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Her Doctor? Hers? Rory had never felt this kind of feeling before. He felt hot and shaky all over. His hands were clammy and he felt sick to his stomach. He had never felt so angry in his whole life. He was jealous. He had never been jealous of anyone or anything during his long twelve years on this planet. He had never even been jealous of kids who had parents who wanted to spend time with them. This feeling was utterly new to him. He didn't like the way he was feeling, not one bit, so he tried to calm down and listened to the rest of Amelia and Mels' conversation.

"Why is his name just the Doctor?" Mels asked, obviously very intrigued by this Doctor fellow.

"I don't know. I guess it's because he helps people and fixes things like he did with the crack in my wall. He said he travels through time so maybe he goes around and fixes things. I don't really know."

Mels seemed to think on this for a minute before she moved on to her next question. "So he could stop bad things from happening, like wars and other things that have already happened?"

Amelia sat quietly for a moment before answering Mels. "I mean I guess he could if he really wanted to, but I don't know."

If he wanted to? Rory thought the Doctor sounded a bit selfish, only stopping wars and bad things from happening if he wanted to. What did Amelia see in that bloke anyways? His train of thought stopped dead though as he heard Mels' next question and he devoted all of his attention to what the girls were saying.

"Is he cute?"

Rory spotted Amelia blush when Mels asked this and listened closely for her answer as his jealousy reared its ugly head again.

"Well he didn't seem to dress very well and he was completely off his rocker, but he was nice. Yeah, I guess you could say he was cute. Cute in a completely mad kind of way." Amelia said, putting a lot of thought into her answer.

Rory felt awful. He just wanted to bury his head in the sand like those weird birds in the cartoons. He could hear Mels say she was going to marry the Doctor someday, but she sounded far away. He barely registered Amelia asking him what was wrong through the roaring he could hear in his ears. He forced a smile onto his face as he looked up.

"Fine, I'm just fine." He said it twice to convince himself he really was fine. "My foot is just on pins and needles from sitting like this for so long while you two talk and talk. We should play a game or something."

The girls nodded in agreement as they all struggled to stand. "Amelia, you have a lot of room around here. We should play hide and seek. Rory, you and Amelia will hide while I try to find you, okay?

Everyone seemed ok with this plan, so Rory started towards the door. "When are you going to start counting?" He asked when no one did anything.

"You go ahead. I have to tell Amelia a secret and then I'll start." Mels said, pushing him out of the room. "Anyways, I'm sure you will need a head start to outsmart me" She called after him.

"Girls," Rory muttered under his breath as he searched for a good spot to hide. I'll think of a way to impress Amelia so she will forget all about that stupid Doctor and like me instead.

Amelia turned to face Mels after watching Rory leave her room in a huff. I wonder what has him all worked up. "So what's this big secret that Rory couldn't hear?"

Mels smiled evilly before letting Amelia in on the joke. "Oh, nothing really, just that you aren't actually going to hide and we aren't really going to look for him. We are only going to pretend to look for him so he thinks that we are playing and that he is just the greatest hider ever."

"Oh that's just evil Mels." Amelia felt bad just thinking of playing such a mean trick on Rory, but a part of her secretly thought that it would be funny. "Are you sure he won't get mad at us or figure out what we are doing?"

"I don't think he will even figure out that we aren't really looking for him." Mels said, laughing softly. "Even if he does, he likes us to much too really get mad at us. He does practically everything we tell him to so why not take advantage of that?"

She guessed Mels had a bit of a point to her argument, but she couldn't stop the nagging sense of guilt she felt in the back of her mind.

Rory was sitting in the shed in Amelia's back yard, crammed under a shelving unit that had empty pots and garden tools sitting on top of it. This is the best hiding spot possible around here he thought to himself, Mels will never find me. As he stared at the scuffed tops of his Chucks he started plotting his rise to fame in the eyes of Amelia Pond.

"What does she even see in the fellow?" he muttered to himself. "What do I have to do to get her to notice me?"

Does she like him because he is a doctor? That would make sense. Blimey, how am I supposed to compare to a doctor? I can't do anything special. I'm just Rory Williams. I'm just a scrawny kid who can make his own lunch.

Rory put the palm of his hand to his face and he thought about how much of a failure he was. He had absolutely no clue what he could do to make Amelia notice him. Then it hit him all of a sudden it hit him like a train.

"I'll be a doctor!" he shouted, attempting to stand, but he succeeded only in bumping his head on the underside of the shelf.

Catching himself from shouting anymore about his fantastic revelation, he sat down with his hand over his mouth. He had a purpose now, something to do, and he felt complete somehow.

Rory looked down at his wrist watch after he noticed that it was a little bit darker in the shed than it had been before. It had been about an hour since he had hidden, he couldn't believe that time had passed that quickly. He got really still as he heard footsteps outside the shed.

"Hmmmm, where could Rory be?" He heard Mels say loudly.

Was he really that good at hiding or were they just not trying to find him. No, they wouldn't do that to him. Well, Mels might as a joke, but Amelia would never go along with something like that.

He sat thinking about his newfound life purpose for a little while longer, and after thirty more minutes passed he decided that maybe the girls had stopped looking for him. His joints creaked as he scooted out from under the shelf and slowly walked towards the door of the shed. Hoping to himself that he really was just a great hider and they couldn't find him.

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