Title: Nicknames
Author: Classic She
Rating: G
Pairing: Amy/Josh
Spoilers: General Fifth Season
Legalities: Not mine, they tell me things and I scribble it down.
Summary: Amy being interviewed.

Lockjaw.

It hurts. I can't help it; it's just the way I talk.

It's an old scar, picked fresh daily by the illiterate without much imagination.

Now the intelligent use the correct term for my condition as a slur. The Dentiloquist; a person who speaks with clenched teeth.

My enemies won't attack me on a defensible issue; rather they jab at something I have no control over.

My boyfriend, Josh, calls me the Ventriloquist. He's teasing, saying I put words into the First Lady's mouth. Now that's very clever, but not true.

Lockjaw.

I'm human, it still hurts.