A/N: Been adding all of 13's up to now on my plan. I think if I feel I can work an episode in, I'll add it. There's going to be a limit to what Kathy knows in that era as in my head, she travelled to this world during 13's run. Someone asked me if I'll add 14's but we'll have to see on the plot.
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The TARDIS flies out of control over London. The centre console sparks and the control room is in flames and is exploding. The whole ship is turning upside down, spinning them around and around. The doors fly open, Kathy manages to grab onto the railing on the console but the Doctor doesn't manage to do the same. She looks around to find the newly-regenerated Doctor outside the TARDIS and hanging onto the edge by his hands, sonic screwdriver in his mouth.
The Doctor begins to pull himself into the TARDIS. Kathy runs over to help pull him back in, narrowly missing the top of the tower of Big Ben. There is another explosion, sending them both tumbling down. They manage to get up but are thrown once again and further into the TARDIS.
"Not the swimming pool!" Kathy whines just before they fall in.
She pulls her head up to see that the room is sideways. Kathy remembers that the Doctor had to climb out of the room with some rope. When she turns to him, she finds that he has already gotten the rope with the grappling hook on the end. He grins at her as he throws it as high up as he can. The Doctor tugs it and it seems secure. She notes that his clothes, Ten's clothes, are ripped and singed.
"Feel like climbing?" He asks.
Kathy smirks at him. "Don't have a choice, do I?" He carries on smiling. "Well, after you. I'm in a dress." A dress that is falling apart at this point. She understands why Amy calls her tattered.
The Doctor starts climbing, using the bookshelves. As they climb up the rope through the control room, Kathy sees that the TARDIS doors are already open for them. Everything feels weird to her seeing the whole place sideways.
The Doctor finally reaches the outward open doors and pops his head over the edge. "Can I have an apple?" He asks to, who Kathy can assume is, little Amelia. "All I can think about - apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new, never had cravings before."
"Can you ask for an apple when I'm not hanging in some rope?" Kathy calls from underneath him. "I can't hold on much longer."
"Sorry." The Doctor replies, straddling the TARDIS and leans back inside with an offered hand to pull Kathy up. She sits next to him on the TARDIS frame. Kathy turns to see little Amelia standing in front of them wearing a red jacket and matching wellies over her nighty.
"Are you okay?" Little Amelia asks them, her Scottish accent heavy with her words.
The Doctor puts both legs over the side, sitting on the edge and Amelia does the same, heaving her wet and heavy 16th century dress with her.
"Oh, just fine." She huffs.
"Just had a fall." The Doctor adds in. "All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up."
Amelia frowns and looks them up and down as if to double check that the two odd people in front of her are actually soaked. "You're soaking wet." She points out.
"We fell into the swimming pool," Kathy explains.
"You said you were in the library." Amelia counters.
"So was the swimming pool." The Doctor tells her. Amelia rolls her eyes in apparent frustration.
"Are you police officers?" She asks them.
The Doctor stares at her in bewilderment. He leans forward. "Why? Did you call for police officers?"
"She has a crack in her wall," Kathy explains. "Don't worry we're here to help." Amelia beams and Kathy returns it.
The Doctor's expression holds great confusion. "What cra—" He starts to say, but cries out in agony, falling forward, off the frame of the TARDIS and onto the ground as he withers in pain.
Kathy gasps in alarm and hurriedly jumps down next to him. "Are you alright?" She helps him sit up. Amelia states in concern as the Doctor leans against the TARDIS underside, panting and wheezing. He's quick to give them a reassuring smile.
"No, I'm fine, it's OK. This is all perfectly norm..." He is cut as his body gives another spasm and opens his mouth and releases regeneration energy. Kathy pats his shoulder, trying to comfort him. Amelia stares in amazement and wonder.
"Who are you?" She asks, staring back and forth between the two strangers. "Both of you?"
The Doctor holds up his hands, energy rising from them. "I don't know yet. I'm still cooking. Does it scare you?"
Amelia frowns and shakes her head. "No, it just looks a bit weird."
"He means the crack in your wall." Kathy corrects. "Does it scare you?"
There is a slight hesitation before Amelia nods. "Yes."
The Doctor smiles brightly and jumps up, pulling Kathy with him. "Well, then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor and this is Kathy. Do everything we tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." He strides away with purpose. Kathy casually stands looking at her fingers, waiting for the impact. The Doctor walks into a tree, knocking him to the ground.
"You all right down there?" Kathy asks him.
"Early days. Steering's a bit off." The Doctor grumbles from the ground.
"Let's get you inside," Kathy says, pulling him up.
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The Doctor and Kathy eventually get inside Amelia's house and watch as the little girl grabs an apple and then goes over to where they linger by the doorway of the kitchen. Kathy dries herself with a towel as Amelia hands over the apple.
"If you're a doctor, why does your box say "Police"?" Amelia asks as she stares at them curiously.
Kathy rolls her eyes as the Doctor takes a bite of the apple, chews and then spits it out before coughing. Amelia jumps back a step to avoid the food flying at her. "That's disgusting. What is that?"
"It's an apple, Doctor. Just like you asked." Kathy disputes. "Now because I don't want Amelia and I having to clean up your mess, I going to make this easier for you."
"Go on then, what do I like?" The Doctor grumbles.
"Well, not yoghurt, beans, bread and butter or carrots," Kathy answers as she goes over to the freezer. "But do like this." She pulls out a box of fish fingers and then pulls out a container of custard from the fridge. She shoves them at the Doctor, who gleefully takes them.
"You know my name," Amelia says to Kathy as the Doctor actually is sorting his food out like an adult. "How do you know that?"
"Well," Kathy hesitates as she doesn't want to freak out a 7 year old. "I am from a different universe and I was shown a version of this one."
"Can you see the future? Are you a psychic?"
"No, just like someone has given me a list of things that could happen but doesn't mean they'll happen or happen in that way." Kathy tries to explain.
Amelia frowns. "Okay."
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Later, sitting at the table, the Doctor dips a fish finger into a bowl of custard and then takes a bite. Across from him, Amelia eats ice cream from the container. In the middle of the table, Kathy snacks on some Cherry Bakewells that she had found and feeling nostalgic, she had to have some. The Doctor then picks up the bowl and drinks the custard from it. It leaves a moustache which he wipes away with his hand.
"Funny," Amelia says as she watches him. The Doctor takes a bite of his custard covered fish finger.
"Am I? Good. Funny's good. What's your full name?" The Doctor asks.
"Amelia Pond."
"Ah, that's a brilliant name. 'Amelia Pond', like a name in a fairy tale." The Doctor replies, beaming. "Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"
Amelia lets out an exasperated sigh. "No." She grumbles. "We had to move to England. It's rubbish."
"So, what about your mum and dad, then? Are they upstairs?" The Doctor questions. "Thought we'd have woken them by now."
"I don't have a mum and dad. Just an aunt." Kathy gives the young girl a sympathetic smile thinking of her own parental loss.
"I don't even have an aunt." The Doctor says with a smile.
"I had a few aunts once," Kathy mumbles sadly. "Gone now."
"You're lucky." Amelia declares. Kathy gives Amelia a small smile.
"So, your aunt, she must be out then?" Kathy prods.
"As if you don't know already." Amelia retorts.
"Not everything is set in stone. I have to check." Kathy argues.
The Doctor looks surprised. "Your aunt left you all alone?"
"I'm not scared." Amelia retorts.
"'Course you're not. You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, strangers fall out of box, strangers dig through your kitchen and eat your food," he takes another bite of a fish finger covered in custard, "and look at you, just sitting there. So, you know what I think?"
"What?"
"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall," Kathy says. Amelia gulps at her words.
—
Hesitantly and cautiously, Amelia leads the Doctor and Kathy up to her bedroom. Kathy smiles when she sees the young girl grab an apple on the way and begins carving a face.
Kathy looks curiously around the bedroom when they enter, noting how different it seems from when she was last here, particularly the lack of Doctor and Kathy drawings and dolls. The most startling aspect of the room is the large crack in the wall.
The Doctor examines the crack, trailing his fingers along it. "What are you thinking?" He asks quietly.
"It shouldn't be there," Kathy says as she stands by him.
"You've had some cowboys in here." The Doctor says, glancing over at Amelia who remains standing by the door. "Not actual cowboys, though that can happen."
After a moment, Amelia walks over to the Doctor with an apple in her hand and hands it over to the Doctor. "I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them." She hands the Doctor an apple with a smiley face carved into it.
"She sounds good, your mum." He tosses the apple into the air and catches it then puts it into his pocket. "I'll keep it for later." He goes back to examine the crack, tapping his fingers lightly over the surface. "This wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it. So, here's a thing - where's the draught coming from?" He whips out Ten's screwdriver and runs it along the crack then checks the readings. "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what the crack is?"
"What?" Amelia asks.
"It's a crack." The Doctor runs his fingers along the crack. "I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."
"You going to tell us where is it or not?" Kathy retorts with a raised eyebrow.
"Everywhere. In everything. It's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together...right here in the wall of your bedroom." He presses an ear against the wall. "Sometimes, can you hear…"
"A voice? Yes." A voice echoes through.
Kathy decides to hurry them along. "Prisoner Zero has escaped. Which means that on the other side of that wall is a prison and they've lost a prisoner." She takes Amelia's hand tightly.
The Doctor steps back from the wall, a grin working its way onto his face. "Do you know what that means?"
"What?" Amelia asks.
"You need a better wall." The Doctor moves her desk out of the way as he talks quickly, "The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way. The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or..." The Doctor is standing next to Kathy and Amelia and now looks uncertain about his plan.
"What?"
Kathy kneels down, getting eye level with her. "You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?" She asks.
"Yes." Amelia sighs, nodding as if she is used to this.
"Everything's going to be fine," Kathy reassures, smiling at the girl. She retakes her hand and the Doctor grabs Amelia's other hand.
The Doctor holds up his screwdriver before turning to Kathy. "I think it's best if we do this together."
Kathy nods and holds up her screwdriver. Together they use their sonic screwdrivers on the crack. Amelia hides behind them but peers around them as a bright light shines through the crack as it widens. In the dim light, they can see what looks to be cells.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped." The Doctor takes a step closer to the crack. "Prisoner Zero has escaped."
"Hello? Hello?" The Doctor calls. Suddenly, a giant blue eye peers at them through the crack. Kathy jumps along with the other two despite expecting it.
"What's that?" Amelia asks, sounding frightened. Kathy squeezes her hand and gives her a smile and gets a small one in return.
A small ball of light or electricity shoots out from the crack, strikes the Doctor and he falls against the bed. The crack then seals once more.
"There. You see, told you it would close. Good as new." The Doctor says.
"What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?" Amelia asks.
"No. I think that was Prisoner Zero's guard. Whatever it was, it sent me a message." The Doctor looks at the message. "Psychic paper, takes a lovely little message. 'Prisoner Zero has escaped.' But why tell us? Unless..." He stands.
"Unless what?"
"Prisoner Zero escaped through here it seems," Kathy says.
The Doctor frowns. "But he couldn't have. We'd know." He runs out of the room with Kathy and Amelia. The Doctor stands on the landing and looks around, confused. "It's difficult. Brand-new me, nothing works yet. But there's something I'm missing... in the corner…" he turns to face one of the doors at the other end of the hall, "…of my eye."
There is an echoing sound of machinery along with a deep bell. The Cloister Bell. Kathy and the Doctor share a panicked look.
The Doctor runs down the stairs yelling, "No, no, no, no, no, no!" With Amelia and Kathy following.
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They run back into the back garden to the TARDIS.
"I've got to get back in there! The engines are phasing, it's going to burn!" The Doctor yells.
"But... it's just a box! How can a box have engines?" Amelia asks, not understanding.
Kathy frees the grappling hook and gathers the rope. "It's not a box. It's a time machine." She quickly explains.
Amelia replies disbelieving, "What, a real one? You've got a real time machine?"
"Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised." The Doctor grabs the rope from Kathy. "Five-minute hop into the future should do it." He loops rope through door handles.
"Can I come?" Amelia asks hopefully.
"Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes, I'll be right back." The Doctor hops onto the edge and prepares to go inside.
"People always say that," Amelia says sadly.
Kathy turns away from jumping onto the TARDIS as well and looks into her face. "Look we'll come back, even if we take longer than 5 minutes. Okay?" She knows it won't take 5 minutes and hopes what she says will help.
"Trust us. We're the Doctor and Kathy." The Doctor adds with a wink.
Amelia smiles and Kathy climbs onto the TARDIS next to the Doctor. Holding onto the rope, they give Amelia one last look before jumping.
"Geronimo!" They yell. The TARDIS doors slam shut and dematerialise.
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The TARDIS gives them some problems but eventually materialises in Amelia's back garden. Kathy had tried repeatedly to get there earlier but the TARDIS doesn't let her, determined to arrive 12 years late. The door opens and the Doctor and Kathy emerge amid billowing smoke, cloth held over their noses and mouths.
"Amelia! Amelia!" The Doctor runs towards the house, while Kathy walks at a slower pace. She glances at the not-so-new shed. It still has been way longer than 5 minutes.
"I worked out what it was. I know what I was missing! You've got to get out of there!" The Doctor uses his screwdriver on the door lock and it opens after a few tries. Kathy doesn't know why he didn't just use hers.
"Amelia?!" The Doctor runs upstairs with Kathy cautiously following, expecting a cricket bat at any moment.
"Amelia, are you all right? Are you there?" He goes immediately to the door that troubled him before and tries to open it with the screwdriver it doesn't work so he reaches into Kathy's pocket and grabs hers. "Prisoner Zero is here. Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is..." he turns and is hit on the head with a cricket bat.
Kathy turns to the frightened woman. "No, Amelia, Amy, please!"
Amy pauses in surprise before whacking her as well.
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Kathy slowly comes to, and, as her vision clears, she sees a female police officer in a very short skirt speaking into her radio.
"White male and female, mid to late 20s, breaking and entering. Send me some backup, I've got them restrained." Amy, Kathy realises, is speaking into a radio in a not-so-Scottish accent as the Doctor groans awake. "Oi, you! Sit still."
"Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat." The Doctor mutters.
"Me too." Kathy agrees. She rattles her wrists looking down at the handcuffs that are attached to the radiator. Mother like daughter.
"You were breaking and entering." Amy retorts.
The Doctor tries to stand seemingly not having noticed what Kathy had and gets caught causing him to stumble. "Well, that's much better. Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed."
"Do you want to shut up now?" Amy barks out in irritation. Kathy winces at the volume. "I've got backup on the way!"
"Hang on, no, wait- you're a policewoman." The Doctor says, now taking in her appearance.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Kathy remarks.
Amy gives her a sharp look before turning to the Doctor. "And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia?" He retorts. He looks around as if expecting the little girl to pop out any second.
"Amelia Pond?" Amy questions, staring at him in interest.
"Yeah. Little Scottish girl. Where is she?" The Doctor demands to know. "We promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing."
"You promised her." Kathy retorts.
"Fine, I promised her." He grumbles. "I suppose we must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?"
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time," Amy states curtly. Technically not a lie as Amelia is now Amy but still a bit of a lie.
"How long?" The Doctor questions.
Amy stares him down with an even expression. "Six months."
The Doctor's eyes widen dramatically and shakes his head in disbelief. "No, no, no! I can't be six months late! I said five minutes. I promised."
Amy narrows her eyes slightly, looking like she wants to retort angrily to this but she walks away, reaching for her radio.
The Doctor leans forward looking panicked as he pulls on the cuffs causing Kathy's wrist to bang sharply on the radiator. "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?"
"Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up, this guy knows something about Amelia Pond." Amy says curtly into her fake radio.
Kathy groans rubbing her head. The cricket bat has given her a horrible headache and is making her feel irritated with Amy's performance. "Please Amy, will you just drop the act and the English accent? It sounds weird."
Amy whips round, looking pointedly at Kathy as if to tell her to shut it.
The Doctor glances between them, looking confused. "Amy? Who's Amy?"
"She is." Kathy points with her free hand.
"Your name's Amy?" He questions.
"Yeah. What of it?" Amy retorts, staring heatedly at them.
The Doctor frowns and shakes his head quickly. "Names aside, we need to speak to whoever lives in this house now." He says firmly.
"That's her." Kathy points at the woman who shoots her another look of irritation. Kathy is enjoying getting on her nerves, payback for the cricket bat.
"But you're the police." The Doctor states, frowning in confusion. Kathy decides to keep the whole kiss-o-gram thing quiet for a bit longer as it's too funny when it's revealed.
"Yes, and this is where I live. You got a problem with that?!" Amy retorts.
Kathy checks her pockets and her eyes widen in panic. "Uh, guys, I think I've lost my sonic, I can't find it."
The Doctor frowns and checks his own. "Mine too." He yanks on the cuffs and then turns to Amy. "Get us out, please?"
"I can't… I lost the key." She admits looking embarrassed.
The Doctor looks at her in disbelief. "How could you have lost it?!" He asks, exasperated.
"Look I know where the sonics are." Kathy interrupts. She gazes down the hallway to the sixth door. The Doctor looks straight at the door while Amy looks blankly. "They both went under the door though why mine since it was in my pocket, I don't know."
"That thing has pockets?" Amy questions doubtfully, staring at Kathy's Tudor dress that is falling apart.
"Yes!" Kathy snaps.
"We're going to have to get them out somehow." The Doctor mutters.
Amy looks around before turning to them, furrowing her eyebrows heavily. "What are you two on about?"
"The sixth door at the end of the hallway." The Doctor answers, he points with his free hand.
Amy narrows her eyes, giving the floor another quick look and then turning back to him. "There's only five rooms."
"No, there's six," Kathy says evenly. "It's always been there. Sometimes you've noticed it. You've heard strange noises that you've passed off as your imagination. Look where you never want to look, the corner of your eye. Look behind you."
Amy slowly looks and freezes at the sight of the door. "That's... That is not possible." She breathes fearfully. "How's that possible?"
"There's a perception filter round the door." The Doctor explains quickly. "Sensed it the last time we were here. Should've seen it."
"But that's a whole room," Amy states, still sounding frightened. "That's a whole room I've never even noticed."
"The filter stops you. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding."
Amy starts walking towards the door.
"Stay away from that door!" The Doctor instructs but she keeps steadily walking.
"You said your tools were in there, right?" Amy asks. "Someone needs to get them."
"It's too dangerous," Kathy warns the girl but Amy reaches for the doorknob.
"Do not touch that door!" The Doctor orders but Amy simply sends him a glare before stepping inside. "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to? Again...?"
"Apparently, I have one too," Kathy grumbles.
"Do you have anything?" He quickly asks her.
She shakes her head. "Nothing except a scanner, which isn't useful."
"There's nothing here. Those things you were looking for… what do they look like?" Amy calls out to them.
"Silver, blue at the end." The Doctor answers.
"Same but it has a red light and metal claws," Kathy replies.
"Found them. They're here." Amy tells them, sounding nervous.
"Must have rolled under the door." The Doctor decides.
"Yeah. Must have… and then it must have jumped up on the table..."
The Doctor and Kathy look at each other in alarm. "Get out of there!" They yell. "Get out!"
"Amy, please, you have the sonics, get out of there!" Kathy pleads while the Doctor stretches as far as he can with the handcuffs.
"There's nothing here, but..." Amy speaks with a wavering voice.
"Don't try to see it." The Doctor commands urgently. "If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it."
Kathy tenses when she hears a gasp from Amy then a loud growl and a scream. Amy runs out of the room, slamming the door behind her. She dashes down the hall to them, handing back their screwdrivers.
Kathy wipes the slime from hers while the Doctor tries his own to work on locking the door. The tool buzzes weakly. He turns it to the handcuffs. It doesn't work. "What's the bad alien done to you?"
"Will that door hold it?" Amy asks.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, course! It's an inter-dimensional multi-form from outer space - they're all terrified of wood." The Doctor retorts sarcastically.
"Still rude," Kathy mutters. Fortunately, hers is still working and she manages to unlock the cuffs from their wrists. They both stand quickly as a bright light is seen coming from under the doorway.
"What's that? What's it doing?" Amy questions.
The Doctor wipes his screwdriver with his finger. "I don't know, getting dressed? Run. Just go. Your backup's coming, I'll be fine."
"There is no backup," Kathy says anxiously as she watches the door.
The Doctor looks at her, surprised. "But I heard her on the radio, she called for backup." He insists.
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio." Amy replies.
"But you're a policewoman."
"I'm a kiss-o-gram!" She removes her hat and her ginger hair falls free. The Doctor gapes in shock while Kathy sniggers.
At that moment, the door to the mystery room is kicked down roughly into the hallway to show a man in blue coveralls holding the lead to a large Rottweiler. He walks forward into the hall.
Amy blinks dumbly. "But it's just..." She trails off as if unable to understand exactly what she is seeing.
"No, it isn't. Look at the faces." The Doctor says steadily. The man growls and barks while the dog remains impassive.
"What?" Amy scoffs. "I'm sorry, but what?"
The Doctor smirks. "It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two." He explains. Man and dog turn heads in unison. "Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you?" The man and dog's heads whip back to stare straight at the Doctor, who gazes back curiously. "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"
It snarls loudly. The multi-form advances on the Doctor, Kathy and Amy and opens his mouth showing the same teeth as in its previous form. Amy backs up frightened while Kathy goes to stand in front of the girl to make sure the creature doesn't go for her.
"Stay, boy!" The Doctor barks. The creature halts its advance and closes its mouth. "We're safe. Want to know why? She sent for backup."
"I didn't send for backup!" Amy exclaims in aggravation and fright.
Kathy rolls her eyes and turns to look at her over her shoulder. "He knows that. It was a clever lie to save our lives."
Amy winces in embarrassment. "Oh."
The Doctor gives her a sharp look before gazing back strictly at the creature. "OK, yeah, NO backup! And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we HAD backup, then you'd have to kill us!"
They all suddenly stiffen when a booming voice rings loudly outside the house, echoing. "Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded." It bellows. It's the same voice from the crack. "Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."
Prisoner zero gazes around robotically before marching off to look outside from another room.
"What's that?" Amy asks as the voice, the Atraxi, continues to bellow.
"Not backup," Kathy says.
"Yes, it is!" The Doctor says in a panicked tone.
Kathy shakes her head, exasperated. "No, it really isn't."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Okay, I see your point." The Doctor admits. The voice repeats its warning.
"I vote we leave," Kathy says.
"Great idea." The Doctor cries, his tone full of panic. He turns to Amy. "Run. Run!" He pushes her and he and Kathy follow her down the stairs.
—
They run outside and Kathy uses her screwdriver on the door.
"Kiss-o-gram?" The Doctor questions Amy.
"Yes!" Amy snaps.
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?" The Doctor asks.
Kathy huffs and shoves the two of them. "You broke into her house!" She snaps.
"Exactly!" Amy exclaims as she goes along with Kathy's shoving. "It was this or a French maid!" She follows them to the smoking TARDIS. "What's going on? Tell me! Tell me!"
The Doctor stops outside the TARDIS. "An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house." He says in one breath. "Any questions?"
Amy blinks before furrowing her eyebrows. "Yes." She states.
"Me too." The Doctor mutters as he tries to open the door but the key to the TARDIS won't work. "No, no, don't do that, not now!"
"She's still rebuilding, Doctor," Kathy says. "It won't do her or us any good if she lets us in now." She hears a thankful hum coming from the ship.
Prisoner Zero, still in the form of the man and dog, watches from the window, barking at them.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The Atraxi repeats.
Amy grabs the Doctor and Kathy by the arms. "Come on." She urges. She pulls them along but the Doctor digs his heels.
"No, wait, hang on, wait, wait, wait. The shed." He runs to the garden shed, looking over it hurriedly. "We destroyed that shed last time we were here, smashed it to pieces."
"So, there's a new one. Let's go." Amy retorts as she and Kathy follow.
"Wrong," Kathy states, giving Amy a pointed look. "That's an older shed."
"She's right. It got old." The Doctor responds. He taps at the side of it. "It's ten years old at least." He sniffs the wood before rubbing his finger along the wood and tasting it. "Twelve years. We're not six months late, we're 12 years late." He turns, looking suspiciously at Amy.
"He's coming." Amy tries weakly to change the subject. The Doctor steps toward her with narrow eyes.
"You said six months." He states. "Why did you say six months?"
"Because you said five minutes," Kathy says casually, catching his attention. She shrugs and tilts her head towards Amy. "She's Amelia Pond. Grown-up, hasn't she?"
The Doctor's eyes widen, staring at them in shock and disbelief with his mouth hanging open. "What?" He gasps.
Amy rolls her eyes and grabs Kathy and the Doctor's hands to drag them with her. The Doctor continues to stutter "what?" as they run along with Amy, past Prisoner Zero, who is standing at the door. They rush away from the house to put some distance between them and Prisoner Zero.
—
They reach a good distance away when the Doctor halts them so he can look at Amy. "You're Amelia." He states, clearly trying to process that the little girl he had met 5 minutes ago is now twelve minutes older.
"You're late." Amy snaps, glaring, as she turns to stomp down the road. The Doctor and Kathy hurriedly pace to keep up with her.
"Amelia Pond, you're the little girl." The Doctor says.
"I'm Amelia and you're late." Amy retorts as she marches on.
"Technically I'm not, I just promised we'll arrive eventually," Kathy says, causing them to pause. "So, I didn't break any promises, unlike him." She jabs a thumb at the Doctor, who lets out a huff.
"I suppose," Amy mutters, rolling her eyes.
"Forgive me?" Kathy tries to pull her best pout.
Amy gives her a pointed look as if to pretend to be angry and annoyed but a smile slips. "Okay, I forgive you." Kathy beams and throws her arms around Amy. Amy chuckles before turning to the Doctor and frowning at the Doctor, who is still gaping like a goldfish. "I'm still cross with him though."
"B-but that's… what happened?" The Doctor snaps.
Amy turns around and continues walking, linking her arm with Kathy's. "12 years." She snaps.
"You hit me with a cricket bat." He says dumbly.
"12 years."
"A cricket bat."
"12 years and four psychiatrists." Amy counters.
"Four?" The Doctor parrots.
"I kept biting them," Amy replies, embarrassed.
"Understandable." Kathy comforts. Amy gives her a smile.
"Why?" The Doctor asks.
"They said the two of you weren't real," Amy explains quietly.
Atraxi's voice is then heard coming out of the speakers of an ice cream van sitting in the centre of the village. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
Amy's eyes go wide in fright and alarm. "No, no, no, come on… What? We're being staked out by an ice cream van?"
The Doctor and Kathy head for the van followed by Amy.
"What's that? Why are you playing that?" The Doctor questions.
"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune." Comes the reply. The man looks uncomfortable by how far the Doctor is sticking his head into the window.
Kathy looks wide eyed at the ice cream; she hasn't had any in years. "Oooo!"
"No." The Doctor says. Kathy pouts. He picks up the player and listens as the message is repeated.
They begin to notice the message being played across other devices as well. People of the village stand around in confusion at their mobile phones or music players.
"What's happening?" Amy breathes in a panic. The Doctor and Kathy don't answer as they bolt towards a nearby house. The Doctor leaps over a low white fence into a pretty front garden while Kathy runs around to the front with Amy following.
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They run into a house of an elderly woman, Mrs Angelo, trying to change the channel on her TV but they all show the Atraxi's eye and say the same message.
"Hello!" The Doctor and Kathy greet brightly together as the woman notices them.
"Sorry to burst in, we're doing a special on television faults in this area." The Doctor explains.
"Also, crimes," Kathy adds, smiling. The woman blinks at them in shock.
"Let's have a look." The Doctor takes the remote from her.
"I was just about to phone." Mrs Angelo tells them, getting over the surprise as Kathy and the Doctor go over to the TV. "It's on every channel." The Doctor begins banging the remote and Mrs Angelo sees Amy. "Hello, Amy, dear. Are you a policewoman now?"
"Well, sometimes," Amy replies, looking embarrassed.
"I thought you were a nurse." Mrs Angelo states, frowning in puzzlement.
Amy shifts on the spot. "I can be a nurse." She mutters. Kathy gives her an amused smirk.
"Or, actually, a nun." Mrs Angelo continues, digging Amy into a bigger hole.
"I dabble." Amy chuckles nervously.
"Amy, who are your friends?" Mrs Angelo asks.
The Doctor frowns and turns away from the telly. "Who's Amy? You were Amelia." He questions curiously.
"Yeah, now I'm Amy," Amy grumbles, still looking slightly flushed from the embarrassment earlier.
"Amelia Pond. That was a great name." The Doctor argues, shaking his head in disapproval.
"Bit fairy tale." Amy retorts.
"She's got you there," Kathy mutters.
"I know you two, don't I?" Mrs Angelo suddenly asks. "I've seen you both somewhere before."
"Maybe her but not me. Brand-new face..." The Doctor makes a face and Mrs Angelo blinks in bewilderment. "First time on." He turns to Amy and looks at her like a strict parent. "And what sort of job's a kiss-o-gram?" Kathy rolls her eyes at him.
"I go to parties and I kiss people." Amy tries to casually respond, clearing her throat. "With outfits. It's a laugh."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago." The Doctor argues.
"You're worse than my aunt." Amy retorts.
"I'm the Doctor, I'm worse than everybody's aunt." He counters harshly before calming down and turning to Mrs Angelo. "And that is not how I'm introducing myself." The Doctor picks up a radio and uses the sonic screwdriver on it. They hear the same message about Prisoner Zero in French and German before it turns it off. "OK, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world." He opens a window and looks up.
"What's up there? What are you looking for?" Amy questions.
The Doctor pulls his head back inside. "OK, planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core... They're going to need a 40% fission blast." The Doctor rambles as Jeff enters and the Doctor walks up to him.
"They'll have to power up first though. So, with a medium-sized starship, that's 20 minutes." Kathy says.
Jeff is tall, which Kathy can tell the Doctor is not pleased with as he has to stand on tip-toe to meet him and then goes back down. "20 minutes? Yeah, 20 minutes. We've got 20 minutes."
"20 minutes to what?" Amy questions the Doctor and Kathy. Jeff blinks in astonishment and confusion as the Doctor walks away to answer Amy's question.
"Are you the Doctor and Kathy?" Jeff asks, interrupting the Doctor before he can speak.
Mrs Angelo's face brightens. "They are, aren't they? They're the Doctor and Kathy!" She states merrily. "The Raggedy Doctor and the Tattered Kathy. All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor and Tattered Kathy, it's them." Kathy grins while the Doctor stares in confusion.
Amy blushes and grumbles a "Shut up" as she averts her eyes in humiliation.
The Doctor now looks bemused. "Cartoons?" He goes to sit on the sofa.
"Gran, it's them, isn't it? It's really them!" Jeff lets out a slight laugh in disbelief.
"Jeff, shut up!" Amy snaps then turns to the Doctor. "20 minutes to what?" The 'eye' is still on the TV, broadcasting its warning.
"The human residence. They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship and it's going to incinerate the planet. 20 minutes to the end of the world." The Doctor explains.
"What?!" Amy exclaims in panic.
"Don't worry, Amy. We deal with this kind of thing all the time." Kathy casually replies. Amy scoffs.
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A/N: Hi one of those long chapters so I decided to break it up into two chapters.
