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Running. That's all she can ever remember. And the terror. The terror as she ran for her life being chased by a man with a wicked looking blade…
Robyn shot up in bed letting out a scream. Immediately, Amy Pond burst into the room. "It's alright, you just had a nightmare", the ginger said in a soothing tone, coming to sit by her, taking the shaking woman into her arms.
"That man…" Robyn breathed, trembling, feeling every scar that marked her body burn…reminding her of what he had done…how he had broken her.
"Will never hurt you again", Amy said gently, running a hand through her hair "he's locked away for the rest of his life".
"But it still feels like he's here. My own personal demon", Robyn whispered. Amy got off the bed, going over to the desk where a little angel figurine sat. The ginger smiled at the two hearts that had been drawn on its chest. She took it back to the frightened redhead.
"You have your own angel to fight that demon", Amy said handing it over. Robyn clutched it tightly in her hands "that angel will always watch over you and protect you from all the darkness, past, present and future"
The upset redhead managed to smile at Amy "thanks", she said "will you stay with me?"
"Of course. Until you fall asleep", Amy replied and Robyn laid down, still holding onto the angel figurine. The ginger kept her word and stayed with her until she drifted off.
The next day Robyn decided to stay curled up in bed with her books and music. She was actually plugged into her music player that she didn't even hear Amy's so called 'imaginary friend' breaking into the house. the 21 year old yelped when Scotswoman touched her on the shoulder. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you but you were so absorbed", Amy said, apologetically.
"It's ok", Robyn said tugging her ear pods out "What's up?" she asked "you look like you're going to a job" she nodded to Amy's policewoman outfit.
"Not quite. Someone just broke into our house", the ginger explained.
"Oh my…" Robyn paled "is he still here?"
"Yes. I knocked him out with a cricket bat and cuffed him to the radiator", Amy told her. That had her housemate out of bed and went to the doorway, peering out. She saw the unconscious man and he looked rather like those drawings Amy had once shown her. The ones about the Doctor.
"Wait…is that who I think it is?" Robyn questioned.
"Yes, its him", the ginger confirmed.
"Are you ok?" the redhead, tentatively enquired. She knew how much of an impact the Time Lord had on the ginger and what it had done to her life during her childhood.
"Yeah, I am", Amy answered.
"And the reason you're wearing your police uniform is…?" Robyn queried.
"Well it was this or a french maid", the ginger admits.
"And you'd get more answers out of him this way than the other", the redhead nods "smart".
"Thanks. Want to help with the questioning?" Amy asked, switching to a British accent.
"I…uh…I-I don't think so", Robyn mumbled. Despite her friend telling her all about the Doctor, she was still wary of new people "Sorry".
"It's ok", Amy said, understanding her reluctance to help "Why don't you stay here, and I'll get you some tea?" she suggested.
"That sounds good", the redhead agreed. The ginger nodded and left the room. Robyn hovered in the doorway, eyeing the Doctor. She bit her lip. She really wished that she could stop feeling so scared all the time. Robyn sighed and disappeared into the safety of her room.
A few minutes later, Amy came back with a mug of tea. "Here you go", she said handing it over.
"Thanks", Robyn said taking a sip "mm…love tea", she mumbled. Tea seems to make almost everything better.
"I'll let you know once he's left", Amy promised before she left the room, pulling the door closed behind her. As soon as she was gone, Robyn went back to sipping her drink, her blue-green flickering over to the angel figurine on top of her dresser. She stepped over to it, set her drink down and picked up the angel. The redhead rubbed a gentle thumb over its twin hearts. Robyn glanced over at the door and took a breath. Thanks to monster…aka her uncle…she was a scared…broken little bird too terrified to trust anyone besides Amy and Rory. And that was all she was ever going to be unless she did something about it. Giving her friend support wasn't much but it was a good first step.
With that in mind and the figurine clutched tightly in her hand, the redhead went over to the door easing it open. "Ryn? I thought you were going to stay in the room?" Amy asked, surprised to see her friend emerging from her room.
"I know but I changed my mind", Robyn said "I'm tired of being scared all the time Ames. So I will stay here, with you and get answers from the Doctor together". Amy took her hand and gave it a squeeze.
"Ok", she agreed. Robyn glanced over at the Doctor. Now she was out in the hall, she could feel something…strange. It was like this pull, drawing her towards the Time Lord. "How long do you think he'll be out?" she questioned.
Amy shrugged "no clue", she replied "guess we'll see when he wakes up". The two got settled and waited for the Doctor to regain consciousness.
The first thing the Doctor heard when he woke was the tweeting of birds. He slowly opened his eyes, blinking a few times as his vision was a little blurred from being knocked out. When his vision cleared, his eyes were immediately drawn to one of the two young women that were in front of him. She had reddish brown hair, blue-green eyes and almost perfect skin save the scar under her left eye. As he looked at her, the Doctor could feel gentle tug at his hearts coupled by a slight warmth in his chest. He knew what exactly what that meant which of course made him rather excited. But there was a small voice in the back of his mind that was questioning the sensation his was feeling. He paid no attention to it though, why should he? His Bonded was right there, in front of him!
He knew from lessons at the academy that looking at your Bonded wasn't enough, you had to touch to form the actual bond. The Doctor vaguely remembered learning of some instances where a Time Lord had found his or her Bonded but for whatever reason refused to form the bond. Why anyone turn away the chance to be so deeply connected to another being…it as beyond him. A Bonded was supposed to be the one that makes you whole. As if they're a piece of the puzzle you'd been missing but never truly knowing it until you meet them. Then just like that, everything simply falls into place…life has meaning…and in his case, it was her.
She was that missing puzzle piece…his guiding light…his north star. Everything he had ever done lead to this moment and he was not going to waste it. The Doctor tried to stand up only to discover that he was cuffed to the radiator. Robyn instinctively moved back and the Time Lord noted the wariness in her eyes, she was almost…afraid of him. He had to admit, that did hurt. Your Bonded was supposed to be protected AND more importantly…loved. They weren't supposed to scared. It made him wonder if she was afraid of him or the reason behind her scars. He'd noted that she had a second one on her neck, which he had caught a glimpse of when she moved. "Oi! You, sit still", Amy spoke up, having heard him move.
"Why am I restrained?" the Doctor asked, not taking his eyes of his Bonded.
"You were breaking and entering", the ginger replied, moving to block his view of the redhead.
"Hang on, no, wait. You're a policewoman", the Time Lord stated, trying to peer at his Bonded but he couldn't easily see past the uniformed wearing lady.
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?" Amy countered.
"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia?" the Doctor questioned them both. Amy glanced at Robyn, who looked up at her from staring at the angel figurine in her hands. The young woman shook her head, silently telling the ginger that she wasn't going to say anything to the Doctor about Amy being the little girl he met all those years ago.
Amy turned back to the Doctor "Amelia Pond?" she asked, pretending to be surprised.
"Yeah, Amelia", the Time Lord confirmed "Little Scottish girl. Where is she? I promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?"
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time", Amy said. Both and Robyn watched him to see his reaction to that lie.
"How long?" the Doctor asked, really hoping nothing bad had happened to the little Scottish girl.
"Six months", Amy answered.
"No. No. No. No! I can't be six months late!" the Time Lord said in disbelief "I said five minutes. I promised" Amy took Robyn's arm and led her away from the Doctor "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?" he called after them both but neither responded.
"Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up", Amy said into her pretend radio "This guy knows something about Amelia Pond". As she spoke, the Doctor looked past them to the door that he'd tried to get into before being knocked out. Something about it gave him a very bad feeling.
"Excuse me", he said but neither women took any notice "excuse me", he said louder. This time Amy and Robyn took notice, turning around to look at him. "You live here, right?" the Doctor asked Robyn.
"Yes, we both do", she replied quietly.
"But she's the police", the Doctor pointed out.
"Even the police have to live somewhere", Robyn countered.
"How many rooms?" the Time Lord suddenly asked, confusing the pair.
"I'm sorry, what?" Amy questioned.
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now. Both of you", the Doctor ordered, the bad feeling he was getting had intensified.
"Why?" Robyn enquired.
"Because it will change your life", the Doctor said simply.
Amy exchanged another look with Robyn, latter seeing an unspoken answer in the former's eyes. She sighed and counted off the number of rooms, pointing to each of the five doors.
"Six", the Doctor corrected.
Both Amy and Robyn frowned at that. Amy had lived there for most of her life and she knew that there were only five doors on the first floor. Robyn had lived with Amy for only a few months but she too knew that there was only FIVE rooms on the first floor.
"Six?" Amy repeated, still utterly confused. How the hell can there be an extra room in her house that she didn't know about?
"Look", the Time Lord said.
"Look where?" the ginger questioned, still utterly perplexed as to how she had an extra room in her house all these years and never know it.
"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look. The corner of your eye. Look behind you", the Doctor urged.
Both Amy and Robyn slowly turned around, doing a double take when they saw a door, the only door Robyn hadn't pointed to when she counted off the rooms. "That's…that is not possible. How's that possible?" Amy said, gaping at the door.
"There's a perception filter all-round the door. Sensed it the last time I was here. Should've seen it", the Doctor explained, mentally kicking himself that he didn't.
"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed", Amy breathed.
"Me neither", Robyn added.
"The filter stops you noticing", the Time Lord continued "Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding, and you need to uncuff me now!" He had to get both women out of the house, away from the danger.
"I don't have the key. I lost it", Amy replied as she slowly started to walk towards the door. Robyn tentatively followed her not wanting the ginger to go into the mystery room on her own. Even though deep down, she didn't want to go in.
"How can you have lost it?! Stay away from that door!" the Doctor called, his hearts starting to speed up as his Bonded got closer to the door "Do not touch that door!" he shouted as Amy put her hand on the doorknob "Listen to me! Do not open that…" the ginger turned the knob, opening the door "Why does no-one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?" Amy and Robyn stepped inside the room "Again…?" the Doctor frantically searched his pockets for his screwdriver, his hearts hammering away in his chest. He had to his Bonded out of that room right now! "My screwdriver, where is it?" he called to the two women, having come up empty in his search of his pockets "Silver thing, blue at the end. Where did it go?"
"There's nothing here", Amy called back taking in the room. It was dusty with a few old boxes on the floor; spots of water damage on the walls and a table in the middle of the room.
"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the room. What makes you think you could see it? Now please, just get out!" the Doctor pleaded.
"Silver, blue at the end?" Robyn called, suddenly spotting it on the table covered in some kind of goo.
"My screwdriver, yeah", the Doctor called back.
"It's here", the redhead told him.
"Must have rolled under the door", the Doctor said, mainly to himself but loud enough so that the pair had heard him inside the room.
"Yeah. Must have", Amy agreed.
"And then it must have jumped up on the table", Robyn muttered which the Time Lord heard, her words making his hearts stop.
"Get out of there!" he shouted, going into full panic mode. Amy ignored him and reached out for the sonic "Get out!" the Doctor shouted stretching as far as he could with the handcuffs. Amy snatched up the sonic, cringing at the goo it was covered in. She and Robyn both stiffened when they got the feeling that something was behind them. "What is it? What are you doing?" the Doctor called as neither of them had come out.
"There's nothing here, but…" Amy trailed off
"Corner of your eye", the Time Lord reminded them. Robyn did as he said, just about seeing there was something behind them.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Don't try to see it. If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you" the Doctor warned them, his hearts pounding away in his chest "Don't look at it. Do not…look". Despite his warnings, the women turn fully and scream at the sight of the alien before them. Upon hearing their screams from out in the corridor, the Doctor's hearts constricted "Get out!" he yelled. A moment later, both women race out of the room, Robyn slamming the door shut behind her. The Time Lord snatched the sonic from Amy and used it on the door's lock before trying to use it on the handcuffs. Unfortunately it didn't seem to work on them "What's the bad alien done to you?" he grumbled looking at his beloved sonic.
"Will that door hold it?" Amy asked staring at the door.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. It's an interdimensional multiform from outer space. They're all terrified of wood", the Doctor said, sarcastically.
A bright light flashed around the edges of the door "What's that? What's it doing?" Robyn questioned, her heart still hammering away in her chest.
"I don't know. Getting dressed?" the Doctor guessed as he wiped his finger over the sonic to clear off the goo. "Now run!" he added, throwing a pleading look to his Bonded. He wanted her away from the danger right NOW! "I'll be fine, her back-up is coming", he said when Robyn didn't move.
"There is no back up", Amy said, eyes fixed on the door.
"I heard you on the radio" the Doctor said, glancing at her surprised "You called for back-up".
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio", the ginger told him.
The Time Lord frowned "You're a policewoman".
"She's a kissogram", Robyn said taking Amy's policewoman hat off her head freeing her long ginger hair that had been tucked up under the hat. Suddenly the door to the mystery room falls into the hallway, revealing a workman in overalls holding onto a leash which was attached to the collar of the black dog standing next to him.
"But it's just…" Amy started.
"No, it isn't. Look at the faces", the Doctor urged.
Robyn and Amy stared at the man as he growled and barked while the dog remained silent. "What?" the latter asked, looking down at the Time Lord in complete astonishment "I'm sorry, but what?"
"It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two", the Doctor explained quietly to the women as the man and the dog moved their heads in unison "Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though" the Time Lord raised his voice as he asked "Got the voice a bit muddled, did you?" the man and dog looked straight at the Time Lord "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?" The multiform didn't answer, instead it advanced towards the trio "Stay, boy!" the Doctor said sternly and the multiform halted "them and me, we're safe. Want to know why?" the Doctor patted Amy on the feet "She sent for back-up".
"I didn't send for back-up!" Amy shouted at him.
"I know. That was a clever lie to save our lives" the Doctor said to the Scotswoman. To the multiform he hastily amended "Okay, yeah, no back up. And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we had back up, you'd have to kill us!"
Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded.
"What's that?" Robyn asked, her voice starting to tremble from fear.
"Well, that would be back up", the Doctor replied. He heard the fear in her voice and he hated it. He just wanted to take her far away from any danger so that she would be safe and happy. So that she wouldn't be scared ever again. "Okay, one more time. We do have back up and that's definitely why we're safe", the Time Lord tried again.
Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated
"Well, safe apart from, you know, incineration", he corrected.
The multiform turned and walked into one of the rooms. As the voice repeated its warning, the Doctor bangs the sonic on the floor in an attempt to get it to work. "Work, work, work. C'mon", he muttered. He continued to bang it on the floor, pressing the button until the tip lit up. The Doctor turned the sonic on the cuffs, freeing himself.
Now that the Time Lord was free, the trio raced down the stairs and out of the house. "Kissogram?" the Doctor asked flashing his sonic on the lock of the backdoor.
"Yes, a kissogram. Work through it", Amy said angrily.
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?" the Time Lord questioned.
"You broke into our house!" Amy exclaimed "It was this or a French maid!" the Doctor walked off, Robyn and Amy following him. "What's going on? Tell me!" The ginger demanded.
"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house", the Doctor replied quickly, very aware that they were still in danger "Any questions?"
"Yes", Amy and Robyn chorused.
"Me too" the Time Lord turned to the TARDIS and tried to put the key in the lock but he couldn't "No, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding. Not letting us in".
Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated
Amy grabbed the Doctor by the arm and tried to pull him away but he resisted when he noticed the shed. "Hang on. That shed" he ran over to it "I destroyed it last time I was here. Smashed it to pieces"
"So there's a new one", Amy said.
"We need to go", Robyn urged. The Doctor heard the urgency in her voice but the shed was REALLY bothering him.
"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least" he sniffed the wood before rubbing his finger along the wood and tasting "Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late" the Doctor turned and walked back to Amy "You said six months. Why did you say six months?"
"We've got to go", the ginger said avoiding his question.
"This matters. This is important" the Time Lord pressed "Why did you say six months?"
"Why did you say five minutes?!" Amy shouted back, her Scottish accent slipping out in her anger.
