Back in the present time in nineteen ninety six Amelia was a little girl on her knees by her bed praying for someone, anyone to come and fix the crack in her wall she knew it wasn't just a crack but something else, she could just about hear voices at night.
She was sat with a psychiatrist who was looking at the picture drawn it was the night sky with all stars over it.
"It's a lovely painting, Amelia. And what are all these?" Asked the psychiatrist.
"Stars." She replied to the woman, her aunt who she lived with looked stricken.
"Oh, Amelia!" Spoke her aunt.
"Tell you what, shall we go outside?" Spoke the psychiatrist to the two and led them out of the house to see the night sky.
"What do you see, Amelia?" Asked the psychiatrist bending down at Amelia's side.
"Just the moon." Amelia answered.
"And what else?" Asked the Psychiatrist.
"Just the dark." Amelia replied.
"But no stars. If there were stars up there, we'd be able to see them, wouldn't we? Amelia, look at me. You know this is all just a story, don't you? You know there's no such thing as stars." Amelia said nothing but looked up at the empty night sky with just the moon. She was lying in bed listening to her aunt and the psychiatrist. She slowly walked to the top of the stairs, so the voices were much clearer, Amelia watched and listened as they crossed from the kitchen to the parlour.
"It's quite common actually. Throughout history people have talked about stars in the sky. God knows where it comes from." Spoke the psychiatrist.
"I just don't want her growing up and joining one of those Star Cults. I don't trust that Simon Hawkins person always going on about the universe." Spoke her aunt. Just as she stood to go back to her room, a figure outside slipped something through the letter slot in the front door. Amelia ran down the stairs. It was a brochure for the London National Museum. She opened it and centre of the page, circled, was the Pandorica. On the back was a note written in red ink, 'Come along, Pond'.
The next day Amelia got her aunt to take her to the London National Museum in the afternoon and after entering Amelia led her aunt where she wanted to go.
"Come on, Aunt Sharon." Amelia told her aunt one destination in mind.
"Look at that! That's good, isn't it?" Spoke her aunt pointing out all different displays.
"Not those I don't want to see them! This way." Amelia told her pulling on her aunt to move her.
"But we're not looking at anything." He aunt replied as Amelia dragged her to where she wanted to be.
"This way I know where we are going!" Spoke Amelia she saw the room housing the Pandorica and broke free from her aunt's grip. On the way, she saw two strange creatures encased in stone.
"Amelia!" Shouted her aunt having lost sight of her.
In the room housing the Pandorica box Amelia pushed her way forward through the crowd to stare at the Pandorica and as she went to drink her soda that her aunt had bought her on the way to the museum, the cup was grabbed from her hand. She turned to her left to see who took it, but she couldn't see anyone with her drink. When she turned back, there was another a yellow post-it note stuck on the Pandorica. 'Stick around, Pond' was written in red ink again. Amelia hid between a different exhibit where she would never be found as her aunt was shouting and looking for her. As the afternoon went on, she stayed hidden and the crowd in the room thinned out. An announcement was made over the tannoid.
"Amelia Pond, please go to the reception. Your aunt is waiting for you there and is worried the museum is closing in one hour. Amelia Pond, please go to the reception." Came out of the tannoid and repeated a few more times.
Amelia hid for the rest of the afternoon in there and late into the evening really thirsty. She walked down the hall towards the Pandorica exhibit, the displays a little creepier now that it was the night time. She ducked under the cord surrounding the Pandorica box and removed the note that was still stuck there. She placed a hand on the black box and it began to glow green. Hearing mechanical noises, she ducked back under the red cord that cordoned it off and watched as it opened. The beam from the light expanded to the outer exhibits that were in the room with the Pandorica, including one of the stone creatures. Inside the Pandorica was Amy Pond.
"Okay kid. This is where it gets complicated." Spoke Amelia to her past self.
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One thousand eight hundred and ninety four years previously in the second century.
The Rory duplicate was resting against a log, Amy's body across his lap.
"So, the universe ended. You missed that. In one hundred and two AD. I suppose this means you and I never get born at all. Twice, in my case. You would have laughed at that. Please laugh Amy! The Doctor said the universe was huge and ridiculous, and sometimes there were miracles. I could do with a ridiculous miracle right about now." Spoke Rory to Amy who he knew was dead he had killed her the programming was to strong. The Doctor appeared wearing a red fez and carrying a mop.
"Rory! Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world. Well, it is the end of the world. Actually, it's the end of the universe. Oh, no. Hang on!" the Doctor tapped co-ordinates into River's Vortex Manipulator and disappeared.
"Doctor?... Doctor!" Shouted Rory. The Doctor reappeared without the mop.
"You need to get me out of the Pandorica. We're on our own without the other two! I think the Arbitrator has taken his dad to the inbetween to escape they could show up soon though I would have thought, but for now we will have to sort this mess out between just the two of us." The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out his sonic screwdriver.
"You're not in the Pandorica!" Rory stated the obvious confused, the Doctor was stood right in front of him.
"Yes, I am. Well, I'm not now, but I was back then. Well, back now from your point of view, which is back then from my point of view. Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head. It's easy to open from the outside... Just point my screwdriver at it and press the middle button. Now go." The Doctor instructed tory then he handed Rory the sonic and disappeared only to reappear.
"Oh, when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket. Good luck!" Explained the Doctor and then he vanished again on Rory.
"What do you mean? Done what?" Asked Rory to empty air. Finally realising the Doctor was not going to return he left Amy and he went down into the crypt where the Pandorica was and using the sonic screwdriver as he was told opened it pressing the middle button. The Doctor was sitting inside and looked at him, amazed as all the security disengaged and he could move.
"How did you do that?" The Doctor in the Pandorica asked him shocked.
"You gave me this, your screwdriver and told me to press the middle button." Answered Rory holding up the sonic screwdriver.
"No, I didn't." Said the Doctor pulling his own sonic screwdriver from his pocket.
"You did. Look at it." Rory answered him trying to pass it to him. The Doctor stepped out and held his sonic screwdriver to the one in Rory's hand. They sparked the closer they got.
"Temporal energy. Same sonic screwdriver, at different points in its own timestream. Which means it was me who gave it to you. Me from the future. I have actually got a future not trapped in this box…. That's great!" Spoke the Doctor happy then he looked behind Rory at the petrified remains of his enemies.
"That's not." The Doctor said unimpressed looking at each of them.
"Yeah. What are they?" Asked Rory looking at them also.
"History has collapsed. Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after images. Echoes, fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were." Explained the Doctor
"Er, what does that mean?" Rory asked him.
"Total event collapse. The universe literally never happened no one was ever born or died they were all wiped out before they could be the TARDIS exploded exploding the universe causing it to never have been born." The Doctor explained.
"So, how can we be here? What's keeping us safe?" Asked Rory,
"Nothing. Eye of the storm, that's all. We're just the last light to go out. Amy. Where's Amy?" Explained then demanded the Doctor looking around. Rory led them out of the crypt up the stairs to the top of Stonehenge, they exited Stonehenge at night and Rory took the Doctor to her body. The Doctor squatted down beside it and lifted back the blanket covering her.
"I killed her." Rory told the Doctor.
"Oh, Rory!" The Doctor said to him sadly.
"Doctor, what am I?" Rory asked worried he had just killed the woman he loved.
"You're a Nestene duplicate. A lump of plastic with delusions of humanity." The Doctor answered while using his sonic screwdriver on Amy to see what state she was in just stating facts to Rory being purposefully blunt.
"But I'm Rory now. Whatever was happening, it has stopped. I'm back to being Rory!" Rory tried to explain.
"That's software talking it's not you." The Doctor told him while still looking over the condition of Amy with his sonic screwdriver.
"Can you help her? Is there anything you can do?" Rory begged the Doctor who was still running his sonic screwdriver over Amy and kept looking at the information before doing it again trying to get as much information on her health as he could from the scan.
"Yeah, probably, if I had the time." The Doctor spoke while standing and turned away from Amy now he knew everything he needed to know about her body.
"The time!" Demanded Rory of the Doctor even though his back was to him.
"All of this universe apart from this planet and its moon has just been wiped from the sky. Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived. Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole population of the universe planets and people have all be wiped out and all that is keeping us alive is the fact we are the last to go if I don't think of something to sort all of this out which I haven't yet, so yes if I had the time which I don't I could do something, but she is not worth stopping to sort her out with everything else going on." Spoke the Doctor looking away from Rory again after turning his head to explain what was going on, Rory whipped the Doctor around and punched him, knocking the Time Lord to the ground.
"She is to me!" Rory shouted at him after knocking the Doctor to the ground.
"Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry, had to be sure. Hell of a punch you're packing there, no wonder the Master enjoys hitting things. Right, we need to get her downstairs to the Pandorica you carry her for me. And take that look off your plastic face. You're getting married in the morning! Now where are my husband and son?" Laughed the Doctor while he explained everything then asked about the other two.
"They left! The Arbitrator said something, he and the Master were looking at that thing on the Arbitrators arm with it all lit up, then they just vanished like you keep doing." Explained Rory as he followed the Doctor down to the crypt the Pandorica was housed in. Carrying Amy in his arms delicately.
"So, you've got a plan, then?" Rory asked the Doctor following him. The Doctor took Amy off Rory and placed her in the Pandorica.
"Bit of a plan, yeah. Memories are more powerful than you think, and Amy Pond is not an ordinary girl. Grew up with a Time crack in her wall. The universe pouring through her dreams every night. The Nestene consciousness took a memory print of her and got more than they bargained for. Like you. Not just your face, but your heart and your soul. [He placed his hands to either side of her face and closed his eyes] I'm leaving her a message for when she wakes up, so she knows what's happening and what she will have to do." The Doctor explained then used his sonic screwdriver to close the Pandorica.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?" Rory demanded off the Doctor as he saw him closing the Pandorica.
"Saving her. This is the ultimate prison. You can't even escape by dying. It forces you to stay alive." The Doctor told him as the Pandorica closed with Amy trapped inside.
"But she's already dead." Rory informed him he had killed her after all.
"Mostly dead not totally dead that was what I was checking with my sonic screwdriver. The Pandorica can stasis-lock her that way. All it needs is a scan of her living DNA and it'll restore her back to full health and we will have our Amy back with us then I just have to sort the universe out." The Doctor explained.
"Where's are you going to get a scan of her living DNA?" Rory asked next to the Doctor.
"In about two thousand years." Answered the Doctor while looking at his watch.
"You gave me this." Spoke Rory holding up the Doctors sonic screwdriver the Doctor didn't do anything then Rory remembered the answer. The Doctor was looking around River's bag for the Vortex manipulator that he knew would be in there she had told them she had used one to move around in Time to do everything she had done.
"She's going to be in that box for two thousand years?" Asked a shocked Rory to the Doctor only just understanding what he said.
"Yeah, near enough, but we're taking a shortcut. River's Vortex Manipulator. Rubbish way to travel in Time, but the universe is tiny now there is only this planet left. We'll be fine." The Doctor told him while looking for it then once he found it he strapped the Vortex Manipulator onto his right wrist.
"So, the future's still there, then? Our world?" Rory asked pocketing the screwdriver the Doctor had given him.
"A version of it. Not quite the one you know. Earth alone in the sky no stars or any planets or galaxies surround it as they have all just been deleted by the TARDIS exploding. Let's go and have a look. You put your hand there. Don't worry, should be safe." The Doctor instructed walking over to Rory and showing him where to put his hand, so it was on the Vortex Manipulator.
"That's not what I'm worried about." Rory told the Doctor while looking at the Pandorica Amy was now trapped inside of.
"She'll be fine. Nothing can get into that box." The Doctor informed him while inputting the co-ordinates into the Vortex Manipulator that he needed to move to the future to sort this mess out hopefully and be able to revive Amy if he could do that then the universe and he might have a chance.
"You got in there." Rory told him not placing his hand near to where the Doctor wanted him to.
"Well, there's only one of me. I counted. And the Arbitrator and the Master didn't help so they don't know how to get into it and no matter what they will be seeing the timelines like I am so if they are going to help, they will show up at the right time to assist not let her out early." The Doctor informed Rory.
"This box needs a guard. I killed the last one." Rory told him while moving away from the Doctor towards the Pandorica.
"No. Rory, no. Don't even think about it." The Doctor told him while slowly walking over to him.
"She'll be all alone." Rory informed him thinking of Amy stuck in the box for all that time.
"She won't feel anything she is virtually dead she will be like that until I can get her younger self to give us the needed DNA to bring her around, she won't know any differently." The Doctor told him trying to console him, but he could see the timeline and where this was going.
"You bet she won't feel it that's two thousand years all on her own!" Rory told him. While pulling out his sword and walking over to the box standing in front of it
"You will be on your own Rory! Nearly two thousand years awake. You won't even sleep, you'd be conscious every second of every day of every week of every year until I can put this right. It would drive you mad." The Doctor informed him trying to talk him out of what he knew Rory wanted to do.
"Will she be safer if I stay? Look me in the eyes and tell me she wouldn't be safer." Rory demanded off the Doctor.
"Rory please come with me we will get it all sorted once we are in the future." The Doctor tired one more time to make him change his mind.
"Answer me!" Rory demanded.
"Yes, obviously she will be safer with a guard, but as I said it will be two thousand years near enough of you constantly awake just protecting a box that doesn't need it." The Doctor informed him telling him the truth there was no way he could see of talking Rory out of what he intended to do.
"Then how could I leave her all on her own? I will protect the box!" Rory asked then explained to the Doctor.
"Why do you have to be so... Human?" The Doctor tried one last time.
"Because right now, I'm not I'm the only one who can guard this box for that length of time." Rory spoke and then walked to the other side of the Pandorica, and the Doctor began pressing buttons on the manipulator.
"Listen to me. This is the last bit of advice you're going to get in a very long time as I said it's going to be nearly two thousand years. You're living plastic, but not immortal. I have no idea how long you'll last and you're not indestructible! Stay away from heat and radio signals when they come along. You can't heal or repair yourself you won't have the parts or the know how the Nestene consciousness would not have given you that information. Any damage is permanent. So, for all our sakes, however bored you get, stay out of" Explained the Doctor and then he vanished with the Vortex Manipulator before he could finish his sentence. Rory took up a stance on the other side of the box ready to guard it for a long, long time to come as only he would be able to.
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Amy was watching a video on the Pandorica while she waited and rested as the instructions off the Doctor had told her to it would take time even using the Pandorica to bring her back to life for her to be fit. Her younger self was sat with her.
"According to legend, wherever the Pandorica was taken, throughout its long history, the Lone Centurion would be there, guarding it. He appears as an iconic image in the artwork of many cultures, and there are several documented accounts of his appearances and his warnings to the many who attempted to open the box before it was time for it to be opened by the one person who could do so, according to the accounts we have collected. His last recorded appearance was during the London blitz in nineteen forty one. The warehouse where the Pandorica box was stored was destroyed by an incendiary bomb dropped onto the warehouse by the Germans, but the Pandorica box itself was found the next morning, a safe distance from the blaze. There are eyewitness accounts from the night of the fire of a figure in Roman dress, carrying the box from the flames dragging it with all his might out of the warehouse and leaving it a safe distance away. Since then, there have been no sightings of the Lone Centurion, and many have speculated that if he ever existed, he perished in the fires of that night, performing one last act of devotion to the box he had pledged to protect for nearly two thousand years it is thought." Amy had tears running down her face she knew who had protected her for so long.
"Exterminate!" both Amy and Amelia turned to the room's entrance and stood.
"What's that?" Asked the younger one to her older self, Amy stood up and grabbing her younger self ran and pushed Amelia behind her as the dalek moved towards them.
"Exterminate!" Spoke the dalek. The Doctor appeared between Amy and the dalek.
"Trouble." Spoke the Doctor as he saw the dalek. Then he saw the two Amy's the older one that travelled with them and the one a lot younger that had waited to travel with them.
Oh! Two of you? Complicated." The Doctor announced to the pair.
"Exterminate! weapon systems restoring." Spoke the dalek. The Doctor took both Amy's by the hands and started to move them away from the exhibit of the Pandorica and the dalek.
"Come along, Ponds." The Doctor instructed while running away from the dalek.
"Exterminate!" they all heard off the dalek the Doctor stopped at an alcove which housed a display representing North Africa. He stumbled into one of the mannequins and took the fez from its head.
"What are we doing?" Demanded older Amy off the Doctor.
"Running into a dead end, where I'll have a brilliant plan, that basically involves not being in one, but something will come to me it always does as you know." Spoke the Doctor quickly.
Just as the dalek was nearing the three of them a night watchman appeared with a torch. It got into an argument between the watchman and the dalek. Amy shouted for the stranger to run, but he was telling the dalek he wasn't armed it wasn't a weapon it was just a torch to produce light in the dark when the dalek agreed he was unarmed Rory dropped the light and shot out the eye socket of the dalek using the gun built into his hand. The reunion between Rory and Amy was lovely it involved a lot of kissing and ribbing from the Doctor. Then the Doctor worked out that the light from the Pandorica was the cause of the dalek being restored to full health they made it out of the room the Doctor had a fez on that he tried to pass to Amy only for her to put it back on his head.
"So, two thousand years. How did you do?" Asked the Doctor to Rory.
"Kept out of trouble." Rory told him following them all out of the room.
"Oh? How?" The Doctor asked him, Rory looked fine.
"Unsuccessfully!" Rory answered him. The Doctor picked up a mop, planning to use it to block the door.
"The mop! That's how you looked all those years ago when you gave me your sonic screwdriver to get you out of the Pandorica." Rory told the Doctor.
"Ah! Well, no time to lose then!" spoke the Doctor pressing coordinates into the Vortex manipulator and with that he was gone.
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Back nearly two thousand years the Doctor reappeared at stone henge.
"Rory! Listen, she's not dead. Well, she is dead, but it's not the end of the world."
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Back in the museum corridor where they had exited from. the Doctor re-appeared.
"Oops, sorry." Explained the Doctor and then he used the mop to block the door from the dalek getting through he knew it wouldn't but it would drain its weapons systems getting through it.
"How can he do that? Is he magic?" Asked the younger Amy to the older one as the Doctor disappeared yet again to them all.
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The Doctor reappeared without the mop. Back at Stonehenge
"You need to get me out of the Pandorica." The Doctor told Rory.
"You're not in the Pandorica." Rory told the Doctor as he was right in front of him.
"Yes, I am. Well, I'm not now, but I was back then." The Doctor started to explain it.
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Back at the museum the Doctor yet again re appeared.
"Right, let's go then." Spoke the Doctor and headed along the corridors in the museum but he stopped when he thought about his sonic screwdriver and stopped.
"Wait! Now I don't have my sonic screwdriver, I just gave it Rory two thousand years ago." Explained the Doctor to the four others there realising he had given it to Rory to get him out of the Pandorica and Amy into it, so he hit the Vortex Manipulator again and disappeared.
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"Oh, when you're done, leave my screwdriver in her top pocket." The Doctor told Rory in the past and he disappeared on Rory again.
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Back at the museum the Doctor returned and reached into Amy's top pocket to remove his sonic screwdriver only it was not there.
"Here Doctor you shut the Pandorica before I could put it in you idiot no wonder you have the Master and the Arbitrator to keep you going!" Spoke Rory and handed the sonic screwdriver he had been given in the past to the Doctor.
"Right then. off we go! No, hang on. How did you know to come here?" He explained then asked the younger Amy, she reached into her coat pocket and pulled out the pamphlet and the sticky note on it that had come through her letter box the night before.
"Ah, my handwriting. Okay!" The Doctor rushed to a stand and grabbed a pamphlet before rushing to a desk to grab the note pad after writing two notes out and circling the Pandorica exhibit in a red board marker. He then activated the Vortex Manipulator again arriving in front of young Amelia's house the night before and posted it through before going back to the museum with the Vortex Manipulator.
The Doctor re appeared during the afternoon in the museum he grabbed Amelia's drink from her hand from her other side, so she didn't see him and put the other post-it note he had written out on the Pandorica before disappearing using the Vortex Manipulator again to move him along the timeline.
The Doctor reappeared and gave Amelia her drink. The one she had wanted all afternoon but had, had it taken off her at the museum while looking at the Pandorica.
"There you go, drink up you must be hungry after waiting for so long for a drink!" The Doctor informed the younger Amy making sure she took the drink.
"What is that? How are you doing that?" Asked older Amy demanding to know what the thing was to the Doctor pointing to the Vortex Manipulator on the Doctors right wrist that he kept typing things into and disappearing.
"Vortex Manipulator... Cheap and nasty way to Travel in Time and space I borrowed it off River nothing like the TARDIS or even the Arbitrators SATURN. Very bad for you. I'm trying to give it up." The Doctor informed her while starting to move.
"Where are we going?" Asked older Amy to the Doctor as they all followed him as he led them down a corridor to a set of stairs.
"The roof." Answered the Doctor to older Amy and then the Doctor started to make his way there, Rory explained what the Doctor told him about the Arbitrator and the Master that they were safe in the inbetween the Doctor explained that he had already worked that out or they would have been there with them helping him after all he was the one to tell Rory that in the first place, that just confused Rory.
"I told you back at Stonehenge that they must be there! I know that because otherwise they would have been here and arranged for young Amelia to be here to release our Amy from the Pandorica the Arbitrator would have seen the best timeline to follow and would have moved both the Master and himself to here or waited for me to come out of the Pandorica he can move as many as he wants through Time as long as he is only moving them through Time on a planet not like a Vortex Manipulator if he moves through space with SATURN only he can be moved using her, they will turn up just when I need them to so don't worry about it!" the Doctor explained to both Amy and Rory. At the top of the landing, another Doctor appeared, his jacket smoking. He fell down the stairs and rolled to a stop. The Present Doctor rushed over and used his sonic screwdriver on himself.
"Doctor, it's you. How can it be you?" Asked Rory.
"Doctor is that you?" Demanded older Amy of the Doctor that was running his sonic screwdriver over himself.
"Yeah, it's me. Me from the future." Spoke the Doctor bent down in front of himself. Amy, Rory and younger Amelia ran to him as well. The future Doctor opened his eyes then he sat up and grabbed the Present Doctor pulling him to him and whispered something into his ear before falling back to the floor unconscious but looking dead. Rory was also at his side and seeing him die placed his coat gently over him he deserved that much at least.
"Are you... I mean, is he... Is he dead?" Asked a shocked Amy to the Doctor that was with them.
"What? Dead? Yes, yes. Of course, he's dead. Right, I've got twelve minutes, that's good." Explained the Doctor standing back up and moving up the stairs. Both Rory and Amy following him not noticing that there was only the two of them following the Doctor.
"Twelve minutes to live? How is that good?" Demanded Amy while trying to catch up with the Doctor.
"You can do loads in twelve minutes…. Suck a mint, buy a sledge, have a good shower to get you clean. Take a power nap, there is loads you can do in twelve minutes now come on, we need to get to the roof!" Explained the Doctor still on the move.
"We can't leave you here, dead!" Exclaimed Rory to the alive Doctor.
"Oh, good! Are you in charge now? So, tell me, what are we going to do about young Amelia?" Asked the Doctor after stopping and turning to face them, then the Doctor looked past both Rory and Amy. They turned their heads around only to see the young girl gone and the drink carton on the floor. Amy and Rory shouted out to her then turned around fully to go after her.
"There is no Amelia. From now on, there never was. History is still collapsing, and we are running out of time!" The Doctor informed them.
"How can I be here, if she's not?" Amy asked the Doctor turning back around to him.
"You're an anomaly. We all are. We're all hanging on at the eye of the storm, but the eye is closing, and if we don't do something, this universe will never have happened. Today, just dying is a result. Now come on, up the stairs we still need to get to the roof!" Explained the Doctor the two of them then ordered them to follow him, he ran off ahead of them.
"He won't die. Time can be rewritten. He'll find a way. I know he will." Amy said to Rory shaking her head not believing it and following the alive Doctor. All three of them arrived on the roof only for Amy and Rory to go through the roof hatch and be in shock at what they saw.
"What, it's morning already? How did that happen?" Asked Amy confused herself for once.
"History is shrinking. Is anybody listening to me? The universe is collapsing we are in the eye of that storm and we need to get it sorted. We don't have much time left and I am left to sort it all out on my own I have no idea if or when the Master and the Arbitrator will turn up to help they might not be able to I can't feel the Arbitrator through our bond." The Doctor explained again using his sonic screwdriver on a satellite dish.
"What are you doing?" Asked Amy to the Doctor seeing him messing around with the dish.
"Looking for the TARDIS." The Doctor informed her as though it was the most obvious thing in the world and disconnecting the dish from the pole it was on.
"But the TARDIS exploded." Rory told him knowing what had happened seeing it.
"OK, then. I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS." The Doctor replied before removing the dish from its mounting and lifting it up to the sky in one of his hands.
"I don't understand. So, the TARDIS blew up and took the universe with it. Why would it do that? How did it do it?" Amy asked the Doctor confused herself.
"Good questions for another day. But for now... Total event collapse means that every star in the universe never happened. Not one of them ever shone. So, if all the stars that ever were, are gone, then what is that?" Asked the Doctor while pointing to a large ball of fire in the sky pointing the satellite dish also at it after pointing it out to Amy and Rory.
"Like I said, I'm looking for an exploding TARDIS." The Doctor informed them using the dish and his sonic screwdriver on it to make it do what he wanted.
"But that's the sun." Spoke Rory not understanding what the Doctor was on about neither did Amy.
"Is it? Here's the noise that sun is making right now." The Doctor asked then explained holding up the dish he had removed from its post and amplified the sound of the TARDIS with his sonic screwdriver so they could all hear what the TARDIS sounded like.
"That's the TARDIS burning up. That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." The Doctor informed them.
"Doctor, there's something else. There's a voice." Explained Rory after hearing a faint voice coming through the satellite dish. The Doctor adjusted the settings of his sonic screwdriver and then used it on the dish to pick up what Rory was hearing.
"I can't hear anything." Spoke Amy looking between the two.
"Trust the plastic." Rory told her pointing to his ear as the Doctor messed some more with the dish using his sonic screwdriver on it.
"I'm sorry, my loves it's too late." They heard River's voice coming through the satellite dish.
"Doctor, that's River. How can she be up there?" Rory asked not understanding the TARDIS had been blown apart it looked more like the sun than a blue box.
"It must be like a recording or something." Explained the Doctor, before realising it wasn't.
"No, it's not a recording. Of course, the emergency protocols that the Arbitrator built in and explained... The TARDIS has sealed off the control room and put her into a Time loop to save her. She is right at the heart of the explosion the control room will still be in once piece even with the rest of it exploding around it, wait here you two." Explained the Doctor after he remembered what he had been told about the new console unit and control room when he altered it with their input and agreement, even though their son had done all of the designing for it they had added what they felt they needed or wanted. The Doctor handed the dish to Rory to hold onto then inputted the needed information into the Vortex Manipulator.
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Inside the TARDIS River connected the wires to the console unit as the TARDIS continued to spark and explode. She ran for the doors and attempted to open the doors it set more sparks flying from the console. She opened the doors to the TARDIS only to be met by a stone wall.
"I'm sorry, my loves, it's too late." She looked back over her shoulder as the console exploded with a bright light. The sequence started over again and again. The Doctor appeared as she ran to the door yet again.
"Hi River, I'm home!" the Doctor informed her with a smile.
"And what sort of time do you call this? Hold on where are the Master and the Arbitrator?" Demanded River off him then also asked when she saw he was on his own.
"Ahh, I think when the Arbitrator tried to follow the timeline, he and the Master got erased but don't worry, I have a funny feeling they are in the inbetween with the Arbitrators Father. I would imagine the Master is shaking in his boots meeting Lord DEATH and we don't know how long HE has tormented them for it has taken nearly two thousand years for me to sort everything out!" The Doctor explained to river and then smirked at her.
"That's not funny and you know it, you would be even worse in front of HIM!" She replied and then hugged the Doctor. He took hold of River and used the Vortex Manipulator to get them back to the roof of the museum.
"Amy! And the plastic Centurion?" Exclaimed River then asked about Rory letting go of the Doctor after seeing who he had with him.
"It's okay, he's on our side." The Doctor informed River.
"Really? I dated a Nestene duplicate once... Swappable head, it did keep things fresh. Right then, I have questions. But number one is this... What in the name of sanity have you got on your head if your other half sees this, he will meet the Arbitrators Father for real he'll die laughing?" River told him looking at the red fez the Doctor was wearing.
"It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." Defended the Doctor. With a look from River to Amy so she would understand what she wanted done, Amy grabbed the fez from the Doctor's head and threw it into the sky so that River could shoot it.
"Oh!" Spoke the Doctor seeing the dalek ascending up the side of the museum from where they were on the roof, the Doctor grabbed the satellite dish off Rory so he had something to protect them with.
"Exterminate!" Spoke the dalek that was now at the top of the museum having levitated itself up the side of the building and speaking as soon as he saw the Doctor.
"Run, run! Move, move, move! Go! Come on back down into the museum all of you in front of me!" Shouted the Doctor. The Doctor covered their retreat by holding up the satellite dish as a shield as the dalek fired at the Doctor, but the Doctor didn't want any of them hit by it. They climbed back through the stairwell. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to seal the hatch. River had her gun aimed at it, just in case.
"Doctor, come on." Spoke River trying to get him on the move and away from the dalek.
"Shh. It's moving away, finding another way in. It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly…. Four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity." Explained the Doctor climbing down the steps and then down the stairs.
"How do you know?" Asked Rory
"Because that's when it's due to kill me and it will need its full power to do that." Explained the Doctor as though it was obvious.
"Kill you? What do you mean, kill you?" Demanded River to the Doctor shocked he was going to actually die.
"Oh, shut up, never mind that. How can that dalek even exist? It was erased from time and then it came back. How?" Asked the Doctor trying to see into the timeline carrying on walking down the stairs they had run up earlier.
"You said the light from the Pandorica." Explained Rory to the Doctor.
"It's not a light, it's a restoration field, but never mind. Call it a light if that makes it easier. That light brought Amy back from near death, but how could it bring back a dalek when the daleks have never existed? When the TARDIS blew up, it caused a total event collapse. A Time explosion. It blasted every atom in every moment of the universe cancelling out every planet and species. Except." Explained the Doctor to the three that were with him.
"Except inside the Pandorica." Exclaimed Amy straight after him finishing his thoughts for him so the others would understand as she caught on as well.
"The perfect prison. Inside it, perfectly preserved, a few billion atoms of the universe as it was. In theory, you could extrapolate the whole universe from a single one of them, like cloning a body from a single cell. And we've got the bumper family pack. The box contains a memory of the universe, and the light transmits the memory. And that's how we're going to do it." Explained the Doctor to them all not that any of them were following his idea as he wasn't making much sense to them even though he knew what he would have to do now to not only save the universe but to also hopefully save himself.
"Do what?" Asked Amy confused again.
"Relight the fire. Reboot the universe. Come on!" Explained the Doctor to them all then the Doctor carried on down the stairs while Amy and Rory exchanged a look and ran behind him as River caught up with the Doctor, so she was running at the side of him and Amy and Rory were following behind the pair as they ran down the stairs that three of them had run up earlier.
"Doctor, you're being completely ridiculous. The Pandorica partially restored one dalek. If it can't even reboot a single life form properly, how will it reboot the whole of the universe?" Explained then asked River to the Doctor while keeping up with him as he carried on running down the stairs.
"What if we give it a moment of infinite power? Transmit the light from the Pandorica to every particle of space and Time simultaneously?" Asked the Doctor to the three but mainly River.
"Well, that would be lovely, but we can't, because it's completely impossible!" Snapped River at him as they carried on running.
"Ah, no, you see, it's not. It's almost completely impossible! One spark is all we need." The Doctor told the three but more to River than the other two.
"For what?" Asked River, the Doctor leaned into explain it to her.
"Big Bang Two! Now listen" Started to explain then Doctor but before he could finish his explanation, he was shot by the dalek that had found another way into the museum and shot the Doctor the one all daleks wanted dead the Doctor had nearly erased their entire civilisation luckily the dalek didn't have the power built up yet to kill him and had only grazed him anyway.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" Spoke the dalek. River kneeled at the Doctor's side as Rory moved Amy out of the way of the dalek.
"Get back. River, get back now!" Demanded Rory to River none of them would survive the dalek if it shot them not even him.
"Exterminate!" Spoke the dalek and Rory fired at the dalek using his built-in gun concealed by his hand and the dalek was drained of all of its energy this time lucky he hit right where he was aiming for its eye stalk the most vulnerable part on a dalek two thousand years protecting a box had made him an expert in fighting all different sorts of opponents off that wanted to open the Pandorica before the right time and as he had the screwdriver that could do it he had to ensure no one could get at him or the Pandorica.
"Doctor. Doctor, it's me, River. Can you hear me? What is it? What do you need?" Demanded River speaking to the Doctor on the floor. Struggling, the Doctor activated the Vortex Manipulator still on his wrist to take him where he needed to go.
"Where did he go? Damn it, he could be anywhere!" Asked River then swore loudly over what he had done not at all impressed with the Doctor pulling one of his disappearing acts on her.
"He went downstairs. twelve minutes ago." Answered Amy to Rivers question.
"Show me!" Demanded River to Amy.
"River, he died! We saw it!" Amy told River giving it to her straight this was no time to do it gently.
"Systems restoring! You will be exterminated!" Spoke the dalek coming back online in front of the three.
"We've got to move. That thing's coming back to life." Explained Rory to the other two still with him on the stairs flipping his fingers down so his built in gun was ready to defend them.
"You go to the Doctor. I'll be right with you." Spoke River to Amy and Rory. Amy and Rory left going to the dead Doctor down on the level below them.
"You will be exterminated!" Spoke the dalek to River pointing his gun stick at her.
"Not yet, your systems are still restoring. Which means your shield density is compromised! One Alpha Mezon burst through your eyestalk would kill you stone dead." River informed the Dalek while taking her gun out of her side holster.
"Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctors!" The dalek told her in its metallic voice thinking it knew everything about all of the Doctors companions the daleks knew he cared deeply for them and tried to always be compassionate so that they would show compassion to others as well not knowing much about him from after the Time War.
"I'm River Song. Check your records again!" Explained River in a no-nonsense voice to the dalek as she set her gun to the right setting and pointed it at the dalek, she then pulled the trigger straight into its eye stalk of the dalek killing it dead.
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Amy and Rory Ran down the stairs to the landing where they left the Doctor's 'body', only to find that while Rory's jacket was still there lying on the floor, there was no sign of the dead Doctor.
"How could he have moved? He was dead! Doctor? Doctor?" asked Rory to Amy then Shouted out to be heard.
"But he was dead!" Explained Amy as River joined them again now the dalek had been killed by her.
"Who told you that?" Asked River to Amy as River caught up to the other two on the landing seeing the coat that lay on the floor.
"He did he scanned him with his sonic screwdriver and then told us he only had twelve minutes left to live we saw the body die." Amy told River thinking of the Doctor dead but there was no body for them to see.
"Rule one. The Doctor lies." River informed them.
"Where's the dalek?" Asked Rory to make sure they were all save now the Doctor had gone.
"It died." Responded River bluntly. River, Amy and Rory made their way down the rest of the stairs and through the corridor to the exhibit hall where the Pandorica was on show. Ahead of them they all saw the Doctor unconscious inside the Pandorica with its door still open.
"Doctor!" Shouted Amy. Rory and Amy stopped while River went to check on the state of the Doctor.
"Why did he tell us he was dead?" Asked Rory confused.
"We were a diversion. As long as the dalek was chasing us, he could work down here on his own doing whatever he needed to, and we were none the wiser to let the dalek know so we showed how we really felt." Amy spoke explaining it to Rory so he would also understand what she had worked out.
"Doctor, can you hear me? What were you doing?" River asked him then the three of them look up and see the 'sun' was moving closer to the Earth and was brighter the event collapse was getting nearer.
"What's happening?" Asked Rory confused again, he seemed to do that a lot around the three Time Lords.
"The universe is collapsing. It's speeding up. Look at this room. The displays are empty. History is being erased. Time is running out. Doctor, what were you doing? Tell us! Doctor?" River explained to Rory and Amy and then shouted at the Doctor trying to get him to come around and wake up.
"Big... Bang... Two." The Doctor spoke as he slowly came around, now inside the box again himself.
"The Big Bang. That's the beginning of the universe, right? That's what sets a universe off." Asked then explained Rory to the other three in the room with him.
"What, and Big Bang two is the bang that brings it back? Is that what you mean?" Asked Amy. The Doctor gave a small nod.
"Oh! The TARDIS is still burning up. It's exploding at every point in history throughout Time and space. If you threw the Pandorica into the explosion, right into the heart of the fire with the control room intact and all assembled." Started to explain River to the two that didn't understand what the Doctor was up too.
"Then what?" Asked Amy interrupting Rivers explanation.
"Then let there be light. The light from the Pandorica would explode everywhere at once, just like he said a restoration field, powered by an exploding TARDIS, happening at every moment in history in both Time and Space. Oh, that's brilliant. It might even work! He's wired the Vortex Manipulator to the rest of the Pandorica box. So, he can take it with him. He's going to fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion crashing into the TARDIS control room into the heart of the TARDIS herself." Explained River to Amy and Rory them she looked up. The sky was now a brilliant orange. Amy and Rory were standing together, just watching.
"Are you okay?" Rory asked Amy gently looking at her taking his eyes off the Doctor to look at Amy right into her eyes so she could see he was being sincere.
"Are you?" Amy asked right back looking at Rory now herself.
"No." He replied gently to Amy thinking they were going to die the TARDIS was getting closer and everything was disappearing around them.
"Well, shut up then!" Amy told him, Rory gave her in a hug knowing it was what she needed, and Amy returned it. River came out of the Pandorica.
"Amy... He wants to talk to you." River informed Amy coming out of the Pandorica to talk to Amy.
"So, what happens here? Big Bang Two? What happens to us?" Amy asked for clarification wanting to understand fully.
"We all wake up where we ought to be. None of this ever happens and we don't remember it." River told Amy while looking at her sadly.
"River... tell me he comes back, too. The Arbitrator and the Master won't let me lose him!" Demanded Amy to River Song she knew just how much the other two loved the Doctor.
"The Doctor will be the heart of the explosion. All the cracks in Time and space will close, but he'll be on the wrong side... Trapped in the never-space, the void between the universes. All memory of him will be purged from the universe. He will never have been born, he will never have lived and he will never have stollen the TARDIS to run away with! The Master and he won't have created a son during the Time War and hid him here on Earth all three will be gone from the universe maybe not if the Arbitrator has taken his dad to the inbetween but I honestly don't know maybe only the Arbitrator will remain alive I can't imagine his Father giving him up. Now, please. He wants to talk to you Amy before he goes." River explained then demanded Amy to go to the Doctor at the end to talk to him he had specifically asked River for Amy so he could talk to her one last time.
"Not to you?" Asked Amy shocked.
"He doesn't really know me yet. Now none of them ever will." Explained River. Amy walked slowly to the Pandorica.
"Hi." Amy spoke to the Doctor gently.
"Amy Pond. The girl who waited. All night in your garden just for the three of us. Was it worth it? Waiting all that time to travel with us?" The Doctor asked her, coming around more while in the Pandorica.
"Shut up. Of course, it was." Amy told the Doctor all her time with them and then with Rory was wonderful the things she had seen and done with the three of them over the three years in total that she had travelled with them first on her own with the Doctor, the Master and the Arbitrator then them allowing Rory to join them as well before they lost him yet they still let her carry on traveling with them.
"You asked us why we wanted you to come with us and I said... we had been knocking around on our own for a while and that we had all talked and decided to invite you for fun, you said we were lonely and I said yes. We were all lying." The Doctor told Amy the truth hoping his plan worked.
"It's not important." Amy told him now, she had enjoyed her time immensely with the Doctor, the Master and the Arbitrator.
"Yeah, it's the most important thing left in the universe. It's why I'm doing this. Amy, your house was too big. That big, empty house. And just you living all alone in it. Where were your mum and dad Amy? Where was... Everybody who lived in that big old house of yours?" The Doctor asked her hoping she realised.
"I lost my Mum and Dad." Amy told him explaining the big house now only having only one person living in it on her own.
"How? What happened to them? Where did they go?" The Doctor pressed on.
"I... I don't" Started off Amy to the Doctor not knowing the answer for that question at all.
"It's okay. Don't panic. It's not your fault. There was a crack in Time in the wall of your bedroom and it's been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone. The girl who didn't make sense to any of us in that big empty house all alone. How could we resist such a mystery like that all three of us wanted to solve it, so we asked you to come with us so we could find out what was going on with you to show us the inconsistencies in your life as we got to know you." The Doctor explained the real reason for taking her building up the idea to save himself.
"How could I just forget?" Amy asked the Doctor upset at not remembering he own parents.
"Nothing is ever forgotten, not really. But you have to try really hard to remember the true past." The Doctor explained then the ground shook.
"Doctor! It's speeding up!" Shouted River. Amy placed his sonic screwdriver in his pocket.
"There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there." The Doctor told her.
"How can I remember them if they never existed?" Amy asked him not following his own logic.
"Because…. You're special. That crack in your wall, all that time, the universe pouring into your head. You brought Rory back to you after he was lost to a crack in Time which should have been impossible... You can bring them back too. You just remember, and they'll be there with you sharing your house." The Doctor laid it out for her.
"You won't!" She shouted back at the Doctor just as the box started to come alive again.
"You'll have your family back living with you alive. You won't need your imaginary friend anymore you won't need me and my family you will have your own back with you. Amy Pond…. Crying over me…. Eh? Guess what?" Explained then asked the Doctor at the end seeing the teers pouring down Amy's face.
"What?" Asked Amy back.
"Gotcha." Spoke the Doctor with a smile and the Pandorica closed. Amy walked slowly backward, not taking her eyes from the Pandorica. Then the Pandorica began to glow.
"Back! Get back!" Shouted River pulling Amy and Rory out of the way as the Pandorica launched into the sky through the skylight in the roof of the exhibit room. The three of them were pinned up against a wall in the museum as it shot through the roof heading for the TARDIS.
The Doctor arrived on the TARDIS as Time rewound itself only so did his own, he watched as his past with Amy was revealed before him, he cried at seeing the past Master and his son, then he ended up at Amelia's house to find her asleep with a flask and suitcase. He lifted her up and carried her quietly into the house and up to her bedroom. Placing her in bed.
"It's funny. I thought if you could hear me, I could hang on somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor. When you wake up, you'll have a mum and dad…. And you won't even remember me and my family. Well, you'll remember us a little. We'll all be a story in your head. But that's okay! We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Cos it was you know…. It was the best… A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it…. I was always going to take it back…. Oh, that box, Amy. You'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time. Brand new and ancient. And the bluest blue ever. And the times we had together, eh? Would have had... Never had. In your dreams, they'll still be there…. The Doctor, the Master, the Arbitrator and Amelia Pond with Rory joining us along the way, and the days that never came…... The cracks are closing. But they can't close properly until I'm on the other side of them. I don't belong here anymore. I think I'll skip the rest of the rewind. I hate repeats…. Live well. Love Rory bye, bye, Pond…. I will miss you as much as the others…. My son and partner left here alone without me or the TARDIS." Explained the Doctor to the young Amelia Pond. As the Doctor finished talking to the young Pond who had waited in her garden for them to return only for it to take twelve years to get back to her, and another two for he to agree to travel with them. He faded out himself.
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Amy woke up to her wedding day slightly disorientated she saw her mum and had to actually say it was her mum which got a reaction, then her dad was the same wondering what was going on with her. But she felt she was forgetting someone. She even rang Rory only for him to agree with her, then admitted it's because he was scared of her, he meant loved her he quickly amended.
The wedding had been lovely they had wrote their own vows for each other, and then reception was in full swing. At the back sat two people that seemed to nag at Amy, but she couldn't place them they were very well dressed for the occasion though one was a man with a teenager sat at the side of him dressed beautifully for a wedding they put the rest of the guest to shame.
Her father was in the middle of his speech when he got lost her mother who was sat to the left of Amy looking down at the guests had a go at Amy over him to which Amy laughed but stopped as she saw a woman walk by the windows. It was River. Amy stood, staring outside.
"Amy? Are you okay?" Rory asked her taking her hand.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm... Fine." Amy replied to Rory looking away from the window as she sat back down thinking that she knew that woman who had walked past, but Amy couldn't place her in her memories.
"Right. Er... You're crying." Rory told her looking at Amy's eyes seeing the tears there.
"So I am. Why am I doing that?" Asked Amy quietly to Rory not understanding herself why she had tears in her eyes.
"Because you're happy, probably. Happy Mrs Williams. Happy, happy, happy." Rory tried to lift her spirits it was their wedding day.
"No. I'm sad. I'm really, really sad. Why am I sad?... What's that?" Explained then asked Amy as she looked down to see a blue book that was on top of the table.
"Oh, er, someone left it for you. A woman." Rory handed Amy River's journal.
"But what is it?" Amy asked him, looking through it, finding all the paged in the journal blank but she had a nagging feeling that they shouldn't be.
"It's a book." Rory told her as if it was that obvious.
"It's blank though." Amy told him closing the book and looking at the outside of it, it was a lovely looking book oblong in shape and a beautiful blue colour.
"It's a present, you know the old saying. The old wedding thing. Huh?" Rory explained then asked her.
Amy looked back at the book then around the room. A man in a bow tie stood out, another man pulled on his black braces and the two in the back that looked so well dressed for the wedding that niggled at her mind but she couldn't quite work out who they were or why they had been invited winked together in such synchronisation it should have been impossible! She looked down at the book again and standing back up cut her father off.
"Sorry, but shut up, please dad just be quiet! There's someone missing... Someone important. Someone so, so important!" Amy told her father then went on to explain everyone there at the reception heard her.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Asked Rory.
"Sorry. Sorry, everyone. But when I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend. The raggedy Doctor. My raggedy Doctor." Explained Amy carrying on.
"Oh, not this again the psychiatrists we sent her to four of them we tried the raggedy Doctor and his family honestly!" Spoke her mother to everyone also raising her voice so they could all here they had sent her to see psychiatrists over her so-called imaginary friend.
"But he wasn't imaginary. He was real. I remember you! I remember! I brought the others back, I can bring you back too! Raggedy man, I remember you! I remember everything and you are late for my wedding!" Amy started to explain to the guests but by the end she was shouting and then in the silence, Rory heard the glasses start to tinkle against each other as the ground started to shake. The chandelier began to sway.
"I found you. I found you in words, like you knew I would. That's why you told me the story... The brand new, ancient blue box. Oh, clever. Very clever." Shouted Amy and then they heard the noise. The two people at the back of the room disappeared.
"Amy, what is it?" Rory asked her not understanding himself.
"Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue." The TARDIS began to fully materialize in the middle of the floor.
"It's the Doctor! How did we forget the Doctor? I was plastic. He was the stripper at my stag do. Long story." Explained Rory joining Amy over the table going towards the TARDIS.
"OK, Doctor. Did I surprise you this time?" Amy asked as she knocked on the TARDIS door to get the Doctor to answer it. It opened and the Doctor was wearing a black top hat with a white Bowtie, a white shirt and a black tuxedo with black tails. A white scarf was loosely draped over his shoulders.
"Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. How lucky I happened to be wearing this old thing to attend your wedding reception." He stepped out of the TARDIS and was suddenly joined by two people.
"Hello, everyone. I'm Amy's imaginary friend, but I came anyway. This is my partner and son!" The Doctor pointed to the two who had joined him and turned to wink at the Master only to be grabbed and kissed for all he was worth.
"Okay I've never seen you do that before in public or at all actually!" Spoke Amy shocked, while looking between the Doctor, the Master, the Arbitrator and Rory.
"Father grabbed dad and me before we tried to travel in Time and brought us to HIM in HIS home the inbetween HE really didn't like the idea of me disappearing from the universe and thought I would appreciate HIM bringing dad with me! Dad wasn't impressed stuck there, Father really scared him, lovely wedding by the way we sat right at the back. Only took you nearly two thousand years a few trips around the universe through Time and space and once under the earth but hey ho. Told you we would get you here! And we did. May we kiss the bride my good sir Mr Pond?" Harry explained then asked with a twinkle in his eye and a really cheeky grin then made the request to Rory.
"It's Williams not Pond." Explained Rory to Harry.
"No. it's really not, it's Pond unless you want to try and argue with my Father!" Explained Harry with his cheeky grin again.
"Yeah, I suppose it is Pond then!" Agreed Rory then nodded and all three give her a hug and a kiss. After Harry and his dads had given Amy a kiss on the cheek Harry nipped in to see the TARDIS and move her. The reception carried on the Doctor said he only came for the dancing which the Master left him to well except for laughing at him stood up against a wall with Harry next to him.
Amy and Rory were slow dancing to Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes '[I've had] The time of my life'. The Doctor, the Mater and Harry were watching them as they continued to lean against the wall that the Master and Harry had been doing so since the dancing started.
"Two thousand years. The boy who waited. Good on you, mate." Spoke the Doctor in remembrance of what Rory had done. The three of them left for the TARDIS which Harry had parked outside the reception room, so it was no longer in there but was visible for them all to get to it. They met up with River there.
"Did you dance? Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?" River asked the Doctor.
"You tell me. We're not had a proper wedding yet me and the Master nor do we have a bond to each other." The Doctor replied.
"Spoilers." Was her only reply.
"The writing's all back, but I didn't peek." Explained the Master giving her the journal.
"Thank you." She replied the Doctor gave her back the Vortex Manipulator he had been using to move around in Time.
"River... Who are you?" The Doctor asked her he knew she was immediate family but not how.
"You're all going to find out very soon now. And I'm sorry, I am so sorry but that's when everything changes." Explained River as she put the Vortex Manipulator on her own wrist and with her piece said she imputed the needed information and disappeared on the three.
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Amy and Rory came up to the TARDIS opening the door.
"Oi! Where are you three off to? We haven't even had a snog in the shrubbery yet." Spoke Amy to the three Time Lords, Rory followed her in and shut the door.
"Sorry, you two... Shouldn't have slipped away. Bit busy, you know?" Answered the Doctor for the three of them.
"You just corrected the whole of space and Time that's an entire universe you have just saved. Take the evening off. Maybe a bit of tomorrow." Spoke Rory. As a phone started to ring coming through the speakers in the TARDIS
"Space and Time aren't safe yet. The TARDIS exploded for a reason. Something drew the TARDIS to this particular date and blew it up. Why? And why now? The silence, whatever it is, is still out there, and we have to…. Excuse me a moment. 'Sorry, something's come up and we can't deal with it right now phone us back later if it gets worse and we will deal with it then we are a bit busy at the moment but don't worry we live in a time machine just tell us when it started next time if you can't sort int on your own. This will have to be goodbye for now." Spoke the Doctor who answered the phone that was ringing and then placed an end to the call even though communication could come through the speakers the Doctor wanted an actual phone on the console unit so there had been one put into the designs. It was probably the most out of place piece of equipment on the console unit an oblong telephone handle on a cord.
"Any way as I was saying." Explained the Doctor to the two of them.
"Yeah, I think it's goodbye for now. Do you think it's goodbye for now?" Amy spoke first to the three Time Lords that were around the console unit then she looked to Rory to ask him the question.
"Definitely goodbye for now." Agreed Rory looking back at Amy then at the three Time Lords himself. Amy turned around and walked to the doors then she opened the TARDIS doors and poked her head out.
"Were starting our honeymoon early so well see you when we get back, goodbye for now!" Amy shouted to the guests outside the reception and shut the door. Harry and the Master were already getting ready to send the TARDIS into the Time Vortex. She turned around smiling and so were the other four at her especially the Doctor and they were off into the Time Vortex.