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"Listen, Amy, whatever happens at least we're together. And we're in the TARDIS, so we're safe," Rory told Amy as the TARDIS headed back to their universe.

"I don't think you should've said that, Rory," Jack told the nurse.

"Jack's right, you shouldn't have said that as you're half right," House told Rory, "I mean, you are in the TARDIS. What a great adventure. I should have done this half a million years ago. So, Amy, Jack, Rory, why shouldn't I just kill you now?"

As the Doctor and Rose reentered the cavern, they found Idris sitting down with Auntie and Uncle there as well.

"It's gone!" The Doctor told Idris.

"Eaten?" Idris asked.

"No, it's been hi-jacked. not eaten," Rose answered, "But why?"

"It's time for us both to go, and keep together," Auntie told them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Go? What do you mean go? Where are you going?" The Doctor asked her.

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

"I'm against it," Uncle told them.

"It's your fault, isn't it, sweets?" Auntie asked the Doctor, "'Cause 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 added.

"It won't," Rose told them "Our TARDIS is the last one in existence."

"Oh, it will think of something," Auntie reassured them before falling over with a groan as she passed away as the Doctor went to check her for a pulse.

"Actually, I feel fine," Uncle said as he stood up before falling to the ground, dead.

"Not dead. You can't just die!" The Doctor told them.

"It's no use, Doctor, they're dead," Rose told him.

"We need to go to where I landed, Doctor. Quickly," Idris told the Doctor

"Why?!" He asked her.

"Because we are there in three minutes. We need to go now!" She said as she began running before stopping in pain, "Ow! Roughly, how long do these bodies last?"

"You're dying," he told her after he scanned her with his sonic screwdriver and flicked it as it extended.

"Yes, of course I'm dying," Idris said as she took the sonic screwdriver, "I don't belong in a flesh body. I could blow the casing in no time. No, stop it, don't either of you get emotional. That's what the orangey girl says. You're the Doctor and Rose Smith. Focus," she then held his sonic screwdriver out for him.

"On what? How? We're two mad people with a box, without a box!" He said as he took his sonic screwdriver back, "I'm stuck down the plughole at the end of the universe on a stupid old junkyard! Oh."

"Oh, what?" Idris asked him.

"No, we're not," the Doctor said.

"We're not what?" Rose asked him.

"Not what?" Idris asked at the same time.

"'Cause it's not a junkyard," he told them, "Don't you both see? It's not a junkyard."

"What is it then?" Rose asked him.

"It's a TARDIS junkyard!" He answered before he headed for the exit, "Come on." He then stopped and looked at Idris, "Ooh, sorry, do you have a name?"

"700 years, finally he asks," Idris muttered.

"But what do I call you?" He asked her.

"Before you found Arkytior I think you called me... Sexy," she told him, "But in this body you can call me Idris."

"I only called you Sexy when we were alone," he whispered to her, "Come on then, Idris."

The three of them then ran out.

"Corridors. I have corridors. So much to learn about my new home. But you haven't answered my question, children," House told the trio inside the TARDIS.

"Er, question?" Rory asked.

"He asked why he shouldn't kill us now," Jack reminded him.

"Jack is correct," House told them, "Tell me why I shouldn't just kill the three of you now?"

"Well... because... Rory, why?" Amy asked her husband.

"And please don't tell him about my immortality," Jack whispered to Rory, 'Cause if he finds out he might use me against you and I don't want to hurt either of you.

"Because... killing us quickly wouldn't be any fun," Rory told him, "And you need fun, don't you? That's what Uncle and Auntie were for, wasn't it? Someone to make suffer. I had a PE teacher just like you. You need to be entertained... and killing us quickly wouldn't be entertainment."

"So entertain me. Run," House told them as the three of them ran up a set of steps deeper into the TARDIS.

The Doctor ran across the surface of the planet, scanning the area with his sonic screwdriver as Rose and Idris followed him as they climbed atop a mound and looked down on a collection of varied ships.

"A valley of half-eaten Tardises," the Doctor "Are you both thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I think I am," Rose told him.

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

"Ah. Sorry. No, I wasn't thinking that," the Doctor told her.

"I wasn't thinking that either," Rose said, agreeing with the Doctor.

"No. You both were thinking you could build a working TARDIS console out of broken remnants of a hundred different models," Idris told them, "And you both don't care that it's impossible."

"It's not impossible as long as we are alive," the Doctor told her, "Jack, Rory and Amy need us. So, yeah, we're gonna build a TARDIS."

They then headed into the valley of dead TARDISes.

Back in the Tardis, Jack, Amy and Rory ran down one of the corridors.

"So, are we having fun yet?" House asked them, "I'm rather enjoying the sensation of having you running around inside me." Amy then stopped with a cry as she almost fell into a pit as Jack stopped her from falling into the bottomless pit, "I have turned off the corridor anti-ground, so do be careful."

"Thanks, Jack," Amy told the ex-Time Agent.

"No problem, Amy," he replied.

"Come on, you two," she said as they made their way around the thin ledge. Amy reached the other side first and pulled Rory to safety as he slipped after Jack made his way around it before the three of them continued running.

Back on the planet's surface, the Doctor, Rose and Idris have put together a shell of a room with a small console in the middle as Idris popped up and tapped a small piece of equipment with her finger, "Bond the tube directly into the Tachyon Diverter."

"Yes, yes, I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before, you know. I know what I'm doing," the Doctor told her as he dragged a piece of wall by a rope.

"You have?" Rose asked him.

"Yeah, in my third and fourth incarnations," He answered.

"You're like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions," Idris told him.

"I always read the instructions!" He shouted.

"There's a sign on my front door," she told him, "You have been walking past it for 700 years. What does it say?"

"That's not instructions!" He yelled, causing Rose to start giggling with laughter at the mother-son-like argument before he pointed at her, "Oi! You stay out of this, Arkytior!"

"Make me!" She responded as she began laughing louder.

"There's an instruction at the bottom," Idris told him, "What does it say?"

"Pull to open," he answered.

"Yes, and what do you do?" She asked him.

"I push!" He answered.

"Every single time. 700 years. Police Box doors open out the way," she told him.

"I think I've earned the right to open my front doors any way I want!" He said as he threw the rope down and walked over to her.

"Your front doors?!" She said with disbelief, "Have you any idea how childish that sounds?"

"She's got you there, Theta," Rose chuckled.

"You are not my mother!" The Doctor muttered to Idris as he turned and walked away from her.

"And you are not my child!" She replied.

"You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often," he said as he turned around and walked back over to her, "I just want to say, you know, you," he pointed in her face, have never been very reliable."

"And you have?" Idris countered.

"You didn't always take us where we wanted to go," he explained as he walked away from her.

"No, but I always took you both where you both needed to go," Idris explained to them.

"You did!" He said happily as he stopped and whirled around towards her, "Look at us. Talking. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could always talk? Even when you're inside the box?"

"You know I'm not constructed that way," she told him, "I exist across all space and time, and you talk and run around and bring home strays," she then turned to Rose, "And you Rose, were always my favorite."

"Why?" Rose asked her, "Because I was a Chameleon-Arched Time Lady?"

"That and you were his wife the entire time," Idris answered before falling but the Doctor caught her before she fell to the ground.

"Are you all right?" Rose asked her.

"One of the kidneys has already failed," she answered, "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," he warned her.

"This body has about 18 minutes left to live. The universe we're in will reach Absolute Zero in three hours. Safe is relative," she told him as he headed back to the piece he was dragging and picked up the rope as he went to help Rose rebuild the TARDIS console they were rebuilding.

"Then we need to get a move on, eh, old girl?" He told Idris.

Amy, Jack and Rory ran down one of the TARDIS's corridors with Amy ahead of them as she ran through a door before it slid closed after her with Jack and Rory still on the opposite side.

"NO!" They both yelled at the same time, "Amy!"

Amy then stopped and ran back to the door, "No!"

"Amy!" Rory yelled as he tried to pry open the door.

On her side, Amy heard a tired voice calling her name and ran down the corridor and saw Rory sitting on the floor by the closed door with Jack nearby.

"Rory? Jack?" Amy asked.

"Where have you been?" Rory asked as he stood up.

"I stepped through that door and it came down here," she answered.

"But you've been hours!" Rory told her.

"No, I haven't," she told him.

"It must be House, and it's messing with the TARDIS. Come on, back this way," Jack said as they ran as he played the same trick, closing the door in front of Rory.

"No!" Rory yelled.

"No! Oh!" Amy said as she turned around.

"You all right, Rory?" Jack asked.

The TARDIS that the Doctor and Rose were building now had three walls up as the Doctor was carrying a central column over his shoulder to the console while Rose was carrying another TARDIS piece.

"You both will need to install the time router," Idris told them.

"How is this going to make it through the rift?" The Doctor asked as he slipped the column into place as Rose did the same with the TARDIS piece that she was carrying, "We're almost there," he then checked everything, "Thrust diffuser. Er, Retro scope. Blue... thingy."

"We got about everything," Rose told them.

"Do you wonder why I chose you all those years ago, Doctor?" Idris asked as she was sifting through junk.

"I chose you," he told her, "You were unlocked."

"Of course I was," she told him, "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?" He asked as he joined Idris and looked at the console with Rose as a small piece fell off, "That's fine, that always happens."

"Sure it does," Rose remarked, sarcastically.

"No! Hang on! Wait!" He said as he grabbed a red velvet rope.

Amy walked forward through the slowly darkening corridor with Jack following her, cautiously.

"Amy?" They heard Rory's voice say as Amy saw an older Rory with long grey hair and a scraggly beard.

"Oh, my God. Rory?" Amy said as she kneeled beside him.

"I don't think that's Rory, Amy," Jack warned her.

"You left me," Rory told her, "How could you do that? How could you leave me?"

"How long have you been here?" She asked him.

"2,000 years I waited for you," Rory said before banging his head against the wall, "You did it to me again!"

"I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. I'm sorry," she apologized as he lunged at her as she fell back with a cry as she crab-walked backwards away from him, "Rory, what are you doing?"

"They come for me at night," he told her, "Every single night, they come for me and they hurt me. Amy, they hurt me over and over and over and over…"

"Rory…" she muttered.

"How could you leave me?! How could you do that to me?!" He demanded as they both stood up as Amy and Jack backed away through a door before it closed again.

Inside the makeshift TARDIS, the Doctor handed Rose one of the ropes as they latched them onto the console.

"Right. OK, let's go. Follow that TARDIS!" The Doctor said as he pressed one of the controls, but it didn't move as Idris saw her reflection in a mirror and played with her face.

"What's wrong?" Idris asked him.

"It can't hold the charge," he answered, "We can't even start it. There's no power!" He then puts a hand over the mirror, "We've got nothing!"

"Oh, Doctor, you beautiful idiot. You and Rose both have what you've both always had - you've got me," Idris told them as she kissed her finger, which was imbued with energy before she placed it against the central column as the energy circled them with a field before it dematerialized.

Amy soon walked through another corridor with Jack and scrawled on the walls in a violent hand were the phrases 'Hate Amy and Jack', 'Kill Amy and Jack' and 'Die Amy and Jack'. She then turned a corner and saw a skeleton lying there in Rory's clothes.

"No! No!" Amy screamed as she fell to her knees and crawled to the body, sobbing, "Rory... I'm so, so sorry!"

"Amy, that's not Rory," Jack said as he saw Rory walk up the corridor behind her.

"Amy?" She heard Rory's voice say before she turned around at the should of his voice but when she looked back, the body and writing had disappeared before she ran up to him and hugged him.

"It's messing with our heads. Come on, run," Jack explained before the three of them ran down one of the corridors.

The makeshift TARDIS soon followed the path of 'the' TARDIS back to the universe as It was open on top and one side so life forms observing from the outside could see an energy field around them as the ride was a little rough as the Doctor was enjoying the experience and they have to shout to be heard.

"Whoo-hoo!" The Doctor cheered.

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

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

"Which one's Amy? The pretty one?" Idris asked.

Rory, Jack and Amy were climbing up a ladder when Rory put a hand to his head in pain, "Argh!" He then saw Idris in his head.

"Rory, what's wrong?" Amy asked.

"What is it, Rory?" Jack asked at the same time.

"It's like... I'm getting a message," Rory answered.

"Hello, Pretty!" Idris said telepathically to him.

"What the hell is that?" Rory asked as the Doctor butted into the vision.

"Don't worry. Telepathic messaging, like how me and Rose talk to each other all the time when we don't talk with our mouths," the Doctor explained with Rose standing next to him before noticing that it was Rory, "No, that's Rory."

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

"The pretty one?" The Doctor said with disbelief.

"You'll have about 12 seconds before the room goes into phase with the invading Matrix," Idris told him, "I'll send you the passkey when you get there. Good luck!"

"What was that?" Jack asked as Rory opened his eyes.

"It was that woman," Rory answered, "That mad woman, Rose and the Doctor."

"Rose and the Doctor?!" Amy asked.

"We have to keep going," Jack told her as they continued climbing.

"How's he going to be able to take down the shields anyway?" Rose asked Idris as she and the Doctor used the makeshift TARDIS's controls, "The House is in the control room."

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

"There aren't any old control rooms!" he told her, "They were all deleted or remodelled!"

"I archived them! For neatness!" she explained, "I've got about 30 now!"

"But we've only changed the desktop, what, a dozen times?" The Doctor asked her.

"So far, yes!" Idris confirmed.

"You can't archive something that hasn't happened yet!" He told her.

"You can't," she told him.

Jack, Amy and Rory walked through the corridors as Amy stopped short as the hall darkened dark all around her.

"What happened to the lights?" She asked.

"The lights are fine," Rory told her as the lights were fine for him and Jack.

"It's messing with our heads again," Jack added as Amy walked forward slowly, arms out to keep her from walking into anything as Rory and Jack heard something.

"OK. Stay there a second," Rory told her, "Jack, with me."

"What is it? What?" She asked them.

"Just hang on," Rory said as they turned around the corner.

"We'll be right back," Jack added.

"Don't leave me. I can hardly see, you idiots!" Amy told them.

"Argh!" Jack and Rory screamed.

"Rory? Jack?" Amy called out to them.

"It's OK, we're fine. Come towards my voice," Rory reassured her.

"What happened? Where are you guys?" Amy asked as she walked slowly towards the source of Rory's voice.

"We just banged our heads. Just keep coming," he told her as Amy kept walking as she walked past the unconscious bodies of Jack and Rory on the floor, "Reach out your hand." Unbeknownst to her, the glow of Nephew's translator ball was in front of her before she touched his tentacles as his eyes glowed green before she screamed but as she does so, she could see again with Jack and Rory standing behind her, "This way. Come on, run!" They then ran as Nephew followed them.

"Keep going! You're doing it," the Doctor urged Idris as they, along with Rose, piloted the makeshift TARDIS.

"I can see now, Rory. I can see," Amy said as Roy was still guiding Amy with Jack in front of them.

"It was the Ood thing, the Nephew and it's still coming," Jack told her.

"I know," she told him as they stopped at a locked door, "So where is this place?"

"This is where she told me to go," Rory told her, "She said she'd send me the pass key!" Rory then grabbed his head as Idris sent him another message and he repeated the words for Jack and Amy, "Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor."

"Petrichor," AMy muttered as she remembered hearing that word earlier.

"What do I do? Do I say it?" Rory asked, "Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor." The doors didn't open as he said the words, "I said it."

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Jack asked Amy.

"Petrichor. Petrichor…" Amy muttered after she nodded.

"I said it!" Rory repeated himself as he pounded on the door.

"Petrichor. She told you what it meant – the smell of wet dust, remember?" Amy reminded him before realizing what they were supposed to do, "So... Oh... it's the meaning, not the word."

"The meaning of what?" Rory asked.

"The TARDIS interface is telepathic like the Doctor and Rose are. You don't say it, you think it," Jack explained as Nephew appeared at the junction.

"It's coming," Rory told them.

"I know," Jack told him.

"Quiet!" Amy said, facing the door as she closed her eyes, "Crimson. Eleven. Delight. The smell of dust after rain." Nephew slowly advanced as Amy pictured each item in her head as she said the words. "Crimson," she pictured a red flag in the wind, "eleven," she pictured an 11th birthday cake, "delight," she pictured herself laughing at her wedding, "the smell of dust after rain," she then pictured a raindrop falling in dirt. Amy kept repeating the words and thoughts as Nephew got closer as the doors slid open as they rushed inside and ran up the ramp in the darkened room of the coral console room.

"What is this place? Another control room?" Amy asked.

"It is," Jack answered, "The control room looked like this when I first met the Doctor and Rose."

"Shields," Rory said as they began to look for the right controls as the control room lit up, "Got it."

"They did it. Shields down!" Idris told both Gallifreyans as the makeshift TARDIS closed in on the other TARDIS.

"How did you find this place?" House asked the trio, surprised that they were in another control room, "It's not on my internal schematics. I had hoped you three could join Nephew as my servants. But you two are nothing but trouble," the door opens as nephew entered the previous console room, "Nephew... kill them."

Amy, Jack and Rory backed away when Rory got another telepathic message from Idris, "We're coming through. Get out of the way or you'll be atomised,"

"Where are you coming through?" He asked her.

"I don't know," she answered

"Oh, great. Thanks!" Rory remarked, sarcastically.

"It's not going to hold!" Idris told both Gallifreyans.

"Hold on!" Rory said as Nephew continued to advance towards them as Rory held onto the rail and Jack held onto the console from the other side of the control room while Amy grabbed onto the nearest coral strut as the other console materialized by the ramp.

"Doctor!" Amy called as she smiled.

"Rosie!" Jack said at the same time as they got up as he hugged her while Rose hugged Jack as Idris slowly stood slowly up.

"Not good. Not good at all," Idris said as the Doctor helped her sit, "How do you walk around in these things?"

"We're not quite there yet... just hold on. Amy, Jack, this is... Well, she's our TARDIS," the Doctor said, introducing Idris to them, "Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's our TARDIS."

"She's the TARDIS?!" Amy said with disbelief.

"And she's a woman," the Doctor told them, "She's a woman and she's the TARDIS."

"Did you wish really hard?" Amy asked him.

"Shut up! Not like that," he told them.

"Hello. I'm... Idris," Idris said, introducing herself to them.

"I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now," Jack said, reminding the Doctor and Rose of when Donna became the Doctor-Rose-Donna.

"The Environment has been breached. Nephew, kill them all," House ordered.

They all then looked around for the Ood.

"Where's Nephew?" Jack asked.

"He was standing right where you materialised," Amy told them.

"Ah. Well, he must have been redistributed," the Doctor told them.

"Meaning what?" Rory asked.

"You're breathing him," Rose explained.

"Eugh!" Amy said with disgust.

"Another Ood we failed to save," the Doctor muttered.

"First Krop-tor, then the Oodsphere, and now here," Rose added.

"Doctor, Rose, I did not expect either of you," House told both Gallifreyans.

"Well, that's us all over, isn't it?" The Doctor told him, "Lovely old unexpected us."

"The big question is, now you're here, how to dispose of you? I could play with gravity…" House told them as they all fell down, fighting the pull until House released it as Idris collapsed on her own as Rory went to her side, "or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke."

"You really don't want to do that!" The Doctor told House as he and Rose kicked their Respiratory Bypass Systems on as they all gasped for breath.

"Why shouldn't I just kill you now?" House asked as he returned them the room's air.

"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. 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! You just have to promise not to kill us. That's all, just promise," the Doctor told him as Idris whispered to Rory.

"You can't be serious," Amy said with disbelief.

"If I know my husband, then he's very serious, Amy," Rose told her.

"I agree, Rose," Jack said, agreeing with her.

"You're right I'm very serious," the Doctor told them, "I'm sure it's an entity of its word."

"Doctor, she's burning up," Rory told the Doctor, "She's asking for water."

"Hey. Hang in there, old girl," the Doctor said as he kneeled and took Idris' hand and stroked her face, "Not long now. It'll be over soon."

"I always liked it when you call me... old girl," she told him.

"You want me to give my word? Easy. I promise," House reassured them.

"Fine. OK. I trust you. Just delete, ooh, 30% of the TARDIS rooms, you'll free up thrust enough to make it through," the Doctor told him, "Activate sub-routine Sigma-9."

"Why would you tell me this?" House asked him.

"Because we want to get back to our universe as badly as you do," the Doctor explained as he stood up, "And I'm nice."

"Ye-e-s. I can delete rooms, and I can also rid myself of vermin if I delete this room first," House told him, "Thank you, Doctor, very helpful. Goodbye, Time Lords. Goodbye, little humans. Goodbye, Idris." There was then a flash of bright light.

The TARDIS then returned to the universe.

The six of them then materialized back in the TARDIS's main console room.

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

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

"Fear me. I basically killed all of them," the Doctor countered.

"I don't understand," Rory told Idris, "There isn't a forest in here."

"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, my wife and our friends, Amy, Jack and Rory to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent," the Doctor told House as he began to clap with Rose and Jack before grabbing Amy by the arm and forcing her to stand as they applauded together.

"Congratulations!" Amy said, sarcastically.

"Well done!" Rose told him.

"Very well done," Jack said, agreeing with Rose.

"Yep, you've defeated us, me, my wife and our lovely friends here at 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!" The Doctor told him.

"Doctor, she's stopped breathing," Rory told the Doctor.

"Enough!" House snapped, "That is enough."

"No. It's never enough," the Doctor told him as Amy went over to Rory and Idris, "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 him.

"No. I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room," the Doctor said as golden energy flowed from Idris as she opened her mouth, "You took her from her home. But now she's back in the box again and she's free!" The energy streamed throughout the room, changing the green light back to golden.

"No! Doctor, stop this! OW! Stop this now!" House ordered.

"Oh, look at my girl, look at her go! Bigger on the inside!" The Doctor exclaimed, happily, "You see, House?"

"Make it stop!" House pleaded.

"That's your problem. Size of a planet, but inside you're just so small!" The Doctor told him.

"Make it stop!" House pleaded.

"Finish him off, girl." The Doctor yelled as House groaned and yelled as the TARDIS took back her home. When it was silent, Amy, Rose, Jack and Rory noticed that Idris' body was gone.

"Doctor? Are you there?" They heard Idris' voice say, causing the Doctor to turn from the console and saw a glowing projection of Idris, "It's so very dark in here."

"I'm here," the Doctor answered, softly.

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

"What word?" The Doctor asked in a whisper, sounding tone.

"Alive. I'm alive!" She answered.

"Alive isn't sad," he told her as Amy, Rose, Jack and Rory watched as Rory held Amy close to him.

"It's sad when it's over," she explained, "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?" He asked her.

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

"Please! I don't want you to," he said, tearfully, "Please!"

The Doctor then stepped back as the projection dissipated with a bright light and the familiar TARDIS, wheezing, groaning sound.

"I love you," she told him, faintly

"Where?" He asked, sniffing as he faced the console.

A while later, the Doctor and Rose were both sitting in two swing sets under the console working on wires with goggles over their eyes and their jackets off as Jack, Amy and Rory watched from above.

"How's it going under there?" Jack asked.

'Just putting a firewall around the Matrix," the Doctor answered, "Almost done."

Rory then walked down the steps.

"Are you both going to make her talk again?" Amy asked them.

"We can't," Rose answered.

"Why not?" Rory asked.

"Spacey-wacey, isn't it?" Amy surmised.

"Well actually, it's because the Time Lords discovered that if you take an eleventh-dimensional matrix and fold it into a mechanical then…" the Doctor began to explain but when Rory touched two of the wires together, they sparked, angering the Doctor a bit, "Yes, it's spacey-wacey!"

"Sorry. At the end, she was talking. She kept repeating something. I don't know what it meant," Rory told them as the Doctor and Rose stood up and put their goggles off their eyes.

"What did she say?" Rose asked.

"The only water in the forest is the river," he answered, "She said we'd need to know that someday. It doesn't make sense, does it?"

"Not yet," the Doctor told him.

"Could it have something to do with River?" Jack asked.

"Could be, Jack," Rose answered.

"You OK?" The Doctor asked him.

"No. I watched her die," Rory answered, "I shouldn't let it get to me, but it still does. I'm a nurse."

"Letting it get to you - you know what that's called?" The Doctor told him as Amy joined them and sat at the bottom, holding onto the rail, "Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now, that's all that counts." He and Rose then sat back down in the swing sets, "We're Nearly finished. Two more minutes, then we're off. The Eye of Orion's restful, if you like restful. I can never really get the hang of restful. What do you think, TARDIS? Where shall we take the kids this time?"

"Look at you three. It's always the two of you and her, isn't it?" Amy told them, "Long after the rest of us have gone. A boy, his wife and their box, off to see the universe."

"It sure is," Jack said, agreeing with her.

"Well, you both say that as if it's a bad thing," the Doctor told her, "But honestly, it's the best thing there is. The House deleted all the bedrooms. "Amy, Rory, we should make you two a new bedroom. "And Jack, we should make you another suite, exactly identical to the last one. The three of You would like that, wouldn't you?"

"OK. Doctor, this time, could me and Rory lose the bunk beds?" Amy asked the Doctor after Rory leaned over and whispered to Amy.

"Nah, bunk beds are cool. A bed with a ladder! You can't beat that," he told them before Rose, Jack, Amy and Rory looked at him, "It's your room. Up those stairs, keep walking till you find it. Off you pop!"

"Doctor, Rose, do you both have a room?" Rory asked as he and Amy began to walk up the stairs.

"Of course we do, Rory," Rose answered as she and the Doctor placed their goggles back over their eyes as Amy grabbed Rory's arm and pulled him up the stairs before Jack followed them up the stairs as he went to his new suite.

"Theta, I've been thinking," Rose told her husband as she plugged in a few wires.

"What is it, Arkytior?" He asked her as he wiped off a few spots and connected two wires causing another bright spark.

"I've been thinking that we should renew our vows," Rose answered, "We've been married for like what 800 years?"

"Yeah, we've been married for 759 years," he answered, "But you're right, we really should renew our vows."

"Maybe this time, have a mixture of Human and Gallifreyan one that includes our friends like Jack, Amy, Rory, Martha, Mickey, Sarah Jane, etc," Rose suggested.

"Yeah, I'd like that," he told her as they finished repairing the TARDIS.

A while later, the TARDIS spun gently through space as the Doctor threw down his cloth and used his sonic on one spot of the console as Rose went to take a shower. He made use of some of the controls but stopped.

"Are you there? Can you hear me?" He asked the TARDIS, "I'm a silly old... OK. The Eye of Orion, or wherever we need to go." Next to him, the lever moved on its own, starting dematerialization, "Hello!" He laughed, giddily, he spun around the console, "Whoo-hoo!"

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