Prologue

*All characters belong to creators of Doctor who*

"I want to go home."

"What do you mean you want to go home?" Amy shouted in reply walking around the TARDIS controls to where Rory now stood, arms folded tightly across his torso. "We've just saved Venice from fishy aliens and you want to go back…to boring old Leadworth?" Amy's stern voice as always crumbled some of Rorys' defense.

"Yes…well yes. It doesn't have to be boring. We're getting married! Remember?" Both of them jumped when they heard the Doctor shutting the door. Amy sighed turning to face the TARDIS controls absently flicking a switch or two.

"Oi! Watch it pond!" The doctor remarked passing between the pair and lightly smacking her prying fingers away from the controls as he made his own adjustments. Amy rolled her eyes stepping closer to Rory.

"Yeah I know…but I'm not ready for that yet." Rory uncrossed his arms placing his hands on Amys' shoulders.

"But you said yes? We were getting married in the morning." Rory's voice lowered to a whisper when he noticed the Doctor peeking over at them from around the consol.

"We're in a time machine! Don't you want to see the stars?" Amy lifted her arms in exaggeration effectively removing Rory's hands from her shoulders.

"So where to next?" The Doctor asked clapping his hands together and rounding the walkway to stand next to them.

"Home for me I think." Rory said dragging his stare away from Amy over to a not so surprised looking Doctor.

"Amy?" She looked up to the Doctor seeing the question in his eyes but only nodding in response, to try and maintain any composure she had left. The Doctor spun on the spot pulling levers and pushing buttons as the TARDIS came back to life with her familiar sounds.

"So you'll come home then? With me?" Rory asked once the Doctor had danced out of ear shot again. Amy shook her head once more, refusing to make eye contact with the man she had planned to take vows with.

"I'm sorry Rory. There is just so much to see, the Doctor opened my eyes, I can't leave now. I can't even imagine going back."

"Right, that's great." Rory turned away from Amy hands gripping tightly onto the rail surrounding them. "Do you even still want to get married? Or has all this excitement changed your mind?" Rory shouted just as the Tardis made one final loud bang as they landed, sending Amy stumbling backwards into the Doctor.

"Rory!" Helping Amy stand back up properly the Doctor stepped between them, eyes turned dark. "I won't have any violence on my TARDIS. Especially not towards a friend!"

"What!" Rory stuttered trying to remove the Doctors hands from the front of his shirt where they were forcefully holding him in place as Amy looked on confused. "This is it, isn't Amy? He is why you don't want to go home. Big strong time space guy stealing you away night before our wedding. I've been replaced haven't I?" Amy let out a short laugh stepping up between them.

"Ha No! Don't try and pin this on him! It's because I don't understand how anyone would go back to Leadworth and see home after all this. Clearly me and that kind of person can't see eye to eye-" The Doctor cut her off trying to keep her at a safe distance from Rory. "Cut it out Doctor! He didn't push me it was the TARDIS!"

"Right yeah, 'course, sorry…I'll just, walking over here now." Holding up his hands in retreat he took one last glance at Amy before giving them some space.

"What do you mean Amy?"

"I mean, I'm not ready for you. I don't know if I will be…ever." Amy cleared her throat attempting to cover up a strangled sob. "You want to settle down, I'm not done yet."

"But all the fun we've had? We were happy right? I thought you were happy." Desperately he reached out taking hold of Amy's hand and giving it a light squeeze.

"We were, I was, as happy as I could be then." Amy replied returning the pressure to his hand, a small smile forming on her lips, reminding Rory of happier times. He stepped away releasing their hands and groaning to himself as he ran his fingers tiredly though his hair before straightening his back and facing Amy properly.

"You're right. This is where you belong. It's where you've dreamt about since you were a kid." Amy shook her head fighting back tears as Rory walked backwards to the doors. "It's fine it's okay." Amy stepped slowly after him as he opened the door just a sliver, eyes still locked onto Amy.

"Rory-"

"No I get it. Really I do…goodbye Amy." And in the single blink of her eyes Rory disappeared, the blue TARDIS door clicking shut with a hollow echo ringing in her ears. Her legs felt weak, and her eyes watered with tears that would never fall. Rory had been such a huge part of her life, and now he was gone. She knew she could change that, just by running after him. But they both knew she wouldn't, because he was right. This was where she belonged; she just hadn't been expecting to need to make any choices over the two most prominent parts of her life. She wasn't even sure how to react, still waiting for this new chapter of her life to really settle in, so she simply followed her feet as they seemingly guided her further into the TARDIS, mind still in a fuzz.

"It's going to be okay Amy." The Doctor's voice sounded from behind her as she stopped in the middle of some random hall.

"I've heard that one before." Amy turned slowly, not missing the nervous manner in the Doctor's stance as he gave her a goofy lopsided smile.

"Oh Amelia, come here." He laughed opening his arms to give his companion a much needed hug. After a few moments he pulled away tucking some of her hair lightly behind her left ear. "I know just the thing to cheer you up."

"Please no more fishy aliens, I've had my fill of that lot for one day thank you." Amy grumbled as the Doctor spun them back towards the consol room.

"No! No no no, this is much better. Nice aliens, like me, well sort of, not really. But nice!" Amy sat herself in the consol room chair still in wonder how after so long the Doctor still managed to be so enthralling. "Planets a bit wonky you could say, people always have been lovely, but that's bound to be a reaction from hitting their heads one too many times I'm afraid. No worries though they've fixed that! Ingenious really!"

"I have no idea what you're going on about!" Amy sighed looking completely puzzled until the Doctor looked up from the controls directly into her eyes, absolute excitement and joy radiating from his very core. And quite effectively spreading into Amy herself as he walked over to her holding out his hand. She took it smiling as he ran them both to the doors.

"Amelia Pond I give you The ring of the Bouncing Universes!" Amy's laugh grew but quickly faded as the Doctor's face dropped once the doors had been opened. "Okay maybe a rain check on the Bouncing Universes then…"

A/N: update on the first chapter soon, hope you're all as excited to read as I am to write again! Rated M for later chapters!