Kate Oswald always loved Space. She would sit outside and watch the stars. She would read every book and watch every tv show and movie that had anything to do with space.
So when a strange man, in a blue police box wearing a bow tie, asks whether o...
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ᴋᴀᴛᴇ's best friend isn't weird, not really. Sure, Amy is a little strange and her circumstances are a little strange and her whole life has been a little - or maybe a lot - strange, but she's not weird. Yeah, okay, so there was this whole imaginary friend incident that Amy really doesn't want to talk about. And there's the whole issue with her Aunt not being the best person, which again she really doesn't want to speak about. And of course the untimely deaths of both of her parents when she was young causing her to move from Inverness to Leadworth, but Amy really does not want to speak about that. But that doesn't make Amy weird in any way, it just makes her a little strange.
So, Kate doesn't question it when her best friend calls her home from work because she just knocked out a stranger - although from the way Amy calls him a 'stranger', Kate can already tell this guy isn't a stranger - with the cricket bat Rory had given them to protect themselves in situations like these. She also doesn't question why exactly Amy's in her police woman costume - she's a kissogram, she's always dressed up? - or why she's handcuffed the man to the radiator on the second floor.
And she knows she can't question why in the hell that blue police box she saw two months ago outside of the nursery is not accompanied by the so-called Doctor she can never seem to forget. He told her he'd be back. But he's not here. Instead she's met by a floppy-haired, strong-jawed, big-nosed stranger wearing the Doctor's blue suit and white converse.
"Who is this guy?" Kate hisses to her best friend as they kneel across from the stranger dressed as the Doctor but more raggedy.
"Um..." Amy trails off, chewing at her bottom lip as though she isn't exactly sure she should tell Kate what she knows, but at the look that Kate sends her she lets out a sigh and decides she might as well. "You remember my Raggedy Man?"
"Your childhood imaginary friend?"
"Turns out he isn't so imaginary."
The two women turn their attention back to the knocked out guy attached to their radiator. He's pretty. Very pretty. The sight of him causes Kate to feel unexplainable butterflies in her gut. If this is Amy's Raggedy Man then why is he here twelve years after he promised to come back for her? Would Kate have to wait twelve years before the Doctor came back for her to take her on his promised adventures? She wants to think that she won't have to wait that long, but she can't be sure that the Doctor will ever actually come back. Maybe she'll just have to make do with whatever trouble this Raggedy Man is going to stir up.
