Summary: The doctor doesn't like endings and say goodbye to River was the most difficult thing he had ever had to do. Maybe he hadn't done it if he had known he will see her again soon enough. Post "The Name of the Doctor" episode.

"I hate you!"
"No, you don't." he leaned his forehead to hers, "Now come here my love and let me hold you tight enough to believe this is not a dream."
"But if it is a dream, it better be your favorite!"
"The best I have ever had," he mumbled against her lips.

Notes:

English isn't my mother tongue and this is the first English story I write, so... please forgive me if it have grammar or spelling mistakes or if I was too creative and invented new words. Hopefully I haven't.
I just found a Beta reader who is helping me with the story and will review the next chapters before I upload them. She is known here as FoREVer Nightwing,

Chapter 1: Mother's Love

"You'll be okay Clara, you'll be perfectly fine from now on...you impossible girl," The Doctor murmured, closing the TARDIS door. She was safe in her house and warm in her bed now. Warm and safe, that was good enough, at least until the next Wednesday, when they will begin their next and probably most dangerous adventure.

"You came home early, sweetie," came in a whisper in the air. It was impossible. The Doctor took two steps away from the door and slowly turned to face the empty room and the bright and lonely light of the console.

"Hello?" Was it his imagination, or had he actually heard that little giggle in response? "River? Is it you? Of course it isn't you! How could be you?" The Doctor walked around the console, carefully looking everywhere.

"How can you be so sure it isn't me?" The voice whispered again.

"Because I can't see you and I have always been able to do so."

"Then what are you still doing on the console room?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean... Follow my voice sweetheart." There was a giggle again and then nothing.

"I can't follow something I can't hear!"

"I'm over here," mumbled the voice followed for several steps, "Or am I over there?" More ghost steps, whispers and sniggering, "Is the Doctor ever going to catch me?"

"I will," He ensured.

"Let's see..." started the voice, "you can't see me," said the voice from a different place, "and you can barely hear me. How will you exactly find me?" The voice laughed from yet another area.

"There's something you've forgotten," he said, far away, "I am the Doctor," he started getting closer "I can always see you and I will always hear you," he whispered in her ear, holding her from behind.

"I know it now, but you, silly man, made me think otherwise too many times before. I can't be sure, can I?"

"You can be sure my love. I'm so sorry; I know what you felt all this years"

"No, you don't," she said, trying to escape his gaze, "You have never been ignored by anyone, much less the love of your life." she said, hurt and upset.

"Don't talk to me like that, River. You don't know how hard I tried to fight myself, but I am just a silly old man who is afraid of the pain." She leaned her head on his shoulder and hid her face against his neck. "My Melody, I love you so much, and I can't handle to be with you like this. I don't want your echo, I want you… real, here with me."

"You have me, haven't you noticed that? I am real... here..." She took one of his hands and placed it on her chest, "Can't you feel it?

"This is impossible... you... but how? Your heart is..."

"Beating, yes." He turned her and made her look at him.

"How?"

"You know what? I have dreamed with a time travel for long." She jumped and took both of his hands before she started pull him to the console room, obviously avoiding his question. "Look at this beauty; I haven't seen her like this before." The blonde started pressing buttons and pulling levers. "She looks all futuristic and sophisticated."

"How?" he repeated grabbing her wrist.

"The TARDIS, you have the last TARDIS in the universe and you drag her to the biggest paradox ever. Do you know what more the TARDIS is than the best existent spaceship? She is my mother, and she has never stopped looking for the way to bring me back to life."

"Oh! She did it, of course she did it!" The man was practically skipping of excitement.

"When I said I was mentally linked to Clara and I asked, 'How could I still be there?' I didn't mean Clara was still alive, even when she was, because she had exploded into a million particles and the connection was over. I was linked to other stuff, and then when I heard her, she was telling me what I needed to do."

"So she didn't enter to my time stream to save me, she was looking for you!"

"And she found me," grinned River. "And you found your Clara." she looks away from his eyes, "Then we all get what we wanted, don't we?"

"Are you jealous Professor River?"

"Should I be, Doctor?"

"That depends," he answered, pulling her by the waist.

"On what?" she asked defensively.

"On what you consider to be an offensive act against your wife." He got even closer to her.

"I hate you!"

"No, you don't." He leaned his forehead to hers. "Now come here my love and let me hold you tight enough to believe this is not a dream."

"But if it is a dream, it better be your favorite!"

"The best I have ever had," he mumbled against her lips, then kissed her as if he wasn't going to see her again. She clung to his neck and pulled him even closer. They only separated each other when air had completely left their lungs. "Then you fancy a time travel… where and when should I carry us to?"

"I have been trapped in a virtual database for years and all I fancy is you and me and much less clothes. Now shut up old man, less mouth and more hands… okay, maybe not less mouth but definitely much more hands." She pressed her mouth back against his and started unbutton his shirt.

"Mommy?" They both turned around to face the little girl stand in the door. "Who is he?"

"This is the Doctor sweetheart, except he looks a bit different now," River said, walking across the room and approaching the girl. She placed her hands on the child shoulders, "Maybe there is a little detail I forget to tell you, Doctor. Do you remember Cal?" The doctor looked at them, shocked. "Go say hello to him Cal."

"Hello, daddy." The girl ran and hugged him by the waist.