For a brief moment it was like they were suspended in air, three time travelers clinging onto each other in the hope that they wouldn't fall on to the hard concrete that only two of them saw, one of them was already unconscious. That moment ended when they fell and collided with the hard ground. Martha groaned, her face squashed against the ground, she made no effort to move it,
"Owwwwwwwww",
The Doctor however put aside any pain he felt from the landing to check on Abi, who was not effected by the fall, she probably was used it, her manipulator wasn't the kindest machine. Martha glanced in his direction and immediately sat up also checking on Abi,
"Is she alright?",
He placed his hands on her temple, "Just unconscious",
"She doesn't remember Jack", Martha stated, sadly, the Doctor nodded,
"Cowards way out", He quoted her, "She won't remember anything about him, he's cuts from any encounter and this episode we all shared is non-existent", He closed his eyes and tried to connect with her mind, he saw her life and events but no Jack, he sighed, he felt an enormous amount of sympathy for her, and slight envy, he wish he could forget every heartbreak but in the end that's what makes us who we are, now Abi will be slightly different than before but at least she's happier.
Abi moved her head slightly, squinting her eyes tightly and fluttering them open, she groaned slightly and shifted around in the Doctors arms, he smiled slightly at her,
"Ok?",
She groaned again, "What happened?",
He shared a glance with Martha, "Well, what do you remember?",
He moved so she could sit up, she blinked a couple times, "We went into that lady's stall and we passed that unconscious guy then we came here and that's all I remember",
"That man we passed, he was part of it, he came up behind you and knocked you out, he came for us but those police officers came and arrested him too",
She frowned, but after a moment she shrugged, "Ok", She struggled to get up and was a bit shaky on her feet, Martha smiled at her friend and hugged her fiercely, Abi laughed surprised, "Wow, Ok, what was that for?",
Martha winced at her mistake but covered it up with a smile, "Sorry, I just, it was scary, seeing you like that",
Abi looked amused, "What, unconscious?",
"Yeah, you know, you looked vulnerable",
Abi nodded, "Right, well, home anyone?", She lifted her wrist to show the black wristband that she still wore from Fraser, she looked at it and frowned, "I'm still wearing this...", She ripped it off, and lifted her other wrist, that had the vortex manipulator.
"Sky!Long time!",
Abi glanced at the computer monitors, she went up the steps whilst Martha and the Doctor plopped themselves on the chairs. Abi checked her messages from Dasdre,
"Playing message from Dasdre",
The screen showed a man, dressed in traditional Dasdreen clothing
"Abigail, how's life, uhh, I just, well", he chuckled nervously, Abi winced, remembering who he was, Martha and the Doctor however just watched the recording nervously, wondering who he was, "I haven't seen you since the wedding and seeing as you're my wife, I guess that's kind of bad, I wouldn't know. Anyway the family's asking after you and I'm asking after you so, yeah, uh call me",
Abi sniffed, and switched off the monitors, she hoped that her two friends missed the word 'wife', but that was unlikely, and when they got up and sent her questioning looks and glares, she smiled innocently, "Yes?",
The Doctor shook his head in disbelief, "Who was he?",
She bit her lip, "Oh yeah, he's my husband", she mumbled the last bit and walked away,
"Your husband, why do you have a husband?", Martha exclaimed,
Abi shrugged, "It's...I just find my self in bad situations and at the time the only way out is to you know...get married",
Martha waved her hands out in exasperation, "How many times do you find yourself in these situations?",
"A lot",
The Doctor frowned, "How...how many people are you married to?",
Abi pursued her lips, thinking, "Uhh, umm about 15, 16?",
There was a pause, no one said anything, Martha frowned trying to get her head around it whilst the Doctor gaped at her. They collected themselves and walked up to her,
"Who?", the Doctor asked,
"What?",
"Who are you married to, I want the list",
Abi sighed, "Ok, well, there's Shakespeare, Alexander the Great, though he was gay, uhh Cleopatra, that guy you just saw, the Last king of Feaan, Bob, ohh that guy that helped us find the Tardis on the Titanic-",
"When did you find the time to marry him", Martha said, remembering the trip,
"When we saw the iceberg before anyone else",
She sent her a disbelieving look, Abi only shrugged,
"What, he waa gonna die anyway",
"Anyway, continue", the Doctor interrupted,
"Right, so, oohh the three princes in that castle on Balkaric , uhhh Will, Harry, I think I married a priest, Marilyn, obviously. Queen Victoria and Antino",
Doctor scowled, "You've lost the meaning of marriage!",
"You can talk, Elizabeth the first mean anything to you",
"I didn't do anything with her!",
"Yet", She smirked at him,
"How do you know?",
"She's my friend, we talk", She shrugged and walked up the ramp, Martha following her up,
"You're friends with Queen Elizabeth?",
"Friends, gal pals, buddies...",
"Queen Victoria mentioned you", The Doctor called, "Your wife", he added teasingly,
"What did she say?",
"Well, she said you left something at her",
Abi sighed, "Yeah, my -"
"Abigail, transmission from Dasdre",
"Coming!", Abi called over her back, she looked at her friends, "I'm kinda stuck here so you go on ahead",
"You sure you'll be alright?", Martha asked, doubtfully,
"Well why wouldn't I be?" Abi laughed gently,
"Oh no, just you might be...lonely", Martha shrugged her shoulders, Abi shook he head and smiled at the Doctor,
"See you later spaceman", He nodded and went in the box, Martha smiled and also went into the box. Abi stared at the Tardis for a bit, reveling in the weird sound it made, she quickly shook herself out of it and turned her attention to Sky, she placed her hands on the railings and leaned in gently,
"So what was so important that you had to send my friends away?",
"I'm sorry Abigail, I didn't mean to isolate you",
Abi smiled, "I joking Sky, so what was it?",
"I've detected an interference on Earth, mostly likely hostile",
Abi rolled her eyes, and walked down the steps to the docking platform, "Alright, do your thing", She waited till a bright light lifted her.
She landed in a bush and tried to wiggled he way out, getting pricked by small sticks in the process,
"Oh finally", she tumbled out and onto the grassy floor. Abi jumped up and brushed herself off. It was now that she looked around, she was, obviously, in a garden, to her right was a shed, relatively new, and to her left was a house 4 floors high. She whistled, impressed as she raised her wrist to speak to Sky,
"So, tell me everything",
"According to the Atraxi, they have an escaped prisoner, Prisoner Zero, they are looking for him so they sent out messages to everywhere connected to the planet he arrived in, Earth, it reads : Prisoner Zero has escaped",
"So he's bad?",
"Yes"
"Lovely",
Abi frowned as she walked up to the house, she knocked and smiled at the blue door, Tardis blue, she waited biting her lip impatiently . She saw a figure behind the door coming to open it, when they did there was a youngish girl with flaming red hair and wide curious eyes,
"Hello?",
"Hi! I'm Abigail", she extended her arm for a handshake the girl took, not before noticing the queer device on her wrist,
"Amelia Pond",
Abi grinned, "Nice name, Amelia, like a name in a fairytale", she let herself in, missing Amy's cringe. Abi scanned this new environment, immediately feeling funny but pushing it down, "Nice house", she looked back the cross armed Scot, "I know this is a long shot but you don't happen to know a Prisoner Zero, do you?",
Amy's eyes widened at the familiar name, "Who are you?",
"I told you",
"You told me your name"
"And you told me yours, its a funny universe we live in", she strolled into the closest room to her, which happened to be a kitchen, "So, Prisoner Zero?",
"Who is he?",
Abi opened the fridge door and looked for food, "Alien", she answered simply, Amy scoffed, making Abi poke her head from the fridge, "You don't believe in aliens",
"No", Amy's reply was too quick, Abi raised her eyebrows, noticing this but said nothing about it, her eyes caught something peculiar in the fridge,
"Fish fingers and custard! Ugh! Why would you eat that?",
Amy lifted her chin, proudly stating, "It's actually quite nice",
"Right", She closed the fridge and walked out, "So no...no disturbances, no odd lights in your garden, nothing?",
"Why, what's this all for?",
"Ok, believe me if you will but I'm chasing down an alien convict called Prisoner Zero, he's around here apparently and I've gotta take him down",
Amy regarded her oddly, "So you're...what like a space cop?",
Abi shrugged, "If you like, so...anything?",
Amy opened her mouth but thought against it, she didn't want to lie, she knew a bit about Prisoner Zero but Abigail still was a stranger and she could be a bad alien,. Then again, if she did tell her about her encounter with the Raggedy Doctor, Abi would be the only one who would believe her, besides Rory, though Rory probably felt sorry for Amy. During the argument she had with herself Amy failed to notice that Abi had in fact left her side and started walking up to the second floor, Amy called after her, "Hey!".
Abi got up to the landing and once again felt weird, like there was something wrong this floor in particular, she got distracted by Amy, who had just got by her side,
"You live here alone?",
"Yeah",
"Which ones yours?", Amy pointed her in the direction of her room, when Abi got there she stopped in her tracks causing Amy to bump into her slightly, Amy looked over her shoulder, which was easy seeing as she was slightly taller. Abi looked around the room, which was scattered with model Tardises and model people, on a desk was sheets and sheets of drawings, all showing a blue box, one man and one little girl beside it, holding hands. Abi stared at Amy, eyes burning with infinite questions, Amy just smiled nervously and looked down,
"He...he's my imaginary friend",
"The Doctor", Amy's eyes snapped opened, "Oh he's not imaginary",
"Everyone said he was", she mumbled, "How do you know him?",
"He's my friend, but he might not be after you tell me what happened", Abi sat on the bed, Amy sitting on her desk chairs, she raised her eyes expectantly, "So?",
"Well, I was seven, it was night, there was this box that just appeared in my garden so I went downstairs to check it out and he pooped out from it, soaking wet. He did some weird stuff and then I told him about this crack that was on my wall at the time, he fixed it", She nodded to the wall behind Abi's head, she turned and looked at a clear blue wall, "Then his box made weird noises and he had to run off, he said five minutes, he'd come back in five minutes and take me with him. That was twelve years ago.",
Abi looked at her, she didn't look upset, not anymore, she looked more tired of waiting and rightly so, how dare the Doctor make her wait, she knew he was coming back and for him it would've been five minutes but its not fair on the people who wait for him. Abi sighed and shook her head,
"Oh Doctor...", she looked at a model of a man in a raggedy blue suit but it wasn't the tenth Doctor, not the one she knew, "This is him?", Amy nodded, "Must be another regeneration", she muttered, she looked up at Amy and smiled brightly, "Listen, Pond, he's coming back, really he is, but his time keeping is horrific. For him it will be five minutes for you it will be however long you'll wait. I'm sorry but time isn't fair on some people."
Amy shook her head, "Don't believe you, he's not real, he never was",
"Is that what the psychiatrists told you?", Amy frowned as Abi picked up a pamphlet, "Kind of obvious, sorry not even important right now, actually when he comes back can you slap him for me, tell him its from Abi, right I need-",
"Wait, there's something else, when he fixed the crack in my wall, well it opened before it closed", Abi frowned, "There was this massive eye, and it said, 'Priso-",
"ner Zero has escaped, yeah, this is not good",
Abi ran into the hallway and looked around frantically, Amy arrived there and asked, "What's not good?",
"Well if the 'eye' told you that, it kinda mean it escaped through here",
Amy's eyes widened, "No but that was 12 years ago, and I haven't seen any aliens",
Abi's eyes settled on a door at the end of the hallway, that was the source of the weirdness, she was about to explain it to Amy when shouting from downstairs alerted them both, they ran to the window to see, the thing that stood out to Abi was the Tardis, it looked almost tired. Then she saw the man who was in Amy's paintings, the Doctor, a future Doctor. At the door.
"He's back, he's here, oh god", Amy whispered frantically, Abi grinned at her, they heard him get in the house,
"Might wanna do something, Pond", Amy ran a hand through her hair, she dragged Abi into her room,
"Stay here", Abi mock saluted, Amy grabbed a baseball bat from under her bed then left and closed the door. She stifled a giggle and pressed herself against the door, she could hear the Doctor on the same floor as her, then a bang and then a thud. Abi raced out of the room and saw a limp body on the floor, she looked at Amy who was panicking, "I panicked", she whisper-shouted,
"Clearly", Abi remarked, "Well, what do you wanna do with him?",
"Oh you do something", she ran into her room and closed the door, Abi scoffed at her childish behaviour then looked down at the Doctor,
"Ok, Time Lord, lets get you chained up", she dragged his body to the radiator and brought out some alien handcuffs from Felspoon, she took one hand and cuffed it to the radiator pole. She smiled at his new face, "Could be worse, oh the chin", she quietly exclaimed, she rested her back on the radiator beside him "So, how did you die this time, slipped on a Dalek, chocked on a Cyberman".
Amy emerged out of her room, slightly calmed down and wearing a police outfit, with a very short skirt, Abi raised her eyebrows at her,
"What, I got it from work", she said, sheepishly,
Abi got up from her spot, "What do you actually do?",
"I'm a kissogram",
Abi folded her arms at her, "Well, he's not gonna be happy with that", she indicated to the sleeping Time Lord,
Amy shrugged, "He's not my dad",
The Doctor began to stir, Amy stiffened, Abi looked down at him, she leaned to Amy, "Can't be here when he wakes up",
"Why",
"Well, you know how I said he was my friend", Amy nodded, "Well I meant a past version of him, so I gotta go",
Amy frowned sadly, "Oh, what about Prisoner Zero?",
Abi looked at her, "Oh he'll sort it, and don't worry, I'll be back, Pond, and remember that slap from me, Ok?",
She nodded, and watched as Abi raised her wrist to tap some things on the weird device, after a few seconds she gave her one last smile and vanished. Amy stared at the empty space before the Doctor made another stirring noise, she brought her fake radio to her lips and started spouting rubbish.
"Abigail"
"Sky, miss me?", She grinned teasingly,
"The concept of missing someone is mundane as I am not capable of the emotions and counter emotions of love and friendship-",
"Yeah, yeah, I know you did, anyway, Prisoner Zero is the Doctor's gig, a future Doctor, by the way. And I met this red head, Amelia Pond, nice girl, long legs", she stressed the word 'long' as much as she could.
"Future Doctor?",
"Yeah, floppy hair, amazing chin, seriously that thing could sword fight", she flopped on the sofa chair, flicking through a random Earth newspaper, 19th century from the look of it, "So, how have you been?",
"I have been pondering over a topic of great distress",
"Which is?",
"Your Time Lord heritage",
Abi put the paper down and looked up, wondering what Sky had to say, "I'm human, Sky",
"By choice, but genetically you are a Time Lord",
She shook her head, sighing, "Sky...",
"I was wondering why Rassillon has not kidnapped you again, or why you and the Doctor avoid this very subject",
"Well", she got up, "I don't know what's up with Rassillon, maybe he got bored and as for the Doctor and me, well, I guess i'ts a weird subject for me, I think deep down I never really forgave him, I know he had to do it but...", she closed her eyes, sighing, "I dunno",
"I am sorry Abigail",
"Not your fault, anyway", she clapped her hands together, "Night Sky",
"Goodnight Abigail"