The Oncoming Storm ²

A Good Man Goes To War pt.4

*Control room*

"You've hacked into their software, then?" the Doctor asks.

"I believe I sold it to them" Dorium replies.

"Ooo. So, what have we learned?" I ask.

"That anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake" Vastra replies.

"I'm sorry?"

"The words of an old friend who once found me in the London Underground, attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers."

"Well, you were very cross at the time" I reply.

"As you were today, old friend. Point taken, I hope. Now, I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?"

"Sorry, what? Of course, she is. Completely human. What are you talking about?"

"They've been scanning her since she was born, and I think they found what they were looking for" Dorium replies the Doctor looks over Dorium's shoulder.

"Human DNA," the Doctor says.

"Look closer. Human plus. Specifically, human plus Time Lord" Vastra says.

*Outside the TARDIS*

"I heard her talking. This is a trap. Why would I lie to you?"

"Well, you might want to take a look at your uniform" Rory replies.

"The only reason I joined the Clerics was so I could meet the Doctor and Alex again."

"You wanted to meet them, so you joined an army to fight them?" Jenny asks.

"Well, how else do you meet great warriors?"

"They're not warriors" Amy replies.

"Then why are they called the Doctor and The Seer?" the lights go out "It's starting. Please, listen to me."

*Control room*

"But she's human. She's Amy and Rory's daughter" the Doctor says.

"You've both told me about your people. They became what they did through prolonged exposure to the time vortex. The Untempered Schism" Vastra says.

"Over billions of years. It didn't just happen" the Doctor says.

"So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?"

"No, no. I don't think so" I say.

"You don't sound so sure."

"Because I- we don't understand how this happened" I say.

"Which leads me to ask when did it happen?"

"When?"

"I am trying to be delicate. I know how you can blush Seer. When did this baby begin?"

"Oh, you mean..."

"Quite."

"Well, how would I know? That's all human-y, private stuff. It just sort of goes on. They don't put up a balloon, or anything" I mutter.

"But could the child have begun on the TARDIS in flight, in the vortex."

"No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. So, technically the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality, was on their w..." I trail off.