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THE ELEVENTH HOUR
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Five minutes quickly became twelve years later, the two best friends now both nineteen years old had just finished school and been welcomed into the world of work.

The two girls sat in Amelia's old bedroom that only seemed to have a new layer of paint and a few small changes, they both laughed about something they had heard from a friend before they stopped, a loud bang echoed from downstairs. "Amelia?" They heard a man shout. "Amelia, Holliaet, are you all right? Are you there?"

The girl's eyes widened and they slowly crept into the bathroom, the blonde spotted a cricket bat on the way and grabbed it before entering the bathroom, they poked their heads out and watched as a very raggedy looking man ran up the stairs and knocked on Amelia's bedroom door. "Prisoner Zero's here." He shouted. "Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here! Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is-" without even thinking the blonde walked up behind the man and swung the bat as he turned around, hitting him on the head. He flew to the floor with a thud and the ginger gasped. "Hollie!" Her eyes widened at her friend.

"What!" She protested. "He"s an intruder."

"You can't knock him out."

"Well, I did." She replied. "Go get your police uniform on, Amy I have an idea."

The ginger frowned at her friend. "I'm not kissing his head better."

"No." Hollie laughed. "He's going to think you're actually the police, go get me the handcuffs, we'll cuff him to the radiator in the hallway downstairs."

Amy nodded and headed towards her room. Hollie sighed and dragging the man across the floor and towards the stairs. "It can't be him," Amy shouted from her room. "Can it?"

Hollie sighed and winced when the Doctor accident hit his head as she dragging him down the stairs. "I think it is."

"But he isn't real!" She replied as she walked down the stairs, now in her police outfit, she handed the handcuffs to Hollie who cuffed the Doctors wrist to the radiator.

"He's here." Hollie shrugged. "He'll wake up soon, shall I put the kettle on?" She headed into the kitchen.

Amy followed her. "You're having a drink now? With a stranger in my house!"

"He isn't a stranger though." Hollie rolled her eyes. "When he wakes up you can interrogate him. I'll wait in here until he wakes up."

Amy sighed and followed the instructions of her friend, she stood in front of the Doctor and waited. Her eyes widened as the Doctor groaned slightly. Hollie left the tea she had made on the side and quickly walked into the hall and stood behind her friend who spoke into a fake radio.

"White male, mid-twenties, breaking and entering. Send me some back-up. I've got him restrained." She pointed at the Doctor. "Oi! You, sit still."

"Cricket bat." The Doctor frowned. "I'm getting cricket bat."

"You were breaking and entering," Amy replied.

"Well, that's much better. Brand new me. Whack on the head, just what I needed."

"Do you want to shut up now?" Amy cut in. "I've got back up on the way."

"Hang on, no, wait. You're a policewoman."

"And you're breaking and entering. You see how this works?"

"But what are you doing here? Where's Amelia and Holliaet?"

"Amelia Pond and Holliaet Aria?" Amy replied.

"Yeah, Amelia and Holliaet. Little Scottish girl and her curly-haired English friend Where are they? I promised them five minutes but the engines were phasing. I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to them?"

"Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time."

"How long?"

"Six months." Holliaet lied. "I live here now."

"No. No. No." The Doctor whined. "No, I can't be six months late. I said five minutes. I promised. What happened to them? What happened to Amelia and Holliaet?"

"Sarge, it's me again. Hurry it up. This guy knows something about Amelia Pond and Holliaet Aria."

The Doctor looked at Hollie. "How many rooms are in this house."

"I'm sorry, what?" Hollie frowned.

"On this floor." He replied, "how many rooms on this floor? Count them for me now."

"Why?" Hollie frowned as Amy cut in.

"This is irrelevant."

"Because it will change your life." The Doctor looked at Hollie.

"Five." She replied and spun around, counting them all. "One, two, three, four, five."

"Six." The Time Lord countered.

"Six?" Both Hollie and Amy frowned.

"Look."

"Look where?" They asked.

"Exactly where you don't want to look. Where you never want to look. The corner of your eye. Look behind you."

The two friends turned around. "That's, that is not possible. How's that possible?" Amy asked.

"There's a perception filter all round the door. Sensed it the last time I was here. Should've seen it."

"But that's a whole room. That's a whole room I've never even noticed." Amy whispered.

"The filter stops you noticing. Something came a while ago to hide. It's still hiding, and you need to uncuff me now."

"I don't have the key. I lost it." Amy replied while Hollie slowly walked towards the room.

"How can you have lost it?" The Doctor shot her an annoyed look. "Stay away from that door!" His eyes snapped to the blonde. "Do not touch that door! Listen to me, do not open that." Hollie did the exact opposite and walked into the room. "Why does no-one ever listen to me?" He groaned. "Do I just have a face that nobody listens to?" Using his free hand the Doctor searched his pockets for his sonic and sighed. "Again. My screwdriver, where is it?" He asked as Hollie scanned the slightly worn, empty room. Silver thing blue at the end. Where did it go?"

"There's nothing here." Hollie frowned.

"Whatever's there stopped you seeing the room. What makes you think you could see it?" He huffed. "Now please, just get out."

"Wait," Hollie called. "Silver, blue at the end?"

"My screwdriver, yeah."

"It's in here."

"Must have rolled under the door." He answered.

"Yeah, it must have done that." Hollie nervously answered. "And then it must have jumped up on the table."

"Get out of there." The Doctor suddenly shouted. "Get out of there! Get out!"

Hollie grimaced as she picked up the screwdriver covered in some kind of gunk. "Get out of there!"

Hollie froze as she felt something looking at her. "What is it?" He asked. "What are you doing?"

"There's nothing here, but..." She slowly answered him.

"Corner of your eye." The Doctor reminded."

"And what is it I'm looking for?"

"Don't try to see it." The Doctor sharply cut in. "If it knows you've seen it, it will kill you. Don't look at it. Do not look."

Slowly Hollie turned around, her blue eyes widened in fear as she stared at a blue, snake-like creature with long, sharp teeth. The woman screamed and ran out of the door and to Amy and the Doctor.

"Holls!" Amy shouted hugging her friend only to let go as the Doctor took the screwdriver from the blonde.

"Come on." He hit it as the device stopped working for a moment. "What's the bad alien done to you?"

"Will that door hold it?" Amy asked looking at the door Hollie shut when she ran out.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, of course." The Doctor lied to them. "It's an interdimensional multiform from outer space. They're all terrified of wood."

The two friends stared at a bright light that shone under the door. "What's that? What's it doing?"

"I don't know. Getting dressed?" He replied and hit the screwdriver again. "Run. Just go. Your back up's coming. I'll be fine."

"There is no backup," Amy replied.

"I heard you on the radio. You called for back up."

"She was pretending," Hollie answered. "It's a pretend radio."

"You're a policewoman." The Doctor frowned.

"I'm a kissogram!" Amy pulled off her hat, allowing her long red hair to fall freely. The three-shot their heads over to the door of the hidden room as it fell to the ground, a man in overalls and a black dog stepped out of the doorway and into the hall.

"But it's just-" Amy frowned.

"No, it isn't." The Doctor answered. "Look at the faces."

They watched as the man-made the noise of the dog barking.

"What?" Amy stared. "I'm sorry, but what?"

"It's all one creature." The Doctor answered. "One creature disguised as two. Clever old multi-form. A bit of a rush job, though. Got the voice a bit muddled, did you? Mind you, where did you get the pattern from? You'd need a psychic link, a live feed. How did you fix that?"

The man growled and bared its long needle-like teeth. "Stay, boy! These two and me, we're safe. Want to know why? She sent for back up." He nodded at the ginger.

"I didn't send for back-up!" Amy shouted.

"I know. That was a clever lie to save our lives. Okay, yeah, no backup. And that's why we're safe. Alone, we're not a threat to you. If we had back up, you'd have to kill us."

"Attention, Prisoner Zero." A voice echoed making the three frown and look around them. "The human residence is surrounded. Attention Prisoner Zero. The human residence is surrounded."

"What's that?"

"Well, that would be back up. Okay, one more time. We do have back up and that's definitely why we're safe."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

"Well, safe apart from, you know, incineration."

Hollie winced as the voice repeated itself. "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

"Come on, work, work, work, come on." The Doctor gritted his teeth and tried the sonic again. He grinned when the cuffs clicked free, jumping up he grabbed Hollies hand and ran out with Amy following them.

"Kissogram?" The Doctor asked.

"Yes, a kissogram. Work through it." She rolled her eyes.

"Why'd you pretend to be a policewoman?"

"You broke into her house. It was this or a French maid."

"Tell us exactly what is going on?" Hollie demanded.

"An alien convict is hiding in your spare room disguised as a man and a dog, and some other aliens are about to incinerate your house. Any questions?"

"Yes." They both repeated.

The three-headed towards the TARDIS. Hollie froze while Amy stared at it next to her friend.

"Me too." He went to push on the door and huffed. "No, no, no, no! Don't do that, not now! It's still rebuilding. Not letting us in."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." The voice said again.

"Come on." Amy tried to pull him away

"No, wait, hang on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. The shed." He pointed at it. "I destroyed that shed last time I was here. Smashed it to pieces. "

"So there's a new one. Let's go."

"Yeah, but the new one's got old. It's ten years old at least." He then sniffed the shed. "Twelve years. I'm not six months late, I'm twelve years late."

"He's coming." Amy looked back.

"You said six months." The Doctor looked at Hollie. "Why did you say six months?"

"We've got to go." Amy tried to drag him away.

"No this matters." He protested. "This is important. Why did you say six months?" He stared at Hollie.

The woman huffed and rolled her eyes before she finally snapped back. "Why did you lie!" She shouted at him. "Why did you say five minutes?"

"What?" The Doctor blinked.

"Come on," Amy begged.

Hollie shook her head and slowly headed off. The Doctor followed her with Amy. "What?"

"It doesn't matter," Hollie muttered.

The Doctor stopped and stared at Amy before looking at Hollie. "You're Amelia and Holliaet."

"And you're late," Amy replied before heading off again towards the village.

"Amelia Pond and hee best friend Holliaet,. You're the little girls."

"I'm Amelia, she's Holliaet and you're late." Amy shot back.

"What happened?" The Doctor asked.

"Twelve years is what happened," Hollie answered.

"You hit me with a cricket bat!" His eyes widened.

"Twelve years."

"A cricket bat."

"Twelve years and eight psychiatrists between the two of us," Amy added.

"Four each."

"Amy kept biting them and I just refused to talk."

"Why?"

"They all said you weren't real."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated. Repeat..." The voice said again and again.

The Doctor stared at an ice cream van, the Doctor marched over. "No, no, no, come on." Amy whined. "What? We're being staked out by an ice-cream van."

"Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated."

"What's that?" The Doctor asked. "Why are you playing that?"

"It's supposed to be Claire De Lune." The man shrugged.

Hollie frowned as the radio crackled, the repeated statement was coming through there as well.

"Doctor, what's happening?" Hollie asked as Amy looked even more confused than her friend.

The Doctor ran into a small house without thinking. Amy groaned as they walked into Mrs Angelos house.

"Hello!" The Doctor happily announced and frowned at a large eyeball on the TV. "Sorry to burst in. We're doing a special on television faults in this area. Also crimes. Let's have a look." He took the remote and flickered across a couple of channels. Hollie frowned as they all showed the same image.

"I was just about to phone. It's on every channel. Oh, hello, Amy dear. Are you a policewoman now?"

Hollie snorted as Amy looked slightly nervous and tried to pull her skirt down. "Well, sometimes."

"I thought you were a nurse."

"I can be a nurse."

"Or actually a nun?"

The Doctor stared at her as Hollie's laughter grew louder.

"I dabble."

"Oh, there is no need to laugh at Amy, Hollie." Mrs Angelo shook her head. "How's the art going?"

Hollie smiled and nodded. "It's going great."

"Amy, Hollie, who is your friend?" Mrs Angelo then asked.

"Who's Amy and Hollie?" The Doctor asked. You were Amelia and Holliaet."

"Yeah? Now I'm Amy and she's Hollie."

"Amelia and Holliaet, they were great names."

"Holliaet was stupid." Hollie shrugged.

"And mine was a bit fairy tale."

"And the curly hair." The Doctor whined suddenly noticing that Hollie's hair was now straight and not at all curly. "What happened to that?"

"I grew out of the curls." She shrugged. "I got too old for them."

"I know you, don't I?" Mrs Angelo frowned. "I've seen you somewhere before."

"Not me. Brand new face First time on." He lightly whacked himself on his cheeks. "And what sort of job's a kissogram?" He looked at Amy.

"I go to parties and I kiss people." The Doctor blinked. "With outfits." He blinked again and Amy huffed. "It's a laugh."

"You were a little girl five minutes ago." He pointed at her.

"You're worse than my aunt." Amy huffed.

Hollie winced at them as the Doctor pointed at Amy. "I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt." He then blinked and looked at Mrs Angelo. "And that is not how I'm introducing myself." He placed the remote down. "Okay, so it's everywhere, in every language." He changed the subject. "They're broadcasting to the whole world." He poked his head out of the window and looked up into the sky.

"What's up there?" Amy frowned. "What are you looking for?"

"Okay. Planet this size, two poles, your basic molten core? They're going to need a forty percent fission blast."

A tall young man walked in and the Doctor spoke to him, looking at his face as he slightly bent down before standing back up. "But they'll have to power up first, won't they? So assuming a medium-sized starship, that's 20 minutes. What do you think, twenty minutes? Yeah, twenty minutes. We've got twenty minutes."

"Twenty minutes to what?" Amy asked.

"Are you the Doctor?"

Hollie face palmed herself. "He is, isn't he?" Mrs Angelo frowned. "He's the Doctor! The Raggedy Doctor. All those drawing you did when you were little." He looked at Hollie. "And the little puppets you made Amy. The Raggedy Doctor. It's him."

"Shut up." Amy hissed.

"Drawings."

Hollie sighed. "Had to get good somehow." She shrugged.

"Gran, it's him, isn't it?" He repeated. "It's really him!"

"Jeff, shut up." Amy snapped and looked at the Doctor. "Twenty minutes to what?"

"The human residence." He muttered. "They're not talking about your house, they're talking about the planet. Somewhere up there, there's a spaceship, and it's going to incinerate the planet." Hollie's eyes widened as the Doctor added: "Twenty minutes to the end of the world.

The three left Mrs Angelos house and walked into the centre of the village. "What is this place?" The Doctor asked. "Where am I?"

"Leadworth."

"Where's the rest of it?" The Doctor asked.

"This is it." Hollie shrugged.

"Is there an airport?"

"No." They both answered.

"A nuclear power station?"

"No."

"Even a little one?"

"No."

The Doctor frowned. "Nearest city?"

"Gloucester," Hollie replied. "Half an hour by car."

"We don't have half an hour." He replied. "Do we have a car?"

"No," Hollie answered. "Can't afford a car." She shrugged.

"Well, that's good." He groaned. "Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut. What is that?" He asked walking to a small pond.

"It's a duck pond." Amy shrugged.

"Why aren't there any ducks?"

"I don't know. There's never any ducks."

"Then how do you know it's a duck pond?"

"It just is." Amy countered. "Is it important, the duck pond?"

The Doctor clutched his chest and the girl's eyes widened as he stumbled into the grass. "I don't know. Why would I know? This is too soon. I'm not ready, I'm not done yet."

Hollie looked up at the sky and frowned as it began to grow dark. "But it isn't even lunchtime? Why's is it getting dark?"

Amy pointed at the sun as a large black disk covered the star. "So what's wrong with the sun?" The ginger asked.

"Nothing." The Doctor answered. "You're looking at it through a forcefield. They've sealed off your upper atmosphere. Now they're getting ready to boil the planet. Oh, and here they come." The Doctor called as he watched people run out their houses, mobile phones in hand as they pointed them up to the sky. "The human race. The end comes, as it was always going to, down a video phone." He grumbled in distaste.

"This isn't real, is it?" Amy asked. "This is some kind of big wind up."

"Why would I wind you up?"

"You told us you had a time machine."

"And you believed me."

"And then we grew up." Hollie shrugged.

The Doctor stopped moving and turned to her. "Oh, you never want to do that." He then hit himself on the forehead. "No. Hang on. Shut up. Wait. I missed it. I saw it and I missed it. What did I see? I saw. What did I see? I saw I saw, I saw..."

The two friends frowned and followed the Doctors eyes to Rory, Amy's boyfriend who instead of taking photos of the sun was taking a photo of the man and his dog.

"Twenty minutes." He nodded to himself. "I can do it. Twenty minutes, the planet burns. Run to your loved ones and say goodbye, or stay and help me."

"No," Amy replied.

"I'm sorry?" He frowned.

"No!" Amy shouted, grabbing the Doctors tie and pulling him towards a car as a man opened the door. Hollie took the keys from the driver as Amy shut the Doctors tie in the door.

"No, no," the Doctor whined when Hollie locked the car, "what are you doing?" His eyes widened when he went to pull his tie free but nothing happened. "Are you out of your mind?"

"Who are you?" Hollie narrowed her eyes.

"You know who I am." He looked at her.

"No, really." Amy cut in. "Who are you?"

"Look at the sky." He quickly replied. "End of the world, twenty minutes."

"Well, better talk quickly, then." Amy shrugged.

"Hollie, I am going to need my car back." The old man spoke up.

"Yes, in a bit." Hollie rolled her eyes. "Go and have a coffee, Amy will bring them back."

"Right, yes. " The man nodded.

"Holls, Catch." He tossed an apple to the blonde who frowned and caught the fruit.

"Holls?"

"It's a nice nickname." He smiled.

"My friends give me nicknames, you're a stranger."

"No, I'm not." He countered. "I'm the Doctor. I'm a time traveller. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real. What's happening in the sky is real, and if you don't let me go right now, everything you've ever known is over."

Hollie blinked and looked down at the apple, her eyes widened at the fresh fruit with the smiley face carved into it. The blonde nodded while Amy crossed her arms. "I don't believe you."

"Just twenty minutes." He pleaded. "Just believe me for twenty minutes. Look at it." He nodded at the apple Hollie was holding. "Fresh as the day you gave it to me. And you know it's the same one. Amy, believe for twenty minutes."

Amy looked at Hollie who nodded. "Ames it's the same apple." Hollie showed her. "I know it is, it feels all weird and tingly and old but new."

The Doctor stared at her. "Yeah, it does. That's time travel, Hollie."

Amy looked at her best friend before she nodded and unlocked the car before looking at the Doctor. "What do we do?"

"Stop that nurse." He pointed at a man and ran onto the village greenery. Hollie frowned and followed while Amy opened her mouth before she closed it and followed.