Curse of the Black Spot Pt. 2

"We're all cursed if we stay aboard." A pirate said.

"It's not a curse. Curse means game over. Curse means we're helpless. We are not helpless. Captain, what's our next move?" The Doctor said.

"Wait with the boy." The Doctor commanded the remaining pirates.

"Captain, we're all in danger here." A pirate protested.

"I said wait. And barricade the door after we've gone."

"Sure you want to go?" Amy asked.

The Doctor walked over to Amy. "We have to get Rory and Toby away. She's out there now, licking her lips, boiling a saucepan, grating cheese."

"Okay. Well, remember, if you get an itch, don't scratch too hard."

"We've all got to go some time. There are worse ways than having your face snogged off by a dodgy mermaid."

Jack is back sitting next to me, rubbing my back while Rory finally wakes up from his dreamlike state, but still has the black spot on his hand.

"What's wrong?" Rory asked Amy who was facing away from him.

Amy looks over her shoulder at Rory. "The most beautiful thing you've ever seen?"

Rory's eyes widened. "Oh, tell me I didn't say that."

"What's going on?" Amy asked as the rest of Captain Avery's crew is unbarracading the door.

"We're not staying here to mollycoddle the boy. The Captain's gone soft. It's time for us to leave."

At that Jack helps me stand up and we go over to where Amy and Rory are facing the pirates, Toby following behind us.

"He told you to wait, you dog. He's your Captain, a Naval Officer. You're honour-bound to do as he tells you." Toby speaks up. I grabed a hold of Toby's hand but he pushed me away, wanting to stand on his own.

"Honour-bound? Do you know what kind of ship this is? Do you know what your father does?" The pirate asked Toby menacingly. I stepped closer to Toby.

"Don't listen to him, Toby." I said.

"We sail under the black flag. The Jolly Roger." The pirate told the little boy.

"Liar! He's no wicked pirate!" Toby yelled at the man.

"Oh, you think so? I have seen your father gun down a thousand innocent men. Get what treasure you can. I'll meet you in the row boat." The leader of the mutiny said to the other remaining pirates.

Toby disappeared from my side then returned with a cutlass. "You're going to remain at your post." Toby said, pointing the cutlass with the mutiny leader.

"I am not playing games with you, boy. You put that down."

"One more step and I'll use this, you blaggard."

The pirate laughed. "You don't know how to fight with a cutlass, boy."

"Don't need to, do I." Toby cuts the pirate's hand.

"No" He gasped, staring down at the fresh blood dripping from his hand onto the carpet. "You little swabber!" He yelled at Toby.

I wrapped my arms around Toby, carfully taking the cutlass out of Toby's hand and tossed it aside. Toby didn't bother to stop me. "Congratulations. You made it to the menu. Probably shouldn't go out there now." I hissed.

"You scurvy ape!" The pirate said, drawing his gun.

"Don't shoot. The powder will blow and kill us all." Jack said.

Another pirate takes the keys from the the marked pirate's belt. "Mulligan, what are you doing?" Mulligan leaves.

"No honour among pirates." Amy said, smirking.

The pirate puts down his pistol and starts rebuilding the barricade.

I led Toby away from the pirate and asked, "Toby, are you alright?" Toby shook his head. He was trembling from head to toe. "Come here." I said and opened my arms. Toby dashed right in and I wrapped my arms around the boy, shhing him.

I glared at the pirate who told Toby what his father really did. "You are sooo lucky the Doctor is on this ship. If he wasn't I would put a bullet through your brain. You deserve worse."

Suddenly we heard gunshots from underneath us and Toby tensed. Jack, Amy, and Rory exchanged looks of worry.

"It's okay, Toby. Your father will be alright." I whispered in his ear. I heard heavy breathing and released Toby had fallen asleep, today's activities having taken a toll on his health. Jack helped me to the floor with the sleeping toby. I quickly took Toby's medallion off of his neck and hid it in my dress pockets.

I heard running footsteps then pounding on the door. "Amy, Rory, Jack, Susan! Open the door!" The Doctor yelled. Jack and Rory sprang into action, unblocking the door.

"Toby, open the door! Toby!" Captain Avery's voice yelled through the door.

"Open the door."

"Toby!" The Captain yelled and Jack and Rory finished unblocking the door and the door slammed open, The Doctor and Avery running inside to find Toby sleeping on my lap.

"Susan?" The Doctor asked me.

I held up the medallion, which was still in the folds of my skirt. "Do you think I would be that stupid around children, Doctor?"

The Doctor opened and closed his mouth and I smirked. "We have to clear everything that has polished metal. Stay here while the Captain and I go look inside the Captains Cabin."

Avery's face was priceless while the Doctor dragged him out of the room.

The Doctor and the Captain came back and the Doctor went through his plan. At the end Rory spoke up, Just wait?" Rory asked.

"Not my most dynamic plan, I realise."

"Tardis?" Jack asked.

"It's been towed." The Doctor replied.

"What?" Amy asked.

"Sorry. We might be stuck here for a while."

"So you're saying that we should all just wait here below?" Rory said.

"The sea is still calm, like a mirror. If you go out on deck she'll rise up and attack you." Avery said.

"It's okay. The calm won't last forever. When the wind picks up we'll all set sail."

"Until it does, you have to hide down here." Avery said.

Later, Rory and Amy are asleep cuddled up against each other. Avery and Toby sat talking softly while I rested on Jack, my eyes closed but not really sleeping. Jack was sleeping as well.

"I'm sorry about your mother. You miss her a lot." I heard Avery say.

"Three years. No word from you." Toby said.

"Toby."

"You promised her. You promised you'd come home. And she believed you would, right up until the day she died. What made you do it? What made you turn pirate?"

"Get some sleep now." Avery said, leaving the room.

I opened my eyes to see a devastated Toby sitting by himself. He turned his head and saw me staring at him. Come here. I mouthed. Toby coughed and came quietly over. I patted the ground next to me.

He eyed me and hesitated. I rolled my eyes and whispered, "You aren't going to get me sick. I have an awesome immune system."

"Imue what?" Toby whispered back.

"Immune system. It's your body's defence system against sicknesses." Toby still didn't look convinced. I rolled my eyes again. "Oh come on!" I whispered. Toby sighed and did as he was told and in a few minutes, he was asleep and then I was.

I awoke to a clap of thunder and bolted straight up. My joult awoke Toby who rubbed his eyes and looked around. The cabin was empty. Jack, Amy, Rory and the rest of the pirate crew must be on the deck. The Cabin rocked back and forth as I tried to get up off the floor.

Toby scrambled up and helped me up, fear in his eyes as he said, "Thunder storm."

"Your father will be on deck." I said making my way to the door.

"Are you crazy? You're with child! You can't go out there!" Toby yelled.

I turned back and looked at Toby. "But my Husband is out there!" I yelled back to Toby. I threw open the door and pulled myself along the wall, the rain and wind whipping around my cloths and hair. The rocking of the boat did nothing to help.

"To the rigging, you dogs! Let go the sails. Avast ye! Put the bunt into the slack of the clews." Captain Avery yells.

Amy and Rory pull on the sheets. "I swear he's making half this stuff up!" Amy yells to Rory.

"Well, we're going to need some kind of phrase book!"

The Doctor and Jack are at the wheel, trying to turn her bow on to the storm.

Captain Avery notices Toby and I first. "Toby! Find my coat. My compass is inside it, boy. Heave ho, you bilge rats." Toby runs off to go do as he says.

"Rats was all I could hear." Rory said to Amy.

"Susan what the hell are you doing out here?!" Jack yelled at me from the wheel. Toby returns with the coat, and the crown falls out and rolls along the deck.

"No!" I yelled. The Siren comes out of the crown and flies up into the rigging, then descends again to the deck. I tried to make my way to Toby but the rain combined with the wind was making me fight the whole way.

"Don't let her take you!" The Captain yelled.

"Don't you dare TOBY!" I screamed.

Toby reaches out to the Siren. "No!" Avery yelled and Toby is gone in a puff of smoke.

"No!"Avery and I yelled. Jack climbs down and wrapped his arm around me to keep me from falling over while The Doctor throws the crown overboard, and the Siren disappears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The Captain said.

"You couldn't give up the gold, could you? That's why you turned pirate! Your commission, your wife, your son. Just how much is that treasure worth to you, man?" I yelled at the Captain.

A loose speir knocks Rory overboard. "Rory! Rory! I can't see him. Doctor? I'm going in." Amy said swinging one leg overboard.

The Doctor grabbed Amy and pulled her back onto the deck. "He's drowning. He's drowning! You go in after him, you'll drown too. There's only one thing that can save him now."

"What are you talking about?" Amy asked through tears.

"The Siren. The Siren, she wants him. We have to release her." The Doctor said.

"Doctor, no!" Amy said.

The Doctor opens a fresh water barrel and the Siren zooms out. "He's drowning. Go and find him!" The Siren dives into the sea.

"What, what did you do?" Amy asked.

"If he stays in there he'll die." The Doctor says.

"But she'll destroy him." Amy said.

"That thing isn't just a ravenous hunter. It's intelligent. We can reason with it. And maybe, just maybe, they're still alive somewhere. We have to follow."

"Are you mad?" Avery asked.

"If we ever want to see them again, we have to let the Siren take us. We'll prick our fingers. All agreed? Yeah?" The Doctor asked. .

"Aye." Avery eventually said.

"Aye." Amy said.

"Aye." The Doctor says.

"Aye." I said, causing Jack to look at me. "It's fine. It won't hurt me."

Jack sighed. "Aye." The Doctor draws blood from each of us. The black spot appears on their palms and the Siren appears. There is a flash of bright light.

I woke up on a metal floor of a spaceship. Jack helped me stand up.

"Where are we?" Amy asked, looking around.

"We haven't moved. We're in exactly the same place as before." I said. We looked through a window onto the deck of the ship.

"We're on a ghost ship." Captain Avery concluded.

"No. It's real. Space ship trapped in a temporal rift." Jack said.

"How can two ships be in the same place?" Amy asked.

"Not the same. Two planes, two worlds, two cars parked in the same space. There are lots of different universes nested inside each other. Now and again they collide, and you can step from one to the other." The Doctor said.

"Okay, I think I understand." Amy said.

"Good, because it's not like that at all. But if that helps."

I rolled my eyes and Amy said, "Thanks." Sarcastically.

"All the reflections have suddenly become gateways." The Doctor throws a piece of metal at the window. It goes through and lands on the deck. "Ever look in a mirror and think you're seeing a whole other world? Well, this time it's not an illusion."

Beep, beep.

"The signal." Amy said.

"Yes." The doctor said.

"The distress call."

"Uh huh."

"There was a second ship here all the time." Jack said.

"And the Siren is on board."

He opens a door to reveal an alien skeleton. Its spacesuit says D.I.H.S. "Dead."

We walked onto the Bridge to find more of the crew as skeletons. "You were right. There was something staring at us the whole time. How long has this ship been marooned here?"

"Long enough for the Captain to have run out of grog." Avery said.

"I don't understand. If this is the Captain, then what's the Siren?"

"Same as us. A stowaway." The Doctor said.

"She killed it?" Amy asked.

"Human bacteria."

"What?" Amy asked.

"A virus from our planet. Airborne, travelling through the portal. That's what killed it. Didn't get its jabs. Urgh. Look." The Doctor has put his hand in some gunk.

"What is it?"

"Sneeze! Alien bogies." He wipes his hand on the sleeve of Amy's pirate coat and we moved out of the Bridge and began to wonder until we reached the sickbay.

We entered the Sickbay and saw lots of people lying on beds floating in midair, and connected by a tube to the ceiling. "McGrath! He's one of my men." Avery said, surprised.

Amy, however ran over to Rory. "He's still breathing."

"My entire crew is here. Toby!" Avery said, running over to him.

"Rory!" Amy yelled.

"The Tardis!" The Doctor yelled and I rolled my eyes.

"We have to get them out of here" Avery said as The Doctor, Jack and I came over to Toby's bed.

"Wait. His fever's gone." I said, placing my hand on his forehead.

"He looks so well." The Captain said.

"She's keeping him alive. His brain is still active, but all its cellular activity is suspended. It's not a curse, it's a tissue sample. Why get samples of people you are about to kill?" The Doctor said.

"Help me get him up." Amy said to the Doctor.

Rory begins to wake and that noise, Beep, beep, sounds loud.

"She's coming." Jack breathed. We hided behind a bank of monitors. The Siren floats in, singing her wordless song, and goes to Rory. He calms down and sleeps again.

"Anaesthetic." I said.

"What?" Avery asked.

"The music. The song. So she anaesthetises people and puts their body in stasis." The Siren goes to Toby. Avery steps out, gun ready.

"Avery, no!" I yelled but Avery shoots, and the Siren turns red. She advances on Avery, then the Doctor sneezes. The Siren heads for him instead.

"Fire. That's new. What does fire do? Burn? Yes. Destroy? What else? Sterilise! I sneezed. I've brought germs in." The Doctor blows his nose and throws the handkerchief on the floor. The Siren blasts the offending article. Amy runs to Rory. "Amy, stop. Don't interfere. Don't touch him. Anaesthetic, tissue sample, screen, sterile working conditions. Ignore all my previous theories!"

"Yeah? Well, we stopped paying attention a while back." Amy said.

"She's not a killer at all, she's a doctor!" I yelled. Amy stops fiddling with Rory's life support and the Siren returns to green.

"This is an automated sick bay. It's teleporting everyone on board. The crew are dead, and so the sick bay has had nothing to do. It's been looking after humanity whilst it's been idle. Look at her. A virtual doctor able to sterilise a whole room." The Doctor said.

"Able to burn your face off." Amy retorted.

"She's just an interface, seeped through the join between the planes, broadcast in our world. Protean circuitry means she can change her form, and become a human doctor for humans. Oh, sister, you are good."

"She won't let us take them." Avery said.

"She's keeping them alive, but she doesn't know how to heal them." I said.

"I'm his wife, for God's sake. Why can't I touch him?"

"Tell her, Amy. Show her your ring. She may be virtual but she's intelligent. You can't do anything without her consent. Come on. Sophisticated girl like you. That must be somewhere in your core program."

"Look, he's very ill, okay? I just want to look after him. Why won't you let me near my husband?" Amy asked. The Siren holds out her hand, and a circle of light appears around it.

"Consent form. Sign it. Put your hand in the light. Rory's sick. You have to take full responsibility." The Doctor said. Amy does so, and the Siren disappears. Amy turns off Rory's life support and Rory's body started sporadically moving.

"He can't breathe. Turn it back on." The Doctor said and Amy did as he told her.

"What do we do? I can't just leave him here."

"He'll die if you take him out." Avery said.

"Rory? Rory, wake up." Amy said.

"Where am I?" Rory asked.

"You're in a hospital. If you leave, you might die." The Doctor said.

"But if you don't, you'll have to stay forever." Amy told her Husband.

"You're saying that if I don't get up now-"

Amy noded. "You can never leave."

"The Siren will keep you safe."

"And if I come with you?" Rory asked.

"Drowning, on the point of death."

"I'm a nurse." Rory said.

"What?" Amy asked.

"I can teach you how to save me."

"Whoa. Hold on."

"I was drowning. You just have to resuscitate me."

"Just?"

"You've seen them do it loads of times in films. CPR. The kiss of life." Rory says.

"Rory, this isn't a film, okay? What if I do it wrong?" Amy asked.

"You won't."

"Okay, what if you don't come back to life? What if-"

"I trust you."

"What about him? I mean, why do I have to be the one? Why do I have to save you?"

"Because I know you'll never give up."

"We have to send this ship back into space. Imagine if the Siren got ashore. She would have to process every injured human." The Doctor said.

"What about Toby?" Avery asked.

The Doctor glanced at me before, "I'm sorry. Typhoid fever. Once he returns it's only a matter of time."

"What if I stay with him, here. The Siren will look after him. I can't go back to England. And what home does he have now, if not with me?"

"Do you think you can sail this thing?" The Doctor asked.

"Just point me to the atom accelerator."

"I know you can do this. Of course, if you muck it up I am going to be really cross. And dead." Rory said to Amy.

"I'll see you in a minute." Amy said.

The Doctor rips off Rory's restraints. They get him off the bed and carry him into the TARDIS where Amy starts CPR, doing one breath to five chest compressions.

"Come on. Come on, Rory. Not here. Not this way. Not today." The Doctor said.

"He trusted me. He trusted me to save him." Amy said, crying.

"You still can. You can still do this. He believes in you. Come on, Amy. Come on!"

" Please, please, please wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Come on. Come on." But finally she gives up. After a few moments, Rory starts coughing up water.

"Amy. Amy, you did it. You did it!"

I leaned on the Tardis while facing an awake Toby, still attached to his life support system. Jack and the others were inside, wanting to let me do this on my own. "Hey." I said.

"Hey back." Toby said. After a few seconds of silence Toby said, "I won't ever see you again, will I?"

"I'm sorry Toby. It's not likely. But hey, anything's possible."

Toby walked closer and put his hand on my stomach. "Do you hope for a boy or girl?"

"Girl." I said. "Though, if I have a boy, I will name them Toby."

Toby smiled. "Thank you."

Back in the Tardis, Amy was saying, "I thought I was an excellent pirate."

"I thought you were an excellent nurse."

"Easy, tiger. Goodnight, Doctor." Amy said as Rory and Amy headed off down the Tardis hallway.

"Goodnight, Amelia." The Doctor said.

Amy stopped and turned around. "You only call me Amelia when you're worrying about me."

"I always worry about you." The Doctor said.

"Mutual."

"Go to bed, Pond."

Jack came over to me. "Are you alright, Susan?"

"Yeah, fine." I said. "Just tired."

"Come on." Jack said grabbing my hand and pulling me toward our bedroom. "Lets go to sleep."

I looked back at the Doctor quickly to see the Tardis scan not being able to tell if Amy is pregnant or not and heard the Doctor mutter, "Oh Amelia."

A/N: Side note: Getting your wisdom teeth out is NOT fun.

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Guest (Mahogany Bitch): Thanks for pointing out the mistakes! I have fixed the first one, but for some reason can't find the second. If you could point out which section it is in, I can go in and change it easier. Love the name, Hunger Games reference?