This is my first Doctor Who fic! If anything is confusing I will try to explain it, also dont hate me if the charecters dont act completely as they do in the show and let me know why you think so. I love reviews please send them my way. :)
River Song lived for moments like these she applied her hallucinogenic lipstick and rushed out of her cell. She kissed the first two guards to come near her easily and squarely on the lips. The next guards to arrive were smarter, they didn't risk getting too close and began to fire at her from a moderate distance. River reached the tardis quickly after the firing began and smiled at the Doctor. She shut the tardis doors quickly and she let out a barely out of breath greeting, "Hello Sweetie."
He pressed a few buttons on the tardis then he crossed the platform to meet her.
He raised his arm up and wiped off the remainder of her hallucinogenic lipstick with his sleeve. Then he pressed his lips softly on hers. "Hello River", he said pulling slightly back, but keeping his face only inches from hers.
"Where are we going today, Sweetie?" she questioned him. She hadn't been expecting a visit from him today. Not that she objected, quite honestly she was overjoyed to hear the TARDIS materializing in Stormcage and had ran not because of the on coming guards but because she got the chance to see him. (not that she would ever say it aloud)
"No where in particular, I thought we'd just see where we ended up", he finally broke away from her to stand at the tardis core, "Old girl always takes us to where we need to be."
"That she does." River responded as the tardis began to materialize. She popped her head out of the door and smiled.
"Lovely, Leadworth around 2017 fairly close to where your parents live we should pop over for a bit.", the doctor said wrapping an arm around River's waist as they stood in the doorway.
"Yeah, okay I'll just go change into something more appropriate for the year 2017."
The doctor smiled, "No problem, love. I'll wait right here." He fell into the captains chair with a huff. River blew him a kiss and headed towards the tardis wardrobe. He could tell he was dealing with an older River by the way she acted around him, even by her smile. Rassilon, he loved that smile he could spend days just trying to get her to-
His thoughts were interrupted by a loud banging on the tardis doors, he smiled as he jumped up to answer the door. "Amy we were just on our-"
"DADDY, DADDY. WHERE ARE YOU?", the Doctor heard a young girl scream from the other side. He ran the next few steps and opened the door to a sobbing child who looked very young. She couldn't have been old enough to be walking around town on her own. She looked so lost that the doctor knew he had to help her.
He smiled down at the young girl, "Sorry little girl", he was interrupted by the small girl wrapping her arms around his legs," there are no daddies on board here", he said opening the door a little wider so she could look in.
"Daddy", she sobbed into his trousers, "Daddy they took them, they're gone."
"Hey, there there now,", he patted the dark ringlets atop her head,"who did they take and who are they, maybe I can help you."
"Grandmum and granddad", she whispered between sobs. She was growing quite irritated that the Doctor had no clue what was happening. She thought that maybe her mum would be able to understand her, she always could.
Just as the young girl was thinking this River stepped back into view.
"Mummy", the small girl said as she sprang at her stepping around the doctor in the process. New tears filled her eyes as she wrapped herself around a different set of legs.
River looked to the doctor unsure of what to do. The doctor simply shrugged at her and shifted closer to where River and the young girl stood.
"Okay how about we take a little trip, you should show us the place where your Grandmum and granddad went missing. We will try to help you find them", River suggested. Neither the Doctor nor River knew how to explain to the little girl that they weren't her parents and they assumed that she only thought that they were because of extreme trauma.
"C'mon, then what do you say", the doctor smiled at her and kneeled to get closer to her eye level.
"M'kay", she said pulling away from River, wrapping her arms around the doctors neck, and lying her head in the space between his shoulder and neck. The doctor warmed at the contact , it wasn't that he didn't have the heart to shrug her off (although that was part of it). There was also something about the way she fit into his arms and the crook of his neck like she sort of belonged there. He didn't object to the contact, but he simply ushered River out of the TARDIS before him.
"Geronimo."
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Outside of the tardis the Doctor and River realized they had no idea where they were going.
"Which way is it sweetie", River song said gently.
"Well how should I know-", the Doctor started," oh you meant, okay."
The little girl lifted her hand and pointed down towards the end of the street they were already on, the same street as Amy and Rory. The little girl had stopped sobbing but tears still flowed freely down her cheeks. She had also quit speaking, she could sense that something was wrong with her parents she just couldn't understand it. They reached the end of the street and the small girl tucked herself closer to the doctor partially covering herself with his jacket.
"Which house",River asked taking the lead, she could see the thoughts in the doctors head were starting to click into place. They were thoughts she had already had but they needed to be confirmed. The girl raised a slender arm and pointed at a blue house. Amy and Rory's blue house.
The doctor passed the small girl to River and whipped out his sonic. He would have time to let all the news sink into his head later now he needed to look for Amy and Rory.
River waited patiently for the doctor to scan the house for alien tech/life, and after finding only small leftover particles he gave the all clear. The girl who had settled into the curve of River's left hip flinched slightly at the thought of returning to the house where her grandparents had been taken.
"What did you find?", River asked as she approached him.
"Lots of spoilers", he said staring at the small child on River's hip, "and also some small traces of alien technology that is long gone. I'll have to wait for the tardis to give me a full analysis." The Doctor didn't elaborate on the things he had seen. The pictures of the three of them laughing, the little girl sitting atop his own shoulders as River looked on and held his hand. Pictures of wonderful moments that hadn't even happened yet.
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"So little one let's start from the beginning. What's your name?" the Doctor asked.
The little girl was getting confused when he talked and smiled like this he reminded her of her daddy, but her daddy knew her name. He was after all the one who named her.
"Ava Amelia Song", the girl said .
"What a brilliant name, absolutely fantastic", he smiled.
This caused Ava to smile too but not wholeheartedly, how could two people who looked so much like her mum and dad be so... not.
"Ava sweetie what happened today", River wanted to be direct and not waste any time finding her own mum and dad. Ava paused as if to gather her thoughts and River took a moment to glance around.
The first picture she saw startled her it was a picture of herself and the little girl when she was just a baby. It was a beautiful black and white picture in a tardis blue frame. In the picture River stood holding Ava who looked to be no more than a few months old they were so close that their noses touched and the connection they shared seemed to jump straight from the picture and into River's heart. She had no memory of this girl, not her birth, not her first steps, or even her first words, but Ava was hers and she realized in those few seconds that she would give her life to protect her.
"Mummy, do you think we will find them?" Ava asked then, pulling River into the conversation that had continued during her lapse.
"I believe so", River said pulling Ava, who had been sitting right beside her, onto her lap. River wasn't truly sure that they would find them, they didn't even know who took them. But she did hope that they would be able to find her parents, soon. Ava was placed in their care and they had no doubt protected her with their lives, causing themselves to be taken in the process. River looked into Ava's green eyes, they were the same color as hers, and brushed her hair behind her ear, "I hope so."
The Doctor looked on at what felt like a very private mother and daughter moment. He wondered what had changed in River's attitude about the girl. He stared at River as she pulled the girl onto her lap and brushed her hair back behind her tiny ears with the tips of her fingers. The girl seemed to have both notice and accept the change, but the doctor couldn't understand it.
River looked up from Ava to find that the the Doctor was starring at her, at the two of them together this way. River guessed that it would take a bit longer for his paternal instincts to kick in. He had been a father and that had been taken away from him. Twice. With jenny it had been bad, he didn't acknowledge her until the end, until it was too late all because he was afraid of losing another child. He had put up walls around that instinct, even in this regeneration they were there. He hadn't accepted Ava as his own daughter yet, she was just another adventure at the moment.
River looked down at Ava she looked so tired, as if she was forcing her eyes to stay opened. River stood and the Doctor copied her, "We should go we don't know if they will come back for her", River said growing increasingly worried by the end of the sentence. She could only hope that she was wrong.
Where are Amy and Rory? :o Look forward to the return of an awesome charecter for the next chapter. If you put this symbol '*' at the end of your review i will send you a message telling you who it is. :)