He woke up in his bed with Rose curled against him. He kissed her on the head and she smiled up at him.
"I had a terrible nightmare That was scary. Don't ask. You don't want to know." He told her and hugged her to him. He heard Kiam whimper from his day bed. "I think someone wants Mummy," He told Rose as Kiam came over dragging his teddy bear and climbing on the bed towards Rose.
"Hey buddy," She said softly and wrapped her arms as he climbed on her lap and put his head on her shoulder.
"I also had a kind of dream" She told the Doctor. "I don't know if it was a nightmare though. In it I was married to John." She laughed.
Surprising her, he jumped out of bed and ran to the console room. "John," He called out and John sat up from where he was laying on the control room floor. Amy and Rory were struggling to wake up on the pilot seat where they were sitting. He head over to the console where he noticed red flashing lights.
"Doctor, what's wrong." Rose asked coming into the room carrying Kiam with her. He looked at John, who was staring at Rose. John looked away quickly when he noticed the Doctor was watching him. "It was dream, I am married to you, not to John."
"You had a dream you were married to me," John asked.
"Yeah,"
"I had a similar dream," He responded.
"Me too," Amy added, she looked towards Rose, "And we lived in a small little village and you were pregnant."
"I was I was huge."
"You were as big as a boat." Rory laughed and was smacked by Amy. He was still staring at John and the two of them exchanged concerned looks.
"So you had the same dream, then?" John spoke up. "Exactly the same dream?"
"Are you calling me a boat?" Rose asked offended.
"And Doctor, you were visiting." Amy told him.
"How can we have the same dream?" Rory asked. "It doesn't make any sense."
"And you had a nightmare about us." Rose went over to him and tried to adjust Kiam so that she could comfort him, but Kiam was too big for her to hold in one arm anymore. He took Kiam from her and held Kiam on his side as she wrapped her arm around his waist. "What happened to us in the nightmare?"
"It was a bit similar, in some aspects." He finally said.
"Which aspects?" John asked him.
"Well, all of them." He admitted and reached up to rub the back of his neck.
"You had the same dream." Amy asked.
"Basically."
"You said it was a nightmare." Rose added.
"It was. Look, it doesn't matter. We all had some kind of psychic episode. We probably jumped a time track or something. Forget it. We're back to reality now." He paused as he heard a bird singing.
"Doctor? If we're back to reality, how come I can still hear birds?" Amy asked him.
"Yeah, the same birds. The same ones we heard in the..." Rory drifted off again. As he started to fall over asleep, he fought it, trying not to drop his son as the rest fell asleep around him. He managed to get Kiam to the floor safely before the darkness overtook him.
-DW-
"Dream. Oh! Sorry. Nodded off." Rory rambled. "Stupid. God, I must be overdoing it. I was dreaming we were back on the Tardis."
"You had the same dream, didn't you?" John stated sitting up again off the pavement this time, before standing up and heading over to Rose.
"Weren't we just saying the same thing?" Rose wondered as she took John's hand and he pulled her up.
"Are you okay," He asked her.
"Fine," She replied. "Are you okay Kiam,"
"I'm fine mummy."
"But we thought this was the dream, didn't we?" Amy wondered.
"I think so. Why do dreams have to fade so quickly?" Rory asked them and he ignored the conversation as he looked around trying to get a clue of what was going on. Something was definitely wrong and his senses were all off.
"Listen to me. Trust nothing. From now on, trust nothing you see, hear or feel." He told the small group.
"But we're awake now." Kiam argued.
"Yeah. You thought you were awake on the Tardis, too." John replied and the Doctor nodded in agreement.
"But we're home." Amy tried.
"Yeah, you're home." He agreed with her. "You're also dreaming. Trouble is which is which? Are we flashing forwards or backwards." Almost as soon as the words were out of his mouth he found himself on the control room floor again.
"Oh, I do not like this." He said angrily and stood up off the floor and kicked the console hard. The only thing he accomplished though was to make his foot hurt. He started flicking switches and pressing buttons with the help of John but nothing was happening.
"Shall I run and get the manual?" Rose asked.
"I threw it in a supernova." He stated.
"You threw the manual in a supernova? Why?" Amy asked him curiously.
"Because that is what he does with things that make him mad. He must have disagreed with it." Rose smirked.
"Okay, but whatever's wrong with the Tardis, is that what caused us to dream about the future?" Rory asked.
"If we were dreaming of the future." He glared up at John again who pretended not to notice as he continued to work on getting the Tardis moving again.
"Well, of course we were. We were in Leadworth." Amy said matter of factly.
"Upper Leadworth." John added on.
"Yeah, and we could still be in Upper Leadworth, dreaming of this. Don't you get it?" He was all ready getting annoyed with them and this was just making it worse. There were too many people aboard his Tardis at the moment and if he dropped off one of them, he was sure he would feel better.
"No, okay? No, this is real. I'm definitely awake now." Amy told them.
"And you thought you were definitely awake before." John pointed out.
"This could be the dream. I told you. Trust nothing we see or hear or feel. Look around you. Examine everything. Look for all the details that don't ring true." He tried again to explain.
"Okay, we're in a spaceship that's bigger on the inside than the outside." Rory stated.
"With an alien and his identical metacrisis." Amy chimed in. "So maybe what rings true isn't so simple."
"Valid point." He admitted. The Tardis took that moment to switch off leaving just a faint glow from the time rotor. "What did you do." He accused John.
"You know it wasn't me." John argued. "It's dead. We're in a dead time machine."
As bird song filled the air again he pleaded with the group. "Remember, this is real. But when we wake up in the other place, remember how real this feels."
"It is real. I know it's real." Amy agreed as they drifted off again.
