Year of the Doctor

Chapter 9

*Doctor's POV*

"Truth?" the Doctor repeated, confused. Why would the TARDIS not want me to translate if all she wanted to do was suggest a game of 'Truth'? Obviously, the TARDIS knows something I don't.

"Yeah, Truth," Chris smiled, "You know like 'Truth or Dare' just without the Dare part? So y'all can get to know me and I can get to know y'all."

"Sounds fun," Amy said with a shrug, "and it's better than watching the Doctor mope around."

"I was not moping," the Doctor said in an offended tone, crossing his arms.

"Fine, brooding," Amy smirked.

"I was not brooding either!" the Doctor scoffed while Chris laughed, "Oi, don't you laugh, Christy!" he added pointing to Christ.

"Yes you were!" Amy teased as Chris said 'Don't call me Christy!'

"I say we play," Rory said, interrupting the Doctor and Amy's bantering. River nodded.

"Well then," the Doctor smiled, "Let's get started."

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*Chris' POV*

After everyone agreed on the rules, the Doctor led us to a living room with enough cushy arm chairs for everyone. Basically, the only rule was you had to answer a question unless it brought you too many painful memories. The Doctor had added that part, and everyone agreed it was a nice rule.

"Who's going to go first?" the Doctor asked as we each chose a seat.

"I will," Rory said with a wave of his hand. He waited patiently for someone to ask him their questions.

"Um," I said, trying to think of a question, "How did you and Amy meet?"

"Well," Rory began,"We were bes-erm- friends as kids. And, uh, oh! My mum knew her aunt. That's-that's how we met?" Rory phrased the last sentence as a question, eyeing Amy.

"You don't remember do you?" Amy smirked teasingly. Rory flashed her a sheepish smile and shook his head.

"No, wait. Actually I-" Rory's eyes brightened, "No, sorry, still don't. Remember."

Amy grinned before saying, "My aunt thought I didn't have enough friends and the one friends I did have, she thought was 'a bad influence' so she had Rory's mum bring him around one day for tea. Rory saw my drawing of the Doctor, we started talking, became friends, and he's followed me and Melody everywhere ever since."

"I did not follow you and Melody around," Rory objected.

"Yeah, you did," Amy said in a sing-song tone. Rory opened his mouth as if to argue, but closed it again. Amy smirked victoriously before kissing Rory on the cheek.

"What was it like being a Roman?" the Doctor asked. Noticing my confused look, the Doctor began explaining about Rory being erased from time and the Big Bang Two. A very long- and very weird- story, but it was good to have some background knowledge.

"I hope that wasn't too confusing," he added when he finished.

"Not really," I said, "Your enemies tried to create the biggest trap ever, and using time paradoxes you were able to 'reboot' the universe and fix the cracks in time and space."

The Doctor just stared in response, shooting me a glance that seemed to say my answer was pretty weird, even for his standards; I could feel my cheeks heating up, before Rory cleared his throat. "Ahem. Yeah, I didn't really experience my life as a Roman, I just had the memories. And, uh, they were good. I dreamt of being a soldier as a kid, supposedly, and I was a general's son. I -uh- was always searching for Amy though."