Fire and Ice

The Alien Army

I made a bit of a miscalculation last time, the next update is the last. Thank you all so much for sticking with this, it means so much to me. <3

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Chapter 25: The Alien Army

At first, regaining my memories had been painful. It would have been a lie if I’d said I hadn’t spilt any tears while remembering what I’d done out of selfishness. I really should be dead with the rest of the Time Lords, or maybe I could have saved them.

Then there was Molly. I can’t believe I would have ever done something like that to her. She’d had to completely invent a life here and had known about me the whole time. Now I knew why she had loved me for all these years and I was so, so sorry.

I let the sound of the TARDIS calm me. I knew that now was not the time to be crying over my mistakes. I had to let it all go and accept it. After all, the Doctor had accepted a much worse fate, and here he was, saving worlds still. I took deep breaths in and out and my heartbeats steadied.

The TARDIS landed and I hopped to my feet. But when I reached for the door, the lock clicked shut. That could only be controlled from the main console or from the outside with a key, and anyone on the outside certainly didn’t have a key.

“Doctor?” I asked, looking up at him.

“I have a plan, it’s a new one, sort of. I’ve had it for a while now but I was waiting until I was sure enough to tell you,” He started.

“Doctor, what is it?” Rory asked.

“Rory, you know exactly what it is. You just don’t remember,” The Doctor said.

I watched as Amy and Rory came out from somewhere behind the Doctor. But that didn’t make sense. I glanced at the Rory who was standing by my side, then back up at the Rory beside the Doctor. The one beside the Doctor looked so lifeless, but he was alive for sure. I could see that the Doctor had saved Amy already and had just wanted to get us all together for something, but Rory…

“Why are we even here if she’s safe?” Dean asked. “And what’s up with the twins?”

The Doctor ignored Dean’s comment and began to explain, “I knew that Moriarty would want to hurt the ones that I’d been closest to, because he’s a cold person, and that’s how he gets people to do what he wants. My two closest friends are Amy and Rory. So I went to the Leviathan’s twin planet and recruited an army. They are with Moriarty now, always have been, and he doesn’t even realize that they aren’t Leviathan. But I let the ones I’d trusted most stay with me, and I used Moriarty’s invention to clone a perfect Amy and Rory and replaced the real Amy and Rory, with them. This is real Amy, Moriarty has Ferrathan Amy, but he thinks he has real Amy.”

“So, that’s Leviathan me?” Rory asked.

“They’re Ferrathans and no this is real you,” The Doctor said, looking at the Rory beside him.

“But I’m right here, and that me looks… dead.”

“Yes your consciousness has moved from your proper body to you Ferrathan one, but you’re not really in control. You just think you are.”

“So you basically took out his mind and put it in that body,” Sam tried to clarify.

“Oh, no. Much more complicated than that!”  The Doctor exclaimed, but I thought I was getting the gist of it. Rory thought that he was real in his Ferrathan body, but it was actually just his consciousness watching from his real body, making him think that it was actually him; but really, the Ferrathan was in control.