note: the new series is here! i missed the premier last saturday and i was SUPER bummed and couldn't get around watching it until friday. but i did get to watch the new episode yesterday!
oh, and is this going to be a thing now, the doctor picks the ponds up at the beginning of each episode and drops them back home at the end? because that basically ruins the entire premise of this story i'm writing. i mean, 10 months between "asylum" and "dinosaurs"? really now? i want the ponds traveling with the doctor in the tardis again, damn it!
also, if you're confused how i calculated six years since "god complex" and now, see my timeline on my tumblr.
goodbye, hello
between "asylum of the daleks" and "dinosaurs on a spaceship"
They teleport out of the asylum just in time and land in the TARDIS and fly away to the shrill sound of twenty thousand Daleks screaming "DOCTOR WHO?!" and the Doctor just laughs as he expertly flips the switches at the console and steers the ship into the time vortex and feels invincible once again.
She'll hate to admit this, but for a brief moment, Amy Pond truly believed things were going back to the way they were. Back to when she and Rory traveled with the Doctor and forgot all other cares. Back to when repeatedly risking her life with the Time Lord was her life. Back before she and Rory ever had that stupid fallout.
Back to when things were right.
But years have passed (the slow way, the normal way, the boring way) and Amy's not the little girl who waited anymore. It's been six years since the Doctor dropped them off at their new home after the hotel of fear. Six years since she last stepped into the TARDIS and traveled in space. Sure, the Doctor has kept in touched and dropped by to say hello, but it's not the same as going to Neverland. Because it's been six years and Amy Pond has grown up.
"But isn't it bad if the Daleks don't remember you?" Rory points out. "It's like starting all over again."
"Yes, but this time I have the advantage," the Doctor replies. "I know how this story goes. And I know how it ends."
"Hey, what happened to soufflé girl?" Amy looks around the TARDIS, counting only one-two-three aboard.
The smile falls from the Doctor's face and Amy thinks she knows how this story ends too. He simply shakes his head and says, "She saved us."
They land back on Earth, back in front of their home, and Amy wonders if this is how it's always going to be from now on. Lots of goodbyes and lots of time before the next hello.
"What about you? Are you still trying to save me?" Amy asks the Doctor, gesturing through the open door towards home.
"Amelia Pond, I'm always trying to save you." They hug and it's almost like before.
Rory has walked out onto the street, awkwardly standing in front of the doorway, wondering if it was implied that he was allowed back in the house now or what.
"You and Rory going to be okay?" the Doctor asks.
"Yeah. Yeah, we will. Thank you." Amy kisses the Doctor's cheek and begins to walk out after Rory when she abruptly turns around. "You'll still visit us, right? You'll call and tell us about the wild adventures you're having? And promise you'll join us for Christmas dinner again this year."
"Of course. I promise."
She holds onto that promise and as the days turn into months and life carries on, there's a still a small part of her in the back of her mind that has refused to grow up and that still sits outside every night to wait for the Doctor because he promised.
But the Doctor's been late for his promises before, Amy should know better than anyone, so when Christmas comes and goes and no Doctor arrives with the snow, she tries not to be too disappointed.
It's life...Just life, that thing that goes on when the Doctor's not there.