3Worlds Collide
(Somewhere in the near future...)
Silence filled the vast corridors of the museum, twisting through each and every isle, haunting the establishment with its inexistent echo. One who walked among the silence would know the deep shiver it gave you, moving up your spinal cord and into your neck, making you check your surroundings at every possible moment, for fear of that silence catching up with you.
This is what Amy felt as she crept through the dark, dusty museum on that chilly night. It's only silence, she mulled to herself, it's only a closed museum. Yet there was a ominous feeling in the air, like something dreadfully unwanted was about to happen. She couldn't tell what, but the feeling was there. This silence was creepy like that, really creepy. But Amy herself could tell you, there was Silence way worse than this one.
Even still, she wished she had Rory's hand to hold on to as she made her way though this dark place, blindly following the sound of the Doctor shuffling through the passage ways. He was looking for something, that's all she knew. He might of been able to find it easier if they had come during the daytime, when the war memorial museum was open, and there were actually people walking through it, but if there was one thing for sure, then it was the fact that the Doctor never did things the easy way...
For you see, instead of walking through the front doors like USUAL visitors, Amy and the Doctor took to, er... entering through the back doors, to say the very least. Amy rather begrudgingly, but then, that's to be expected.
It had been a long time since then, hours into the night, and the Doctor was still looking. He hadn't even told Amy yet WHAT they were looking for, and it was for this reason that she began to grow bored. She played with her hair, running her fingers through it, and silently tapped her feet on the floor. She even paced up and down the isle ways for what seemed like thousands of times, and the Doctor didn't even notice. Finally, when she couldn't take it anymore, Amy broke the dead silence for the very first time.
"Doctor, COME ON!" she urged in a fervent whisper. "It's been HOURS! Can't we go to a planet now?"
"In a minute, Amy!" he replied, not even taking time to turn his head towards her. The tone of his voice told Amy to calm down and be patient just a little while longer. Sighing, she leaned up against a transparent display case, bored enough to ignore the contents inside. There was no telling how long he would take looking around in here, let alone wether he would find what he was seeking. In fact, it was still very much a mystery what he was looking for. He hadn't told her yet, and it didn't seem as if he was going to spare any hints any time soon. The Doctor, as she had learned quickly over the years, wasn't quite one you would call reliable.
Now however, all the patience she had was beginning to be tested. She sat there leaning on the case for a couple more minutes, as the Doctor quietly looked through rows and rows of period objects and old relic guns. And then her waiting payed off.
"I think I just found what I was looking for," the Doctor suddenly said, eyes staring intensely down at an object in a display case. He leaned his arms down on the case, examining it more thoroughly. Amy pounced from her position on the display case at the end of the isle, running over to him.
"And what's that?" Amy asked, eyes bright with curiosity. She went up on her tiptoes, trying to see over the Doctor, who was successfully blocking her view of the object inside the case. "Something exiting, yeah? 'Cause we've been in this museum forever, and somehow I just can't believe that you came in here for a... sack of... potatoes..." she finished, noticing an old and empty potato sack in a display case nearby, most likely World War 1 era, as that was the area of the museum that they were exploring. It was once probably filled with dirt or sand, and used as a part of a bunker during the war.
"Oh, no, it's WAY better than that!" the Doctor assured her with a small smirk. "Look here..." he said, pointing to the object in question with his sonic screwdriver, activating it so that there was a bit of green light on it. "It's a pocket watch!"
"A pocket watch," Amy repeated, her hopes falling like a dead weight, not at all looking as impressed as he was. He was beaming, his greenish eyes twinkling in that special way. He seemed as if the pocket watch was some dear old friend he hadn't seen for years.
"Yeah, a pocket watch!" he repeated, his features suggesting that he was in a state of complete glee. For what, though, Amy was not sure.
"So you're telling me... that we wasted goodness knows how many hours... in a dark, dusty museum... just to find a silly old watch?"
"And that's where you're wrong, Amy," he replied, eyes still locked, mesmerized even, on the small silver object in the case. He once again didn't even giving a passing glance at the red-haired woman standing next to him. "It's not JUST a silly old watch, it's MY silly old watch!"
"Like I can believe that..." Amy laughed. "You said the TARDIS was yours, but you stole it! And even if it IS your pocket watch, then why is in a war memorial museum in the near future?"
"Oh, I gave it to a boy quite a few years ago. When I was in 1913. He died a few years ago, and since he played a considerate service in both World War 1 AND World War 2, his family had the nice thought to donate it to this museum when they had to move. Lovely family, he had..."
"So why did you need to find it?"
"Isn't it obvious?" the Doctor asked her, finally turning to look her in the eye for what was probably the first time since they had left the TARDIS. There was a mischievous edge to his face, a look that could only mean trouble. It was at that moment that Amy realized exactly what he was here for.
"No... No, you're not... stealing it? You can't just waltz in here and STEAL something!"
"Amy!" the Doctor interrupted, clasping his hands on her shoulders. "Hush! Its fine! It's rightfully my watch, I gave it to him..."
"Yours or not, that doesn't wipe away the fact that you're guilty of breaking and entering!" Amy exclaimed, arms crossed.
"But I didn't break anything!" he protested, both arms in the air.
"Don't be stupid, of course you did!" Amy countered back. "You broke in here, last time I checked!"
"And you followed..." the Doctor muttered, rolling his eyes. Luckily for him, Amy didn't hear this comment. Thanking his lucky stars, he continued. "And I thought I've gone over this before, using my sonic to unlock a door is NOT breaking and entering, it's sonicing and entering!"
"Ha," Amy cackled, "same difference!"
It was at that moment in which there was noise coming from behind the metal door at the end of the isle, and both time travelers instantly whipped around, giving each other worried looks.
"Doctor!" Amy whispered urgently. "Is it just me, or do you have a bad feeling about this?"
"Erm, no, it's not just you... Um..., hide!"
"What?"
"Hide!" he said quietly, dragging Amy with him, getting ready to duck into another isle, when suddenly, there was something that sounded very much like a sonic screwdriver coming from behind the door. And voices. More voices. The Doctor did a double take at the high pitched sonic sound, running back and looking very confusedly at the door.
"No... That can't be..." he mumbled to himself, eyes wide.
"Was that a...?" Amy started, when the door unlocked with a click, and opened. And behind the door stood a tall thin man in a blue suit and a full figured woman with ginger hair.
AN- Evil Moffat cliffhangerXD, sorry!
Yeah, this is the beginning of something I wrote a LONG while ago in that lazy script fashion, long before Let's Kill Hitler...
Let's just say, I've improved it. A lot. But if I do continue, then there will be a lot of wibbly-wobblyness, possibly a tad bit of whump, and the eventual return of many other characters, not saying who though...
Oh. And a character death. *innocently grins*
So if you don't like character deaths, then don't go complaining to me when it happens.
Just a btw, this is definitely AU, it's after the events of series six part one as far as I know. I'm not quite sure about part 2. It probably is. And as far as I know, Rory will not be making an appearance. ;-(
Please, I would be SO overly joyed if you reviewed! :-D