one more thing

[such_heights]

God, mostly I keep going back to Amy's afterword. And how I love Amy and River as the two storytellers in this episode, it's so gorgeous. Anyway, some kind soul has already transcribed this:

Hello old friend, and here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and that we were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you, always. Sometimes I do worry about you, though.

I think, once we’re gone, you won’t be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don’t be alone, Doctor.

And do one more thing for me. There’s a little girl waiting in a garden. She’s going to wait a long while, so she’s going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she’s patient, the days are coming which she’ll never forget. Tell her she’ll go to sea and fight pirates, she’ll fall in love with a man who’ll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she’ll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived, and save a whale in outer space. Tell her, this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this is how it ends.

It's pretty much everything I could have wanted. It was a good send off for her, really it was, and she's going to have such an amazing life.

I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do without her. :(

Comments

[pocketmouse]

I liked the afterword, in that it did answer one question from the first season that never got answered, but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh! No visual? Anyone can buy a gravestone. And who puts Williams on a gravestone? I'm sorry, no. They're still the fucking Ponds, and I don't know why they didn't put that.

That was the cheap-assedest, lamest-excusedest, they're-so-totally-coming-back-later-est companion leaving thing since that time someone else came back, omg.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[such_heights]

Yes, the Williams thing annoyed me a lot, because what's the point of that?

The amount of wriggle room left in their departure was sort of delightful from a fic point of view, I must say. *plots*

THEY'RE NEVER REALLY LEAVING ME. I REFUSE TO LET THEM GO.

[pocketmouse]

In my head Amy pops back in time, and River's there waiting for her with Rory, drinking coffee, and River says 'right, I've bought a gravestone, and the plot, who's up for a trip to Mars?' and they all live happily ever after.

[skywaterblue]

LOL.

[frayadjacent]

I wrinkled my forehead at the Williams thing too, and chalked it up to going back to the 30's, but then I remembered: didn't Amy sign her divorce papers (in 7x01) as Amelia Williams?

[pocketmouse]

Well, legally that is their name in 2015 (except in my headcanon where they remarried as Ponds). But if they're back in time, they don't have to stay as Williamses.