So this is the second in The Broken Girl series (The Broken Girl was the first part).
SUMMARY: Amy has lost her Rory, but she can't remember him. The Doctor and Amy go to visit Aderyn once again. The Doctor has a relaxing trip planned. But when is anything relaxing with the Doctor? Especially when River Song is involved. But will they all survive when promises are broke, feelings unravel and the universe falls apart around them?
I do NOT own Doctor Who or it's characters.
The Doctor looked at the engagement ring. He felt sorry for Amy. She had found true happiness and love and now she couldn't even remember him.
He closed the ring box. It had only been a few months since Rory had been consumed by the time energy, but still the Doctor felt guilty about it. It was always the way with him. He got people into dangerous situations and not everyone walked out of it. Admittedly, if Rory hadn't been there then the shot fired by the Silurian would have killed him. But that just made it worse.
He heard Amy walking along a corridor and tucked the ring box back into his jacket pocket.
"Good morning." he said brightly as Amy walked down the stairs. She mumbled something that faintly resembled "morning."
"Another day. Another adventure?" he asked her.
"Hang on, let me wake up a bit first," she yawned. "Not everyone is as full of energy as you first thing in the morning." He smiled at her sadly.
"What?" she asked. He shook his head.
"Where are we going anyway?"
"Well, I thought we could go and see how Aderyn is doing. Then go somewhere relaxing." he said. He'd already set their course and he pressed a button. The TARDIS engines whirred happily into life.
"Sounds good. But since when have you ever done anything relaxing?"
The Doctor shrugged "just thought it would make a nice change from running around all the time."
Amy sat and watched the Doctor. He was being suspiciously nice to her. Ever since they had the encounter with the Silurian, he'd tried to avoid drama. Not that he could ever do that. Despite his attempts they had met Vincent Van Gough and battled the Krafayis and she'd been trapped in the TARDIS while the Doctor stopped an alien ship from killing people. But this was an actual attempt to avoid all of that. She knew it wouldn't be relaxing, this was the Doctor after all. But she was still deeply suspicious.
Aderyn threw nervous looks down the street. She had the feeling she was being watched and she didn't like it. But every time she looked, there was nothing there. The only thing she had seen was a stone statue that cast a fearsome shadow. She now regretted deciding to walk back instead of getting a taxi. She lived out of town and, although usually not worried about walking in the dark, the past few nights, she had felt someone watching her.
She'd just come back from a dinner meeting with an important publisher. It hadn't gone well. It had been yet another publisher to laugh at her manuscript. This hadn't put her in the best mood. And this constant feeling was starting to bother her. Whoever was following would soon discover it wasn't the best idea to mess with her today.
She was relieved when she reached her drive way. She had moved away from her parents a year ago and had found a nice cottage just outside a pleasant village. Her car had been wrecked by a drunk driver in the nearest town, so she'd been relying on the buses and taxis to get her to and from her meetings in London. The walk from the town back to the village was usually quite pleasant, but in the chill of the night air it felt like a walk into Hell.
When she reached her front door she felt uneasy. Something wasn't right. She unlocked the door and pushed it open slowly. The kitchen light was on. She had left at midday so she knew she hadn't put it on that day. Only the hall light should have been on. But it was now off. As she passed a small table in the hall, she stopped to pick up a heavy bat that was leaning against it.
She could hear voices in the kitchen. If she hadn't have been so on edge she would have recognised the voices. When one voice shushed the other she stopped walking. She could hear the kettle boiling and the gentle thud as someone put a mug down on the table.
From where she was stood she could only see a small part of the kitchen, the dark oak door blocking her view of the rest of it.
A head poked around the door "Oh hello, I was wandering when you'd be back. Would you like some tea?"
Aderyn lowered the bat and sighed "I could have killed you." she said walking into the kitchen.
"Nah you wouldn't have." the Doctor said as Aderyn entered the kitchen. She threw her bag onto the side and saw Amy sat at the Table.
"This house is amazing," Amy said "Nice to see you got away from London."
"Thanks. It's definitely a step up for me," Aderyn sat at the table. "You could have warned me you'd be dropping by." She said to the Doctor as he handed her a cup of tea.
"Where's the fun in that?" he replied.
"If risking being hit over the head with a bat is fun then I believe we have very different definitions." Aderyn smiled.
"Sarcastic as always." Amy laughed.
Aderyn raised her mug as if to make a toast "That's me." she said.