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"Speaking Gallifreyian"

'Telepathic communication'

A/N: Hi everyone, sorry for the long wait but here it is the start of the next book I hope you enjoy it! :D

It had been a few weeks since we had restored one Kazran Sardick's faith in himself and in Christmas. Which in turn helped us save not only thousands of people but our companions too from the certain death I had predicted. Now today was just a casual day on the TARDIS, no running from monsters or visiting somewhere in the past.

I'm currently minding my own, reading a book leaning against the railing. While my Bonded is whistling away, laying down on a trolley underneath the TARDIS console fixing this and altering that. Rory was just below the platform helping him out with it.

"Hey you," Amy announced herself to us, casually walking into the console room. Not having noticed her husband under the platform.

"Hey," We both replied back to her in greeting, my nose still in a copy of Little Women that I'm really engrossed in and Theta sliding out from under the console then back again.

Amy snatched the book out of my hands making me complain as she tossed it over the railing.

"Hey, I was reading that!" And pulled Theta out from the console on his trolley.

"Listen. Can we talk?" She asked obviously wanting to have a private chat with the both of us.

"Rory!" We both called out in panic to get his attention. My Bonded tried going back under the console but Amy stopped him.

"Stop. Shut up. I've just got a question, that's all," Amy tries to clam us down.

"You okay up there?" Rory asked about the commotion going on.

"Yeah, fine, no problem," Theta assured him every was perfectly fine.

"Yes, Rory everything's peachy," I tell him that there's nothing wrong a little sarcastically, giving Amy an annoyed glare.

"What are you doing?" Amy looked down at him with curiosity. Having now looked down through to the platform to see her husband down there.

"Helping the Doctor," he tells her that he was giving a hand. "It's humming. Is that okay?" Rory looks up to us wondering if the ship should be making this noise.

"Yeah, it's fine," I tell him knowing it was normal for her to do that.

"We're just entering conceptual space. Imagine a banana, or anything curved. Actually, don't. It's not curved or like a banana. Forget the banana!" Theta tried explaining, but stopped himself altogether knowing it wouldn't make sense to them.

"Er, is he helping you fly the TARDIS?" Amy asked getting rather offended that Rory was assisting him and not her.

"Detach servo-couplings two, seven and eleven, like I showed you," Theta evades her question entirely and instructs Rory instead to do something for him. I just knew how awkward he got about it every time she asked if she could fly the TARDIS.

"How come he gets to have a go? You never let me have a go," Amy starts to complain, giving my Doctor a seemingly good telling off about this marching up to where we are now standing.

"Er, Doctor, Serena don't. Seriously," Rory advises that it wouldn't be a wise decision to let her fly the TARDIS. "I let her drive my car once," he tells us.

"Yeah, to the end of the road," She recalled to him scoffing slightly.

"According to Amy, there was an unexpected house," Rory explained that it ended up with her destroying somebody's property.

"How could you not have seen the house?" I question Amy's driving skills.

"He's jealous because I passed my test first time," She commented smugly about her achievement. As Theta moved around the console.

"You cheated. You wore a skirt." Rory remembers lightly how Amy had done it.

"I didn't wear a skirt," she bit back.

"That would have worked too." Rory put back blandly whilst still concentrating on his task Theta had gave him.

"No, no, I did wear a skirt. But it was any old skirt," it starts coming back to her, that she did wear one.

"Have you seen Amy drive, Doctor? Serena?" Rory asked us, as I now started giving my Bonded a hand with the TARDIS.

"No," we both shouted out in reply not really bothered at this point anymore, as I checked something over on a console panel behind the time rota.

"Neither did her driving examiner," he told us as a matter of fact.

"Actually, it was this one. It was this skirt." Amy remembers it was the exact item of clothing she's wearing now when having done her driving test.

In that very moment after she had spoken the TARDIS tilted violently, before plunging us into darkness. I had grabbed onto Theta thankfully enough to stop myself falling over.

"What was that?" Amy asked with worry looking over to us both.

"He dropped the thermo-couplings," I pointed to the very man who's beneath our feet that's caused this.

"Rory? You haven't have you?" Theta looked down through the platform to Rory in disappointment.

"Sorry," he apologised sincerely.

But my Bonded voiced his aggravation balling his fists up tightly. "Argh!" And goes on complaining to Rory about the mistake he's made. "How did you do that? I told you, don't drop them. I specifically mentioned not dropping."

Amy in that instant takes the blame for her husband dropping the couplings. "It was my fault."

"Of course it wasn't your fault." Theta tells her it isn't her doing that Rory had dropped the cables. When in actual fact it was especially since she was wearing such a short skirt and the floor was see-through.

"Yes it is actually," I corrected him that it was Amy's fault that made this happen.

"It kind of was her fault." Rory agreed with me on it.

"How could it be her fault?" He questioned how us being put into this current situation was Amy's doing.

"Because it was my skirt and my husband and your glass floor," she now moodily explained that this was her fault and partly the TARDIS as well.

"Oh, Rory." Theta now understanding looked down at him with disbelief.

"Yes, Rory Pond shame on you," I tell him off shaking my head.

"Sorry," he apologised.

"Well, we've landed," I now confirmed checking the monitor.

"Emergency materialisation. Should be fine. Should have dropped off in the safest spot available," Theta explained putting the power back online bringing us out of the darkness.

I now noticed something wasn't right, as I tapped my Bonded's shoulder pointing over to the bottom of the stairs. 'Now that's not right is it.'

'No Serena it isn't.' As we both approached the railing looking at the duplicate TARDIS standing before us. Amy and Rory come over to join us having probably noticed it now as well.

"Doctor, Serena what's happened?" Amy asked looking at the box rather confused.

"Safest spot available. The TARDIS has materialised inside itself." Theta explained what's happened.

"Is that supposed to happen?" Rory asked if this was normal. Well of course it wasn't this was his fault!

"Take a wild guess Rory." I put to him glaring in his direction, hands on my hips.

"No?" He asked me in return gulping nervously from my gaze.

"That's the one." Theta put to Rory that he was in fact correct, as he took my hand leading me down the steps to the other TARDIS. He now reached out placing his hand upon the surface the other still holding mine.

"What are you doing?" Amy questions our odd behaviour, as I now do the same placing my spare hand on the wood.

'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' He asked through the link wondering if I'm just as curious. Looking to me from the corner of his eye.

'Oh, I am.' I put back rather intrigued to find out, looking over to him.

"Absolutely no idea," we both answered together stepping into the other TARDIS. We coming back into the console room where we had been previously, the Ponds still in the very same place they had stood.

"Okay, that is a bit weird." Amy comments that it's rather creepy. As Theta and I stuck our arms out through the door, waving to them through the new TARDIS.

But Rory seemed to find the funny side of this. "That is actually pretty cool."

We both go through the door coming out of the newish TARDIS. "I'm glad you're entertained, Rory, now that we're stuck here for all eternity at least you won't be bored." My Bonded comments that this was no laughing matter.

"Wait, what, we're stuck?" Amy asks rather shocked and confused to hear that we're trapped.

"The inside of the TARDIS is now joined to the outside of the TARDIS. Worse than a time loop, a space loop. Nothing can enter or leave this ship ever again." I tried explaining to her as simply as I could.

Only then did it get more confusing for us all when another Amy came through the doors of the new TARDIS.

"Okay, kids. This is where it gets complicated."