Doctor Who fic: The Boy Who Waited (37/49)

Title: The Boy Who Waited (37/49)
Rating: PG
Characters: Rory, with appearances from Barbara
Timeline: set between "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang"
Summary: London, 1996. Barbara Wright prepares the Pandorica for exhibit at the National Museum. As the work unfolds, she recounts the lengthy history of the stone box and its loyal protector, the Lone Centurion.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. Everything else is me taking liberties with history.
A/N: A huge thank you to my beta punch_kicker15. This story would still be sitting on my hard drive if it weren't for you.

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( Rory gripped the armrests of his chair, causing the wood to creak. Nearly a century of waiting, of being separated from the Pandorica and Amy, and all because the Monarch didn't want the Pandorica in England. It was nice and safe in the colony where everyone was polite and no one rebelled. )

"Sorry, that corner was really dark and I couldn't help myself."

Yay, only, like, a month to go before the premiere! Have a Coulson promo:

This is so a Joss show. Drama and humour and all perfectly balanced. All big movie franchises should have a TV show in the same universe. You get to tell stories that are more personal but they still have the same energy as the movies. And obviously you can get more stories, too.

I don't need Tony or Steve to show up, but it'll be cool if they make references to their movies as they come out. Nice way to do tie-ins and marketing, if you're in to that stuff. And this isn't something they could do right off the bat, but it'd be neat if they eventually have flashbacks to Peggy Carter's era, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was in its infancy.

And apparently Joss is on the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly, but my copy hasn't been delivered yet. My mail carrier is so reading it...