A/N: Hi! This is a songfic I wrote using the song Daylight by Maroon Five. I think it kind of fits them, in a way. This is my first songfic, so let me know what you think! It's in first person from the Doctor's POV. Also, I'm planning on starting a new fanfic about the Doctor/River where I'll be choosing words from a hat and writing a oneshot/chapter about them. If anyone has any nouns they would like to contribute to my hat, feel free to PM me. Anyway, enjoy...


Here I am waiting; I'll have to leave soon. Why am I holding on? We knew all along that this day would come. While she merely suspected, I knew it for certain.

How did it come so fast?

Darillium. This is our last night, right after Darillium. It's late, and I'm trying not to sleep because I know that when I wake I'll have to slip away. I'll have to take River home and tel her goodbye for good, forever. I'm so very, very afraid.

When the daylight comes I'll have to go, I'll have to walk away, so tonight I'm going to hold her close. In the daylight we'll be on our own. We'll be alone, again, forever, so tonight all I need is her next to me. All I need is to hold her so close.

Here I am, staring at her perfection as she lies asleep and in my arms, she's so beautiful. The sky is getting bright as the stars burn out. I wish somebody could slow it down, turn time back just one more time. This is way too hard; I know, this time for real, that when the sun comes up I will leave for the last time. This is my last glance that will soon be memory. That's what River will be when I leave tomorrow: nothing more than memory.

So tonight I'm going to hold her so close because in the daylight I'll have to go, and we'll be on our own.

I never want it to stop, traveling with River. I don't want to start all over. I don't want a fresh loss, I don't want to have to find a new companion. I don't a life without River. I was so afraid of the dark, and now it's all that I want because the sooner it ends, the sooner the daylight comes. And I'll have to go, and we'll be on our own.

So tonight I'm going to hold her so close before I let the daylight come.