'Doctor?' River called over her shoulder as she sped towards what she hoped was the location of the TARDIS. 'Should I start shooting now?'

'No!' She heard him call back. 'Under no circumstances are you to start shooting. They may interpret it as a hostile threat.'

'Yes, that's kind of what I was going for, Sweetie!'

They were on the planet Tas-Ring. The Doctor had arrived at her cell in Stormcage during the middle of the night, broken her out with the promise of a quite, romantic trip. Well, he had certainly lived up to his promise for the first few hours, at least. It was a beautiful planet, made up entirely of green rainforests, warm sandy beaches and endless sparkling oceans. They had spent much of the day wandering through the large rainforest, before retiring to the beach for the afternoon.

It had all gone perfectly up until The Doctor had spotted a small, flashing box sitting at the edge of the forest. He had, of course, felt the need to investigate this curious object. The moment he had touched it, a blaring alarm had gone off and, within moments, a whole tribe of extremely angry very frog-like men had erupted from the rainforest.

And now we're running for our lives, thought River. Typical.

'River!' She heard him shout as she jumped over a fallen tree branch. 'River! TARDIS! LEFT!'

River looked to her left and, sure enough, there the blue Police Box stood, less than one hundred meters away. She began sprinting towards it. She pulled her key-chain out from under her shirt, and the moment she was close enough, she shoved the key into the lock and opened the door.

She toppled in, closely followed by the Doctor, who nearly knocked her over in his rush to get to the console. He quickly dialled in some coordinates, pulled some levers, and River heard the TARDIS begin to dematerialize.

'Well, that was close.' The Doctor said as he spun around to look at River. 'I never knew the inhabitants of Tas-Ring were so protective of their land!'

'Of course you didn't.' River muttered under her breath.

'What was that?' The Doctor asked.

'Nothing, Dear.' River said innocently. 'Are you going to drop me back of to Stormcage?'

The Doctor waited a moment before answering her, pressing seemingly random buttons on the console.

'No, I don't think so.' He told her. 'Not yet, anyway. Might take you to a couple more planets. Do you mind?'

'Sweetie, are you really asking me if I mind exploring the universe with my husband, as opposed to sitting in a cold, prison cell?' She asked sarcastically.

'I'll take that as an "Of course I don't mind Doctor" then shall I?'

'Yes, you shall.' She said, walking over to him and kissing his cheek.

'Well, first I have to fix the Central Time Matrix.' He informed her, bending down to collect his tool box from under the Console. 'Then we can go and see The Festival of the Moon on New Mars. It's supposed to be spectacular.'

'Sounds l-l-lovely, Sweetie.' River said, trying and failing to hide a large yawn.

'Go and have a sleep while I fix this up.' He ordered her. 'I'll wake you when I'm done.'

'But Doctor I-'

'No excuses.' He said as he grabbed her shoulders and marched her out of the console room and towards the bedroom. 'I want you wide awake for New Mars.'

'Oh okay, fine.' River surrendered, turning to face him. 'Will go tuck me in?'

The Doctor rolled his eyes. 'Go to bed, Song.'

River smiled cheekily at him, and turned to walk into the bedroom. However, as she did, she felt his hand grab her own and he spun her around to face him again. He pulled her close to him and kissed her lightly on the lips.

'I love you.'

'I love you to, Sweetie.'

The Doctor let Rivers hand fall, and she turned around to enter the bedroom.

'The Central Time Matrix shouldn't take more than an hour to fix.' He called out to her as he made his way back to the console room. 'I'll wake you in about an hour.'

River collapsed onto the bed, completely content. Their timelines were the most in-sync they had ever been before (and she feared more than they would be again). It had been about 4 months for her since the wedding, trial and imprisonment and they had been the best 4 months of her life. Running around the universe with the man she loved more than anyone. In reality, she had only spent about 4 days in prison. The Doctor came and whisked her off for weeks at a time, and she was so grateful for it. She would go mad with boredom if she was locked up in her cell for that long. Her parents had come along for a few trips, and she was happy to spend time with them as a proper family (or at least a proper as their family could be). This was easily the happiest she had been in her life.

River could feel herself drifting off into sleep when the TARDIS began to shake madly.

'River!' She heard the Doctor call. 'River, come out here!'

River quickly ran to the console room to find The Doctor running around the console, flicking every single switch in sight.

'What's happening?' Stumbling over to the console as the TARDIS gave another great shake.

'I don't know!' The Doctor cried as he continued to frantically hit the console. 'I wasn't even doing anything! I was in the kitchen having some tea!'

An alarm started going off, and the TARDIS began shaking worse than ever.

'Can you stop it?' River asked hurriedly.

'I can't do anything unless I know what is happening and I have no idea-' The Doctor stopped speaking suddenly as some data appeared on the screen.

'What is it Doctor?' River asked as he starred in disbelief at the screen. 'What's wrong?'

'No, no, NO!' The Doctor cried as he ran ever more frantically around the console. 'Not again!'

Suddenly, the shaking stoped. For a moment, River thought everything was fine. And then the console seemed to explode. The shaking started, worse than ever. River and the Doctor were knocked to the floor, and the Doctor wrapped his arms around River protectively. For a few more moments, the TARDIS shook uncontrollably.

And then suddenly everything stopped, and the room became dark.

The Doctor and River remained on the floor, clinging onto each other. After a moment, the Doctor spoke.

'You okay?' He asked.

'I'm fine.' She answered. 'You?'

'Yeah.' He got up off the ground, pulling her up with him.

As soon as River had recovered from the shock of the explosion, she immediately noticed something was wrong.

'Doctor.' She said. 'Doctor, the TARDIS...'

'I know.' He said his voice small. 'She's dead.'

It took River a moment to fully comprehend what the Doctor had said.

'What you mean dead?' She asked. 'How does a TARDIS die?'

The Doctor ran his hand through his thick hair, his eyes wide with frustration.

'The Time Vortex.' He answered. 'It's gone.'

River took a moment to try to understand what this meant. But she couldn't.

'But the Time Vortex can't just go!' She said obviously. 'How can it be gone?'

The Doctor gave no reply and instead walked over to the TARDIS doors, opened them and walked out. River quickly followed him, expecting to find herself in some terrible, deserted kind of place. Instead, when she walked out she found herself in-

'London?' She asked, surprised, taking in her surroundings. 'Why are we in 21st Century London?'

The Doctor didn't reply. Rather he pointed up to the sky.

River looked up and saw that the sky was full of Zeppelins. Suddenly, everything made sense.

'A parallel Universe!' She exclaimed. 'That's why the Time Vortex is gone. It doesn't have any power!'

The Doctor nodded, and despite his frustration, his face showed a hint of pride that River had figured it out on her own.

'This has happened before.' He told her. 'About 5 years ago. We only got back to our universe because we got lucky, and I doubt that will happen again. You'd think I would have learnt to install some kind of backup power...'

But River wasn't listening. She was too busy watching a girl who was staring at her and the Doctor, eyes wide with shock.

'Doctor...' She said. 'Doctor there is someone watching us.'

The Doctor, still rambling about something, followed River's gaze until his eyes fell on the girl.

He stopped speaking. His eyes widened, and he looked just as shocked as the girl.

River looked from the Doctor, back to the girl. She didn't recognise her.

'Who is she, Doctor?' She asked.

When the Doctor replied, his voice was barely a whisper.

'Rose'

Hello my pretties! So this is just something I thought might be fun. I'm actually pretty-kind of happy with it. If you find any errors, please let me know.

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