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The Doctor hugs Amy, Poppy hugs Rory and then they swap before the TARDIS tries to stand.

"Not good. Not good at all. How do you walk around in these things?"

"We're not quite there yet. Just hold on," he whispers to her as The Doctor helps her up "Amy, this is, well, she's my TARDIS. Except she's a woman. She's a woman, and she's my TARDIS,"

"She's the TARDIS?" Amy asks, completely shocked

"And she's a woman. She's a woman and she's the TARDIS!"

"Did you wish really hard?"

"Shut up. Not like that!"

"Hello. I'm Sexy," she introduces and The Doctor sighs before pointing at a laughing, Amy, Rory and Poppy.

"Still shut up!" Poppy looks around and realises she's in the old console room. The one where she'd always 'coincidently' fall into The Doctor, where her and Donna had laughed at stupid things and where Donna had most likely had her mind wiped... Still, the jump seat was comfier here.

"The environment has been breached. Nephew, kill them all," House speaks up.

"Where's Nephew?" The Doctor asks the group

"He was standing right where you materialised,"

" Ah. Well, he must have been redistributed,"

"Meaning what?" Rory questions

"You're breathing him..."

"Oh, come on.," Amy covers her nose and Poppy sighs

"Ew,"

"Another Ood I failed to save," The Doctor mutters rather casually,

"Doctor. I did not expect you,"

"Well, that's me all over, isn't it? Lovely old unexpected me," The Doctor walks around the old console room and Poppy leans on the old jump seat, feeling nostalgic.

"The big question is, now you're here, how to dispose of you? I could play with gravity," everyone's pulled to the floor and Poppy falls onto the seat before it suddenly stops. Poppy stays laying down as she catches her breath, the opposite gravity had strangely calmed her stomach for a bit. "Or I could evacuate the air from this room and watch you choke," the air starts to disappear and everyone grabs their throats, trying to breathe.

"You really don't want to do that," The Doctor warns

"Why shouldn't I just kill you now?" the air comes back in and Poppy starts breathing heavily.

"Because then I won't be able to help you. Listen to your engines. Just listen to them. You don't have the thrust and you know it. Right now, I'm your only hope for getting out of your little bubble through the rift, and into my universe. And mine's the one with the food in," Poppy sits up, looking at her boyfriend in disbelief.

"You just have to promise not to kill us. That's all, just promise,"

"You can't be serious!" Amy asks, staring at her best friend

"I'm very serious. I'm sure it's an entity of its word,"

"Doctor, she's burning up. She's asking for water," Rory says and The Doctor rushes over to the TARDIS

"Hey. Hang in there, old girl. Not long now. It'll be over soon,"

"I always liked it when you call me old girl," she gets out.

"You want me to give my word? Easy. I promise," House speaks

"Fine. Okay. I trust you. Just delete, oh er, thirty percent of the TARDIS rooms, you'll free up thrust enough to make it through. Activate subroutine Sigma nine,"

"Why would you tell me this?"

"Because we want to get back to our universe as badly as you do. And I'm nice," Poppy rushes over to the main group, slightly terrified of what may happen next.

"Yes. I can delete rooms. And I can also rid myself of vermin if I delete this room first. Thank you, Doctor. Very helpful. Goodbye, Time Lord. Goodbye, little humans. Goodbye, Idris,"

"What?" Poppy grabs Amy's hand as a bright light engulfs them.

"Yes. I mean, you could do that," They appear back in the main control room "but it just won't work. Hardwired fail safe. Living things from rooms that are deleted are automatically deposited in the main control room. But thanks for the lift," Poppy breathes out a sigh of relief, realising they're not dead.

"We are in your universe now, Doctor. Why should it matter to me in which room you die? I can kill you just as easily here as anywhere. Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords,"

"Fear me. I've killed all of them," The darkness in The Doctor's voice, isn't missed by anyone.

"I don't understand. There isn't a forest in here," Rory says down to the TARDIS who's whispering to him.

"Yeah, you're right. You've completely won. Oh, you can kill us in oodles of really inventive ways, but before you do kill us allow me, my girlfriend Poppy and friends Amy and Rory to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent," The Doctor starts clapping and gestures for Poppy and Amy to follow - they do.

"Congratulations," Amy shouts awkwardly.

"Yep, you've defeated us. Me and my lovely friends here, and last but definitely not least, the TARDIS Matrix herself, a living consciousness you ripped out of this very control room and locked up into a human body. And look at her,"

"Doctor, she's stopped breathing," Rory looks up

"Enough. That is enough," House instructs

"No. It's never enough. You forced the TARDIS into a body so she'd burn out safely a very long way away from this control room. A flesh body can't hold the TARDIS Matrix and live. Look at her body, House,"

"And you think I should mourn her?"

"No. I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room. You took her from her home. But now she's back in the box again, and she's free..." Golden energy exits Idris' dead body and circles around the TARDIS.

" No. Doctor, stop this. Argh! Stop this now!"

"Oh, look at my girl. Look at her go. Bigger on the inside. You see, House?"

"Make her stop!"

"That's your problem. Size of a planet, but inside you are just so small!"

"Make it stop,"

"Finish him off, girl,"

"Ow. Don't do this! Argh!" the green glow which House gave off, leaves and the golden glow of the TARDIS' matrix illuminates the room as a golden Idris stands in the stairs.

"Doctor, are you there? It's so very dark in here," she speaks

"I'm here," he steps towards her.

"I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now,"

"What word?"

"Alive. I'm alive," she speaks slowly

"Alive isn't sad,"

"It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here, but this is when we talked, and now even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you,"

"Goodbye?"

"No. I just wanted to say hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you,"

"Please. I don't want you to... Please..." Tears run down The Doctors eyes as Idris' body dematerialises.

Poppy reaches out, grabbing The Doctor's hand as she looks up at him with teary eyes...she hadn't seen him so broken "She's home now," she reassures him, giving his hand a gentle squeeze, ignoring her own physical pain to cater to his emotional one.

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Later, the Doctor's is doing some work below the console, Poppy's leaning on the stairs by him as sparks fly and Amy a Rory watch from above.

"How's it going under there?" Rory starts walking down the stairs.

"Just putting a firewall around the Matrix. Almost done!"

"Are you going to make her talk again?"

"I can't,"

"Why not?"

"Spacey wacey, isn't it?" Amy guesses and Poppy laughs, grabbing her stomach as the pain returns.

"Well, actually, it's because the Time Lords discovered that if you take an eleventh dimensional matrix and fold it into a mechanical then..." Something explodes and he shouts up "Yes, it's spacey wacey!"

"Sorry. At the end, she was talking..." Rory mentions, standing by Poppy "She kept repeating something. I don't know what it meant,"

"What did she say?"

"'The only water in the forest of willows is the river'. She said we'd need to know that someday. It doesn't make sense, does it?"

"Not yet," The Doctor looks up at Rory "You okay?"

"No. I watched her die. I shouldn't let it get to me, but it still does. I'm a nurse," Amy sits on the stairs by Poppy.

"Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now, that's all that counts," he smiles "Nearly finished. Two more minutes, then we're off. The Eye of Orion's restful, if you like restful. I can never really get the hang of restful. What do you think, dear? Where shall we take the kids this time?" he looks up at the TARDIS

"Look at you pair," Amy laughs "It's always you and her, isn't it, long after the rest of us have gone,"

"A boy and his box, off to see the universe, "Poppy adds happily "grabbing strays along the way," she jokes

"Well, you say that as if it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is," Something explodes "The House deleted all the bedrooms. I should probably make you two a new bedroom. You'd like that, wouldn't you?"

Amy and Rory start whispering and Poppy raises an eyebrow "Okay. Er, Doctor, this time could we lose the bunk beds?"

"No. Bunk beds are cool. A bed with a ladder. You can't beat that," they stare at him "It's your room..."

"You wouldn't let him give me bunk beds, would you?" Poppy asks the TARDIS and it shines a little bit brighter "thank you," Amy and Rory smile, watching the Doctor's women interact

" Out those stairs, keep walking till you find it. Off you pop," The Doctor points

"Doctor, do you have a room?" Rory asks but Amy pulls him away and once they're gone; Poppy finally speaks up "Doctor..."

"Hm?"

"You know earlier I said my feeling y'know," she gestures to her stomach and head, holding onto the banister by the stair case "was probably not something to worry about. Well... kind of think it is as as I speak it is increasing and I feel like I might pass out." The Doctor stands and Poppy closes her eyes as the sudden stabbing increases "oh god," she hunches over in pain, grabbing her stomach and The Doctor grabs her, helping her stand "it hurts," she cries into his jacket "What's happening?!". The pain was almost double what it was back in the junkyard when she had to sit down, and she wondered what the hell was happening to her body.

"Just breathe..." The Doctor realises what the TARDIS had been saying earlier "just breathe Poppy," he reminds her, helping her to the med bay.

"I'm struggling!" tears stream down her face as The Doctor places her down on a bed - The TARDIS had moved the med bay much closer to the console room.

"Now, you're really not gonna like this," The Doctor turns around, taking out a syringe

"What is that?!"

"Just trust me," he whispers kissing her forehead "I have to force you into a coma to stop the pain,"

"Is it safe?" Poppy breathes out, crawling into a ball

"Always," The Doctor promises "I don't know what'll happen when you wake up. But I'm working on it," he whispers

"Just do it!" Poppy shouts when another sharp pain hits her and The Doctor injects the liquid in and instantly Poppy feels tired "please just fix it," she looks up at her boyfriend.

"You're going to need to breathe," as Poppy passes into a dreamless sleep, The Doctor holds her stomach, looking at it sadly "I love you - both". He takes out his sonic, pointing ot to Poppy as her body turns to goo. What was he going to tell Amy and Rory?

Back in the console room, The Doctor looks up at the TARDIS "Take me where I need to be, please," it starts up and levers and buttons press themselves. 

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Poppy opens her eyes quickly, realising she's in a white hospital room, she looks down and her stomach is stretched with pregnancy "oh dear, looks like the baby's coming early," 

"What the fuc-"