1.

"It contains the most feared thing in the universe," he says, and even as he is imprisoned inside he cannot understand, cannot realise he is not the monster he believes he is for he is blind – because there are things so terrible they dream your nightmares, and the Angel needs a guardian to keep her.

"It can be anything, any statue or rock that seems to move when you look away." Or a box, the madman's box. There are always eyes on her. Until the bodies corrode to dust in the countless millennia and a new guardian is chosen – created – she is observed and absolute – their minds cannot comprehend her existence – and he stares into the void – and she screams

Silence will fall.


2.

"That which holds an image of an angel-" The Pandorica, a fabled carved stone on display for their eyes to watch her forever "-becomes itself an angel…" It is her only escape, to seed the universe with her children, in whispers and snapshots which vanish on the wind. "Am-"

She will laugh and eat their souls, the Nightmare Child.

The Raggedy Doctor forgot her. Amelia Pond will not be forgotten, will not let him dare to forget her, not even for five minutes. The Cracks in her mind are hungry…

And the structure of reality is mutilated and twisted about itself, until she brings about her creation and Death falls to his knees.


3.

The only hope of the universe is a little girl who still believes in stars.

The sky is black as spilled ink, thick and somewhat imaginary. The always-burning madman's box cannot fill the absence.

And

She was not mad. She was alone, unloved.

she

"is brilliant, your wife is. Mister and Mrs. Pond!"

"That's not how it works…"

"Yeah it is!"

She sees Time and semi-daughters and past-potential meetings. In a different time and place, two lonely, dead women speak.

"I have the two qualities required to see absolute truth."

"I am brilliant, and unloved," Amelia whispers quietly to the beautiful girl in her head, smiling gently as she twists the face and distorts the mind on a planet never to/no longer existing. Because it – must be so and she must make it so and it – would be lovely.


4.

In another life, Amy is rescued and the walls shatter, and the Doctor can't put it all back together again.

Here and now, Amelia Pond's existence is a lie, an illusion designed for the weak and gullible. She will remake herself, swear revenge on him and destroy him.

"Don't blink, don't even blink."

She hides herself in the ancient house, her children all around her. He is/will/has come here, and she will bring herself to one moment at a time to find him. And there he is, now gone.

"The angels have the phone box."

Had she that wonderful thing, she could go back and destroy his kind, too, before they looked up to the stars and decided to govern them.

Later, she seeds a root in her maybe-self's eye.


5.

"The ship flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child." Yes, she would harvest the Fate's Thread the box required. Further back, further back, until she was lost.

"Tick tock, goes the clock"

Here and now, Amelia Pond does not exist. She is the Nightmare Child, the Lonely Assassin, and she will end everything.

"even for the Doctor…"