Seventeen Things That Happen to Rory Williams, After by Scribe (Mature)

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Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Rory/Amy, Rory/Eleven, Jack
Length: 7682
Author on LJ: glass_moment 
Author's Website:  AO3 (scribe)
*WARNING* Death Fic!

Why this must be read:

Oh my God get out your hankies. This is the most heartbreaking fic I have read this year. Maybe even ever.
Glass_moment has written a fantastically in depth look at what would happen to Amy's Boys if Amy died.  Her description of Rory and The Doctor's grief is spot on and excellently written. I don't usually read death fics more than once but this one is so well done it was hard not to.

The great thing about this story is that even though it's a Death Fic there is still a sense of hope and some humour hidden near the end.  It'll have you tearing up one moment and chuckling the next.

"The worst thing about it (not the worst thing about it, not even close to being anything that matters even a little bit, but a thing about it that is bad and unexpected and easily focused upon) is that there is no body. They are far enough in the future that the weapon of choice is a disintegrator gun. They are on the planet Ostaerdon IV and they are running for their lives, no noble cause, just a simple case of mistaken identity that the Doctor couldn't talk their way out of for once, and they dive behind a trash receptacle for cover and Rory jumps and Amy jumps and the Doctor jumps and Rory lands and the Doctor lands and Amy doesn't.

All those years working in the hospital, all those deaths he witnessed, and he never realized how important it was to have a body to grieve over."

Seventeen Things That Happen to Rory Williams, After by Scribe