𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒔 ☆ The Glorious Series ｟ BOOK 1 ｠

The Impossible Astronaut [Part 3]

Inside, TARDIS, Console area...

The Doctor was walking around the console, talking, while everyone else just kinda stood around, each lost in thought.

Lexi was particularly deep in thought as she sat on the bottom step of the stairs that lead up and out of the console room.

"1969, that's an easy one." The Doctor informed as Jupiter walked past him and walked down the stairs that lead to underneath the console, Sky following right behind her. "Funny how some years are easy. Now 1482, full of glitches. Now then, Canton Everett Delaware III, that was his name, yeah?"

Ignoring him, Lexi stood up and went the same way Jupiter and Sky went, Amy following directly behind her.

"How many of those can there be?" The Doctor was confused. "Well, three, I suppose."

Also ignoring him, River went and walked down to where everyone else had gone.

The Doctor looked to the direction everyone had went down before glancing over at Rory. "Rory, is everybody cross with me for some reason?"

"I'll, uh...find out." He replied, leaving as the Doctor glanced back over his shoulder, concerned.

Under the console...

Amy and Lexi both sat beside each other cross-legged on the floor, Sky and Jupiter standing a couple feet away while they all looked at River as Rory joined them.

"Explain it again." Amy said.

"The Doctor we saw on the beach was a future version, 200 years older than the one up there." River replied.

"But all that will still happen?" Lexi questioned, trying to clarify as she rubbed her temples in a soothing manner. "He will still die?"

"We're all going to do that, Lexi." She told her.

"To be fair..." Jupiter started, cutting into the conversation. "We're not all going to arrange our own wake and invite ourselves."

"Exactly, thank you." Rory said in agreement. "So the Doctor in the future, knowing he's going to die, recruits his younger self and all of us to...do what exactly? Avenge him?"

"Doesn't seem like avenging is really his style." Sky muttered.

"Save him," Lexi stated.

"That's not his style either." River pointed out.

"We have to tell him." Amy said as she rose to her feet, Lexi doing the same.

"We've told him all we can." River responded. "We can't even tell him we've seen his future self. He's interacted with his own past. It could rip a hole in the universe."

"Except he's done it before." Lexi pointed out.

"And, in fairness, the universe did blow up." Rory reasoned.

"But he'd want to know." Amy stated.

"Would he really though." Jupiter questioned, tilting her head in thought. "Would anyone?"

The Doctor then took that moment to stick his head down over the edge to look at everyone underneath the console.

"I'm being extremely clever up here, and there's no one to stand around, looking impressed." He stated, glancing at everyone. "What's the point in having you all?"

With that, the Doctor got back up.

River just shook her head. "Couldn't you just slap him sometimes?"

River, Rory, Sky and Jupiter all then started heading for the stairs.

"River, we can't just let him die." Lexi said, her voice a bit shaky.