Months passed and Amy couldn't shake the feeling that there was someone behind her back; someone watching. But every time she turned around there was no one there. Every so often she'd catch a good look at The Silence but when she tried to tell Rory she couldn't remember what they looked like.
"It's like they edit themselves out of my memory." Amy explained.
"Well, you do remember them just not what they look like." Rory sat at the kitchen table as they talked over a cup of tea.
"I remember because I write down every time I see them" Amy took out her sketchbook and showed Rory pages and pages of tally marks. "It's the only way I won't forget."
"Ok, so why don't you try to draw a portrait of one next time? That way you won't forget what they look like." Rory suggested.
Amy took his suggestion and started drawing frantically the next time she saw one. She showed the drawing to The Doctor. "Where do you think they come from" He asked.
"Another planet, obviously" Amy rolled her eyes.
"What have they come for?" The Doctor asked as he jotted things down in his notebook.
"I don't know but they're hypnotic. They send messages subliminally." Amy explained.
"Have they sent you any messages, Amelia?" The Doctor leaned in a little in his arm chair.
"Not that I can remember. But I know I heard them whisper. It's subliminal so.. that means it's so deep in my head I don't know it's there" Amy was lying down as she spoke in a stereotypical psychiatrist couch.
The Doctor sent Dr. Song to speak with Rory. "Normally we'd put her on more medication but with her pregnancy ..." River is cut off.
"We wouldn't want to do anything to hurt the baby." Rory shook his head yes understanding the situation.
"Just keep an eye out" Dr. Song winked. "Good luck, Sweetie" She held his hand comfortingly as she left.
Amy quietly tallied her sightings and since that didn't cause much trouble it was shrugged off until Rory woke up one night to his wife screaming in the bathroom.
"Oh my god, Amy" Rory saw Amelia covered in tally marks and crying. "Amy, please" Rory held her close. "You'll be ok. No one's hurting you while I'm around. Always know no matter where you are, I'll be coming for you. You understand me? Always" Rory hugged her and placed a hand on her growing tummy. The Silence disappeared after that.
Rory had begun to worry about his wife being able to cope with motherhood. As much as he knew Amy would love her child there were times Amy forgot she was even pregnant. Even with a growing baby bump it would skip her mind now and then. Hypnotic residue from The Silence, no doubt.
"Wow, Rory. Amy's lucky to have you" Lily spoke as she ate on her lunch break with Rory and listened to his stories. He'd been confiding in her lately. She was also a nurse and they'd started doing lunch together at work ever since she started working for Pandorica.
Lily Siren was a tall and beautiful redhead very much like Amy except Amy's eyes were green and Lily's were blue. And as beautiful as Lily was; Rory felt she was missing something Amelia had. Amy had a certain soft sweetness in her eyes and in her smile that Lily never had. Lily was kind but her beauty was cold somehow. Even so, that didn't mean Rory hadn't noticed how attractive she was.
"You work all day trying to help people and you come home to more of the same?" Lily spoke to Rory in the car park one night after a long day at work. "It's great the way you take care of her. But who takes care of you, Rory?" Lily stood too close.
"Oh, who says I need taking care of?" Rory gave her a friendly smile.
"Amy's obviously smart because she chose you. Guys like you are hard to come by." Lily looked like she had Rory transfixed with her eyes and her sweet soft voice. "Maybe you don't know it because most girls have probably looked past you all your life, haven't they?"
Rory could only shake his head yes as he stood pinned against the hood of his car with Lily's hand moved over his. "Um...I..." Rory had a hard time getting the words out as Lily leaned in for a kiss locking his lips shut. He let the kiss happen for a moment before he slowly took Lily's arms in his hands and moved her back. "You're so beautiful." Rory looked Lily in her cold blue eyes. "But I love my wife." He grabbed his keys and opened his car door.
"I don't know who you think you are. Rory!" Lily's not so sweet side was showing. "You should be so lucky to have a chance with me, I mean look at you." Lily looked him over, tall and skinny and awkward. "No one says no to me, ever."
"Well, I think I just did." Rory shut the car door in her face and drove away. Lily Siren was the sort of girl who lead men to their demise with a sweet voice and a pretty face and she'd tried to hook Rory unsuccessfully. She had an explosive temper behind her sweetness but she wasn't too picky and soon found another man who 'needed taking care of'. Although Lily was going about it the wrong was; Rory understood the appeal of being needed and being the reason people feel better. It made sense they were both nurses.
Rory had started working with a new patient who was very sweet and soft spoken. She had a hard time opening up to the other nurses and began cooperating almost exclusively with Rory. Jennifer Lucas had a plain and unassuming sort of face and there was something of a childlike innocence in her eyes. But they were the eyes of a wounded child.
