OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED RORY, YOU BASTARD!

Chapter Two

The TARDIS floated in the vortex while the Doctor sat on the swing under the console and worked on the time stabilizer. He swung back and forth on the swing while his legs pumped the air and his toes barely touched the metal. He knew that Amy and Rory were feeling antsy since their last adventure and he tried to figure out where they could go for some rest and relaxation. He stopped the swing when the TARDIS rumbled and lurched forward and he fell onto his bottom, looking up at the console.

"Now what was that for, eh?" he asked as he stood up and walked up the stairs. He looked at the screens when he smiled, patted the top of the console and shook his head. "Yeah, I hate it when I get the hiccups, too."

"Doctor, what was all that about?" Amy asked as she walked into the control room and the Doctor leaned on the console, smiling at her.

"Oh, she just had a little case of hiccups. Nothing to worry about," the Doctor said when Rory came in the control room and stood next to Amy.

"She had the hiccups?" Rory said as he looked up at the ceiling then at the Doctor and the Doctor nodded, patting the console.

"It happens," he said as he looked at the screen and Amy peered over his shoulder. "Is there something you want, Pond?"

"I was just wondering if we could go somewhere," she said and he gave her a blank look.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out," he said as he pushed the buttons, flipped the levers, turned the switches and the time rotor moved back and forth behind the glass. A few minutes later the TARDIS made a little bump while the Doctor looked at the screen, smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Yes, this is perfect. It has a breathable atmosphere, gravity and, from the looks of it, a beach! The water is safe and the beach is empty!" He walked to the stairs to the wardrobe room when he headed up the stairs then looked down at them and Rory and Amy looked up at him with confused looks on their faces. "Come on! Who's up for a swim?" Shrugging, they ran for the stairs as the Doctor went into the wardrobe room and they followed him inside.

The doors opened while the Doctor walked outside and stretched his arms over his head. The sky was a bright blue with bright pink clouds and a yellow sun and birds with blue and red feathers and long, yellow feather tails flew by. The trees looked like Earth palm trees except for the bright orange and pink leaves and long purple fruit resembling bananas grew on the trees. The sand was a warm caramel color and felt good under his bare feet and he bent down to roll his trousers up. He also wore a white, short sleeve shirt and his bowtie and a pair of sunglasses covered his eyes.

"Yes, this will do," he said when he turned around and brought out a blue, plastic cooler with three, large towels tied to the top and a deflated beach ball. He walked toward the beach as the cool, blue and green water spread out before him then he turned, looking back at the TARDIS. "Are you two coming?"

He heard Rory grunt as Rory walked outside and was carrying the beach umbrella. It had blue and white stripes and Rory seemed to be having trouble keeping it in his arms. He was also carrying Amy's beach bag around his neck as he sighed and headed for the Doctor. He placed the post of the umbrella in the sand then placed the beach bag onto the sand and puffed out some air from his cheeks.

"Where's Pond?" the Doctor asked and Rory looked at the TARDIS. Sweat made his Hawaiian shirt and tan shorts cling to his body as Amy strolled out of the TARDIS wearing a large, white floppy hat, a dark blue bikini and a matching cover up and the Doctor's eyes went wide. "Um, you look…nice."

"Thank you," she said then looked at Rory and placed her hands on her hips. "Why isn't the umbrella up?"

"Yeah, getting right on it," he said as Rory set up the umbrella and the Doctor set up the towels. Amy sat down on the orange, yellow and pink towel when she opened the beach bag and took out a bottle of sunscreen and Rory arched the umbrella so it was shading her. "Is that alright?"

"Yeah, that's fine," she said as the Doctor sat on the blue towel and went to lie down on his back. Placing his hands behind his back, he arched the sunglasses up as he looked at the clouds rolling by while Amy looked at him and frowned. "Don't you own a bathing suit?"

"Yeah, I do, but you don't want to look at this skinny body," he said with a grin and closed his eyes. Rory rolled his eyes when he sat on the green towel as he opened the bottle of sunscreen and poured some in his hands. He gently rubbed some of the sunscreen on Amy's legs as she smiled at him and he moved closer, kissing her lips. The Doctor half opened his eyes as he watched them kissing when he slid the sunglasses down and placed his hands on his chest. He tried to block out the soft giggling as he started doing complicated math problems in his head, but couldn't concentrate and sat up, looking at them. "Right, if you need something to do with your lips, blow this up."

Rory frowned when he handed Rory the deflated beach ball then got up and went for a walk. A quick memory of when Jamie had to blow up a beach ball when he, Jamie and Zoe were on a small vacation crossed his mind and he smiled, thinking about how Jamie nearly turned blue as he tried to inflate the beach ball. The Doctor sighed as he thought about his two missing friends then saw Donna in his mind's eye and felt worse. He wondered what she would think of this place as his hearts hurt and he placed his hands in his pockets, walking faster down the sand.

The Doctor came a few minutes later to find that Rory had made a small fire circle and had set up the small grill. The smell of food cooking made the Doctor hungry as he smiled and sat down on the blanket.

"Sorry," Amy said while she poked a hot dog with a fork as he nodded then looked over at Rory swimming in the water. The Doctor stood up when he walked to the edge of the water and Rory bobbed up and down on the waves while he body surfed and laughed. Suddenly something shot out of the water as it grabbed onto Rory and he screamed, waving his arms over his head. "Doctor, help him!"

"On it!" the Doctor said as he ran into the water and watched Rory fighting to get free of whatever grabbed hold of him. From where the Doctor was, he could see that it looked like a tentacle of some sort and it was pulling Rory down into the water. Rory pounded on the tentacle as the Doctor came closer and closer and Rory gulped as his head went underwater. Activating his respiratory bypass system, the Doctor dived under the clear water as his eyes adjusted to being underwater and he could see Rory only a few feet in front of him. He could also see what had grabbed hold of him and it looked like a squid with a large head, six, red eyes, ten tentacles and a sharp beak under the tentacles and Rory was struggling to get free. The bubbles coming from Rory were fading as the Doctor swam faster then came to the tentacle and pulled on the tentacle, trying to free Rory. He swam toward the head when the eyes looked at him and the Doctor blinked his eyes a few times.

"Can you hear me?" he thought and the eyes went wide.

"Yes, I can hear you," the creature thought.

"Ah, that's good. I'm the Doctor."

"I am Borzani."

"Well, Borzani, you seem to have my friend and he's drowning. Can you please let him go?"

"Oh, I am sorry, Doctor. From down here, he looked like a gezzi," Borzani thought then let go of Rory and the Doctor swam to him. Thanking Borzani, the Doctor took hold of Rory as he swam to the surface and gasped as his head appeared. He swam while dragging Rory behind him when he came to the beach and Amy ran to help him. He started doing CPR on Rory while Amy knelt next to the Doctor when the Doctor made a fist with his hand and punched Rory's chest over his heart. Water shot out of Rory's mouth as his heart started again and the Doctor rolled Rory onto his side, allowing him to spit up the rest of the water. Amy placed Rory's head on her thighs as he looked up at her then at the Doctor and sighed.

"What was that?" Rory asked softly while Amy stroked his wet hair and the Doctor smiled at him.

"I think it was a goktal. They're a little near sighted and tend to eat anything floating in the water," the Doctor said and they looked at him with stunned looks on their faces. "Don't look at me like that. How was I supposed to know it was there? Besides, that will teach you to go swimming without me."

"Can we go?" Amy asked as she helped Rory to his feet and held him to her side.

"Yes, but I think we should clean up first. Don't want to start a fire or anything, the Doctor said as they looked at each other and headed for the blankets. After the Doctor checked to see if Rory was alright, they stood around the console while the Doctor looked at the screen and tried to figure out where they could go get something to eat. "Ah, I know this place that serves the best Italian food! Fancy trying it?"

"Sounds like a good idea," Rory said as he placed his head on Amy's shoulder and she smiled sweetly at him. "But, please, no one order calamari. I think I have enough squid for one day."

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