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[Link's face scrunched up.]

Billions?

How many's that?

Wow. Ask the hard ones, kid. "Okay, if you took all the people in this world. And then you made 4 more of each of them. Then you took the new total and made a hundred more of each of them, and did that again a hundred times, you still wouldn't be near to a single billion."

There's not that many people in my world.

[He wasn't sure that there were that many trees in the Lost Woods.]

How can there be that many people?

"There are billions of people in my world at any given time. And the internet... well, there are people who contributed to it long ago who have since died. Tens of billions, of not more, have contributed to the internet."

How is there room for 'em all?

[Hyrule was large, but, he couldn't even imagine how vast a world would have to be to house that many people.]

There's only like a dozen of us in the Kokiri Forest.

"Well," she started, then stopped herself and sat down. "Really? There isn't. We have so many issues, poverty, starvation, homelessness, overcrowding. But people keep just.... being people, I guess. In the future, though, we spread out to the stars. Hundreds of worlds or more, colonized by humans and part humans."

Don't other places kinda hate that?

[Sounded like an invading army to Link.]

"Some, but in some cases we find our own places. But the thing with humans? We were born on a world that had a native race even before we descended the trees. Just took us a few thousand years to find out."

Well, of course there can be more than one native race....

[Link looked puzzled. Why would that be surprising? At all?]

What kind of boring place only has one type of people?

"Well until recently, we thought that was our world. Hard learning that we weren't, that even though we were born to the Earth, we were seen as invaders."

That's crazy.

You share the same land.

[Link furrowed his brow, sticking a finger in the custard.]

"Yeah, well, they went into hibernation for a very long time deep in the earth. We accidently kind of woke them up."

Weird.

[Not Hyrule, and therefore, weird.]

"Okay, let's start with this... your world have dinosaurs?"

Dodongos? Yeah, they're a pain. Stupid things breathe fire and even attack Gorons.

[Brightening.]

I fed the biggest one bombs and stabbed it until it died, and now the Gorons can get their food again.

Their leader made me their sworn brother as thanks.

"Ah...... sure....." she said. So not what she meant. "Ah, fish fingers are ready." And if not, they're coming out now anyway.

They smell good.

"Good. they taste even better than they smell." Until you dip them in custard, anyway.

She pulled out the tray and used tongs to split them into five plates. She left three of the plates on the counter, and brought two over to the table. "Careful, they're hot," she warned as she set his in front of him.

[Link took a small knife from his belt and cut a fish finger into thirds, before stabbing a piece and bringing it up to his mouth to blow on it.]

It's got bread on it?

[He wondered how that worked. Link bit the piece of fish and chewed quietly. It wasn't quite as fresh tasting as the fish he caught back home, but, he wasn't sure why. It still tasted good though, and he gave Amy a small smile.]

Her brows went up as she washed that, then she went and got him a fork and a food knife and set them down before him. "Breading."

She smiled at him, then resisted the urge to use her hand, as she usually would. She got another fork and knife, cut herself a piece properly, then dipped it into her bowl of custard. She held it up like a toast and then ate it.

[Link watched her curiously. He wasn't at all sure about the flatware, so he merely stabbed another piece and hesitantly dipped it in the custard and took a bite.

His reaction would have been comical if it hadn't been him. The poor boy's ears twitched and his face scrunched. He managed to refrain from spitting it out, and was able to will himself to swallow it with great difficulty.]

She burst out laughing at that. "I guess it's a bit of an acquired taste. Try the custard separately," she offered, still laughing.

Sorry, kid. She's not going to hide her laughter to spare your feelings.

[His shoulders tensed when she laughed at him, and Link hunched closer to his plate. He kept his head down, trying to hide his expression which was somewhere between hurt and angry.]

...'m full.

[He was stupid, stupid, for expecting anything different. Link had been the butt of enough of Mido's jokes to be more than just a little defensive.]

I'll just go...back to my room place.

Edited 2017-10-07 01:49 (UTC)

She blinked. "Whoa there, hold up short stuff. Little Amy Pond lesson for ya." She walked over and put an arm around his shoulders. "Look, kid. Grew up hearing all the other little girls being told that if a boy pulls your pig tails, it's cause he likes ya and doesn't know how to say it. I was the one pulling on Rory, not cause I didn't know how to say it, but because I didn't realize it was true. Whole childhood, people were always leaving. I hardly even remembered my parents, lived with an Aunt I almost never saw. I had two people who were constant, who were there. Mels and Rory. Mels was like me, so we kind of took care of each other. Well, I kind of took care of her. Only person who got into near as much trouble as I did. She was the most in trouble girl in the whole school. And Rory... Well..."

"Rory I kept expecting to leave, and since he was going to leave anyway, figured if I pushed him away, he'd leave before I cared too much, and at least I'd know why he was gone. But you know what? He stuck around. He trailed around behind Mels and me for YEARS like a shadow. Couldn't lose him. Shocked me the day I realized I no longer wanted to. And then came the day Mels pointed out that he was in love with me. I hadn't seen it... but once I did... I realized I loved him too. I've been running scared my whole life, kid. In some ways, still running. But even now, knowing I have the people that matter most close to me.... Here's the thing. I'm still me. I'm nice sometimes, sometimes not. I laugh at people, I call them names. But it's not the same as it was when I was a kid. Now? I only insult people I like. Twisted, maybe. But it's who I am. Just as much a part of me as making fish fingers and custard for strange people who drop into my life out of nowhere."

"So yeah. I laughed at ya. I made the same face the first time I saw the Doctor dip his fish fingers in custard. I thought it was the grossest thing ever. And it was. Still is. But you know what? It's also a sign of friendship between him, and I. And Rory now, even. I laughed because it reminded me of me, of Rory, of the Doctor, of the people I love in my life. I laughed cause laughter is good. Laughter is life."

She gave him one more squeeze then pulled a chair close and sat in it.

"Tell ya something else. Rory used to be afraid it was the Doctor I was in love with. And I guess he had reason to. Then one day I was kidnapped. They had a way to hear me, but I couldn't hear them. And I spoke. I knew... I knew somehow they could hear me, they could always hear me. And I went on for DAYS.... about Rory... about how much I loved him. Never realized I wasn't saying his name, kept calling him stupid, and his stupid face, even as I said how much I loved him. I was hurt and scared and alone. And then they found me. They always do. HE always does. And he was so sure I meant the Doctor. But he still loved me, still was willing to die trying to get me free. And I told him to leave me, to get his stupid face out of there and get to safety. And that's when he realized I meant him. He's the stupid face. I love that man more than my own life, him and his stupid face. And if he's smart, he's going to pretend he didn't hear any of this conversation and stay wherever he is... Because you know what? He is the smartest stupid person in the universe. And I love him. But a day won't pass when I won't call him or his face stupid."

"I'm not going to pretend to be nice, or change who I am for you. Not going to change or pretend for anyone. I'm Amy Pond. I am and will always be me. But if you can handle me being a bit insulting, or laughing when I find something funny, you'll always be welcome in this house for a snack, or time on the Wii, or just to have someone to talk to. But if you can' handle that, you'll get one and only one apology and I'll wish you well in life and you are welcome to leave. Your choice now, kid."

She got up. "I'm going upstairs to change the pillow cases. You're welcome to stay, or to leave. Your choice. and whatever you chose, I'll respect it. If you leave, I won't go looking for you. If you stay, I'll be back and I'll make you something a little less Doctory."

Congrats, Link, you found one of the Monsters the Doctor hugs.

"Anything you want or need to say before I go upstairs?"

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