Day of the Moon Pt. 1
Three Months later, on the Tardis
"The FBI is closing in on Amy." Jack told me, his eyes on the Tardis screen.
"Where is she this time?" I asked, walking over to Jack and leaning in on him, resting my chin on his shoulder. Amy almost got caught in Nevada two weeks ago.
"Valley of the Gods, Utah." Jack responded.
"The wait is almost over." I mumbled, rubbing my expanding stomach.
Third Person POV
Valley of the Gods, Utah. July, 1969.
Amy is running for her life from men in a four wheel drive. She has tally marks on her arms and face.
"Suspect directly ahead. Coming to you now. Over." Canton says into a radio. Another vehicle is coming from the opposite direction. They trap her by a cliff.
"Canton." Amy says.
"Miss Pond."
Amy glances at a black bag that one of the soldiers throws on the ground. "Is that a body bag?"
"Yes, it is."
"It's empty." Amy says.
"How about that?"
"Do you even know why you're doing this, eh? Can you even remember the warehouse?"
A shot is heard echoing around the surroundings.
New York.
River has tally marks on her arms, too. She is wearing evening dress and running through a skyscraper under construction. "I see you. I see you." River tallies two more Silence on her arm.
"Doctor Song? Doctor Song? Go! Go! Go!" Canton yells. They catch up with her at an open wall. "Don't move! It's over." Canton says, pointing a gun at River.
"They're here, Canton. They're everywhere." River says.
"I know. America's being invaded." Canton says.
"You were invaded a long time ago. America is occupied."
"You're coming with us, Doctor Song. There's no way out this time."
"There's always a way out." River says, smirking and gracefully falls backwards out of the skyscraper.
Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona.
A very dishevelled Rory with lots of tally marks on his skin runs out onto the top of the dam, only to find lots of men with guns waiting for him, and it's a very long way down. "What are you waiting for?" Rory asked, holding his arms wide open.
"I'm waiting for you to run. It'd look better if I shot you while you're running. Then again, looks aren't everything."
Canton shoots Rory.
First Person POV, Susan
Tardis.
Jack and I watched The Doctor's interaction with Canton from the monitor in the Tardis. We had been waiting, well hiding out, in the Tardis for the past three months while Amy, Rory and River searched all through America looking for the Silence.
While they had been searching, I was getting bigger. I now wore a size large in shirts and the baby was kicking up a storm. Though I still had a significant amount of time left before Amelia Rose was born.
Right now the baby was silent, but I knew that she wouldn't be for long, so I continued to rub my hand over my very large stomach and watched the monitor on the Tardis council.
Body bags are dragged into the completed dwarf star alloy cell. "Is there a reason you're doing this?" The Doctor asked.
"I want you to know where you stand."
"In a cell." The Doctor retorted.
Canton smirked. "In the perfect cell. Nothing can penetrate these walls. Not a sound, not a radio wave, not the tiniest particle of anything." Canton closes the door when the soldiers leave. It vanishes. There is a palm print panel near where it should be. "In here, you're literally cut off from the rest of the universe. So I guess they can't hear us, right?"
"Good work, Canton. Door sealed?" The Doctor asked.
"You bet." The Doctor shakes off his shackles and strait-jacket. The body bags sit up, gasping for breath.
"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked Amy and Rory.
"Finally." Amy said, taking huge gulps of air.
"These things could really do with air holes." Rory remarked.
"Never had a complaint before."
"Isn't it going to look odd that you're staying in here with us?" Amy asked Canton.
"Odd, but not alarming. They know there's no way out of this place."
"Exactly. Whatever they might think we're doing in here, they know we're not going anywhere." The Doctor slumps to his right, and leans against the TARDIS. He snaps his fingers to open the door. "Shall we?"
"What about Doctor Song?" Canton asked as everyone entered the Tardis and Rory closed the door after everyone.
"She dove off a rooftop."
"Don't worry. She does that. Amy, Rory, open all the doors to the swimming pool." River turns into a dive, and plummets through the Tardis' open door where it is parked on the side of the skyscraper.
"So, we know they're everywhere. Not just a landing party, an occupying force, and they 'have been here a very, very long time. But nobody knows that, because no one can remember them."
"So what are they up to?" Canton asked.
"No idea. But the good news is, we've got a secret weapon." The Doctor said.
The Doctor has injected something into Canton's palm. "Ow!" Canton says, rubbing it.
"So, three months. What have we found out?" Jack asked.
"Well, they are everywhere. Every state in America. Ahh." Rory says as he got his injection.
"Not just America, the entire world." The Doctor says walking over to Amy.
"There's a greater concentration here, though." River said, walking in while rubbing her hair dry with a towel.
"Ow!" Amy yelped.
"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked.
"All better."
"Better?"
"Turns out I was wrong. I'm not pregnant." Amy said.
Pregnant? Jack mouthed at me.
Spoilers! I mouthed back.
"What's up?" Rory asked walking into the room.
"Nothing. Really, nothing. Seriously." Amy said.
"So you've seen them, but you don't remember them." Canton concluded.
"You've seen them, too. That night at the warehouse, remember? While you were pretending to hunt us down, we saw hundreds of those things. We still don't know what they look like."
"It's like they edit themselves out of your memory as soon as you look away. The exact second you're not looking at them, you can't remember anything." Jack said.
"Sometimes you feel a bit sick, though, but not always." Amy added.
"So that's why you marked your skin." Canton said.
"Only way we'd know if we'd had an encounter."
"Okay, I am keeping a black marker on me at all times now." I told the group.
"How long have they been here?" Canton asked.
"That's what we've spent the last three months trying to find out." Amy said.
"Not easy, if you can't remember anything you discover." Jack retorted.
"How long do you think?" Canton asked.
"As long as there's been something in the corner of your eye, or creaking in your house, or breathing under your bed, or voices through a wall. They've been running your lives for a very long time now, so keep this straight in your head. We are not fighting an alien invasion, we're leading a revolution. And today, the battle begins."
"How?"
"Like this." The Doctor quickly injects River then moves on to Jack and then me.
"Ow!" River yelled.
The Doctor laughed. "Nanorecorder. Fuses with the cartilage in your hand." The Doctor injects himself, "Ow. And it tunes itself directly to the speech centres in your brain. It'll pick up your voice, no matter what. Telepathic connection. So, the moment you see one of the creatures, you activate it, and describe aloud exactly what you're seeing."
"And describe aloud exactly what you're seeing." The Doctor says on the recording.
"Because the moment you break contact, you're going to forget it happened. The light will flash if you've left yourself a message. You keep checking your hand if you've had an encounter. That's the first you'll know about it."
"Why didn't you tell me this before we started?" Canton asked.
"I did, but even information about these creatures erases itself over time. I couldn't refresh it because I couldn't talk to you." Canton looks away then turns back and adjusts the Doctor's bow tie.
"What? What are you staring at?" Canton asked as everyone stared at Canton's hand.
"Look at your hand." I said. A little dot is flashing.
"Why is it doing that?" Canton asked.
"What does it mean if the light's flashing? What did I just tell you?"
"I haven't-"
"Play it." The Doctor ordered.
On the recording: Canton, "My God, how did it get in here?"
"Keep eye contact with the creature and, when I say, turn back, and when you do, straighten my bow tie."
"What? What are you staring at?" Canton said on the recorder.
"Look at your hand." I heard my voice say.
"It's a hologram, extrapolated from the photo on Amy's phone. Take a good, long look." The Doctor turns off the image. "You just saw an image of one of the creatures we're fighting. Describe it to me."
"I can't." Canton said, frightened.
"No. Neither can I. You straightened my bow tie because I planted the idea in your head while you were looking at the creature."
"So they could do that to people. You could be doing stuff and not really knowing why you're doing it." Amy said.
"Like posthypnotic suggestion." Jack said.
"Ruling the world with posthypnotic suggestion?" Amy asked.
"Now then, a little girl in a spacesuit. They got the suit from NASA, but where did they get the girl?"
"It could be anywhere."
"Except they'd probably stay close to that warehouse, because why bother doing anything else? And they'd take her from somewhere that would cause the least amount of attention. But you'll have to find her. I'm off to NASA." The Doctor said.
"Find her? Where do we look?"
"Children's homes. Now, we are dividing up into teams. River and I will go to the Kennedy Space Center and Amy, Jack and Canton will go to the Graystark Hall Orphanage while Susan and Rory will stay with President Nixon."
"Why do I have to stay behind?" I argued. "No offence, Rory."
"None taken." Rory says, waving his hand.
"Because your-" The Doctor started.
I raised my eyebrow and interrupted saying, "Do not say the 'p' word."
"Because you're… special?" The Doctor got out and suddenly he had Amy, River and I glaring at him. "I got this." The Doctor muttered. Then he smiled. I exchanged a worried glance with Amy. "Because you will be in charge of keeping the FBI busy. They still think Canton is in the cell with me and are wondering what is going on. You and Rory need to think of a logical explanation for that and to get on President Nixon's good side."
I rolled my eyes. "Fine but next time, I am coming with you."
The Doctor didn't answer just piloted the Tardis back to the Oval office, on silent. "Rory, I think we should change into more suitable cover outfits, don't you think?" I asked, looking at Rory's outfit from when he was on the run.
"Yeah, sure." Rory responded and walked to his room on the Tardis.
Jack followed me to our room. I opened my closet to find an assortment of black dresses complementary from the Tardis. Thanks girl. I said. The Tardis hummed in response. I looked through the cloths on the hanger while Jack leaned up against our bed, which wasn't made from the night before.
"Susan, everything will be fine." Jack said after a couple moments of silence.
I sighed, stopped what I was doing and turned around to face my husband. "You don't know that."
Jack sighed, got up and crossed over the space between the bed and the closet in two strides and hugged me. "Susan, I will do my best not to get hurt."
I closed my eyes and leaned into Jack. "Don't make promises you can't keep."
Rory and I walked into the Oval office, President Nixon sits behind the desk, looking down to business.
Nixon stands up at the sight of Rory and I and walks over. "I hope you have an explanation for having the FBI go on a wild goose chase across the country."
I sighed. "You wouldn't believe anything other than the truth, would you?" I asked Nixon.
President Nixon nodded his head. "Your right. I won't."
Rory grabbed me and took me aside. "Are you sure about this?" Rory asked. "Telling him the truth?"
"It's a fifty fifty shot. Either he will believe us or will think that we are crazy and have us arrested, never to see the light of day again."
"That's it?" Rory asked, exasperated. "I feel so much better."
"Look, I know what I am doing, Rory." I said before brushing him aside and stepping over to President Nixon. "Mr. President. As you are aware, we have only just begun looking into the stars. Now, imagine, the stars coming to you."
"You are talking about Aliens, am I correct?" Nixon asked.
"Yes, you would be correct."
Nixon scoffed. "There's no such thing."
"Really?" I asked. "Earth is only a spec of dust in comparison to the Universe. We are on the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, there are infinite possibilities of finding life on other planets, if not in our galaxy, in another."
"I don't believe you." Nixon said.
"Humans have one heart, right?" I asked, stepping closer to the President.
"Yes, of course."
"Then feel my hearts." I brought a stethoscope out and handed it to Nixon who took it cautiously. "Put it on." He did so. I brought the stethoscope to my chest first on my left, then on my right.
I watched President Nixon's face go from shocked to disbelief. "You- you have two hearts."
I smiled as President Nixon handed me back my stethoscope. "Yes I do. I am a Time Lord, well Time Lady to be more precise."
"Youre an alien." Nixon stated.
"Yes." I replied.
"And you." Nixon said, turning on Rory. "Are you an Alien?"
Rory shook his head. "Nope. Completely human. Though I was plastic once. That was weird, but I am fully human again. No need to worry."
"Plastic?" Ecoed Nixon.
"Rory, I think you just broke President Nixon." I said, jokingly to Rory.
Nixon shook his head to try to get the facts straight. "So, you are a Time Lady, an ALIEN and he," Nixon said, pointing to Rory, "Was once Plastic."
"I know it's hard to take in, but yes. I am a Time Lady and Rory was once plastic. But that's not why we are here. It's that the Earth has invaders. Invaders from another world."
"Aliens have invaded Earth?" Nixon asked sitting down on one of the couches, looking out the window. "I don't see massive spaceships in the skys."
"That's because the invasion happened years ago. The Earth has been occupied for a long time."
President Nixon stiffened. "So, why do you want my help? What do these Aliens look like?"
I sighed and rubbed my head. "That's what we don't know. All we know is that they are there. Somehow they have some sort of field around them that when ever we look at one, we instantly forget we ever saw one."
"Then how do you know it's not just a part of your imagination?" Nixon asked.
"Because we have recorded proof that they are there. We don't have any pictures or anything like that, just the recorded sound. I don't have it with me, it's in in the Tardis."
"And what's a Tar - dis?"
"Tardis." I corrected. "And it's my spaceship. Well, The Doctor's spaceship. He's also one of my species, a Time Lord."
"That Doctor fellow is a Time Lord. The one that wanted Maps and a Fez?"
I snorted. "Yes, that's him."
Nixon's eyes widened and sat back on the couch. "I had my soldiers point guns at an Alien. An Alien that must have others of its kind out there to attack us if something went wrong. What if we had killed him? Interstellar war? We would be crushed, we are only just going into space."
I winced and out of the corner of my eye I saw Rory do the same. "Um, actually, sir, our planet's gone."
Nixon looked at me sharply. "Gone? What do you mean by gone?"
I swallowed. "There was a war." And that was all I needed to say before understanding flooded Nixon's eyes.
"I'm sorry." Nixon whispered.
"It's okay." I waved Nixon off.
"What can I do to help?"
I smiled. "Now that you mentioned it…."
Rory, River and I stood by the Tardis council while President Nixon walked around with his mouth wide open, staring at everything.
"Are you sure this was such a good idea?" Rory asked.
"He's the only one that can get the Doctor out of the trouble he got himself into when he broke into Apollo 11." River replied.
Rory's eyes widened. "The Doctor broke into Apollo 11… what for?"
"Who knows." River said smirking. "Don't worry," River added when she saw Rory's look. "The Doctor's plan will come together." River glanced at me and I stared back at her and she knew that I knew what happened at the lake. River sighed and continued flying the Tardis.
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