The Wheel and the Fire

by Deano858

Doctor River Song once again falls into the doctor's life and with her she brings a new battle to the doors of the TARDIS. Silence is falling throughout the universe, Amelia Pond has vanished and only the doctor, River and the lone centurion can find her

1. Prologue

Doctor River song sat in her prison cell, on her bed. She looked over at the bars of the cell which she had been imprisoned in and at the guard who was standing by the wall on the other side of the large corridor which surrounded her prison cell. She reached down under her bed and picked up the vortex manipulator which she had kept hidden from all of the guards at the stormcage facility. She pressed a few buttons on the controls and looked up once more, the guard was faced in the opposite direction, it was time. With a push of another button River vanished in a poof of smoke and a sizzle of electricity. The guard opposite the cell sounded the alarm, Doctor River Song had escaped again.

Red lights glared and a loud alarm siren rang out throughout the prison. River ran through the hallway which she had found herself in. She had made enough escape attempts now to know who the guards would react. They would seal of the prison and begin searching from her cell. She couldn't use the vortex manipulator again, that was never her plan. She needed to get back to the Doctor and there was only one way for her to be certain of that happening. She ran through the corridor to a large metal sliding door. She took out her small device and placed it on the lock of the door and clicked the two buttons on the side of the metal device. Sparks flew out of the doors lock and more alarms began to sound. As the door slid open River was faced with the blackness of space. Stormcage was an asteroid prison and River knew that the atmosphere would not last long. She leaned out of the doorway and jumped out, her arms spread out and her head tilted up she dived through space down from the metal ledge to the rocky surface of the asteroid below. As she neared the face of the asteroid, a familiar noise filled the cold air, the TARDIS materialised and in the open doorway was the doctor, leaning on the door of the blue doors of his ship.

As River fell into the TARDIS, she rolled across the metal floor and then sprang back to her feet in front of the doctor. "Hello Sweetie" She grinned as she winked at him.