The Secret of the Stone
The Stone froze spotting him out like a sore thumb when the doors to the large room in the pyramid opened.
"Hi, dear." The Doctor smirked, brushing his tweed jacket. "I see you're home."
The ginger Time Lady narrowed her eyes at her husband who was still smiling at her. "Where in the name of Rassilon have you been?" She asked before noticing Kovarian who was tied up and sat in a chair right next to where he was standing.
"Sorry dear." He looked at her apologetically. "I had to go and pick someone up, I was going to come back but then there was a huge mess from someone getting shot and honestly who else would it have been but my wife, the only other person I know who likes to make the grandest of entrances?"
"Doctor please." She pinched the bridge of her nose having had enough of nonsense for one day. "What do you mean? You disappeared without a word and left me with the TARDIS, I looked everywhere before trying to find out why the Silence wanted us dead. Doctor, you left me alone on that lakeside. We promised each other to always be together if something like that was to happen. If we were to die you said that you would always be there" She shook her head. "I don't understand what was so important that you had to go and disappear?"
"Mum." The Time Lady froze upon hearing that single word, of course she was now hallucinating, honestly didn't suprise her if she opened her eyes to see the Astronaut standing above her, her body lying limp on the lake side as she gasped for air before her death.
The Stone pinched her arm in hope, hope that she wasn't hearing things and that she was real, but she couldn't be- Her mind had to be fooling with her due to stress of everything happened because that person wasn't alive, she died and yet it seemed so real. Even after not knowing her for even a day the Stone had her voice already ingrained into her brain, the smile she made when the three of them ran centries ago burned into her mind as if it only happened the other day.
She couldn't possibly be standing in the same room as the two older Time Lord, it was surely impossible and yet here her was standing, beside one of the pyramid walls. Their child, the Doctors and the Stone, Jenny who was made in a machine and died saving both her parents. Nervously watched her mother.
"But." The Stone whispered staring at her in disbelief.
"She didn't die." The Doctor softly smiled slowly walking towards his wife who looked shell shocked. Frozen with her eyes locked onto the young blonde as if she would disappear if she looked away. "And she didn't regenerate but she's alive." He whispered standing right in front of his wife. "And she is here."
"Doctor." She choked not believing a word he was saying as her hands suddenly moved on their own, flying up to her mouth, she honestly felt as if she was going to be sick, which was very rare for the Time Lords given how 'superior' their biology was.
She thought that if she wasn't lying on the lake said she would end up shooting upright in her bed any moment. The whole thing being a dream with the Doctor trying to reassure and comfort the Time Lady or she would end up alone in her cell back in the tower, still stuck in this mess.
"I know." He whispered opening his arms and feeling her fall into him, her whole body shaking against his.
The Doctors arms tightly moved around the Stones body and he held her against him as tight as he could without hurting her. He deeply missed holding her like this, missed how little fear he had that the next day may be the day they die. It hurt his hearts having to stay away from her because he had to do this for her, he saw no other way in protecting Jenny from Madam Kovarian and his wife from doing something she would later regret if the woman did get to her child. "I'm sorry I left you without saying anything, I just couldn't let you go through with just allowing yourself to die, before I found her the fixed point was broken, and I found out River stopped everything. I got even more determined to find Jenny knowing that you were still alive. I needed to prove to you that you couldn't just die. I know this is all wrong but we can't leave her Stone-"
"I understand Doctor. I completely understand." She whispered, her voice sounding calm and soft before she swallowed hard and looked up into her husband's eyes. This was definitely no dream, she knew the Doctors face better than anyone, every detail down to the tiniest little feature that made him so unique, not even her mind would be able to replicate that in a dream. "The Brig..." she began. The first thought coming to the front of her mind after everything that had happened. "He's dead."
The Doctor closed his eyes and rested his head on hers silently as he held a long breath before releasing it and his wife. Jenny now stood beside her father, nervously watching the Time Lady who quickly wiped her eyes and smiled at the young woman.
"You also changed mum." Jenny quietly whispered, remembering when the Doctor first found her.
"Yeah." She lightly sniffed. "You don't look very much like me anymore do you."
"No, but I still love you the same." She smiled.
"I thought you died." She whispered pulling her child towards her with a strong need to hold and protect her. She could sense Madam Kovarian watching them from the chair she was tied up in the centre of the room. It didn't matter whether she was tied up or not. The Stone would do anything to protect Jenny. The Stone closed her eyes and finally felt somewhat content when Jenny was in a protective and tight hug.
"I know I'm sorry." She replied to the Time Lady's previous statement hugging her back just as tight. "I wanted to find you and dad but I also wanted to see everything the universe had to offer. Then I heard these rumours about two people amazing and brilliant people who were supposed to die and I had this feeling that something wasn't right, I dug deeper into the rumour and found information on something called the Silence. I tried to find you both to warn you and then I found Earth and dad and he explained everything." She rambled. The words rolling off her tongue as fast as they would possibly go. Something the girl obviously inherited from her father's previous regeneration more so than her mother. Even though the Stone did have a hell of a tongue at times. "I'm sorry."
"Just like your father." The Stone chuckled with tears still threatening to fall. She couldn't believe that this was happening again. She was a mother and the Doctor. The man she loved was the father of her child. Nothing would get in her way to hurt Jenny now. She would stop at nothing to ensure her Jenny was safe. "Always apologising for everything he can't change." The Stone finished swallowing back her tears.
The Three smiled at each other. The Doctors eyes wet with small tear marks. He gently moved his hand up and cupped the Stones cheeks. Wiping the tears away. They then noticed another blonde enter the room. A blonde who had large curly hair. "And what sort of time do you call this sister?" River asked in a much lighter mood.
"The death of time." Kovarian cut in. The Stone not even thinking twice stepped in front of Jenny and narrowed her eyes warningly at the other woman. She must have had to know that the Time Lords daughter was still alive out their somewhere. She said it herself: 'Even if we do lose her there is always another-.' "The end of time." She looked at them annoyed. "The end of us all. Oh, why couldn't you just die?"
"I did turn up and honestly expected to die." She shrugged. "I guess that you just can't get the psychopaths these days." She looked around. "I like what you've done with the pyramids." She looked at the Doctor. "Did you do any of this sweetheart?"
"It wasn't me." He chuckled. "All of Rivers idea. How did you score all this again?" He asked the curly haired blonde.
"Hallucinogenic lipstick." She smirked. "Works wonders on President Kennedy. And Cleopatra was a real pushover."
"I always thought so." He shrugged before looking at the Time Lady. "Not that I know of course dear."
Jenny giggled slightly at him as he looked at the Time Lady in alarm before looking at Jenny slightly annoyed. "She mentioned you." The Doctor then nodded to the Stone. "Of course I went with River because Jenny wanted to go and I wanted to be a responsible father." He proudly smiled.
"Doctor she looks older than you." The Doctor pouted at her earning another giggle from Jenny. "But what did she say?" The Stone looked at him curiously.
"I believe she said 'Put down that gun'." The Doctor informed.
"Yeah, she did." Jenny giggled.
"She was trying to flirt with your husband." River explained to the Time Lady. "Jenny was getting rather cross so I intervened before she could." She smirked.
"Did you put down the gun?" The Stone chuckled.
"Eventually." She replied.
"Oh, they're so happy." Kovarian groaned. "Do I have to watch this?"
"It was such a basic mistake, wasn't it, Madame Kovarian." River walked around the woman. "Take a child, raise her into a perfect psychopath, introduce her to the Stone. Who else was I going to see as an older sister?"
The Stone shook her head. "It's not funny, River. Reality is fatally compromised. Tell me you understand that."
"Family catch up over dinner?" She suggested looking at Jenny and the Doctor.
"Sorry but I don't have the time. Nobody has the time, because as long I'm alive, time is dying. Because of you, River." She focused her gaze on the Time Lord. "Doctor surely you understand."
"I don't want you to die." He murmured slightly looking down.
"But if we don't-." She swallowed.
"Neither do I." River added looking at the Time Lady. "I refused to kill my sister."
"Oh, you don't want to kill your sister." She smiled. "Isn't that kind you know we should have a hug."
"Doctor!" Amy shouted just as the Stone stepped forward the Doctor grabbed the Time Lady.
"I'm sorry." He whispered into the Stones ear. Knowing that he was betraying her and what would be every single one of the Time Lords if they were alive. He just didn't want her to die. Anyone but her or now Jenny.
"I'm not a fool, sister." River shook her head. "I know what happens if we touch."
The Stone sighed slightly and relaxed before yanking herself free from the Doctor. Grabbing Rivers arm the woman cried out. "Get off me. Get her off me!" She shouted. "Stone, no. Let go! Please Stone, let go!" The scientists around them started to look at the computers while the Doctor tried to get the Time Lady off River without hurting her. Amy looked helpless while Jenny stepped back slightly not wanting to get between her fighting parents.
"It's moving." A woman shouted. "Time's moving!"
"Get her off me!" She continued to cry. "Doctor!" She shouted trying to get him to help.
"I'm sorry, River." The Stone looked at her apologetically. "It's the only way." They then flashed back and were back at the lakeside before the Doctor with another soldier's help managed to pull the Stone off.
"Cuff her." River ordered.
The Doctor placed the handcuffs on the Stones wrists and kissed the side of her head in an apology.
"It's the only way." She said looking at River. "We're the opposite poles of the disruption. If we touch, we short out the differential. Time can begin again."
"And I'll be by a lakeside killing you."
"And time won't fall apart. The clocks will tick. Reality will continue. There isn't another way."
"I didn't say there was, sister. There are so many theories about you and I, you know."
"Idle gossip." The Stone shrugged. "and gossip can be false."
"Archaeology." River countered.
"Basically the same thing."
"Am I the woman who is your sister or the woman who murders you?"
"Right now I don't feel any sisterly love and I don't want you as my sister, had enough of them before the Time War."
"I don't want to murder you." She replied.
"This is no fun at all." The Doctor frowned. "I thought you would at least be happy dear." He sighed. "We-" he swallowed hard. "I thought you wanted to be a mother again." He whispered to her, making sure only she could hear.
"Not like this Doctor." She shook her head. "I don't want to fight with you- I hate fighting with you sweetheart." She leant into his touch as he went to cup her cheek. "This didn't have to happen just for us to get our daughter back. For all we know she could really be-" she swallowed hard. "Dead. All of reality is happening at once. Whose to say that she is here because General Cobb hasn't pulled the trigger yet."
"We can only try." The Doctor added. "Isn't that what we've always believed in? Trying to save people when no one else will? When everyone else is running off in the other direction we run straight into the fire. Just me and you, the Doctor and the Stone."
"But you know we can't because I have to die, sweetheart, we both do so they can live."
"Doctor, what's that?" Amy cut them off looking up seeing some water dripping from the ceiling.
"The pyramid above us. How many Silence do you have trapped inside it?"
"None," Kovarian smirked. "They're not trapped. They never have been. They've been waiting for this, Doctor, Stone For the two of you."
"They're out!" Rory suddenly burst in. "All of them. No one gets in here! He ordered. "Ma'am, my men out there should be able to lock this down. We have them outnumbered.
"And you're wearing eye drives based on mine, I think. Oops."
"What do you mean?" The Stone narrowed his eyes.
One of the scientists cried out in pain. "Help her!" The Stone ordered. "Help her!"
Amy looked between them. "She's dead." Multiple other eye drives began to shock and kill the wearers. The Stone cried out in pain and the Doctor pulled hers off before helping Jenny with hers and then taking his own off. River then took Amy's off when hers powered up.
"Eye drives off now." The Doctor ordered. "Remove them."
"The Silence would never allow an advantage without taking one themselves," Kovarian explained. "The effects will vary from person to person. Either death or debilitating agony. But they will take you all, one by one." She then froze as her own eye drive started to zap her. "What are you doing? No, it's me. Don't be stupid. You need me. Stop it. Stop that!"
"We could stop this right now," the Stone pleased looking at River. "You and I."
"Get it off me." Kovarian cried.
"Doctor, Jenny please." The Stone looked between them. The young blonde shook her head at her mother not wanting to get involved in the argument."
"We've been working on something," Amy said. "Just let us show you."
"There's no point. There's nothing you can do. Our time is up."
"We're doing this for you, the Doctor and now Jenny!"
"Then people are dying for me. I don't know about the Doctor but I won't thank you for that, Amelia Pond."
"Just let us show you," River asked.
"Please. Captain Williams, how long do we have?" Amy asked.
"Er, a couple of minutes."
"That's enough." River nodded. "We're going to the Receptor Room right at the top of the pyramid. I hope you're ready for a climb."
The Stone sighed shaking her head. The Doctor gave her a pleading look that he knew she couldn't resist. The Stone slowly nodded and he smiled kissing the top of her head before he followed River, and the Stone.
Rory looked at Amy and loaded his gun. "I'll wait down here, Ma'am. Buy you as much time as I can."
"You have to take your eye drive off."
"Can't do that, Ma'am." He shook his head. "Might forget what's coming."
Jenny frowned. "But it could activate any second."
Rory gritted his teeth. "It has activated, Ma'am. But I'm of no use to you if I can't remember. You have to go now, Ma'am."
"Amy." Jenny tried to protest.
"Yes." She replied. Jenny's eyes widened at what the ginger was going to do.
"Now!" He shouted.
"Yes, thank you, Captain Williams."
Jenny watched in horror as Amy walked away. She stared at Rory whose hand was now shaking in an attempt to keep the pain at bay as the Silence broke down the door.
"Jenny, duck."
The blondes head whipped around to Amy, she dived out of the way a moment before Amy shot a large machine gun at the Silence.
Amy threw the machine gun aside when the Silence fell to the floor. She walked over to Rory and pulled his eye-drive off.
"You all right?"
Rory nodded and the two humans headed towards the stairs with Jenny.
Kovarian groaned out a whisper as the young Time Lady headed past the woman who was tied up. "Jenny... help me."
The blonde looked at Kovarian and frowned as Amy stepped forward. "You took my baby from me and hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine, but I'll never see my baby again..."
"But you'll still save me, though. Because they would, and you'd never do anything to disappoint them would you?"
Jenny crossed her arms at Kovarian. "I think you're underestimating my parents friends Kovarian." She narrowed her eyes. "River told me all about her suspicions and who this 'girl' was. Your little backup plan." Madam Kovarians face began to pale in realisation. "My parents are amazing, wonderful people but you hurt their friends and you were going to hurt them just to get to my mum and dad and I will never let that happen again."
"But your parents..." She replied. "You would prove them right in every way, you would prove to them that you were only made for war."
"Yes." Jenny nodded. "They would be proven right, but they're also not here Madame Kovarian and they also need my help and I can damn right assure you that I'm not the only one who thinks you deserve this. You took River away from Amy and now River is strong and clever and much more than you ever imagined. Amy never got to properly see her grow so this isn't just for me, or my parents but also for Amy, for all the pain you put my parents best friend through." She narrowed her eyes at the woman and put the eye drive back into place.
Amy's eyes widened in horror as the blonde turned around and left. Amy swallowed hard when she heard the woman's cries of pain and followed the young Time Lady.
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"What's this?" The Stone frowned curiously at what was on top of the pyramid. The night sky shining with stars in the clear sky.
"It's timey-wimey distress beacon." The Doctor explained. "River built this."
"I'm the child of the TARDIS." River said to the Time Lady. "I understand the physics."
"But that's all you've got, a distress beacon."
"I've been sending out a message." She stated nodding to the Doctor. "And so has he. It was a distress call. Outside the bubble of our time, the universe is still turning, and we've sent a message everywhere. To the future and the past, the beginning and the end of everything. The Doctor and the Stone are dying. Please, please help."
"River!" The Stone shouted."River, this is ridiculous. That would mean nothing to anyone. It's insane. Worse, it's stupid."
"We barricaded the door." Amy then ran up with Rory and Jenny. "We've got a few minutes. Just tell her. Just tell her, River."
"Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares. They're wrong." She shook her head. "There aren't any. It's not the sun, it's you. The sky is full of a million, a million voices saying yes, of course, we'll help. You don't realise it but you alone have touched so many lives, saved so many people. Did you think when yours and the Doctors time came, you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you, but the universe doesn't agree."
"River, no one can help us." She shook her head before looking at the Doctor. "You have to know that out of everyone Doctor. It's a fixed point and it has been altered. Time is disintegrating."
The Doctor just hung his head as River cut in. "I can't let you die."
"But I have to die." The Stone replied.
"Shut up!" Jenny then cut in making them look at the young blonde to see her arms tightly wrapped around her father who was quietly sniffing.
"I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many people." He quietly whispered refusing to look up. "You are loved so, so much, you don't even know it, but you know what?"
The Stone swallowed hard when the Doctor looked up, his eyes red and glossy with the tears he was holding back. "What?"
"You're loved by no one more than me, my beautiful Stone and I can't let this happen."
"Doctor we have to." She whispered. "River and I are ground zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die."
"I'll suffer if I have to kill you." River cut in.
"More than every living thing in the universe?"
"No." She admitted before nodding at the Doctor and Jenny. "But they would knowing that you were definitely dead, your daughter knows what is happening and doesn't want it as much as your father, my suffering would be nowhere near as bad as theirs."
"River" the Stone shook her head. She understood it from the Doctor but her? She really didn't. "River, why do you have to be this?" She turned to Amy and Rory. "Melody Pond, your daughter. I hope you're both proud."
"I'm not sure I completely understand," Rory whispered to Amy.
"We got married and had a kid and that's her." She bluntly explained.
"Okay."
The Stone turned around not facing any of them. "Amy, uncuff me now." She said knowing that the Doctor was raising a brow at her in question. Amy then walked over and uncuffed the Time Lady.
"Doctor, can I use your bowtie?" The Time Lady asked turning around.
"Why?" He gave her a curious look.
"Please sweetheart." Her face softened in a plea.
The Doctor slowly nodded and let go of Jenny to stand in front of her. He kissed her forehead before removing his bowtie and placing it into her hands.
"Thank you." She whispered kissing his cheek. The Stone then turned to River and handed part of the cloth to her without touching her. "River, take one end of this. Wrap it around your hand, and hold it out to me."
"What am I doing?"
"Are you?" The Doctor raised a brow at her.
"Yes." She nodded. "I haven't done this since my mother decided to adopt one of my older sisters, one of the smartest Time Ladies I knew, she only did it because she was supposedly a benefit to our house and because she felt sorry that my sisters parents had died." She smiled slightly at her husband. "Yes I am doing this."
"Doctor what am I doing?" River questioned.
"As you're told." He replied. "Now, we're in the middle of a combat zone, so you'll have to do the quick version." He stepped forward standing in front of them both. "Captain Williams, say I consent and gladly give."
"To what?"
"Just say it. Please." The Stone asked.
"I consent and gladly give." Rory said.
"You need you to say it too." The Stone looked at Amy.
"I consent and gladly give."
"Jenny?"
"What?" The blonde blinked.
"You're my daughter, you're part of my family and a Time Lady just as much as I am." She smiled. "You have to accept River as your aunt."
The blonde smiled in return while Amy and Rory both looked at each other. "I accept."
"You know my reply, dear." The Doctor beamed. "But just to keep this less complicated of course I accept."
She nodded not replying. "Now the boring stuff is over I'm going to whisper something into your ear River. You need to remember it and you can't tell anyone what I say to you.
River slightly nodded before the Stone leaned in slightly and whispered into Rivers ear.
"I just told you my name." She lied. "The only other person who knows that is the Doctor. Only family know a Time Lords real name and now you're technically my sister. I'll explain the rest to you later but there you go, River Song." She smiled slightly. "Melody Pond. You're my sister and Jennys aunt but now I have a request not just from me but also from the Doctor. This world is dying and technically it is my fault, and I can't bear it." She looked over at the Doctor who understood and smiled at his wife. "Please, help us. There isn't another way."
"I think I need a hug."
"Well, it's a good job because I need one as well." The Time Lady replied before tightly hugging the blonde woman. She softly smiled looking at the Doctor over Rivers shoulder as he handed a vortex manipular to Jenny before everything turned white and then she was back on the lakeside. However this time she was technically not on the lakeside but rather in a Teselacte disguised as herself on the lakeside with the Doctor right beside her.
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"Look into my eye" River did as she was told, her eyes slightly widened when she saw the Stone waving at her while the Doctor grinned and then kissed his wife's cheek.
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Amy sighed looking at the stars while sitting on a small patio in the garden of her house. There was a flash and River appeared wearing the clothes she wore when climbing out of the Byzantium at the very start of Amy's adventures with the Time Lords. "Heard there was a freak meteor shower two miles away, so I got us a bottle."
"Thank you, dear."
"So where are we?"
"I just climbed out of the Byzantium." River answered gesturing to her clothes for a moment. "You were there. So young. Didn't have a clue who I was. You're funny like that. Where are you?"
"The Doctor and the Stone are dead. We couldn't find his body."
"How are you doing?"
"How do you think?"
"Well, I don't know unless you tell me."
"I watched their daughter kill someone." She admitted. "I watched my best friends daughter murder Madame Kovarian, in cold blood. My two best friends who are so against violence. I allowed Jenny to do that."
"In an aborted timeline, in a world that never was."
"Yeah, but I can remember it, so it happened, so I allowed it to happen. What does that make me now?" She sighed picking up her glass and stared at it. "I need to talk to the Doctor and the Stone, but I can't now, can I?"
"If you could talk to them, would it make a difference?"
"But they're dead and Jenny is nowhere to be found so I can't even talk to her because she might be dead as well."
"Oh, Mother." River chuckled. "Of course they aren't."
"Not for you, I suppose. You're seeing the younger versions of them running around, having adventures."
"Yeah, I am." She nodded. "But that's not what I mean."
"Then what do you mean?"
"Okay." River sighed thinking for a moment. "I'm going to tell you what I probably shouldn't. The Stone's last secret. Don't you want to know what she whispered in my ear?"
"She whispered her name."
"Not her name, no."
"Yes, it was." Amy protested. "She said it was."
"Rule two?"
"The Stone always puts others before herself, even if that means she has to lie."
"Only the Doctor will ever know her name. It's a United thing, she explained it to me once but that is not the point. I also lie." River said. "All the time. Have to." She shrugged. "Spoilers. Pretending I don't know you're my mother, pretending I don't recognise a space suit in Florida and that my niece is really alive."
"What did she whisper in your ear?" Amy asked curiously.
"Oh, my sister." She chuckled. "She's always one step ahead of everyone, sometimes even her husband if he's being too slow. They always have a plan."
"River, what did she tell you?" She pressed on when there was no reply. "River."
"She's not dead, neither of them are." River smiled. "They both are alive and so is their daughter."
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Rory got home to see Amy and River outside in the garden laughing and dancing around. "Hey. What?"
"They're not dead." Amy cut in laughing. "They're not dead."
"Are you sure, River?" Rory asked knowing it was River who gave them this information. "Are you really, properly sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. I'm her sister."
"Yes!" Amy laughed. "And I'm her..." she frowned. "What even am I?"
"I would say, stepmother." River chuckled. "That also makes the Doctor your son in law." She snorted then looked at Rory whose mouth opened.
"Wait that makes me her..."
River grinned. "Exactly."
Amy froze face slightly grim, instantly regretting trying to come onto the Doctor at the very start of their friendship, regretting it even more than she did before. "Right..."
"Father dear, I think Mummy might need another drink." River chuckled.
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The Doctor and the Stone grinned watching as there was a flash of light before Jenny stood in the console room with the vortex manipulator the Doctor gave her. He then pulled a lever. "Shields are back up now." He informed before he stood back beside the Stone grinning from ear to ear. "Welcome home."
"Mum." The blonde smiled at the Time Lady. "Dad." She then jumped onto them both laughing and tightly hugging them. The Stone let out a watery laugh as the Doctor smile grew even bigger his eyes wet with tears.
"Welcome to the TARDIS." The Stone smiled befoe letting out a laugh and wiping her eyes.
"This is the TARDIS." She looked around in awe, finally meeting the famous blue box for the first time. "It's huge!"
"That it is." The Doctor chuckled. "You can stay here..." he said before his voice quieted, looking at his shoes. "If you want."
"Yeah?" She quietly whispered smiling.
"Yeah." The Stone nodded.
"That is if you still want to-" the Doctor shrugged. "We don't mind."
"Not at all." The Stone nodded.
"It does get pretty boring at times and we don't want you to feel like you have to stay if you don't want you."
"I want too." She cut them off. "I really want to stay with you guys. I missed you both so much."
"We missed you too." The Stone smiled hugging her again. "And thank you for helping Jack with the 456." She whispered and swallowed hard. "I'm sorry we couldn't come and help but it's what Jack said happened, can't be changed now."
"It wasn't too bad." Jenny smiled slightly. "There were some things I wish I didn't have to see but I got to meet some of your friends which were nice."
"Yeah." The Doctor slowly nodded. "I suppose you're tired now so if you walk down that corridor the TARDIS should give you a room somewhere. If you need any help just come back here or the TARDIS will try and help you find us if you need it."
"Okay." She grinned before taking off down the corridor.
The Stone sighed and placed her head on top of the Doctors shoulder. "She's alive."
"And she's here." He added smiling at her. "She's safe and we're parents again."
The Stone chuckled. "Yeah we are, together as well this time." The Stone added smiling. "That's a first."
"So far I like it."
"I love it."
"I love you." He added, shifting around and moving his hands on either side of her against the console, the two of them pressed up against it before he softly kissed her a couple of times. "So much." He whispered against her lips before kissing her again.
"I love you too sweetheart." She smiled cupping his cheek and looking up at him forcing them both to stop so she could speak. "You have no idea how much."
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"Who's carrying me?" Dorium announced. "I demand to know. I'm a head, I have rights. I want my doors open this time. I demand that my doors are open."
Two figures in dark robes headed back to the receptor room, one carrying the box with the blue aliens head in it. "Is it you?" He guessed. "It is, isn't it. It is you two, I can sense it. But how did you do it? How could you possibly have escaped?"
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"Is there nothing else we can do?" The Teselecta asked a younger version of the Stone, a version before time froze and Jenny had returned.
The Time Lady shook her head and walked out. She stopped at the door and poked her head back in. "Actually now I think about it there are a couple of favours you could do me."
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"The Teselecta." The Stone announced.
"A beautiful Time Lady hidden in a Stone." The Doctor added.
"Accompanied by a Doctor." She grinned. "Time said I had to be on that beach, so of course I dressed for the occasion and brought my husband along to witness my supposed death."
"We barely got singed in that boat."
"So you're going to do this?" Dorium asked. "Let them all think you're both dead?"
"It's the only way, then they can all forget us. The Doctor answered. "We got too big, Dorium. Too noisy and we're responsible for someone else now as well, got to set her some examples that don't involve getting shot at by Daleks and Cybermen every day."
"There's a lot that someone wants to learn and now we can teach her ourselves without worry." The Stone added.
"It's time for us to step back into the shadows."
"And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?"
"Her days, yes." The Stone nodded. "Her nights? Well, that's between me and my sister, got to catch up with sleepovers from time to time." She winked.
"So many secrets." Dorium chuckled. "I'll help you both keep them, of course."
"Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?" The Doctor raised a brow.
"But you're both fools nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you. The fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Elevens, the betrayal and the question."
"Goodbye, Dorium." The Stone called in a sing-song voice as she linked her arm through the Doctors and they both headed out.
"The first question. The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've both been running from all your lives."
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It's over! Oh my god I feel like this book has lasted so long and I honestly can't believe it's over now, it's quite scary to think about it. How did you guys like that? Are you glad that Jenny is finally back? I'm so happy I bought her back, I really didn't like how she just left in series 4. I'm super excited for series seven with Jenny and the Doctor and the Stone.
On the topic of series seven, it has been split into two halves, before Amy and Rory's death with the Angels and after, I have split it into two books as I feel like one book doesn't do it the justice it deserves, Amy and Rory need their own sending off. They hold a special place in my heart and I dearly love Clara so she deserves her own book as well.
But that won't be for a while yet as I have a promise to keep, the introduction and cast chapter is up for the seventh book which is titled 'Breaking Bonds' but for now it is off over to 221b Baker Street to catch back up with Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and Emily Hadley.
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