Hey, Bad Wolf here. Well, obviously. Since this is a Doctor Who fic. Anyway.
I came across this adorable drawing on tumblr of Amy and Rory playing as little kids and I had to write this. I guess technically there is more to this story than just this little bit, so please just let me know if you want me to continue with it. c:
"Rory!"
He turned from across the little playground. Amy was waving him over frantically. He disentangled himself from a game of Last Hit and ran over to her.
She waved a little action figure in front of his nose. "The Doctor has a mission for us!" She exclaimed in all seriousness. Rory nodded dutifully and saluted Amy.
"C'mon, there are aliens over by the fence!" She tossed a small blue box at him, which he nearly fumbled but was able to catch.
"What kind of aliens?" He asked, following her as she led him over the field, cut across the mulch of the playground, and all the way to the far side of the park.
"The evil kind! With big sharp teeth!" She grinned happily, turning around to flash him a big thumbs up, as though these were the best kind.
Rory gulped. Maybe the Raggedy Doctor ought to handle this one. All of Amy's aliens so far had been sticks, funny trees, substitute teachers, and lazy bugs, but he believed in a very real possibility that every time, Amy actually had seen an alien.
Amy stopped at a fence post about midway down the side of the little playground. She gently set the action figure on the post and knelt down in the dirt around the post. Rory carefully placed the blue box on the grass and sat down next to Amy.
"See?" She exclaimed, brushing dirt aside. Beneath a short layer of topsoil was a little watch, lacking both a band and numbers. Rory took the small object from Amy and closely inspected it's face, discovering that it also only had one, short, hand.
"It's aliens!" Amy sounded terribly excited to have actually located something. It was obvious she had intended only to pretend. In her joy, she spun around hugging her little doll. "We found 'em, Doctor!" she shouted, less to the doll and more to the sky. "We'll get 'em for you!"
She tucked to Doctor-doll under her arm and snatched the watch back from Rory. "Look! It's an alien meter, or something!" She waved it around a bit and the hand jumped back and forth. "It's pickng something up!"
Rory was skeptical. It looked to him like a watch with a broken hand. But hunting for aliens beat Last Hit anyday, and he'd rather play with Amy than the other kids. "Do we get to travel through space?" he asked, standing and brushing the dirt off his knees.
Amy frowned and squinted off into the distance. The sun bounced off her bright red hair as she held absolutely still, one hand shielding her eyes. After a moment she sighed and turned back around to face him. "Not today, Rory."
He picked up the blue box off the ground, shook off a bit of the lose dirt Amy had overturned and held it out to her. "But someday?"
She smiled and took the box from him. "Oh yes. Definitely someday."
Rory grinned and ran to catch up as Amy set the Doctor on her shoulder and dashed off in the direction the watch indicated.
