The sleep that Amy falls into, curled against Rory and the both of them tangled in blankets on her sitting room floor, is possibly the deepest sleep she's ever had. It's deep enough that she doesn't dream, isn't even aware of time passing in that vague way that one usually has while sleeping. She's so exhausted, physically and emotionally, that ( Read more... )

Today has been a good birthday, Amy thinks to herself. It began with Aunt Sharon announcing that, now that Amy is finally old enough to look after herself (an announcement that had been greeted with a very healthy eye-roll where the older woman couldn't see it), she plans to get her own place in Gloucester and leave the big old house to Amy. As far ( Read more... )

[the second morning after the Doctor's surprise return--and departure--to Leadworth dawns in fairly similar fashion to the first, with a few subtle differences in detail. Amy drifts back towards wakefulness and becomes aware that she's been sleeping naked, albeit in her own bed this time, and that the warm body pressed against her back belongs to ( Read more... )

[light is trying to filter through Amy's eyelids, and she rolls over to get away from it. In doing so, she encounters a warm, largely soft mass that emits a quiet snort and throws an arm over her side. Amy accepts this as a matter of course, settling against the warm mass with a sigh, and has nearly fallen all the way back asleep when a dart of * ( Read more... )