The car hit a patch of ice and spun out of control. The sleet was making it hard to see already. Rory looked to his side where his wife was clutching the door, her knuckles bone white and eyes terror filled. He peered into his mirror where his daughter was sleeping peacefully on her husbands shoulder. Fighting harder to stay on the road only made it worse. Rory veered sharply to the left as they hit another patch of ice and the car flew into the lake beside them.
Ice cold water filled the car quickly. River's eyes were darting around, fully alert after waking up bleary eyed seconds before. "Come on, stupid door," the Doctor said through gritted teeth as he tried to sonic the door open.
"Amy. Hammer. Glove box," Rory said quickly undoing his and her seat belts. "River, Doctor undo your seat belts. I am going to get you out of this, I swear," he finished looking his daughter straight in the eye as Amy handed him an odd looking hammer.
Rory pulled back his arm and with all the force he could muster and smashed the window. "Out, out out," Rory cried as the frigid water covered his neck.
With the pressure released they could open their car doors and swim out. Rory swam out the window as Amy and the Doctor forced their doors open as well. River struggled with her door and by the time she got it open the entire car was submerged. She fought her way out and the door swung shut on her pant leg. Running low on oxygen and the sleet that was falling down even harder disorienting her she fought to get her leg free. Rory looked around at the surface and noted that it was sort one person. He dove under water.
The car was sinking further and further and by this point River had lost consciousness. Rory yanked the door open and gathered his daughter in his arms as he kicked his way to the surface. Swimming as fast as he could he pulled River up to the shoreline and began preforming CPR. "Amy! Go get help," he shouted at her, not even stoping to see if she was okay, something he had never done before. "Come, on River, you can do this sweetheart, you're a fighter. Come on."
Moments later an ambulance pulled up and River was taken from him. "Please let me come in the ambulance! She's my-," Rory started.
"His aunt," the Doctor interjected. "She's the only family he's got left."
The EMT nodded, "This way sir."