Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a good day it's a bit overdue but heres a chapter as a Christmas present from me

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The Doctor and Jenny were somewhere in the TARDIS, probably playing in the games room the TARDIS made for Jenny, it seemed that the 1,200 year old Time Lord was having just as much fun as his daughter, though.

The Stone sat in the med bay frowning at a screen. "If you tell him-" she warned the TARDIS that hummed reassuringly in her mind. "Thank you." She nodded and turned the screen off. How many different results could she get? She wasn't a ganger, that's for sure, she already did a test to check that. The Time Lady swore the TARDIS was doing this to her on purpose.

Arriving back in the console room the scanner flicked on to news reports from the six o'clock new. "Millions of identical cubes suddenly everywhere in Britain over night?" She frowned reading the headline. Jotting the Time and date she started to pilot the TARDIS hoping the Doctor or Jenny were not in the swimming pool.

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"Dear?" The Doctor questioned walking into the console room. "What's going on?"

"Look." She turned the scanner on where images of the little black cubes were being shown.

"Oh." He blinked then went to find Jenny.

"Well at least I can talk to Amy now." The Time Lady muttered as he went.

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The Doctor sat on a childs climing frame studying one of the small boxes he found on it while the Stone and Jenny sat on the swings. "Doctor!" Amy shouted to them from her bedroom window after spotting the three. "Stone, Jenny!"

The Doctor held up the box. "Invasion of the very small cubes. That's new."

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The Time Lords along with Brian, Amy and Rory were in the TARDIS. The Doctor circled the console with a magnifying glass and a cube. "All absolutely identical." He said while Jenny studied another next to the Stone. Lightly tapping it with another. "Not a single molecule's difference between them. No blemishes, imperfections, individualities."

"What if they're bombs?" Brian asked holding on up. "Billions of tiny bombs? Or transport capsules maybe, with a mini robot inside." He suggested. "Or deadly hard drives. Or alien eggs? Or messages needing decoding. Or they're all parts of a bigger whole. Jigsaw puzzles that need fitting together."

"Very thorough, Brian." The Doctor nodded. Very, very thorough. Well done." He stacked his cube on top of Brians. "Stay here. Watch these. Yell if anything happens."

"Doctor, is this an alien invasion?" Amy asked while he scooped up the thick wire. "Because that's what it feels like."

"There couldn't be life-forms in every cube, could there?" Rory asked holding a box.

"I don't know. And I really don't like not knowing."

"Can we use your kitchen as a lab." The Stone asked. "We need to cook up some cubes to see what happens."

Amy nodded and Rory checked his watch. "Right, I'm due at work."

"What?" The Doctor blinked. "You've got a job?"

"Of course I've got a job." Rory gave him a dumbfounded look. "What do you think we do when we're not with you?"

"I imagined mostly kissing." He said shrugging. Jenny chuckled a little at him while the Stone rolled her eyes at her clueless husband.

"I write travel articles for magazines and Rory heals the sick." Amy informed.

"My shift starts in an hour." Rory said looking around the kitchen."You don't know where my scrubs are?"

"In the lounge, where you left them." Amy answered.

Jenny helped the Stone with sorting out the wires while the Doctor looked at Amy. "All the Ponds, with their house and their jobs and their everyday lives. The journalist and the nurse. Long way from Leadworth."

"We think it's been ten years." Amy said as he started to sonic something together. "Not for you or Earth, but for us. Ten years older. Ten years of you, on and off."

"Look at you now." He smiled. "All grown up." Suddenly the front door was smashed down. The Stone grabbed Jenny's hand as the Doctor grabbed hers as multiple men with guns forced their way into Amy and Rory's house.

"Clear!" A man with a gun all in black said. Multiple men behind him. "Trap one, kitchen secured."

"Trap three, back garden secured." Another said as more were outside in the garden.

Rory was forced into the kitchen by one of the men, only in the top half of his scrubs. "There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants."

The Doctor laughed as Jenny squeaked hiding her eyes. She really didn't want to witness her grandfather in his pants. The Stone lightly patted the blondes shoulder in sympathy.

"My whole life I've dreamed of saying that, and I miss it by being someone else." Amy muttered.

A woman with short blonde hair entered the house. "All these muscles, and they still don't know how to knock." She shook her head. "Sorry about the raucous entrance. Spike in Artron energy reading at this address. In the light of the last twenty four hours, we had to check it out, and the dogs do love a run out." She smiles. "Hello Jenny lovely to see you again."

The Doctor and the Stone blinked. "How?"

"She helped me find you both before the Paradox was made."

"Ah"

"Kate Stewart," she nodded at the others. "Head of scientific research at UNIT. And with dress sense like that." She held up a scanner in front of the Doctors chest where two beating hearts were shown. "And matching rings." She said holding it up to the Time Lady. "You must be the Doctor and the Stone. I hoped it would be you two."

The Doctor smiled slightly. "Tell me, since when did science run the military, Kate?"

"Since me." She stated. "UNIT's been adapting. Well, I dragged them along, kicking and screaming, which made it sound like more fun than it actually was."

"What do we know about these cubes?"

"Far less than we need to." She stated. "We've been freighting them in from around the world for testing. So far, we've subjected them to temperatures of plus and minus two hundred Celsius, simulated a water depth of five miles, dropped one out of a helicopter at ten thousand feet and rolled our best tank over it. Always intact."

"That's impressive." The Doctor said slightly pouting. "I don't want them to be impressive. I want them vulnerable with a nice Achilles heel."

"We don't know how they got here, what they're made of, or why they're here."

"And all around the world, people are picking them up and taking them home." The Doctor picked a cube up and tossed it in the air.

Kate nodded. "Like iPads have dropped out of the sky. Taking them to work, taking pictures, making films, posting them on Flickr and YouTube. Within three hours, the cubes had a thousand separate Twitter accounts."

"Twitter." The Doctor muttered with a disgusted face.

"I've recommended we treat this as a hostile incursion. Gather them all up and lock them in a secure facility. But that would take massive international agreement and co-operation."

"We need evidence." Jenny suggested.

The Stone nodded at her. "The cubes arrived in plain sight, in vast quantities, as the sun rose. So, what does that tell us?"

"Maybe they wanted to be seen." Amy suggested. "Noticed."

"Or more than that, they want to be observed." The Doctor said. "So we observe them. Stay with them round the clock. Watch the cubes, day and night. Record absolutely everything about them. Team cube, in it together."

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It had been four days of being in the Ponds house, quiet frankly the Stone was loosing her mind. Not because she was bored, she had plenty of books in her pockets to read that would last her a good month, that's a book a day. The Doctor kept pestering her.

"Four days." The Time Lord exclaimed making the Stone groan and put down her book. "Nothing! Nothing! He exclaimed. "Not a single change in any cube anywhere in the world. Four days, and I am still in your lounge!"

"You were the one who wanted to observe them dad." Jenny reminded in a dull voice.

"Yes, well, I thought they'd do something, didn't I?" He replied. "Not just sit there while everyone eats endless cereal!"

"You said we had to be patient." Rory rolled his eyes.

"Yes, you." He pointed at the man. "You, not me. I hate being patient. Patience is for wimps." Rory gave him an annoyed look. "I can't live like this. Don't make me. I need to be busy."

Amy had finally gave in. "Fine Be busy! We'll watch the cubes."

The Doctor grinned and jumped out of i between the humans on the sofa and ran around the garden doing multiple things from painting the fence to playing football and cutting the grass. He wasn't gone for long through. "That's better." He remarked sitting down. "Nothing like a bit of activity to pass the time. How long was I gone?"

"An hour and six minutes." The Stone said as she turned a page of her book.

The Doctor groaned and Jenny laughed at him. "I can't do it. He jumped up. "No."

"Where are you going?" Amy asked when the Stone and Jenny both followed him.

The Time Lord blinked spotting a familiar man sat in the same place for four days. "Brian, you're still here."

"You told me to watch the cubes."

Jenny frowned. "That was four days ago."

"Ah! Doesn't time fly when you're alone with your thoughts?"

The Stone snorted. "Not if you're the Doctor."

"You can't just leave."

"Yes, of course I can." He protested. "Quick jaunt, restore sanity, I'm sure Jenny would want to see a new planet and you two could come if you like."

"They can't just go off like that." Brian cut in.

"Can't they?" He looked at the man then the Ponds. "Can't you? That's how it goes, isn't it?"

"I've got my job."

"Oh yes, Rory. The universe is awaiting, but you have a little job to.0

"Doctor." The Stone warned.

"It's not little." He protested. "It's important to me. Look, what you do isn't all there is."

"I never said it was." He shot back.

The Stone shook her head. "We'll be back soon, I'll make sure that the TARDIS scans every Earth news feed so if anything knew happens we will know."

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With the Doctor not loosing his mind anymore the Stone piloted the TARDIS to Amy and Rory's house for their anniversary. "Do we have to go back now." The Doctor pouted.

"If we don't go back now I'll never get you to go back, plus it's a nice thing to do. She is technically my step mother, however you want to call it."

"River probably didn't get them anything." He mumbled.

"Sweetheart, River is in prison."

"She gets out all the time though."

The Stone waved a finger in front of his face. "Not every time, however."

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They grabbed some flowers on their way and the three Time Lords made their way through the Ponds house. "Hey! Doctor, Stone, it's me. Hello. So, the UN classified the cubes as provisionally safe, whatever that means, and Banksy and Damien Hirst put out statements saying the cubes are nothing to do with them," Amy said into a phone, "the cubes, well, they're just here. Still. What's it been, nine months? People are just taking them for granted. Maybe we'll never know why they came. But anyway. I got to Laura's wedding. It was great. She's here tonight, being as it's our wedding anniversary. We thought you might have dropped by. I left you messages."

Jenny chuckled through her hand after hearing Amy, she followed her parents with the Doctor holding a large bouquet of flowers. "We know!" The Doctor popped his head over the flowers grinning as the Stone and Jenny popped out from behind him. "Happy anniversary!"

"Come with us." He said walking back to the TARDIS. "And bring your husband."

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The two humans had changed clothes and stepped out of the TARDIS in smart, fancy dress. "26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel. Dinner, bed and breakfast for two. Bonjour, bonjour. Merci, Auguste." He said as staff with food walked in. "You'll be back before the party's over. They won't even notice you went. No complications, I promise."

The Ponds grinned at each other and hugged the Time Lords.

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The Doctor, the Stone sat on the ground with Jenny and the Pomds in the freezing snow. "Bit of a shock, Zygon ship under the Savoy, half the staff impostors." The Doctor said while Amy and Rory gave him an annoyed look. It was his idea to take them somewhere his blame. "Still, it's all fixed now, eh?"

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The Doctor ran into the bedchamber with Jenny, the Stone and the Ponds behind him. "Gentlemen, open the doors!" A man shouted an order.

"I thought we were going home?" Amy asked.

"You can't miss a good wedding." The Doctor informed. "Under the bed." He said kneeling down and getting under it. "Under the bed!"

"It wasn't my fault." Amy said with a wince.

"It was totally your fault." Rory shot back at her.

"Somebody was talking, and I just said yes." She huffed.

"To wedding vows!" He groaned. "You just married Henry VIII on our anniversary."

"Shush." The Stone and Jenny narrowed their eyes at the humans. The Doctor tried to hold it in but it was no use, he sneezed giving away the fives position.

"Sorry." He winced regretting his decisions to hide between Jenny and the Stone as they glared at him.

After seven weeks of the Doctor being side tracked, the Stone reading over a thousand books and going through litres and litres of mint tea Amy and Rory were back at their party they left seven weeks ago.

The Doctor stood with the Stone in the doorway watching the Ponds who were talking with their friends. Jenny had somehow manage to get herself into their conversation which puzzled them both with how easily she slipped into the human's group.

"How long were they away?" Brian asked the Time Lords.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Brian." The Doctor instantly denied.

"Because they're wearing totally different clothes from earlier."

The Stone sighed. She couldn't lie about them. He was Rory's father. "Seven weeks. The Doctor got very side-tracked."

Brian paused for a moment and looked between them. "What happened to the other people who travel with you?"

"Some left us. Some got left behind. And some," he swallowed reaching and grasping hold of the Stones hand. "Not many but, some died. Not them." He shook his head. "Not them, Brian." He glanced up and watched his daughter laughing with the Ponds. "Never them."

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After most of the guests left the Doctor and the Stone stood in the garden with Amy. "Can we stay here, with you and Rory, for a bit." The Doctor asked avoiding eye contact with Amy. "Keep an eye on the cubes. However long that takes."

"I thought it would drive you mad." Amy said looking at the Doctor.

"No, no, no." He shook his head. "I mean, I'll be better at it this time. We miss you, we can see Jenny likes it here." He smiled a little at the thought. "She clearly like it here with you and Rory."

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It was now July and the Time Lords sat in the lounge with the Ponds eating fish fingers and custard while the apprentice with Lord Sugar was playing on the TV.

"If I had a restaurant, this'd be all I'd serve." The Doctor informed through a mouthful of fish fingers.

The Stone chuckled at his antics as Amy scoffed. "Yeah, right. You running a restaurant."

"Oh, he has ran restaurants before,Amy." The Time Lady reassured as she shoved some pasta with mustard unto her mouth.

"See." He grinned. "Who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding?"

Rory blinked at him. "You didn't."

"Pudding, yet savoury," the Doctor remarked, "sound familiar?"

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After doing nothing all day the Doctor and Jenny were battling it out on the wii playing a game of Tennis while the Stone sat on the sofa reading.

"Oh, yes!" The Doctor exclaimed laughing while Jenny pouted. "Second set, Doctor! Haha! Oh, if Fred Perry could see me now, eh? He'd probably ask for his shorts back."

"Sweetheart play nice please." The Time Lady reminded.

"I am!"

"Jenny has no points yet."

"Yeah, he's cheating." The blonde pouted.

"Am not!"

"Doctor." She narrowed her eyes at him.

The Doctor swallowed and nodded. "Yes dear."

The Time Lady smiled. "Thank you, Sweetheart."

The Doctor poked his tongue out at her but continued to play the game with his daughter. He waved a hand in front of his face for a moment. "Dear I am playing-" he stopped staring at the cube that was floating in mid-air. "-nice"

The Stone frowned and looked over her book.
"Well, that is new." She muttered.

"Whatever you are, this planet, these people, are precious to us." The Doctor warned eyeing the cube. "And my wife and I will defend them to our last breath."

Jenny chuckled. "Is that all it can do, hover?" She asked. "Didn't you have a metal dog that could do that?"

The Stone nodded. "We did."

The cube then pointed a tube at the Doctor. "What's that?" He asked before dodging out of the way of a laser. He grabbed The Stones and Jenny's hands. "Time to go!"

They both complied and ran out the room. The Time Lady stopped after exiting and poked her head around the door to see the cube scanning the TV. "Well, you really have woken up."

"Doctor?" Rory said running into the kitchen. "Hi. Er, the cube in there, it just opened."

Amy ran down the stairs. "The cube upstairs just spiked me and took my pulse!" She showed her hand to them.

"Ha! Really?" The Doctor questioned. "Ours fired laser bolts and now it's surfing the net.

Brian entered the house as well. "You're never going to believe this." He looked between the five. "My cube just moved. It rattled."

Rory's phone rang. He quickly answered it after reading the caller ID. "Hello?"

"Rory, mate, I'm desperate for help." A man on the other end replied. "People are saying they've been attacked by the cubes. It's going to be a long night."

"Okay, I'm on my way." He ended the call. "I have to get to work. They need all the help they can get."

"Let me come," Brian offered. "Help out."

"Take your dad to work night, brilliant!" He nodded then looked at Amy. "Okay, are you going to be all right here?"

She nodded and kissed his cheek. "Keep away from the cubes."

"Right." They then left. The Doctor, the Stone and Jenny were looking at the Time Lords psychic paper, smiling.

"What are you three grinning at?" Amy asked noticing them.

The Doctor held out an arm for the Stone and placed his psychic paper in his pocket. "We're wanted at the Tower of London."

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Hopefully the gap between the next chapter won't be as big... especially when the next two chapters are quite important ones! Enjoy the holidays everyone <3