The Name of The Doctor- Part 1

"One day you meet the Doctor. And of course, it's the best day ever. It's just the best day of your life. Because, because he's brilliant, and he's funny, and mad, and best of all, he really needs you. The trick is, don't fall in love. I do that trick quite a lot, sometimes twice a day. And once you start running, you start to forget, slowly. After a while, you just stop asking. Who are you? Where are you from? What set you on your way and where are you going? Oh, and what is your name? You get used to not knowing. I thought I never would. I was wrong. I know who he is. I know how he began and I know where he's going. I know the truth about the Doctor and his greatest secret. The day we went to Trenzalore." Clara's voice echoed.

"From the beginning, she was impossible. The Impossible Girl. I met her in the Dalek Asylum. Never saw her face, and she died. I met her again in Victorian London, and she died. Saved my life both times, by giving her own. But now she's back and we're running together, and she's perfect. Perfect in every way for me. Except she can't remember that we ever met. Clara. My Clara. Always brave, always funny, always exactly what I need. Perfect. Too perfect. Get used to not knowing. I thought I never would. I was wrong. I know who Clara Oswald is. I know how she came to be in my life, and I know what she will always mean. I found out the day we went to Trenzalore." The Doctor's voice echoed.

"I've known The Doctor since I was born. He would come once a year, on my birthday. He would pop out of that blue box all smiling and happy, bringing tones presents. Then one day, I got to go on my first adventure and the Daleks came. I was scared, very scared. Then The Doctor saved me. He took me on as a 'test' apprentice and I thought everything was going to be amazing. It wasn't. He ignored me for a puzzle. A puzzle that was solved and then put back on the shelf to gather dust." Amelia Rose Harkness's voice echoed.

Drax Three

The Harkness Estate

I paced around my room on Drax Three, my suitcase unopened on my bed. The Doctor had taken me home straight away, not even questioning why I wanted to leave. I heard the Tardis wheezing sound and ran to my window just in time to see the Tardis dematerialize.

I closed my eyes and leaned my head against the window. I guess I really wasn't Time Lady material. I jumped as I heard a knock on my door. "Honey?" Came my mum's voice. "Can I come in?"

"No." I replied, moving from the window to sit on my bed.

There was silence for a couple moments then, "Well, this letter came from you. I'll just leave it on the table outside your door." I could hear paper rustling, "Come down when you're ready." I heard my mum's footsteps fade away as she walked back down the stairs. Who would write to me? I guess my friends but they would only call me over Draxiaon Systems.

It was curiosity that finally brought me to open my bedroom door and grabbed the letter. It looked old. Really old. On the front it says: To Amelia Rose Harkness. I flipped the letter over to find a wax seal on the flap and the words in the same cursive writing as on the front: Open When Alone.

I walked back into my room and carefully broke the seal and opened the letter.

My dear Amelia, The Doctor entrusted me with your contact details in the event of an emergency, and I fear one has now arisen. Assuming this letter will have reached you as planned, on May the twenty-second, 2041 on Drax Three, please find and light the enclosed candle. It will release a soporific which will induce a trance state, enabling direct communication across the years. However, as I realise you have no reason to trust this letter, I have taken the liberty of embedding the same soporific into the fabric of the paper you are now holding. Speak soon.

My eyes widened and then I was falling.

I fell with a thud into a chair. I looked around, "Where am I?" I saw Jenny, Vastra and strax sitting at a round table. Four other empty, well three. I thought as Clara appeared.

She looked around, panicking, "Where am I?"

"So glad you two could make it." Vastra said.

Clara and I glanced at each other then looked away. "

Exactly where you were, but sleeping." Jenny said.

"Time travel has always been possible in dreams. We are awaiting only one more participant."

"Oh, no. Not the one with the gigantic head?" Strax groaned.

Jenny sighed, "It's hair, Strax."

"Hair." Strax corrected.

The women they were talking about arrives in a puff of smoke. She had bushy curly blond hair along with a white jacket with gold looking shirt. "Madame Vastra." The women says.

Vastra nodded, "Professor. Help yourself to some tea."

"Why, thank you." River creates a champagne bottle and flute for herself.

Jenny eyed her, "How did you do that?"

She smirked, "Disgracefully." The woman and Clara looked at each other.

"Ah. Perhaps you two haven't met. This is the Doctor's companion. That is, his current travelling assistant. The other is the daughter of one of his earlier companions."

"Assistant?" Clara asked

"Have you gone a darker green?" Strax said.

"Clara Oswald and Amelia Rose Harkness." Vastra introduced us. I saw the woman tense at my name.

"Professor River Song. The Doctor might have mentioned me?" River said. At her name, my eyes widened. Mum and Dad have told me many stories about her.

"Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, of course he has. Professor Song. Sorry, it's just I never realised you were a woman." Clara said. I saw River's smile fall a little. Ouch.

"Well, neither did I." Strax said, trying to help and failing.

River turned to me, "Harkness? Would your parents be Susan and Jack Harkness by any chance?"

"Yes… wait, YOU'RE River?! I've heard stories, but-" I started.

Vastra leaned forward a bit, "Perhaps we should get down to the business at hand."

"That might be good, dear, yes." Jenny said.

An image of a man pops up in a type of hologram style way from the center of the black table. "Clarence DeMarco. Murderer, under sentence of death. He offered us this in exchange for his life."

"Space time coordinates." River said.

"This, Mister DeMarco claims, is the location of the Time Lord's greatest secret." Vastra said.

Clara looked at Vastara, "Which is?"

Jenny leaned forward a bit, "We don't know. It's a secret."

"The Doctor does not discuss his secrets with anyone, my dear. If you're still entertaining the idea that you are an exception to this rule, ask yourself one question. What is his name?" Vastra asked.

River sat back in her seat, a bit smug and she takes a sip from her glass, "Well, I know it."

Clara looked at River, "What, you know his name? He told you?"

River smirked, "I made him."

Clara narrowed her eyes, "How?"

"It took a while."

"So you're a friend of his, then?" Clara asked, sitting back in her seat.

"A little more than a friend, a long time ago." River replied.

Vastra glanced at River, surprised, "He's still never contacted you?"

"He doesn't like endings. So what else did this DeMarco tell you? He didn't just buy his life with some coordinates. How did he prove their value?" River asked.

"One word, only."

"What word?" River asked Vastra sternly.

"A word I've heard in connection with the Doctor before. Trenzalore."

River froze, "How exactly did he describe what he was giving you?"

"The Time Lords have a secret, you know. They have one that they will take to the grave. And it is discovered." The holo- DeMarco said.

"You misunderstood." River said. "He said 'they'."

"Jenny?" I asked in concern as I saw Jenny look more and more panicked. This caused everyone to look over at the girl, "What is it?"

There were tears building in Jenny's eyes and it looked like she was barely holding it together, "Ma'am, I'm sorry. I just realise I forgot to lock the doors."

"It doesn't matter, Jenny." Vastra said and turned back to River, "What misunderstanding? Tell me."

"No, ma'am, please. I should've locked up before we went into the trance."

"Jenny, it doesn't matter!"

Jenny looked to be in some sort of trance or shock, "Someone's broken in. Someone's with us. I can hear them."

"Jenny, are you alright?" Vastra asked sternly, almost yelling.

A tear falls down her cheek, "Sorry, ma'am. So sorry. So sorry. So sorry. I think I've been murdered." Astral Jenny starts to fade away.

"Jenny!" Vastra yelled, standing up.

"What's happened to her." Clara asked.

"Jenny, can you hear me?" River called.

"Jenny!" I called.

"Speak to us, boy!" Strax yelled.

"Jenny!"

River turns to Vastra, "You're under attack. You must wake up now. Just wake up. Do it!" River slaps Vastra and Vastra disappeared. "You too, Strax. Wake up now!" River throws her champagne into his face. Strax disappears.

Black hooded figures enter the room from… somewhere. "Tell the Doctor. Tell the Doctor. Tell the Doctor."

"Tell him what?" Clara whispered.

The face of the Great Intelligence appears as Simon. "His friends are lost for ever more, unless he goes to Trenzalore."

"No! You can't say that. He can't go there. You know he can't!" River said.

"Angie? Artie?" I heard The Doctor's voice echo throughout the room.

"The Doctor can never go to Trenzalore." River said fiercely to Clara.

"Am I getting warm?" The Doctor's voice echoed again and Clara disappeared.

I felt something cold brush up against my forehead and I tensed, knowing nothing was behind me, "River." I said, panicking, "Something just touched me."

River turned to me, "Wake up! Tell your parents that it's time for Trenzalore. They'll know what I mean."

I nodded and closed my eyes. When I opened them, I found myself on my bed, in my night-robe, with a cold wet cloth on my forehead with my mum sitting on my bed besides me. "Amelia?" Mum asked.

"Mum." My eyes widened as I remembered what happened, "Jenny! Vastra! Strax!"

"Whoa, what happened." Dad asked, walking in with a glass of water. "You were unconscious when we found you."

"How long was I out?" I asked, gladly taking a sip of water from the glass that Dad handed me.

"About five hours."

"Five?! It was only a few minutes for me." I said.

Mum sighed, "Time differences. What happened at this… meeting." The way mum worded it, I had a feeling that she knew more than she was letting on.

"Well, Vastra, Jenny, Strax, River, Clara and I-"

"Wait, back up a bit. What was the fourth name?" Dad asked, looking at me a weirdly.

"River."

Mum put a hand on my leg, "River… as in River Song?"

"Yeah, actually she said she knew you guys."

Mum gave a faint smile, "Yeah, she did know us. She's The Doctor's wife."

My eyes widened, "He never said-"

Mum shook my head, "He doesn't like to be remembered of the past. She's, well, dead, you see."

"No. I don't see. How could she be dead if I was just having a conversation with her?"

Dad was the one to answer, "Lia, River did die, but The Doctor saved her soul and uploaded it into The Library. She lives on, but not in a body."

"That… must put a damper in their relationship." I said.

Dad snorted, "That it does. Susan? Should we contact The Doctor?"

"Yes. We won't be able to get to Trenzalore without the Tardis." Mum said, looking at Dad.

"I thought we were supposed to stop The Doctor from going." I said.

Mum got up and looked at me, "When you spend as much time with The Doctor as I have, you learn very fast that no matter how dangerous, stupid or idiotic it is, The Doctor will do whatever it takes to save his friends."

I had changed into jeans and a nice white shirt with a black buckle belt. Though I had on flat black and white shoes and my red hair tied up in a bun. I walked down into the kitchen to see the Tardis. Dad was waiting outside of it. "You're Mum's already inside."

I nodded and walked into the Tardis. I saw Clara standing over by The Doctor. She looked up, spotted me, gave me the 'evil eye' then turned back to The Doctor.

I walked over to stand next to Mum. Dad closed the door behind him.

"I have to save Vastra and Strax. Jenny too, if it's still possible." The Doctor was saying to Mum. They, they cared for me during the dark times. Never questioned me, never judged me, they were just kind. I owe them. I have a duty. No point in telling you all that this is too dangerous."

"None at all." Clara said.

"Nope." Mum replied.

Dad snorted, "Come on Doctor. You know me. How can we save them?" Dad asked.

"Apparently, by breaking into my own tomb." The Doctor replied. He puts the Tardis into flight and the Tardis starts shaking so much I have to grab onto the railing to keep myself upright.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"She's just figured out where we're going. She's against it. I'm about to cross my own timeline in the biggest way possible. The Tardis doesn't like it. She's fighting it. Hang on! Hang on!" There are tons of bangs and sparks. All of us get thrown over to the railings and the Tardis powers down.

"Now what?" Dad asked.

"She doesn't want to land. She's shut down." The Doctor said, looking over the controls.

"So we're not there?" Clara asked.

The Doctor frowned, "We must be close." He goes to the door, opens it and looks down. He opens up the door. "Okay, so that's where I end up." It is an volcanic planet. "Always thought maybe I'd retire. Take up watercolours or bee-keeping, or something. Apparently not."

"So, how do we get down there? Jump?" Clara asked.

"Don't be silly. We fall." The Doctor said backing up.

"Fall?!" Mum cried.

"She's turned off practically everything, except the anti-gravs. Guess what I'm turning off." He uses the sonic screwdriver, and Clara, Mum and I scream as the Tardis tumbles to the planet, clutching onto the railings.