Homecoming - Part 2
"I have a ... brother" says a stunned River.
"Yes Melody, you do"
"You look a bit stunned there"
"I know, sorry father, it's just I wasn't expecting you to have a baby, not after the last time I was here and you said you were finding it difficult to adopt"
"Yes, well, it took a while but we did it"
"Yes you did, what's his name?"
"Anthony Brian Williams" answers Amy.
"After grandfather"
"You've seen him?!"
"No, not since I was Mels, sorry father"
"It's fine, do you know how he is?"
"My husband says that he is doing okay"
"The Doctor, is he ok? Does he have someone else with him, you know someone who can pretend to listen to his endless facts?" asks Amy.
"He's fine, he misses you both, I know that. And as for another companion, yes he does have one, her name is Clara Oswald, he calls her his impossible girl"
"Why?"
"There are versions of her scattered throughout Time and Space, they always turn up, they always save him in one form or another and they always die"
"But how can she die and keep turning up to save him?"
"I did" remarked Rory.
"Wait, Oswald, I know that name, she was that girl who had been turned into a Dalek in the Asylum, wasn't she?"
"I think she was yeah" answered Rory
"You met one of the many versions of her, one of the MANY versions of her"
"How come he keeps meeting her and she keeps dying and turning up again?"
"It all happened at Trenzalore"
"Trenzalore, where have I heard that before, wait, didn't you once tell us that it is the one place he must never go?"
"I did"
"So why did he go there?"
"He had to, he was lured there by someone who had kidnapped some of his friends"
"Which ones?"
"Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax"
"They were at Demon's Run"
"They were yes"
"So what happened at Trenzalore?" asked Rory.
"It has a battlefield graveyard, it's where he's buried"
"But how can he have a grave, he's not dead is he?"
"Everyone has a grave mother, out there in the future, waiting for them, you saw yours afterall"
"I know, it's just strange to think of him as dead"
"Finish the story"
"Right yes, so his tomb is the TARDIS, it's completely enormous on the outside, 'cause when a TARDIS dies all the bigger on the inside stuff leaks out, anyway, inside the TARDIS, is his time stream"
"Time Stream?"
"Oh you know what a Time Stream is, think of it like his own personal Time Vortex, but all it has is every moment of his life"
"What about his body?"
"What would you expect, for it to be lying there in the middle of the console room?"
"Don't backchat me young lady?"
"Sorry, now where was I, oh yes, the villain of the story, a being called The Great Intelligence, a disembodied sentience who is always attempting to find a body and physical existence, he in the body he had created jumped into the Doctor's Time Stream, and destroyed every good thing about the Doctor's life, he was in extreme pain, like he was dying 10 times over. Then Clara made the decision to jump in after him, to right the wrongs and restore the Doctor, then he stupidly jumped in to rescue her and got out again in the nick of time"
"That's quite a story"
"I suppose it is yes"
"If you see her, tell her thank you from me, thank you for saving my raggedy doctor"
"I will, now enough about me, I want to know about my brother, may I hold him?"
"Of course, here you go, Anthony, this is your big sister, this is Melody Pond, but most people know her as River Song"
Amy then hands Anthony over to River and says "He's gorgeous mother, but I thought you couldn't have any more children"
"It's a long story, why don't we go and sit down, Rory can you do his bottle and come join us?" asks Amy
"Sure"
Amy, River and Anthony then go into the Living Room and Rory makes and then heats up a bottle for his new son.
End of Chapter