Punching, slapping or hitting a horse, or any other type of animal cruelty is not big or clever.
The next day Rose woke up, showered, got dressed and headed for the kitchen. The Doctor was already in there but she was surprised to see him wearing his blue pinstripe suit. She had only ever seen him wear the brown suit...and this suit made him look taller than just 6ft 1in. It made him look...dare she say...more sexier? Yeah, she definitely could. Smiling that smile of hers she sidled up to him and asked; "So, what's for breakfast?" He looked at her and smiled. "Oh, the usual." He said and put his arm around her shoulders, enjoying her warmth and comfort. "Yeah, like what?" She asked, putting her arm around his lower back and snuggling closer to him. "Like this!" And he moved his face closer to hers and they were just inches from each other.
"Hey, what's for...oh! Oops!" They quickly jumped away from each other as J.D entered the kitchen. "Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt." He said. This time he was wearing darker coloured jeans with a dark blue converse with a black and green jumper. He placed his blue jacket on the back of a chair. "You know one of these days we might get enough privacy not to be interrupted by somebody." The Doctor said as Rose went to check on the bacon. "I could come back later!" John said. "No, it's okay," the blonde replied and looked at the Doctor. "There'll always be other private little moments!"
John smirked as he put the kettle on. "Anyway, where's Jaime?" Rose asked. "She's normally up early unless she's suffering some after effects from the coma." John frowned. He hadn't seen her since their short stint in the Med-Bay. "She might be up late," the Doctor replied. "I found her in the Simulation Room attempting to stay awake. She was afraid she might Project again in case those men tried to hurt her again." John leaned against the counter deep in thought. "But didn't you say Bad Wolf dealt with them?" Rose enquired. "Yes. But they were just two out of perhaps...dozens of MI6 Agents from her universe who might know her and her mother." "And some of them are like her!" The blonde mumbled. "There's definitely something shady going on there!" John said, debating whether to have tea or coffee. "And it's none of our business." The Doctor said as John chose to have coffee. "There's nothing we can do for her mother but we can continue to look after her daughter." Rose nodded while the Time Lord made scrambled eggs.
"So what are we going to do today?" Rose asked him. "Oh, I thought we'd do some exploring on Mars." They heard a spray of coffee and looked at John who was coughing now. "Are you okay?" The question was from Rose. "Yeah, Wizard!" He wiped his chin. "Why Mars?" The Half-Time Lord asked. "Why not!" The Time Lord replied. "Never been to the red planet before." "Nah, I'm not feeling it!" John replied, keeping a cool head. "Well unfortunately for you I am. We're going and that's that!"
Half and hour later Jaime stumbled into the kitchen to find Rose and John chatting. "Hey! It's about time you got up." Rose said, making the teen sit down then pouring a glass of juice for her. "Thanks!" Jaime mumbled and sipped the juice. When she woke up earlier her head was really really hurting but after taking a painkiller it only really hurt. Maybe she should have took two. Rose then placed a plate of bacon, omelette and toast in front of her. But her stomach did a barrel roll and she wasn't sure if she could eat it. "Jaime? Are you feeling okay?" John asked her. "I can sense your head is hurting. Did you take a painkiller?" She nodded slightly. "We'll why is that happening?" John looked up. "Are you doing something?" He asked the TARDIS and he got an apologetic hum in reply. Jaime had closed her eyes and wondered if she had already forgotten how to use Psychic Shield. But when she concentrated...most of the headache went away so that it was just a dull aching thud.
"Have you managed it?" John now asked. "Yeah!" She replied and picked up her orange juice. "Feel better now." "Good. Now eat your breakfast," Rose mothered. "The Doctor say's we're going to Mars and he's just about ready." A cold chill ran through the teenager at the mention of the Doctor wanting to go to Mars. That was a very bad idea. A very very BAD idea. And she had to stop him. He couldn't set foot on that planet...ever!
Several glass-like cracks were heard and Jaime yelped when the glass she was holding broke into bits. A frozen lump of orange juice fell to the table. In fact that wasn't the only thing frozen. Both John and Rose had scrambled away from the table when part of that began to freeze. "What the hell? What is it with you two?" Rose asked. "As soon as Mars is mentioned you both act strangely." Jaime exchanged a glance with a john as she stood up to clean to mess up. *He can't,* she Telepathed to John. *What if he does the same thing? What if he becomes the Time Lord Victorious?* *Don't worry.* He replied. *We'll figure something out.*
Once she'd finally managed to eat her breakfast without any other problems, they went to the console room. Rose was already in her orange Spacesuit with the Doctor. The teen and John were also given Spacesuits but the Half-Time Lord just put his over the back of the jump seat. Jaime stared at her Spacesuit, feeling a bit panicked. She had to do something.
"Well? What are you waiting for?" The Doctor asked. "We haven't got all day!" "Are you sure this is a good idea?" J.D replied. "Anything could be out there." "Like what?" The Time Lord argued as he picked up his helmet. "There's nothing out there that's harmful. The Ice Warriors have moved on." "No, really. Have you checked the date?" Rose frowned at the Half-Time Lord. "What's wrong with the date?" She asked. "I've got got a really bad feeling!" Jaime blurted out. The Doctor looked at his foster-daughter, sensing real panic from her. "And you're getting that bad feeling from Mars? What's wrong with it?" *We're gonna have to tell them the truth.* John Telepathed to Jaime and she looked at him, eyes wide. *The universe!* He was grim. *We'll be careful.* "You two mind discussing this verbally?" The Doctor sounded very frustrated, maybe even angry. "Alright, calm down Spaceman. Are you familiar with Bowie Base One?" John asked as he sat on the Jumpseat. The Time Lord looked to be thinking. "It rings a bell, yes." "And what happened to it?" "Hmmm...there was an explosion and all the crew members died on the 21st November 2059." John looked at the monitor. "You do realise you've arrived at that very date haven't you?"
Rose was shocked. "Doctor, if people are dying shouldn't we be saving them?" But the Doctor shook his head. "No. It's a fixed point in time. We can't just go blundering in and breaking things..." A thought occurred to the Doctor and he looked at Jaime and J.D with wide-eyes. "That other Doctor we saw. His companion said he broke a fixed point in time. It wasn't..." He saw John nodding and Jaime looked grim. "What happened? What did he do? And how do you know?" The last bit was aimed at John. "She showed me because she was scared you'd become the Time Lord Victorious." Jaime felt the Doctor's disbelief. "He actually called himself that?"
"Yeah!" Jaime croaked. "He went really dark. The crew members were being taken over by the Flood because of a faulty water filter. And nothing could be done and he was given a way out. He could have gone back to the TARDIS but after the rocket exploded and being driven mad by the communication system, he returned to help them. Using a robot he brought the TARDIS into the base while Adelaide initiated Action 5. He took the three surviving members to Earth. Adelaide wasn't happy with what he did, went home and shot herself." Rose gasped and the Doctor sucked in a breath. "He was horrified at what he'd done and fled into the TARDIS."
The console room was quiet with Rose and the Time Lord digesting the information. "How did he end up on Bowie Base One anyway?" Rose asked. "Gadget gadget!" They looked confused. "The robot. It escorted him to the base." "Right. Well we'll try not to run into any strange robots out there!" The Doctor said and Jaime gasped. "Don't worry. He didn't have me. We'll be fine." Rose said and helped the Doctor put the helmet on. Jaime looked to John for help but he was distracted by something. He was digging into his suit jacket pocket and pulled out his Psychic Paper. He frowned when he looked at the message. "Someone just sent me co-ordinates." She looked at it and indeed there were co-ordinates to 1562. The date seemed familiar but the rest of the message caught her attention. "Come as soon as you can, love you lots." Jaime read, noticing it ended with three x's...meaning kisses. "Love you lots?" She looked at John and found herself to be insanely jealous. Who the hell would send that? "Uhhh, yeah." He replied nervously. "Looks like someone needs our help." "Well they're going to have to wait!" The Doctor's reply was muffled by his helmet.
Suddenly the Time Rotor began to move and they all fell to the floor with cries of surprise as the TARDIS roughly hurtled through the Vortex. "What did you do?" The Doctor shouted, quickly accusing J.D of messing with the controls. "I didn't do anything!" John shouted back, clinging to the Jumpseat. "She just started moving on her own!" "How the hell does that happen?" Rose shouted. "Last time it was because Jack hitched a ride on the outside of the TARDIS!" The Doctor replied. "Seriously?" As she clung to the railing with her eyes close Jaime knew what was happening. That scary presence was back. It was Bad Wolf at the controls of the TARDIS. The time machine finally stopped with a heavy thud and everyone remained on the floor for awhile.
"Everyone okay?" The Doctor asked after taking off his helmet. "Yeah!" Rose groaned. "Just Wizard!" John replied, staring at the monitor. "Jaime?" She was still clinging to the railing with her eyes closed. "Jaime?" He went to check on her and found she was shivering. "Are you okay?" He asked, worried. Opening her eyes she looked at J.D and nodded her head slightly. The Doctor quickly clambered to his feet and ran to the console, checking the monitor and the co-ordinates. "England 1562?" He said. "Why here? Why bring us here?" He muttered. "Are these the same co-ordinates you got on your Psychic Paper?" He asked John. "Yeah." He started shuffling out of his Spacesuit and Jaime noticed he was wearing his blue suit for the first time since the Metacrisis. As Rose shuffled out of her Spacesuit she noticed the Doctor moving towards the door. "Where are you going?" She asked. "I'm going to check what's out there," he said, opening the door. "I'll be back as soon as I can." And before any of them could say anything he was out of the door. "What was that about?" Rose demanded. "He might have been worried," John replied. "After all the TARDIS did just take flight on her own."
Three hours later and the Doctor still hadn't returned from where-ever he went to. At first Rose had sat on the jumpseat, waiting with her arms folded. Then she'd gone outside to find out where they'd landed. It was a field with some trees and a river to the left of the TARDIS. The area looked suspiciously familiar to Jaime and there was a bad feeling that was lingering. "So, this is England, yeah?" Rose asked, pacing a little way from the TARDIS. "Feels like it!" Jaime mumbled, closed her eyes and tried to understand her surroundings. "1562?" "Yep!" John popped the 'p'. "I think Queen Elizabeth 1st is the current monarch. Or was it Mary 1st?" The Half-Time Lord frowned, then looked at Jaime when she started to laugh. "Oh! I know what this is!" She said. "I think it might be 'The Day of the Doctor'. Queen Elizabeth 1st." "Day of the what?" Rose exclaimed. "It's one of the episodes from the show in her universe." John replied. Jaime grinned. "Did you ever wonder why she wanted the Doctor's head after he dealt with the Carrionites?" But John raised his brow and the teen felt uncertainty from him. "What?" She asked. "It must be a different timeline in your universe," he said. "Because she was quite happy to see him and knew quite a bit about aliens. He had to warn her about future events, backward meetings...that sort of thing...are you alright?"
Jaime was staring at him with her mouth open. Why did this keep happening? No River Song, no Torchwood blowing up and an old Queen Elizabeth not having her guards chase the Doctor. "Uhhh...that wasn't supposed to happen!" Rose was about to ask why when they heard hoofbeats. "Oh! It's the Doctor!" She said. He was on a white horse but they could see he wasn't alone. He had the Queen with him. They had to step aside as the horse galloped into the TARDIS. Rose looked on in disbelief. "Three hours he's been gone. And he comes back with a horse and a Queen." Jaime could feel her jealousy as she sat on the grass, waiting for the Doctor...and his so-called horse...to exit the TARDIS. "At least she isn't a French Aristocrat." John replied. The blonde chuckled bitterly. "Oh, don't remind me!" The annoyance was washing off her in waves.
"Do you know why those clockwork droids wanted Madame de Pompadour?" Jaime said. "What?" Rose snapped making the teenager flinch. "The ship was called the S.S Madame de Pompadour..." Then she stared into space, eyes unblinking as she continued. "...her sister ship is the S.S Marie Antoinette...there are repair droids there too...they're killing...wanting to leave...in order to find the promised land...it isn't real!" She said the last bit in a whisper.
Someone shook her from her thoughts and when she looked up she saw it was Rose. "Is that what we're dealing with?" She asked. "More clockwork men?" Jaime shook her head. "No. I think it's something far off into the future." She said and frowned. "And here he comes again." John stepped back as the horse galloped back out of the TARDIS. "Allons-y! There you go, your Majesty," the Doctor said to the Queen. "What did I tell you? Bigger on the inside." "The door isn't," she replied. "You nearly took my head off. It's normally me who does that." The Time Lord shuffled off the horse, then helped the Queen down. "Doctor? What are you doing?" John asked as he and Rose approached them. "Ahh, Elizabeth. Meet my twin brother John and my companions Rose and Jaime." The teenager got to her feet and walked over to the horse. "Your Majesty!" John smiled before turning to the Doctor. "Can we have a chat...in private?" He dragged the Time Lord into the TARDIS followed by Rose.
"You're gone for three hours, then when you do return you bring Queen Elizabeth 1st with you. What the hell are you doing?" "Don't worry. I've got it all in hand," he replied, going to the part of the floor that lifted up, then pulled out a bigger on the inside bag. "I think Britain's Monarch might be a Zygon!" "What? Are you serious?" J.D sounded stunned. "Deadly. Where is it? Where is it?" The Doctor muttered, shifting through the bag. "Okay, what's a Zygon?" Rose asked but the Doctor was embroiled in finding what he had to find he didn't answer. So John sighed and said; "A Zygon is a creature that is a big, pink and rubbery with suckers. Venom sacs in the tongue. They're shape changers, able to change their form of the person they've captured." "Aha!" The Doctor pulled out an object. "What's that?" "It's a Zygon Detector, lights up in the presence of shapeshifting DNA. It can also download comics from the future." "So what are you going to do?" "I'm going to catch her out."
Meanwhile Jaime was still outside with the Queen. The woman seemed to be distracting herself, waiting for the Doctor to return. The horse was giving her a bad feeling. In fact she swore the damn thing was giving her the evils. It was looking at her almost warily and she knew it wasn't an actual horse. "Stop looking at me!" She told it but it just snorted and continued to stare at her. Fine, then if it wouldn't stop staring maybe she could teach it a lesson. Only she wondered...would it be considered cruelty if she hit a horse that wasn't a horse but a creature from Space? "I'm warning you!" It still stared so without another word she swung her hand and Telekinetically slapped the horse across its muzzle. It neighed out in surprise and shook its head. She slapped it again and this time it snorted and took a step back. This time it had a look of annoyance about it and she felt its hatred and anger towards her.
Continuing to antagonise the so-called horse she slapped it a third time with a giggle. This time it reared up with a loud neigh and she fell to the ground after it knocked her down. She heard someone calling for the Doctor, then he was there, holding the reigns and calming it down. John helped her to her feet. "What have you been doing to my horse?" The Time Lord asked. "I don't like the way it was looking at me!" Jaime replied. "So, what? You just decided to scare him?" He was now patting the so-called horse. "She was slapping it." The Queen said. "You attacked it because it looked at you wrong?" Rose queried. "That is so Northern!"
They watched from the TARDIS doorway as the Doctor stood up from his picnic to talk to the Queen, and it looked to Rose he was... "What's he doing?" She asked in disbelief. "He's proposing because he thinks she's a Zygon." Jaime answered and Rose huffed. "Well he has an odd way of going about it!" John muttered and realised what Jaime just said. "What do you mean 'thinks'?" He asked. "It's not the Queen who's a Zygon. It's the horse." "What?"
As if on cue the horse changed shape and turned into a Zygon. It looked at Jaime and hissed at her. "Quick!" J.D shut the door and pulled the two females away from it. "What about the Doctor?" Rose worried. "He's still out there!" "I'm sure he can take care of himself." He said and looked at Jaime. "I think that Zygon took offence to you hitting it." Jaime smiled and moved towards the door. "Where are you going? There's a Zygon out there!" He exclaimed. "I know where he'll be...and the Zygon." Jaime replied. "Fine. We'll come with you." "Wait...no!" The teen looked at Rose. "There's this really weird thing happening and...there might be a paradox!" J.D raised his brow. "Stay here, look after the TARDIS!" She said and disappeared in a whirlwind.
She reappeared in the woods, leaves going everywhere, to find the Doctor trying to get his gadget properly working while the two Elizabeth's were arguing with each other. When she did appear one of the Queen's screamed in fright and the other stared at her warily. "How did she do that?" The one that didn't scream asked and Jaime smirked. That one was the Zygon...she could practically sense it. "Uhhh...just a simple form of teleportation!" The Doctor replied. "What are you doing here?" Well that was an odd question. "I thought you might need some help," Jaime replied. "With the Zygon." "Wellll..." Suddenly a portal opened up and the Doctor pulled the three females away from it. "Back, all of you now!" He said as he and Jaime stared at the portal. "That's a time fissure. A tear in the fabric of reality. Anything could happen." A red Fez was flung out of the portal and landed on the ground. "For instance, a Fez!"
Jaime felt his confusion over the hat just falling out of the portal quite randomly. "Yeah, it's a Fez," she brought it to her via Telekinesis. "My mam loved this comedian who would wear a Fez." She sighed. The Doctor rubbed her back in comfort. "Tommy Cooper you mean?" He asked and Jaime looked up at him. "Is that what he was called?" Before he had the chance to answer a young man wearing a tweed coat and bow tie came tumbling out of the portal, landing on the ground with a winded 'oof'. It was the Eleventh Doctor but he was wearing the wrong clothes and he looked very young. He was followed seconds later by a female in her early to mid twenties, dark brown hair in a plait. It was mostly fuzzy.
"What did you follow me for?" He asked her rather indignantly. "She told me to stick by you at all times!" The female replied. Her accent had a slight hint of American to it but it was mostly British. "Right, fair enough." "Who are these people?" One of the Queen's asked. "That's just what I was wondering." The Tenth Doctor replied. "Uhh, yeah. Who the hell are you?" Jaime asked the mysterious female. "Oh, that is skinny. That is proper skinny. I've never seen it from the outside before. It's like a special effect. Oi!" Eleven quite rudely snatched the Fez out of Jaime's hands. "Ha! Matchstick Man." "Says the guy who looks like a twelve year old." Jaime bit in defence of the Tenth Doctor. "Hey! I get enough of that from Rose thank you very much!" Eleven replied. "You're not..." Ten's eyes were wide, realising.
"Hi, you must be Jaime." The strange woman pulled her attention away from the bickering Doctors. Jaime looked at her with mistrust because she couldn't feel her emotions. Everything was hidden by a barrier. Like that other woman in the Library. "Yeah? Who are you?" She asked again. "Melody," she introduced. "Melody Smith." Jaime stared at the other female, a look of surprise on her face. "But...you're River Song!" She said and turned to the Doctor. "Doctor! It's River Song...she exists!" Both Doctors looked at the teenager. "Well of course she exists," Eleven replied. "Why wouldn't she?" Ten only frowned before turning back to his future self. Jaime heard Melody sigh. "I'm known by that name in the Gamma Forests. My name is Melody Smith." "Wait a minute..." Jaime turned on Melody. "Smith? Your name is Smith?" She growled. "Was it you who sent that message on the Psychic Paper?" The other female didn't look impressed. "Jealousy doesn't look good on you." "TELL ME!" She roared and Melody grimaced, covering her ears.
"Jaime!" The Eleventh Doctor warned and the Zygon Elizabeth looked intrigued. "You can trust me," Melody cried out. "It wasn't me who sent the message. "How? How can I trust you?" This was so weird. It was almost as if she was in the Doctor's place. "The reason why J.D and Rose aren't here is because you told them to stay in the TARDIS. You were worried Rose's presence might cause a paradox..." Melody looked at the Doctors before whispering the next bit to Jaime. "...because of the Moment taking on Rose's form." The teenager still stared suspiciously at Melody. "You know which Elizabeth is the Zygon." Jaime smiled a little. "And it was YOU who sent the message to J.D's Psychic Paper." She took that news in, then she started laughing, realising how ridiculously stupid it was that she got jealous of HERSELF! Then again, how did she manage to do that? Wouldn't she be dead or something? What happened to dying in an explosion? Or even having a blow-out? "She said you would find it funny!" Melody said with a smile. The teenager was pulled from her thoughts when the portal opened up again, while the Doctors put on glasses to look at it. They then complimented each other.
"Hey guys, your attention is needed on that. Not on each other." Melody told them and the Eleventh Doctor nodded. He turned to the twin Queens. "Your Majesties. Probably a good time to run." He told them. "But what of the creature?" Both Elizabeth's said. One of them looked at Jaime when she snorted. But then the smirk that appeared on the girl's face un-nerved her. "Elizabeths," Ten spoke up. "Whichever one of you is the real one, turn and run in the opposite direction to the other one." "Of course, my love." Both of them said but now one of them sounded nervous. "Stay alive, my love. I am not done with you yet." The first Elizabeth said, kissed the Doctor and ran away. "Thanks, lovely." Ten muttered and Jaime noticed he'd gone red. "I understand," the second Elizabeth said. "Live for me, my darling. We shall be together again." But before this Elizabeth could kiss the Doctor she was Telekinetically slapped on the back of her head. Elizabeth yelped and turned to Jaime who slapped her twice more across the face. She was left stunned for the moment and the Doctor tried to protest. "How dare you! Don't you know who I am?" "Yeah, I know EXACTLY WHO you are!" Jaime bit back. "Now RUN!" Elizabeth grimaced, turned and ran. The teen winced, head hurting. "What was that about?" The Tenth Doctor asked but the girl didn't reply.
"One of those were a Zygon." Eleven spoke up. "Yeah." Ten answered. "Big red rubbery thing covered in suckers." "Yeah." "Venom sacs in the tongue." The Tenth Doctor sighed. "Yeah, I'm getting the point, thank you." "Nice." "Doctor, is that you?" A voice Jaime didn't recognise called through the portal. "Ah, hello, Sky, can you hear me?" The Eleventh Doctor called back. Jaime gasped. "Sky? Who's Sky?" She asked. "What happened to Clara?" Both Doctors were too focused on the portal to answer her but Melody did. "Sky Smith, you know from..." Jaime's eyes widened. "Sarah Jane's Sky Smith? But she's just a kid!" Melody smiled. "Clearly she doesn't sound like a kid." She nodded her head at the portal and Jaime listened. Sky sounded like she was older than ten years old. Maybe sometime in her twenties...but that wasn't right. Something had changed and she wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not. She turned back to Melody. "So what about Clara? Where's she?" The older female shrugged. "Who knows! They might meet her, albeit differently, they might not." It was all very strange and as she tried to get her head around it all she watched the Eleventh Doctor throw the Fez back into the portal. It wasn't going to end up back at the museum. It was going to end up in a barn on Gallifrey.
"Are you okay?" Melody asked her. "You're looking a bit pale." She nodded faintly and had to admit to herself she was feeling a bit sick in the stomach. "She told me you can get a bit...delicate...at times." Jaime laughed bitterly at this. "There's nothing delicate about dying. Why did I tell you that?" She frowned. "Actually shouldn't I be dead by then? Somebody said I would die in an explosion...I mean, how far in the story is that Doctor?" She pointed at the Eleventh. "Because he's wearing tweed when he shouldn't be." Melody smiled grimly. "You know I can't tell you that, timelines and all!" But Jaime just huffed and turned to see what the Doctors were doing. "Next you'll be expecting me to sync diary's with you!" She bit. "Why would I have a diary?" Melody asked, confused. Jaime didn't answer as she watched the Doctors point their Sonics at the portal and argue at how they were doing it wrong. "They're like kids arguing over a toy aren't they!" Melody stated while Jaime just grunted. Why couldn't they just get along with each other?
Suddenly a man with grey hair, beard and jacket jumped through the portal and landed on his feet quite stealthily. "Anyone lose a Fez?" He asked. It was the War Doctor and the other two Doctors looked stunned at his arrival. "You? How can you be here?" The Tenth Doctor asked. "More to the point, why are you here?" "Good afternoon. I'm...looking for the Doctor." The War Doctor continued and then spotted Jaime standing with another female. "Hello! Jaime isn't it?" He said to her. "The last time I saw you was in my Eighth incarnation." Now Jaime was also stunned and she just stared, the colour leaving her face very quickly. The War Doctor then turned to the Tenth Doctor. "And you must be John, his companion." Ten snorted indignantly. "Are you his companion too?" He asked Eleven. "His companions?" The older Doctor replied. "They get younger all the time," the War Doctor stated. "Well, if you point me in the general direction of the Doctor?" When he moved the two so-called companions pointed their Sonics at him.
"Jaime!" Melody cried out and just about managed to catch the teen from fully fainting. She eased her onto the ground so that she was sitting. "Are you okay?" She asked as the Tenth Doctor went to check on his foster-daughter, while Eleven convinced the War Doctor they were both the Doctor. "He knows who I am!" Jaime practically hissed, eyes wide. "What? You expected him not to remember you?" Melody told her. "After all that teleporting into different Doctor's lives?" "When did you get the time to meet my Eighth incarnation?" Ten asked the girl. She stared at him. "How come he remember's but you can't?" Ten just shrugged and if the current situation wasn't so dire he'd blame it on the wonders of the universe. Speaking of the current situation the War Doctor remembered her, the Eleventh was young looking and wearing tweed, the Tenth Doctor was wearing his blue suit and River song who was not River Song but Melody SMITH was someone from HER future and not the Doctor's. this was wrong on so many levels and she started to panic, hyperventilating. Leaves and twigs were beginning to float in mid-air. "Okay, okay, calm down. Take deep breathes and calm your breathing." The Doctor soothed. "Come on, you can do it." She closed her eyes and did her best as both Melody and the Doctor helped her through.
"Am I having a mid-life crisis?" She heard the War Doctor shout. "What are you doing pointing your Screwdrivers like that for? They're Scientific instruments not water pistols. Looks like you've seen a ghost." Ten stood up once he felt that Jaime was okay. "Still, loving the posh gravelly thing. It's very convincing." He said. "Brave words Dick Van Dyke." Eleven shot back. Melody watched as they were surrounded by the Queen's Guards. "Encircle them," the lead said. "Which of you is the Doctor? The Queen of England is bewitched. I would have the Doctor's head." Jaime whimpered in fright as Melody held her close. "Well, this has all the makings of your lucky day." The War Doctor quipped.
"I think there's three of them now!" They heard Sky's voice utter from the portal. The lead soldier stared at it and Jaime could feel his fear. "What is that?" He asked, even sounding scared. Meanwhile the War Doctor groaned when his two older selves were brandishing their Screwdrivers again. "Oh, the pointing again. They're Screwdriver's! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?" "That thing," the lead soldier asked. "What Witchcraft is it?" This gave the Eleventh Doctor a completely 'brilliant' idea. "Yes, now that you mention it, that is witchcraft. Yes, yes, yes. Witchy witchcraft. Hello? Hello in there. Excuse me. Hello! Am I talking to the wicked witch of the Well?" He still sounded amazingly childish. "There's somebody here but there's definitely no witch!" Sky was heard to reply and Eleven groaned. "Sky, just play along, please!" He urged. "Do I have to?" "Yes!" "I bet you never made my mother do this." Jaime felt confusion from the Tenth Doctor and the War Doctor. There would be time to ask questions later.
"Would you mind telling these prattling mortals to get themselves begone?" They heard Sky cough and then in a completely Witchy sounding voice said; "Right, you annoying little mortals, prattle off before I strike you all down!" Just as she said that a nearby tree caught fire, un-nerving the soldiers quite a bit. Melody noticed how pale Jaime's face was as she stared at another tree. "Don't overdo it!" She whispered. "Ooh, fire. Nice. You heard her." "Doctor? What's going on?" Sky asked as another tree burst into flames. "Somebody seems to be overdoing their abilities!" Melody shouted back. "It's not me! It's definitely not me!" Sky panicked. "I know. Just do what you gotta do and keep your eyes peeled." "Okay."
The soldiers were panicking even more and about ready to run until the Queen turned up. "Stay where you are. This is nothing but trickery." Elizabeth ordered. The soldiers quickly went down on one knee, bowing their head. "You don't seem to be kneeling, unlike your women." She said to the Doctors. "How tremendously brave of you." "Which one are you?" A confused Ten asked. "What happened to the other one?" "Indisposed. Long live the Queen." She replied and the soldiers copied her. "That's the real Queen," Jaime whispered to Melody. "But she's undercover...shhh!" Melody smiled and nodded. "Arrest those men and women. Take them to the tower." Elizabeth ordered. "That is NOT the Queen of England, that's an alien duplicate." Ten shouted and Eleven began to tease him over it...until he suddenly realised what the Queen said. "No, hang on. The tower, did you say the Tower? Ah, yes, brilliant. Love the tower. Breakfast at Eight please. Will there be Wi-Fi?"
"Are you incapable of speaking without flapping your hands about?" An annoyed War Doctor snapped at Eleven. "Yes. No." He replied. "I demand to be incarcerated in the Tower immediately with my co-conspirators Sand shoes, Granddad, Fire-Bird..." Both Jaime and Ten reacted at this. "...and Smith." "Oh yeah, I get the totally normal nickname." Melody replied. "What did he say?" Jaime croaked, eyes wide. "What did he just call me?!" "Great, now you've done it." "Granddad?" The War Doctor asked rather indignantly. "And they're not Sand shoes." Ten said as he helped Jaime to her feet. She clung to him, panicked and scared. "Yes they are." The War Doctor stated. "Silence!" Queen Elizabeth 1st ordered. "The Tower is not to be taken lightly. Very few emerge again." The soldiers prodded the group to get them all moving.
They were all roughly pushed into the cell at the Tower of London. It had been a long walk and Jaime had been tempted to cause a ground shake as a distraction to escape, but the Tenth Doctor must have sensed her because he told her it would be okay. The cell was a lot danker and darker in real life than it was on TV. But she was locked in a cell with three Doctors and Melody Smith. Oh, and the door wasn't actually locked.
She watched as the Eleventh Doctor picked up something metal and began to scratch the co-ordinates into the concrete. *What's going on? Are you okay Jaime?* she heard John telepath in her mind. *We're fine,* she replied back. *We're just locked up in the Tower of London.* *WHAT?* The Telepathic shout was loud and she winced. *Do you need any help in getting out? Why don't you just Teleport?* He asked. She smiled grimly. *Because we're with some people.* she replied. *Who?* He sounded confused so Jaime showed him a couple of Telepathic images. The first was of the War Doctor and she sensed his panic in his words. *What's he doing there?* *I think he's here for a reason.* she said and the next image she gave was of the Eleventh Doctor. *Who's he?* was the reply. *That's the next Doctor.* *Really? Blimey, he looks like a kid. And what's with the tweed and bow tie?* Jaime giggled at J.D's reply. Melody and the Tenth Doctor looked at her. "What's funny?" The older female asked. "I'm just talking to John." She replied. *Hold on, there's someone else too!* and she showed him an image of Melody. *Who is she? Was she part of the episode?* *No! That's River Song. Except she's called Melody. I think she's from our future.* *Well I'll look forward to meeting her some day.* He replied and he sounded very suspicious. Well, anybody would if some random female who claimed to know you turned up out of the blue! "Say hi for me." Melody said. *She says 'hello'.* Jaime frowned in thought. *Her surname is Smith by the way.* She sensed he was worried. *It's supposed to be Pond. Unless she...* *No!* He interrupted. *Don't even say it!* Jaime smiled as she turned away from Melody. *Fair enough...*
And almost bumped into another female. She let out a startled scream and dust fell down from the roof. "Who the hell are you?" She asked, her eyes wide. "Who do you think?" The woman replied and smiled cheekily. "I don't know!" She moaned, not noticing that the War Doctor was looking at her but she could feel someone's surprise. "Look closer!" She said. Jaime stared at the woman. She seemed to be wearing a variation of what Billie Piper wore as The Moment in the episode except...this woman didn't look like Billie...she looked more like...Joanna Lumley. And then it clicked. "Oh my...you're..." "Who are you talking too?" The Tenth Doctor asked her. She looked back at the Middle Time Lord, then at Melody who was leaning against the wall. "She's probably talking to a ghost." Melody told him and he frowned. He supposed it could be possible. Jaime turned to the slightly older female. "Can you see her?" She asked but Melody shook her head. "Only you and that Doctor can see." Meaning the War Doctor. The teen looked back at Joanna, realising she was The Moment. "Who are you supposed to be?" She asked and this time noticed the War Doctor was still looking at her, but now he was smiling and she could feel his amazement wash off him.
~Use your inner voice, Omni.~ The Moment told her in her mind and she shivered at the name. *Okay, who are you supposed to be?* She asked again, unsure why the conversation was meant to be private. ~I'm Rose Tyler, the Bad Wolf.~ The moment replied and Jaime narrowed her eyes. *You don't look nothing like Rose.* ~Maybe not to you right now but to the Doctor far in the future.~ Jaime gasped. *She regenerates? She can regenerate and turned into Joanna Lumley!* The Moment just smiled at the comment. *But why can I see you? 'Cos it's only the Doctor who's supposed to see you.* ~Why do you think! From one All-powerful Sentient being to another All-powerful being.~ Jaime sighed and shook her head. *Because I'm Omni-Psychic.* ~Quite right.~ The Moment replied. *Is that the only reason why I can see you? Or is there something you want to tell me?* ~No,~ The Moment shook her head. ~But Bad Wolf will, when it's time for the rising of the Fire-Bird.~ Her heart skipped a beat as she stepped back in fright. Okay it was getting way too freaky now. To take her mind off that thought she looked around to see what the Doctors were doing.
"Are you okay?" Melody was at her side. "You look like you've...pardon the pun...seen a ghost." "The Fire-Bird. Always the Fire-Bird." She mumbled. "Following me around like a bad smell." "Oh! What is a Fire-Bird?" Melody enquired but Jaime frowned and looked at the older female. "I may not be able to feel your emotions or read your mind but I can hear it in your voice. You're a really bad liar." Melody chuckled nervously. "Sounds like something my mother would say." "What do you know?" Jaime asked her rather forcefully. "Come on, tell me!" "I'm sorry, but I don't know anything." Melody replied. This woman was really testing her patience and she was about to slap her Telekinetically when she heard the Tenth Doctor talking with an unusually raised voice.
"...it must be really recent for you." He said to the War Doctor and she felt his confusion. "Recent?" He replied. "The Time War," the Eleventh Doctor spoke up. "The last day. The day you killed them all." "The day WE killed them all." Ten corrected. "Same thing." "It's history for them," both the War Doctor and Jaime listened to The Moment. "All decided. They think their future is real. They don't know it's still up to you." "No pressure, huh!" Jaime quipped. "I don't want to talk about it." The War Doctor uttered. "You're not talking about it. There's no-one else here." Ten said to him, wondering how the random short conversation between Jaime and his past self came about. "Go on, ask them." The Moment pushed. "Ask them what you need to know." She felt confusion, then realisation. "Did you ever count?" The War Doctor asked his two older selves. "Count what?" Eleven mumbled and Jaime frowned when she felt indifference from him. "How many children there were on Gallifrey that day." He said and Jaime looked between the two Doctors. "I have absolutely no idea." The Eleventh Doctor muttered and the indifference washed off him in waves. "How old are you?" The younger Doctor asked. "Ah, I don't know. I lose track..." He saw Melody indicating to him for some reason but carried on regardless. "...fourteen hundred and something, I think. Unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am." "Six hundred years older than me..."
Melody looked at Jaime for a reaction to the Doctor's age but she was lost in her own little world. "...you never once counted?" "Tell me, what would be the point?" Eleven bit. "Two point four seven billion." Ten replied, looking at his older self in disgust. "You did count." The War Doctor sounded astounded. "You forgot?" Ten got in Elevens face. "Six hundred years? Is that all it takes?" "I moved on." Eleven replied. "Where? Where can you be now that you can forget something like that?" Eleven looked at his younger self with a haunted look in his eyes. "I can't say." He said. "What kind of answer is that? For once I would like to know where I'm going." "No, you really wouldn't." The War Doctor sighed at his two older selves bickering. "I don't know who you are," he said. "Either of you. I haven't got the faintest idea." "They're you," The Moment told him. "They're what you become if you destroy Gallifrey. The man who regrets and the man who forgets. The Moment is coming. The Moment is me. You have to decide." "No." He said. "No?" Ten was confused. "Just, no." He reiterated. Eleven then laughed for some odd reason. "Is something funny?" Ten asked, annoyed. "Did I miss a funny thing?" "Sorry. It just occurred to me. This is what I'm like when I'm alone."
Melody sighed. The tension in the room was so thick you could cut it. She turned to Jaime and shook her from her thoughts. "Huh!" She grunted. "You look a bit tired. Do you want to sit down?" The teen nodded. "Yeah, fine." She muttered and they sat down on the bench the War Doctor had been sitting on. "Oh look, they're talking about their Screwdrivers. That means Clara will be here soon." "Clara? Don't you mean Sky?" She just grunted in reply as she silently watched the three Doctors work together on their Screwdrivers. She'd missed most of what was going on because her mind had wandered.
The door suddenly burst open and Sky stumbled in. Jaime looked at her. Her hair was light brown and curly and she looked so grown up. "How did you do that?" Eleven asked her. "Maybe because it wasn't locked." Sky replied and saw the Tenth Doctor. "Wow! It's been a long time since I last you looking like that!" He raised his brow in surprise. "You've met me before?" "Of course. My mother is Sarah Jane." Realisation dawned on his face. "Oh! She adopted you too?" She nodded, looking around the room and Jaime who looked stunned. "Hello!" She said and frowned. "Hang on. Five of you in one cell, and none of you thought to try the door." "It should have been locked." The War Doctor said. "Yes, exactly. Why wasn't it locked?" The Eleventh Doctor questioned. They all looked when the Queen walked in. "Because I was fascinated to see what you would do upon escaping. I understand you're rather fond of this world. It's time I think you saw what's going to happen to it." The Doctors, Jaime, Melody and Sky followed the Queen out of the cell. The older females hung back a little. "Have you got the V.M?" Melody asked. "Yeah," Sky gave it to her friend. "Wizard! We can get this back to Captain Jack the next time we see him." They hurried up to catch up with the others.
The Queen showed the group what the Zygon's were up to. "The Zygon's lost their own world." She said. "It burnt in the first days of the Time War. A new home is required." "So they want this one?" Sky asked, a thought popping into her head. "Not yet. It's far too primitive. Zygons are used to a certain level of comfort." "Hold on!" Sky looked at the Eleventh Doctor. "Mum came across some Zygons when she was travelling with you. She said they were on Earth because they'd lost their planet. Did they somehow time travel?" "Hmm, good thinking. Very investigative!" The War Doctor said. Sky smiled. "I learned from the best." She replied. But before any Doctor could answer her they were interrupted by a Zygon.
"Commander. Why are these creatures here?" It hissed and Jaime could feel it's disgust towards them. "Because I say they should be," Elizabeth told the creature. "It is time you too were translated. Observe this. I believe you will find it fascinating." They watched as the Zygon put it's hand on a glass cube where it disappeared and suddenly re-appeared inside the painting. "That's him, that's the Zygon in the picture now." Melody said. "It's not a picture, it's a Stasis Cube," The War Doctor told her. "Time Lord art. Frozen instants in time, bigger on the inside, but could be deployed as..." "Suspended animation." Ten finished for him. "Oh, that's very good. The Zygons all pop inside the pictures, wait a few Centuries 'til the planet's a bit more interesting and then out they come." "You see, Sky, Melody," Eleven spoke up. "They're stored in the paintings in the Under Gallery, like Cup-a-Soups. Except you add time, if you can picture that. Forget I said Cup-a-Soups." "And now the world is worth conquering," Sky said. "So the Zygon's are invading the future from the past." "Exactly." The Tenth Doctor turned towards the Queen with an odd smirk on his face.
"And do you know why I know you're a fake?" He said. "Because you're such a bad copy. It's not just the smell..." "Doctor." Jaime called. "...or the unconvincing hair, or the atrocious teeth..." "Doctor!" "...or the eyes just a bit too close together. Or the breath that could stun a horse..." Before the Doctor could finish insulting the Queen he was slapped on the back of the head Telekinetically, yelping out in surprise and pain. Eleven and the War Doctor winced. "What did you do that for?" Ten asked his foster-daughter as he rubbed the back of his head. "Because she's not a Zygon, she's really the Queen of England." He narrowed his eyes. "How can you tell?" "The other one was giving off a really bad feeling." He smiled and turned back to the Queen who was smirking. "Okay, so, backtracking a moment just to lend context to my earlier remarks." "My twin is dead in the forest. I am accustomed to taking precautions..." And she pulled a dagger from beneath her skirts. "That's handy!" Melody stated. "These Zygon creatures never even considered that it was me who survived rather than their own commander. The arrogance that typifies their kind." "Zygons?" Melody asked. "Men." The Queen simply stated and Jaime thought it was a bit...womanist. "And you actually killed one of them?" Sky enquired. "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but at the time, so did the Zygon. The future of my Kingdom is imperilled. Doctor, can I rely on your service?" The Queen asked. "Well I'm going to need my TARDIS." Ten replied. "It has been procured already." "Right." He nodded slightly. "But first, my love, you have a promise to keep."
He was confused for a moment until he realised what she meant. "Ah!" He rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Something isn't right," the Eleventh Doctor spoke up. "I can feel a shift in the Timelines." Nodding, Melody turned to Jaime. "And that's your cue!" She said. Jaime just looked confused. "The Doctor never married the Queen." The teen gasped, fully realising what she had to do. "Wait! Elizabeth!" She ran to the Queen. "Elizabeth!" She stopped and turned to the girl, letting go of the Doctor. "You don't need to marry him." "Oh? Why ever not?" Jaime took a deep breath over what she was going to do and said; "because he never proposed to you!" Her voice echoed and the Queen blinked. "Oh! Now you've done it." Eleven said. "I can feel a paradox about to happen!" Ten stated. "Jaime, what have you done?" "The letter." Melody prompted. "But you'll still remain good friends," the teen continued, remembering what John said. "And you'll write a letter to the Doctor asking for his help." "There was a painting of them." Jaime rolled her eyes. "You'll have your portrait done with him as proof of your credentials." She finished and the Queen stared at her.
She thought it didn't work until the Queen said; "Yes, okay. Doctor can you help me?" "Yes." Ten replied, watching as she nodded and turned away. "The exit is this way." "Was that okay?" Jaime asked a little nervously for she had just manipulated the mind of Queen Elizabeth 1st. "It is." Eleven replied. "A little unorthodox but the Timelines are still intact. "Bit of a lucky escape really." Ten muttered as they followed the Queen out of the Tower of London.
In the TARDIS John had taken to sitting on the Jumpseat with his feet on the console. Rose was somewhere in the TARDIS 'keeping herself busy'. About half an hour ago he became worried when the Old Girl started moving again only the Time Rotor was unmoving. When he checked the outside CCTV he found she was being moved by some soldiers. They looked to be the Queen's Guards. Now he was sat here waiting for the Doctor and Jaime to return...speaking of which.
The door burst open and the Doctor ran in followed by Jaime. The Half-Time Lord jumped to his feet. "Did you escape from the Tower of London?" He asked and the Doctor raised a brow. "No, oh no. Quite the opposite. She let us go. Wanted out help." "She killed the Zygon after it turned into her." Jaime said. "Where's Rose?" The Doctor asked. "Uhh, she went to the library...I think."
J.D watched in stunned silence as they were joined by the War Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor, Melody and Sky. "What's going on?" He asked. "You've let this place go a bit," the War Doctor stated. "Ah, it's his grunge phase. He grows out of it." Eleven replied. "Oi!" J.D exclaimed over the insult. "And that's coming from a twelve year old?" "Oh, don't you start J.D. I get enough of it as it is." Eleven answered back. The Tenth Doctor began rubbing the console. "Don't you listen to them." He soothed, only for an alarm to go off then he was given an electric shock. "Ow! The desktop is glitching." "Three of us from different Time Zones. It's trying to compensate." The War Doctor said as they looked around the console room. Jaime stared at the walls. "Hey, look. The Round things." Eleven said. "I love the Round things." Ten replied. "Me too." John agreed, still unsure on what was going on. "What are the Round things?" "No idea." Ten and John said at the same time.
"Oh dear, the Friction Contrafibulator." The Eleventh Doctor pushed past J.D to flip a switch. "Ha! There. Stabilised." The desktop had changed again to another console room and it was one Jaime didn't expect to see. It was the Eleventh Doctor's first console room instead of his second console room. Which meant the orange zany console room was his current. And that wasn't right. "Oh, you've redecorated. I don't like it." Ten spoke up. "You've certainly outdid yourself this time Spaceman. What did you do? Let a group of kids loose in the console room?" John added and Jaime giggled. Melody shook her head and Sky just smiled. "Oh...well...uh, never mind. Listen. We're going to the National Gallery. The Zygons are underneath it. "No, wait. UNIT HQ. They followed us there in the Black Archive." Sky said and felt a little nervous when all four Doctors stared at her. "Okay, so you've heard of that, then." It seemed nobody needed to ask to know what the Black Archive was.
The three females watched as the Doctors worked together to activate the Space-Time Telegraph. Sky was looking at a pale faced Jaime, who was sat down on one of the seats, as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing. "Stop your staring." Melody whispered. "It's rude." "Does she know?" Sky asked but the slightly older female shook her head. "No, she doesn't. She's not supposed to...at least not yet."
They were still fiddling with the Space-Time Telegraph, then Jaime sat forward when Kate Steward's voice came through. In fact it sounded like she was talking to herself, but Jaime knew that she was talking to her Zygon double. "Science leads, Kate." The Eleventh Doctor interrupted. "Is that what you meant? Is that what your father meant?" "Doctor?" Kate sounded surprised. "Space-Time Telegraph, Kate," he revealed. "A gift from me to your father, hotline straight to the TARDIS..." He told her how he knew about the Black Archive and it's security, then asked her if she was going to do something stupid. "I'm sorry, Doctor." Kate replied. "Switch it off." "Not as sorry as you will be," The Tenth Doctor warned. "This is not a decision you will ever be able to live with." "Kate, we're trying to bring the TARDIS in. Why can't we land?" "I said switch it off." Kate ordered. "No, Kate, please. Just listen to me!" But she wouldn't and she had it switched off.
"It's no good. She's always been a bitch." Melody said. "She's nothing like her father." "I've met the Brigadier once, with mum. He was nice." Sky added. "Jaime met him when he was young," Melody said and noticed J.D looking at her. "Well, Jaime and John." "Who are you?" He asked. "Melody," she answered. "Melody Smith." He narrowed his eyes and looked at Sky. "And you?" "Sky Smith!" "Oh? Are you sisters?" The girls giggled in reply causing confusion for John.
Ten sighed. "The Tower of London, totally TARDIS proof." "How can they do that?" Sky asked. "Alien technology plus human stupidity." Eleven said and looked at John. "No offence meant." John just shrugged. "Trust me. It's unbeatable." The mood in the room was morose. "We don't need to land." The War Doctor suddenly stated. "Yeah, we do. A tiny bit. Try and keep up." "Doctor. Listen to him. I think he has an idea." John admonished the Tenth Doctor. "Thank you. No, we don't. We don't. There is another way. Cup-a-Soup. What is a Cup-a-Soup?" "Soups you have in a cup. Isn't that obvious?" Sky said.
With an idea in mind the Eleventh Doctor called McGillup and then they were all ready to 'break into' UNIT. Jaime stood up, expecting to join them. Only the Doctor shook his head. "It's probably not a good idea," he said. "Especially with 'Gallifrey Falls' being such a volatile painting." "Oh." "It's probably best you stay here. You're looking a tad peaky." John said. Sighing, Jaime sat down again and watched as they all disappeared one by one. Seconds later the TARDIS landed on her own.
She wasn't sure how long she was sat, waiting, but she was brought from her thoughts when Rose turned up. "What happened to the console room. It looks like some kid was let loose around the place." The console room was still the Eleventh Doctor's and it was yet to change back into the coral. "Where is everyone? I felt the TARDIS move earlier." "The console room is the Eleventh Doctor's," Jaime replied. "And everyone is currently at UNIT negotiating with the Zygons. It almost ended up with Kate blowing up UNIT HQ with a nuclear bomb. I guess negotiations are still ongoing." "Right, okay." Rose was confused. She didn't know what was going on but she had one thing on her mind.
"I don't know who Kate is and I don't know why there is a future Doctor on-board, but please tell me. Did he marry her?" She was asking if the Doctor had married Queen Elizabeth 1st. It seemed the older female was feeling somewhat...sensitive maybe? She couldn't really tell because her emotions were all over the place. "What's so special about the Queen anyway? Okay, so she's ginger and he has a thing about gingers. Even that parallel Doctor's companion was ginger..." Jaime started giggling. She couldn't help it, it just happened. "What? What's so funny?" Rose asked. "She didn't have her Guards chase the Doctor because she was manipulated to become his friend." Jaime replied. "Nor did he marry her. It wasn't a part of his Timeline." Well that was one bit of news she was pleased with but she had to wonder what had been happening. "Okay, what's been going on?" Rose asked.
So Jaime told her about the twin Queens, the portal and the Fez, the Eleventh Doctor, the War Doctor that was basically a secret incarnation from the Time War, being incarcerated in the Tower of London, the Doctors jumping into 'Gallifrey Falls' to get into UNIT's Black Archive. Then finally explaining what the Black Archive was. "Oh! And River Song is real!" Jaime finished. "Uh-huh." It sounded like Rose didn't believe her. "No, really. She does. She's called Melody in this universe. Melody Smith." Rose frowned. "Smith? Must be a really popular surname." Jaime nodded but looked grim. Rose was about to ask her what was up when John and the Doctor stormed in.
"He's probably done it by now!" The Half-Time Lord stated as the Doctor rushed to the console, resetting the desktop. "Ahh, that's better!" The Doctor muttered when the console room was coral again. "That last one was an eyesore!" Rose agreed, moving up beside the Doctor. "Who are we talking about?" She asked. "Uhh...well..." He stumbled, looking at the monitor, frowned and then looked up at John for help. "I'm not going to explain your mess." J.D replied. "It's okay Doctor. Jaime already filled me in on what's happening." "Oh good," he went back to work at the console. "He won't have done it yet or I wouldn't have found pre-set co-ordinates on the console." "What? Really?" John went to check. "Yes, really." The Doctor pulled a lever. "Allons-y!" He said as they flew through the Vortex. At one point the journey got so rough they had to hold onto something, but then it evened out. Half a minute late the TARDIS landed. "Where are we?" Rose asked. "Somewhere I thought I'd never be again!" The Doctor replied as he shoved his coat on, John doing the same thing. Jaime grinned as they exited the TARDIS.
Rose noticed there was another TARDIS parked next to their's and a man who looked like a kid with a bow tie and tweed was exiting it with two companions. She noticed she wasn't with him and began to get a little worried. Melody moved towards her. "Don't worry," she said. "You were borrowed for something else." Rose narrowed her eyes at the female. "See. I told you he didn't do it yet." Sky said.
"Go away now, all of you. This is for me." The War Doctor ordered. He was standing in front of the Moment Interface ready to push the button. "These events should be Time Locked," John stated. "We shouldn't even be here." "Time Locked? Are we on Gallifrey?" Rose asked. "Yes." Eleven answered her, giving her a little grin. "So something let us through." "You clever boys." Jaime heard and looked up at The Moment that was sitting on a box. "Go back. Go back to your lives." The War Doctor told them and Rose noticed he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Then she realised he would regenerate into her first Doctor. "Go and be the Doctor that I could never be. Make it worthwhile."
"All those years, burying you in my memory." Ten began and Rose held his hand. "Pretending you didn't exist. Keeping you a secret, even from myself." Eleven continued. "Pretending you weren't the Doctor, when you were the Doctor more than anybody else." John joined in. "You were the Doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get right." "But this time..." "...you don't have to do it alone." Ten and Eleven put their hands on the button and the War Doctor smiled weakly. "Thank you!" He said. John stood beside Jaime with his brows raised. That wasn't what he was actually expecting. "What we do today is not out of fear or hatred. It is done because there is no other way." Ten said. "And it is done in the name of the many lives we are failing to save." Eleven continued and noticed Rose was shaking her head, tears in her eyes. In fact he noticed the same thing with Sky, Melody and even John. Jaime appeared to be distracted, looking at something.
"What? What is it?" He asked. "Nothing." Rose muttered, looking away. "No, it's definitely something. I know that look. Come on Rose, tell me." The blonde looked at Eleven in surprise before looking at the Doctor she knew. "When you told me how your planet was destroyed, gone before its time, I never pictured you wiping out your own people...I never pictured you doing it, that's all." "Take a closer look." The Moment said and everything went dark. "What's happening?" Sky asked. "Nothing, it's just a projection." The War Doctor said. "It's a reality around you." The Moment corrected. They were all suddenly in a war zone, people screaming in fright and terror. "Those are the people you're going to burn?" Rose was shocked. "There isn't anything we can do." The Tenth Doctor said. "He's right," Eleven replied. "There isn't another way. There never was. Either I destroy my own people or let the universe burn." "Look at you. The three of you." Rose suddenly uttered. "The Warrior, the Hero and you." "And what am I?" Eleven sounded annoyed. "Have you forgotten?" "Yes. Maybe. Yes." "We've got enough Warriors. Any old idiot can be a hero." John snorted. "Then what do we do?"
Before anybody else had a chance to say anything Jaime spoke up. This was her favourite line from the episode and she was surprised she could remember it. "What you've always done. Be a Doctor," she quoted and had to change it slightly. "The name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?" All the Doctors looked at her and she was staring off into space while the fighting around them had stopped. "That was a quote from the show wasn't it?" John whispered and her face went red. "Never cruel or cowardly." Ten replied. "Never give up, never give in." The War Doctor continued. "Very Churchill." Rose quipped.
The projection ended and they were all back in the barn. "You're not actually suggesting that we change our own personal history?" The Tenth Doctor enquired. "We change history all the time," the Eleventh Doctor glanced at John and Jaime. "I'm suggesting far worse." "What exactly?" The Doctor enquired. "Gentlemen, I have had six hundred years to think about this. I've changed my mind." And he pulled out his Sonic. "Wait, 600 years?" Jaime muttered in realisation and Melody winced as the Doctor Soniced the The Moment, closing it. "There's still a billion billion Daleks up there, attacking." The War Doctor was incredulous. "That's the weird thing," Jaime said. "This planet is at war. About to enter planetary destruction. But I'm not getting a bad feeling. There's nothing." Ten nodded, smiling. "Yeah, and there's something those billion Daleks don't know." "Because if they did, they'd probably send for reinforcements." "What? What don't they know?" Sky asked. "This time there's four of us." One by one the Doctor's got the idea and J.D was surprised to find he was getting it too, despite being Half-Time Lord. Eleven laughed. "I've been doing it for Centuries."
"She didn't just show me any old future. She showed me exactly the future I needed to see." "Now you're getting it." The Moment smiled. "Who did?" Eleven was confused. "Oh Bad Wolf woman, I could kiss you." "Yeah, that's going to happen." She said while Jaime, J.D, the Doctor and Rose glanced at each other. "So what are we going to do? What's the plan?" Melody asked. "The Dalek Fleet are surrounding Galllifrey, firing on it constantly." The War Doctor told her and Ten continued on. "The Sky Trench is holding, but what if the whole planet just sort of disappeared." "That would be a hell of an achievement!" Rose said. "The Dalek's would be firing on each other," he told her. "They'd destroy themselves in their own crossfire." "Gallifrey would be gone, the Daleks would be destroyed and it would look to the rest of the universe as if they'd annihilated each other." The War Doctor surmised.
"So where would Gallifrey be?" Sky asked the Doctors. "Frozen. Frozen in an instant of time, safe and hidden away." John answered her. "Exactly." "Like a painting." With that plan in mind the Doctors and their companions rushed to the TARDISes. Jaime stared at the Interface. "What about the Moment? You can't just leave it here." She said. "I'll take it with me," The War Doctor replied. "Put it somewhere safe."
"Are you sure it'll work?" Rose asked from beside the Doctor. The TARDIS was hovering safely above Gallifrey, away from the fight. "It should do. And we've only got one chance at it." "It's a pretty big risk." John agreed. "But it's got to be done!" Jaime said from where she was sat on the Jumpseat. The Doctor nodded. A sound came from the monitor and when he checked it he smiled. "There you go. Message sent." Rose looked and it said: 'Gallifrey Stands'. "So what now?" She asked. "Now we do our job." He said. "Hello, hello, Gallifrey High Command," they heard Eleven over the speakers and his image came up on the monitor, along with the War Council. "This is the Doctor speaking." "Hello! Also the Doctor, can you hear me?" The Tenth Doctor spoke up. "Also the Doctor," The War Doctor added and he too appeared on the Monitor.
"Dear god, three of them. All my worst nightmares at once." The General was heard to state and John laughed at the reaction until Ten hushed him. "Were you THAT bad?" Rose whispered. "General, we have a plan," he continued, ignoring Rose. "We should point out at this moment, it is a fairly terrible plan." Eleven spoke up. "And almost certainly won't work." Rose rolled her eyes. "I was happy with fairly terrible." "Sorry, just thinking out loud." John shook his head. "We're flying our three TARDISes into your lower atmosphere." "We're positioned at equidistant intervals around the globe. Equidistant. So grown up." Rose shoved him playfully. "We're just about ready to do it." "Ready to do what?" The General asked, confused. "We're going to freeze Gallifrey." Eleven told him. "I'm sorry. What?" "Using our TARDISes, we're going to freeze Gallifrey in a single moment in time." Ten explained. "You know, like those Stasis Cubes. A single moment in time, held in a parallel pocket universe." The War Doctor added. "Except we're going to do it to a whole planet." "And all the people on it."
"What? Even if that were possible, which it isn't, why would you do such a thing?" The General asked. "Because the alternative is burning." Came the reply from the Eleventh Doctor. "And I've seen that," Ten added. "And I never want to see it again." "We'd be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment. We'd have nothing." "You would have hope," Eleven told him. "And right now, that is exactly what you don't have." "It's delusional. The calculations alone would take hundreds of years." "Trust him," Jaime spoke up from beside the Doctor. "Just this once. Trust him." The Eleventh Doctor grinned. "Oh yes, hundreds and hundreds." He replied to the General. "But don't worry. I started a long time ago." Ten added. "Calling the War Council of Gallifrey. This is the Doctor." They all suddenly heard the First Doctor call. "You might say I've been doing this all my lives." The Eleventh Doctor said.
"Good luck." Spoke the Second Doctor.
"Standing by." Spoke the Third Doctor.
"Ready." Spoke the Fourth Doctor.
"Commencing calculations." Spoke the Eighth Doctor.
"Soon be there." Spoke the Fifth Doctor.
"Across the boundaries that divide one universe from another." Spoke the Seventh Doctor.
"Just got to lock onto the co-ordinates." Spoke the Sixth Doctor.
"And for my next trick." Rose grinned when she heard the Ninth Doctor and turned to the Tenth. "When did you..." "After I dropped you and Mickey off once the Nestene was dealt with." She frowned, confused. "Time machine, Rose." John told her and she nodded. "I didn't know when I was well off. All Twelve of them!" The General despaired. "No sir. All Fourteen!" Androger told him and Jaime wondered where the Fourteenth TARDIS came from when there were only Thirteen in the episode. Then she spotted the Twelfth Doctor on the monitor and he was with a regenerated Rose...and Jenny? Looking at the Tenth Doctor and Rose they were busy so it seemed she was the only one who noticed.
"Sir! The Daleks know that something is happening." Androger spoke up again. "They're increasing their fire power." "Do it, Doctor. Just do it." The General demanded. "Okay. Gentlemen, we're ready. Geronimo!" The Eleventh Doctor said and pulled a lever. "Allons-y!" Ten said and he too pulled a lever. "Oh, for god's sake. Gallifrey Stands!" The War Doctor muttered, pulling a lever. Jaime heard the other Doctors say "Gallifrey Stands" or in the Ninth Doctor's case, "Fantastic." Then she felt a tingly feeling in the back of her mind before everything whited out.
"Wake up," J.D shook Jaime awake. "We've landed." She looked around the the console room in puzzlement from where she sat on the floor. "What happened?" She asked. "We did it." He replied. "At least I hope we did. Come on." He helped her to her feet and they exited the TARDIS into the National Gallery. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors were busy examining the 'Gallifrey Falls' painting while Rose, Melody and Sky were sat with the War Doctor. "Oh, that is beautiful!" John said, going over to the painting and putting his own glasses on. "It's 3D!" Ten nodded. "What is it actually called?" He asked. "Well there's some debate," Eleven replied. "Either 'No More' or 'Gallifrey Falls'." "Not very encouraging." The War Doctor muttered. "How did it get here?" John asked. "No idea." Was Eleventh's reply. "There's always something we don't know, isn't there." Ten stated.
"One should certainly hope so," the War Doctor spoke up and got to his feet. "Well, gentlemen. It has been an honour and a privilege." "Likewise." Ten and John said at the same time. "Doctor." Eleven smiled. The War Doctor turned to Rose having had a short conversation with her. "And if I grow to be half the man that you are, Rose Tyler, I shall be happy indeed." "That's right. Aim high." Rose said with a laugh. "I won't remember this will I?" He asked rather sadly. "The time streams are out of sync. You can't retain it, no." Eleven told him. "So I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey rather than burn it. I'll have to live with that. But for now, for this moment. I am the Doctor again. Thank you. Which one is mine? Ha!" He approached his battered TARDIS, entered it and seconds later it dematerialised. "Will he forget immediately?" A curious Rose asked. "He's currently regenerating so he'll forget straight away." The Eleventh Doctor answered her after a little hesitance.
Jaime watched as Melody walked off a little way and spoke into a white coloured device on her wrist. It actually looked like the iWatch she had taken from Torchwood. In fact it WAS! "Hey!" She stood up and approached Melody. "What's that?" She pointed at the iWatch. "How did you get that?" Melody looked at it and smiled. "You gave me it." Jaime frowned as she tried to read the older female, then she gasped. "No wonder I couldn't feel your emotions. That iWatch is acting as a barrier. How did you do that?" "It wasn't me. And it's a perception filter. Keeps me hidden from certain nasties, as you know." Something else came to mind. "Earlier I heard you say something about your mum, but in TV terms I've never heard Amy say anything like that." Melody smiled nervously. "Yeah. Amy and Rory may be my biological parents but they're not my mother and father." This was a strange thing to say and it caused alarm bells to ring. "What? Who are you? Who are they?" Melody didn't say anything. "Who are they?" Jaime's voice echoed but Melody smiled this time. "Spoilers!" She said and the teen raised her brows. "Oh, don't you say that to me! Don't you dare!" The older female laughed. "She told me that would annoy you."
A sudden wind kicked up and an odd humming sound was heard before another TARDIS fully materialised on the other side of the room. At first it looked like an old timey red telephone box until it changed into a 1950's blue police telephone box. Despite her surprise that this TARDIS had a working Chameleon Circuit Jaime could feel that weird tingling in the back of her mind again. The door opened and an older looking Rose stepped out, followed by a slightly older J.D. "Well this is interesting!" J.D said as Older Rose joined the Eleventh Doctor. Rose stood and stared at her older self. "Looks like we're about to have a 'Back to the Future 2' moment." Sky quipped. "I've got this thing happening in my head. Sort of an odd tingling." Rose said. "Yeah, me too. It's completely normal." John replied. "What is it?" She asked. "It's a Telepathic warning, telling you you're about to bump into yourself if you're not careful." The Tenth Doctor answered her. "How old are you?" Rose asked Older Rose. "Old enough!" Was the reply.
Meanwhile Melody had gone into the TARDIS while Jaime stared at the scene before her. There were now two different Doctors, two Roses and two J.D's. would this be a case of Reapers turning up again if one of them touched the other? "Jaime!" Somebody called her name and she felt variations of surprise and somebody else's happiness, yet it felt warm and familiar. "Jaime!" That somebody called again and she frowned realising the voice sounded familiar. Then a hand was on her shoulder and she was gently eased around. When she looked at who had called to her she gasped. The woman stood in front of her had short brown hair and dark brown eyes and...
"MAM!" Jaime cried and sprang forward, enveloping Alexia MacInarah in a hug. They both cried as everyone watched the short reunion. Finally, a sniffling Jaime pulled back and looked at her mum in awe. "What are you doing here? How did you get here?" She asked and her mum looked at Melody who shook her head. "I'm sorry. I can't say much. Something to do with Timelines." Alexia answered her daughter. Jaime frowned, confused, just wondering how she managed to get to this universe when they were supposed to be closed off. "What about my abilities? How come I'm an Omni-Psychic? Carmen said they're not natural." Alexia looked grim. "I can't answer that either. Not yet anyway." She could see that her daughter was getting frustrated and it broke her heart. "Be patient, darling. Your questions will be answered in good time. In the meantime let the Doctor, J.D and Rose look after you. Trust them, they're only looking out for you." The teen frowned, confused even more. It was like her mother was speaking in riddles.
Alexia looked at Melody. "Will she remember this?" She asked but Melody shook her head. "She'll have two memories of how this day went but most of it will be forgotten once their time stream syncs back to normal." Jaime cried and hugged her mum, not wanting to leave her again. Not after being reunited with her. "That's why you have to give her the message." Alexia nodded grimly and pulled a piece of paper from her pocket, then made Jaime look at her. "I know you've been really brave so far, especially when you've been near death...and that's my fault...but I need you to be even braver." She gave Jaime the piece of paper. "Find her, use the co-ordinates. You're my daughter and I love you so much. I'm happy the Doctor is there for you." Alexia kissed her daughter on the forehead, wiped her own eyes and rushed back into the TARDIS she came from. "MAM!" Jaime shouted and tried to follow her but Melody stopped her. "MAM!" She screamed again before breaking into full on sobs. "Don't leave me!" She cried, very upset. Younger John gathered her up in his arms. "Come on, let's go." He said and she barely struggled. The four returned to their TARDIS where it dematerialised, leaving the Eleventh Doctor, Sky, Melody, Older Rose and Slightly Older J.D in it's wake.