I read so many versions of River having nightmares about Madame Kovarian but what if the Doctor had the nightmare instead of River. Taunting him about a Rivers fate. In the story they are together (Just a random idea.)
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The Doctor was back on a control room of a ship, where Kovarian was taunting him through screen signaled from her current position that he didn't know of.
Madame Kovarian smiles through the screen.
"Its almost time—" she reminded him.
"Time can be rewritten—" he said firmly.
"Not this time Doctor" Kovarian stated.
"Even if she never met you or if she never loved you."
"She is never going to love like that again….. after you? ….no..., you ruined her for other people" Kovarian taunted him.
It was like her saying you shouldn't of let her in, but the Doctor knew even if she didn't say it aloud.
He grimaced and held his ground.
How dare she hurt her in the first place, I will make her pay.
"You may be a Time lord but you can't change her fate!" she said harshly.
"JUST WATCH ME!" he yelled, turning his back and walking away from the screen.
"She's still going to die you know—" she called after his retreating figure, "in that chair... and you still are going to watch her die."
His arms trembled at his sides without his permission and his fists turned white and he turned back and yelled "SHUT UP!" with a snarl.
"Everything ends and it will end with her, among the rest in your name!"
He ran right up to the screen showing her evil dark lipstick smile and smashed his side of the screen with his fist letting glass shatter and sparks fly from the damage and he woke up.
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The Doctor jolted up from his bed in shock and his hearts beated faster in his chest. He glanced down at the fist he punched in the nightmare, his knuckles had no cuts and were fine. He pulled back his covers and turned to place his feet on the cold wooden floors and hung his head below his shoulders holding his head in his hands.
He rubbed his hand over his face in distress, it's just a nightmare he said to himself in his head. It wasn't real. He's safe on the Tardis and he took a deep breath.
"Sweetie…" the body beside him murmured softly. The Doctor turned his head to his right to see River in a dark, black silk nightgown beneath the covers, resting her face and head of curls on her pillow with her eyes still closed and with her right hand, was reaching instinctively on his empty side of the bed.
He gave her a small smile, and pulled himself back into bed and pulled back over his covers and grasped her hand, clasping their fingers in one another and softly kissed them and placed it onto his chest, and laid another one on her forehead lovingly, nuzzling his face against her, taking a deep breath.
She smiled in her slumber and immediately relaxed against him.
'I still have time' he thought to himself, 'All the time in the world for you' he promised.
'To think of a way to save you' he thought looking down at her.
Author's Note
I seriously need to start writing happier stories, anyway if you liked it, leave a review below. Or maybe a request story like a what if scenario. Anyway thanks for reading.