The Doctor's Wife Pt. 2

The Doctor sonicks open the cage.

"What, your just going to believe her?" Jack asked the Doctor.

"Jack!" I scolded. "She really is the Tardis."

Idris smiled at me, "Thanks Susan. Are all people like this?"

"Like what?" I asked.

"So much bigger on the inside. I'm, oh, what is that word? It's so big, so complicated. It's so sad." Idris said.

"But why? Why pull the living soul from a Tardis and pop it in a tiny human head? What does it want you for?" The Doctor asked.

"Oh, it doesn't want me." Idris tells us.

"How do you know?" Jack asked.

"House eats Tardises." Idris told us.

"House what?" The Doctor asked. "What do you mean?"

"I don't know. It's something I heard you say." Idris responded.

"When?" I asked.

Idris shrugged, looking at the Doctor. "In the future."

"House eats Tardises?" The Doctor asked.

Idris smirked. "There you go. What are fish fingers?"

"When do I say that?" The Doctor asked, talking about the fish fingers.

"Any second." Idris replied.

"Of course. House feeds on rift energy and Tardises are bursting with it. And not raw, all lovely and cooked. Processed food. Mmm, fish fingers."

"Do fish have fingers?" Idris asked the Doctor. I gave a glance toward Jack to see that he was barely holding in his laughter.

"But you can't eat a Tardis. it would destroy you. Unless, unless-"

"Unless you deleted the Tardis Matrix first." Idris finished.

"So it deleted you." I concluded.

"But House can't just delete a Tardis's consciousness. That would blow a hole in the universe. So he pulls out the Matrix, sticks it in a living receptacle and then it feeds off the remaining Artron energy. Oh. You were about to say all that. I don't suppose you have to now." Idris said.

The Doctor's eyes widened. "That's why you wanted to stay with me, Susan. I sent Amy and Rory in there. They'll be eaten." The Doctor takes out Amy's phone, put it on speaker and calls the Tardis. "Amy! Amy? Rory? Get the hell out of there." We all ran for the TARDIS, I running slowly behind everyone else.

"Doctor, something's wrong." Amy said.

"It's House. He's after the Tardis. Just get out both of you." I said, ignoring the look on the Doctor face because I spoke what he was going to say.

"We can't. The Doctor locked the door, remember?"

We were now in the junkyard outside and saw the Tardis not too far away. "But I've unlocked it." The Doctor said, having unlocked the Tardis door with his screwdriver while he was running.

"You stupid well haven't." Amy yelled. The Cloister Bell starts to toll and a wind blows through. "Doctor, I don't like this."

We were now at the Tardis which it's normal yellow lighted windows were now green and I was breathing heavily while leaning on Jack. "Pregnant women were not made to run Nine months into their pregnancy."

"Nine?" Jack asked. "Oh yeah. Didn't the Tardis tell you that it would take a Time lady 18 months for you to give birth?"

"Yes I did. Young Amelia Rose." Idris said, smiling.

The Doctor tries the screwdriver again, and snaps his fingers, surprisingly ignoring Idris's comment about the unborn Amelia. "Open!"

"Doctor?" We heard Amy yell from inside.

"Open this door!" The Doctor said, turning to Idris.

"Rory, hold my hand." We heard Amy say.

"Amy. Rory!" The Doctor, Jack and I yelled as The Tardis dematerialises. The Doctor tries the phone again. "Amy? Amy, can you hear me? Okay, right. I don't, I really don't know what to do. That's a new feeling."

Jack laughed despite the situation we were in. "You not knowing. That's new."

"Shut up, Jack." The Doctor said. "It's gone."

"Eaten?" Idris asked.

"No, it left. Not eaten, hi-jacked. But why?" The Doctor asked.

"It's time for us both to go, and keep together." Auntie said from behind, surprising us. Jack stepped in front of me as we saw Auntie and Uncle stumbling toward us.

The Doctor rushed to them. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Go? What do you mean, go? Where are you going?"

"Well, we're dying, my love. It's time for Auntie and Uncle to pop off." Auntie said.

"I'm against it." Uncle said stubbornly.

"It's your fault, isn't it, sweets? Because you told House it was the last Tardis. House can't feed on them if there's none more coming, can he?"

"So now he's off to your universe to find more Tardises." Uncle said.

"It won't." The Doctor said. I didn't know whether to be sad or happy about that.

"Oh, it'll think of something." Auntie said then she collapsed.

"Actually, I feel fine." Uncle said, then he drops.

"Not dead. You can't just die!" The Doctor yelled at Auntie and Uncle.

"We need to go to where I landed, Doctor, quickly." Idris said.

The Doctor looked up at Idris. "Why?"

"Because we are there in three minutes. We need to go now." Idris stumbled and I caught her. "Ow. Roughly how long do these bodies last?"

"You're dying." The Doctor whispered.

"Yes, of course I'm dying. I don't belong in a flesh body. I could blow the casing in no time. No, stop it. Don't get emotional. Hmm. That's what the orangey girl says. You're the Doctor. Focus."

"On what? How? I'm a madman with a box, without a box. I'm stuck down the plughole at the end of the universe on a stupid old junkyard. Ooo."

"Ooo what?" Jack asked.

"I'm not."

"Not what?" Idris asked.

"Because it's not a junkyard. Don't you see? It's not a junkyard."

"What is it then?" Jack asked.

"It's a Tardis junkyard. Come on! Oh, sorry. Do you have a name?" The Doctor asked.

Idris rolled her eyes. "Seven hundred years, finally he asks."

"But what do I call you?"

"I think you call me Sexy." Idris said. Jack snorted.

"Only when we're alone." The Doctor glanced at Jack and I. "Tell no one."

We made it to the spot Idris was talking about. We stood overlooking a valley of junk, specifically, Tardis junk. "A valley of half eaten Tardises. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" The Doctor asked us.

"I'm thinking that all of my sisters are dead. That they were devoured, and that we are looking at their corpses."

"Ah. Sorry. No, I wasn't thinking that."

"Sensitive much?" I asked the Doctor.

"You were thinking you could build a working Tardis console out of broken remnants of a hundred different models. And you don't care that it's impossible." Idris said.

"It's not impossible as long as we're alive. Rory and Amy need me. So yeah, we're going to build a Tardis."

We were now walking along the paths of the junkyard, Idris and the Doctor talking softly in front and Jack and I following close behind, having a conversation of our own.

"So, that girl… Idris is the Tardis. The actual Tardis." Jack said as he swung my hand back and forth in between us.

"Yeah." I said.

"She knew our baby's name before we told anyone."

I blushed. "I may have told her what River said when I came back to my room after that adventure."

"You told her?" Jack asked.

"More like she went through my memories of the adventure in my head and tried to stop me from blaming myself for River's death."

"Well then I should thank her." Jack said.

"I do have a question for her though, but I need to ask you first."

"What is it?" Jack asked, looking at me.

"Well, I wanted to know if we could form a telepathic bond, so if we needed to, we could communicate silently."

Jack hummed. "Yeah, that would be useful considering how we are always in some sort of danger."

"Idris!" I gasped as the Doctor caught her after she collapsed.

Jack and I hurried forward as The Doctor asked, "You okay?"

"One of the kidneys has already failed. It doesn't matter. We need to finish assembling the console."

"Using a console without a proper shell. It's not going to be safe."

"This body has about eighteen minutes left to live. The universe we're in will reach Absolute Zero in three hours. Safe is relative."

"Then we need to get a move on. Eh, old girl?" The Doctor asked.

Five minutes later Idris came walking over to me as I was noticing some parts together. "Hello Susan, the woman from a parallel universe."

I looked up from what I was doing. Jack and the Doctor were somewhere getting parts. "Hey Old Girl." I said.

"You have a question for me." Befor I could open my mouth to speak Idris said, "I heard your and Jack's conversation. It can be done, though it will be safer to do once I am back inside the Tardis."

I smiled. "Thank you." I frowned as Idris started to cough. After a few second of doing so she was fine again. "Are you okay?" I asked, then I mentally kicked myself. Of course she wasn't okay, she was dying for Merlin's sake!

"As well as I can be in a dying body. The other reason I came to talk to you was to talk about Amelia Rose."

I stiffened. "Is anything wrong?"

Idris gave a comforting smile. "No, she is a healthy girl. But I came to warn you that the first pregnancy for a Time Lady is always difficult. There is a whole ritual surrounding births, as it is uncommon in Time Lord history. Most Time Lord babies are grown using TNA samples of the couple that want the child."

I stared at Idris, "So it was like when I was born, in a matter of speaking, just more advanced."

Idris nodded. "The process will be difficult and it will be long." I groaned at that. "Do not fret, Susan. You will have your Doctor to help you and your husband by your side."

I smiled. "Thanks for warning me."

"Any time, Susan Jane Harkness."

The console is almost complete. Jack and I were standing together on one side and the Doctor and Idris on the other. "You'll need to install the time rotor." Idris said.

The Doctor does. "How is this going to make it through the rift? How? We're almost done. Thrust diffuser? Er, retroscope. Blue thingy."

Idris examines a wire coat hanger. "Do you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?"

"I chose you. You were unlocked."

"Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough."

"Right. Perfect. Look at that. What could possibly go wrong?" A piece falls off the console. "That's fine. That always happens. No, hang on. Wait." He gets a couple of pieces of red rope with hooks on the ends.

The ropes are safety lines. "Right. Okay, let's go. Follow that Tardis." Nothing happens. "Oh no, come on. There's rift energy everywhere. You can do it. Okay, diverting all power to thrust. Let's be having you." Bang, sparks. "No, no, no, no."

"What's wrong?" Jack asked.

"It can't hold the charge. It can't even start. There's no power. I've got nothing." The Doctor said.

"Oh, my beautiful idiot. You have what you've always had. You've got me." Idris kisses her finger, and transfers golden energy to the console. Jack grabs onto me as we dematerialise.

"Whoo hoo!" The Doctor yelled.

"I'm going to throw up!" I yelled. "I was not meant to do this when I am pregnant!"

"We've locked on to them. They'll have to lower the shields when I'm close enough to phase inside." Idris said.

"Can you get a message to Amy? The telepathic circuits are online." The Doctor asked.

"Which one's Amy? The pretty one?"

"Hello, Pretty." Idris says.

"Don't worry. Telepathic messaging. No, that's Rory." The Doctor said.

Jack looked at me confused. "Video call telepathically." I told him. Jack nodded.

"You have to go to the old control room. I'm putting the route in your head. When you get there use the purple slider on the nearest panel to lower the shields." Idris said.

"The pretty one?" The Doctor asked Idris, who ignored him.

"You'll have about twelve seconds before the room goes into phase with the invading Matrix. I'll send you the pass key when you get there. Good luck."

"How's he going to be able to take down the shields anyway? The House is in the control room." The Doctor asked Idris.

"I directed him to one of the old control rooms."

"There aren't any old control rooms. They were all deleted or remodelled."

"I archive them, for neatness. I've got about thirty now." Idris said, proudly.

"But I've only changed the desktop, what, a dozen times?"

"So far, yes."

"You can't archive something that hasn't happened yet."

"You can't." Idris retorted back.

"Keep going. You're doing it, you sexy thing." The Doctor said. I glanced at Jack who was desperately trying to hold in his laughter.

"See, you do call me that. Is it my name?" Idris asked.

The Doctor smiled. "You bet it's your name."

"Whoo!" Idris yelled.

"They did it. Shields down!" Idris said. "We're coming through. Get out of the way or you'll be atomised." After a second she said, "I don't know." The console is closing on the Tardis. "It's not going to hold."

The console materialises in a shower of sparks. Jack grabs me so I don't fall over.

"Doctor." Amy gasped.

Idris collapses and the Doctor catches her. "Not good. Not good at all. How do you walk around in these things?"

"We're not quite there yet. Just hold on. Amy, this is, well, she's my Tardis. Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's my Tardis."

"She's the Tardis?" Amy asked.

"And she's a woman. She's a woman and she's the Tardis." The Doctor said excitedly.

"Did you wish really hard?"

"Shut up. Not like that."

"Hello. I'm Sexy." Idris said.

"Oh. Still shut up."

"The environment has been breached. Nephew, kill them all." House said.

"Where's Nephew?" Rory asked.

"He was standing right where you materialised." Amy said.

"Ah. Well, he must have been redistributed." The Doctor said.

"Meaning what?" Rory asked.

"You're breathing him." Jack concluded.

"Oh, come on." Amy said, scrunching up her face.

"Another Ood I failed to save." The Doctor said.

"Doctor, Susan. I did not expect you." House said.

"Well, that's me all over, isn't it? Lovely old unexpected me."

"The big question is, now you're here, how to dispose of you? I could play with gravity." We get pulled to the floor for a few seconds. I tried to turn but I ended up landing on my stomach. I groaned in pain from trying to push myself up and off my stomach. Then he let us go and I collapsed on the floor. Jack helped me up.

"Or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke." He did so and I felt the tightness in my throat and started choking.

"You really don't want to do that." The Doctor got out.

"Why shouldn't I just kill you now?" House asked.

"Because then I won't be able to help you. Listen to your engines. Just listen to them. You don't have the thrust and you know it. Right now I'm your only hope for getting out of your little bubble through the rift, and into my universe. And mine's the one with the food in." The Doctor said and the House stopped choking everyone.

"Water, water." Idris whispered. I went over to her and set her head in my lap, smoothing out her wet hair from sweat.

"You just have to promise not to kill us. That's all, just promise." The Doctor said.

"You can't be serious." Amy said.

"I'm very serious. I'm sure it's an entity of its word."

"Doctor, she's burning up. She's asking for water." Rory said as he knelt down next to me to try to see what the matter was with Idris.

The Doctor looked over at Idris "Hey. Hang in there, old girl. Not long now. It'll be over soon."

Idris smiled. "I always liked it when you call me old girl."

"You want me to give my word? Easy. I promise."

"Fine. Okay. I trust you. Just delete, oh er, thirty percent of the Tardis rooms, you'll free up thrust enough to make it through. Activate subroutine Sigma nine."

"Why would you tell me this?"

"Because we want to get back to our universe as badly as you do. And I'm nice." The Doctor reasoned with him.

"I can delete rooms. And I can also rid myself of vermin if I delete this room first. Thank you, Doctor. Very helpful. Goodbye, Time Lords. Goodbye, little humans. Goodbye, Idris." Bright light. The Tardis returns to normal space with an empty console room. Then the four of them appear.

"Yes. I mean, you could do that, but it just won't work. Hardwired fail safe. Living things from rooms that are deleted are automatically deposited in the main control room. But thanks for the lift." The Doctor said.

"We are in your universe now, Doctor. Why should it matter to me in which room you die? I can kill you just as easily here as anywhere. Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords."

"Fear me. I've killed all of them.

"I don't understand. There isn't a forest in here." Rory said, still talking telepathically to Idris, which she made me aware of.

"Yeah, you're right. You've completely won. Oh, you can kill us in oodles of really inventive ways, but before you do kill us allow me and friends Amy, Rory, Jack and Susan to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent."

"Congratulations." Amy and Jack said at the same time, Jack glancing to where I was, sitting on the floor holding Idris. I smiled sadly at Jack.

"Yep, you've defeated us. Me and my lovely friends here, and last but definitely not least, the Tardis Matrix herself, a living consciousness you ripped out of this very control room and locked up into a human body. And look at her."

"Doctor, she's stopped breathing." Rory said.

"Enough. That is enough." House said.

"No. It's never enough. You forced the Tardis into a body so she'd burn out safely a very long way away from this control room. A flesh body can't hold the Tardis Matrix and live. Look at her body, House."

"And you think I should mourn her?" House asked.

"No. I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room. You took her from her home. But now she's back in the box again, and she's free." The golden energy streams from Idris into the console then out again and through the Tardis.

"No. Doctor, stop this. Argh! Stop this now." House said.

"Oh, look at my girl. Look at her go. Bigger on the inside. You see, House?"

"Make her stop!"

"That's your problem. Size of a planet, but inside you are just so small."

"Make it stop!"

"Finish him off, girl."

"Ow. Don't do this! Argh!"

Golden Idris is standing on the stairs. "Doctor, are you there? It's so very dark in here."

The Doctor walks up to the Golden Idris. "I'm here."

"I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now."

"What word?"

"Alive. I'm alive."

I stood up with the help of Rory.

"Alive isn't sad." The Doctor told her.

"It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here, but this is when we talked, and now even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you."

"Goodbye?"

"No. I just wanted to say hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you."

"Please. I don't want you to. Please." Idris dematerialises. "Where?"

Jack and I are back inside our room, which thankfully hasn't been deleted. I had on a very loose white dressing gown and Jack had on a black robe. Underneath I could see his muscles. Jack sat on the edge of the bed next to me. "So, what about that telepathic thing? Did you manage to talk to the Tardis about it?"

I took in a sharp breath. "Yeah, She said she would help us."

Jack picked up my hands and held them. "Susan, the Tardis isn't dead. Her body she was placed in, sure but she transferred to the Tardis Matrix. She's still alive."

You would be correct about that. Came Idris's voice in my head.

I looked up because Jack winced, rubbing his head. "Was that the Tardis?" Jack asked.

"Yes, wait you heard her?"

Yes, Captain. I am the Tardis. Susan asked if you could become a telepathic. That would mean direct communication with The Doctor, Susan and of course, me. Because you are Susan's husband, or in Gallifreyan terms, Consort, you will be telepathically bonded. Becoming Telepathically bonded means that you will feel each other's feelings. If either of you are feeling sad, happy, angry, the other will feel it as well. If one of you is in pain, the other will only feel as though they have a bad migraine, but no harm will come to them. If the other dies… permanently... you will never be able to do this with anyone again. Do you still want to continue?

Jack looked at me and I stared back into Jack's eyes. "Yes." We both said at the same time.

Then lie down on the bed. Jack looked confused at this but we did as we were told. Good then hold each other. Susan, enter Jack's mind and while you are doing this, fall asleep in each other's arms. When you wake up, the process will be complete.

**My Telepathic Bonding was inspired by LizzeXX's Bonding. Complete credit for the idea goes to her and her amazing stories.

Next:

One day no one dies.

Next day... no one dies.

And the next, and the next, and the next.

They called it…

MIRACLE DAY.

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