A/N: Event occur right after Manhattan. There will be tears, and feels. You've been warned.
River lay face down on her bed. Tears threatened to leave her eyes, but she held them back, she couldn't let the Doctor see. For she knew he was taking this ordeal just as hard as she was. If not harder.
River lifted her head when she heard the door to her room creak open. It was apparent she had been crying. Her cheeks were tear stained red and her eyes were puffy. When the Doctor entered, it was clear to River he had been crying too. Perhaps harder than she had been.
The Doctor sniffled and sat down on the bed. He placed a hand on River's back, rubbing it comfortingly. He found it hard to look at his wife. Not wanting to see her in her current state, and not wanting her to see him in his current state. He only comforted. Occasionally, he felt the ragged and shuddered breathes of River as she tried to stop herself from crying.
Amy was her mother, and Rory her father. River watched as they both vanished before her unblinking eyes. The last words she heard from her mother rang in her ears. 'Melody. You be a good girl. Be a good girl, and you look after him.' River remembers giveing her mother's hand a final kiss before she got zapped back by the Angel.
Through the Doctor's mind, Amy's words also rang. 'Raggedy man...Goodbye...' And she was gone.
It hurt the both of them more than ever. The Doctor laid down next to River, but his hand never left her back. River shifted her body, now facing away from the Doctor. Her knees were pulled up to her chest as she closed her eyes.
The Doctor turned and faced her back. He wrapped his arms protectively around her perfect frame. He could tell she was crying. Silently, but he could still feel the ragged rise and fall of her chest. The Doctor placed a comforting kiss on River's shoulder as he, too, closed his eyes.
That night, River cried herself to sleep in the Doctor's arms. And as soon as River's small, hiccuped sobs had stopped, and her breathing began to calm down, the Doctor let his fall once more. The pain of Amy and Rory leaving was too much for his hearts to take. Though his pain was no where close to the pain River felt...They were her parents after all.