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“Are you from another planet?” she asks, almost sarcastically.
“Yeah,” he answers simply.
“’Kay.”
“So what do you think?”
“What?”
“Other planets, want to check some out?” He smiles a small smile at her, fixing his bow tie.
“What does that mean?” She sounds frustrated, which surprises him, but he doesn’t let it show.
“It means, well, it means... Come with me,” he says matter-of-factly.
“Where?”
“Wherever you like.” He enunciates each syllable carefully, smiling again as the excitement takes him over. He’s realised, suddenly, that this is the first proper introduction they’ve had. Just the two of them, nobody soaking wet or chained to a radiator or pretending to be a policewoman. This is it, in the quiet of the night. The first time he’s really gotten to offer her the trip of a lifetime. He’s late. Fourteen years late. And she’s difficult, this one. But somehow, when he clicks his fingers and the door swings open, she’s mesmerised. And he knows that’s it. Amy Pond won’t refuse his offer, and while he didn’t expect her to, there had always been that fear nagging him from the back of his mind. But the second she steps in that door, an airy laugh escaping her lips, he knows she’s made her promise.