Prompt from my beautiful friend Jill Hope you're feeling better sweetheart 3
Brotp: Amy/Eleven: Sleepless Nights
"Argh!" Amy stormed down the stairs in to the console area, sitting down heavily on the penultimate step. "This is ridiculous."
"What's ridiculous?" The Doctor appeared from underneath the console, making her jump. Amy growled in annoyance and stood up, moving to the chairs and plonking herself down on there instead. "Did I do something...?" He looked quite confused now, Amy knew she probably looked very annoyed for no understandable reason.
"I can't sleep. At all. Have you changed anything in here?" She pulled the blanket around herself, looking around.
"Nope, nothing's changed. Well, except the toilets. And the swimming pool, we have a slide now." He grinned, Amy's expression didn't change at all. "You should go try it out!" Looking around her Amy quickly found a spare book to throw at him.
"I need to sleep! You might be able to go at two hundred percent twenty four-seven but I assure you, I can't! Can't you do something? Is there a planet which just makes you fall asleep?" She leant against the stair rail, hopeful for something.
"Well there is the moon of tylon where they spend all day listening to this very very dull music. If you can call it music, it's more of a single tone. But you really don't want to go there." All the while he was still fiddling with... whatever it was he was fiddling with. There was a little spark which made him jump and Amy rolled her eyes as he apologised to the TARDIS.
"Why not? Sounds perfectly boring. Let's go there."
"No Amy. You really don't want to go there. If you fall asleep there they execute you. It's a funny society really, they have designated sleeping hours for each person..."
"Yeah yeah whatever fine. But I really need to sleep I don't think you understand!" Amy stood up and went to walk down the step, but managed to trip instead and found herself being caught by the Doctor.
"Amelia Pond be careful! Right, we're getting you up to bed. I really don't want to be in trouble with your boyfriend when I take you back. Come on. " He helped her up and Amy leant against him, the lack of sleep was really taking it's toll on her.
When they eventually made it back to her bedroom Amy practically fell down on to her bed. She lay back, hoping her eyes would just give in, but they didn't. This was getting ridiculous she normally slept really well, especially on the TARDIS, but tonight she had nothing.
"You don't have to stay.". She mumbled. The Doctor was stood in the doorway watching her, actually looking quite concerned.
"I asked myself what Rory would want me to do, seeing as I promised I would look after you, and the little Rory on my shoulder told me I should stay."
"He wrote you a list of things didn't he?" Amy looked up from her pillow.
"Yeah... he sort of did. One of which was not to leave you alone if you looked..." He paused.
"Looked like what? Doctor?" She gave him a look, sometimes he was just too easy.
"Well just like, um, this?" Oh he wasn't getting away with that.
"And what exactly do I look like now?" Amy asked. She knew full well how awful she looked but that wasn't going to stop her teasing him about it.
"Just, you know, grumpy, fed up, Scottish... " Really? Scottish? "But more than normal." If she had any strength left she'd have thrown something else at him. "Amy what can I do to help? That's what friends do right? They help. But I don't know how and frankly I don't want to her it wrong because I'm terrified of the projectiles." Okay he was quite sweet really.
"Tell me a story?" The Doctor had thousands of stories to tell, she had yet to hear the same one twice (unless she asked for it that was). He nodded, and moved to sit next to her on the edge of the bed.
"There's a planet in the Fresidu cascade, it sits right on the centre with not another planet for thousands of miles. I took River last time we met, she wanted something beautiful and it really is Amy. The stars in the sky are always visible and they move, forming patterns that are different every day." Amy began to settle and the Doctor started stroking her hair as he spoke, almost protectively. "The sky changes to different shades of blue depending on the time of year and they hold festivals every time it changes. When we arrived they were in the middle of a festival, everyone was dancing in the streets and singing local songs. They were dressed in the same shade of blue, a deep and rich blue decorated in different patterns depending on the community they were from. They had carriages towed by winged horses flying through the sky releasing treats for everyone. The children were jumping around to catch them and dancing together in little circles, everyone was safe and happy and it was wonderful..." She felt her eyes beginning to droop and as she recognised this she heard him start to sing.
"Oh how the seasons change,
With the blues and the wind and the rain
And we celebrate with all our hearts
How blessed we are this day"
"The tunes Amy, they were amazing like you wouldn't believe. The music that filled the air and the dancing, I've never seen anything like it. I'll take you some day, in fact it would be perfect for you and Rory. You should..."
She was asleep.
The next morning… or whatever time it was, if it was a time that is, Amy woke feeling much more awake than she had done recently. Once she had changed and showered (after finding the showers, which had moved with the toilets when a certain someone had been playing last night) she found her way back to the console room.
"Hello sleepy, how're we feeling?" Amy pranced her way down to him, swinging off various bars.
"We're very good thank you very much. Thanks for last night, I really needed sleep…" she smiled sheepishly.
"That's what friends are for isn't it?" He answered, starting to press various buttons.
"And I have the best best friend anyone could ask for. So, where're we going today?"
"Your house." Amy looked disgruntled.
"Really? Why?" He smiled.
"We need to pick up Rory!" Amy looked further confused.
"To go where exactly?" The Doctor smiled at her.
"Where do you think?"