Chapter Two: He came back
[Garden]
When the Tardis finally materialises in the garden, it was day and neither of the little girls were there. The Doctor stumbled out, steam billowing out with him.
"Amelia! Emily! Emily, I worked out what it was. I know what I was missing! You've got to get out of there!" He yelled, running up to the house and trying to sonic the door open.
[Hallway]
"Amelia? Emily, are you all right? Are you there?"
He yelled again, running up to Emily's bedroom door.
"Prisoner Zero's here. Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is-"
The Doctor cut off as the floorboards creak behind him. He turned around only to get knocked out by a cricket bat.
[Coma ward]
At the Royal Leadworth Hospital, a lady doctor and a male nurse marched into the ward.
"So. They all called out at once, that's what you're saying?" She demanded. "All of them. All the coma patients. You do understand that these people are all comatose, don't you? They can't speak."
The male nurse followed the lady doctor through the ward nervously, wringing his hands and glancing around at all the patients.
"Yes, Doctor Ramsden."
"Then why are you wasting my time?" She asked exasperatedly.
He wrung his hands again. "Because they called for you."
"Me." She said disbelievingly.
Right on time, one of the male coma patients called out in their sleep.
"Doctor."
The nurse and doctor stared at the comatose man.
"Doctor. Doctor."
Another patient called out.
"Doctor. Doctor."
Now all of them were calling out.
"Doctor. Doctor. Doctor."
Suddenly, the nurses phone started ringing and he fumbled for it.
"Hello?" He answered.
"Rory, hey. Do you know where Em is? I've been trying to call her but she won't pick up."
It was Amy.
"Um, yeah, yeah. She said something about Mel? I don't know, she's probably at the police station. I think. Uh, yeah."
He was slightly distracted by the comatose patients that were still calling out. The doctor saw Rory on the phone and immediately ordered him to get off it.
"Get off that phone." She snapped. "This is no time to be planning out your weekend."
"Uh, right. Sorry Amy, I've got to go." Rory apologised.
"Yeah, alright. If you see or hear from Em, tell to get down here straight away."
"Okay. Wait, is everything alright? Like, are you okay? You sound a bit . . . flustered." He asked her, concerned.
"What? Oh, yeah yeah, I'm fine. Totally fine. See you later Rory. And remember, tell Em that I need her."
"Right, okay. L-"
Amy cuts the call midway through his sentence.
"Love you. 'Oh, yeah, love you too Rory.' " Rory muttered.
[Leadworth Police Station]
Two girls stood on either side of a jail cell while an officer opened the door, the inside smirking the other frowning.
"Jesus Christ Mel. Is this really going to keep happening?" The auburn haired asked, shaking her head at her hot-headed friend. While she didn't want to micro-manage her, this really needed to stop.
"Sorry Mum." Mel said sarcastically, rolling her eyes. "What can I say? I was bored, I needed a little bit of fun."
Emily sighed.
"Mel-" she started warningly before being cut off by the shrill ring of her phone.
She rolled her eyes in annoyance and, not checking who it was, answered.
"What." She snapped.
"Em!" Amy breathed out, relieved. "Oh, thank god. I need you. Right now."
"Amy? Amy, what's wrong?"
"It- I don't- Just get your butt over here. Please? I could really use your help right about now."
"Okay, okay. On my way now, I'll be 10 minutes, tops."
"Good."
She hung up abruptly and Emily looks at the phone, completely bewildered.
"Hey, look, I have to go." She said still staring at her phone. "Amy called about something. Said she needed me."
Mel looked slightly concerned.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"I don't know. Probably nothing." She snapped out of her state and started towards the exit.
"Hey! What about the bail money?"
"Sorry, gotta fly!" Emily was already out the door when she chucked an envelope of money over her shoulder, without a second glance back. "This should be enough. Catch you later Mels!"
[Corridor]
Emily arrives within the 10 minutes that she promised.
"Hey, what's-"
She was cut off as Amy shoved a hand over her mouth.
"Shhh!"
She nodded her head towards the landing. Emily looked at Amy weirdly before advancing towards where her sister had gestured.
She froze in surprise.
"How . . .?"
She trailed off as she stared at the man from that magical night 12 years ago. He hadn't changed one bit, not even the ripped clothing.
"I know. It's not possible, right? What do I do? What do we do?" Amy pleads, biting her nails.
"I don't know! I'm not the one that knocked him out!"
Before they could continue bickering, the Doctor begins to stir. Both girls panic and start a battle of push and shove against other, while simultaneously backing away.
•|•
The Doctor revives to see two young ladies, one in a micro-skirted police uniform using her radio and the other watching silently from a doorway.
"White male, mid twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some back-up. I've got him restrained." She stopped talking into the toy and dressed the man. "Oi! You, sit still."
"Cricket bat." He said, rubbing the back of his head. "I'm getting cricket bat."
"You were breaking and entering."
The Doctor finally noticed he handcuffed to the radiator when he tried to stand up, on to be brought heavily to the ground again.
"Well, that's much better. Brand new me. Whack on the head, just what I needed."
"Do you want to shut up now? I've got back up on the way."
"Isn't she your backup?" He gestured to dark auburn haired girl. She seemed vaguely familiar.
Emily looked upon confusion, having tuned out of the conversation thinking that Amy could handle it.
"What? Me? Nah, I'm just the . . . roommate! I'm just the roommate. Or housemate. That's probably more accurate, now that I think about it." She that last part to herself, scolding for not being a quicker thinker.
Amy shot her a 'shut up now' look. A look that Emily received often.
"Hang on, no, wait." The Doctor said, grasping his forehead. "You're a policewoman."
"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"
"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia? And Emily? Where's Emily?!"
"Pond? Amelia and Emily Pond?"
"Yeah, Amelia. Little Scottish red head girl, quite blunt. And her sister, Emily? Dark Auburn hair, bit shy. Where is she? Where are the Pond's?"
Emily stared at him in disbelief. Surely he's not that stupid.
"I promised them five minutes," the Doctor continues, oblivious to her stare of disbelief, "but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to them?
"The Pond's haven't lived here in a long time."
Emily's head whipped towards her sister, narrowing her eyes in suspicion.
"How long?"
Amy hesitated. "Six months."
She stared at Amy in confusion.
What the hell is she doing?
"No. No. No. No, I can't be six months late. I said five minutes. I promised. What happened to them? What happened to Emily Pond?"
Amy turns away slight to speak into her radio.
"Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up. This guy knows something about Emily Pond."
[Coma ward]
"I don't think they were even conscious."
Rory and Doctor Ramsden were examining the first coma patient that called out.
"Doctor Ramsden, there is another sort of er, funny thing."
"Yes, I know. Doctor Carver told me about your conversation. We've been very patient with you, Rory. You're a good enough nurse, but for God's sake."
"I've seen them."
"These patients are under twenty four hour supervision. We know if their blood pressure changes. There is no possibility that you could have seen them wandering about the village. Why are you giving me your phone?"
"It's a camera too."
Doctor Ramsden was about to take it when her bleeper goes off, and she retracted her hand with a hard look.
"You need to take some time off, Rory. A lot of time off. Start now. Now."
[Corridor]
"I need to speak to whoever lives in this house right now." The Doctor demanded.
"We live here."
"But you're the police."
"Yes, and this is where I live. Have 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."
Amy rolled her eyes and pointed to each room.
"Five. One, two, three, four, five."
Emily, once again, stared at her sister in confusion.
"Six." She and the Doctor chorused.
He glanced at Emily sharply, while Amy just looked at them weirdly.
"Six? Em, there's only five."
"No, there's six. Six rooms Amy. How did you not know that?"
Emily looked at her sister, bewildered. How could see not see that room? She didn't understand. Twelve years of passing or even looked at the door, and she still got a bad feeling in her stomach. Like burning bile. She never went inside though.
"Look." The Doctor interjected.
"Look where?"
"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look. The corner of your eye. Look behind you."
Amy rolled her eyes and did what she was told, only to stare in disbelief down the corridor. "That's . . that is not possible. How's that possible?"
"There's a perception filter all round the door." He explained. "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 even noticed."
"The filter stops you noticing. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding, and you need to uncuff me now."
"I don't have the key. I lost it." She said absentmindedly.
"How can you have lost it? Stay away from that door! Do not touch that door! Listen to me, do not open that. Why does no-one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to? Again?"
"Amy, I think you should listen to him. Amy? Am-" Emily sighed heavily. Of course not.
Amy continued inside the mystery room and Emily left the doorway, crouching next to the Doctor and fiddling with his cuffs. Ignoring the strange look he was giving her, she realised that she didn't care who he was or who he wasn't. He seemed to know what was the cause of that bad feeling she felt from the odd room, which meant he probably knew how to get rid of it.
Common sense said she could trust him. Well, that and she didn't want to be anywhere near what was behind that door.
"My screwdriver, where is it?" He called to Amy.
[Room]
The room was dirty, had boarded up window and packing boxes.
"Silver thing, blue at the end. Where did it go?"
"There's nothing here."
"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the room. What makes you think you could see it?" The Doctor warned. "Now please, just get out."
"Silver, blue at the end?"
"My screwdriver, yeah."
"It's here." Amy said staring at it like it was going to bit her.
"Must have rolled under the door."
"Yeah. Must have." She muttered. "And then it must have jumped up on the table."
[Corridor]
The Doctor and Emily look at each other in dread.
"Get out of there. Get out of there! Get out!"
"Amy just listen to him. Get out!"
Emily continued to fiddle with his cuffs and the Doctor stared at her suspiciously.
"What are you doing?"
Emily grinned slightly while she worked.
"There are perks to having a criminal for a best friend."
The Doctor watched curiously for a moment before remembering the gravity of the situation.
"Get out of there!" He once again yelled, not that Amy listened.
[Room]
Something snake-like with very long sharp teeth slithers down behind Amy.
"What is it? What are you doing?" The Doctor questions desperately.
"There's nothing here, but-"
"Corner of your eye."
Emily glared heavily at him.
"You just had to say that."
[Room]
"What is it?" Amy asked hesitantly.
"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."
Amy turned slowly and then quickly changed direction, tricking the creature into finally staring her in the face. She screams.
[Corridor]
"Get out!"
Amy ran out the room and slammed the door shut, wasting no time in tearing up the hallway and holding out the sonic to the Doctor.
"Give me that."
The Doctor snatched the sonic screwdriver and locked the door from his position on the floor.
"Come on." He said, trying to free himself, but to no avail. "What's the bad alien done to you?"
"Will you stop move about? This isn't exactly easy to do you know." Emily said, quite annoyed and just a little bit scared.
"Right. Sorry"
"Will that door hold it?" Amy asked.
"Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. It's an interdimensional multiform from outer space. They're all terrified of wood."
There was a bright light in the room, beams of yellow visible from the space underneath the closed door.
"What's that? What's it doing?"
"I don't know. Getting dressed? Run. Just go. Your back up's coming. I'll be fine."
"There is no back up."
"I heard you on the radio. You called for back up."
"I was pretending. It's a pretend radio."
"You're a policewoman."
"I'm a kissogram!"
She aggressively took off her cap and her long red hair fell down. At the same time, the door was smashed open, falling down to reveal a workman in overalls and tool-belt, with a black dog.
"But it's just-"
"No, it isn't. Look at the faces."
Emily and Amy squinted as the watched the man growl and bark, his mouth pulling up to make a vicious snarl.
"What?" Emily whispered. "I'm sorry, but what?"
"It's all one creature. One creature disguised as two. Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you? Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"
The man in the corridor opens his mouth to reveal the long needle-like teeth.
"Stay, boy! Them and me, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back up."
"I didn't send for back-up!"
"I know. That was a clever lie to save our lives. Okay, yeah, no back up. And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we had back up, you'd have to kill us."
"Attention, Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."
"What's that?"
"Well, that would be back up. Okay, one more 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."
"Well, safe apart from, you know, incineration."
The man and dog walk into the room next to them and look out the window.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
The Doctor struggles with the sonic screwdriver and Emily redoubles her efforts of unlocking the handcuffs with only a bobby pin. Definitely not as easy as the movies make it.
"Come on, work, work, work, come on."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Ha-ha!"
Emily had finally freed the Doctor from the handcuffs and he immediately springs up.
"Run! Run!"
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
[Garden]
"Kissogram?" The Doctor asked confused.
"Yes, a kissogram. Work through it."
"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"
"You broke into our house. It was this or a French maid."
The Doctor turned to Emily. "And how did you unlock the handcuffs?"
Emily grinned mischievously.
"As I said, it pays to have a best friend with criminal tendencies."
Amy got fed up with the pointless chatter.
"What's going on? Tell me-us. Tell us!"
"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." Amy demanded.
"Never did like that room." Emily mused. The Doctor's gaze lingered on her, before he made his way over to his blue box and tried to open its doors.
"Me too.No, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding. Not letting us in."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Come on." Amy said.
"No, wait, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. The shed. I destroyed that shed last time I was here. Smashed it to pieces."
"Busted." Emily muttered to Amy. She glared at her and tried to distract the Doctor.
"So there's a new one. Let's go."
"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least." He sniffed the shed's side. "Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late."
"He's coming." Amy tried to warn
"You said six months. 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!" Amy shouted.
There was a stunned silence for a moment and nobody moved. Emily stared at the ground.
"What?"
"Come on." Emily muttered and started walking off.
"What?"
"Come on!"
"What?"
Amy dragged the Doctor away by the arm.
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
[Village lane]
"You're Amelia."
"And you're late."
"And you." He looks at Emily. "Your Emily. Emily Pond."
She gave a short little wave.
"Yep. Hello"
"Emily Pond. Amelia Pond. You're those little girls."
"I'm Amelia and you're late."
"What happened?"
"Twelve years."
"You hit me with a cricket bat."
Emily looked amused.
"Cricket bat? Really?"
Amy glared at her. "Shut up. Twelve years."
"A cricket bat."
"Twelve years and four psychiatrists. Seven in Em's case."
"Four? Seven?!"
"I kept biting them."
"Why?"
"They said you weren't real. And don't get me started on what Em did when they told her that."
The Doctor whipped his head towards Emily as glared at her sister.
"What did you do?"
Emily winced.
"I kind of . . . broke them?"
"What do you mean 'broke them'? How did you 'brake' them?"
"Doesn't matter! It's not important."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat.-"
It was coming from the Ice cream van speakers.
"No, no, no, come on. What? We're being staked out by an ice-cream van."
"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"What's that? Why are you playing that?"
The ice cream man looked up confused. "It's supposed to be Claire De Lune."
It was coming from the radio.
"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."
Emily searched the area. It was also on a jogger's iPod and a woman's mobile phone.
"Doctor?" She questioned nervously. "What's happening?"
"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
[Mrs Angelo's home]
The big eyeball is on every channel on the television. An elderly lady keeps jabbing at the remote control.
"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Hello! Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area. Also crimes. Let's have a look."
"I was just about to phone. It's on every channel. Oh, hello, Amy dear. Are you a policewoman now?"
"Well, sometimes."
"I thought you were a nurse."
"I can be a nurse."
"Or actually a nun?"
"I dabble."
"Really?" She finally noticed Emily standing in the doorway. "Oh, Emily! I didn't see you there dear. Ever the quiet one. How are your paintings going?"
She smiled kindly.
"Hello Mrs Angelo. My painting are doing great actually. Amy and I just needed a little bit more money, what with Mel and all. That's why we're helping out our . . . friend here."
"Oh yes, understandable. And Amy, who is your friend?"
"Who's Amy? You were Amelia."
"Yeah? Now I'm Amy."
"Amelia Pond. That was a great name."
"Bit fairy tale." She retorted.
The Doctor seemed offended and looked pleadingly at Emily. "You didn't change your name too, did you?"
She smile.
"No, I didn't change my name. Still good ol' Emily."
"Oh, good. Good."
"I know you, don't I? I've seen you somewhere before." Mrs Angelo quizzed.
"Not me. Brand new face First time on." He opens his mouth wide and makes some funny faces before turning back to Amy. "And what sort of job's a kissogram?"
"I go to parties and I kiss people. With outfits. It's a laugh."
"You were a little girl five minutes ago." He turns to Emily. "Please tell me you're not a kissogram too?!"
Emily let out a small laugh.
"No, I do art commissions. Bit of a freelancer really."
"Oh, good. Good."
The Doctor looked relieved while Emily let out another giggle and Amy rolled her eyes.
"You're worse than my aunt."
The Doctor speaks to Mrs Angelo rather than Amy.
"I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt. And that is not how I'm introducing myself."
"Repetez. Le Prisonnier. Zero wird der menschliche."
"Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language. They're broadcasting to the whole world."
The Doctor looks out of the window.
"What's up there? What are you looking for?"
"Okay. Planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core? They're going to need a forty percent fission blast."
A young man comes in and the Doctor speaks to him.
"But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium sized starship, that's 20 minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes to what?"
"Are you the Doctor?" Jeff questioned.
Mrs Angelo clapped her hands, excited that she knew why looked so familiar. "He is, isn't he? He's the Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor. All those cartoons you did when you were little. The Raggedy Doctor. It's him."
"Shut up."
"Cartoons?"
"Gran, it's him, isn't it? It's really him! He looks exactly like your painting Em!"
Emily's eyes widen in panic.
"Jeff, shut up!" She practically hissed. "Twenty minutes to what?"
"The human residence will be incinerated. Repeat.-"
"The human residence. They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship, and it's going to incinerate the planet."
"-will be incinerated. Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
"Twenty minutes to the end of the world."
"Repeat, Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence, or the human residence will be incinerated."
[Space]
The eyeball is one of may snowflake cum icicle type spaceships above the Earth.
"Repeat. Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."
[Leadworth]
The Doctor, Amy and Emily walk down the middle of the road.
"What is this place? Where am I?"
"Leadworth."
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it."
"Is there an airport?"
"No."
"A nuclear power station?"
"No."
"Even a little one?"
Emily hid an amused smile.
"No."
"Nearest city?"
"Gloucester. Half an hour by car."
"We don't have half an hour. Do we have a car?"
"No."
"Well, that's good. Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut. What is that?"
He changed direction suddenly and made his way over to a duck pond.
"It's a duck pond."
"Why aren't there any ducks?"
"I don't know. There's never any ducks."
"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"
Amy became a little bit flustered.
"It just is. Is it important, the duck pond?"
The Doctor clutches his chest. Emily gazed at him, concerned.
"I don't know. Why would I know? This is too soon. I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."
Emily catches his arm when he stumbled.
"What's happening? Why's it going dark?"
"A black disc covers the sun, like a total eclipse."
"So what's wrong with the sun?" Amy questioned.
"Nothing. You're looking at it through a forcefield. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere. Now they're getting ready to boil the planet. 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? This is some kind of big wind up."
Amy paced, trying to come up with a logical reason as to how this was real.
"Why would I wind you up?" He asked incredulously.
She bit her finger nails. "You told us you had a time machine."
"And you believed me."
"Then we grew up."
Emily coughed. "Slightly."
Amy glared at her while the Doctor grinned.
"Oh, you never want to do that. No. Hang on. Shut up. Wait. I missed it. I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw. What did I see? I saw, I saw, I saw-"
People all over the village green were taking photographs of the sun, except duplicate Barney and his dog, and Rory photographing the people. The time was 11:30.
"Twenty minutes. I can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help me."
•|•
Okay, so I lied slightly. There weren't many, if any questions answered in this chapter and there probably won't be in the next. Maybe. Probably. Most likely. I don't know.
Oooooooooooh, what will the Ponds decide to do?
What do you think Emily meant when she said she 'broke' her physiatrists?
Did you like Mels little cameo?
Why do you think Emily knew the room was there? And how did she know there something bad to do with it?
Feel free to point out any mistakes you find, I promise not to be annoyed by it. I really do suck at proof reading my work, so any help is appreciated.
Ps. The image is what I somewhat image Emily to look like, but with grey/blue eyes. Ish.
edited(roughly): {13th/01/2018}
^^^^ this is a phatt lie jesus christ(3rd Sep 2020)