A/N: Hello everyone! Landing here. If you're new here, welcome, or if you're one of the patient people who has waited for MONTHS for this bloody story to finally be pulled out of its hiatus… WELCOME BACK! I know its been too long, but thank you to everyone whose favourited and followed this story while its been on Hiatus, hell even people have been following me personally. It still surprises me that people manage to find this story.
Just as a heads up there will not be a defined posting schedule. Before this story was updated every Sunday without fail but I think that this idea was a bit stressful for me since I felt like my writing suffered because I was just pumping them out without much thought of certain plot ideas… but I will aim for it to be posted on the weekend 'cause it works for me and hopefully it gives y'all the freedom to read in a bulk.
The rest of the chapters will remain on here until they are updated, so at least you can read the other five chapters. I'll stop rambling now and we can get on with the rewritten chapter.
I'd advise you to read Breaking the Rule before this one, but I think you could get the general gist of the relationship between Daniel and the Doctor just by reading this. The story is told from Daniel and the Doctor's joint point of view so they won't know all the facts that we did when we watched the show, so there will be scenes missing from the chapters if they get separated from Amy and Rory.
Important: This will be an M/M Fanfic so if you don't like it then please click out and find something else.
For reference Daniel now stands at head height with the Eleventh Doctor and has light brown hair, blue eyes and doesn't really have a set outfit unlike the Doctor, but he is still wearing his clothes from the End of Time. I image him to look like Grant Gustin.
~DW~ means a scene break
~DW~ means flashback
Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, all right go to the BBC, but I do own any and all original characters. If I did then Rory would have been treated better in this series because Amy really doesn't deserve Rory.
Changes and Discoveries – Eleventh Hour
~DW~
The TARDIS was crashing over London. The console was sparking with certain parts of the interior engulfed in flames, unable to repair herself after the brutal regeneration of the Doctor. Daniel was running frantically around the console as barely visible lights began to flash under or above certain levers or buttons. While he knew how to pilot the TARDIS, Daniel Young was more used to a relaxed environment… not when the ship and it's core pilot were still reeling from what had happened only moments ago, thankfully the ship was doing the best she could do to help the human. "Doctor!" he yelled over the noise of the TARDIS, wincing as a wall panel behind him fell to the ground, "I need some help!"
The Doctor; still dressed in his previous incarnations clothes though now burnt and raggedy, jumped into action… or he would have if the TARDIS hadn't been rocked by an explosion from directly under the console, sending him tumbling out of the doors! Daniel had been quick to react, grabbing onto the TARDIS with a tight grip, but had yet to notice the Time Lords situation.
The Doctor began to pull himself into the TARDIS, the sonic in his mouth, but paused in his actions when he heard the sound of a bell… it was Big Ben and he heading straight for it. Using the sonic on the controls, the console sparked and Daniel retracted his hand from a lever, glancing down at the raw red skin of his palm. The TARDIS sped up, lifting itself as the Doctor let out a sigh of relief as the spire of Big Ben barely missed his new parts.
He pulled himself inside, closing the doors behind him and fell against them. He looked over at Daniel, who continued to run around the console like a mad man, and smiled. The smile faded quickly when the TARDIS lurched to the side and began to spin out of control. Daniel closed his eyes and prepared himself to be thrown against the metal fence behind him but a pair of hands braced his hips, the Doctor pushing them closer to the console. "We're crashing!" the Doctor yelled, leaning back so he wasn't yelling directly into Daniel's ear.
The Doctor looked into the rotor and immediately caught the unamused look from Daniel in the reflection. "Oh really!" he deadpanned, adjusting his grip on the console, "what gave you that idea?!" he pulled the lever in front of him, hoping that would stop the TARDIS from throwing them around… or so he thought.
~DW~
The TARDIS had crash landed on her back, atop a shed, in the back garden of a small house. Even with the doors shut, the young red haired girl who had gone to investigate could hear the sound of the Doctor and Daniel squabbling as they climbed up from the library… or was it the swimming pool? Daniel wasn't too sure anymore. It seemed that during their fall through the TARDIS, the ship had quickly reconfigured herself to ensure that her pilots would come to a somewhat safe landing without killing the two men.
The doors of the TARDIS swung open, the steam and smoke leaving the TARDIS allowed the human inside to breath without difficulty, and the young girl watched on as a grabbling hook was blindly thrown out of it, latching onto something in the garden. After a few grunts, Daniel pulled himself up onto the box and swung his legs over so he was sitting. "Do you need a hand?" he panted out, looking down at the Doctor.
The Doctor pulled himself up and noticed the girl. "Can I have an apple? All I can think about, apples. I love apples," he grinned over at Daniel, who dropped down and looked at something in his hand; he'd have to ask him about it later, "maybe I'm having a craving. That's new, never had cravings before," he pulled himself up so he could straddle the TARDIS and looked back inside, "whoa! You should get a look at this Daniel!"
"I don't have to look, Doctor, I lived it."
"Are you ok?" the girl asked, her Scottish accent sounding strong against the normal accents of the Doctor and Daniel.
The Doctor put both his legs over the side, like Daniel had done, and looked down at the girl. "Just had a fall, all the way down there," he gestured to the TARDIS, "right to the library. Hell of a climb back up."
"You're both soaking wet." The girl frowned, looking between them.
"We were in the swimming pool."
"You said you were in the library."
"So was the swimming pool," Daniel cut in, stroking the box as the Doctor grinned down at the girl, "tried to save us from hurting ourselves any more then we already are."
The Doctor peered down at him; his grin had faded into a look concern as he glanced over Daniel to see if he could see any visible forms of harm. "Are you two policemen?" the girl asked, confused but also a little hopeful.
"Why?" Daniel looked over at the girl, trying to ignore the Doctor as he looked down at him, "did you call the police?"
"Did you come about the crack in my wall?"
This caught the Doctor's attention as he suddenly looked over at her. "What cra…" he began before falling to the ground. "Agh!"
"Doctor!" Daniel exclaimed, rushing over to his side.
"Are you alright, mister?" the girl asked, concerned for the madman who had just crawled out of the police box.
"No, I'm fine," he pushing himself up so he was kneeling, Daniel holding him steady, "this is perfectly norm…" as he spoke, wisps of golden energy left his mouth and they watched as it disappeared into the night sky.
"Who are you both?" the girl asked.
Daniel looked down at the Doctor's hands, seeing the energy rising from within them. "I don't know yet, Daniel would call me the Doctor but I'm still unsure," the Doctor squeezed one of Daniel's hands and turned to look him with a concerned look, "does it scare you?"
"No, it just looks a bit weird." The girl instead replied, not understanding that the question had been directed at Daniel.
The Doctor turned to face the girl, letting go of Daniel's hand, as he focused his attention on the girl… there would be a time later to ask Daniel how he was, "the crack in your wall… does it scare you?"
"Yes."
The Doctor jumped up, pulling Daniel along with him. "Well, then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor and this is Daniel Young. Do everything we tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't' wonder off." The Doctor told her, striding away with purpose, leaving Daniel to stand then in a state of shock, before he walked into a tree and fell to the ground.
"You alright?" the girl asked again, moving to stand next to Daniel.
"Early days, steering's a bit off." The Doctor replied from the floor, rubbing his forehead.
Then girl then turned to Daniel, who she could see was looking down at his hand in a mixture of confusion and… fear? She wasn't too sure, grownups often made strange faces in strange situations. "Are you alright?"
Daniel looked down at the girl and almost didn't reply. No he wasn't alright, but there was a time and a place to think about it. "Yeah," he lied, walking over to help the Doctor up. "Just been a rough day."
~DW~
The girl had taken the two men into her house, Daniel had been relatively silent and stood just off to the side, making an effort to try and figure out a way to stop the damp clothes stick to him… and to try and ignore the way the Doctor was watching him. But the Doctor wondered if he'd done something wrong.
He knew how much regeneration affected both himself and those around him. Rose had told him how much the regeneration had affected her after Satellite Five, told him how guilty she had felt by forcing him to take the vortex out of her and how frantic she had been to get him back afterwards, and again when he had to regenerate after being shot by the Dalek he'd seen how Donna reacted when she had no clue as to what was happening. But Daniel knew about regeneration, he'd seen the old monitor displaying his regenerations so the box had shown him at the very least… maybe he didn't like this new body of his. He frowned to himself at that. Why did he care if Daniel liked this new body? He had very little control over his appearance, regeneration was always a gamble. These were questions he'd have to ask once the TARDIS was ready to operate and they could leave.
"If you're a doctor, why does your box say 'Police'?" the girl asked, pulling the Doctor attention away from Daniel and his thoughts, as she handed him an apple.
Taking a bite of it, he watched as Daniel walked over to the kettle and switched it on, he swore he saw the palm of one of his hands was bright pink… maybe he imagined it. His eyes widened in disgust and he spat out the piece of apple, scrunching his face up as he looked at the girl. "That's disgusting! What is that?"
"An apple." The girl told him dryly, Daniel smiled as it reminded him of the deadpan tone he often used with him… or used to use.
"Apples are rubbish. I hate apples."
"You said you loved them."
"No, no, I love yoghurt. Yoghurt's my favourite. Give me a yoghurt!" Daniel sent his a look. "Please." He quickly added at the end, smiling at Daniel as though he was a child.
The girl did as she asked, reaching into the fridge and handed him a yoghurt and grabbed a bottle of milk which she gave to Daniel. Daniel set out two cups, one with tea and one with coffee, and poured the hot water into each of them. He nodded his head in thanks to the girl, offering her a small smile.
Without a spoon, the Doctor opened the yoghurt and poured it into his mouth when Daniel wasn't looking. The girl grinned when the Doctor made a noise of content before his expression morphed back into disgust. "I hate yoghurt!" he stressed, spitting the yoghurt onto the floor. "It's just stuff with bits in."
"You said it was your favourite." The girl stressed, almost groaning at him.
"New mouth, new rules." He was about to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth when a teal towel was handed to him, he gave Daniel a quick smile as he stood up. "It's like eating after cleaning your teeth, everything's wro-agh!" in a sudden and surprising movement to them all, the Doctor's whole body convulsed and ended up smacking himself in the forehead. Despite the situation, an amused smile crossed Daniel's face as he made his way over to the Doctor, who was rubbing the spot he had smacked.
"What is it?" the girl frowned, looking at the Doctor before turning to look at Daniel. "What's wrong with him?" she assumed that he was a carer of sorts to the strange raggedy man.
Daniel let out a soft laugh and the Doctor smiled at the sound. "What's wrong with me? It's not my fault you can't give me decent food," he teased, narrowing his eyes at her playfully. "Why can't you give me decent food? You're Scottish, fry something."
With his back turned to the Doctor, Daniel shook his head. Something's never changed; he would always be rude no matter what face he wore. He set the two cups of drink in front of the Doctor, a teasing smile on his face. "You shouldn't be rose rude to her, she might be young but she's Scottish which means she just might lob a frying pan at your head." He sent to girl a wink, laughing when she began to raise a frying pan above her head as she played along with the joke.
~DW~
The girl stood before a stove and began to fry up some bacon as the Doctor used a towel to dry his hair. The cup of tea had been drunk but the coffee had been quickly poured down the drain, not that it surprised either Daniel or the girl. Thinking of Daniel, he was nowhere to be seen, but he had heard someone walk up the stairs earlier.
"Ah! Bacon!" the Doctor grinned, sitting himself at the small table and took a bite of the bacon and the girl watched with a laugh. The Doctor made a face and again spat out the food. "Bacon! That's bacon," he glared at the bacon before looking up at the girl. "Are you trying to poison me?"
~DW~
Standing in the bathroom just across from the young girl's room, who she had learnt was named Amelia, Daniel was frowning down at his hand. He'd come up here to run his burnt hand under a cold tap but now he looked at it… there was nothing. Not even a single mark that shouldn't be there, the small scars and miniscule burns that had previously been on his hand had seemingly healed. Daniel shook his head, convincing himself that they hadn't just miraculously healed and that somehow the TARDIS or even the Doctor was involved.
He probably should tell the Doctor about this but the Time Lord clearly had enough on his plate without adding his own problem on top of it.
~DW~
Once again Amelia found herself stood before the stove with a saucepan of baked beans as the Doctor watched on. "Ah, you see beans," he was still sat at the table, instantly scooping a fork full of beans when they were placed before him… only to spit them into the sink as Amelia watched on in annoyance. "Beans are evil… bad, bad beans."
~DW~
Giving up on hot food, Amelia simply spread some butter over a slice of bread. "Bread and butter, now you're talking." He grinned, taking a bite of it.
~DW~
When Daniel returned to the kitchen the scene in front of him almost reminded him of something from a comedy show. The Doctor had paused at the doorstep that went out into the garden with the plate with his bread and butter in his hand, his arm swung back as if he was going throw it like a Frisbee, and then he looked at Amelia who was sat the table with her head in her hands. "What have I missed?" Daniel asked, raising an eyebrow as he looked between the two.
The Doctor quickly spun around and hid the plate behind his back while Amelia just looked up at him with an exasperated look. "Nothing," the Doctor quickly replied, they both realised that his voice would squeak when he lied, but he cleared his throat and repeated, "Nothing."
Daniel just walked over and took the plate but left him the slices of bread. "Don't throw the plate," he sighed, passing the plate to Amelia. "I don't think she'd appreciate having to explain why there is a plate missing." He stepped back and watched as the Doctor grinned and threw the bread like it was Frisbee; they both winced as they heard a cat meow.
~DW~
With Amelia sat at the table, a glass of orange juice sat before her, she watched as Daniel rifled through the fridge in a desperate attempt to find something that would keep the Doctor calm and somewhat quiet. "How do you feel about carrots?" Daniel asked, looking over the fridge door to where the Doctor was pacing.
"Carrots? Are you insane?" the Doctor made a face and Daniel raised an eyebrow as the Doctor brushed him out of the way. "No, wait, hang on. I know what I need…" he opened the freezer door, looking for something. "Fish fingers and custard." He took both items, ignoring the disgusted look Daniel gave him.
~DW~
The Doctor sat across from Amelia, dipping a fish finger into a bowl of custard then taking a bite. Amelia was sat eating ice cream from the container while Daniel started cleaning up the mess the Doctor had left behind. Making sure that Daniel wasn't looking, the Doctor lifted the bowl of custard and drank from it. It made Amelia giggle and Daniel shook his head.
"Funny." Amelia grinned.
"Am I?" the Doctor asked. "Good. Funny's good. What's your name?"
"Amelia Pond."
"Ah, that's a brilliant name. Amelia Pond," he tested the name, drawling out her last name with a grin. "Like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?"
"No. We had to move to England. It's rubbish."
The Doctor laughed while Daniel wiped his hands with a nearby towel, a frown on his face as he looked around. "So what about your mum and dad?" Daniel asked. "Are they upstairs? Thought the Doctor would have woken them up by now."
"I don't have a mum and dad." She told them and Daniel looked down at the girl with a sad smile. "Just an aunt."
"I don't even have an aunt." the Doctor chimed in, offering the girl a smile.
"You're lucky."
"I know. So, your aunt." the Doctor looked around, almost ready to have Amelia's aunt come storming in. "Where is she?"
"She's out."
"And she left you all alone?" Daniel asked, surprised.
"I'm not scared."
"'Course you're not. You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, men fall out of a box, man eats fish custard while the other cleans up," the Doctor stated. "And look at you, just sitting there. So know what I think?"
"What?"
"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall."
~DW~
Amelia had taken them into her bedroom to show them the crack in the wall. The Doctor jumped ahead and stood at the wall, staring at it. "You've had some cowboys in here," he muttered to himself. "Not actual cowboys though that can happen."
Amelia stood in the doorway, an apple in her hand. "I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them." She handed Daniel an apple with a smiley face craved into it.
"Sounds like a wonderful mum," Daniel smiled down at her, tossing the apple into the air and catching it, placing it in his pocket. "I'll keep this for later," he turned to the Doctor, walking up beside him. "Any ideas on the crack?" he asked quietly.
"The wall is solid and crack doesn't go all the way through," Amelia stepped towards them. "So here's the thing, where's the draught coming from?" they watched as the Doctor ran the sonic screwdriver along the crack then checked the readings. "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what that crack is?"
"No." they both answered.
"It's a crack," the Doctor took Daniel's hand and guided it across the crack. "I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."
"What is it, then?" Amelia asked, Daniel just watched the Doctor closely.
"Everywhere. In everything, it's a split in the skin of the world. Two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together… right here in the wall of your bedroom," still holding Daniel's hand, the Doctor placed it against the crack. "Sometimes, you can hear…"
"A voice? Yes." She cut in.
Daniel frowned and placed his ear against the wall, hand still pressed over the crack, as he strained his ears to hear something. Closing his eyes, he blocked off everything going on around him, focusing on the faint and muffled voice. A chill ran down his back as the voice suddenly grew clear. "Prisoner Zero had escaped." Daniel repeated the message, opening his eyes to look at the Doctor.
"Prisoner Zero?" the Doctor asked, frowning.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped," Amelia repeated with a nod. "That's what I heard. What does it mean?"
Daniel stepped back from the wall, his hand falling to his side. "It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison and they've lost a prisoner," Daniel suggested, looking to the Doctor for conformation. When he nodded, he offered Amelia a smile. "Do you know what that means?"
"What?" she asked.
"You need a better wall." the Doctor joked as he moved her desk out of the way. "The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way. The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or…"
"What?" she looked at the Doctor.
"You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine," the Doctor gave Daniel a troubled look and he nodded his head in understanding, pushing Amelia behind him. "And you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?"
"Yes."
"Everything's going to be fine." Daniel assured.
It was a safety precaution, if whatever was lurking beyond the wall was dangerous they'd be able to get Amelia to safety. Both the Doctor and Daniel had an idea of the risks of blindly investigating something, but they could take care of themselves. This didn't stop Amelia from poking her head from behind him. The Doctor reached out and took Daniel's hand, squeezing softly, and with his other hand he pointed the sonic at the crack. A bright light began to shine through the crack as it widened. The Doctor and Daniel squinted, seeing what looked like jail cells on the other side.
"Prisoner Zero had escaped," a voice echoed from the crack, the Doctor took a step closer to the crack, Daniel squeezing his hand gently. "Prisoner Zero has escaped."
"Hello?" the Doctor called out. "Hello?"
A giant blue eye peered at them through the crack.
"What's that?" Amelia gasped.
A ball of light shot out from the crack, striking the Doctor's pocket. The Doctor fell against the bed and Amelia stepped out from behind Daniel just the crack quickly closed on them.
"There. You see, told you it would close," the Doctor stepped to Daniel's side, a hand on his shoulder. "Good as new."
"What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?"
"I don't think so," Daniel answered, shaking his head as he reached into the Doctor's pocket. "Whatever it was, it sent him a message," he opened the psychic paper and quickly read the message, showing it to the Doctor. "It must have been a guard or something, left you a message, 'Prisoner Zero has escaped.'"
The Doctor took the paper with a frown. "But why tell us?" he looked at the crack and then to Daniel, a look of realisation flashed over his face. "Unless…"
"Unless what?" Amelia frowned.
It took Daniel a second and she watched as his face dropped. "Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here," Daniel breathed, the same realisation flooding him as he began to look around the room. "But he couldn't have. We'd have seen him."
The Doctor ran out of the room and into the hallway outside her bedroom. "It's difficult. Brand-new mw, nothing works yet but there's something I'm missing… in the corner… of my eye." He turned slowly on the spot, facing each of the doors until he stopped at the door at the end of the corridor.
Daniel ran out after him when an echoing sound of machinery reached his ears followed by the toll of a deep bell. The TARDIS!
"Doctor! TARDIS!" Daniel called, rushing down the stairs with Amelia and the Doctor following.
They ran outside. "We've got to get back in there! The engines are phasing, it's going to burn!" the Doctor shouted.
"But… it's just a box! How can a box have engines?" Amelia questioned.
"It's not just a box," Daniel freed the grappling hook and gathered the rope. "It's a time machine."
"What, a real one? You've got a real time machine?"
"Not for much longer if we can't get her stabilised." the Doctor took the rope from Daniel and looped it through the door handles. "Five minute hop into the future should do it."
"Can I come?"
Daniel and the Doctor shared a look. "Not safe in here, not yet," the Doctor answered, linking his fingers together and Daniel used them as a booster to get him into the box. "Five minutes. Give us five minutes, I'll be right back."
Daniel had dropped down into the TARDIS and missed the small sigh that escaped the girl. "People always say that."
"Am I people?" DO I even look like people?" the Doctor questioned with a grin, squatting so he was at eye level with her. "Trust me, I'm the Doctor."
Amelia smiled and the Doctor turned, climbing onto the TARDIS. Holding onto the rope, he gave her one last smile before jumping with a shout of, "Geronimo!"
The TARDIS doors slammed shut and the TARDIS dematerialised into the night sky.
~DW~
The TARDIS rematerialised back in the same spot of Amelia's garden, this time up right, as the Doctor and Daniel stumbled out of the TARDIS, clothes held up to their noses and mouths as dark smoke poured out of the TARDIS.
"Find Amelia," Daniel coughed out, hunched over on with his hands on his knees. "I'm gonna try and stop the smoke."
With a nod the Doctor ran back to the house. "Amelia! Amelia! I worked out what it was. I know what we were missing! You've got to get out of there!" he used the sonic on the door lock and it opened after a few tries. "Amelia?" he ran up the stairs. "Amelia, are you all right? Are you there?" he went to the door that had caught his eye before and tried to open it with the sonic. "Prisoner Zero is here. Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is…" he turned and was hit in the head with a cricket bat.
~DW~
Back outside, Daniel had stepped out of the TARDIS with a respiratory mask on, his attempts of clearing the TARDIS of smoke hadn't been going well and he needed to get some oxygen. The TARDIS doors slammed shut the moment he was outside, and when he moved to tug them open he heard a very audible locking sound. "Hey!" he yelled, pulling the mask down and slamming his hand on the door. "Open up!"
~DW~
The Doctor slowly came to and as his vision cleared he saw a red haired police officer wearing a very short skirt speaking into her radio. "White male, mid-twentys, breaking and entering." she reported. "Send me some back-up, I've got him restrained." She ended the conversation and saw the Doctor was awake. "Oi, you! Sit still."
"Cricket bat." the Doctor groaned. "I'm getting cricket bat."
"You were breaking and entering."
The Doctor tired to stand but found himself handcuffed to a radiator. "Well, that's much better. Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed."
"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back-up on the way!"
"Hang on, no, wait – you're a policewoman."
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia?"
"Amelia Pond?"
"Yeah. Little Scottish girl. Where is she? We promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far, has something happened to her?"
"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time."
"How long?"
"Six months."
His eyes widened. "No, no, no! I can't be six months late! I said five minutes. I promised." the officer walked away, reaching for her radio. "What happened to her? What happened to Amelia Pond?"
She lifted the radio to her lips. "Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up, this guy knows something about Amelia Pond."
~DW~
Daniel frowned as he stepped away from the TARDIS and looked around the area. They had defiantly over shot since it'd been late into the night when they'd left Amelia now it looked like it was the middle of the day.
What surprised him was that there was a shed. He hadn't seen a shed when they had landed seconds ago, but the TARDIS had landed on something. He took a couple of steps closer to the shed, the smell of wood lacquer reached his nose. How far had they overshot?"
~DW~
"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house now." the Doctor stated.
"I live here." The officer replied.
"But you're the police."
"Yes, and this is where I live," she rolled her eyes, "you got a problem with that?!"
"How many rooms?"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"On this floor. How many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now."
"Why?"
"Because it will change your life."
"Five," she pointed to each door, "one, two, three, four, five."
"Six."
"Six?"
"Look."
"Look where?"
"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look, the corner of your eye. Look behind you."
The officer frowned but slowly turned to look at the door the Doctor had been eying. "That's… that is not possible. How's that possible?"
"There's a perception filter round the door. Sensed it the last time I was here. Should've seen it."
"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never noticed."
"The filter stops now. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding. You need to uncuff me now!"
The officer slowly began to walk down the hall towards the room. "I don't have the key. I lost it." She shrugged.
"How can you lost it?! Stay away from the door!" she kept walking. "Do not touch that door!" she put her hand on the doorknob. "Listen to me! Do not open that," she turned the knob and he groaned. "Why does no one ever listen to me? Do I have a face that nobody listens to?" she entered the room. "Again…" he frantically searched his pockets. "My screwdriver, where is it? Silver thing, blue on the end. Where did it go?"
"There's nothing here." The officer called back.
"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the whole room. What makes you think you could se it? Now, please, just get out!"
"Silver, blue at the end?"
"My screwdriver, yeah."
"It's here."
"Must of rolled under the door."
"Yeah. Must have and then it must have jumped up on the table…"
"Get out of there! Get out of there! Get out! Get out of there!" he stretched as far as he could with the handcuffs as he tried to peer into the room. "What is it? What are you doing?"
"There's nothing here, but…"
"Corner of your eye."
"What is it?"
"Don't try to see it. If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it! Do not… look."
~DW~
Daniel was about to reach out to touch the shed only to jump and turn to face the house, having heard the woman scream. "Doctor!" he yelled, racing into the house through the backdoor the Doctor had left open.
"Get out!" he heard the Doctor shout as he reached the stairs, he managed to catch a glimpse of the officer running frantically down the hall. "Give me that!" the Doctor took the sonic from her and used it on the door's lock before turning it to the handcuffs… but nothing happened. "What's the bad alien done to you?"
"Doctor!" Daniel gasped as he came up the stairs, looking at his handcuffed hand and then to the officer. "Did you need a moment to finish?" he managed to quip, the Doctor sent him an annoyed look.
The officer just looked at him with wide eyes but before she could say anything there was a loud bang from the locked door. "Will that door hold it?"
"Oh, yeah, yeah, course!" the Doctor rolled his eyes, giving her the same annoyed look he'd given Daniel. "It's an inter-dimensional multi-form from outer-space; they're all terrified of wood."
A bright light flashed around the edges of the door. "What's that? What's it doing?"
"I don't know, getting dressed?" the Doctor groaned out. "Run. Just go. You're back-up's coming, we'll be fine." The Doctor wiped a finger along the sonic, Daniel pulled a face as goo dripped from his finger.
"There is no back-up."
"I heard you on the radio." He looked up at her, surprised.
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio."
"You're a policewoman."
"I'm a kissogram!" she exclaimed, removing her hat and let down her bright ginger hair.
The door to the room fell into the hallway as a man in blue coveralls holding the lead to a large Rottweiler stood in the doorway, glaring at them. Daniel slowly stood up as he eyed them, his eyes widening when he noticed something odd.
"But it's just…" she breathed.
"No, it isn't." Daniel nodded at them. "Look closer."
Her eyes widened as she did as asked, seeing that the man growled like a dog while the dog remained impassive. "What? I'm sorry, but what?" she looked between the Doctor and Daniel, hoping for an answer.
"It's all one creature, one creature disguised as two." the Doctor explained, watching as the man and the dog turned their heads in unison, "clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though, got the voice muddled, did you?" they looked straight at them. "Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"
The multi-form began to advance on them and opened its mouth to show a set of unnaturally sharp teeth. "I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Daniel shouted, tugging the officer back slightly, the creature halted. "The three of us, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back-up."
"I didn't send for back-up!" the woman reminded.
"Well you know how to play along don't you." He rolled his eyes before focusing on the creature, correcting himself. "Okay, fine, NO back-up! And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we HAD back-up, then you'd have to kill us!"
It was as if the universe was playing some kind of cruel game with him as all of a sudden, a loud voice began to announce. "Attention, Prisoner Zero, the human residence is surrounded," they realised that the voice was the same one from the crack. "Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."
"What was that?" the woman asked Daniel, who just groaned in response.
The Doctor snickered behind him and he turned to glare down at the Time Lord. "Well I'm glad you're finding this funny!" the Doctor quickly stopped snickering and Daniel turned back to the creature for ONE final time. "Okay, for the last time. We DO have back-up and that's definitely why we're SAFE."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice threatened.
"You've got to be kidding me!"
The creature turned into one of the other rooms off the hall. As the voice continued to repeat the message, the Doctor started to bang the sonic on the floor in an attempt to get it to work. "Work! Work! Work!" C'mon!" he continued to bang the sonic until it flickered back on, and he used it on the handcuffs.
Taking Daniel's hand, the Doctor turned to the woman. "Run!" he took the lead, the woman following them close behind.
They ran outside and the Doctor used the sonic on the door. "Kissogram?" the Doctor asked her as she passed.
"Yes!" she replied, rolling her eyes.
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"
"You broke into my house! It was this or a French maid!" she followed the Doctor and Daniel as they walked to the TARDIS. "What's going on? Tell me! Tell me!"
"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house… any questions?"
"Yes!" She deadpanned.
The Doctor was about to put the key into the door of the TARDIS when Daniel stopped him. "The TARDIS won't open," he shook his head. "I think you destroyed it when you d…"
Daniel stopped himself and the Doctor frowned. They both knew what was to be said but Daniel couldn't bring himself to say it. It wasn't dying, he knew that, but to him the Doctor had been dying the moment he stepped out of that chamber and then some stranger came in to take over. In the nine months he had been travelling with the Doctor… he had never considered the man dying.
The woman turned around to look up at one of the windows that overlooked the garden, the creature stood there barking at them. "Come on." She grabbed the Doctor.
"No, wait, hang on," the Doctor let go of Daniel's hand and out of her grip. "Wait, wait, wait! The shed," he ran to the shed. "We destroyed that shed last time I was here, smashed it to pieces."
"So there's a new one," the woman shrugged. "Let's go."
"But the new one's got old; it's ten years old at least." He sniffed the wood before rubbing his finger along the wood and licked it.
"Oh please don't lick it!" Daniel groaned too late, crinkling his face in disgust.
"Twelve years," the Doctor muttered to himself, his eyes wide as he looked at the two humans. "We're not six months late, we're twelve years late." Daniel's eyes widened and the Doctor walked towards the woman.
"He's coming." She weakly tried to change the subject.
"You said six months," he accused. "Why did you say six months?"
"We've got to go."
"This matters. This is important. Why did you say six months?"
"Why did you say five minutes?!" she yelled at them, her Scottish accent bleeding through the British accent she had been using moments ago.
"What?" the Doctor's eyes widened.
"Amelia?" Daniel breathed.
Amelia shook her head, turning away from them. "Come on."
"What?" the Doctor repeated.
"Come on!" she pulled him by his arm, Daniel following behind.
"What?"
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice continued to threaten.
They ran out of the back garden, just missing the creature who stood at the back door.
~DW~
Amelia had been leading them away from her house and where on their way down a village road, when the Doctor stopped. "You're Amelia."
"You're late." She kept walking.
"Amelia Pond, you're the little girl."
"I'm Amelia and you're both late."
"What happened?" Daniel asked, feeling incredibly guilty.
"Twelve years."
"You hit me with a cricket bat." The Doctor huffed.
"Twelve years."
"A cricket bat."
"Twelve years and four psychiatrists."
"Four?" Daniel asked.
"I kept biting them."
"Why?" he almost laughed.
"They said you weren't real."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice came through the speakers of a nearby ice cream van.
"No, no, no, come on!" Amelia groaned. "What? We're being staked out by an ice cream van?"
The Doctor and Daniel headed for the van followed closely by Amelia. "What's that?" the Doctor frowned. "Why are you playing that?"
"It's supposed to be Clair De Lune." The vendor shrugged.
The Doctor picked up the radio and put it to his ear. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice repeated.
The Doctor stepped away from the van and they looked around, spotting a jogger with an MP3 player frowning at the device in confusion, then to a woman pulling her mobile away from her ear.
"What's happening?"
The Doctor turned and leapt over a low white fence into a pretty front garden while Daniel and Amelia stepped around to the front. They ran through the front door where an elderly woman was stood before the television, flicking through the channels as they all displayed the same image; a large blue eye they had seen in the crack in Amelia's wall.
"Hello!" the Doctor grinned. "Sorry to burst in, we're doing a special on television faults in this area," he glanced to Amelia's costume. "Also, crimes. Let's have a look." He took the remove from her.
"I was just about to phone," she smiled. "It's on every channel," she looked at Amelia. "Hello, Amy, dear. Are you a policewoman now?"
"Well, sometimes." She nodded.
"I thought you were a nurse."
"I can be a nurse."
"Or, actually, a nun."
"I dabble."
"Amy, who are your friends?"
"Who's Amy?" the Doctor frowned. "You were Amelia."
"Yeah, now I'm Amy." Amy replied.
"Amelia Pond," Daniel smiled at her. "That was a great name."
"Bit fairy tale."
The woman frowned as she looked between Daniel and the Doctor. "I know you two, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before."
"Not me. Brand-new face," he pulled his face but pointed to Daniel. "But you might know him, though he's from London so maybe not," he turned to Amy. "And what sort of job's a kissogram?"
"I go to parties and I kiss people," she cleared her throat when Daniel snorted. "With outfits. It's a laugh."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago."
"You're worse than my aunt."
"I'm the Doctor and he's Daniel Young, we're worse than everybody's aunt… but Daniel is worse," Daniel gaped at him before smacking him on the arm and he turned to the woman. "And that is not how we're introducing ourselves," he picked up a radio and used the sonic on it, the room hearing the voice in both French and German before turning it off. "Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world."
The Doctor opened a window and looked up at the sky. "What's up there?" Amy frowned as Daniel was pulled to the window. "What are you looking for?"
Daniel frowned as he looked up at the clear blue sky unsure what he was looking at until he realised he was looking at the sky without his eyes burning up. That wasn't good.
"Okay, planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core," the Doctor stepped away from the window as he began to ramble. "They're going to need a 40 percent fission blast."
"But they'll have to power it up first, won't they?" Daniel questioned as a young man entered the room.
Daniel couldn't help but eye the man up, the Doctor frowned as he caught Daniel eying him up. "So assuming a medium-sized starship, that's twenty minutes," the man was taller then the Doctor and he stood on his tip toes to look into his eyes, puffing his chest out slightly. "What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes."
Amy frowned as she looked between the Doctor and the man. "Twenty minutes to what?"
"Are you the Doctor?" the man looked over to Daniel. "Are you the… oh what did she call you."
"They are, aren't they?" The woman's eyes widened in recognition. "He's the Doctor and that's Daniel Young! The Raggedy Doctor and his carer," Daniel gave Amy an amused look. "All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor and his carer, it's them."
"I know." Amy whispered, almost as though she couldn't believe they were really there.
"Cartoons?" the Doctor asked, bemused, as he looked over to Daniel who gave him a small smile, lifting his eyebrows as if he agreed with his bemusement.
"Gran, it's them, isn't it?" the man asked his grandmother. "It's really him!"
"Jeff, shut up!" Amy turned to the Doctor. "Twenty minutes to what?"
"The human residence," Daniel spoke up, crossing is arms in concern. "They weren't just talking about your house… they're talking about the planet," the Doctor nodded, encouraging him to continue his hypothesis. "Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship and it's going to incinerate the planet… twenty minutes to the end of the world.
~DW~
A young boy ran down the road with a toy helicopter in hand. The Doctor, Daniel and Amy were walking fast in the opposite direction. "What is this place? Where are we?" the Doctor asked.
"Leadworth." Amy replied.
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it."
"Is there an airport?"
"No."
"A nuclear power station?"
"No." Daniel answered this time, giving the Doctor a bemused look.
"Even a little one?"
"No." Amy stressed.
"Nearest city?"
"Gloucester, half an hour by car."
"We don't have half an hour."
"Do you have a car?" Daniel asked.
"No." Amy replied.
"Well, that's good! Fantastic, that, twenty minutes to save the world," the Doctor complained. "And we've got a post office. And it's shut! WHAT is that?"
"It's a duck pond," Amy and Daniel followed the Doctor to the small pond. "Is he always this weird?" she asked Daniel.
"Don't know," he shrugged. "I've only met him… but his past self was strange."
"Why aren't there any ducks?" The Doctor asked, not hearing them.
"I don't know, there's never any ducks." Amy shrugged.
"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"
"It just is. Is it important, the duck pond?"
"I don't know," The Doctor groaned, feeling another tremor from his regeneration. "Why would I know?" he sat himself on the ground, Daniel crouching beside him with a concerned look on his face. "I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."
He placed Daniel's hand on his chest, allowing him to feel his two hearts beating as if he had been running a marathon. The Doctor watched as Daniel placed his hand onto the other of his chest, a strange smile on his face as he felt the hearts beating… almost as he realised something. Daniel hadn't noticed that he was almost within inches of the Doctor's face but the Doctor did. He smiled sadly as he thought back to how they'd been this close only hours ago, how they had just watched the Master stop the Time Lords and how they'd been so close to kissing and winning until Wilfred had knocked.
Maybe he should talk about it. Once they stopped the planet from burning and the TARDIS had repaired herself, they'd sit down in the kitchen and talk about what was going to happen in that very moment… and how he hoped they might be able to actually do it properly this time. The Doctor blinked at that thought, his face turned a light shade of red. It seemed that whatever thoughts he had suppressed in his last incarnation were starting to remerge in full force.
The sky darkened and the Doctor was thankful for the distraction.
"What's happening?" Amy gasped as she looked up. "Why's it going dark?" the sun appeared grey and actually able to be looked at before returning to its somewhat normal self. "So what's wrong with the sun?"
"Nothing, you're looking at it through a force-field," the Doctor told her, sighing in relief when his face felt like it returned to its normal colour. "They've sealed off your upper atmosphere, now they're getting ready to boil the planet," he stood up from the ground, pulling Daniel with him, as they watched as the villagers were taking photos of the sun. "Oh, and here they come, the human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone!"
"This isn't real, is it?" Amy frowned. "This is some kind of big wind-up."
"Why would we wind you up?" Daniel asked with a frown of his own.
"He told me you had a time machine."
"And you believed him."
"Then I grew up."
"Oh, you never want to do that." Daniel grinned.
He opened his mouth to say something else when a hand was pressed to his mouth. "No, hang on, wait!" The Doctor yelled, Daniel just stared at him. "I missed it. I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw," he closed his eyes as he focused. "What did I see?"
He replayed everything he had seen. Looking back a the people taking photos, a woman in a phone box and then to a man dressed in scrubs, who was facing away from the sun but instead at the Multi-Form….
… he then yelped and shook his hand, sending Daniel an annoyed look. "You bit my hand!"
"You covered my mouth!" Daniel shot back.
The Doctor rolled his eyes but turned back to Amy. "Twenty minutes. We can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns," he grinned. "Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help us."
"No." Was all she said.
"I'm sorry?"
"No!" she grabbed him by the tie and pulled him away.
"Amy! No! Daniel help! What are you doing?" she pushed him against a car as the driver stepped out, slamming his tie into the door and locked the door with a key she had taken from the driver. "Are you out of your mind?"
"Who are you?" She demanded as Daniel ran over.
"You know who we are."
"No, really, who are you?"
"As much as you deserve an answer," Daniel cut in gently. "We have twenty minutes to save the world and this isn't going to help anyone."
"You'd better talk quickly, then!"
"Amy, I am going to need my car back." The owner of the car said, looking between the three of them in confusion.
"Yes, in a bit," she waved him off. "Now go and have a coffee."
"Right… yes." The driver walked off.
Daniel reached into his pocket and tossed it to her. "Catch."
Amy turned the apple in her hand, looking at the smiley face carved into it.
"He's Daniel Young and I'm the Doctor," the Doctor began. "We're time travellers. Everything we told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go now, everything you've ever known is over."
"I don't believe you."
The Doctor grabbed her wrist. "Just twenty minutes. Don't believe me that's fine but believe him," he nodded to Daniel. "Fresh as the day you gave it to him and you know it's the same one," she glanced down at the apple then back to him. "Amy, believe for twenty minutes."
Amy hesitated before unlocking the car. "What do we do?"
"Stop that nurse!" he shouted, running across the green with Daniel and Amy in tow, and took the phone from the nurse. "The sun's going out, and you're photographing a man and a dog. Why?"
"Amy?" He turned to her.
"Hi!" She smiled. "Oh, this is Rory, he's a… friend."
"Boyfriend."
"Kind of boyfriend."
"Amy!"
"Man and dog, why?" The Doctor cut in, looking between them.
"Oh, my god, it's them!" Rory's eyes widened as he looked between Daniel and the Doctor.
"Just answer his questions, please." Amy pleaded, seeing Daniel giving her an amused look.
"It's them, though. The Doctor. The Raggedy Doctor and his carer…"
"Yeah, they came back."
"But they were a story. They were a game."
"Man and dog," the Doctor grabbed Rory by the shirt, frustrated. "Why? Tell me now."
"Sorry," Rory stuttered. "Because he can't be there. Because he's…"
"In a hospital, in a coma." Rory and the Doctor finished at the same time.
"Yeah." Rory eyed him.
"Knew it. Multi-form, you see?" the Doctor let go of Rory's shirt and smoothed it out. "Disguise itself as anything, but it needs a live feed, a psychic link with a living but dormant mind."
The Multi-form snapped and snarled as Daniel stepped towards the creature, the Doctor following close behind. "Prisoner Zero." Daniel called to the creature.
"What, there's a Prisoner Zero too?" Rory gawked.
"Yes." Amy nodded.
There was an electrical buzzing and they looked up to see a spaceship fly over the green, an eye sticking out of it as it swivelled back and forth.
"See, that ship up there is scanning this area for non-terrestrial technology," the Doctor slipped the sonic out of his pocket. "And nothing says non-terrestrial like a sonic screwdriver," he lifted it above his head and turned it on. It was chaos as streetlights shattered, car alarms going off, sirens wailing as everyone began to shout. "I think someone's going to notice, don't you?"
Prisoner Zero barked at them. The Doctor lowered the sonic, aiming it at a phone box, which exploded. The sonic itself then sparked and fizzled, causing the Doctor to drop it on the ground. "No, no, no, don't do that!" the Doctor smacked the sonic against the palm of his hand.
The ship headed away from them.
"Look, its going." Rory frowned.
"No, come back, he's here!" the Doctor called up at the ship, Daniel shaking his head. "Come back! He's here, Prisoner Zero is here. Come back, he's here! Prisoner Zero…"
Prisoner Zero turned into a mist and escaped down a drain.
"Doctor!" Amy called to them. "The drain. It just sort of melted and went down the drain."
"Well, of course it did." He sighed.
"What do we do now?"
"It's hiding in human form. We need to drive it into the open." Daniel offered, crossing his arms.
"No TARDIS, no screwdriver," the Doctor ran a hand through his face. "Seventeen minutes. Come on, think. Think!"
"So that thing," Amy glanced to the drain. "THAT hid in my house for twelve years?"
"Multi-forms can live for millennia," the Doctor explained. "Twelve years is a pit-stop."
"So how come you two show up again on the same day you lot do? The same minute?"
"They're looking for him, but followed us. They saw us through the crack, got a fix. They're only late cos I am."
"What's he on about?" Rory frowned.
"Now, sport, give me your phone." The Doctor turned to him, holding his hand out.
"How can they be real? They were never real."
"Phone, now, give me!"
Rory handed the Doctor the phone. "They were just a game. We were kids. You made me dress up as the Doctor."
"These are all coma patients?" Daniel asked, watching as the Doctor swiped through the pictures.
"Yeah."
"No, they're all the multi-form. Eight comas, eight disguises for Prisoner Zero." The Doctor corrected.
"He had a dog, though," Amy frowned. "There's a dog in a coma?"
"The coma patient dreams he's walking a dog, Prisoner Zero gets a dog," the Doctor looked up suddenly. "Laptop! Your friend, what was his name? Not him, the good-looking one."
"Thanks." Rory rolled his eyes.
"Jeff." Daniel said, face flushing when Amy and the Doctor stared at him.
"Oh, thanks."
"He had a laptop in his bag, a laptop. Big bag, big laptop, I need Jeff's laptop. You two, get to the hospital, get everyone out, clear the whole floor. Phone us when you're done."
The Doctor took Daniel by the hand and began to head off, only for Daniel to stop. "You go to Jeff's."
"What? Why?" the Doctor frowned.
"Prisoner Zero is a criminal for a reason, I can't let Amy and Rory deal with it alone," he turned to look at Amy and Rory. "You can handle Jeff and I'll help clear the hospital."
The Doctor hesitated, his mind racing for any reason for him to have Daniel come with him. He'd caught him eying Jeff so he could suggest that Jeff had been eying him in return, but with his sudden strong feelings for Daniel something within him didn't want to risk Jeff actually taking a liking to Daniel. He looked over to Amy and Rory as they quickly walked over to a car and then to Daniel, who just gave the Doctor a reassuring smile. Damn that smile!
"Fine," the Doctor huffed. "But you call me if there's any trouble."
And with that, Daniel turned and ran to join Amy and Rory.
The Doctor ran into Jeff's bedroom, the man lying on the bed with his laptop on his lap. "Hello. Laptop, give me!" he grabbed the laptop.
"No, no, no, no, wait, hang on!" Jeff refused, holding onto the laptop.
"It's fine, give it here," the Doctor took the laptop and sat at the bottom of the bed, pulling a face as he saw what was on the screen. "Blimey! Get a girlfriend, Jeff."
Jeff looked away, embarrassed, as the door to his bedroom opened and his grandmother stepped in. "Gran!" he cried, wondering if anyone else could walk in.
"What are you doing?" She asked the Doctor.
"The sun's gone wibbly," the Doctor began. "So right now, somewhere out there, there's going to be a big conference call," he began to type. "All the experts in the world panicking at once, and do you know what they need? Me. Ah, and here they all are. All the big boys. NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore."
"Oh, I like Patrick Moore." Jeff's gran cut in with a smile.
"I'll get you his number, but watch him, he's a devil."
"You can't just hack in on a call like that!" Jeff exclaimed.
"Can't I?" he smirked as he held up the psychic paper to the webcam.
"Who are you?" One of the experts asked. "This is a secure call. What are you doing?"
"Hello. I know, you should switch me off," the Doctor began to type again. "But before you do, watch this."
"I'm here too," Another expert said, watching as a string of equations appeared on a monitor before them. "I'm getting it."
"Fermat's Theorem, the proof, and I mean the real one, never seen before. Poor old Fermat, got killed in a duel before he could write it down. My fault, I slept in. Oh, here's an oldie but a goodie, why electrons have mass. And a personal favourite of mine, faster-than-light travel with two diagrams and a joke. Look at your screens. Whoever I am, I'm a genius. Look at the sun. You need all the help you can get… fellas, pay attention."
The Doctor leant back from the laptop and looked around the room, as if looking for someone, before pouting slightly. All that showing off had been for nothing.
~DW~
Daniel, Amy and Rory quickly got out the car and ran into the hospital. Daniel pulling the fire alarm.
~DW~
The Doctor was typing something on Rory's mobile. "Sir, what are you doing?" An expert asked.
"I'm writing a computer virus. Very clever, super fast, and a tiny bit alive, but don't let on," the Doctor explained. "Why am I writing it on a phone? Never mind, you'll find out. Okay, I'm sending this to all your computers. Get everyone who works for you sending this everywhere. Email, text, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, radar dish, whatever you've got. Any questions?"
"Who was your lady friend?" Patrick Moore asked.
"Patrick, behave!"
"What does the virus do?" An expert asked.
"It's a reset command, that's all," the Doctor assured them. "It resets counters, it gets in the wifi and resets every counter it can find. Clocks, calendars, anything with a chip will default at zero ay exactly the same time. But, yeah, I could be lying, why should you trust me? I'll let my best man explain," the room was silent and the Doctor turned to look at Jeff. "Jeff, you're my best man."
"Your what?" Jeff asked, wide eyed.
The Doctor closed the laptop part way. "Listen to me. In ten minutes, you're going to be a legend. In ten minutes, everyone on that screen is going to be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff. Right here, right now. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world."
"Why me?"
"It's your bedroom," the Doctor shrugged. "Now go, go, go."
The Doctor left the room and Jeff opened the laptop. "Okay, guys, let's do this."
"Oh," the Doctor stepped back into the room. "And delete your internet history."
And with that, he left.
~DW~
Rory had stepped away from Amy and Daniel as he spoke to one of the other nurses, telling them the half lie they'd come up with in the ride to the hospital, while Daniel was adding Rory's number to his phone. "Is there something on my face?" Daniel suddenly asked, not looking up from the phone.
Amy looked away sharply, face flushed as she'd been caught staring at him, but asked the question. "Can we trust the Doctor?" Daniel looked at her in confusion. "It's just… you said you didn't know if he was weird and that you've only just met him."
Daniel let out a sigh, trying to figure out a way to explain himself to her. "We've been through a lot before we met you Amy, and I can't tell you everything," it was Amy's turn to give him a questioning look. "But before we crashed in your garden, the Doctor I knew was gone… sacrificed himself to save one person," he smiled sadly, thinking back. "the Doctor can do this thing when he changes…"
Rory stepped over to them, unknowingly cutting Daniel off. "Something's happened up there," he informed them. "We can't get through."
"Yes, but what happened?" Amy asked, turning to look at him.
"I don't know, no one knows," Rory turned to Daniel. "Have you phoned him yet?"
"I'm phoning him now," Daniel held the phone to his ear. "Doctor? We're at the hospitqal, but we can't get through… what?"
"What did he say?"
"Look in the mirror."
The frowned but turned to look in the nearby mirror, Amy's eyes widened as she realised what he meant. "Ha-ha! Uniform!" she began to put her hair back up into a bun.
"Couldn't you have just told me about Amy's uniform?" Daniel rolled his eyes, watching as Amy walked up to the nurses and began to tell them she was an officer sent to investigate. "Are you on your way? You're going to need a car."
~DW~
"Don't worry," the Doctor told him as he drove towards the hospital. "I've commandeered a vehicle."
He hung up the phone, grinning as he turned on the sirens to the fire engine he was driving.
~DW~
The trio of humans stepped out of a lift and saw the corridors were a mess; gurneys and tables had been overturned, scrubs and utensils littered the floor. Daniel quickly pulled a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulling out the pin as Amy and Rory gave him questioning looks. "What?" he shrugged. "Prisoner Zero is a prisoner for something and I'm sure it's not for dodging his taxes."
A woman holding the hands of two young girls, presumably her daughters, ran around the corner. "Officer." The woman breathed in relief.
"What happened?" Amy asked, getting into character.
"There was a man. A man with a dog," the woman began to tell them, her voice thick with emotion. "I think doctor Ramsden's dead and the nurses."
Daniel handed Amy the phone and she quickly began to call the Doctor. Daniel tensed as a sudden sense of… danger washed over him; he shook his head as he blamed the nerves getting to him.
"Are you in?" the Doctor asked into the phone.
"Yep," Amy replied. "But so's Prisoner Zero."
"You need to get out of there."
The feeling grow stronger every second, his heart pounding and his grip around the extinguisher. He found himself turning away from Amy to the woman, his eyes widening as the woman began to speak… but her mouth wasn't moving. His eyes moved from her to one of the children. "He was so angry, he kept shouting. And that dog, the size of that dog, I swear it was rabid," Daniel slowly reached behind him and swatted Amy and Rory, never taking his eyes off the creature. "And he just went mad, attacking everyone. Where did he go, did you see him? Has he gone? We hid in the ladies."
Amy and Rory's eyes widened as they looked at the woman… no, Prisoner Zero "Oh, I'm getting it wrong again, aren't I?" the creature asked, smirking at the looks of fear on their faces. "I'm always doing that, so many mouths." The creature hissed as the woman and children's mouths opened to reveal the same set of teeth that Amy and Daniel had seen in the house.
"Oh, my god!" Rory gasped.
Prisoner Zero moved to advance when Daniel aimed the funnel in its face, spraying the creature. "Run!"
"Daniel!" the Doctor yelled into the phone, having heard his cry. "Daniel, what's happening?" they ran down the corridor and into of the wards, closing the doors and Amy quickly slid a broom through the handles. "Daniel! Amy! Someone talk to me!"
They slowly backed away from the doors and into the center of the ward, Daniel stood ahead of them as he continued to aim the extinguisher at the doors, Amy held the phone up. "We're in the coma ward, but its here. It's getting in."
"Which window are you?"
"What? Sorry?"
"Which window?"
Amy quickly ran to the window, looking out of it. "First floor on the left, fourth from the end."
The broom snapped and Prisoner Zero, still using the family as its from, entered the room, glaring at Daniel briefly, but turned its attention to Amy. "Oh dear little Amelia Pond, I've watched you grow up," the creature smirked. "Twelve years, and you never knew I was there. Little Amelia Pond, waiting for her magic Doctor to return… but not this time, Amelia."
Prisoner Zero opened its mouth once more and Daniel sprayed the foam at it again, glaring at it as it spat out the foam. "Oh do yourself a favour and stop making yourself such an easy target."
Daniel's phone beeped and Amy looked down at it, seeing a text from the Doctor saying 'duck'. Daniel stopped the extinguisher and they all could hear the wail of a siren getting closer, Amy pushed Rory down just as a ladder from the fire engine broke through the window. The Doctor climbed up the ladder and joined Amy and Rory in a crouch. "Right! Hello! Am I late?" He asked, smiling at them, "no, three minutes to go. So still time."
"Time for what, Time Lord?" the creature asked, glaring at Daniel when he held up the extinguisher again.
"Have you been spraying her?"
Daniel smiled. "Only when the mouth is open, which happens a lot." He sent a pointed look to the creature.
"You're brilliant, you know that."
"Well, I do try." they turned back to Prisoner Zero.
"Take off the disguise, they'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies."
"The Atraxi will kill me this time," Prisoner Zero rolled its eyes, "if I am to die, let there be fire."
Daniel frowned. "But you came into this world by opening a crack in space and time," he tried to suggest, remembering the Doctor's analysis earlier, "Do it again, just leave."
"I did not open the crack."
"Well somebody did."
"The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they cam from?" it smirked upon seeing their confused looks. "You don't know, do you?" Prisoner Zero's voice changed into that of a little girl, taunting them. "The Doctor and the Phoenix in the TARDIS don't know. Don't know, don't know," its voice changed to the woman again. "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open and the Phoenix will rise just as Silence falls."
Daniel tensed and the Doctor reached out and took his hand, squeezing it in comfort. There it was again, Phoenix, he was being called Phoenix once again by someone other then Carmen or the Ood… he had brushed it off, almost laughing at the prophecy they had said about him, but now with the fact they had both correctly predicted that the Doctor would regenerate for someone who knocked four times… did it mean his prophecy would come true?
There was a clicking sound that drew Daniel away from his fear and he looked up at the wall behind prisoner Zero. "And we're off! Look at that," the Doctor pointed, "look at that!" the clock on the wall now read 0, "yeah, I know, just a clock, whatever. But you do know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out… and do you know what that word is?"
"Zero." Daniel breathed, grinning.
"Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able track a simple old computer virus to its source, in, what, under a minute?" he took Rory's phone out of his pocket, "the source, by the way, is right here," a bright light shined through the window, "oh! And I think they just found us!"
"The Atraxi are limited," Prisoner Zero shrugged, "while I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me."
"Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favourite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Oh, and being uploaded about now," he scrolled through the images and sent them through the virus, "and the final score is, no TARDIS, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare," the Doctor held is arms out, successful. "Who da man?" he was greeted by silence, he turned to Daniel.
Daniel shook his head, a wide smile on his face. "Never say that again."
"Then I shall take on a new form." Prisoner Zero interrupted.
"Oh, stop it, you know you can't. Takes months to form that kind of psychic link."
"And I've had years." The woman and her children began to glow.
Daniel's eyes widened as he turned to look at Amy, realising what Prisoner Zero had said. "Amy!" Daniel yelled, watching as she collapsed to the floor.
The Doctor and Daniel rushed to her side. "You've got to hold on, Amy!" the Doctor pleaded, putting his hands on Amy's face. "Don't sleep! You've got to stay awake, please."
"Guys?" Rory cut in, looking at something behind them.
They turned their attention to where Prisoner Zero stood; now taking the form of the Doctor. "Well, that's rubbish," the Doctor huffed. "Whose that supposed to be?"
"That's you." Both Daniel and Rory informed him, the latter frowned at him in confusion.
"Me? Is that what I look like?"
"You don't know?" Rory asked.
"Busy day, why me, though?" the Doctor stood, facing Prisoner Zero. "You're linked with her. Why are you copying me?"
"I'm not," a familiar Scottish accent spoke from behind the copy of the Doctor, as the young Amelia Pond stepped out. "Poor Amy Pond… still such a child inside," Prisoner Zero rolled its eyes. "Dreaming of the magic Doctor she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been."
"No, she's dreaming about me cos she can hear me," the Doctor realised, rushing back to Amy, "Amy, don't just hear me, listen. Remember the room, the room in your house you couldn't see? Remember you went inside, I tried to stop you, but you did," he said to her. "You went in the room. You went inside. Amy… dream about what you saw."
"No… no… No!" Amelia began to glow and transform into an eel like creature covered in goo, its original form.
"Well done, Prisoner Zero," the Doctor called to the creature, smirking. "A perfect impersonation of yourself."
Prisoner Zero was then caught in a light and began to writhe. "Prisoner Zero is located," the Atraxi called, "Prisoner Zero is restrained."
"Silence, Doctor," Prisoner Zero began to fade away. "Silence will fall and the Phoenix will rise."
There was a whoosh of air as the ship began to leave. The Doctor ran to the window and dialled something into the phone.
"The sun, it's back to normal, right?" Rory questioned, "that's… that's good, yeah? That means it's over," Amy began to wake, "Amy? Are you okay? Are you with us?"
"What happened?" Amy pushed herself up, holding her head.
"They did it. The Doctor and Daniel did it."
"Yeah we did," Daniel said to them, getting off the floor and walking over to the Doctor, asking him quietly. "What are you doing?"
"Tracking the signal back," the Doctor smiled at him, before looking at Rory. "Sorry in advance."
"About what?" Rory asked.
"The bill," the Doctor lifted the phone to his ear, "oi, I didn't say you could go! Article 57 of the Shadow Proclamation. This is a fully established, level 5 planet, and you were going to burn it? Did you think no one was watching? You lot, back here. Now!" he tossed the phone to Rory, "okay, now I've done it."
They turned and left, leaving Amy and Rory staring at them in shock.
"Did he just bring them back?" Rory gaped, "did he just save the world from aliens and then bring the aliens back again?"
The Doctor strode down the corridor, determined, while Daniel followed closely behind. Amy and Rory followed close behind. "Where are you going?" Amy asked them.
"The roof, no," the Doctor turned and entered a room, "Hang on."
The Doctor began to sift through clothes, holding up clothes to his chest before throwing them away. Daniel just shook his head. "What's in here?" Amy frowned at the Doctor.
"I've saved the world," the Doctor shrugged, "I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show!"
"You just summoned aliens back to Earth. Actual aliens," Rory questioned him, "deadly aliens, aliens of death," the Doctor began to strip off his tattered clothes, "and now you're taking your clothes off… Amy, he's taking his clothes off."
"Turn your back if it embarrasses you."
"Are you stealing clothes now? Those clothes belong to people, you know," Rory turned his back and looked at Amy, "are you not going to turn your back?"
"Nope." Amy replied, smirking slightly as she began to watch him strip…
… until she felt hands on her shoulders, spinning her so she too was looking away. "Need I remind you Amy," Daniel whispered into her ear, as he faced away too. "That your boyfriend is beside you, so I'd advice that if you want to watch someone strip… it'd be him."
Amy just rolled her eyes, crossing her arms with a slight huff. They missed the Doctor turning back to look at Daniel with a smile before he returned to changing.
~DW~
They stood on the roof of the hospital, the Doctor now wearing a pink long sleeved shirt, black trousers with braces, boots and a number of ties draped around his neck. Daniel stood close behind, holding a tweed jacket in his arms… he had given the Doctor an odd look for the choice of clothing.
Together they strode across the roof to where the Atraxi ship was waiting for the Doctor. Amy and Rory stood back a bit.
"So this was a good idea, was it?" Amy called to them. "They were leaving."
"Leaving is good." Daniel agreed. "But never coming back is better."
"Come on, then!" the Doctor shouted up at the ship. "The Doctor will see you now."
The eye disconnected from the ship and scanned the Doctor, Daniel having taken a step to the side. "You are not of this world."
"No, but I've put a lot of work into it." He turned to Daniel and held up a tie. "I don't know. What do you think?"
Daniel titled his head to the side and eyed it and then the outfit, shaking his head. The Doctor tossed the tie over his shoulder, Rory leant down to pick it up.
"Is this world important?" the Atraxi asked.
Daniel scoffed; an offended look crossed his face. "Important? What is that supposed to mean?" Daniel gave the Atraxi an unimpressed look. "This planet is filled with a multitude of different species with progressive civilizations and you have the nerve to ask is it important?"
"Here's better question." the Doctor also gave the eye an unimpressed look. "Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" He held up another tie for Daniel to inspect, tossing it over his shoulder when Daniel shook his head. "Well, come on, you're monitoring the whole planet. IS this world a threat?"
The Atraxi projected a hologram of Earth's history, showing them scenes of peace and of war. "No."
"Is the human race guilty of any crimes that would give you the right to incinerate the planet?" Daniel questioned.
More images of war and peace were projected. "No."
"Okay, one more. Just one," the Doctor nodded. "Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here," projections of many of the aliens the Doctor has faced over his years protecting the Earth appeared before them, the Doctor reached out and squeezed Daniel's hand at the sight of the Cybermen. "Oh, there have been so many! And what you've got to ask it… what happened to them?" Daniel turned to face the Doctor, pulling off a red bowtie from his neck and held it for the man to take, before they turned to look at the many regenerations of the Doctor appeared before them.
Daniel smiled sadly as the Doctor's previous incarnation appeared on the screen, Amy and Rory frowned when they saw Daniel knelt down beside a older man, the recording having no sound but showed him talking to him, while the Doctor was flashing his sonic around the area, it seemed the Atraxi had caught them when they had been in New York. "Hello," the Doctor stepped through the projection, "I'm the Doctor. Basically… run!"
The Atraxi ship quickly departed, Amy laughed. The Doctor smiled at Daniel, who returned it, before they felt something in their pockets growing hot. The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out the TARDIS key and saw it was glowing.
The Doctor took Daniel by the hand and together they ran off.
~DW~
They ran into Amy's back garden where the TARDIS stood, the dull blue colour had been repainted with a much brighter blue and Daniel laughed when he saw a Saint John's Ambulance sticker on the door. "Okay! What have you got for us this time?" the Doctor unlocked the door and they stood there, amazed. "Look at you! Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you!"
Daniel stepped into the TARDIS with wide eyes as he stood in the doorway. Unlike before where the console was on one layer, this one was multi-levelled. The coral columns had been replaced and the entire console looked like an actual space ship, he looked to see a familiar long brown coat hanging on a coat stand and he smiled slightly.
With a click of the Doctor's fingers, the doors to the TARDIS closed, neither of them noticing Amy and Rory running into the garden.
~DW~
Amy stepped out of her house in a robe and slippers to find the Doctor and Daniel leaning against the TARDIS. "Sorry about running off earlier." the Doctor called to her. "Brand new TARDIS, bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. She's ready for the big stuff now."
"It's you." Amy breathed, looking between them. "You both came back."
"Course we came back." Daniel smiled, though he did sound slightly confused. "We always come back… something wrong with that?"
"And he kept the clothes."
Daniel snorted and the Doctor scoffed. "Well, I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes."
"Including the bow tie."
"Yeah, it's cool." He tweaked the bow tie. "Bow ties are cool."
"Are you from another planet?"
"I am but Daniel isn't."
"What? Really?"
Daniel nodded. "Londoner."
"Okay…" Amy muttered.
"So, what do you think?" the Doctor asked.
"Of what?"
"Other planets. Want to check some out?"
"What does that mean?"
"It means that we want you to come with us." Daniel smiled at the girl.
"Where?"
"Wherever you like." the Doctor grinned.
"All that stuff, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero…" Amy trailed off.
"Oh, don't worry. That's just the beginning. There's loads more."
"Yeah, but those things, amazing things, all that stuff," then her tone turned angry. "That was two years ago!"
"Oh-oh! Oops."
"Doctor!" Daniel cried, smacking him on the arm.
"Yeah." Amy frowned at them.
"So that's..." the Doctor trailed off.
"Fourteen years!"
"Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy Pond, the girl who waited, you've waited long enough."
Amy hesitated. "When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was in the library."
"Yeah." the Doctor rubbed the back of his neck as he tried to remember if he had scanned for the library. "Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So… coming?"
"No!"
"You wanted to come fourteen years ago." Daniel reminded her.
"I grew up."
"Don't worry. We'll soon fix that." the Doctor snapped his fingers and the door to the TARDIS opened, bathing Amy in an orange glow as she entered. "Well? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all."
The Doctor stepped in first, Daniel closing the door behind him as they watched Amy stare at the ship in awe. "I'm in my nightie..."
"Don't worry." Daniel laughed. "Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe… wherever that is."
"And possibly a swimming pool." the Doctor pointed out. "So… all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will… where do you want to start?"
"You two are so sure that I'm coming." Amy looked at them.
"Yeah, we are."
"Why?"
"Cos you're the Scottish girl in the English village." Daniel joked.
"And I know how that feels." The Doctor smiled.
"Oh, do you?" Amy asked.
"All these years living here most of your life… and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming."
"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?"
"It's a time machine," the Doctor rolled his eyes. "I can get you back in five minutes."
"Why, what's tomorrow?" Daniel asked her.
"Nothing, nothing," they gave her a strange look, "just… you know, stuff."
"Alright, then. Back in time for stuff." A new sonic extended from the console's surface. "Oh! A new one!" he aimed the sonic at Daniel, flashing it. "Lovely." he patted the console. "Thanks, dear."
"Why me?"
"Why not?"
"I mean you've got Daniel with you and you're asking me to run away with you two in the middle of the night." Amy shrugged. "It's a fair question. Why me?"
"I don't know," the Doctor shrugged. "Fun. Do we have to have a reason?"
"People always have a reason."
"Does he look like people?" Daniel asked.
"Yes."
"Been knocking around with Daniel for 9 months now, we've run into some issues together."
"He keeps talking to me, like constantly, it's giving me a headache." Daniel joked.
"Oi!" the Doctor cried, poking Daniel in the side.
"So you need another person to save you from a headache?" Amy asked with a frown. "There's nothing else, nothing else at all?"
"Just that," the Doctor nodded. "Promise." Daniel frowned as he looked on the monitor, seeing that on a small screen there was a flickering line that seemed to mimic the crack from Amy's bedroom.
"Okay."
Daniel switched off the monitor. "So, are you okay, then?" Daniel asked. "Cos this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit… you know."
"I'm fine, it's just…" Amy looked at the TARDIS with wide eyes. "There's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought… well, I started to think that maybe he was just like a madman with a box."
"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand," the Doctor cut in, serious. "It's important, and one day your life may depend on it," he then smiled. "I am definitely a madman with a box," Daniel rolled his eyes but laughed. "Ha ha! Yeah," Amy laughed. "Goodbye, Leadworth."
"Hello, everything." Daniel grinned.
And with that, Daniel pressed a switch on the console and they held onto the console as the TARDIS began to dematerialise into the night sky.
A/N: And so the adventure begins once again. Amy has joined the Doctor and Daniel. Will the relationship between the Doctor and Amy change with Daniel present? Or will history repeat itself?
Because I'm unsure if the old and new reviews will be deleted when the chapters become replaced I will be copying my answers from the reviews from the future chapters onto here because it wouldn't be fair to anyone whose commented on things in the past to have them erased.
OLD REVIEWS:
BREAKING THE RULE:
I know, its one of the few moments I remembered off the top of my head when thinking back to this episode, its such a sweet moment and I wish that Wilf had appeared more often then he had.
Thank you! I think it became a recurring theme for the Doctor's female companions for them to fall for the Doctor after just one adventure, so as much as I wanted there to be a romance between 10 and Daniel it just wouldn't have seemed real. I'll say I'm glad it came off as genuine. When writing a male!oc I was a bit worried it would be treated quite badly but I'm glad you thought it was a breath of fresh air.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR:
Oh yeah, every Monday this story will be updated, so nothing will change there. I've gotta say though that it's really creepy that you say that because I was going to have a talk between them in the Eleventh Hour but put it here… are you watching my screen lol. I can say that I have plans for Rory and Daniel so you can keep any eye out for a Jealous Doctor.
THE BEAST BELOW:
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VICTORY OF THE DALEKS:
N/A:
THE TIME OF ANGELS:
It has happened before, won't say when but I will say if something to do with Daniel's abilities happen it is often followed up with a headache, so keep an eye out on that. We'll learn more about why River wants to keep it a secret in the Pandorica Opens and even more in Series 6, we'll even learn more about the Phoenix in later episodes. I hadn't even though about a ship name for them, which is funny because I do that even before I write a story, but I thank you for branding them as Donny.
FLESH AND STONE:
Thank you, I'm glad you like the progress on the Phoenix plot. I was torn between it being similar to the Silence in series 5 but it becomes bigger in series 6 but with everything that I have planned for Daniel and the Phoenix plot, it had to begin to progress in this series. I can't make any promises if they will be alright, because I'm not a nice person!
NEW REVIEWS (ONES I HAVEN'T ANSWERED FROM ONE MAN'S DREAM ONWARDS):
I'm probably gonna start off most of these with a huge arse sorry for taking so long to answer these reviews but I'm glad you remembered how much you love/loved this series, hopefully I'll see you again in the future Wishing Well. I'm glad you love the way that Daniel became familiar and confident enough to be able to explain things to the companions.
Once again huge arse sorry but it was alive… but its alive once again. Hopefully I'll see you in the future ;)
Once again huge arse sorry but I'm glad you really enjoyed it. Yeah I remember I got a bit frantic with the deadline coming up that I began to copy and paste an very old prewritten chapter based on Amy's choice and I guess I forgot to go back and properly edit it. Promise that when Amy Choice comes around again you won't see any mention of the Professor again.
The Wishing Well you are just too damn nice! I was so happy seeing that you were so understanding with my leave, but I'm back so thank you.
Bored411; I was so happy when I got your review that it made me go back and reread everything I had written and then I was like… I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna finally rewrite this. This carries onto the RETURN chapter but I'm glad you found it exciting, I've always been a fan of those TV adverts that tease the series in such a strange way (for example; Series 5 had that teaser where the ground exploded under Amy and the Doctor and showed some of the aliens they'd be fighting.) and I sort of wanted to write something similar… which is how Return came to be.
