This is just a lead in to Vampires Of Venice. Just a quick little fill in the gaps. :) I'll be back with a proper chapter soon... Ish. Probably. Maybe...
They walked into the TARDIS, and the Doctor wasn't quite sure what he was expecting, but it wasn't this. Amy was acting completely and totally… Normal. He glanced up at her from across the console, then back down when she looked at him, then he did it again and again until Amy sighed and asked "What Doctor?"
"I… You're…." Amy gave him a look, the unbelievably Scottish look, that told him he'd better spit it out, "You're being so… Normal. And... You're not trying to take my clothes of."
Amy laughed. "You said we were goin' to take it slow, so this is me. Taking it slow."
The Doctor stared at her. "Oh. Right. Good." Then he grinned. "I'm taking you to Venice."
Amy gave him a surprised look, "that's you're idea of taking it slow?"
"Yes." He said. He didn't see why it was weird. Although, he had been out of the dating scene for a good nine hundred or so years, excluding a few people along the way… Things may have changed. Hmmm… "Why?"
"No reason… Really. Just Venice is a sort of…" Amy paused as she looked for the right word, "I'm-so-glad-I-married-you sort of place. Or an I'm-glad-we've-been-married-for-thirty-years place. Or I'm glad-we're-getting-married-soon place. Not really the sort of place someone normally goes on a first date." She finished with a smile.
"Amy Pond. Did I every claim to be normal?" The Doctor asked standing right in front of her. Amy laughed and the Doctor kissed her nose, and then ran around the console pressing, pulling and poking anything in his reach. I'm dating a five year old on a sugar high; Amy thought and almost laughed out loud. I wonder if he gets worse as he gets older…
Then something from their last trip struck Amy. River. "Ah Doctor?" That made the Doctor stop in his tracks. The change in her voice had him worried.
"Amy?" He said in reply, trying not to get too worried. Maybe she was just going to say she didn't feel like Venice. Or she felt like going to a certain time period. Or she wanted to go to a beach. Or she was rethinking all this. Or she didn't think a Time Lord for a boyfriend would be such a good idea. Or the nine hundred years old thing had put her off. Or…
"Firstly, you need to stop being so insecure." She said, breaking into his thoughts.
"How do you do that?" the Doctor asked incredulously. "It's really not fair." He could barely read humans at all, and she was reading him like an open book! He knew it sounded juvenile, but it wasn't fair.
"And secondly, what about River?"
Ah. Totally forgetting about his last train of thought he asked, "What about River?" He knew exactly what about River she was asking. And it just so happened that it wasn't something he particularly wanted to address at that moment.
"What's going to happen…? With her and you?" Amy asked.
Double ah. "Nothing if I can help it." He mumbled so Amy wouldn't hear. The Doctor had heard her unasked question hidden in that question. What's going to happen to you and me? And he knew he would never let anything come between him and Amelia Pond. Not a crack in time, not a starwhale, not the Daleks and not River Song. Although he had said that before… No. Not going there again. This regeneration would be a fresh start, that's what he had decided while he was falling into the pool, just before he'd met little Amelia. He planned to stick to it.
"Because I don't want to… Y'know… Get in the middle of anything…"
Then speaking so Amy could hear, the Doctor looked her in the eyes and spoke to her the same way he had when he had been trying to get her to believe in him for twenty minutes what felt like years ago. "Time can be rewritten, Amy. And anyway, all I know is she's a significant part of my future, I don't know what part exactly, but it doesn't matter. Because it's you and me, alright? The Doctor and Amy Pond." She nodded and he smiled. "Good. Now! Venice! The place where love happens." He said giving her that look and a full blown Doctor/kid-in-a-candy-store grin. How could she resist that? Amy nodded gain and he somehow turned the look up an extra notch then pulled a leaver sending them into the vortex.
So ah… Rory's probably not going to show up here. No offence to Rory fans, but he's kinda not gunna fit in. Might be a little awkward… And I'm not being mean to River here guys. I'm trying not to anyway.
So anyway, I'm off to pretend to study for my exams, but really I'll be figuring out how to write Rory out while making this whole thing work. :) Yay.
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