THE PERFECT MAN

Mels resented her mother.

Well... sometimes.

All right she didn't really. She loved her mother as much as a psychopath who was never raised by her mother would love a mother. Did that make any sense? Aside from the fact her mother had no real input in how she was raised the only reason she resented her mother was because of their differing views on perfection.

Yeah, that's right, perfection.

Amy Pond, redheaded Scottish girl in therapy thinks the Doctor is the perfect man in the universe. She believes that a man who needs rules and good people around him was perfect. A man who destroyed his own world amongst many other planets was perfect. The man who had no issue in abandoning his friends was supposed to be the personification of perfection.

(she was sat there one day and had to memorise all of his companions names and was pointed out the ones he really abandoned – Susan, Adric, Sarah Jane, Jack Harkness, Rose...eventually list becomes endless.)

Mels had a different opinion. The right opinion. Because she was an intelligent psychopath with a big brain and memory storage and superpowers. So her opinion was the correct one. The perfect man had to be the one she can almost remember. The one who held her in his strong arms and wept because he loved her.

The perfect man, the real personification of perfection, was the Last Centurion.

Rory Williams.

Rory who would support you no matter what, Rory who loved and cared endlessly for the whole universe, Rory who tended to injuries, Rory who put you to bed after you drank yourself silly, Rory who was always reliable and on time, Rory who would always hold your hand.

Rory who always did what you asked even if it was silly little things like bed time stories and a cuddle because a little part of you craves that affection. Rory who was overlooked and thought weak but was actually the strongest guy in the world. He proved himself plenty of times when he stood up to those bullies on Mels and Amy's behalf and punched that creep who wouldn't take no as an answer.

Mels knew that the perfect man was her Daddy and nothing would ever change that.

One day, many galaxies and centuries away, when she is another person entirely and comes to love the Doctor...

She would still look at Rory in his Centurion costume and think...this is the perfect man.

So of course she resents her mother when she turns round, arms crossed and furious, and says in response to Mels' perfect man jibe, "he's not even real, just a stupid dream with I was a kid," not even thinking of the sweet man standing behind her.

Mels feels resentment build up within in her. Like a pot of boiling water bubbling away in her stomach. She doesn't just resent her mother though...

She hates the Doctor with a burning passion because he constantly steals the title of perfection away from Rory and never did anything to deserve it.

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