Author's Note: Hello and welcome to my new Doctor Who fic! This story takes place post-Ponds, pre-Clara, immediately following 'Angels Take Manhattan'. I've never really written as a 'narrator' before so bear with me. Hope you all enjoy it! :)
Love Come Rescue
Chapter 1
The Doctor sat alone in the TARDIS. His Ponds, his glorious Ponds were gone. He wiped his eyes with the corner of his bowtie. How had he let this happen? Damn Angels, damn paradoxes.
He didn't know what he was going to do with himself now. But he decided he needed somebody along with him.
All of his past companions had told him how he shouldn't be alone and he'd always denied that he needed anybody else.
He needed at least some time alone because after travelling with Amy and Rory for three years, it was going to be a big change. He didn't want his next companion to just be a rebound companion.
He didn't want to mope around this time like he did after losing other companions, especially Rose Tyler. He wanted to move on and go see more of the universe. Of course, he wanted to show someone the universe and experience that with him.
Perhaps I'll see if River wants to join me for at least a little while anyway. The Doctor thought to himself.
We never did have a honeymoon after our wedding, and I feel like that's a thing all couples should do.
The Doctor felt so bad for River as she had just lost her mother. They had both lost Amy Pond, someone who was extremely important to them both. If she came along with him, they could grieve together and comfort each other, and they could help each other get through this.
Where is River anyways? The Doctor wondered, She said she'd only be a minute.
The Doctor got up from the stairs he was sitting on and pushed open the door of the TARDIS.
The graveyard where he had lost Amy and Rory was right in front of him.
He cautiously walked over to where the Amy and Rory's headstones were expecting to find River there still crying but she wasn't there.
"River! River!" called The Doctor as he wandered aimlessly through the graveyard trying to find his wife.
"River! River! Where did you go?" he tried again.
There was still no response and the graveyard seemed to be completely silent.
The Doctor turned around and headed back in the direction of Amy and Rory's graves.
He sat on the ground cross-legged in front of the headstone and he began crying again.
"Oh my Ponds, oh my Ponds, I'm losing everyone today." He whispered.
He figured River had used her vortex manipulator and disappeared into time and space without even saying goodbye.
The Doctor picked up two flowers from a field near the grave and placed in gently in front of the headstone.
"I love you Ponds', you are forever seared onto my heart." He said and he kissed the headstone.
He stood up and headed back to the TARDIS but there was something that caught his eye.
He stopped in his tracks and took exactly eight steps backwards and he looked to his right.
The name on the headstone that he was looking at read, 'River Song. Loving daughter and husband 1932-1962.'
"What? What! No! No! How did this happen? This can't happen! What happened?" The Doctor exclaimed.
He frantically began pacing back and forth and running his hands through his hair and he was hyperventilating.
He paused for a moment and looked at the year of River's death, 1962.
"That's not possible." He murmured to himself.
The Doctor took off at run back towards the TARDIS.
He quickly turned all the settings on the time rotor so that he could go back to 1961 and slammed down on the main flight control and the TARDIS began to dematerialize.
Just before the Doctor and the TARDIS disappeared back to 1962, the Doctor was positive that he caught a glimpse of a Weeping angel in the far corner of the graveyard-right where River's grave was.
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