"Amelia Pond, like a name in a fairytale."—The Doctor, The Eleventh Hour
She knew she wasn't supposed to tell when the man came. He had made her promise. She had asked him why, but he just winked and whispered, "Spoilers."
When he came in, he handed her a present; a picture of someone he called her mother, holding her.
"You used to call her 'big milk thing', but she's your mummy."
"They said I don't have one." She replied, looking at the beautiful women cradling a baby version of her, "She didn't want me."
"Well, they lied. They're looking for you. We'll take you home, and you'll have a mummy and a daddy. The best mummy and daddy this universe has ever seen." He ruffled her hair, "Promise. Now, I believe you asked for the tale of a princess?"
The Princess
Once upon a time, there was a girl. A beautiful young girl, who dreamed. A little girl who wasn't afraid of anything. But there was a crack in her wall. And the crack in the wall scared her. She didn't know why, but she could not sleep while the crack existed in the wall.
And then one day a box fell from the sky, and a man came out of it. She wasn't afraid of him. The man offered to help her with the crack in her wall. He had to go back into the box, but he promised he would be back in five minutes.
He never came. Night after night, she waited out in her yard, ready to go away with him to explore new worlds.
But he never came.
And by and by, the little girl grew up.
Then one day, twelve years later, the box fell from the sky again. And the man came out, looking for the little girl.
The little girl who was gone.
He found out who she was, but the world was in danger. And when he rescued it, he left again.
Two more years passed before the man came again, and offered to take her away again.
This time she left with him.
Later, after some things happened, they picked up the man she was supposed to marry in the morning. Her knight.
But soon, she lost him. She forgot her knight.
She forgot her knight, but she still traveled with the man.
Until the bad thing came. Until the box opened.
She found her knight; and she died.
To save the universe, the man placed the girl in the box for two thousand years.
And when the box was opened, her knight was there, and so was the man.
And so was the little girl.
"I know the little girl was there. You said so. She got trapped in a box and it opened and so she was there." "Timey-wimey. The girl grew up—" "Inside the box?" "No. Before the box she grew up and when she came out of the box there was a younger verision of her." "Princesses don't grow up." "Are they magically already grown up?" "Don't be silly." "Well, this princess did grow up. It's very tragic, but there's always tragedy. The point is that it ends." "Not always." He paused and looked at her with a sigh, "No, not always. Can I finish the story now?"
The man sacrificed himself to save everyone. But before, he went back in time and found the little girl who sat outside waiting, and brought her in. And he told her a story. A story about a daft old man who stole a blue box. A story about the days that never were.
And fourteen years after that, it was her wedding day.
And she found him, the daft man in a box.
Something Old. Something New. Something Borrowed. Something Blue.
She found him in words, and brought him back.
And she had her knight come with her to travel new worlds with the man.
"That sounded like the same story as last night." She complained. "You need to stop being so clever and start being smart," He complained back, "It's not just about the story—which had its differences, by the way—but who the story is about."
She fell quiet for a second, then asked, "What would my story be about?"
He looked at her for a second, then smiled a quiet sort of smile, "Everything."
"Everything." At eight, it seemed she had already conquered the sound of disbelief.
"Heros and villians and adventures and true love. Everything." She looked at him like she didn't fully believe him, "Don't you trust me?" "Always." She agreed, and he gave her a kiss goodnight before he left.
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