![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
batsutousaiTitle: The Perfect Sky is Torn
Part: 1 of ?
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
batsutousai
Beta:tsuki_no_suzu
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Harry Potter/Eleventh Doctor (Jack/Ianto, Amy/Rory)
Warnings: Slash, spoilers for season 5 of New Who
Summary: Sequel to Dust in the Sky. Between the Doctor's companions throwing themselves all over him and Harry's life on Earth, their love always manages to bring them together.
Disclaim Her: I own neither the characters of Doctor Who, nor of Harry Potter. Both worlds belong to their respective creators/controlling entities and I am only borrowing them for my own amusement. No money is being made off of this piece of fan fiction.
Some quotes in this fic are taken directly from episodes in Doctor Who, others have been changed to better fit Harry's inclusion.
Part One, First Half
-0-
Amy was perfectly okay, but Harry had to burn the alien cells out of Isabella's bloodstream to save her. When faced with the choice between horrible pain and becoming a creature like the other girls, Isabella chose the pain. As soon as she was clean, Harry handed over a blood replenishing potion as well as a pain relieving potion and pointed her towards the bed in the room while everyone else sat around the table.
When Harry finally joined them, the Doctor went through everything he knew and, with a little help from what Amy had been told while waiting for her rescue, was able to figure out something of what Calvierri was planning to do. Before they could figure out what to do with the knowledge, however, the Calvierri girls started breaking through the windows. When Isabella screamed in terror at the arms reaching above her, Harry stood with a muttered curse and cast an over-powered anti-vampire spell into a couple of the girls' faces.
"Do you have to go about killing them?" the Doctor complained as the girls he'd hit turned to ash.
Harry rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry if Jack is rubbing off on me," he retorted. "But I'm not about to let them kill us."
The Doctor groaned and darted forward to help Isabella away from the windows, leaving Harry to deal with the rest of the girls. "At least he doesn't have you carrying around a gun, yet."
"I don't use guns," Harry said, "it's in my contract."
Once the girls were all gone, the impossible storm clouds moved in.
"We've got to do something," Amy said, looking out the window in horror.
"You two are getting married soon," Harry cut in, looking between Amy and Rory. "Why don't you leave this madness to the Doctor and me and get back to the TARDIS. You'll be safe there."
"And what does a wedding matter if there's no one to take us home?" Amy snapped in reply.
"Go back to the TARDIS," the Doctor ordered. "Harry's right. You'll be safe there, and the TARDIS will take you home if something happens to me."
"I'm not going to just let you sacrifice yourselves–"
"Go back to the TARDIS," the Doctor repeated, then turned to Harry. "Your family–"
Harry rolled his eyes. "Shut up, Doctor," he ordered, getting the smallest of smiles from the man. He turned to Guido and Isabella. "Find a boat and get out of Venice."
Guido shook his head while Rory dragged a quietly protesting Amy down the stairs to the front door. "We are Venetians. We were born here and, if it is our fate, we will die here."
Harry nodded. "Good luck," he offered, then allowed the Doctor to lead him out of the house and back to the Calvierri House.
Signora Calvierri met them there and left them after refusing to give them any assistance in stopping the storm. The Doctor led them out onto one of the towers and stared around for a moment before suddenly turning to Harry, eyes bright with knowledge. "Tear the throne apart. Just destroy it. I'm going after the secondary generator."
Harry nodded and, grabbing the Doctor's jacket lapels, pulled him forward for a kiss. "Don't you dare die on me again," he ordered.
The Doctor grinned. "Right back at you," he replied, then turned and ran for the stairs up. Harry hurried back down to the receiving room.
There, he almost ran into Amy and Rory. "What are you two– No! Never mind! Help me trash that chair."
"Can't you blast it with a spell?" Amy asked as they all attacked the wires that were poking out of the chair.
"Probably," Harry agreed, "but this makes me feel better. There's something about physically tearing something apart..."
The other two humans couldn't help but agree with that, so they finished shredding the chair by hand, then stepped back so Harry could completely blast it out of existence. Then they ran outside and looked up towards the tallest tower to where the Doctor was dealing with the second half of the alien device.
When he finally got switched it off and the storm clouds disappeared, everyone cheered. The Doctor turned around, grinned, then pointed at Harry, who waved at him, and jumped.
"Doctor!" Amy screamed, jerking away from Rory, who she was hugging.
But Harry just pulled out his wand and caught the Doctor in a spell, slowing his fall to a safe speed for him to hit the ground. "You're going to give someone a heart attack," Harry admonished him, putting his wand away.
The Doctor just shrugged. "I couldn't help myself. And I knew you'd catch me."
"Completely bonkers," Harry laughed.
Amy stalked up to the Doctor and smacked him on the arm. "Don't do that!"
The Doctor grinned a bit. "I won't do it again if Harry's not here to catch me," he promised, then blinked and ran back into the building.
"What's he doing now?" Amy asked, looking back at where Rory and Harry stood.
"He's going to try and keep Signora Calvierri from killing herself," Harry said, looking past the woman to where the Doctor had disappeared.
"But, if she survives, she'd just try this again, right?" Amy asked.
Harry smiled a bit grimly. "Amy, the Doctor always tries to save everyone. Always. He can't help it. Even if someone holds a gun to his head, he'll try to save them in the end."
"He didn't for the Daleks," Amy replied, frowning. "Or the Weeping Angels."
Harry shrugged. "There are some creatures that can't be saved, if only because they refuse to be. Daleks and Weeping Angels..." He shrugged again. "Even the Doctor knows better than to try with them." He smiled. "Anyway. If you saw the Daleks, you know how much he hates them. Not that he hasn't been known to give them a second chance before, mind..."
"But he just can't let himself save them against their will," Amy realised.
Harry nodded and turned his attention back towards the gates of the Calvierri House.
-0-
The Doctor hadn't been able to save the last of the Saturnynians, and the pained look in his eyes as he walked back through the gates silenced any further comments from the three humans. "Let's go back to the TARDIS," he said and quickly turned his feet in the direction they needed to go.
Harry traded looks with the other two, then hurried to catch up to the Doctor, grabbing the Time Lord's hand in his and squeezing it wordlessly. The Doctor shot him the briefest of smiles, but didn't do or say anything further until the TARDIS came into sight. At that point, he pasted a smile onto his face and looked back at Amy and Rory, gleefully commenting on their soon-to-be wedding.
When Rory suggested that the Doctor should just take him back to where they'd come from, Amy turned to him and told him, "Stay. With us, please. Just for a bit. I want you to."
Rory turned to where the Doctor and Harry stood, watching the two with matching smiles. "Fine with me," the Doctor said.
"Yeah? Yes. I would like that," Rory agreed and shared a kiss with Amy.
Amy then turned to Harry. "And are you going to stay?" she asked him.
Harry considered that, glancing up at the Doctor. "I don't know," he admitted.
"Give us a moment," the Doctor requested. When Amy and Rory nodded, the Doctor gently led Harry down the street, away from the TARDIS. When they were out of hearing range, he turned to Harry and said, "What is it?"
Harry sighed. "Doctor, do you remember what I asked you when we were eating ice cream on the moon?"
The Doctor nodded, eyes darkening. "Yes. Amy is having the same problem. I take it you, Jack, Martha and Mickey can remember things that others can't?"
Harry nodded. "Yes. And what Signora Calvierri said about the cracks that led to silence..."
"The cracks are caused by some event that happens the day of Amy and Rory's wedding," the Doctor informed him, running a hand through his hair. "Something to do with tomorrow. And if you fall into a crack, you're erased from all of time and space. You never existed."
"And that's what happened to the day the Earth got stolen?"
"That, and a hundred other important events throughout time and space. When I first met Amy, she had one of those cracks in her bedroom wall. I closed it, but there's still hundreds of them, everywhere. I don't know what caused them."
Harry nodded. "Take me back to my time," he requested, firm in his resolve. When the Doctor opened his mouth to argue, Harry shook his head. "No, take me back. I know you, Doctor. You're going to take the long way. You're going to try and find a way to keep whatever happens from happening and, with our luck, that'll be just the thing to cause it. Take me back and I'll go to Amy and Rory's town and look around. Maybe I can stop it from happening just by being there. Maybe I can't. But I can't just sit around and travel while the universe ends."
"It's not going to end!"
"What else did she mean by 'the end of all things,' then? What is silence but the absence of noise?" Harry shook his head again. "Let me face this my own way. Please."
The Doctor closed his eyes. "You want me to leave you to face what you think is the end of the universe without me."
Harry sighed and leaned forward to rest his forehead against the Doctor's. "No. I want you to leave me to stop the end of the universe on my own terms. I don't intend to leave you, Doctor. Not as long as you don't leave me."
The Doctor smiled a bit grimly. "And what about when you reach the end of your life span? You remember what I told Rose."
Harry laughed. "I'll start looking for ways to make a Philosopher's Stone," he promised.
The Doctor laughed and shook his head. "Maybe I should just take you back in time so you can keep Dumbledore from destroying it in your first year, hm?"
Harry smiled. "That'll be the first thing we do after attending Amy and Rory's wedding. We'll leave them to go on their honeymoon while you and I go and steal a Philosopher's Stone."
"It's a promise," the Doctor agreed and stood up straight so their foreheads could no longer touch. He searched Harry's eyes for a long moment, then nodded. "I'll take you home."
Harry reached up and touched the Doctor's face. "Thank you."
"But if you die on me..."
Harry shook his head. "I'm not going to die on you."
"Good." And the Doctor leaned forward and pressed a bruising kiss against Harry's lips, which Harry was perfectly happy to return. After a long few minutes, he pulled away and whispered, "We should go back... before they come looking for us."
Harry laughed breathlessly. "Oh, fuck you. You can't just kiss me like that and then–"
The Doctor dropped another kiss onto Harry's mouth, then stepped away, eyes twinkling. "You can fuck me after the wedding," he promised.
Harry laughed again and made a grab for the Doctor's hand. Once he had the hand in his grip, he nodded towards the TARDIS and they started back to the blue box. "Call me, if you find something out while you're taking the round-about way."
"Ah... I'll have to find the mobile..."
"Do I need to tell Martha that you lost the mobile she gave you?"
"No! It's... I'll find it! I will. Uhm... If I can't find it right away, I'll ring you on the TARDIS phone."
"I suppose that's acceptable. But look for that mobile. Or else."
The Doctor laughed.
-0-
Harry stopped in his flat long enough to restock his potions kit and grab some food for a stake-out. He didn't know how long he would be sitting around in Leadworth before some yet unknown event would occur that would crack the universe. Just as he was about to apparate out, his mobile rang and he popped it open. "Potter."
"Harry! How long has it been?" the Doctor said through the phone.
Harry rolled his eyes. "Uhm... About twenty minutes. Why?"
There was a brief pause on the Doctor's end, during which Harry thought he heard the Doctor talking indistinctly to someone. Finally, he returned to the phone, but he was whispering, "Listen, I reached into a crack and pulled out what looks to be a piece of the TARDIS' door. I'm going to try and keep the TARDIS away from Leadworth for all of today."
"Okay. And what if I happen to somehow see her around, then?"
"See what she's doing there?" the Doctor suggested, clearly not having a better idea. "Run inside and smack me. Something like that."
Harry snorted and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, okay. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow," the Doctor agreed and hung up.
Harry shoved his mobile back into the pocket of the leather jacket he had 'borrowed'. He pulled the jacket tighter around himself and apparated to the coordinates the Doctor had written down and slipped to him before the TARDIS had hurriedly left his flat.
And, what do you know? There, sitting in front of him was the TARDIS.
"Bloody hell," Harry complained and hurried forward to shove the doors open. However, instead of the Doctor standing by the console, Harry saw a woman he'd never seen before. "Who the bloody fu–"
"Harry?" the woman said, blinking in surprise.
Harry shook his head. "Who..."
"River? River!"
Both of them looked towards the phone, which the woman was holding loosely in one hand. "Yes. Sorry, Doctor," the woman said into the phone. "I was just..." She shook her head. "Listen, it's a trap. It's has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario that you would believe."
"Every thing's a bloody trap!" Harry snapped, taking the short flight of stairs up to the console in two quick lunges. "What's going on here?"
"River? Why is Harry there? Harry–"
"I don't–" the woman started, but whatever she was going to say got cut off as the console sparked and the TARDIS jerked sideways.
"Shit," Harry hissed, rubbing at his back and lurching towards the console. "Look," he said to the woman, "I don't really care who you are or how you got here right now, but we need to get the TARDIS out of here."
"Out of where?" the Doctor's voice demanded over the phone.
"Doctor, you remember our trip to Venice? When you left me behind to wait for that date you saw as the beginning of the cracks?" Harry asked into the phone the woman was still holding.
"Yea– Crap! River, get the TARDIS out of there. Any time. Any place. I don't care. But get her out of there!"
"I can't! The engines aren't heeding me!" the woman – River, the Doctor was calling her – shouted into the phone. She pointed to a lever just out of her reach. "Pull that," she ordered Harry.
Harry grabbed the lever and pulled, but it wouldn't budge. He looked up at the central column. "Come on, sweetheart..."
"You're driving her wrong!" the Doctor shouted through the phone.
"I'm driving her perfectly!" River grunted, fingering a couple of controls. "You're the one who taught me!"
"Well, then... Shut her down! Shut off all her systems!"
"I can't," River replied, flicking a switch angrily. She looked up at Harry, who was pulling out his wand to see if he could do anything by the way of shutting her down.
Before Harry could think of a spell to cast, a voice said, "Silence will fall. Silence will fall."
"The hell?" Harry whispered, looking over at the only other person in the TARDIS, but River looked just as confused and worried as Harry felt.
River looked back at the phone. "Someone else is flying her. An external force. I've lost control," she said.
"But why? How?" the Doctor asked over the phone.
"I don't know," River hissed back.
"Listen to me. Just land her. Emergency landing. Now," the Doctor ordered.
River motioned to Harry. "Take the phone?" she requested.
Harry dashed around her and took the phone, sighing as the Doctor kept talked about the cracks. "He says to land. Wherever!"
"It's not safe!" River shouted back.
"It's us or the bloody universe!" Harry snapped. "Land her!"
River stared at him for a briefest of seconds, then nodded and dashed around the console, inputting the commands she needed.
As soon as he felt the TARDIS stop moving, Harry turned back to the phone and said, "We've landed. Now what?"
"Get out of there. Leave the TARDIS and she'll automatically shut down."
"Right." Harry waved at River. "Doors. Go!" he ordered, setting the phone down next to the cradle.
River ran for the doors and tugged at them, but they wouldn't open. "Harry!"
Harry snapped out his wand and shot a spell at the doors which would open them, but the only thing on the other side was solid rock. "...fuck..." Harry whispered.
"I'm sorry," River said, turning back to look at where Harry stood at the top of the stairs. "I'm so sorry."
Harry smiled back grimly and closed his eyes as the last explosion started at the console behind him.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the Doctor said, "Sorry I'm late."
Harry's eyes snapped open and he, as well as River, stared at the Doctor, who was standing just off to the side of one of the open doors. "Where have you been?" River demanded as Harry jumped down from the console platform to join the other two.
"Here and there. Come on, then. We're on a schedule."
"Lunatic," Harry commented as he and River stepped forward and grabbed onto the wrist strap.
As soon as they landed, River breathed out in relief. "Amy. And the... plastic centurion."
"It's okay, he's on our side," the Doctor replied.
"Really? I dated a nestene duplicate once. Swappable head. It did keep things fresh."
"Bloody hell. You're like a female version of Jack, aren't you?" Harry muttered.
River shot him a smile which was rather reminiscent of Jack, then turned to everyone else. "Right then. I've got questions. But number one is this: What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?" She turned to look at the Doctor.
"You ask that like you think sanity has anything to do with it," Harry commented.
"It's a fez," the Doctor explained. "I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."
"Lunatic," Harry sang while Amy snatched the fez off the Doctor's head and tossed it for River to blast.
A Dalek floated up under the destroyed fez, sending them all scrambling for the exit. Once they were all down the ladder, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to seal the hatch.
"Doctor, come on," River ordered, gun still pointed at the hatch.
"Shh. It's moving away. Finding another way in. It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly..." the Doctor trailed off to check his watch. "Four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity."
"How do you know?" Rory asked as the Doctor dashed past them and started down the stairs.
The Doctor paused and looked back up at them. "Because that's when it will shoot to kill me," he informed them, starting back down the stairs to a startled chorus of, "Kill you?" from both River and Harry.
"Nope, never mind!" the Doctor called back over his shoulder. He then proceeded to distracted them all by discussing how he could use the Pandorica to rebuild – or 're-boot', as he put it – the universe.
River, being the quickest to understand his techno babble, immediately started debating the finer points, all of which he smiled off and explained that, really, it wasn't so impossible. Before he could properly explain everything, though, the Dalek appeared down the hall and shot him.
"I hate Daleks!" Harry snapped, then shot off a Killing Curse towards the creature.
Amy and Rory were left staring at Harry in shock, but River wore the air of one who'd seen Harry use that curse before. At any rate, she was far more worried about the Doctor.
The very same Doctor who used his vortex manipulator to shift himself twelve minutes into the past, according to a nervous Amy. The same Amy who also assured them that the Doctor had died when he'd shown up.
River demanded they lead the way towards where the Doctor had appeared. Amy and Rory turned to do as demanded, leaving River and Harry to bring up the rear.
"You don't think that killed him," Harry commented.
"I've seen him shot by a Dalek before. He doesn't just croak."
"And, even if he had, he'd have regenerated," Harry agreed.
"They're gullible," River said, shaking her head.
Harry's lips twitched. "He's only had them for a month or so. Cut them some slack."
River eyed him. "How long did it take you to figure him out?"
"Ah, but I originally met him two incarnations ago. Different man, different rules."
River smirked.
When they reached the spot where they'd left the Doctor twelve minutes ago, they found Rory's jacket, but no Doctor.
"But he was dead," Amy insisted, standing over the lone jacket.
"Who told you that?" River asked as she and Harry started down the stairs to join the younger two companions.
"He did!"
"Rule one: The Doctor lies," River said and walked right past them to the hall where the Pandorica sat. Inside, the Doctor had already hooked himself up to the box so he could take it with him into the exploding TARDIS.
River spoke with him first, helping make sure he was properly hooked up and everything was ready to go. Then she waved Harry over and he leaned against the side of the box, frowning. "You promised me," he said.
"I'm sorry," the Doctor whispered, closing his eyes.
"Me too," Harry whispered back, then turned and motioned to Amy. "Go on, then," he told her, then took up a spot next to River against the wall. "Back to life without the Doctor, then," he said to her. "Except, this time, he'll never have existed at all."
River glanced at him. "Someone once told me that those who have travelled in time see the universe in a different way from normal people."
Harry blinked and considered her. "I've heard that before, somewhere."
River shot him a crooked smile. "I heard it from you," she admitted, then turned back towards the Pandorica to warn the Doctor that it was time to go, leaving Harry staring at her in surprise.
As soon as the Pandorica closed, they hurried out of the way, River grabbing Amy as the girl continued to stand there. Shortly after the Pandorica cleared the roof, River's computer beeped and she pulled it out to look.
"It's from the Doctor."
"What does it say?"
"Geronimo."
-0-
Harry woke to glaring sunlight and a pounding headache. "Bloody hell. What did I have to drink last night?" he muttered.
"One hell of a drink," a voice offered from behind him.
Harry glanced around the trellis he was leaning against and blinked at the woman who was looking back at him through eyes narrowed in pain. "Who..." He shook his head. "You're... River?"
River grimaced and managed the faintest of nods. "Cheers. I don't suppose you've got anything on your belt for the pain?"
"Potions," Harry agreed and shuffled through his belt. It took him a moment to sort out the line of potions, what with the sun glaring off the glass bottles, but he did finally manage it and passed a pain potion over to the woman before downing his own serving. "Ugh. I feel like I've been trampled by a hippogriff."
"More like interstellar class star ship," River corrected, handing the empty bottle back over.
"When have you been hit by one of those?"
"When have you been trampled by a hippogriff?"
"I see your point." Harry groaned and pulled himself to his feet, then looked around. "Where in Merlin's name are we? And how did we get here?"
"Leadworth, I think," River offered, holding up a hand so Harry could help her up, which he did. "What's the last thing you remember?"
Harry blinked and considered that, then shrugged. "Killing a bloody Dalek in a museum."
"The Doctor was going to use the Pandorica to fix the universe," River muttered, rubbing at her temples.
"By flying it into the exploding TARDIS," Harry recalled, then glanced over at River. "We remembered."
"We've both been travelling in time for years. We've practically got the vortex in our blood."
"Ugh. Just..."
River snorted.
Harry shook his head. "Time vortex in my blood or not, I still feel like there's nothing more than cotton between my ears."
"We're trying to remember stuff that never happened," River suggested. "It's going to be a bit fuzzy."
Harry sighed and leaned back against the trellis they were still standing next to. "River, can you answer a question for me?"
"Ask away, but I can't promise to answer."
Harry's lips twitched knowingly. "We've met before. Or, really, you've met me before." He glanced over at her.
River nodded. "I met the Doctor years ago, in my past."
"Your past, our future," Harry replied.
River nodded again. "You're important to him, always have been, always will be." She smiled a bit crookedly. "I met you a long time ago."
Harry smiled. "Are we friends, then? Or rivals?"
River snorted. "The Doctor is a wonderful man, and he naturally draws people to him."
Harry cocked an eyebrow at her when she didn't continue. "You didn't answer my question, River."
River smirked at him. "Spoilers."
Harry laughed and shook his head. "Oh, I think we'll get on swimmingly," he decided. "Have you ever met Jack?"
"Not yet, but you've mentioned him before."
Harry smiled. "We'll have to rectify that. However, first! I think we have a wedding to attend."
"What about your family?"
Harry pulled out his phone and checked the time. "I'm already two hours late. I was busy saving the universe; Ginny will understand."
"Not if she doesn't remember the Doctor, she won't."
"Good thing my shield spells are so good then, hm?"
River chuckled, then glanced down at her battle gear, as well as at Harry's jeans and t-shirt. "We need better clothing, first."
Harry grimaced down at his clothing. "I don't have anything to wear to a wedding," he admitted.
"We'll have to go shopping, then."
"I hate shopping with women."
"Be careful, Potter. This woman has a gun."
Harry snorted, unimpressed, and took her arm to apparate them to a fancy clothing store.
-0-
They got back in time to slip into the church and watch the vows be exchanged. "I'm always late for weddings," Harry muttered.
"I'm sure your timing will improve," River offered.
Harry grinned at her. "Spoilers."
River grinned back, then pulled a book out of her pocket. "I'm going to give this to Rory."
"Why?"
She flipped the book open to show nothing but blank pages. "The Doctor once told me that when I attend a wedding and my journal is blank, I should give it to the groom. Say it's a lend."
Harry blinked and took the book and flipped through it again. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue..."
"What now?"
Harry smiled and handed the book back. "The Doctor borrowed the TARDIS from his people ages ago, but he never gave it back, and he destroyed it in his last regeneration, so she was just rebuilt."
"And she's blue," River realised, then shook her head. "Sometimes I forget how clever he is."
Harry leaned back as much as he could in the pew. "He's a tricky bastard," he agreed, "and just a little bit mad."
River did, indeed, leave it with Rory, smiling at his confusion about not knowing her. She met Harry back at the door of the community centre and they walked around the building, intending to go back to Amy's home, where the Doctor was certain to park his TARDIS eventually.
Shortly after they reached the lonely swing in the yard, the TARDIS' engines sounded. Harry considered his next action for a long moment and, when the doors opened and the Doctor stepped out, Harry punched him in the arm. Hard.
"Ow! What was that for?" the Doctor demanded, rubbing the abused arm.
"That was for being a self-sacrificing lunatic. Again," Harry snapped. "Next time you do that, I reserve the right to hex you. Understood?"
The Doctor winced. "Yes, Harry."
River chuckled. "You two never really change, do you?"
"River! Still hanging about, I see." The Doctor grinned at her.
"Well, the groom does have my book. And you still have my vortex manipulator."
The Doctor glanced down at his wrist. "Ah. So I do." He pulled it off and handed it back to her. "And am I expected to get your book back, as well?"
River glanced at Harry, a smirk curling her lips. "Let's say it's a part of your punishment."
Harry laughed.
The Doctor looked between the two a little nervously. "What have you two been talking about while I was gone?"
Harry and River just smiled.
The Doctor sighed. "No, never mind. I don't want to know. Well! I've got a book to obtain and I wanted to dance a bit. Are you two coming?"
Harry took the vortex manipulator from River with a smile. "Perhaps in a little while. I missed my time with my kids today, and I intend to make it up."
"And what about River?" the Doctor asked a bit suspiciously.
"There's someone I wanted her to meet."
The Doctor sighed and looked down at his watch. "Two hours," he warned.
"We'll be back by then," River agreed, setting a hand on Harry's arm.
Harry waved, then apparated them to the back door of Torchwood Three's base. "Come on in," he said, using his key to unlock the door.
It only took a few moments for Jack to appear, peering over the railing of the third floor. "I was wondering if you were ever going to show," he called down. "Fancy dress?"
"Went to a wedding," Harry called back. "I brought someone back with me that I thought you might enjoy talking to."
Jack frowned. "Harry, we do have rules about who we let know about the Hub. You remember those rules, right?"
Harry snorted. "I'm pretty sure Doctor's companions was on the 'Okay to Invite In' side."
Jack paused for a moment, then hurried around the railing. Moments later, the lift hit the ground floor and the immortal man hopped off. "Doctor's companion? You've seen him lately, then?"
"Fairly recently," Harry agreed, then stepped back to let River and Jack see each other properly. "Jack, this is Dr River Song. River, Captain Jack Harkness. Both of you were – or will be – companions to the Doctor, and you're both originally from the fifty-first century."
"Seriously?" Jack asked, holding out a hand to shake.
"Of course." River replied. "And what's your story, then?"
Harry snorted and shook his head. "River, I'll be back in two hours. Jack, if you even joke about cheating on Ianto, I won't be held responsible. Ta!" Then he hit the button on the vortex manipulator, which he'd pre-set to the time he usually visited his family.
-0-
When Harry and River made it back to Amy's house two hours later, the Doctor was waiting for them, River's book in hand.
"Did you kids have fun?" the Doctor asked teasingly.
"It was fantastic," Harry replied with an overly-bright smile. "I got to see my kids, avoided a chewing out by Ginny and then we saw Jack and had an orgy."
The Doctor blinked. "You wouldn't have an orgy with Jack."
"Hm. I was hoping for a better reaction," Harry replied.
"Harry James Potter, are you trying to make me jealous?" the Doctor asked, amusement warring with pleasure in his eyes.
Harry smiled. "Is it working?"
The Doctor considered that. "If I say no, what will you do?"
"Try someone else."
The Doctor nodded and held River's book out to her. "Excuse us, River. Lovely seeing you again."
River took the book and laughed as the two men practically fell into the TARDIS, the doors clicking shut behind them.
"I thought you and the Doctor were married..." Amy said from under the archway a few feet in front of the TARDIS.
River smiled at her. "Harry won't be around forever, you know," she replied, shoving her book in the pouch on her hip. "I'd give them a couple of hours if I were you," she added, then used the vortex manipulator to shift back to her own time.
"We could go back and dance some more," Rory suggested.
Amy gave him a dry look.
Rory smiled nervously. "You're right. No more dancing."
Amy nodded and grabbed his arm. "Come on," she said, dragging him towards the house behind them.
-0-0-0-
-0-0-0-
A/N: That was fun. Everyone gets it on in the end. *insert mad cackle here*
I know a few people didn't much like River, and I'm a bit off and on about her myself, but if I discount her supposed relationship with the Doctor, I find her bearable. I hope those of you that really don't like her didn't mind her so much in this fic.
I also have to admit that I've always been a bit iffy about Amy, especially after she randomly decided to go and kiss the Doctor. S'why she might've come off as a bit irritating. Didn't mean to offend anyone who actually liked her. ^.^"
So! I'll be back after the Christmas special. Give or take a couple of weeks.
Until then, luvs!
~Bats ^.^x
P.S. - This fandom needs art. Somebody should make some. (I am, by no means, an artist. Or this issue would no longer be an issue. XD)
<3?
Harry & the Doctor Series:
Hanging By a Thread
Dust in the Sky Chapters:
One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six
The Future Doesn't Scare Me Chapters:
One | Two | ???
The Perfect Sky is Torn Chapters:
One | Two | Three
DISCONTINUED
Adrenaline Rush
Part: 1 of ?
Author:
batsutousaiBeta:
tsuki_no_suzuRating: PG-13
Pairings: Harry Potter/Eleventh Doctor (Jack/Ianto, Amy/Rory)
Warnings: Slash, spoilers for season 5 of New Who
Summary: Sequel to Dust in the Sky. Between the Doctor's companions throwing themselves all over him and Harry's life on Earth, their love always manages to bring them together.
Disclaim Her: I own neither the characters of Doctor Who, nor of Harry Potter. Both worlds belong to their respective creators/controlling entities and I am only borrowing them for my own amusement. No money is being made off of this piece of fan fiction.
Some quotes in this fic are taken directly from episodes in Doctor Who, others have been changed to better fit Harry's inclusion.
Part One, First Half
Amy was perfectly okay, but Harry had to burn the alien cells out of Isabella's bloodstream to save her. When faced with the choice between horrible pain and becoming a creature like the other girls, Isabella chose the pain. As soon as she was clean, Harry handed over a blood replenishing potion as well as a pain relieving potion and pointed her towards the bed in the room while everyone else sat around the table.
When Harry finally joined them, the Doctor went through everything he knew and, with a little help from what Amy had been told while waiting for her rescue, was able to figure out something of what Calvierri was planning to do. Before they could figure out what to do with the knowledge, however, the Calvierri girls started breaking through the windows. When Isabella screamed in terror at the arms reaching above her, Harry stood with a muttered curse and cast an over-powered anti-vampire spell into a couple of the girls' faces.
"Do you have to go about killing them?" the Doctor complained as the girls he'd hit turned to ash.
Harry rolled his eyes. "I'm sorry if Jack is rubbing off on me," he retorted. "But I'm not about to let them kill us."
The Doctor groaned and darted forward to help Isabella away from the windows, leaving Harry to deal with the rest of the girls. "At least he doesn't have you carrying around a gun, yet."
"I don't use guns," Harry said, "it's in my contract."
Once the girls were all gone, the impossible storm clouds moved in.
"We've got to do something," Amy said, looking out the window in horror.
"You two are getting married soon," Harry cut in, looking between Amy and Rory. "Why don't you leave this madness to the Doctor and me and get back to the TARDIS. You'll be safe there."
"And what does a wedding matter if there's no one to take us home?" Amy snapped in reply.
"Go back to the TARDIS," the Doctor ordered. "Harry's right. You'll be safe there, and the TARDIS will take you home if something happens to me."
"I'm not going to just let you sacrifice yourselves–"
"Go back to the TARDIS," the Doctor repeated, then turned to Harry. "Your family–"
Harry rolled his eyes. "Shut up, Doctor," he ordered, getting the smallest of smiles from the man. He turned to Guido and Isabella. "Find a boat and get out of Venice."
Guido shook his head while Rory dragged a quietly protesting Amy down the stairs to the front door. "We are Venetians. We were born here and, if it is our fate, we will die here."
Harry nodded. "Good luck," he offered, then allowed the Doctor to lead him out of the house and back to the Calvierri House.
Signora Calvierri met them there and left them after refusing to give them any assistance in stopping the storm. The Doctor led them out onto one of the towers and stared around for a moment before suddenly turning to Harry, eyes bright with knowledge. "Tear the throne apart. Just destroy it. I'm going after the secondary generator."
Harry nodded and, grabbing the Doctor's jacket lapels, pulled him forward for a kiss. "Don't you dare die on me again," he ordered.
The Doctor grinned. "Right back at you," he replied, then turned and ran for the stairs up. Harry hurried back down to the receiving room.
There, he almost ran into Amy and Rory. "What are you two– No! Never mind! Help me trash that chair."
"Can't you blast it with a spell?" Amy asked as they all attacked the wires that were poking out of the chair.
"Probably," Harry agreed, "but this makes me feel better. There's something about physically tearing something apart..."
The other two humans couldn't help but agree with that, so they finished shredding the chair by hand, then stepped back so Harry could completely blast it out of existence. Then they ran outside and looked up towards the tallest tower to where the Doctor was dealing with the second half of the alien device.
When he finally got switched it off and the storm clouds disappeared, everyone cheered. The Doctor turned around, grinned, then pointed at Harry, who waved at him, and jumped.
"Doctor!" Amy screamed, jerking away from Rory, who she was hugging.
But Harry just pulled out his wand and caught the Doctor in a spell, slowing his fall to a safe speed for him to hit the ground. "You're going to give someone a heart attack," Harry admonished him, putting his wand away.
The Doctor just shrugged. "I couldn't help myself. And I knew you'd catch me."
"Completely bonkers," Harry laughed.
Amy stalked up to the Doctor and smacked him on the arm. "Don't do that!"
The Doctor grinned a bit. "I won't do it again if Harry's not here to catch me," he promised, then blinked and ran back into the building.
"What's he doing now?" Amy asked, looking back at where Rory and Harry stood.
"He's going to try and keep Signora Calvierri from killing herself," Harry said, looking past the woman to where the Doctor had disappeared.
"But, if she survives, she'd just try this again, right?" Amy asked.
Harry smiled a bit grimly. "Amy, the Doctor always tries to save everyone. Always. He can't help it. Even if someone holds a gun to his head, he'll try to save them in the end."
"He didn't for the Daleks," Amy replied, frowning. "Or the Weeping Angels."
Harry shrugged. "There are some creatures that can't be saved, if only because they refuse to be. Daleks and Weeping Angels..." He shrugged again. "Even the Doctor knows better than to try with them." He smiled. "Anyway. If you saw the Daleks, you know how much he hates them. Not that he hasn't been known to give them a second chance before, mind..."
"But he just can't let himself save them against their will," Amy realised.
Harry nodded and turned his attention back towards the gates of the Calvierri House.
The Doctor hadn't been able to save the last of the Saturnynians, and the pained look in his eyes as he walked back through the gates silenced any further comments from the three humans. "Let's go back to the TARDIS," he said and quickly turned his feet in the direction they needed to go.
Harry traded looks with the other two, then hurried to catch up to the Doctor, grabbing the Time Lord's hand in his and squeezing it wordlessly. The Doctor shot him the briefest of smiles, but didn't do or say anything further until the TARDIS came into sight. At that point, he pasted a smile onto his face and looked back at Amy and Rory, gleefully commenting on their soon-to-be wedding.
When Rory suggested that the Doctor should just take him back to where they'd come from, Amy turned to him and told him, "Stay. With us, please. Just for a bit. I want you to."
Rory turned to where the Doctor and Harry stood, watching the two with matching smiles. "Fine with me," the Doctor said.
"Yeah? Yes. I would like that," Rory agreed and shared a kiss with Amy.
Amy then turned to Harry. "And are you going to stay?" she asked him.
Harry considered that, glancing up at the Doctor. "I don't know," he admitted.
"Give us a moment," the Doctor requested. When Amy and Rory nodded, the Doctor gently led Harry down the street, away from the TARDIS. When they were out of hearing range, he turned to Harry and said, "What is it?"
Harry sighed. "Doctor, do you remember what I asked you when we were eating ice cream on the moon?"
The Doctor nodded, eyes darkening. "Yes. Amy is having the same problem. I take it you, Jack, Martha and Mickey can remember things that others can't?"
Harry nodded. "Yes. And what Signora Calvierri said about the cracks that led to silence..."
"The cracks are caused by some event that happens the day of Amy and Rory's wedding," the Doctor informed him, running a hand through his hair. "Something to do with tomorrow. And if you fall into a crack, you're erased from all of time and space. You never existed."
"And that's what happened to the day the Earth got stolen?"
"That, and a hundred other important events throughout time and space. When I first met Amy, she had one of those cracks in her bedroom wall. I closed it, but there's still hundreds of them, everywhere. I don't know what caused them."
Harry nodded. "Take me back to my time," he requested, firm in his resolve. When the Doctor opened his mouth to argue, Harry shook his head. "No, take me back. I know you, Doctor. You're going to take the long way. You're going to try and find a way to keep whatever happens from happening and, with our luck, that'll be just the thing to cause it. Take me back and I'll go to Amy and Rory's town and look around. Maybe I can stop it from happening just by being there. Maybe I can't. But I can't just sit around and travel while the universe ends."
"It's not going to end!"
"What else did she mean by 'the end of all things,' then? What is silence but the absence of noise?" Harry shook his head again. "Let me face this my own way. Please."
The Doctor closed his eyes. "You want me to leave you to face what you think is the end of the universe without me."
Harry sighed and leaned forward to rest his forehead against the Doctor's. "No. I want you to leave me to stop the end of the universe on my own terms. I don't intend to leave you, Doctor. Not as long as you don't leave me."
The Doctor smiled a bit grimly. "And what about when you reach the end of your life span? You remember what I told Rose."
Harry laughed. "I'll start looking for ways to make a Philosopher's Stone," he promised.
The Doctor laughed and shook his head. "Maybe I should just take you back in time so you can keep Dumbledore from destroying it in your first year, hm?"
Harry smiled. "That'll be the first thing we do after attending Amy and Rory's wedding. We'll leave them to go on their honeymoon while you and I go and steal a Philosopher's Stone."
"It's a promise," the Doctor agreed and stood up straight so their foreheads could no longer touch. He searched Harry's eyes for a long moment, then nodded. "I'll take you home."
Harry reached up and touched the Doctor's face. "Thank you."
"But if you die on me..."
Harry shook his head. "I'm not going to die on you."
"Good." And the Doctor leaned forward and pressed a bruising kiss against Harry's lips, which Harry was perfectly happy to return. After a long few minutes, he pulled away and whispered, "We should go back... before they come looking for us."
Harry laughed breathlessly. "Oh, fuck you. You can't just kiss me like that and then–"
The Doctor dropped another kiss onto Harry's mouth, then stepped away, eyes twinkling. "You can fuck me after the wedding," he promised.
Harry laughed again and made a grab for the Doctor's hand. Once he had the hand in his grip, he nodded towards the TARDIS and they started back to the blue box. "Call me, if you find something out while you're taking the round-about way."
"Ah... I'll have to find the mobile..."
"Do I need to tell Martha that you lost the mobile she gave you?"
"No! It's... I'll find it! I will. Uhm... If I can't find it right away, I'll ring you on the TARDIS phone."
"I suppose that's acceptable. But look for that mobile. Or else."
The Doctor laughed.
Harry stopped in his flat long enough to restock his potions kit and grab some food for a stake-out. He didn't know how long he would be sitting around in Leadworth before some yet unknown event would occur that would crack the universe. Just as he was about to apparate out, his mobile rang and he popped it open. "Potter."
"Harry! How long has it been?" the Doctor said through the phone.
Harry rolled his eyes. "Uhm... About twenty minutes. Why?"
There was a brief pause on the Doctor's end, during which Harry thought he heard the Doctor talking indistinctly to someone. Finally, he returned to the phone, but he was whispering, "Listen, I reached into a crack and pulled out what looks to be a piece of the TARDIS' door. I'm going to try and keep the TARDIS away from Leadworth for all of today."
"Okay. And what if I happen to somehow see her around, then?"
"See what she's doing there?" the Doctor suggested, clearly not having a better idea. "Run inside and smack me. Something like that."
Harry snorted and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, okay. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow," the Doctor agreed and hung up.
Harry shoved his mobile back into the pocket of the leather jacket he had 'borrowed'. He pulled the jacket tighter around himself and apparated to the coordinates the Doctor had written down and slipped to him before the TARDIS had hurriedly left his flat.
And, what do you know? There, sitting in front of him was the TARDIS.
"Bloody hell," Harry complained and hurried forward to shove the doors open. However, instead of the Doctor standing by the console, Harry saw a woman he'd never seen before. "Who the bloody fu–"
"Harry?" the woman said, blinking in surprise.
Harry shook his head. "Who..."
"River? River!"
Both of them looked towards the phone, which the woman was holding loosely in one hand. "Yes. Sorry, Doctor," the woman said into the phone. "I was just..." She shook her head. "Listen, it's a trap. It's has to be. They used Amy to construct a scenario that you would believe."
"Every thing's a bloody trap!" Harry snapped, taking the short flight of stairs up to the console in two quick lunges. "What's going on here?"
"River? Why is Harry there? Harry–"
"I don't–" the woman started, but whatever she was going to say got cut off as the console sparked and the TARDIS jerked sideways.
"Shit," Harry hissed, rubbing at his back and lurching towards the console. "Look," he said to the woman, "I don't really care who you are or how you got here right now, but we need to get the TARDIS out of here."
"Out of where?" the Doctor's voice demanded over the phone.
"Doctor, you remember our trip to Venice? When you left me behind to wait for that date you saw as the beginning of the cracks?" Harry asked into the phone the woman was still holding.
"Yea– Crap! River, get the TARDIS out of there. Any time. Any place. I don't care. But get her out of there!"
"I can't! The engines aren't heeding me!" the woman – River, the Doctor was calling her – shouted into the phone. She pointed to a lever just out of her reach. "Pull that," she ordered Harry.
Harry grabbed the lever and pulled, but it wouldn't budge. He looked up at the central column. "Come on, sweetheart..."
"You're driving her wrong!" the Doctor shouted through the phone.
"I'm driving her perfectly!" River grunted, fingering a couple of controls. "You're the one who taught me!"
"Well, then... Shut her down! Shut off all her systems!"
"I can't," River replied, flicking a switch angrily. She looked up at Harry, who was pulling out his wand to see if he could do anything by the way of shutting her down.
Before Harry could think of a spell to cast, a voice said, "Silence will fall. Silence will fall."
"The hell?" Harry whispered, looking over at the only other person in the TARDIS, but River looked just as confused and worried as Harry felt.
River looked back at the phone. "Someone else is flying her. An external force. I've lost control," she said.
"But why? How?" the Doctor asked over the phone.
"I don't know," River hissed back.
"Listen to me. Just land her. Emergency landing. Now," the Doctor ordered.
River motioned to Harry. "Take the phone?" she requested.
Harry dashed around her and took the phone, sighing as the Doctor kept talked about the cracks. "He says to land. Wherever!"
"It's not safe!" River shouted back.
"It's us or the bloody universe!" Harry snapped. "Land her!"
River stared at him for a briefest of seconds, then nodded and dashed around the console, inputting the commands she needed.
As soon as he felt the TARDIS stop moving, Harry turned back to the phone and said, "We've landed. Now what?"
"Get out of there. Leave the TARDIS and she'll automatically shut down."
"Right." Harry waved at River. "Doors. Go!" he ordered, setting the phone down next to the cradle.
River ran for the doors and tugged at them, but they wouldn't open. "Harry!"
Harry snapped out his wand and shot a spell at the doors which would open them, but the only thing on the other side was solid rock. "...fuck..." Harry whispered.
"I'm sorry," River said, turning back to look at where Harry stood at the top of the stairs. "I'm so sorry."
Harry smiled back grimly and closed his eyes as the last explosion started at the console behind him.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the Doctor said, "Sorry I'm late."
Harry's eyes snapped open and he, as well as River, stared at the Doctor, who was standing just off to the side of one of the open doors. "Where have you been?" River demanded as Harry jumped down from the console platform to join the other two.
"Here and there. Come on, then. We're on a schedule."
"Lunatic," Harry commented as he and River stepped forward and grabbed onto the wrist strap.
As soon as they landed, River breathed out in relief. "Amy. And the... plastic centurion."
"It's okay, he's on our side," the Doctor replied.
"Really? I dated a nestene duplicate once. Swappable head. It did keep things fresh."
"Bloody hell. You're like a female version of Jack, aren't you?" Harry muttered.
River shot him a smile which was rather reminiscent of Jack, then turned to everyone else. "Right then. I've got questions. But number one is this: What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?" She turned to look at the Doctor.
"You ask that like you think sanity has anything to do with it," Harry commented.
"It's a fez," the Doctor explained. "I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."
"Lunatic," Harry sang while Amy snatched the fez off the Doctor's head and tossed it for River to blast.
A Dalek floated up under the destroyed fez, sending them all scrambling for the exit. Once they were all down the ladder, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to seal the hatch.
"Doctor, come on," River ordered, gun still pointed at the hatch.
"Shh. It's moving away. Finding another way in. It needs to restore its power before it can attack again. Now, that means we've got exactly..." the Doctor trailed off to check his watch. "Four and a half minutes before it's at lethal capacity."
"How do you know?" Rory asked as the Doctor dashed past them and started down the stairs.
The Doctor paused and looked back up at them. "Because that's when it will shoot to kill me," he informed them, starting back down the stairs to a startled chorus of, "Kill you?" from both River and Harry.
"Nope, never mind!" the Doctor called back over his shoulder. He then proceeded to distracted them all by discussing how he could use the Pandorica to rebuild – or 're-boot', as he put it – the universe.
River, being the quickest to understand his techno babble, immediately started debating the finer points, all of which he smiled off and explained that, really, it wasn't so impossible. Before he could properly explain everything, though, the Dalek appeared down the hall and shot him.
"I hate Daleks!" Harry snapped, then shot off a Killing Curse towards the creature.
Amy and Rory were left staring at Harry in shock, but River wore the air of one who'd seen Harry use that curse before. At any rate, she was far more worried about the Doctor.
The very same Doctor who used his vortex manipulator to shift himself twelve minutes into the past, according to a nervous Amy. The same Amy who also assured them that the Doctor had died when he'd shown up.
River demanded they lead the way towards where the Doctor had appeared. Amy and Rory turned to do as demanded, leaving River and Harry to bring up the rear.
"You don't think that killed him," Harry commented.
"I've seen him shot by a Dalek before. He doesn't just croak."
"And, even if he had, he'd have regenerated," Harry agreed.
"They're gullible," River said, shaking her head.
Harry's lips twitched. "He's only had them for a month or so. Cut them some slack."
River eyed him. "How long did it take you to figure him out?"
"Ah, but I originally met him two incarnations ago. Different man, different rules."
River smirked.
When they reached the spot where they'd left the Doctor twelve minutes ago, they found Rory's jacket, but no Doctor.
"But he was dead," Amy insisted, standing over the lone jacket.
"Who told you that?" River asked as she and Harry started down the stairs to join the younger two companions.
"He did!"
"Rule one: The Doctor lies," River said and walked right past them to the hall where the Pandorica sat. Inside, the Doctor had already hooked himself up to the box so he could take it with him into the exploding TARDIS.
River spoke with him first, helping make sure he was properly hooked up and everything was ready to go. Then she waved Harry over and he leaned against the side of the box, frowning. "You promised me," he said.
"I'm sorry," the Doctor whispered, closing his eyes.
"Me too," Harry whispered back, then turned and motioned to Amy. "Go on, then," he told her, then took up a spot next to River against the wall. "Back to life without the Doctor, then," he said to her. "Except, this time, he'll never have existed at all."
River glanced at him. "Someone once told me that those who have travelled in time see the universe in a different way from normal people."
Harry blinked and considered her. "I've heard that before, somewhere."
River shot him a crooked smile. "I heard it from you," she admitted, then turned back towards the Pandorica to warn the Doctor that it was time to go, leaving Harry staring at her in surprise.
As soon as the Pandorica closed, they hurried out of the way, River grabbing Amy as the girl continued to stand there. Shortly after the Pandorica cleared the roof, River's computer beeped and she pulled it out to look.
"It's from the Doctor."
"What does it say?"
"Geronimo."
Harry woke to glaring sunlight and a pounding headache. "Bloody hell. What did I have to drink last night?" he muttered.
"One hell of a drink," a voice offered from behind him.
Harry glanced around the trellis he was leaning against and blinked at the woman who was looking back at him through eyes narrowed in pain. "Who..." He shook his head. "You're... River?"
River grimaced and managed the faintest of nods. "Cheers. I don't suppose you've got anything on your belt for the pain?"
"Potions," Harry agreed and shuffled through his belt. It took him a moment to sort out the line of potions, what with the sun glaring off the glass bottles, but he did finally manage it and passed a pain potion over to the woman before downing his own serving. "Ugh. I feel like I've been trampled by a hippogriff."
"More like interstellar class star ship," River corrected, handing the empty bottle back over.
"When have you been hit by one of those?"
"When have you been trampled by a hippogriff?"
"I see your point." Harry groaned and pulled himself to his feet, then looked around. "Where in Merlin's name are we? And how did we get here?"
"Leadworth, I think," River offered, holding up a hand so Harry could help her up, which he did. "What's the last thing you remember?"
Harry blinked and considered that, then shrugged. "Killing a bloody Dalek in a museum."
"The Doctor was going to use the Pandorica to fix the universe," River muttered, rubbing at her temples.
"By flying it into the exploding TARDIS," Harry recalled, then glanced over at River. "We remembered."
"We've both been travelling in time for years. We've practically got the vortex in our blood."
"Ugh. Just..."
River snorted.
Harry shook his head. "Time vortex in my blood or not, I still feel like there's nothing more than cotton between my ears."
"We're trying to remember stuff that never happened," River suggested. "It's going to be a bit fuzzy."
Harry sighed and leaned back against the trellis they were still standing next to. "River, can you answer a question for me?"
"Ask away, but I can't promise to answer."
Harry's lips twitched knowingly. "We've met before. Or, really, you've met me before." He glanced over at her.
River nodded. "I met the Doctor years ago, in my past."
"Your past, our future," Harry replied.
River nodded again. "You're important to him, always have been, always will be." She smiled a bit crookedly. "I met you a long time ago."
Harry smiled. "Are we friends, then? Or rivals?"
River snorted. "The Doctor is a wonderful man, and he naturally draws people to him."
Harry cocked an eyebrow at her when she didn't continue. "You didn't answer my question, River."
River smirked at him. "Spoilers."
Harry laughed and shook his head. "Oh, I think we'll get on swimmingly," he decided. "Have you ever met Jack?"
"Not yet, but you've mentioned him before."
Harry smiled. "We'll have to rectify that. However, first! I think we have a wedding to attend."
"What about your family?"
Harry pulled out his phone and checked the time. "I'm already two hours late. I was busy saving the universe; Ginny will understand."
"Not if she doesn't remember the Doctor, she won't."
"Good thing my shield spells are so good then, hm?"
River chuckled, then glanced down at her battle gear, as well as at Harry's jeans and t-shirt. "We need better clothing, first."
Harry grimaced down at his clothing. "I don't have anything to wear to a wedding," he admitted.
"We'll have to go shopping, then."
"I hate shopping with women."
"Be careful, Potter. This woman has a gun."
Harry snorted, unimpressed, and took her arm to apparate them to a fancy clothing store.
They got back in time to slip into the church and watch the vows be exchanged. "I'm always late for weddings," Harry muttered.
"I'm sure your timing will improve," River offered.
Harry grinned at her. "Spoilers."
River grinned back, then pulled a book out of her pocket. "I'm going to give this to Rory."
"Why?"
She flipped the book open to show nothing but blank pages. "The Doctor once told me that when I attend a wedding and my journal is blank, I should give it to the groom. Say it's a lend."
Harry blinked and took the book and flipped through it again. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue..."
"What now?"
Harry smiled and handed the book back. "The Doctor borrowed the TARDIS from his people ages ago, but he never gave it back, and he destroyed it in his last regeneration, so she was just rebuilt."
"And she's blue," River realised, then shook her head. "Sometimes I forget how clever he is."
Harry leaned back as much as he could in the pew. "He's a tricky bastard," he agreed, "and just a little bit mad."
River did, indeed, leave it with Rory, smiling at his confusion about not knowing her. She met Harry back at the door of the community centre and they walked around the building, intending to go back to Amy's home, where the Doctor was certain to park his TARDIS eventually.
Shortly after they reached the lonely swing in the yard, the TARDIS' engines sounded. Harry considered his next action for a long moment and, when the doors opened and the Doctor stepped out, Harry punched him in the arm. Hard.
"Ow! What was that for?" the Doctor demanded, rubbing the abused arm.
"That was for being a self-sacrificing lunatic. Again," Harry snapped. "Next time you do that, I reserve the right to hex you. Understood?"
The Doctor winced. "Yes, Harry."
River chuckled. "You two never really change, do you?"
"River! Still hanging about, I see." The Doctor grinned at her.
"Well, the groom does have my book. And you still have my vortex manipulator."
The Doctor glanced down at his wrist. "Ah. So I do." He pulled it off and handed it back to her. "And am I expected to get your book back, as well?"
River glanced at Harry, a smirk curling her lips. "Let's say it's a part of your punishment."
Harry laughed.
The Doctor looked between the two a little nervously. "What have you two been talking about while I was gone?"
Harry and River just smiled.
The Doctor sighed. "No, never mind. I don't want to know. Well! I've got a book to obtain and I wanted to dance a bit. Are you two coming?"
Harry took the vortex manipulator from River with a smile. "Perhaps in a little while. I missed my time with my kids today, and I intend to make it up."
"And what about River?" the Doctor asked a bit suspiciously.
"There's someone I wanted her to meet."
The Doctor sighed and looked down at his watch. "Two hours," he warned.
"We'll be back by then," River agreed, setting a hand on Harry's arm.
Harry waved, then apparated them to the back door of Torchwood Three's base. "Come on in," he said, using his key to unlock the door.
It only took a few moments for Jack to appear, peering over the railing of the third floor. "I was wondering if you were ever going to show," he called down. "Fancy dress?"
"Went to a wedding," Harry called back. "I brought someone back with me that I thought you might enjoy talking to."
Jack frowned. "Harry, we do have rules about who we let know about the Hub. You remember those rules, right?"
Harry snorted. "I'm pretty sure Doctor's companions was on the 'Okay to Invite In' side."
Jack paused for a moment, then hurried around the railing. Moments later, the lift hit the ground floor and the immortal man hopped off. "Doctor's companion? You've seen him lately, then?"
"Fairly recently," Harry agreed, then stepped back to let River and Jack see each other properly. "Jack, this is Dr River Song. River, Captain Jack Harkness. Both of you were – or will be – companions to the Doctor, and you're both originally from the fifty-first century."
"Seriously?" Jack asked, holding out a hand to shake.
"Of course." River replied. "And what's your story, then?"
Harry snorted and shook his head. "River, I'll be back in two hours. Jack, if you even joke about cheating on Ianto, I won't be held responsible. Ta!" Then he hit the button on the vortex manipulator, which he'd pre-set to the time he usually visited his family.
When Harry and River made it back to Amy's house two hours later, the Doctor was waiting for them, River's book in hand.
"Did you kids have fun?" the Doctor asked teasingly.
"It was fantastic," Harry replied with an overly-bright smile. "I got to see my kids, avoided a chewing out by Ginny and then we saw Jack and had an orgy."
The Doctor blinked. "You wouldn't have an orgy with Jack."
"Hm. I was hoping for a better reaction," Harry replied.
"Harry James Potter, are you trying to make me jealous?" the Doctor asked, amusement warring with pleasure in his eyes.
Harry smiled. "Is it working?"
The Doctor considered that. "If I say no, what will you do?"
"Try someone else."
The Doctor nodded and held River's book out to her. "Excuse us, River. Lovely seeing you again."
River took the book and laughed as the two men practically fell into the TARDIS, the doors clicking shut behind them.
"I thought you and the Doctor were married..." Amy said from under the archway a few feet in front of the TARDIS.
River smiled at her. "Harry won't be around forever, you know," she replied, shoving her book in the pouch on her hip. "I'd give them a couple of hours if I were you," she added, then used the vortex manipulator to shift back to her own time.
"We could go back and dance some more," Rory suggested.
Amy gave him a dry look.
Rory smiled nervously. "You're right. No more dancing."
Amy nodded and grabbed his arm. "Come on," she said, dragging him towards the house behind them.
-0-0-0-
A/N: That was fun. Everyone gets it on in the end. *insert mad cackle here*
I know a few people didn't much like River, and I'm a bit off and on about her myself, but if I discount her supposed relationship with the Doctor, I find her bearable. I hope those of you that really don't like her didn't mind her so much in this fic.
I also have to admit that I've always been a bit iffy about Amy, especially after she randomly decided to go and kiss the Doctor. S'why she might've come off as a bit irritating. Didn't mean to offend anyone who actually liked her. ^.^"
So! I'll be back after the Christmas special. Give or take a couple of weeks.
Until then, luvs!
~Bats ^.^x
P.S. - This fandom needs art. Somebody should make some. (I am, by no means, an artist. Or this issue would no longer be an issue. XD)
<3?
Hanging By a Thread
Dust in the Sky Chapters:
One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six
The Future Doesn't Scare Me Chapters:
One | Two | ???
The Perfect Sky is Torn Chapters:
DISCONTINUED
Adrenaline Rush
.
no subject
Date: 1/8/10 06:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 1/8/10 06:45 (UTC)Teehee. That's all good - I'm almost more excited about having more to write than I am about watching the episode, myself. ^.~
no subject
Date: 1/8/10 10:29 (UTC)I was kinda hoping you would do something from "The Lodger" but I think that it might have been set later in 2010, and/or out of Harry's current time. For now. Just the image of Harry bringing the kids to that park and watching the kids and The Doctor play football and be domestic... want to see that.
At least we have your Torchwood ficlets to look forward to before Christmas.
I love/hate you for getting me into this show.
Amazing!!!!
Date: 24/9/10 23:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9/2/12 18:33 (UTC)Nooooooo! He will, he will! They'll steal the Philosopher's Stone and he'll hold onto the the Deathly Hallows and he and the Doctor will live merrily on forever after. I refuse to believe otherwise. I actually like River ok, but not as the Doctor's Wife.