The Doctor's Wife Pt. 1

"And then we discovered it wasn't the Robot King after all, it was the real one. Fortunately, I was able to re-attach the head." The Doctor said as Amy, Rory, the Doctor, Jack and I all piled back into the console room.

"Do you believe any of this stuff?" Rory asked.

"I was there." Amy said to Rory.

"Oh, it's the warning lights. I'm getting rid of those. They never stop." The Doctor says, waving his hand at controls on the console." The Doctor said, waving his hand aimlessly at the controls.

"Hey. You're still thinking about it, aren't you?" Rory asked Amy.

I grabbed Jack's hand and drew him away from Amy and Rory's conversation about the Doctor and I dying. "So Jack, what would you want to see this time?" I asked.

"Oh, shush. We saw them die." Amy said. I winced when I heard that. Sometimes Time Lord hearing is not such a good idea.

"Oh, someplace sunny." Jack said, resting his hand on my stomach. I smiled up at Jack and leaned into him.

"Yeah, two hundred years in the future for him and ten months for her." Rory said.

"Yes, but it's still going to happen." Amy said.

Suddenly we all heard knocking on the Tardis door just as I opened my mouth to say something back to Jack.

"What was that?" Amy asked.

"The door. It knocked." Jack said staring at the door in confusion.

"Right…. We are in deep space." Rory commented.

I nodded. "You are correct, Rory. Very, very deep space."

Someone or something knocked the rhythm Shave and a Hair Cut, to Bits. The Doctor spoke up, "And somebody's knocking. The Doctor opens the doors. A small glowing box is outside. "Oh, come here. Come here, you scrumptious little beauty." The box flies inside and ends up hitting the Doctor on the chest.

"A box?" Jack asked.

"Doctor, what is it?" Amy asked as the Doctor's face went from stunned to disbelief to hope.

"I've got mail." The Doctor said, still not believing it. "Time Lord emergency messaging system. In an emergency, we'd wrap up thoughts in psychic containers and send them through time and space. Anyway, there's a living Time Lord still out there, and it's one of the good ones." The Doctor said running up to the Tardis counsel to attach the box to the Tardis.

"You said there weren't any other Time Lords left." Rory said, looking at the Doctor with confusion.

"There are no Time Lords left anywhere in the universe. But the universe isn't where we're going. See that snake?" The Doctor asked, pointing to The Ourobouros, the snake swallowing its own tail on the screen on the Tardis console. "The mark of the Corsair. Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooo, she was a bad girl."

The Tardis bangs and shakes, making us grab onto the Tardis anywhere we could. I grabbed onto Jack who grabbed onto the railing.

"Oh, what is happening?" Rory asked,

"We're leaving the universe." I said.

"How can you leave the universe?" Amy asked.

"With enormous difficulty. Right now I'm burning up Tardis rooms to give us some welly. Goodbye, swimming pool. Goodbye, scullery. Sayonara, squash court seven."

"But I liked the swimming pool!" I wined. The Doctor gave me a look and the Tardis continued to crash, distracting The Doctor. Then everything all at once was still and silent. We all slowly let go of where we were all gripping.

"Okay, okay. Where are we?" Amy asked.

"Outside the universe, where we've never, ever been." The Doctor said just as the lights go out in the Tardis.

"Is that meant to be happening?" Jack asked, eyeing the lights.

"The power, it's draining. Everything's draining. But it can't. That's, that's impossible." The Doctor said.

"What is that?" Rory asked as a combination of white and yellow light escaped the Tardis console and flew out of the Tardis.

"It's as if the Matrix, the soul of the Tardis, has just vanished. Where would it go?" The Doctor asked.

We all made for the door when Jack pulled me aside. "Will this one be dangerous for the baby?"

I looked at Jack and said, "Everything we do is dangerous for the baby. But if I stay with the Doctor, I will be in less danger than going with Amy and Rory."

Jack took a deep breath. "Okay. If we have to split up, go with the Doctor. I don't think he will let you, especially with a baby, get hurt."

I smiled. "Thanks for not making me stay in the Tardis." I said as Jack and I walked out into the rear of a large crashed spaceship. We walked to where The Doctor, Rory and Amy were talking.

We were just approaching as Rory was saying, "How we can we be outside the universe? The universe is everything."

"Imagine a great big soap bubble with one of those tiny little bubbles on the outside." The Doctor started.

"Okay."

The Doctor scoffed. "Well, it's nothing like that. Completely drained. Look at her."

"Wait. So we're in a tiny bubble universe, sticking to the side of the bigger bubble universe?" Amy asked.

"Yeah. No. But if it helps, yes. This place is full of rift energy. She'll probably refuel just by being here. Now, this place. What do we think, eh? Gravity's almost Earth normal, air's breathable, but it smells like-"

Amy sniffed and wrinkled her nose. "Armpits."

"Armpits." The Doctor agreed. We walked further on and came to what looked to be outside and saw a huge junkyard of stuff, mostly scrap metal.

"What about all this stuff? Where did this come from?" Rory asked.

"Well, there's a rift. Now and then stuff gets sucked through it. Not a bubble, a plughole. The universe has a plughole and we've just fallen down it." The Doctor says.

Suddenly a woman runs out of nowhere and yells, "Thief! Thief! You're my thief!" I smiled.

"She's dangerous. Guard yourselves." An older woman says, followed closely behind was presumably her husband.

The woman whom I knew to be Idris runs up to The Doctor. "Look at you. Goodbye. No, not goodbye, what's the other one?" Idris kisses The Doctor.

"Watch out." The man says, pulling Idris back from The Doctor. "Careful. Keep back from her. Welcome, strangers. Lovely. Sorry about the mad person."

The Doctor looked at Idris curiously. "Why am I a thief? What have I stolen?"

"Me. You're going to steal me. No, you have stolen me. You are stealing me. Oh tenses are difficult, aren't they?" Idris said.

"Oh. Oh, we are sorry, my dove. She's off her head. They call me Auntie." Auntie said, smiling. I shifted closer to Jack, which did not go unnoticed by him.

"And I'm Uncle. I'm everybody's Uncle. Just keep back from this one. She bites!" Uncle exclaimed.

"Do I?" Idris asked, looking at Uncle. She smiled and turned back to face the Doctor. "Excellent" Idris bites the Doctor's ear.

"Ow! Ow!" The Doctor yells as Auntie and Uncle pull Idris away from the Doctor.

"Biting's excellent. It's like kissing, only there's a winner." Idris said.

"My younger self would have probably said something." Jack commented.

I glared up at Jack. "Make sure you don't."

"So sorry. She's doolally." Uncle said, finally getting his hold on Idris.

"No, I'm not doolally. I'm, I'm. It's on the tip of my tongue. I've just had a new idea about kissing. Come here, you." Idris says and struggles forward toward the Doctor while a stunned Amy and Rory watched from the sidelines, too shocked to do anything.

"No, Idris, no." Auntie said forcefully.

"Oh, but now you're angry. No, you're not. You will be angry. The little boxes will make you angry." Idris said.

"Sorry? The little what? Boxes?" The Doctor asked Idris.

"Oh, ho, no. Your chin is hilarious. It means the smell of dust after rain." Idris said.

"What does?" Rory asked.

"Petrichor." Idris said to Rory.

"But I didn't ask."

"Not yet. But you will."

"No, no, Idris. I think you should have a rest." Auntie said.

"Rest. Yes, yes. Good idea. I'll just see if there's an off switch." Idris collapses.

"Is that it? She dead now. So sad." Uncle said in a Mono tone.

Rory knelt next to Idris and checked for her pulse. "No, she's still breathing."

"Nephew, take Idris somewhere she can not bite people."

An Ood walks up, who Uncle called Nephew.

"Oh, hello!" The Doctor says, smiling at seeing something familiar. I didn't smile though, I inched closer to Jack.

"Doctor, what is that?" Jack asked.

"Oh, no, it's all right. It's an Ood. Oods are good. Love an Ood. Hello, Ood. Can't you talk? Oh, I see. It's damaged. May I?" The Doctor said, pointing his sonic at the ball communication device.

It might just be on the wrong frequency."

"Nephew was broken when he came here. Why, he was half dead. House repaired him. House repaired all of us." Auntie said.

"If you are receiving this message, please help me. Send a signal to the High Council of the Time Lords on Gallifrey. Tell them that I am still alive. I don't know where I am. I'm on some rock-like planet." The mail cube said. I tensed, knowing that the Doctor wouldn't like what was going to come next. I rubbed my hand over my stomach, feeling a soft kick from the baby.

"What was that? Was that him?" Amy asked.

"No, no. It's picking up something else. But that's, that's not possible. That's, that's. Who else is here? Tell me. Show me. Show me." The Doctor demanded.

"Just what you see. Just the four of us, and the House. Nephew, will you take Idris somewhere safe where she can't hurt nobody?" Auntie said.

"The House? What's the House?" Jack asked.

"House is all around you, my sweets. You are standing on him. This is the House. This world. Would you like to meet him?"

"Meet him?" Rory asked.

"I'd love to." The Doctor said.

I stepped up next to the Doctor. "So would I.

The Doctor glanced at me, "Are you sure?"

I nodded my head. "Yes."

"Then stay close to me."

"This way. Come, please. Come."

"What's wrong? What were those voices?" Amy asked as she looked from the Doctor's angry face to mine of worry.

"Time Lords. It's not just the Corsair. Somewhere close by there are lots and lots of Time Lords." The Doctor said.

We walked back into the ground in what looked like a spaceship. "Come. Come, come. You can see the House and he can look at you, and he." Uncle said.

Uncle and Auntie led the Doctor to a device. The Doctor looks down the grating on the floor.

"I see. This asteroid is sentient."

"We walk on his back, breathe his air, eat his food." Auntie said.

"Smell its armpits." Amy said. I glanced back at her, caught her eye and shook my head.

House speaks through Uncle and Auntie as if they are marionettes. It is a nice, refined voice. " And do my will. You are most welcome, travelers."

"Doctor, that voice. That's the asteroid talking?" Amy asked.

"Yes. So you're like a sea urchin. Hard outer surface, that's the planet we're walking on. Big, squashy, oogly thing inside, that's you." The Doctor asked.

"That is correct, Time Lord."

"Ah. So you've met Time Lords before?"

"Many travellers have come through the rift, like Auntie and Uncle and Nephew. I repair them when they break."

"So there are Time Lords here, then?"

"Other than you and the pregnant woman, not any more, but there have been many Tardises on my back in days gone by."

"Well, there won't be any more after us. Last of the Time Lords. Last Tardis."

"A pity. Your people were so kind. Be here in safety, Doctor, Susan. Rest, feed, if you will."

Rory looked at the Doctor, "We're not actually going to stay here, are we?"

"Well, it seems like a friendly planet. Literally. Mind if we poke around a bit?" The Doctor asked.

"You can look all you want. Go. Look." Auntie turned to Amy, "House loves you."

"Come on then, gang. We're just going to, er, see the sights." The Doctor said.

As we walked down the corridor, we heard Idris yell from off into the distance, "Thief!"

"Shush, shush, shush." The Doctor said, stopping everyone's conversation.

"So, as soon as the Tardis is refueled, we go, yeah?" Rory asked.

"No. There are Time Lords here. I heard them and they need me."

"You told me about your people, and you told me what you did." Amy said.

"Yes, yes, but if they're like the Corsair, they're good one and I can save them."

"And then tell them you destroyed the others?"

The Doctor hesitated, "I can explain. Tell them why I had to"

"You want to be forgiven." Amy realized.

"Don't we all?"

"What do you need from me?"

"My screwdriver. I left it in the Tardis. It's in my jacket."

Rory eyed the Doctor. "You're wearing your jacket."

"My other jacket."

"You have two of those?"

"Okay, I'll get it. But Doctor, listen to me. Don't get emotional because that's when you make mistakes." Amy throws him her mobile phone.

"Yes, boss."

"I'll call you from the Tardis. Rory, look after him."

The Doctor turns to Rory and says, "Rory, look after her."

"Yeah." Rory said, then a few seconds after Amy left, Rory followed.

The Doctor turned to me. "Are you sure you don't want to go with Amy and Rory?"

I faced the Doctor. "I would rather stay here than be in the Tardis at the moment."

The Doctor sighed. "Okay, Jack, keep her safe. There are Time Lords here, which means danger is not far behind."

Jack nodded. "Of course I will." Jack says, holding my hand.

The Doctor nodded and started walking down the corridor with Jack and I following close behind. Amy's phone rings and the Doctor picked it up. The Doctor pauses for a moment, listening to Amy and then said, "Yeah, it's around somewhere. Have a good look." The Doctor takes his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket and locks the TARDIS door. He hangs up.

Jack opened his mouth to say something then thought better of it.

"Come on. Where are you? Now, where are you all? Where are you?" We came to a curtain which he pulls back a curtain to a small alcove. "Well, they can't all be in here." There are indistinct voices nearby. He opens a small cupboard and finds at least 10 of those message boxes all chattering away.

"Please do you read me." A man's voice says.

"Structural integrity failure. Damage to dimensional stabilizer."

"If you can hear, come and help." Another man says. I could practically feel the Doctor's anger.

Uncle and Auntie come up behind us and we turn around and face them. "Just admiring your Time Lord distress signal collection. Nice job. Brilliant job. Really thought I had some friends here, but this is what the Ood translator picked up. Cries for help from the long dead. How many Time Lords have you lured here the way you lured me, and what happened to them all?"

"House, House is kind and he is wise." Auntie said.

"House repairs you when you break. Yes, I know. But how does he mend you? You've got the eyes of a twenty year old."

"Thank you." Uncle said and I fought the urge to vomit.

"No. Oh, no, I mean it literally. Your eyes are thirty years younger than the rest of you. Your ears don't match, your right arm is two inches longer than you're left, and how's your dancing? Because you've got two left feet. Patchwork people. You've been repaired and patched up so often, I doubt there's anything left of what used to be you. I had an umbrella like you once."

Auntie's forearm has a snake tattoo. "Oh, now, it's been a great arm for me, this."

"Corsair." The Doctor said.

"He was a strapping big bloke, wasn't he, Uncle?" Auntie said.

"Big fellow." Uncle agreed.

"I got the arm and then Uncle got the spine and the kidneys."

"Kidneys." Uncle said.

"You gave me hope, and then you took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. God knows what it will do to me. Basically, run!"

"Poor old Time Lord. Too late. House is too clever." Uncle said then Auntie and Uncle leave.

Amy's phone rings and the Doctor puts it on speaker. "No sonic screwdriver. Also the doors seemed to have locked behind us. Rory thinks there's a perfectly innocent explanation, but I think you lied to us."

"Time Lord stuff. Needed you out of the way." The Doctor said.

"What, we're not good enough but Jack and Susan are?"

"The boxes will make you angry. How could she know?" The Doctor asked, thinking back to what Idris said when they first met Auntie, Uncle, Nephew and The House.

"Doctor, what are you talking about?" Jack asked.

"I'm on speaker aren't I?" Amy asked. "Sorry about what I said, Jack, Susan."

"Stay put. Stay exactly where you are." The Doctor told Amy.

"We don't have much choice." Amy retorted back.

The Doctor turned off the phone and looked at Jack and I. "We need to find Idris. Do you know where she is, Susan?"

"The brig." I replied.

"How did you know about the boxes? You said they'd make me angry. How did you know?" The Doctor said angrily to Idris.

"Ah, it's my thief." Idris said.

"Who are you?" The Doctor asked.

Idris smirked, "It's about time."

"I don't understand. Who are you?" The Doctor asked.

"Do you not know me? Just because they put me in here? Susan knows me."

"Susan knows everything but that is besides the point. They said you were dangerous."

"Not the cage, stupid. In here. They put me in here. I'm the. Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go-" Idris makes the Tardis sound. I thought Jack's eyes would fall out of his head.

"The Tardis?" Jack asked, staring open-mouthed at Idris.

"Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the Tardis."

"No, you're not. You're a biter, mad lady. The Tardis is up and downy stuff in a big blue box." The Doctor said stubbornly.

I rolled my eyes. "Sorry about him, Old Girl. He needs a minute to get over the shock." The Doctor glared at me.

Idris turned and hugged me. "Oh I've been looking forward to meeting you ever since the Doctor carried you aboard. A woman from another universe with knowledge far past any human." Idris turned to the Doctor, "Yes, that's me. A Type Forty Tardis. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console you said-"

"I said you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known."

Idris smiled. "And then you stole me. And I stole you."

"I borrowed you." The Doctor retorted and I rolled my eyes.

"Borrowing implies the intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?" Idris replied.

"You're the Tardis?"

"Yes."

"My Tardis?" The Doctor asked again.

"My Doctor. Oh. We have now reached the point in the conversation where you open the lock." Idris said.

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