So, this is a short story I made based on the episode The Doctor's Wife. It's basically the same, only I always wished that River had been in that episode because the Tardis is kind of her mother, and she has a strong connection to it like the Doctor. I wondered what her reactions would be like and also what the Tardis might say about her-especially since at that point in the series the Doctor and the Ponds don't know who she is yet. It will probably have less than 10 parts, nothing too long I dont' think. Anyways, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but a Series 6 dvd and sonic torch.
Idris was led through the room, her hand resting comfortingly in Auntie's. Her grip tightened as they approached the platform.
"Will it be me, Uncle?" She asked the patchwork man nervously.
"Yeah, it's gonna be you," Uncle confirmed with a grin. "I only wish I could go in your place, idris," he continued, a thoughtful look on his face as he considered, "no, I don't, 'cause it's really gonna hurt!" Nephew took her other arm and he and Auntie led her up the steps.
"It's starting," she gasped.
"What will happen?" She asked in a shaking voice.
"Oh," Auntie cleared her throat, "Nephew will drain your mind and your soul from your body and leave your body empty." She explained. Nephew had gone up while she was talking and now clamped his large hands around her head. Idris' eyes widened if fear.
"I'm scared," she choked out, hands twitching at her sides.
"I expect so, dearie," Auntie muttered. "But soon you'll have a new soul." A sickly green light pulsed around Idris, growing in intensity until it engulfed her. "There'll be a Time Lord comin'!"
"-And then we discovered it wasn't the robot king after all," The Doctor told Rory, twirling around the console and pressing buttons as he piloted them through space, "it was the real one." He smiled sheepishly. "Fortunately, I was able to reattach the head."
Rory, sat on one of the console chairs, turned to Amy as she walked down the stairs. "Do you believe any of this stuff?" He asked his wife incredulously.
"I was there," Amy told him. Rory opened his mouth to reply when an alarm started going off.
"Oh, it's the warning lights," The Doctor whined, shouting and pounding at the console. "I'm getting rid of those-they never stop!" While he ran around the console, hitting buttons and levers and trying to make something happen, Rory got up and approached his wife, who looked at the Doctor with lingering grief.
"Hey," he called softly as he took her hand, "you're thinking about it again, aren't you?"
"Shh!" Amy hissed, shooting a wary glance to make sure the Doctor was still occupied. Turning back to Rory she said, "we saw him die."
"Yeah, two hundred years in the future," Rory reminded her. Yes, it was terrible, but their Doctor was here. Safe for a long while yet.
"Yes, but it's still going to happen!" Amy replied in anguish. Rory only squeezed her hand tighter in response. Both their heads snapped up when they heard a knocking at the door. Amy walked up the console stairs to join the Doctor.
"What was that?" She asked, arms crossed and a serious expression on her face.
"The door," the Doctor blinked back at her, bemused. "It knocked."
"Right," Rory drawled, "we are in deep space." His expression was unbelieving, even though there was no doubt that they had all heard a knock on the door.
"Very, very deep," The Doctor agreed, approaching the door cautiously. People had been known to come knocking on his door on occasion, but that tended to happen when they were landed somewhere. Where there could actually be someone to knock. In other words, not space. And yet….."somebody's knocking!" With a flourish he threw the doors open, his eyes lighting on the glowing white box hovering outside.
"Oh, come here you scrumptious little beauty!" He bounced back with a smile, the box zipping around the room. It zoomed back to him too fast and got him in the head. Catching it, he smiled.
"A box." Rory said.
"I've got mail!"
"Doctor, what is that?" Amy asked, wide-eyed.
"Time Lord Emergency Messaging System," he replied, carrying the box up to the console as he continued, "in an emergency, we wrap up out thoughts in psychic containers and send them through time and space." He spun to face his bewildered Ponds with a wide grin. "Anyway, there's a living Time Lord still out there and-" A sound like thunder filled the console and in a flash of light, a new figure appeared.
"Hello, sweetie. I see you found my box." River Song had arrived in the Tardis.
"You're-What?-River, you can't-Hang on, how did you even-and what are you wearing?" The Doctor stammered, hands fluttering about as he walked around the curly-haired woman. River just smiled serenely and waited for him to calm down, shoulders slightly shaking with silent laughter.
"Are you quite finished?" She asked once he quieted. She stood with arms crossed, leaning against the console, hair loose and tumbling down around her shoulders. The glittering gold ball gown she wore pooled around her feet, a thick strap covering one shoulder but leaving the other bare.
"River!" Amy embraced the older woman warmly and they pulled back with smiles on their faces. "Your look gorgeous!" She exclaimed, gesturing to her outfit. River laughed and thanked her. Rory waved awkwardly from his position by the stairs while the Doctor still looked flustered by her sudden arrival.
"Yes, yes, that's all very nice," the Doctor interrupted, coming to his senses and stepping between the two women, "very nice," he mumbled, eyes flicking down her form and back to her amused eyes. "But how did you even get here? We're in deep space!" In reply she held up the vortex manipulator strapped to her wrist, which he immediately grabbed and soniced. "Even with a vortex manipulator that's still-it should be impossible so what have you done?" He questioned rapidly.
"Like you said, should be impossible, but not quite. Not for someone who knows the Tardis like I do." She smiled secretively when his eyes narrowed and with a jump he realized how close they'd become-his hand still holding onto her wrist and his nose nearly touching hers. He stepped back hastily, glaring at Amy when he noticed her amused expression.
"As for the box," she continued, ignoring the Doctor's sudden nervousness (he didn't bother thinking about the fact that she'd seemed perfectly comfortable in their earlier position), "I sent it to you."
"But this is Time Lord technology, where could you have gotten-,"
"I didn't. I only sent it to you after I found it drifting along outside the atmosphere of Hellaxia, where I'd just said goodbye to another you. Figured if I could sent it out after you…but it seems I've got it wrong again, haven't I?" She asked, taking in every detail of his too-young face.
"Hellaxia? What were you-we-never mind! That's near the Rift! Oh, that's brilliant! There's a Timelord out there and it's one of the good ones!" He laughed, already running around the console and preparing to send them off. Amy and Rory hurried over to stand by River, who looked much less confused than they did.
"Doctor, you said there weren't any Time Lords left." Rory pointed out. Standing to the side, River bit her bit her lip, realizing that wherever her family was in their timelines, they didn't know who or what she was yet.
"There aren't any Time Lords left anywhere in the universe," he confirmed, "but the universe isn't where we're going!" He tossed the glowing cube to Amy, who studied it closely, "see the snake? It's the mark of the Corsair-Fantastic bloke, he had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration-didn't feel like himself unless he had that tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooh, she was a bad girl!" He spun around the controls and slammed his hand on a button, sparks showering from the console. With a jolt they were moving, everyone grabbing quickly to the railings.
"Doctor! What's happening?" Rory shouted. He and Amy clung to each other, looking scared by the Doctor's mad laughs, but he ignored them and smiled at River who was doing her own piloting on the other side of the console. She smiled back with bright, excited eyes.
"We're leaving the universe!" They shouted back to the couple.
"How can you leave the universe?" Amy snapped, resisted the turns and tumbles of the Tardis.
"With enormous difficulty!" The Doctor shouted. As the Tardis shook and roared, the Doctor frowned. "Right now I'm burning up Tardis rooms to give her a boost. River," She nodded and the pair started furiously moving around the control board.
"Goodbye, swimming pool!" The Doctor cried. River narrowed her eyes at that, though she knew he'd get a new one (minus the library). "Goodbye, scullery! Sayonara, squash court 7!" The Tardis console exploded with sparks and Amy screamed as she and Rory hit the railings hard. The Doctor was flung into River and they both hit the floor painfully, hanging on for dear life. "Hello, Rift!"
So! Hope you liked my renditions to the first part, more to come soon. Please review!
