A/N: Hi! This is my first fanfiction ever! I've been toying around with writing one for a while and finally got around to it! I apologise in advance for any mistakes that I've missed :P I have about 4 chapters written up at the moment so I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Any constructive criticism is more than welcome :D (Italics are quotes from various episodes)

*This chapter takes place between 'Eleventh Hour' and 'Meanwhile on the TARDIS 1' (it's on youtube if you want to have a look :) )*

Chapter 1 – The Reason for Waiting (The Reason – Hoobastank)

Goodbye Leadworth! Hello everything!

With a small 'Ok' and a glance over her shoulder at the mysterious man, Amy had agreed to travel with the Doctor. Even though she probably, no definitely thought he was a madman with a box!

Amy walked around the central console beaming; she glanced up at the roof as she walked up the stairs, to what she presumed was the rest of the TARDIS. She wondered just how it all managed to fit inside the small police box. The Doctor meanwhile, took the TARDIS to the Time Vortex while Amy decided their first destination. Deep in thought, Amy turned and sat on the stairs facing the console room, watching the Doctor at work and examining the stairs beneath her feet. The TARDIS was now resting comfortably in the Time Vortex but the Doctor faced the console, his back to Amy and a frown upon his face.

Amy Pond, the girl who waited. You've waited long enough.

He wanted to say something to prove to her he hadn't meant to leave her behind for so long. He hated the haunted look in her eyes when she'd told him that he was late. He knew what it was to be alone. He cleared his throat and glanced at Amy, who looked away from the railing that she'd been examining to face him.

'I'm not perfect.' He said quietly, turning towards her. 'I never meant to leave you that long.' The smile faded from Amy's face as she remembered how lonely and angry she'd felt after no-one had believed her Raggedy Doctor was real. The Doctor started speaking faster in an effort to get his apology out before Amy got any angrier at him, he could see her expression getting stonier by the second.

'New body and a brand new TARDIS. A bit exciting, got a little carried away.' He bowed his head and glanced at her from under his mop of hair, trying to read her expression, as she started to fiddle with the hem on her nightie. 'Pond, I'm so sorry that I hurt you.' He finished in a rush, desperate to get this part over with. But to his surprise, no Scottish accent filled the room demanding to know why it had been so long. Instead, he was greeted with silence. This wasn't good, this wasn't good at all.

Amy was staring at her hands in her lap, not noticing that the Doctor was looking at his feet, waiting for her reply. She'd wanted to escape Leadworth so much in her early teens that she'd tried to run away more than once. But she never got any further than the end of her long garden, where she'd stare at the spot where she had first met the Doctor and wish he was there to take her away. It was always Rory who had found her a while later sitting behind the new garden shed with her rucksack full of the drawings and models of the Doctor with tears on her face.

'Amy' The Doctor said gently, interrupting her thoughts. 'Please say something.' She sniffed and suddenly he was there by her side, reaching over to embrace her in his arms. They sat on the glass staircase for a small while, just listening to the TARDIS engines hum. Then Amy pulled away from the Doctor and gave him a smile, before leaping down the stairs and enthusiastically pressing buttons and flipping switches on the console.

'What does this button do?'

'Can you teach me to fly the TARDIS?' The Doctor sighed and walked over to Amy, grabbing her wrist as she went to press one of the bigger buttons that almost certainly would have destroyed something on the TARDIS. 'That button, Amy Pond, might cause the TARDIS shields to deactivate and rip her apart, or at the very least burn toast and nobody likes burnt toast!' The Doctor laughed.

He looked at her disappointed expression and smiled gently. 'But I do know the perfect place for your first trip!' the Doctor exclaimed. He began bounding around the console and undoing Amy's actions; suddenly he stopped and leaned around the time rotor to look at Amy.

'On one condition Pond.' he added and went back to pressing buttons. 'What condition Doctor?' Amy asked, frowning, as she peeped around the time rotor trying to look at him.

'That you'll let me take you to more amazing places after this to make up for lost time! It has to be amazing!' the Doctor exclaimed, wrenching the last lever down and sending the TARDIS to its destination, with the noise that Amy had dreamt of since she was a little girl.

Amy took a deep breath and unleashed a torrent of questions that had been bugging her since she saw the TARDIS.

'Why is it a phone box?'

A/N: Hope it wasn't too bad!