Quantum Travel

Sweetheart IV

The Doctor hollered, proud of himself.

"We've locked on to them." Tardis shouted over the storm of the Time Stream, "They'll have to lower the shields when I'm close enough to phase inside."

"Can you get a message to Amy? The telepathic circuits are online."

"Which one's Amy? The pretty one?" Before either of us could confirm or deny she had exclaimed, 'Hello, Pretty!'

Rory had gotten a headful of her, "What the hell is that?"

"Don't worry. Telepathic messaging." He then looks up to see Rory's large nose butting in, "No, that's Rory."

"I happen to think the Rory is very pretty." Tardis ignores us both and gives directions/commands to Rory.

"The pretty one?"

I shake my head at Bow-Tie, "We are Females, when we think 'pretty' we think differently than you do."

"What am I then?" His eyebrow quirked.

"Strange, adorable, quirky, funny. Pick anyone you like." He scrunched his nose at the news.

"Good luck." Tardis signed off.

"How's he going to be able to take down the shields anyway? The House is in the control room." Do you doubt Tardis?

The doubt didn't just confuse me, but also Tardis herself, "I directed him to one of the old control rooms."

"There aren't any old control rooms." There are though, I've seen them, "They were all deleted or remodeled."

"I archive them, for neatness. I've got about thirty now." Wow, so the consul with will change at least 30 more times? Cool.

"But I've only changed the desktop, what, a dozen times?"

Tardis almost rolled her eyes, "So far, yes."

"You can't archive something that hasn't happened yet."

"You can't."
"Sure she can." Tardis and I stated at the same time.

"Keep going. You're doing it, you sexy thing." I cringed, I am right here! 

"See, you do call me that. Is it my name?" No, no. That's not your name.

The Doctor disagreed, "You bet it's your name."

Tardis shouted in excitement, I was very confused. She Noticed, "They did it. Shields down."

Tardis delved into a conversation with Rory and the Doctor and I tried to keep the self-made Tardis.

"It's not going to hold." And we crash landed.

"Doctor." Amy went for a hug, But the Tardis didn't have time. I could feel her burning hotter now.

"Not good. Not good at all." The Doctor helped her to walk over, "How do you walk around in these things?"

"We're not quite there yet. Just hold on. Amy, this is, well, she's my Tardis." This isn't awkward, "Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's my Tardis."

"She's the Tardis?"

"And she's a woman." The Doctor got really excited, "She's a woman and she's the Tardis."

"Did you wish really hard?"

"I did!" I winked.
"Shut up. Not like that." The Doctor blushed.

"Hello. I'm Sexy."

"No, your Sweetheart. Get it right." She simply nodded as the Doctors blush darkened.

"The environment has been breached." It was the energy from the asteroid, "Nephew, kill them all."

"Where's Nephew?"

Amy added on, "He was standing right where you materialized."

"Ah. Well, he must have been redistributed."

Rory was confused, again, "Meaning what?"

"Take a nice whiff," They did, "and that's him."

"Oh, come on." She coughed slightly, as if she would've noticed if I hadn't said anything. Drama Queen.

"Another Ood I failed to save." I had warned you. Shut up, Asteroid!

"Doctor. I did not expect you."

"Well, that's me all over, isn't it?" Why does he clap Lovely old unexpected me."

"The big question is, now you're here, how to dispose of you? I could play with gravity." We get pulled to the floor for a few seconds. And I didn't think I would be able to get back up. My head was burning. The asteroid was gassing me out, while the Tardis was toasting me. Speaking of her, it didn't look like she would be getting up either.

"Or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke." I started seeing spots. 

"You really don't want," The Doctor could barely gasp it out, "to do that."

"Why shouldn't I just kill you now?"

"Because then I won't be able to help you. Listen to your engines. Just listen to them." He was quiet to give it a chance to listen, "You don't have the thrust and you know it. Right now I'm your only hope for getting out of your little bubble through the rift, and into my universe. And mine's the one with the food in."

"Water, water." Tardis and I started to chant. I saw what was in her head, glimpses of the future, the past, and now slamming together.

"You just have to promise not to kill us. That's all, just promise."

"You can't be serious." As Amy questioned the Doctor, Rory felt my forehead. I could feel his panic.

"Doctor, They're burning up. They're asking for water." No you dumbass, It's a warning!

The Doctor walked over, and leaned over Tardis. "Hey. Hang in there, old girl. Not long now. It'll be over soon."

"I always liked it when you call me old girl."

"Please, save this shit for later!" I could feel myself burning, inside and out.

I don't wanna die like this. I blacked out.

"I've killed all of them." It blinked in my head for a second. I was confused, Who did I kill? Who haven't I would be a better question, who haven't I hurt?

I watched a scene unfold in front of me. I was in Gamma Forest, by the river. The river sang a soft song as it rushed past me. I heard the melody of laughing children while they were running between the trees.

It was so peaceful.

I heard Tardis shouting out, "The only water in the forest is the river."

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My sleep was disturbed, I woke up still burning. 

I cried out, "Theta!" I kept crying and calling for Theta. My Theta.

"Iris?" He came in, quietly. When he saw me withering in pain, he rushed to my side, "Iris! What's going on?"

"It- It burns!" 

He shook his head, "The Tardis is back where she should be, House is gone. How?"

"Like when you had- when you had looked into the heart." 

He nodded when he understood, "So, you're?"

I nodded, "See you on the other side?"

He nodded, "See you then."

He backed up, and I burned.

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