Chapter One

He just finished making his final good-byes to his friends, ending with Rose Tyler from before she met him, whether they knew it was good-bye or not. He probably will never see them anymore. The Doctor was dying now; his song was ending. Well, he wasn't dying per se, he was regenerating. It was still the same concept, though; this body dies and is replaced with an entirely new one. New looks and personality. A whole new person. Maybe it's a good thing; regenerating might help him forget- or at least dull- the pain and guilt he went through during this regeneration. Things such as losing Rose, nearly destroying Martha's family, being the reason why Donna's mind almost- and still might- burn up and kill her, losing Rose again, and all of those deaths in between caused by people trying to help him survive.

He staggered back to the TARDIS grunting in pain with every step he took. After a few more steps the Doctor cried out and fell on his hands and knees in the snow. After a few deep, shaky breaths, he lifted his head and saw Ood Sigma standing ahead of him.

"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep," the Ood told him and a few seconds later he heard the Ood sing.

After a few more heavy breaths, he returned to his feet and stood for a while looking at Ood Sigma. The Time Lord continued to walk, breathing deeply through his teeth. After a few more steps Ood Sigma said, "The song is ending but the story never ends." The Doctor continued to walk towards the TARDIS, not sparing a glance at the Ood. Once he got beside the ship, Ood Sigma spoke once again. "Doctor, one more thing before your song ends." The Doctor stopped his movements but didn't turn around. "When the Angels weep," The Ood continued, "she will return and she, too, will weep for the only way to survive will bring back memories of the day she died." This definitely got the Time Lord's attention.

"Who?" He managed to ask the Ood. "Who will return?"

"She has many names by now. One name can bring happiness, love, and joy, as well as sorrow. Another name brings fear and death." With that Ood Sigma put the communicator ball back on the spot it rests on his chest and watched the Doctor as he staggered into the time machine. He wasn't in the mood for riddle-like prophecies.

He leaned against the door after closing it for a few seconds before making his way to the console of the ship. Oh his way to the center of the room, he took off his coat and threw it off to the side. He, then, looked at his hand and saw it glowing and continued to the console which was only a short distance away. The Doctor pulled a lever to send the ship up into space and walked around the console.

After a few deep breaths he sadly said out loud to himself, "I don't want to go." And a few seconds later his face and hands started to glow not long before he had strong regeneration energy flowing though. About twenty seconds later his regeneration ended with a scream of his new voice. The Doctor spun around, his mouth agape, looking at his surroundings. He then looked down and saw that he had legs.

"Legs!" He lifted up his left leg and held onto this thigh with both hands. "I've still got legs." He kissed his leg before setting his foot back onto the floor. "Good. Arms. Hands. Ooo, fingers. Lots of fingers." He continued to check to make sure that he still had all of the necessary body parts but had a momentary freak out when he felt his hair. "I'm a girl! No! No!" He put his hand on his Adam's apple. "I'm not a girl." He pulled his bangs in front of his eyes to see his hair color and was disappointed to see that he was, once again, not ginger.

Then he was crashing and the Ood's riddle-like word from earlier were all but forgotten.

"Geronimo!"

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The Doctor ended up crash landing into a back yard of a house that a young Scottish girl, Amelia Pond, lived in with her aunt. She, Amelia, helped him find a food that his new taste buds approve of, the food being fish fingers with custard, and he helped her fix the crack in her wall. Amelia gave him an apple with a smiley face carved into it and the Doctor went outside to his TARDIS, promising to be back in five minutes.

It was five minutes for him but twelve years for her.

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After he sent a text message to Amy and Rory, the man who, according to him, was her boyfriend, telling them to 'Duck!' he crashed the ladder of a fire truck into the window of the hospital room that the two humans and Prisoner Zero were in. It's been a long first few hours of regeneration so far and he can't help but be glad that what happened last time didn't happen this time.

The Doctor started to climb across the ladder to get inside the building. Once at the end of the long ladder, he jumped down and squatted in between Amy and Rory, putting an arm around them. "Right then. Hello! Am I late?" He stood up suddenly and faced Prisoner Zero, who was currently using the disguise of a mother and two daughters. "No," he said looking at the clock above the door, "three minutes to go. So still time."

"Time for what, Time Lord?" The mother part of Prisoner Zero asked. "The Doctor took a few steps towards the alien with a small smile on his lips.

"Take the disguise off. They'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies."

"The Atraxi will kill me this time," she told him. "If I am to die, let there be fire."

"Ha- okay. You came into this world by opening a crack in space and time. Do it again," the Time Lord said. "Just leave."

"I did not open the crack."

"Somebody did," he said, punctuating each word.

"The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they came from?" Prisoner Zero asked. "You don't, do you?" Its voice changed into one of the little girls' voice. "The Doctor and the TARDIS doesn't know. Doesn't know. Doesn't know," it sang. The Doctor glanced at the clock to see it tick up a number. "The universe is cracked, "it said, voice returning back to the mother's. "The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. And she will return."

The Doctor gave the alien a look. "'She' who?" He then remembered what the Ood said before he regenerated. 'When the Angels weep, she will return…' He'd been so busy that he had forgotten about it until now. "I was told that 'she' is going to return but who is 'she'? Nobody told me."

"Your greatest weapon against the universe." Before the Doctor was able to question what Prisoner Zero meant, all of the numbers on the clock above the door changed to zero. He, even though being extremely curious, decided to forget these words about the mysterious woman returning from somewhere. He can dwell on them later once the world was saved.