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"Amy Pond and the Year That Never Was" by snowdarkred (G)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Length: 2684 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snowdarkred
Author Website: http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/
Why this must be read: There are other stories about what characters besides the Jones family and Jack Harkness were up to during the Year That Never Was, but this is easily my favorite. We get to see Amy become the steadfast hero she was always meant to be (with Rory by her side), with snapshots of how an aborted timeline might have affected both of them, unknowingly, after the fact. I love how the author weaves in her stubborn dedication to the Raggedy Doctor she's still waiting for, as well as the inimitable Martha Jones. Go read!
She goes back for Rory. Mels is gone, he tells her as she leads him out. The machines tried to grab her but she escaped and then disappeared. There’s no sign of her. Amy shudders to think of what might be happening to her best friend, who never knows when to shut up and quit pushing, but she can’t focus on that now. She has to keep moving.
Rory follows her like he can’t do anything else. He is her shadow. Together they creep across the country, down until they get to edges. There are shipyards being erected all along the coast, huge gleaming towers. They’re completely cut off, so they can only guess what’s going on, but none of it is good.
Along the way, they meet survivors, people fleeing just like them. They tell tales of horror and destruction -- the burning of a day care center, the sacking of a school, the fall of an old people’s home. The enslavement of this town and that town. The Master is behind it all, directing the Toclafane in everything. It was supposed to be humanity’s finest hour, their introduction to the intergalactic stage, but instead it was only death. The Great Decimation, they call it.
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Amy’s reflexes improved overnight. She went from being clumsy and hesitant to being almost graceful. Powerful.
Once, she and Rory went into town and got into a bar fight. Amy knocked some guy out before she even realized what she was doing. Rory dragged them out, swearing and laughing at how ridiculous their lives were.
Amy stared at her hands like they belonged to someone else.
---
Amy and Rory travel with a group of people across the English Channel. They go in the dead of night, hidden underneath tarps as the old couple who owns the boat steers them through the darkness. Rory’s hand grips hers as they hear the buzz of the Toclafane approaching.
“Identify yourselves,” the things order. Amy huddles closer to Rory and prays that none of the children will choose this moment to start crying.
The old man says something. He was a doctor, apparently, before the world screamed to an end. Sometime during the weeks they were on the run, the Master had enacted some kind of system to control the population. Medical staff could travel freely in order to help people. The Master need bodies, after all. He needed slaves to build his machines, to go to war for him.
The Toclafane let them pass, but not before killing the man’s husband. Doctors may be free to travel, but doctors’ spouses are just as restricted as everyone else.
Amy Pond and the Year that Never Was
Pairing: Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Length: 2684 words
Author on LJ:
snowdarkredAuthor Website: http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/
Why this must be read: There are other stories about what characters besides the Jones family and Jack Harkness were up to during the Year That Never Was, but this is easily my favorite. We get to see Amy become the steadfast hero she was always meant to be (with Rory by her side), with snapshots of how an aborted timeline might have affected both of them, unknowingly, after the fact. I love how the author weaves in her stubborn dedication to the Raggedy Doctor she's still waiting for, as well as the inimitable Martha Jones. Go read!
She goes back for Rory. Mels is gone, he tells her as she leads him out. The machines tried to grab her but she escaped and then disappeared. There’s no sign of her. Amy shudders to think of what might be happening to her best friend, who never knows when to shut up and quit pushing, but she can’t focus on that now. She has to keep moving.
Rory follows her like he can’t do anything else. He is her shadow. Together they creep across the country, down until they get to edges. There are shipyards being erected all along the coast, huge gleaming towers. They’re completely cut off, so they can only guess what’s going on, but none of it is good.
Along the way, they meet survivors, people fleeing just like them. They tell tales of horror and destruction -- the burning of a day care center, the sacking of a school, the fall of an old people’s home. The enslavement of this town and that town. The Master is behind it all, directing the Toclafane in everything. It was supposed to be humanity’s finest hour, their introduction to the intergalactic stage, but instead it was only death. The Great Decimation, they call it.
---
Amy’s reflexes improved overnight. She went from being clumsy and hesitant to being almost graceful. Powerful.
Once, she and Rory went into town and got into a bar fight. Amy knocked some guy out before she even realized what she was doing. Rory dragged them out, swearing and laughing at how ridiculous their lives were.
Amy stared at her hands like they belonged to someone else.
---
Amy and Rory travel with a group of people across the English Channel. They go in the dead of night, hidden underneath tarps as the old couple who owns the boat steers them through the darkness. Rory’s hand grips hers as they hear the buzz of the Toclafane approaching.
“Identify yourselves,” the things order. Amy huddles closer to Rory and prays that none of the children will choose this moment to start crying.
The old man says something. He was a doctor, apparently, before the world screamed to an end. Sometime during the weeks they were on the run, the Master had enacted some kind of system to control the population. Medical staff could travel freely in order to help people. The Master need bodies, after all. He needed slaves to build his machines, to go to war for him.
The Toclafane let them pass, but not before killing the man’s husband. Doctors may be free to travel, but doctors’ spouses are just as restricted as everyone else.
Amy Pond and the Year that Never Was
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I still have plenty of recs for this month, so I'm not worried about numbers.