The Doctor And I

Bailee's Choice - The Dream Lord

The Doctor's POV-

"Oh, this is bad. I don't like this." I exclaim, kicking my TARDIS console out of anger, causing me to yelp as pain shoots up my leg. I see Bailee rolling her eyes at me. "Argh. Never use force. You just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case, always use force."

"Shall I run and get the manual?" Amy asks sarcastically. I decide to give her an honest response to her sarcastic question.

"I threw it in a supernova."

"You threw the manual in a supernova? Why?" Bailee asks in both surprise and amusement.

"Because I disagreed with it. Stop talking to me when I'm cross." I huff.

"Okay, but whatever's wrong with the Tardis, is that what caused us to dream about the future?" Rory ignored my explicit request to be not talked to.

"If we were dreaming of the future." I say.

"Well, of course we were." Amy says as though it should be obvious. "We were in Leadworth."

"Upper Leadworth." Rory corrects smugly.

"Yeah, and we could still be in Upper Leadworth, dreaming of this. Don't you get it?" I ask exasperated.

"No, okay? No, this is real. I'm definitely awake now." Amy tells herself.

"And you thought you were definitely awake when you were all...." I gesture at her stomach looking for the right word. Found it. "Elephanty."

"Hey. Pregnant." She snaps.

"And you could be giving birth right now. This could be the dream. I told you. Trust nothing we see or hear or feel. Look around you. Examine everything. Look for all the details that don't ring true." I say, looking around. Neither Rory, Amy or Bailee move, each of their faces a perfect mirror image of the person next to them, all staring at me. Rory starts off.

"Okay, we're in a spaceship that's bigger on the inside than the outside."

"With a bow tie-wearing alien." Bailee adds.

"So maybe what rings true isn't so simple." Amy finishes. I nod slowly at them.

"Valid point." Then, suddenly, the TARDIS switches off. All that's left is a faint glow from the time rotor. I looks around, and feel my insides go cold.

"It's dead. We're in a dead time machine." I whisper. A bird starts to sing, and Rory immediately goes to Amy's side, hugging her. We all sit down slowly, not wanting to crash to the floor, now we know that it HURTS when we wake up again in here.

"Remember, this is real. But when we wake up in the other place, remember how real this feels." I remind everyone.

"It is real. I know it's real." Amy says, before we all fall back, asleep again.

A teacher leads a pack of schoolchildren past, and church clock is chiming as we wake up on a bench outside a Library. Amy feels her stomach.

"Okay, this is the real one. Definitely this one. It's all solid."

"It felt solid in the Tardis too. You can't spot a dream while you're having it." I jump up, and wave my hand in front of Rory, making him blink and jump.

"What are you doing?" Bailee asks.

"Looking for motion blur, pixilation. It could be a computer simulation. I don't think so, though." I say thoughtfully, as a little old woman walks past.

"Hello, Doctor." She greets us. I don't have time to reply before Rory says

"Hi." Oh. He's the doctor around here. I turn to him, impressed.