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In a small cottage, Amy who is very pregnant and looks like she's about due for labor as she looks like she's been pregnant for 40 weeks. She's mixing something in a bowl and then suddenly she gasps and puts the bowl down on a table as she feels pain from her cervix "Roryyyyyyy!" She screams as she thinks that she is in labor.

Rory was riding a bicycle with a basket on the front into the yard, he is now sporting long hair with his hair styled with a ponytail. He hears Amy screaming "Rory, it's starting!" He drops the bike to the ground.

"Ah. OK, OK…" he said as he went inside and rushed to her side and sees that she was sitting down, eating the batter from the bowl in her hands.

"False alarm," She explained.

"What?" Rory asked her with confusion on his face.

"False alarm," she said repeating herself.

"What?" He said repeating himself, wanting to know why it was a false alarm.

"Well, I don't know what it feels like. I've never had a baby before," she explained before feeding him some of the batter with the spoon in her hand.

"Mmm!" Rory exclaimed tasting the batter, meanwhile there was a whooshing sound in the background, which Amy recognized the sound and dropped the spoon in the bowl and stood up.

"No," she said in disbelief.

"I know. leaf blowers. Use a rake!" Rory said, thinking it was someone using a leaf blower.

Amy places the bowl back on the table, "No, it's…" she said before both of them looked out a nearby window to see the Tardis Materializing in front of the cottage. "I knew. I just knew," she finished before they both headed outside.

Outside the cottage, the Tardis lands in the middle of Amy's flowers and the door opens and the Doctor pops his head out to see where he and Rose were at "Rose, I think we're at Amy and Rory's cottage," he told his wife and he then steps out, followed by Rose, he knocks a stone from the small retaining wall and they saw a familiar face coming out of the cottage to greet them "Rory," they both greeted the nurse.

"Doctor, Rose," Rory said as he went to greet them.

"We've crushed your flowers," the Doctor apologized to Rory.

"Blame him, Rory. He was piloting the Tardis, if I was piloting it, we would've landed away from your flowers," Rose told Rory.

"Oh, Amy will kill both of you," Rory told both Gallifreyans.

"Where is she?" The Doctor asked him.

"She'll need a bit longer," Rory told them.

"Why?" Rose asked him.

"You'll know why once the both of you see her," Rory explained.

"Whenever you're ready, Amy," the Doctor called out to Amy as she left the cottage before laughing as he saw her pregnant belly, "Oh, wahey! Wahey," he then placed one of his hands on her stomach, "You've swallowed a planet."

"You're having a baby," Rose gasped as she noticed Amy's stomach.

"I'm pregnant," Amy told the Doctor.

"You're huge," the Doctor said, clearly not listening to them.

"Yeah, I'm pregnant," Amy told him.

"Look at you. When worlds collide," the Doctor added as he still didn't get that she was pregnant.

"Doctor, I'm pregnant," Amy told him again.

"Oh, look at you both. Five years later and you haven't changed a bit," he told her before hugging her, "Apart from age and size."

"Good to see you, Doctor, you too, Rose," Amy told both Gallifreyans.

"Are you pregnant?" The Doctor asked Amy as he finally noticed that she was pregnant.

"Oh, now he notices," Rose muttered as Amy shook her head and went back inside the cottage as the Doctor clapped Rory on the shoulder before the three of them followed Amy inside the cottage.

"Ah, Leadworth. Vibrant as ever," the Doctor said as he, Rose, Amy and Rory soon began to walk down a village lane within Leadworth.

"It's Upper Leadworth, actually," Rory corrected the Time Lord, "We've gone slightly upmarket."

"Where is everyone?" The Doctor asked Amy.

"This is busy. OK, it's quiet, but it's really restful and healthy. Loads of people here live well into their 90s," Amy answered.

"Well, don't let that get you down," the Doctor told Amy.

"It's not getting me down," Amy told him.

"Do any of you have the feeling that someone is watching us?" Rose asked as unbeknownst to the four of them an old woman was watching them from a window as the four of them sat down on a bench.

I think it's just you, Rose," the Doctor told Rose before turning towards Amy, "We wanted to see how you were. We don't just abandon people when they leave the Tardis. These two Time Lords and Time Lady's are both for life. You don't get rid of the Doctor and Rose so easily."

"Donna," Rose said with a fake cough.

"I meant ones that still remember us and that are still alive," the Doctor rephrased for Rose.

"Who?" Amy asked them.

"She was a companion of ours," the Doctor explained to her, "But it's a long story to tell you both what happened to her."

"You both came here by mistake, didn't you?" Amy suddenly asked them.

"Yeah, it would be a bit of a mistake if Rose didn't tell me that she wanted to see the two of you," the Doctor told her, "But look at this...bench. What a nice bench. What will they think of next?" The four of them sit there, bored with nothing to say, "So. What do you do around here to stave off the, you know…"

"Boredom?" Amy asked him.

"He meant self harm," Rose explained to Amy, "Although, boredom sounds better to ask than self harm.

"We relax…" Rory said, answering the Doctor's question as the Time Lord mouthed the words 'relax,' "We live, we listen to the birds."

"Yeah, see, birds. Those are nice," Amy agreed as birds began chirping around them.

"We didn't get time to listen to birdsong back in the Tardis days," Rory added as the birds' chirping became louder.

"Oh, blimey. My head's a bit, ooh…" the Doctor said as he held his head in his hand as he sat back up, "No, you're right, there wasn't a lot of time for birdsong back in the good…" the four of them then began to drift off, "old..." The four of them then asleep on the bench with Rose placing her head on her shoulder's arm.

"Days," the Doctor finished as he woke up on the Tardis's floor, "What? No, yes, sorry, what?" Amy and Rory approached him by the console as Rose stood up from one of the Tardis's seats as she placed a Gallifreyan book she was reading on the seat as she approached them "Oh, you're OK. Oh, thank God. I had a terrible nightmare about you two. You were there too, Rose. That was scary." He then ran towards the console as he placed his hands on it, "Don't ask, you don't want to know. You're safe now."

"Oh, OK," Amy said as he hugged her.

"That's what counts," the Doctor told her as he snapped his fingers, "Blimey, never dropped off like that before. Well, never, really. I'm getting on a bit, you see. Don't let the cool gear fool you. Now, what's wrong with the console?" He then began to examine the console as they heard a beeping sound coming from it, "Red flashing lights... I bet they mean something."

"Doctor, I also had a kind of dream thing," Rory told the Time Lord.

"Yeah, so did I," Amy told him as well.

"I did as well," Rose told her husband as well.

"Not a nightmare, though, just... we were married," Rory told Amy.

"Yeah, in a little village," Amy added.

"And both me and the Doctor visited you two with the Tardis," Rose told them as her husband approached them from behind, surprised.

"A sweet little village, and Amy, you were pregnant," Rory told his fiancée.

"Yeah, I was huge. I was a boat," Amy said, agreeing with him.

"So you had the same dream, then? Exactly the same dream?" Rory asked Amy as the Doctor tugged his hoodie.

"Are you calling me a boat?" Amy asked Rory.

"And Doctor, like what Rose said you both were visiting," Rory told the Doctor as he held one side of Amy's open jacket.

"Yeah, yeah, you both came to our cottage," Amy said, agreeing with Rory.

"How can we have the same dream?" Rory asked with confusion, "It doesn't make sense."

"And you had a nightmare about us. What happened to us in the nightmare?" Amy asked the Doctor.

"It was similar, in some aspects," the Doctor answered.

"Which aspects?" Rory asked him.

"Well, all of them," the Doctor answered.

"You had the same dream," Amy told him.

"Basically," the Doctor said, confirming her suspicions.

"But you said it was a nightmare," Rose reminded her husband.

"Did I say nightmare, Rose? No. More of a really good...mare," the Doctor told them, causing both Rose and Amy to give him a skeptical look, "Look, it doesn't matter. We all had some kind of psychic episode. We probably jumped a time track," they all then began to hear the chirping birdsong again, "Forget it, we're back to reality now."

"Doctor, if we're back to reality how come I can still hear birds?" Amy asked the Doctor.

"She's right, why can we still hear the birds if we're back to reality," Rose asked him with confusion.

"Yeah, the same birds. The same ones we heard in the…" Rory began as all four of them fell asleep again.

The four of them soon woke up on the bench with Rory and the Doctor having their heads next to each other as Rose moved her head away from her husband's shoulder.

"…dream," Rory finished as he pulled his head away from the Doctor's in embarrassment, "Oh. Sorry. Nodded off, stupid. God, I must be overdoing it. I was dreaming we were back on the Tardis, the Doctor pulled one of his suspenders straps forwards for a second before he and Rose both stood up as Rory looked at Amy, "You had the same dream, didn't you?"

"Back in the TARDIS," Amy said after nodding with confirmation, "Weren't we just saying the same thing?"

"But we thought this was the dream," Rory said as the Doctor picked up a small stone from the ground and examined it before throwing it back onto the ground.

"I think so. Why do dreams fade so quickly?" Amy asked as she and Rory stood up.

"Doctor, what is going on?" Rory asked the Doctor as he, Amy and Rose approached him.

"Is this because of both of you?" Amy asked the Doctor and Rose, " Is this some Gallifreyan thing because you've both shown up again?"

"Listen to me. Trust nothing. From now on, trust nothing you see, hear or feel," the Doctor told them.

"But we're awake now," Rory told him.

"You thought you were awake on the Tardis too," Rose reminded him.

"But we're home," Amy said, confusedly as she looked around

"Yeah. You're home. You're also dreaming. Trouble is, Rose, Rory, Amy, which is which? Are we flashing forwards… or backwards? Hold on tight. This is going to be a tricky one," the Doctor told all three of them as all four of them soon passed out yet again.

Amy suddenly gasped as she woke back up in the Tardis in one of the chairs as the Doctor woke up as well and immediately got up from the stairwell and gripped a lever on the console to move it as Rory sat in one of the chairs across from Amy, next to the stairwell as Rose woke up on the stairwell as well .

"This is bad. I don't like this," the Doctor said as he let go of the lever and kicked the console with his foot before hurting his foot from the console, "Argh! Never use force. You just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case - always use force."

"Shall I run and get the manual?" Amy asked as she and Rose stood up.

"I threw it in a supernova," the Doctor told Amy as he walked down the stairs under the console.

"You threw the manual in a supernova?" Amy asked the Time Lord with disbelief, "Why?"

"Because I disagreed with it. Stop talking to me when I'm cross," the Doctor told Amy before he wagged a finger at her.

"When did you do that?" Rose asked him.

"Between the end of the Time War and when I met your Chameleon-Arched self," the Doctor answered.

"OK, but whatever's wrong with the Tardis, is that what caused us to dream about the future?" Rory asked the Doctor.

"If we were dreaming of the future…" the Doctor began as he headed back up the stairs to where Rose, Amy and Rory were standing.

"Of course we were. We were in Leadworth," Amy told him.

"Upper Leadworth," Rory said, correcting his fiancée.

"Yeah, and we could still be in Upper Leadworth, dreaming of this," the Doctor told her, "Don't you get it?"

"No, OK, no, this is real. I'm definitely awake now," Amy said, confidently that they were not dreaming anymore.

"And you thought you were awake when you were all elephanty," the Doctor reminded her.

"Hey, pregnant," Amy told him as he offended her.

"And you could be giving birth right now. This could be the dream," Rose told Amy, telling her that they could still he dreaming.

"I told you, trust nothing we see or hear or feel. Look around you. Examine everything. Look for all the details that don't ring true," the Doctor added as he went over to the console.

"OK, we're in a spaceship that's bigger on the inside than the outside," Rory stated.

"With a bow tie-wearing alien and an alien who wears blue shirts, pink jackets and jeans," Amy added.

"Oi! Those shirts, jackets and jeans are the only clothes that fit my fashion sense," Rose told Amy as she was clearly offended.

"So maybe 'what rings true' isn't so simple," Rory told them.

"Valid point," the Doctor told him as the nurse clearly had a point when most of the Tardis's power went down leaving them in virtual darkness with the only light coming from the console.

"It's dead. We're in a dead time machine," the Doctor told both humans as the birdsong returned as the Tardis's light became darker, as Rory went to Amy and took her in his arms.

"Doctor, the birdsong is back," Rose told the Doctor as he walked over to her and took her into his arms as well.

"I know, Rose," he told her before turning to everyone else, "Remember - this is real, but when we wake up in the other place, remember how real this feels."

"It is real. I know it's real," Amy told him, confidently that they were about to reenter the dream.

The Doctor stood up as he awoke back in upper Leadworth in the middle of the street as a group of schoolchildren passed by as Rose, Amy and Rory woke up on a bench outside a library.

"OK. This is the real one, definitely this one," Amy said as she rubbed her pregnant stomach, "It's all solid."

"It felt solid in the TARDIS too," the Doctor told her as he walked towards Rose, Amy and Rose as they stood up as he waved a finger in front of his face, "You can't spot a dream while you're having it."

"What are you doing?" Rory asked the Doctor.

"He's possibly looking for motion blur, pixilation," Rose explained to the nurse.

"She's right, but It could be a computer simulation," the Doctor said, confirming his wife's suspicions as he touched Rory's face for a split second, "I don't think so, though."

"Hello, Doctor," an elderly woman said as she walked past the four of them.

"Hi," the Doctor said, greeting the old woman.

"Hello," Rory said, greeting the old woman at the same time with the old woman pausing to look back at them before continuing on.

"You're a doctor," the Doctor noted as he looked at him.

"Yeah. And unlike you, I've actually passed some exams," Rory told him.

"A doctor, not a nurse. Just like you've always dreamed. How interesting," the Doctor told Rory before walking away.

"What is?" Rose and Rory asked at the same time as they followed him.

"Your dream wife, Rory, your dream job, probably your dream baby. Maybe this is your dream," the Doctor told Rory.

"It's Amy's dream too," Rory told him, "Isn't it, Amy?"

"Yes. Course it is, yeah," Amy told him.

"What's that?" The Doctor asked as he pointed at a building behind him with thumb.

"I think it's a retirement home," Rose told her husband.

"Old people's home," Amy answered at the same time as the Doctor looked at the home and saw the residents at the windows looking out.

"You said everyone here lives to their 90s. There's something here that doesn't make sense," the Doctor reminded Amy, "Let's go and poke it with a stick."

"I agree, Doctor," Rose told her husband as he headed towards the retirement homes with Rory following before she followed as well, "Something about this doesn't make any sense,"

"Oh. Can we not do the running thing?" Amy asked as she placed her hands on her back.

The residents of the retirement home are relaxing in a lounge as an old woman was sitting in a chair, knitting. room.

"Oh, hello, Dr Williams," one of the other retirement home's old women residents said, greeting Rory as he, the Doctor, Rose and Amy entered the lounge as they approached the old woman who was knitting.

"Hello, Rory, love," the old woman who was knitting said as she looked up from her knitting.

"Hello, Mrs Poggit," Rory said, greeting the old woman who was knitting, "How's your hip?"

"A bit stiff," Mrs. Poggit answered as he approached her.

"Oh, easy, D-96 compound, plus…" the Doctor told Mrs. Poggit.

"Doctor, that hasn't been discovered yet," Rose told her husband.

"No, she's right, you don't have that yet, forget that," the Doctor told them as he realized that Rose was correct about it not being discovered yet.

"Who are your friends?" Mrs. Poggit asked Rory, "A junior doctor and their wife?"

"Yes," Rory answered.

"Can I borrow you?" Mrs. Poggit asked the Doctor, "You're the size of my grandson."

"Er...Slightly keen to move on," the Doctor told her as he kneeled as Mrs. Poggit puts a jumper over his head and onto his body before he leaned forward, forcing Mrs. Poggit to sit back, "Freak psychic schism to sort out. You're incredibly old, aren't you?" The residents of the retirement home looked on as the chirping birdsong began as the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory fell to the floor, asleep.

The four of them suddenly woke back up on the Tardis, leaning against the console.

"OK, I hate this, Doctor," Amy told the Doctor, "Stop it, because this is definitely real, it's definitely this one. I keep saying that, don't I?"

"Yep, you have been saying the dream we're in is the real one, when we don't know which one is the real one," Rose told Amy as the Doctor walked up the stairs to the upper level with a device in his hands.

"It's bloody cold," Rory complained as he was freezing.

"The heating's off," the Doctor explained to Rory.

"The heating's off?" Rory repeated with disbelief.

"Yeah. Put on a jumper. That's what I always do," the Doctor told him.

"Yes, sorry about Mrs Poggit," Rory told him, "She's so lovely though."

"Oh, I wouldn't believe her nice old lady act if I were you," the Doctor told them

"What do you mean, 'act'?" Amy asked him.

"He means she's probably the person I felt was watching us when we were sitting on the bench before we heard the birds for the first time," Rose explained to her.

"Everything's off, sensors, core power. We're drifting. The scanner's down so we can't even see out. We could be anywhere," the Doctor told them as he walked back to the console, "Someone, something, is overriding our controls."

A hologram of a man then suddenly appeared behind the Doctor at the top of the steps, the man is five inches shorter than the Doctor, has a receding hairline and is a little on the heavy side and is dressed similarly to the Doctor in a tweed jacket, striped shirt and bow tie.

"Well, that took a while," the man said as he walked down the stairs, "Honestly, I'd heard such good things. Last of the Time Lords, the Oncoming Storm, husband to the Bad Wolf. Him in the bow tie. Her in blue shirts and pink jackets."

"How did you get into our Tardis? What are you?" The Doctor asked the hologram.

"What shall we call me? Well, if you're the Time Lord and she's the Time Lady, let's call me the Dream Lord," the man answered.

"Nice look," the Doctor told the Dream Lord.

"This? No, I'm not convinced. Bow ties?" The Dream Lord asked the Time Lord. The Doctor then took an item from his pocket and threw it at the Dream Lord with it passing through him, "Interesting."

"I'd love to be impressed, but Dream Lord - it's in the name, isn't it? Spooky, not quite there," the Dream Lord told them before disappearing and reappearing behind them, "And yet, very much here."

"I'll do the talking, thank you," the Doctor told the Dream Lord, "Amy, Rose, either of you want to take a guess at what that is?"

"Um. Dream Lord. He creates dreams," Amy guessed.

"Yeah, I think so, too," Rose said, agreeing with Amy.

"Dreams, delusions, cheap tricks," the Doctor told them.

"And what about the gooseberry here? Does he get a guess?" The Dream Lord asked them.

"Listen, mate, if anyone's the gooseberry around here, it's the Doctor," Rory told the Dream Lord as he was offended by what the Dream Lord called him.

"Well, now, there's a delusion I'm not responsible for," the Dream Lord told him.

"No, he is," Rory told him before turning to Amy, "Isn't he, Amy?"

"Oh, Amy, have to sort your men out. Choose, even," the Dream Lord told Amy.

"I have chosen. Of course I've chosen," Amy told them as she looked at the Dream Lord without taking her eyes off him before hitting Rory on the chest, "It's you, stupid."

"Oh, good, thanks," Rory told her, relieved.

"You can't fool me," the Dream Lord told Amy as he disappeared and reappeared behind them, shocking Amy and Rory as they backed away while the Doctor and Rose stood still as they watched him, "I've seen your dreams. Some of them twice, Amy. Blimey! I'd blush if I had a blood supply or a real face."

"Where did you pick up this cheap cabaret act?" The Doctor asked the Dream Lord as he approached him.

"Me? Oh, you're on shaky ground," the Dream Lord told him.

"Am I?" The Doctor asked him.

"If you had any more tawdry quirks you and Rose could open up a Tawdry Quirk Shop. Named The Oncoming Storm and Bad Wolf Industries. The madcap vehicle, the cockamamie hair, the clothes designed by a first-year fashion student…" the Dream Lord told them, "I'm surprised you haven't got a little purple space dog just to ram home what an intergalactic wag you are. And the girl who became a Goddess for a brief moment who wears shirts and jackets. Where was I?"

"You were…" Rory began.

"I know where I was," the Dream Lord snapped as he disappeared and reappeared on the upper level, "So, here's your challenge. Two worlds. Here in the time machine, and there in the village that time forgot. One is real, the other's fake. And just to make it more interesting you're going to face in both worlds a deadly danger. But only one of the dangers is real. Tweet, tweet. Time to sleep," the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory suddenly fell to the floor asleep, "Oh, or are you waking up?"

The four of them then woke up in the lounge of the retirement home which was now empty of anyone but both Gallifreyans and humans.

"Oh, this is bad. This is very, very bad," the Dream Lord said as he walked into the lounge wearing a suit and glasses as he held an x-ray film in his hands, "Look at this X-ray. Your brain is completely see-through. But then, I've always been able to see through you, Doctor."

"Always? What do you mean, always?" Amy asked him.

"Now then, the prognosis is this," the Dream Lord said as the Doctor sat down in the chair that Mrs. Poggit was sitting in earlier, "If you die in the dream you wake up in reality. Healthy recovery in next to no time. Ask me what happens if you die in reality?"

"What happens?" Rory asked him.

"You die, stupid. That's why it's called reality," the Dream Lord answered him.

"Rory, that was a stupid thing to ask him," Rose told Rory.

"Have you met the Doctor before? Do you know him? Doctor, does he?" Amy asked the Doctor.

"Now don't get jealous. He's been around, our boy and his wife," the Dream Lord answered her, "Never mind that. You've got a world to choose. One reality was always too much for you, Doctor. Take two and call me in the morning."

"OK, I don't like him," Rory said as the Dream Lord disappeared.

"You and me both," Rose told Rory.

"Who is he?" Amy asked the Doctor as she crossed her arms.

"I don't know," the Doctor answered, "It's a big universe."

"Why is he doing this?" Amy asked him.

"Maybe because he has no physical form. That gets you down after a while, so he's taking it out on folk like us who can touch and eat and feel," the Doctor suggested as he stood back up and removed the jumper that put on him before the four of them fell asleep and the four of them met the Dream Lord.

"What does he mean, deadly danger," Rory asked, "Nothing deadly has happened here. A bit of natural wastage, obviously."

"They've all gone. They've all gone," the Doctor told them.

"I think those old folk are the deadly danger in this world that he was referring to," Rose suggested as the Doctor ran out the room as she, Amy, and Rory followed him out the retirement home.

As the Doctor, Rose, Amy and Rory left the retirement home they saw children are out in the playground next to the local ruins with a teacher with them before seeing some of the children heading towards the ruins.

"Why would they leave?" Rory asked as he followed the Doctor and Rose.

"And what did you mean about Mrs Poggit's act?" Amy asked the Doctor as she closed the door to the retirement home, "Was Rose right about it being cause she felt someone watching us earlier?"

"One of my tawdry quirks – sniffing out things that aren't what they seem," he explained, "So come on, let's think. The mechanics of this split we're stuck in... Time asleep matches time in our dream world, unlike in conventional dreams."

"And we're dreaming the same dream at the same time," Rory added.

"Yes, sort of communal trance, very rare, very complicated," he explained to him, "I'm sure there's a dream giveaway. But my mind isn't working because this village is so dull! I'm slowing down, like you two have. I'm not sure about you, Rose."

"Same. My mind isn't working as it normally does as well," Rose told him.

"Oh. Ow!" Amy said as she grabbed her stomach in pain before screaming, "Really. Ow! It's coming."

"Help her, you're a doctor," the Doctor told Rory.

"You're a doctor!" Rory shot back at him.

"For Rassilon's sake, you're both doctors. Help her!" Rose snapped at them, trying not to panic.

"It's OK," the Doctor told Amy as he squats down as if to catch the baby as it falls out, "What do we do?"

"OK, it's not coming," Amy told them as she stopped panicking.

"What?" The Doctor said with disbelief.

"This is my life now and it just turned you white as a sheet," Amy told the Doctor, "So don't you call it dull again, ever. OK?"

"Sorry," the Doctor apologized.

"Yeah," Amy said as she walked off with Rory following her.

"Don't you ever think that's too much to say in front of our possibly former companions, Theta?" Rose asked the Doctor.

"I haven't ever given that much thought, Arkytior," the Doctor told Rose when they both suddenly saw Mrs Poggit heading for the ruins and ran after Amy and Rory as they headed for the swing set and sat down in one of the swing set's seats with the Doctor taking the other one before Rory or Rose got a chance to sit in the seat next to Amy, "Now, we all know there's an elephant in the room."

"I have to be this size, I'm having a baby," Amy told him as she crossed her arms as Rory stood behind her while Rose stood behind her husband.

"She's got a point, Doctor," Rose told him as she pushed the Doctor's swing forward.

"No, no. The hormones seem real, but no," the Doctor told them before noticing Rory's ponytail, "Is nobody going to mention Rory's ponytail?" He then slowly smiled at Rose and Amy, "One of you hold him down, I'll cut it off."

"This from the man in the bow tie," Rory told him as Amy chuckled.

"Bow ties are cool," the Doctor told him before standing back up as he saw Mrs Poggit watching the children, "I don't know about you three, but I wouldn't hire Mrs Poggit as a babysitter."

"I agree, Doctor," Rose said, agreeing with him as Mrs Poggit turned towards them and watched the Doctor

"What's she doing? What does she want?" The Doctor asked as they heard the birdsong chirping again.

"Oh, no, here we go," Amy said as they fell asleep yet again.

The Doctor and Rose woke back up at the Tardis's console as Amy and Rory approached both Gallifreyans.

"It's really cold. Have either of you got any warm clothing?" Amy asked the Doctor and Rose.

"What does it matter if we're cold? We have to know what she's up to. Sorry. Sorry," the Doctor told them before rubbing his face, "There should be some stuff down there, have a look."

Amy went to look and, with a defiant zip of his hoodie, Rory followed her as the Doctor went into the space under the console with Rose, setting an enamel mug on a box with a crank. The crank comes off so the Doctor hits it as Rose watches her husband. The box opens showing a number of gadgets inside.

"I want the other life. You know, where we're happy and settled and about to have a baby," Rory told Amy as she looked through boxes for warm clothes for them and the Doctor and Rose as they stood in another section of the console.

"But don't you wonder, if that life is real, then why would we give up all this?" She asked him, "Why would anyone?"

"Because we're going to freeze to death?" Rory answered.

"The Doctor and Rose will fix it," Amy told him as she threw a blanket at him.

"OK. Because we're going to get married?" He asked her as he wraps Amy in the blanket.

"But we can still get married," Amy told him, giggling, "Some day."

"You don't want to any more?" Rory asked her, "I thought you'd chosen me, not them."

"You are always so insecure," Amy told him.

"You ran off with another man and his wife," he told her.

"Not in that way," Amy told him.

"It was the night before our wedding," he reminded her.

"We're in a time machine. It's the night before our wedding for as long as we want," she told him.

"We have to grow up eventually," he told her.

"Says who?" She asked him as she found three more blankets for Rory, the Doctor and Rose before she headed back to the console and saw that the Doctor had created something out of kitchen gadgets with Rose standing next to them before he handed it to Rory.

"Ah, Rory, wind," the Doctor said as he handed Amy the attached wire, " Amy, could you attach this to the monitor, please. Rose already helped me a bit with this."

"I was promised amazing worlds. Instead I get duff central heating and a weird, kitchen wind-up device," Rory complained.

"It's a generator. Get winding," the Doctor told him as Rose followed him.

"It's not enough," Amy said as she plugged the wire into the Tardis's console.

"Rory, wind," the Doctor ordered Rory.

"You Why is the Dream Lord picking on you and Rose? Why us?" Rory asked the Doctor as he began to wind the generator as the Tardis's monitor screen beeped to life and showed a starscape.

"Where are we?" Amy asked.

"We're in trouble," the Doctor and Rose answered.

"What is that?" Rory asked them.

"A star. A cold star," the Doctor answered as he ran to the doors and opened it, letting in a blinding light, "That's why we're freezing. It's not a malfunction. We're drifting towards a cold sun. That's our danger for this version of reality," he then closed the door and looked at the larger monitor on the wall.

"This must be the dream. There is no such thing as a cold star. Stars burn," Amy told him.

"So's this one. It's just burning cold," the Doctor explained to her.

"Is that possible?" Rory asked the Doctor

"I can't know everything. Why does everybody expect me to, always?" The Doctor told them as he headed back towards the console area and sat back down in one of the chairs, dejectedly.

"It's not possible for stars to burn cold, Rory," Rose told him.

"OK, this is something you both haven't seen before. So does that mean this is the dream?" Rory asked both Gallifreyans.

"I don't know, but there it is, and I'd say we've got about 14 minutes until we crash into it. But that's not a problem," the Doctor answered.

"Because you know how to get us out of this?" Rory asked him.

"Because we'll have frozen to death," the Doctor answered as he grabbed his stethoscope that Rose gave him after her chameleon arched self saw him first regenerate, seven years ago.

"Then what'll we do?" Amy asked him

"Stay calm. Don't get sucked into it, because this just might be the battle we have to lose," the Doctor told the Tardis as he placed the stethoscope onto the Tardis's console.

"Oh, Doctor, this is so you, isn't it?" Rory asked the Doctor.

"What?" The Doctor asked him.

"What a weird new star, 14 minutes left to live and only one man to save the day. I just wanted a nice village and a family," Rory told the Doctor.

"Oh, dear, Doctor, Rose," the Dream Lord said as he suddenly appeared behind both Gallifreyans, "Dissent in the ranks. There was an old doctor and a Rose from Gallifrey, which they ended up throwing their lives away, they let down their friends and…" he then stopped talking as both Gallifreyans and humans suddenly heard the birdsong yet again, "Oh, no, we've run out of time. Don't spend too long there, or you'll um…" both Gallifreyans and humans then fell to the floor as they slowly fell asleep again, "catch your death here."

Please review and tell me if I'm making Rose sound like well… Rose Because I still don't know how to write her properly and I need a beta-reader.