Right after the TARDIS landed in Brian's yard, he could tell something was wrong. Normally the doors opened right away and Rory and Amy came out and greeted him. This time they opened slowly, and the Doctor exited with a woman at his side. Brian wondered where his kids were, but knew the doctor would explain. He had promised that he would bring them back each time.

As the two walked to his door, they looked like they were clutching each other for strength. With every step the woman seemed to gain strength, but she looked lost. Brian was on the way to the door when he heard, "Sweetie, how much should we tell him."

"Everything." After replying he bopped her nose, attempting to flirt with her. It seemed a little forced, like he was using it to take his mind off a great calamity.

Brian opened the door and smiled. He said, "Hello doctor." Then he turned to River and said, "Hello I am Brian, and you are?" He showed them to the sitting room.

Once they were there River answered, "I am Melody," reverting to her birth name to attempt to ease the transition of who she actually was. "Amy and Rory had a friend named Melody."

"Yes, they called me Mels back then. Now I go by River most of the time." With that she and the Doctor sat on the couch, while Brian sat down on the chair. On the couch river adjusted herself, sitting as close to him as was polite for the meeting.

Brian watched his carefully, and he said, "No offense, but Mels had different skin and hair colors."

She was opening her mouth to explain when the doctor leaned forward and whispered, "He does not know anything about regeneration. If you tell him we will be here forever" in her ear. She hissed back to him, "Doctor, he needs to know. We already talked about this." He opened his mouth to argue, but River, who had expected this, turned around and kissed him lightly diverting his attention to other things.

She looked back to Brian, "I regenerated. I was conceived on the TARDIS, and when I die I change."

"Doctor, how is it that your companions old school friend was conceived on the TARDIS."

The Doctor decided to drop the truth now and stop dashing around the topic. He said, "They are her parents. She was kidnapped and grew up in New York, after a previous regeneration into the Mels you knew she decided to come and get to know them, since he would never be able to grow up with them as her parents." River looked back at him and mouthed, "Showing off Sweetie?" He responded by prodding her in the back.

Brian sat in shock for a minute, his son was a father and never told him. He remembered why Amy and Rory had almost split up a few years ago, "That doesn't make sense. Amy is unable to have children."

"She can not have any more since her labor came with a surgical process that made it physically impossible to have children."

"You say made, as if she could not now anyway, and also why would she agree to the surgery, and then nearly divorce Rory over the issue."

Deciding to wait to tell him the truth to why they had come, she answered the second half of his question. "They never agreed. Amy had been kidnapped, and was being held by people who only wanted me as a weapon. Neither Amy nor Rory agreed to it. Amy almost divorced Rory because she knew that he really wanted kids. She gave almost gave him up so that it would be possible. Thankfully they decided to stay together."

Brian had nothing to say to that. He just sat in silence for some time. The doctor began to get uncomfortable. He hated waiting, and it was worse today since he had thoughts of Amy and Rory going through his head. He leaned close to River's ear and said, "Can't we just tell him and be done. I know it is hard, but we do have something else to do."

"Like what. How is anything that you want to do more important than breaking the news to him in the best way possible. You act like a child."

River knew that patience was not his strong suit, and so she moved her arm out from behind the doctors back. She carefully lifted the back of her shirt and placed it in the sensitive small area of his lower back. Upon feeling her skin against his the doctor began to calm down. For the next half hour he focused on planning what to do to River later, and on her skin, pressed against his.

After that long half hour had passed, and the news had finally sunk in to Brian, he asked, "Why did you come?"

The doctor sighed, now was the part that he had feared. Telling Brian. River leaned in and said, "I will tell him, no you no complaints," and then River turned to Brian, took a deep breath and said, " I came because my parents could not. They were sent back in time together, and lived out the rest of their lives together. Each dying of old age."

"How can you be sure, and how is it that they were together? Also how were they sent back? The Doctor promised to keep them safe."

Before River could respond the doctor said, "I tried to, Amy made the choice to leave me and be with Rory." River patted his back with the hand still pressing his back, attempting to calm him.

River decided to explain, "The three of them were in New York when Rory got sent back in time by angels. He met me there, because I was busy investigating them. The Doctor and Amy forced there way back to us, and then Amy and Rory created a paradox, sending everyone back to where we were supposed to be. At that point we found ourselves in a graveyard, and we were about to leave when Rory found his own grave and called to Amy. An angel that had escaped sent him back, and then Amy touched it, sending herself back. As soon as she had done that her name appeared on that grave as well. I am able to visit, thought the Doctor can not."

"Could you bring me. I would like to see him one last time."

"I can't. I am so sorry, all I can do is tell you that a friend should come here soon to explain." With that the Doctor looked up startled. "You went and visited already."

"Yes, I had to go and give a message. It was only for a minute to leave them a message." She said that with a slightly hopeful expression.

"What was that message."

"Well, you will find out in a few minutes. I'll make some dinner."