𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 ✧ 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 Ⅱ [✓]

The Girl Who Waited Pt. 3

"When I first came here, I had to trick the Interface into giving me the information, but I've reprogrammed it now. It'll tell me anything except how to escape" Amy says as her and Rory walk into the garden.

"You hacked it? That's genius" Rory says.

"Sorry to interrupt that beautiful moment, but temporal engines like that have a regulator valve. Has to be kept at a distance from the main reactor or there'd be feedback. Interface, where's the regulator?" the Doctor asks.

"The regulator valve is held within" the interface is showing a diagram of the location.

"Oh. Very, very ah. Interface, I need to run through some technical specifications, Rory, give us to Amy a minute" {Y/N} says.

"Here you go," Rory says as he hands over the glasses to Amy and she slowly puts them on.

"They look ridiculous," Amy says.

"That's what I told him. Still, anything beats a fez, eh?" they laugh briefly together "what is it?"

"I think that's the first time I've laughed in thirty-six years."

"I'll just, er, leave you three geniuses alone. I'll be back in a minute" Rory says walking off.

"There's still time, Amy. There's still time to fix everything" the Doctor says. Rory goes walking along the terrace until he comes to a door.

"How can you have a door without a wall?" a Handbot is approaching as he walks into the invisible wall by the door "Oh. Holographic wallpaper? Oh, sorry. Argh" the Handbot touches his neck and he falls backwards.

"Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness" It is about to fire its needle gun at Rory when Amy chops its head off.

"Oh."

"Rory?"

"Glasses."

"You stupid!"

"Oh. You saved me."

"Don't get used to it."

"Have you been crying? A little bit."

"Shut up, Rory."

"You have, haven't you?"

"Woman with a sword. Don't push it" the Doctor and {Y/N} chuckle.

"Ok. So, here's the plan. Time is always a bit wibbly-wobbly, but in Two-Streams, it's extra wobbly" the Doctor says as Amy puts the glasses back on Rory. We've worked out how to hijack the Temporal Engines and use them to fold two points of Amy's timeline together. We're bringing her out of the then and into the now. Amy, we just need to borrow your brain a minute. It won't hurt, probably. Almost probably and then, Amy Pond, we're going to save you."

"No. Time's up. Handbots coming."

"Amy, you've got to help us help you. We need you to think back, thirty-six years ago. Amy? Amy!" the Doctor shouts as Amy goes back to the Temporal Engines entrance and shuts the door in Rory's face. Rory uses the Time Glass to read the faded message.

"You told her to leave us a sign. And she did. And she waited" Rory says.

*Time skip*

"Oh Amy, why won't you help yourself?" Rory asks following her.

"They want to rescue past me from thirty-six years back, which means I'll cease to exist. Everything I've seen and done dissolves. Time is rewritten."

"That's, that's good, isn't it?"

"I will die. Another Amy will take my place. An Amy who never got trapped at Two-Streams, an Amy who grew old with you, and she, in thirty-six years, won't be me."

"But you'll die in here!"

"Not if you take me with you. You came to rescue me, so rescue me."

"Leave her and take you?" Rory asks.

"We could take this Amy with us, easy, but if we do, our Amy has to wait thirty-six years to be rescued" {Y/N} says.

"So, I have to choose. Which wife do I want?" Rory asks.

"She is me. We're both me" Amy says.

"You being here is wrong. For a single day, an hour, let alone a lifetime. I swore to protect you. I promised" Rory says.

"Rory..." {Y/N} mutters.

"This is both your faults"

"We're so sorry, but, Rory..."

"No, this is your faults! You should both look in a history book once in a while, see if there's an outbreak of plague or not!" Rory shouts.

"That's not how we travel," the Doctor says.

"Then I don't want to travel with you two!" Rory takes off the glasses and throws them away. In the TARDIS, {Y/N} and the Doctor can hear the younger Amy crying.

"Rory, is the Time Glass still on? If the link's still active, we think we can hear Amy. Our Amy" the Doctor says, it is. Rory looks through it to see her standing nearby.

"Oh, Amy" Rory mutters.

*Time skip*

"Look me in the face and say you won't help her," Rory says.

"I will not help her."

"Ok, ok. Look me in the face and say it now" he holds up the Time Glass so that Amy can see her weeping younger self.

"Rory? Rory is that you?" the younger Amy asks, Rory sonics the Time Glass so that it appears in the past "Rory, where are you?"

"Same place as you, and a bit ahead."

"I remember this," the older Amy says.

"But who's she? There's no one else here but. Me?" Rory walks outside and Rory the Handbot holds the glasses out with its hook.

"Why are we still here?" younger Amy asks.

"Because they leave you. Because they get in their TARDIS and they fly away."

"No. Rory wouldn't, not ever. Something must have stopped him."

"You did. Or rather, the old version of you. The me version of you. I refuse to help them. I won't let them save myself."

"Why?"

"If you escape, then I was never trapped here. The last thirty-six years of my life rewrites, and I cease to exist. That's why old me refused to help then. That's why I'm refusing to help now. And that's why you'll refuse to help when it's your turn. And nothing you can say will change that."

"Three words. What about Rory?"

"Rory? I called my robot Rory."

"You called your robot Rory?"

"Wait, so you didn't call it the Doctor, {Y/N}, or Biggles, our favourite cat?"

"Do you, er, do you remember that summer when he came back to school with that ridiculous haircut?"

"He said he'd been in a rock band" the two Amy's laugh.

"Liar. And, and then he had to learn to play the guitar."

"So, we wouldn't know he couldn't play it. Mmm hmm."

"All those boys chasing me, but it was only ever Rory. Why was that?"

"You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick? Then there's other people, and you meet them and think, not bad, they're okay. And then you get to know them, and their face just sort of becomes them like their personality's written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful."

"Rory's the most beautiful man I've ever met," they both say.

"Please? Do it for him" younger Amy says.

"You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for a boy?"

"You're Amy, he's Rory, and oh yes, I am."

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