AMY POND, THE GIRL WHO WAITED

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CHAPTER 1

This series takes place after The Adventures of Rose Tyler, Time Lady Chapter 66 and before the storyline started in Jenny Tyler, Time's Angel Chapter 35.

A meeting took place under the cover of darkness between two sinister people. They had both gotten together to plot the destruction of one person. It was a person who had caused them both endless amounts of trouble. Amy Pond.

"It is agreed then that you and I will combine our forces together to stop our common enemy. We will kill Amy Pond," one of the people, a woman, said.

"It is agreed. The Time Lady will fall before us. We will attack her at the next opportunity. If you will loan us some of your group with their special abilities, it will make things even easier for us," the other person, a male voice that sounded metallic and inhuman, replied.

"I will. I will give you whatever you need to help you destroy her. I will destroy her and her meddlesome husband once and for all, and then I will use their deaths to finally break her daughter. Her daughter will belong to me again once more," the woman said with an evil laugh.

"It is agreed then. We will begin to track her down immediately. When she least expects it, we will strike," the person with the inhuman voice said.

Madame Kovarian then left the meeting feeling happier than she ever had in her life. She felt confident that not even Amy Pond could escape this time. Her death was way overdue in her opinion, and she had come here to make sure of that once and for all. Silence would still fall!

"What will we do with the members of the Silence once the Time Lady is finished?" another inhuman voice asked the owner of the first one.

"Promises to aliens are meaningless. Once she is destroyed once and for all, then we will make the Silence like us. Their ability to remain forgotten would prove of great use to us if we were to discover how it worked. We could add it to all of our new recruits. Then we would be truly invincible," the owner of the first inhuman voice responded.

Meanwhile hurtling through the Vortex inside of her TARDIS, Amy Pond was totally unaware of what had just occurred. She was more concerned with worrying about the two orphaned girls who she had just taken in and adopted as her own. She knew that Julia Bates was still very upset about losing her parents, and she had stopped talking much since she had started traveling with her.

Francine Bates was much the same except that her grief could still lead to even wider consequences to everyone as she had a fob watch that she could open at any second to unleash her true self. Francine was the human form of the Time Lady known as Selene.

Amy had once been the Time Lady known as Cliodna until she had used the Chameleon Arch to become Amy Pond to escape from the nightmare that her life had become after her first husband died. Selene had been Cliodna's sister back on Gallifrey. Amy wanted her sister back, but she also wanted her to be happy. As long as she wanted to be Francine, then she would never try to convince her to change back.

Amy walked up to Julia and said, "Are you okay, Julia? You haven't been saying much lately."

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me, Amy," Julia said.

Then she looked at Amy with a guilty expression as she said, "I'm sorry. I can't call you mum. I just can't."

"It's okay. I don't want to force you to do that. Amy is fine. I'm not trying to replace your mother, sweetie. I'd never do that," Amy reassured her.

"Thank you for understanding," Julia said as she smiled at her.

It was one of the rare times that she had smiled since they had started to travel together. Amy hoped that she got to see more of those smiles soon.

She then went to check on Francine. Francine was with Amy's son, Anthony. Francine had taken to the little boy quickly and was constantly fussing over him now. She had even volunteered to help her take care of him. Amy wondered if she was trying to find a new way to bury her feelings of sorrow now through focusing so intently on Anthony.

"Anthony's a handful. I have to keep him out of something constantly. He's always trying to get into trouble," Francine said with a chuckle.

Amy picked Anthony up and he smiled at her as she said, "Yeah, he does that. I think that he's going to take after his sister a little bit too much. I really hope that he doesn't give me as much trouble as she did. I don't want to catch you stealing any cars, Anthony, okay?"

Anthony just laughed and said a string of words that made little sense together except to him. He was talking now, but he still didn't quite grasp how to speak in complete sentences just yet.

"Somehow I don't think that's going to happen. He doesn't have Kovarian messing with his head for one thing, and that's never going to happen to him if I can help it," Rory said as he walked in.

"I'll rip her heart out first before I allow that to happen to another one of my children," Amy said with a dark look in her eyes.

Francine looked at her with a scared look on her face, and Amy realized that she was showing her dark side in front of her. She never wanted Francine to be afraid of her so she immediately gave her a warm smile.

"I'm sorry, Francine. I didn't mean to scare you. I just don't like the thought of that woman anywhere near my son. She's the one who stole Melody from me and brainwashed her all of her life to make her kill the Doctor. She's not doing anything to any of my other children," Amy promised.

"Other children? You're including us with Anthony now?" Francine asked surprised.

"Of course I am. You're both my children now. Don't ever doubt that," Amy said.

Then Francine surprised both Amy and Rory by saying, "I can't be your daughter and your sister at the same time. That would just be weird! Then again that's kind of what happened between you and River, wasn't it?"

"What are you talking about, Francine?" Rory asked.

"No, no. It's not Francine, Rory. I'm Selene, your sister-in-law. I decided to take control of the old noggin for a minute just to point out how weird it is that you're calling me one of your kids. I am so not your child, Cliodna!" Selene, speaking through Francine, said.

"Why not? You're acting like one. Either open the watch or get out of Francine's mind this instant, Selene. I don't remember you being such a brat the last time I saw you," Amy said.

"Yeah? Well, the last time you saw me was a long time ago. You left me to go on your little vengeance quest across the galaxy to avenge your husband. I was all alone so that made me have to start showing a little bit of an attitude in order to survive. I couldn't be shy, timid little Selene anymore, could I? Not without my big sis around to protect me anymore," Selene said in a voice filled with venom.

"I'm so sorry. I never should have done that. I never wanted us to drift apart like that. I was just so full of grief that I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to become another person. Someone who was cold and dead inside so that she could handle the grief that I couldn't," Amy said.

Selene's eyes widened as she realized that that was exactly what she had done recently. She had almost made Francine open the watch and become her in a misguided attempt to become someone else in order to escape her own grief about the death of her parents. She realized now that that wouldn't have worked because she could still feel that pain even now that she was currently Selene.

"I'm sorry too. I can't judge you for something that I'm just as guilty of myself. I don't want to spend the rest of our lives fighting anymore. I'm sorry, Amy!" Selene said.

Amy looked at her with a surprised yet pleased expression as she said, "You called me Amy."

"Yeah, I guess I did. I like Amy I think. She's a lot more together than Cliodna was. I'd be proud to have her as my sister," Selene said with a smile.

"Thanks. I feel the same about you. So are you going to open the watch then?" Amy asked.

"No. I'm going to stay in the background from now on and let Francine run the show I think. I like being her. She's a lot like I used to be, and I miss being that person. Good bye for now, Amy," Selene said as she relinquished control of her body back to Francine.

"Francine, are you okay?" Amy asked as she realized that Francine had taken back control.

"Do you like her better?" Francine asked.

"What?" Amy asked.

"I remember everything that just happened, Amy. I'm not real. I'm some artificial personality made up to hide your sister. I don't really exist at all. So why don't I just open this watch and let her out?" Francine said as she held the watch out in front of her.

"Francine, No!" Amy shouted as Francine started to open it right in front of her.

The watch refused to open though. No matter how hard she tried, Francine just couldn't open it.

"Why won't it open?" Francine asked furious.

"She doesn't want you to disappear. That's why. Selene doesn't want to take your place, Francine. I don't want her to either. Don't ever try to do that again," Amy said.

"You really want me to stick around then?" Francine asked in surprise.

"Yes," Amy said.

"What about your sister?" Francine asked.

"She's okay with it apparently so I am too," Amy said.

Francine smiled and embraced Amy. She was glad that she finally knew just why Amy had always been so interested in her. Now it all made sense. She was her sister. She felt so happy to have two sisters now.

At that moment, Amy's TARDIS finally landed. Amy ran to the console and smiled as she saw their location.

"We're on the planet Kalista. This used to be one of my favorite places once. There aren't any people here now. They all left a long time ago. All that's here now is a barren desert. It's nice and peaceful here, however. I used to come here and just relax. It's pretty hot but that doesn't matter as much to a Time Lord. We don't feel the heat like humans do," Amy said with a big grin on her face.

"Amy, I hate to point this out for fear of getting slapped, but everyone else here is human. So is this just going to be a trip for you and you alone?" Rory asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't slap you. How could you tell them that?" Amy asked.

"Uh, yeah you do. Quite a lot," Rory said.

"That's only because sometimes you deserve it," Amy replied.

"What about the rest of the times?" Rory asked.

"I have to have something to keep you in line with. There's no need for you to start thinking that you run things around here, Mr. Pond," Amy said with a devilish grin.

"Believe me, Amy. I've never thought that for a minute. Ever since I met you, you've been running things from Day One," Rory said.

"So? Are you saying that you don't like the way that I run things?" Amy asked with an angry tone in her voice but a warm smile on her face.

"No, I wasn't saying that at all! In fact, I've enjoyed every moment of my life with you. I just wish that there was a little less slapping involved in it," Rory said with a grin.

"I'll keep that in mind in the future," Amy said as she kissed Rory.

"You never did answer my question though. How are we going outside if it's so hot?" Rory asked.

"This is the middle of Spring for this world. It's not as hot here at this time of the year so humans can tolerate it. At least for a little while anyway. It's going to still be pretty hot so we're only going to be here about an hour. I just thought that I would share this place with all of you. It's a nice place to just come and sit in silence to think sometimes," Amy explained.

They all piled outside, and the two sisters began to run around wildly. Amy immediately switched into parent mode as she yelled, "Don't go getting lost! You'll get sick from heat exhaustion very quickly on this planet."

The two sisters just looked at her and laughed. She couldn't help but smile even as they disobeyed her because they were having fun again. They were laughing and enjoying themselves. Mission accomplished.

"So, stupid face, what are we going to do while those two run around? Can you think of anything?" Amy asked.

"I hope you're not thinking of what I think you're thinking about. The kids are right over there," Rory said.

"Stop thinking like Jack for a second and use your brain. I wasn't talking about that. I was thinking that maybe we could . . . ," Amy said before a stray blast near her head cut her off in mid-sentence.

Hundreds of Cybermen had appeared out of nowhere and were slowly marching towards her and Rory as the two sisters ran screaming from them. Amy whipped out her sonic screwdriver and began to use it to start detonating dozens of Cybermen at once as she used her extensive knowledge of their programming that she had gained from centuries of fighting them to destroy them.

Before she could get too far though, she quickly found herself lying on the ground with a huge headache. It felt just like someone had hit her on the head, but she couldn't see anyone around. Then she looked in horror as she finally realized what must have happened. She saw members of the Silence walking side by side with the Cybermen!

"Rory!" Amy said.

"I see them too. The Silence have joined forces with the Cybermen," Rory said.

Francine began to scream, and Amy turned to look at her instinctively. She would have kicked herself for forgetting to keep her eyes on the Silence at all times, but she immediately forgot about them as soon as she turned away from them.

The Silence hadn't forgotten about her though unfortunately. They quickly knocked both her and Rory out from behind and then captured the sisters as well. Luckily, Anthony was safe inside of the TARDIS where they couldn't reach him.

The four of them soon found themselves waking up inside of a Cyber Ship. Each of them was trapped on a table with metal clamps over their arms and legs. They all tried to escape the tight clamps, but none of them could move an inch inside of them.

"Hello, Amy. It's so nice to see you again," Madame Kovarian said as she looked down on them and laughed.

"As you can see, there is no way to escape. These clamps were programmed specifically for your genetic structures while you slept. They will not open as long as they detect your bodies inside of them. There is no way to escape unless I let you out," Kovarian said.

"Let the kids and Rory go, Kovarian. You've got me. That's who you wanted, right?" Amy demanded.

"Oh, yes. I did this all for you, Amy. That's why I'm going to keep them prisoner too in order to torment you further. I'm going to destroy you, Amy. Before I do though, I'm going to have some fun first. I'll just give you a little time to think about what I mean by that," Kovarian said with a callous laugh as she left the room.

Amy growled at her as she knew that this was Kovarian's way of making things worse by leaving what she was going to do with them up to their own imaginations. She wanted them nice and terrified before she finally finished them. The evil woman enjoyed torturing her victims first before killing them.

Francine kept thinking about what Kovarian had said. The clamps would only open if it no longer detected their specific genetic structure inside of them. She knew what she had to do now.

"Good bye, Julia," Francine said to her sister.

"Francine, what are you doing?" Amy asked in fear.

"What I have to do, Amy. Tell Rose I'll miss her. She was a good friend," Francine said.

Francine opened her hand and looked at the fob watch still there with a sigh. Luckily, the Cybermen hadn't taken it from her. They probably had decided to let her keep it because they hadn't realized that it was much more than a watch.

Francine took one last look at Julia and opened the watch. Energy cascaded all over her body as she transformed back into a Time Lady once again. She kept waiting on herself to die, but she was surprised to find that she wasn't dying at all. Her mind was merging with that of Selene's! They were becoming a new person with the personality of both of them combined.

I couldn't let you die for me to live again, Francine. I hope that this compromise is good for you. Selene said to her within their now shared mind.

It's wonderful. Thank you! Francine replied.

Don't mention it. Selene said to her other half.

Then the two of them finally become one as they merged together into one personality that was a combination of each of their personalities and memories. They were now one person at long last.

The clamps opened immediately as Selene's genetic structure had changed to that of a Time Lady's. She was now no longer human.

Selene jumped to her feet with a huge grin on her face and decided that she didn't want to be a kid anymore. She quickly made herself a couple of years older until she looked twenty years old now.

"That's more like it. I don't want you to call me your kid anymore, sis. I'm an adult again. It's about time too. Now let's see what I can do about getting the rest of you out of there," the new Selene said.

She set to work trying to uncover the secret of opening the clamps from a nearby computer as she sang one of Francine's favorite songs, one that she had heard Rose playing in her car not too long ago, to herself. She was really going to love being a Time Lady again.

Wasn't life strange? Once she had been afraid of being eaten by aliens after watching one too many alien movies, and now she finds out that she was one and had been all along! How was that for irony?

Selene then had a very wonderful thought as she thought to herself that maybe one day some kid who loved movies about aliens just like she had might someday watch a movie about an alien like her. That thought made her say, "That would be so cool!" out loud to herself before she continued to sing along to one of the songs of Rose's favorite singer.

She began to dance to the beat of the music in her head as she continued to search the Cybermen's computer for a way to unlock the clamps. It seemed that Francine was indeed still alive and well inside of Selene's mind.

Next: The newly reunited Amy and Selene fight side by side against the combined forces of the Cybermen and the Silence.