The Story of Emily Evans

XX: Safe and Sound

As the three of us left the basement, and then the abandoned house above the basement, I saw the Tardis, a Tardis, off to the side of the building. The Doctor seemed to lead us towards it but I stopped a couple feet away. "Wait...what if it disappears again...?" I seemed to ask him.

"Well, you've been here a while...had an adventure...I can't think of any other reason the Tardis would disappear." The Doctor seemed to tell me. "Plus before, we were thinking about just sending you back, and we aren't...not yet. Just gonna drop you off back at your Tardis and see what happens from there."

"Not a very solid plan." Sol told him.

"When are they ever...?" The Doctor seemed to ask her, a bit playfully.

"Point taken." Sol responded before the Doctor opened up the Tardis's doors. The Doctor was first to enter, followed by Sol, and then by me. As we entered, nothing seemed to strike me out. There was no strange noises, no mysteriously flashing lights, not even a slight shaking.

I stood by the now closed doors as I looked around at the Tardis. It looked the same as the one I had arrived in but there was something strange about it. It felt familiar and yet not...there was just something about it. I could tell that this wasn't my Tardis...the energy within it felt slightly off but not a dangerous off...just a foreign off.

Sol and the Doctor stood by the console speaking in shushed voices, I couldn't tell what they were saying but I could see the hurt on Sol's face. She did not like where the conversation was going...a little part of me seemed to not like it either even though I had no idea what they were talking about. I watched Sol's face, her body language, as she spoke to him. They finally seemed to come to an agreement...or at least that's what I though with how they had ended the conversation.

Suddenly the Doctor walked over to me. "How was your trip...?"

"...do I really haft to answer...?" I asked him, not really wanting to. It started off frightening, then fine, and then I was having fun...and then it took a turn for the worse. Just.... I remembered Sol telling me that I had been out for a while...just how long. From the look on the Doctor's face when he saw us...he was very worried about us. "H-how long...." I asked him, he instantly seemed to pick up my thoughts.

"Three days." He just told me, his tone a bit solemn. "I was worried sick about you, you know."

"Why...?" I seemed to ask him. "I barely even know you, and I don't even know what you know of me."

At that, his face took on a saddened look. "But you will." He told me. "You'll learn all about me, and I you. I miss having you around, you know."

"What do you mean by that...?" I quickly asked him, worry filled my tone. W-what happened to me...? I seemed to ask myself. I then remembered when I first met him, he was deep in a life or death mission...it was very dangerous. Did...did I die...?

"Believe me when I say this." He told me as he placed his along the side of my hand, near my left eye. "You have nothing to worry about, my beautiful, shimmering, sun." He then leaned closer to me as he kissed my forehead. My knees buckled, my mind seemed to fog over as my vision tumbled into the darkness. I began to fall but I don't remember hitting the ground, my body then felt warm...as if in a warm embrace.

~~~3rd POV~~~

Sol seemed to pilot the Tardis as the Doctor spoke to Emily; however, Sol couldn't help but to catch glimpses of their talk. Emily then crumbled to the ground as her knees seemed to buckle beneath her but the Doctor seemed to stop her fall as she now rested in his arms.

"Did you haft to kiss her...?" Sol asked him, a bit jealously yet also playfully.

"It's what you remember me doing." The Doctor seemed to respond before he looked at the unconscious Emily in his arms. "Besides...it's not exactly cheating on you, you know."

"I know...." Sol seemed to respond as she managed to land the Tardis, a bit more expertly than the Doctor ever had. "But still...you still miss her." She walked around the console only to place her hand on the Doctor's shoulder as she stared him in the eyes. "But I'm right here, right now." She then looked back at Emily. "We need to get her to her proper timeline."

"Do you miss her...?" The Doctor seemed to ask Sol. "Being her...?"

"Yes...and no." Sol responded before her eyes seemed to land on Emily's locket. "I both miss and hate the naivety she had the most...I definitely don't miss being Human." Sol seemed to remember something within her bag, she quickly pulled out a note, a letter, that she had just written...well written at the hotel room before being kidnapped.

"Is that...?" The Doctor seemed to ask her as he eyed the note.

"Yes." Sol responded to him before she placed it into Emily's bag. She then placed her finger to Emily's temple. "Just telling her what to do with it."

"And to not read it, I hope." The Doctor told her.

"Not until she gives it to you, er...Nine." Sol told him.

"What's that supposed to mean...?" The Doctor asked her.

She just looked up at him. "Maybe I'll tell you later."

With that, they both, with The Doctor carrying Emily, walked out of their Tardis. Sol seemed to lean against the side of their Tardis as the Doctor entered Emily's Tardis, the door now unlocked...at least to the Doctor. She definitely didn't want to give the Tardis any reasons to run again. After all...she didn't remember staying any longer than this.

Wait...remember...? Sol asked herself as she placed her hand to her head. All the moments, memories, Emily seemed to have of this event came crashing towards her.

"Sol, are you alright...?" The Doctor seemed to ask once he left Emily in her Tardis. It was now on its way back to the moment it had came from.

"Y-yes." Sol seemed to reply before she took her hand from her head and looked back up at her Doctor. "The memories...I remember them now. Her memories of what had happened."

"Thought you'd want them back, eventually." The Doctor seemed to tell her. "You never did like the idea of losing them."

"T-thank you...!" Sol seemed to reply with excitement as she brought him in for a hug. For he had did exactly the same thing she had done when she had hide Emily's memories, tucked them away...to be remembered at a later date.

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