taxonomites | 001 ∞ [holo | location: Sanctuary]

Amy appeared on the platform and jumped, letting out an "AUGH!" Hadn't she just been in the TARDIS? How did she end up here? She looked all around the stark room, seeing a pedestal in the corner, and then noticed the thin book in her hand. Turning it to read the cover, she murmured out loud, "The Legend of Pandora's Box?" She flipped it open, sure that it was the book from her bedroom back home. How did it get here? Or perhaps a better question was, how did she get here? And what was this weird bracelet on her wrist?

She'd been in plenty of strange situations in the past, and plenty of those separated her from her friend and her husband, so she wasn't as freaked out as she could have been. The Doctor was always able to find her, to save her, and so she was confident that he would do the same now.

Stepping off the platform on which she stood, she called out, "Doctor?" before coming up to a pedestal with some sort of mobile on it. Picking it up caused the door behind her to open, and she quickly spun around, the strange little device still in her hand. Amy moved forward cautiously, sticking her head out the door.

"Doctor! Rory! Oi, anybody there?" She clicked her tongue and stepped out into the hall. "Well this is just great." She picked a direction and headed down the hall, clutching her book and the device as the door slid shut behind her. Pausing to look down at the object in her hand, she wondered if it really was some kind of mobile, and if so, if she could use it to find the Doctor.

She slid the screen down over the keyboard and held it up to her ear, listening. "Can anybody hear me on this thing? Hellllllloooooo." She waited a moment for a response and, when none came, she sighed and held it out to look at the screen. Seeing a button with a picture of a house on it, she assumed it was the home key and so she pressed it. It brought up a map with a colored dot in the middle, labeled, 'Amy Pond.' "Great," she replied with a sigh, "now I know where I am. I'm... in some building in some strange place and I'm a dot on a map. So very helpful, that."

Dropping hand and tablet to her side she decided she would just have to explore, and see if anyone could tell her where she was.

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"What? I'm always excited to see a familiar face," the Doctor answered defensively. "I'm not bored or anything. ...too much."

He nodded at Amy's explanation of where she'd been before. Ice cream... that didn't sound like it was too much out from his own time. Good. Less to worry about there. "Right, now- Oh, hang on."

Then his image shut off from her tablet. However it wasn't long before the reason why became apparent as the Doctor jogged up with an excited shout. "Amy!"

She gave him a look when he said he hadn't been bored, and was glad to see him amend that statement a moment later. "Well now you've got me here so no more boredom for you!"

When their visual connection ended, Amy looked at the screen in worry. "Doctor?" She tried to find out how to get his image back when she heard the sound of feet running and looked up, seeing him approach. Pushing off the wall, she met him halfway, flinging her arms around him like she hadn't just seen him minutes ago.

"Doctor!"

The Doctor laughed, tightening his arms around Amy and grinning from ear to ear as he hugged her back energetically.

He pulled back a little after a moment, his hands still on her shoulders and looked her over. "Look at you! Oh, it is good to see you again, Amy!"

She laughed at the way his arms tightened around her. Poor Doctor, having to cope without her! At least he had others around to keep him company, but there was no one quite like her!

"Now who's the one who was stuck waiting, huh? Least I didn't make you wait years and years!"

"Well at least I didn't hit you with a cricket bat!" the Doctor shot back, though his smile didn't waver for a moment. He was far too happy to see Amy again to let a little thing like that ruin it. Even if he wasn't above teasing her about it.

"Well at least you didn't go through four psychiatrists trying to tell you I wasn't real!" Ha, beat that, Doctor!

She smirked, switching the tablet into her other hand along with her book. She slipped her arm around his own, and began tugging in the direction he'd come from.

"So, explain this place further. You've been here two months?" That was worrying. The Doctor always figured out how to get out of trouble. How had he not figured out a way to escape?

"You hit me with a cricket bat?" He reminds her, because really Amy, that hurt. "Besides, you proved them all wrong, didn't you? So that's something."

He let himself be tugged along, still smiling ear to ear at having Amy here as well. He wondered what she'd think of Martha and Jenny and Charley and Fitz and Aximili and everyone else he'd met here.

"Nearly two months, yes," he said, sobering up a little. "And apparently I've been here before, but I don't remember it. Bit concerning, that. But I'm certain with all of us here, we'll find a way out! Hasn't slowed us down much before, has it?"

Physical pain can't match the inner turmoil she suffered, Doctor! "Yeah, I love being right."

She sobered too as she listened to him speak and looked for an exit. "Where have you been living all this time? Hard to imagine you with a proper house."

He had a lump on his head! A lump! "Well, you were definitely that." If it hadn't been fore the TARDIS materialising in the middle of Amy's wedding reception, everyone might have still thought she was making it all up. As it was, they'd all been so intimidated by the fact he was real and that Amy had been right all along that most of the people there had decided to just go along with it. It was amazing what people could adjust to.

"Oh, you know. Here and there," he said evasively as they walked arm in arm though the sanctuary. "There's rooms around here that work well enough. It's not that bad, though I've been told you can get a house if you really want to. I think they're even free as well?"

Of course, sooner or later Amy was going to realise that there was a TARDIS here as well, and the Doctor was going to have to explain that it wasn't his TARDIS really, and that there were two of him here and that one of them was, in fact, a woman... Yes, he'd rather leave that for a bit.

The way he spoke, it sounded like he'd been squatting for awhile. "Seriously? You can get a house for free and you haven't jumped on that?" She gave him an incredulous look, then pursed her lips and pulled on his arm.

"C'mon, you nutty. We're getting a house."

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