I really am so sorry that this didn't get to you sooner but with results and tiredness everything got pushed back, so here's the longest chapter to date to cheer you up :)

Butterflysmile: Thank you :) don't worry EVERYONE was confused so you weren't alone.

born-to-be-lost: Well there are no answers to THOSE questions in this chapter, but it should give you a clearer picture of the situation.

total-animal-lover:kind of yeah, but as John (I always give him the best parts :D)explains here, it's not THAT simple unfortunately.

1945: What? You seriously thought I was going to leave Nemo with the Doctor. Tut tut. Have a little faith!

Sonotalady: I'm brunette myself but I considered changing it to red once. Then a girl at school did and I didn't want to look like I was copying. Hope this longer chapter makes up for the shortness of the last.

BAMM. it'sSydney: It was soooo good. Really funny and the kiss at the end was PERFECT! Loved every second. But to be fair it's 51 pounds for a somewhere decent seat so you can see why the school may not have wanted to take you. And at least you have a funny anecdote to tell people. :)

Dwatlaskrhtcm: don't worry, you'll get your J/W. all in good time.

Sashaxh: there are a few things to sort out first but… essentially yes.

Rachy Babes: considering you realised that Winter had a heart after it was mentioned ONCE I think you don't really need inside information :)

So I turned myself to face me

But I've never caught a glimpse

Of how the others must see the faker

I'm much too fast to take that test

I watch the ripples change their size

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence and

So the days float through my eyes

But still the days seem the same

And these children that you spit on

As they try to change their worlds

Are immune to your consultations

They're quite aware of what they're going through

Strange fascination, fascinating me

Changes are taking the pace I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

Turn and face the strain

Ch-ch-Changes

Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older

Time may change me

But I can't trace time

David Bowie – Changes…(*rolls eyes* yes the song from Shrek 1)

Breakfast was the mother of all awkward meals. Everyone sat around the tiny kitchen table. Winter and the Doctor took it in turns to eat their own food and feed Daisy. John kept trying to make conversation and Jack refused to say anything more verbal than a grunt. Pip chewed loudly on a mango and the Ponds shifted nervously. Their eyes darted quickly between the surrounding members of the TARDIS group. Winter's heart was obvious, it hung proudly around her neck but that just made it harder to get a hold of. The Doctor's, Jack's and John's were yet to be found but Pip's hung on his foot band.

Amy kicked Rory under the table, he glanced over but the Doctor caught the exchange. 'Anything the matter?' both Ponds looked up at him surprised. The whole table turned to watch them but Amy smiled.

'No, no not at all, Rory was just…about to fall asleep. We didn't sleep well last night.'

'Didn't sleep well or didn't get enough sleep?' John asked, waggling his eyebrows. Amy rolled her eyes.

'I was too hot.' She replied.

'I bet you were.' John countered. Rory stood up to argue back but seemed to change his mind and walked out of the kitchen. Amy watched him go and got up to follow but glanced around at the occupants of the room before she did so.

'Pip, could you help me find him.' The little monkey cocked his head to the side.

'I'll come.' Jack told her. She shook her head.

'No I want Pip.' Jack frowned and sat back down and the little monkey hopped onto her shoulder. She left the room and turned a few corridors before stopping and looking up at Pip. 'Can I see your band?' she asked. He began to get rather fidgety and she reached out a hand to comfort him. 'I'm not here to hurt you Pip, trust me.' He scooted away from her hand she refused to give up and smiled at him, 'Hey, it's me.' Ever so slowly he inched closer, until finally he let her turn his band around. With one quick movement she snapped the silver heart from its place and Pip staggered back. The mauve light died down and he looked up at Amy before launching himself back towards the kitchen. Amy dived after him and grabbed at his tail. Rory appeared out of the door they had just passed and helped contain the monkey. He held Pip tightly as Amy dropped down to talk to Winter's old friend. 'Pip! Pip! Stop struggling! Listen we need to work together on this so would you just stop!' he calmed his movements and hung from Rory's hands. 'Something is going on and we need your help to figure it out.'

TTT

Amy, Rory and Pip sat in Winter's old bedroom in thoughtful silence. The photos of the girl herself, her Torchwood friends, Jack and Fawks, were a worrying reminder of the task they had before them. Amy herself was incredibly torn. She knew first hand what it was like to lose your child but this was wrong. Whatever her personal feelings, she needed to stay objective. 'So what do we do?' Rory broke the silence reluctantly looking to his wife for an idea. She sighed and fiddled with the three silver hearts in her hand.

'We need to find these.' Pip took one of the trinkets and turned it over in his hand. 'This must be what was changing our memories so we need to take them off the others.'

'Everyone?'

'No,' She shook her head and took a photo of Jack, Winter and the Doctor off the side. 'We leave Winter until last.' Rory and Pip nodded in agreement. 'John first. Then he can do Jack. We'll have to be careful with Jack though, make sure he doesn't run off and try to tell her too soon. Then I'll do the Doctor. When everyone's done we'll have another meeting about Winter.' Pip leant over and swapped the silver heart for the picture in Amy's hand and let out a soft mewing noise. They were all feeling the same and they knew why. Winter was happy the way she was and they were planning on ruining that happiness. 'We have to.' Amy whispered as if reading their minds. Rory nodded in agreement and Pip put the picture down, looking up at Amy, whom he had grown to trust, he gave a single nod before scampering through the open doorway.

TTT

John was surprisingly hard to get on his own. Amy growled in pure frustration as Jack followed his boyfriend out into the maze of corridors. Winter and Daisy were having lunch in the kitchen but at Amy's suggestion of John and herself grabbing some food, Jack had grudgingly followed and Amy had angrily pushed out of her seat and trudged alongside them. 'What's up with you?' John asked.

'Me?' Jack looked up but John shook his head and waved off the question.

'I know what's up with you, you muppet.' Jack ignored the jibe and carried on walking in silence. Amy shrugged as obviously this meant the question had been directed at her. 'It's like walking between the dead.' John continued, 'She's bored to tears and he's pining over his ex-girl.' Jack glared at him but he didn't catch it, choosing instead to continue his monologue, 'Maybe I should try to kill someone again just so you can take your mind off her and the kid.'

'Shut up.' Jack's knuckles turned white at the teasing.

'Ohh! He speaks, maybe that's what I should do, stick you in therapy. Did wonders for me you know, well nearly.' With a roar of frustration Jack pulled his gun and pointed it at John who in turn, pulled out his own gun. 'Oh! It seems I hit a nerve.' Amy gaped at them, but not at the guns themselves, more at the tiny silver hearts dangling from the triggers. To hell with taking Jack slowly. This was her chance. Amy slowly walked between them and put her hands up as if to force them to lower the guns. It was now or never. With only a moment's hesitation she took both hearts between her fingers and snapped them straight off.

Jack stumbled back into the wall and John dropped his gun. Both had strange, almost vacant expressions as the memories flooded back to them. John was the first to recover, he looked over at Amy. 'What did you do?' She smiled but was startled by Jack as he made a dash for the kitchen. Amy threw herself at him and just caught his ankles bringing him crashing down to the floor. John saw what she was trying to do and leaped to her aid holding Jack's arms back and yelling at him to calm down. The ruckus had drawn attention to them though.

'What the hell are you lot doing?' They looked up at Winter as she stood with Daisy grinning in her arms. The three of them leaped to their feet and stood like naughty children.

'They had a fight.' Amy told her, 'I was trying to split them up.' Winter's glare fell on Jack and John.

'If you're going to fight you can do it away from Daisy you got it?' John nodded but Jack's eyes were wide with the shock of his previous realisation.

'Nemo! She's not…' John span around and punched him straight in the face. The Captain was fully unprepared and crashed back into the wall, knocking himself out.

'John!' Winter yelled. She rushed over and handed Daisy to Amy, falling to her knees beside Jack and fawning over him. Amy looked down at the little girl in her arms and while John attempted to explain himself to the angry mother she examined the anomaly in their memories.

'So who are you?' Amy whispered to the baby. The little one seemed bemused by the question and decided her attention was far better used pulling on the locks of red hair that tickled her arms.

'Honestly John take him back to your room and keep your damn fights in there.'

'What? Carry him? I'd need a bloody fork lift!' John argued, Winter rolled her eyes and then spied the Doctor heading their way.

'Well I don't have a forklift but I do have a husband.' Amy's mind jumped into action, Everything was suddenly going her way.

'And so do I!' she added, 'Rory.' A few moments later Pip and Rory appeared at her side and together the three men hauled Jack to the bedroom. Winter took Daisy back and Amy followed the group of men off to Jack's bedroom. Once Jack had been deposited on the bed, the Doctor turned to leave but found himself blocked in by John and Amy. Rory moved to stand shoulder to shoulder with his wife and she stepped forward. 'Do you trust me?' she asked.

'What?' The Doctor replied warily eyeing the three of them.

'Do you trust me.' Amy repeated.

'Of course I do,' he began.

'No Doctor, I need you to trust me, to properly trust me, and mean it.'

'Amy, what's going on?' She nodded to the men at her side and they took the Doctor's arm in their hands, restraining him. 'What are you doing? Amy? What?' She delved into his pockets and began to empty them, pulling out each object and examining it carefully. A pocket book, several pound notes, a fork, a shuttlecock, two plastic necklaces, a dusty aspirin, three dead leaves, a magnifying glass and finally, his screwdriver. Amy almost rolled her eyes at her own stupidity, or course it would be on the one thing the Doctor always kept hold of.

Amy took a deep breath and looked up at the Doctor, his face was filled with confusion and it hurt her to think of pain she was about to cause him… but she had to. With a defiant snap the tiny heart broke away into her hand and the Doctor's knees buckled beneath him. John and Rory let go as he held his head in his hand and gasped out words that made no sense.

'Keep the Astro-Sextant Rectifire in phase and hold the Automatic Drift Control while we forward the Calibrators and remove the Compara-ara-ara-arator,' Amy and the boys watched the Doctor's wide eyes flicker from left to right and he stammered out a quick succession of nonsense, 'Where are the Multi-loop Stabilisers, take back the Time-Rector Gen-gen-generator.' Finally Amy stepped forwards and slapped him. He fell back and looked up at them all wide eyed.

'Thank you.' He muttered.

'You're welcome.' There was a moment of uneasy silence broken only by a groan from the bed. Everyone ignored Jack as he woke up, their eyes fixed on the Doctor who stood up slowly and rocked backwards on his heels ever so slightly before leaning on the foot of the bed.

'It's never easy coming into my brain,' he explained without prompt, 'even if you're coming back.'

'You too?' Now they looked to Jack who had heaved himself into a sitting position and was nursing a cut lip.

'Yeah,' the Doctor agreed, 'I'm back, it's me.' He looked up at Amy and sighed, 'I don't like to admit this but I haven't a clue what's going on.'

'You never do.' Rory reminded him, 'You just pretend you do and make it up as you go along.' The Doctor pinched the bridge of his nose and breathed harshly.

'Rory, it may not be much to come and go from your brain but my mind is a lot more complex, I'm tired so shut up.' The stunned silence that followed caused him to look up and meet Rory's eyes. 'That was rude. I'm sorry Rory.' It was a testament to how tired the Time Lord looked, that nobody objected to the outburst, instead Amy changed the subject. She explained the discovery of her own metal heart, Rory's and Pip's and how the fight in the corridor has led to Jack and John's revival.

'You shouldn't have stopped me!' Jack complained, 'We need to find her heart.'

'And break it.' The Doctor stated quietly.

'Exactly.' Jack agreed.

'No Jack, I mean 'break it' not the silver one controlling her mind, her real beating heart.' Rory frowned.

'But once the silver one's gone she'll understand.' The Doctor shook his head but to everyone's surprise it was John who contested the idea.

'Nah, just because the kid isn't her own flesh and blood doesn't mean she won't protect it. I've seen men and women take a bullet for a kid they didn't even know. Factor in that she's been caring for the tike for 6 months or so, there's gonna be an attachment there.' He glanced around the room from his position leant against the door and spotted the bemused faces. 'What, I've been around, I've seen stuff.' He finished lamely.

'He's right though.' Focus turned back to the Doctor, 'But what we need to do is focus on how this happened and who is doing it. Dai…the child,' he corrected himself, 'couldn't possibly have done this. I'm one hundred per cent sure of that. She's a puzzle piece in a missing picture. Something else is behind this.'

'The same people who took Melody?' Amy queried, at the quiver in her voice, Rory took her hand.

'No, they have no reason. They want me dead, not married with a child.'

'Are you really married?' Jack asked. The Doctor shook his head.

'No, the ring on her finger is yours. She's just forgotten.' Jack nodded slowly. 'Jack I…'

'It's fine. The Captain replied, 'You didn't exactly know what you were doing. Besides, if I had to trust her with anyone, it would be you.'

'So what's the plan?' John asked unwilling to listen to what he deemed to be an incredibly soppy conversation.

'We work out what's going on first. Who's behind this and why they're doing it. Then we stop them. We only fix Nemo at the very end.

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