[ SECRET POST #2076 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2076 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You know what would have been really cool?

Say, for whatever reason, we must keep Amy and Rory splitting up over the summer. It's not because they can't communicate, it's because... hmm. Amy, who now knows the Doctor is real, keeps looking wistfully back at their adventures, which, while dangerous, were exciting and fun and every day was different, and she's not adjusting well to the mundane life. Rory feels like he's being ignored and passed over in favor of someone who isn't even there and whom he can't compete with because they aren't even on the same plane. Amy's also harboring some trauma, guilt, etc, over the whole River Song, can't-have-kids thing, but at this point when she tries to tell him by leading into it (ex "You know that time when"), Rory just can't deal, because he feels like she's stuck in the past, and she can't explain well enough to get him to realize what she's trying to tell him. They fight, and now you have Amy thinking Rory's sick of her and vice versa.

This goes on for a little while. Eventually some apologies are exchanged. They kiss and make up, but something doesn't heal quite right, like broken fingers that no one bothered to set. They grow apart, Amy withdrawing further into "When things were good" and Rory feeling increasingly alienated. The two of them aren't really husband and wife anymore: they're two people who happen to have a lot of legal connections to the each other.

Still, neither of them ever really utters the word "divorce." Because for all that it's not right now, they want it to work, they want it to be - not like it was, but they want what it was to have changed as they did, and neither is quite ready to admit that it hasn't, and maybe can't and won't. They're cold and distant, almost professional, keeping a quiet, tense, clockwork truce. There are a few attempts to talk it out, set right whatever went wrong, but it never works. They can't solve this in an hour, or an afternoon.

Both of them are tired. Both of them have almost forgotten what it was like to care so bone-deeply that they would wait two thousand years, or ask themselves to "defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself" for the other. And then the Doctor happens.

Well, more specifically, Asylum of the Daleks happens.

And you know what? There's no epiphany therapy. There's no big reveal with hearts pounding and music swelling and a Big Damn Kiss. Rory just says, "Here," and holds out his bracelet. "I have more time left than you."

And Amy opens her mouth to protest, and then sees the logic in this, and just takes it and says, "Thank you," quietly and steadily. The two of them wait, not talking, just sitting next to each other on the teleporter, until the Doctor comes back. (He hadn't given Amy his bracelet here because their discontent was less loud and superficial, but rather slow and poisoning instead. And, I dunno, he'd choke immediately if he did. Shut up.)

And they don't immediately get back together. They don't kiss and make up, not right then and there. Nothing is really resolved. But as they keep traveling with the Doctor, seeing beautiful lands and nigh-mystical beings and running, always running for their lives, they start to see. Every time Rory waits, every time Amy chooses him, they start to see where it went wrong. And they tell each other. Not in a big shouting match, where revelations are used to pierce and with deadly effect. But quietly, and sadly, and sometimes it's just part of the conversation they're having, and sometimes Rory will pause in the middle of what he's saying and just blindly trot out something like, "It's all right, you know. That you love being here so much. I... I do too, but - not - when we aren't there-" and Amy will nod, and although Rory has said much the same before, this time she's a bit closer to understanding exactly what he means.

And sometimes Amy will pull him away from tinkering with the Doctor and say something like, "We need to talk," and what's amazing is that they actually do, they talk and listen and they pretend the Doctor isn't listening too, and they realize they aren't perfect. They're only human, only them. And that's enough, really. They have their flaws but they still refract light when held up to the sun.

And by the end of the season, they're more or less back to normal. But they're not the same. They've changed and learnt and grown around each other, both as characters and as people. There's something subtly different about the way each of them hold themselves, in the way Rory will kiss Amy good morning and the way Amy steps out of the TARDIS while holding Rory's hand.

[biohazardgirl]

Can't believe no one commented on this. This idea is gorgeous. I don't even watch Doctor Who for, well, various reasons to do with the way the premise is handled, but this really touched me, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that would not be Dr Who. That would be some long tie-in novel, or some separate drama, or an epic fanfic. It would not be the BBC's flagship family viewing adventures-in-time-and-space for all ages and all demographics.

And, frankly, fandom secrets would still be full of people who didn't get that's what was being subtly sketched in, and ranting about how it was stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

You're under the impression that what we have now is Doctor Who? Maybe in places. But only in spite of itself. /bitteranonisbitter

[(Anonymous)]

i really like this comment and it sums up my feelings on the direction that moffat is taking the show

[(Anonymous)]

that sounds even WORSE IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is amazing. And lol the anons who think it wouldn't be Doctor Who because it's not a scifi plot, as if character arcs have never been a part of the show which are incorporated into the time travel and aliens action.