I'm well aware I stated that I was on holiday this week and was unable to update but I was editing in the car (between naps because I was so tired, getting up at 5 am drains you).

I'm not sure if there will be any update next week as College will have started again which is always hectic until I get back into the swing of things.

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The Doctor, Stone and Avery quickly arrived back at the door to the magazine room where Amy, Rory and Toby were barricaded, they began to bang on the door with their fists shouting for the three to open the door.

"Amy! Open the door!" The Doctor and the Stone cried.

"Rory!"

"Toby, open the door! Toby!"

"Open the door." The Stone shouted trying to force it open before the door flew open and she almost stumbled in the Doctor grabbing her to help her upright before he ran over to Toby and grabbed the medallion panting with breath he breathed on it to cloud the reflection as Amy, Rory and Toby frowned in confusion. Panting for breath the Doctor gave Avery a thumbs up as he sighed leaning against the Stone before dashing past Avery the Stone close behind as he ran into the Captains cabin and used the butt of a musket to break the glass in the windows as Avery stared.

"We've got to destroy every reflection. Gold, silver, glass, she could spring from any of them." He then broke the glass of the mirror before stopping and seeing the look on Avery's face. "Oh, yes, yes, I know, I know. Very bad luck to break it. But look at it this way. There's a stroppy homicidal mermaid trying to kill all."

"How much worse can things get?"

"Yep." He then looked down at all the gold. "Help us lug this lot out."

"Where are we taking it?"

"The ocean." The Doctor and the Stone replied.

"No!" Avery shouted before quieting down a bit. "No. This is the treasure of the Mogul of India."

"Oh, good." The Doctor groaned. "For a moment there I thought it was yours."

"No, no. Doctor, Stone." He looked at them pleadingly. "Wait. Must we do this?"

"Avery any reflection, any mirror, and the siren will attack." She protested almost snapping. "We have to protect Rory and Toby."

"Go and get the crown from the storeroom."

The Doctor started to throw Avery's gold out of the windows after he smashed the glass with the end of a stick, the Stone passed him the gold as he threw it out before she started to help him throw it out herself.

The Stone winced in pain pulling her hand back from the glass and freezing seeing a slight trickle of blood run down the side of her hand while some of it remained on the sharp glass of the window. "Stone..." The Doctor breathed instantly throwing a nearby blanket over all the remaining gold before he moved to her side grabbing her hand.

"It's only small." She reassured with a nervous smile.

"The Siren doesn't care if it's small, now you too are in danger." He whispered gently holding her hand in both of his.

"We know how it gets to us now though." She slowly nodded.

"I won't let anything happen to you, ever." He promised giving her a tight long hug, squeezing her as tight as possible without hurting her.

"I know." She whispered as the Doctor carefully raised her hand lightly kissing the cut after gently wiping the blood away.

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"Just wait?" Rory repeated what the Doctor said after they had arrived back.

"Not my most dynamic plan, I realise."

"TARDIS?" Amy questioned.

"It's been towed," he muttered.

"What?"

"Sorry." The Stone winced. "We might be stuck here for a while."

"So you're saying that we should all just wait here below?"

"Now that the Stone is cut as well." The Doctor muttered as Amy and Rory's eyes widened. "Only a small cut of glass but its still a cut I'm not leaving her here alone."

"The sea is still calm, like a mirror," Avery added. "If you go out on deck she'll rise up and attack you."

"It's okay." The Doctor started to smile. "The calm won't last forever. When the wind picks up we'll all set sail."

"Until it does, you have to hide down here."

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The Time Lords sat in silence for a while before the Stone spoke up. "No TARDIS." She sighed resting her head against the Doctors shoulder.

"I'm sorry this is my fault." The Doctor murmured.

"You're fault?" The Stone questioned with a frown.

"I saw the signal in the first place, I suggested we go." He shrugged.

"Oh, sweetheart." The Stone chuckled shaking her head at him. "It is my fault just as much as your fault."

"Hey umm." He swallowed not sure if he should bring it up or not after it only actually being three days for them both since they found out that the Stone was not pregnant. "Are you okay?"

"I think so." She sighed swallowing thickly.

"I'm always here for you dear." He whispered lightly stroking her cheek with the back of his forefinger. "Always."

"Love you." She murmured before the Doctor lightly ghosted his lips over his wife's.

"Love you too," he whispered softly kissing her before standing, he kissed her forehead before he headed out Avery following him after talking to Toby. The Stone looked over at Amy and Rory who were sleeping peacefully before she frowned seeing Amy look slightly distressed before the woman snapped up into a sitting position staring at a blank wall not seeing the Time Lady watching her.

"Oh dear..." The Stone quietly whispered seeing a terrified look on Amy's face.

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The Stone looked up hearing thunder and lightning before hearing the Doctor shouting at the top of his lungs: "Man the sails!"

"I guess I can say that I've now been a pirate." She muttered to herself as Rory snapped his eyes open.

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The rain poured on the Stones face causing it to drip off and onto the wooden floor boards, her clothes just like the Doctors were completely soaked from top to bottom.

"To the rigging, you dogs!" Avery shouted to the Stone, Amy and Rory. "Let go the sails. Avast ye! Put the bunt into the slack of the clews."

"I swear he's making half this stuff up." Amy muttered as the Stone ran to the wheel almost slipping as she skidded to a stop in the Doctors arms before they both pulled on the wheel trying to turn if in the storm.

The Time Lords then froze as they heard the clatter of something metal hit the floor. They looked to see that the golden crown the Doctor instructed to be thrown over board was hiding in the mans coat.

They watched as the siren appeared, the Doctor not daring to chance it picked the Stone up in his arms holding her legs under one arm while the other was at the back of her head before her body did anything out of her control.

The siren looked straight at Toby, as he slowly reached out for her. "Don't let her take you!" Avery shouted as the boy disappeared from the sirens touch, Amy grabbed Rory before he could move.

The Doctor swallowed hard and kicked the crown into the air and then tossed it into the sea with the arm holding up the Stones legs.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Avery whispered seeing the Doctor pull the Stone closer to himself, kissing her hair before he stormed over after setting the Stone down. "You couldn't give up the gold, could you." He shouted into his face the rain dripping off his lips and chin. "That's why you turned pirate. Your commission, your wife, your son. Just how much is that treasure worth to you, man?"

A loose spar of the ship then knocked Rory over board, his body crashed into the water disappearing in the water as the ran crashed into it. "Rory!" Amy shouted leaning over to look. "Rory! I can't see him. Doctor, Stone?" She cried out as they ran over to her. "I'm going in."

"No!" The Stone shouted grabbing the other ginger.

"He's drowning. He's drowning!" The Doctor protested also grabbing her wincing when she tried to fight them both off. "You go in after him, you'll drown too."

"There's only one thing that can save him now." The Stone swallowed.

"What are you talking about?"

"The Siren." The Doctor said as the Stone darted across the deck heading into the magazine room. "The Siren, she wants him." He shouted. "We have to release her."

"Doctor, no." Amy begged. The Doctor opened the barrel of fresh water and watched as the siren zoomed out of the barrel and into the air.

"He's drowning." The Doctor shouted. "Go and find him!"

The Siren then dived into the water. "What, what did you do?"

"If he stays in there he'll die."

"But she'll destroy him." Amy protested.

"That thing isn't just a ravenous hunter." The Stone said to Amy as she came back out of the magazine room.

"Exactly." The Doctor nodded. "It's intelligent. We can reason with it. And maybe, just maybe, they're still alive somewhere. We have to follow."

"Are you mad?" Avery asked.

"If we ever want to see them again, we have to let the Siren take us. We'll prick our fingers. All agreed? Yeah?"

"Aye." Avery nodded.

"Aye." Amy replied

"Aye."

The Stone shrugged. "Already got one." She showed the black spot on her hand. The Doctor nodded and kissed the back of her hand with the black spot before he pricked Avery and Amy's fingers before his own, his hand grasped the Stones before he moved the lid on the barrel of water and watched as the Siren appeared again. Slowly they all inched closer before there was a shine of bright light.

The Doctors eyes snapped open, feeling a metal floor beneath his feet his eyes darted around before he sighed kissing the Stones hair seeing her curled into him.

The Stones eyes slowly opened before she too shot up remembering what happened before she let out a sigh seeing that they were all okay. Amy did the same and then frowned in confusion. "Where are we?"

"We haven't moved." The Stone hummed seeing what was almost like looking through a window of the deck. "We're in exactly the same place as before, reminds me of Reinette." The Stone chuckled.

"Oh yeah." The Doctor nodded. "It does."

"You snogged her." The Stone snorted.

"I did not!" He loudly protested causing Avery to also wake up. "She tried to snog me!" He huffed. "Plus I was aloud to snog who I wanted back then. We." He gestured to himself and his wife. "Were not even a thing, thank you very much."

"Oh really?" She raised a brow. "You still got jealous of every guy under the sun when we were not even a thing thanks you very much."

"Fine." The Doctor pouted at his wife. "You win."

"I never will when my husband gives me that face." The Stone softly smiled.

"Reinette still snogged me."

"Oh get over it." The Stone chuckled before she frowned. "Wasn't she the first person to try and get us together."

"You know." The Doctor hummed. "I think she was."

Amy frowned at them both curious as to what happened but thought against asking. It obviously happened in previous regenerations with previous companions so it may have trended on uneasy ground.

"We're on a ghost ship." Avery said looking around the room.

"No. It's real." The Doctor corrected. "Space ship trapped in a temporal rift."

"How can two ships be in the same place?"

"Ah but it's kind of not in the same place." The Stone waved a finger in front of her. "It's very confusing."

"Two planes, two worlds, two cars parked in the same space. There are lots of different universes nested inside each other. Now and again they collide, and you can step from one to the other."

"Okay, I think I understand."

"Good-"

"It's not really like that at all." The Stone gave the Doctor a pointed look.

"But if that helps." He grinned at Amy.

"Thanks."

"All the reflections have suddenly become gateways." The Doctor said. He then picked up a piece of metal from the floor and threw it at the window. He watched as the metal traveled through the window and landed on the deck.

"Ever look in a mirror and think you're seeing a whole other world?" The Doctor hummed to the humans. "Well, this time it's not an illusion."

Suddenly there was a beeping noise that made the Time Lords both raise a brow. "The signal." Amy muttered.

"Yes." The Doctor nodded.

"The distress call."

"Uh huh."

"There was a second ship here all the time."

"And the Siren is on board." The Stone replied. The Doctor then opened the door to reveal an alien skeleton in a spacesuit, cobwebs all over it.

"Dead." The Doctor muttered.

They continued through the ship and moved to the bridge seeing more of the skeleton crew.

"You were right." Amy looked at the Doctor. "There was something staring at us the whole time. How long has this ship been marooned here?"

"Long enough for the Captain to have run out of grog," Avery said.

"I don't understand." Amy frowned looking at the skeleton of the Captain. "If this is the Captain, then what's the Siren?"

"Same as us." The Doctor said. "A stowaway."

"She killed it?"

"No." The Stone shook her head using her sonic to scan the skeleton. She looked at the results before nodding and popping her sonic back into her pocket. "Human bacteria."

"What?"

"A virus from our planet." The Doctor explained. "Airborne, travelling through the portal. That's what killed it. Didn't get its j-" he grimaced. "Aaaabs." A squelching sound was then heard as the Stone shivered stepping away from the Doctor. "Urgh. Look." He pulled his hand out of some gunk.

"What is it?" Amy questioned making a disgusted face.

"Sneeze." The Doctor replied stepping closer to the Stone who held her hands up. "Alien bogies."

"Touch me with that and you can sleep in the kitchen for a month Doctor."

"Why the kitchen?" he questioned trying to discreetly wipe it on Amy's coat.

"Because its actually quite comfortable in other places on the TARDIS."

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"McGrath!" Avery shouted when they walked into the sickbay, multiple bodies on beds. "He's one of my men."

"He's still breathing." Amy noticed the mans chest moving up and down.

"My entire crew is here." He then saw his son lying on one of the beds. "Toby!" He shouted running over to the boy.

Amy then cried out. "Rory!"

"The TARDIS!" The Doctor ran over the Stone laughed as she followed the Time Lord pressing himself up against the boxes doors with his back. The Stone chuckled tightly hugging him, her arms somehow getting around his waist. The Doctor smiled and kissed his wifes hair. "That's better, got both my girls now."

"Both your girls?" The Stone raised a brow and lightly patted the TARDIS door. "More like we got our Time Lord back."

The Doctor chuckled feeling the TARDIS buzz slightly.

Avery looked over at the Time Lords for a moment. "We have to get them out of here." He then looked at Toby. The Time Lords quickly moved over to him, the Stone scanned Toby before blinking. "His fever's gone."

"He looks so well." Amy muttered raising a hand to Rory's cheek as he slept.

"She's keeping him alive." The Doctor said moving towards Amy and Rory before he scanned the man with his screwdriver. "His brain is still active, but all its cellular activity is suspended. It's not a curse, it's a tissue sample. Why get samples of people you are about to kill?"

"Help me get him up."

The Doctor pressed a button and Rory began to wake, there was a beeping noise and quiet singing from the siren entered the room.

"She's coming." The Doctor whispered pulling Amy over to a bank of monitors, the Stone following behind them with Avery.

The Time Lords along with Amy and Avery watched closely from behind the monitors as the Siren appeared floating down and over to Rory, the wordless song filling the room. They closely watched as the Siren raised an arm over Rory's body seeming to calm him

"Anaesthetic." The Doctor muttered.

"What?" Avery frowned.

"The music. The song." The Stone cut in. "So she anaesthetises people and puts their body in stasis."

The Siren slowly moved over to Toby, Avery not completely understanding that the Siren meant well stepped out from hiding with his gun raised at the Siren.

"Avery, no!" The Doctor and the Stone both cried out; it was too late Avery had shot at the Siren which hissed and turned red. She moved closer to Avery before directing her attention to the Doctor who sneezed.

The Time Lords swallowed thichly backing up, the Stone pulling the Doctor whose eyes were fixed on the fire now in the Sirens hands. "Fire. That's new." He nerviously responded "What does fire do? Burn?"

"Yes." The Stone deadpanned pulling her husband back.

"Destroy? What else? Sterilise!" He exclaimed. "I sneezed. I've brought germs in." He then fumbled in his pocket for a moment before bringing out a handkerchief, blowing into it before throwing it on the floor. The Siren automatically blasted the handkerchief.

The Siren then hissed again and moved towards Amy when she stepped towards Rory.

"Amy, stop. Don't interfere." The Doctor shouted. "Don't touch him. Anaesthetic, tissue sample, screen, sterile working conditions. Ignore all my previous theories!"

"Yeah? Well, we stopped paying attention a while back." Amy snapped.

"Wait!" The Stone shouted pointing at the Siren. "She's not a killer at all, she's a doctor!"

Amy quickly backed away from Rory's life support and watched as the Siren returned to green, no longer a fiery red. The Doctor let out a deep breath quickly kissing the Stones head before he spoke. "This is an automated sick bay. It's teleporting everyone on board. The crew are dead, and so the sick bay has had nothing to do. It's been looking after humanity whilst it's been idle. Look at her." He laughed.

"A virtual doctor able to sterilise a whole room.

"Able to burn your husbands face off." Amy said wondering why the Stone was actually fine with this.

"She's just an interface, seeped through the join between the planes, broadcast in our world." The Stone explained.

"Protean circuitry means she can change her form, and become a human doctor for humans." The Doctor added. "Oh, sister, you are good."

"She won't let us take them."

"She's keeping them alive, but she doesn't know how to heal them."

"I'm his wife, for God's sake." Amy choked out. "Why can't I touch him?"

"Tell her." The Stone spoke up nodding at the Siren while the Doctor nodded in agreement.

"Amy. Show her your ring. She may be virtual but she's intelligent. You can't do anything without her consent." Amy slowly nodded and raised the hand with her wedding ring closer to the Siren.

"Come on. Sophisticated girl like you. That must be somewhere in your core program."

"Look, he's very ill, okay?" Amy choked a whisper. "I just want to look after him. Why won't you let me near my husband?"

The Siren then held out her hand and a circle of light appeared around it.

"It's basically a consent form." The Stone explained. "Sign it. Put your hand in the light."

"Rory's sick. You have to take full responsibility."

Amy placed her hand in the light and watched as the Siren disappeared. She then went over and switched off Rorys life support machine and helplessly watched as the man gasped for air.

"He can't breathe. Turn it back on."

Amy quickly did so, turning the machine back on and watched as Rory's breathing levelled out again.

"What do we do?" Amy looked at the Time Lords. "I can't just leave him here."

"He'll die if you take him out." Avery said.

"Rory?" Amy whispered lightly pressing on his shoulder, forcing him to lightly move but being careful to not actually hurt him. "Rory, wake up."

Rory lightly coughed before blinking at them all. "Where am I?"

"You're in a hospital." The Stone swallowed thickly at the Doctors words. "If you leave, you might die."

"But if you don't, you'll have to stay forever." Amy finished.

"You're saying that if I don't get up now-"

"You can never leave."

"The Siren will keep you safe." The Doctor explained.

"And if I come with you?"

"Drowning, on the point of death." The Stone quietly replied.

"I'm a nurse." He said looking right at Amy.

"What?"

"I can teach you how to save me."

"Whoa." Amy slightly backed up. "Hold on."

"I was drowning. You just have to resuscitate me."

"Just?"

"You've seen them do it loads of times in films. CPR. The kiss of life."

"Rory, this isn't a film, okay?" Amy's eyes widened fearing what he was actually asking her to do. "What if I do it wrong?"

"You won't."

"Okay, what if you don't come back to life?" She started to go off. "What if-"

"I trust you."

"What about them?" Amy looked at the Doctor and the Stone who both swallowed nervously glancing at each other for a moment. "I mean, why do I have to be the one? Why do I have to save you?"

"Because I know you'll never give up."

The Doctor and the Stone took the opportunity to leave the Ponds for a couple of moments.

"We have to send this ship back into space." The Doctor quietly said to Avery who was watching over Toby. "Imagine if the Siren got ashore. She would have to process every injured human."

"What about Toby?"

"We're sorry." The Stone lightly shook her head. "Typhoid fever. Once he returns it's only a matter of time."

"What if I stay with him, here." Avery looked up. "The Siren will look after him. I can't go back to England. And what home does he have now, if not with me?"

The Doctor softly smiled seeing that Avery was stepping up to being a father, something he most likely could never do himself anytime soon. "Do you think you can sail this thing?"

"Just point me to the atom accelerator." He joked making the Time Lords chuckle.

"I know you can do this." They heard Rory reassure Amy again. "Of course, if you muck it up I am going to be really cross. And dead."

"I'll see you in a minute." She promised. The Stone then ripped off Rory's restraints. The man gasped and threw his arms over the Doctors and Amy's shoulders who carried him towards the TARDIS while the Stone opened the doors allowing them to carry him inside and place him onto the glass floor.

Amy began to do CPR with one breath for ever five pumps on his chest. The Time Lords knelt off to the side, the Doctors arms wrapped around the Stone, nervously biting one nail as the Stone squeezed his hand trying to at least calm him, if not herself down.

"Come on. Come on, Rory." The Doctor mutteree as Amy continued with the CPR. "Not here. Not this way. Not today."

"He trusted me." Amy began to sob. "He trusted me to save him."

"You still can." The Stone shakily said. "You can still do this."

"He believes in you. Come on, Amy. Come on!"

"Please, please, please wake up." Amy cried as she did CPR. "Wake up. Wake up. Come on. Come on." She then stopped, crying, unable to continue on as she cried on Rory's chest. The Doctor and the Stone swallowed hard, the Doctor tightly hugging the Stone while he placed his free hand on Amy's shoulder trying to at least comfort her.

After a few moments Rory then began to cough up water before finally gasping as Amy's eyes widened. The Doctor let out a sigh and jumped up with the Stone the both of them giving the Ponds some time as they piloted the TARDIS.

"Amy." Rory tightly hugged her while she cried into his chest and then neck. "Amy, you did it. You did it!"

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After the Time Lords had helped Avery wake up all his men and had shown him how to fly the ship as basic as possible they left the man, his son and crew while they returned to the TARDIS, seeing Amy and Rory about to head to bed.

"I thought I was an excellent pirate." Amy hummed.

"I thought you were an excellent nurse."

"Easy, tiger." Amy then nodded at the Time Lords who stood looking at the scanner. "Goodnight, Doctor, Stone."

"Goodnight, Amelia." They both replied eyes fixed on the scanner.

"You both only call me Amelia when you're worrying about me." She frowned at them.

"We always worry about you." The Stone replied.

After a pause Amy replied. "Mutual, Stone."

"Go to bed, Pond." The Doctor said and watched as Rory whispered something to Amy before they both left.

The Doctor sighed as the Stone slightly tilted her head watching as the full body scan that couldn't decide whether Amy was indeed pregnant or not.

"Oh, Amelia." The Doctor murmured glancing at the Stone who shared the same slightly concerned expression as he did.