Still a Hopeless Romantic
Between the Idea and the Reality
Just because something's inevitable, doesn't make it easy. Amy and Rory in the week between the penny and the Macarena.
As far as this particular pairing goes, the events following the flashback scene in the episode Let's Kill Hitler where Amy Pond finally discovers that Rory Williams is not only not gay but very likely hopelessly in love with her have got to be the most popular in terms of material for fanfics. I'm not exactly surprised by this. What does actually surprise me is that I decided to add a fic on the subject to the growing pile.
So why bother? Not to sound insulting, because many of these fics are very good, but I can't help but think that they make it a bit too easy. None of these fics seem to go into much detail about the massive amount of mental readjustment that would have to have gone to go from 'childhood friend' to 'romantic partner'. And this would have had to happen to both Amy and Rory; just because he's fancied her for years doesn't make the prospect of actually kissing her in the real world any less confusing and scary.
This is, in some ways, an incredibly personal story. I had to pour an awful lot of myself into it to make it work properly. Enough that it scares me a little that I put it down on paper at all.
In some ways, it isn't even a Doctor Who story. It's not about aliens or time machines or saving the universe. It's about two people realising - slowly and painfully - what they really mean to each other. And that's always a story worth telling.
Just because something's inevitable, doesn't make it easy. Amy and Rory in the week between the penny and the Macarena.
As far as this particular pairing goes, the events following the flashback scene in the episode Let's Kill Hitler where Amy Pond finally discovers that Rory Williams is not only not gay but very likely hopelessly in love with her have got to be the most popular in terms of material for fanfics. I'm not exactly surprised by this. What does actually surprise me is that I decided to add a fic on the subject to the growing pile.
So why bother? Not to sound insulting, because many of these fics are very good, but I can't help but think that they make it a bit too easy. None of these fics seem to go into much detail about the massive amount of mental readjustment that would have to have gone to go from 'childhood friend' to 'romantic partner'. And this would have had to happen to both Amy and Rory; just because he's fancied her for years doesn't make the prospect of actually kissing her in the real world any less confusing and scary.
This is, in some ways, an incredibly personal story. I had to pour an awful lot of myself into it to make it work properly. Enough that it scares me a little that I put it down on paper at all.
In some ways, it isn't even a Doctor Who story. It's not about aliens or time machines or saving the universe. It's about two people realising - slowly and painfully - what they really mean to each other. And that's always a story worth telling.