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The city of London was very different; a steampunk version of London as the buildings were the same, but instead of the underground railroad, there were elevated steam rails, cars were about to get attached to hot air balloons with propellers.
"And it's another beautiful day in London," a man said on a radio throughout the city, "There are reports of sunspot activity and solar flares causing interference across all radio signals so apologies for that."
Meanwhile in Hyde Park, children were laughing and playing around as adults were reading the newspaper as one of the girls that were playing around was given a sandwich by her mother, while above them, pterodactyls flew around, shrieking.
"Guys, look!" the girl said, pointing at the pterodactyls before they swooped down towards the people who ran for cover as they passed a sign that read 'Pterodactyls are Vermin. Do Not Feed.'
On a street of London, a Roman chariot waited for the light to turn green with a Roman soldier standing on top of the chariot as a newspaper vendor was selling a daily newspaper called 'the Londinium Cotide' with the headline reading 'war of the roses enters second year,' while on a TV in a shop window, a morning show was playing with the hosts interviewing Charles Dickens.
"So do you think you can top last year's Christmas Special?" A male interviewer with light skin, light red hair and light brown eyes named Bill Turnbill asked Charles Dickens.
"And can you tell us anything about it?" A female interviewer with blonde hair and grey eyes named Sian WIlliams asked Charles Dickens.
"Well, all I can say now is that it involves ghosts, and the past, the present and future, all at the same time…" Charles Dickens answered.
"Oh, we love a ghost story," Sian said before the three of them laughed.
"Crowds lined the Mall today as Holy Roman Emperor, Winston Churchill, returned to the Buckingham Senate on his personal mammoth…" a woman with light brown hair and green eyes named Merideth Viera said as the TV's channel switched to another channel.
In the Senate, which was Buckingham Palace, but refurbished with Roman symbols and within his office, Churchill was at his desk being examined by a Silurian doctor, Malokeh.
"Not too many late nights in Gaul, I hope?" Malakeh asked Churchill.
"Just the one. I had an argument with Cleopatra. Dreadful woman. Excellent dancer," Churchill answered as two male slaves, who were in traditional Roman garb and were fanning him with large feathers.
"I can tell from your blood pressure," Malokeh stated.
"What time do you have, doctor?" Churchill asked him as he looked at a clock on his desk.
"Two minutes past five, Caesar," Malokeh answered as he checked a fob watch from his pockets.
"It's always two minutes past five. Day or night, it's always two minutes past five in the afternoon," Churchill muttered before turning to Malokeh, "Why is that?"
"Because that is the time, Caesar," Malokeh answered.
"And the date. Always the 22nd of April," Churchill added before looking at Malokeh again, "Does it not bother you?"
"The date and the time have always been the same, Caesar," Malokeh stated, "Why should it start bothering me now?"
"I want to see the Soothsayers," Churchill told him, "Where are they?"
"In the tower," Malokeh answered, "Where you threw them the last time."
"Get them!" Churchill ordered him.
In the Senate's corridor, four Roman soldiers were escorting two soothsayers, who were in chains with one of them being male and the other female and were also dressed in tunics and sandals.
As the soldiers entered Churchill's office, they forced the two soothsayers to their knees in front of Churchill's desk.
"Leave us!" Churchill ordered the soldiers before they left his office as the soothsayers kept their heads down, "Tick-tock goes the clock, as the old song says. But they don't, do they?" He then looked at a clock on the wall behind him before looking back at them, "The clocks never tick. Something has happened to time. That's what you both say. What you both never stop saying. All of history is happening at once. But what does that mean? What happened? Explain to me in terms that I can understand. What happened to time?"
"A woman," the male soothsayer answered as he looked up to reveal that he was the Doctor with his hair being longer and had grown a beard.
"Who is also a friend of ours," the female soothsayer added as she looked up to reveal that she was Rose, who had her hair grown and was longer than it was when she regenerated.
Earlier on a spaceship, two shadowy figures were slowly approaching someone or something through a viewer that kept cutting out with static with one of them wearing the Stetson and the other wearing a zip-up jacket.
"Imagine you were dying," one of the figures muttered to themselves, "Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain." Both figures came closer and looked up to reveal that they were the Doctor and Rose.
"Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up... and saw the face of the devil and his wife themselves," Rose said, finishing her husband's train of thought, "Hello, Dalek."
The Dalek that the Doctor and Rose were in front of was on its side with small fires burning around it and was a Supreme Dalek from the New Dalek Paradigm.
"Emergency! emergency! Weapon system disabled!" The Supreme Dalek stated before its voice's pitch began changing, "Emergency! Emergency! Emergency!"
"Hush now, we need some information from your data core," the Doctor told the Dalek as he used his sonic screwdriver to remove the Supreme Dalek's casing, "Everything the Daleks know about the Silence!"
"What they know about us and why they want us dead," Rose added as the Doctor's sonic screwdriver opened the Supreme Dalek's data core before he flicked it open.
At the docks of Calisto B, it was night as a hooded figure walked the dark alleyways as the Doctor and Rose both watched from behind a building as they stood next to each other.
The Doctor and Rose both entered a bar as they walked straight up to the bar's bartender, a red-skinned alien behind a grate.
"Gideon Vandaleur. Get him. Now," the Doctor ordered the bartender.
"Who says he's here?" The bartender asked them.
"Rose, you know what to do," the Doctor told his wife before she pulled out a Dalek's eyestalk and placed it down on the counter, causing the bartender to scurry off before both Gallifreyans waited at a table, kissing each other passionately as the hooded figure that they had been watching sat down in front of them and lowered their hood to reveal a man with light skin, medium sized brown hair, hazel eyes and was wearing an eye patch over his right eye and as they saw him, they looked up at the man, "Father Gideon Vandaleur. Former envoy of the Silence. My condolences."
"You have my condolences as well," Rose said as she stared at Vandaleur.
"Your what?" Vandaleur asked them with confusion.
"Gideon Vandaleur has been dead for six months," the Doctor explained as Rose pulled out her sonic screwdriver and used it on Vandaleur, who winced before aimed it at his eye as they saw that there was a soldier inside his eye, revealing that Vandaleur was in fact the Tesselecta.
"May we speak to the Captain, please?" Rose requested the soldier before the soldier ran off.
"Hello again!" The Doctor said, greeting Carter, the captain of the Tesselecta, "The Teselecta, time-travelling shape-changing robot, powered by miniaturised people. Never get bored of that! Long time since Berlin."
"Yeah, nice to see you guys again," Rose told them, agreeing with her husband, "It's been 200 years since we met you guys in Berlin before World War II started."
"Doctor, Rose, what have you both done to our systems?" Carter asked both Gallifreyans.
"They'll be fine, if you behave," the Doctor assured him, "Now this unit can disguise itself as anyone in the universe so if you're posing as Vandaleur, you're investigating the Silence... Tell us about them."
"Tell you both what?" Carter asked him.
"One thing. Just one," Rose answered, "What's their weakest link?"
In an arena, the Doctor was sitting opposite a humanoid male with light skin, light brown hair, blue eyes and wearing the attire of a Viking with an eye patch over his right eye, while Rose stood behind her husband with her arms behind her back. Between the Doctor and the Viking was a table bearing a chess set, one of the pieces was charged with electricity as a crowd cheered them on from above as the Viking hesitated in moving the charged piece.
"The crowd are getting restless! They know the Queen is your only legal move," the Doctor told the Viking, "Except you've already moved it 12 times, which means there are now over four million volts running through it." The Viking then looked up at the crowd, who yelled for him to make a move, "That's why they call it live chess. Even with the gauntlet you'll never make it to bishop four alive."
"My husband's got you there, Gantok," Rose said as she chuckled at him.
"I am a dead man," Gantok stated, "Unless you concede the game, Doctor."
"But I'm winning," the Doctor told him.
"Name your price, Doctor," Gantok urged him.
"What we want is Information," Rose stated.
"I work for the Silence," Gantok told them, "They would kill me."
"They're going to kill us too, very soon," the Doctor stated, "We were just going to lie down and take it, but you know what? Before we go, we'd like to know why we have to die."
"Dorium Maldovar. He's the only one who can help the two of you," Gantok told them.
"Dorium's dead," the Doctor said with confusion, "The Monks beheaded him at Demons Run."
"How can a dead person help us?" Rose asked Gantok, agreeing with her husband.
"I know," Gantok told them, "Concede the game, Doctor... and I'll take the two of you to him." The Doctor and Rose both exchanged a look before the Doctor conceded the game, causing the crowd to groan.
"Then you will take us right now," Rose stated before smiling, "Allons-y."
Gantok lead both the Doctor and Rose the way through an underground tunnel with a torch in his hand with the Doctor and Rose walking a few steps behind him in case he tried something on them as both Gallifreyans saw that there were skulls on every available surface throughout the tunnel.
"The Seventh Transept. Where the Headless Monks keep the leftovers," Gantok explained to them, "Watch your step, there are traps everywhere."
"Yeah, as if we didn't already know that," Rose retorted, sarcastically as they heard the sound of something scurrying across the floor.
"Eww! I hate rats," the Doctor muttered as he looked down at the floor.
"Yeah, me too, I've hated rats in every single one of my incarnations so far," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"There are no rats in the transept," Gantok assured them.
"Oh, good," the Doctor muttered to himself.
"Yeah, thank Rassilon there are no rats in here," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"The skulls eat them," Gantok added as the skulls on the shelves turned to watch their progress, "The headless monks behead you alive, remember?" As they neared the end of the tunnel, they entered a room where there were pedestals in the centre with wooden boxes resting on top of them.
"Why are some of them in boxes?" The Doctor asked him.
"Yeah, why is that?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Because some people are rich and some people are left to rot," Gantok answered, "Dorium Maldovar was always very rich."
As Gantok put the torch into a sconce, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to scan a beautifully decorated box and after he and Rose both heard the latch unlock, Rose slid the door open as she and the Doctor peered at Dorium's head as he sneezed.
"Thank you for bringing us, Gantok," the Doctor told him.
"Yeah, thanks for bringing us to him," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"My pleasure," Gantok told them as he aimed a gun at the Doctor and Rose, "It saves me the trouble of burying the two of you. Nobody beats me at chess!" Rose then noticed what Gantok was attempting before she kicked the gun out of Gantok's hand as he fell on the ground.
"Venusian Karate," Rose stated before Gantok suddenly stood back up and walked backwards a bit before she and the Doctor saw that he was about to step on a trap, but Gantok stepped on it before he could speak, he screamed as he fell through the trapdoor in the floor.
"Gantok!" The Doctor cried as he rushed over to the trap door with Rose before they looked down into the pit and saw that Gantok was surrounded by skulls as they attacked him and was subsumed before the skulls then turned around and looked up at the Doctor and Rose before they pulled back as Rose pulled out her sonic screwdriver and used it to close the trap with the door slamming shut waking Dorium up.
"Hello? Is someone there?" Dorium asked before the Doctor and Rose both walked over to him, "Ah, Doctor, Rose! Thank God it's the two of you. The Monks, they turned on me. And it seems that you've finally regenerated Rose."
"So it seems that you already knew I would regenerate within the 200 years since I saw you get beheaded," Rose muttered as she stared at him.
"Well...I'm afraid they rather did a bit," the Doctor told him.
"Me and the others did try to warn you," Rose reminded the Crespellion.
"Give it to me straight, Doctor! How bad are my injuries?" Dorium asked the Time Lord.
"Well…" The Doctor began to say before Dorium began laughing.
"Oh, your face!" Dorium said as he continued laughing before the Doctor placed his hands over his hips as he and Rose smiled.
"Yes…" The Doctor muttered.
"This is absurd! Other worlds, carnivorous skulls, talking heads," Churchill said with disbelief as he was listening to the Doctor and Rose's story as he stood up from his desk as he removed a cigar from his mouth, "I don't know why I'm listening to the two of you."
"Because in another reality, you are friends with us," The Doctor said as he was now sitting at a table with Rose before Churchill placed the cigar back in his mouth, "And you sense that. Just as you sense there is something wrong with time."
"Similar to how we are friends with someone called Captain Jack Harkness," Rose added with a smirk.
"You both mentioned a woman…" Churchill recalled as he removed the cigar from his mouth again.
"Yes. We're getting to her," the Doctor assured him.
"What's she like?" Churchill asked them as he looked at Rose, "Attractive like, you I assume."
"She's worse than me," Rose stated.
"Hell. In high heels," the Doctor added as Churchill placed the cigar back in his mouth.
"Tell me more," Churchill requested as he removed the cigar from his mouth yet again.
"Oh, it's not so bad really, as long as they get your box the right way up," Dorium said as the Doctor walked away from him before walking back towards him, "I got a media-chip fitted in my head years ago, and the Wi-Fi down here is excellent. So I keep myself entertained."
"We need to know about the Silence," the Doctor told him.
"Who or what are they?" Rose asked the Crespellion.
"Oh," Dorium muttered, "They're a religious order of great power and discretion. The sentinels of history, as they like to call themselves."
"And they want us dead," the Doctor stated.
"No, not really," Dorium told him, "They just don't want either of you to remain alive."
"That literally means the same thing," Rose said with confusion.
"That's OK," the Doctor muttered, "I was worried for a minute there."
"You're a man with a long and dangerous past, Doctor," Dorium told the Doctor, "And you've had one since you opened your fob watch, Rose. But your future is infinitely more terrifying. The Silence believe it must be averted."
"You know you could've told us all this, the last time we met," the Doctor stated.
"Yeah, you could have told us this before we went to Demons Run," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"It was a busy day and I got beheaded," Dorium reminded them after he sighed.
"What's so dangerous about our future?" The Doctor asked the Crespellion.
"On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh or Twelfth, if you prefer and his wife, when no living creature could speak falsely, or fail to answer, a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered," Dorium answered as he pulled out a small notebook from his jacket's pocket.
"Silence will fall when the question is asked…" The Doctor muttered as he read the words from his notebook.
"'Silence must fall' would be a better translation," Dorium stated, "The Silence are determined the question will never be answered. That the Doctor and his wife, Rose Smith will both never reach Trenzalore."
"I don't understand? What's it got to do with us?" The Doctor asked him with confusion as he put the notebook back in his coat's pocket.
"I'm confused as well, Dorium, what does it have to do with us?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"The first question. The oldest question in the universe, hidden in plain sight," Dorium answered, "Would you like to know what it is?"
"Yes!" The Doctor and Rose both said at the same time.
"Are you both sure?" Dorium asked them as the skulls turned around towards them, "Very, very sure?"
"Of course," the Doctor answered as he gulped.
"Definitely," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Then I shall tell the two of you. But on your own heads be it," Dorium told them before laughing.
Soon the Doctor and Rose both entered the TARDIS with the Doctor carrying the box containing Dorium's head.
"It's not my fault!" Dorium told both Gallifreyans with his voice being muffled, "Put me back." The Doctor then put the box down on the Captain's chair by the console before going to work the controls with Rose, "Ow! I've fallen on my nose." On the monitor, the Doctor and Rose both pulled up the date, place and time of their death, "Have either of you got Wi-Fi here? I'm bored already and my nose is hurting! We all have to die, Doctor and Rose... But both of you more than most. You two do see that, don't you? You both know what the question is now, you both do see that you two have to die!"
"But what was the question?" Churchill asked the Doctor and Rose as they entered the senate room, "Why did it mean your deaths?"
"Suppose there were two people, a man and their wife who knew a secret. A terrible, dangerous secret that must never be told," the Doctor told him, "How would you erase that secret from the world? Destroy it forever, before it can be spoken?"
"If I had to, I'd destroy the man and his wife," Churchill answered.
"And we wish the question didn't exist to begin with," Rose stated.
"And silence would fall. All the times we've heard those words, we never realised...it was our silence. our deaths. The Doctor and his wife, Rose Smith will both fall," the Doctor added before looking around the room, "Why are we here?"
"This? This is the senate room," Churchill told him.
"But why did we leave your office?" The Doctor asked him.
"Yeah, why did we leave your office?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Well, we wanted a stroll, didn't we?" Churchill answered before looking at the revolver that was in his hand.
"I think we've been running," the Doctor told him.
"Yeah, I think we've been running as well," Rose said, agreeing with him before she noticed that Churchill had a revolver in his hand, "Why do you have your revolver?"
"Well... Your both dangerous company, Soothsayers," Churchill answered.
"Yes. I think we are," the Doctor muttered as he looked at his left arm and saw a black line on it.
"Me too," Rose said, agreeing with her husband as she looked at her right arm and saw a black line on it as well.
"Resume your story?" Churchill requested.
"Doctor, Rose, please open my hatch, I've got an awful headache…" Dorium pleaded with both Gallifreyans as they worked on the TARDIS' controls as the Doctor made an angry, frustrated motion towards the box, almost like he wanted to pick it up and throw it across the room, "Which to be honest means more than it used to." Rose then walked over to the box and slid the hatch open to reveal Dorium with his head upside-down, causing Rose to rotate her head around before the Doctor did the same as he walked over to them, "It's like some terrible weight pressing down on my…" He then opened his eyes, "Oh, I see!"
"Why Lake Silencio? Why Utah?" The Doctor asked him as he and Rose rotated their heads back upwards.
"Yeah, why Lake Silencio, Utah of all places?" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point," Dorium explained, "And your deaths are a fixed-point, Doctor and Rose."
"Been running all my life," the Doctor told him.
"And I've been running since I opened my fob watch," Rose added, "Why should we stop?"
"You both can't run away from this," Dorium told them, "Because now you know what's at stake, why your lives end."
"Not today," the Doctor said as he dialled the console's phone.
"What's the point in delaying?" Dorium asked them, "How long have you both delayed already?"
"Almost 200 years," Rose answered.
"And we've been knocking about. Bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see, there's always more. We could invent a new colour, save the Dodo, join the Beatles," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife before speaking into the phone, "Hello, it's the Doctor. Get him! Tell him, we're going out and it's all on us, except for the money and driving." He then turned back to Dorium, "We've got a time machine, Dorium... it's all still going on. For us, it never stops. Liz the First is waiting in a glade to elope with us and Jack. Rose could help her stepmother, Jackie Tyler with her homework. I could go on all of Jack's stag parties in one night after he eventually marries River Song, While Rose goes to all of his brides' bachelorette parties."
"Time catches up with us all!" Dorium stated.
"Well, it has never laid a glove on me or Rose!" The Doctor argued before speaking into the phone, "Hello?"
"Doctor, I'm so sorry, we didn't know how to contact you or your wife," a voice said on the other side of the phone, "I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago." The Doctor's expression then changed from angry to sad, which Rose noticed, "Doctor?"
"Yes. Yes, I…" The Doctor stuttered.
"It was very peaceful," the voice went on, "He talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days and to introduce your wife, Rose to him."
"Theta, what is it?" Rose asked her husband as he walked over to him.
"The Brigadier passed away a few months ago, Arkytior," the Doctor answered.
"I never even had a chance to meet him," Rose muttered to herself with sadness in her voice.
"Doctor? What's wrong?" Dorium asked the Time Lord as he noticed his sad expression.
"Nothing. Nothing. It's just…" the Doctor began to say as he hung up the phone and sighed deeply before he then reached into one of the pockets in his coat and pulled out the six blue envelopes, "It's time. It's time."
"It's time for us to die," Rose added, agreeing with her husband.
Back on the bar of Calisto B, the Doctor put the six envelopes on the table in front of the Teselecta, which was still in the shape of Vandaleur as Rose sat next to her husband.
"Surely you both could deliver the messages yourselves," Carter told them.
"It would involve crossing our own time stream... best not," the Doctor explained.
"And they probably would recognise him if they saw him," Rose added.
"According to our files, this is the end for the two of you," Carter told them, "Your final journey. We'll deliver your messages. You both can depend on us."
"Thank you," the Doctor told him.
"Yeah, thanks," Rose said, agreeing with her husband before they began walking towards the door.
"Doctor, Rose, whatever you both think of the Teselecta, we are champions of law and order, just as you both have always been," Carter told them as the Tesselecta stood back up, "Is there nothing else we can do?" The Doctor and Rose both lowered their heads as they walked out the door.
At Amy and Rory's house, Amy opened the door for the postman, who gave her a blue envelope.
"Why would you both do this?" Churchill asked the Doctor and Rose, causing them to look at him.
Back at Amy and Rory's house, Amy opened the envelope.
"Of all the things you both have told me, this I find hardest to believe," Churchill told the Doctor and Rose.
At Luna University, Jenny, the Doctor and Rose's daughter grabbed the blue envelope that slid through the mail slot of her dorm and grinned as she read it.
In Cardiff, Wales, UK, a man handed Captain Jack Harkness a blue envelope before walking away as Jack opened the envelope and grinned as he began working on his Vortex Manipulator.
Meanwhile at Stormcage Containment Facility in the 52nd Century, River Song opened her envelope.
"Why would either of you invite your friends to see your deaths?" Churchill asked both Gallifreyans.
"If we had to die, we didn't have to die without our family and friends," the Doctor answered.
"If it was up to you, which would you choose?" Rose asked him, rhetorically.
At Monument Valley, Utah, USA, Amy and Rory turned around and saw the Doctor and Rose lying on the hood of a red 1960s station wagon.
"Doctor!" Amy exclaimed as she saw the Doctor.
"Hello, Amy. Hello, Rory," Rose greeted Amy and Rory.
"Rose?" Amy said with disbelief.
"Yep," the Past Rose confirmed as she stuck her tongue between her teeth as she got off of the car, "I've regenerated since we last saw you."
"Ha-ha! It's the Ponds!" The Past Doctor said, excitedly as he followed Rose and got off of the top of the car and hugged them.
"Amy and Rory. The last Centurion and the girl who waited," the Present Doctor told Churchill, "However dark it got, we'd turn around, and there they'd be."
"If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving," the Doctor added, "Remember the best. Our friends have always been the best of us."
"And did either of you tell them this was going to happen?" Churchill asked them.
"No, we thought it was best to not tell them," Rose answered.
"And it would help if you didn't keep asking questions," the Doctor told him before he looked at his left arm and Rose's right arm as he saw two more tally marks on their arms, "We don't have much time."
A gun fired from a distance ahead from the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory before the stetson was blown off of the Doctor's head. The four of them turned around and saw two figures silhouetted against the sun. The figures moved slightly and they saw that it was River with Jenny standing next to her.
"And this woman you both spoke of. Did you both invite her?" Churchill asked the Doctor and Rose.
"Hello, Doctor. Hello, Rose," River greeted the Doctor and Rose when Jack suddenly appeared behind her and Jenny.
"Yes, she was there," the Present Doctor answered.
"Along with our daughter, Jenny and my best mate, Captain Jack Harkness," the Present Rose added.
"River Song came twice," the Present Doctor stated as the past version of him, the past version of Rose, Amy, Rory, River, Jenny and Jack were at Lake Silencio with the Past Doctor stretched out on a picnic blanket with the Past Rose, while Amy, Rory, River, Jenny and Jack were sitting on the edges.
"Napoleon gave me this bottle," the past Doctor said as he poured some wine into River's glass, "Well, I say gave...Threw." He then gave the others a toast, "Salut!"
"Salut!" The others said, repeating him as they gave him a toast.
"So when are we going to 1969?" Rory asked.
"Everything was in place," the Present Doctor stated, "We only had to do one more thing. We only had to die."
The Past versions of the Doctor and Rose both stood up as they saw Canton standing next to his pickup truck in the distance and waved at him as they held each other's hand.
"Oh, my God!" River cried as she saw an astronaut in the lake before the others did as Amy stood up.
"You all need to stay back," the Doctor told them, "Whatever happens now, you do not interfere. Clear?"
"Got it?" Rose asked, agreeing with her husband before they began walking towards the astronaut.
"That's an astronaut. That's an Apollo astronaut in the lake. Look," Rory said to Amy as the Doctor and Rose walked up to the astronaut on the beach.
"Hello. It's OK, we know it's you," the Doctor told the astronaut as they opened its visor to reveal that it was River, "Well then…"
"Hello, River," Rose greeted the version of River that was in the astronaut suit.
"Here we are at last," the Doctor told her.
"I can't stop it," River told them, "The suit's in control."
"You're not supposed to, River," Rose told her, "This has to happen."
"You both need to run," River urged them.
"We did run. Running brought us here," the Doctor told her.
"I'm trying to fight it," River told them, "But I can't. It's too strong."
"We know. It's OK. This is where we die," Rose reassured her, "This is a fixed-point, this must happen, this always happens."
"Don't worry. You won't even remember this," the Doctor told her before looking over to where the present River was, "Look over there."
"That's me. How can I be there?" River asked them.
"That's you from the future, River," Rose explained, "Serving time for murder you probably can't remember. Our murder."
"Why would you both do that?" River asked them, "Make me watch?"
"So that you know this is inevitable and you are forgiven," he explained as she rose her arm, "Always and completely forgiven."
"Please, Doctor and Rose. Please just run," River begged them.
"Sorry, River, but we can't," Rose told her.
"Time can be rewritten," River told them.
"Don't you dare," the Doctor hissed.
"Goodbye, River," both Time Lords said as they closed their eyes and bowed their heads, accepting their fate before there were five sonic guns being fired with the Doctor and Rose jerking with each one and as they realised that they were still alive, the Doctor and Rose both cracked open one of their eyes.
"Hello, Doctor. Hello, Rose," River greeted them.
"What have you done?!" The Doctor demanded.
"Yeah, why aren't we dead, River?!" Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Well... I think I just drained my weapon systems," River answered.
"But this is fixed," the Doctor said with confusion, "This is a fixed point in time."
"Fixed points can be rewritten," River stated.
"No, they can't, of course they can't," Rose argued, "Who told you…"
Before the Time Lady could finish her question, there was a flash of light as time changed.
"Well? What happened?" Churchill asked the Doctor and Rose as they were now on opposite ends of the senate room with Rose standing next to her husband.
"Nothing," the Doctor and Rose both answered at the same time.
"Nothing?" Churchill said with confusion as he walked over to the Doctor and Rose.
"Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you prefer, everything happened, at once, and it won't ever stop," the Doctor explained, "Time is dying. It's going to be 5:02 in the afternoon for all eternity."
"The end of the universe if you will," Rose added, "Because this is what happens if you try to change a fixed-point in time and space."
"A needle stuck on a record," the Doctor stated.
"A record? Good Lord, have either of you never heard of downloads?" Churchill asked them with disbelief.
"Said Winston Churchill," the Doctor muttered.
"Yeah, I never expected him to say that," Rose said, agreeing with her husband.
"Gun smoke," Churchill muttered as he sniffed the room after smelling gun smoke, "That's gun smoke!" He then lifted up his revolver, "I appear to have fired this."
"We seem to be defending ourselves," the Doctor stated as he and Rose were both now wielding pikes in their hands.
"I don't understand," Churchill said with confusion.
"Silents," Rose muttered.
"What she said and they are the creatures that lead the Silence," the Doctor said, agreeing with his wife, "Remarkable beings, they're memory-proof."
"But what does that mean?" Churchill asked them as they began to back out of the room.
"You can't remember them. The moment you look away, you forget they were ever there," the Doctor explained as he looked at his left arm and saw yet another mark on it.
"But you retain parts of the memory in your subconscious and fully remember them when you see them again but when you look away from them again, you'll forget them yet again," Rose added as she looked at her right arm and saw another mark on it as well.
"Don't panic. In small numbers, they're not too difficult," the Doctor assured him and as he changed the grip on his pike, he saw that his right arm was covered in tally marks with Rose doing the same thing with her pike and saw that her left arm was now covered in tally marks as well before the three of them looked up slowly and saw Silents hanging from the ceiling above like bats as a cylindrical device was thrown into the room and rolled across the floor, beeping, "Go!"
The Doctor and Rose both made a run for it, knocking Churchill to the floor as the bomb went off, revealing itself to be a flashbang as smoke came out of it as the Doctor and Rose were both knocked to the floor by the concussion of the blast as armed soldiers burst into the room.
"Go! Go! Keep the Silents in sight at all times, keep your eye drives active," one of the soldiers ordered as they kept their guns aimed at the ceiling as two women wearing black suits and a man wearing a military uniform sauntered into the room.
"Who the devil are you?!" Churchill demanded them, "Identify yourselves!"
The Doctor and Rose both squinted through the smoke at the two women and the man as they moved closer towards them.
"Pond," one of the women answered, "Amelia Pond."
"Smith," the other woman said, "Jennifer Lillian Smith."
"And I'm Harkness," the man told them, "Captain Jack Harkness."
The Doctor and Rose both laughed as they saw Amy, their daughter and Jack before Churchill aimed his gun at Amy, Jenny and Jack.
"No!" The Doctor said as he pushed Churchill's revolver down, "They're on our side, it's OK."
"He's right, two of them are our friends and one of them is our daughter," Rose told Churchill as Amy, Jenny and Jack walked closer before she and the Doctor saw that they were wearing eye patches over their right eyes.
"No! No, Amy, Amy," the Doctor muttered to himself, "Why are you wearing that?"
"Jenny, sweetheart, why are you and Jack wearing those as well?" Rose asked their daughter before Amy and Jenny fired their guns at them before she and the Doctor fell back onto the floor, unconscious.
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