Doctor Who: Four times Rory Williams failed to save a life (and one time he succeeded)

[heleentje]

Title: Four times Rory Williams failed to save a life (and one time he succeeded)
Author: heleentje 
Series: Doctor Who
Characters: Rory Williams, Amy Pond, the Doctor (11th)
Rating: T
Word Count: 6015
Summary: It's Rory's job to help people. He doesn't always do as well as he would like.
Warnings: Death. Spoilers for all of series 5/31/Fnarg
Author's Notes: Once

Comments

[remaner]

Really beautiful. I still have to begin the series (I'll do it as soon as I can) and I knew few things about it, but if it's so loyal to the actual character as other comments said, it makes me want to begin my marathon now. :-P

[mornea]

Rory is awesomeness, and this pic really captured him perfectly.:) He's my favorite part of this series.

[professor_spork]

This is fantastic. Oh, *Rory.* That's my boy. And this?

“I hope that was a lie,” Amy said, appearing out of nowhere and dropping half of her bags in Rory’s lap, then shoving the other half in the Doctor’s arms. “I’ll be very cross if that wasn’t a lie.”

Had me in stitches.

[heleentje]

Thank you! Not gonna lie, I have a huge weakness the current TARDIS trio and the way they interact. If anything, I would've liked to have Amy play a more prominent role in this fic, but alas. Perhaps next time :p

[xwingace]

A little sad, a little beautiful, and a lot awesome. I needed more Rory fic, and this hit the spot excellently.

A few tiny word-choice nitpicks, if you don't mind:
Mrs. Taylor’s breath was coming in pants now.

I get what you're saying, but my first association was that she's breathing into some underwear. Perhaps 'gasps' might have been better?

They had positioned guards for the first couple of decennia,

I think your Dutch is showing, there. :-). I believe 'decennia' does exist in English, but if it does, it is extremely archaic and rare. You probably mean 'decades'.

Other than that, I honestly couldn't think of a way to improve this. Well done, and keep up the good work!

XWA

[heleentje]

You're absolutely right on both accounts ^^; I remember thinking the same thing with the 'pants' sentence, but I honestly couldn't come up with a better way to phrase it. As for decennia, yeah, I feel embarrassed now. That's a mistake I honestly should've caught but apparently didn't *dropkicks brain for refusing to decently switch languages, then goes to edit*

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it!

[mornea]

I assumed decennia was latin. lol.

[clocketpatch]

Such a well done portrayal of Rory and what makes him tick. The line about there not being some magic revelation at seventy was very powerful as was, I think, the compassion given by a child to a single baby pigeon. This isn't just good fic; this is just good, period.

[heleentje]

Icon twins! \o/

I'm glad you liked it! Rory's such a fascinating character when you get down to it... It's been a while since I've seen someone so loyal and caring, and that makes him very interesting to write about. So yeah, I might write him again, perhaps when I watch canon again or have more canon to work with (or if my history obsession flares up again)

Thanks!

[sea_thoughts]

*sniff* Aww, Rory. I'm sure you could have saved Lucia if you'd had more time... or just some decent 20th/21st century medical tools. *hug*

They stayed the night.

It took 396 more years for a vaccine to be found.

This really hit me hard.

I love the last example best though. So funny and Rory/Doctor interaction!