The Doctor's Rainy Day
The soft pitter pattering sounds of rain echoed against the exterior walls of the Tardis. A rainy day. Just what the Doctor didn't need. Just what the Doctor didn't want.
The rain seemed to match the Doctor's mood as he silently watched the parade of raindrops glide against the colored stain glass windows of his small room. Dark and gloomy clouds seemed to hang endlessly for hours on end as the rain would not stop. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Pitter-Patter, Knock"
The Doctor simply continued to stare up at his ceiling.
The knock came again.
"Knock, Pitter-Patter"
The Doctor still didn't answer.
It came one final time
"Pitter-Patter, KNOCK, Pitter-Patter"
This time, the Doctor got up to see who was knocking at his door. But there was no need to open the door, because a few seconds later, the door was smashed in.
The Doctor lept back in surprise. Who would be so persistent to see him now?
The smoke cleared and where the door had been a couple seconds ago stood his wife, River.
"I knocked on that door so many damn times I wasn't sure if you were alive or not," River said smirking slightly.
"Well now you know," The Doctor said uninterested as he climbed up from the splinters and back into his warm bed.
"Oh c'mon sweetie, it's only a door," River whispered as she stepped inside the room.
The Doctor stayed silent as he curled up into his bedspread which was covered with accurately detailed galaxies.
River sighed as she crossed the room, her cherry red high heels clicking behind her.
"I know that you're sad that they're gone, but it's been 3 days. You've got to get out of bed and do something!"
"Sad? You think I'm sad?!"
"Well clearly something's wrong!"
"Just go away. I'll only make you disappear."
"I wouldn't care! I love you!"
The Doctor didn't respond.
River made her way over to the Doctor's bed and sat down next to him.
"It will only make it worse if you stay locked up like this," River said with a sigh. "This isn't what Amy and Rory would have wanted."
The Doctor rolled over in his bed and stared at the opposite wall.
"What does is matter now that they are gone?"
"What matters is that you are still alive…..And that I still need you…"
The Doctor turns to face River.
"River…"
Tears start to run down River's face.
"Don't you even care?! I am your wife! Don't you even love me?!"
"River…..I-I…."
She turns from him, crying.
"You don't do you?"
He rises from the bed and walks over to her.
"Now you know that's not true, River,"
"Is it?! Is it really?!"
He wraps his arms around her.
"You know it's true." Just look into my eyes."
She turns around in his arms and looks into his deep brown eyes and he steadily looks back into hers.
"I-I...I'm sorry…..Doctor…."
He presses a finger to her lips and shushes her.
"I'm the one that should be apologizing….. I've been so focused on Amy and Rory and all you could do was stand and watch while I was suffering for so long. And I never once thought about how you felt….But now I see… how you felt….. And…..I'm sorry…"
The Doctor pulls River close to his chest. River wraps her arms around his neck and pulls her face up to his. The Doctor smiles at her. He hasn't felt this way about someone in a very long time. But now he does and now she is standing before him. A chance that he may never get again due to their conflicting time streams. The time was now. Now, or never. He leaned in closer and kissed her passionately on the lips.
"I Love you River," He said with a whisper "More than anything I have and will ever know, or call my own."
River kisses him back passionately as they stay locked in a beautiful embrace.
The rain continues to fall quietly on the walls of the Tardis.