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The Doctor gaped at her. The ginger in front of him was Amelia Pond, the little Scottish girl he'd met before, now all grown up. "What?"

"Come on", Amy said.

"What?" the Time Lord repeated.

"Come on!" the Scotswoman grabbed him by the arm and pulled him by the arm and tugged him towards the side gate, past the multiform that was now standing in the doorway. Robyn hurried after them.

The trio stopped running when they reached a village road, a safe distance away from the house "You're Amelia", the Doctor stated.

"And you're late", Amy countered, starting to walk again, pulling Robyn along as she'd grabbed the redhead's hand. In Robyn's other hand still clutched the angel figurine tightly. She wasn't about to let it go, not when it was probably the only thing keeping her from completely freaking out.

"Amelia Pond. You're the little girl", the Doctor said, following them.

"I'm Amelia, this is Robyn and you're late", Amy shot back.

"What hap-"the Time Lord broke off when he realised that the ginger had just told him his Bonded's name "Your name's Robyn?" he asked Robyn. Now that he was much closer to her, he couldn't help but focus on the scars she had. It made him angry that someone would hurt her bad enough to leave those. The moment he could get into his ship, he was going to find the person responsible and make them pay!

"Yes it is", redhead confirmed, breaking through his thoughts.

"Its lovely", the Doctor remarked, trying to keep his anger at bay. She didn't deserve it. "I like it", he quickly added. Robyn gave him a very small smile.

"I'm glad you like my name though I think you owe my friend here an apology for being 12 years late", she pointed out.

"She hit me with a cricket bat!" the Time Lord exclaimed.

"Twelve years", Amy reminded him.

"A cricket bat", the Doctor countered.

"Twelve years and four psychiatrists", the ginger retorted.

"Four?" the Time Lord repeated with a frown.

"I kept biting them", the Scotswoman admitted.

"Why?" the Doctor questioned.

"They said you weren't real", Amy replied.

Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated the voice said again, this time it was coming from the speakers of the nearby ice cream.

"No, no, no, come on…What?" Amy asked, staring at the van "We're being staked out by an ice-cream van". She'd thought they'd left that voice behind at her house along with the multi-form.

The Doctor ran over to the ice cream van, followed by the women. "What's that? Why are you playing that?" he demanded.

"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune", the bewildered vendor explained. The Time Lord picked up the small radio and listened to the voice coming through it as well. As he was doing that Robyn looked around noticing that the voice was also coming through a woman's mobile phone and a jogger's mp3 player.

"Doctor, what's happening?" Amy asked taking note of this as well. The Doctor didn't answer her, he just turned and leapt over a low white fence into the pretty front garden while the two women ran around it front.

"Hello!" the Doctor said cheerfully entering the living room of an elderly lady, Mrs Angelo, who was currently flicking through the tv channels, closely followed by Amy and Robyn "Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area..." he glanced at Amy's outfit "Also crimes. Let's have a look" the Time Lord took the remote from her.

"I was just about to phone. It's on every channel", Mrs Angelo said and then noticed the two young women "Oh, hello, Robyn", she greeted.

"Hi Mrs Angelo. How are you?" Robyn asked.

"I'm fine thank you dear", Mrs Angelo replied "I didn't realise you were a policewoman now Amy", she added nodding to Amy's outfit.

"Well, sometimes", Amy mumbled.

"I thought you were a nurse", the elderly woman remarked, remembering the time she saw the ginger dressed as a nurse.

"I can be a nurse", the ginger said with a shrug.

"Or actually a nun?" Mrs Angelo continued.

"She's…a dabbler", Robyn put in. While most would frown upon Amy's occupation as a kissogram, it didn't bother her in the slightest. It was mostly likely to be a phase that the ginger needed to work through on her own without people putting her down. The more they did that, the more she was going to stick with the job.

"So Amy, Robyn who is your friend?" Mrs Angelo questioned, nodding to the Doctor.

"Who's Amy?" the Doctor looked at the ginger "You were Amelia".

"Yeah? Now I'm Amy", Amy said, defensively.

"Amelia Pond was a great name", the Time Lord argued.

"Bit fairy tale", Amy shot back, using what he said to her about her name all those years ago.

"I know you, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before", Mrs Angelo spoke up.

"Not me. Brand new face…", the Doctor said, making a face and earning raised eye brows from Robyn "First time on" he turned to Amy "And what sort of job's a kissogram?"

"I go to parties and I kiss people", Amy cleared her throat "With outfits. It's a laugh".

"You were a little girl five minutes ago", the Doctor said in a disapproving tone.

"You're worse than her aunt", Robyn mumbled.

"I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt" the Doctor looked at Mrs Angelo, adding "And that is not how I'm introducing myself" the Time Lord turned his attention to Robyn "please tell me you're not a kissogram too" the thought of his Bonded going to parties, kissing random guys made him feel rather angry.

"Don't have a job", Robyn said, fiddling with the angel figurine in her hands "I-I can't…"

"You don't have to say another word", Amy said softly, putting an arm around her. Mrs Angelo looked at the redhead sympathetically which the Doctor took note of. It seemed that this old lady knew about what happened to his Bonded and it made him feel rather put out. Now he really wanted to know.

But since he wasn't going to get any answers any time soon, it was best to focus on the current situation at hand. He picked up a radio, using his sonic to go through all the channels, revealing that the voice was being broadcast to the whole world. "Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language", the Doctor said "They're broadcasting to the whole world". He went over to the window, opened it up, sticks his head out and looked up at the sky.

"What's up there? What are you looking for?" Amy asked.

The Doctor pulled his head back inside "Okay. Planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core… they're going to need a forty percent fission blast", he stated. A young man enters the room and the Doctor walked up to him "But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium sized starship, that's twenty minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes" the Doctor turned to the others "We've got twenty minutes".

"Twenty minutes to what?" Robyn asked before the Time Lord could answer her, the young man spoke up.

"Are you the Doctor?"

"He is, isn't he?" Mrs Angelo cheered "He's the Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor. All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor. It's him".

"I know", Amy whispered slightly embarrassed.

"Cartoons?" the Doctor asked looking at her bemused before going to sit on the sofa.

"Gran, it's him, isn't it? It's really him!" the young man, Jeff exclaimed, excitedly.

"Jeff shush", Amy hissed, giving an annoyed look "Twenty minutes to what?" she asked the Doctor who was looking at the TV where the alien's warning was still being played.

"The human residence. They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship, and it's going to incinerate the planet" the Doctor looked at Robyn "Twenty minutes to the end of the world", he said, gravely.


The Doctor walked quickly down the road, Robyn and Amy nearly running to keep up with him. The moment he'd said that there was twenty minutes till the end of the world, he had rushed off "What is this place? Where am I?" he asked.

"Leadworth", Amy answered.

"Where's the rest of it?" the Time Lord questioned, looking around, taking the village in.

"This is it", Robyn replied.

"Is there an airport?" the Doctor queried, his mind thinking through possibilities on how he could save the Earth, yet again.

"No", Amy said.

"A nuclear power station?" the Time Lord continued.

"No", the ginger repeated.

"Even a little one?" the Doctor queried.

"Nope", Robyn replied "fraid not".

"Nearest city?" the Time Lord asked.

"Gloucester. Half an hour by car", Amy answered.

"We don't have half an hour", the Doctor stated "Do we have a car?"

His Bonded shook her head "I'm afraid not", she said, somewhat apologetically.

"Well, that's good! Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut!" the Doctor said crossly. With his Bonded's life on the line, he was feeling a bit on edge. "WHAT is that?" he suddenly asked noticing an empty pond and rushing over to it. Robyn and Amy chased after him.

"It's a duck pond", Amy told him.

The Time Lord frowned "then why aren't there any ducks?"

Amy shrugged "I don't know. There's never any ducks", she told him.

"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?" the Doctor countered.

"It…just is", the ginger stated, rather confused by his enquiries about a duck pond.

"Is it important, the duck pond?" Robyn questioned wondering what importance a duck pond had to saving the world from incineration.

"I don't know. Why would-" he broke off with a painful cry, sitting down heavily, clutching his chest. Despite how wary she usually was of new people, Robyn couldn't help but look at him with concern. "This is too soon" the Doctor groaned, looking up at her "I'm not ready Robyn, I'm not done yet".

The redhead opened her mouth to ask him what that meant when the sky suddenly darkened. They all glance up at it "What's happening?" Amy gasped "Why's it going dark?" the sun reappeared, grey and flickering before turning somewhat close to normal.

"What's wrong with the sun?" Robyn asked.

"Nothing. You're looking at it through a forcefield. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere. Now they're getting ready to boil the planet" the Doctor explained, easing himself to his feet "Oh, and here they come. The human race", the Doctor grumbled noticing all the villagers who were taking photos of the sun, completely unaware of the impending danger "The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone".

"This isn't real, is it? This is some kind of big wind up", Amy said.

"Why would we wind you up?" the Doctor asked.

"You told me you had a time machine", Amy said.

"And you believed me", the Doctor reminded her. Robyn looked around at the villagers noticing one figure wearing scrubs wasn't taking photos of the sun. Hang on that looks like Rory. What is he looking at? She moved over to get a better view of what Rory was taking pictures of. Her eyes widened when she just about made out Prisoner Zero, still in the guise of the workman and his dog.

"Then I grew up", Amy shot back.

Robyn turned to Amy and the Doctor "um…Rory is taking pictures of Prisoner Zero", she said, pointing at the nurse. The Doctor and Amy followed her finger to see exactly what she'd spotted.

"Good work Robyn!" the Doctor said with a grin "shall we go say hi?"

"Sure", Robyn replied, not returning it. He didn't take it to heart though. She had clearly gone through something...something he wasn't privy to...yet.

The Doctor strolled toward Rory, Amy and Robyn following. "Hey Ryn", Rory greeted, when she and the Time Lord came up to him. Amy was lagging behind due to the short skirt she was wearing.

"Hey Rory", Robyn greeted back with a little warmth in her voice.

"How are you?" Rory asked.

"Fine", Robyn answered. The nurse knew better but he wasn't going to question her, not with the hell she went through with her uncle.

The Doctor didn't bother saying 'hi', he just snatched Rory's phone out of his hand. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?" he demanded.

Before Rory could reply, Amy ran up, "Amy", he said.

"Hi", Scotswoman greeted, breathlessly.

"Man and dog. Why?" the Time Lord demanded knowing they were wasting valuable time by chatting. He'd just found his Bonded and he be damned if he were to lose her because of some idle chit chat.

"Oh my God, it's him", Rory said almost gaping at the Doctor when he realised that was who was standing in front of him.

"Just answer his question, please", Robyn told the nurse seeing that the Time Lord was getting annoyed.

"It's him, though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor", Rory continued.

"Yeah…he came back", Amy said.

"But he was a story. He was a game", Rory insisted.

The Doctor grabbed him by the shirt, just wanting to get some answers. Robyn took a step backwards, rather taken aback by the sudden aggressive move. The Time Lord quickly released Rory, seeing that he'd frightened his Bonded. "Tell me about the man and dog", he ordered as calmly as he possibly could "why did you take his picture?"

"Sorry. Because he can't be there. Because he's…" Rory started.

"In a hospital, in a coma" he and the Doctor said in unison.

"Yeah", Rory said rather dumbfounded at what had just happened.

"Knew it. Multiform, you see? Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a life feed. A psychic link with a living" the Time Lord poked Rory in the forehead "but dormant mind".