A/N: Angel fanfiction challenge posted at the end of the next A/N, and on tumblr for those interested!
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Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Amy Did What?!
"I don't understand," Angel shook her head, following the Doctor as he made his way to the console that Amy was currently leaning flirtily in front of, "What happened?"
She had no idea, she'd been in the wardrobe, trying to find a belt to wear that was like her old one but there wasn't one. There were plenty of small ones, thin ones, but she liked the thick belt she'd had before and none of the others looked right. The belt was actually one that Martha had left in the TARDIS, apparently it was her sister Tish's but Martha had had it with her and left it there. She was going to return it to her when they saw her again, after her regeneration, it had been found in the wardrobe when the pink coat she'd worn had been found as well. She'd tried it on on a whim and seen that it fit her rather well, Martha had even complimented her on it and told her to keep it. And now it was lost in a forest somewhere, which made her sad, because it had belonged to Martha and that was another reason she wanted a thicker belt, to try and honor the lost belt.
She'd been about to start digging through a few chests she'd found, when the TARDIS had hummed urgently at her and she knew that it meant she was needed somewhere, that something had happened. So she'd rushed off, just made it to the console room when she saw the Doctor pushing Amy inside. Amy had looked pleased but confused about something while the Doctor was just...frowning and looking all sorts of uncomfortable.
The Doctor was still frowning even now, but at Amy, who was blocking his path to the needed controls. He leaned closer, flicking a switch quickly before pulling back, almost as though he hadn't wanted to get any closer to Amy than needed.
Amy sighed and rolled her eyes as he moved around the console, "Oh typical bloke, straight to fixing his motor."
"That's the thing Amy, I am not a typical bloke," he defended as Angel slowly moved to help him set the controls to get them into the Vortex, though she was eyeing the two of them warily and in confusion, they hadn't answered her question.
What had happened? She hadn't seen anything, not that she could see everything, or felt anything, well...that wasn't exactly true. She had felt a bit of a flash of alarm through the Doctor, followed by a moment of disgust, and then realization. But she'd been trying not to look into his mind as much as she had at first, especially not after that adventure with River. She just...River had warned her of the Dampening Bracelet. She didn't want to use it, she didn't ever want to have to use it, and she couldn't be sure if the woman had said it in a way that she should wear it because of what was coming or...or if she was just trying to keep her cut off from the Doctor. So she'd promised herself to try and not look into his mind unless it was necessary. She could still feel him, yes, hear him, of course, but she could almost...put a thin barrier between it. Like pulling a curtain closed, it was thin and flimsy, but it helped block just enough where it wasn't a constant stream of thoughts. She really didn't know what had happened, looking into the Doctor's mind now, all he was thinking of was finding Rory for some reason, which she was very pleased about.
She had been thinking, in the wardrobe, that she should ask him if they might bring Rory along as her companion when she'd been looking for a belt. The Doctor had Amy (and her), but...she felt...alone. Yes, the Doctor and Amy were there, but, there were times she felt like...they didn't really notice her. Amy had noticed her and spoken to her a lot more during this last adventure, but...she wanted her own companion. And ever since she'd worked out that Rory was meant to be just that (a nurse, a man, with an R name like all her feelings had pointed to) she had wanted to ask him along, just...hadn't gotten the chance.
"Sorry," Amy turned to him, "Did I do something wrong cos I'm getting kind of mixed signals here," she slapped a lever down with a huff.
"Mixed signals?" Angel frowned, moving to pull the lever back up since leaving it down for 2 more seconds, with the controls the Doctor was fiddling with, would have caused the TARDIS to explode. The pit that had developed in her stomach ever since she'd realized what this new regeneration meant for the Doctor and other women grew.
Had he been flirting with Amy?
She'd tried not to think of it, ever since they met the older Amelia, she'd tried to see any (and all) interactions between them as platonic but...had he? He...almost seemed to be flirting with River at times, that comment about wanting to kiss the woman had been a dagger to her hearts, but she'd tried to brush it off as his overwhelming relief that everyone was ok that had made him say it. Like how humans tended to shout that they loved someone when, really, they were just grateful that the other person had done something nice for them. Still though, it bothered her to think that something had happened between him and Amy...he still wasn't thinking about it, using the TARDIS and the controls and her as a distraction.
She blinked, pausing at that, her? He was...actually thinking of her. Actively thinking of her really. As she looked at him, she could see bits of his thoughts in her mind, his thoughts really were quite jumbled at the moment, but...he almost seemed like he was trying to not let the conversation go to where Amy clearly wanted to take it, like...he didn't want her to know what happened. Like he was...worried about how she would react...
And then she felt him grow confused as to why he should be that worried about her reaction and saw him shake his head to focus on piloting once more.
"What sort of signals?" she looked at Amy again.
"He turned up in the middle of the night, right before my wedding," Amy explained, "Got me out of my bed in my nightie, which he then didn't let me change out of for ages, and took me for a spin in his time machine," Amy smiled, "No mixed signals there. THAT is just a signal. Like a great big bat signal in the sky, get your coat off the Doctor is in."
The Doctor started to laugh at being referred to as Batman, but shook his head, something in his gut clenching terribly when he realized what Amy was implying, that he had whisked her away because he had feelings for her, "No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not like that," he said, though Amy frowned, seeing that his focus was actually on...Angel...when he said that, like he was trying to reassure her what had happened, what he'd done, wasn't what was being described, but then he rounded on her as well, "That's not what I'm like."
"He really isn't," Angel sighed, shifting a bit as she absently fiddled with a control, glancing at Amy, "And I helped take you along so, really, no signals."
At all actually.
She could still feel the Doctor, she'd pulled the curtain aside at the moment, desperately wanting to see it in his mind and feel it in his hearts that it really was nothing. And it was, nothing that is. I was like...he felt nothing for Amy at all aside from the fondness he felt for all his companions, though it was now coupled with awkwardness. But at least she could take comfort in the fact that he was NOT attracted to Amy, which was quite a relief really, since Amy was a beautiful, young, flirty, fiery, and strong woman.
"Then what is he like?" Amy turned to Angel.
She'd noticed the girl seemed to know the Doctor better than even he did himself at times. She always got the feeling that there was something...missing in him. He'd get this look in his eye at times, she saw it, sometimes when he looked at Angel, like there was something...not quite...right. Like there was a vague sense of something. It was like...there were gaps in him, in his memory, in his soul, in his hearts...like he wasn't...complete. That was the only way she could describe it, like he wasn't complete. Hearing about how he and Angel were the only ones left had made her think, perhaps it was his people who were missing, that maybe he just needed to be with someone, have someone love him and love someone in return to be complete.
Now though...she was starting to feel like there was more to it.
Angel opened her mouth to answer, but paused, realizing she really couldn't say. This new him...was so different and while she DID know what he was like, having access to his mind and hearts and just...feeling it, there were things that were almost...holding him back from being who he truly was. She couldn't explain it, why she felt like that, why she felt like something was keeping him back, but that was how she felt.
"It's hard to describe," was what she settled for instead.
"I don't know," the Doctor shrugged, before smiling, "Gandalf. I'm a space Gandalf, or the little green one in Star Wars," he made a humming noise and spun around as though he had a light saber in his hand.
"You really are not," Amy shook her head, laughing, "You are a bloke."
"I'm the Doctor."
"Every room you walk into you laugh at all the men and show off to all the girls."
"Do not."
Angel gave him a look this time, smiling just a little, because Amy had him pegged, he always did that, even now, "And what about Rory?"
The Doctor laughed at that, miming 'big nose' as Amy let out a small offended noise, "You laughed!"
"No, that was just an..." he struggled to find the word.
"Accidental snort?" Angel supplied, shaking her head, her smile falling to a frown.
She rather liked Rory. He was sweet, from what she'd seen of him, very nice, compassionate, moral, caring, and...rather underappreciated, if she had to put a word to it. He loved Amy very much, that much was obvious to anyone with eyes, even the Doctor could see it she knew, but...Amy didn't seem to notice.
Well she could relate very much to that.
"Of fondness!" he added, pointing at them.
"You are a bloke and you don't know it," Amy smiled, before stepping closer to him and putting her arms around his neck, neither of them noticing Angel stiffening on the other side of the console and stare at them with wide eyes, hurt and shock and disbelief in them, "And here I am to help," she leaned in, trying to kiss him, but he squirmed away.
Angel closed her eyes a moment, letting out a breath as she tried to erase what she'd seen from her mind. Well...now she knew what happened. She could only pray that the Doctor had pushed Amy away the first time as he had now. It was a small comfort to know he had. It hurt that this had even happened, both in front of her and in Amy's room. Dear God, how come it hurt so much?! It was one thing to have River teasing about it, it was one thing for it to have happened out of her sight, but...to see it happening, right in front of her...
And it wasn't even just that Amy was trying to kiss the Doctor, no, that hurt plenty, that killed her yes, even if Amy didn't know they were Mates, even if she thought the Doctor was available because he had told her so himself (in his own way). It was that...AMY wasn't available, Amy had Rory, Rory loved her. Amy was getting MARRIED to Rory, she'd just said that it was the night before her wedding and Rory was her boyfriend last she saw of them. Even if they weren't engaged, even if they were just dating...Rory loved her.
God, Rory loved Amy SO much, she'd seen it in the boy's eyes just upon meeting him, and Amy was throwing herself at another man, trying to seduce him, trying to kiss him, on her the night before her wedding! How could she do that to Rory?! How could she just throw that away? Didn't she have any idea what it was like to have someone love you that much? How lucky she was that Rory did love her, that he showed her he loved her, that he still loved her?
Rory didn't deserve that.
"That is not why you're here," the Doctor told Amy firmly, something in his tone making Angel look up at them, watching quietly, solemnly.
Amy just clutched his braces, still trying to flirt despite his warning tone, "Then why am I here?"
He just grabbed her hands to stop her, "Because!" he shouted, nearly snapping at her, "Because I can't..." he sighed, "I can't see it anymore," he admitted quietly, before turning to move over to the jump seat.
Angel's gaze turned sad. She'd seen that as well in him. This him, was so different. It was like he was missing parts of himself. The last him had been so excited to see even the same things through new eyes. This him...seemed to have lost that. It was like he'd lost what got him excited and passionate and invested. He'd lost more than he realized, she felt.
"See what?" Amy asked quietly, sensing this was a serious issue.
"I'm 907," he explained, plopping down onto the seat, "After a while you just...can't see it," he sighed and looked at Angel, "How you manage it amazes me."
She was 800, nearly 801 by now, but he supposed it had to do with how little she'd seen of the Universe during her time on Gallifrey, everything was like new to her since then, since the War. Everything was a wonder to her.
"See what?" Amy looked between them, frowning as she saw a softening in the Doctor's gaze as he looked at Angel a moment longer before shaking his head.
"Everything," he answered, "I look at a star...and it's just a big ball of burning gas and I know how it began, I know how it ends, not even because of Angel, I was just probably there both times. Now after a while everything is just...stuff. That's the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A backyard. But you!" he stood suddenly, pointing at Amy, "You can see it. And when you see it, I see it."
Angel looked down at the console, closing her eyes a moment, she hadn't even been a consideration in that, even after he'd just said that SHE still saw the Universe as an incredible miracle.
It hurt.
"And that's the only reason you took me with you," Amy breathed, heart broken at that notion, clearly having been hoping that the reason to take her along was a little more...special than that.
Angel took a breath, even then, even feeling as miserable as she was, she never liked seeing others that sad, "Of course not," she stepped around the console to Amy's side, putting a smile on her face, small though it was, and an arm around the girl's shoulder, "There's loads of other reasons."
Amy smiled at her, "I was certainly hoping so."
"For one," she nudged Amy, "You're ginger, and Gingers United needs more members besides Donna and I..."
Amy blinked, "Wait a minute!" her eyes widened, realizing something in Angel's words, "Does that mean I'm not the first then?" she looked at the Doctor, "There have been others travelling with you two!" she'd always been suspicious of that, wondered who else might know the madman and Angel since so many seemed to know them already, clearly they had gotten around.
Angel laughed, thinking fondly of their past companions, and even a little about a future one she'd like to have, "Of course! What fun is travelling without friends?"
"We've had loads of them," the Doctor agreed, "Friends, you know chums, pals, mates, buddies," he winced, "Not Mates," he mumbled to himself, "Forget Mates."
He certainly was good at that though, Angel couldn't help but think.
"And out of all those friends, how many, would you say, just out of curiosity, were girls?" Amy asked.
"Some of them I suppose…must have been…"
"Some?" Angel scoffed, she often felt bad for how much 'girl time' the Doctor had to put up with. He was like a little Y-chromosome on a raft drifting out on an ocean of estrogen, literally, the TARDIS was a 'she' too.
"It's hard to tell, it's a gray area…"
"Under half, over half?" Amy guessed.
"Probably…slightly…little bit over?"
Amy looked at Angel, knowing she didn't tend to lie, the woman mouthing 'almost all of them.'
She nodded, "Hmm, young?"
"Everyone's young compared to me," the Doctor smirked, "Even Angel."
"Hot?" Amy teased.
"No! No, no, no, no, no, none of them. Not really. Not at all. Probably not..." he hesitated a moment, "Maybe one or two…I didn't really notice."
Angel rolled her eyes at that, not even seeming to notice the curious look on the Doctor's face as he thought on that remark. He had noticed the first batch, from before the War. He'd noticed they were attractive by human means, he'd noticed they were beautiful, even if HE personally hadn't been attracted to them. But...after the War...he just...hadn't anymore. He truly hadn't noticed their looks at all, they were just...humans, companions, pink and yellow or brown and black or white and red among other colors. It was like they were just...people, nice people, but he just...hadn't given a single thought to their appearances in that way. Why though?
"They were all lovely women Amy," Angel told her, "Each unique and beautiful in her own way. Like you."
Amy had to smile at that, "Got any pictures?"
"No!" the Doctor shouted.
"Really?" she scoffed, "This big old machine doesn't have any kind of visual records?"
"No."
"They're voice-locked," Angel added, smiling a bit as the Doctor floundered.
"Oh, voice-locked," Amy nodded, "So I would just have to say 'show me all visual records of previous TARDIS inhabitants?'"
"No," the Doctor smirked, moving to lean against the console, "No, no, no, voice-locked as in I would have to say 'show me all visual records of previous TARDIS inhabitants.'"
Amy laughed, "Oh, thank you!" she patted him on the shoulder and turned to lean on the railing, watching a monitor just above the doors flashing with pictures of all the previous people who had travelled with the Doctor...mostly women.
"No!" he spun around, looking at the women flashing across the screen, "No! No! No! Oh…"
"Oh Gandalf!" Amy smirked, her mouth soon falling open as she stared at just how many women there were, impressed with the collection.
The Doctor just spun around to glare up at the rotor, "Thanks! Thanks so much. Leave out the metal dog why don't you?"
Angel's smile faded a bit as she looked at the images start to repeat, showing different images of the same companions, none of which involved her there. It seemed she didn't even rank as 'companion' anymore, even if that was how the Doctor seemed to almost treat her. There were no records of her among the women.
"Is that a leather bikini?" Amy gaped.
Angel shook her head from her thoughts, "Oh don't forget K9," she called back to the TARDIS, "I love him and Mickey," she smiled widely as images of Mickey and K9, mostly Mickey though, began to flash across as well as some of the other, older male companions, which made her smile, happy that Mickey hadn't been left out.
The Doctor looked over at her for that, she'd brought quite a few past travellers in only minutes, first Donna, now Mickey...he frowned, thinking on that, Mickey was rather...important to Angel, wasn't he?
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"Besides, I've got a much bigger adventure ahead!" Sarah Jane smiled, "Time I stopped waiting for you and found a life of my own."
"Well then," Angel spoke up, "If you can't come, then I think Mickey should."
Everyone looked at her, startled at her suggestion.
"What?" Mickey breathed, stunned that she seemed to be inviting him.
"You're not the tin dog Mickey, not to me," she told him as Mickey looked at her in surprise, he hadn't mentioned his fear to her nor did he think Sarah Jane had, "And…" she continued, starting to grin, "I've bonded to the TARDIS as well, which means I am officially a recognized pilot and can take a companion of my own and the Doctor's got no say in it whatsoever."
He pouted at that.
Angel just smiled completely and walked over to him, putting her arms around his neck, "But still, I'd never do that to you, so what do you think? Can he come? Please? As my companion?"
"Oh go on, Doctor," Sarah Jane called, seeing him debating it, "Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith. You need a Smith onboard!"
"Ok then, I could do with a laugh," he nodded.
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He shook his head, starting to smile a bit, remembering what would help sort the Amy situation while also helping cheer up Angel, she had seemed to enjoy Rory last time they'd met him, perhaps he would cheer her up again, "Right," he ran to the controls, "That's it. Rory! We're gonna find Rory and we're gonna find him now!"
"Yay!" Angel cheered, actually, finally, feeling happy about something instead of faking it. She loved Rory and now they were finally going to get him!
"He's at his stag night…" Amy waved him off, getting back to the pictures.
"Well then…" the Doctor smiled, "Let's make it a great one!"
He pulled a lever and the box took off!
A/N: RORY! You have no idea how excited I am for him. I have literally been waiting for him (officially) since 2012! (December 25th when I posted the Vampires of Venice Sneak Peek). I can say that the next chapter will spark the beginning of things looking up for Angel :) She really does need another companion and Rory is just perfect! I seriously would love one of my own :)
I know this chapter was semi-short, lol, I actually doubled it from its original word count and got it to the original 3,000 promised words and then some :) I feel like it really looks into the Doctor and Angel and what is going on in the Doctor's head. He's starting to get suspicious of things, isn't he? Like how he went from noticing the companions to not. Why he's so concerned about Angel's thoughts on things. Among others :)
And wow! You guys, we might just make it to the next sneak peek by the next chapter! Awesome :)
Also! Semi-important(ish) note...Angel Fanfic Challenge! Woo! Lol, sorry, I posted a possible challenge that I was considering doing on tumblr, to see if anyone would be interested, and it seems like quite a few people are. So I am going to do it ^-^ I think you might enjoy it. It's open to anyone and everyone and will give you the opportunity to return fluff to the story! So here it is...
The Challenge:
"The Doctor has forgotten his Mate, Angel, and so many hope he one day remembers her. While I won't say when or how or if he will, the challenge is open for you to decide. Write a one-shot/chapter of your own about how you picture the Doctor remembering his Mate. It can take place at any time in Series 5 or 6 or 7 or you can even make up your own moment in the 50th special if you think it'll be that long. I'd say you could even go back to Eleventh Hour if you'd like to interpret it as(/hope it was) a momentary lapse of memory. You can write it in any manner you'd like, have the Doctor or Angel react any way, in any episode, with however much fluff (or even angst) you'd like :)"
Other little details:
I've really never issued a fanfic challenge before so I'm probably doing something wrong, but it's just a little thing for fun. I've seen other challenge results floating around the site, where people post their responses under their account names. That would probably be the best way to answer the challenge (but also sending me a PM or drop a review so that I know about it :)). What I'd LOVE to do is (as it happens) to take all submissions and put them in their own little collection on FF whenever they are submitted (with complete and total credit going to the submission authors and ONLY after permission had been given by the submission authors to do so). This would include the name of the author, a link to their profile and to their story submission. I can't really see myself picking a 'winner' since I think I'd love them all too much to pick so I'd just be posting them in one place as they come in for everyone to enjoy.
If anyone doesn't want to post it under their profile, please feel free to submit it as a PM and I will put it together into the chapter of the collection (still, after permission had been given to do so and with complete credit to the author and a link to their profile). If there are any without a FF profile, if you have a tumblr, you can post it there as a 'text' and tag it to 'lizzexx' and just send me an ask or anything about it and (if given permission) I can put it onto FF from there (still with credit and a link to the tumblr profile). I'm not sure what to do for any anonymous/guests who want to participate :( I would say you could post it as a review (maybe in increments depending on length) but I'm not sure how that would work since the reviews should probably be about this story...unless if you had an account somewhere else (on any other story publishing site) and could tumblr me with a link to it (and permission to upload it) as an 'ask' (for that, I would not post the link on my tumblr, but include it in the chapter on FF).
There's really no rules when it comes to this challenge, any episode, at any moment, in any way, any reaction, any length :) Just have fun with it :) The due date...well...I'm debating that. I'm thinking I might just keep it open till we see if the Doctor remembers, that way, if anything pops up in later chapters and you're like 'OMG I WANT IT TO BE THEN!' You can still submit. You can submit multiple chapters/episode moments too if you'd like :) I know there are times I can't pick between episodes/moments so it wouldn't be fair to limit it either :)
There'll be a better overview of the challenge on my tumblr later today, with the challenge, the submission options, and things in a list format, but I wanted to put it here too :) I'm not going to ask people to review and claim themselves for the challenge or accept it and broadcast it, if you're interested that's fine, if not but something gets you later that's cool too. Just...do it if you want to, I won't hold anyone to doing it if they say they're going to, I know things can get in the way, so just...we'll see where it goes :)
Some notes on reviews...
Just to start, since it speaks to quite a few reviews, I'm not saying Angel's pregnant. I'm not saying she's not pregnant. I can say that it is possible she is, there's nothing to say that she can't become pregnant. They are very hard in her family though, both to conceive and also to carry to term, so, equally she might not be. Anything I said in the past, I've tried to be very careful in not giving solid yes/no answers about things (like the Doctor's memory loss, or Angel's survival in Fading, and other things) so there's likely no solid yes or no that she is or might one day become pregnant in the future. All I can say is that whether or not she's pregnant, it could go either way in the story, it could add more angst, it could give Angel a reason to fight harder for the Doctor, it could devastate her to have him not remember, or it could bring her a strength she didn't have before. There's more than one way it could go than what people might think. IF she's pregnant that is. I know that it could ruin the story, but equally it could add to it. It would depend on whether or not she is as to whether she'd leave the TARDIS or not or if the baby would even survive (VERY hard for her family to maintain pregnancies long term). Again, I'm not saying she's pregnant, I'm not saying she's not, we'll have to wait and see how the story goes. All I can say is that any and all twists have A LOT of thought put behind them and (to me) very good reasons for happening though it might be because I know the end result of them. They might not always make sense as they happen, but in the long run they resolve themselves. Think...Moffat and The Impossible Astronaut, you have NO idea what's going on or why it's happening, but in the end you're like...OMG It all makes sense now! A quote that I think sums up quite a few of my twists, 'it's hard to see the big picture of things when looking at only one piece of the puzzle' :)
I can say that, so far, up to Series 7, Angel will NOT be the Doctor's wife, no matter what, she'll probably always think Mate is a more special word than wife. But I can say that Jack is coming up too so things'll get a little better for Angel too :) We'll have to see if she disappears like Rory though :)
I'm not saying he'll push her away, he just...doesn't seem to notice her. There will be other things that try to push her further away from him though (-cough-River-cough-) :( I can't quite picture Angel ever being cruel or dismissive lol :) We sort of saw here, even finding out Amy kissed him that Angel doesn't like seeing others in pain or hurt :)
I love the name Bernard :) And Owls too :) I hope he was ok when you threw him across the room though :)
I could see him doing the opposite of Angel as well, she really isn't the most clever Time Lady so, to her, she's already told him they were Mates and he didn't believe her :( Oh she'll be VERY excited for Rory. We saw here, just the thought of him joining them got her to smile a real smile :) There'll definitely be a bit of jealousy from the Doctor right from the very beginning of the episode ;) Oh the title for the next story/book is very worrying (or at least I think it will be when revealed }:)) Rory will certainly make up for the hugs, no worries there :) I can also say that there will be a twist for the Dream Lord that will make more sense when we get to the TW crossover, but I won't say what it is right now :) The Death of the Doctor is coming though, yup, it'll be the last two chapters of this story and Sarah Jane will definitely notice some things about the Doctor and Angel, won't say what though ;) But I can say he will comfort her in the future, there will be some upsetting things that she'll need a tiny bit of comfort for :)
I did change it from man, but it could just be her trying to freak them out or manipulate them into thinking one thing. Like if they thought it was Angel, they might protect her and forget to protect him }:) Even though she has the power, it depends on how she uses it, like...celebrities have quite a bit of power to influence their fans...but you don't see the government trying to assassinate them sort of thing :) ...if that makes any sense at all lol. True, the River in the show probably wouldn't hate someone like that, but then again Donna posed no romantic threat to her and the Doctor, if she knew about Donna, I think she'd know they were friends :) It's like...being married to someone and then going to their high school reunion and the woman they were in love with through all high school that everyone imagined getting together is there...and single...you'd be a bit putoff by them if he was still sweet on them too :) ...wow, really random metaphors at the moment lol :) Lol, I think Angel might have been a bit more relieved if she HAD witnessed the kiss, to see him pushing her away and is reaction to it :) So that's one reason she didn't 'see' it, just to make her wonder a bit more :) Rory will be a tiny bit different, but mostly because Angel's there encouraging him along the way, we'll see more of his thoughts on things and different reasons behind his actions, but, at first, he'll be more like he is in the show :) They'll be very close, sort of hinted at in this chapter, they both are 'unnoticed' by the ones they love :) I can say there's a twist for Amy's Choice, but I won't say what, whether that means she's the Dream Lady or it's something else :)
Lol, River reminds me of those girls too :) Just wants what she wants and doesn't care for others. I can say that there will be a turning point in the River episodes, won't say when. It'll be a little hard since we get 2 River episodes at the end of Series 5 and then 2 at the start of Series 6, but after that I can say there's a major change in how River is involved, I won't say in what way though :) I can remind a tiny bit about an epic Oncoming Storm moment against River that will severely put her in her place, but (again) won't say when ;) And(!) there will be a line River gives in Day of the Moon that might give you hope too :)
Aww thanks! I'm glad you like the stories so much :) I hope you enjoy the rest of the Academic Series, that was my baby, my first OC and Time Lady story :) The pregnancies are different in each series. For the Academic Series, it'll be a normal 9 month pregnancy (tentatively). For the Lunar Cycle it's 18 months. For the HOTS, it's 3 years. It's different for them all, but the 18 months and 3 years I made up for each series, I didn't read it anywhere :) That's great that you're writing a story too, I wish you the best of luck with it! :) And thanks! I'll definitely try to keep up the good work (and give Angel lots of Rory hugs) :)
Lol, I wanted to punch River too :)
I think River wants to tear her down too, sort of like...if she can make Angel think that she's not worthy of the Doctor that she'll back off on her own and leave the way open for her to sneak on in :( It's sad she's acting like that too, I've written her as such a good person in other stories, but I really wanted to remember she's a psychopath and she's definitely got issues and lingering things to resolve from her childhood/upbringing. Her change in LKH was too sudden for me to believe. It could be Angel, or it could be the Doctor, or both that she kills, you never know}:) She might be trying to freak them out and make them lose focus on her real target }:D I agree with how she should be knocked down a peg or two, just remember, we do have an epic Oncoming Storm moment against River coming up at some point ;) Lol, I've been looking forward to Rory since Christmas of 2012 ;)
The Dream Lord will remember quite a bit ;) As for Mickey, I think he was rumored to be in a TW episode or two, but it didn't happen :( I like to think of him and Martha running around London as freelance alien investigators :)
Oh I don't think I could be so cruel as to have Angel forget him too just as he remembers (if he remembers) lol :) I can say that Angel won't be blurting out a lot. I can say though that there is ONE point where she reaches her breaking point, but it's more of an emotional breakdown and not an anger or sick of it thing, and she does let quite a few things slip, but I won't say what things they are or when ;)
Lol, I love it when things like that happen :) I was doing a crossword puzzle in class once, and the word was 'fez' and my professor said 'regeneration' and I nearly died laughing :)
Oh Rory will be adorable, both in fluff with Amy and his growing friendship with Angel :) And yup, I'm going to do the writing challenge :) We'll have to wait and see how it all goes :)
Lol, is it bad that I'm sort of happy the story's giving you that worried feeling? :) As for the belt, we had a little bit of an explanation here :)