This is the story how River Song got accidently into the Pete's World and bumped into Rose and Tentoo. I know it was done million of time but I wanted to share my thoughts on what this meeting could be like.

From River's point of view the story takes place somewhere before the Library, for Rose and Tentoo 3 years later after the Bad Wolf Bay.


"Great, just great" – the thought crossed River's mind. She was stuck on the volcano's edge while trying to escape another group of aliens who were hunting her down. OK, she might have stolen theirs artifact, but it wouldn't work anyway! It was a big yellow button on some kind of chain, her special device for forbidden technologies signaled her and she came straight to it! As soon as she figures what is that and how it works she'll have a lot of fun with that.

It was weird, actually, that her device showed no information on the yellow button thing, it must be something highly advanced or dangerous, or both. Anyway if she won't figure out what it is, she'll show it to the Doctor on their next date to the Towers, which she'd been promised for ages! River wondered mildly again, why he always postponed this trip.

She heard another bang. Damn it! She ran higher and higher, she could hear as violet-skin aliens discussed the plan of how to get her without damaging the device, she knew she was cornered…or rounded considering she was on the about-to-erupt volcano, she found herself on the top of it. She could feel the heat of magma inside the giant rock and then everything happened so fast, a bullet whistled and hit the yellow locket on her chest, she was pushed in the heart of the boiling fire, her last thought was about her parents and the Doctor. And then everything went dark.


"Rooose" – a young blonde woman heard her very favorite whiny voice – "Please wake up, you are not allowed to sleep for so long, especially when we are on the TARDIS ride" – Rose could feel as her impudent part-Timelord nuzzled closely to her and started kiss her back.

"Doctor, back off" – she said sleepily. The Doctor grinned happily.

"See, I knew you weren't asleep! Come on, we can have sex, breakfast and a nice adventure on a surprise-planet!" – the said Doctor hugged her gently.

"Surprise-planet? " – asked Rose sarcastically while opening her eyes – "Will this be a surprise-planet like the last one? Where we were almost eaten by that green-eyed monster? And since when do we have a schedule of to-do-in-the-morning-things?"

"Since today! We do it anyway every day! Weeeell, when we are on Earth and not at your parent's house" – the Doctor grimaced and then brightened – "But here, we can have morning for as long as we want" – he started to kiss her neck.

"What about monsters?"-Rose decided to argue just for the sake of it as her mind slowed down a bit

"Monsters just the bits in between" – they smiled and the Doctor kissed her thoroughly.

It's been three years since that fateful day on the Bad Wolf Bay, where Rose had to choose between the almost-immortal Time Lord Doctor and the mortal one. To say it was a hard choice is to say nothing, she had never experienced such a pain, it was as if she had to rip half of her heart off. Not even the consequences of Canary Warf hurt that much. But she made her choice. All three of them knew that…by the power of the Universe or Gods or other powers, she had to choose between them which was impossible. She understood about part-regeneration at once, she hopped so many realities; saw so many things that the Doctor's ability to regenerate himself into two bodies didn't bother her much. But it was like choosing between the regenerations of the same man, she imagined often what it would be like if she had to choose between her first Doctor and the second one and she felt that it wasn't right, but in the end she had to do the ultimate choice.

Of course, her Time Lord Doctor pushed her to that choice, she knew why. All three of them knew, not only because of 'blood and anger' which was nonsense actually, this characterized every incarnation he ever had. Rose loved the Doctor, but she knew what he was capable on in his anger and how dangerous he could be. No, the main reason was that he was immortal and she was human. That has always been a huge problem in their relationship and she wanted to give him forever, but knew that he would hate himself for that, in his mind that would mean to take her whole life away. Their story…well, it was extremely painful and complicated.

And then, then that accident happened and as a result the Doctor regenerated into human. He became more like her, the way she became more like him on the Game Station. And that gave them an amazing chance to actually live a life. A short one, but at least they could spend it the way they wanted. Sometimes she hated herself, she was here, happy with her family and the Doctor, while the Time lord was…God knows, where he was. But her Doctor always persuaded her that she made the right choice, that the other Doctor wanted that for us. He told Rose again and again, that the Time Lord is glad, that at least one of his regenerations got a happily ever after, even though it is separated and that someday he will find someone to travel with, when the pain of losing Rose and Donna in one day will wither a bit. Yes…Donna, the Doctor told Rose what happened to her, after that they both laid in silence for hours looking into nothingness. The Doctor was thinking of everything he lost, he looked so old, so alien that night. And Rose thought about the price everyone had to pay for their short happiness.

Even though Rose accepted the Doctor for who he is fairly quickly, that doesn't mean they fall into the realm of happiness all at once. It took weeks for them to work on all their problems and insecurities, to overstep all the lies and secrets. They yelled at each other for hours until they couldn't anymore, they cried in each other's arms, they hated and loved and wanted each other all at the same time and it drove them insane. Jackie and Pete showed themselves from the best side. They didn't interfere, didn't say one word to either of them, after a week of Rose's and Doctor's battles, the couple decided to give them even more privacy, they took Tony and went on holiday for three weeks, Pete had a beach house on the south of France. Both Rose and Doctor were very grateful for that, after sometime, Rose came into the Doctor's bedroom and decided to offer to take one step in a time. They didn't talk about possible romantic relationship, they decided to restore their friendship first and then see where it goes.

They agreed on not hiding things, no matter how hard and complicated and unpleasant they were, after years of suppressed emotions, they didn't want to go through it all over again. The Doctor decided to talk about something pleasant first, he told her about his "good" adventures with Martha and Donna, such as Shakespear, Agatha Christy, the Ood Planet and Angels, Rose told him about her professional life here, about friends she made, about her new family and Mickey, who became a brother to her.

Then they moved to harder questions and topics. They didn't yell anymore, they both needed comfort and understanding, not judgment or jealousy. The Doctor told about his initial problems with Martha and that he couldn't fully accept her, he told Rose how hard it was for him to travel years in loneliness after she fell into Pete's world and he knew how selfish it was of him to invite someone he didn't want to. He told her about Joan Redfern and Family of Blood, Rose held his cold hands when he retold her about the Master's plan and death, Rose tried her best not to show any sign of discontent when he told her about mysterious River Song. He told Rose about his 'fogotten' regeneration and what it meant for him. Then was Rose's turn to tale. She told the Doctor about her first months of almost-comatose in Pete's World, how she pushed everyone away, how she hated Pete for saving her, she told him about the beginning of the darkness and all the disasters that happened during those days. She told him about the worlds she visited, the things she saw and did, the way it changed her forever.

Later on she shared that she misses the TimeLord Doctor, that her heart aches for the choice she made, it was the first time in 4 years of her life in Pete's World, when she said that she loved him, she tried to explain that she loves both of them and feels like betraying them in doing that. The Doctor said that he understood her perfectly well, but couldn't help but be a bit jealous. He still felt inferior to his counterpart, he became humanish, his TARDIS was still a twig and he wasn't sure if she wanted him like this. After all those hard revelations they didn't speak for the whole day and basically avoided each other. But then the Doctor couldn't help it, it was his turn to make the first move, he bursted into Rose's room and snogged her, she didn't say a word, just snogged him back with whole suppressed passion. It was the first time they made love. After that, the Doctor told Rose his name and explained the power of it and what secret lies beneath it. They joked that there are now most secretive and complicated married couple in the Universe. After that they became inseparable, not that they didn't fight, but every fight ended with a very hot make up.

Sometimes Rose had weird dreams. Sometimes she dreamed about Jack and Giant Head, sometimes about battles with Daleks, sometimes she could see the other Doctors and people she didn't know and never met, sometimes she saw herself on Gallifrey talking to a very old Doctor and than two younger one's appeared alongside with a petite brunette. She described those dreams to the Doctor, he was surprised but then said that this the shadows of her Bad Wolf time, she can see things she saw when becoming a Goddess, and as the dreams started with the growth of their personal TARDIS, it means that they are bonding through their connection to the Old TARDIS. The Doctor was very intrigued and happy, he explained that the youngest face must be his new regeneration and that her visions are mostly the mirror of their original world where they could peek from time to time. The Doctor was especially curious about and ancient box and his bearded regeneration. They decided to work on it when they'll have more information.

Thanks to Donna's tips, they managed to grow their TARDIS in a record time, a little over a year. Before that, they worked at Torchwood, which the Doctor hated, he still couldn't bring himself to look at that damned wall, even in this world. The Doctor was more than happy to help them when necessary, but work there permanently? No way. They were both thrilled to go back the stars, Jackie wasn't happy about it and ordered do not even think of taking Tony with them, until he is 18. They obeyed the rule and generally became much more careful, too short life-spans, no guarantees, plus they have a family on Earth to return to.

Right now the very happy couple, were giggling on their giant bed. The TARDIS was only 2 years old approximately, so there were not many rooms there, they had a small library with no pool to Doctor's disappointment, three bedrooms, one of which was occupied by Rose and the Doctor, a wardrobe, a kitchen, a dining room, a garden, two bathrooms and of course a console room. It resembled the previous one, but was smaller, brighter and tidier; there were also shelves with teapots, books, cookies and bananas everywhere. And a lot of Doctor's tools. Anyway as Rose and Doctor were about to start their second period of morning sex, Rose's super-phone rang. The Doctor cursed loudly, something about surprise planet and no privacy even in space. They knew that these phone calls only in emergencies, the secret number knew three people: Jackie, Pete and Jake. So whoever it was it wasn't a good one. Even Jackie never called unless something big happens as she knew what kind of adventures Rose and Doctor usually have and that sometimes their lives depended on complete silence. Rose took the phone:

"Yes, hello. The Dame Rose Tyler of Space and Time at your service" – the Doctor rolled his eyes mockingly

"Rose?"- asked a very worried Jake and gibbered on– "Is it really you? I've been calling you for days and no response! We have a…"

"Jake, calm down" – Rose said in a worried voice, ok it wasn't the usual invasion, Jake is used to them, something much worse happened – "Slow down and explain what happened."

Now the Doctor tensed too, he took the phone and put it on speaker.

"Talk Jake. We are both here"

"OK, it happened three days ago" – Jake stated, he was trying to calm down – "We had a boring Torchwood day, not one Slitheen, nothing and then an earthquake began, and I don't just mean a usual one but a Pompeii-like one! " – Rose and the Doctor exchanged worried looks – "And then, on the edge of the London the fireballs from the sky fell! We found about 50 of them. But that's not the weirdest thing"

"Wait-wait, Jake" – Rose interrupted – "Was anyone hurt? Are mom and dad OK?" – the Doctor shot her a look and grabbed her hand.

"Yes, they are fine, shaken obviously, but fine, Tony too, they are all in mansion now. As for citizens, they are also mostly fine, some injuries but no fixed deaths."

"So what's the alien-weird part of the story?"- asked the Doctor. Rose glared at him- "What? It's obviously alien."

"The weirdest part is that we found a woman right in the center of firestorm, or whatever the hell it was. She looks human, injured, unconscious and she has a dimension hopper. "

"What?"- the Doctor and Rose exclaimed at once , they jumped of the bed and started to dress up as quickly as possible , the Doctor yelled "Jake, don't touch her, don't do anything, don't let anyone close to her , we'll be right back, what date it is?"

"It's September 26, 2014, 11 a.m. But Doctor, Rose that's still not the weirdest thing"

"OK, what is the worst part" – asked Rose while buttoning her shirt.

"The woman has two hearts."

The Doctor's head snapped and he looked at Rose in horror.