A redheaded return to the Ruby City - a voice testing PSL for Amy and Yuuta

[still_running]

Something eerily familiar about stepping off the train. Like something from a dream. And it had to be a dream, right. There were no trains like this in Germany in the 1940s, were there?

She stepped onto the platform, a little shell shocked. Okay, Amy, think. Okay, a second ago... Right. Sitting with the Doctor and Rory on the desk, her best friend who was also her daughter who was also her other best friend's wife had just been shot and was not babbling on about hair and clothing... And the pounding from the cupboard...

Her head hurt.

She leaned against a wall and crossed her arms. Something in the pocket of her denim jacket. She scowled and pulled it out. Then she frowned at the watch.

"I... I know this watch, don't I?" she asked herself, studying it, staring at it. Her timeline had been rewritten and erased and unmade and remade so many times she was no longer sure what she knew anymore, what she remembered beyond a few months ago. Anything before her wedding, really, was something of a blur. And then given how much of that time she hadn't even really been there for.... Yeah...

She knew this watch. There was something she was forgetting. Something big, something important. She had remembered her parents back into existence, and the Doctor. So whoever or whatever was connected to this watch, she would remember back. She would.

She would. Headache or no headache....

Comments

[meitori]

"If you are asking me to do my big brotherly duties, then of course I will," he replied. Ah, he missed seeing that twinkle in her eye. "Everyone is going to be surprised to see you so much older," he added. "They won't know what to think."

[still_running]

She grinned at him and kissed his cheek. "Knew I could count on you. Okay, then!" Her mind was already spinning with ways to torment Rory. Oh, this would be fun!

"They," she said simply, "Are going to think I'm gorgeous. Guys lined up ten deep to dance with me. Even if there isn't a dance."

[meitori]

Ah, some things never changed! But this was some mischief that he could get behind. Her comment made him laugh. "You said it, so just watch: someone will now throw a party out of the blue!"

[still_running]

"out of the... Tardis Blue?" she asked with a grin. "Hey! The Tardis that was here, think it still is? Think my Key will work? We could totally move in. Nothing brings the Doctor running faster than someone messing with his box. Oh, you should have seen him when someone put her in a human body. Of course, Rory and I thought that he had just wished really really hard..." she said with a laugh.

"But a party sounds like some fun. We just don't need to tell Rory how many cute guys try to kiss me. Ever since he got a gun and a sword, he likes to go all Centurian on me when he gets jealous. On second thought, let's totally tell him. We can even add a few."

[meitori]

"Tardis Blue," he repeated. "But you are going to have to explain more of all this to me, at length. The blue police box is still here, but I don't know if your key will work or not. It has apparently been here for some time, and if time travel is involved ... who knows?" He certainly did not, but it might be worth a try. "Guns and sword? Really? Perhaps I should make up dance cards like the olden days and make sure his name is on every slot."

[still_running]

"Nah, put him on the first and the last, and let's put movie stars for all the middle ones," she teased about the dance card. "But yeah, happy to explain everything to you." She said with a grin. "Time travel is very involved, so you have to tell me where you want me to start."

[meitori]

"Okay," he started, pausing to think. "When you were younger, you said that he left. I figured out that something happened to his time machine, resulting in him not returning like he said he would. How did you two meet again?"

[still_running]

"Okay, so the Doctor came when I was a kid, promised me five minutes, vanished. Showed up again more than ten years later, broke into my house, looking for me. I hit him with a cricket bat. Told him I was a cop. Wasn't sure it was him, and if it was, I was ticked. If it wasn't...well... he was a nutter breaking into my house. So... of course while I have him cuffed to the radiator, I do what he told me not to do, get myself attacked by an alien." skipping the kiss-o-gram bit? Yes. Yes she is.

Long story short, him, me, Rory, one of my other friends, we get the Atraxi to take back their prisoner, and the loon calls the Atraxi back, after they've left, to yell at them. Then he goes to phase the engines or whatever... and is gone another two years... Came back the night before my wedding."

[meitori]

Ah, good! He wouldn't understand what a kiss-o-gram was anyways or why someone would want one.

At the end of her story, Yuuta hummed, discontent.

"It sounds like there is something wrong with his time machine, if it keeps jumping like that. Why has he not gone back in time so he does not disappear for so long? Or is he unable to?"

[still_running]

"Something about the universe exploding again or something. I stop listening after a while. He likes the sound of his own voice and manages to forget the rest of us aren't space aliens with IQs of a bazillion." She rolled her eyes.

"And you try telling him something is wrong with the Tardis. I swear some days he loves that thing more than his wife."

[meitori]

"The universe exploding??" He would make sure to listen to that, even if he didn't quite understand it! "I would still make an argument to find out if something is wrong! The TARDIS, if it's as powerful as I think it is, cannot be left unrepaired or fraying!"

[still_running]

Amy shrugged a little bit. "I guess we were too busy having adventures and flying about to think much about it. Well, except for the time it lost all power and we were freezing to death in the depth of space, but since that one didn't actually happen, wnas was just a malfunction of the air filtration system or something... Never really thought to ask much. I was half afraid he'd answer, and then we'd never get to a beach. By the way, we should totally get you to visit Space Florida one time."