The Girl who was tired of waiting...

Amy Pond. Searching for a doctor and a river... Could do with a hand...

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Better to have Loved and Lost

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He closes the drawer. “nothing..” he says. Amy didnt’ understand that fivemonths was barely a breathe for him. He didn’t want to show Amy anything. He just felt like he wanted to be alone again. “Bela left by herself..” he says. He turns to her. “Look I’m fine…I just need time by myself..I have things to do Amy…places to save and I don’t need to worry about cats or Bela drinking herself to death…a Timelord came back..I have to deal with that…” he says. “I can’t drag any of you into that either..” he says. 

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Amy noticed him close the drawer and it felt like a blow to the stomach. So... what? He didn't trust her? She didn't understand. She was just a human and would never understand pain or grief or loss like he could, would she?

Her anger got the better of her, as much as she tried to calm herself down. Her fists clenched as too raw memories were brought up. "My husband is dead," she whispered deathly quiet. "My daughter was possessed by a demon and I nearly lost her too. I almost lost everything and it's only because of my friends that I didn't. You should be thankful, Doctor, that you have so many people who care about you. Instead of pushing them away, you should keep them close. You never know when you'll lose them..."

She tightened her jaw and stopped the tears from spilling before she turned on her heel and charged towards the door.

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He was quickly regretting his decision to show Amy. No no he’d shown Cas surely he could show her as well? “I needed to be alone,’ he repeats. He was insistent on it. He only hurt people and they only hurt him in the end so what was the point in trying to find someone to drag across the Universe if in the end they were only going to let eachother down? 

“You’ve never wanted to be on your own before?’ he asks her with a serious look. He opens a drawer and moves some things aside.  

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Amy flinched back slightly. Of course she wanted to be alone. Sometimes on this very ship. But... "Not for five months," she said quietly. "Not when I have a responsibility to people." She crossed her arms as she looked at him. "You can't drag people along for your ride Doctor and then just abandon them..." She said with more force then she meant. She still had memories of being seven years old, waiting in the garden for a man that never came back. She hoped it stung...

Then she sighed, running her hand through her hair and moving closer. He didn't need this right now. "Come on," she said softly. "What do you have to show me?"

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Better to have Loved and Lost

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He flinched not liking the scolding. “I was traveling…on my own…I needed to think!” he protested. “I just needed to be on my own for a while….but I came back Amy! I’m here now!” he says. “I’ve had a lot to think about…” he stands up. “Come here…I need to show you some things..” he insists and gestures for her to follow him to his study. He never took people to his study. Jack had had the privilege and Rose but not many others. 

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Amy sighed. "I know you needed to think. But... you should have taken someone with you. I know you, even if you don't think I do. You were liking to get yourself in trouble..."

She was quiet then and followed him into his study. She could see he was still tense. She wondered where Jack had got to. And Bela. This was stupid. They had enough to deal with than all this drama. What if one of them got hurt now? The Doctor would never forgive himself. They had to sort this out quickly.

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“I told him how I felt. Why I needed him to leave….It really was emotional…part of me didn’t want him to leave but….it was necessary” he says. “I had to…” he really didn’t want to go into a full on speech on all the reasons why it was better for him and Jack to go their separate ways. “Maybe in a few decades I’ll go and see him…. a few years…It’s just difficult right now. The truth is I’ve been gone for five months Amy..I just needed to escape..but Look I came back,” he says hoping she wouldn’t be upset with him for his disappearance. 

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Amy frowned for a moment, mouth dropping open slightly in shock? So... he'd been gone that long? Leaving them all. Leaving her without a word, blinded in his anger? Jack really had hurt him then... but that didn't mean he could do that. He brought people into this life. He had a responsibility to them. He couldn't just abandon them?

"Five months? You... were on you're own... for five months? Stewing in you grief, I expect..." Amy sighed and made him move up. He didn't need sympathy at the moment. He needed someone to remind him who he was... "You're an idiot. Why did you do that? You knew how stupid that would be... what did you do?" She crossed her arms and looked at him.

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He took a long time to finally get his head together to tell the story. “Another Timelord fell through a crack in the Timelock..he manipulated the Hand of Omega..that’s…a stellar manipulator designed to cause supernova’s and take their energy….he reverted it to take Jack’s energy..his immortal energy…but he wanted me to suffer..so he showed Jack a world with his old lover…saying that he could have that world…if he just said yes. And he did..he said yes…if it had been real he would have nearly obliterated time and myself to get that…that’s dangerous….I couldn’t….” he just sits there for awhile feeling like maybe he should have been less harsh on him. 

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Amy listened carefully, not fulling understanding everything. She got the general gist though. Jack had... betrayed the Doctor. Sort of. After a fashion. She could understand how much that would sting- to hear the person you love say they'd rather be with their old lover. To risk hurting you in order to get it...

Amy sighed, sitting down in front of him. She reached out a hand and squeezed his. "Oh, Doctor..." she said quietly. "Jack's... always been passionate. He... acts in the moment. He probably didn't..." Amy sighed. She wasn't sure what to tell him. He'd probably thought about every possible justification for what Jack did himself. She probably didn't need to remind him.

"Did you get the chance to talk to him? Before you... left?"

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“They’re gone…Bela left and…well I told Jack to leave,” he says and walks over to the console. He hadn’t talked about Jack really to anyone since he’d made him leave. There was anger there..along with saddness. He was still so frustrated with the man for doing what he did. Would Amy even understand his decision?

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Now Amy was beyond confused. This wasn't right. No. This was all wrong. The Doctor would only kick out a companion for something serious. But Amy knew he'd never... not with Jack. 

Amy swallowed and steered him to the seat in the console room. He looked like he was about to collapse in on himself and Amy couldn't have that. The whole world might fall apart then. She stood in front of him. 

"What happened? Tell me everything..." If she knew, maybe they could fix it.

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It had been about five months since the Doctor had seen Amy Pond. He hadn’t realized he’d automatically set the coordinates back to London. He was doing a lot of things without thinking lately. When he heard her step in almost immediately after landing he realized he probably should have told her why he left. He was fully prepared to apologize to her in a million ways when he noticed she was holding groceries and didn’t look angry but curious. 

He hadn’t been gone hardly any time. That was good. “Amy!” he says still able to pull off a happy Doctor vibe. He knew he’d have to explain why Jack was gone and Bela was missing. Bela. He should find her. But was he ready to have her back? Maybe this time away was good for her. Then again she could have gotten caught by Lilith. It hadn’t been that much time…. He tried to act normal. He’d had five months of traveling alone to deal with what had happened. He was fine. He just scrunches his face together and shakes his head. “Everything’s fine..” he says.  

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Amy smiled at his greeting, put she knew instantly something was up. He was thinking too much, even more so than usually. Amy had become something of an expert at reading Time Lords, and it helped they had a particular tendency to wear their heart on their sleeve...

She placed the bags down and walked over to him. "No. It's not. What's going on? You look tired. Where did you go? And where are the others?" Amy didn't like it when the Doctor was upset. It made her uncomfortable... She placed her hands on his arms and made him look at her.

"What's going on?"

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Better to have Loved and Lost

Half an hour. Tops. That was all she was gone.

Apparently, something had happened. 

She returned to the TARDIS laden with groceries. Well, junk food really. Snacks. Chocolate. Anything to get her through the horror movie marathon she intended to have. She remembered who much she liked just being on the TARDIS. An adventure one day and a chill out the next. 

She liked that she'd been able to go on another adventure with the Doctor. Just like old times with her Doctor. One before everything got so messy... so complicated. Just her and the mad man with the blue box...

The blue box that was missing. Amy spun around comically. No. It was definiately gone. 

She heard the familiar vwrop vworp suddenly, and took a few steps back, knowing the TARDIS was returning. Oh good. They hadn't forgotten her. She opened the door carefully and stepped inside. "Doctor?" she called quietly. "Is everything all right?"

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Portal in My Pool

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He gave her an absurd look when the TARDIS flew through the trees with a mass of water. Did she bring the portal with her? He grins. Now that was very very clever indeed. He looks around there was nothing for them to use as a shield except for themselves. He didn’t have anything. Oh why didn’t he go about carrying shields now? That would be perfect! Sometimes he thought he was really very thick. 

“I think we’ll be okay,” he tried to call back when the creature flew out of the trees all tendrils and teeth. He really really hoped that this would work and that they wouldn’t be stuck here. As great as meeting his counterpart was he really did like his world. He thinks on that for a moment. A world where his people are dead versus a world where they’re alive and allies with the Daleks. So maybe this world was better but this world didn’t have Jack and that just wasn’t going to sit well with him. Especially if his counter part was a pious git.  He scolded himself for thinking about his lover at a time like this. He also helps to shield the children from the beast as he waits for the other Doctor to do her thing. He looks at Amy. “Ready for anything?” he asks. 

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Amy nods.

“See you soon!” The TARDIS hovers directly over them… and drops the water just as the creature enters the circle.

It’s hard to know what happens from there. There’s a giant cry but Amy is concentrating on not breathing as the water crashes down over them… it doesn’t seem to stop. She opens her eyes and instead of the TARDIS it’s sunlight above her. She kicks upwards, as fast as she can, grabbing one of the children by the hand, and breaks the surface with a gasping breath.

She looks around. They’re back where they started. There’s the Doctor’s TARDIS. And the garden. She sees the children panting and helps them up over the side.

Once she’s caught her breath she meets the Doctor’s eye with a grin before turning to the children. “Hello. I’m Amy. I’m sorry you had to meet us like this…”

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He felt the water slam down on them and he got a mouthful of water before he clamped it shut. He thought he was drowning as he turned and thrashed in the powerful current. Suddenly he broke the surface and immediately swam to the edge. He pulls himself out and looks around. “Brilliant..” he says breathing heavily. “Oh she was brilliant….” he says looking into the water. He looks over to Amy. “Are they alright?” he asks then looks at the older child. “Hello I’m the Doctor..like I said..we were there to help,” Marina just backs away grabbing a hold of her brother’s hand as she rushes him back to the house.  “I don’t think they’ll be swimming for a long time..if ever..” he says watching them retreat into the house. “Oh we better go then…they’ll be telling their parents about this and we should probably have them believing they just have wild imaginations,” he says getting up. He dashes back to the TARDIS and waits at the door for Amy.  

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Amy watched as the children darted off, not really blaming them. She followed the Doctor into the TARDIS, leaving a trail of water behind her.

"Well, that was... interesting. Another Doctor. A girl Doctor! I knew there had to be one somewhere..." She laughed. "But right now, I think I need to change... Oh! And can I be there when we tell Jack about his counterpart. Because that's just going to be hilarious..." She grinned at him.

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Portal in My Pool

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He gave her an absurd look when the TARDIS flew through the trees with a mass of water. Did she bring the portal with her? He grins. Now that was very very clever indeed. He looks around there was nothing for them to use as a shield except for themselves. He didn’t have anything. Oh why didn’t he go about carrying shields now? That would be perfect! Sometimes he thought he was really very thick. 

“I think we’ll be okay,” he tried to call back when the creature flew out of the trees all tendrils and teeth. He really really hoped that this would work and that they wouldn’t be stuck here. As great as meeting his counterpart was he really did like his world. He thinks on that for a moment. A world where his people are dead versus a world where they’re alive and allies with the Daleks. So maybe this world was better but this world didn’t have Jack and that just wasn’t going to sit well with him. Especially if his counter part was a pious git.  He scolded himself for thinking about his lover at a time like this. He also helps to shield the children from the beast as he waits for the other Doctor to do her thing. He looks at Amy. “Ready for anything?” he asks. 

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Amy nods.

"See you soon!" The TARDIS hovers directly over them... and drops the water just as the creature enters the circle.

It's hard to know what happens from there. There's a giant cry but Amy is concentrating on not breathing as the water crashes down over them... it doesn't seem to stop. She opens her eyes and instead of the TARDIS it's sunlight above her. She kicks upwards, as fast as she can, grabbing one of the children by the hand, and breaks the surface with a gasping breath.

She looks around. They're back where they started. There's the Doctor's TARDIS. And the garden. She sees the children panting and helps them up over the side.

Once she's caught her breath she meets the Doctor's eye with a grin before turning to the children. "Hello. I'm Amy. I'm sorry you had to meet us like this..."

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Portal in My Pool

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He’d been too concerned to think that he could get trapped in a symbol. He began to panic a little bit when they hit the invisible wall. “Okay not good..” he says and stares at it. He looks over at the other Doctor and raises his eyebrows when she just clocks the old woman in the face. He wasn’t about to argue with that right now as they both tried to use their sonic devices to break it. “I’m not getting anything either,” he says worriedly. He could hear a loud roar in the distance and because of the directions he was given for not moving he was a bit convinced a Tyrannosaurus was going to run out of the trees. 

He wasn’t happy to see the other Doctor go.  ”There’s got to be a way,” he says getting quite fidgety and not doing the job of ‘not moving’. He hits the invisible wall and winces cradling his fist. He heard something in the trees and immediately froze. Marina was desperately trying to get Mikey to stop blubbering. 

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Amy didn't like that sound. She pulled the children tighter. "Shh, shh, it's okay..." But she wasn't sure if it would be.

Her head whipped to the other side as she heard something creak and groan and... splash?

Amy looked up... and saw the other TARDIS... dragging something behind it. A mass of water, swirling around, above them. Amy had a horrible suspicion she knew where this was going...

The blonde Doctor poked her head out with a smile. "See? I said we'd be back!" she shouted over the raging water. "The portal is full of energy. Too much for the Croatean to handle. Once it's inside, I can flood it with energy. Haha. Flood..." She laughed at her joke. She looked back into the TARDIS before turning back to the them. Droplets of water started to fall on them. Another loud roar and the trampling of trees...

"But the portal should still worked... and it should still work. Is there anyway you can shield yourselves Doctor?"

"Should?!" Amy called.

The blonde Doctor bit her lip. "Should... isn't it always that? I hope we meet again someday, Doctor and Amy Pond. Good luck."

Amy didn't have time to respond before the creature burst through the trees.

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Marina didn’t like this old woman at all but she could help herself from moving towards the symbol. She didn’t want to play her game or meet her friend. All Marina and Mikey wanted to do was go home. 

“Not friendly at all,” says the Doctor in a grave voice as he shakes his head. “I don’t want to wait and find out what it is..” he says and looks over at Amy giving her a nod. He rushed forward. “Hey!” he snaps at the old woman as she begins to move away from the circle. These kids were in danger and he had no time to think of another plan. Though he wasn’t sure what to say. “You  made the portal didn’t you….what do you want with them?” he says and begins moving into the circle holding out a hand to the kids. “I’m the Doctor. I’m a friend…I can take you back home,” he says holding out his hand and trying to get the kids to come to him as he moved closer.  The old woman seemed almost amused as he did this and it sent a cold shiver down his spine.  Arnold also walked forward drawing a pistol out and aiming it at her. The Doctor glared at it and was pretty sure that he had bedazzled it. Arnold stayed out of the circle and moved towards her. “Let these kids go,” he says. He looks back at his Doctor not daring to make a move without her. 

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Amy moved forward breaking the circle... "Doctor, wait!"

The blonde Doctor saw it too. With a look of steely determination, she pointed her weapon at the children. It made the same wiring noise and the children looked at her; as it seemed to break the woman's hold over them. Amy held out her arms and they ran towards her... but before the Doctor, Amy and the children could move, something stopped him getting out.

The old woman smiled. "Well. That was rather too easy. I thought the red head would be the one running inside and you would run after her. But no matter. It's the two of you I want. All your time energy plus all that lovely stuff from the portal. Delicious. My friend is hungry. And little children don't do them justice. He hasn't eaten in a very long time. And you get to be the main course..."

Amy glared at her, wrapping her arms around the children. They were trapped... just as the ground beneath their feet started to open. 

The blonde Doctor had been quiet as the woman spoke before marching up to her. "Oooo bad idea. Revealing your plans before there's no one that can stop you. Arnold's movies taught me never to do that. Hello..." She smiled sweetly but there was an edge to it. "I'm the Doctor. And I know exactly who your friend is... and guess what? I've stopped one before..." And with that, she did something that Amy wasn't expecting from a Doctor... She punched the woman in the head and knocked her out.

The blonde turned to face the Doctor and Amy. "Stay perfectly still..." She waved her sonic hammer over them, concentrating. "Dammit. I can't get a hold through the barrier. Doctor, see if you can break it. Arnold, back to the TARDIS. I think we need to catch some waves... is that the right expression..." She ran back through the woods. "We'll be back. I promise..."

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the Doctor just laughs. “Really they are?” he says. “I think I should feel special!” he says. “And yes I think she must..why else would she need them? She’s probably just waiting for a few people to accidentally discover the portal…which makes us targets too for what ever she’s planning. Of course that’s just a theory. She could just be inviting them for tea,” he says sarcastically.

“Come on quickly now we don’t want to lose them,” he urges and hurries over the fence and into the woods after the children and the old woman. 

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Amy and the others followed him over the fence and into the woods. They followed her to a clearing, the children still with her. In the middle was some sort of strange symbol, taking up most of the clearing. She could only hear brief snippets of the conversation... something about 'a game', and that they had to go inside and stay perfectly still until her 'friend' found them... Amy frowned and bit her lip at the Doctor.

The blonde Doctor frowned too. "So... the people going through the portal act as some kind of... magnet? Attracting the energy to them. And this woman needs it for her friend... but what could her friend be. This is one of those situations where her friend isn't very friendly, is it?"

Amy nodded once. "We have to get them out..."

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“They must be soaked in energy…Amy and I too..that sort of portal..took a lot of power and we’re all carrying it around..” he theorizes. “Let’s go,” he says and rushes out. He didn’t want to make himself known to the woman quite yet. No no he needed to know what she was up to so he could close the portal. “very odd,” he whispers back to Amy. “Interesting but also disconcerting,” he says looking back at their counterparts. 

Arnold just scoffs. “Okay I said I’d go jeez,” he says folding his arms and also running out behind the clearlyhidinghissexuality Doctor.  

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Amy frowned in thought. "So... what? You think she needs the energy for something?" She tried to keep as quiet as possible, throwing a glance back as Arnold started scoffing. She had no idea why the woman Doctor had chosen him.

Speaking of her... Her tongue poked out between her lips as she waved something over the pair of them. Amy looked at it carefully and resisted the urge to smile...

It looked like a hammer...

The woman Doctor looked at the sonic hammer carefully. "Yes. The readings on you are the same as the ones I was picking up. And blimey, they're off the scale, especially on you, er, Doctor..." She smiled at the use of the word.