Shattering Time [5] (The Parallel Series) ✓

The Big Bang

"Even better." The Doctor beamed tightly hugging the Stone. "Now I have missed this." He mumbled into her neck.

"We weren't put in their that long ago." She snorted.

"But I couldn't touch you when I wanted to dear."

"There is that." She chuckled smiling fondly smelling the small hint of grease on his jacket after he had started fixing TARDIS earlier that day. Even after three washes the smell still stuck to his clothes. Not that she at all minded. It reminded her of him and the TARDIS. "But on the topic of the future..." She trailed off kissing the Doctors cheek. "It is pretty nice."

"Yes, it is."

"But that's not so nice." She looked past Rory seeing two Daleks that looked fossilised.

"You are right there, Dear." The Doctor nodded in agreement.

"Yeah." Rory frowned. "What are they?"

"History has collapsed." The Doctor said eyeing the other specs of dust and remaining fossilised remains around the Pandorica. "Whole races have been deleted from existence. These are just like after-images. Echoes. Fossils in time. The footprints of the never-were."

"Er." Rory looked at the Stone. "What does he mean by that?"

"Basically he means a total event collapse." She winced slightly. "The universe literally never happened."

"So, how can we be here?" He frowned. "What's keeping us safe?"

"Nothing." The Doctor shook his head. "Eye of the storm, that's all."

"In a sense, we're just the last light to go out." The Stone cut in.

"Amy." The Doctor murmured then looked up at Rory. "Where's Amy?"

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The Doctor lifted the blanket from Amy's face. The Stone looked at the man with sympathy while the Doctor swallowed thickly.

"I killed her."

"Oh, Rory." The Stone let out a sigh slowly shaking her head. "I'm really sorry."

"Stone, what am I?"

"You're a Nestene duplicate." She softly explained trying to be as clear as possible so he would understand. "Basically in the kindest way I can think possible you're a lump of plastic with delusions of humanity."

"But I'm Rory now." He protested. "Whatever was happening, it's stopped. I'm Rory."

"That's software talking." The Doctor nodded at him.

"Can you help her?" Rory looked between the Time Lords "Is there anything you can do?"

"Yeah, probably." The Doctor nodded. "If we had the time."

"The time?" Rory repeated growing slightly annoyed. The Stone winced seeing what was coming next.

"All of creation has just been wiped from the sky." The Doctor replied turning around and away from Rory. "Do you know how many lives now never happened? All the people who never lived? Your girlfriend isn't more important than the whole universe."

Clenching his jaw Rory grabbed the Doctor by his shoulder spun him around and punched him right in the jaw. Instantly the Doctor fell to the floor. "She is to me!"

Slightly wobbling with his hair a complete mess the Doctor stood back up laughing a little and cracking his jaw back into place. "Welcome back, Rory Williams! Sorry. Had to be sure." He shook himself. "Hell of a gun-arm you're packing there."