Title: To the End of the Universe
Summary: River's life in the library is everything she never knew she wanted
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Rating: PG
A/N: References to Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead and series 5.
River silently closed the door to the children's room. Her children. Domestic life was something new to her, an adventure she had not got around to in her previous life. It seemed to suit her. She made her way downstairs, a smile on her lips as she went in to the kitchen and came out with a bottle of wine and two glasses.
"I swear I'm going to run out of stories about the Doctor before those kids get too old for bedtime stories." She laughed as she handed her companion one of the full glasses and took one for herself. She made herself comfortable on the sofa, chuckling as her lover spread her legs over her. It was a familliar routine. Safe and normal. It wasn't something River had even realised she'd wanted. Not until the Doctor had given it to her.
"I can't believe I'm only twenty-three and I have three children." River smiled at her wife, she was barely more than a child herself. She always would be.
"Fourteen years of waiting, for just two years with the Doctor." She stroked the younger girl's cheek, her fingertips brushing red locks out of her eyes. "Was it worth it?"
"'Course." Amy grinned at her as she lent in for a kiss. "Fourteen years for three kids, a dog, a chinchilla and eternity with you. Seems fair to me."
River lost her smile as she stared in to the depths of Amy's eyes. She missed the Doctor. They both did. River however had had the Doctor popping in and out her whole life. Poor Amy had been taken from him in her prime. Just twenty three. It was no age to die. But then the clever old Doctor had not allowed her to die. Not completely. A hidden data core in her room had been enough for him to save her. To take her to CAL. To River.
She pulled the younger girl in close, afraid that she could lose her again. Watching Amy die once had been enough. The Doctor had not told her what he'd done with Amy's imprint. How could he tell her and not spoil her own ending? He had simply put Amy in to the system, to wait for her friend and lover. When River had stepped in to her new house, followed by her brood of children, Amy had been waiting for her. A glint in her eye and a cheeky smile on her lips.
The dream world of a child had become the second chance for an impossible girl and a slightly jaded time travelling archeologist. It was hardly the stuff of fairytales, but for professor River Song it would more than do.