A/N: An attempt at a serious fic. Also, one of my first attempts at an actual pairing thing! :D This fic is AU, cause otherwise Rory would be there...I like Rory, but no. He's not needed here. :S Please review, I need to know if I should continue this! Love you all. :)

Macabre

Chapter 1: Wanting and Hoping

The Doctor's thoughts were, as usual, on the matter of his affections for Amy, as he waited in the console room.

Asking her out won't work-asking her to travel with me was almost like offering her one huge, long date.

A date which she accepted, Doctor.

The Doctor looked up at the ceiling as the TARDIS spoke to him telepathically.

'Only because she had been waiting for me all her life.' he muttered in reply.

But supposing you did ask her out...

'No!' he said, more loudly than he meant to.

Oh, stop it. You're only saying that because you're nervous about it.

'I'm not nervous...' he murmured angrily, sounding like a child.

She likes you too, you know.

The Doctor opened his mouth to reply when Amy entered the room.

'Ready?' she asked brightly as he whirled round.

'I'm always ready,' he drawled in a cocky manner, grinning like an idiot. 'Where are we going again?'

'To the planet Coval.' Amy explained, rolling her eyes but smiling all the same. 'You went on about it for aaages, saying how it was always night time there, and that they had celebrations all the time. Plus, there's this-'

'-amazing fruit there,' he said with her, remembering what he had told her the day before. 'Yes! It's wonderful, tastes just like custard.'

'It would do.'

'Come along, Pond, there is no time for dilly-dallying! Let's hop to it!'

'Hey! I'm not the one who can fly this thing!' Amy's attitude got the best of her, sending butterflies flying round the Doctor's stomach as the TARDIS took off. That's embarassing, he thought with an inward grimace.

'Amy,' he said. He turned to face her and ended up closer than he had intented. 'Oh, um...' He got flustered, to his further embarassment.

'Yeah?' Amy prompted.

'Never mind.' he said quickly, returning to the console.

Amy's shoulders slumped in slight disappointment but she brushed it off and waited for the TARDIS to land.

Don't worry, child.

She gasped as she heard a voice in her head, but luckily the Doctor didn't notice.

Who are you? Amy thought, hoping that whoever the voice belonged to wasn't some kind of sinister being.

Well, I'm blue, and the Doctor calls me 'sexy'.

TARDIS?

Yes, love. Now, what was I saying?

Don't worry?

Ah yes. Don't worry, Amy. He wasn't going to say anything bad.

Oh. Amy was relieved. But I was hoping...

That he was going to say something romantic? Oh, believe me, he wants to, girlfriend, he just takes a while to build up the courage to speak like that to his...love interests.

The corner's of Amy's mouths twitched upwards in a shy smile. I'm a love interest?

...Bugger. I wasn't supposed to tell you that.

'We're here!' the Doctor cried, snapping her out of her thoughts and back into the warped version of reality that she had come to know.

The Doctor opened the doors, and then gestured to the world outside with an air of grandeur. 'Welcome to the planet Coval.'