DW fic: Series 6 drabbles, episodes 8-13
The conclusion of my series 6 drabble series.
( Episodes 1-4 )
( Episodes 5-7 )
Title: Series 6 drabbles
Disclaimer: I do really wish they were mine, but they're the property of the BBC and I'm just playing for free in the sandbox.
Rating: PG
Characters: Amy Pond, the Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams, River Song
Spoilers: For the entire series.
Series 6 drabbles
Let's Kill Hitler
The Doctor seems to take it for granted that they'll want to stay with him, taking the TARDIS into the Vortex and vanishing to somewhere without even asking them. Rory considers shouting at him, but he really doesn't have the energy.
In their room, Amy is sitting on the freshly-made bed flicking through photos on her phone. She holds it up to him - a snap taken at a barbecue last summer, of the two of them and Mels. They're all happily drunk. They're all together.
Rory sits down, and puts his arm around Amy. Nothing needs to be said.
Night Terrors
The day after the Doctor, they empty the cupboard. Together pulling out years of nightmares and throwing them into bags, to be taken down to the pile near the bins. There are broken toys and scary books and George's scribbled pictures, all jettisoned. They hold no fear any longer.
Last of all, out comes the dolls' house. It was Claire's, once, before in a fit of gender-neutral parenting it became George's. They open the front and empty it of dead-eyed dolls, wooden food and miniature furniture before George takes to the structure with a hammer, smashing his terror to pieces.
The Girl Who Waited
She spends the first month mostly waiting, for Rory and the Doctor. She will not believe the vision, if that was what it was, of an older Amy refusing to turn back time - the Doctor will come.
She spends the next few months learning about the handbots from the Interface and scavenging bits for armour. She stops listening for footsteps, for the wheeze of the TARDIS materialising, but she still hopes.
Later, she'll realise that the day she drew a smile on a robot and called it Rory was the day hope left her; the day Amelia Pond died.
The God Complex
He's seen many people come through his prison, surrendering to him joyfully and wholly, that it's refreshing to have this other force within. A force which looks at his own nightmare and steps away from it, accepting. The god feels that he can, at last, communicate with something - that perhaps this man will be his release. And they have something in common, too, both used to being venerated, loved, but both wishing a release from the lives in which they are trapped.
At the last, he closes his eyes and accepts his fate, knowing the other does the same.
Closing Time
Alfie Owens can never remember when the dreams began, but he thinks he may always have had them. There are stars painted on the ceiling of his bedroom, and in his sleep the universe whirls in his head.
His dad laughs when Alfie tells him about the dreams the first time. Later, when Alfie's just five and starting school, he sits down in the room decorated with stars and describes the Doctor - about the spaceship in the old house, the Cybermen in the department store.
When he falls asleep that night there's a blue box flying through the stars.
The Wedding of River Song
The captain, surprisingly, cedes his seat to the Doctor as soon as he's on board the Teselecta. It makes things easier, being at the controls, making the robot behave, talk, walk exactly as he does. On the peak of the pyramid he wraps the end of his bow-tie around the Teselecta's hand, and races to the eye with a speakerphone in his hand. He marries River Song in heart and soul, if not technically in body, and saves them both in the process.
He knows he'll find another time to tell her his name. Time is something they still have.
( Episodes 1-4 )
( Episodes 5-7 )
Title: Series 6 drabbles
Disclaimer: I do really wish they were mine, but they're the property of the BBC and I'm just playing for free in the sandbox.
Rating: PG
Characters: Amy Pond, the Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams, River Song
Spoilers: For the entire series.
Series 6 drabbles
Let's Kill Hitler
The Doctor seems to take it for granted that they'll want to stay with him, taking the TARDIS into the Vortex and vanishing to somewhere without even asking them. Rory considers shouting at him, but he really doesn't have the energy.
In their room, Amy is sitting on the freshly-made bed flicking through photos on her phone. She holds it up to him - a snap taken at a barbecue last summer, of the two of them and Mels. They're all happily drunk. They're all together.
Rory sits down, and puts his arm around Amy. Nothing needs to be said.
Night Terrors
The day after the Doctor, they empty the cupboard. Together pulling out years of nightmares and throwing them into bags, to be taken down to the pile near the bins. There are broken toys and scary books and George's scribbled pictures, all jettisoned. They hold no fear any longer.
Last of all, out comes the dolls' house. It was Claire's, once, before in a fit of gender-neutral parenting it became George's. They open the front and empty it of dead-eyed dolls, wooden food and miniature furniture before George takes to the structure with a hammer, smashing his terror to pieces.
The Girl Who Waited
She spends the first month mostly waiting, for Rory and the Doctor. She will not believe the vision, if that was what it was, of an older Amy refusing to turn back time - the Doctor will come.
She spends the next few months learning about the handbots from the Interface and scavenging bits for armour. She stops listening for footsteps, for the wheeze of the TARDIS materialising, but she still hopes.
Later, she'll realise that the day she drew a smile on a robot and called it Rory was the day hope left her; the day Amelia Pond died.
The God Complex
He's seen many people come through his prison, surrendering to him joyfully and wholly, that it's refreshing to have this other force within. A force which looks at his own nightmare and steps away from it, accepting. The god feels that he can, at last, communicate with something - that perhaps this man will be his release. And they have something in common, too, both used to being venerated, loved, but both wishing a release from the lives in which they are trapped.
At the last, he closes his eyes and accepts his fate, knowing the other does the same.
Closing Time
Alfie Owens can never remember when the dreams began, but he thinks he may always have had them. There are stars painted on the ceiling of his bedroom, and in his sleep the universe whirls in his head.
His dad laughs when Alfie tells him about the dreams the first time. Later, when Alfie's just five and starting school, he sits down in the room decorated with stars and describes the Doctor - about the spaceship in the old house, the Cybermen in the department store.
When he falls asleep that night there's a blue box flying through the stars.
The Wedding of River Song
The captain, surprisingly, cedes his seat to the Doctor as soon as he's on board the Teselecta. It makes things easier, being at the controls, making the robot behave, talk, walk exactly as he does. On the peak of the pyramid he wraps the end of his bow-tie around the Teselecta's hand, and races to the eye with a speakerphone in his hand. He marries River Song in heart and soul, if not technically in body, and saves them both in the process.
He knows he'll find another time to tell her his name. Time is something they still have.