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[wordmythology]

5. I TOOK THIS ON A TUESDAY AFTERNOON

River exhales slowly.

“That was…intense.”  She’s starting to notice that when the Doctor’s talking, when he’s describing the lives of the friends who knew so well he looks just a little less like a dead man walking.

“Well they were never exactly a typical couple.”

“So they got together?”  She

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They end up lounging on Amy’s bed together, Rory sacrificing his knee as a hand rest for Amy’s drying fingers as he reads Brideshead Revisted in a pompous accent.
“‘I expect you would prefer sherry, but, my dear Charles, you are not going to have sherry. Isn’t this a delicious concoction? You don’t like it? Then I will drink it for you!’” Amy’s trying to be annoyed but she’s laughing despite herself.
“Stop it Rory, that’s one of my favourite books and you’re going to completely spoil it!” He gives her a sideways grin and flips to another passage, changing to a high falsetto and fluttering his eyelashes.
“‘I’m always putting my foot in it. But how cruel! It must have hurt frightfully!’” Rory can’t do it anymore; he drops the book and laughs.

Oh my god I love this moment so much. It's just so... organic. Like, who HASN'T done this with their friends, or something similar? Such a wonderful, perfect touch.

And honestly, this whole chapter is exactly like that. Romance-- life-- it's not always about roses and chocolates and fancy dinners. Sometimes it's just wrestling and nail varnish and exactly the right moment.

It's just so utterly real.

[wordmythology]

Thank you so much for this comment. I keep re-reading it because it gives me the happy-smilies so much. :)

Trying to capture the realism in their relationship was probably the most important thing to me writing this, because I think it would be so easy to romanticise them as a couple and whilst the big gestures of waiting for 2000 years and dying for each other are obviously a huge part of who they are together, it's really the little moments that make a relationship. So the fact you think I've pulled that off is just...really good to hear!