Chapter 3: Rory
I don't own Doctor Who whatsoever BBC does, and I'm just a fan with an idea.
Avery's POV
We left the Angelo home, determined to save the world within 20 minutes. The Doctor started asking Amy about where we were.
"What is this place? Where am I?" The Doctor asked
"Leadworth." Amy answered
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it."
"Is there an airport?"
"No."
"A nuclear power station?"
"Ha, no."
"Even just a little one?"
"No."
"Nearest city?"
"Half an hour by car."
"We don't have half an hour. Do we have a car?" The Doctor asked
"No." I answered
"Oh, that's good! Fantastic, that is, twenty minutes to save the world, and I've got a Post Office. And it's shut. What is that?" He pointed at a pond, and ran towards it. Amy and I followed.
"It's a duck pond." Amy answered. The Doctor turned to face her and asked
"Why aren't there any ducks?"
"I don't know, there's never any ducks!"
"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"
"It just is! Is it important, a duck pond?"
"I don't know. How would I know?" He said this as he clutched his chest, jerking around slightly as he fell backwards. I ran towards him, and crouched down beside him. Even if he left us, he was still the most important person to me besides Rory, Amy, and Jack. The Doctor and Jack were my only chances to escape this boring small village. Nothing ever happened in Leadworth besides the Doctor and the Atraxi.
"This is too soon... I'm not ready, I'm not done yet." He said as I rubbed his arm comfortingly. Amy just stared at us, and then we looked up to the sky as a shadow fell upon us.
"What's happening? Why's it going dark?" Amy asked the dark slowly past but the Sun was left looking rather odd. "What's wrong with the Sun?"
"Nothing. You're looking at it through a force field; they've sealed off your upper atmosphere, now they're getting ready to boil the planet." The Doctor answered as Amy stared at him as he and I got up, looked around the park at everyone who was pulling out a mobile phone and is filming the strange-looking sun. I shook my head at them; they weren't doing very well for the reputation of the humankind. "Oh and here they come. The human race. See, the end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone." He said.
"This isn't real, is it; this is some kind of big wind-up..." Amy said in denial, I just stared at her. She had to be kidding me.
"Why would I wind you up?"
"You told me you had a time machine."
"And you believed me."
"Then I grew up."
"Oh, well you never wanna do that. No. Hang on, shut up! Wait. I missed it." The Doctor said and then slapped himself in the forehead rather painfully. "I saw it, and I missed it." He slapped himself again in the forehead, leaving a red mark. "What did I see, I saw, what did I see, I saw I saw I saw..." The Doctor said as he looked around. He spotted Rory who was looking around somewhat shiftily, messing with his phone. The Doctor glanced at the clock, then turned to us and said "Twenty minutes! I can do it! Twenty minutes, the planet burns, run to your loved ones and say goodbye... or stay and help me." I nodded and then looked at Amy, who stared at him and then said "...No." The Doctor and I weren't even sure if we heard correctly.
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor said rather confused by her answer.
"NO!" She yelled, as she grabbed hold of his tie tightly, dragging him toward a just-parked car in the car park right behind us. I followed asking "Amy! What are you doing?!"
"Amy - no, no! What are you doing?!" The Doctor said right before she opened the car door, slammed it close on his tie, trapping him there. She then took the car keys off the elderly man who owned the car, Mr. Henderson and locks it. I smiled and waved at Mr. Henderson.
"Are you out of your mind?!" The Doctor said
"Who are you?" Amy asked
"You know who I am." The Doctor replied
"No really. Who are you?" Amy said not believing him.
"Look at the sky. End of the world. Twenty minutes." The Doctor said, pointing to the sky.
"Well, better talk quickly then." Amy said, crossing her arms staring at him expectantly.
"Amy... I am going to need my car back." Mr. Henderson said looking at Amy.
"Yes, in a bit. Now go and have coffee."
"Right. Yes..." Mr. Henderson said and then left. The Doctor fiddled around in his pocket, pulling out the apple with the face, tossing it to Amy saying "Catch." She did, and she stared at it. The same apple she gave to him before he inspected the crack in the wall... before he hit me with the glass of water. As I remembered that I frowned at him and slapped him. "That was for what you did to me 12 years ago! You basically poured water on me!" He stared at me as he adjusted his jaw and said to Amy, ignoring me for now "I'm the Doctor. I'm a time traveller. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go right now, everything you've ever known is over."
"...I don't believe you." Amy replied, considering what he said and the apple, intensely. I stared at him waiting for him to reply to me.
"Just - twenty minutes." He took Amy's arm that was holding the apple. "Just believe me for twenty minutes. Look at it." Amy stared at the apple. "Fresh as the day you gave it to me, and you know it's the same one." Amy took her second's thought, looking between the Doctor's earnest face and the smiling of the apple. He said "Amy. Believe, for twenty minutes." Amy paused, and then raised the car keys and unlocks the car saying "What do we do?"
"Stop that nurse." The Doctor said Amy and I look at each other, smiling a slightly evil smile. The Doctor, freed took off, jumping over the low chain link fence running straight past Rory nicking his phone swiftly as he goes. He peered at the phone, curiously and then turned to confront Rory. Amy and I caught up; having ran slower, after barely bouncing over the low fence. Amy stopped to tug down her short, short skirt. I continued to run, catching up to the Doctor within a few seconds. "The Sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog, why?" The Doctor asked Rory as he gave Rory his phone back, Rory saw Amy behind me, looking relieved. I smirked, and nudged Rory who gave me a side hug quickly. We were close friends even though he was dating Amy. "Amy!" Rory said to Amy as she caught up.
"Hi! Oh, uh, this is Rory, he's a... friend." Amy said to the Doctor.
"Boyfriend." Rory corrected
"Kind of. Boyfriend." Amy said
"Amy!"
"Man and a dog. Why?" The Doctor asked Rory
"Oh, my gosh. It's him." Rory said realising who this was.
"Just, answer his question, please." Amy told Rory
"It's him though! The Doctor, the Raggedy Doctor!"
"Yeah! He, he came back." I spoke up smiling widely. I had faith he would come back, Amy however, was starting to lose faith. And here he was, like I said he would.
"But he was a story, he was a game-" Rory replied but was interrupted by the Doctor grabbing the front of his shirt impatiently, really wanting to know "Man and a dog! Why! Tell me! Now!"
"Sorry! Because - he can't be there - because, he's-" Rory answered
"In a hospital, in a coma." Rory and the Doctor said together.
"...Yeah." Rory said
"Knew it. Multiform, you see?" The Doctor said as he let go of Rory, brushing him down. "Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a lifefeed, a psychic link, with a living, but dormant mind." The Doctor said as he finished what he was saying he poked Rory on his forehead. He looked as though he was about to say more but was interrupted by a dog barking behind us. We spun around, seeing that it was Prisoner Zero barking. Both the man and dog this time. The Doctor moved forward to confront him. "Prisoner Zero."
"What? There's a Prisoner Zero too?" Rory asked, clearly confused.
"Yes." Amy and I said together. Just then, an Atraxi ship flew down from the sky, hovering over the church and started scanning. I smirked as I knew what the Doctor was going to do.
"See, that ship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology." He took out his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket. "And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver!" He said looking gleeful. He held down the button raising the screwdriver into the air. Streetlamps all around the park start exploding, car alarms all go off, and a mobility scooter has a mind of its own. A previously parked fire engine also decides it doesn't need people to drive, and rolls off down the road, firemen chasing after it. All while the Atraxi ship is scanning, in the wrong direction. "I think someone's gonna notice, don't you?" The Doctor added, the man-dog bark and growl as the Doctor aimed his sonic towards a telephone box, which explodes quite loudly.
But then out of nowhere the screwdriver itself explodes, the Doctor dropped it onto the ground in front of him. The Doctor attempted to pick at the charred mess. "No, no no! Don't DO that!" he yelled at it. The Atraxi ship starts to pack up and leave, and the Doctor stands to face it. "It's going! No, come back! He's here! Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is here!" Prisoner Zero gave a smug smirk and glowed orange, basically melts down the drain. "Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is... here..."
"Doctor! The drain, it just... sort of, melted and went down the drain." Amy said carefully.
"Well, of course it did." The Doctor said matter-factly.
"What do we do now?!" Amy asked
"It's hiding in human form. We need to drive it into the open. No TARDIS, no screwdriver, seventeen minutes, come on... Think. Think!" The Doctor said smacking his head. We walked over to the drain that Prisoner Zero disappeared down, looking at.
"So that thing. That hid in my house for twelve years?" Amy said
"Multiforms can live for millenia. Twelve years is a pitstop." The Doctor answered
"So how come you show up again on the same day that lot do? The same minute?" I asked, curious
"They're looking for him, but they followed me. They saw me through the crack, got a fix, they're only late 'cause I am." The Doctor answered
"What's he on about?" Rory asked
"Nurse boy, gimme your phone." The Doctor said
"How can he be real?! He was never real!" Rory said
"Phone! Now! Gimme!" The Doctor said impatiently again as Rory hands him the phone.
"It was just a game, we were - we were kids, you made me dress up as him!" Rory said to Amy, as I looked over the Doctor's shoulder at what he was doing. He looked through the photos that Rory had of the coma patients.
"These photos, they're all the coma patients." The Doctor asked/said
"Yep." Rory answered
"No. They're all the multiform. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor questioned, trying to figure it out for himself.
"He had a dog, though, there's a dog in a coma?"
"Well, the coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog. Laptop!" The Doctor said looking up from the phone "Your friend, what was his name, not him," pointing to Rory "the good-looking one!"
"Thanks" Rory said
"Jeff." Amy answered
"Ohhh, thanks." Rory said, I walked over to him and hugged him. He hugged me, back. I could remember those days. Before Rory and Amy were finally dating. I was happy, excited even. Rory was my best friend, more so than he was to Amy. Amy had Mels, and I was the only one who really cared a lot about Rory.
"He had a laptop in his bag, a laptop. Big bag, biiig laptop! I need Jeff's laptop! You two, get to the hospital. Get everyone out of that ward, clear the floor, phone me when you're done! Avery, you're with me!" The Doctor said running off back to the house. Amy pulled Rory towards his car. I smiled at them and followed the Doctor towards the Angelo home.