April
"Hello Ponds!" The Doctor called as he got through to their answer machine from the phone on the console.
"You mean Williams!" Thea laughed, leaning over his shoulder to be heard down the phone, "he'll get there one day."
"Just checking in. How are you? Not much to report. Surfed the fire falls of Florinall Nine. Not deliberately, just the easiest way out."
"I just happened to be carrying an Extrapolator and it worked well as a surf board." Thea added, grinning at the memory, not everyone could say they surfed magma to escape Sontarans, who she could only assume were not on their hen night as they didn't answer her question, resulting in them being chased.
The Doctor could only shake his head from how much she had enjoyed that little adventure, "Met Mata Hari in a Paris hotel room." He grimaced, he had been in the woman's room toasting crumpets over the fire when the woman had walked over in a fur coat, and only a fur coat.
"When was this?" Thea asked him.
"You had taken Sky shopping."
"Ah, yes." she grinned.
Sky was a great addition to the family, it gave her an extra reason to go back to Bannerman Road, Clyde and Rani were getting ready to head of to university and so that left Sky around and Sarah Jane wasn't completely alone.
She was so adorable! Even more than her, so innocent and unsure of the world.
"Laid down some backing vocals." The Doctor continued.
"He's still terrible." Thea added, ignoring his 'oi!' of complaint, "but that's why autotune was invented. We should be with you any day now." She told the Ponds.
"Literally any day." The Doctor nodded, "Helmic regulator's playing up. Can't get the temporal steering right."
"So nothing new there." Thea commented, before gasping and rushing to the console.
"What?" The Doctor looked over sharply.
"We nearly collided with Ancient Greece."
"Oh dear," The Doctors eyes widened, hanging up the phone to help move them away.
They really didn't need to collide with the ancient eras...again.
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May
"I really would not." Thea hissed from the bottom of the stairs in the Ponds home later one night.
Not only was it the middle of the night and the couple would be sleeping (hopefully, if the Doctor was about to barge into their bedroom) but it was also the wrong time and he was be disturbing them for no reason
"The whole planets in danger!" He shouted, running up the stairs to their bedroom, "We need to get them safe!" He burst into their room, covering his eyes as they popped up, "stop everything!"
"What's going on?" Rory yawned.
"Doctor!" Amy hissed, "Bedroom!"
"We have a rule about the bedroom."
"I tried to tell him." Thea sighed as she popped round the door, seeing it was safe to do so.
"No one on this planet is safe right now." The Doctor told them, urgently, "We have to solve this before it's too late. Get your clothes on. If we move fast, we at least stand a chance and..." He trailed seeing them staring blankly at him, "you have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?"
"No." They both shook their heads.
"No. Helmic regulator again." The Doctor huffed, "Too early. Wrong point. Come along, kiddo," he ushered Thea out the room just as she sat at the end of the bed, "As you were."
"Doctor, you can't just go like that." Amy grumbled as they made to leave, "What's happening? Don't we need to know?"
"Popped up in the wrong order." The Doctor waved them off, "easy mistake to make. Nothing to alarm you. Forget we were ever here. We'll be back soon enough, I would have thought. Everything's fine, pretty much. Don't worry about the future. The future is really..." The Doctor trailed, swallowing as he thought of the adventures they had just had with the Ponds, involving Daleks and Dinosaurs of a spaceship and cyborgs, and the cubes invading Earth just days ago from their own timeline, "safe. Really, really safe."
"Don't worry about the future." Thea assured them, "it's nothing to worry about."
"You're sure?" Rory eyed her.
"Foreknowledge is dangerous."
They stared at her, eyebrows raised in disbelief.
"For you, anyway." She amended.
"Sleep well." The Doctor whispered, shutting the door on the Ponds.
"I don't want to say I told you so, but..." Thea crossed her arms, rolling her arms as the Doctor put his over her mouth as she went back inside the TARDIS.
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June
They had lost an Ood.
How did you lose an Ood? All it did was follow them around awaiting orders, but still, somehow they had lost it.
They had tried to search the many TARDIS rooms for it, but neither had seen any sight of it.
They hoped it had gone for a walk in one the many rooms.
Thea wasn't overly concerned about it, which they hoped was because the Ood was safe, wherever it was.
She had thought it might have snuck out the TARDIS when she had gone to visit Maria, but neither she nor her dad had seen any Ood walking around in Washington.
It would turn up eventually.
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July
The Doctor sat on the harness under the console, blackened goggles with wires handing everywhere as Thea sat to the side on the stairs, her phone to her ear, "you've got the Ood?" She asked.
"Yes!" The Doctor cheered, "I was wondering where he got too."
"I thought he might have been at one of the gangs but no one had seen him."
"I thought he had just gone for a walk in the TARDIS."
"He must have wandered off when he popped in the other night," Thea remarked, "if it was the other night." She shook her head, even she was getting confused where in the timeline they were, the Doctors piloting was that bad! This was why she always piloted when visiting the gang, always ensuring to keep linear with them.
"You know, we rescued him from the middle of the Androvax conflict."
"Surprisingly nothing to do with Androvax of the Veil." Thea added, "I wonder how he's doing nowadays."
"The Veil?" The Doctor looked over at her.
She waved him off, not wanting to go into that little adventure, "we were taking him back to the Ood Sphere."
"Anyway, he's not being a nuisance, is he?" The Doctor asked.
"He seems to think that he's our butler." Rory came on the line.
"He's conditioned to serve." The Doctor told them, "The best thing is, let him do just that. I'll come and pick him up tonight."
"Whenever tonight is." Thea mumbled, only to blink and jump up as the Doctor crossed to wires, "not them ones!" And the alarms rang.
"Oops." The Doctor winced, "power drain's threatening to cause the TARDIS to implode. Oh no, that's bad." He jumped up, seeing something flashing red, "Why's it doing that? No, no, no, no, no, don't do that!"
"Bye, Ponds!" Thea called as she hung up the phone and ran to the console, both Time Lords trying to sort out the issue before the TARDIS imploded.
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August.
Thea grinned as she stood on top of a ladder, leaning against the TARDIS as she changed the bulb. The Doctor stood at the base of the ladder, one hand holding it to keep it steady, the other holding the phone to his ear as he called the Ponds.
"Us again." The Doctor called, "sorry about the gaps in communications. Dropped your Ood back home. Reconnected it to the hive mind. Helmic regulator's still not working. Got hit by an arrow at Hastings Hill."
"And I rode a horse," Thea shouted as she closed the top of the TARDIS and started to climb back down, "all by my self. Still prefer riding with River though. Don't tell her I said that. I'll never hear the end of it." She muttered.
"She rode through eleventh century Coventry, as well." the Doctor nodded, "Also, I think I may have accidentally invented pasta. I popped round but you were out."
"Which I told him you were." They'd gone round in the rain, huddled under an umbrella despite Thea reminding him they had jobs and life's outside of them.
"Which is fine. Everything's all right, isn't it, with you two?" He shook his head, "Course it is. Ponds always fine. Just worrying unnecessarily. Anyway, just call us if you need us."
"You know I always pick up for either of you." Thea added, trying to remain cheerful, "Cya soon."
"Toodle pip." The Doctor ended the call, sighing heavily and pulling out the sonic, flashing it on the phone to delete the message.
If it reached them at the wrong point, well, from their timelines, they knew the Ponds really weren't fine at all.
Thea could only shake her head as she followed the Doctor into the TARDIS, pulling out her phone and messaging River to remind her to drop by her parents more often than she did.
