The Girls Who Waited Pt. 2

Year 1, Day 8

We spent the night in the vent, Amy and Jenny not wanting to leave its safety. Now we walked carefully into the Gate room. There were several free standing portals and a central control column.

"Interface?" Jenny asked, cautiously.

"I am here, Jenny Smith."

"Shush, shush. Turn that light off. So I'm, what is this? How does it work?" Amy asked.

"This is the Gate. From here you may depart to any of Twostreams' entertainment zones." The Interface says.

I presses buttons on the central column.

"Cinema. Aquarium. Garden." The Interface says.

"Garden?" Amy asks us.

Jenny shrugged. "Why not?"

"Garden." The Interface says. The Iconian Portal flickers with light, then Amy, Jenny and I run through it.

We run out onto a terrace. "That is beautiful. I mean, freaky hedges." Amy says.

Jenny laughs. "I agree."

"The perfect replica of a Shill Governor's Mansion on Shallanna." The Interface sahys.

"You really could spend a lifetime in here. Not that I'm going to. Interface?" Amy asks.

"Amy Pond?" The Interface asked.

"Listen, we need somewhere safe to hide and wait for our friends. Where in Twostreams is safe?" Jenny asked.

"Twostreams is a safe, nurturing environment."

"You know what I mean. Where can we go so the Handbots can't find mus? Okay. Before, we was stood by a sort of vent, and there was light and smoke, and the Handbots couldn't see us. Why not? Okay, I will put it another way. What were those vent thingies?" Amy finished.

"The vents channel the exhaust fumes from the Temporal Engines that hold the multiple timestreams in place."

"And these Temporal Engines mess up the Handbots' sensors. So, where's the Temporal Engines?" Jenny asked.

"Temporal Engines held within." The Interface said.

Interface shows us an image of the entrance to the Temporal Engines, by the Arrivals lounge.

"Okay." I said. Two Handbots beam in.

"Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness." The Handbots say together. I grab their sensing hands and pushes them together. They short out.

"Ha! Don't like that, do you?" I asked them.

"Come on, Susan. Lets go." Jenny says. Amy finds the door and we go inside.

"Temporal engines. Somewhere to hide." Jenny says, staring up at them with fascination.

We go back to the door and Amy writes on it with her lipstick. Doctor we are waiting and puts an arrow to the door handle.

Year 1, Day 38

Susan, Jenny and I are in our hideout in the Temporal Engine room. There was mesh screen, the same style as around the air vent that we hid in, around the walls of our hideout. So far, with help, we had taken three couches from around the medical facility so we could have something comfortable to sleep on.

Our days were spent scouting out the facility and facing the Handbots. I had a scar from my shoulder down to my elbow from a shard of glass that scraped me as I crashed out of a window and onto the gravel below, trying to get away from the Handbots. That was in week two.

Amy and I were fighting. Well, more like neither one of us were talking to each other. Jenny had to be the negotiator, and she was probably as tired as our fighting as I was, but I was never going to admit it.

Because I only had one heart working, on purpose, I found that It was a lot harder to breath and to keep up with Amy. I was sure Jenny was feeling the same way, but this was a topic of discussion none of us brought up.

"Jenny, can you please tell Susan to-"

"Tell her yourself!" Jenny shouted from the other side of the room.

I sighed and stood up. "Amy, can you please-"

"Okay, okay. Look me in the face and say it now." Rory's voice says around us. Amy pauses mid stride.

Amy blinked. "Rory? Rory is that you?" A Time Glass so appears next to Amy.

"Rory, where are you?" Amy asked.

"Same place as you, and a bit ahead." Rory said.

"I remember this." Amy's voice came out of the Time Glass, but it sounded older.

"But who's she? There's no one else here but us. Me?" Amy asks.

"Why are we still here?" Amy asks.

"Because they leave you. Because they get in their Tardis and they fly away."

Amy shakes her head. "No. Rory wouldn't, not ever. Something must have stopped him."

"You did. Or rather, the old version of you." Old Amy says. "The me version of you. I refuse to help them. I won't let them save myself."

"Why?"

"If you escape, then I was never trapped here. The last thirty six years of my life rewrites, and I cease to exist. That's why old me refused to help then. That's why I'm refusing to help now. And that's why you'll refuse to help when it's your turn. And nothing you can say will change that."

"Three words. What about Rory?" Rory leaves the screen so Older Amy can be seen clearly.

"Rory?" Older Amy asked. "I called my robot Rory."

"You called your robot Rory?" Jenny asked.

"Jenny?" Old Amy gasped. "Is- Is Susan there as well?"

"Why aren't they there with you?" Jenny asked Old Amy. "Of course they we are here."

We could see a pained expression on old Amy's face. "They're dead." Amy said dryly.

I swallowed. Jack was going to kill me. "W-what happened?" I got out. "We should have regenerated."

"Susan died first." Old Amy said without any emotion. "It was a normal reconnaissance in our tenth year here, to scout out the area and to see if He was here yet. We encountered more Handbots than usual. We had almost made it to our lair. The Handbot got you. You contracted Clen Seven and died twenty four hours later. Jenny died next, in my twenty-second year here. We were running from The Handbots. We got separated. I never saw you again."

"I'm sorry Amy." I said. "I never planned on leaving you alone. At least you weren't completely alone this time."

Amy blinked and opened her mouth to say something but Older Amy beat her to it. "What?" The Older Amy said weakly.

"If Jenny and I weren't here, you would have done this by yourself. And you know what I am talking about. I told you where I am from. Now, can you help us get to where you are, or not?"

"You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for friendship?"

"Not just friendship." I said. "Love. All three of us has someone waiting where you are. I have my husband, Jack. Amy has Rory. Jenny, even if she is stubborn in admitting it, has Cline. Please, Amy."

Rory renters the screen. "I am going to pull time apart for you." Older Amy says. She kisses Rory. "Okay, Doctor, Twostreams is back on air. Right, okay, so this is big news." "This is temporal earthquake time. I am now officially changing my own future. Hold on to your spectacles. In my past, I saw my future self refuse to help you. I'm now changing that future and agreeing. Every law of time says that shouldn't be possible."

"Yes, except sometimes knowing your own future's what enables you to change it. Especially if you're bloody minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable." The Doctor says. "Oh, susan Janny, Jack and Cline say hi. I made them promise not to interrupt us while trying to get you guys back."

I smiled. "Hi Jack!"

"Hey Cline!" Jenny says.

"So basically, if you're Amy, then?" Rory asked The Doctor.

"Yes, if anyone could defeat pre-destiny, It's your wife."

"It's not about what I'm doing, but who I'm doing it for. I'm trusting you to watch my back, Rory." Older Amy said.

Rory smiled. "Always. You and me, always."

"Because here's the deal. You take me, too. In the Tardis. Me too." Older Amy said.

Rory blinked. "But that means that there'll be two of you. Permanently. Forever."

"And that way we both get to live."

"Two Amys together. Can that work?" Rory asked.

"I don't know." The Doctor said. "It's your marriage."

Rory sighed. "Doctor."

"Perhaps. Maybe, if I shunted the reality compensators on the Tardis, re-calibrated the Doomsday bumpers and jettisoned the karaoke bar, yes. Maybe. Yes. It could do it. The Tardis could sustain the paradox."

"Right. Amy and Amy." Rory said. "The wife and the wife. Right. Right."

"Okay. Amy, Past Amy, stand by the door. Future Amy, you too. Jenny and Susan as well. Future Amy, can I borrow your sonic scr- Probe."

"It's a screwdriver." Older Amy said.

"Rory, sonic it. Double our power. Amy Now, you're our link to Amy Then. We need to get a signal through, and that signal. Will be a thought. Amy Now and Amy Then, share a thought. Something so powerful that it can rip through time. Jenny and Susan, do the same but use your Time Lord capabilities to amplify it. Jack and Cline should be with Rory by now. Jenny and Cline, share a thought. Jack and Susan, you two share a thought. Rory Sonic the plinth front. Inside you'll find. Three levers and a jumble of wiring. That's the regulator valve. After we re-route it, you have ten minutes to get back to the Tardis."

"Okay." Rory says. "Jack and Cline, stand next to Amy."

"Pull out the red and green receptors. Re-route the blue into the red and the green into blue. Leave the red loose and on no account touch anything yellow. Come on, Rory. It's hardly rocket science. It's just quantum physics."

"Yes, right. Blue into red and then green."

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Now, the levers. Throw them in order. And Amys, start thinking the most important thought you have ever had. Jack, Susan, and Jenny, and Cline do the same. Hold it in your head and do not let it go. Lever one."

"Macarena. Macarena." Both Amys say and repeat.

"She's doing the Macarena." Rory says.

"Amelia Rose Harkness." Jack and I said, repeating it over and over again, connecting our minds through the Time Glass.

"Our first kiss." Rory says.

"I love you." Jenny and Cline repeated.

"Lever two, Rory. Lever three." The Doctor said. The Time Glass and the screen blow out. The past Arrivals area is empty. Jenny, Amy and I appear in the future.

"Jack!" I gasped and hugged him. Jack hugged me back and spun me around.

"How long were you here for?" Jack asked me.

"Thirty-eight days." I whispered, still hugging Jack, not wanting to let go. "Can we leave now?"

"Yes." Jack whispered into my ear. "Yes we can."

"I don't know what to-" Both Amys were saying. Jenny and Cline still hadn't finished kissing yet.

"Weird." Rory said.

"Okay, this is weird. Right, just stop doing that." Both Amy's glared at each other.

"How about Amy One speaks first?" Rory said.

"Which one's Amy One?" Both Amy's asked.

Rory blushed. "Well-"

"I am. No, I am. Rory? Rory, just stop doing that."

The Rory-cam glasses start to spark. "Rory. Rory, take the glasses off. You're getting temporal feedback." The Doctor said. We could hear bits of the console go bang. "Whoa! Calm down, dear. Rory, Amy, we've created a massive paradox and the Tardis hates it. She's self-phasing, trying to get out of here. What's the nasty Amy done to you. Just calm down, dear. Hang on in there. Rory, you've got eight minutes left. I'm sorry, you're on your own now." The glasses explode.

"I'm not on my own. I've got my wives."

"And I've got my wife." Jack says, holding my hand.

Jenny and Cline finally stop kissing. "And I've got my fiance." Cline boldly stated.

"F-Fiance?" Jenny asked, blushing.

"Do not be alarmed." The Handbot said.

"Incoming!" Jack yelled.

"This is a kindness." The Handbot said.

"With me." Older Amy gives her younger self a stout staff.

"Are you asking me to be your wife?" Jenny asked Cline.

"Do not be alarmed, this is a kindness. This is a kindness." The Handbot said.

"Amy, Kate Hayler, year ten hockey." Older Amy said.

Amy smirked. "Go for the shins."

"This is a kindness." Amy and Older Amy made quick work of the Handbots. Jack and I didn't even have to help. With those disposed of, more Handbots beam in.

"Yes, I am asking if you would be my wife." Cline said.

"Guys, I don't think this is the time!" Rory shouted. "They're cutting off the Departure Gate. We can't get back to the Tardis!"

"Side door. We'll go behind them." We hurried through the door and closed it.

"So you think you're going to come with us, just like that." Amy was saying.

"Yeah, just like that." Older Amy said.

Amy rolled her eyes. "Rory, talk to her."

"Rory, talk to her." Older Amy said angrily.

"Now, ladies-"

We were now in the basement and Amy and Older Amy were still arguing. "Where are you going to live?"

"Not with you, don't worry. I'll go travelling. Pop back for Christmas, maybe Easter." Older Amy said.

"Amy, you always say, cooking Christmas dinner, you wish there was two of you." Rory said.

"This'll be fun to explain to the government." Jack whispered to me and I snorted.

We were now back in the Gate Room. "Can't we just teleport in?" Rory asked.

"It's not a teleport, it's a time jump." Older Amy asked.

"They can't shunt within the same timestream." Amy said.

"Yes." Older Amy said.

"The Tardis is in the Gallery." Jack said.

"Gallery closed." The Interface said.

"The controls are stuck. They've locked them from outside." Older Amy said.

"Can you unlock them?" Rory said.

"Yeah, give me a minute and your cutest smile. That's the one." Older Amy said.

"Can you stop flirting with me. You're old enough to be my-" Rory started.

"I've known you my whole life. How many games of Doctors And Nurses? Shush. Don't get coy now." Older Amy said.

"Er-" Amy started.

Handbots enter via the portals. Rory tries to sonic the control column. "Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness."

Older Amy starts swinging her katana. "No!" Older Amy yells.

"Come on!" Rory says as we started running.

"Go! I've got your back." Older Amy yells.

We entered the Gallery and there are Handbots waiting there.

"Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness." The Handbots say.

Amy gets touched. "No!" Rory yells. He smashes the Mona Lisa over the Handbot's head, and picks Amy up as Older Amy finally comes through the portal. She stares as he runs with his Amy into the Tardis without looking back. Jenny and Cline follow them and Jack and I come in last.

"Ah, it's just an anaesthetic. She'll be fine." The Doctor says, taking his sonic screwdriver from Rory and scanning it over Amy.

"Come on, Jack." I said pulling Jack away to give Rory, Amy and The Doctor privacy. Jenny and Cline walked off with us but separated when we passed by the kitchen.

We got to our bedroom on the Tardis, and I sat down on the bed immediately and layed down, completely exhausted.

"Thirty-eight days." Jack said. I glanced up to see Jack looking at me, angrily.

I sighed and sat up. "At least it's better than thirty six years."

That was the wrong thing to say. "And you died! I heard Older Amy talking about how you died." Jack's eyes widened. "Have you started up your other heart yet?"

"I haven't been-"

"Do it!" Jack said sternly.

I breathed in and restarted my left heart. Instantly I began to feel better. "Both are working now. Jack, before I went into that room with Jenny and Amy, someone attacked my mind to prevent me from telling Amy to pick the green button and not the red one. I want to know who did that."

Third Person POV

Unfamiliar White Room

The middle monitor has Jack and Susan Jane Harkness sitting on a bed in the Tardis can be seen. White walls surround the sixteen monitors, four by four. We are looking at the monitors head on. They show different scenes of Jack and Susan Harkness saving the Earth. "Are you sure about this?" A feminine voice asked.

"Oh I am sure." Another female voice responded. "She blocked me out surprisingly fast. She will be the perfect candidate for my project. And of course, you will get your revenge."

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alwaystherereading: No, Jenny and Susan are not immune to Chen Seven, but stopping one heart from beating makes it so that they can only get Chen Seven by touch and not by air, making it harder Chen Seven to effect them.

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