Raggedy:
(Taking a break from depressing Doctor stories, to make a depressing Pond story. Takes place during the farewell scene of Angels Take Manhattan. It somehow became a depressing Doctor story too. I don't understand my mind.)
He's gone. She's panicking and he's gone. Lost forever to an unforgiving time that will never let go. She wants to scream and break down and cry, but then the angel will have her. Just like it has Rory.
Why is it always her husband? What did Rory ever do to deserve this? He's loyal, he's caring, he's strong. So why does he have to die 11 times?
And then it hits her. The thought hurts. She doesn't want to say goodbye, she doesn't want to leave the world behind. But the angel might take her to Rory.
The Doctor is completely shocked. She can see it in his eyes. With that shock is an emotion she's never seen him harbor before.
Pure terror.
She knows he knows exactly what she's thinking. He always does. He'll try to stop her, but she's sure she could do it. Face her fear. Fight the thing that has tried to kill her so many times before.
Kind assassins.
They are kind, aren't they? This thing, this creature, is going to take her to Rory. She's going to see him, she's going to tell him it's okay.
"I'll never see you again." The Doctor begs, begs, for her to stay. For a moment she can hear every year he's ever lived, every horrible ordeal he's ever been through, in his voice. Yet she can't help it. They're supposed to be together. Just as Rory had said before.
"For you, I'd do anything." Rory was always certain he loves her more than she loves him. Today she's going to prove it. She's going to give up everything, knowing she'll never get to see her parents nor her best friend ever again. She just has to blink, right? It's not like she's going to die. She's just going back in time. Like they always do.
She tells River, no Melody, to be a good girl. To watch over her Raggedy Man. She hopes he travels with someone. She hopes he doesn't get too attached to them. Because, as she's seeing now, it's not good for him to get attached.
The Doctor shouldn't travel alone. But neither should the Doctor break down like this.
She's not hearing the Predator, or the Oncoming Storm, or Last of the Time Lords. She's hearing her best friend begging her to stay. Promising they'll find a way to bring them back. Telling her to get back in the TARDIS.
"Come along, Pond. Please." She feels like crying. Rory's waiting out there, completely alone. Knowing this time, his fate is inescapable. Knowing that he's trapped in a time period so far away from home, never to see anyone he loves ever again.
She has to go.
She can just blink. She can just let the angel take her, zap her back in time. All she has to do is blink. But she can't. She can't just leave without a goodbye, like Rory had. She'll say farewell for both of them.
"Raggedy Man, goodbye." And it's cold stone finger is on her back. She feels like she's being electrocuted, and when she opens her eyes again she's in 1978. Five years behind 1983. It takes her six years to find him.
He's standing on the sidewalk, staring at the Statue of Liberty with utter disgust. She's doing the same. After six years she still hates the statue that forced them to jump. He turns away, and moves to continue walking. He's been there for a year. He's memorized the streets. He has to get back to work. The other doctor's will kill him for being late. It's not like they'll fire him though. He's the best doctor in the world at this point in time.
He spots her across the street. He knows her immediately. He knows that red hair from anywhere. Amy Pond. His Amy Pond.
A/NSo... I was going to post one that was really awesome in my opinion, that I worked for about two weeks on to make it perfect... So my computer decides to restart destroying all six drabbles I had ready to post. I'm going to throw this thing into a wall soon. So i'm going to rewrite the awesome one and it'll likely suck. When this damn computer gives out i'm going to shoot it.Next time, if I remember this promise and hopefully I will, we get a Nine-centric one with a really weird self-hateish/loveish writing style. i don't know anymore.
