Rory tumbles through the Veil and it’s not the first time he’s had to adopt to a world he doesn’t quite understand. Traveling with the Doctor means usually being dropped into something you don’t understand and having to wing it, but in those scenarios it was different. He was usually doing it with someone else.
He was usually doing it with his wife.
Instead, Rory comes through the Veil and arrives in London with nothing but his wife’s wedding rings and the faint memory of the feel of her hand in his. He blames the angels at first, thinking that whatever he and Amy were trying to do to stop him being stuck in New York for the rest of his life backfired horribly, but in the end, that isn’t the explanation. It was just another cosmic intervention in the mess that is his life, and now he’s going to have to figure out how to do this without the one person who always existed as a constant in his life. He can’t remember a time when he’s ever been without Amy – they’ve known each other since they were children after all. Now, people are telling him that he’s going to learn how to manage, that this is forever, but a large part of him still doesn’t want to believe it.
So he finds work, settles in, and he waits. He waited for two thousand years for her before. He’s sure that he can manage to do it again.
* * * * *
When Amy was caught out of her own time stream, she found a robot and named it “Rory.” In a lot of ways he became her Wilson, someone to talk to because there was no one else to talk to. Rory, on the other hand, has plenty of people to talk to. He could talk to the entire city of London if he wanted, but it doesn’t change the fact that he misses her fiercely. There’s an absence there, that he can’t see, exactly, but he can feel it every day. It’s not even a weight so much as an expectation of her being there. He’ll see something and he’ll turn to show her, but she’s not there to see it, and the reminder hits him hard and fast that this is his life now.
He’s going to have to wander through this brave new world alone.
Amy’s wedding rings sit on the ledge above the sink and every so often, when the isolation gets to be a little too much, he would tell her about his day, talk as though she’s actually listening, hope that one day the Veil would catch up and she will be there, and all this waiting won’t have been for nothing.
It goes on this way for months, and he repeats the same patterns, and to be fair, the world almost becomes boring. He can make plans. He can commit to jobs. The Doctor won’t be swooping in to steal him from the world, and in a lot of ways maybe that’s for the best. He never really was one for the traveling anyway.
Amy was.
* * * * *
One morning, he gets on his regularly scheduled bus to head towards his normal nine-to-five job as a nurse at the local Shadowkind-friendly clinic and help people, hoping that at least it’ll take his mind off of the things that are missing in his life for a little while.
On the stop halfway between home and the clinic, a troll boards the bus, attacking the driver and taking all of them hostage.
It seems, that even without the Doctor, Rory’s life can never be completely boring. Who would have thought.
you know i'll never be lonely ~ knights of legend ~ 621 words
He was usually doing it with his wife.
Instead, Rory comes through the Veil and arrives in London with nothing but his wife’s wedding rings and the faint memory of the feel of her hand in his. He blames the angels at first, thinking that whatever he and Amy were trying to do to stop him being stuck in New York for the rest of his life backfired horribly, but in the end, that isn’t the explanation. It was just another cosmic intervention in the mess that is his life, and now he’s going to have to figure out how to do this without the one person who always existed as a constant in his life. He can’t remember a time when he’s ever been without Amy – they’ve known each other since they were children after all. Now, people are telling him that he’s going to learn how to manage, that this is forever, but a large part of him still doesn’t want to believe it.
So he finds work, settles in, and he waits. He waited for two thousand years for her before. He’s sure that he can manage to do it again.
When Amy was caught out of her own time stream, she found a robot and named it “Rory.” In a lot of ways he became her Wilson, someone to talk to because there was no one else to talk to. Rory, on the other hand, has plenty of people to talk to. He could talk to the entire city of London if he wanted, but it doesn’t change the fact that he misses her fiercely. There’s an absence there, that he can’t see, exactly, but he can feel it every day. It’s not even a weight so much as an expectation of her being there. He’ll see something and he’ll turn to show her, but she’s not there to see it, and the reminder hits him hard and fast that this is his life now.
He’s going to have to wander through this brave new world alone.
Amy’s wedding rings sit on the ledge above the sink and every so often, when the isolation gets to be a little too much, he would tell her about his day, talk as though she’s actually listening, hope that one day the Veil would catch up and she will be there, and all this waiting won’t have been for nothing.
It goes on this way for months, and he repeats the same patterns, and to be fair, the world almost becomes boring. He can make plans. He can commit to jobs. The Doctor won’t be swooping in to steal him from the world, and in a lot of ways maybe that’s for the best. He never really was one for the traveling anyway.
Amy was.
One morning, he gets on his regularly scheduled bus to head towards his normal nine-to-five job as a nurse at the local Shadowkind-friendly clinic and help people, hoping that at least it’ll take his mind off of the things that are missing in his life for a little while.
On the stop halfway between home and the clinic, a troll boards the bus, attacking the driver and taking all of them hostage.
It seems, that even without the Doctor, Rory’s life can never be completely boring. Who would have thought.