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[waitsforever]

[There's video of dark walls through a train window. The Underground, moving past. Rory's voice comes from behind the camera. He sounds, perhaps, very slightly upset.]

Soooo....that's all the Underground, right? Nothing else there? Nothing else you can...see outside? Anybody who's watching?

[Camera flipped about to show Rory's face, bits of the

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[waitedforyears]

[Amy comes to step next to Rory.] What do you see?

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[waitsforever]

[Rory keeps looking out the window as he speaks.]

It's Earth...but it's a flaming ruin... [He swallows.] Even Leadworth. [He turns back to Amy and she gets a low chuckle sort of bordering on hysteria.] I keep remembering...you joking about how the Dalek things'd never bother with Leadworth. Waste of time. Should be enough to clue me in that it's a hallucination already.

[Now that he's turned to face her, he can't make himself turn back. Well. Whatever. It's not real. It's not.]

You...can't see anything, then? Or....hear anything?

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[waitedforyears]

[Rory looks so obviously freaked out and worried that Amy can't bring herself to tell him that yeah, she was something to. She hits him on the arm which is... essentially her way of comforting him right now.] Nah. Don't be daft.

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[waitsforever]

[In response to this, Amy get's a kind of searching look from Rory, trying to work out if she's brushing it off.]

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[waitedforyears]

Leadworth is so boring, it's probably the safest place on earth. [Nope. No brushing off here.]

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[waitsforever]

[This warrants a slight amused smile off Rory.] Safest place? What about Prisoner Zero? Or the crack in your wall that was a crack in the fabric of time and space? Hey, and there were some pretty dangerous ducks.

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[waitedforyears]

Probably followed me from Scotland, those.

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[waitsforever]

Oh, is that the trade-off for getting Amy Pond in Leadworth? Balancing you out?

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[waitedforyears]

Must be. [And she's nodding and grinning and definitely not thinking of anything that anyone might have seen while looking out of the window, nope.]

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[waitsforever]

I will blame you in advance for the old people with eyeballs in them, then, if that ever ends up happening. And that one time when it was my ninth birthday and it rained so much my cake melted. [Mock-serious face, now.] You've got a lot to answer for, Amy.

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[waitedforyears]

Ah, but it's worth it, isn't it? [And she says it lightly, but... it is, right?]

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[waitsforever]

Yeah, like I said, you're balancing it all out. [A little more seriously.] Everything.

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[waitedforyears]

[And that gets him a hand in his and an Amy who's suddenly a bit closer than before. She's still annoyed with you, Rory. She's just also freaked out.]

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[waitsforever]

[Rory's hoping that the hand-holding is possibly the first step towards Amy being a little less cross with him about hiding this from her.]

Should we go up the train again, do you think? Try and...find a room without windows?

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[waitedforyears]

We can look for one, but I bet there's no room without windows. Except maybe the bathrooms. [Which might normally be a come-on, but right now it really isn't. She's still angry.]

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[waitsforever]

[....it's not stated like a come-on. She must still be mad with him.] ...right. Well...what do you think we should do?