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Danni stumbled in the snow as she landed next to a dumpster, completely disortientated as usual. She'd jumped around so often, yet suddenly being somewhere new and not voluntary took a few moments to get used to. She dove behind the dumpster as she saw a young Rose Tyler talking to someone in a doorway, knowing that this was when Ten regenerated and he really needed to say goodbye. The blonde lass laughed then ran into the tower block and the Doctor appeared, pushing himself along the wall as he struggled the hold himself up. He stumbled towards the TARDIS, just wanting to make it to his blue box when he cried out in pain and fell to the ground. She ran forward, pausing slightly at the sight of Ood-Sigma, who appeared out of no-where.
"We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep." The Ood told him and the Doctor stood slowly as the singing entered both their minds. Danni rushed over and held him on one side as he struggled to continue.
"I've got you." She told him gently, using all her strength to hold him up. He looked down at her as they walked and smiled, unable to speak and she kissed his side, the only bit she could reach.
"This song is ending. But the story never ends." Ood-Sigma told him, "And you never are truly alone." She reached into her pocket and unlocked the TARDIS, helping him inside. He leant against the door panting in exhaustion after it was closed behind them and Danni let him go, knowing he needed to make this part of the journey alone. He pulled himself up to the console using the handrail and chucked his jacket onto one of the 'Y' beams. He held his right hand up, seeing the first signs of the regeneration before walking around the console and setting it into motion. He circled the console until he reached her, staring at her with a look of despair on his face. She began crying at the sight of him looking so lost, so sad.
"I don't want to go." He told her, almost begging her to help him.
"I know." She whispered in reply and the regeneration began, him throwing out his arms as the energy exploded from him, destroying the TARDIS around them. She screamed slightly, dodging out of the way of falling beams, sparks and flames and running towards the console, using it as a shield until he stopped, Eleven now stood there. She peaked over the edge as he stared in slight shock.
"Legs. I've still got legs, good." He kissed his knee, balancing on one leg, "Arms. Hands. Ooh, fingers, lots of fingers. Ears, yes. Eyes, two. Nose, I've had worse. Chin, blimey. Hair..." He ran his hands through his hair, gasping as it was longer than he was expecting, "I'm a girl! No! No... I'm not a girl." He pulled a lock in front of his eyes, "And still not ginger!" Danni couldn't help but laugh at his whining tone and he spun to look at her, "And still have a Danni!"
"And you always will!" She called happily, moving over and hugging him tightly. He returned it just as tightly then let her go and looked around the room, "And something else, something important, I'm, I'm... I'm..." They both jumped as something exploded, "Ha! Crashing!" He laughed and whooped in excitement, grabbing her hand and pulling her around to the monitor. She looked up, laughing with him.
"Geronimo!" They shouted together.
~0~0~0~
The console sparked and exploded, expanding into the flames filling the console room. Smoke filled the air, filtering out of the open doors and into London. The Doctor was dangling out of the doorway, holding on with both hands to the frame as Danni hung next to him.
"If you had just been paying attention to the TARDIS instead of your non-ginger hair we wouldn't be here!" Danni screamed over the roar of the wind as they flew over the Millenium Dome. The Doctor just winked at her, a cheeky smirk wrapping around the sonic screwdriver in his mouth. She grinned back, loving every moment of their current predicament, before he began trying to pull himself into the ship, groaning in pain as he did. Danni tried the same, but froze as the loud chiming of Big Ben filled the air.
"Doctor! The clock!" She cried. He turned around and saw the clock face swiftly approaching. He pulled the screwdriver out of his mouth, pointing at the console and the TARDIS flew upwards narrowly missing the tower but throwing them back out again. When the TARDIS had levelled off, the Doctor pulled himself in before helping Danni up. The pair slammed the doors shut and leant against them as they sat on the floor, panting.
"Well, that's never happened before." The Doctor told her and she leant on his shoulder about the reply but as the TARDIS lurched to one side and the pair was sent flying it turned into a scream. The Doctor grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the console as they fought against the pull of the spinning time machine, transferring her grip to the railings.
"Stay there." He commanded as he tried to gain control.
"As opposed to going where?" She cried in return. He shot her a cheeky grin but didn't answer. She rolled her eyes and flinched away at a particularly vicious spark.
"Come on!" The Doctor snarled at the console before slamming his fist on the top.
"Oh she won't like that." Danni groaned and the TARDIS was suddenly turned sideways with a thud. The pair screamed comically as they fell deep into the depths of the TARDIS, through corridor after corridor until they splashed in harmony into the swimming pool. Danni emerged first, gasping for air.
"Jesus, it's freezing!" She exclaimed as the Doctor joined her.
"Where are we?" He asked.
"Judging by the books, I'd say the library."
"I had wondered where the swimming pool had gotten to." He swam to the edge and pulled himself out, shaking himself like a dog as Danni joined him.
"Doctor, the door's on the ceiling." They both looked upwards and saw the hallway.
"Hmm, gravity field appears to be out of sync." He turned to her, blinking as he took in her soaking form. Her clothes clung to her tightly, showing off her usually hidden curves. She frowned as he paused.
"Doctor?" She prompted and he shook himself out of his thoughts.
"Sorry. I was distracted by your..." He cried out as he spasmed from the regeneration and she caught him as he fell forward.
"Are you okay?" She asked as the spasm passed and he nodded.
"Yes, yes I'm fine. And I know how to get out of here."
~0~0~0~
Danni groaned as she pulled herself up the impossibly long rope, climbing ever closer to the top of the TARDIS. Or, the TARDIS doors in any case. The Doctor had found a grappling hook. A bloody grappling hook. That was his great idea!
"Why did I have to go first?" She moaned, "I'm just going to slow you down."
"Yes, then I can catch you when you fall." She frowned and looked down.
"You're actually expecting... Are you looking at my arse?" She exclaimed.
"No." he replied quickly, looking everywhere but at her. She rolled her eyes and sighed, turning back to the task at hand.
"Bloody cheeky Time Lord." She muttered, smiling to herself at the lie. She finally reached the exit, only making her goal due to the gravity malfunction she guessed, because there was no way she'd made it there through her own strength. She grasped at the frame, pulling herself up and grinning as she saw a ginger girl in a red jacket and matching red wellies over what appeared to be a nightgown, a torch in hand. Amelia Pond, the Girl Who Waited. She had been looking forward to this episode for more than three years. Amy had told her about the night she had waited for them to return and this was a moment she had been secretly been hoping for each time the manipulator activated. She straddled the frame and waved.
"Hello sweetheart, sorry we woke you." The Doctor's head popped up over the edge, frowning as he took in the little girl before grinning.
"Can I have an apple? All I can think about - apples. I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving. That's new - never had cravings before." He pulled himself up next to Danni, looking down into the TARDIS, "Whoa! Look at that!"
"Are you OK?" The girl asked in a Scottish accent, looking at them both confused. The pair swung their legs over so they're sitting facing her, the Doctor immediately wrapping his arm around Danni's waist, holding her against him.
"Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up." The Doctor explained.
"You're soaking wet." Amelia pointed out.
"We were in the swimming pool." He replied as if it was obvious.
"You said you were in the library." She pointed out.
"So was the swimming pool." Danni grumbled, rubbing a hand through her hair trying to manually dry it.
"You can see the future, I'm surprised you didn't see that coming." The Doctor told her with a cheeky grin. She glared at him.
"I did." She retorted, "I just didn't expect me to go for the plunge as well." He smiled, reaching up and cupping her face.
"Well, I for one I'm very glad you did." He told her lowly, "Yowzah." She blushed, nodding pointedly towards the little girl staring at the pair with large blinking eyes.
"You can see the future?" Amelia asked excitedly, deciding to ignore the strange man and talk to the strange woman instead. She seemed slightly more normal, after all who would be happy to drop into a pool unexpectedly?
"I jump around everywhere, it's not so much seeing the future as living it." Danni explained simply, there was more time for the mechanics later on, "What are you doing out here in the middle of the night on your own?"
"Are you two policemen?" She asked warily, still not quite believing two people had just dropped into her garden in the middle of the night in a blue box.
"Why? Did you call for policemen?" The Doctor asked, suddenly concerned. Children in trouble always concerned him.
"Did you come about the crack in my wall?" She asked hopefully,
"What cra...?" He started, but interrupted himself with a cry of pain as he spasmed to the floor.
"Are you all right, mister?" Amelia asked worriedly. He pushed himself up onto his knees.
"No, I'm fine, it's OK. This is all perfectly norm..." He trailed off, chocking slightly as regeneration energy flew out of his mouth, swirling in the air. Danni jumped down next to him and smiled at the girl reassuringly.
"Believe it or not, this is normal for him." She explained.
"Who are you? Are you married?" She asked. Danni blinked, surprised while the Doctor smirked.
"Not yet." He replied with a wink. Danni blushed deeply, going the colour of her hair.
"Then who are you?" The two humans watched in amazement as gold dust swirled around his hands.
"I don't know yet. I'm still cooking." The Doctor replied, watching his own regeneration energy, "Does it scare you?"
"No, it just looks a bit weird." The girl replied, sounding slightly insulted.
"No, no, no. The crack in your wall." He clarified, "Does it scare you?"
"Yes." She admitted. The Doctor smiled widely, the sense of adventure overriding the regeneration pains. He pushed himself up without using his hands until he was standing looking down at the red-headed Scottish girl.
"Well, then, no time to lose. I'm the Doctor, this is my Danni-Girl. Don't call her that, do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off." Danni rolled her eyes as he spun around and strode purposefully the opposite way to the two girls.
"Wait for it..." Danni whispered and the pair watched as he walked into a tree, bouncing off it and falling onto his back on the floor. Danni laughed, nudging the ginger who smiled slightly before walking over and shined the torch onto him.
"You all right?" He looked up at her.
"Early days. Steering's a bit off."
~0~0~0~
They followed the Scottish girl into her kitchen, the Doctor looking around the room confused while she fetched him the apple he'd requested earlier. Danni couldn't imagine what it was like to suddenly change like that. She was used to suddenly changing places, but not people. Not only did Amelia have to get used to the new Doctor in her life, so did he. It was fascinating watching him be curious about absolutely everything, including himself. And she was right there with him this time, they could learn together. Although, she knew quite a bit about him really. Still, the thought was there.
"If you're a doctor, why does your box say 'Police'?" She held out an apple which he snatched off her rudely. He took a bite out of it before unceremoniously spitting it out onto the floor.
"That's disgusting. What is that?" He replied instead. Danni took the apple off him and bent down to pick up the bits he had spat onto the ground. Or she could be his mother. Whatever worked.
"An apple." The girl replied, slightly disgusted and slightly bewildered by the pair of peculiar adults she had brought into her kitchen.
"Apples are rubbish. I hate apples." He declared.
"You said you loved them." Amelia pointed out.
"No, no," the Doctor dismissed. He looked around the room until inspiration struck and he smiled widely, "I love yoghurt. Yoghurt's my favourite. Give me yoghurt." Amelia did as she was told, rushing over to her fridge and fetching him a strawberry yoghurt. He ripped the lid off and poured the entire pot into his mouth then proceeded to spit it out all over the table.
"I hate yoghurt, it's just stuff with bits in." He told her, handing back the container.
"You said it was your favourite." Amelia exclaimed in exasperation
"New mouth, new rules." He wiped the remaining yoghurt on his face away with the back of his hand, "It's like eating after cleaning your teeth, everything tastes wro-agh!" He groaned and his body flew into a new fit, culminating in him slapping his hand on his forehead.
"What is it? What's wrong with you?" Amelia asked.
"Wrong with me? It's not my fault. Why can't you give me decent food? You're Scottish - fry something." He demanded. The girl looked at him incredulously before setting to her task. Danni nudged him hard.
"You're being rude. Again." She scolded him, "And slightly racist." The Doctor put his hands on her hips, pulling her up against him with a smirk.
"Still rude?" he asked, pleased.
"Yes." She replied with a grin and he leant down, brushing his lips against hers quickly. The moment he'd regenerated he knew that this was it, this was the Doctor who could finally be with Danni. All that time he'd spent as his previous self, with her just in reach but never quite getting there suddenly seemed like time wasted and he was going to make up for it. He felt her smile against his lips and tried to deepen the kiss, but she pulled away and he groaned in disappointment. She turned to Amelia, who was trying to work out what to make the couple.
"Where's your bathroom sweetie?" Danni asked her, "I just want to fetch some towels."
"Upstairs." Danni nodded and kissed the Doctor on the cheek. He smiled widely at her back as she quickly ran upstairs, throwing open all the doors on the first floor except one, the one she knew she wasn't supposed to be able to see. She frowned at it but left it alone. That door was the reason the Doctor came back, so pulled her tongue out at it then grabbed two towels out of the bathroom. She made her way back downstairs at a slower pace, drying her own hair as she did. She re-entered the room to see Amelia frying some bacon on the stove and chucked the other towel at the Doctor, sitting at the table as they both attempted to get dry. The Doctor watched Amelia fry the bacon as he rubbed his hair.
"Ah! Bacon!" He exclaimed, as if it was the answer to all his troubles and he sat next to Danni, nudging her playfully, "You should have known that." She rolled her eyes.
"I know about the bacon." She replied. He picked up his fork and banged it impatiently on the table. The scottish girl placed the plate of bacon in front of him and he tucked into it. The girl laughed at him until he pulled a face and spat the food out again.
"Bacon. That's bacon?" He studied her closely, "Are you trying to poison me?" He asked seriously.
"No, she isn't. You're just being a prat." Danni muttered as she cleaned up after him, finding some kitchen towel and cleaning up the yoghurt from before, "I can see how this is going to go." She grumbled, "She has to cook for you, I have to clean up after you and you get to sit there and eat."
"Did you want some?" He asked, genuinely confused. She hadn't been the one to regenerate and he needed to build up his strength. Amelia moved back to the stove to heat up some baked beans and Danni shook her head, a small smile on her face.
"No, sweetie. It's fine, honest." She kissed him on the cheek again and he pulled her back for a quick peck on the lips. Danni smiled and placed another brief kiss on his lips. She was liking this, an innocent Eleven, taking kisses whenever he could get them with a faint pinkness to his cheeks. Oh, she was going to love corrupting him. Amelia placed a bowl of beans in front of the Doctor, who smiled.
"Ah, you see, beans." He told Danni as he grabbed his fork and shovelled a load into his mouth. He munched on them for a moment before spitting them into the sink behind them. Both Danni and Amelia pulled disgusted faces at him.
"Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans." He told them. Danni washed the beans down the sink.
"Maybe go with something simple this time." She advised the girl, who nodded and grabbed some bread and butter.
"Bread and butter. Now you're talking." The Doctor stated. Amelia shot him a dubious look as she pushed the plate across to him. The bread barely touched the tip of his tongue when he shot up and marched to the door, flinging the plate out into the night.
"And stay out!" He shouted after it angrily, slamming the door behind him as he made his way to the kitchen. Amelia was looking through her fridge, having exhausted every other idea they could think of.
"We've got some carrots?" Amelia asked, not entirely convinced on the idea herself. The Doctor stopped his impatient pacing to look at her incredulously.
"Carrots? Are you insane?" Now bored, and more than disgusted with cleaning up after him, Danni reached into the fridge, then the freezer.
"This is what you want." She held up a carton of custard and a packet of fish fingers, "Fish Fingers and Custard." The Doctor walked up to her, snatching the two items out of her hands.
"Oh brilliant!" He kissed the side of her head, "You always know what I need." She grinned.
"I just know what you're going to do next." She retorted.
"How?" Amelia asked. The Doctor looked over his shoulder as he turned the oven on.
"She's from the future. My Danni-Girl, she jumps through time and saves me every time." He winked at Danni.
"Really?" Amelia asked the woman, who shrugged.
"I suppose so, yeah. I don't have much of a choice though, the man's a walking disaster zone sometimes."
~0~0~0~
The Doctor and Danni sat across from Amelia, each with a fish finger in hand. They alternately dipped them into the glass bowl of custard, munching on their treat as the young girl ate vanilla ice cream straight from the tub with a large ice cream scoop. When Danni popped the last bite of her fish finger into her mouth the Doctor picked up the bowl and drank the last of the custard. Danni giggled slightly at the moustache it left behind, and Amelia would have as well had her mouth not been full. The Doctor wiped it away with the back of his hand and smiled at the little girl.
"Funny." She conceded. He shot her a concerned look.
"Am I?" He looked at Danni, who nodded encouragingly.
"And incredibly handsome." She added and he leant towards her, about to flirt, she gathered by the look on his face, "The child, sweetie." He blushed, shifting back into his seat and he picked up another fish finger.
"Good. Funny's good." He declared with a cough, "What's your name?" He asked before taking a bite of another fish finger.
"Amelia Pond." The girl told him and he nodded.
"Ah, that's a brilliant name. Amelia Pond," He said her name slowly, as if getting a feel with in with his tongue, "like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia?" She sighed as if the thought annoyed her.
"No. We had to move to England. It's rubbish." This seemed to throw the Doctor, while Danni felt significantly offended. Yes, England had rubbish weather and small houses, but it was still her homeland and she held it close in her heart.
"So what about your mum and dad, then? Are they upstairs? Thought we'd have woken them by now." He looked up, confused. Amelia, on the other hand, looked down at her ice cream sadly.
"I don't have a mum and dad. Just an aunt." Danni smiled sympathetically.
"We don't even have an aunt." She told her. Amelia looked up at her, jealous.
"You're lucky."
"I know." The Doctor grinned, "So, your aunt. Where is she?" He dipped another fish finger in the custard and sucked it off.
"She's out." His eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"And she left you all alone?" He exclaimed.
"I'm not scared." She told him proudly.
"'Course you're not. You're not scared of anything! Box falls out of the sky, man and woman fall out of box, man and woman both eat fish custard, and look at you, just sitting there. So you know what I think?"
"What?"
"Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall." Danni replied, "And I for one am sick of custard. Come along, Pond. Show us this crack." She stood up, bouncing on the spot. The Doctor jumped up, taking her hand excitedly and they followed Amelia up the stairs to her bedroom, where the crack was almost displayed on the wall. It was a thin line, almost a crooked smirk with a yellow glow just escaping through the thin gap. The Doctor walked up to it, running his finger along the length of the line.
"You've had some cowboys in here. Not actual cowboys," He turned to look at the pair, "though that can happen." Amelia was looking down at the apple in her hand and Danni nudged her encouragingly towards the Doctor.
"I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them." She walked over to the Doctor and handed him the red apple now with a smiley face carved into it. He smiled at her kindly.
"She sounds good, your mum. I'll keep it for later." He tossed it once then put it in his pocket before returning to the crack, "This wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it. So here's a thing - where's the draught coming from?" He buzzed the sonic screwdriver along it, the still blue light illuminating the wall, "Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey." He pushed the tip back down, "You know what the crack is?" He asked Amelia.
"What?"
"It's a crack." Danni rolled her eyes, "I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down, the crack would stay put, 'cos the crack isn't in the wall."
"Where is it, then?" Danni walked over and placed a hand on the little girls shoulder.
"Everywhere." She explained gently, "It's in the skin of the universe, so there's more all over the place. This one in your wall isn't unique."
"Really?" The Doctor asked her, surprised and Danni nodded.
"We see it quite a few times over the years." She confirmed, "It's still really scary, though."
"How is there a crack in the universe?" Amelia asked her, "What could crack it?"
"It's two parts of space and time that should never have touched, pressed together...right here in the wall of your bedroom." The Doctor told her before leaning in close, pressing his ear against it, "Sometimes, can you hear…"
"A voice? Yes." Amelia finished. An airy, eerie voice echoed throughout the room, originating from the crack. The Doctor pushed away from the wall and quickly scanned the room, walking up to glass of water on Amelia's night stand and chucking the water in it onto the floor.
"Doctor!" Danni scolded but he ignored her. He pressed the glass against the wall and used it to listen through the crack.
"Prisoner Zero?" he muttered.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped." Amelia declared, "That's what I heard. What does it mean?" The Doctor moved quickly away from the wall, still examining it with a thoughtful frown.
"It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison and they've lost a prisoner. Do you know what that means?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"What?"
"You need a better wall." Amelia frowned as the Doctor moved the desk against the wall out of the way, "The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way. The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut. Or..." He stepped nearer the wall as he trailed off.
"What?"
"You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?" Danni asked her.
"Yes." Amelia replied as if she knew that all too well.
"Everything's going to be fine." The Doctor replied Danni held her hand out and Amelia grasped it then the Doctor followed suit, each holding one of the little girl's hands. The Doctor then used the sonic screwdriver on the crack at it began glowing as it widened, revealing a dark corridor lined with cells.
"Prisoner Zero has escaped." A voice proclaimed. The Doctor stepped closer to the crack, keeping hold of his future companion's hand and peered in.
"Hello? Hello?" He called. A giant blue eye appeared in the crack, scanning the room. Amelia's grip on Danni's hand tightened and she squeezed back reassuringly.
"What's that?" Amelia asked the pair. A blue spark flew out from the crack, hitting the Doctor on the side and he fell to the bed, dragging the other two across the room with him. The eye continued to scan until the very last moment and the crack finally closed.
"There. You see, told you it would close. Good as new." The Doctor told them.
"What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?" Amelia asked, obviously scared as she didn't look away from the crack. Danni knelt down next to her and slowly turned her away.
"Hey, hey, it's all right." She told her gently, "Whatever it is the Doctor will work it out and you won't need to be afraid anymore. The Doctor is what the monsters and the ghosts are scared of. You're in good hands, Amelia Pond." She looked over at the Doctor, "That's not Prisoner Zero, is it?"
"No. I think that was Prisoner Zero's guard." The Doctor agreed, "Whatever it was, it sent me a message." He pulled out the psychic paper from his pocket, "Psychic paper, takes a lovely little message." It glowed bright blue as he read the message out loud, "'Prisoner Zero has escaped.' But why tell us? Unless..." He slowly stood from the bed, scanning the room for anything out of the ordinary.
"Unless what?" Amelia prompted. Danni stood up and took Amelia's hand again.
"Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here." She told her, "But I promise it'll be okay."
"But he couldn't have." The Doctor stated slowly, "We'd know." He ran out of the room and the two girls followed him, hand in hand. They came to an abrupt stop outside the bedroom and the Doctor continued to look around, trying to pinpoint what was wrong, "It's difficult. Brand-new me, nothing works yet." He explained, "But there's something I'm missing... in the corner...of my eye." Just as he began to focus on the door in the corner of the hallway, a loud deep bell rang. His eyes went wide in shock and he took off down the stairs.
"No, no, no, no, no, no!"
"I should warn you now, there is so much running." Danni told Amelia and, hand in hand, they followed him down the stairs and into the back garden.
"Why are you warning me?" Amelia asked, confused.
"Because everyone always complains that the running was never brought up at the start. This is the start, there's a lot of running Amelia." The Doctor had stopped outside the front door, hopping from one foot to the other impatiently until the two girl's appeared. He grabbed Danni's hand, tearing her from Amelia's grip as he dragged her towards the TARDIS.
"We've got to get back in there!" He explained urgently, "The engines are phasing, it's going to burn!"
"But... it's just a box! How can a box have engines?" Amelia protested, trailing after them as they reached blue box on it's side. The Doctor dropped to his knees and began freeing the grappling hook.
"It's not a box. It's a time machine." Danni told her simply.
"What, a real one? You've got a real time machine?" She asked in disbelief.
"Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised. Five-minute hop into the future should do it." He tied the rope to each door handle.
"Can I come?" Amelia asked, smiling.
"Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give us five minutes, we'll be right back." He hopped onto the edge and dangled his legs into the doorway, facing away from the pair.
"People always say that." Amelia muttered sadly. The Doctor jumped back down and leant so they were face to face.
"Am I people? Do I even look like people? Trust me, I'm the Doctor." She smiled happily and he bopped her on the nose, "Plus, Danni-Girl here let me not come back if I say I will." And with that he jumped back on, grabbed the rope and plunged into the TARDIS. Danni watched him as he cried, 'Geronimo!' then turned to Amelia.
"I just want you to know, Amelia, that his time-keeping is atrocious, so you may be waiting a little longer than five minutes. But I promise we'll be back." She explained softly.
"Promise?" Amelia prompted and she nodded, ruffling her hair.
"Promise." Danni repeated.
"Hurry up Danni-Girl!" the Doctor called impatiently from deep inside the TARDIS and Danni sighed, shaking her head.
"And still so rude!" She muttered, "That also never changes. See ya soon, Amelia Pond." She kissed her on the top of the head then scrambled up the side of the box, took a deep breath and jumped into the pool, landing next to the Doctor with a splash. He used the rope to pull the doors shut then pointed his screwdriver skywards, activating the TARDIS. He then pulled her in for a very passionate and, in his opinion, very overdue kiss as they flew away.