River is getting ready to go out. She is sitting in front of a mirror putting her make up on in her underwear just like any other woman would. When there is no one else at home then all of a sudden the door rings. She checks her watch, then says to herself, "It is a bit early so he will just have to wait downstairs"
But she is not talking about the Doctor. She is talking about another man she met. The Doctor dropped her off at a house so she could live a half normal if she wanted to but he would still come see her. He had not been to see her for two months, so River thought he had forgotten about her.
She then goes down the stairs once she has put on her dressing gown and slippers. She goes to answer the door to see the Doctor standing there with flowers.
"Sorry, the TARDIS got mixed up and I realise I have not been here in two months, but it's not my fault. I promise! Now, where do you want to go?" he asked her.
Then a black car pulls up to the front of the house. A man in a suit comes out of it, the Doctor looks at River once more, noticing that she is getting ready for something, then says to her, "Wait, are you busy? I can stay here while you go out. I would go in the TARDIS but god only knows where I will end up next."
The man in the suit walks up behind the Doctor and says "Is this man giving you trouble? I know I am early and I never expected you to be ready but by the look on your face, you do not look like you want him here."
"And who might you be?" The Doctor asks, trying to act tall around the man in the suit.
The man says, "I am Rivers' boyfriend."
"You as well then. I better be off but I would watch it, mate. Because she has a husband who could kick your ass in a fight although he might not look it. He would do anything for her and would do anything to win her back over another man even if it meant dying in the process. Just remember that, will you?" The Doctor says before walking away and turning at the next alleyway
"You have a husband?" the man asked.
"Are you that stupid? That was my husband! He is the biggest wimp in the universe!... Well, everyone is scared of him but he won't use violence, so you don't have to worry." River says, she adds in, "He has been gone for two months and this is our first date so you are not my boyfriend."
The Doctor comes back up, "Oi! Tall guy!" The Doctor shouts, the man in the suit turns round and says "What is it now? I am trying to have a date here."
"No, you are not cause she is not ready and she will be probably about another hour at the least. Possibly two hours." The Doctor tells him then punches the man but it just hurts his hand
"Wow, you are strong. That really hurt." The Doctor says
"Do you want to see my fight back?" The tall man asks.
"Uh...no, that's fine. River, I won't be coming back. I will return your stuff in the morning your time." The Doctor says before going off back down the path then turns round about half way and says "I thought we were a good team. I thought we worked like this and I told you more than once that if this was the life you wanted then you where just to tell me and I would have done it. Settled down, done all of this but I knew this was not you. Well, I least that's what I thought. I though we were River Song and the Doctor saving the universe in Devil, himself and the hell in high heels. I tried so hard not to fall in love with you cause we both know how it works. The more you now about me the less I know about you, which means I did not want to fall in love with you because of something I have seen. But clearly time can be re-written and it has now. Have a nice life, Professor Song. Call me if you change your mind, you are the only person who knows how." He turned back around and walks away again.
The Doctor walks into the TARDIS, sits down on a seat. Tears start running down his face, he forgot he still had Clara on board. He was just going to pick up River before dropping her off.
Clara comes down the stairs.
"Doctor, are you okay?" she asks, worried.
"Yeah, I am fine. I will be fine. Now, lets get you home." He replied before wiping the tears off his face.
Then River walks in and says as if nothing has happened, "Good thing this is the TARDIS otherwise this could have been embarrassing."
"Get out. I don't want you here. I don't need you here." The Doctor says
"Let me explain. Please, Doctor! Because after everything you said, you have made me feel worse." River tells him.
"Can you give us a minute I will take you home after this, I promise that's where we were about to go anyway." The Doctor asked Clara.
"Of course Doctor. I will be in the swimming pool." Clara replied, before going off down the stairs
"How have I made you feel worse? And when I did not know about us doesn't count, cause I did not know there was a difference. I know you hate it and I wish I could go back and tell myself what I know now. But I can't and you know that more than anyone. I can't because if you could tell me about you and how much I would care about you. I know you would have done it along time ago."
The Doctor said, then River says "I know you. I can't help that it does make me feel horrible, as if I am not good enough. But it doesn't bother me because I see you in ways no one else gets to. I get to see the married you and no one else has seen that...well, a few people but its all towards me. But then my parents die and you shut yourself out, then you find a new companion and I don't see you for two months. Tell me that's not the same."
"It's not because if it's bothering you that much, I will drop Clara off right now. Well, I was doing that anyway then only see her behind your back. No. I am joking but seriously, eh. If it bothers you that much I will drop her off and never see her again. Promise." The Doctor says
"No, you can't do that. You promised her that you will take her to see planets and the big universe but only if your wife says yes. We are not turning into that kind of couple." River says.
He just replies with; "River, I am going to put this in the nicest way possible. We are already that couple, you tried to kill me yet I still married you. We were that couple the moment I said I do."
Clara then comes back up the stairs "Okay, I know this might be a bad time but I really need to get home. The TARDIS just turned the pool into a pool with sharks in it." Clara says.
"Right, of course she did! Why could you possibly do anything in the TARDIS?" The Doctor says.
"The TARDIS does not like Clara" River says.
"No, but don't get into it. I will explain later", The Doctor says then River whispers to the TARDIS, "Good girl, I will take you somewhere fun next."
"What was that?" The Doctor asks.
"None of your business. I was talking to the TARDIS." River tells him then the man in the suit comes in the TARDIS and everyone looks at him.
The man says, "It's bigger on the inside"
"You know I look forward to people saying that but not you cause you should not be here. Now get out of my TARDIS! The TARDIS does not like Clara but even River knows that she will hate you more." The Doctor says
"Doctor keep calm cause if you break your hand you will have to fix it and it's a waste of regeneration energy." River says to the Doctor
"Do I get to go home now or do I have to wait till this guy leaves?" Clara asks
"Once he has left then yeah, I will take you home but he is not getting to come on board the TARDIS. You can stay there at the door...no,better you can leave." The Doctor answers.
"I am not leaving till I get my date with River." The man says.
"No way am I letting you go on a date with my wife. Why would anyone agree to that?" The Doctor asks him
"Because if not I won't leave. I will just stand here never leave and you will be stuck with me on this stupid spaceship forever!" The man said
"Aw, he did not just go there." River says then Clara says "What do you think he will do?"
"Nothing I told him to keep calm. He will unless he says something about me. The Doctor will stay calm and do as I say." River tells Clara
"Is that right? Thanks, babe" The man says before walking up to the Doctor and whispers in his ear, "What if I told you that one way or another. Me and your wife were going to sleep together." The Doctor then grabs the man by the shoulder and shoves him out the TARDIS. Once he is outside, River and Clara also run to the door to watch them. The Doctor shoves the man up against the wall
"Doctor don't! You said you would keep calm." River tells him "I don't care." The Doctor says then punches the man in the gut, whispers in his ear "You ever go near River again and I will kill you." Then he goes back in the TARDIS with his head down not looking at either of the girls. Once he is in the TARDIS, he goes down the stairs. River and Clara go in the TARDIS and shut the doors.
"I will take you home then I will sort him out. What's the coordinates?" River asks Clara, she just replies with "I don't know. Sorry."
"It's fine. It should be in the history." Then River flies the TARDIS to Clara's house.
"This is like five minutes from where we just were and only ten minutes from then. This could be bad cause he would recognize a big blue box if he saw it again but its okay. See you later then." River says.
"Can you come in and explain to the kids that me and the Doctor don't go out. I think they might believe you." Clara asks.
"Sure. What harm could it do? I will go get the Doctor and then put this on the invisible setting and I will be right there" River says.
"I will wait outside then." Clara tells River before she goes outside.
The Doctor is lying on his bed with his shirt unbuttoned and odd socks on, no bow tie or braces, just lying looking at the sky then River walks in and asks, "Oh sweetie, are you okay?"
She walks over and sits next to him, he sits up and says "I hit him. I have never done that before. Well, I have but not like that and I hated it. I don't know what came over me." then he started crying. River hugs him, "Its okay you are allowed to do that. The amount of people you have saved on this planet, you are allowed to hit one," she says.
"There is more to it than that," he tells her.
"Then tell me what it is, cause you have been acting strange ever since New York." She asks
"Okay, I have no one. I have the TARDIS and I can't talk to her. Well, I do but she can't talk back. I watched Amy and Rory die and it killed me. It was all over in seconds. I could never see them again. Yeah, I have got Clara just now but that's going to end at some point as well and I don't want to know how that's going to happen." The Doctor says then River looks at the ground and says, "So there is no one left after that is there? No one you possibly care about."
"Yes, everything that could leave me. Well, you could leave me as well I suppose but don't please I need you and I know how this ends." The Doctor says.
"You do? How?" River asks.
"Spoilers." The Doctor says, they both laugh.
Okay, come on. Lets go. Clara is waiting on us." River says.
"I am not really in the mood for being social right now. I just hit a man and if you had never said anything, I think I would have killed him." The Doctor says.
"What did he say that could be that bad? I have never seen you like this before" .River asked.
He says, "He said that he was going to sleep with you tonight one way or another or he was before I came and I told him if he came anywhere near you again, I would kill him."
"There is no way you can make sure he is never near me, unless you are to be with me all the time. He lives like five minutes around the corner from me." River says then the Doctor tells her, "Well, that's his problem. You can walk past him in the street and stuff. I don't want to seem controlling but there is no way you can talk to him. That's what I mean."
"Yeah, I know. Now come on in. The mood or not you are coming in." River says then stands up and holds out her hand. The Doctor takes it and she helps him up. He kisses her cheek and then says, "I love you" she reply's to him, "I know" then they both go up the stairs and to Clara's front door.
The Doctor and River are at Clara's door, when the man in the suit drives past the stop signs and gets out of the car, slamming the door behind him. "You! Who do you think you are? Coming up to me and telling me what to do!" the man says, while walking up to them
"I never told you what to do, I told you to stay away from my wife!" The Doctor says then Artie and Angie come to the door, "CLARA ITS YOUR BOYFRIEND AND HE HAS BROUGHT HIS FRIENDS!" Angie shouts.
Clara comes down the stairs to the door while saying "How many times do I have to tell you? He is not my boyfriend and that's his wife so you better explain yourself!"
Then she realizes that the man is also there and adds "You can tell her later. Go to your rooms. I will come get you when you can come back down."
"Aw, so this is your girlfriend so you don't need River then so she can come with me!" The man says, then grabs River's wrist
"I don't think so." The Doctor says and pushes the man away but he is still holding River's wrist.
"What? You can't stop me. Come on River. Walk or I will do more than hurt your wrist and Doctor if you try and stop me. I will call the police and get you charged for assault. " The man says.
"I don't care! They can take all my money for all I care! They can lock me up for a thousand years for god sake and I would not care! I just want River to be safe so let her go!" The Doctor says with anger in his voice.
"No." the man says then drags River and shoves her in the car.
"You were a whole load of help there!" Clara says.
"I know how it looks but I can't do anything, he grabbed her and I did not want him to hurt her more. But come on! That is your car." The Doctor says, pointing at the car in the driveway.
"No, its my boss's " Clara says.
"Get the kids and the keys. We are borrowing it." The Doctor says.
Clara unlocks the car, then shouts to the the two kids and they all get in the car.
They follow River and the man in the suit, they end up at a house in the middle of no where.
"Okay, call the police and stay here but use this phone. It will call UNIT, they will be here faster for me. Okay, I am going in," The Doctor says before getting out the car while Clara phones UNIT.
The Doctor is walking about the house looking for them. He can hear River screaming for help, he finds the door and adrenalin takes over. He breaks the door down. River is on the bed in her underwear, her clothes are on the floor. The man in the suit is on top of her, forcing her to stay where she is and the Doctor shouts, "Get off my wife! The police are on their way!" The man gets up and River starts putting her clothes on as fast as she can.
"Why? Who said she never wanted it?" The man says.
"I did when you asked me out the first time," River says.
"Wait...what?" The Doctor asks.
"He forced me into going out with him. Everything I have done with him was forced. I would never go out with someone else," River says then UNIT storms in.
Kate Stewart comes through them all and says, "Okay, Doctor what's the emergency?"
"River was about to get raped." The Doctor says then Kate says to the solders. "Arrest that man over there." Then two of the men from UNIT put handcuffs on the man in the suit.
"You do realize this is not what we are for, Doctor. We are for aliens things not from this earth." Kate tells the Doctor to which he says, "I am not from earth you can't get more alien than me"
The man in the suit says."River goes for aliens rather than people? That's wrong."
"She is going for the man who can show her the stars and I don't know a girl who does not want that," The Doctor says then UNIT takes the man away.
"Okay, River. You okay?" Kate asks. River ignores her and walks past everyone, not looking at a single person, not even the Doctor.
"Thanks for coming and I hope there won't be a next time but next time I will call the police I promise," The Doctor says.
"No don't. Call us. I would not want it to be any other way," Kate says.
"Will do. I better go check on my wife," the Doctor says then walks away, waving his hand above his head saying goodbye.
Once the Doctor gets outside he sees the man with the two unit solders and walks up to them. "Do you mind if I...?" The Doctor asks them and one of the solders says, "If it was my wife I would not have even asked."
Then the Doctor goes up to the man's face and says, "I told you to stay away from River and if not I would kill you now. I can make that happen over one phone call but I am not that kind of guy. Never have been but when I tell people this story, some of them might just do the job for me like Jack. Aw, I would love to see what he would do to you if I asked him for help but don't worry I won't do that cause you will be in jail for the next...what? Forty years."
Then one of the solders says, "Sorry, Doctor it will only be about five years maybe ten. If you are lucky."
"Well, then maybe Jack should get a little phone call and everyone else I know. Just wait till I get all my people on you in ten years. You will be sorry cause I won't be the only one after you."
The Doctor says then walks over to the car and notices River is sitting in the back and asks Artie "Would you mind sitting in the front so I can sit in the back?" "
"No, not at all." Artie says then both kids come out the car so the Doctor can sit in the back, in the middle next to River.
Artie goes round and sits in the front and Angie goes back in the back and Clara drives off.
"I was serious. I am going to get everyone I know and go ten years into the future and kick his ass because no one treats you like that." The Doctor tells River but she does not say anything.
When they get to Clara's house, she goes into the TARDIS still without saying a word then the Doctor says to Clara, "If she does not talk to me in two weeks. I will go talk to Amy, see what I can do and if after that she still does not talk. I will get everyone I know and kill him."
"Why? Since when was this you?" Clara asks then adds, "Going around making people suffer for what they have done. You talk, give them a chance but I have never ever seen you want to kill anyone before."
"No one has ever treated River like that before that's the difference now. I am going to speak to her. Once everything is over, I will come get you" The Doctor says then gets out the car and into the TARDIS