Authors Note:
This story is set right before River is captured by Kovarian and taken to kill the Doctor at Lake Silencio. Please feel free to let me know what you think or if you have any constructive criticism! As always, I do not own any of these characters. They are property of BBC.
Shocks
Pain. White, hot, pain. Coursing through her body. She couldn't move. She couldn't see. But she could hear screaming. A shrill, high pitched, pain-filled screaming. Her screaming.
"Now, now, Melody Pond. You don't have to scream. He won't be able to hear you, no matter how loud you are" came a familiar voice. How did she know that voice?
The pain intensified. It was as if there was electricity shooting through her, making her whole body stiffen. Her hands were clenched tightly into fists and she couldn't stop shaking. Tremors shook through her body.
Finally the pain subsided. She felt someone, or something behind her. Un-tieing what must have been a blindfold. Suddenly she was able to see again. At first she couldn't make out the moving shapes in front of her. But gradually her focus was coming back. There were at least 10 of them, all around her. Over six feet tall, wearing a black tuxedo and tie. Their faces were grey and looked similar to a skull. Their eyes sunk into their head and they just had a slit for their nose.
"What are they?" River asked. She tried to move, to get away from them, but she failed. She found that she was sitting in a cold metal chair that was bolted to the floor. Her arms and legs were both tied with wires to the chair and her jerking on them was only making her wrists and ankles bleed at a faster rate.
"They are your Masters."
River looked to her left to see who was speaking to her. It was a shorter woman with brown wavy hair pulled up into a bun on the top of her head. She was older with pursed lips and a metal eye patch over her right eye. "There's no point in struggling Melody. Even if you somehow get out of that chair, which I doubt you could, the Silence would attack."
"How do you know my name?" River demanded as she struggled harder against her binds.
"Oh Melody. I've made you who you are. The Woman. Who Kills. The Doctor."
"Never!" River spat.
"Have it your way then" said Madame Kovarian simply. "Silence?"
One of the Silence walked towards River with his arm outstretched. Then, from out of his hand, came a bolt of electricity. It hit River with such a force that it knocked the breath out of her. Then the pain came again, just as intense as before. She tried not to scream, not to show them weakness, but the pain was too much. She could hear herself screaming before she realized that it was her own voice.
"My, my Melody. Maybe you should do as you are told and you won't have to be punished" said Madame Kovarian as the Silence stopped their attack.
"And kill . . . the love . . . of my life . . .?" panted River breathlessly. "NEVER!"
"Tut, tut." Murmured Madame Kovarian. "You have obviously forgotten all of your previous training. By the time that we are done with you not only will you kill the Doctor, but you will never love again!" Kovarian smiled, her dark lipstick making her teeth pop more than needed. "Silence!"
This time instead of just one Silence coming up there was two. The pain doubled. Her body felt as if it was on fire and the tremors started again.
"Enough" said Madame Kovarian as she walked up to River. The intense pain dulled as the Silence stopped their attack. "Isn't it amazing Melody, being part Time Lord? You get to travel the Universe, anywhere in time and space, in that little Blue Box of his. . . but being a Time Lord isn't always a blessing. Do you know why you are not dead right now?" Kovarian asked as she bent down to look into Rivers face.
River just stared at her with the most anger she could muster. Not wanting to give this woman any more satisfaction that she had already received.
"Well, it's because you are a Time Lord, or part Time Lord" replied Madame Kovarian shrugging, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Because of your body's power to regenerate, the shocks that should kill you only make you wish that they would kill you. Even if a Time Lord has no more regenerations left, it's body still does what it can to save itself, and because of that, it would take a lot of Silence to kill you, my dear Melody Pond."
"So what you're saying" replied River angrily "Is that if I don't kill the Doctor, these creatures are going to keep attacking me until I die? Well then I hope your ready for a funeral because I will NEVER KILL THE DOCTOR!" she screamed.
"Oh believe me, this is just the beginning. By the time we are done with you, you will want nothing more than to remove the Doctor from your life forever." Madame Kovarian said, still keeping her sinister smile plastered on her lips. "Silence?"
Three of the Silence walked up this time, all with arms raised. She could see the electricity before she felt it. The pain came again, but to River's relief, the darkness came too, as her eyes closed and she slipped into unconsciousness.