Ok, so I lied, sort of. The last chapter was the transition to the big fix it - on Ten's TARDIS. We haven't really heard from Eleven in awhile, so...

Yeah, I have to say it: idonotowndoctorwho. Thanx.

BOOK I: Fixing the Doctor's Mistake

CHAPTER 15: Prelude to Another Finale

The Doctor was so very glad to be alive! He really didn't like not existing, though he had to admit that the paradox forming in his mind was giving him a headache. How can you realize that you don't exist if, well, if you don't exist!

There was a knock on his door. "Doctor, may I come in? I just had the most terrifying dream!" Amy said, not really waiting for him to answer before she barged in. Goodness! What if he'd been naked? He had a sneaky suspicion that she wouldn't mind!

She was oblivious to his frustrations, however and carried on. "It was one of those dreams that feels like it's real. Anyway, Rose. Remember her? Well of course you do, how silly of me, since you are in love with her! Well, anyway, apparently she didn't remember you, or something like that. You'd died, only it wasn't you. Not really, it was a bloke in leather. And to make it weirder, I was married! Can you imagine me, married? Though it's a shame it was a dream though. He was quite cute..."

"That's nice, Amy, but I really want to be left alone!"

"Rose was right," Amy muttered to herself as she left the room again. "Rude and not ginger. Emphasis on rude!"

The Doctor really wanted to be left alone. The latest adventure that he and Amy was on hit a little too close to home. It wasn't the whole, the second story of the flat is really an alien space ship in disguise thing, though that was interesting. It wasn't even the fact that the TARDIS couldn't land and Any was trapped inside. It was watching Craig and Sophie, the perpetual platonic best friends and never more. It reminded him off a certain leather Doctor and a pinstriped Doctor, both who were in love with a certain pink and yellow human, and (in the original time line at least) never told her.

"You've got to tell her you love her, Craig, or one day you're going to lose her!" the Doctor offered sage advice. "Trust me, I know!"

Eventually, love had saved the day. Craig's desire to remain with Sophie because he loved her shorted out the ship. The second floor of Craig's house disappeared, and the TARDIS returned.

Yes, the Doctor reflected, love always saves the day. He thought back to the day that he met his love, Rose. He had just escaped the Time War. He didn't want to live any more. He had destroyed his own people, how could he be of any use to anyone? But his stubborn TARDIS had sent him to Earth where he found a remarkable, beautiful, pink and yellow human was being attacked by plastic. In an instant, she had made his life worth living again. Here was someone he could save! The next night, someone he could save became someone who would save him as she swung on the chain and knocked the mannequins and the anti-plastic into the consciousness. She soon then became someone he could show the universe to, someone to chase the nightmares away, someone who had stolen his hearts completely. Yes, love had saved the day! He suffered to think about what would have happened if he hadn't met her that night. Well, thanks to Rose's time beetle, he knew. He'd died and had chosen not to regenerate.

He had been that low again after Bad Wolf Bay. But Donna had appeared at that crucial moment, and it was still Rose who saved him, really. Because when Donna called up to him to stop what he was doing to the Racnoss, he had a vision of Rose living a fantastic life like he had once told her to, and he was determined to do the same.

And when he'd lost Rose the second time, he covered to keep living for her, even though he was without her. Though it did drive him a bit mad. He was still racked with guilt over the Time Lord Victorious incident. But that's who he was without her. He's dangerous on his own!

He glanced over at the other side of his bed where she had been sleeping with pinstripes since her return. It was still cold and empty. He needed her!

The Doctor and Amy traveled to an ancient cliff with strange words carved on it. For ventures, people had tried to interpret its meaning. So the Doctor was very disappointed when he read it right away: "Hello Sweetie!" River had defaced the ancient cliff just to get him a message! Well, the girl certainly has style, and knows how to get his attention, that's what!

They'd found her posing as Cleopatra, and, here was a surprise, Captain Jack Harkness was Marc Antony. "Hey, you must be the new Doc. You'd warned me about the bow tie, but you'd forgot to mention that you were still sexy! Not as sexy as the last you, but, if you're interested..."

He saw Amy. "Why, hello sister of the TARDIS! Captain Jack Harkness!"

"Hello!" Amy sang out, like all other women he "introduced himself" to. "I'm Amy."

"I am most definitely not interested in anything that you have to offer," the Doctor snapped, frustrated that he had to endure Jack's flirtatious ways again. "Either of you! By the way, if you want to be Cleo, River, you need to gain about 50 pounds. Fat people were beautiful then because they could afford to eat. And you, Jack, could put on some weight too, for the same reason!" There. That should shut both of them up!

Except it didn't. "Doc, stop messing around! My girlfriend here and I have something you'd like to see."

"Your girlfriend?" Amy asked, clearly disappointed.

River want sure what to think when she saw her boyfriend and her mother flirting with each other. Granted, Amy wasn't her mother yet, but still! But River put a sweet smile on her face anyway. "Yes, Sweetie! We've called you here about this."

She held a painting of an exploding TARDIS.