It was never Melody Pond who was supposed to kill the Doctor. She was always supposed to fall in love with the Doctor, she was the woman who was destined to save his life not end it. Madam Kovarian was careful never to call her a saviour or a weapon, she simply called her "hope", but hope for what, what would they hope she would one day achieve? River Song was simply a decoy; a clever snare created by the Silence in order to convince the Doctor and those around him even to the point where River herself was convinced that it was her who had to kill the man she loved. But it wasn't. The Silence had been clever, their plan well thought out, so extravagant that nobody would ever question if it was true. The Ood has said long ago that his song would be ending, it couldn't be a simple coincidence that his wife had that name. So after all the trials and tribulations, murders and sacrifices, there was still someone who was destined to kill the Doctor. She wouldn't meet him before hand, wouldn't have adventures like Amy did. She wouldn't be born in battle like River. She would be born into her sentence before her crime had even been committed, living her entire life behind the bars of Stormcage.
"How many life sentences do you have?"
"Twelve thousand." River answered without looking up from her book.
"So you'll never get out?"
"No Alexandra, I will never get out. Not legally anyways."
"You know I hate Alexandra." River smirked and set her book down on the small shelf that she had in the cell.
"I'm your mother, I know everything." River said with a smile, pressing a gentle kiss to the teenager's forehead.
As always this was intended as a one shot but if I get enough reviews then I'll carry on with it, only if you all like it of course.
