NOTE: Thank you all for reading! I hope you all enjoyed I also hope the ending isn't too abrupt...I just haven't been very good at keeping up with updating this story and I think it's time to end it. I will be writing more Doctor Who in future! You are a great crowd to write for!

Chapter Twenty

"Just hold still."

"Rory, stop fussing. I'm fine. It kinda tickles."

"Tickles? Hearts shouldn't tickle, are you dizzy, headache, how many fingers am I holding up?"

"Relax."

"How many?" Rory demanded holding up his hand.

"Three." Amy sighed.

"No! ...wait..." Rory looked at his own hand. "Yes, that's right."

"I need you to stop freaking out."

"I'm sorry, I can't do that right now. Amy, you have two hearts."

"I kinda like it." Amy chuckled. "I'm like a Time Lady now."

"It can't be healthy."

"I feel healthy, I feel better than I have in days. In fact I feel better than I have since we got here."

"I don't even understand how this happened."

"It's my fault." The Doctor admitted as he stepped through the door.

"That much I had guessed already." Rory said sourly.

The Doctor splashed across the room that still held about two feet of water. Zarin was close behind as always. Stepping up to Amy the Doctor threw his arms around her in an enthusiastic hug. After the greeting the Doctor held Amy out at arm's length and looked her over critically. Without saying anything he pressed his ear against Amy's chest before pulling back and giving her a quick scan with the sonic. Looking at it he breathed an obvious sigh of relief.

"Doctor?"

"Everything is okay, you have two heartbeats but only one heart and luckily that heart is perfectly healthy."

"What?" Rory asked. "How is that possible?"

"The second heartbeat is being caused by a temporal anomaly not a physical heart."

"A temporal anomaly? In my chest?"

"It's a time echo from the time loop. It will dissipate given a little time."

"Can we go back to the part where you explain why there was a time loop in my chest to begin with?"

"Zarin put it there to save your life after you drown getting to Leviathan, and then I tweaked it, but you still needed a new heart so I had the Loom craft one." The Doctor explained casually. "None of that is important now."

"Uh, I think that it is. I want to hear more about the fact that I drowned."

"Ask Rory, he can explain it all to you."

Amy turned an angry 'you-knew-about-this?' glare on Rory who smiled sheepishly at her. While Rory and Amy had a somewhat heated conversation the Doctor pulled Zarin to the side. Zarin looked nervously at Amy as the Doctor lead him away.

"Is Amy truly okay?" Zarin whispered.

"Of course she is. Why wouldn't she be?"

"Doctor, you have told her in the past that she is fine when she has been on the brink of sudden death."

"Good point.''

"Keeping track of all your lies must be difficult."

"It can be." The Doctor nodded. "But in this case Amy really is safe. Unfortunately the salt water has ruined the Loom."

"If Amy is saved then we have no use for the Loom."

"I was going to try and use it to reverse your genetic affection for Time Lords."

"That would not have worked, Doctor."

"Why not?"

"Two reasons, the first being that my people would never agree to have their love of the Time Lords taken from them."

"And the second?"

"Since meeting you our love, my love in particular, for Time Lords runs far deeper than mere genetics."

The Doctor chuckled and drew Zarin into warm embrace. Zarin returned the affection enthusiastically. Amy and Rory came over and joined the pair. Rory had managed to be granted forgiveness and had his arm over Amy's shoulders. Soaked to the skin just like everyone else Amy shivered slightly.

"So what do we do now?" Amy asked.

"I vote we go home." Rory offered.

"I will run you two home quick, but I still have quite a bit of work left to do here. The city is saved, but her people aren't."

"We will be just fine, Doctor. You have shown us the Time Lords weren't gods, we will miss you terribly, but it will not be the same kind of loneliness that it was before."

"You aren't going to have time to be lonely, Zarin." The Doctor smiled mischievously. "The Leviathans are going to have a far too important task on their minds for anything like that."

"What task is that?"

"Being parents."

"You can reverse our sterility?" Zarin asked hopefully.

"I will find a way." The Doctor promised. "A place as full of wonder as Leviathan needs children."

"But...we wouldn't even know where to being on how to raise children."

"No one gets an instruction manual, but they tend to figure it out anyway." The Doctor assured. "I know your people feel that they need to keep this city for the Time Lords, but that is no longer true."

"It has been an honour to protect this city, Doctor."

"And I thank you for it, it has been a joy beyond words to see a piece of Gallifrey again. However, tt's time to stop just maintaining Leviathan as a museum, it's time to make it a home."

"Will you help us?"

"Of course."

"Then perhaps one day you too could call Leviathan home."

"I would like that."