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Back in the reality where Amy and Rory had settled down in Leadworth, the Doctor rushed up the steps into the ruins with Rose, Rory and Amy following him.

"Where have the children gone?" The Doctor asked as he and Rose began to approach the ruins. and saw that the area was now empty aside from small piles of dirt and cloth before the Doctor pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver and checked the piles of dirt his sonic Screwdriver.

"Don't know. Play time's probably over," Rory told them before turning to Amy, "You see, this is the real one. I just feel it. Don't you feel it?"

"I feel it both places," Amy answered.

"I feel it here. It's just so tranquil and relaxed," he told her, "Nothing bad could ever happen here."

"Not really me, though, is it? Would I be happy settling down in a place with a pub, two shops and a really bad amateur dramatics society? That's why I got pregnant, so I don't have to see them doing Oklahoma," Amy told him before noticing the piles of sand on the ground with the Doctor scanning them with his screwdriver before walking towards him and Rose, "Doctor, what are you doing? And what are those piles of dust?"

"I was wondering what those were as well, Amy," Rose told her.

"Play time's definitely over," the Doctor told them as he grabbed some of the dust and let some of the dust fall through his fingers.

"Oh, my God," Amy gasped with horror on her face.

"What happened to them?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"I think they did," the Doctor answered as he looked into the village and saw the elderly people from the retirement home walking along a path.

"I think so too, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with him.

"They're just old people," Amy said, disagreeing with both the Doctor and Rose.

"No. They're very old people," the Doctor explained to Amy before heading down the steps with Rose, "Sorry, Rory, I don't think you're what's been keeping them alive."

The elderly people from the retirement home soon line up along the path facing the park in front of the retirement home as the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory head towards them when suddenly the Dream Lord reappears in front of them.

"Hello, peasants," the Dream Lord said, greeting both Gallifreyans and humans, "What's this, attack of the old people? Oh, that's ridiculous. This has got to be the dream, hasn't it?" He then turned towards Amy, "What do you think, Amy? Let's all jump under a bus and wake up in the Tardis," he then turned towards the Doctor, "You first!"

"Leave her alone!" the Doctor told him.

"Yeah, like what my husband said, leave Amy alone, Dream Lord," Rose told him as well as she agreed with the Doctor.

"Do that again. I love it when he does that. Tall dark hero, 'leave her alone'," the Dream Lord told them, "No so much with Arkytior."

"Just leave her!" Rory told the Dream Lord.

"Yes, you're not quite so impressive," the Dream Lord told Rory, "But I know where your heart lies, don't I, Amy Pond?"

"Shut up! Just shut up and leave me alone," Amy told the Dream Lord with anger.

"But listen, you're in there," the Dream Lord told her, "Loves a redhead, the Doctor does, and Rose does as well but somewhat and not as much as he does! Have they told you about Captain Jack Harkness and Elizabeth the First? Well, she thought she was the first…"

"Drop it. Drop all of it," the Doctor told the Dream Lord, "I know who you are."

"Who is he, Doctor?" Rose asked her husband.

"Course you don't," the Dream Lord told him, not believing the Doctor.

"Course I do," the Doctor told him, reaffirming that he knows who he is, "No idea how you can be here, but there's only one person in the universe who hates me as much as you do."

"Never mind me," the Dream Lord told him as he smirked at him, knowing that he's figured out who he is, "Maybe you should worry about them."

The elderly people from the retirement home then began advancing as the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory looked at the Dream Lord before looking back at the elderly people from the retirement home.

"Hi," Rory said, greeting the elderly people.

"Hello. We were wondering where you went. To get reinforcements, by the look of it," the Doctor told the elderly people as he saw more of them than there were when they met them, "Are you all You look a bit tense."

"Hello, Mr Nainby!" Rory said, greeting one of the old men that was approaching them.

"Rory…" the Doctor said as he began to warn him.

"Be careful," Rose said, finishing the Doctor's warning to Rory.

"Mr Nainby ran the sweet shop. He used to slip me the odd free toffee," Rory told them before Mr. Nainby lifted him up by the collar, "Did I not say thank you?" Mr. Nainby then threw Rory backwards into the mud next to the swingset, "How did he do that?!"

"He's not himself," the Doctor explained as Rory stood back up from the mud, "Don't get comfortable here. You may have to run. Fast."

"Can't we just talk to them?!" Amy asked them.

"I don't think that's possible, Amy," Rose told her as the elderly people opened their mouths to reveal an eye.

"There is an eye in her mouth!" Amy cried with shock as Rose took out her Sonic Screwdriver as did the Doctor as both Gallifreyans began to scan Mrs. Poggit with them.

"There's a whole creature inside her," the Doctor explained to Rory and Amy, "Inside all of them. They've been there for years, living and waiting."

"These creatures can live for centuries, no wonder these people are so old," Rose remarked as she stared at the elderly people.

"That is disgusting," Rory said with disgust as he stared at the elderly people, "They're not going to be peeping out of anywhere else are they?" Mrs. Poggit then leaned forward and shot a green mist out from the eye inside her mouth before Rory pulled Amy back to safety as the Doctor and Rose put themselves in front of them to shield their companions.

"Run!" The Doctor told Rory and Amy before they began to leave the area to get to safety, "OK, Leave them. Talk to us. Talk to us. You are Eknodines, a proud, ancient race - you're better than this. Why are you hiding away here? Why aren't you at home?"

"We were driven from our pl…" the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Poggit's body began in a deep voice.

"Planet by upstart neighbours," the Doctor finished for her.

"So we've…" the alien that was inhabiting Mr. Nainby's body added in a deep voice as well.

"Been living here inside the bodies of old humans for years," the Doctor told them, "No wonder they live so long, you're keeping them alive."

"We were humbled and destroyed," the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Poggit's body told them, "Now we will do the same to others."

"But what caused your people to be destroyed?" Rose asked them.

"There were cracks, some as big as the sky, it swallowed our planet and some of us claimed that they looked through it and that they saw silence," the alien that was inhabiting explained.

"OK, makes sense, I suppose. Credible enough, could be real," the Doctor told them, thinking of their explanation on why they're invading Leadworth and how this could be reality.

"I agree, Theta," Rose told her husband as a man wearing an orange and grey safety vest, walking past them, pushing a bicycle.

"Morning," the man said, greeting them before the alien that was inhibiting Mrs. Poggit's body shot green mist at the man, causing him to turn to dust.

"You need to leave this planet," the Doctor told the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Poggit's body before it began screeching at both Gallifreyans.

"Wait! Stop!" Amy said as she rested against a post as she and Rory were racing back to their cottage.

"After all I've done for the over-70s in this village," Rory said as he looked at the elderly people following them before seeing an elderly woman waiting at their cottage's front door, "OK, this is crazy. She loves me, I fixed her depression, she's just a little old lady."

" Mrs. Hammill, we don't understand…" Amy told as they approached her only for to open her mouth to reveal that she is an Eknodine like the other elderly people of the village, causing Amy to back away from her.

"I'll deal with this one, Chubs...Now…" Rory told Amy as the alien that was inhabiting shot green mist from her eye in her mouth, causing Rory to hide behind the hedges next to them before the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Hammill's body began walking forward as Rory picked up a strout piece of wood to hit the alien that was inhabiting with it, only to hesitate as he backed up, "I can't hit her."

"Whack her!" Amy snapped before Rory whacked the alien inhabiting Mrs. Hammil's body on the arm, causing her to fall to the ground in front of the hedges as they entered the cottage as more of the elderly people began advancing across the cottage's field.

"We just ran away," Amy said as she sat down on the stairs after she and Rory entered the cottage as Rory locked and bolted the front door, "We just abandoned the Doctor and Rose. Don't ever call me Chubs again. We don't see them for years, and somehow we don't really connect any more and then, then they both take the bullet for us."

"You know the Doctor. He's Mr. Cool. And Rose she's the wife to Mr. Cool," Rory told her as he moved a coffee table that he picked up from the cottage's living room.

The Doctor and Rose are both practically stumbling down the road through Upper Leadworth as a group of elderly residents follows them as both Gallifreyans are fighting off falling asleep as they hear a chirping birdsong with Rose shaking her head as they enter a butcher shop.

The Doctor locks the door and flips the sign to 'Closed' as the Dream Lord stood behind the counter dressed as a butcher complete with apron and boater.

"Oh, I love a good butcher's don't you both? We've got to use these places or they'll shut down," the Dream Lord told Both Gallifreyans, "But you're probably a vegetarian, you big flop-haired wuss. And You're probably a chip loving girl, aren't you, little lady?"

Rose then grabbed a key from a shelf and handed it to the Doctor who tried to unlock another door.

"Oh, pipe down. I'm busy," the Doctor told the Dream Lord.

"Don't you dare, Dream Lord," Rose told him as she knew what he was about to say.

"Maybe you both need a little sleep," the Dream Lord told both Gallifreyans as the chirping birdsong returned as both the Doctor and Rose slipped down to the floor. The Dream Lord then leaned over the counter, "Oh, wait a moment," the Doctor and Rose both stood back up, "If either of you fall asleep here, several dozen angry pensioners will destroy you both with their horrible eye thingies," both the Doctor and Rose then walked into the hall behind the counter as they placed their fingers in their ears to stop themselves from hearing the birdsong, "Fingers in the ear? Brilliant!" Both the Doctor and Rose slid down the wall as Rose fell asleep, "What's next, shouting boo?" The Dream Lord then motioned for the elderly to enter, "Come in. Come in," the elderly people of the village then began to enter the butcher shop and make their way around the counter, "Yes, we've got lots at 'steak' here this week. Lots at steak. Get it?' The Doctor gets up with a burst of energy and grips at the door, "Are these jokes wasted on you?"

The Doctor then began to make his way to the second freezer door, dragging Rose before he slid to the floor as the elderly people came closer.

"Wait, stop…" the Doctor pleaded as he reached into his pocket.

"Oh, I can't watch," the Dream Lord said as he put his hands over his eyes as the Doctor stood back up with effort and used his sonic screwdriver to unlock the door and locked it behind them and fell asleep, leaning onto Rose as the elderly people pound at the door.

The Doctor wakes up on the Tardis floor with Rose, Amy and Rory by his side.

"Ah, it's colder," Amy said, shivering as she clutched her blanket.

"The four of us have to agree, now, which is the dream," the Doctor told Rose, Amy and Rory as he buttoned his tweed jacket.

"It's this, here," Rory answered.

"I agree, I think this is the real world," Rose said, agreeing with Rory as she zipped up her jacket.

"Rory and Rose could both be right," Amy told the Doctor, "The science is all wrong here, burning ice?"

"No, no, no ice can burn, sofas can read, it's a big universe," the Doctor explained to her, "We have to agree which battle to lose. All of us, now."

"OK, which world do you think is real?" Amy asked him.

"This one," the Doctor answered.

"I agree," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.

"No, the other one!" Rory said, disagreeing with both Gallifreyans.

"Yeah, but are we disagreeing, or competing?" The Doctor asked him.

"Competing over what?" Amy asked, causing the Doctor, Rose and Rory to stare at her before she groaned as she got up.

"Nine minutes till impact," the Doctor said, checking his watch as he stood up before he helped Rose up.

"What temperature is it?" Amy asked them.

"Outside? Brrrr. How many noughts have you got? Inside? I don't know but I can't feel my feet and... other parts," the Doctor told her.

"I can't feel them either," Rose said, agreeing with him.

"I think all my parts are basically fine," Rory told them.

"Stop competing!" The Doctor told him.

"Can't we call for help?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"I'll try," Rose said as she took out her phone and began to dial Jack's phone number as she put it on speaker.

"This is Captain Jack Harkness, former Time Agent from the 51st century and head of Torchwood 3, leave a message after the beep," the voice of Jack said before the phone beeped, ending Jack's voicemail.

"Guess there is no way to call for help," Rose surmised as she placed her phone back in her pocket.

"Put these on, both of you," Amy said as she threw a blanket with a hole cut out at the Doctor and slipped another over Rory's head.

"Oh, a poncho," Rory said after he examined the blanket, "The biggest crime against fashion since lederhosen."

"Here we go!" Amy said as she placed hers over her head as she threw one towards Rose, who caught it before placing it over her head as well, "Our boys... our poncho boys," Rose then grabs Amy by the hand and pulled her over to their boys and stood between them, "If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band."

"We're not going to die," Rory muttered as the frozen star loomed closer on the monitor.

"No, we're not," the Doctor said as he checked his watch, "but our time's running out. If we fall asleep here, we're in trouble." He then began pacing, "If we could divide up, then we'd have an active presence in each world, but the Dream Lord is switching us between the worlds. Why, why, what's the logic?"

"Good idea, veggie, let's divide you four up, so I can have a little chat with our lovely companion. Maybe I'll keep her, and you can have Pointy Nose and Arkytior to yourself for all eternity, should you manage to clamber aboard some sort of reality," the Dream Lord said as he appeared in a poncho and began pacing alongside the Doctor as they heard the Birdsong began to play yet again.

"Can you hear that?" Rory asked the Doctor, Rose and Amy.

"What? No," Amy said with confusion.

"Amy, don't be scared, we'll be back," the Doctor told Amy as he, Rose and Rory fell asleep on the floor.

"Rory, Doctor, Rose, don't leave me," Amy pleaded as she was left alone with only the Dream Lord.

"Amy, we're going to have fun aren't we?" The Dream Lord asked Amy, mischievously.

"No, please, not alone," Amy whispered to herself.

Rory wakes up on the stairs next to a still-sleeping Amy as he heard glass shattering as the elderly people break the window's glass in an attempt to get inside before Rory lifts Amy under the shoulders and begins to drag her upstairs, apologizing at every bump as the elderly people finally make it through the window.

Rory drags Amy to the centre of a cheery yellow room, which they both set up as a nursery for their baby and he apologizes once more as he set her down before he closed the door before walking over to the room's waiting crib, complete with stuffed toys and a wind-up mobile before looking out the window and saw the elderly people working together to get in, some are even trying to get into the Tardis before he props a chair under the doorknob then sits on it, nervously.

The Doctor and Rose both wake up in the freezer and listen at the door as they hear the elderly people waiting with the eyes within their mouths screeching. The Doctor then pulled his screwdriver back out and extended it as he aimed it at the door.

"OK, where is it?" The Doctor asked as he tested his screwdriver before turning to Rose, "Is yours working as well?" Ros then took her screwdriver out as well and activated it to show him that it was working as well before he opened the door and shot out the light with his screwdriver before both he and Rose ran out in the confusion.

"Help! help, somebody!" The Doctor and Rose heard a man say from an old volkswagen bus after they ran through a yard and came out on a different street where they saw attacking the man on the outside of the bus.

"You couldn't live near the shops, could you?" The Doctor asked as he and Rose race to the bus and pushes away, and the Doctor climbs into the driver's seat with Rose sitting next to him, "It's OK, it's only me and my wife, Rose."

The Doctor begins to drive the bus through the village before he and Rose sees two young women as they are being surrounded by the elderly people as Rose slides the back door open.

"Get in here if you want to survive this apocalypse," Rose told the women before they climbed into the car with the man closing the door.

"Are we in?" The Doctor asked as he continued driving the Van and saw a young family and reopened the van's side door for the family, "Come on, let's go, quickly, all four, that's it everyone in," they then drove on.

The Tardis was drifting closer to the freezing star as ice began to coat the exterior as well as the interior as Amy sat in a lonely vigil over the Doctor, Rose and Rory when The Dream Lord suddenly appeared beside her as he began to mock her, "Poor Amy. He always leaves you as does Rose, don't they? Alone in the dark. He never apologises."

"The Doctor doesn't have to," she told him as she walked away.

"That's good, because he never will. And now he's left you with me. Spooky old, not-to-be-trusted me," the Dream Lord said before disappearing and reappearing in a chair, lounging in a robe that bares some deal of his chest as if he was about to seduce her, "Anything could happen."

"Who are you and what do you want? The Doctor knows you, but he's not telling me or Rose who you are. And he always does," Amy told him, "Takes him awhile sometimes, but he tells me and Rose. So you're something different."

"Oh, is that who you think you are?" He asked her, "The one besides Rose that he trusts?"

"Actually, yes," Amy answered.

"The one human girl in the universe to whom the Doctor tells everything?" The Dream Lord asked as he stood up.

"Yes," Amy answered yet again.

"So what's his name?" The Dream Lord asked before disappearing and reappearing back in his tweed jacket, squatting at the Doctor's feet, "Besides, Rose is the only one other than him of course who knows his real name. Now, which one of these men would you really choose? Look at them. You ran away with a handsome hero and his wife. Would you really give them up for a bumbling country doctor who thinks the only thing he needs to be interesting is a ponytail?"

"Stop it!" Amy snapped as she was annoyed and terrified of him.

"But maybe it's better than loving and losing the Doctor and Rose," the Dream Lord said as he stood up and stood between the sleeping Doctor, Rose and Rory, "Pick a world and this nightmare will all be over. They'll listen to you. It's you they're waiting for. Amy's friends. Amy's choice."

The Dream Lord disappeared as Amy bent over and straightened Rory's poncho before she looked over at the Doctor and Rose before resuming her seat on the stairs.

"Everybody, out, out, out! Into the church, that's right. Don't answer the door," the Doctor said as he soon pulled the bus in front of a church and opened the bus's side-door, letting everyone who was in the van out as they ran towards the church before the Doctor sat back down in the van's driver seat, next to Rose as he drives the bus out of the village proper and began to head towards Amy's and Rory's cottage the Dream Lord then suddenly appears in the back seat wearing a race car driver's suit, helmet on his lap.

"It's make your mind up time in both worlds," the Dream Lord told them.

"Bye. we need to find our friends," the Doctor told the Dream Lord.

'Friends?' Is that the right word for the people you both acquire? Friends are people you stay in touch with. Your friends never see you again once they've grown up. The old man and his wife prefer the company of the young, do they not?" The Dream Lord asks as he disappears.

As soon as the Doctor arrives at the cottage with Rose, they saw the elderly people of the village laying siege to the house as they eye the cottage, looking for a way in.

"Theta, look!" Rose said as she saw the elderly people trying to break down the cottage's front door with a large wooden block to knock down the door before seeing a window on the floor above the outside closed and shut, "OK…" the Doctor said as he and Rose quietly exit out of the van and ducks behind it.

Back in the cottage's nursery, Rory was sitting on the floor, cradling Amy's head in his lap when suddenly she woke up.

"How did I get up here?" Amy asked him.

"I carried you," Rory answered, "I'm afraid you may experience some bruising."

"Where's the Doctor and Rose?" She asked him.

"I don't know. I want to do something for you," Rory told her as he turned around, unzipped a bag and took out a pair of scissors before moving the scissors towards the back of his head and cuts off his ponytail.

"I was starting to like it," Amy gasped when they suddenly heard a squeaking sound and they turned to look at the window in alarm only to see the Doctor climbing in followed by Rose.

"Sorry, we had to stop off at the butcher's," the Doctor told Amy and Rory as he and Rose entered the nursery.

"What are we going to do?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"I don't know," the Doctor answered, "I thought the freezing Tardis was real but now I'm not so sure."

"Could it be possible that this and the freezing Tardis are both dreams?" Rose asked.

"Could be," the Doctor answered.

"I think the baby's starting," Amy said as she suddenly gasped.

"Honestly?" Rory asked her with disbelief.

"Would I make it up at a time like this?!" Amy asked him as Rose helped the Doctor up.

"Well, you do have a history of…" Rory began before he saw that she was glaring at him, "being very lovely," Amy cried out in pain, "Why are they so desperate to kill us?"

"They're scared. Fear generates savagery," the Doctor explained as a piece of garden statuary is thrown through the window, causing Rory to look out the window and saw the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Poggit's body before she shoots the green mist at him, causing him to groan as he fell on his back as Amy went to comfort him as the Doctor knocked the alien that was inhabiting Mrs. Poggit's body off from the roof with a lamp.

"Theta," Rose whispered to her husband as she saw Amy comforting Rory, causing the Doctor to whirl around to watch Amy comforting Rory.

"Rory!" Amy cried out as she knew that he was about to be turned into dust like the other people who were shot at by the elderly people whose bodies were being inhabited by aliens.

"No! I'm not ready," Rory said as he began to dissolve into dust.

"Stay," Amy pleaded as the Doctor and Rose both began to have tears falling from their eyes, only for them to wipe them.

"Look after our baby," Rory told her as he dissolves away into dust.

"No. No. Come back," Amy pleaded as the Doctor mouths her name.

"Save him. You save everyone," Amy told him, "You always do. It's what you do."

"He doesn't always save everyone," Rose told Amy as she remembered the time when she, the Doctor and Donna were in Pompeii, "We're sorry."

"Then what is the point of you?" Amy asked the Doctor as she touched the pile of dust that was Rory before using the drawer that was next to her to help her stand up before the Doctor walked over to her to comfort her but couldn't bring himself to touch her.

"This is the dream. Definitely, this one," Amy told them, "Now, if we die here, we wake up, yeah?"

"Unless we just die," the Doctor said as he nodded a confirmation.

"Either way, this is my only chance of seeing him again," Amy told him, "This is the dream."

"How do you know?" He asked her.

"Because if this is real life, I don't want it. I don't want it," Amy answered.

"I agree with her, Doctor. I think this is the dream as well, besides Rory's one of my favorite companions we've ever had, behind Jack, who's behind Martha," Rose said, as she agreed with Amy.

"Why aren't they attacking?" Amy asked as she, the Doctor and Rose left the house as she noticed that the elderly people weren't attacking them.

"Either because this is just a dream, or because they know what we're about to do," the Doctor explained.

"Or maybe it could be both," Rose told them as they walked towards the van before Amy stopped and faced the Doctor.

"Be very sure. This could be the real world," he told Amy.

"It can't be. Rory isn't here. I didn't know. I didn't, I didn't, I honestly didn't, till right now. I just want him," Amy told him.

"OK," the Doctor said as he gave Amy the keys and held her hand tightly, "OK."

Amy walks around to the driver's seat to start the van as Rose walked to the passenger side and got in as the Doctor walks to the other passenger side and sees the Dream Lord standing in front of him wearing the same outfit he did when the Doctor found out who he was and without a word, the Doctor gets into the vehicle and sat down in the passenger's seat.

"I love Rory, and I never told him, but now he's gone," Amy told both Gallifreyans as the Doctor looked out the window at the Dream Lord as Amy drove the van forward, smashing through the fence and straight at the front door.

The Tardis is now dwarfed by the cold star as it's about to be swallowed by its cold fire as a thick layer of ice covers everything in the Tardis, including the four bodies. The Doctor opened his eyes and sees Rose and Amy who slowly opens their eyes as well as Amy reaches her hand out to Rory and they clasp on tightly.

"So...you chose this world. Well done. You got it right. And with only seconds left. Fair's fair. Let's warm you up," the Dream Lord said as he used the Tardis's console as he restored the power with it as he wore his tweed jacket again as he slowly approached them, "I hope you've enjoyed your little fictions. It all came out of your imagination, so I'll leave you to ponder on that. I have been defeated. I shall withdraw. Farewell."

The Dream Lord disappeared as the Doctor slowly rose to his feet and starts to work the controls after he helped Rose up as Amy and Rory kneeled, facing each other.

"Something happened. I... What happened to me? I…" Rory began to ask as Amy slowly took him into a hug, "Oh. Oh, right. This is good. I am liking this. Was it something I said?" She then releases him from the hug and looks at him, "Can you tell what it was so I can use it in emergencies? And maybe birthdays."

"What are we doing now?" Amy asked the Doctor as they, along with Rose heard the sound of the Tardis starting up.

"Me, I'm going to blow up the Tardis," the Doctor answered.

"What?" Rose and Rory asked at the same time.

"Notice how helpful the Dream Lord was? Okay, there was misinformation, red herrings, malice, and I could have done without the limerick, but he was always very keen to make us choose between dream and reality," the Doctor explained before laughing softly.

"What are you doing?!" Amy asked the Doctor.

"Doctor, the Dream Lord conceded. This isn't the dream!" Rose told her husband.

"Yes, it is!" The Doctor told her.

"Stop him," Amy told Rose and Rory.

"Star burning cold? Do me a favour! The Dream Lord has no power over the real world. He was offering us a choice between two dreams," the Doctor explained to Rose, Amy and Rory.

"How do you know that?" Amy asked him.

"Because I know who he is," the Doctor answered as the Tardis exploded.

About half an hour later, the Doctor and Rose leaned against the Tardis's console as everything in the Tardis was now back to normal with all of the ice gone with the Doctor looking at something in his hand as Amy and Rory walked down the steps towards the console, "Any questions?"

"What's that?" Amy asked as she saw six glittering bits in the Doctor's hand.

"A speck of psychic pollen from the candle meadows of Karass don Slava. Must have been hanging around for ages. Fell in the time rotor, heated up and induced a dream state for all of us," the Doctor answered before he walked over to the Tardis's door and opened it before blowing the psychic pollen into space.

"So that was the Dream Lord then, those little specks?" Rory asked him.

"Yeah, and how did he even know my name?" Rose asked him, confused on how the Dream Lord knew that her name was Arkytior.

"No, no. No. Sorry, wasn't it obvious? The Dream Lord was me, besides Rose, I'm the only living person besides Mickey that knows your nickname is Arkytior. Psychic pollen, it's a mind parasite. It feeds on everything dark in you. Gives it a voice, turns it against you. I'm 907. while Rose here is 236. It had a lot to go on," the Doctor explained to them before turning to Rose, "Not sure why it didn't latch on you too, Rose. Might be because you're nowhere near as old as I am, even though we were the same age back when we were younger, before the Time War and when Gallifrey still existed."

"But why didn't it feed on us, too?" Amy asked him.

"Darkness in you pair? It would've starved to death in an instant. I choose my friends and my wife with great care. Otherwise I'm stuck with my own company, and you know how that works out," the Doctor explained to them

"But those things he said about you. You don't think any of that's true?" Amy asked him.

"Amy, right now a question is about to occur to Rory," the Doctor told her as he spins her by the shoulders to face Rory, not wanting to answer her question, "And seeing as the answer is about to change his life, I think you should give him your full attention," he then pushes her towards Rory as he walks to the other side of the console with Rose.

"Yeah. Actually, yeah," Rory told them.

"There it is," the Doctor muttered as he and Rose began to work on the Tardis's console.

"Cos what I don't get is you blew up the TARDIS, that stopped that dream, but what stopped the Leadworth dream?' Rory asked her.

"We crashed the camper van," Amy explained.

"Oh, right, I don't remember that bit," Rory said with confusion.

"No, you weren't there, you were already…" Amy began.

"Already what?" He asked her.

"Dead. You died in that dream. Mrs. Pogit got you," Amy answered.

"OK. But how did you know it was a dream? Before you crashed the van, how did you know you wouldn't just die?" He asked her.

"I didn't," she answered.

"Oh," Rory said as he realized what she meant.

"Yeah," she said, confirming what she said.

"Oh," Rory said as he took her by the hand.

"Yeah, 'Oh,'" Amy muttered as Rory laughed nervously before leaning in and kisses her before she kisses him back with the Doctor watches them with a smile before he put an arm around Rose, who was working on the Tardis's coordinates before he turned her around as they began to kiss each other passionately for a few seconds before the Doctor pulled back.

"So…" the Doctor began as he clapped his hands, "Well, then, where now? Or should Rose and I just pop down to the swimming pool for a few lengths?"

"I'd love to," Rose told her husband.

"I don't know. Anywhere's good for me. I'm happy anywhere," Rory told him, "It's up to Amy this time. Amy's choice."

The Doctor claps his hands and starts to work on the controls with Rose and in the reflective surface, he sees the Dream Lord smile back at him as the Doctor looks about nervously before looking back and then looked back down on the reflective surface and saw the reflection is now his own.

Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.

And in the next chapter should I have the Doctor and Rose mention the current Covid-19 pandemic as it takes place in 2020?