They stepped out onto the roof.

The Doctor had several ties around his neck, still deciding on which one to go with.

The Atraxi were hovering there.

"So this was a good idea, was it? They were leaving", Amy told the Doctor.

"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better. Come on, then! The Doctor will see you now".

The eyeball dropped down and scanned the Doctor. "You are not of this world", it said as the Doctor slid on his new suspenders.

"No, but I've put a lot of work into it". The Doctor held up a tie. "Oh, hmm, I don't know. What do you think?"

"Is this world important?"

"Important? What's that mean, important?" The Doctor discarded the tie and tossed it at Rory who caught it. "Six billion people live here. Is that important? Here's a better question. Is this world a threat to the Atraxi?" He tossed another tie at Rory. "Well, come on. You're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?"

A projection of the earth appeared.

"No".

"Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?"

"No".

"Okay. One more. Just one. Is this world protected? Because you're not the first lot to come here. Oh, there have been so many".

The projection showed monsters that Elise had never seen before and some she had nightmares about.

"And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them?" the Doctor asked as he tied his bowtie and slipped on his new jacket.

A projection showed ten men. The last one being the man who saved her.

The Doctor stepped through the projection. "Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically, run".

The eyeball was sucked back into the spaceship and it fled.

Elise and the Doctor heard the sound of the TARDIS engines. The Doctor reached into his jacket and pulled out the TARDIS key. He grabbed Elise's hand as they ran back to the blue box sitting in Amy's garden. "Okay, what have you got for me this time?" he asked. The Doctor slipped his key into the lock and opened the door.

Elise's mouth dropped open.

"Look at you. Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you", the Doctor said.

The two Timelords entered the TARDIS and the Doctor ran to the console, pressing buttons and flipping switches.

Elise hadn't moved from her spot in the doorway.

"Right", the Doctor said to himself. He walked over to Elise and picked her up, carrying her over to the jump seat. He knelt down in front of her as he did what he should have when he met her. "Hello. I'm the Doctor. What's your name?"

Elise said nothing.

"Okay...is there a reason you don't talk?"

She placed her small hand on his temple and he heard shouting.

"Ah". He hoped that in time she would trust him enough to start speaking again. "Do you have a name?"

She showed him giving her the name Elise.

"Well if you like it that much, you can keep it. It's a nice name, huh?"

Elise smiled and nodded. The next thing she showed him was him regenerating.

"You're obviously young, so I'm assuming you don't know what regeneration is. Sometimes, when a Timelord is hurt or dying, they regenerate into a new person. But no matter what face we have, deep down is what matters. I'm still the man who saved you in Naismith Manor and I meant what I said when I told you it was me and you, no matter what". He chose to leave out the fact that he had killed all the Timelords.

She was too young to know that or understand why he did it. She would when she was older.

"Now, the thing we're in is called a TARDIS. Time and Relative Dimension in Space. She can take us anywhere and any when. It's the same one as before. She just gave herself a bit of a makeover". It had been a long time since the Doctor had had children, but he looked forward to raising Elise and teaching her what it meant to be a Timelord. "What do you say, you and I have our own little adventure? How about a trip to the moon?

The Doctor flipped a lever and the TARDIS made her usual wheezing sound. Elise had a feeling it wasn't supposed to make that noise.

They landed with a soft thud and the Doctor ran over to the doors. He threw them open and smiled. He turned back to Elise and said, "Come and see".

Elise cautiously came closer and peered out from behind the Doctor's legs. Her eyes went wide and her mouth dropped open. She was staring at the earth. Elise carefully stepped around the Doctor and out onto the moon's surface.

It felt weird.

Elise frowned and got down on her knees, pressing her ear to the ground. She could hear scuttling, like little legs running around.

"Elise?" the Doctor asked her, "C'mon, we've got to go get Amy".

She knocked on the surface and it echoed.

There was something wrong here.

"Elise!"

Elise reluctantly got up and entered the TARDIS, whose doors closed behind her.

The Doctor looked up from the console and looked at the door with an odd expression. The TARDIS only did that for him.

Elise affectionately patted the doors. She liked the big little box and it seemed the box liked her too.

The next time they appeared in Amy's garden, it was night time. Amy came running outside and saw the two Timelords.

"Sorry about running off earlier. Brand new TARDIS. Bit exciting. Just had a quick hop to the moon and back to run her in. She's ready for the big stuff now", the Doctor told her.

Amy came up to them. "It's you. You came back".

"Course I came back. I always come back. Something wrong with that?"

"And you kept the clothes".

"Well, I just saved the world. The whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me. I kept the clothes".

"Including the bow tie".

"Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool". The Doctor fiddled with it.

Elise happened to like the bowtie.

"Are you two from another planet?" Amy asked.

"Yeah".

"Okay".

"So what do you think?"

"Of what?"

"Other planets. Want to check some out?"

"What does that mean?"

"It means... Well, it means come with me. Us. Come with us".

"Where?"

"Wherever you like".

"All that stuff that happened. The hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero".

"Oh, don't worry, that's just the beginning. There's loads more".

"Yeah, but those things, those amazing things, all that stuff. That was two years ago".

"Oh! Oops".

"Yeah".

"So that's..."

"Fourteen years!"

"Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy Pond, the girl who waited, you've waited long enough".

"When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library, and the swimming pool was in the library".

"Yeah. Not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So, coming?"

"No".

"You wanted to come fourteen years ago".

"I grew up".

"Don't worry. I'll soon fix that". He snapped his fingers and the door opened.

The Doctor and Elise watched as Amy entered the TARIDS, transfixed. They followed her in and the Doctor shut the door.

"Well? Anything you want to say? Any passing remarks? I've heard them all".

Elise followed the Doctor as he stepped up to the console.

"I'm in my nightie", was the only thing Amy could manage to say.

"Oh, don't worry. Plenty of clothes in the wardrobe. And possibly a swimming pool. So, all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?"

Amy joined them on the platform. "You are so sure that I'm coming".

"Yeah, I am".

"Why?"

"Cause you're the Scottish girl in the English village, and I know how that feels".

"Oh, do you?"

"All these years living here, most of your life, and you've still got that accent. Yeah, you're coming". The Doctor messed with various things on the console.

"Can you get me back for tomorrow morning?"

"It's a time machine. I can get you back five minutes ago. Why, what's tomorrow?"

"Nothing. Nothing. Just you know, stuff".

"All right, then. Back in time for stuff".

A new sonic screwdriver was ejected from a hole on the console.

"Oh! A new one! Lovely. Thanks, dear", the Doctor told the TARDIS.

A smaller, simpler one followed.

He handed it to Elise and ruffled her hair. "I'll teach you how to use it later, but make sure you have it on you at all times. Never know when it's going to come in handy". He walked over to a typewriter wired into the console.

"Why me?" Amy asked him.

"Why not?"

"No, seriously. You are asking me to run away with you in the middle of the night. It's a fair question. Why me?"

"I don't know. Fun. Do I have to have a reason?"

"People always have a reason".

"Do I look like people?"

"Yes".

"Been knocking around on my own for a while. My choice, but I've started talking to myself all the time. It's giving me earache".

"You're lonely? But you've got Elise".

"Well, I lied. She's not really my daughter and I kinda just found her".

"That's it? Just that?"

Elise looked up and saw the crack on the monitor. The same one from Amy's bedroom. The Doctor was lying.

"Just that. Promise".

"Okay".

As Amy walked away, he turned off the monitor, before looking down at Elise with a finger on his lips. She nodded. The Doctor walked over to Amy where she stood next to one of the rails. "So, are you okay, then? Because this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit, you know..."

"I'm fine. It's just, there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought. Well, I started to think that maybe you were just like a madman with a box".

"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me, because it's important, and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a madman with a box. Ha ha! Yeah". He ran back over to the console and grabbed one of the levers. "Goodbye Leadworth, hello everything". He flipped it and the TARDIS made its normal wheezing sound as they took off.