The Doctor nodded.

'I haven't found an argument that couldn't be solved by sitting down at a table and discussing things over a nice cup of tea.' Winter frowned. 'Ok maybe a few but I'm sure it will work this time.' She smiled and took his arm in hers and he shouted back to their companions.

'Now I know it's hard for you to hold your human form that's why you keep shift between different flesh stages but do try, it will make the others less scared of you.' Winter held back a giggle. He sounded like a teacher taking his students on a tour of some medieval castle. He strode purposely forward and she let him drag her along beside him. Suddenly she felt as though things might work out after all.

TTT

Of course feeling as though things might work out when they were half way through a problem was always a bad idea. It would have been fine. The Doctor could have talked it out with them all but the real Cleaves just wouldn't listen. She stood across the room, the weapon in hand and pointed it forwards. The Doctor edged closer and Winter edged away following the trajectory of the object in her hand. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Buzzer's ganger rushed forward. Winter leaped at him, tackling him and both were hit with several shots of electricity.

TTT

She'd felt like this before. Only once. Lying on a table in a different Torchwood base, beneath the fountain with a girlfriend and an unknown team arguing about her on the second floor. And this time she woke with the same sound. A groan. Someone pulled her to her feet and yelled at her as he dragged her along a corridor. 'Of all the reckless and …' blah blah blah. Winter rolled her eyes and shook her head to stop the spinning. The hand in hers let go and she stumbled against a wall as Amy and the acid pumping team pushed against the door. She looked up when she heard the Doctor talking to Amy. 'yes, it's about to get even insanorer.' For a moment she considered reminding him that not only was 'insanorer' not a word but that unless something truly remarkable happened the chances of the situation becoming more insane were very low. However when she looked up into the plasticy face of a new Doctor the words failed in her mouth.

'Trust me, I'm the Doctor.' Amy jumped a few steps back and the new Doctor doubled over and screamed. Winter pushed herself away from the wall and watched as the ganger Doctor flung himself backwards and forwards.

'What's wrong with him?' she asked. The Doctor glanced over at her and then held out his arms to steady the copy. It babbled random nonsense, the only bit she worked out was the sound of the old Doctor's voice as he said.

'Hello, I'm the Doctor.' The ganger yelled 'WHY!' the Doctor's face and pushed him away as Winter stepped forward.

'Stay back.' The Doctor warned her but she'd been ignoring him this long. Why stop now? With steady hands she prised the gangers arms away from his head and lifted his chin gently. She shushed his quiet whimper and smiled at him.

'It's alright. It's a lot to take in. Just take it slow, don't push it.' The ganger stared at her, the Doctor's eyes so similar and yet…different. There was something missing, it wasn't obvious it wasn't age or experience it was…something. Amy rushed over to the Doctor and reminded him they needed to get out. The ganger span around and smiled.

'Hello.' The Doctor's forehead creased in thought.

'Cybermats.'

'Do we have time for this?' the ganger asked.

'We'll make time.' The Doctor replied, 'I'd like more proof that you're me. Cybermats…'

'…Created by the Cybermen they kill by feeding off brainwaves.' The Doctor nodded and let the ganger stand at his side.

'Rory and Amy they may not trust both of us.' He told his double.

'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?'

'Inevitably.' Winter rolled her eyes and turned to watch Amy and the other's get ready to defend their post.

'You see, I'm glad we're on the same…'

'…Wavelength. You see, great minds.'

'Exactly, so what's the plan?'

'We save them all, humans and gangers.'

'Tall order, sounds wonderful.'

'Is that what you were thinking?'

'Yes it's just so inspiring to hear me say it.' The Doctor laughed.

'I know.'

'Doctor come on!' Amy complained.

'So what now Doctor?' the Doctor asked.

'Well time to get cracking Doctor.' The ganger replied. Winter shook her head, she never had this much fun when she'd seen her double, although to be fair she hadn't been in a very talkative mood with the breathing tube shoved down her throat and the machine breathing for her. Both Doctors sauntered past her and she watched them go. It was interesting to see the way they seemed to mirror their own movements. She supposed that signified the Doctor was very sure of himself and his actions, someone who second guessed themselves would, most likely react a little differently to the same situation.

Winter grumbled quietly to herself as the Doctor found the ventilation shaft and ordered them all through it. She let him pull her inside and scuttled along quickly. She'd had enough of ventilation, why not a trap door or a rope ladder for a change? Why did she always end up in the ventilation? The Doctor carried on pulling her through the tunnels and by the time they were in the evac tower she had noticed something odd. The shoes. She looked at the Doctor and she looked at the ganger and … they had switched shoes. Why on earth would they bother doing… she groaned and watched as Amy complained about the ganger not being the real Doctor. The way she gravitated towards the other one and it clicked. He was setting her up, showing her that the ganger was exactly the same as him. They had switched shoes to trick her into trusting. Winter smiled at the real Doctor and passed him, as she did so she motioned to his feet and commented quietly.

'Nice shoes…Doctor.' With the emphisis in the right place she knew that he understood. He opened his mouth to speak but she winked at him. 'no worries.' He smiled gratefully and ducked back behind the large central system he and the ganger were messing with. She sat down on a table and crossed her legs, laying back against the wood and staring up at the ceiling.

TTT

'I'm not dealing with a death wish am I?' Winter's eyes snapped open and she looked to the side to see the doctor laid out next to her. His ganger was still speaking with Amy at the terminal so she straightened her legs and rolled over to meet him.

'What are you talking about?'

'wandering off, Jumping in front of the electricity bolt, you know you're lucky you're reactions are a little slower than lightning.' She cast her eyes down and he sat her up, wrapping his arm around her. 'and normally you'd be darting around trying to help and coming up with ingenious little schemes to save my life.' Winter blushed and he grinned at her. 'Is it the ganger thing or..?'

'No,' she replied quickly. 'Just because I can tell you apart doesn't mean I don't trust you both. I don't have a death wish Doctor I'm just…tired and I guess I'm a little…lonely.' She sniffed and he pulled her tightly into his arms, burying his face in her hair.

'I'm so sorry.' she smiled and murmured.

'You sound just like your old self.' He chuckled and replied even quieter.

'Not as much as he did. Did you hear him? 'Would you like a jelly baby' I haven't had a jelly baby in years.' She giggled and shook her head.

'I don't really like them.'

'Nah, you're more of a Parma Violets girl.' She pulled back, shocked.

'How did you know that?' he shrugged.

'Rachel's right, you smell like them.' She raised an eyebrow.

'Are you saying I smell?' he stuttered and garbled a reply.

'Erm, yes, I mean no, I mean… like sugar and violet and…you're teasing me aren't you.' She burst out laughing causing Amy and the other Doctor to look up. The other Doctor grinned happily at her but Amy looked worried and a little put out. The Doctor's plan was obviously working, Amy didn't trust the one she thought was the ganger.

TTT

Winter stuck her head out of the TARDIS door and watched Amy fight with the Doctor over the idea of him staying to hold the door closed to keep the creature at bay. It was clear she was going to find out that he wasn't the Doctor but the ganger. Winter could just feel it. Now was probably the best time to butt in then, just to speed things along. 'Amy.' She said as she walked closer to the woman and the two Doctors. 'Amy, they swapped shoes.' She slipped her hand into the Doctor's hand and looked into the stunned face of Amy Pond. 'This is the Doctor. And he,' she nodded towards the Doctor holding the door in place, 'he's the flesh.' Amy looked betweren the two.

'But you're the real him.' She told the ganger.

'no, I'm not and I haven't been all along.' He replied. Amy looked between the both like she was watching a tennis match.

'I'm the original Doctor Amy.' The Doctor holding Winter's hand stated. 'We had to know if we were truly the same, it was important, vital that we learned about the flesh and we could only do that through your eyes.'

'But you told Winter.' Winter shook her head.

'I'm connect to the TARDIS,' she lied easily, 'I can feel the radiation.' Amy believed her and turned back to the ganger. Amy stepped forwards and wrapped her arms around the ganger. Winter motioned to the TARDIS and the Doctor nodded, stepping back once and letting Amy rush past him into the TARDIS.

'Well.' The ganger said as he pushed his back against the wall, 'Well, my death arrives I suppose.' The Doctor smiled.

'But this one we're not invited to.'

'Pardon?' Winter kicked him and he nodded going on to try to reassure the ganger and threw him the sonic screwdriver, nodded in acknowledgement of the sacrifice the ganger was making and turned back to the TARDIS. Winter smiled at the ganger and darted forwards. He felt, sounded and even smelt like the Doctor as he whispered into her ear. 'He really does love you you know. Remember that.' Winter smiled and kissed the gangers cheek, turning on her heel and flying through the TARDIS doors. Home, at last.

TTT

'Contractions.'

'Contractions?'

'She's going into labour.'

'You're going to have to start explaining some of this to me Doctor!'

'What the birds and the bees? She's having a baby. I needed to see the flesh in its early days that's why I scanned it, that's why we were there in the first place. I was going to drop you off for fish and chips first but things happened and there was stuff and shenanigans. It's a beautiful word Shenanigans.' Winter finally stepped forward and spun the Doctor around.

'Doctor she doesn't look even remotely pregnant. How is that possible?' he looked down on Amy and Rory and sighed sadly.

'I needed enough information to block the signal to the flesh.' Winter hit his arm.

'Stop talking in riddles you're as bad as…' she paused and looked back at Amy and Rory, 'What signal?'

'The signal to Amy.' He replied quietly. Amy shook her head and bent over as the contractions crippled her. 'Stand away from her Rory.' The Doctor ordered. Winter gripped his arm tightly and looked down at the couple.

'Why? No and why?'

'Given what we've learned I'll be as humane as I can but I need you to do this and you need to stand away.' He yelled. Rory looked over at the Doctor and Winter stepped down onto the bottom floor. She took Rory's arm and gently followed him in stepping away from Amy, being careful not to pull him away from her. Amy looked back at the Doctor and her eyes filled with tears.

'Doctor.' She murmured, 'I am frightened. I am properly, properly scared. Don't be. Hold on. We're coming for you I swear. All of us. Whatever happens, however far, however hard we will find you.'

'I'm right here.' She told him. He looked heartbroken as he spoke.

'No you're not, you haven't been here for a long, long time.' The Doctor held out his screwdriver and Amy suddenly disintegrated into flesh. Rory let go of Winter's hand and backed away as the Doctor set to work upstairs.

'Rory I need you to find me a long robe from the wardrobe and then change into you roman outfit it will be more frightening, Nemo I need you to contact as many of these people as possible and… change into something…impressive.' Winter looked down at her jeans and frowned. He shooed her away. 'I need to speak with Rory, you go first.' She looked back at the space where Amy had been and he put a hand to her shoulder. 'I'll tell you as soon as you're done.' She frowned and nodded stoutly at him before turning on her heel and making her way out of the console room and off to the wardrobe. Impressive, the Doctor was heading to save Amy this was to showcase the force whoever had taken her, was up against.

As soon as she stepped through the door she was greeted with a low hum and a sense that the TARDIS was adamant about something. She threw open the first wardrobe and almost laughed. 'Well that should do it.' She smiled and stroked the side of the wall.

TTT

Twenty minutes later clad in a high form fitting TARDIS blue Lolita dress, Victorian style leather boots, Jack's cap placed proudly on her head and weapons strapped to her side and back, Winter stepped into the console room. The Doctor looked up from consoling Rory and smiled. 'very…impressive. I like the blue.' She smirked.

'That's because it's TARDIS blue.' She stated as she made her way down the steps.

'You'd frighten the pants of me.' he stated. She laughed.

'Should we give it a go?' He blushed and changed the subject.

'Right, Rory's off to change and I'm going to call in one last favour.'

'From who?' she asked

'Rachel.' Winter smiled and placed a hand on the hilt of her sword.

'Tell her I say hi.'

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