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"All airlocks sealed, resistance neutralised," Strax said as he was escorting Manton to the communication room at gunpoint as the Doctor was sitting at the main control panel with Rose standing next to him with Mickey, Martha, Vastra, Jenny and Dorium also being present.
"Sorry, Colonel Manton, I lied," the Doctor told the colonel, "Three minutes, 42 seconds."
"Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw," Strax told Manton.
"No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away," the Doctor told Manton.
"He's going at it this time," Mickey muttered.
"Yeah, he is," Martha said, agreeing with her husband, "This incarnation of his must be wildly different from his others."
"What?" Manton said with disbelief in his voice.
"Those words. Run away. I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door, 'cause they've found the house of Colonel Runaway," the Doctor explained as he stood up and pointed his finger at him, "And, when people come to you, and ask if trying to get to me and Rose through the people we love… including our daughter from Messaline is in any way a good idea…"
"Wait, daughter," Martha said with confusion, "I thought she died on Messaline."
"It's a long story, Martha," Rose explained, "But to put it simply, General Cobb didn't kill her, the source must have brought her back to life as what she believes but a future version of Jack reunited us with her last year."
"Anyway, I want you to tell them your name," the Doctor went on as he stared at Manton, "Oh, look! I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now."
"This actually isn't, Doctor, your last two previous bodies were angry too," Rose reminded her husband, "From the horrors of the Time War and killing our people."
"Yeah, your last two bodies were angry," Mickey said, agreeing with the Time Lady as he remembered the Doctor's last two bodies.
"I meant in this incarnation," the Doctor explained.
"What about the Weeping Angels when we were climbing through the crashed ship of the Byzantium?" Rose asked him.
"Okay, recently," he relented.
"Wait, you both have encountered Weeping Angels again?" Martha said with surprise.
"Yeah, but we did not get displaced in time when we encountered them like before," Rose answered.
"The anger of a good man is not a problem," they heard Kovarian say as she was being escorted into the room by a group of Silurians, "Good men have too many rules."
"Good men don't need rules," the Doctor told her as he slowly turned his head to look at her before walking over to her, "Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."
"Give the order," Kovarian suddenly said, causing the Doctor to pull back, a little surprised before smiling crookedly as he held up a finger before walking away, "Give the order, Colonel Runaway."
Back in the Nursery, there was a knocking at the door, causing Amy to run about, trying to find something to use as a weapon, in case it was an enemy.
"Who's that, who's there?" Amy asked as she found something that looked like an industrial thermometer "You watch it, 'cause I'm armed and really dangerous and...cross!"
"Yeah. Like I don't know that," she suddenly heard Rory's voice say from outside the door.
"Rory? Rory, is that you," Amy asked him.
"Yeah, it's me…" Rory answered as he began using a sonic screwdriver to open the door, "Hang on a minute."
"They took her. Rory, they took our baby away," Amy told her husband.
"Now, Mrs Williams... That is never, ever going to happen," Rory said as the doors slid open as she saw him holding their baby, who cooed as he began walking towards her.
"Oh, my God," Amy said before she began checking their baby as she looked her over, "Where's she been, what have they done to her…"
"She's fine. Amy, she's fine, I checked. She's beautiful," Rory assured his wife before he began to cry, "Oh, God, I was going to be cool. I wanted to be cool, look at me."
"You're okay. Crying Roman with a baby, definitely cool. Come here, you," she told him before pulling him in for a passionate kiss.
"Ugh, kissing and crying, I'll be back in a bit," the Doctor said as he and Rose suddenly appeared in the doorway.
"You don't have to, we've kissed in front of our companions before like what they're doing in front of us right now, Doctor," Rose reminded him, "Remember we did it after Amy stopped you from comatosing the Star Whale when she walked in on us kissing?"
"Oh, right," the Doctor said as he remembered what Rose was talking about.
"Oi! You two! Get in here. Now," Rory ordered both Gallifreyans, who walked over to them as the Doctor pointed at Rory and Amy's baby as he and Rose both smiled, "My daughter. What do you think?"
"Hello. Hello, baby," the Doctor said, greeting Amy and Rory's baby as he shook her hand.
"What's her name?" Rose asked Amy.
"Melody," Amy answered.
"Melody! Hello, Melody Pond!" The Doctor said, greeting Melody.
"That's a nice name, Amy," Rose told Amy before greeting Melody, "Nice to meet you, Melody Pond."
"Melody Williams," Rory corrected them.
"Is a geography teacher," Amy told her husband, "Melody Pond is a superhero."
"Well, yes, I suppose she does smell nice," the Doctor told Melody after he leaned over Amy and sniffed her as he listened to melody's gurgles, "Never really sniffed her, maybe I should give it a go. Amelia Pond, come here!"
"Doctor!" Amy said as she and the Doctor hugged each other.
"I'm sorry we were so long," the Doctor apologized as he sniffed her hair.
It's okay, I knew you and Rose were coming," Amy told him, "The three of you and Jack. My boys and Rose!"
"It's OK, she's still all yours," the Doctor told Melody as she squealed, "And really you should call her Mummy, not Big Milk Thing."
"Okay, Doctor, what are you doing?" Amy asked the Doctor.
"I speak Baby," the Doctor answered.
"No, you don't!" Amy told him.
"She's right, that's not even a real language,"Rose told him, "And you never acted like this when we had children of our own back on Gallifrey."
"I speak everything...Don't I, Melody Pond?" The Doctor asked Melody as she gurgled, causing him to straighten his bowtie, "No, it's not...it's cool!"
"Doc! Vastra wants to tell you and Rose something," Jack said as he suddenly entered the room with Vastra, who leaned on the rail.
"Doctor! Rose! Take a look. They're leaving," Vastra said as both Gallifreyans walked up to the Nursery's window and looked out as they saw the soldiers and Headless Monks were being marched away by Silurians and Judoon, "Demon's Run is ours without a drop of blood spilled. My friends, you both have never risen higher!" Rory then looked up at Vastra as he heard what she just said, remembering what told him at Stormcage.
A while later, Amy walked out of the TARDIS, comforting Melody as she was shushing her.
"Hey what's wrong?" Rory asked her.
"She doesn't like the TARDIS noise," she answered, "I asked the Doctor to turn something off, but he was all 'I don't want to punch a hole in the space-time continuum' when Rose said it wouldn't affect the space-time continuum at all."
"Rose is right, though," Jack told her, "Nothing can affect the space-time continuum and I know 'cause I used to be a Time Agent."
"Rory!" Jenny said as she, Strax, Martha and Mickey walked up to him, "The Judoon have escorted the Clerics out of the quadrant, Spitfires have returned to their own time, and Captain Avery and his men... Is she all right?"
"Yes, she's just crying," Amy answered.
"I don't think she's just crying," Martha told her.
"Give her to me, human fool," Strax ordered Amy, "She needs changing."
"I just changed her," Amy told the Sontaran, "I think she might need a feed."
"A feed, of course. I'll take care of everything," Strax said, stepping forward with his hands out.
"I really don't think you will, actually," Rory told him.
"I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties," Strax explained, "I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid."
"But Sontaran milk may not be compatible for humans," Martha told him.
"Martha's right, Strax, it would be best if a human would do it," Jack said, agreeing with her before they walked off.
"She's not hungry, she's tired," the Doctor told them as he exited the TARDIS, carrying an old fashioned cradle with Gallifreyan written around it with Rose following him, "Sorry, Melody, they're just not listening."
"What's this?!" Amy asked them.
"Very pretty, according to your daughter," the Doctor answered.
"It's a...it's a cot," Rory realized.
"Of course it is, Rory," Rose said, confirming what Rory said.
"No flies on the Roman," the Doctor said at the same time as he laughed, "Give her here. Hey!"
"There we go," Amy said as she handed Melody to the Doctor.
"But where would you both get a cot?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans as the Doctor placed Melody in the cot.
"It's old. Really old. Doctor, Rose...did this belong to one of your children back on Gallifrey?" Amy asked them.
"Yeah," Rose answered.
"How many children have you both had before Jenny?" Amy asked them before turning to Jenny, "I don't mean you, Jenny. They have a daughter named Jenny."
"I know what you meant, Amy," Jenny told her, "They've told me all about her."
"We had a son and daughter back on Gallifrey," Rose answered, "Who had children of their own with one of them naming their daughter after the shortened version of my name in Gallifreyan. But I believe we have photos of them on the TARDIS somewhere, we could probably show you later."
"No. It's real, it's my hair," the Doctor told Melody, who was asking if his hair was fake.
"Did anyone else but your children ever sleep in here?" Amy asked both Gallifreyans.
"Doctor! Rose! We need one of you in the main control room," Vastra suddenly said through the base's intercom.
"I'll be right there! Things to do... I've still got to work out what this base is for," the Doctor said as he began to head off, "We can't leave till we know."
"Uh, but this is where I was?" Amy asked as she walked after the Doctor, who stopped and turned to her, "The whole time I thought I was on the TARDIS, I was really here."
"Erm... Centurion, permission to hug?" The Doctor asked Rory.
"Be aware, I do have a sword," Rory reminded him as he pointed to the sword he was carrying.
"At all times," the Doctor said, saluting Rory before hugging Amy, "You were on the TARDIS too...your heart, your mind, your soul. But physically, yes, you were still in this place."
"And when I saw that face looking through the hatch, that woman looking at me?" Amy asked.
"Reality bleeding through," the Doctor explained, "They must have taken you quite a while back. Just before America…"
"That's probably enough hugging now," Rory told them before the Doctor and Amy broke the hug, "So her flesh avatar was with us all that time. But that means they were projecting a control signal right into the TARDIS. Wherever we were in time and space."
"Yeah, they're very clever," the Doctor told them.
"I agree," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "They are very clever to project her flesh avatar's signal anywhere in time and space."
"Who are?" Amy asked them.
"Whoever wants our baby," Rory answered.
"Rory's right, Amy," Rose said, confirming what Rory said, "Whoever they were, they were very clever in doing that with your flesh avatar."
"But why do they want her?" Amy asked them.
"Exactly," the Doctor said, agreeing with Amy.
"Is there anything you're both not telling us?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans, "You both knew Amy wasn't real, neither of you never said, nor did you both tell Jack."
"Well, we couldn't be sure they weren't listening," Rose explained.
"But you always hold out on us. Please, not this time. Doctor, it's our baby," Amy told the Time Lord, "Tell us something. One little thing."
"It's mine," he told them.
"What is?" Rory asked him with confusion.
"The cot. It's my cot. I slept in there," the Doctor explained.
"From when he was a baby," Rose added as Rory looked at the hanging mobile over the cot, while the Doctor left the three of them and Melody, "His mother gave it to us after we got married when we were 150."
"Oh, my God. It's the Doctor's first stars," Amy said as she grabbed one of the stars on the hanging mobile.
"She's…" Rory began to say as Amy reached into her pocket and pulled out the prayer leaf to wipe around Melody's mouth.
"Drop your weapons! State your rank and intent," they suddenly heard Strax say as they saw him escorting Lorna over to them at gunpoint, causing the three of them to turn to Strax and Lorna, "I found it listening at the door."
The Doctor soon reentered the communication room where Dorium was sitting at the controls with Martha, Mickey, Jack and Vastra standing nearby.
"You've hacked into their software then?" The Doctor asked them.
"I believe I sold it to them," Dorium answered.
"So what have we learned?" The Doctor asked him as he placed his hands on Dorium's shoulders.
"That anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake," Vastra told him.
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor asked with confusion.
"The words of an old friend who with his wife once found me in the London Underground, attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers," Vastra explained as he began to walk back towards her, Jack, Mickey and Martha.
"Well, you were very cross at the time," the Doctor reminded her.
"As you were today, old friend," Vastra told him, "Point taken, I hope." He then nodded in acceptance of her words.
"She's right though," Martha told him, "Remember how upset after the Master, your and Rose's childhood friend and the only other Time Lord other than you and Rose was killed on the Valiant."
"And it was Rose, who calmed you down and told us that you both were going to burn his body as Gallifreyan tradition says," Jack said, agreeing with her.
"Also there was the time when you were angry at yourself for destroying your own people, when Rose was still Chameleon-Arched," Mickey added.
"All right, point taken," the Doctor told them.
"Now, I have a question. A simple one," Vastra told the Time Lord, "Is Melody human?"
"Sorry, what?" The Doctor said with confusion as he turned back around towards her and laughed uncomfortably, "Of course she is! Completely human, what are you talking about?!"
"They've been scanning her since she was born and I think they found what they were looking for," Dorium explained as he pulled up a screen showing an image of a human's double helix DNA.
"Human DNA," the Doctor insisted as he walked towards the screen.
"It's not just human DNA, Doctor," Martha told him.
"Doctor Smith-Jones is correct," Vastra said, agreeing with Martha as the screen zoomed in on Melody's DNA which showed that it had traces of Gallifreyan DNA embedded within Melody's DNA, "Look closer. Human plus. Specifically, human plus Time Lady."
"I heard her talking...this is a trap," Lorna told Amy, Strax, Jenny, Rory and Rose as they were still in the hangar, interrogating her a bit, "Why would I lie to you?"
"Well, you might want to take a look at your uniform," Rory answered.
"The only reason I joined the Clerics was to meet the Doctor and you again, Rose," Lorna explained.
"We've met before?" Rose asked her, "I swore I would've remembered meeting you before unless it hasn't happened to me yet."
"You wanted to meet them, so you joined an army to fight them?" Jenny asked at the same time.
"Well, how else do you meet a great warrior and his wife?" Lorna explained.
"The Doctor's not a warrior," Amy told her.
"Then why's he called the Doctor?" Lorna asked them.
"In some cultures of the universe, the word Doctor is the word for warriors and medic for others like Earth," Rose explained when the lights suddenly went out as Amy and Rory stood by the cot.
"It's starting. Please listen to me," Lorna pleaded with them.
"But she's human," the Doctor told Vastra and Martha with confusion, "She's Amy and Rory's daughter."
"You and Rose both told me about your people," Vastra reminded him, "They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The untempered schism."
"He and Rose also told me and Jack that when the Master became Prime Minister of Britain under the name 'Harold Saxon' in 2008," Martha said, agreeing with the Silurian.
"Over billions of years, it didn't just happen," he told them.
"So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?" Vastra asked the Time Lord.
"No, no! I don't think so," the Doctor told her.
"You don't sound so sure," Vastra told him.
"Yeah, you don't, Doctor," Martha said, agreeing with her, "'Cause it could probably be possible."
"Because I don't understand how this happened!" He explained.
"Which leads me to ask... when did it happen?" Vastra asked him.
"When?" The Doctor said, repeating what she asked him.
"I am trying to be delicate...I know how you can blush when Rose is somewhere nearby," Vastra told him, causing Jack, Mickey and Dorium to all chuckle, "When did this baby... begin?"
"Oh, you mean…" the Doctor said as he began to realize what she meant.
"Quite," Vastra answered.
"I want to know as well," Martha said, agreeing with Vastra.
"Well, how would I know? That's all human-y, private stuff, it just sort of...goes on. They don't put up a balloon, or anything," the Doctor answered, straightening his bowtie as he began walking down the hall.
"But could the child have begun on the TARDIS, in flight, in the vortex," Vastra suggested as walked back down the hall.
"She's got a point, Doctor," Martha said, agreeing with Vastra, "Because, in all my years as a Doctor and part of UNIT, I've never encountered anything like this."
"No, no, impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then me and Rose had to reboot the whole universe...long story, but Jack here hasn't experienced it yet. So technically the first time they were on the TARDIS together, in this version of reality, was on their…" the Doctor began to explain as he walked back down the hall and placed his hand on the wall.
"On their what?" Martha and Vastra both asked at the same time.
"Hmm?" Dorium asked him, curious as well.
"On their wedding night," the Doctor answered, gulping as he realized when Melody was conceived.
"Confirmed. No life forms registering on this base, except us and the Silurians," Strax said, using a scanner to scan the base for Headless Monks to see if they were on the base.
"The Headless Monks aren't alive...they don't register as life forms," Lorna told him as one of the Headless Monks walked up behind a Silurian.
"Doesn't make sense! You can't just cook yourself a Time Lord or a Time Lady," the Doctor told Martha and Vastra.
"Of course not, but you and Rose both gave them one hell of a start and they've been working very hard ever since," Vastra told him as she sighed.
"I agree with her, Doctor," Martha said, agreeing with Vastra.
"And yet they gave in so easily," Dorium added as he stood up and walked up to Vastra, "Does this not bother anyone else?"
"I was thinking the same thing, Dorium," Jack said, agreeing with him.
"Me too," Mickey said, agreeing with them.
"Amy! She worried the baby would have a time head. She said that…" the Doctor said, recalling what Amy told him, Rose, their daughter and Jack after they went to America in 1969.
"Only you would ignore the instincts of a mother!" The Doctor told her, "You were even the same with Rose when you and her lived on Gallifrey."
"Or the instincts of a coward," Dorium argued, "This is too easy. There's something wrong."
"Why even do it? Even if you could get your hands on a brand new Time Lord or Time Lady, what for?" The Doctor asked her.
"A weapon?" Vastra suggested.
"Definitely a weapon," Martha said, agreeing with her.
"Why would a Time Lady be a weapon?" He asked them.
"Well...they've seen you and Rose," Vastra answered.
"Yeah, I think that's the reason, too," Martha said, agreeing with the Silurian.
"Me and Rose?" The Doctor muttered, stunned as he sat down in the chair that Dorium was sitting down on.
"Mr Maldovar, you are right. This was too easy," Vastra said, agreeing with Dorium, Mickey and Jack, "We should get back to the others."
"Me and Rose?" The Doctor muttered again, but softly this time as he began to remember what River said, while she was examining the suit that the little girl was in he, Rose, Jack, River, Amy, Rory and his and Rose's daughter went to America in 1969 as Vastra, Dorium, Jack, Mickey and Martha left the communication room.
"I see you accessed our files," the Doctor suddenly heard Kovarian's voice say, causing him to stand up and saw her on the communication screen in front of him as he faced the screen, "Do you understand yet? Oh, don't worry, I'm a long way away. But I like to keep tabs on you and your wife. The child then... What do you think?"
"What is she?" The Doctor asked her.
"Hope," she answered, "Hope in this endless, bitter war."
"What war? Against who?" He asked her.
"Against you and your wife, Doctor," she answered.
Back in the hangar, a lift opened up as a monk emerged, shooting energy from his hand and killing a Silurian that was on guard, while In the main area, a glowing light appeared around the TARDIS as Amy was holding Melody.
"What's that?" Amy asked.
"I suspect it's a force field," Rose answered as Vastra approached the TARDIS as she reached a hand out to touch it before pulling it back as she felt energy coming from the glowing light around the TARDIS.
"You're right, Rose, it's a force field," Vastra told the Time Lady as Rory and Jack went on high alert as the monks began chanting as they walked towards them, when they suddenly heard a loud noise in the distance.
"And those are the doors... locking," Lorna explained as the monks passed the bodies of Silurians on the ground as the lifts were shut down.
"Apparently we're not leaving," Vastra muttered as they began to hear the Monks chanting.
"Is that the Monks?" Rory asked.
"Oh, dear God! That's the attack prayer," Dorium said as he recognized the Monks' chant.
"Quick, come with me," Rory told Amy, leading her away from the others.
"Commander Strax! Captain Jack Harkness!" Vastra said, calling out to the Sontaran and ex-Time Agent.
"I'm trying to seal off this area of the lighting grid," Strax told her.
"And I'm trying to get everyone ready for when they attack," Jack told the Silurian.
"This is where we'll make our stand. Clear lines of sight on all approaches," Vastra said as the monks had their swords out and charged.
"Rory, no offence to the others, but you'll let them all die first, OK?" Amy said, jokingly as Rory helped her and Melody hide behind crates in another section of the room.
"You're so Scottish," Rory told her as she kissed him before he kissed Melody's head.
"Centurion, you're needed!" Vastra suddenly called out to Rory, who then left.
"There should be some plasma pistols somewhere," Lorna said as she began searching through large crates in the room, "They left everything."
"Then find them, boy!" Strax ordered her.
"She's definitely a girl," Vastra said in a flirtatious tone.
"Oh, stop it!" Jenny told her in a jealous tone.
"We don't have to fight. I'm friends to the Monks, they know me," Dorium said as he began walking towards the monks.
"Yeah, and they know you just sold them out to me and the Doctor," Rose argued.
"Yeah she's right," Jack said, agreeing with the Time Lady.
"Oh, they'll understand. It's only me, only silly old me," Dorium assured them as he held his arms out wide as he continued to walk towards the monks, "You understand, don't you?"
"Mr Maldovar, get back here!" Vastra ordered Dorium.
"Arm yourself, fool!" Strax ordered the Crespellion.
"Dorium!" Rory, Jack, Rose, Mickey and Martha all said at the same time as Amy clung to Melody as she heard the sound of a sword and then something hitting the floor before Melody began crying.
"Mr Maldovar?" Vastra called out to Dorium.
"Dorium?" Rory called out to the Crepellion as well when Lorna came up behind them, passing out guns as they watched as the monks marched forward, swords glowing as a headless Dorium also walked towards them.
"The child! At all costs, protect the child!" Vastra said as Rory drew his sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, which reminded Rose of Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars Prequel trilogy as the others aim their guns at the Headless monks as she took out her sonic screwdriver and aimed it at them.
"A child is not a weapon!" The Doctor shouted in anger at Kovarain at the screen in the communication room as he slammed his hands down at the console.
"Oh, give us time. She can be. She will be," Kovarian told him.
"Except you've already lost her, and I swear me and Rose will never let you anywhere near her again," the Doctor promised her.
"Oh, Doctor. Fooling you and your wife once was a joy... but fooling you both twice, the same way, it's a privilege," she told him after she laughed.
"Amy... Amy!" The Doctor muttered as he realized that the Melody that Amy and the others were with was a Flesh avatar as he ran out of the communications room.
Amy tried to comfort a crying Melody as they heard the sound of fighting go on around them, over Amy's shoulder where only Melody could see, a 'panel' sliding open as Kovarian's face appeared as in the main section of the hangar, the fight continues with Rory in the center of it, while Rose tried disarming the monks with her sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor began running to the others, hoping to get there in time as the fight continued in the Hangar as Amy comforted Melody.
"Amy!" The Doctor said, calling out to his and Rose's female companion as a monk came up behind Strax as Lorna was struck by a monk's energy, "Amy!"
"Wakey, wakey!" Kovarian told Melody through the panel that the baby was seeing.
"Amy!" The Doctor said as he soon came up to a locked door when Melody suddenly burst, revealing that she was Flesh.
"Rory!" Amy screamed as she called out to her husband, who heard her, "Rory! Rory!"
"Amy, she's not real! Melody - she's a flesh avatar," the Doctor said as he used his sonic screwdriver on the door before pounding on it, "Amy!" The door then suddenly opened as he ran into the hangar as the fighting stopped, "Amy!" He then stopped at the destruction around him, "Amy."
"Yeah, we know, Theta," Rose told her husband as Martha walked up to Strax.
"It's strange. I have often dreamed of dying in combat," Strax told her, "I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped."
"I wish we could save you, Strax," Martha told the Sontaran.
"It's all right, though, I've had a good life," Strax assured her, "I'm nearly 12."
"Aren't you a warrior?" Martha said with confusion, "I've heard that all Sontarans are warriors."
"Martha, I'm a nurse, like you are a Doctor," Strax told her before passing away.
"So they took her anyway. All this was for nothing," Amy said as the Doctor saw Jenny with her as he walked over to them as Rory joined them.
"I am so... sorry," the Doctor said, hugging her before she backed away.
"Amy... it's not his or Rose's fault," Jenny assured her.
"I know, I know," Amy said as she began crying before Rory put his arms around her to comfort her.
"Doctor, there's someone who wants to speak to us. Her name is Lorna, she came to warn us and said that she met us before but I don't remember meeting her before," Rose told her husband, who used his sonic screwdriver to scan Lorna as he squat down beside her and flicked it into its claw mode before he rubbed his face with one hand in frustration as Lorna opened her eyes and saw him in front of her.
"Hey. Hello," the Doctor said, greeting Lorna.
"Doctor!" Lorna said, happily.
"You helped Rose and our friends, thank you," the Doctor told her as he smiled.
"I met you and Rose once," she told him, "In the Gamma Forests. You don't remember me, 'cause she didn't recognize me."
"Hey, of course I remember," he assured her, not wanting to tell her that it hasn't happened to him or Rose as he held her face between his hands, "We remember everyone. Hey, we ran, you, Rose and me! Didn't we run, Lorna?"
"Who was she?" The Doctor asked as Lorna passed away.
"I don't know but she was very brave," Vastra answered.
"Yeah, I agree, Vastra," Jack said, agreeing with the Silurian.
"I agree as well," Rose said, agreeing with Jack and Vastra.
"They're always brave," the Doctor told him before repeating himself in a softer tone,
They're always brave."
"So, what now?" Vastra asked as the Doctor stood back up, "They'd almost certainly have taken her to Earth, raise her in the correct environment."
"Yes, they did. And it's already too late," the Doctor said as he began to walk away in defeat.
"You're giving up? You never do that," Vastra told the Time Lord with disbelief.
"Don't you or Rose sometimes wish I did?" the Doctor asked her as he turned back around towards her, Rose and Jack.
"Well, then, Doctor, how goes the day?" The Doctor suddenly heard River's voice say as there was a bright flash of light and a clap of displaced air behind him as she appeared behind him
"Where the hell have you been?! Every time you've asked, me and Rose have been there," the Doctor said as he strode over to River with anger, "Where the hell were you today?!"
"I couldn't have prevented this," she explained.
"You could've tried!" He argued.
"And so, Doctor, could you, Rose and Jack," River told him as she looked at Amy and Rory, "I know you're not all right. But hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be."
"You think me and Rose wanted this?" He asked her as he pointed generally around the hangar, "We didn't do this. This... this wasn't us!"
"This was exactly you, Doctor. All this, all of it. You and Rose both make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, Doctor, did you ever think you'd become this?" River asked him, "The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name along with Rose? Doctor? The word for healer and wise man, throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word 'Doctor' means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child... the child of your best friends... and they're going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you and Rose down. And all this, Doctor, in fear of you."
"Who are you?" The Doctor asked her.
"I want to know too," Rose said, agreeing with her husband, "Who are you, River? We know that you're a child of our companions, but which companions?"
"Oh, look, your cot, Doctor! Haven't seen that in a very long while," River said, lightly as she backed up to the Doctor's cot from when he was a baby.
"No, no, you tell us," he told her, "Tell us... who you are."
"Yeah, who are you?" Rose asked, still not getting who River was either.
"I am telling you both," River explained as she placed her hand on the cot, "Can't you both read?" The Doctor and Rose both looked at the Gallifreyan writing on the cot and then back up at River, smiling as they realized who she was.
"You're…" the Doctor began to say.
"Yes," River answered as she knew what he was going to ask.
"Your parents are…" Rose began to ask.
"Yep," River answered with a smile as she knew what she was going to ask her.
"Looks like we best start finding Melody," Rose told her.
"Martha, Mickey, Vastra and Jenny, till the next time. Rory and Amy, me, Rose and Jack will find your daughter and on our lives, she will be safe, Jack with us to the TARDIS and we'll explain to you who River is in there. River, get them all home," the Doctor said, spinning before he, Rose and Jack began heading for the TARDIS.
"Doctor? Rose? Jack?" Rory said, calling out to both Gallifreyans and ex-Time Agent.
"No! Where are you three going? No!" Amy said, calling out to the Doctor, Rose and Jack as the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to lift the force field before he, Rose and Jack entered the TARDIS. In the doorway, the Doctor laughs and points at River as he and Rose finally knew who she was before going inside and closing the door as the TARDIS dematerialises.
"Where are they going? What did you tell the Doctor and Rose?" Amy asked River as she began walking towards her.
"Amy, you have to stay calm," River told her.
"Tell me what you told the Doctor and Rose," Amy ordered as she picked a gun off from the floor and aimed it at River.
"Amy, no, stop it!" Rory said, pleading with his wife.
"It's OK, Rory, she's fine, she's good," River assured Rory, "It's the TARDIS translation matrix, it takes a while to kick in with the written word. You have to concentrate."
"I still can't read it," Amy said after looking at the Gallifreyan on the Doctor's cot from when he was a baby for a while before Rory took the gun away from her.
"It's because it's Gallifreyan and doesn't translate, the only living people who can understand it besides the TARDIS is the Doctor and Rose, who taught me a little of it. But this will," River told her as she handed Amy the prayer leaf from inside the cot, "It's your daughter's name in the language of the forest."
"I know my daughter's name," Amy told her.
"Except they don't have a word for 'pond' because only water in the forest is the river. The Doctor and Rose will find your daughter and they will give her to Jack, who will care for her whatever it takes and I know that," River explained as the words on the prayer leaf changed in front of Amy and Rory's eyes as the TARDIS' translation circuit kicked in as one side becomes 'River' and the other became 'Song,' "It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter." Both Amy and Rory then looked at her with shock and surprise on their faces.
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Also should whatever River/Melody used to poison the Doctor in the 1938 in the show be airborne instead and have it only affect Gallifreyans?