fic: No More Dreaming Like a Girl So In Love With the Wrong World

[lonewytch]

Title: No More Dreaming Like a Girl So In Love With the Wrong World
Author: lonewytch
Fandom/Pairing: Doctor Who; Amy/Rory
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2142
Summary: Set during the 2 years between the Doctor leaving Amy and Rory at the end of The God Complex and returning to them at the end of the 2011 christmas special. Once, in a time out of time - a time when the

Comments

Ohhhhh....

[a_phoenixdragon]

Ohhhh, darling, I -

This was sheer beauty and poetry and love and fear and hate and all those wonderful things that combine to make into the stolid, beautiful, confident, loyal, unshakeable Rory Williams. Man shaped from the stars, but not of his own violition. A man who loves even while he turns away from what made him. A man who has simple wants and needs and everything always comes down to the one he loves and patiently waits for.

This is just PERFECTION.

This is Rory Williams...

*Cries with Joy*

Thank you...

*HUGS*

Re: Ohhhhh....

[lonewytch]

Aw thank you darling for such a beautiful comment on my work, you warm my heart. I enjoyed writing this one even though it took a while. Rory, in my mind, is such a bundle of contradictions, it's exactly what you pick up on so eloquently about him being shaped from the stars but not of his own volition that gets to me about his situation. Travelling with 11 made him grow, made him who he is - he's special, he still is the fairytale prince because he still remembers his long long wait. But he has grown past all that and i think he is just weary weary weary now. *cuddles him*

Thank you sweetie.

[ladymercury_10]

Ahhhh this is so lovely and sad. The language is really beautiful, especially the bits about rock and sand and iron, and the descriptions of the mornings in their new house. And the whole paragraph about the TARDIS and how Rory misses her is glorious.

Poor Rory and Amy, though. They're been through a lot, haven't they? I hope S7 is kind to them.

[lonewytch]

Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you liked it. I really think Rory has had enough of travelling with 11, but The Doctor's Wife and the little moments between him and Idris in that always make me think think that Rory has a bit more of a bond with the Tardis than Amy does.

The have been through so so much. Rory, especially has just had enough i think and i wonder if that's going to be unravelled as a problem in series 7. You touch on this in your lovely fic, just how tired Rory is. I want S7 to be kind to them - they both deserve something good after everything they've been through. But this is Moffat and i fear that what we will get will be - at best - bittersweet.

[ladymercury_10]

Aww, thanks.:)

I used to trust Moffat. S5 was amazing and everything I could have asked for. I didn't like S6 as much, but I will say for it that it had the happiest end it could give itself. I do expect he'll make us cry when Amy and Rory leave, but I just want them to be together and happy with where they're going. I hope he gives us that.

Perfect!

[rosesama35]

I would like to start by saying that your imagery is beautiful. You weave together the imagery and metaphors together so well that my imagination is completely captured. I loved reading this fic, if only just for the style that it was written in! But then, the substance is also awesome. A look into the mind of Rory, how he sees the world, and how feels after having gone through 1,900 years of waiting. That isn't something easy to take in, and I feel like you do a wonderful job of capturing his state of mind well, with the waiting for Amy and after once their life returns to normal, and how he can always see the longing in Amy's eyes for something much more than he could ever hope to give her

Re: Perfect!

[lonewytch]

Wow, thank you so much for such a lovely and detailed comment. I really love it when somebody takes the time to let me know which bits they liked and how it made them feel

[lonewytch]

Yay! It took me so long to get this completed, it was in the works for so long, just bubbling away under the surface while i waited for Rory to tell me his side of the story properly. Funny how fic happens like that sometimes isn't it? It always reminds me of cooking when it happens that way - cooking on a slow simmer and adding different ingredients until eventually it coalesces into a whole dish - but only when it's good and ready

[lonewytch]

The themes you mention too of duality, seem to be being picked up on in the forthcoming DW episode regarding Eleven staying with the Ponds, when she talks about the two lives they lead and how the Doctor never seems to be part of the Ponds' life

I'm glad I seemed to pick up on that, even if my view on how Rory felt is now slightly AU. However... In my Power of Three meta, I talked about the journey Rory has taken since Pond Life, so maybe my take on how he felt isn't AU for the 2 years between the Gpd Complex and Pond Life....it's taken him a while but the first 4 eps of the series have seen him take a journey to trusting the Doctor (it's all played out symbolically, as you'll see when you read my meta.)

. I think a River-centric fic woven through her parents stories and the waiting the Doctor creates, would fit really well into the Verses actually. It makes me happy to see the Verses growing and developing and just living really. It started off with one story and now it's grown :) I hope it keeps growing. I'm glad you like my

[easytheretyger]

Whee! Fic catchup time.

I love how you contrasted the earth's pull on Rory with the draw of the stars. I do think Rory was in it for more than just Amy, he loved it too. In spite of his natural danger avoiding instincts. But the earth was always going to win out for him. As he sat with the Pandorica he watched all the stars die and only the earth stayed steady and permanent. It's a mirror of what he is to Amy, her permanent in a universe of temporary.

And I think Amy is on the same path, even if she lags behind a little.

Gorgeously written as ever. Xx

[lonewytch]

Yay! I need to do an urgent fic catchup with other people's stuff too.

Ah, that's a really good point that while Rory saw all the stars die the earth was the only thing that stayed steady, i actually hadn't really thought of it that way, that this may be one of the reasons why he loves the stability of earth so much. And that he is a mirror of the earth for Amy. He's the green anchor.

I agree, Amy is on the same path. It's taken her longer to let go of the stars, but then new series is showing that it's her path now as well too. Poor 11 :(

Thank you sweetie, glad you enjoyed.