For my Best Friend Alinka my biggest supporter and my greatest critic.
River had waited all her life. As a child she had waited for her parents to come and save her from the never ending pain and loneliness. She'd sit down on her bed and beg. Beg to anyone, if someone was out there she would beg to them. Asking for her parents, did they love her? Why did they let her be taken away? She'd sit there her cuts bleeding, her bruises throbbing, her heart breaking. As a child River was used to pain and loneliness, she trained every day getting ready to do what she was born to do. To kill the Doctor.
She had waited to find her parents. She would grow up with her parents; they would raise her, in a way. She was mischievous and for the first time she played with other children. Free from the pain and loneliness of Grey Stark Hall. She waited for the Doctor, listening to Amy's stories of the Raggedy Doctor. She always said she would marry him, she had forgotten about her mission, her purpose. She was happy.
Then as an adult River waited for the Doctor to come and get her from Stormcage. She waited day by day hoping he would come in one form or another. She loved him. She married him. The taunts from the guards couldn't hurt, not when she knew he loved her. She waited; she would always wait for him. He was worth the pain and loss. He always would be. She'd wait for a million years just to catch a glimpse of him. When he kissed her, the scars of her past healed and she felt like as long as he held her she was happy and felt loved. She felt like they had invented love. She'd never loved anyone else as much. She'd wait till the end of the universe for him. She loved him more than the stars, more than the sky, more than her life. She would wait.
She was the forgotten girl who waited.
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