This takes place in the Husbands of River Song episode with the 12 and River and I got more inspiration for them again so yeah I got marital spat, talk on robots, angst and fluff so…. (shoves her story over the table forward and lets the DW fans decide on the ending) Mostly dialogue.

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"River about what happened on the ship!"

"I had a moment Doctor! "

"It was more than a moment River."

"What do want me to say?"

"I want…. I want to know how through everything that you thought I didn't care about you."

"Of course I knew! "

"Didn't look it!"

"We had company!"

"River….."

"We were about to die!"

The Doctor gave her a look.

"If I was going to be offed by a headless robot or any one of those guards, I wanted them to know not to bother with me as bait, it would have been a waste of time!"

"If I wasn't already there, would you have called me?" he asked, searching her eyes deeply.

River looked back into them and gave an immediate answer.

"No."

"River!" the Doctor growled.

"No" she repeated firmly, "I wouldn't have called you to the restaurant."

"Why not! I'm your husband! Your real one! Every time you asked I have been there!"

"Why would this time be any different!"

"Because I didn't see you surviving this time!"

"….."

"You never used to think like that before" he whispered disheartened.

"Or maybe I wasn't fond of your head on King Hydroflax's body, I may of married him, but don't mean I want that metal as a permanent fixture."

The Doctor made a disgusted face.

"Can you imagine the rust you would have to clean!"

"….."

I don't snuggle with metal Sweetie"

"You sure about that!" the Doctor challenged her.

"Alright you had me there…. I adore my handgun" winking at him.

"You and guns" he whined under his breath while holding the bridge of his nose.

"Oh you love it!"

The Doctor gazed over at her but shook his head after a few seconds "Don't change the subject!"

"You started it!"

"Yeah!... well I'm going to end it!"

He strides over and grabs her by the waist to her surprise and pulls her toward him and her lips meet his.

When she tries to pull away, he holds her still, by holding her gently by the sides of her cheeks so he kisses her, deeper and longer.

She lets him kiss her but the longer they kiss she then forgets what they were even talking or even fighting about before.

Finding that she was letting herself go into his kiss, he moves his hands from the apple of her cheeks to rest down to her neck.

He pulled away to gaze down at her, and find her eyes closed still taken by the effect he had into his kiss.

"You think I wouldn't do anything for you, even if you didn't ask, cas I would. You just have that effect on me" as she opened her eyes slowly at his voice near hers.

River's eyes looked up at his.

"Because three little words, never fit us, and that's why we never say them to each other."

"Remember this, us right now, that I mean every word."

"Truth or Lie, River?"

"I don't….."

He gently drops his hands to grip both her small ones and rested them on his chest where his two hearts were underneath.

"Ask me."

"Doctor ─ "

"Ask me what you want to know" still holding her hands on his two hearts.

She licked her bottom lip nervously and took a breath.

"Do you love me more than I love you?"

The Doctor didn't say anything just gazed at her features as they focused on the beats of his hearts.

He lets his hearts tell the answer.

After a few moments her hands slid off his chest to her sides.

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