Sun & Moon (Book One in The Healer Chronicles)

Prologue

Rory Williams and his wife, Amelia "Amy" Pond, immediately jolted up to see that they were in a graveyard. "Where are we?" Rory asked.

"Back where we started!" the Doctor announced. "You collapsed the timeline. The paradox worked. We all pinged back to where we belong!"

"In a graveyard?" Rory asked incredulously, raising an eyebrow. "This happened last time," Amy said. "Why always here?"

"Does it matter? We got lucky!" the Doctor exclaimed. "We could've blown New York off the planet. I can't ever take the TARDIS back there. The timelines are too scrambled. I could have lost you both," he added as he hugged the both of them. "Don't ever do that again," he scolded.

"What did we do?" Rory questioned. "We fixed the problem."

"I was talking to myself," the Doctor clarified. He went over to his machine, the TARDIS, which had taken a bit of damage. His "wife" of sorts and Amy and Rory's daughter, River Song (born Melody Pond), appeared from behind it with a bucket and rag. "It could do with a repaint," River commented. "I've been busy," the Doctor told her. "Does the bulb on top need changing?" she asked. "I just changed it," the Doctor answered.

"So..." River began as set the bucket down on the grass and started to clean to the TARDIS. "Rory and Amy, then."

"Yes, I know, I know," the Doctor sighed.

"I'm just saying, they're going to get terribly bored, hanging 'round here all day."

"Doctor?" Rory called. The Doctor turned to him with a laugh. "Look, next time, could we just go to the pub?" he asked. "I want to go to the pub right now," the Doctor said with a bright smile. "Are there video games there? I love video games."

"Right, family outing," River said with a smile as she walked inside the TARDIS. The Doctor and Amy followed closely, but something caught Rory's eye. "Amy!" he called his wife over and she walked back outside. "What?" she asked. "There's a gravestone here for someone with the same name as me," he answered. "What?" Amy was able to gasp out just as her husband vanished before her eyes.

"Doctor!"

The Doctor and River bolted out of the TARDIS at the sound of Amy's voice and saw a Weeping Angel.

"Where the hell did that come from?" River asked breathlessly, staring in horror at the Angel. The Doctor whipped out his sonic screwdriver and began scanning it. "It's a survivor," he stated. "Very weak, but keep your eyes on it," he warned. "Where's Rory?" Amy demanded to know. The Doctor's eyes wondered to the gravestone:

IN LOVING MEMORY

RORY ARTHUR WILLIAMS

AGED 82

"I'm sorry, Amelia," the Doctor whispered, using Amy's full first name. "I'm so, so sorry."

"No. No, we can just go and get him in the TARDIS," Amy said. "One more paradox..."

"Would rip New York apart--" the Doctor began. "That's not true," Amy interrupted, completely in denial. "I don't believe you."

"Mother, it's true," River spoke up. Amy took a deep, yet shaky breath and began to slowly approach the Angel that cruelly snatched her husband away from her. "That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more name, isn't there?" she asked. "What are you talking about? Back away from the Angel. Come back to to TARDIS. We'll figure something out," the Doctor ordered, but Amy didn't listen.

"The Angel, would it send me back to the same time... to him?" she continued. "I don't know. Nobody knows," the Doctor answered in a sotto voice. "But it's my best shot, yeah?" Amy kept walking to the Angel. "Doctor, shut up!" River snapped. "Yes, yes, it is!"