Hey There! WANLAF here, deciding to post a little idea that popped into my head today during classes. Discussing how we would lose five days total of our lives to my English class and what someone could do with those five days inspired this. And of course, I equated it to Doctor Who and lost opportunities. With A little Amy/Eleven love, here's Five Days' Time.
I do not own Doctor Who, nor am I affiliated with BBC in any way.
5 days, 120 hours, 7200 minutes, or 432,000 seconds. So much and so little at the same time, a beginning and ending in one fell swoop. Five days of nothing but themselves, one-hundred and twenty hours before she would once again become Amy Pond, wife of Rory Williams and mother of River Song. Seventy-two hundred minutes before he would return to River's side and have to save the universe so…so many times over. The life she'd waited for all that time ago, the things he'd denied himself when all he wanted to do was give in. So much more so than Donna, Rose even. Amy – Amelia Pond. A simple glimpse – not even a full week – into the timeline that had long ago been erased for what must have been. Her daughter, his wife. His father-in-law, her husband. Neither exists in the placid crystal ball that is these five days. A gift, a treasure that only they will ever know exists.
All those moments that never were, all those feelings never acted upon. Both had grown content with the life they had been given, but both remembered those feelings that they had met with. After all, the universe would not give such a gift for a simple case of regrets. Their time-line together could never be, too much depended on those they now held close.
But in these five days – five days of a different life to live, five days to love like neither had before – five days to know what could have been, but not what should have been. No longer Amy and The Doctor, oh no
For these five days – they simply are Amelia Pond, the girl who waits no longer, and her once imaginary but now very real, Raggedy Man.
There you go. I really like the message behind this – if it's too confusing I'm sorry. I tried to tap into a 'what if' mentality, and thoughts about how they loved each other, but knew they were never to be together. I know that the 'five days' they have isn't explained, but it's not really supposed to be. I imagined it as a gift from the universe, and alternate timeline that existed only for them – back after in S5, when shipping them was easy and nice and not-so-complicated by daughters-turned-wives and best-friends-turned-mother-in-laws. Anyway. I'm proud of my little one-shot. I might be persuaded to give glimpses into the five days if people like it enough. I dunno. 3
~With a Name Like a Fairytale.
