3 months later found the Doctor, wearing a straitjacket, chained to a chair in a cell, not a normal cell, the room had been built around him, made from a black alloy that completely sealed itself, no one could get in or out with someone else knowing.

He knew Thea was safe with Luke, he had quickly gotten them in the TARDIS after what happened in a warehouse.

He could hardly remember what happened. Amy was trying to shoot the little girl in the spacesuit, but, thankfully (and terrifyingly) Thea had jumped in the way, scaring the daylights out of him but she had only knocked Amy's arm up so the bullet didn't hit the poor girl begging for help. But then they'd been running, these aliens, he knew they had seen something, but couldn't remember what. Canton had arrested the Doctor, giving Amy Rory and River time to escape and run to gather information.

"Is there a reason you're doing this?" The Doctor asked Canton as the man stood in the cell with him, two armed soldiers dropping off two body bags with them.

"I want you to know where you stand." Canton replied.

"In a cell."

"In the perfect cell." he corrected, "Nothing can penetrate these walls. Not a sound, not a radio wave, not the tiniest particle of anything." Once the solders left, Canton placed his fingers into the hole on the wall and the door slid shut, "In here, you're literally cut off from the rest of the universe. So I guess they can't hear us, right?"

"Good work, Canton." The Doctor smiled, "Door sealed?"

"You bet."

The Doctor threw off his chains and straitjacket, standing up and stretching as Amy and Rory sat up with a gasp in the body bags, struggling to get out.

"Are you okay?" The Doctor asked them.

"Finally!" Amy panted, fighting her way free.

"These things could really do with air holes." Rory remarked.

"Never had a complaint before." Canton shrugged.

"Isn't it going to look odd that you're staying in here with us?" Amy wondered.

"Odd, but not alarming. They know there's no way out of this place."

"Exactly." the Doctor nodded, "Whatever they might think we're doing in here, they know we're not going anywhere." He snapped his braces, slowly leaning and a moment later the TARDIS wheezed into existence as the Doctor leaned against the corner.

Thea poked her head out, grinning, "perfect parking!"

"Perfect timing." he grinned, hugging her tightly.

"You know, once you memorise the manual its pretty easy to know how to drive." Luke remarked, closing the TARDIS manual they found in one of the libraries. He had quickly memorised that to help get the timing perfect to catch River as she jumped off the building in New York.

"The TARDIS manual?" the Doctor frowned at him, "I threw that into a supernova."

"Why?"

"I disagreed with it!"

"You need to read it." Thea told him, "the TARDIS wants you to read it."

That was why no matter how many times he tried to throw it out, the book kept coming back. The TARDIS was insisting that he learnt to pilot correctly.

"What about Dr Song?" Canton shook his head, "she dove off a rooftop."

"And we caught her." Thea assured him, "she's just drying off and getting changed. She'll be up in a moment."

~.~

The Doctor moved around the console, now in his usual tweed jacket but still with his beard as River returned in fresh clothes, drying her hair with a towel, "so what do we know?"

"They are everywhere." Thea stated, "been here for centuries, possibly longer."

"But we cant be sure because once you look away, you forget them." Luke added.

"So what are they up to?" Canton shook his head.

"No idea." the Doctor sighed, "But the good news is, we've got a secret weapon." he pulled a lever and ran outside, the others following to see them at the base of Apollo 11.

"Oh my stars, that's amazing!" Thea gushed.

"Apollo 11's your secret weapon?" River asked.

"No, no. It's not Apollo 11. That would be silly. It's Neil Armstrong's foot."

"Makes perfect sense." Thea nodded.

Luke glanced at her, "I'm starting to worry about your sanity."

She laughed, nuzzling her face to his neck, "you said yourself just go along with him."

~.~

"I really don't think its necessary." Thea mumbled, eying the injector gun the Doctor held in his hand.

"I'm sorry." He murmured, kissing the palm of her hand before injecting something into her as she bit her tongue.

"Big baby." Luke muttered.

Thea glared at him, "can I?" The Doctor held up his hands, handing her the injector gun as she turned to Luke and injected him causing him to hiss in pain. "Yeah, how do you like it?"

"I'm telling mum."

"Children please." The Doctor cut in, taking the gun back and moving to Canton, injecting him as the man gave a small 'ow!', "So, 3 months. What have we found out?"

"Well, they are everywhere. Every state in America...ow." Rory winced as the Doctor injecting his palm as well.

"Not just America," Luke argued, "the entire planet."

"There's a greater concentration here, though." River remarked.

"Why America?"

"Ow!" Amy glared as the Doctor injected her palm.

"Are you okay?" he asked her quietly.

"All better."

"Better?"

"Turns out I was wrong. I'm not pregnant."

"What's up?" Rory walked over.

"Nothing." She said quickly, "Really, nothing. Seriously."

"So you've seen them, but you don't remember them." Canton tried to follow.

"You've seen them, too." River pointed out, "That night at the warehouse, remember? While you were pretending to hunt us down, we saw hundreds of those things. We still don't know what they look like."

"It's like they edit themselves out of your memory as soon as you look away." Rory added, "The exact second you're not looking at them, you can't remember anything."

"Sometimes you feel a bit sick," Amy said, "but not always."

"So that's why you marked your skin." Canton nodded slowly.

"Only way we'd know if we'd had an encounter."

"How long have they been here?"

"That's what we've spent the last three months trying to find out."

"Not easy, if you can't remember anything you discover." Rory muttered.

"How long do you think?"

"As long as there's been something in the corner of your eye," the Doctor answered, "or creaking in your house, or breathing under your bed, or voices through a wall. They've been running your lives for a very long time now, so keep this straight in your head. We are not fighting an alien invasion, we're leading a revolution. And today, the battle begins."

"Viva la revolution!" Thea shouted, throwing a fist into the air.

Luke coughed, "nerd."

Canton just shook his head, "How?"

"Like this." the Doctor leaned back and without looking, injected River.

"Ow!" she hissed, glaring at him.

Thea sniggered at that, taking the injector gun again, if he thinks he gets to have all the fun causing the pain then he was wrong.

"Nanorecorder." the Doctor explained, "Fuses with the cartilage in your hand. Ow!" He pulled a face as Thea injected him with a grin, "And it tunes itself directly to the speech centres in your brain. It'll pick up your voice, no matter what. Telepathic connection. So, the moment you see one of the creatures, you activate it, and describe aloud exactly what you're seeing." He pressed his palm, "'And describe aloud exactly what you're seeing.'" played back, "Because the moment you break contact, you're going to forget it happened. The light will flash if you've left yourself a message. You keep checking your hand if you've had an encounter. That's the first you'll know about it."

"Why didn't you tell me this before we started?" Canton demanded.

"I did, but even information about these creatures erases itself over time. I couldn't refresh it because I couldn't talk to you."

Canton glanced over his shoulder, turning back and straightening the Doctors bowtie, frowning when he saw everyone staring at him. "What? What are you staring at?"

"Look at your hand." River instructed

He looked down at his palm, seeing the red dot flashing, "Why is it doing that?"

"What did we just say the flashing light meant?" Thea countered.

"I haven't..."

"Play it." The Doctor urged.

Canton hesitated a moment before pressing his palm, hearing his own voice, "My God, how did it get in here?"

"Keep eye contact with the creature and, when I say, turn back, and when you do, straighten my bow tie." the Doctor said on the recording.

"What? What are you staring at?"

"Look at your hand." Rivers voice said.

Cantons eyes widened, seeing a hologram of the creature standing before the doors.

"It's a hologram," the Doctor explained, "extrapolated from the photo on Amy's phone. Take a good, long look." he switched off the hologram, "You just saw an image of one of the creatures we're fighting. Describe it to me."

Canton shook his head, "I can't..."

"You straightened my bow tie because I planted the idea in your head while you were looking at the creature."

"So they could do that to people." Amy frowned, "You could be doing stuff and not really knowing why you're doing it."

"Like posthypnotic suggestion." Rory supplied.

"Ruling the world with posthypnotic suggestion..."

"Like the Arkangel." Thea called.

"The old phone network?" Rory frowned.

"Yeah, it was hypnotic. Persuading you to Vote Saxon."

"You really didn't like him." Luke muttered.

Sarah Jane had gotten an interview with the man and Thea had begged to come with her, at first they just thought she liked going with Sarah Jane when she was working but she really hadn't liked the man as soon as he came on the TV. She had hated him, warned not to vote for him, despite Mr Smith assuring everything was normal.

When Harold Saxon had introduced those Toclafane Thea had run from the room terrified. Then the man had just...disappeared.

It didn't make much sense and Thea had gone very quiet and distance about it. They were certain she knew more than she said, it was like they had missed so many months that had just vanished.

She had always claimed that Britain's golden age was over when Harriet Jones left the office.

"This little girl..." Luke cut in.

"Right, yes," The Doctor nodded and spun around, "a little girl in a spacesuit. They got the suit from NASA, but where did they get the girl?"

"It could be anywhere." Canton shook his head.

"They wouldn't want to cause too much attention though." Luke reasoned.

"There's nothing about a missing child." Thea added, "so she has to be an orphan."

She looked over at Luke, depending on what they wanted with the child, Sarah Jane would look after her. It wouldn't take long to fit into present day London, Clyde and Rani would help too, like how Clyde and Maria had helped her and Luke fit in. Sarah Jane would ensure the child grew up loved.

But why did they want her in the first place?

It wouldn't affect the future, taking her out of the time. Plenty of people go missing because the fall though rifts in time and the world keeps going. Those kinds of things are perfectly normal.

"But you'll have to find her." The Doctor continued, "we're off to NASA."

~.~

Luke honestly didn't know how the Doctor had managed to do this, how he had persuaded him and Thea to let him do this, though Thea had been very excited to be so close to an Apollo 11 module. The girl had access to all of time and space in the TARDIS and somehow an Earth rocket that barely made it to the moon was just as impressive to her. Was this how mum felt when she had travelled with the Doctor? Exasperated by his idiocy. He shook his head, glancing over to where Thea was holding some wires from the top of the Apollo 11 module where the Doctor was fiddling with the wires inside.

"Oh," Thea gasped as her phone rang, pulling it out of her pocket, checking who it was before tossing it to Luke, "its Amy, can you answer, my hands are..." she trailed, holding up the bundle of wires.

"Fine." he rolled his eyes, knowing it was best if he did. If the Doctor messed up with putting everything back then Thea would be the one to fix it.

She was brilliant like that, really inventive, just great with technology.

"Amy?" He answered, putting the phone on speaker so they could all here her.

"I think we've found the place she was taken from." she replied.

"How do you know?" The Doctor called.

"Because those things have been here. But the whole place is deserted. There's just one guy here and I think he's lost it."

"Repeated memory wipes fry your brain eventually." Thea sighed.

"Find out what you can," the Doctor added, "but don't hang around."

"Where are you?" Amy asked.

Luke looked over as the doors opened and two technicians entered, staring at them in shock that they had snuck in.

"Oh, we've been noticed." He warned.

"Took longer than I was expecting." Thea looked over, handing the Doctor the rest of the wires to put back in the module, "bad security. Though NASA would be better than that."

"Thought the same about UNIT, you still broke into the Black Archive." Luke pointed out.

The Doctor looked over sharply, forgetting the last remaining wire, staring at Thea at the mention of her in the Black Archive, "what was that?"

"Nothing." Thea smiled sweetly, "we didn't break into the Black Archive at any point." She looked to Luke and glared as the boy just shrugged innocently.

"Don't worry," the Doctor looked over at the technicians, neither looking amused at their break in, or their continued conversation, "I've put everything back the way I found it." Thea held up the remaining wire, "except that. There's always a bit left over, isn't there?"

"Oh, allow me!" Thea grinned, nudging the Doctor aside and putting the finally wire back into place, turning to Luke as the back stepped closer to them, "just fixed an Apollo 11 module," She cheered, very excited, "that thing survived its trip to space, because of me."

Luke just raised his hands in surrender, nodding to the soldiers the technicians had called.

"Ah, hello." The Doctor greeted, the guns to their faces.

~.~

They'd been hand cuffed and led to a lecture hall, filled with green chalkboards covered with equations and plans for the module. All three were rather calm despite the cuffs, all of them used to be captured by now.

"I hate you." Luke muttered to Thea as the girl sat in a chair between him and the Doctor.

"I know." She half sang, "its fine."

"And you've seen that, have you?"

"Something like that."

"Shut up," A smartly dressed man glared at them, taking a seat before them, "Now, one more time. How the hell did you get into the command module?"

"You really should get better security." She shrugged.

"Well, maybe if you just get President Nixon to assure us of that, sir, that would be swell." The man seated before them smirked.

Thea smiled sweetly, "I sent him a message."

The men scoffed, clearly not believing her until the door opened and Nixon walked in, River and Rory behind him, both smartly dressed, acting as his aids.

"Hello." He greeted, "I believe it's Mr Gardner. Is that correct? Head of Security?"

"Er, yes sir." the man nodded, standing and shaking the presidents hand, "Yes, Mr President."

Nixon turned to the man by the desk, "Mr Grant, is it?"

"Yes, Mr President." He blinked, surprised to see the man.

"The hopes and dreams of millions of Americans stand here today at Cape Kennedy, and you're the men who guard those dreams. On behalf of the American people, I thank you."

"You're welcome, Mr President."

"I understand you have a baby on the way, Mr Grant?"

"Yes, Mr President." He nodded.

"What are you hoping for, a boy or a girl?" Nixon smiled at him.

"Just a healthy American, sir."

"A healthy American will do just nicely. Now, fellows, listen. These people, here, code name the Doctor, the Brains and the Visionary, are doing some work for me personally. Could you cut them. a little slack?"

"Er, Mr President," Mr Gartner began nervously, "they did break in to Apollo 11."

Thea just grinned as the Doctor mouthed 'sorry', Luke was the only one to actually look slightly guilty.

"Well," Nixon cleared his throat, "I'm sure they had a very good reason for that. But I need you to release them now so they can get on with some very important work for the American people. Could you do that for me?"

"Well..." Mr Grant began.

"Son, I am your Commander in Chief."

"Then I guess that would be fine, Mr President."

He smiled, "Glad to hear it."

Mr Gartner motioned for the guards to uncuff them.

"Thank you," the Doctor shook Mr Grants hand, "Bye, bye." He shook Mr Gartners hand as he headed out the doors where the TARDIS was waiting.

Thea rolled her wrists, "bit tighter next time boys."

Luke rolled his eyes, taking her hand and pulling her back to the TARDIS, "come on, don't push it."

"Carry on, gentlemen." Nixon nodded to them before turned and following them, River behind him.

Rory looked at a small model, picking up a piece that looked like a satellite...breaking it. He set it down, clearing his throat to the them, "America salutes you." He saluted and followed the rest to the TARDIS.

~.~

They'd dropped Nixon back at the Oval office, the man back sitting at his desk.

"You have to tape everything that happens in this office." The Doctor instructed him, "Every word, or you won't know if you're under the influence."

"Doctor," Nixon slowly stood again, "you have to give me more than this. What were you doing to Apollo 11?"

"A thing. A clever thing." The Doctor waved him off, "Now, no more questions. You have to trust me and nobody else."

River poked her head out the TARDIS as they waited for him, "Doctor, it's Canton!" He quickly ran into the TARDIS, "Quick, he needs us."

~.~

They quickly materialised the TARDIS in the Greystark Childrens home, the place dark and looking rather abandoned.

"Stay in the TARDIS," The Doctor ordered Thea and Luke as he ran up the stairs, Rory and River right behind him.

"Fine." she huffed, turning to Luke, who smirked at her, both knowing neither were going to stay in the TARDIS.

"You're a bad influence on me." He muttered as they headed off to check out the rest of the home.

"I know." She sighed, she took his hand in hers leading him off, trying to see if she could get a sense of the little girl.

~.~

The Doctor and Rory ran and found Canton pointing his gun at the door to blow the lock, River quickly ran up behind them.

"Okay, gun down." The Doctor told Canton, "I've got it."

"Amy, we're here!" Rory shouted, as the Doctor used his sonic to unlock the door, "Are you okay?"

"I can't see..." Amy cried.

The Doctor got the door unlocked and they ran into the room only to find it empty.

"Where is she, Doctor?" Rory looked around.

"It's empty." River frowned.

A spacesuit was left abandoned on the floor, the Doctor scanned it with the sonic as River lifted the visor seeing no one inside it now. They looked at each other a moment, realising the little girl could be nearby, likely still in the building. Hopefully Thea and Luke might find her. Despite telling them to stay in the TARDIS, the Doctor knew they would. He didn't put it past Thea to have a sense of the girl was around and hiding.

"It's dark." Amy's voice said, "So dark. I don't know where I am. Please, can anybody hear me?"

They looked down to see the small red light flashing on the floor, her nanorecorder.

Rory picked it up, "they took this out of her. How did they do that, Doctor? Why can I still hear her?"

"Is it a recording?" River wondered.

The Doctor flashed his sonic over it, "Er, it defaults to live. This is current. Wherever she is right now, this is what she's saying."

"Amy, can you hear me?" Rory asked quietly, "We're coming for you. Wherever you are, we're coming, I swear."

"She can't hear you. I'm so sorry. It's one way."

"She can always hear me, Doctor." Rory glared at him, "Always. Wherever she is, and she always knows that I am coming for her. Do you understand me? Always."

"Doctor, are you out there?" Amy whimpered on the recorder, "Can you hear me? Doctor? Oh, God. Please, please, Doctor, just get me out of this."

"He's coming." Rory promised her, "I'll bring him, I swear."

"Dad!" Thea yelled from downstairs.

He didn't hesitate to turn and run, heading down into an office where a man look very confused, clearly the owner of the orphanage and had dealt with many of the Silence and his brain was closed to being completely fried. Luke was crouched before the injured alien as it struggled to get up from the shot wound. "Who and what are you?" he asked the alien.

"Silence, Doctor." Its voice rasped in his mind, "We are the Silence."

Thea stiffened, recalling the previous times he had heard that. Prisoner Zero had said it, even the Sisters of the Water in Venice.

"And Silence will fall."

~.~

They'd dropped Canton back at Area 51, with the wounded Silent to try and question it more, dropping Nixon off with him to help things go more smoothly with the soldiers before returning to the warehouse, examining the spacesuit more closely. Rory was sat on a crate, cradling the nanorecorder in his hand as occasionally Amy would give a sob or a whimper. Thea sat besides him, resting her head on his arm, trying to comfort him while Luke stood with the Doctor and River, interested in the suit.

"The target for the Apollo 11 astronauts, the Moon, at liftoff, will be at a distance of 218,096 miles away." A man was announcing on the small black and white TV they'd set up, showing the launch, "We're just past the 2 minute mark in the countdown. T minus 1 minute 54 seconds and counting."

"It's an exoskeleton." River stated, "Basically, life support. There's about 20 different kinds of alien tech in here."

"Who was she?" the Doctor frowned, "Why put her in here?"

"You put this on, you don't even need to eat. The suit processes sunlight directly. It's got built in weaponry, and a communications system that can hack into anything."

"Including the telephone network?" Luke asked.

"Easily." River nodded.

"But why phone the President?" The Doctor wondered.

"It defaults to the highest authority it can find. The little girl gets frightened, the most powerful man on Earth gets a phone call. The night terrors with a hotline to the White House." The Doctor walked off, sniffing the blue envelope he had received, licking it, "You won't learn anything from that envelope, you know."

"Purchased on earth." He mumbled, "Perfectly ordinary stationery. TARDIS blue. Summoned by a stranger who won't even show his face. That's a first, for me. How about you?"

"Our lives are back to front. Your future's my past. Your firsts are my lasts."

"That's not really what I asked."

"Ask something else, then."

"What are the Silence doing?" Thea called, if only to change the topic away from the envelopes and the Doctors future and his death. "raising a child?"

"Keeping her safe," River shrugged, "even giving her independence."

"The only way to save Amy is to work out what the Silence are doing." The Doctor remarked, looking over to Rory.

"I know." Rory nodded.

"And every single thing we learn about them brings us a step closer."

"Yeah, Doctor, I get it. I know."

"Of course, it's possible she's not just any little girl." The Doctor pondered.

"Well, I'd say she's human, going by the life support software." River countered.

"I'm human, I was still created by the Bane." Luke pointed out.

"What's so important about this one little girl?" Thea shook her head, "Why her, out of all little girls? What makes her different and the one to go for?"

It didn't make sense to her. Why go though all the trouble for this one little human? Unless she wasn't human, just because the life support system was for a human, it didn't necessarily mean she was 100 percent human. Some sort of human/alien hybrid?

"But?" The Doctor pressed, sensing the word hanging from Rivers mouth.

"She climbed out of this suit." River remarked, "Like she forced her way out. She must be incredibly strong."

"Incredibly strong and running away." the Doctor mused.

"I like her." Thea smiled.

"Sounds a bit like you." Luke murmured.

She smirked, "more reason to find her."

"Yes," the Doctor agreed, "But how? Anyway, I have the strangest feeling she's going to find us."

"Apollo 11, this is Houston." the announced spoke on the TV, drawing their attention over, "How do you read? Over."

"Why does it look like a NASA spacesuit?" Rory wondered, eying the suit.

"Because that's what the Silence do." The Doctor sighed, "think about it. They don't make anything themselves. They don't have to. They get other life forms to do it for them."

"Like parasites?" Luke frowned.

"Superparasites, standing in the shadows of human history since the very beginning. We know they can influence human behaviour any way they want. If they've been doing that on a global scale for thousands of years..."

"Then what?" Rory asked.

"Then why did the human race suddenly decide to go to the Moon?"

"10...9...Ignition sequence start...6...5...4..."

Thea blinked, "Because the Silence needed a spacesuit."

"...1...0...All engines running. Liftoff. We have a liftoff. 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11."

River communicator beeped in the Doctors hand and he opened the video sent by Canton on Theas phone, showing the wounded Silent speaking, "you should kill us all on sight."

"This suit," River began as the glove twitched, "it seems to be repairing itself. How's it doing that? Doctor, a unit like this, would it ever be able to move without an occupant?"

"Why?" The Doctor walked over.

"The girl said the spaceman was coming to eat her." Luke recalled.

"Maybe that's exactly what happened." Thea agreed as she joined them by the suit, giving Rory some privacy hearing Amys voice on the nanorecorder.

"I love you." Amys voice spoke, "I know you think it's him. I know you think it ought to be him, but it's not. It's you. And when I see you again, I'm going to tell you properly, just to see your stupid face. My life was so boring before you just dropped out of the sky." Rory hung his head as the Doctor walked over, "So just get your stupid face where I can see it, okay? Okay?"

The Doctor sat down besides him, "She'll be safe for now. No point in a dead hostage."

"Can't you save her?" Rory asked him.

"I can track that signal back. Take us right to her."

"Then why haven't you?"

"Because then what?" He sighed, "I find her and then what do I do? This isn't an alien invasion. They live here. This is their empire. This is kicking the Romans out of Rome."

"Rome fell." Rory stated.

"I know. I was there."

"So was I." He looked away.

"Personal question..."

"Seriously?" He scoffed, "you?"

"Do you ever remember it?" The Doctor asked him, "2000 years, waiting for Amy? The last Centurion."

"No." Rory stated.

"Liar." Thea called.

"Of course I'm lying."

"Of course you are." The Doctor nodded, "Not the sort of thing anyone forgets."

"But I don't remember it all the time." Rory murmured, "it's like this door in my head. I can keep it shut."

"Please, please, just come and get me." Amy sobbed on the nanorecorder, "Come and get me."

~.~

The TARDIS materialised, tracing Amy's nanorecorder, finding the woman screaming, trapped against an upright table surrounded by a group of Silence.

The Doctor ran out, blinking at the familiarity of the room, "Oh, interesting. Very Aickman Road. I've seen one of these before. Abandoned. I wonder how that happened? Oh, well I suppose I'm about to find out. Rory, River, Luke, keep one Silent in eyeshot at all times. Oh, hello. Sorry, you were in the middle of something. I just had to say, though, have you seen what's on the telly?" He looked around at the Silence, holding a small TV in his hands, "Oh, hello, Amy. Are you all right? Want to watch some television? Ah." the Silence hissed, stepping closer, "Now, stay where you are. Because look at me, I'm confident. You want to watch that, me, when I'm confident."

Thea eyed the Silence, seeing River with her gun ready to fire, she stepped closer to Luke, a step in front of him, ready to shove him back inside the TARDIS if the situation got too dangerous.

"This is Thea, my daughter." the Doctor nodded his head back, "she's psychic."

Oh, he was never going to get tied of saying that. She was his daughter, he had adopted her and she accepted.

"Visionary." she corrected lightly, "this is River..." she hesitated and what to call her, "my partner in crime. No!" she gasped, "partner in time!"

"Yes!" River eagerly agreed.

"Oh, no." Luke groaned. Clyde really had worn off on her if she was making terrible jokes like that.

"Nice hair, clever, has her own gun," the Doctor added, "and unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I don't really like that around my daughter, but she likes her well enough so i'll let it slide."

"Thank you, sweetie." River smirked.

"I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you."

"Well, the first seven, easily."

"Seven?" He asked, rather impressed, "Really?"

"Only seven?" Thea smirked.

"Oh, eight for you, sweetheart." She winked.

"Oh, get it to double digits at least. Unless you cant?"

"Is that a dare?"

"Perhaps."

"Love a challenge!"

"So do I."

"Is this really the best time?" Luke cut in, cutting them off from...whatever that was.

"Yes. Right." The Doctor nodded, "Sorry. As I was saying, Theas naughty friend here is going to kill the first three of you to attack, plus him behind, so maybe you want to draw lots or have a quiz."

"What's he got?" Amy asked Rory quietly as he started to undo the straps.

"Something," he replied, "I hope."

"Its going to be good." Luke nodded as he moved over to give Rory an extra hand, knowing that Thea was watching the Silence, ensuring they could free Amy without issues.

"Or maybe you could just listen a minute." the Doctor continued, moving around the console, "Because all I really want to do is accept your total surrender and then I'll let you go in peace. Yes, you've been interfering in human history for thousands of years. Yes, people have suffered and died, but what's the point in two hearts, if you can't be a bit forgiving, now and then?" The Silence remained Silent, "Ooh, the Silence."

"You really take that seriously, don't you?" Thea frowned.

"Okay, you got me. I'm lying. I'm not really going to let you go that easily. Nice thought, but it's not Christmas. First, you tell me about the girl. Who is she? Why is she important?"

"What are you using her for?" The demanded, "if you have harmed her..." She threatened.

"Thea..."

She stepped back at Luke's call. Oh she certainly had a dark side, she was usually good at hiding it, Luke certainly calmed her down and kept her in line, thinking about him helped, but sometimes it slipped out.

"Guys, sorry, but you're way out of time." the Doctor grinned, setting up the TV on the console, "Now, come on. A bit of history for you. Aren't you proud? Because you helped. Now, do you know how many people are watching this live on the telly? Half a billion. And that's nothing, because the human race will spread out among the stars. You just watch them fly. Billions and billions of them, for billions and billions of years, and every single one of them at some point in their lives, will look back at this man, taking that very first step, and they will never, ever forget it." He turned to the telly as the moon landing was being broadcasted, "oh. But don't forget this bit." he pulled out Luke's phone he had borrowed, "Ready?"

"Ready." Canton responded on Theas phone.

"That's one small step for a man..." Neil Armstrong began.

The wounded Silent suddenly appeared on the screen, "you should kill us all on sight."

"You've given the order for your own execution," the Doctor smirked, "and the whole planet just heard you."

The broadcast returned, "...One giant leap for mankind."

"And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence." The Doctor laughed, "You just raised an army against yourself and now, for a thousand generations, you're going to be ordering them to destroy you every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throw you off their planet." He eyed the head Silent as it silently advanced, slowly gathering electrical energy, "They won't even know they're doing it. I think, quite possibly, the word you're looking for right now is oops. Run!"

"That's us!" Thea shouted, running to Luke as he and Rory struggled with the restrains.

"Go." Amy urged, "Go."

"We are not leaving without you." Rory refused.

"Look, will you just get your stupid face out of here!"

"Sonic!" Thea called and grabbed the sonic the Doctor threw, quickly releasing the restrains, Rory and Luke quickly helping her out and running into the TARDIS.

"Don't let them build to full power!" The Doctor shouted, grabbing his sonic back, scanning the building.

"I know!" River snapped, "There's a reason why I'm shooting, honey. What are you doing?"

"Helping."

"You've got a screwdriver. Go build a cabinet."

"That's really rude."

"Learn how to drive."

The Doctor shook his head at her, running inside the TARDIS to see Thea already at the console, with Luke as the pair got them ready to leave.

River continued firing outside, spinning around and crouching down, ensuring all the Silence were dead, she glanced over as Rory stood at the doors.

"My old fellow didn't see that, did he?" she smirked, "He gets ever so cross."

"So, what kind of doctor are you?" Rory asked.

She fired behind her at the Silent that jumped up, "Archaeology." she answered, "Love a tomb."

Rory shook his head as she slipped her gun away and headed past him into the TARDIS and up to the console to help pilot.

"You can let me fly it." The Doctor grumbled.

"These two sure." She nodded to Luke and Thea as they both took two sections, "you?" she scoffed, "maybe we could go where we're supposed to."

"She does have a point." Thea had to agree with her.

"Oh, right, well," he huffed, stepping back as River two the final two sections on the console, "what about you Luke? Are you siding with them?"

"Well, I mean," He began awkwardly, "you did drop mum off in Aberdeen when it was supposed to be Croydon."

"That was years ago." He mumbled.

"Best not tell Sarah Jane how long we've been gone." Thea added.

The Doctor had to nod at that. He really didn't want her to be cross at him for taking Luke, especially without telling her, and for 3 months. No, best just drop him off the next day. They knew Sarah Jane wouldn't mind too much if they told her why it had been so long, but still, she didn't need to know.

~.~

They'd dropped Canton off back in Washington with Nixon before going to drop River off back in Stormcage, Thea leaving the TARDIS to personally escort River to her cell.

"You could always come with us." Thea offered, "I doubt the guards would notice you were gone."

"I escape often enough, thank you. And I have a promise to live up to. You'll understand soon enough. Well, you'll probably feel it even sooner." she smirked, "I can see it in your eyes, you're so close to knowing..."

Thea shook her head, she wouldn't press on the matter. Rivers words just made her think she would get a feeling eventually, whether she got in right now or not. "alright then. See you next time."

"What?" River laughed as she turned to leave, "is that it?"

She turned back to her, "what else is there?"

River pulled her in for a tight hug, frowning, feeling Thea wasn't hugging back as tight as she usually did, "what is it? Youre acting like...we've never done that before."

"We, er, haven't." she shifted, rubbing her arms from the awkwardness, "sorry, um, I look forwards to it. There's a first time for everything."

"And a last time." River whispered.

Thea opened her mouth to say something but River turned and entered her cell and so she turned back to the TARDIS, only to spin on her heel and back to Rivers cell.

River looked up to see Thea resting her forehead on the bars, her arms hanging through the gaps, "what? What is it? Oh, out with it, Thea," she rolled her eyes as the girl just silently stared at her.

"You're so intriguing." She murmured.

"Thats usually what people say about you."

She grinned, "I can't wait to know you more."

"Until the next time." River laughed.

"Next time." she nodded and turned and went inside the TARDIS.

"Everything alright?" the Doctor looked over at her.

"Yeah." she nodded, "all settled in till the next time."

Why did she get the feeling the next time wouldn't be fun?

"Let's get you home, eh." the Doctor patted Luke shoulders as Thea joined him at the console.

~.~

"And...made it!" Thea cheered.

"You're sure its the right date?" Luke asked.

She raised an eyebrow at him, "yes. How dare you think otherwise."

"Well, I have good reason to be concerned." He remarked, glancing to the Doctor.

"Oi!" He cried, "right! Get out my TARDIS!"

Luke rolled his eyes, knowing he was only saying that jokingly like he had the last time when they had asked to look inside the TARDIS he had raised his voice like it was the worst thing they could ask before letting them in.

"5 minutes." Thea said as she followed Luke out.

The Doctor nodded, moving round to the monitor, frowning at the screen.

"Hi, mum." Luke smiled, seeing Sarah Jane at her computer, looking over at them through her reading glasses.

She raised her eyebrow, "and where have you two been?"

"America." Thea said honestly. She knew they'd gone to America, she had seen the tickets, and it wasn't a lie, they had gone to America, just ended up in the past, saw the moon landing.

"We saw the moon landing." Luke told her, he was never very good at lying, especially to Sarah Jane such a mummy's boys.

"Live?" She questioned, "in 1969."

"Yeah." Thea shifted, "I taught Luke to drive," she gestured to the old box, "this is the parking from me and Luke, isn't it good?"

"Much better than the Doctors," Sarah Jane smiled as Thea beamed.

"Mum, I got to fly the TARDIS," Luke gushed, "Thea showed me, I was great."

"What else?" She asked, giving them a knowing look.

They shared a look. Did she know about the Doctors death? Or did she mean something else?

"I um..." Thea hesitated, glancing back to the shut TARDIS doors.

"We saw the Doctor die." Luke told her. Sarah Jane's eyes widened. "a future Doctor. 200 years in the future."

"I can stop it." Thea assured her, hating to see the woman look so worried, "I'll see it and I can change it."

"Come here." Sarah Jane stood and pulled the girl into a hug.

"It'll be fine. I'm not worried. He won't die. I'll make sure of it."

"You know I'm always here when you need me." Sarah Jane murmured, giving her another squeeze and tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear.

"I know. That's why I'll always come home, mum."

~.~

Thea stopped by the doors seeing everyone look over at her as she slowly moved over to the console "did I interrupt something?"

"Just a bit of a domestic." Amy waved her off.

"Oh, I'm used to them," she smiled, flicking a switch on the console, "you two really need to meet Clyde and Rani, always having a domestic despite refusing to admit they like each other, Luke and I are determined to get them together. What are you looking at?" She asked, seeing the Doctor frowning at the monitor, glancing to the corridor Amy and Rory had silently disappeared down.

"Nothing." He lied, only to sigh as she raised an eyebrow. "Its just Amelia." He showed her the screen, showing a pregnancy scan from the woman, unable to tell if she was positive or negative.

"Oh." She blinked.

That was rather concerning, for the TARDIS to not even tell.

"That little girl..." Thea began, "who was she? Why her of all little girls?"

"No idea," he sighed, "are you in the mood for adventures? Because I am. You only live once."

Thea smiled sadly at that. He never refused help, especially a child but right now as far as he was concerned that girl worked with the Silence to lure them, maybe hurt them, they had already kidnapped Amy knowing she was his companion.

Had they done something to her which was why the TARDIS couldn't tell if she was pregnant or not.