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Stranger I've known you for so long
(I found you lost with a compass in the fog)
There was once a girl who grew up to have wild hair, time tangled in its golden curls. But there was a time before she had that hair and that face.
She was, however, always named after music and water, a siren for danger and a siren for impossible love.
This child was Melody Pond, born where demons run and snatched from her human-mothers arms.
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The years after that were fuzzy.
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Melody Pond knew monsters were real, but she also knew she was strong and clever and ruthless, and that those three things could kill any trickster or phantom.
But that didn't mean she was always brave, there were lots of the times when she was scared. She wasn't brave when the Spaceman was coming to eat her.
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She called for help, but it came too late.
The Spaceman ate her.
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Melody Pond could have lived for forever in that spacesuit.
Without food. Without sleep. Never dying.
Safe.
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But Melody Pond wanted more.
So like any incredibly strong girl would she fights the Spacesuit.
And wins.
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Melody Pond became Mels.
She put the past behind her and made her home in a sleepy village.
She lived her life as any normal child should; wild and free.
Only Mels was anything other than normal.
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She was extraordinary and fearless.
Mels – too smart for her own good. Mels – a menace to society.
Mels – a girl who made the best of what she had.
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An orphan of the strangest sorts.
Her Mother; Amelia Pond seven years old and sleeping beside a crack that reached far beyond her imagination.
Her Father; Pond-struck Rory Williams, future Nurse and 2000 years old Roman Centurion, the last of.
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Her Mother accidently met the monster of daughter's childhood,
An evil Mels had to destroy.
The Trickster filled little Amelia head full of impossible and wonderful stories.
He gave her hope and like a Phantom, was gone with the night.
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Somewhere along the line Mels decided she would marry the alien her mother described.
She would become Mrs. Raggedy Doctor,
And her love alone would be enough to make him into a good man.
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Crop circles and a burrowed car got her an introduction.
A gun and a threat got her a free ride on a time machine to
Berlin; a country on the eve of war.
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And then she got shot by the Führer.
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With a blaze of light and her parents stood watching she turned from Mels into a weapon.
The Doctor's bespoke psychopath.
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With a single kiss she killed him.
And with another she gave him back all the lives she owed.
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She set aside old names.
Melody Pond; conditioned to bring death.
Mels; biding her time.
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She traipsed through the universe looking for herself,
And found not a psychopath, but a protector, an archeologist.
She found River Song.
