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Character Basics
Character name: Amelia Jessica Pond-Williams (Amy Pond)
Character Journal: Im_with_stupid
Canon: Doctor Who
Canon Point: The middle of The Power Of Three (so her next to last episode)
Age: late 20s, early 30s.
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Canon Character Information
Appearance:
Pretty enough she was (briefly) a model, Amy is a tall, slender, fair skinned woman with red hair. The length of her legs has been commented on multiple times as a notable feature.

History:
Warning - here there be massive spoilers
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_Pond <-- Wiki!

Timeline 1 -
~ Amy left Scotland as a small child, and her parents vanished. Details of the order of events is sketchy. She lived with her Aunt Sharon in a house that was oddly large for two people.

~ Because of a crack in her wall (she could hear voices coming through it) she prayed to Santa to send her a policeman to fix the crack. She was still a little girl at this point. The Doctor crashed his Tardis into her shed instead.

~ The Doctor, raggedy from regeneration, helped her close the crack in her wall, and was trying to figure out the Prisoner Zero mystery and why her house seemed to have too many rooms when the Tardis started having issues. He rushed off, promising five minutes. She didn't believe him, but she packed a bag anyway and waited outside for him, all night.

~Waking up in her own room the next morning, Amelia was irritated, but it was still quite the adventure. She started creating paintings and dolls of the Raggedy Doctor and told her friend Mels all about him, and made her friend Rory pretend to be him in games.

~ Aunt Sharon, increasingly concerned with Amelia's obsession with this clearly made up figure took Amelia to a shrink. Amelia bit the shrink for saying the Doctor wasn't real. Aunt Sharon took her to another shrink. Lather rinse repeat.

~ Meanwhile, Amelia was becoming Amy and was all but raising her best friend Mels who never seemed to have adults to look after her, had no parents like Amy had no parents, and got into tons of trouble.

Amy: "You're in the most trouble in the whole school, except for boys"
Mels: "And you."
Amy: "I count as a boy."

~ Amy continued to grow up, as did Rory and Mels. In Rory's case, this meant an interest in medicine, in Mel's case it meant larger scale trouble "I took a bus." "You stole a bus!" In Amy's case, it meant a job as a kissogram.

~ Mels pointed out that it was okay for Amy to be all high and mighty, since she had mister perfect. When Amy was confused, Mels made it clear she meant Rory. Rory tried to cover, Amy insisted that Rory couldn't possibly be "hers" because clearly he was gay. After all, what girl besides her had he ever paid the slightest bit of attention to.... OH.

~ Amy and Rory begin dating.

~ The Doctor reappears and breaks into Amy's house, looking for Amelia, thinking he was several hours late. Amy hit him over the head with a cricket bat, and handcuffed him to the heater.

~ Dressed as a cop - Kissogram job, she convinced the Doctor that she was a cop working on the "Amelia Pond" case.

~ The discovery that Prisoner Zero had escaped into her house, and was living in a room she couldn't see ended that ruse, more or less, and left with the Doctor and Amy fleeing for their lives as an announcement heard world round announced "Prisoner Zero will vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated." Amy and the Doctor still managed to have quite the argument as they ran off to save the day, and Amy got to be embarrassed by everyone talking about her made up imaginary friend, the Raggedy Doctor.

~ Amy, Rory, the Doctor, and a friend called Jeff saved the day at the zero hour. (Or the 11th hour, if you prefer) They got the prisoner to his jailers - the Atraxi, and the Atraxi left. The Doctor called them back to scold them, then headed off for a quick pop to the moon, promised he'd be back in five minutes, and then take her anywhere she wanted to go.

~ When the Doctor failed to return, Amy and Rory told Mels all about their adventure, (Headcanon she's friends with some version of Ashildr since she was a child, and told her as well. Personal bet is she's the last shrink, the one that never told Amy the Doctor wasn't real, but that is head canon and can be discussed if/when an Ashildr/Me apps).

~ Having this to bond over, and with Rory now knowing the Doctor was real, when Rory proposed, Amy said yes. Mels was, of course, thrilled for them, though she informed them that she would not be attending the wedding.

~ The Doctor finally returns on the night before the wedding, and kidnaps Amy for adventures once she gets a promise from him that he can get her back "in time for tomorrow morning" without telling him why tomorrow matters. It is a sign of how freaked out she is about the wedding that knowing he has a tendency to be YEARS late on a return, she goes with him anyway.

~ They wind up in the future on the Starship UK. Amy figures out just in time how to save all the people on the Starship, and the Starwhale they had enslaved to ferry them around. She realized the Starwhale was just like the Doctor, the last of it's kind, incredibly old "and that just made it kind".

~ From that grand adventure, they went back to WWII, and Amy met Winston Churchill and an inventor who was also Scottish. This is where she met her first Dalek, and where the Doctor tried to figure out how in the world she had never seen a Dalek before, given that just the year before the Earth had been stolen from its orbit into the Medusa Cascade and invaded by Daleks. Amy has no memory of that, whatsoever.

~ After saving WWII England from the Daleks and the Germans, they popped off on another adventure, leaving the inventor to make a life for himself, and having befriended Churchill.

~ Then Amy and the Doctor went to a museum, because that is how the Doctor keeps score. They found an artifact from a spaceship (a black box like modern planes have) with words carved into it in Gallifreyan. The Doctor stole the box and they fled to the Tardis where he hooked it up to watch the video from before the ship crashed. It showed a woman who gave them coordinates.

~ The Doctor went where the woman told them to, and opened the Tardis doors and in fell River Song. River told them to follow the ship she escaped from, that was about to crash, the one the black box came from. Don't expect this to make sense. From a strictly linear viewpoint, it doesn't.

~ While they investigated the crash, Amy theorized that River Song was the Doctor's wife from the future. No confirmation was given, but she and River bonded over teasing the Doctor.

~ River explained what they were up against, a Weeping Angel, and showed them video. Amy wound up locked in a room with the video as an Angel emerged from the screen. They learned "whatever holds the image of an Angel is itself an Angel" She was told not to blink, because if you blink they can get you. They're super fast, but only when no one is looking at them. So Amy stared at it while she dismantled the viewscreen, banishing the Angel - or so she thought.

~ Going through the maze of the dead to get to the crash site, they learned two very hard lessons - looking into the eyes of a Weeping Angel for too long can let one of them possess you from the inside, and that this wasn't an accident, it was a rescue. The maze was filled with dying Angels, but they were feeding on the energy spillage from the crash and getting stronger.

~ They made it to the ship, but weren't safe yet. Amy was counting down without meaning to, all the moments she had left. They wound up splitting up when the Doctor discovered that the countdown was only active when her eyes were open. He left her with some clerics/soldiers to keep her safe while he and River went to find a way out.

~ The clerics found an odd crack, like the one in her wall, like the one she didn't see on the Starship UK or under where the Tardis had been when they visited WWII. They kept going to investigate, but whoever went would vanish, and no one but Amy could remember them.

~ When the last Cleric was gone, the Doctor guided a blind Amy by the radio while River fixed the teleporter. between them, they got Amy to the control room just in time. They realized that the crack had to be closed AND the Angels had to be dealt with, so they threw the Angels into the crack, which made them un-exist, and closed the crack. Amy was now safe from the Angel in her eye, because it had never existed.

~ Amy had the Doctor take her home, and she confessed that she was about to get married to Rory, and that she was freaking out that maybe Rory wasn't the one, maybe the Doctor was. She then aggressively tried to make out with the Doctor, who did not want that... so the Doctor did what he had to do... he crashed Rory's bachelor party and kidnapped him.

~ With the Doctor and Rory, Amy went to Venice. The Doctor said it was like an early wedding present, or a pre-honeymoon, but of course they landed in the middle of a crisis. Amy pretended to be a young girl looking for a good school to act as bait, so they could learn what was happening to the girls who were being taken. After nearly being turned into a vampire, her boys helped her escape, and the Doctor created a storm that saved the day in the end. Rory, jealous of her adventures with the Doctor and her attachment to the same tried to convince her to stop running about with him. He tried to convince the Doctor to stop dragging Amy about. When both of those ploys failed, he agreed to keep coming along.

~ And then the dreamlord appeared. He offered them two realities, and told them they had to pick one and deal with the crisis in that reality. Randomly they'd fall asleep in one and wind up in the other. One reality had the Tardis flying into a frozen star. The other had them... in Leadworth. Back where they started.

Timeline 1.5:

In the Leadworth reality, Amy and Rory were already married, and Amy was very very pregnant. They were living in a small quiet community that was mostly seniors that Rory, as a nurse, took care of. The seniors turned out to be aliens that were devouring children - among other people - and decided that Rory, Amy, and the Doctor looked like a nice snack.

Timeline 1:
Whenever they awoke in the freezing Tardis, they were sure this was the actual reality, but they couldn't get the engines working, and they were slowly freezing to death.

Timeline 1.5:
When they were in this timeline, they were sure this was actual reality. But they couldn't figure out how to handle the geriatric aliens. They got cornered in Amy and Rory's house, in the nursery. They tried to fight off the aliens but failed, and Rory... died. (Rory death count: 1) Amy was there as he died, watched him die, and came to a decision. This couldn't be reality. Because a reality without Rory was not a reality that she could accept. The Doctor accepted her choice, and let her drive them to their deaths, so they would only exist in the other timeline.

Timeline 1:
But of course, once they were all here, they realized the nature of the trap. Neither timeline was real. WHOOPS. They broke this timeline as well and returned to reality.

Timeline 1: (For real, this time)
The Doctor claimed that the whole thing happened because of some hallucinogenic pollen that had gotten into the Tardis, but rather than let them question him, he made sure that Rory realized how it was that Amy knew that 1.5 wasn't real. He left them to be mushy while dealing with his own demons.

~ Promised an adventure, they went to another planet that seemed... well... rather boring and like Earth at first. amy whined at the Doctor, but he was too interested in the odd feel of the ground and taste of the grass to listen. Amy and Rory saw themselves on a distant hill, realizing it was their future and waved. Their future selves waved back.

~ The drilling being done in the settlement, and yep, it was Earth, was threatening some sleeping aliens under the planet's surface, and the aliens came up to take revenge. The Doctor tried to broker peace, but members of both sides insisted on fighting.

~ Down in the caverns... they found a crack in time and space, just like the other cracks. While they were investigating it, one of the aliens shot Rory. Killing him. (Rory kill count: 2) he fell into the crack, and ceased to have ever been. (Rory kill count: 0???? Never existing count: 1) The Doctor got Amy away and they resolved the war peacefully, but when Amy went to wave at her past self, she was alone. Both of her. And the Doctor was concerned as Amy returned to the Tardis, because where she remembered the clerics, and the Angels... she didn't remember Rory.

~ Intending to investigate the cracks, the Doctor and Amy wound up meeting a haunted Vincent Van Gogh. They befriended him, found that not all of his insanity was insanity, and helped deal with the alien incursion. Again. It's what they do. Then they took Van Gogh into the future/present to see that while he was scorned and reviled in his time, he was revered in Amy's. They found a painting of his in the museum with her name hidden in it.

~ Amy was then dropped off in England with mysterious instructions when the Tardis malfunctioned, leaving notes for the Doctor, and having a weird sense of someone trying to get her attention while she waited for him to fix things and return to her. (sorry, the Lodger was an episode where Amy barely got involved)

~ Once that was settled, they popped off to ancient Rome, because River had defaced an ancient cliff face to leave the Doctor a message. She was posing as Cleopatra, and presented the Doctor and Amy with a scroll. Opening it, it was a painting Van Gogh had done... if the Tardis exploding.

~ The Pandorica was nearby, and while the Doctor was certain it was a fairytale, he agreed to go with them to investigate it, so as to avoid discussing the exploding Tardis. So they borrowed horses from the Romans and rode off to the Underhenge under Stonehenge to find the Pandorica. It was actually there, and there was evidence that there had been Cybermen, among others, near it in the past.

River found evidence that there were ships amassing in space overhead, every foe of the Doctor's that could fly was there. The Doctor gave a truly impressive speech to buy time, and River went to get help. (She went to the Romans and was found out for a liar, but one Roman volunteered to send his squad anyway, and she went to amy's time, following a lead. There she found a bunch of
amy's childhood things - a book about Pandora's box, a book about the Roman empire, and a photo of her and Rory at Halloween, where Rory was dressed up as a Roman. While this is not information Amy has, it is very relevant.)

While River was off, and the Doctor was trying to figure out the Pandorica, Amy was cornered by what was left of a Cyberman. She hid, but was trapped in the Underhenge until one of the Romans shoved his sword through her attacker, pinning it to the door. She fainted as he walked in. The Roman... was Rory.

Amy woke up above ground, surrounded by "hot Romans" and then Rory came and found her. She didn't know why he seemed familiar, or why she felt happy, or why she was crying. But she sat with him and they talked while drama happened with both the Doctor below and River in the Tardis.

All the Romans around them reacted to some signal Amy didn't notice, but she saw Rory fighting to keep control, and that snapped her memory back. She remembered him, and tried to help him hold on to himself. He tried to pull away, knowing he was deadly, knowing he loved her and would do anything to protect her, but she clung. The programing took hold for just a moment, but just a moment was all it needed. The gun in Rory's hand activated, and he shot her. She fell against him, dying in his arms...

Timeline two: (confused yet? It gets worse. GERONIMO!)
~ Amelia Pond was a little girl in Scotland living with her Aunt Sharon. She had no parents, she had no friends. What she did have was a persistent hallucination. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Amelia Pond believed in a thing called stars. She painted pictures of a night sky full of stars, even when her shrink and her aunt brought her outside to look at the empty night sky. There were no stars. But she kept painting them, worrying her aunt.

One night while her aunt was fretting that she was going to grow up and join "one of those star cults", an odd hand shoved a pamphlet through the door. It was for a museum exhibit about the Pandorica. There was a note written on it "Come along, Pond" and the exhibit information was circled.

Amelia convinced her Aunt Sharon to take her to the museum, but Amelia ignored all the exhibits - including a Dalek - to look for the Pandorica. When she found it, someone swiped her soda, and left her a note to stick around. She hid in one of the other exhibits until the museum closed.

Little Amelia crept back out and touched the Pandorica. It opened and she found herself staring at an adult Amy Pond.

Timeline 1 + 2:
Amy warned Amelia that things were about to get weird. Then Amy went and looked at the exhibit about the Pandorica, where it talked about the guardian of the Pandorica, the Last Centurion. How for 2000 years, the last Centurion was said to have protected the box, but that he, whoever he was, mysteriously vanished recently, and was presumed dead. As the Doctor arrived, and was not the Centurion, there was only one person it could be.

Amy, Amelia, and the Doctor heard someone coming and braced themselves. It was a museum guard, made of plastic, with a gun in his hand. RORY. Much snogging then followed while the Doctor told them to get a room.

But the light from the Pandorica hit the Dalek and started to revive it. They ran. As they ran, they pieced together all the things that had to happen to make this work. When Amelia mentioned the notes, the Doctor popped off to write them and put them where they needed to be using a Vortex Manipulator to travel through what remained of time. The universe was shrinking. Rapidly. The Earth was "the last light to fade" but it was dying. Amelia said she was thirsty, and the Doctor popped back and fetched her her own soda. When Rory explained how Amy had gotten into the Pandorica - the Doctor said that as the perfect prison, you couldn't even die in there, so it would heal her - they had trouble believing that time and space were really shrinking. Until the Doctor pointed out that Amelia was gone.

Timeline 1 + 1.8:
As they tried to avoid the Dalek, the Doctor appeared at the top of the stairs, and fell down them. The Doctor from timeline 1 rushed over, heard what himself from the future - 8 minutes in the future - had to say, and told them that the Doctor was dead. They had 8 minutes to save the world. Again.

Timeline 1:
They made their way to the roof, where it was bright as day outside. The Doctor pointed out that if all the stars were gone, that light couldn't be the sun. It was apparently the exploding Tardis. He popped in, got River, and popped her out to freedom. Amy helped River shoot the Doctor's fez off of his head, because that was, of course, the priority at that moment.

Timeline 1 becomes 1.8:

The Dalek popped up, and shot the Doctor. He used the vortex manipulator to teleport back. Amy and Rory explained that the Doctor was dead. River sent them on ahead and dealt with the Doctor. When they went to where the Doctor's body as, it was gone. River asked them who told them that the Doctor was dead. They said that the Doctor had told them, and River told them "Rule one: the Doctor lies."

They found the Doctor in the Pandorica, dying, but not yet dead. He had an insane plan to fly the Pandorica, with it's trapped moment of reality, into the Tardis, to restart the universe. Big Bang Two. The problem was, the only way it would work was for him and the Tardis to be trapped on the other side. He said his last goodbyes, told Amy that if she remembered her parents while he did this thing, they could come back, then flew the Pandorica off.

Timeline 3:
~Amelia Jessica Pond grew up with her parents in Leadworth. She woke up on her wedding day, unsure why she was so excited to see her mum and dad, but she knew that she was, and she clung to them. She called Rory, and asked if he felt like anything was off or odd, but he couldn't think of anything.

Chalking it up to jitters, Amy got dressed for her big day. Lovely ceremony we never see on screen, then as her father stood to make the toast, Amy saw a woman walking past the reception hall. River Song. A woman she never would have met, hadn't met, because there was no Doctor here.

A gift had been delivered for her, River's diary, but it was blank. The combination of the Tardis blue diary and the sight of River passing triggered Amy's memory. Having grown up with the crack in the universe pouring into her head, as the Doctor told her, she could remember things that had been un-done. Things that had never been, but for her had once been.

And she remembered the Doctor, and the Tardis, and her memory was strong enough that she was able to call him back through the closed cracks, summoning him to her wedding. "How could we have forgotten the Doctor?" Rory asked, stunned.

They explained to their wedding guests that this was her imaginary friend, come back, even though in this timeline she hadn't met him as a kid. Yet somehow she did. Wibbly Wobbly, Timey wimey, stuff.

~ For Amy, Rory, River. and the Doctor, they all remembered Timelines 1 and 2, but no one else did. The Doctor tried to say goodbye on their wedding night, but Amy and Rory decided to go with him anyway.

~ For their honeymoon, the Doctor took Rory and Amy onto a luxury space liner, the honeymoon suite. (We later find out they spend the night after their wedding on the Tardis, and it is unclear if that was before the space liner, or because of the issues with the space liner) However, before they'd been there terribly long there were alarms and that ship started having difficulty, falling into the atmosphere of a planet whose very sky was a huge fog belt full of fish and sharks, and controlled by a rather scrooge like man who kept cryogenically frozen people as collateral on loans.

Amy called the Doctor for help, and the Doctor tried, but was less than reassuring, next thing she knew, she was called upon to act as the ghost of christmas present via hologram, while still in her kissogram cop uniform that she had been wearing in the honeymoon suite (Rory, of course, was a Roman)

The Doctor filled her in on what she needed to know - Kazran hated christmas and was willing to let them all die, to let the ship crash; that the man was afraid of his long dead father still; that the Doctor had gone back and spent christmases with him and one of the collateral people, Abigail; and that abruptly Kazran told the Doctor he was too old for Christmas and he was done with the Doctor, despite having seemed to enjoy their holidays and being clearly in love with Abigail.

So Amy tried to explain things to the old grump, along with hologram projections of the people on the ship singing Christmas carols, to put faces to the people he was going to just let die like they didn't matter.

But Amy found out why he stopped the Christmases. Why he kept Abigail locked in cryosleep when he could let her out at any time. Because Abigail entered the sleep while she was ill, dying. She has only one day left to live, and Kazran asked Amy "How do I choose which day?"

When Amy expressed sympathies, he got bitter and said it was good that they were all going to die. So, ticked off, Amy had Rory widen the beam, so that Kazran now seemed to be inside the bridge of the crashing ship with her and Rory, so he can see their pain and fear and desperation for himself. She had the Doctor on communicator, and when Kazran started calling for the Doctor, Rory cut the hologram.

The ship was crashing, time was up and then... And then there was singing. Not the singing the Doctor had her tell the people of the ship to try to resonate with the crystals in the storm, but... a different voice. From outside the ship. And it calmed the storm. They weren't crashing any more.

"Can you land?" the captain asked.
"I can even land well," the pilot replied.

Amy and Rory found the Doctor after the landing and got back into the Tardis, leaving Kazran and Abigail to enjoy their last Christmas together.

~ They flew around a bit, then the Doctor popped the Ponds home for a few months. Said he'd keep in touch. In that time, Amy found a lot of references in history books that she was convinced was the Doctor being deliberately ridiculous as a way to wave at them through time. While she and Rory were discussing her findings, an invitation was delivered. Tardis blue envelope with the number 3. Inside was a card with a date, time, and map coordinates.

~ Amy and Rory headed off to meet the Doctor where the invite sent them, Utah, America. They flew across the pond, geared up, and hitchhiked their way to the rendezvous.

The Doctor was there waiting on the hood of an utterly ridiculous red station wagon, wearing a stetson. There was some mild flirting and a lot of hugging, and Rory being adorably jealous. Amy was rather happy. At least until a gunshot rang out, shooting the stetson off of the Doctor's head. River Song had arrived.

They got to a small diner, and watched the Doctor and River coordinate their diaries, discovering that the Doctor was older than Amy had ever known him.

The Doctor got unusually serious, and told them all that it was time for him to stop running and that he needed them all with him. He told them they were having a picnic, then going to space, 1969.

At the picnic the Doctor revealed, if he wasn't lying, that he was 1103 years old. They knew him when he was in his early 900s. Confused and concerned by the age difference Amy glanced up and saw something, a shadowy figure in silhouette, but as soon as she looked away... she forgot. The Doctor mentions almost immediately after that a lot more gets done in 69 than anyone remembers.

A car drives up, and the Doctor waves to the older man who climbed out of it, but looks horrified. Which was when River called their attention to a NASA space suit climbing out of the lake, heading towards them. The Doctor told them all to stay back, and that they're not to interfere, no matter what. Then he headed off towards the astronaut, alone.

Amy watched, with River and Rory, as the Astronaut lifted its visor, though from the distance she couldn't see who was in the helmet, then shot the Doctor. As he began regenerating, the astronaut shot him again. When Amy tried to run to him, Rory and River held her back, River yelling that the Doctor said that they had to stay back. By the time River let Amy and Rory - who is a NURSE - run towards the Doctor, the astronaut was heading back into the lake and it was too late. The Doctor was dead.

Distraught Amy missed the fact that River, who had shot a stetson off the Doctor's head hours before without ruffling his hair, emptied her gun after the astronaut without hitting it a single time. Missed that River seemed a little too aware of what as going on.

River told the sobbing Amy that the Doctor had been killed in the middle of his regeneration cycle, he was completely dead. Amy desperately sought other possibilities "maybe he's a clone or a duplicate or something..." The old man joined them, carrying a gas can. He assured them that this was most certainly the Doctor, and that he had been instructed to bring the gasoline.

They put the Doctor's body on a boat, and used the gasoline to make a funeral pyre, destroying all that was left of him, utterly.

The old man showed that he had an envelope like theirs. His had the number 4. River had 2. Amy and Rory had 3. The man introduced himself as Canton Everett Delaware the third. "I won't be seeing you again, but.. you'll be seeing me." And with those cryptic words, he left.

They got back to the diner, and River and Rory kept trying to figure out the last clues the Doctor left them with, the envelope numbered 1 that was missing, space 1969. Amy was too distraught to think about that, too broken inside and kept telling them to shut up, but they wouldn't. And then Rory found what they were missing. The envelope with the 1 on the back sitting open next to a bottle of soda. As River was trying to figure out who the Doctor invited, who he trusted the most, the bathroom door opened, revealing the Tardis... and the Doctor. Alive, well, and utterly confused.

After some very confused hugs, Rover told Amy to ask his age, and the Doctor answered. 909. This was the Doctor almost 200 years than the one they just watched die.

They all agreed, silently and quickly, not to tell the Doctor, yet. Which mostly meant letting River talk. She told the Doctor that they were recruited to go to 1969, space, and Canton Everett Delaware the third. The three of them hid under the Tardis console while the Doctor tinkered about above them, speaking quietly as River explained that this Doctor did not, and could not know about his death, about what they'd seen, no matter what. It would rip a hole in the universe were he to interact with his past self, even just through them.

Amy: He's done it before!
Rory: And in fairness, the universe did blow up...

The Doctor called them back up to the control room, told them he had the date figured, but they weren't going. Proceeded to be a big baby about the fact that they were clearly keeping a secret from him. They told him he had to just go, and trust them. But he refused to trust River, and wouldn't trust Amy until she swore on something important. She swore on fish fingers and custard. And where he wouldn't trust River, he agreed to trust Amy.

They appeared in the Oval office, and the Doctor went and got himself in trouble with the secret service, when they came out to help, he claimed they were all undercover operatives from Scotland Yard and gave them each a code name. Amy was "the legs".

The Doctor talked Canton and Nixon into giving them five minutes and a whole mess of maps of Florida, because the president had been phoned by a little girl afraid of a spaceman. While trying to figure things out, Amy saw a tall slender alien with a large head. Looking at it, she remembered seeing the last one. But Rory got in her line of sight, and she forgot again. Suddenly Amy felt ill, and was escorted to a bathroom.

In the bathroom, she saw another of the aliens and watched it kill someone. She got a picture of it on her phone, realizing she'd just forget it again when she looked away. The alien told her that she must tell the Doctor what he must know, and what he must never know.

She raced out of the bathroom, confused, phone out, not sure why, saying she had to tell the Doctor, but she didn't know what or why she said that... Once they got back though, things moved quickly, and they popped off in the Tardis to find the little girl, and things felt... right... again. Amelia Pond, with the Doctor and Rory, in the Tardis, having adventures and saving children.

Amy got the idea that if they killed the astronaut in 1969 - they found parts of the space suit alongside clearly alien tech - they could stop it from killing the Doctor in 2011. River told Amy no, because that would cause a paradox.

Amy was still determined, and after talking to Canton, she tried to tell the Doctor something important, but her stomach started hurting, doubling her over while the child was screaming for help. They found Canton, knocked out, and with the child still calling for help, Amy told the Doctor what she thought he needed to know. She's pregnant.

Which was the moment the space suit walked into the room, visor down so there was no way to know who or what was inside it. The astronaut lifted its hand, like it had when it killed the Doctor and Amy didn't think, she reacted. She grabbed Canton's gun and shot it as the visor was lifting; she didn't see that the person in the suit was a little girl, or hear the girl still calling for help from inside the suit. She panicked and tried to kill the thing that killed her best friend. She shot.

As she fired, she finally saw the little girl, realized what she had just done. She hadn't saved the Doctor's life, but she might have just ended the life of a child... The child they had come to save. The aliens intervened then, and the memories of what happened next were fuzzy. Which is why no one, not even Amy, noticed that she was kidnapped.

From here on, Amy has 2 paths, both of which are - in their own way - real. Amy herself was locked in a sterile facility that ensured she carried her baby to full term, and that the baby was healthy. However, Kovarian, the woman who had her kidnapped, linked her mind to a flesh avatar of herself. The doppelganger (Ganger for short) was wired into Amy's brain. The Ganger thought she was Amy, had no idea she was flesh. The really Amy was experiencing things through the Ganger, thinking she was actually there, unaware that physically she was somewhere else. Throughout the next bit, she'd se occasionally a small window open, and a woman with an eyepatch - Kovarian - peering through, but like with the tall aliens, as soon as that veiw was cut off, she forgot. That was bits of reality checking through as Kovarian checked on the actual Amy's progress.

So the following is timeline 3, Flesh.

The aliens were everywhere. This wasn't an invasion, they had invaded centuries ago, but since no one remembered them, no one knew. The Doctor had a plan and sent Amy, River, and Rory out to gather information. The aliens controlled the FBI. So they let the FBI hunt them down, let the FBI think they killed them once they had the information they needed. The three of them marked their arms and faces with tally marks whenever they saw one of the aliens, to help them remember. They did whatever it took to remember, to make notes and associations.

Canton was with the group that shot Amy in Utah, she presumed he was there for Rory and River too, after all, that was the plan.

They dragged her body and Rory's in bodybags into the most perfect prison ever, fully sealed, nothing could escape, not air, not light, not sound. Once the door was sealed, Canton let them know, and it was safe to get out of the body bags, and in the Doctor's case, the straight jacket and chains. Of course, the Tardis was hidden inside the prison, and they used it to go pick up River. Amy told the Doctor that she had been wrong, she wasn't pregnant. Because she was then 5 months along and still seemed the way she was when she was taken two months in.

The Doctor outfitted them all with small recording devices in their palms and sent them out on assignments. Amy was teamed up with Canton to investigate an orphanage, they were split up to look for the little girl from the space suit, to find out why she's important and protect her. The man running the orphanage was odd, seemingly mentally damaged, thinks it is still before the close of the facility in 1967, thinks there are still children there.

While searching, Amy found one of those windows into reality, but when she came to the door, the window was gone. The room inside, however, was the only non-ruined room in the place. It looked lived in, and there were photos of the girl from the space suit at different ages, including one photo of the girl as an infant.. being held... by Amy herself.

While trying to figure out how that could be her, the space suit returned, coming into the room. When the child lifted the visor, Amy apologized to the crying, terrified little girl. While the girl begged for help, and Amy tried to figure out how to help, or if she even should, two of the aliens came in behind the girl menacingly. They kidnapped Amy. Blinded, unsure where she was, Amy cried and begged and pleaded for help. The aliens had left behind the recording device the Doctor had implanted into her hand, and there was an open link to it, letting them hear everything she said, even though she couldn't hear them.

~After being held for days, lights finally came on and she could see that she was strapped down surrounded by the aliens. They began speaking to her, saying that she will bring the silence. They told her she had been there many days, even though she thought she had just arrived. As they were trying to force her to sleep, the Tardis arrived with the Doctor, Rory, and River. And of course River and the Doctor started flirting to distract the aliens while Rory worked to set her free. She listened to the Doctor babble, trying to get free.

The Doctor showed the aliens the broadcast of the moon landing as it was happening, and his plan was made clear, he had worked the aliens into the recording, to be captured for all times "You should kill us all on sight" telling humans whenever they watch the recording to kill their race every time they see the moon landing.

Rory still couldn't get her out, and she yelled at him to get his stupid face out of there so he wouldn't die too. Which little did she know was when he realized that it was him she had been calling for over the past few days.

Once they were back on the Tardis, she tuned out the Doctor and River's flirting/bickering, because Rory seemed wrong... upset... confused.

AMY: What's the matter with you?
RORY: You called me stupid.
AMY: I always call you stupid.
RORY: No, but my face.
(He shows her the nanorecorder he is holding.)
RORY: I wasn't sure who you were talking about. You know, me or
AMY: Him?
RORY: Well, you did say dropped out of the sky.
AMY: It's a figure of speech, moron.

Then they were on the Tardis, kissing, and as far as Amy knew, everything was right with her world again.

DOCTOR: You're okay?
AMY: Fine. Head's a bit weird. There's loads of stuff I can't quite remember.
DOCTOR: After effect of the Silence. Natural enough. That's not what I was asking. You told me you were pregnant.
AMY: Yes.
DOCTOR: Why?
AMY: Because I was. I mean, I thought I was. It turns out I wasn't.
DOCTOR: No, why did you tell me?
AMY: Because you're my friend. You're my best friend.
DOCTOR: Hmm. Did you tell Rory?
(Rory is listening in on the nanorecorder)
AMY: No.
DOCTOR: Amy, why tell me and not Rory?
AMY: Why do you think? I travelled with you in this Tardis for so long. All that time. If I was pregnant for some of it, wouldn't it have had an effect? I don't want to tell Rory his baby might have three heads or, like, a timehead, or something.
DOCTOR: What's a timehead?
AMY: I don't know, but what if it had one?
DOCTOR: A timehead.
AMY: Shut up. Oi, stupid face.
RORY: (coming back in) Er, yeah? Hello.
AMY: I'm taking that away from you, if you're going to listen in all the time.
RORY: Okay, that's a fair point. But you should've told me that you thought you were pregnant. I'm a nurse. I'm good with pregnancy.
AMY: Not, as it turns out, that good. So please stop being stupid.
RORY: Er, no, never. I'm never, ever, going to stop being stupid.

(Hence her user name, I'm with Stupid. In case you were wondering)

~ Another adventure lands them on a pirate ship somehow trapped in calm waters. Amy, Rory, and the Doctor popped in on them, and discovered the crew was terrified of even the slightest injury. A siren was taking the injured, making them vanish. They could tell who she was going to take because the next victim would have a black spot on the palm of his hand.

Naturally Amy and her boys decided to help, especially once they found out there was a child that had stowed away. Rory wound up injured fell overboard in a storm, and the Doctor stopped Amy from trying to go to him. They had trapped the Siren, but the Doctor released him, sending her after Rory, figuring there was a chance that the victims were all still alive, and that she could be reasoned with. Amy, the Captain, and the Doctor, being the only ones left on the ship all wounded themselves to call the Siren to them.

They awoke in a medbay, discovering that the Siren is a medical AI from an alien ship trapped in a temporal rift. She was following her programming, to save everyone. They found everyone she had taken on medical beds. Everyone was healed, but in a form of stasis. They found Rory and tried to disconnect him, but the Siren tried to stop them. She made Amy sign a consent form of sorts to get permission to unhook him. But once unhooked, she wasn't keeping him in stasis, his body was still drowning. Amy had to give him mouth to mouth to save his life, Rory had to teach her while hooked up to the machine. She was terrified, but he said "I trust you" and she asked why she had to be the one to do it.

AMY: What about him? I mean, why do I have to be the one? Why do I have to save you?
RORY: Because I know you'll never give up.

Like a fairy tale, Amy kissed her Rory back to life, successfully performing CPR. (Potentially another Rory death as he was not hooked up to monitoring equipment so hard to tell of his brain ceased.)

~ While discussing a previous adventure that involved removing the head of a king, there was a knock on the Tardis door, in deep space. A cube that was the Time Lord emergency messaging system. The Doctor was convinced there was a good Time Lord left alive, outside the universe. They burned rooms in the Tardis to escape the universe to find the signal.

They landed on a living asteroid called House, and Amy fretted after the Doctor's desperation for forgiveness. The Doctor sent Amy and Rory back to the Tardis for his sonic, then locked them in.

House started to eat the Tardis, with Amy and Rory inside. But House decided to take over the Tardis instead and asked Amy and Rory why it should let them live. Rory convinced House that it would be more fun to let them live, that they'd be entertaining.

House sent them running through the Tardis, changing rooms, altering gravity, and making Amy think that it had altered time to the extent that Rory lived a hundred years and died of old age without her, died hating her. (There are reasons why at this point maintaining the Rory kill count is almost impossible. Does this even count?) Rory does not remember this, but Amy remembers him screaming "how could you leave me?" she remembers his terror and pain and anger. She remembers a corridor full of his scrawling writing "Kill Amy", but then he arrived, as she remembered him, and the writing and his corpse vanished.

The Tardis in a human body communicated with them psychically to tell them how to get to the console to lower the shields. Amy was in the dark while Rory could see, and he left her to check something, leaving her to walk into an Ood.

The pass key was sent to Rory, but Amy was the one who needed to use it, to imagine all the parts of it. Crimson Delight 11 Petrichor.

House sent the Ood, Nephew, to kill Amy and Rory as the Doctor and the odd woman reappeared in the Tardis. The Doctor introduced the woman to Amy as the Tardis. "Did you wish really hard?" Amy asked.

Amy struggled and watched as the Doctor negotiated with House and Rory tended to the Tardis. House tried to delete them but the fail safe dropped them into the main control room. The Doctor dragged Amy into stalling for time while the Tardis' flesh body died, releasing her back into the Tardis itself. She forced House out. She used a projection to say hello.

Rory said that at the end she kept repeating "The only water in the forest is the river," and that they'd need to know that some day.

When the Doctor offered to make them a new bedroom, Amy asked to please have a room without a bunk bed for once. Amy and Rory went off to examine their new room, giving the Doctor some time alone with the Tardis control room.

~ They landed on an odd island not long after that where people working in a dangerous factory used flesh doubles, dopplegangers (gangers for short) to do dangerous work. They hooked into harnesses to control the gangers completely, without worry for what this would do to the Flesh, as they could always create a new ganger at need.

The Doctor insisted to all of them that the Gangers were alive, that they were pouring their lives and souls into the Gangers. And the Flesh scanned him.

And the Doctor kept telling Amy to breathe.

The solar storm hit while the whole crew was in their harnesses, and the Doctor ran off to try to stop the solar flares from destroying the solar powered factory. But a shock ripped through everyone in their harnesses, and the Gangers were on the loose, unconnected to their humans.

The Gangers started pushing for acknowledgment of themselves as a life form, and the Doctor tried to broker peace between the Gangers and ors humans they were created from. Amy listened to the arguments between the Doctor and the humans, about if the Gangers were alive, and how much rights they should have to what they think are their own lives.

Amy and Rory found themselves on opposite sides. Rory wanted to protect the Ganger Jen, but Amy was freaked out by the Gangers. She was on the side of the original humans. They got seperated when Rory went off to find and rescue Jen, unclear which Jen, while the Gangers were after them since human Cleves shot Ganger Buzz dead.

Then the Doctor's Ganger showed up. Both Doctors got along with each other at once, willing to work together, but Amy didn't trust the Ganger Doctor, and was creeped out by him.

Both Doctors kept telling Amy to breathe, and after dealing with heavy gas, she said that she thought she coughed so hard she pulled a muscle.

As soon as Amy had a way to know which Doctor was the Doctor - the shoes - she told the Ganger to not call her Pond and started treating him coldly. Even after the Doctors swapped shoes without telling her. She treated the real Doctor with derision, thinking he was the Ganger.

Amy told what she thought was the Ganger about seeing the Doctor dying, and he flipped out, about the Gangers, and she took that as proof that he wasn't the Doctor and she hated the "fake" him even more than ever.

The Doctor told Amy about the swap, when she was so sure that she knew which was which and was desperate to safe the fake when she thought he was the real. She hugged the Ganger Doctor to say goodbye and her told her "Push, Amy, but only when she tells you" confusing Amy.

The Doctor said that he had to see the early days of the technology, to learn if the Flesh was viable, if they were real. The Doctor took the remaining miners and Gangers to the mainland, to be with their families, and to broker a peace between Humans and Gangers.

The Doctor kept insisting she needed to breathe while Amy doubled over in abdominal pain. The Doctor had Rory help her into the Tardis and explained that Amy, still stick thin, was going into labor. That she was having contractions. Confused, Amy listened as the Doctor explained that he needed to see the early Flesh technology to learn how to block the signal to the Flesh. The signal... to Amy. Amy watched, terrified, as Rory backed away from her, leaving her facing the Doctor alone. "Doctor, I am frightened. I am properly properly scared." The Doctor promised to find her, then melted her Flesh Avatar.

Timeline 3, Real Amy.
~ Amy opened her eyes in a white room with white walls, the face that had been staring at her through windows in walls and doors for months told her to push. And so Amy had her baby in a very sterile little cell, without her freedom, under the watchful eye (singular, of course,) of the eyepatched Madam Kovarian.

~ Amy knew Rory and the Doctor would find her, and she used what little time she was allowed with her daughter each day to reassure the infant. She told little Melody Pond all the stories she could about her father and how he was coming, and about the Doctor and how he was coming as well, and how they would save the both of them. She threatened Kovarian, and tried to keep her baby, but she didn't want her baby in the middle of a fire fight, and Kovarian always arrived with heavily armed guards.

AMY: I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved, that you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't a time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody is very, very brave. But not as brave as they'll have to be. Because there's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way. There's a man who's never going to let us down, and not even an army can get in the way. He's the last of his kind. He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you will never be alone. Because this man is your father. He has a name, but the people of our world know him better as the Last Centurion.

~After Amy and Melody had been in captivity for a month, Amy was watching the gathered army have their rally about how they were going to kill the Doctor. One soldier, a woman named Lorna Bucket, came to offer Amy a token. A prayer leaf she hand sewed for her, with the name of her child in the language of the Forest. She told Amy all about the cultural significance, but she was too worried about her daughter and tired and ticked off and frustrated and scared to be appreciative. But she did start talking to Lorna about the Doctor, and about how the army is reacting to him. Amy was so confused at Lorna referring to the Doctor as a dark legend, and they bonded over waiting for the Doctor, and Amy accepted the leaf and advised Lorna to choose the right side by the time the Doctor arrives.

Amy was overjoyed when the Doctor crashed the rally. And then some of the best words she ever heard were called out to her. "Amelia Pond! Get your coat!" then the lights went out, and she knew he was coming. She watched the army freak out and nearly destroy themselves, trying to kill him. Amy cheered as the Doctor seemed to be sweeping the army. She didn't see Rory, but she knew where he had to be, what he had to be doing.

When Amy heard a pounding on the door, she thought someone might be coming to try to move her before she could be rescued. She grabbed the closest thing to a weapon she could find - an electric toothbrush - and menaced the closed door, shouting threats through it. But it was Rory, trying to figure out how to open the lock.

Rory. With Melody.

They were reunited, and had a bit of banter of her name, if it was Melody Pond or Melody Williams. Vastra came in to announce that the troops were leaving, that they had won without a drop of blood spilled. (Clearly friendly fire did not count.)

They took the Tardis down to a lower level and put the baby in the Doctor's old cradle. The Doctor ran off to see what Vastra had found, but while he was gone Strax found Lorna and dragged her in. Lorna tried to warn them that this was a trap. And she was right. Just as Vastra and Maldavar joined them, the headless monks attacked. Everyone formed up to defend Amy and Melody. Amy sat hidden behind equipment, holding her baby, listening to the battle. And then suddenly her baby wasn't in her arms. She was covered in the liquid form of the Flesh. Her baby wasn't her baby.

Amy was there, among the carnage and the death, and all of it for nothing. Kovarian had her baby. And they had no clue where she was. Strax was possibly dying, Lorna was dying for certain. Amy was with Rory and the Doctor sat with Lorna, as she died.

And just as the Doctor said he was giving up... River appeared. River who was the only friend who adventured with them who hand't showed up. She told Amy "I know you're not alright, but hold tight, Amy, you're going to be." River then turned and gave the Doctor a dressing down, showing him the monster he was becoming, how this was all because they were afraid of him, that Melody was kidnapped to become a weapon to use against him, because of how the universe now sees him. "And all of this, my love, in fear of you."

When the Doctor insisted that River tell him who she is, finally, River dodged, dancing back to the cradle, claiming she hadn't seen it in a very long time. The Doctor insisted that she tell him who she is, and she insisted that she was telling him. Suddenly he started acting all silly and goofy, then he promised Amy and Rory that he knew where Melody was and on his life she would be safe. He flew off in his Tardis, leaving River to explain things to Amy and to Rory and to get everyone home.

Amy then went after River, furious, and drew her gun on her, demanding to know what River had told the Doctor. River told Amy that the translation was slow because it was written. She handed her the prayer leaf and put it in her hand, wrapping her hand around Amy's.

RIVER: It's your daughter's name in the language of the Forest.
AMY: I know my daughter's name.
RIVER: Except they don't have a word for Pond, because the only water in the forest is the River. The Doctor will find your daughter, and he will care for her whatever it takes. And I know that. It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.

The prayer leaf, which had said, she supposed, Melody Pond, one word on either side, now read so that Amy could read it River Song. Because as the Tardis told them, the only water in the forest is the river...

(Being vague where I can about the next part because it is potentially VERY triggery)
~ After waiting all summer for the Doctor to find Melody, and having him neither return nor answer his phone, Amy and Rory used a car to create a crop circle in the shape of the word Doctor. He showed up in the O but while they were talking Rory noticed that the picture of the crop circle had a strike through they didn't do, which was when their friend Mels nearly ran them all over in a stolen car. Being chased by the cops, Mels held up the Doctor at gunpoint and said that since she had a gun and he had a time machine, they should go back in time and stop WWII.

Inside the Tardis, on their way to Germany the Doctor tried to get Mels to put down her gun by telling her it was pointless, because the inside of the Tardis was in a state of temporal grace and the gun wouldn't work. Intrigued, she shot. Guess what? the Doctor lied. They crashed, right time, right place bad entrance, accidentally saving the man that Mels had brought them there to kill. Or, rather, they thought that was her target.

When the man they stopped from killing the man they were after got up and shot at the target, he fired back, missed his shot... and hit Mels instead. The shooter fainted and they locked the target in a cupboard and had to deal with Mels bleeding out. Desperate to keep her alive, Amy, The Doctor, and Rory sat with her, talking to her, doing anything they could to keep her talking and with them. Amy could only hope Rory was doing something medical to help, the Doctor was talking, mostly. Mels went on about the stories Amy used to tell her, and about how she dreamed she;d marry the Doctor one day. The Doctor told her fine, she survives this, they'd get married. So Mels smiled and asked if he should get her parents permission first. The Doctor agreed that as soon as she's well, she'd ring them on the phone. Mels pointed out that there was no need, they were right there. And... then she regenerated. Into River Song.

AMY: Okay, Doctor, explain what is happening, please.
DOCTOR: Mels. Short for
MELS: Melody.
AMY: Yeah. I named my daughter after her.
DOCTOR: You named your daughter after your daughter.
MELS: It took me years to find you two. I'm so glad I did. And you see? It all worked out in the end, didn't it. You got to raise me after all.
AMY: You're Melody?

Mels then proceeded to dance with the Doctor, where dance means a battle of wits and words that ended with a poisoned kiss. Then she jumped out of the window. The Doctor, dying, assured Amy and Rory that he'd be alright, sent them after their daughter.

Rory punched out a solider, stole his motorbike, and they rode off until they found a party full of people running for their lives. Clearly this was where Mels/Melody/River was. Before they could go in after her, however, a false Amy rode up. A miniaturization ray hit them, and they wound up inside the Tesselecta, a shape shifting robot that punishes the worst criminals in history. They had been after the man Mels claimed to be after, until they spotted Mels. River Song, the woman who kills the Doctor.

Amy and Rory were given clearance aboard the Tesselecta so that it wouldn't kill them, and were brought to the bridge in time to watch the Doctor try to talk the crew out of punishing River. When he fails, they start torturing her again. The Doctor tells Amy to find a way to stop them, to save her daughter. She uses the sonic to revoke everyone's privileges, to get the antibodies riled up so they'll be too busy trying to survive to hurt Mels.

Of course it worked... but left them running for their lives inside the robot, as the only to people left when the crew got an emergency beam out.

The Tardis appeared around them, but it wasn't the Doctor, it was Mels. "The Doctor says I'm the child of the Tardis. What does he mean?" Mels brought them back, and Amy and Rory and tried to figure out how to save the Doctor, but he asked to speak to their daughter. They stepped back to let Mels through, and listened as the Doctor told Mels to find River Song.

Mels stood back after hearing him whisper to her, and asked Amy who River Song is. Amy told the Tessalecta to show them River Song, and Amy turned to see Mels seeing herself. She watched the look on her daughter's face. She asked Mels what the message for River song was, but instead of answering, River approached the Doctor, her hands glowing, and asked Amy if the Doctor was worth it.

Amy grasped the offered lifeline and assured Mels that yes, the Doctor is worth it. She watched as her daughter, glowing with regeneration energy knelt and kissed the Doctor, pouring her remaining regenerations into him, saving his life.

~ The Doctor helped them get Mels/River to a hospital where she would be safe. Amy and Rory sat with her as she woke up. Amy watched the Doctor gift River her journal while she slept. And she and Rory sat with her for a bit longer. Then they went back to the Tardis, upset that they're supposed to just leave her there, but the Doctor assures them that too much foreknowledge will be dangerous for her.

~ Rory and Amy ask the question... whose murder is River in prison for? The Doctor doesn't answer. Which is possibly answer enough.

~ A message came in on the psychic paper, "please save me from the monsters." They tracked it to an apartment building, and split up to figure out which apartment it was coming from. With minimal luck. One moment Amy and Rory are in the lift, figuring they may never find this kid, the next they are in a creepy odd house with no electricity and cast iron pans that are made of... wood?

~ Unfortunately for them, they're not the only things in the dollhouse, and they wind up chased by wooden dollies that want them to come play. They watch the dollies turn a man into another doll, and flee from that fate. But they can only evade it so long before Amy is caught and.... turned into a doll. Not quite a death, but she's no longer Amy as she joins the pack of dolls hunting for Rory to make him one of them.

~ One moment, she's hunting the little boy in a stair filled foyer, and the next... she's stepping off the lift with Rory, back in the apartment building...

Amy: Was I?
Rory: Yeah...

And now this one has it's own pair of timelines, we'll call them A and B for simplicity sake...

~A&B - The Doctor promised them a wonderful tourist mecca planet, but they arrived in a sterile white waiting room with what looked like two elevators. Having forgotten her camera phone in the Tardis, Amy dashed back in while the Doctor and Rory went on ahead. They wound up in different rooms, able to see each other through a large view glass.

She heard a robot enter on the boys' side. "Welcome to the two streams facility, will you be visiting long?" She tried to see what was going on, but she lost the feed. She tried to get out of the room, but couldn't. She explored the room, constantly checking the glass again, hoping to get the signal back. It took a week. When the signal finally came back, the Doctor told her she was fine, then wandered off to deal with Rory and a hand robot. Ignoring Amy asking him where he's been all this time.

The connection held just long enough for her to be told she's in a faster time stream, then she lost the connection.

When the connection came back after a disturbingly boring long wait, Rory asked which button she pressed. When she said she pressed the red waterfall, he headed out of the room, exasperated, to press the same button. When he pressed the button, he didn't see her. The hand bot informed them that this is a kindness facility for people who have the one day plague.

The Doctor was relieved when the bot told him they were in a sterile visiting area, talking about how he was safe. Amy smacked the glass and asked "what about me" but he assured her as a human, having only one heart, she was immune. The Doctor asked what she ate for that week, she said she hadn't been hungry. The doctor surmised that the purpose of the time glass was to sync up compressed time, so that those with the one day plague could feel as though they live a full life in that one day, and die of old age instead, while their loved ones could spend the one day visiting with them and watch them live their whole lives in fits and starts.

The Doctor said it was wonderful, because it was a choice. You could sit by their bedside for 24 hours and watch your loved one die... or come here and sit and watch them live. Then the time glass vanished, leaving Amy in the room, utterly alone.

~After a bit, she heard his voice again, though she could no longer see him. He told her he was taking the time glass back to the Tardis, to use it to lock onto her signal so they can come save her.

The Doctor told her to go to the facility and find a safe place to wait. To remember that she's immune to the plague but not to any medicines the handbots might administer. "Remember, their kindness will kill you." She pressed the check in button and walked through the doors, then turned back. "Rory, I love you. Now save me. Go on."

~ Amy wandered a while, through disturbingly empty areas clearly designed to hold hundreds of people or more. Reception areas, areas clearly meant for orientation videos and help desks. It looked a bit like a car rental place at an airport merged with a school social center. A light from the ceiling welcomed her to Two Streams and introduced itself as an interface between her and the systems.

A screen flickered on and a recording of a woman dressed rather like an old fashioned flight attendant told her about some of the fun features of their world, provided for her, with kindness.

She went outside, where it looked even more like an empty airport terminal and found a handbot. When she asked it for help, he decided she needed to be inoculated, like it or not, leaving her to hide. When it missed shooting her with an inoculation dart, more handbots appeared.

Amy fled, but wherever she hid, the computer always flushed her out, if she managed to evade the handbots. She climbed into a steam vent, hoping to climb up the inside, but she couldn't, however the steam kept the handbots from being able to detect her, and they left.

~ She made her way to a room with several doors, and asked the interface some questions. The Interface told her she was at the gate, leading to the entertainment zones. She chose the archway for the garden and headed out. By asking the right questions, she got the interface to give her information it was not supposed to give her - where she could hide from the handbots. She learned the exhaust from the temporal engines mess up the handbots ability to sense her, and found out where that would be.

Handbots showed up before she could leave the garden and tried to inoculate her, and she discovered that she could put their hands together to neutralize them. She ran back to the arrivals building and checked it out. The engines were where the interface said they would be, so she went out and left a note for the Doctor on the door in lipstick, then headed inside to hide.

And here the timelines split.

A - Amy waited. She waited and she waited and she waited. But the Doctor didn't come. Rory didn't come. She learned to survive. She learned how to get what she needed and how to stay hidden. She learned how to disarm the handbots, and even kept one as a sort of pet. She called it Rory. She created a sonic probe based on the sonic screwdriver, and learned to hack the handbots. She found a sword and learned to use it. She found armor and learned to wear it.

Soon after she arrived, a time glass appeared and she saw an older version of herself. She hear Rory tell her that he was there, but at a different time. The older Amy told her that Rory and the Doctor left her, that she's still there because they didn't save her, that they flew away and left her. But she refused to believe Rory would ever leave her. She said that something had to have stopped Rory, and older Amy admitted something had. Her. She was refusing to help. She explains that when she had been younger, old her had refused to help because the last 36 years of her life would be rewritten and cease to exist. "That's why the old me refused to help then. That's why I'm refusing to help now. And that's why you'll refuse to help when it is your turn."

She encountered Rory - actual Rory, not handbot Rory - when he came to save her. More than 36 years after she arrived by her reckoning. She said it was harder to be charitable towards the Doctor as time went on, and that she now hates him more than she's ever hated anyone in her life.

She led Rory away after deactivating two more handbots, and listened to him go on about how wrong this is. She turned and snapped at him "I got old, Rory, what did you think was going to happen. But he grabbed her arm and told her that he didn't care that she got old, that what bothered him is that they didn't grow old together.
She brought Rory back and let him meet handbot Rory. She even considered putting on lipstick, battling between the hard shell she had to build around herself to survive, and the girl within who spent 36 years missing her husband.

She led Rory through what she'd made of a life, fighting with her conflicting emotions. He managed to get her to laugh, at the Doctor's expense, and she said she thought it was the first time she'd laughed in 36 years.

Rory left her with the brainy specs the Doctor had made him wear as a communications device, and wandered off, nearly getting himself killed. Amy saved him, and The Doctor said he figured out how to save Amy, before she went through all of this, back in her past. Amy flatly refused to help.

"Why won't you help yourself?" Rory asked her. She pointed out that if the Doctor rescued her in her past, she - as she was - would cease to exist. Everything she was and had done would be erased from history. She says that since they came to rescue her, they should just rescue her. Make their Amy wait the 36 years she waited, so that who she becomes is who is rescued.

Rory turned the time glass so that old Amy could see young Amy, so that they could talk, in hope that would get her to agree to save young Amy. He soniced the glass so the Amys could see each other.

Amy refused to help, explaining what had been said when she had been on the other side of this glass, how there was nothing that younger her could say to change this cycle. That she had been refused, and was in turn refusing, and that the younger Amy would in her turn refuse.

And then younger amy pulled a low blow. "What about Rory?" Against her will, she found herself talking about Rory with her younger self, remembering their youth and why she fell in love with him in the first place.

AMY: You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for a boy.
Young AMY: You're Amy, he's Rory, and oh yes, I am.

Amy cut the connection, steadied herself, then came out. As soon as she saw Rory's stupid beautiful face, her resolve firmed. "I'm going to pull time apart for you."

And then she kissed him. A small, almost hesitant kiss, but her first kiss in 36 years. And it was Rory. He hugged her and she clung to him, crying silently. Then she led him out, and finally addressed the Doctor again.

AMY: Okay, Doctor, Twostreams is back on air. Right, okay, so this is big news. This is temporal earthquake time. I am now officially changing my own future. Hold on to your spectacles. In my past, I saw my future self refuse to help you. I'm now changing that future and agreeing. Every law of time says that shouldn't be possible.
DOCTOR: Yes, except sometimes knowing your own future's what enables you to change it. Especially if you're bloody minded, contradictory and completely unpredictable.
RORY: So basically, if you're Amy, then?
DOCTOR: Yes, if anyone could defeat pre-destiny, it's your wife.

Amy says that she trusts Rory to have her back, that she's doing this for him, but that she has a condition. they take her too. She'll help rescue young Amy if they take both of them out of this place.

The Doctor said, after much hemming and hawing that the Tardis could sustain the paradox, they could save them both. The Doctor told the two Amys that they need to get a signal through from older Amy to younger, they need to share a thought, something strong, something theirs. Something that connects them.

She began to dance the macarena, the dance she was dancing the first time she and Rory kissed.

Then A&B Merged. (Continued on B side)

B - Amy wandered in the exhaust, sobbing, looking for a place to hide. Then suddenly... she heard Rory's voice. There was the sound of a sonic, and the time glass appeared. In it she saw Rory, and an older version of herself.

The older Amy told her that Rory and the Doctor left her, that she's still there because they didn't save her, that they flew away and left her. But she refused to believe Rory would ever leave her. She said that something had to have stopped Rory, and older Amy admitted something had. Her. She was refusing to help. She explains that when she had been younger, old her had refused to help because the last 36 years of her life would be rewritten and cease to exist. "That's why the old me refused to help then. That's why I'm refusing to help now. And that's why you'll refuse to help when it is your turn."

"Three words," amy said to her older self. "What about Rory?"

When older Amy admitted that she called the Robot Rory, Amy pointed out that she didn't call it Doctor, or name it after Biggles, their favorite cat. Amy pressed on, reminding her older self all the small odd memories about Rory, talking about why he is the most beautiful man she's ever met.

Old AMY: You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for a boy.
AMY: You're Amy, he's Rory, and oh yes, I am.

The conversation ended and she felt confidant that she had convinced her older self. She crept back outside, to where she left the note, alert for handbots.

She was told she needed to share a thought, focus on something she and her older self could remember, fully, viscerally. And there was only one thing it could be after their conversation about Rory. Their first kiss... the Macarana.

As she danced she felt...odd. But she kept thinking about Rory and that first kiss, and then suddenly she was there, staring at an older version of herself, also dancing. She took in the view, the armor, the sword, the age lines. "Oh my god" was all she could say. Older her said it at the exact same time.

She hugged Rory and clung to him when she saw him again. Then the two Amys sized each other up again, and started talking, both at the same time, more or less, saying the same things. Rory suggested that Amy 1 speaks first, but... which one was Amy 1?

The paradox broke the brainy specs, ending the argument, sending them running for the Tardis.

They were accosted by handbots. Older Amy was taking them down fine, but she had to advise her younger self.

OLDER AMY: Amy, Kate Hayler, year ten hockey.
AMY: Go for the shins.

With that advice, Amy took down her handbot, and as more appeared, they took an alternate route older Amy knew to try and avoid them. Even as they ran they alternated bickering with each other and flirting with Rory who kept trying to keep the peace between them.

While trying to hack the gate to let them into the gallery where the Tardis is, they became surrounded by handbots. Rory got the gate open finally, and they had to fight their way through the handbots.

Older Amy had their backs, letting Amy and Rory fight less bots to proceed, sending them on ahead so she could keep them from being followed. They made it to the next room where there was an ambush waiting. Amy ducked under one handbot...to be gotten by another. She blacked out.

A: She fought her way through the Handbots to find Rory holding her younger self in a room with two deactivated Handbots. She saw the way Rory looked at the Amy in his arms, and the fact that he didn't notice she had entered the room at all.

She watched as Rory kicked open the Tardis door to lay her younger self out so the Doctor could check her. the Doctor said she'd be fine and he came to the door to stare at her. Rory... stayed with younger Amy inside.

Looking at the Doctor's face, she KNEW. She knew.... She threw aside anything that might slow her down and she RAN for the Tardis. And with an "I'm sorry" the Doctor slammed the door in her face.

She listened to him argue with Rory, him tell Rory that he lied, that there could only be one Amy in the Tardis, that Rory who she broke time for... Rory had to choose between her and her younger prettier less jaded self. And she knew. She wanted to survive, but she knew. How could Rory choose her? When he had any other option at all? How could he chose who she had become? But still she fought and yelled and begged.

And then even though she knew the answer, she stopped begging the Doctor. She put her hand to the window, and asked Rory instead. She spoke, she remembered how much she loved being her younger self, having adventures with Rory. And then she realized.... she heard him unlock the door and she realized... She had to give up. She had to die for the part of her that loved life with him to survive. She stopped begging to be let in. She stopped begging to live. "If you love me, don't let me in. Open that door, I will. I will come in. I don't want to die. I won't bow out bravely. I'll be kicking, screaming, fighting, til the end." She started begging him to not let her in. For his sake. And for younger her sake. "Tell Amy, your Amy, I'm giving her the days. The days with you. The days to come. The days I can't have."

She heard him crying. Moving away. And she heard the Handbots approaching. She asked the Interface to show her earth. And staring at it, she let the Handbots take her. The last thing she heard as she blacked out was the Tardis. Leaving her.

B: All that remains of Amy pond.

Amy awoke on the Tardis, to the Doctor making silly faces, and Rory hovering, concerned. She asked Rory where the other Amy was, and the show cuts away. Head canon is that he told her. Everything. But not exactly then.

~ They landed in what looked like a run down earth motel, and found others who had been trapped there for a while. One of whom was losing his mind. There was something in the hotel that fed on some emotion, first the Doctor thought it was fear, but after losing some of them, including the bravest of the original group, and still having the coward from that group with them, the Doctor FINALLY figured out why this hotel was filled with the terrors and nightmares of those who visited, and what the creature fed on. It fed on faith. The Doctor had to break amy's faith in him, the faith she held onto since she was a little girl, in order to save them all. He had to break her heart, and nearly broke her trust. Any lingering crush or romantic feelings for him shriveled and died. It saved them, but also killed a part of her forever.

~ The Doctor leaves Amy and Rory on Earth outside a lovely house with Tardis Blue door that has Rory's favorite kind of car - a well preserved E-type Jaguar - parked outside. The Doctor says he is giving them this gift as a way to say goodbye, that this is for them. Swears he'll be back to visit, but says that the way things are going, it's this or stand over her grave because their adventures killed her. They have a touching moment, and then he leaves. Rory comes out of the house with champagne thinking the Doctor was going to come and stay for a bit to break in the new house. He asks Amy what's going on and amy tells Rory simply... he's saving us.

~ Amy and Rory started up their real lives. Amy took a gig modeling, and one of her biggest clients was a perfume company called Petrichor with the tagline "For the girl who is tired of waiting" Rory started working again as a nurse. Real life more or less began.

Timeline 4:
~ Hello, sweetie. Amy and Rory remember the Doctor dying at lake Silencio. But the astronaut who killed him was Melody all along. Melody Pond. Or as she was known by the time she was in the suit, River Song. And time wound its way back to that date, but River was the Doctor's wife, Amy and Rory's daughter and a time traveler in her own right. She went back and replaced herself in the suit. She broke time by changing a fixed point.....

Timeline 4.5
~ With time broken, every moment of the universe was happening all at once. The clocks were broken, time never moved. Pterodactyls flew over parks, And Amy joined the movement known as the Silence. she was given an eye patch that was a miniature neural linked hard drive. An eye-drive. It allowed her to remember the aliens that were otherwise forgotten when one looked away. She worked with Kovarian. So did River. But always with the intent to betray her.

Most of amy's memories were gone. She could almost remember Rory. Almost. But not his face. She remembered the Doctor though, just enough to know what she had to do...

She found him with Churchill. And a whole nest of the aliens. They took to calling them the Silence, even knowin that was not the right name for them. They were at the core of the movement known as the Silence, which made it both simpler and more complex.

Amy realized that the Doctor was about to say too much and spoil everything so she shot him in the head. Stun gun, of course.

She had him dragged to her office... a car of her own on the train the order used to travel back and forth from England to Egypt among other places. She listened to him when he woke up, listened to him babble on about how she knew him, about how they're best friends in another version of reality. She let him babble and watched with amusement the moment he realized that she remembered him, and their adventures, that he was gesturing at her with a miniature Tardis she had made.

After he got changed, she explained. "It's not an eye patch. Time's gone wrong. Some of us noticed. There's a whole team working on it."

The Doctor asked where the Roman was. She said "You mean Rory? My husband Rory?" She remembered Rory well enough to know the name, to miss him, to draw pictures of him... but worked with him and didn't have clue one it was him. He was just one of her guards. Captain Williams.

Amy explained that she remembered things oddly. Had to keep drawing to remember at all. That she remembers him dying, but also not dying. The Doctor said that he was the epicenter at the dying of time. That time would continue to fracture and disintegrate, because he was still alive and shouldn't be, because his death is a fixed point.

~ They arrived in Area 52, a pyramid in Cairo. Captain Williams, her guard, proceeded her and the Doctor inside, helped explain the eye drives to the Doctor. Captain Williams explained how they've captured over 100 of the aliens, all held captive in the pyramid. The Doctor tried to ask Amy about Captain Williams after the Captain went to check on the tanks with the aliens, since they were atypically active. Amy avoided the questions, leading the Doctor along.

She brought him into their headquarters, where Kovarian was tied to a chair and her daughter, her River Song, was in charge of everything. Even, apparently, the flirting. Amy watched them flirt. Or argue. Or both. Hard to tell, really. The Doctor said that time was dying because River refused to kill him. River agreed that she refused to kill the man she loved. He went to kiss her and amy gave the command to have him pulled away. She'd been waiting, knew he'd try that, that his touching River had the potential to fix time. And they couldn't let that happen. Not yet.

The Doctor broke free of the guards and grabbed River's arm. Time started moving. They were back at the lake. Then river pulled free and they were in Egypt again. The Doctor tried to make River understand that they had to touch to fix time, she had to kill him to save the universe. "There isn't another way!" to which River replied "I didn't say there was, sweetie."

The Doctor, clearly, still did not understand Amy and River's plan.

Liquid started raining down on them while the Doctor and River flirt/fought. For a place with no time, theirs was running out. The Doctor looked to Kovarian and asked how many Silence were trapped here. She told him, amused, that there were none. That they weren't trapped, they were waiting. And Amy realized how stupidly overconfident they had all been.

Captain Williams came in and announced that the aliens were free. All of them. They barricaded the door, and stood ready. Which was when the eye drives started electrocuting those who wore them. Amy got the Doctor's off in time, but fell victim to her own. River, already free, had to rescue her. Kovarian seemed surprised when her drive started to go as well. After all, she had served them and so should be valuable. Right?

The Doctor begged River to finish this, to save everyone. Amy and River begged him to just let them show him what they've been working on...for him... first. PLEASE. He sort of agreed, they took that as a win. River started herding the Doctor upstairs, then realized Captain Williams was going to wait downstairs to buy them time... and was still wearing his eye drive. He was willing to suffer and die to buy them the time they needed. to buy Amy the time she needed.

Amy knew she should go, should do what he said and leave im, but she hesitated. Something in her chest, her heart, breaking, and she didn't know why. But she knew if she left... he would die. And that was... that was wrong. She found a machine gun and as the aliens approached the Captain, she took them out. She ripped his eye drive off and hauled him to his feet. They were about to go up to the top to join River and the Doctor when Kovarian called out to her, beseeched her. Begged her for help.

Amy looked at Kovarian, eye drive hanging half off, tied to a chair in a room that was soon to be filled with aliens who would be angry at the mess of corpses left in the room. A helpless woman who could not escape on her own. And Amy did all that amy could do.

"You took my baby from me. And hurt her. And now she's all grown up and she's fine. But I'll never see my baby again."

Kovarian begged, said that Amy would still save her anyway, because the Doctor would.

"The Doctor is very precious to me, you're right. But you know what else he is, Madam Kovarian? Not. Here." Amy pushed the Eye drive back into place over Kovarian's eye. "River Song didn't get it all from you, sweetie." Amy grabbed Captain William's arm and pulled him off, asking him out as they went, leaving the woman to die in agony behind them.

They made it to the top to hear River and the Doctor arguing. They only had minutes amy told River to just tell him already. River explained what she and Amy had been working on. A distress beacon, communicating outside the break in time to the universe as a whole, past and future, saying that the Doctor is dying, asking for help. That the so called solar flares were the billions and billions of voices offering to help, willing to do anything for the Doctor. She listened as her daughter said to her best friend that she couldn't let him die without knowing how much he is loved, and by no one more than her. Amy had to watch knowing her part in this was done. That this was River's to do now, that she was going to have to watch her daughter kill the man she loves, kill her own best friend. And she was going to have to let it happen.

The Doctor said that she was their daughter and he hoped they were both proud. And amy got it. She knew who Captain Williams was, and she told him. Briefly. "We got married and had a kid and that's her." Captain Williams... Rory... was surprisingly okay with that. Or perhaps not so surprisingly. When the Doctor told her to, Amy uncuffed him. The Doctor took off his bow tie and had River wrap half around her hand while he did the same to the other half. The Doctor led them through a wedding ceremony. His own. Amy got to watch her daughter get married, atop a pyramid in Cairo in a broken timescape. The Doctor whispered something to River, and Amy watched her daughter look him in the eyes, saw the whole of her Daughter's expression change. "I just told you my name," the Doctor said, loud enough for them all to hear. Amy watched the love and wonder on River's face, and was glad Rory was with her, even if she was having trouble remembering him at the edges.

River told the Doctor that he may kiss the bride, and their contact started time spinning again.

Timeline 5:

~ Amy was back on the beach, watching the Doctor die. She clung to him, but nothing had changed. He was dead, she was younger again, and it was all sideways and wrong. Timeline 4.5 faded away into nothingness.

~ After sending him off in a funeral pyre, and going to space and having to pretend like she didn't know he was going to die, Amy and Rory returned home. Amy sat in the yard with her drink, bundled in a blanket and her own pain. Mourning. River popped in with her vortex manipulator for a visit. Amy was waiting for her with wine. Amy asked where they were so they could compare who knew what, preparing to have to tell her daughter the truth, that the Doctor was dead, or try to hide it.

River had just climbed out of the Byzantine, the ship where Amy had almost died to the Weeping Angels, way back when she first met River, just before Rory started traveling with them. "You were there. So young. Didn't have a clue who I was." When River asked where Amy was, she made her decision and told her. "The Doctor's dead." Amy explained that since she could remember killing Kovarian in cold blood that it still happened, even if River insisted that it was an aborted timeline in a world that never was.

River came to a decision and told Amy that the Doctor wasn't dead. It wasn't his name he whispered. Rule One - the Doctor lies. River explained that the Doctor was alive, and how he cheated death. The Doctor that died was the Teselecta. The Doctor was inside the robot of himself and escaped in the Tardis. Time was fixed because the world believed the Doctor to have died when he was meant to... but he was alive. Laying low, but alive. Rory came home from work, and ecstatic, Amy told him everything. And then Amy realized... she's the Doctor's mother in law....

~ Time passed. Life went on. Every Christmas she and Rory set out two extra places. One for the Doctor. One for River. Every holiday, really. But it was on Christmas that he showed up out of nowhere. After two years. If River hadn't told them that he was alive and well, she would have smacked him.

~ April - voicemail from the Doctor, he'll drop in any day.

~ May - The Doctor showed up, middle of the night, in their bedroom, talked about the end of the world (again) in a panic, then realized he was too early and left, leaving behind an unexpected guest.

~ June, they found the guest. Or rather, Rory did. An Ood. Hiding in the loo. He offered his assistance.

~July - They finally got the Doctor on the phone, and he explained that the Ood had come with him, and could they watch him for a bit? The Ood started serving them, as Ood do. When Rory called to ask the Doctor about it, they were told to let the Ood serve them if he wanted to. The Ood was a better cook than they were, so they allowed it.

~ And then one of Amy's doctors (small d) made a discovery during her appointment. Something that Kovarian had done to her while she was pregnant with Melody, something they did to make sure Melody was what they wanted damaged Amy. She could never have children again.

And.. she knew Rory wanted children. So did she. After not being able to raise Melody, they had desperately wanted a child of their own, untouched by traveling through time and space, a baby they could raise. Together. And Amy couldn't give him that. So... she broke her own heart. She filed for divorce. She tried to free him, so that he could find someone who could give him what he wanted. A family. She threw herself into her work - modeling again. She tried to build distance. But she didn't tell Rory why she wanted the divorce. She knew that if it was for his sake, he'd be too nobel. He's shackle himself to her, and give up on his dreams of a perfect family out of pity or obligation, and she couldn't handle that. So like the Doctor had to break Amy's faith in him. She had to break Rory's love for her. And she thought it worked.

~ Rory moved out.

~ August - The Doctor came and collected the Ood while they were both out. He left no message. Amy thought she heard his voice as she came in, but there was no message on the machine. And no Ood in the now very empty house. She prayed for the Doctor to return. But he didn't.

~Amy and Rory started to fight, all the time. She pushed him away with all she had in her, even though it was killing her.

~ During one of her photoshoots, she was interrupted with a message. Her husband had arrived. Her reply was that she didn't have one. But she went to see Rory anyway. He brought the divorce papers. Hardest act of her life, acting like she was relieved to see them... and not him. She signed... as Amy Williams. As he left, she almost broke, tried to call him back, but he left.

Her makeup stylist came in to fix up her makeup before she returned to work...and suddenly grew a Dalek eyestalk out of her forehead. There was a Dalek voice, a blast, then it all went dark.

~ She woke in a round white room with a single slit in one "wall" like where Kovarian used to watch her when she was pregnant. But this time she was aware of where she was, not pregnant, and outside the window was outerspace, and... Rory was there. She stood, waiting for something to happen while he lay there, wishing he would wake up, terrified he would. When he woke up it was all she could o to hug herself...rather than him.

~ And then with comedic timing and a witty rejoinder - calling Rory Mister Pond - the Doctor appeared, escorted by a pair of Daleks. The ceiling opened and the floor proved to be a lift, bringing them to an amphitheater filled with Daleks...and the Tardis.

The Doctor told them that they were on the Parliament of the Daleks, and that they had to be brave and make the Daleks remember them.

The Daleks begged the Doctor to help them, or possibly begged all three of them. The Doctor started pacing, looking at everything, measuring. Frowning.

RORY: What's he doing?
AMY: He's chosen the most defendable area in the room, counted all the Daleks, counted all the exits, and now he's calculating the exact distance we're standing apart and starting to worry. Oh, and look at him frowning now. Something's wrong with Amy and Rory, and who's going to fix it? And he straightens his bow tie.

Yes, Amy actually narrated all of that to Rory. Without looking at him.

The Daleks explained that the planet below was an asylum for the most insane and out of control Daleks. And that a signal - playing Carmen - was being received from the heart of the asylum. The Doctor contacted the woman running the signal, a woman Oswin Oswald, said she crashed and had been stranded there for a year.

The Daleks gave them all bracelets to protect them from the nano-cloud, then shoved Amy, Rory, and the Doctor into a transport beam to take them to the planet, to shut down the forcefield so the Daleks could blow it up, knowing the Doctor will do it, because shutting it down is the only way to get him and his companions off the world to safety.

Amy was reckless herself, but when she saw Rory plunging down head first, she panicked, worried for him. She soon after passed out.

~ She came to in the snow, some strange man in a parka leaning over her, concerned. Panicked, she ran from him looking for Rory and the Doctor. It was Rory's name she called first. But it was the Doctor she found first. With help from Harvey - the man in the Parka - they found where Rory's beam had touched the planet... a deep hole in the snow. Amy screamed for Rory, panicked that he had died... again. Every time he died before... he always had her to come back for. She had taken that away... She was terrified.

Harvey led them to his crashed ship, the Alaska. Same ship that Oswin said she had been on, but where Oswin said she'd been there a year, he said they crashed two months ago. And when he got the rope, the discovered the crew was dead. That was when Harvey remembered, he was dead too. Then an eyestalk popped out of his head and he attacked. Amy and the Doctor got him locked into another part of the ship.

AMY: Explain. That's what you're good at. How'd he get all Daleked?
DOCTOR: Because he wasn't wearing one of these. Oh, ho, ho. That's clever. The nanocloud. Microorganisms that automatically process any organic matter, living or dead, into a Dalek puppet. Anything attacks this place, it automatically becomes part of the on-site security.
AMY: Living or dead?
DOCTOR: These wristbands protect us. The only thing stopping us going exactly the way he did.

And then they had to flee from the dead but Daleked crew...

AMY: Is it bad that I've really missed this?
DOCTOR: Yes.

While they were trying to escape the crashed ship to find Rory, Amy finally told the Doctor that she and Rory split up, when he asked what he could do, she said nothing.

They got the escape hatch up, but discovered something bad. Amy's wrist band was gone.

As they descended, the Doctor explained that the nano-gense in the air around them were getting into Amy now that she was unprotected. Rebuilding her from the inside.

AMY: So tell me, what's going to happen to me? And don't lie. Because I know when you're lying to me and I will definitely fall on you.
DOCTOR: The air all around is full of micro-machines. Robots the size of molecules. Nanogenes. Now that you're unprotected, you're being re-written.
AMY: So, what happens? I get one of those things sticking out of my head?
DOCTOR: Physical changes come later.
AMY: What comes first? How does it start?
DOCTOR: With your mind. Your feelings, your memories, and I'm sorry but it's started already.
AMY: How do you know?
DOCTOR: Because we've had this conversation four times.
AMY: Okay, scared now.
DOCTOR: Hang on to scared. Scared isn't Dalek.

Left alone to defend a grated door, Amy began to see people on the other side. Actual people. Starting with a nodding man, but becoming more, including a ballet dancer. She tried to fight the headache, and when the Doctor screamed for her, she hushed him, reassuring him that it's just people in there. The Doctor urged her to look again, and when she did she realized he was right, they weren't people... they were Daleks.

The Doctor set one to self destruct and sent it after the other Daleks to clear a path. Watching, Amy lost control and passed out.

~ Amy awoke with a killer headache, on the floor, looking up at The Doctor and Rory. Rory, sounding so concerned she wanted to kiss him and let him know she was fine asked if she remembered him. So she did the only thing she could do. She slapped him. anything else would make all the pain for nothing.

~The Doctor left Rory and Amy on the teleporter to go fetch Oswin so she could drop the forcefield and teleport them to the Dalek ship overhead. The Doctor told Amy that Oswin is right, the nano-cloud is subtracting love and replacing it with anger, and that if she wants to stay human, wants to stay Amy... she has to hold on to her love, focus on it. That if she lets hate overrule love, she will no longer be human. And then he left her alone with Rory.

And it broke. It broke the secrets she was holding, it broke the fight. It just... broke.

RORY: Okay, look at me. I'm going to be logical. Cold and logical, okay? For both of our sakes, for both of us, I'm going to take this off my wrist and put it on yours.
AMY: Why? Then it'll just start converting you. That's not better.
RORY: Yes, but it'll buy us time, because it'll take longer with me.
AMY: Sorry, what?
RORY: It subtracts love, that's what she said.
AMY: What's that got to do with it? What does that even mean?
RORY: It's arithmetic. It'll take longer with me because we both know, we've always known, that. Amy, the basic fact of our relationship is that I love you more than you love me, which today is good news because it might just save both of our lives.
AMY: How can you say that?
RORY: Two thousand years, waiting for you outside a box. Don't say it isn't true, you know it's true. Give me your arm. Amy!
(Amy slaps Rory.)
AMY: Don't you dare say that to me. Don't you ever dare.
RORY: Amy, you kicked me out.
AMY: You want kids. You have always wanted kids. Ever since you were a kid. And I can't have them.
RORY: I know.
AMY: Whatever they did to me at Demons Run, I can't ever give you children. I didn't kick you out. I gave you up.
RORY: Amy, I don't
AMY: Don't you dare talk to me about waiting outside a box, because that is nothing, Rory, nothing, compared to giving you up.
RORY: Just give me your arm. Let me put this on you. Just give me your arm!
AMY: Don't touch me!

He grabbed her arm anyway, to save her, and she refused to let him sacrifice himself for her. Again. Refused. He got her arm forward and that's when they realized she was already wearing an armband. The Doctor's. He left them thinking Amy was going to die if she didn't hold on to love... to fix their marriage.

~ They stood and talked, and worked things out, until the explosions started. It was pretty obvious that the Doctor had lowered the forcefield, which meant the planet would be destroyed any moment. But the Doctor wasn't there.

RORY: How long can we wait?
AMY: The rest of our lives.
RORY: Agreed.

They kissed. For the first time in too long to remember, she was kissing Rory, they were together with the world blowing up around them, waiting on the Doctor. For the first time in too long, she was herself again, and all was as it should be.

When they came up for air, they were on the Tardis again.

~ The Doctor dropped them off to finish working things out, and Rory did a little happy dance thing when she made it clear he was welcome back in the house.

~ Time passed - Ten months - and things settled between Amy and Rory. Real life began again. They started spending more time with Rory's father, Brian. Which of course meant that Brian was there when the Doctor returned, materializing the Tardis around them. All of them.

And that was how Brian came with them for an adventure for the first time. Amy, Rory, Brian Williams, Nefertiti, a big game hunter named Riddell, and the Doctor found themselves on a spaceship full... of dinosaurs.

~ While trying to keep the Silurian ark full of Dinosaurs from crashing and taking them all - and the planet below - with it, the Doctor asks Amy about her job, and she admits that she quit. Like she quit the last one. Because she's always waiting for the Doctor and doesn't want to make commitments. She asks if the reason the time between visits is so long is because he's weening them off of him. He denies it.

~ The Doctor drops Amy and Rory off again, but keeps Brian with him for a time. Brian sends them "wish you were" here post cards every so often. Life goes on.

~ Amy and Rory's next adventure with the Doctor was on a world very like the old west of Earth, but with a few anachronistic advances - like electric lights - and a hostile air. The townsfolk were being threatened by a cybernetic gunslinger. Claimed to be Earth.

Something the Doctor learned about Jex, the man the gunslinger wanted, upset him so badly he seemed ready to let the man die. Amy held a gun to the Doctor's head to make act like himself again and fix things, save people.

AMY: Let him come back, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Or what? You won't shoot me, Amy.
AMY: How do you know? Maybe I've changed. I mean, you've clearly been taking stupid lessons since I saw you last.
...
AMY: This is not how we roll, and you know it. What happened to you, Doctor? When did killing someone become an option?
DOCTOR: Jex has to answer for his crimes.
AMY: And what then? Are you going to hunt down everyone who's made a gun or a bullet or a bomb?
DOCTOR: But they coming back, don't you see? Every time I negotiate, I try to understand. Well, not today. No. Today, I honour the victims first. His, the Master's, the Dalek's, all the people who died because of my mercy!
AMY: You see, this is what happens when you travel alone for too long. Well, listen to me, Doctor. We can't be like him. We have to be better than him.
DOCTOR: Amelia Pond. Fine, fine. We think of something else. But frankly, I'm betting on the Gunslinger.

Amy and the Doctor helped Jex escape while they distracted the Gunslinger. But Jex realized the weight of what he had done, and what would happen if he ran away, and committed suicide instead. The Doctor hadn't let the Gunslinger kill him. Amy hadn't shot Jex in the head. But with their words... they killed him as certainly as had they done either of those things.

To try and distract Amy from what had happened, the Doctor started planning their next trip, but Amy asked if they could take a break for a little while. Claimed that their friends would notice that they were aging too fast. But she really just needed time to come to terms with what they had done.

~ Time passed. There were some more adventures scattered, until it was, by Amy's calculations, about ten years that she and Rory had been running with the Doctor. But Rory was the one to point out that they had two lives. Real life, and Doctor life. They both agreed that they had to choose, but whenever the Tardis appeared again, they agreed that it wasn't yet the time to choose. In the meantime, Rory continued working as a nurse whenever they were home, and amy started writing travel articles for magazines.

~ Then one morning small black cubes appeared everywhere. World wide. Brian woke them up at 6:30 in the morning, certain this meant something. Amy and Rory came out to investigate with Brian, and Amy spotted the Doctor sitting up high in a kids' play structure, with a cube.

The Doctor commandeered their kitchen as a lab to experiment on the cubes after sending Brian to watch a few in the Tardis. Rory announced he had to head to work, and the Doctor seemed shocked that he had a job.

~ Unit invaded the house with rather impressive guns, and Amy listened in as Kate and the Doctor tried to theorize about the cubes. The Doctor said they should be observed. Constantly monitored until they could figure out what the cubes were.

~ Four days later, they had no answers, but they had a Doctor going slowly mad with cabin fever living in the Pond house.

~ The Doctor, fed up, popped off for a brief trip. Restore sanity, he said.

~ Two months passed. Rory accepted a full time job. Amy agreed to be a bridesmaid several months out.

~ June. 9 months after the Doctor left, at their anniversary party, the Doctor took them off for a trip. Amy wound uc accidentally married to Henry the Eighth, and after two weeks of bouncing around they returned home. The Doctor surprised them once more... he agreed to stay this time.

~ July The Doctor was still there, playing the Wii, sharing fish fingers and custard with them, part of their life. Then Amy headed upstairs to get changed and one of the boxes had an odd blue light. She touched it and spikes bit into her palm. And that... that is her pull point.

Personality: I put most of the events and how they shaped her in the extensive history section above, so this will be a bit more of a broad brush strokes section.

Basically, Amy is an odd sort of character in that from the first time she ran away with the Doctor (once she was an adult) to the pull point she both evolved and changed significantly, and yet to her core managed to remain almost exactly the same.

Among the things that remained the same: She loves Rory, loves adventure, loves the Doctor. She has a temper, jumps to conclusions sometimes, and is pretty well confidant that people will reshape their actions to suit her needs. She has fire and spine and spirit in her that will never be broken. She can be sharp at times, but also kind at times, though sharp is seen more often. There is a constant running joke that she is "so scottish" that pretty much never goes away, and she won't back down when she is sure she is right.

However... a lot of the specifics changed.

When she first ran off with the Doctor, she wasn't sure of her love for Rory. She'd loved him in one form or another for all of her life, but he was always there, always Rory, always dependable. And that... scared her. Because she wasn't sure she could always be that for him.

She had dreamed about the Doctor for so long since being a child, and had fantasized about him with Mels that when he returned for her, two years after prisoner Zero was taken by the Atraxi, she let the panic over take her and she ran away with him. When she almost died to the Angels, and dealt with people falling through the crack in time and being forgotten, she confessed to the Doctor that it was the day before her wedding, that she was scared. And she decided to be stupid and wild and free and she started snogging the Doctor. She'd dreamed about it for so long, and once she was married she couldn't do it, so she had to take her chance. And... and what if marrying Rory was wrong. What if it was the Doctor she'd been waiting for this whole time.

But when the Doctor brought Rory along, she tried out focusing on the Doctor even with Rory there... but at the end of that adventure, it was Amy clinging to Rory in the rain, and the Doctor up on top of everything, out of reach, yet still part of the group. And that was the way it was after that. Amy and Rory with the Doctor one of them but always above them and out of reach.

Of course, Amy never shared that observation, but more and more she became sure of her love for Rory. And her love for the Doctor. And what kind of love each was. As a kid, Rory was the annoying friend, then the brother and best friend sort, while the Doctor was the fantasy, the day dream. One of the biggest changes to Amy was that over their adventures, the Doctor became the brother sort - sometimes older and wiser letting them tag along, sometimes younger and needing to be looked after - and Rory became the dream that was reality. But again, Amy wasn't the sort to put that into words. Not back then.

Amy: Hey, look at this. I got my spaceship, I got my boys... my work here is done. [struts into the TARDIS, head held high]
Rory: [scoffs] Uh, we are not her "boys."
The Doctor: Yeah, we are.
Rory: Yeah, we are.

There are reasons that Amy thinks the people in the world will change to suit her. It's because they generally do. Look at Rory. Everyone calls him Rory Pond, rather than calling her Amy Williams. Even Brian becomes a "Pond" to the Doctor, and thus to everyone they meet.

So, without really realizing it, Amy just expects that since she made the mental shift to Rory = Love of her life, and Doctor = Goofy brother and best friend, that everyone else would somehow know and make the shift with her. But her love for each of them, while changing in type, grows steadily as the series progresses.

The only places we see her accepting the name Williams are powerful moments, and the one when she signed the divorce papers is subtle. (The other big one happens after her pull point. Her tombstone has her listed as Amy Williams.) Because those are the moments she lets down her "the world conforms to me" guard and lets actual reality in. So long as that reality is in the shape of Rory.

Her love for Mels changes as she goes as well... Mels goes from her best friend, to one of her best friends to...wait... that's MY DAUGHTER? BUT THAT'S RIVER! Rover who she teased about being the Doctor's wife. River who got them into as many messes as she got them out of. But she loved her, whenever she knew who she was, she loved her. And even when she didn't she felt a bond... a kinship with River, felt drawn to her.

As she went on more and more adventures, she learned and she grew up, despite the Doctor telling her never to do that. She learned to think a bit more, and snap at people a bit less. But truthfully, not much less. She learned to appreciate life, and to never give up hope. That death isn't always the end, and that even when it is, the impossible can still happen.

She's still the girl who shoved Liz Ten's hand on the abdicate button realizing that the Starwhale wouldn't kill them, she's still the woman who decided the Upper Leadworth dream had to be the fake one because she couldn't accept a world without Rory in it....

But by the end she's (mostly) more likely to explain the insane mental leap she took than to just go ahead and act on it. Of course, that doesn't fully go away, see the divorce as explained above.

Amy is the type to want everything, and is just starting to learn that sometimes some things have to be given up. But she and Rory are still putting off giving up anything at all by her canon point. She's the type to investigate the mystery, kick butt, and save others. But because she saves others, she expects to be saved herself. She's not so much the self-rescuing princess as she is the "I've got your back so you better have mine" sort. She sees nothing at all wrong with sitting and waiting for rescue, because she knows the Doctor and more importantly Rory will ALWAYS always come for her. Because they both know she would always come to rescue them.

She's come to learn to see people as they are more and more. She couldn't accept her daughter calling herself a psychopath when she first regenerated into River. By the time of the Wedding of River Song? She told Kovarian that her daughter hadn't gotten it all from her and killed the woman in cold blood, not only accepting her daughter's murderous tendencies, but for that moment embracing them.

She regretted it immediately, but didn't back down from threatening people where she had to threaten them after that. Even the Doctor.

Amy is something of a sponge. While you can look at her in her first Episode - The 11th Hour - and look at her at her last episode - Angels Take Manhattan (The one after her pull point) and see the exact same character... you can also see the Doctor in her far more in the later episodes than the earlier. The Doctor. River. Even a bit more of Rory than she had before.

From the Doctor she got the lesson to observe everything, to put pieces together, to solve the puzzle and accept that no matter how weird or outlandish the answer she comes to is - it just might be the right one. She gained a wonder and appreciation for life and the living and the adventure in every moment, and she lost the concept of impossible.

From River she gained the ability to put her life on the line to defend those she loved in a very real and direct way. She also learned that guns are not things to be feared, and that when she was pushed hard enough she could do more than die for her loved ones... she could kill for them.

And from Rory... she learned that sometimes saving the life is as important as ending it. She found the joy in the quiet moments, the peace in the times without adventure. She learned that settling in and settling weren't exactly the same thing, and that adventure can balance with reality.

At her core, she is still and will always be Amy Jessica Pond, the only real change to that came when she was a child, before the Doctor came back, when she had years of therapists and Aunt Sharon telling her that he (and in one reality, stars) wasn't real. She changed then from Amelia Pond "Bit fairytale, don't you think" to Amy Pond. But once she hit adulthood, Amy Pond was her core. Was her trunk. Rory became her roots. River her branches and leaves. The Doctor her sky.

Amy Pond, the girl who waited. As I said above, she is content to wait to be rescued. She waited years for him as a child. Then she waited years for the Doctor between visits. In Two Streams, she waited forty years and it was the only time we ever see her lose hope in the waiting - except that she proved in the end that she hadn't actually lost hope, she was still willing to take the thread offered her.

Amy may not always seem the most verbally affectionate, calling Rory stupid all the time, but she loves him with all of her heart. He, the Doctor, and River... they are her world. Even after she has her parents back, we hardly see them. They aren't a part of who she is. Not really. The same for Aunt Sharon. Brian almost wound up in that small inner circle, but there just wasn't enough time, enough adventures.

Powers/Abilities/Talents:
Memory. Amy Pond has the ability to remember what no one else can, what she shouldn't be able to. When Rory was erased from existence, the sight of his ring still stirred something in her, his presence was still so familiar. She remembered the Doctor strongly enough to bring him back from the wrong side of reality. She remembered Rory enough to bring him fully to life inside the plastic. She remembered her parents enough to bring them back. She remembered those lost to the crack in space and time among the clerics. Amy Pond, the girl who waits, is also the girl who remembers.

Not bad at fighting. She knows basics on weaponry, having learned a lot from River. But even before that, we see that she was a bit of a tough one as a kid. Field Hockey was enough of a reminder to get her to be able to take down Handbots. She says to Mels that Mels is most in trouble of the whole school except for the boys, and counts herself as a boy.

The basic Doctor companion skill set for someone at the end of their arc - fast on her feet, thinks just as quickly, very used to running, not stupid, and with the Tardis translation matrix in her head (she can understand nearly any spoken or written language).

Basically she's human with an incredible gift for memory thanks to the crack pouring into her brain as a child for more than a decade.

AU/CR AU Addendum: N/A

What 4 items would you like your character to have with them on the island during their stay? Since she's getting the Tardis, she doesn't need much. So, I guess:
Some of the art she'd done of the Doctor over the years and time lines.
A photo album from her wedding
Her Tardis Key (presuming it is in her pocket, but since she doesn't need a full four putting it here, just in case)
Her reading glasses. As of her pull point, they were ready but she hadn't picked them up yet.

Samples -
Log Sample:
http://medietas-ooc.dreamwidth.org/94201.html?thread=6653945#cmt6653945

Network sample:
1. Network

[The camera comes up on the interior of the Tardis.]

"Alright, so that's what the little boxes do then? They kidnap people. Good to know. Except you lot..."

[She hauled herself up onto a seat behind her, looking at the camera]

"You made a mistake, didn't you? You kidnapped me. Now, clearly you realized your mistake, since first thing that happened was I was given a map to the Tardis. Guess you thought I would try to fly her home. Guess you thought wrong. Because I'm the girl who waited. And you know what? He's coming, and he will find me."

[She leaned forward, to make sure whoever was listening took this seriously.]

"He's old. Over a thousand years old by this point. Very last of his kind. When he wants to be, he can be good, he can save people and protect, and be anything he needs to be for the ones he loves. But when you get him angry, there is no universe he and his stupid face won't cross, no barriers you can put in his way. He won't be stopped. He's coming for me, he is always coming for me. And I wouldn't want to be you when he finds me."

[She grinned.]

"And oh yeah. In case you're wondering, he'll be bringing the Doctor with him. Now, what is it the Doctor would be saying about now? Right. Run."

Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun? Not sure if she has to do this, since she's going to have the Tardis, but sun. (Lake has meaning for her, but not a happy one.)

Amy Jessica Williams Pond

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