Skinny Love

Chapter 26: The Watch

Matt's P.O.V

___________________________

At the door of the police box, stood a woman taller than Avi but a head shorter than I am. Her her was short and extremely curly. It was almost like a bush. She looked about late 30's. It was funny because she looked a lot like Avi.

And then it hit me.

"Mom?" Avi whispered.

"Oh look how you've grown! I missed you. I missed you so much." The woman said as she reached to touched Avi's face. Avi put her hand on top of her mother's.

"You still have your instrument hands." Avi laughed.

"But your dead." Avi said, her voice wavering. Her mom tilted her head to the side.

"Have you opened your watch yet?" She said touching Avi's Fob watch. Avi shook her head.

"I always thought it was broken because it wouldn't tick." She whispered. Her mother nodded.

"Try opening it."

"Okay." Avi took it off and pressed the top of the watch.

The covering flew open and the watch itself was revealed.

Gold dust flew out of it and the weirdest thing happened.

The watch had voices coming out of it.

Voices.

They were all different but everything they were saying was the same.

After it the watch stopped flashing dust and voices, it fell lifeless on Avi's chest. Her eyes were wide.

"Hello, I'm River. Professor River Song. I'm an archeologist and I'm Avi's mother. I am obviously not dead and you have no idea what's happening right now. I know your father but I do not know your mother. You might not want to tell them just now. Let's wait until things get really serious." Avi's mother said, patting my shoulder. I was profoundly confused.

"So she's a...?" I said. Avi started jumping up and down. She was laughing.

"Ohh yes! I'm a timelord! A full timelord! Aha! This is amazing! And this we are standing in, this is my father's TARDIS. Time And Relevant Dimensions In Space. Basically a blue spaceship that travels through time and oh. Yes. My mum. She was never dead. I was stuck in this parallel world! And my father! Oh my father, he's called the Doctor! What a wonderful man! He's out saving galaxies and planets and moons. And I. Oh my word! I traveled with him. We saved people together! There are planets in the skies singing songs of The Timelady Avi. The stars are going out and the source right here." She said in a string of words. Her mom gave her a hi-five and told her that she wasn't going to stay in the TARDIS but that she was going to be nearby and if something went wrong we were to inform her immediately. Professor Song grabbed me from my onesie pulled me down so her lips were to my ear.

"Be careful and take care of her will you? You're a good boy. I know you love her, don't ask how but I know. You might want to tell her soon." She whispered almost inaudibly and I nodded.

"I'll be on my way then." She said hugging Avi and then, surprisingly, hugging me.

"Goodbye Aviani, goodbye Matthew." She said running out the door. Avi gave grunt and shut the door.

...

"Hand me the stethoscope, it's under the console." Avi said. She had been showing me all these timelady tricks and telling me stories about her father.

"Okay. Aviani though? That's a really pretty name. Why don't you ever use it?" I said reaching for the stethoscope. I passed it to her and she scrunched up her nose.

"Not timey-wimey enough, I guess. I could say the same thing about you not using Robert or Matthew instead of Matt." She said. I cringed at the sound of my middle name. Ew Robert.

"Aviani." I said looking at her.

"Matthew, put on the stethoscope and stop calling me Aviani." She said smiling. She was putting her hair into a bun. I put the stethoscope on and sat in front of her. I put my hand on the circular thingie and then she put her smaller hand on mine. She guided my hand to her chest.

Thud. Thud Thud. Thud.

She moved her hand over and I almost jumped out of my skin.

Thud. Thud Thud. Thud.

"A second heartbeat! That's so amazing!" I whispered. She laughed her fairy laugh and moved her hand to the middle of her chest.

Thud Thud Thud Thud.

Thud Thud Thud Thud.

"The heartbeat of a timelord. Haha." She said. I took the stethoscope off.

"That's so cool. Remember how you got beat up that one time and you had a really bad bruise but it was gone by the end of the day? Is that like a timelord thing?" I asked and she nodded.

"It's minor cellular regeneration. Humans do it all the time but it's a timelord trick. We speed up the process. If we completely regenerate we change completely. All of our cells die and new ones become us. It's our way of cheating death. For young timelords, such as myself, we have residual energy. Therefore, making our healing faster." She said smiling. In the hours after her mum left, she had been teaching me new thing after new thing.

"Can you help me do something?" she asked. She grabbed a cookie from the basket. I nodded.

"Let's go breakup with Jon."