Rory watched that Rose stepped carefully over his clothes scattered amongst the floor of his small flat , "sorry..." he kept mumbling as they walked over to the dining room section of his 'humble home.' "Phew.." Rose joked and pretended to wipe her forehead with the back of her hand , "I'll just clean up this disaster " Rory stated "it's okay I'm used to the mess" she smiled "well I don't want you to injure yourself again" Rory replied "thanks" the Rose giggled, "for what?" Rory stood back up from collecting some cups on the floor and turned to face her. "For letting me stay with you. It's not every day someone's willing to help, come to think of it –it's not every day a random bloke offers you a place to stay." She laughed and looked at him almost amused. "Well it's not every day I meet a pretty girl" Rory complimented her and continued walking around the small living room picking up articles of clothing and garbage, "yeah right!" she shot back "okay usually I do but still, you're-" he tried to think of a word to describe her "I'm what?" she asked curiously. " I can't quite put my finger on it, for now I'll say different but when I find the word for you, I'll let you know" he exited the room to start the laundry and then shuffled back into the kitchen and finished the dishes. "different-diff-er-nt " she played with the word, he laughed as she went cross eyed and stuck out her tongue "yup different" Rory put the kettle on "well, let me know when you find the right word she looked over at him "sure will" he assured.

"Well this is somewhat odd" she spoke up "how?" he turned and leaned against the counter "For one your still in scrubs and I don't feel awkward or strange around you-I mean I've run off with a stranger once but not quite like this" she looked around the room scrunching her face a bit as she thought about it. "Not the first time I've met a girl who has run off without thinking" he blurted out "sorry" he quickly apologized, he had no idea where that had come from "I don't see reason to apologise but okay" she grinned and turned to sit properly as he turned the kettle off, "I'll just let these steep here" he announced as he poured the steaming water into two mugs, one brown and the other green, he placed them on the counter nearest the stove. "be right back" he quickly looked at Rose and wandered to his bed room to change, five minutes later he came out wearing a pair of sweats and a large knitted white sweater "comfy" Rose nodded towards his outfit as he passed her to grab their tea "yup" he nodded in agreement.

He set the green mug in front of rose and sat across the table from her, holding the warm brown cup in between his palms, "thank you" she quickly looked up and then grabbed the drink with her right arm "good thing it was my left and not my right" she smiled before she took a sip of the peppermint tea that made her insides turn soft from the heat. "alright, since I'm not used to silence-how about a story?" she looked up at Rory "what d'ya mean?" he asked with a blank expression "I mean-tell me about yourself" she laughed, "well for one I'm a bit clumsy" he smiled as if looking at a past memory "what else?" she leaned her elbow on the table and used her hand to prop her head up and listen. "okay, hold on my name is Rory Williams, I fell in love with a women named Amy pond who had an imaginary friend –her raggedy man, which later on we discovered he was real and she ran away with him.

The night before our wedding he took both of us away and we explored and I was erased from time and came back as a centurion in the roman times it was a really A trap-" he paused a moment, confused as to why he felt so comfortable with giving Rose all this information. "-Then the Pandorica opened and I had to put Amy inside because I was forced to shoot her with my robotic hand and she died, that's when I waited – I waited for 1,894 years just to see her face again and the raggedy man to explode his spaceship and prevent the universe from never existing then we saw him a few more times until Amy signed the divorce papers and ran off with our daughter and son in law –it's a long story about our daughter but I'll put it this way-we didn't get to see her grow up and she almost killed her husband –well she did –but she didn't and so on she saved him from dying and they married and they ran off without saying goodbye to me. Yea, so. The end" Rory finished with the little breath he had.

He waited for an answer from rose but when the room stayed silent he looked up to see a stunned face, mouth hung open and eyes huge, he found it a bit odd that she'd become so engrossed with his life story but then she finally started to say something. "Oh my god! You've had wow, what a life" she smiled at him almost like she was jealous but also still held sympathy for his suffering. "Yeah well it's, pretty much shit now." He looked down and felt his fingers around the empty mug. "we're all stories in the end – just make it a good one okay?" she held her hand out across the table and held his chin gently, turning it to face her. She gave a questioning look, "well?" she pushed for him to answer "a friend of mine said something like that-and yes of course-I will try.." he trailed off "don't just try –do it for everyone you've lost and loved and hated " she let her hand drop and sat back down and finished her tea.

Rory didn't know what to say, she was so-he didn't have a word still. He already trusted her, without a doubt, because he felt he ought to, she had this sense of warm and calmness. She was almost like a teddy bear to him, then Rory remembered that it was her turn to share her story and he quickly popped up "your turn!" he winked at her and waited. "oh boy, she begun well, I was dating a guy named Mickey and working in a shop that eventually got blown up by a stranger whom I'd met in the basement of the shop when he had saved me from the living plastic and then I rescued him, I've got no A-levels and my mother is Jackie Tyler who is married to Pete Tyler and I have a little brother who is Tony Tyler and I escaped the parallel world when the cracks in walls started and I had already said goodbye to my family before that. Before the parallel universe I stayed with a man who wore a leather jacket and a jumper and then I discovered he could change his appearance and he became a man with long crazy hair and a huge grin and wore sand shoes with a pinstripe suite and trench coat. He was the most important person to me for the longest time and then later the battle of Canary Warf happened and I was stuck and then I found him again and he just sent me away with his duplicate and you know that part of the story so now I'm here and still looking for the real man without a home, travelling the universe" She finished with a happy yet sad sigh and looked up awaiting an answer or comment.

Rory was dumbstruck –why did it sound so similar to his life and then he asked "this is random but what was the man's name?" he'd figured it might've been the same man, but one cannot be sure. Rose looked at him realizing she hadn't once told him who she was talking about "was it by any chance –" "The doctor" they both said together, gasped and looked away for a second.

Rose didn't know what to think-obviously he had found new companions but she never imagined running into one of them –the only time was when she was helping Donna , well that was out the window Donna must have been gone. Rory was angry at first but then he realized she didn't know this doctor –the one who wore bow ties and tweed and occasionally a fez, the anger disappeared and he was slightly amused with the fact he had met one of the doctors past companions of course there were more than just him and Amy, how dull was he?

" so we both know and knew the doctor " rose looked at him for approval "yeah" Rory rubbed the back of his head looking down, there was an idea trickling into his mind-a bad idea but he didn't seem to care he looked to Rose and asked "the doctor-you –you two fell in love?" Rose nodded then added "well I mean, I did." Rory then let out "he's married you know?" he looked at the wooden table where the two mugs sat side by side. "Oh" Rose released a small huff "well –umm I hope he's happy then." Rory looked at her and noted the sadness that seemed to envelope her and then it struck him

'you idiot!' he thought to himself but that bad idea was unravelling right before his eyes and he could care less. '"I'm sorry" he sat up and walked to stand beside her and rub her shoulder "s'fine-I-I just thought he would've maybe thought about me-well no I mean I was trapped-gone forever he had to move on sometime didn't he?" she ex-haled a breathe full of pain, she turned to face him and threw herself to hug him. 'Rory stop it!' his conscience yelled at him ,he knew better but he had an idea that he would see the doctor soon, he could feel it and what was better than getting back by letting the doctors Rose become his, he didn't think about it he just decided that would be his plan of attack.

Though he was over Amy and glad she was happy, because that's all he ever wanted for her, but he needed to teach the doctor a lesson. Rose let go of him and looked out the window "getting late" she pointed out "yeah, would you like the bed –I can take the couch" Rory asked her "that's fine thanks but I'll take the couch-you have work don't you?" She asked him "actually tomorrow is Saturday and I conveniently got the next 2 weeks off" he stated with a smile "and how long will this take to set?" Rose pointed at her cast "bout two weeks as well" he quickly assured her.

"great!" she laughed and walked over to the grey couch to lay down. "Here" Rory sped over to the hall closet and brought her back a purple blanket and a red pillow "thank you" she said as he kneeled down in front of her "goodnight" he said quietly "mmhmm.." she mumbled off . He suddenly had the urge to kiss her forehead but he ignored it and just rubbed her hurt arm lightly and re-treated to his bed room exhausted.

~~~~11~~~~

The doctor slowly skimmed the TARDIS console reliving the past week he had just lost Amy for good and it was still crushing him and he just sent River off to her death in the library. He looked around the bare empty TARDIS and thought of all the companions he had lost and then stopped and went back to Rose. \maybe her and the duplicate had children or maybe they worked together who knew but she was probably happy and secure in the parallel world. Then he thought about Rory, the jerk who threw Amy out, at least that's what Amy told him and what reason did he have not to believe her? He just hoped Amy was safe in the past with Adam –the friend they picked up along the way, and that Rory was in a living hell. The doctor didn't know where and when these emotions began to rise from but he stopped thinking about them and calmed himself down. Maybe he should pop Rory a visit he thought. "Nah" he said aloud and sent himself back into time to stay on a cloud. He would visit Rory later because this time he was going to take a break, he had lost everyone and there was no going back not even for his Rose.