Note: Hello my sweets! I got the idea for this fic in the middle of my school day and had to write at least one chapter to see what people thought. Hope you like it and Happy Reading! xoxo Please leave a review telling me if you like it!
Chapter 1
River stands in front of the full length mirror in her bedroom. She smiles and places a hand on her growing stomach. She hadn't known she was pregnant with the Doctor's child when she went to the library, but the younger Doctor had saved both her and the baby when he saved her in CAL's memory.
Her smile fades as she thinks of the Doctor. He was missing everything. He would never feel his child kick, he wouldn't be there when it was born. The child would never know it's father.
River sighs sadly and walks away from the mirror and down the stairs to her living room. She sits on the couch, picking up the book she had been reading earlier and opens it to the marked page.
This was her life now. Reading or watching movies. No adventures. No danger. No Doctor.
The fake life CAL had given her bored River. CAL had given River three children that were not truly her own and a husband she never tried to love.
She had done what no other person in CAL's memory had done. She left the man, and he took the children with him. She had only been with them a few short days before she had told him she could never love him. They fought and he packed up the kids and left.
A few days after they were gone River had realized she was pregnant, but knew there was no way it could have been the man's. They never did anything. She knew right from the start it was the Doctor's.
Now she was alone, left with only one small part of her Doctor.
She sits there attempting to read the book, but giving up after needing to reread a paragraph three times. She closes the book and places it on the table, before leaning back and resting her head on the back of the couch and closing her eyes.
She misses her adventures, running with the Doctor, the constant flirting and killing aliens when she known he hates that.
She starts to feel strange. A weird tingling spreads through her body. The baby starts kicking harder than it ever had before and she places a hand on her stomach. She opens her eyes when the tingling gets worse and gasps at the sight of her hands. Her hearts pound and her eyes widen.
Her hands were disappearing. She could look straight through them. It quickly spreads up her arms and to the rest of her body. She closes her eyes, waiting to disappear completely. To feel herself leave and die for real, to lose her baby that had never had a chance at life, but it never comes.
She opens her eyes slowly and her mouth falls open.
She was in the library. In the exact same room she had "died".
She looks at her hands, which now look solid and normal. Her hand flies to her stomach and she looks down, relieved to see she was still pregnant. The baby kicks just as her hands reaches her stomach, almost as if you tell her it was alright. She looks around confused. How did she get out? She hadn't thought it was possible. A shadow moves in the corner.
"Who's there?" she calls out. "How did I get here?"
A short, pudgy man walks out. "I'm sorry.. I'm so sorry. I pulled this out of the computer and it went nuts and then you popped out.." her says holding out her sonic screwdriver. River gasps and takes it from him. She sees what the Doctor had hidden in it that saved her.
"Clever man.." she whispers looking down at the sonic and holding it like it might shatter. She looks up to the man and smiles. "No. Don't be sorry. You just saved me from a life of boredom." She walks over and presses a kiss to his cheek, then looks around. "There wouldn't happen to be a blue book around here anywhere would there? It almost looks like a wood panel binding.."
"This?" he questions holding up her diary.
River smiles big. "Yes! Oh thank you!" she says taking it and flipping through the pages. All the memories of her and the Doctor flashing in front of her.
"This was with it… a man left the book and this saying that if anyone ever came out of the computer that to give these to her.." her says holding out her manipulator. Her hearts swell. The Doctor had left these in hope that she might be able to return. How she had, she still wasn't sure, but she was happy to be back. Now she needed to find her Doctor.
"Thank you, you have been so kind." She says taking the manipulator and rapidly typing on it. It was time to see the Doctor. She couldn't wait any longer.