I know it's technically the 11th now (yeah I planned to have this chapter out late on the 10th but that didn't work out in my favour I guess) so I have 13 days (technically 12 now) with 13 chapters, that's one chapter a day. I wonder if anyone will be able to work out the link between Doctor Who and the end date. 

Whoever figures it out wins absolutely nothing (sorry!) just a bit of fun :)

-Ev

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"Apalapucia." The Doctor ran around the TARDIS and pulled a lever.

"Say it again?"

"Apalapucia."

"Apalapu-" Amy tried to say it.

"Chia." The Stone supplied.

"Apalapucia." Rory nodded.

"Apalapucia." The Time Lords grinned.

"Apalapucia. What a beautiful word." The ginger human hummed.

"Beautiful word, beautiful world." The Doctor clapped his hands together. "Apalapucia, voted number two planet in the top ten greatest destinations for the discerning intergalactic traveller."

Rory frowned and walked towards the Doctor. Stopping in front of him. "Why couldn't we go to number one?"

"It's hideous. Everyone goes to number one." He waved his arms about scolding the idea in an instant. "Planet of the coffee shops."

The Stone brightened slightly before faintly remembering. "They have no mint tea..."

"Exactly." The Doctor nodded. "No tea is no good especially when my wife needs her tea." He winked at the Time Lady and then looked back at their companions. "Apalapucia. We give you sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades. We give you-" he opened the door of the TARDIS, his face fell at a grey door at the opposite end with white space between it.

"Doors." Rory flatly added.

"Doors. Yes." The Doctor said in agreement. "We give you doors. But on the other side of those doors, We give you sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades."

"Have you seen my phone?" Amy asked.

"Your phone?" The Doctor questioned sounding annoyed.

"Yeah."

"Your mobile telephone? We bring you to a paradise planet, two billion light years from Earth, and you want to update Twitter."

"Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades," Amy repeated what he said earlier. "It's a camera phone."

"On the counter, by the DVDs." He mumbled.

"Thank you." Amy nodded and then disappeared into the TARDIS.

"How do we get in?" Rory asked walking up to the doors. The Doctor and Stone beside him with their arms linked together.

"I don't know." The Doctor shrugged. "Push a button."

Rory then did so pressing the green anchor and stepped through the doors that opened. The Time Lords followed noticing a glass table and white chairs in the room. A large magnifying glass like item in the centre.

"Okay, so rain check on the soaring silver colonnades." The Doctor muttered wondering around.

"Yeah." Rory slowly replied. "It's a magnifying glass."

"Hey?" Amy said through the door. "Hey, it's locked."

"Yeah, push the button."

The three waiting. The Time Lords each raised a brow when nothing happened to the door.

"Come on, Amy." Rory sighed.

The Doctor and the Stone sat down and Rory walked to the door and opened it.

"Where is she?" He turned to the Time Lords. "Where on wherever we are is my wife?"

The Doctor glanced at the Stone and then the magnifying glass and noticed a green button on the handle. A red button below it. The Stone swallowed hard seeing a picture fizz before they both saw Amy.

"Rory, I think the Doctor found her." The Time Lady quietly answered.

"What do you mean you've found her?" He frowned on the opposite side. He then jumped back seeing her through the glass. "Whoa." He then looked above the glass seeing just the Doctor and the Stone on the other side. "No, but, she's not, she's not here." He sat back down. "I can see her, but she's not here."

"Where am I?" Amy asked and then leaned into the magnifying glass. "In fact, where are you?"

A door on the other side of the room then slid open and a robot with a blank face and entered the room holding out a single arm with a hand raised.

"Whoa."

"Hands." The Stone stated. The Doctor wriggled his own standing up.

"Hello, hands. Robot with hands, Rory."

"Welcome to the Twostreams facility." The robot greeted. "Will you be visiting long?"

"Er, Doctor, something's happening," Amy said as the image in the glass started to jump.

"Er, Amy?" The Doctor worryingly asked while she was moving around in it. "Stay calm. Stay still. Ah, time's gone wobbly." He groaned. The Stone attempted to try and use her sonic to fix it. "I hate it when it does that."

"You're not the only one sweetheart." The Stone muttered.

"Will you be visiting long?" The handbot asked Rory again.

"Good question." The man pointed at it backing away from it. "Bit sinister. What's the answer to not get us killed?"

"It's okay," the Doctor sighed when the Time Lady managed to get the image back. "Well done dear." He kissed the Stones forehead. "We've got you." He told Amy. "You're fine."

"Will you be visiting long?"

"Stone? A little help, Stone." Rory pleaded.

Amy looked up at them from where she was crouched on the floor. "And where have you three been?"

"What do I tell it?" He asked the Time Lady.

"I've been here a week."

"A week?!" The Time Lords screeched.

"Oh, Amy." The Stone winced.

"We're so sorry." The Doctor apologised. "Ah-ha. Same room, different times. Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream."

"Doctor, it's going again." Amy cried while the screen fizzed again.

"Stone!" Rory pleaded in a corner.

"Amy!" Both the Time Lords shouted.

"Doctor!" Amy cried out. The Stone quickly used her sonic to keep the image again. "Come on."

"Gotcha." The Doctor sighed. The Stone placed her sonic away. "There. Stabilised, settled, shush."

"Why has this got hands?" Rory pointed at the one hand raised.

"Organic skin." The Stone answered walking over with the Doctor. "Ultimate universal interface, grown and grafted, not born."

"It's actually seeing with its fingers, scanning the room." The Doctor frowned for a moment. "But why not just give it eyes?"

"Will you be visiting long?" It repeated making the Time Lords slightly annoyed.

"As long as it takes." The Doctor answered. "Amy, what exactly did you do?"

"I just, I came in and I pressed the door button."

"Oh." Rory started to groan. "Amy, there are two buttons. The green anchor and the red waterfall. Which one did you push?"

"I pushed the red waterfall."

"Great." He muttered walking and pressing the button to exit before pressing the red waterfall button. He leaned in and frowned when Amy was not there.

"Amy?" He said aloud before leaning back and pressing the green anchor. "I pressed Red Waterfall, and she wasn't there."

"Okay, so you can't follow her directly." The Doctor said. "You know, it's never simple. Did you hear that, Handbot?" He stood up. "She pressed the wrong button, that's all. We're aliens, we didn't know."

A red light on the handbot lit up. The Stone frowned curiously and stepped beside the Doctor. "Statement rejected. Apalapucia is under planet-wide quarantine. This is a kindness facility for those infected with Chen Seven." The Time Lords eyes widened. The Doctor grabbed and covered his nose and mouth with his coat while the Stone did the same with her beanie. Rory copied the Doctor not sure what was going on.

"What?" The Doctor croaked stepping closer to the Stone who looked just as worried as he was.

"Chen Seven, hmm?"

"The one day plague." The Stone muffled worryingly looking at the Doctor. Tightly she grasped his hand with her free one.

"What, you get it for a day?"

"No, you get it, and you die in a day." The Doctor answered.

"There are forty thousand residents in the Twostreams Facility." The bot continued. "Please remain in the sterile areas. Visiting hours are now." The Time Lords let out a thankful sigh as the handbot beamed away

The Stone returned her beanie to her head and tightly hugged the Doctor who buried his face in her neck. "You're okay." He murmured thankful thankfully. Lightly kissing her neck and then her lips. "You're okay."

"We both are." She let out a shaky breath. "Oh, Doctor."

"What about me?" Amy asked though her hands on her mouth.

"Chen Seven only affects two-hearted races like Apalapucians." The Doctor said wrapping his arm tightly around the Stone.

"And Time Lords." Rory nodded understanding why they reacted like they did. He was slightly surprised that the Doctor wasn't already inside the TARDIS checking the Stone over in the med bay after how he reacted when she told him she felt sick in America.

"Yeah, like us." He gave the Stone a quick glance. "Walk into that facility, we're dead in a day."

"With no regeneration." The Stone quietly added.

"Time moves faster on Amy's side of the glass." The Doctor explained.

"Amy, you said you'd been here a week. What did you eat?"

"Nothing." She frowned. "I wasn't hungry."

"No, because that Red Waterfall time is compressed." The Stone explained.

"That's the point." The Doctor added. "The Time Glass syncs up the two timestreams for visits. You could be in here for a day, and watch them live out their entire lives."

"And watch them grow old in front of your eyes?" Rory said sounding horrified. "That's horrible." He muttered.

"No, Rory, it's kind." The Stone quietly replied. "You've got a choice. Sit by their bedside for twenty-four hours and watch them die, or sit in here for twenty-four hours and watch them live. Which would you choose?"

He went to open his mouth before closing it as the Doctor pulled the time glass out of the table. "Doctor?" Amy cried. "Stone no, please don't leave me."

"We're here, Amy." The Time Lady reassured trying to speak as softly as possible hearing the terror in her voice.

"Where are you?" She looked around. "Am I looking at you?"

"Turn left just a fraction." The Doctor said holding up the glass, seeing Amy look to the left. "Bit more." He said as she shuffled. "Stop. That's it."

"Eye to eye?"

"Eye to eye to eye to eye." He grinned.

"Hello." Rory waved.

"Amy, we're taking the Time Glass back to the TARDIS." The Doctor said scanning it with his sonic. "Like satnav, we'll use it to get a lock, then smash through using the TARDIS to get you out. Until then, you're on your own."

"Er, what are you doing?" Rory looked at them. The Stone took the glass from the Doctor who continued to sonic it.

"Locking it on to Amy. Small act of vandalism. No one'll mind."

An alarm then blared.

"I'm guessing that would be Ah, the small act of vandalism alarm." The Stone pipped up looking around.

"Amy, we need you to go into the facility just for a bit." The Doctor informed. "Find somewhere safe and leave us a sign."

"Remember, you're immune to Chen Seven, but don't let them give you anything." The Stone firmly reminded. "They don't know you're alien. I'm trying to put this as nicely but their kindness will kill you."

Amy nodded and stood up, turning around and pressing a button. The door slid open and she then looked at where the time glass was.

"Rory, I love you." She announced stepping through. "Now save me. Go on."

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"This is locked onto Amy permanently." The Stone set the magnifying glass into the console as the Doctor pressed multiple buttons.

"Play the signal into the console, the TARDIS'll follow it." He spun around and dug through a toolbox. "Now then, I know you're in here." The Doctor then grinned and turned around in front of the Stone revealing that he was actually wearing the thick black rimmed glasses his previous regeneration wore.

"Ha ha!" He exclaimed grinning from ear to ear. "How do I look?"

"Are they-" the Stone went to ask for clarification. "Are they the glasses your last incaranation wore?"

"Yep!" He beamed.

"Ridiculous." Rory muttered crossing his arms.

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Glasses are cool, see?" He pointed at his face. The Stone nodded in agreement only making the Doctors smile widen further. The Time Lord then quickly removed the glasses from his face and placed them on Rory before his had a chance to reply.

"Oh, yes." The Doctor smirked slightly. "Hello, handsome man."

Rory blinked. "Oh, hello."

"Hello, Rory-cam." The Stone chuckled waving at Rory and then looked at the Time glass.

"Huh?" He then nodded following the Time Lady's eye. "Oh, you can see what I see."

"We're breaking into Twostreams." The Doctor announced. "Now, the Stone and I can't go in there."

Like we said earlier. the Chen Seven will kill us and there would be no regeneration."

The Doctor nodded placing an arm around the Stone, even hearing that the Stone wouldn't regenerate made him anxious and forced him to hold her beside him just so he could reassure himself. "You will be our eyes and ears."

"Rory-cam. Rescue Amy." He repeated in a more simple form. "Got it."

"That's the spirit." The Doctor patted the man on the back.

The Stone grimaced a little. "Smashing through a time wall might be a little difficult-"

The Doctor nodded quickly cutting in before Rory opened his mouth to question them. "A difficulty I'm sure we shall overcome." He tried to reassure the human.

"Is it safe?" He asked looking between them.

The Doctor shrugged in reply. "Don't know. Never tried." He waved a hand and turned to the console. "Best hold onto something."

Rory held onto the railing while the Doctor pulled down the lever. The Stone grasping his hand while the TARDIS slightly shook before stopping with a small thud.

Rory quickly headed out of the doors with the time glass. "Red Waterfall." He said aloud glancing at the small sign painted onto the wall. "We made it."

"Good old us." The Doctor moved around the console.

"How do we know that we're in the same Red Waterfall as Amy?"

The Doctor and the Stone paused their faces falling at the thought of the ginger human still possibly being lost all on her own. "Focus on the positive." He quickly answered.

"We locked onto Amy's timestream." The Stone announced before snorting at what Rory was looking at.

The Doctor rolled his eyes at the scanner seeing that there was a sculpture of a greek woman with her top half showing. "Eyes front, soldier." He ordered. Trust the Stone to laugh at that. Of course she wouldn't if it was the Doctor staring at that sculpture.

"Right, yes. Sorry." Rory apologised walking on past the sculpture.

"Apalapucians are the great cultural scavengers, Rory." The Stone explained to the curious human who was turning his head to look at every artefact on show. "This gallery is sort of like a scrapbook of their favourite places in a sense."

"Bit of Earth." Rory muttered walking past a painting of the Mona Lisa and then a rock. "Bit of alien, bit of-" he paused looking at a purple rock that seemed to have been leaking. "Whatever the hell that is." He walked through a doorway and frowned seeing that it was completely empty. "Where is everyone?" He asked.

"Rory switch the Time Glass on use my sonic." Rory pressed the green button on the glass and brought out the Stones sonic. He then frowned at it and the Stone remembered after all this time he has never actually touched her sonic before. "It works exactly the same as the Doctors." She supplied. The man then nodded slightly rolling his eyes, most likely hitting himself over the head about how stupid they both probably thought he was by being confused about how to work the sonic. The Doctor may have believed he looked a little stupid but the Stone surely didn't believe it.

"I'm sending a command signal to the Stones sonic." The Doctor worked on the console. "Amy's here somewhere, if I can just get a lock on her."

"I wonder what happens if we mix the filters?" The Stone suggested. The Doctor grinned in an unvocal response. Their eyes widened. Hundreds of blurry figures made their way past the time glass.

"Oh, there they are." The Doctor muttered. "Forty thousand time streams overlapping. Red Waterfall isn't one time stream, it's thousands."

"Are they happy?" He asked. The Stone sighed quietly and the Doctor replied. "Oh, Rory. "Trust you to think of that. I think they're happy to be alive." His eyes flickered to the Stone briefly. "Better than the alternative."

He slightly nodded and lowered the time glass. A figure with their face covered, red hair and armour ran towards the human who quickly held up his hands in defensive while leaning back. "I come in peace." He quickly said. "Peace, peace, peace, peace."

"I waited." The unrecognisable voice from the creature blurted out.

"Sorry, what?" Rory frowned.

"I waited for you. I waited for you." They repeated. They then raised their helmets. Both the Doctor and the Stones mouths gaped open at what they were seeing.

"Amy." Rory breathed automatically reconsidering her. His wife who looked older. Much older with slightly visible wrinkles taking over her face and cold, old eyes. Not as old as the Doctors or the Stones but definitely older than before she left the blue box.

"Stone, what's going on?" He asked. Feeling his mouth impossibly dry.

The Time Lady froze. She didn't touch the console so she didn't know what happened. Not that it was the Doctors fault either but he knew what he pressed or pulled

"Amy." Rory repeated for the second time.

The Stone quietly muttered seeming to have found her voice: "In the words of my husband: I think the timestream lock might be a bit wobbly...l

Without a word, Amy raised the sword in her hand. "No, please. Please." Rory quietly begged.

"Duck." She ordered in a monotone voice. The man did as told as quickly as possible. He felt the hair on his head move slightly in the wind while the redhead's sword came into contact with the head of the hand bot that was behind him.

"Handbots carry a black box in case they go offline," Amy stated. "I changed the cause of termination from hostile to accidental." She stepped over the bot and used what looked like a sonic on it. "Easy to re-programme. Used my sonic probe."

"Amy."

"Rory."

"Why?" He questioned."

"Because I've survived this long by making the Handbots think I don't exist." She turned away from him. Slipping her katana into its holder. "Don't touch the hands. There's anaesthetic transfer on the skin. If they touch you, you go to sleep."

"But you're still here?"  He looked at her shocked.

Amy turned to him. Her voice flat and emotionless. "You didn't save me."

"But, this is the saving." He said in a much louder voice, seeming to be growing angry. "This is the us saving you." He then started to shout. "The Doctor and the Stone just got the timing a bit out!"

The Stone winced a little and the Doctor mouthed an apologie to the man. "Sorry."

"I've been on my own here a long, long time." Amy argued looking at Rory. "I've had decades to think nice thoughts about them. Got a bit harder to stay charitable once I entered decade four."

"Forty years?" His eyes widened. "Alone?"

"Thirty-six years." She corrected moving her hair a little. "Thanks."

"No. Right. I mean, you look great." He smiled a little. "Really, really."

"Eyes front, soldier." She ordered. The Stone snorted.

"Still can't win then." Rory chuckled,

"In fact, I think I can now definitely say I hate them." Amy cut Rory off. The Stones eyes snapped up to the scanner, her smile wiped off her face. The Doctors eyes copied her. Both of them glued to the screen. "I hate The Doctor and the Stone. I hate them more than I've ever hated anyone in my life, and you can hear every word of this through those ridiculous glasses, can't you, Raggedy Man and of course I cannot forget you tattered Stone."

The Stone swallowed hard. Her voice sounding much like it could be venom if possible. "Er, yes." The Doctor said trying to sound slightly cheerier than he was currently feeling. "Putting the speakerphone on."

"You told me to wait, and I did." She glared at the glasses. "A lifetime."

"Amy." They tried to warn her only to be cut off.

"You've got nothing to say to me."

"Amy, behind you." The Stone ignored her. Eyes showing slight fear. She wished she could go in and help Rory to get Amy. To somehow fix this and apologise but she couldn't. It would be selfish. Not only she would die permanently but so would the Doctor,

Instantly Amy ducked under the two handbots that were behind her. She grasped onto their wrists and forced them both to touch hands. Making them bend over. "Feedback. Knocks them out. Learned that trick on my first day."

"Okay, so we just take the Tardis back to the right time stream, yeah?" Rory asked. "We can stop any of this happening."

The Doctor slowly shook his head. "We locked on to a timestream, Rory. This is it."

"This is so wrong." He countered.

Amy shook her head and continued on. Walking through the arrival area. "I got old, Rory." She rolled her eyes. "What did you think was going to happen?"

"Hey." He grabbed ahold of her wrist. Forcing the redhead to turn around and look at him. "I don't care that you got old. I care that we didn't grow old together." She pulled her arm away. "Amy, come on, please."

"Don't touch me." She shook her head stepping back. "Don't do that."

"It's like you're not even her."

"Thirty-six years, three months, four days of solitary confinement. This facility was built to give people the chance to live." She looked straight at the glasses. The Doctor and the Stone swallowed hard knowing that she was no longer talking to Rory but talking to them. "I walked in here and I died. Do either of you have anything to say? Anything, Doctor, Stone?

"Where did you get a sonic screwdriver?" The Doctor blurted out.

The Stone pinched the bridge of her nose and held herself back, desperately wanting to hit the Doctor around the head. He would then start to whine and she couldn't try to get Amy or Rory to distract him giving the situation.

"I made it." She replied before narrowing her eyes. "And it's a sonic probe."

"You made a sonic screwdriver?" Rory asked while Amy flashed the probe at the door unlocking it.

"Probe." She corrected walking inside to where she stayed for thirty-six years.

After walking inside Rory was taken back and actually did step back after seeing a handbot that upon closer inspection had a smiley face drawn onto it. "Oh."

"Don't worry about him." She waved the handbot off. "Sit down, Rory."

He blinked at the handbot which also sat down. Fitting the pieces together he looked at Amy. "You named him after me?"

"Needed a bit of company." Amy shrugged it off like it was nothing at all. The Stone closely watched the screen. Only able to imagine the hurt look on Rorys face at this moment.

"So he's like your pet?" He asked eyeing the handbot. "Is it safe?"

"Yep." She nodded finding the remains of her lipstick in a small box. "I disarmed it."

"How?" He blinked noticing that she had removed the handbots hands. Making it more like a bot than a handbot, "Oh, you disarmed it."

"Oh, don't get sentimental, it's just a robot." She rolled her eyes. "You'd have done the same."

"I don't know that I would have." The Doctor dryly replied not sure if she was actually talking to them or to Rory.

"And there he is." She looked at the glasses. "The voice of God. Survive, because no one's going to come for you unless you're a two hearted Time Lady." The words dropped from her tongue like poison. It sounded like she had been planning this for a while. If she even did see them again. "Number one lesson. You taught me that."

"Is that really all we taught you?" The Stone crossed her arms. Challenging the other ginger.

"Don't you lecture me, about your blue-box man flying through time and space on whimsy. All I've got, all I've had for thirty-six years, is cold, hard reality. So no, I don't have a sonic screwdriver because I'm not off on a romp. I call it what it is. A probe. And I call my life what it is. Hell..

"Whimsy?" The Stone gritted her teeth. Trying to at least stay calm. She let it pass before but now she couldn't even do that. "Amelia Pond you may think you know us but we have been alive a lot longer than you and we have seen things come and go." The Doctor quietly wince. This wasn't going to end well. Either Amy would snap back or the Stone would regret it later on, "I have forgotten companions because of the Daleks and I know that the only one I can remember who I saw as my own daughter is dead just like the rest of my children. I almost lost the Doctor multiple times. Some of those times even my own fault. So before you try to talk to me about lecturing you remember that don't have a clue who I am half the time."

The Doctor swallowed hard at her words. The ginger human stared at them through the glasses on Rory's face. Her eyes showed some regret but also anger in them. The Doctor clapped his hands together and put on a brave face. "Amy Pond, I am going to put this right. You said you learned from an interface. Can I speak with it?"

Amy shook her head at him. "Doesn't work in here." She checked her watch. "Two twenty-three. The garden'll be clear now. Stay or go?"

"Sorry, me?" Rory checked snd shook his head. "No, I'm coming with you."

"Then try not to get killed." She replied walking off, "Or do. Whatever."