With Rita's body joining Howies and Joe's the Stone sat on the floor in the hotels restaurant as the Doctor threw a chair across the room, she watched as the Time Lord broke more and more objects before having enough, the Doctor continued to throw objects, around the Stone as she walked through the restaurant and towards him before standing in front of the Doctor who was about to break a rather large and possibly, expensive vase.

The Doctors eyes softened as if he was never even angry in the first place and his body froze on him as the Stone slowly and gently removed the vase from his grasp and placed it onto a nearby table which was still in one piece.

Without saying a word the Stone tightly hugged the Doctor as he let out a shaking breath into her shoulder, his face hiding in it and the gingers hair.

The Stone gave a sad smile to Amy and Rory who closely watched before she gently dragged the Doctor around a corner to have a word away from the humans and Gibbs who had emerged from the kitchen after hearing all the commotion brought on by the Doctor.

After calming the Doctor down the two Time Lords returned, to see Amy and Rory sat side by side at one table, Gibbs nervously sat at the table on their left with another empty table on his left.

The Stone softly smiled at Amy and Rory who slowly nodded while at the Time Lady as she held the Doctors hand and walked over to the table.

The two sat down and the Doctor entwined his fingers with his wife before looking at her and letting out a sigh.

"I needed that. Thank you, dear."

The Time Lady lightly nudged him. "Got to put you in your place now and again."

The Doctor let out a small chuckle, causing Amy to look over at the two in some form of hope. If she learned anything travelling with them it was that If those two were alright then everything was going to be alright in the end.

"Okay." The Doctor slowly nodded after a moment. "It preys on people's fear and possesses them."

The Stone looked at her husband and tilted her head ever so slightly. "But Rita wasn't afraid?" She questioned herself more than the Doctor. "She was brave and calm, yes she did run away but she did that to try and protect us, she was very brave."

The Doctor slowly nodded. "Maybe it's something to do with the people?" He asked. "Maybe there is some connection between the four of you that'll tell us how to fight it."

"Yes," Gibbs sighed. "You keep saying that, but you never do. And while we wait, people keep dying. And we'll be next."

The Stone narrowed her eyes at the alien who swallowed hard before he turned to Amy who spoke up. "Look, they'll work it out. They always do. You just got to let the Stone prompt him somehow and she'll point him in the right direction, it's how they work, they're like tennis rackets, throw the ball in and they'll bounce it right off each other."

The Stones eyes widened and she snapped her head around to the Doctor who stared at her, looking just as pale as she was.

"Do you...?"

"Yes." The Stone whispered looking back at Amy who frowned at them. "This is very, very bad..."
Now Rory was looking panicked. "Stone... what's wrong?"

"We were wrong." She swallowed hard, looking at her companion. "It's faith. Not just religious faith, faith in something."

"I don't understand?" Amy spoke up, looking at the two. "What's wrong?"

The Doctor rubbed his forehead before he stood up and walked to the bar before he sat down on the chair. "Howard believed in conspiracies, that external forces controlled the world. Joe had dice cufflinks and a chain with a horseshoe. He was a gambler. Gamblers believe in luck, an intangible force that helps them win or lose. Gibbis has rejected any personal autonomy and is waiting for the next batch of invaders to oppress him and tell him what to do. They all believe there's something guiding them, about to save them. That's what it replaces. Every time someone was confronted with their most primal fear, they fell back on their most fundamental faith."

The Stone lowered her eyes. "And all this time, we've have been telling you to make your faith stronger, to dig deep and find the one thing that keeps you brave, we made you expose your faith and show them what they needed, that's what's wrong."

"But why us?" Rory questioned. "Why are we here?"

The Stone shook her head and got up, slowly walking towards the human couple. "It doesn't want you, Rory. That's why it kept showing you an exit, you're not religious and you're not at all superstitious, you don't have any belief at all so there's no faith for you to fall back on." She looked at Amy while the Doctor stayed quiet. "It wants your wife, Rory."

"What?" He snapped his eyes over to Amy who looked at the Stone in shock. "Me, why?"

"Your faith in us." The Doctor looked up. "The Stone and I, that's what brought us here."

"But why do they lose their faith before they die and start worshipping... it?"

"It needs to convert the faith into a form it can consume." The Doctor explained. "Faith is an energy, the specific emotional energy the creature needs to live. Which is why at the end of her note, Lucy said..."

"Praise him," Amy whispered.

"Exactly." The Doctor and the Stone nodded.

A moment later their eyes met each other in horror as Rory stood up. "No." He pleaded. "Oh, please, no."

They all looked up after hearing a low growl before the five took off into a sprint and darted out of the restaurant and down a corridor.

After turning multiple corners the creature eventually caught up with the five, Amy began to slow down before she stopped in the middle of a corridor, the Stone suddenly turned around and grabbed her.

"He is beautiful." The ginger human whispered.

"I would be careful what you say." The Stone replied, grabbing one of Amy's arms as the Doctor grabbed the other. "Husbands can get quite protective at times."

"Not the time dear!" The Doctor replied as they dragged Amy into a room.

They froze and stared at another, younger, in fact, Amy or rather Amelia sat on a suitcase and looked out of a window and into the night.

Rory pressed himself up and against the door as the creature began to pound in it while Amy dropped to her knees.

"Doctor, Stone, it's happening." The human looked at them as they crouched down beside her. "It's changing me. It's changing my thoughts."

"We can't save you from this." The Doctor shook his head. "There's nothing we can do to stop this."

"What?" Amy looked at them.

"Amy we stole your childhood and now we've led you by the hand right to your death. Do you know what the worse thing about this all is?" She asked and watched as Amy slowly shook her head.

The Doctor took his wife's hand and sighed. "We knew this would happen because this is what always happens."

The creature suddenly forced the door to fly open. "Amy you need to forget your faith in us." The Stone added.

"I took you with us because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored." He shook his head. "I should have realised that I don't need to bring people alone to be adored when I have my wife right in front of me."

The Stone chuckled slightly. "And I had enough." She cut in. "Enough of listening to the Doctor complain about the Universe every day, I wanted him to complain and show the wonders to someone else, someone who hadn't seen it all before.

The Doctor gently placed a hand on Amy's cheek as she stared at both the Time Lords. "Look at you. Glorious Pond, the girl who waited for us. We're not heroes. I really am just a mad man in a box who has an even madder wife."

"Amy it's time we saw each other as we really are."

The Doctor smiled and kissed Amy's forehead. "Amy Williams, it's time to stop waiting for us."

The Stone turned around after hearing a loud thud and the Doctor stood up and followed. "We severed the food supply, sacrificing their faith in us." She looked at her husband who slowly nodded.

"We gave you the space to die." He gently knelt on the floor next to the Stone.

The two Time Lords looked up as the hotel slowly disappeared away, being replaced with a black floor with a blue grid and black walls, there was a single blue light from the ceiling and a green panel with yellow writing coming up on a screen.

"What is it, a minotaur or an alien?" Amy asked. "Or an alien minotaur? That's not a question I thought I'd be asking this morning."

"It's both, actually." He walked over to the computer system. "Yeah. Here we go. Distant cousin of the Nimon. They descend on planets and set themselves up as gods to be worshipped. Which is fine, until the inhabitants get all secular and advanced enough to build bonkers prisons."

"Correction," Rory spoke up, looking out of a porthole. "Prisons in space."

"Where are the guards?" Amy asked.

"No need for any." The Stone shrugged. "It's all automated."

The Doctor nodded in agreement. "It drifts through space, snatching people with belief systems and converts their faith into food for the creature."

Amy slowly walked towards the Time Lords who Rory and Gibbs spoke with each other, she carefully watched the two before speaking quietly enough that Rory or Gibbs wouldn't hear.

"It didn't want just me, so you two must believe in some god or someone, or they'd have shown you the door too. So what do Time Lords pray to?"

The Doctor and the Stone glanced at each other for a moment, of course, Amy was interested to know. Time Lords didn't have a religion as such, they didn't pray to anything, it was why they saw themselves as being so high and mighty.

But of course the Doctor and the Stone were different to most Time Lords, ever since they met each other they had been the best of friends, they relied on each other, protected and cared for each other from the very start of their friendship in the academy on Gallifrey, their belief was in one another.

The Doctor smiled at his wife when Amy turned away from them for a moment. The Doctor managed to peck his wife's cheek with a kiss before the human turned back to them. "According to the in-flight recorder, the programme developed glitches." He explained. "It got stuck on the same setting, the fears from the people before us weren't tidied away."

The creature growled. "What's it saying?"

"An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless, shifting maze." The Doctor translated. "For such a creature, death would be a gift. Then accept it, and sleep well."

The Stone looked up, being able to translate the last of the creatures growls. "I wasn't talking about myself..."

The Doctor looked at the Stone before they both looked over at Gibbs who looked at them sheepishly. "Could I have a lift? Just to the nearest galaxy would do."

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The TARDIS materialised and the Time Lords stepped outside. The Stone sadly smiled at the Doctor and reached out as he did the same to hold the Time Lady's hand. "You okay, sweetheart?"

"Truthfully, no." He replied. "I'll get better though."

The Stone nodded and looked up at the summer sky before her attention was pulled to the terrace house with the TARDIS blue door.

She glanced at the red Jaguar parked outside and smiled. It was the least they could do for Rory, Amy would just have to put up with it.

Amy and Rory then stepped out of the TARDIS and frowned.

"Don't tell me." She began, staring at the house. "This isn't Earth, that isn't a real house. And inside lives a goblin, who feeds on indecision."

The Stone chuckled and shook her head as the Doctor replied. "No. Real Earth, real house, real door keys." He tossed them in the air and Amy swiftly caught them.

Rory stared at the car, mouth wide open in shock while Amy stared at them. "You're not serious?"

"The car too?" Rory looked at the Time Lady. "But, that's my favourite car. How did you two know that was my favourite car?"

"You showed me a picture of it once and said 'this is my favourite car'." He replied, doing a silly impression of the human.

"Rory, can you give us two minutes?" Amy asked her husband. "Two minutes?"

Rory sighed and looked at the Time Lords. "She'll say that we can't accept it because it's too extravagant and we'll always feel a crippling sense of obligation. It's a risk I'm willing to take."

The Stone laughed and patted his back. "Good luck."

Amy rolled her eyes as Rory moved away to get a better look at the car, she leaned against the long red bonnet and patted both sides next to her.

The Time Lorde complied and leaned against it with her. Amy looked at both of them and sighed. "So. You're leaving, aren't you?"

"You haven't seen the last of us." The Doctor grinned. "Bad Penny is my middle name. Seriously, the looks I get when I fill in a form, it's..."

The Stone shook her head at her husband who slowly stopped talking.

"Why now?"

"Because you're still breathing." The Doctor answered.

"Well, I think this is about the washing up, personally."

The Stone laughed with her husband and Amy. "It's definitely also about the washing up."

The Doctor smiled before he let out a long sigh. "I mean, you're right, there's still heaps of stuff out there to look at. Do you know, there's a planet whose name literally translates as Volatile Circus? Or maybe there's a bigger, scarier adventure waiting for you in there." He nodded at the door.

"Even so, it can't happen like this. After everything, we've been through, Doctor. Everything. You two can't just drop me off at my house and say goodbye like we've shared a cab."

"And what about the alternative?" The Stone asked. "Would you rather us standing over your graves?" She asked. "Over your broken bodies? Over Rory's body?"

"If you bump into your sister, tell her to visit her old mum sometime."

The Stone nodded. "Of course I will." She nodded then looked over at Rory. "Look after him for me will you?" She turned to look at the other ginger. "Can't keep looking after you two forever."

Amy chuckled and slowly nodded. "Of course I will, Stone, only if you look after the Doctor."

"Oh, we look after each other." She waved a hand and hugged Amy, the Doctor then did the same. "Bye."

The Stone looked at the door of the house and sighed. "You sure you don't want to say goodbye, dear?"

"If I did I would never leave them." She replied and took his hand as they headed for the TARDIS. "Some things are just left as they are."

The Doctor nodded and the two turned to look at their friend one last time. Sadly smiling they both waved and Amy smiled and waved back. They then stepped back into the TARDIS and shut the door.

The Doctor swallowed hard and pulled the Stone into his chest after the time rotor started to move, he buried his head into her neck while his own chest heaved in an attempt to stop tears that were threatening to fall.