the hourglass (doctor who fan fiction)

The Eleventh Hour pt. 5

"Look in the mirror." the Doctor said as we ran down the street. Amy had called him on the mobile. He pointed to a fire truck that had been parked on the side of the road. We quickly got in and found the keys right in the ignition. "Don't worry, I've commandeered a vehicle." he told Amy. After a bit, he asked Amy, "Are you in?" the sirens blared in our ears. "You need to get out of there." he warned Amy. "What's wrong?" I asked, yelling over the sirens. "Prisoner zero is with them." he yelled back. "Amy? Amy, what's happening? Amy, talk to me!"

"Which window are you?" I could barely hear his voice over the sirens. "Which window?" he yelled. The Doctor handed the phone over to me. I saw where we were headed and quickly texted, 'Duck!'. The Doctor aimed the fire engine's ladder to go through the window. We got out and climbed to the window. "Right! Hello. Am I late? No, three minutes to go. So still time." he said looking at his watch. "Time for what, Time Lords?" Prisoner zero hissed as they looked at us. I gripped my necklace tight. what do they mean, 'timelords'? "Take the disguise off. They'll find you in a heartbeat. Nobody dies." the Doctor bargained. "The Atraxi will kill me this time. If I am to die, let there be fire." Prisoner zero opened their mouth revealing their needle like teeth. "Okay. You came to this world by opening a crack in space and time. Do it again. Just leave."

"I did not open the crack." prisoner zero said. "Somebody did." the Doctor quizzed. "The cracks in the skin of the universe, don't you know where they came from? You don't, do you?" She changed to a little girl's voice, "The Doctor in the Tardis doesn't know. Doesn't know. Doesn't know!"

"The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall." prisoner zero grinned menacingly. "And we're off! Look at that. Look at that!" he pointed to the clock on the wall. It read 0:00. "Yeah, I know, just a clock. Whatever. But do you know what's happening right now? In one little bedroom, my team are working. Jeff and the world. And do you know what they're doing? They're spreading the word all over the world, quantum fast. The word is out. And do you know what the word is? The word is Zero. Now, me, if I was up in the sky in a battleship, monitoring all Earth communications, I'd probably take that as a hint. And if I had a whole battle fleet surrounding the planet, I'd be able track a simple old computer virus to its source in, what, under a minute? The source, by the way, is right here." he explained. A bright light shined outside. "Oh! And I think they just found us!"

"The Atraxi are limited. While I'm in this form, they'll still be unable to detect me. They've tracked a phone, not me." prisoner zero said, they began to look antsy. "Yeah, but this is the good bit. I mean, this is my favourite bit. Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Ooo, and being uploaded about now. And the final score is, no Tardis, no screwdriver, two minutes to spare. Who da man?" he shot his hands up in the air. Me, Rory, and Amy cringed. The Doctor looked back at us and sighed. "Oh, I'm never saying that again. Fine." he frowned. "Then I shall take a new form." prisoner zero said. "Oh, stop it. You know you can't. It takes months to form that kind of psychic link." the Doctor  scoffed. "And I've had years."

Amy collapsed. "No! Amy? You've got to hold on. Amy? Don't sleep! You've got to stay awake, please." me and the Doctor ran to her side. "Doctor." Rory said. We turned around to see that prisoner zero had turned into me and the Doctor. "Well, that's rubbish. Who's that supposed to be?" the Doctor asked pointing to the left. "It's you." I said. "Me? Is that what I look like?" he turned to me. "You don't know?" Rory questioned. "Busy day." he turned back to prisoner zero. "Why me, though? You're linked with her. Why are you copying me?" A little girl comes from around a curtain and holds my duplicate and the Doctors duplicates hand. "I'm not. Poor Amy Pond. Still such a child inside. Dreaming of the magic Doctor and Juno she knows will return to save her. What a disappointment you've been." the girl said.