The Doctor's Daughter

Chapter 9

The doctor's face begins to turn purple, and his body shakes more then ever. Panicking, I begin to check for signs of chocking. Finding none, I frantically begin to try to do CPR. I will not let him die. Not yet. This can't be it, can it? If I decide to save him, the universe will slowly die? Is that what's happening? Tears leak down my face as continue desperately trying to save him. "I don't care about the choice anymore! Help him! I love him! He is my father, please!" I screech as loud as I can between sobs. A frustrated, high-pitched scream emits from my throat as I break down hysterically crying. The doctor's eyes begin to bulge, and he looks like he's almost dead. Tears splashing down my face, I kiss his forehead. "I love you, I'm so-sorry." I cry, burying my face into his deceased body.

Then something odd happens; the doctor'a color returns in his face and he stops convulsing. He just lays there, fully normal, breathing heavily. My eyes widen, and I kneel right beside where his head lay. "Doctor?" I question hesitantly. He looks over at me, his head arching upward a bit. "I'm.... Fine. You chose right. Good job. It was always the left.... That happened because it....was supposed to...I always knew it would. I should... I should be dead right now! How did you save me?" He asks, eyes full of questioning.

I shake my head in confusion. "No idea. I was - I was just screaming for.... well, never mind what I said or did, but then you were okay." My face turns bright red with embarrassment, hoping he doesn't know what I did. He looks at me curiously, sitting up. I probably look a mess right now; my hair tangled wildly, my tearstained face bright crimson, and I'm still wearing bloodstained, torn up clothes.

The doctor stands up hastily, pulling me to me feet with him. "Where's your....mum?" He asks, and I assume he would be trying to talk like Amy was still mine. "Which one?" I reply with a roll of my eyes. The doctor looks at me with sad eyes. Shaking my head and giving no time for his apology, I begin to walk down the hall, which had suddenly returned to normal. He follows me wordlessly, almost in pity.

"So your my dad, did you know that?" I ask in a brusque manner, quickening my pace. He shrugs. "Not at first, but you and I are similar in many ways, so it wasn't hard to miss. However, I didn't know for sure until Cornelius Snow told me, and I chose to believe him because it all just makes sense." I laugh at his remark bitterly. "And I'm supposedly going to kill you or the universe one casual day? Or was today the day and I just screwed up everything by keeping you alive?"

The doctor contemplates this. "Well," he begins. "I knew I was going to die when you came near me, I knew it very lucidly. And it was okay to die then, in your arms, because that was how I assumed it was supposed to be. Now, however, I'm not too sure; maybe it was a test to see what choice you would make in the future, when you have to kill me. All I know is that if you didn't turn left, the other doctors would have killed you and the universe would get another person to kill me, simple as that."

Completely and utterly horrified, I look at him with my mouth open. I could've died because of him! I see the tardis in the distance and slowly begin to calm down. What I really need is my inhaler, which is probably gone for good. The doctor continues; "Are you sure that while I was...dying, you didn't say anything or do anything that would create help? Could you specifically try to remember?" He questions, which is starting to get quite irksome. "No," I retort indifferently.

That lie right there that I just told, it shouldn't have happened. I should just suck it up and tell him. Maybe it will prove something, show us why he is alive right now. But it's too embarrassing to admit to. It probably wouldn't have mattered anyway. "Why is the tardis locked?" The doctor interrupts my line of thinking. We are already at the tardis. "I might have....well, I had to find you and I um... possibly locked my mum, Amy, in there with this key..?" My voice comes out high-pitched, almost like a question.

He looks right at me and smirks. Obnoxiously sighing, he puts the key in the lock and twists. Before he opens the doors, he looks at me, grinning. "You deserve a beating, did you know that?" Laughing, he enters the tardis. Shaking my head and giggling as well, I too, go inside. Amy stands up from where I would assume she was sitting before. "EMILY ELIZABETH POND!" Yikes. The
doors close behind me as Amy's furious face turns red with anger. "That's not my name anymore, sorry, but apparently, I'm a Song." I say unsurely. The doctor try's to contain his laughter, watching, amused. Her face contorts into the angriest expression I've ever seen. Wrong thing to say I guess.

"I'm sorry Amy, I needed to go to the doctor." I say as sincerely as I possibly can. "You. Call. Me. Mum. Not. Amy." She growls. "Then what do I call my real mum? Mummy? Do I have a mum and a mummy now?" The doctor snorts loudly, still containing his laughter to the best of his abilities. I glare at him as he breaks out hysterically laughing, tears forming in his eyes. "I'm sorry but whew was that funny." He exclaims, still chuckling. Amy and I angrily stare him. Still giggling, he puts his hands up in mock surrender and shuts up.

Amy, I mean mum, looks at me. "If that's how you cope then fine, but never call me Amy again."
"Fine, mum, but why don't I have a dad? And how was I born, anyway? No one told me how that works." I ask. The doctor and Amy both look at each other at the same time, then slowly turn back. The doctor looks at me carefully. "I'm your actual father. River and I-um-well.. Amelia, explain." The doctor shuffles his feet. "Well when two people love each other very much-" "LALALA!" The doctor screams, plugging his ears and running out the room like a little girl. My mum continues the conversation.
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After the conversation, which wasn't very fun, the doctor and I sit together, joking around, while my mum paces the floor. And then River comes. Uh-oh. "So, did it all work out? My husbands not dead yet, so that's good." She smirks. "And how is my wonderful daughter who now knows who I am?" She comes near me, and I back into the doctor. "I'm fine, River." I mumble. "River?" She questions, hurt. I sigh. "Mummy." She nods after I say it. "Better." Mummy says.

The doctor shakes his head. "Your husband is not dead yet, that's good, right? Well if it's so dandy then why didn't you warn us what was going to happen? You obviously knew what was happening." His stern facial expression reaches hers as he stands up. Their faces practically less then an inch apart, I can tell that the tension is strong. River rolls her eyes in a joking matter, easing it up a little. "Not as much as I should have. And if I told you, wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff would have took place and the universe would have been destroyed. It was a fixed point in time that you found out like that, and that the one and only doctor survived. I'm sorry, dear." She says sincerely. They close the remaining gap after a second of strained silence, kissing with a strong passion. I look away, waiting for it to be over.

When I hear talking, I look back. "No," My mummy, River, whispers, looking at the tardis doors. My mum, Amy, stands in front of me protectively, the doctor standing in front of my mummy and mum in the same way. We landed a while ago, and now someone bangs on the door ominously. After a minute or so of the knocking, the doors finally open. I see a blinding white light, and cover my eyes, squinting. After my eyes adjust, I look at who stands at the door, and I scream while backing up into the nearest wall. It's me, me at the door, smirking. "Guess who's back!" She laughs evilly, pulling out a gun.

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