Summery – the TARDIS has gone into shutdown leaving Clara locked in the console room. The doctor must race to free her by going into the one place he know will hurt the most. The library. He races to complete his goal whilst avoiding being detected by his past self and Donna. Can he retrieve the body of River song with out being spotted? ….
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The Doctor sat there in a leather arm chair facing the fire place listening to the sounds of the TARDIS quietly humming away. He smiled to him self as he sat sipping his tea. He looked around at the room, his favorite room, and smiled. The rooms walls were covered in wooden round holes and there was just one door to his left. The door was arched and made of old English oak It had a single round hole with the seal of Rasalion in the center that was his door from his home on Galifrey the only thing he had brought from Galifrey. He looked over to the wall on his right and saw a screen showing the console room Clara was sitting there flipping through a copy of Summer Falls. Oh how much he loved that book. He put down his cuppa and reached for his sonic but stopped himself there was know need for that at the moment.
He smiled and got up stretching as he wondered over to a book case that contained ten books. A coppy of The angles kiss, Summer falls, Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows to name a few. The rest of the case was filled with little mementos from his past adventures he surveyed the relics he saw a picked up a recorder and gave it a play. No just no, there's no point in ruining any more perfectly good songs. He picked up over bits and bobs a knife left by Lela, a photo of Sarah and K – 9, a little black box a memento from the time he lived with the ponds and Gun left by River before she'd gone to The Library. Oh how he missed River. He picked up the little TARDIS blue book, that had an entire shelf dedicated to it, and flicked through the pages as he remembered the times they had had. Then he got to the back and saw a page that River had written in. He looked down at her familiar handwriting.
My dearest doctor.
You may think I do not know that today is
out last day together. I knew the second I saw
that look in your eyes. I am sorry our song
has ended but I wouldn't have missed it for
the world. As I am writing this you
are arguing with Loki. Who knew Asgard
was a real place? Or that Thor was such a
great kisser, boy you should have seen your
face. But know it comes to the bit where I
must say farewell my sweet as I fear you must
take me home one last time. Remember my
darling the end must come to all.
Good bye sweetie River X.
The doctor sat down in his chair a single tear falling onto his knee. Oh how he missed her it had killed him when he took her to Asgard he knew it meant he was saying good bye for the last time. He kissed the page and put it on the table by his side next to his tea cup. He dug his hand deep into his jacket pocket and pulled out red spotted hankie and wiped away the tear from his eye before he stood up. He was about to leave when the top row of round holes flipped in there holders to reveal red lights flashing he sat back down in his chair and pulled a steam punk styled lever the was next to the chair. At once the chair spun to the right so the doctor was facing the monitor a round hole in the floor appeared and a wooden control panel rose out of the floor lighting up, as it rose it began to turn so when it was in position it was in front of the doctor like a steam punk keyboard with all manner of switches, buttons and leavers. The monitor know showed a library, The Library. No he couldn't be here.
"show me the main console room" the doctor snapped. The screen was immediately replaced with an image of Clara yelling at the console all the lights were off and only the emergency lighting strips were on bathing the consle room in a wight wash of light. "give me sound" the doctor snapped again.
"doctor whats happeing? Why is there know power whats happening?" Clara yelled into the air.
"Clara don't touch anything the tardis is in sub mode. The slightest movement could really mess things up". The doctor said in a hushed wisper.
"whats sub mode when its at home doctor and why did it turn its self on?" Clara asked, now whispering herself.
"Sub mode is when the TARDIS shuts down the console room and locks it off from the rest of the TARDIS to stop the pilot leaving. It only turns it's self on when it is in a close proximity to a past version of it's self in a fixed point in space and time. It locks its controls and go's into camouflage mode so it can't be noticed by a past version of me or one of my companions."
"But you said we were heading to earth but the scanners telling me were in The Library. why did you bring us here? And are you saying I'm stuck in here?" Clara said glaring at the camera.
"Ah yes I think you will be in till I can sort out this mess as it's only the console room that go's into lock down. And I didn't bring us here Clara something or someone must have remote piloted the TARDIS here but who? The doctor mused.
"Get me out of here doctor". Clara said pleadingly to the camera.
The Doctor flicked a series of switches and pushed a bunch of buttons. For a moment the console room lit up the engines started and then as quick as they had started they shut down again. And the main doors to the console rooms were replaced by a black sheet of metal and a round hole.
"what did you do Doctor? Wheres the door gone?" Clara said in a strangled whisper.
"Ah well it seem the TARDIS herself doesn't want to leave sub mode but..." He tried flicking a difrent set of switchs but nothing happened at all. He pushed the console out of his way before standing and heading over to round hole in the wall. He pushed it in and it slid back reviling blank screen. Activate EM14 the screen burst into life. He tapped away at the little screen trying to redrect contorl of the TARDIS to his little consal but as soon as he tried it the screen went blank. He sat back down.
"Clara..."before he could say anything else a hologram flickered into life in front of Doctors eyes. "River..." Before the Doctor could finish his sentence the hologram started talking.
"Hello Sweetie, I know you must be wondering how and why the TARDIS has gone to The Library. Well what can I say I'm a mean girl. I set out here knowing that there was a high chance of me dying. I knew that I would not see you again so I put a plan together. The night that we went to Asgard I connected my Vortex manipulator to the console and I spoke to the TARDIS. I asked her to grant me a favor. I put in a program that would enable you to pick up my body. The TARDIS won't move in till I am back on board. Doctor if you have ever loved me grant me this one wish take me home take me to earth bury me by my parents please Doctor do this for me. Oh and by the way I've left you a present in my suit pocket."
The hologram of river faded and the Doctor sat there in shock. Here he was back in The Library here to dodge Vasta Narada, his past self, Dona and the to some how sneak out his dead wife to take her back to new york to bury her with her parents.
"Doctor what is it? Doctor how long are we going to be here?"
"Clara Don't worry I know how to get us out of here. Just hang on OK there's some lanterns under the console as well as a bunch of books. I'll be back soon." And with that he flicked a button on his console and her image disappeared and was replaces with a dark room covered in shadows and a past version of his TARDIS standing next to his new camouflaged one. "Well Doctor lets get ion with it. He picked up his sonic and pointed it at the wall over at the book shelf it lowered to revile a room filled with a white room with white tables covered in bits and pieces. A yellow car stood on a ramp in the middle of the room. He stepped in and started grabbing bits and bobs from different tables. He went over to a Dalek shell and soniced it causing the eye stalk to fall off into his out stretched hand. He continued collecting items from around the room. He dumped all the bits he had gathered onto an empty table and set to work. 12 minutes later he yelled in triumph as he strapped on a bulky watch like device onto his hand.
He went back into the wooden room and pointed his sonic at the little console. A round hole in the ceiling slid into the ceiling and a ladder dropped down. The doctor smiled as he began to climb.