Had a wonderful storm come through and take out the internet for the whole area. Yay! (that was sarcasm...in case it didn't come through) Couldn't post anything, couldn't check my email...how did people get along before the internet? Good news! I wrote chapters...quite a few...will be posting them randomly throughout the day, night, tomorrow...I did say a quite a few. :D


Amy stepped into the console room with her husband next to her as the Doctor entered the TARDIS. She had plenty of time to think while he was gone and although she still wasn't happy about the situation with Rose she needed to talk to the Doctor, find out what was going on. What he planned, though she was pretty sure she knew what that was.

"Could you go find my pink hair band?" she asked, turning to Rory.

"Pink hair band?" he inquired, as if he had no idea what she was talking about, which he probably didn't because she didn't own one, but she needed to occupy him while she talked to the Doctor.

"Yes, pink hair band."

"You don't own a pink hair band."

"Of course I do. I wore it last week, don't you remember?"

"Um…" he didn't, she could see that, but he wasn't about to admit that he didn't notice she was wearing it. "…right. I remember now."

"Could you find it for me?"

"Now?"

"Yes, now."

"Okay."

He hurried back down the corridor to their room. That would keep him busy for about an hour. The Doctor was slumped over the inactive control panel. She crossed the room toward him.

"Doctor, we need to talk," she said.

"Not now, Amelia," he snapped.

He was angry, but she had her own bag of angry. Only, she was trying not to open it.

"I know I yelled at you earlier and I'm not sorry for it because I'm right. You know what it would do to her." He sighed. "But I'm willing to listen because maybe there's another solution."

He rounded on her.

"Another solution? There are only two solutions!"

"Maybe, maybe not, but I'm your friend and I want to find out what's going on. Help if I can."

He turned back and sighed into the console and she took that as a que to continue.

"You're in love with her," a statement, not a question because she knew. Had seen it in his eyes.

"Yes," he admitted, almost too low for Amy to hear.

"But you've never mentioned her."

"I couldn't. Talking about Rose it…it hurt too much." His voice cracked, startling her. Amy drew closer, resting her hand on his shoulder.

"Who was she…to you, I mean."

"Rose Tyler saved me. After the Time War. After what I had to do. It nearly destroyed me. Would have if it wasn't for her." Amy remembered when he told her what he had to do to end the war. Destroy his own people and countless other species. It was his darkest moment. "I hated myself after that, but she saw something in me, a spark of humanity and she blew that spark into a flame. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be the man I am."

Rose not only saved him she changed him. Helped him see who he really was. Why did he leave her? He loved her like Amy loved Rory, maybe more so. She could never leave her husband. How could the Doctor leave Rose?

"Then why did you leave her behind?"

He got that far off look and she could see pain in his eyes. The pain he usually masked and it broke her heart.

"There was a battle. The Daleks were trying to destroy all of reality. During the battle my meta-crisis was created."

"Meta-crisis?"

"Human biological meta-crisis. In my previous regeneration I lost my hand in a sword fight. During the battle, Donna, one of my companions, touched my hand. Her DNA combined with mine and, basically, the meta-crisis grew out of my hand. He was, in essence, me, looked the same, thought the same, had all of my memories up until the point of his creation. Only, because Donna's human he was also human."

"So, a clone of you?"

"Not really, but that'll work if it's easier for you to understand."

She ignored his comment because she knew he was upset.

"So, you left Rose with him?"

"He needed someone to take care of him."

That was the Doctor. Always thinking about everyone else.

"Why didn't you take him with you?"

"I couldn't. He ended the battle and because of what he did I couldn't trust him."

Ended the battle? There was more to it than that. He'd been in battles, hell, she'd been right next to him in some.

"What did he do?"

"He destroyed them. The Daleks. All of them."

Okay, but what was so bad about that? The Doctor always tried to settle things peacefully, always giving his enemies a choice, but when they didn't take it he wasn't above fighting them.

"But, I mean, they were trying to destroy all of reality."

"It was genocide, Amy. And he wasn't sorry. He would've done it again."

Then he wasn't like the Doctor. Her Doctor might've killed them if he didn't have a choice, but he would've been ridden with guilt, guilt he would've hid, but it would've been there. Now she understood why the Doctor felt he was dangerous.

"And you left her with him?"

"Because I thought she could save him, like she saved me. She found me after I did the same thing and she helped me…and...I needed her to be safe. She almost died again and it would've been my fault."

So, he gave her up to help them, both of them.

"But you loved her."

"Yes, and with him she could have a life, a safe human life, because he was in essence me, only human."

He was trying to do the right thing, even if he was an idiot. She wasn't sure if she ought to slap him in the back of the head or hug him.

"No wonder she's mad at you."

"What do you mean?"

He gave her that stupid confused look. He had no idea.

"She didn't want human you. She was in love with you, you. Mad man in a box you."

"But he was me."

She rolled her eyes.

"Not to her." He still had that stupid confused look on his face. He would be completely lost without Amy. "The first thing you have to do is apologize."

"Apologize?"

"For being an idiot."

"But I was-"

She waved her hand.

"It doesn't matter. You were an idiot and idiots ought to apologize. Ask Rory." She smiled. "And don't go into one of your lengthy speeches about why you did it. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is that you were an idiot and you're sorry."

"There are other things going on right now, Amy."

"There are always other things. Things get in the way, remember? Well, not this time and I'm not letting you put this off." She grabbing his shoulders and shoved him toward the door. "Now go apologize!"

"But what about River?"

"You weren't worried about her before, but now that you've got to apologize to Rose it's what about River? I don't think so."

"But you said-"

"That you shouldn't do that to her, but maybe there's a way around that."

"What way?"

"No, not now, later. You. Go. Now. Don't make me hide your bowties."

He walked to the door and stepped out. She knew that would get him. After finding out what Rose had done for him, who she was to him, Amy couldn't let him leave without some kind of closure. She knew she might well have put them on the path of reconciliation. That was always a chance, but she would cross that bridge when she came to it.


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